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23 more matches Fischer says games will settle down' REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) "It will settle down," Bobby Fischer said Wednesday night after he lost the first game of the world chess championship to defending champion Boris Spassky. The second game is this afternoon, starting at 1 p.m. EDT. With maximum of 23 more Barnes to be played, Robert Byrne, the second-ranking U.S. grandmaster, said Fischer's loss "isn't necessarily all that significant.

Either 'of these players can come back and win." A victory yields one point, a draw half a point, and after Wednesday's match Spassky needed 11 more points in the 24- gamc scries to retain his title. Fischer needs 2 points to end the 24-year Soviet monopoly of (lie title. He has played Spassky six times, been beaten by him four times and drawn twice. Today he plays the white pieces, which gives him the first move and a slight advantage. The first game in the match began Tuesday, and Spassky adjourned it after 41) moves with Fischer in bad straits.

Five minutes after the game resumed late Wednesday afternoon, Fischer stood up, spoke animatedly to chief referee Lolhar Schmid of West Germany and strode to a backstage dressing room. Schmid followed him, and Fischer said he wouldn't continue play unless a movie camera 150 feet from the board was shut off. Schmid said he couldn't order the camera removed. Fischer stayed away for 30 minutes, then came back and resumed play. After Spassky's 50th move Fischer resigned.

He reached over and slopped the clock after 63 minutes had elapsed, offered Spassky his hand, fold- ed his scorecard and walked out. He paused once to wave to the audience, which was applauding Spassky. Whltefaced, Fischer left the hall by the stage door and hurried to a waiting car. From the car he spotted John Collins, a paraplegic who taught him the game. Collins was in a wheelchair, and Fischer rolled down the car window and said: "I'm sorry.

It will settle down." When the play resumed Wednesday. Spassky had his king, a bishop that controlled the black diagonals and three pawns. Fischer was down to his king and five pawns, two of them loose on the king's side. One of Spassky's pawns threatened a Fischer pasvn. In his first move.

Spassky captured that pawn. Fischer recaptured with his king and the game turned into an effort by Fischer to push his pawns a square at a time to the last rank under the escort of his king. After his walkout, he made an ineffectual sidestep with his king. In ensuing play all the paivns on the king's side were lost. Fischer shifted his king in a hopeless struggle to the other side of the hoard, where two of his pawns and two of Spassky's blocked each other's passage.

Fischer couldn't unblock because Spassky's bishop could protect his position from long range. Finally, after Spassky's 56th move his king approached the jam on the queen's side Fischer gave up. International Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan of Los Angeles, who is analyzing the match for The Associated Press, said Fischer on Wednesday "might have carried on for a few more moves, or resigned earlier. There was no longer any hope for a draw." THE GASTONIA GAZETTE, July II, Freight train wreck prompts training call WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board today called for improved disaster training for local fire departments across the nation to avert potential disasters spawned by derailments of freight trains carrying explosive cargoes. The board made the recommendation in its report on the derailment of a freight carrying liquified petroleum gas near Crescent City, 111., in 1970.

Sixty-six persons were injured and the entire city evacuated in the fire and suhscqent explosions of the propane cars. More injuries would have resulted if a state police sergeant had not warned the firemen of the potential dangers and begun evacuation of the fanning community, the hoard said. "The injury of the firemen and spectators was due to the lack of appreciation by firemen of the large scope of fire and explosion which would occur in a fire of this type," the Board said. "If the first explosion had occurred before the state police sergeant had warned the firemen and before he had slarted evaucation of the town, many more could have been injured seriously." The board recommended the Department of Transportation study means to improve training of firemen on local departments "so that they can upgrade their skills in their handling of emergencies created gy the increasing transportation of hazaroud 1 "The problems of controlling such accidents are especially troublsome because of the daily introduction into commerce of numerous new kinds of hazardous materials," the board said. Five of the 15 derailed cars of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad freight train loaded with liquified petroleum exploded.

The blasts hurled debris for 1.000 feet. Twenty-five homes and 16 businesses were destroyed. Damage was estimated at $1.7 million. Fish plant blast throws man 75 feet SOUTHPORT, N. C.

(AP) Leo Jones, superintendent of the North Carolina Menhaden says he was blown about 75 feet by an explosion at the fish meal plant Wednesday, but was not injured. Jones was the only one at the plant during the noontime explosion of a tank of acid and water. The acid lank, and an oil tank also used in the preparation of fish meal, were between two buildings. The buildings were badly damaged, and oil drained inio Ihe Inland Waterway. It was sopped up with hay.

Jones said he didn't know what caused the explosion. Milk Commission hearings postponed RALEIGH 'AP) The North Carolina Milk Commission has postponed until July 27 a decision on charges against six dairies. Three of the dairies Pet Inc. of Charlotte, Maola Milk and Ice Cream Co. of New Bern and Sealtest Foods' Wilson plant were cited for nol making certain records such as profit and loss statements available for inspection by commission auditors.

Long Meadow Farms of Durham and Dairymen Inc. of Wilkesboro were cited for certain infractions of fair trade regulations and for failure to produce records. And United Dairies of Greensboro was cited for alleged fair trade violations. The commission considered the cases at its meeting Wcclnc- day. During the session, David Hall of New Bern, attorney for Maola, lold the commission the firm's refusal to make records available did nol constitute a violation of commission regulations since no one was present with authority lo make certain records available to Ihe commission when they were requested.

Hall suggested that the commission notify dairies in advance when it Is making an investigation so that the company could have personnel available with authority to produce records. He said then "we will make available the records we feel arc necessary for that investigation." Commission Chairman F. Rockwell Poisson of Charlotte suggested that Iho agency's staff prepare a nolice to be used in obtaining dairy records for examination. In other business Wednesday, the commission reelecled Poisson chairman and reelected Airs. B.

C. Langston of Griflon vice chairman. Monoxide blamed in death of 3 COLUMBIA 'API Officers say three men found dead in an automobile in a cleanup garage probably wero victims of car Iran monoxide poisoning. Bodies of Ihe three were discovered Wednesday. Hichland County Coroner Cecil Wiles said laboratory tests are being conducted by the Stale Law Enforcement Division to determimo the cause of the deaths.

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