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The Progress-Index, Petersburg-Colonial Heights. Thursday, 23, 1958 for Ttf fe NEW YORK (ft--There's a Batman comic book on his bedside table and a rock 'n' roll program blaring over his radio. He's slouchy, gangly: and crew cut, But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his nail bitten fingers deftly moving chess pieces over' the. black and white board which means more to him than anything else in his life. Bobby Fischer d'oesn't want to be a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom.

He wants to be chess champion of the world--and it seems a pretty sure bet he will be. Most Americans it, but their honor in. a big international contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old-boy from Brooklyn. SMIRNOFF VODKA Distilled from grain. 80 Proof.

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He' has become an internation al grand master--the youngest in the long history of the game-and will meet the world's seven players this year in a dial iengcr's tournatnent. The exac date and place remain to be de term in ed. The winner will get a crack at the present world champion, Rus sia's Mikhail Botvinhik. Bobby, who: could give a'clam lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't say what he thinks his chances. Nobody else thinks he will make it this time.

But then, nobody thought he could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody expected him to do well at the recent international chess tourna ment in Yugoslavia. Bobby, playing in his first in ternational competition, tied for fifth place--winning his place in the star studded Bobby has few friends his own age. He'-comes home from schoo about 2 o'clock and picks lip a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess. "Bobby isn't inldrested in any Easv Automobile Parts and Accessories Bicycle Parts and Accessories Fishing Equipment Hobby Toys PETERSBURG AUTO PARTS CO.

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Dial RE 3-4444 SIDE GLANCES Galbraith "Would you mind tasting one of these persimmons so I can see if the pucker is all out?" body unless fhey, play chess-and there just aren't many kids who like it," says Mrs. Fischer. To make friends with Bobby you not only have to play chess--you have to play good chess. Bobby lives with his mother in a small fourth floor walkup aparl- mont in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 31-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month.

Their parents separ ated when Bobby was two. Mrs. Fischer, a University Colorado graduate, is a register ed nurse now earning her MA degree. Bobby, she says, is no disciplinary problem. "There's nothing to disciplin him about," Mrs.

Fischer ex plains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out his chess books and go outside for some fresh air." Cooper Never Trusts Horse GEORGE, Utah, (AP) "The horse is a highly overrated animal. They're dumb as hell, and you can't trust one bit." Heresay, you say? Perhaps, but our authority is none other than Gary Cooper, one of the few stars with an authentic Western background. The rangy Montanan gazed up at the red bluffs of this southern Utah wilderness and reflected: "When I was 15, I used to ride alone for days through country like this." One thing he learned: never trust a horse. Contrarily, he has learned another axiom in more than 30 years of loping through the movie scene: always trust a horse opera.

Yup, Ole Coop is back in the saddle again after ventures into sports cars and limousines. After middling films, "Love in the Afternoon" and "10 North Frederick," he has done three horse- jack pictures in a row. His latest, "They Came to Cordura," is being filmed in Utah, it's technically not a Western, there are plenty of horses. Producer William Goetz assembled 300 horses and riders to recreate the last U. S.

Cavalry charge during General Pershing's invasion of Mexico in 1916. The rest of the picture largely concerns the trek of Cooper and five others across the Mexican wasteland. How does it feel to be back on a horse? "It hurts," Cooper confessed. He explained: "It's painful for me to be in the saddle too long. No, it's not because of an injury I got from a horse.

When I was getting started in pictures, I used to take, horse falls for $15 a fall and I never held a scratch. "But I did a lot of skiing after the war, and that's what banged me up." Newcomers might fine! profit in a credo that might help explain Cooper's amazing 1 three decades as a star: "I always made it a point to do at least one Western every two years. In years when I did four pictures, usually one of them would be a Western." Thomas Chippendale, the famed English cabinet-maker, opened his first workshop in London in 1749. A tunnel linking Spain and Africa, 1,400 feet un dcr the Strait of Gibraltar is project to Pennsylvania- born L. J.

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Newsprint Information Committee says these quilled animals take a heavy toll of Canadian pulp trees. For instance, one porcupine on the loose can destroy 2,000 trees in the course of a year, and if half are pulp trees, the raw material for more than 50 tons of newsprint is lost, the committee says. Thinking It Over By Robert Dieffenbacher, D. D. (Written for NEA Service) The neit pay check is probably America's cause for using our knowledge of arithmetic.

Millions of people figure how much they will earn for'their efforts since the previous payday, Other multitudes will add, subtract and divide whole sheets of figures to determine the use of the; forthcoming earnings. Few people spend even a fraction of their "figuring time" in religious effort. They give little attention to scheduling their daily minutes for. prayer, spiritual development, religious. education and service: to Until we begin to set aside time, energy, and effort to religious purposes, we cannot expect to make "ends meet" spiritually 1 The godly budget is just as important as paying our financial 'obligations.

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