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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 3

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4-A-lUMOa AVALAIKHC.JOUMIAL-. Sunday Mining, Jyly 16, 1972 CAMERA OBJECTION WITHDRAWN Chess Officials Scrambling To Save Championship REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess Officials scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer, nounced Paul Marshal, an- the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so lang as mind." they don't blow his Restudy Asked Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match.

He wouldn't say what the evidence was. Fischer's failure to turn up for his second encounter with ttie world Spassky a champion save 2-0 lead. Spassky needs 12 points to retain the title, Fischer Each game won counts a point. A draw is half a point. Refuses To Play Fischer is refusing to play game No.

3 Sunday unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet. The deadlock seemed unbreakable, but Fischer's attorneys and his second, the Rev, William Lombardy, were trying to find a way out. One official connected with the International Chess he thought it was impossible to take the point away from Spassky. Fischer boycotted game No. 2 because, he said, the noise from hidden movie cameras created "outrageous" playing conditions.

An engineer tested the noise level of the cameras and found no difference in the sound in the empty hall with or without the cameras running. Cameras Removed The Icelandic organizers earlier agreed to remove the television and movie cameras, al- though revenue from the rights helped to raise the total prize money to $300,000, the richest chess championship in history. Asked if Fischer planned to pack up and go home, Marshal replied: "No. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." Marshal arrived Saturday morning, joining another New York lawyer for Fischer, An drew Davis. Spassky went Salmon fishing to get away from it all.

Fischer, as usual, was inaccessible. He was closeted in his hotel, presumably in quiet observance of the Sabbath his religion recognizes from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. The feeling was that Fischer would not play the scheduled third game on Sunday. But no one knew for certain. MEMPHIS MEETING MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(AP) Memphis has been selected by the more than 10,000 registered messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention for its 1977 will be the 115th annual. to Come in today and save on a specially selected grouping of Ethan Allen American traditional furniture. Living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, dens, children's rooms. Plus a fantastic assortment of rugs, lamps and accessories. Our home planners will be available as always to give you as much, or.

as- little decorating help as you need. And while you're here pick up your copy of our 388-page decorating guide. The Ethan Allen Treasury. A $7.50 free for the asking. COKCORD HOUSE "We Care About Your Hctmc Almost As Much As You Do." Jl loirtiy Him SMnnJiiT Till 9 VYING FOB TITLE One of three young Floydada cowgirls will be crowned rodeo queen this week to reign over the Floydada Rodeo, slated for Thursday through Saturday.

Contestants we left, Jamie James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raldo James, center, Karin Kunkle, daughter of and Mrs. Alton Kunkle, and right, Carla Suggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Gene Arwine. (Correspondent's Photo) FLOYDADA Rodeo Due To Start Thursday FLOYDADA (Special) The 15th annual Floydada Rodeo is slated for Thursday through Saturday at the rodeo grounds on the Silverton Highway east of here. Sponsoring the event are the Floydada Rodeo Association and Floydada Riding Club. Stock will be furnished by Red Whatley of Crosbyton. Books will open at 10 a.m.

Wednesday and close at noon Thursday at rodeo headquarters, located in The Loft in the Davis Farm Supply building. Entry fees are bare back riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding, 520 each and calf roping and barrel racing, J15 each. Competing for the title of Rodeo Queen are Jamie James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raldo James.

Karin Kunkle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Kunkle and Carla Suggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Arwine, all of Floydada.

Nightly rodeo performances are set for 8:30 p.m. with adult tickets priced at $2 and children tickets at 75 cents. Music Camp Set On LCC Campus Lubbock Christian College will welcome today approximately 300 junior and senior high school students for the 14th annual Music Camp, slated to continue through July 28. Dr. B.

Wayne Hinds, head of the LCC's music department and director of the music camp, said that some five slates will be represented this year. Unlike music workshops on other Hinds pointed out that visitii.nr students at LCC will receive in a comprehensive music program, rather than specializing in band or orchestra, for example. This year's faculty will include Charles Cox, Ted Stevens, Ronn Heuss, James Sattcrwhile, Eddie Chance, Everett Maxwell, Horace Coffman, Raul Epps, Bruce Hurley and Hinds. Besides classroom studies in band, chorus, song directing, music theory, sipht-singing and Bible, the music camp will offer recreational opportunities such as softball, volleyball, skating, swimming, picnics, and miniature golf. Many of Uie music campers will be staying in LCC dormitories.

Hinds said. Registration is set from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today. Smoke Bomb Exploded AUSTIN (AP) An old army-type smoke bomb ihrown under the cover of darkness exploded orv the south lawn of the governor's mansion early Saturday morning, stale police said.

Gov. Preston Smith was on vacation. The tomb "rattled windows but did no damage," a spokesman for Uie Department of Public Safety said. He said the bomb exploded at approximately 32:15 a.m. and, after it stopped smoking, city police made photographs am! intelligence agents from the DPS took the remains to their laboratory for tests Monday.

The south lawn is mostly open ground, wilh the mansion about 40 yards from a 4-foot high iron fenre that rests on a concrete foundation. There was a rod spot on the crass, 30 yards or more from the mansion. Minister Held For Smuggling English minister, the Rev. LONDON Pentecostal David Hathaway, has been arrested in Czechoslovakia and charged with smuggling Bibles into the country, a foreign orfice spokesman said Saturday. Hathaway was arrested June 23 by police and charged with "sedition and regulations concerning the importation of literature," the spokesman said.

"He is being held in Bory prison, neaT Pilson, and according to the charges, it is alleged he ha's had in his possession a number of Bibles in various Eastern European languages." AMERICAN DELEGATION SAYS China's Health Care CHICAGO (AP) Mainland China has a health care system "which is unsurpassed by any nonindustrial nation," an American delegation just back from the oountry reported Saturday. And some members of the delegation said they were.im- pressed by "nondiscrimination against women" in the Chinese medical profession. The delegation, comprised of 16' health workers representing the Medical Committee for Human Rights, reported traveling 3,500 miles in 22 days visiting health care facilities in 11 Chinese cities and rural areas. 200 Interviewed "They reported interviewing inore than 200 health, farm and factory workers. The group said in a statement: "By the end of the tour, it was clear that new society has developed a health care system which is unsurpassed by' any nonindustrial nation, which excels the U.S..

in the delivery of primary health care and which has the potential for becoming the best in the "But, more significant," the statement continued, "was the pervasive that healtii care was. only one element of contemporary China's profound commitment to build a socialist society which would benefit all its citizens." "In contrast to the situation in the U.S.," the statement said, "health care in China is a human right, accessible to the 750 million' Chinese, whether living in rural areas or in the cities." The American delegation was made up of nurses, physicians and other health-care workers and students from around the United States. The Medical Committee for Human Rights is a national organization of health workers and consumers described as being "engaged in struggle to make health care a human right for all." Four members of the delegation, which returned to the United States Friday night, appeared at a news conference Saturday. They said that the hospitals have less sophisticated equip- ment than those In the United States and that the medical education system is in a state of flux. But Katherine Fitts of national vice chairperson of the committee, said the equipment is adequate for most purposes and added that the "comprehensiveness and distribution of care are the best any country is offering." Andrew James of Houston, candidate for a doctoral degree in public-health administration at the University of Texas, said that "career ladders can be solidified and defined" once the education system has stabilized.

Ann Moore, a nursing instructor at the University of'Illinois, Chicago, vice chairperson of the delegation, said drug therapy combines herbal medicine and Western medicines and de-' scribed as spectacular some of the results from treatment. She and the others found "incredible" the results obtained with the use of anesthesia, even in major surgery. The group said it witnessed major stomach' operation which the patient ate an orange, during surgery, 'then walked; from the operating table to his, room. They also reported watching, a thyroid operation with acu-r puncture anesthesia'performed: by a nurse who had obtained physician status. There is no sex definition of, roles, the four-said, and ported that 60 to 70 per cent of, dentisst and about 40 percent of physicians are'women.

TOR BENEFIT OF COUNTRY' Bikini-Clad Girl Offers Marriage to LONDON Fisher, a shapely 25-year-old blue -eyed blonde, went to No. 10 Downing Street in a bikini Saturday to present a marriage proposal to Prime Minister Edward Heath. Miss Fdsher, from Hull in northern England, said that if Britain's bachelor prime minister were married he would be far better equipped to tackle the worrying problems of state. "I am worried about the present economic position," Miss Fisher said in a letter to Heath. "I cannot but help feel that you would have a more steadying influence if you had a stable home and' family life.

"To for the benefit of niy country, I willingly offertyou myself in marriage." i After delivering her proposal under the close scrutiny of tourists and police, Miss Fisher admitted that she already had a boyfriend back home in Hull. "But I'm sure he wilt appreciate the need for this sacrifice," she added. There was no comment ftom ths office of the 56- year-old prime minister, who was -tot at his" residence but aboard his yacht Morning Cloud, taking part in a race from. Cowes to Dinard, France. EXTERIOR WOOD SHUTTERS 1300 4Ht St.

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