The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 3

THE KANSAS CITY STAR 3 Thursday July 1172 Match Widens Interest in Chess Winters plays often at The Chess House He joins the other players as they hop around the room matching skills against whoever enters the store He play against Winslow however The two play such different games and are so vocal about chess strategies that a recent game ended in an argu- ment On a recent afternoon Winters was playing a customer as Win- slow was getting ready to leave Guitar case in hand Winslow glanced quickly at the chess board got the advantage on he told Winters he Winters shot back to K4 pawn to K4 Knight to KB3 knight to QB3 Knight to B3 knight to B3 Then he went bishop to The chess hieroglyphics finished Winslow agreed nodded gravely and left Winters won of all board space is rented at 35 cents an hour and chess buffs gather there almost every evening to or chess the last 10 years interest In tournaments has Winters said He is a 33-year-old former student and tavern owner who turned his hobby into a business that is doing better than breaking even used to be an old game Today already an old man as far as chess is concerned The bulk of tournament players are under 21 when 10 years ago most were over Back in 1964 Winters played against Fischer in a simultane-ous exhibition at Lawrence Fischer played against 43 persons He beat all but one player he played to a draw with Winters got me really interested in the Winters said Since then Winters has reached an rating in the numerical point system of the US Chess Federation hold together" Winslow said games before he has gotten the advantage and then lost Winslow said that when Fischer and Spassky played before Spassky won three games and two games were drawn downfall came when he was faced with new strategies that had to be thought out the did somehow find the right way but then somehow he lost his Winslow said Winters disagreed learned from his past mistakes and has improvements ready should he be faced into the same line (of chess play) the shop owner said The Chess House opened in May just in time to capitalize on the Fischer -Spassky matches It is patterned after similar game rooms in New York City Winters offers chess lessons at $4 an hour and sells 'chess equipment and books But most By Andrew Miller A Marmbar of Tha Star's Staff A month before Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky arrived in Iceland for the international chess championships chess devotees at The Chess House here were hashing over the match in the game as a whole is said Jack Winters the proprietor of the new chess store and playing room at 3909 Main being temperamental Fischer has bad Winters said I think Spassky is kind of upset I think settle their differences and if they play I think Fischer will win From the back of the room Elliott Winslow 20 the Missouri champion interrupted He was sitting among the eight chess boards at the new Chess House alternately replaying games on a pocket chess board and plucking at a guitar think Fischer will TIME TO TAKE STOCK MEN! our semi-annual sale of furnishings Jack Winters owner of The Chess House 3909 Main gives a lesson to a newcomer at the chess store Winters hopes to follow the Fischer-Spassky matches from Iceland move-by-move on a demonstration board against the wall in the background Matching Wits Death Penalty Imposed Judge Tom Stubbs today imposed the death penalty on James Clark 17 years old convicted in April of the beating death of Mrs Elizabeth Lein-bach 81 in her home at 3435 60th Nov 11 1970 Though death in the gas chamber recently was prohibited by the US Supreme Court a jury assessed the death penalty against Clark and the Missouri law has not been altered Trial judges here are not commenting publicly on the imposition or avoidance of the death penalty yet but it is known that in cases where the jury has assessed the death penalty the courts probably will pronounce the sentence The victim had lived in her home 50 years and Clark was accused of entering the home and beating Mrs Leinbach when she began to scream Clark said he left with a transistor radio and about $30 Croydon de Luxe half sleeve dress shirts in blue white or yellow 100 cotton Regularly 1 400 Now 935 Wide array of neckwear in woven-in designs and textured solids Regularly 500 to 1 500 355 to 995 City Views Outside Help In Rate Negotiations jjjooiyjrotherf By William McCorkle lations with that company and A Member of The Star's Staff I with the Missouri Public Service Unless expert professional tes- company for street lighting and is nhtninpd efforts hv is obtained efforts by ttinony the city to reduce or eliminate a proposed rate increase of the Kansas City Power Light Co is futile Glen Hopkins an assistant city manager has the city council traffic signals The contract with KCPL for traffic signals has expired and must be renegotiated Hopkins said The street lighting contract expires next May and then must be negotiated all agree the city should oppose the rate hike sought by the utility company Some councilmen have indicated concern about taking the $70000 from the contingency fund Also there is a question as to whether the needed technical knowhow is already available within the city government to make a study and presentation to the state Myron Calkins public works director also says that such a capability does not exist within the city It was brought out in the trial that Clark after beating the victim walked calmly through the house cleaned up and even took a bath before leaving He also looked for food in the The company is seeking an increase of more than $9 million a Year from customers in the Missouri part of its service area Hopkins pointed out with most of the affected customers in Kansas City Program Evaluation specialized professional qualifications are necessary to make an impression upon the Public Service Hopkins said city does not have and could not justify maintaining the capability to do a creditable study and presentation before the commission by an independent expert will constitute a sincere effort by the city to fully protect the interests of the Briar clearance of suits sport coats slacks and furnishings Clothing Clearance Suits Sport Coats Slacks Hickey-Freeman Pembrook Bradmore Shop Ward Parkway Only Drug Indictments A 10 per cent increase charges for metered electric service would cost the city itself $200000 a year Hopkins said If the same increase is applied to street lighting and traffic signal contracts the cost to the city Would increase by $260000 making a total of $460000 a year he said A proposed city ordinance would approve a contract with a £10000 maximum between the city and Touche Ross Co ior expert utility rate services The assistance would be to represent the city in the rate case of the Kansas City Power Light Co now before the Missouri Public Service Commission and in city contract negoti- If the initial phases of the proposed study indicate the proposed increase to be warranted work under the contract would be stopped immediately with a substantial decrease in expenditures Hopkins said Earlier John Taylor city manager told the council that the Touche Ross Co proposal had been obtained for the preparation of the city case Taylor said his office the city counselor and the public works director said the progress of the Kansas City office has succeeded yeyond initial success has been due argely to the co-operative ef-orts between federal state and ocal law enforcement Hum said In his opinion Hurn said the against narcotics initiated by the Nixon administration is moving at a rapid rate and is making a substan-ial contribution to the control of hard narcotics in the Kansas City area The drug abuse project which concerns itself primarily with the sale of heroin on the streets was established Jan 28 by order of President Nixon It is an arm of the Department of Cfinae fnr Mckti Johnston Murphy Bally Nunn Bush slipons lace-ups casuals 4000 to 5500 styles 3490 3750 to 4500 styles 2890 2500 to 3500 styles 1990 Downtown Plaza Ward Parkway Entire stocks not included Sorry no mail or In the less than two months of its existence the Kansas City drug abuse law enforcement unit has initiated investigations resulting in the return of 10 indictments by a federal grand jury Stephen Hill assistant US attorney who heads the drug abuse unit here said that in addition to the indictments authorities have seized large quantities of heroin and other hard narcotics Nine cars and four firearms involved in the trafficking of narcotics also have been seized Hill said The group here includes federal agents from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Division and the Internal Revenue Service and police officers from the Kansas City and Kansas City Kansas departments and Johnson Coun tj officers I Kansas City has been designated one of nine regional head quarters for the national project and is headed by Robert Elliott Leawood a former assist ant prosecutor in Johnson County In addition to being the regional office that covers a 5-Kansas City has 33 Kfl been designated one of the Strike Talk Ouster Action Is Next phone orders Officials representing the Kansas City Power Light Co and three striking electrical unions have agreed to meet at 10 am tomorrow for the first negotiating session since the locals struck Sunday Beryl Car-lew federal mediator said A rvtition by Angelo Frank JJrurJr 70 to set aside a 1934 narcotics conviction which resulted in his deportation has been denied by Judge William the of On the Move The Board of Election Com missioners mobile registration unit will be at 31st between Forest and Tracy in the customers parking lot from noon to 8 pm tomorrow it About 2000 members of Becker in the US District international Brotherhood Court- Electrical Workers are striking Bruno of 1109 Troost was de- for improvements to toal work-ported to Italy in 1956 but was in? conditions as well as for arrested here in May 1970 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