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In chess match: Fischer 'blunder gives advantage to Spassky REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon. The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. The game was to resume at 5 p.m.—1 p.m. EDT. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make 41st move.

The Thunderstormi a summer cooler? Dial 284-2222 122nd Year WEDNESDA ixon sian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a seated envelope at the adjournment. The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the green- and-white chessboard in sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., cuallenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns.

U.S. grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, is going to have trouble making a draw. I see how Spassky can Analyzing the game for The Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed move rare miscalculation by the American He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win. Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster present at the tournament, said, is doubtful whether black can save a Spassky, who had the first move, is playing the white pieces, Fischer the black. Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past, losing all three times he played the black pieces and getting draws both vening elegraph Number 61 Serving the Heart of the Rock River Valley for More Than a Century DIXON, ILLINOIS, July 12, 1972 times he played the whites and had the advantage of the first move.

A draw counts half a point and a win a point in the 24- game championship match. To dethrone Spassky, Fischer needs points while the Russian can retain his crown with 12 points. The winner will get $153,125 in prize money, the loser $91,875, and in addition they will divide equally an estimated $55,000 or more from film and television sales. 28 PAGES retunia City PRICE TEN CENTS The day is fast approaching when you will need to be as well acquainted with meters, liters and grams as you now are with yard, cubic feet and pounds. The first three terms are metric measures for length, mass and weight and are in use today in all but 12 nations in the world.

These 12 nations are Barbados, Burma, Gambia, Guyana, Jamaica, Muscat and Oman, Nairu, Sierra Leone, Southern Yemen, Tonga and Trinidad; all nations not usually grouped with the U.S. How did we get so far out of the mainstream in our units of measure? In the early years of our fledgling nation there were those who argued we should completely disentangle ourselves from Great Britain, even to the units of measure, and adopt the newly developed measurement scheme of the French, called the metric system. However, there were others who argued that even though being free from England, the new nation would depend on trade with the motherland and it would be more judicious to keep the Egnlish measurements of units. Today, of course, England, from whom we sprang, no longer measures things by the system we clung to when separating from George Great Britain. The U.S.

recognized the metric system in 1866, legalizing it as a measuring system but not making it mandatory, which is its statusr today, 106 years later. Even so, it is doubtful we will reach the 21st century before the metric system is adopted here and made mandatory for use in commerce. The metric system is set up on the base 10, that is, the units of the system and their multiples are related to each other by factors of 10. There are six basic units in the International Metric System (IMS), but only three are needed in our day-to-day living. Meter is a unit of length; kilogram is the unit of mass or volume, and kelvin or Celsius is the unit of temperature.

All other weights and measures in the IMS are derived from these basics: area is measured in square meters speed in meters per second, and density in kilograms per cubic meter. Where metric systems become easy is converting basic measurements to larger or smaller sizes. Since every metric unit is related to another by 10 or multiples of 10, it is only a matter of moving decimal points, compared to the laborious division required for the same computation in our measuring system. Well, time to get ready to forego expressions like the 10-gallon hats worn by Texans; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or a miss is as good as a mile. R.H.N.

Aides say McGovern will woo reluctant Kennedy for mate On victorious evening Sen. George S. McGovern sits back in his penthouse suite in a Miami Beach hotel and savors his victorious recapturing of 151 California votes. This action now puts him within reach of the Party's presidential nomination. (AP Wirephoto) MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. George McGovern, assured of the platform he sought and a first-ballot victory tonight in the Democratic presidential balloting, considered a list of potential running mates today. Aides said he still plans to ask a reluctant Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to join the ticket.

Weary delegates had barely 12 hours off after the longest convention session in the history of either party before climactic meeting at which McGovern was scheduled to be the first candidate placed into nomination and, when the balloting took place, the nominee. California planned to yield to Connecticut when the states were called for nominations so that Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff could nominate the 49-year-old South Dakota senator to head the Democratic ticket this November. Speculation turned immediately to possible running mates after the withdrawal of Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie on Tuesday assured nomination. Kennedy was clearly his top choice despite repeated statements he is unavailable. A close personal friend of Kennedy, Sen.

John V. Tunney of California, told reporters after talking with him by phone that he thinks it highly unlikely Kennedy would accept. He added he expects Kennedy to fly here from Hyannis Port, Thursday to appear at the convention with the nominee. aides said that others under consideration include: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock; Sens. Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri and Abraham A. coff of Connecticut and Florida Gov. Reubin Askew. The Democratic National Convention, meanwhile, stayed in session until 6:22 a.m. EDT in the longest continuous session in history of either party before shouting its approval of a platform that mirrors views in calling for total U.S.

withdrawal from Indochina and supporting busing to eliminate segregation and to improve educational quality. Lengthy, roll-call votes beat back proposals to establish a $6,500 guaranteed income for a family of four and to introduce an abortion plank. The delegates voted to add a proposal to grant Indians first priority in allocation of federal surplus lands and strengthen the provision supporting a U.S. military commitment in Europe and the Mediterranean to deter Soviet pressure against Israel. By voice vote, the convention shouted down eight proposals, ranging from endorsement of capital punishment and public- school prayers to a constitutional amendment barring busing, despite a plea by Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace. As the convention deliberated through a second marathon night session Tuesday in a relaxed atmosphere after Monday sharp credentials battles, Wallace provided a dramatic highlight with an appeal for far-ranging tax reform and a denunciation of senseless asinine busing of little school A mighty roar went up and red-white-and-blue placards waved from the pro-Wallace delegates as Wallace was carried in a wheelchair to the podium. Other delegates stood in respect to the governor, partially paralyzed when shot down while campaigning in Laurel, May 15. But appeals were doomed to failure as the convention worked to approve a platform, tailored largely to the liberal views of McGovern.

Wallace, holding just a few hundred delegates, and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, with under 100, vowed to stay in the presidential race although assured first-ballot strength shot past the 1,509 votes needed to win. Some labor leaders who had supported Humphrey, including President I. W.

Abel of the United Steelworkers Union, threw their support to Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington. Besides McGovern, Wallace and Jackson, supporters announced nominating speeches would be made for former Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy; Reps. Wilbur D. Mills and Shirley Chisholm and former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford. Heated discussion over absence of deputy clerk County Board votes to resume daytime meetings An 1A.fn.11v/tto tfoo Pnnntu Rnarrl have the aUthoHtV tO Cive anV of PmnlnVPS On a 14-to-ll vote, the Lee County Board Tuesday night decided to change from night to day meetings beginning in August, and on two voice votes agreed to give $9,905 to two farm-oriented organizations.

The motion to hold day meetings came abruptly by Mrs. Grace Balser, District 4, amidst heated discussion about an absence of a deputy from County Clerk John office. At the June meeting Stouffer told the board he would not have any employe of his office at another board meeting until the organization decided about paying her for working extra time. The matter was referred to the Fees and Salaries Committee which Tuesday night returned a recommendation that the employe who attended the board meeting be given equal time off. Stouffer said, changes nothing, I have the authority to give any of my employes time off when I choose to.

put in this request to consider pay for my deputies attending board meetings; it came on a motion from the Asked why no one was there, Stouffer replied, you think I wanted to have a girl here and have her embarrassed by this discussion of whether she is worth anything or After Mrs. motion, Stouffer pleaded for board members not to vote any certain way because no one was in attendance from his office. Lowell Beggs, District 1, convinced that the absence of a Stouffer employe had perpetuated the motion, exhorted fellow board members, may change to a day meeting here tonight and next month may change back to night meeting, but let us not act just because a girl show up The two requests for funds came from the Lee County Cooperative Extension Service, for $7,858, and from the Lee County Soil and Conservation District, for $2,047. In past years these requests have brought bitter debates and always resulted in roll calls, but Tuesday they elicited practically no discussion and no one called for a roll-call vote. The board, also without discussion, on a voice vote concurred with the recommendation from the Zoning Board of Appeals that the County Zoning Code be amended to delete landfill operations as an accepted use in areas zoned for heavy industry and transferred the accepted use for landfills to a section named, The board unanimously okayed a recommendation from the Legislative Committee that a year-around dog-tie up be ordered in Woodland Shores, and that violators be ject to fines from $10 to $50.

Stouffer confronted the board with the problem that there is $34 left in the Rabies Budget and that there is more than $6,000 in the Rabies Fund, which accumulates from the sales of rabies tags, and suggested the board take some action to let the additional money be used or the rabies employe would not receive another pay check, since this would put the budget over the appropriation. The board concurred with the appropriation being raised to enable the accumulated rabies funds to be used. David Considine, District 1, offered a motion which was adopted that bids for air conditioning the two court rooms in the Courthouse be referred to the Building Committee. Considine alleged, which was later confirmed, that bids had been received totaling $2,700 for the work County Treasurer Donald Stauffer said tax bills probably would be out by July 29 and that tax bodies probably would not get any funds until Oct. 1.

He said all real estate and personal property taxes will be due Sept. 1. How members voted on changing to daytime meetings: YES- Allen, Balser, Bulfer, Faber, Fraza, Gittleson, Green, Kant, Kesselring, Koch, Norden, Padgett, Rogers, Topper, 14. Beggs, Burrs, Considine, Dunphy, Hanson, Henning, Huffman, McReynolds, Selgestad, Thompson, Wegner, 11. Burke, Conroy, Erickson.

Edward Conroy, District 3, and Arthur Erickson, District 2, were in Springfield attending a seminar for members of boards of review sponsored by the State Department of Local Government Affairs. They both are members of the Lee County Board of Review. Nixon huddles with Dobrynin SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Just a day before Vietnam peace talks resume in Paris, President Nixon has scheduled an informal but serious meeting here with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. The ambassador and Mrs.

Dobrynin, described as guests of Henry A. Kissinger, the principal foreign affairs advisor, were invited by their host to visit the Western White House today. Wallace third-party race more likely Inside your Telegraph today Felt the heat the last few days? It's the humidity. On page 9 there is a comfort index chart to show how the humidity, plus heat, affects us. The Dixon American Legion baseball team loses a game, but wins a protest.

See page 22. Other features Editorials Society news page 2 page 6 Local news Comics page 8 page 27 GEORGE WALLACE MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) George C. campaign manager said today the chance that the Alabama governor will make another third-party presidential race to be getting stronger and stronger every Charles S. Snider told newsmen a final decision will be made soon after the Democratic National Convention.

Meanwhile he said the Alabama name will be put up for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight as planned even though he said not accepting the that Sen. George McGovern will win the nomination. statement came a few hours after Wallace appeared before the convention in a dramatic moment Tuesday night. Accorded a long-awaited Democratic National Con- vention appearance to argue his platform views, Wallace was greeted by a lusty ovation and heard in an aura of good behavior. am said the man who bolted the Democrats in 1968, I want to help.

want it to become again the party of the average citizen as it used to be and not the party of the pseudo-intellectual snobbery that it has come to But while his familiar call for slashes in foreign aid and an end to senseless, asinine busing of little school evoked cheers enough to flood the convention center, it was clear that the hearts and minds of most would not be swayed from Sen. George McGovern, the man to be nominated tonight. General testifies Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto, left, listens throug earphones as Maj. Gen. Rehevam Zeevi, chief of Israel' Central Army Command, tells a court martial in Lod, Is rael, that he tricked Okamoto into confessing by promis ing him a gun for suicide.

Okamoto is on trial for his par in the Lod Airport massacre in which 28 persons wer killed and 67 injured. (AP Wirephoto).