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The Call-Leader from Elwood, Indiana • Page 12

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The Call-Leaderi
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AC 2 12 Clwood Call Ldr Thursday, July 13, 1972 Fischer I hreafens Walk Out iry Circus Days Planned In Peru REYKJAVIK. Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer, already one game down in his drive for the world chess championship, today threatened to walk out on the second match with titlehol-der Boris Spassky unless all television cameras are removed from the hall. Fischer's demands were presented by Fred Cramer, a vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation, at a closed meeting with representatives of the heavy favorite, Fischer made what appeared to be a beginner's error and went down to defeat at the hands of the 35-year-old Soviet world Champion. The moment of truth was painful.

Fischer rose from the massive mahogany chess table, made a helpless gesture and resigned at the 56th move. Before stomping out of the hall, he reached over to shake Spassky's hand. Fischer locked himself into. International Chess Federation (FIDE), the Icelandic organizers and representatives of U.S. companies owning the television rights to the match, international chess sources said.

The referee of the match, Germany's Lothar Schmid, said Fischer will lose the second game by default if he does not turn up for (he scheduled 5 (1 p.m. EOUytart today. Schmid also said organizers will not keep spectators from the first two rows of seats in the hall as they did during the first game on Fischer's request. The 29-year-old New Yorker walked out for 35 minutes Wednesday to protest two television cameras hidden above the stage where the players sit at the chess board for their championship match, scheduled to run a maximum of 24 games. Although he went into the much-postponed first game a his hotel suite with his second.

Father William Lombardy. a Catholic priest who is grandmaster, to analyze the lost game and prepare for today's encounter. The challenger lost the first game at the 29th move when in taking one of Spassky's pawns he allowed his bishop to be trapped. By doing this he in effect exchanged one bishop for two pawns an action which favored the champion. Although Fischer made a desperate attempt to turn the game into a draw, it became obvious that Spassky could not be kept from promoting a pawn to a queen, thus making an eventual checkmate a certainty.

at 10 Saturday. July 22. Kvening big-top performances begin at 8 p.m., with an extra 5:30 p.m. performance Friday. July 21 and a 2 p.m.

matinee Saturday, July 22. All seats are reserved. Tickets are $.1 for adults, center ring; $2 for adults rings one and two. and $1 for adult end seats. Children's tickets are 50 cents less in each section.

WORLD ALMANAC FACTS 7 Die In Ulster Violence Anyone who's ever been thrilled by a trapeze act. laughed at a cavorting band of clowns, or drooled at the wares of the candy butcher won't want to miss Grcus City Days at Peru. July 14-15 and 19-22. Now in its thirteenth year, the Circus City Festival and big-top performances draw thousands of circus buffs and just plain fun-loving people to Peru every year for a celebration unique across the country. Over 150 performers all amateurs ranging in age from 6 to 34 are schooled by veteran circus trainers in the arts of the big-top.

Nine full shows are presented to crowds which numbered 13.000 last year. Trampoline, trapeze, balancing, and clown acts are a few of the many which make up each 2's hour show. The performers are all unpaid volunteers wh seek to bring back the excitement and heritage of Peru's boom days. In the early 1900's. Peru was the winter home of many of the nation's" circuses.

The town's easy access by rail made it a natural choice for the traveling shows. Peru's popularity lasted until the 1940 when the circuses moved their winter headquarters to Florida. Peru maintains the heritage of its circus days. The Circus Museum houses memorabilia of the circuses which made Peru their home and draws thousands of visitors annually. The Circus City Festival will take over downtown Peru July 19 through 22 Ekxrths.

games and carnival rides wil be open for the enjoyment of residents and visitors alike. Local high school bands, circus performers and wagons, and area notables will take part in the Circus Days Parade, beginning Australian conservationists estimate that widespread slaughter has left some of the 21 genera of kangaroo near extinction. Roasted porcupine meat is an American Indian stream. In Portadown. 25 miles southwest of Belfast', Protestant Paul Beattie.

20. was killed by a sniper. Later two unidentified men were shot dead in a pub in Portadown frequented mainly by Catholics, police said. In the period's other fatalities, two British soldiers died early today after they were hit by sniper fire Wednesday night in the Catholic Lower Falls area of Belfast, the army said. Eight soldiers were injured, three seriously, when a landmine blasted their truck near Keady.

County Armagh, near the Irish Republic border. Sunday in a Belfast housing estate. Twomey said the troops fired first. British officials said Whitelaw was studying the truce offer with caution." In the capital's Catholic Old Park Road distnict. four gunmen burst into the home of Sally McLenaghan.

a Catholic widow, shot her in the leg and arm. then shot her son David as he lay in bed sleeping, the army said. Police said the boy had a mental age of four. In the city's Catholic Bally-murphy area police found the hooded body of an unidentified man of about 25 floating in a negotiate a new cease-fire with William Whitelaw. secretary "of state for Northern Ireland, providing British forces prom ise to honor the truce.

would have to give us, strong guarantees, witnessed by neutral observers, that he would be prepared to honor his word," Twomey told a news conference in the Catholic Andersonstown district. "The British Government would have to give their word of honor." Twomey said Whitelaw was a "blatant liar" in saying the Provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting between them and British forces BELFAST (UPI)-Seven per-sons. including a retarded 15-year-old Catholic boy shot in his bed. died in continuing violence Wednesday and today in one of the bloodiest 24-hour periods since a two-week cease-fire ended Sunday. The deaths boosted the fatality toll in almost three years of violence in Northern Ireland to 428.

British officials studied a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Sea-mus Twomey, chief of the IRA's Provisional wing in Belfast, said Wednesday the Provisionals would be willing to ATHLETE'S FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IV IN ONE HOUR, Strong, quick-drying T-4-L check itch and burning or your 89c back at any drug counter. Than, in 3-5 day watah infectad akin aloufh off. Watch HEALTHY akin appear NOW Hook i Store Father's Day is always observed on the third Sunday in June, and was first elebrated in the United tates on June 19, 1910, The World Almanac recalls. The idea was originated by Mrs.

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