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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-12-24, Page 18Page 2— Crossroads—December 24, 1975— Oh, that red -nosed R peak at Santa who was by then But, lo and behold, they weren't beside himself with laughter. And out for more than half a day and Rudy—well, he just was spinning there was udolph, huddled next he was laughing so- hard. Big to some rocks. The whole time Rudy had never joke. "Rudy's OK," Comet shouted. turned on his famous nose. " Without him where would we "Never thought of it, fellas," be?" Rudy told them. With that, and "There's always one in every after some patting on the back. crowd," chimed in Dancer. and "How ya doing," Rudy and "Yea, that Rudolph is a kook, company were ack home. One crisis over, and another to go. What about the idea which caused all the fuss? A special meeting was called for the reindeer, the elves and everyone, including the Old Man. Rudy had a special announce- ment. Wasting no time, he began, "Fellow workers of the North. Welcome. I bring greetings from all the rocks I stumbled over during my recent tour of who - knows -where." "Get to the point," Dancer whispered to Rudolph helpfully. "Oh yes. You all know about one of my better brainstorms, that of illuminating Santa's sled. ( Continued from front page) detached state of oblivion when there was a loud pounding at his door that sounded more like a stampede than anything else. Look Out! Half -awake he opened the door and in rushed eight reindeer in a crush that might have made Grand Central Station look like a hermit's paradise. They were all around him before he knew it, pointing their hooves at him. "You caused all this you rambunctious reindeer ! " "You don't deserve the straw you sleep on ! " "Let's roust the rambling - minded, red -nosed rascal out of here for good!" All the reindeer yelled their ap- proval. "Holy reindeer," Rudolph thought. "It's a lynching herd. The whole mob of them aren't working with a full deck." With that they picked Rudy up off his frozen water bed lined with straw (which he couldn't con the others into buying) and away out the door, past the store, through the snow, and just outside the city limits they dropped him in a heap. As the others scampered away from the now -forlorn Rudolph, all he could think of doing was stick- ing his long tongue out at them. "Some strong medicine," Rudy thought. On and on Rudy wandered until even he didn't know where he was. One day, two, three ... who knew how long he'd been out there in the middle of nowhere? Back Home "He's been out there five days now!" the cool-headed Dancer said to the others. "We've got to . get 'him back." "Oh yea," Prancer said bull- ishly. "You look at the poem, Dancer. It mentions all of us ex- cept one -Rudolph. He was never meant to be, never. We're better off without him." - "But in that story, which we all know is somewhat fictionalized, subject to the whims of some pipe -smoking, pot-bellied author, the night is clear. Now you know that every year the we.: ther seems to get worse for fog and such. And those clouds. I heard you last year, Prancer, after we came out of one of those cumulo- nimbus, say there in front, 'Who's got a compass, where are we anyway—the Bermuda Tri- angle?' " "1 did not say that," stormed Prancer. Everyone took a step back as the biggest of the rein- deer pounded his feelings on the table. "I just thought Santa's radar was a little off, especially after he chortled that he had just seen a UFO." At that the reindeer laughed, breaking the tension. They recalled Rudy's joke. He had been talking about UFOs all day before the Big Night about eight years ago. He really believed in them—all that about little rein- deer and such coming from a flying saucer. Nobody had taken him seriously, as usual. But in mid-flight that night suddenly the Old Man called out that he had spotted six UFOs travelling in a southwesterly direction- somewhere over the North Pole. He chuckled that they had been trailing the rein- deer team ever since they started. Rudy called out he saw thTi. Nearly upset the whole applecart then as all the reindeer began to panic. Finally the group began to catch on as they took a sneak of a I CROSSWORD • 1111 ;l11:1111 111111111 MN UM WM OMMIld II HMV MUMS 111 MOM!! II WM MIN ill II Mil MAI WM UM Si By A. C. 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"Well, what are we doing here. Let's start a search party." Up and Away They combed the area, even calling in the elves' toy helicopter for the air search. No luck. Meanwhile .: . "Got to keep moving," Rudolph thought to himself. By this time he was ready to give in to the others, if only could find them. He was completely lost. And in Santa's headquarters, the Old Man had begun to take on his usual ruddy color and was back on his feet, ready to take up his position on the practice field. But where were all his reindeer? "I'll have to find out what's going on. I'll ask the one person in all of the North who knows every- thi✓ng, Mrs. Claus." With that he bounded home and found his wife talking over some details with the elves. Santa didn't waste a moment. "Where are all my reindeer?" Mrs. Claus and the elves told him the w sole story, expecting the Old Man to lose his temper for the first time in his life. "Now what's so terrible about that? We'll just hitch up the tem and find little Rudolph:" By nightfall, the reindeer all re- turned home to find a patient Santa waiting in the mess hall. They all thought they were in for it. "Starting first thing tomorrow morning, we'll go out and find that racey Rudolph together." They all cheered. They knew now what they should have rea- lized before. It's what's in a rein- deer's heart that counts, not what's in his head. The Search It was a bad day to renew the search. But Santa. insisted. Fog had rolled in as it so often does that time of year. 51 - All right% 52 - Leander'e beloved 54 - Auricle 56 - R,tissian river 57 - Impede 59 - Legislative Work (abb.) 61 - Father (ebb . ) u ol h turned into what looked like bal- loon time at a Democratic Na- tional Convention. Splinter groups began para '';ng up and down the aisles as the reindeer broke into a refrain of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". After about half an hour of the celebrations udolph settled the crowd down, for he thought he had them in the palm .of his hands. "Just one more thing my dear, dear comrades, friends and loved ones_ " They all settled down into their seats. "Something just occurred to me. What if we tried putting jet engines on the sleigh to help us along through some high winds . . ", Rudolph rambled on but everyone had suddenly turned in the direction of the Old Man. As Rudy had begun his speech, Santa had stood up and with his belly convulsed in chuckles, he said, barely above a whisper, "Oh, that Rudolph. What a character!" And then a chill, up and down Well, I just want to tell you all the spines of everyone in the now. If that is going to split us up room, as Santa sucked in the air for even a moment I am prepared that he did for only one reason. to drop the whole idea and lead They knew what was coming. the world-famous team chock full "Now Dasher! Now Dancer! of toys made by those wonder- Now Prancer and Vixen! ful elves and all led by that giant On Comet! On Cupid! On Donder of goodliness and chuckles, Toand the top 1And Rudolph! Santa!" op ofthe porch! the With that the little mess hall top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away, all!" After that meeting, the prac- tices went as never before. All were happy and busy. Oh yes, busy. Especially udy who decided he would make a small banner and carry it in his teeth where none of the others could see it. In bright orange it read: "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" \Crossroads\ Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Display and Classified ad deadline -- Tuesday, week prior to publication date. 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CHESS POINTS Yugoslav grand master gets top tourney scores By ROSS WILLIAMS The recent performances on the international tourna- ment circuit by the young Yugoslavian grand master, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, rank him among the top contend- ers for Anatoly Karpov's world title. Ljubojevic, 25, won the Ruy Lopez Memorial Tournament in Las Palmas, Spain, earlier this year with an unbeaten 11 points out of 14. Henrique Mecking of Brazil, Ulf An- dersson of Sweden and Mik- hail Tal of the USSR were be- hind him in a tie for second place. Further back were FridOck Olafsson of Iceland, VIastimil Hort of Czechoslo- vakia and Tigran Petrosian of the USSR. There were nine grand masters in the recent IBM In- ternational Tournament in Amsterdam, The Nether- lands. Ljubojevic lost two, games, but won the tourna- ment with nine and one-half points out of 15. The second place finisher in the IBM was Sergei Makarichev, 21, of the USSR, an international mas- ter in front of eight grand masters. Another top result this year for Ljubojevic was in the In- ternational Tournament in Milan, Italy, won by world champion Anatoly Karpov. Ljubojevic split third and fourth prize money With Petrosian. In the round.robin portion of the Milan tourney, Ljubo- jevic lost the single game he played against Karpov, but he finished in the top four fin- ishers and competed in the play-off matches. He then lost a four game match with Lajos Portisth of Hungary, and thereby lost his chance to meet the world champion in the final 6 -game match. William Lombardy, in the September 1975 Chess Life and Review, quotes Ljubo- jevic to the effect of being un- interested in the world cham- pionship. But he's up there banging on the door. If he plays in an interzonal contest in 1976, his results will likely place him in the candidates matches in 1977, whether he's interested or not. Game of the Week: Correction: When we pre- sented the Ribli-Sax game at U jpest in algebraic, after presenting it in descriptive notation, we listed moves 16 and 17 as follows: 16. cd Bf3, 17. B:f3 Resigns. It should have been: 16. cd BF6, 17. B:f6 Resigns. We commited the error of using descriptive numbers with algebraic let- ters in our own translation. Sorry. Ljubojevic has an interest- ing style. He seeks the unusu- al and the irregular rather than holding to popular open- ings and combinations. He's also a fierce competitor. When he combines his un- compromising urge to win with his unusual tactics, he produces interesting games. And sometimes the most in- teresting of those are the ones he loses. This is his game against the , young Russian master, Sergei Makarichev, in the 'IBM Grand Masters Tournament, Amsterdam, 1975. IBM Grandmasters Amsterdam 1975 Petroff Defense Ljubojevic White 1. P -K4 2. N -K83 3. NxP 4. N-KB3 5.P -Q4 6. B -Q3 7.0-0 8. R -K1 9. P -B3 10. Q -N3 11. KN -Q2 12.KxN 13. P -N3 14. K -N2 15. B -K4 16. K -N 1 17.KxP 18. K-Rl 19. QxPch 20. BxQch 21. N -B3 22. N -N1 23. N -Q2 24. N -K4 25.BxR 26. N -B3 27.KN1 28. B*B 29. Resigns Buy in December and .Save!, Sales Tax increases to 7% January' 1 UsedCars Makarichev Black P -K4 N-KB3 P -Q3 NxP P -Q4 B -K2 N-QB3 B-KN5 P -B4 0-0 NxKB , B-R.Sch P-85 PxP B-R6ch PxPch Q-Q3ch BxR Qat() B -N6 B -B8 QR -K1 RxN R -B7 B-N7ch BxN RxB 1975 CHEVROLET CAPRICE - four door hardtop featuring power door locks, all windows tint- ed, power windows, power trunk release, oir conditioning, left and right remote control mir- rors, 350 V-8 with 4 barrel carburetion, tilt steering wheel., wire wheel discs, AM/FM ra- dio, deluxe bumper equipment with bumper guards, finished in Royal Blue wii h matching vinyl roof. This vehicle is a Demonstrator and qualifies for the Provincial soles lax rebate. 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