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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-01-24, Page 18Page 24 1974 - CHESS TIME Drama pervades game By JOSEPH MILL BROWN Copley News Service No other game %ends itself to high tragedy like chess. Even when the financial stakes are low, the loser is gambling with something more important than money : his sanity. Compare this with other sports where the outcome gives the impression of being a matter of life and death, but you just know the loser will live to sign a television con- tract blubbering about good old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Even the most dramatic moment in modern baseball history ( Bobby Thomson's home run off Ralph Branca, which gave the New York Gi- ants the 1951 National League pennant) cannot compare to chess in the realm of human tragedy. Years after the deed, pranca admitted the incident never bothered him as much as it did everyone else. In- stead of drinking himself to death in every broken-down bar in Brooklyn, he married the boss' daughter, left base- ball forever, and became a successful insurance execu- tive. On the other hand, consider the problem of poor John Grefe,: the 26 -year-old from' Berkeley, Calif., who is the new • co -holder of the U.S. Chess Championship. Grefe . has been a consistent high* scorer in West Coast tourna- ments, where the atmosphere is sometimes cooler than a Turkish Bath in the Sahara. His playing uniform is, at times, the acme of California high fashion: lure feet. His new prestige now puts Grefe in line for invitations from European and South American tournaments where nonconformity often brings a coldness from tournament of- ficials that could inflict his naked tootsies with frostbite. But a more sober contrast was undoubtedly the one served up at the international chess tournament earlier this year, before the breakout of war, at Netanyn; Israel. The warner was John Grefe's roti- 'tleholder, 30 -year-old Lubo- mir Kavalek, who now hails from Washington, D.C., but is a former chess champion of Czechoslovakia. Kavalek and his mother escaped that coun- try during the Russian inva- sion of 1968. At that same Netanya tour- nament, third place was shared by another. ex -Czech grandmaster, 49 -year-old 11,t*k Packman, who had been the darling of lion Cur- tain chess for years. Pachman's identification • with the liberal Dubcek re- gime, and his strident pro- tests against the Soviet rape of 1968, landed him in a Prague jail soon thereafter. Last year, after receiving, among other prison souve- nirs,' a fractured skull and spinal injuries that left him Nt,with a permanent limp, he was permitted to leave the country, and is just now pick- ing up the pieces 'of a debili- tated 'chess career. Concurrent with the Netan- , ya grandmaster tournament was a competition for interna- tional masters. The winner was Isaac Radashkdvitch, a former Soviet emigrant who, after applying for permission to go to Israel, was barred by Agricultural Tidbits with Adrian: Vos It seems that Mrs. Plumptre'ps "Food Prices • Review .Board at last has, knuckled under to the critics of her board. So it appears to me anyway. Any business that ' has a loss in one year win try to make up for it in subsequent years and nob(4accuS them of taking Amalie, profits. When it comes to the farmer egg producer, howeirer, this is branded as such by . the Board. And even if profit would be reduced, it couldn't r be very much, for the total profit is only 417 cents per dozen. According to , Hensall's Bill Mickle, a director of the Egg ;Marketing Board, 3 cents a dozen is needed to pay off the debt and other business losses from the last two bad years. What about it consumer? Are you, too, going to;insist that these farmers must stay under _-their debt load for a measly 3 cents per dozen on eggs? Or ate you thinking with me that we are obliged to pay them now for the eggs we bought when they were subsidized by the egg producer? I have always had confidence in the ability of the family farm to compete with the large cor- .pOi'e'te farm.The reason is quite simple. If the cow is about to have a calf or the sow. a litter of pig- gies, and a man is paid by the hour, there is not much incentive' to go out in the night for a look 'at how things are going hi the barn. -'''°this lack- of personal involve-° spent• can be pointed out in; alfnost every phase of food production. ''thus, to be. efficient .there must be limitations on the size• of the operation. The big companies with money to burn decided to try it in the USA; to name a few, S.S. Pierce Co., CBK Agronomics, Inc., The Gulf and Western -In- dustries, Inc., The Gates Rubber Co., Multiponics. They couldn't justify it to • their shareholders and pulled out.. Others as' Purer and Tenneco are in the process of pulling out. What is left will be changing into the contract busi- ness, where the farmer will pro- vide the work and the basic capi- tal and the partner working capi- tal and a share of the risk and. the profit. As an American economist put it, "Who is going to sit up with the corporate sow at night?" Crossroads i 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. Dick Eskerod, Editor. Display and Classified ad deadline— Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, ' 2 Bloor St., West, Toronto 962-400d Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., . 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 the Russians from all tourna- ment chess for the two years before his departure. Still another reminder of contemporary events was the presence in the U.S. Cham- pionship of grandmaster Pat Benko; probably the first of the post -World War II refu- gees to arrive on the Ameri- can chess scene. When Rus- sian tanks rolled into Buda- pest to crush the 'Hungarian revolt in 1956, Benko was among those who escaped to the West, despite an auspi- cious position as one of Hun- gary's bright young satellites. Indeed, when one contem- plates the Soviet gestures in the recent Arab offensive against Israel, the suspicion persists that, for Russia i to paraphrase Clausewitz), war is merely a chess .game by other means. 1973 U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP EL PASO, TEXAS SICILIAN DEFENSE (Brilliancy Prize Game 1 John Grefe Walter Browne 1. P -K4 2. N-KB3 3. P -Q4 4. NxP 5. N-QB3 6. B-KN5 7. P -B4 8. B -R4 9. Q -B3 10.0-0.0 11. B -K2 12. Q -N3 13. KR -Bl 14.PxP 15. N -B3 16.NxN 17. NxP 18. PkN 19.PxB 20. BxR 21. NxPch • P-QB4 P -Q3 PxP N-KB3 P-QR3 P -K3 P-KR3 B -K2 Q -B2 QR -N1 R -N1 P-KN4 ' N -K4 P-QN4 P -N5 PxN RxQ R-KN4 PxB Resigns u IJIMPI FOR. READERS "INTERESTED IN MAZES, WERE 15 A UNIQUE PUZZLE CONS'S_ Nor OF OVER. . PASSES, UNDERPASSES, INTER. SECTIONS AND DEAD :ENOS* EACH BLACK CIRCI E ON THIS MAZE REPRE5ENTS A TOLLGATE , THERE 18 A CHARGE EP►CI41 TIME A TOLLGATE IS PASSED THRU. YOUR CHALLENGE IS TQ TRAVEL FROM POINT ',' TO POINT °I"" THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF CHANGE, BUT YOUR PROW- LEM IS THE FACT THAT YOU ONLY HAVE `vOO • 1972 , RYAN 'GAME ComPANY OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONIES for the new Huron Tractor Ltd., Blyth John Deere Service Centre were held over a four-day period last week in Blyth. The Service Centre, first of its kind in Ontario, was officially opened by Huron County MP Robert McKinlay and' MPP Jack Riddell along with several executives of John Deere Canada Ltd., from Hamilton. 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JOHN DEERE PRESIDENT John, Graflund, discussed tractor repairs with service mechanic Ron Purdon,of Huron Tractor Ltd., during a<special preview tour of the new John Deere Service Centre at Blyth last week. A number of John 'Deere Canada officials joined Huron County p liticians, ' agricultural leaders and special guests at an official ribbon -cutting ceremony and tour of the new service facility. Mr. Graflund talked to mechanic Purdon about the kinds of repairs he'll be involved with at the' new &ranch of Huron Tractor Ltd., of Exeter. John Deere service centre. opens in Blyth Hundreds of area farmers, customers and other guests tour- ed the new Blyth John Deere Ser- vice Centre of Huron Tractor Ltd., last week during official opening ceremonies and an open house. The Service Centre, a branch of Huron Tractor Ltd., of Exeter, is the first of its kind in Ontario and the modern new facility is specif- ically designed to provide parts, repairs and service to John Deere -equipment owners in north Huron, south Bruce and, north Perth counties. The proprietors of Huron 'Tractor"Ltd., Earl Long, who will manage the new facility, Harry Winters, Jack VanBussel and Herb Verbeek, were joined by several John Deere Canada Ltd., officials from Hamilton, local and area agricultural leaders and Huron MP Robert, McKinlay and Huron MPP Jack Riddell at a special official opening ceremony Tuesday of last week. Attending from John Deere Canada Ltd., In Hamilton were President John Graflund, Direc- tor of ,.Marketing Ed Stahl, Gen- eral Sales Manager Harry Myk- olaishyn, Credit Mgr., Greg Clark, Division Sales Mgr.,.Law- rence Ruud and Territory Mgr., Brian Brodie. Mr. Stahl told those in at- tendance the new John Deere Service Centre concept is a sin- cere effort by his company to bring service back to the farmer and he complimented Huron Tractor Ltd., for their 'progres- sive attitude and also on being the largest volume John Deere agri- cultural equipment dealer • in Canada in 1971' Following the official opening ceremonies Tuesday, an open house was held Friday and .area farmers, customers and mem- bers of the public toured the new facility and inspected the John Deere Generation II Caravan which 'included four . cutaway tractor engines with working components. Iron Age graves found inEngland Digging out campsites for trailers, an English stone- mason found hand -worked shaped stones three feet un- derground at the Priest's Way Caravan Park in Dorset. 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