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Cycle News 1966 04 14

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Competition Riden CAROL SIMS TO ASCOT T~u~pp Always Welcome Elu,-.,.~ce GREEVES HONDA We Service An Makes 794 Los AnCJeIes St. Simi. California 526-9955 SEE PAGE 16 FOR IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 100% _,IIG OAOSSA Ame rica' s favorite moto rcycle columnis t and only girl sponsor of a speedway machine that we know of last week was named Director of P ubli cit y for Ascot Park , announced Harry SChooler, owner of Ascot. Best known recently for her association with Cycle World monthly. Miss Sims (then Carol Anderson) first wrote for a national audience in th e Clymer magazines . Carol is without a doubt the most en thusiastic fan that motorcycle racing can boast. Be gipn in g as one-girl cheering section for midget race car drive rs a t the age of twelve , she soon organized other moppets into a teenage fan cl ub to root for her favo rite Speedway heroes . Her love of racing s hows continued from the grandstan ds until 1957 , when s he began to writ e a wee kly newspap er column de voted particularly to sprint cars . Caro l' s scrupulous standards of accuracy le d her to become involved in the behind-the-scenes mystery of motor racing. Th is culminated in he r s p 0 n s 0 r i n g a speedway-winning Matchles s 500 for the better part of last season. Car ol' s first official act will be to have Ascot P ar k repainted. It is to be hoped that Carol may be able to alter the stockyard appearance of our finest ~mile track . Both automobile and motorcycle racing publicity will be produced und er Mis s Sims' dir ec torship. In add ition sh e plans to free-l an ce editorial features for numerous pu blications . including Cycle News. THREE NEW LIGHTWEIGHTS M~~' D.r~~ Hoclde's Moforcyc'es2202S S. FigueroaTorrance L _ Phone 328-1242 "I~ ....... .'SA -RODAKA-~C'UJUU14 MOTORCYCLE INSURANCE ClIIIPOES WITII CAI.JFlIMIA nJIIlIICIM. .... I .Im LAW Rates Apply To IlotII Male _ FeIIIIIe, All Ales. Married or Single, Military PUM_. eft. Iod il)' Inj&wJ 110.000 u ell PIf"On'I 120 ,000 fa acei*nt. . odl oe

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