Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

- SUBSCRIBE HERE AND 00 (ClIIItiaaed f..- a you desire, as long as it is available in the U.S. at the time the winner is announced on December 22, 1966. lI.y 31. 1963 - Friday We went fishing at Clark Lake. We fished at the same place were 1 caught the ba.ss yesterday. I caught 2 small mouth aod 2 large mouth bas . Mark caught a III.ss and I took the hook out for bi.m. I was bolding his fish when IllY rod dipped in the water. I quickly tbrew Marks fish down aod grabbed IllY rod. I didn't get the fish that struck. I looked up at Mark and be had a surprized look on his face aod asked me wby in hell did I tbrow his bass III.ck in the lake. I told him I didn't know. Iris told uS she got a job lined up for us on a [arm and that "We should go down and talk to the guy. we drove down to his farm he was outside with his wife hoeing. He talked to us [0[ a while and asked how much we wanted Mark said a dollar an hour and he said alright. We were to be there at 8:00 or so but not too early tomorrow morning. JUDe I, 1963 - bt.ru, We went down to the farm. We helped Mr. Turk put up his workshop wall it was made out of bricks. We didn't work very -bard because Mr. Turk kept telling us not to get ahead of him. Is this the machine a Subscriber will win? IN CYCLE NEWS' relatively NEW CONTEST ~<. HOW TO ENTER: If you are already subscribing to Cycle News, just fill in the bottom half of the coupon below and send it in to Cycle News "Machine of your Dreams' Contest . P,O, Box 498, Long Beach, California FIRST PRIZE-THE MACHINE OF YOUR DREAMS exactly as described on your centest entry blank, SECOND PRIZE-Your choice of brand new Honda S-90 or Hodaka Ace-51. and all the way to FIFTIETH PRIZES-Rare collector's item recording of Sanvny Tanner singing "The Flying Flea,' so Send in as many entries as you wish. 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AL BAKER Sherman Oaks FUBinl; tile FI&aes I I DETACH AND MAIL TO CYCLE NEWS/BOX498/LONG BEACH, CAL, I : - - - - - - - - - CONTEST ENTRY BLANK - - - - - - - - - - I Pna,s YH're Ri&llt, Cal that tbey will quit bugging me, please publish the enclosed exclusive point standings of the top desert beavyweight riders in district #37. I normally bate statistics but I found tbese somewhat interesting after I compiled tbem tonight. N a doubt the riders would like to see these aod there is good news value if published in the next week or so. I find IlIYself reading yoor Cycle News in it's entirely. even topics that I detest. Perhaps you have somethinl!: going for you. CAL MAKELA Dist. 37 COIIlP. Comm. Monterey Park EDITOR-See pace 16 ror current point staDdiDgs. your credit. Send no money and we will bill you later. City • I I •·• I ~ I I I ANY I ............................................................................................ .ENTER AS OFTEN AS YOU WISH. USE THIS COUPON OR REASONABLE FACSIMILE. CONTEST IS NOT OPEN TO EMPLOYEES OF C&S PUBLISHI. G COMPANY OR THEIR FAMILIES. • VOICE of CALIFORNIA If you have not yet subscribed to Cycle News, DO IT NOWl Just fill out and send in the whole coupon below or a reasonable facsimile and we will record your entry in the contest and start sending you Cycle News every week by mail. Short of cash? Use : weeu ago) TIlls Is lIIe " " • . , Df JI• •Icllol_ .d IlartJ (1IarlL) 1IacDDuId, ... lived lIIese adweiltMas dIri., lIIelr GraM T_ of the U.s., Pldlia& lIIeIr racial ~"'s ra • trail.. lIeIliad ........ ,.at tnoc. . .e rejDla ow "lJlIlcal "-'caa .....prs· la tIlD .Idwest. YES! You can win the machine of your dreams--any motorcycle I enclose check or money order 0 rew For tunch today we bad meat loaf. taters and home made cherry pie. We were surprised to find out tbat they feed us lunch here. Mr. and Mrs. Turk are real nice people. They are fixing up there farm now because he is going to retire soon. Their daughter who is 19 is a horse nut. She's also about as big as a horse. The [arm is about a half mile off the road and they have a small house which is real sanitary. Almost ran out o[ gas coming home after supper Mark, Sam& I went down to Clark Lake and fished till Dark. We didn't get a darn thing. June 2, 1963 - Sunday Mark and I went down to the lake to try and catch some of them big old bass. We trolled all over the lake. One place where there were a lot of people swimming I decided to go ashore and look around. As soon as we hit shore some old man asked us for our membership careL He said this is a private joint. We left, purty pissed off too. SOom people think they own the whole world. we came home about 5:00 that all I can remember. June 3, 1963 - Monday we went down to the farm, when we got there Mrs - whatersname as ked us if we had breakfast. We said yes. We went back to the place where were to put in the fence posts. Before we got there we were almost eaten alive by mosquittoes. I went back for the repelIant. We finished all the post holes before noon. Mr. Turk thought it would have taken us all day. Had hamburgers for lunch and a german choclate cake. While we listened to 01 Moose talk about her horses. After lunch we dug a big hole which we later put in a post which is going to be used as a gate pas t. Mr. Turk came home. He invited us to stay [or dinner. We had ham. taters and a choclate cream pie. (To be Continued) . I _____________________________ Il We have beard, unofficially. tbat no action is planned OJ) the current Dirtdigger vs. AMA thing, in hopes the whole matter will be forgotten. If we hadn't felt that tbere were some questioos and problems wortby of immediate action. we never would have lifted the lid off the pail. Therefore, we are trying our feeble best to keep the situation· out in front-. and to prevent it from being tahled again aod again until all is forgotten. Since we made ripples. a number of other clubs have expressed support of our cause. Other clubs are waiting to see if "Big Daddy- will SQuash us .•. never happen! We will not apologize to Columbus. because we bave dooe nothing but ask for answers that we feel are due us. as paying members of their Association. As you can see. we have held nonAMA races, and intend to continue to provide races. regardless of who it takes to get sanctions. 'Ibis was one of our club's original bylaws. to ride aod provide rides for others. Those of you that have ridden in the past years. or intend to ride our November 19 & 20 Grand Prix this year. had better push fa settlement of this issue, or else risk AMA suspension for participating••.BUT •••• we will hold our even t as scheduled. regardless. This is still going to be. again. the biggest motorcycle race in tbe United states in 1966! DIRI'DIGGERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB, INC. Culver City • You' II alwavs see it FIRST in &411 N. 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