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Dishkt #31 Sp.ts GCGa. .oiffllreeee JIeetiIg
The Thursday night meeting of the
District 37 Sports Committee was a
relati vely peaceful affair in contrast to
the previous months. President Jean
Carter called the meeting to order and
roll call was taken of clubs present.
Later, President Carter explained
that although the other local member s
of the National Competition Committee
had been expected to attend and it had
been so mentioned in the paper, they all
had previous engagements except for
Earl Flanders who was invited to take
the microphone and hear from the body
ideas that he could take to the National
meetin g that was coming up, as he
would be attending. Aub Lebard sent
word that he had resigned from the COlDmittee owing to the press or business.
Topics bmugbt up included tbat !lOme
iime ago a statement had been made
that the AMA had been considering
dropping Sportsman Scrambles. Flanders replied that this would not happen
because "part of the backbone of the
AMA is the scrambles." In reply to a
question about professional riders being
allowed to ride scrambles before the
end of the year, Flanders replied that
he had been told that this subject would
be on the ageoda for the meeting but
other than that he couldn't say.
When asked about dropping the classification of National Scrambles Championship, Flanders asked the boclY how
they thought anything could be classed
as a ational when so many of the top
riders just couldn't afford to travel
away from home to compete? It was
then suggested that if this was the case.
why hadn'tthe classification been taken
away from the desert events? Why not
go all the way with this thing?
The question of duai sanctions arose
again,specifically Bonneville. Flanders
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explained that Bonneville 15 a run involving different types of vehicles.
Tile N.H.R.A. sanctions cars and the
A.M.A. sponsors the bikes. There are
no dual sanctions on one type of vehicle.
As to holding dual-sanctions, any club
can have a dual sanction, that is, have
a Sportsman class sanctioned event one
day and a professional the next as
Daytona is handled. However. a club
must prove that they can attord to sponsor the professional sanction. In regard
to a club requesting the sanction for a
race such as Springfield (which is now
defunct) a sanction for a National event
such as the So-miler would only be
granted to a proven promoter on a proven
track.
It was as ked from the floor if Earl
Flanders was employed by J .C. Agajanian. Flanders replied that he was not.
His services as a member of the AMA
are donated and be pays his own bills
when going back to tbe National meetings. He has served as a COmPetition
Committee-man and on the Board of
Directors since 1940. A remark from the
fioor humorously pointed au t that he
was underpaid then as even Jerry Seguin
as a rubber-band puller at Aggie's races
received $25 a night.
After Flanders had stepped down,
Tex Myers (4-Aces) asked about the
·Back Door Talk" he had been hearing
that both Jean Carter and Bill Adams
had been invited back for the Columbus
meetin g by Bill Berry.
A ratber lively discussion followed
including statement that if we have to
pay thei r bills, why not save the money
as 'we won't be belonging to tile AMA
in a few months anyway" and ·wlly
can't we choose our own representatives
to go back instead of the AMA making
the recommendation?"
for belicopter service was still $300
for a 4-bOllr day. tn reply to a question
as to do we really need the ambulance
service, Tex Myers (4-Aces) said that
if it could save one man's life in one
year, yes it was worth it.
New BusiMSS
As di!Icussed at tbe previous mootb's meerlng, tbe first nominations for
District officers were beld, and are as
foUows: For Presideat, Jean Carter,
(accepted) Bill Wesson (declines). VicePresident, Tex Myers (accepted), Bill
Wessoa (declines) Cbarles Kurtz (accept). Secretary-Treasurer: Bill Adams.
Mr• .wa- said tbat he had beea WIle
on the IItace lor II years and
he
would like a nca&ioD lor a year or so,
and so he declined. Bob Maddox (declined) Earl Flanders (declined) Cha.lie Kurtz (declined).
For tbe five mea on tbe Competition
CommiUee: BoD White, Bud Gowing,
Charlie Kurtz, Dick LOUD ,Gary Weber,
Ken Peterson, Darwin Ballard, Bob
Hayes, Bob Maddox, Jobn Pennington,
Tom Ready, and ~ Makela. Tom MaxweU declined. More nominatioos will be
accepted next meeting. From DOW on
the monthly meerlngs will begin at their
old starting iime of 8:30 pm.
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Bob Hayes of the Competition Committee pointed out that the AMA had
asked our two top men to go back and
get in on the meetings, and that we had
been given a chance to make ourselves
heard. This was an opportunil