Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

Snack bar sales of soda pop and hot dogs picked UP during the afternoon and by the time the kitchen closed Sunday morning, the group had taken in 5343.00 for the City of Hope. Parade At high noon, Ross Cayer and the Sil ver Eagles marshalled the parade at the plaza in downtown 29 Palms and RRC Chairman Bob Adsit led the motorcycles south on Adobe Road to 29 Palms Highway, turning west for a mile and a half then north back to Knott's Sky Park. About 1500 local citizens followed the parade and cars lined the streets for two blocks in every direction around the park. Skip Fordyce of Riverside provided his mobile mounted public address sys' tem for the parade announcements and the 29 Palms Van and Storage flatbed truck served as the reviewing platform. Pat McBride of San Valley donated his professional services as Master of Ceremonies. Joining him on the platform was 29 Palms High School Principal Da vid Stine and Chamber of Commerce representatives Gene White and Bud Newberry. These gentlemen made the very difficult selection of the outstanding parade entry. Howard Eble of the Highway Kings M.C. spotted the parade units as they passed. As soon as the parade had passed the reviewing stand, the announcers platform and sound system were hustled back to Sky Park and set UP for the drill and stunt performances. on their behaviour and told them that or all the larger gro... s that used Sky Pal'll, he would rather have and looked rorward to the road riders and thei r annual Spring To... Free Merchandise The merchandise tickets had been scheduled to be drawn every half hour during the day and the numbers be posted and good for an hour. However, the lack of the blackboard and communications that had been planned caused the breakdown of the plan and the later confusion. Many of the riders left Sky Park following dinner to partake of the dancing pr vided by the 29 Palms tavern owners. As a result, Big Daddy had to call over 200 ticket numbers to give away the forty gifts contributed by 29 Palms merchants and cycle manufacturers and dealers. Included in the merchandise were several helrnets, a leather jacket, wool vests, chain oil, (;oggles, and tie-downs. Mel Heminger or the City or Hope made the standard awards of appreciation to the local citizens and presented Illll'll director Bill Proctor to the rider • Proctor came from his sick bed against his doctor's orders to welcome the riders back to Sky Park. He congratulated them Dress Competi tioD The Sunday morning activities got underway at 8 a.m. with the dress competition for clubs. The Silver Eagles took the award for the best dressed club and the Rebel Rousers won the Torch of Hope for being the largest club present. Indi vidual dress competition followed the clubs and the whole program II' nt very smoothly under the aegis of ·Big Daddy" Miller. In fact. the competition was complete 45 minutes ahead of schedule. Only one hiccup occured during the morning's program. A tie developed between Bud Priest and Jim Blackmon in the Male solo class. Referee J .M. Jones broke it by turning a task force of 9 judges loose on the machines. Led by ·Doc· Wright, the group scoured the motorcycles anel found a tinv rick on Blackmon's mirror and an exposed wire near his tail lights. The Torch of Hope went to Bud Priest. Trophies were awarded at II a.m. by Referee J.M. Jones after the winners had been pOsted the required 15 minutes. The Spring Tour Torch of Hope trophies are provided by the City of Hope. are unique in their design, copyrighted, and highly prized by those who have earned them. Winners of the Dress Competition are: Couples; Aida and Rueben Landrum; domestic machine: Roberta and Ron adrasky; foreign bike female 010: Judy McCombs; foreign custom; Phyllis Clark; foreign stock; and Shirley sentell, d~ mestic modified stock. Male solo: Bud Priest; domestic custom; Delmar Hatley; domestic modified stock; Larry Brannen. domestic stock; Robert Carter; foreign stock; and Allan Baltazar, foreign modified stock. A preliminary account indicates that the Spring Tour will net over $3000 f... the City of Hope National Medical Center. Drill Team The Ace of Clubs Drill Team appeared first with all eleven members present. The captaln, Vern Selby, led the group, wearing a freshly polished leg cast. He suffered a broken leg in a recent misjudgement during drill practice, but insisted on appearing for the City of Hope. The Aces were well practiced and, in spite of the very rough road surface, presented a smooth performance which drew much applause from an appreciati ve audience. Their maneuvers climaxed with the ·Suicide Spli~ when Bill Mace hit a pot hole. With a motorcycle within two feet of eitber side of him and his hike aimed at the spectators only five feet away, he had no choice but to lay his machine down. Fortunately Bill was uninjured, although his paint and chrome pretty well had it. The machine was rideable though, and the Ace of Clubs immediately reformed and presented the Suicide split the second time in all its glory. ·Big Daddy" Bill Miller emerged on the scene during the short intermission before the next act and was to play a major part during the rest of the rally. The spectators on the sidelines kept edging forward to the point that they were in danger of being struck by the performing cycles. ·Big Daddy" commandeered a side hack and patrolled the sidelines, forcing the people back to a safer position. McLaglen Corps The Victor McLagien Motor Corps thrilled both the local citizens and cyclists with their outstanding stunts on two wheels. The members of the corps presented stunts ranging from a single, n~hands slow circle to a pyramid of five riders on a base of three machines. Each ·trick" was rewarded with waves of applause from the fascinated crowd. The field events got underway immediately following the motor corps exhibition. Conducted by the Artesia Pioneers and Howard Eble of the Highway Kings, the events took up the rest of the afternoon. Field event winners were: Male SOlo; Ronald Monroe, 1st; Harry Fisher and Don stang. Female solo: Sandy Whitnole and Caroline Winfield. Dede Lewis took I st passenger award. Dale Stoddard won the Sidecar award and Ted Winfi eld was the Field Events Sweepstakes winner. For those who tired of watching field events, the U.S. Marine Corps showed combat movies from Vietnam. The corps also had a display of Redeye Missiles, a Tank and several smaller automatic weapons. The Never Dull Polish Company ex' hibited their product to the riders and donated half of their gross sales to the City of Hope. , ,-- .., M.C. Diagnosis The Los Angeles division of the Sun Corporation set up their test equipment and spent the entire day diagnosing motorcycle engines. The group assisted many riders with minor repairs to their IIIlchines and at least two not so minor jobs. One recipient or the SWl service, Ken Wesson or Temple City, said, ·This is great. It's activities and reatures like this that make rallies more interesting. Why I would pay to have them here again·. Steve stephans, L.A. manager or 8m, reported that many or the riders wanted to pay them ror the service• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Filtron Air Filters, Judson Prods. Francisco Castoroil, Dri-slide, Fidas tauks & seats, John Cooper & Big Jobn Boots. All Avallabll From SIMPSON MOTORS 5475 San F.undo Rd. 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