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00 .... ll.> ~ c, ~ ~ <0 "" :;; .Q al ~ Q - Wineland Wins Finish the Funny Contest Att ention Rowan & Martin: If yo u ever need any new write rs fo r your "Lau gh In" s how , just ask a Cy cle News read er. Sixty-nine of the m out the re in ne wspap erland 'se nt in joke li nes to c omp lete the cartoon in our la te s t F in i s h the F un ny co n test and everyone of them cou ld have a great caree r as a gag write r. W tho ught this contest woul d rea lly stump our readers , but once again e your se nses of humor came through with flying cackles a nd picking the win ne r was n ' t as easy a s gettin g through Obs tac l e #1 of cartoonist Je rry Ba rne tt' s can nibal course . When we told the business manager that we though all the e ntries deserve d the prize in a 69- way tie for first pla c e, she just laughed , So we went i nto a non-s t op j udgi ng session for 72 straight hours a nd decided that the funniest one of a ll was sent in by L y nn Wineland , of Al ha mbra, Califor nia . T o Lynn goes t he first (and only) prize of $5 in inflated Amer ic a n cu rrency, s uitable for fram ing, s pending or lighting fires with . His winning joke " I betcha tne !ISh got some real good people stories about the big ones that got , awayr" Thomas P. Cody. " That will tea ch them to jump the gunr" Judy Trib. " I should get my mother- in-law to try this cours e r" Ken Klenkie. "We figure it thls way, Harry.Anybody makes it in , we k now they cut the course!" Sharon Bouscher. " It could be wor s e. If it wer en' t for the ptranhasthey'd be eaten lIP by those Hawgs' " ,.viola White. * TECHIIICALlTEZE * Always lubricate a new chain when you first install it, and squirt engine oil on elQlOsed drive dlains every 500 miles, say dlain manufacturers. · Dry· drive chains wear faster under all conditions and sap horsepower. (Got a technical tip we can pass on to other readers? U you know any facts, techniques, roadcraft or s hort-cuts that add to your motorcycl e enjoyment, send them to TECHl\lCALITEZE, d o Cycle News , Box 498, Long Beach, Calif. 90800. Cycl e News will pay $1 to you for any lip that we publish in TECHNICALIT EZE.) , ~::~:::::::::::::::~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!~~:::l line a ppears show what a tough time the And just to in t he cartoon balloon. judges had, here are some of the runnerslIP ; "Oh, what the heck. It's only the Novice race!" Les Packer. " Thos e Hells Angels are killing our fishr " Tom Hannan. " Hope the boys in the state capital don't hear about this. They'll pass a law that 'we' ll all have to wear shark repellantr" Jack Crotts. "Having congressman Foran participate in order to understand us was a great idear But maybe we should have let someo ne else layout the course!" Don W. Allen. "The competition committee got fed up with their old ladies demanding to be first on 'the card with their powder puff eventr " Ken Gunn. "Now that the Europeans have run the first race together, the championship eliminations will begin on a slightly different courser" Don Gutridge. "I wonder what they're bitln' onr" John Porno. "As they say, Torsten, the fish bite good in the Statesr" Lee Moore. "Last thing 1 heard the novice say was, ' I was first to the smoke bombl' " Shirley UPP. "Would you believe, those guys laid out the courser" Robert Briggs. " If you think this separates the men from the boys, wat'll you see the downhlllr " Peter J . Barnard. " No sweat, Beiderbach. BY the tim£> they run the open class the pit should be full'" Warren W Burrell. , "Look at the ham smile, Just as the Cycle News photographer comes over the hilll " Car l White. III solves problems like results, trophies, finisher pins...and having 10 lay out the rest of the course!· " by Lynn Wineland 250cc Internat ional Inter-am Moto-Cross Carlsbad, Cal if: Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 1968 SOOcc Jr. Class 2nd Joel Robert - CZ 4th Roger DeCoster - CZ ridi ng CZ 250cc machines 1st John Hately - CZ 500cc Interna t iona l rid ing a 250cc CZ 2Jld Joel Robert - CZ rid ing a 360cc CZ • .. Distributed by AMER ICANJAWA LTD, 1325 So. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. 90019 38-15 Greenpo int Ave. Long Is la nd City, N.Y. 11101