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BIBLE MAN ON A BIKE He on his Honda 450 and s he 011 her H- D Sportster. Ann ls now recuperating from an accident, involving a tree t, and plans to be back on the saddle s oon. They have four children, 3 girls and a boy and as they are grandparents at ages 38 and 33 they are hard to beat in the youngest grandparents class on cycle runs. Ralph rode cyc les In his younge r days but hls wife made him s top until she too became interested about two years ago. Ralph is a civil service employee at U.S. Naval Air Station, Nor th Island as are several other members of the Mary's Men M.C. He does all the mec hanical and maintenance work on his and his wife's bikes but som etimes has to call for assistance from another club member . Ralph's main Interest in motorcycling is his club's a ctivities and touring. By W.M. Askins hut hasn't won over any teen-agers for the chur ch. Among the older people, the fact that he rides a motorcycle doesn 't seem to make any difference. In rna kin g his rounds to the sick and those in trouble, how he gets to them means ne xt to nothing. Doctor Byers tells about his experiences in his book , C HR IS TI AN S IN CROSSFIRE (Westminster Press . $2.25) . The book he s ays: "We are liVing in a time when Chr is tians , in the ir mobility, diversity , apathy, or feve ris h a ctivity, may discover that before the Institutional church can live in such an age it must die in Its pr es ent form . We should long ago have noted that before the r es ur r ection ther e was a crucifixion, and before there v.. s hope In life eternal there was a suffering in life temporal." Motorcycle Ministry is what you could call the role played by Dr . Laurence Byers , pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Chuck of Berkeley, Californ1a . His church work calls him to almost everywhere In the Bay area and he zips around his extensive parish on a motorcycle " On a moto rcycle I can ge t over the social fiss ures, around the political s team ven ts , ac ross the educati onal lava flows, more efficiently than treading the terrain in a car • "A motorcycle may well become a symbol of the mobile church in an age of rapid social change . I have never found Half-Minute Interviews By Bill Harmer 26-year-old BILL SILVERTHORN, a native of Spring Valley, California (suburb of San Diego) Is perhaps one of the best American - born Maio-Cros s r iders in the Un1ted States. He has just returned from a four months European tour where he was a membe r of a two man team repr esenting the U.S.A. Blll says that the fi rs t part of their tour was spent in learning and throughout the enti re campaign , the y put In 3 to 4 hours every day training and developing their technique with a r ace every weekend, rain or s hin e. Edison Dye of Med-Internatlonal furnished their Husqvarna mounts alon g with parts and tires, and world champion Torsten Hallman arranged their starts . They received s tart mone y in al l the Gran Prix races that they en te r ed which a veraged between $125 and $150 per race. Bill considers hls 17th place flnlsh In the English Gr an Prix as his outstanding ef fort In Europe. Although he finished 2nd in the Spanish Inte rnational, the cream of Dr. Laurence Byers It possible to be us efully creative or prod uctive for the chu r ch or the world while wedged into the Immobility of rubber and steel In cr eeping traffic ." He means motorcycles are good In traffi c. As a ml n1ster on a motorcycle, Dr . Byers says he gets to young couples who come to him for marriage ceremonies Malee 1969 your winning year wit~ Webco quality products ,- ....•.•......••....•......•.•....................... , BILL SILVERTHORN the European riders mad e up the 40 man field of the English competition. Nowthat he Is back In the State s , he will act as manager of the 11 European r iders being brought over by Mr. Dye for an American tour . While In Europe, Silverthorn spent 90% of his time in Holland and has learned to speak Dutch, after a fashion . Bill has been racing for 3- 1/2 years and the first 2-1/2 years was In TTs so when no Moto- Cross event Is on the calendar, he hunts up a TT race for an afternoon of fun. His future plans Include entry Into the upcoming Moto-Cr oss point race for top American rider . Cycle enthusiast RALP H REEVES ls the referee of the Mary's Men M.C. of District 38. He and his wife , Ann, both r ide on man y to ur ing events ann ually. 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