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.... ~ ! le Publishe r••• • •• • Charles Clayton Bus iness Manager•••Sharon Clayton General Manager••••••• Tom Cu lp Advertising Manager .. • Tom Walsh Feature Editor•• , • ••• Terry Pratt Assistant Ed itor•• •••• Bob Sanford C irculation Manager•• Bruce Easley C irculation Assistant•• Rheba Smit h Production Manager•••• Li li Lakich Lab Techn ician. ,Gre g Westmore land P roduct ion Assistant • • Jerry Owen Bookkeeper•••••••Susan Wh ite law Bookkeeper. > ••••••• E leanor Duke Want Ads•• ••• • , .Jan McCullough ~news "Amerlcats #1 weekly motorcycle newspaper. You'll always see it FIRST in Cycle News!" New Ad Man At Cycle News LONG BEACH, CALIF. May 4, 1970Tom Waish, a resident of this city and 1966 graduate of Yale University, was todaY named Advertising Manager for Cycle News West by Tom Culp, the newspaper's General Manager. Walsh will work closely with motorcycle and motorcycle accessory manufactures and retailers, helping them recognize profitable returns on their advertising dollars. While attending Yale, the new adver- , tising manager won numerous writing awards, and for the past three years he has been fr ee- lance writing in the San Francis co area. W sh majored in Engal lish and Art at the New Haven, Conn. school. -' The newest member of the Cycle News s tat! attended local pr imary and secondary schools, gr aduating fr om St. Anthony High School in 1962. Walsh's Interest in motorcycling dates back many years, being a bike owner, as well as a regular spectator at Ascot and other local tracks. His main interest Is in scrambles, and he hopes to soon compete in lightweight, Novice evenis. Waish is s ingle and lives here In Long Beacb. • • YOIC• • LOWER THAN A POTATO SCRAMBLING NOVICE TROPHIES Please explain how you could have been so absentminded to have left the May 3rd Ascot Motocross out of your inaccurate Calendar of Events. We bust our asses working hard to put on a good show for the spectators and few of them found out about the race because your IQ is three points lower than that of a potato. You forgot. Good racing shows are what keeps your paper In business. Without races your paper would be four pages thick. Riders have to know about the races so they can come out to break their necks and machinery so you can get bitching pictures for your covers. Get on the ball in the future. BOB BAILEY Gardena, Cal. The TT Scrambles Clubs run all the 5Occ's together - Novice, Amateur & Expert - because there aren't enough riders for separate classes. I think, however, that the clubs should give a trophy to the fastest one In eacb class. 1( a Novice gets the checkered flag behind the Expert & Amateurs but was the leading Novice class, he should rate a 1st place Novice trophy. A few more trophies aren't going to put any club In the red. So how about It Scrambles Clubs ? AL SUMMERS Bell Gardens, Cal. Perhaps the Calendar department's crystal ball blew a ruse. While we make every effort to Include every event (race, enduro, road run, trophy presentation etc.) that we learn about , it Is up to the promoter or sponsoring club to provide the Calendar department with the accurate inrormation. We had hoped that the simple event inrormation blanks that we printed on past Ca lendar pa ges had made that clear. Apparently they didn·t. In journalistic tradition . adver tising and editorial functions go on in difrerent orrices. Calendar is an edi torial job and we try to pick up events rrom the ads. nowever, to make sure the announcement makes the Calendar. clubs and promoters are advised to send the inrormation addressed to the Calendar department. Also. Bob, the next time you send us a letter don't waste our time by using so many obscenitie s that have to be edited out... Ed. A WATERED DOWN APOLOGY I would like to apologize to the offic1a1s and the people wbo were at Bay Mare on Sunday, May src, for my actions in the 100cc class. I feel that my actions were not in the best Interests of motorcycle racing and sportsmanship. I hope In the future for the sake of the new novice riders, that the people in - eharge would reduce the amount of water applied to the track prior to the 100cc Novice class . Many of the lOOcc Novice riders are r iding for the first time , and are inexperienced in riding in the mud, whtcb increases the posslbl11ty of their getting hurt. SCOTT PELKEY Los Angeles, canr, ~ Cycle News East, DixieCycle News, and Nati onal Adverti sing informat ion: Tom Culp. National Advertising Dir. Cycle News (West) , P .O. Box 498, Long Beach, California 90801 (213) 427-7433 ... L.A. 636-8844 .y Northern Off ice 1470 Broadway, Walnut Creek, Calif. (415) 93+1995 Northern Representat ive: Lyn Jensen Subscription: ' One year 2nd class mai I. • • . $7.50 Single copy price••• ••••••• 25¢ Published week ly except the first and last week of the calendar year by Cycle News, lnc., Post Off ice Box 498 , Long Beach, California, al so publl shers of Cycl e News East, , a nd Dixie Cycle News. Second Class Postage paid at Long Beach, Calif. Editorial stories, cartoons, photos, etc. are welcome. Write fo r information. Addressed, stamped envelope assures return of ed itorial matter. Rep rinti ng in whole or in part only by permission of the publ ishers. Advert ising rates and circulat ion information wi II be sent upon request. LEGISLAliVE NOTEBOOK By Barbara Adams Dahms Who's Raping the Land? Earlier this year the Director of the Bureau of Land Mangement's California Office, J .R , Penny said, "We recognize off-road vehicle use as a legitimate use of the public lands, but It must be a managed us, or It is very apt to be a destructive use which cannot be permltte d, There Is r oom to r ide on this land but there Is not room for anyone to go anywber e and do anything he likes." Mr . Pe nny was at that time explalnlng the for mation and operation of an advisory council comprised or representatives fr om farm groups, conservation groups and off-road vehicle (including the AMA). This councU was for med to decide how to manage off-road vehicular use "in reeognttton of the impact of offroad vehicle use on public land and the possible destruction of resources, damage to the land, vandalism and Uttering." It is interesting that farm group representatives should be Included In the decision of recreational vehicle use of the land when one of the long standing uses of public land has , been the rental of grazing rights to Individual farmers and racbers at a ridiculously lowflgure. This practice Is defended by the BLMon the grounds that grazing, even by sheep and goats, does not permanently damage the grass or wUd llfe habitat, or cause erosion to the soU. The Annual Report of the BLM In 1969 included this Information about 'g1'azlng on the Callfornia PubUc Land: On a total of 1,097 leases, 157,000cattle and horses and 241,085 sheep and goats were grazed on 8,246,223 acres. People representing recreational vehicle groups have not been asked to help decide If this Is advisable. The public as a wbole has not been consuIted . Agriculture is a giant industry In Callfornia and one wblcb is subsidized by the government In many different ways. Tire Tracks and Strip Mines In March the BLM ordered closure of the Panoche HUIs in Central California to off-road vehicle use. Delmar van, Manager of the Folsom District of the BLM said the closure was " a last resor measure applied to pr event further damage to re sources and to the land Itself. Las year a management plan was ".. rked out with local user gr oups for a o 15 mile loop iran and an area of about 1,280 acres for inte nsive use by off~road vehicles. The remainder of the area was designated closed to off-road use, In consideration of resource values. Failure of off-road users to respect the closed sections, coupled with lack 'of sufficient funds, personnel and an adequate enforcement authority led to the present Intolerable situation." van added " We have had goodcooperation from volunteers of the organized clubs but we have been unable to prevent further continuous losses and damage to plant llfe, wUd llfe habitat, coU base and other values In the posted area." Other closures are expected to follow the pattern of the Panocbe area, The BLM has decided that If It doesn 't know how to handle off-road vehicles It will not bothEll' to handle them at all, declar1ng a good part of the land that belongs to all of us , off limits to all of us. Motorcycle people and other recreational enthusiasts are aware that they share a responslbl11ty for the future enmonment of our world. We are wUling to cooperate In the conservation of that environment. It might be pointed out that motorcycle groups have spent many, many hours cleaning up wbat others have Uttered. You can visit an area after a motorcycle gathering and find It cleaner than before. What we don't Intend to allow is public land being taken away from the public and put to private use. It has been too often done and it will continue to be done If we don't raise our voices to protest. The shoreline is public land. The government gave that up to destruction because oU was considered more Important than ecology. Now we have another example. The U.S. Gypsum Company has appUed to the BLM for a lease to strip mine at the base of Pine Mounla1n In th£ Los Padres National Forest. The site, located between the mounla1n and Hlgbway 33 Is In prime recreational territory. More than that, it is near the Sespe Condor Refuge and In Condor foraging territory. For anyone who Isn't familiar with the situation, the Callfornia Condor is almost extinct, being numbered now around forty birds. The strip mine would be five mUes long. It would permanently destroy the land and cause pollution of the Sespe Creek by phosphates. Damage to wUdllfe habitat, soil values and other considerations In the tmmedlate area would be total. Plans even Include a phosphate processing plant nearby. It is ludicrous to Imagine the comparison . The BLM Is distressed by the tracks of vehicle tires. It is considering a five mile removal of public landl We cannot share the BLM's concern with our use of the 'land which belongs to us If the BLM continues to anow glant corporation to use, deplete and destroy beyond any eventuai repair this same land. Be consistent, Mr• Penny. 1( you say our tire tracks ruin the land wbat do you say to a strip mine ? The answer had better be "No wayl" To express your concern, write J .R. Penny, State Director, BLM, Feder al Blvd. 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, Cal, 95825.