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. ' . -~ - ,." •., . ' ~ I L l . IIltrulIIIII bcIWIJI presents Bob Jeffries stirs up the sod on his $ 3,000 1937 BSA - truly a dinosaur. Diggers' Dinosaur TT rumbles out of .t he past PERRIS, CAL.• MAY 5 Motorcycle racing turned to the past, for a day, with a four-stroke ·only program on the Perris IT course today. The pits were full of relics like the 1946 Whizzer pit " rat of the past, the JD Harley raced by Homer Drown, Russ J Dyer's Velocette Scrambler, Ed Bearcroft's AJS, Bob Jeffries 1937 BSA, Bob Riggs G80 Matchless, Mark Fitzgerald's Royal Enfield and Barney L Koogle's Matchless, all names and brands out of the recent past. To top it all, Butch Slenaker appeared on the oldest-looking H·D 74, just a beast, but it was cool, man, with the new trick mid-shock mount, only thing is that 's the way it came from the factory back about 1957. Bill deMichelle pulled to the line in the 500 ' Expert Main on his Ariel. Yo ung whippersnapper Reg Chosney saved the day for the Gold Star fans with a third in the 500 Expert class. The hit of the. day was . Ray Tanner of ·Catalina GP fame taking-a hot lap on his Harley XR. Ray says he want s to keep up with the times. ~ Here are some names from the past that didn't make the results, but they l were on hand: Don Surplice, Harlan Bast, Sonny Nutter, Darwin Ballard and PURSE First Annual @ Regional Championship FR IDAY NIGHT May 17 DAVE ALDANA, 1973 Regional Winner.. • Also. .. GAR! SCOT T TOM. ROCKWOOD, JOHN GENNAI, MERT LAWWIL L, MIKE GERALD, FRAN K GI L L ESPIE . .. 8 P. M. Novices Juniors Experts EVERY GOLD ~ FRIDAY MEDAL t 83 00 I N .-/ ADULTS .$4.5 0 S;>N IN.. .... 5 P. M. J UNIORS (13 - 17)..$2. 50 GAT ES OPEN .6 P . M. CHILDREN (9 - 12) . $1. 00 FIRST RAC E . 8 P. M. UNDE R 8 : : .FREE MA Y SER IES VERMO NT 52, 0 00 MAY 3. 1 .0, 24 , 3 1 52 , SOD PO INT FUND FOR MONT H GARDE NA (2 I 3) 9 32 1· 1 6 1 0 WH II DRlIKER Trick special works suspension . IT'S YOUR It appea red on a 1957 Harley. · CH Wheat, all upstaged by three kids, Ch uck (Feets) Minert,John Sprague and Gene Smith. 1 The day ran long as everybody got . more lap s than the old bod could handle. The last ra ce finished at 6 :45 p.rn, as the Dirt Diggers M.C. gave .e veryone ne arly ten hours 'of nostaligia. 1 Special attention should be directed to the 35 0 Expert results : John Hateley's 250 Triumph whoppin ' th at Oriental Im itation sin gle. The ha cks put on one hell of a show for 15 laps th at incl uded two kneelers too. One of them got second. • Results in Result Se ction. Problemdrinkers were responsible for 19,000 highway deaths last year. That is your problem. Becausethey didn't kill on! themselves. They killedpeople they loved. peoplethey'd nevermel, people like you. And they didn't only kill. They crippledand maimedand destroyed liveswithout actually taking them , If your friend has a drinking problem, thereare many ways you can help him. But £irst you must help him stay alive.So others may live. If you are really his friend. don't help him drink. Admittedly. you alone probably can't stop a problem drinker from drinking. But you can discourage it. If he has been dnnking, don't let him drive. Drive him yourself, Call a cab.Take his car keys. It won't be easy. After all. he is your friend. You don't want to hurt him or insult him. But the altemative is perhaps losing him. Everything you think you can't do, you must do. r------------------, I DRUNK DRIVER 112 I I !lOX 2345 I I ROCKVIL LE.MNWlAND 20852 I I I 1 I wanll OOOllOn'lCthiJ\2a bout my problem . I Please I~U mot how I!'I IlC I can hdp . · I I MYnan'IC' is I Addrna L~~ , I I ~~~ .. I I I ., , -.- '. ' _' _ '''' ~~ _ J B , ~l, ~ 19