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Cycle News 1975 04 01

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THE LATEST P BY PAPA WEALEY ... - mater). Dale Bolle r - m o to -m o nth ly a s s o c i a te editor. Gi l Brown ex-motomonthly ad exec. Tom Culp motomonthly ad exec, Ed Youngbl ood - AMA chief exec , Don Woods ex - A 1\1 A ex e c . D a v e S wi f t ex- m o to mo n t h ly ed i t or . Da ve Sch oonmaker - m ot omon thl y edito r, Terry Prall , J ohn Huetter e t , al s e lf-e mployed in m ot o rcy cling. And man y more. Charles Clayton bought Cycle News in 1965 for the same price as Floyd Clymer paid for Cycle magazine. 0.. < CBS shares are lower since J .C. Parkhurst became a CBS Vice President, but Cycle World ci rcula tio n, a t $ 1 per co p y is higher: Cycle News' Pres ident and Publishe r ha ve been married to each other most of their life. Cycl e News East predicted Dick Mann to win the Dayt ona 200 and pu bli shed a preview issue . with a full-eolor photo of Bugs in the winner's circle on the front page. This blew so me mi nds when the newspaper went on sale moments afte r the race. l-< In s pire d by Cycle magazine's silver an niversary issue, we Cycle News ape s a r c co mpelled to beat the modest moto-rnonthy in unseemly self-abuse . In 10 years Cycle News has published more issues than all the moto-monthlies lumped together. , At least 12 newspapers aping Cycle News have co me and gone in the last 10 ye ars. Some even had th e nerve to ca ll themselves "Cycle News. " Cycle News predicted John "Peewee" Gleason to become Grand National Champion. Cycle News trainees who went on to bigger th in gs: D avi d Sh aw prizewinnin g fe ature writer of t he Lo s An geles Times (Chas , Clayton 's alma The last obstacle to Cycle News ' registered trademark was removed when Cycle's publishers forgot to renew the patent on their magazine. Cycl e News ' first offices were bulldozed for a baseball park and a freeway . Marion Hatash ita, Cycle News ' nimble type setter since 1965, knows every ride r who has ever made the resu lts in the last 10 years by name and make rid den. hits: R.C. Knievel, comparison tests, dynomometer comparison tests of speed equipment, regional ed itions, best-seller book serializations, certain four-letter Anglo-Saxonisms, both kinds of sex , cha riot rac ing, the Great American Motorcycle, and Papa Wealey . Inherited, bough t or abducted from o t he r pubs were Motocross Cat. Frank Conner, Bob F. Read, and dirt racing. Kenny Zahrt has signed with Helmet House in Santa Monica for h is ridi ng apparel fo r this season . We were very so rry to leam that Kevin H asten ha s broken his back while compe t ing in the Min t. Our best wishes for a speedy reco very Kevin. That was John Davis' picture in our Irw i nda le speedway te st m a t c h coverage, not Jo hn Lou is'. In o rd er to fill a hol e left b y the Baker to Ve gas race D RA will be holding the Greasewood Derby, a 100-mile Har e Scramb les. Check the Calendar Sec t io n . The American roster for the coming week 's John Player Trophy match races : Kenny Roberts, Gene Romero, Don Castro, Phil McDonald, and Steve Baker on Yamahas, Dave Aldana and Pat Hennen for Suzuki, and Kawasak i's entry s ti II open after J im Evans' Daytona crash . Bri tish pa pers rep on Harley -Davidson spending 5250 .000 over a 12-month period to dev el op a 75 0cc road racer at th eir Varese, Italy plan t. Conspicu ous Cycl e News failures: Cycle News No rt h offices in Walnut Creek , California (19 68 ) . . . 1\1 a n of the year ( 19 72) Russ March .. . Competition Guidebook (19 72 ) . .. Helme t laws in 46 s ta te s and Puerto Rico lightweight 4-stroke motocross bikes USA . . . Th e Gre at American Motorcycle, Sh ar on Clay to n. Publ isher Ed na Mewton, Secre tary to Publisher. Ad verti sing Linda Clar k . Advc:rtising Man age r. Gil Brown . National Advertisin g Man ager ; Quis Kolber, Ad ver-tisin g Assistan t. Edit o rial Ch a rles Clay ton , Edit or; Lane Campbell and J e ff Pe c k . Assistant Ed itors. Bobi Scott, Secretary and Calen dar. A rt and Product io n Ca the ri ne Lamp to n. Ar t Director ; Nan cy Gr ay , Ad ve rt ising Art Direct or; Hec t or Agu ile ra . Lab T ec hn ician : Mario n Hatash ita. T ypographer. Circulat ion Rheba Smi th . Manager: Pa m Hobbs a nd Chris Andrews . Assistan ts. Acc ounting Cay lene Z aio nz, Manage r : Twila Wheeler. Judy F OU lS . Lani Sicnk a n d Mike Klin ger. Assist ants : T om Hunter, Credit Man ager. Serv ice s & S upp o rt Mi ke Co likas: Bru ce ~lac G re g o r : Bill Runyan ; Jea nnie Dunivan. Re cept io n ist. West P.O. Box 49 8, Long Beach. CA 90801. (2 13) 427-743 3 ; L.A . Line 636-8844. East P.O. Box 805, T ucker, GA 30084 . (404 ) ·934 -7850. t..:entral P.O. Box 13245. Austin. TX 78711. (5 12) 444· 754 8. Su bscript ion One y ear, sec on d cl ass mail $12.50 : 2 years , sec o nd cl ass m ail , 122.5 0 : 3 years. second class mail , 530.00 ; Singl e copy price , 5 0 ce n ts. • 2 ," .r Cc pvright Cy cle News, Inc. 19 75. Trade ma rk regist ered U.S. Pat en t Office . All righ t reserved . Pub lish ed wee kly except the fir st and last wee k of th e cale nd ar y ea r hy Cycle New s, Inc ., P.O . Box 498 . Long Beach . California . Seco nd clan postage p aid a t Long Beach , CA . Ed it o rial sto ries . car too ns . ph otos. e tc . are wel com e . Addressed . stamped envelope assures re t urn o f cn purcbased edi to ria l matter. R~print in g in whole o r part o nly by permission o f the publishers. Adv cr t i!ing ra tes and circ ulat io n informa tio n wiJl be Kn l up on req uest . See S.R .O.s . The make rs of the " Breeze r" t ire tool, after we trashed one of their prototypes in a product evaluation, have come out with a solid one-p iece vers ion they say can't be broken . Never underestimate the power o f t h e pr e ss , fellas. ANYTHING can be broken. First (fo r better o r worse) in the field was Cycle News with : these all-t ime Like the La me Camel 's d umb arm fo r insta nc e. The next time you see Kenny Roberts, ask about the straight-up-jumping record he set when Goodyear's Bill Robinson pu lled the old " loo k out, there's an all igator" trick on the champ du ring a post-Daytona fishi ng t rip. The En Does MC is planning a field meet for the 29-30 of this month . Lin Wyman is preparing all the events for the day and we also understand that they are going to have a tr o phy boy. The ro ute will be marked from Ave. J ea st of Lancaster. If you girls want m ore in for m atian contact D en i s e a t 2 13/798-61 18. Our apologies to Carl Cranke and Penton West for listing them as second place finishers in last year's ISDT Qual ifier at Cal City. S R RA Outr iders will sponso r a M.O.R.E. Casino Night , " bigger and be tt er th an last y ear," at Chuck's Pizza Parl or . 164 West A Street, Davis, California th e evening of April 19 , at 7 p.m. The n ext day, Sunday. the Sacramento Rovers stage a poker run an d 50 /50 ra ffl e benefit for M.O.R.E. Check th e Calendar for details . To obtain and comment on the new BLM Yuba Desert Management Plan, wr ite BLM, P.O . Box 723, Riverside, Cal iforn ia 92502. A bill to repeal the mandatory helmet law in the state of Arizona has passed the Senat e and is on its wa y to the house for fmal approval. This bill is the result o f two years of hard work by Arizona A1\IA members and enthusiasts. Alan Newman over at Ind ian Motorcycles has informed us that they have no th ing to do with Harley-Dav idson or their shock absorbers. Attendance set new rec ords with 3 7,000 showing up for Saturday's light weigh t race and MX an d 65,000 showing up for Sunday 's Daytona 200. Pole vault Spectacular aerial ballet by Zenon PIech while Joh n Titman watches in amazement. Action from 1974 season.

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