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THE LATEST iOP PO BY PAPA WEALEY (Con tin ued [rom page 2) Probabl y the most important bill to come up in Californ ia's legislat ure is AB 1236 (Chapple), By the simple (and seemingly obscu re ) trick of definin g OHV use as "recrea tio n," it opens man y a gri c u l tura ll y- z o n e d a r eas to motorcyclin g an d to the op eration of moto rcycl e parks. It deserves your support. Dolores Mon ington, of Wedded Wheels MC, voted AMA's Number One Female Rider 1974, is a GRANDMA! Far out. M.O. R.E . is loo kin g fo r a roa d rider club to stage a poker run to Rand Ope n Area (California) the weekend o f th eir join t BLM clean-up p arty November 1-2. An y volunteers call (91 6 ) 444-6680. Steve Luty, founder of Texas' only road racing association, will move into the AMA fold as Amateur Activities Director, filling the spot left by Denny Amicon. A fu nny th in g happe ne d th e other day while Papa was talking to CO R L' s Hild amae Vo igt . Th ere was a snic k on th e lin e foll owed by steady breathing. Th is wen t on for several m inu tes un til fina lly , a voice b roke in with " Who is this ! Who 's on m y line! " The unknown voice then dema n ded to know the nam es of the other vo ices on his lin e. After identifyi ng ourselves and giving our p ho ne numbers, Ms. Vo igt asked the voic e who he was and he replied that he was "Wilson , up her e in Bixby Knolls. I'm havin g tro ubl e with m y phone." Little thin gs like th at will send y our paranoia meter racing. Great Britain's top Honda dealers are campaigning road rac ing machinery with a distinctive color scheme in ten ded to key in with a Brit ish version of t he "Hondaline" cloth ing. Two national happen in gs bein g boosted by West ern organizatio ns, incl uding M.O .R.E . and MMA, are the U.S. Motorcycle Jamboree, Mem orial Day weekend at Tul are, Californ ia, and a n at ion al day of protest J un e 29 against man datory helmets. Th e J u ne protest will be a simul taneous se ries of p eaceful rallies at majo r citi es n ation wid e. Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, offers a basic motorcycle safety and maintenance course to area residents, starting April 30 and May 3. Call (503) 244-6111 for enrollment info. The Lame Camel says congr a tulations to Richard Crom er, Burlington, Iowa, for his fourth over all in th e Fallen Ti mbers Nati onal Enduro April 13. Richard was an old c1 ubmate in the Burli n gto n Valley Dusters MC (BVDs, for sho rt ). We have a correction on an item that appeared in last week's co lumn . The facts are that Ron Pierce, in conjunction with the Sprocket Motorcycle Club is br inging life back to the once popular Sprocket TT Track. Sprocket Park has been in the past one of the hottest parks in the valley. In addit ion to the ex isting TT t rack, a new MX track is soon to be completed using sections of the scrambles course. The first MX race will be run May 4 and the TT May 11. Juniors stole the show. McWhorter (79) slips it under Corona's Jim Wright. Rookie night at A scot By Bob F. Read G ARDENA, CALIF., APRIL 25 Ascot's red hot ro o kies m ad e it three in a row as Poway 's Joh n Allison sco re d his second w in in th re e o u tings on a co ld wind y nigh t. The he ady firs t year Expert went to th e low groove for the first tim e in his b rie f caree r to pu ll off the win. Allison sta rt ed slow. First he wave d o ff a tim e trial an d the n cam e ba ck an d turned a slow er t im e. Skip Aksland ca me fro m the back to grab his heat race win righ t at th e fini sh line, knoc king Allison down to seco n d p la ce ahead o f fast qu alifier Ron Pow ell. Ed die Wirth put it all t ogether fo r th e first tim e thi s year to tu m bac k Alex J orgen sen in th e sec ond heat a fter Wirth had p oste d second fastest time trial , J or gen sen th e fourth fastest. Then J orgen sen came' bac k to win th e T rop hy Dash an d p u ll within seven points of Allison as the rid er s came to the lin e fo r th e Main event. Allison ju mped int o th e lead fro m the start b u t was running low while the rest o f the fiel d tried th e very wide and high groo ve th at was bo ne dry due to th e last minute weather ch an ge. Jorgensen hel d second th e first th ree laps b ut then gave way to lon g timer Paul Bostrum who found the slower dry trac k to his lik ing better than m ost . Then Wirth . who was ru nn ing fifth in the earl y laps, got go ing an d wo rked his way th rou gh the pack to take over second with less than two laps to go. Bostrom held onto t hird wit h Walt Foster also co mi ng fro m the bac k to ta ke fou rth. J or gy, winner the previou s week, could not find th e fast way around on a di ffer en t type tr ack an d ended up down in sixth place. Gen e Rome ro broke ou t his n ew trick-special-gofast Yam aha for the first tim e but co uld no t get it run nin g right for time tr ials. Gene fo und himself as the first altern ate for the heat races but th is tim e no a lternates were ca lled. John Allison sprays the hay bales. The Junior Final p roduced a restart an d a ph oto finish. Dan McWhorter grabbe d th e lead with Steve Eklund righ t on his shou lde r. Th e two rac ed this way for the first six laps. Th en the ra ce was stoppe d. Jim " Crash" Crowley droppe d his mount for th e second straight wee k. Th en Nick Nazzisi and Murray Hoffman came aro un d on the nex t lap and Hoffman p lowed into one o f th e fallen machines. Thi s sto pp ed th e e ve nt. After man y ho t wo rds from Nick to Crowley th e race was resu med wit ho ut Nazzisi and Hoffm an. Again it was McWhorter and Eklun d running wheel to wheel. Eklun d, try in g to rem ain undefe ated at Ascot for the third straigh t wee k, made a grea t try on th e final tum an d pulled within less than a foot at the finish line; but the win wen t to Ascot's to p Novice of 1974. Steady J im Wright again cam e close, finishing th ird after lead in g the ear ly laps. Ted Davidso n was th e man once again in the Novice class an d re mai n s unde feated in Novice ligh tweight half mile racing in both th e he ats an d final s. Bultaco mounted Rick y Graham turned back the highly regarded Steve Fo rt un e in one of th e heat races an d th en race d the whe els o ff David son in th e fina l be fore pulli n g off his close second p lace fin ish. Seven year old Chris Sexton from Anaheim , defeated th ree challengers in th e special Mote-Bike intermission dra g races. Chris re tu rns this Friday to cha llen ge an o ther group of un der -eight riders. • 15