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-I NORTIERN DmLII: ~ E Ed Da vis (28) holeshots the Washougal 125 Pros. Gassin' and passin' at Washougal. Barney Newman (5051 and Mantey Mitchell (2 ) CEMA inaugurates new MX track By Dorde Woodruff PRICE, UTAII,JULY 18 The Carbon Emery Motorcycle Association is a formerly defunct ยท club reactivated by a high ly enthusiastic group, including bus- 28 inessman Dick Peterson, racer Robert Howard, and others. Prosperity, which used to be a scarce commodity in small Utah towns, has come to Price wi th the energy crisis. Coal money has brough t many new people to Carbon and Emery cou nties. It has brought, among other things, motorcycles. The club's new motocross course is an incredible surprise. Just au tside of and above the green irrigated fields of the outskirts of town is a huge hill of Mancos shale. It sits smack in the cen ter of a wonderful confusion of smaller clay hill s, sparsely covered with saltbush, the spectacu lar Pri nce 's p lume m ustard, an d an occasiona l pictu resque small jun iper. La id o n them is a maze of a lon g complicated track that boggles the mind, a ll ups, downs, curves and ju m p s. The central hill "co m m an d s a view of all the course, a lthough it is so lon g and intricate th a t only a portion can be seen at once. A spectacular steep downhill over the middle of the central hill is flagged closed for rrurus, who take an aI temate .rou teo A flat blu ff prov ides parking. New clean bu ildings have been constructed for food -service, rest rooms and officials. riders and 800 spectators 171 attended the re-established club's first sanctioned event. Weather was fine for the first mota, then it got co ld and poured. Riders voted to go ahead with the second mota, with fewer lap s on the long course. More riders actually participated in the second mota as the rain diminished. Mancos shale has the peculiar characteristic of the topmost soil particles swelling when wet, sealing off dry soil beneath. Riders therefore found the mud, while bad enough, was underlaid with dry dirt. Susan Andrews, o ne of Utah's few lady racers, rode skillfully bu thad troub le with her bike. In practice Mark Murphy, 125 Amateur and editor of Utah Cy cle Rider, forgot not to jump the humongous central hill, and lan ded almos t at the bottom of the steep slope. Subsequen tly h is bike. vthe trickes t 125 in the state, refused to run on o ne size jet and seized on the nex t, so he resigned h im se lf to buying a new m otor. He liked the cou rse because the re were several good lines. The rider with th e h olesho t didn' t necessarily win . John Greenway, 9th ran ked Expert MXer in the state, ran away with the 125 and Open Expert classes, winning both motos in each, skipping around the banked curves and doing crossups off