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• . IIG ~ t Anyone interested in the June 3 Amateur-Expert race in the New Orleans Superdome, please contact Jerry Surber, Grand National Championsh ip . 233 Palm Aire Drive, Fri endswood , TX 77546 713 / 482 · 7593 . THE Papa got scared when he thought abut taking the luxurious Cycle News motorhome to San Jose from Long Beach next weakend to cover the May 6 San Jose Mile. Not that Mrs, Wealey's all that bad a driver (Papa sleeps while Mrs. W does most of the workl, but it's this stupid gas shortage thing. A phone conversation with Ken Clapp, who's doing the P.R. work for San Jose, eased the ol' boy's mind, Ken says that there Is gas between L.A. and San Jose. But don't wait until you're on empty to start looking. Take 1·5, Hwy. 101 . and Hwy, 99 and you'll make it. O'l 1:' O'l O 'l >~ :;E HAZEl. KOLB mNERARY April 12 • July 1, 1979 Around the U.S. In 80 daya. Hey, thlIt 8OURd.like e good plot for • movie. In any _ . Hazel Koib•• 113-.,....-oId grandmother of ten. I...reedy on her way. M... Ko" cleperted from the Governor'. office In Provlclenc:ll, Rhode leland, on AprH 12 for • round-the-U.S. trip which will brlng her back to Providence on July 1. The trip had been planned _ • retirement ac:tlvlty with her huebend. "I put the IcIee out of my hMcI when he died In 1171," . .d M... Koib. Then one dey.he declded to do It elone...... Ie with me In .plrtt....he ..ye. Mrs. Koib wli meke the trip on her Harley·DevlcIeon end I. planning to "take time to vIeIt frIende and emeII the ......... We wIah her the beet of luck. Defending 500cc World Road Racing champion Kenny Roberts returned to the Series after missing the first round due to injuries, and won . Roberts' Yamaha took the Apr. 29 Austrian 500cc GP race by six seconds over Virginio Ferrari, with fellow Suzuki riders Wil Hartog and Tom He rron th ird and fourth . In fifth was Suzuki test rider Hyraduki Kawasaki . Barry Sheene finished 12th, out of the points. Ferrari now leads the series with 24 points, followed by Hartog (18) . Sheene and Roberts are tied for third with 15 points apiece. 2 Brad .Lackey (Kawl, vaulted into the top spot in the 500cc MX World Championship point standings after taking the overall win in the Apr. 29 round in Thouars, France. Lackey leads Graham Noyce (Honl 46 points to 40. Jean Jacques Bruno (KTMI took the win in the opening mota followed by Noyce, Lackey and Heikki Mikkola (Yaml. Roger DeCoster (Suzl took fifth while Chuck Sun (Husl returned to action and finished 10th. Lackey easily won the final mota from Andre Malherbe (Honl and Mikkola. Neither Sun nor DeCoster placed in the top 10 in the final mota. A sketchy report from the Apr. 29 250cc MX World Championship round in Bra, Italy indicates onl y American Jim Pomeroy (Bul) earned any championship po ints. Pomeroy took an eighth in the first moto and d id not finish the second. There was no word on J im Turner.(Hon) or Marty Moates (Yam). Neil Hudson (Mai) won overall with a 1·4 tally followed by Vladimir Kavinov (KT M) 2-3 and Rolf Diffenbach (Kaw) 3·6. There was a report from the 250cc MX GP that Jim Pomeroy, plagued with apparent troubles on his factory Bultaco, has threatened to quit unless changes are made. In the event that he quits, Pomeroy indicated that he would probably ride a Honda. However, at this state all the action appears to be in the form of heated conversations. Here we go again . Let 's word it d iffer ently this time . Rumor has it that the Daytona 200 will be shown on CBS Sports Spectacular on May 12. How 's that? What credibility gap? Bobby "Boogaloo" Schwartz is back in town, and he'll be racing at Costa Mesa on Friday night. May 4, The following week, May 12, Papa won't have that gas problem. The Winston Pro race is at Ascot Park, and Aggie 's place is just down the street. Tickets for the 20·lap Spring Classic Half Mile National are available through Agajanian Enterprises, P.O . Box 98, Gardena , CA 90247 . Reserved adult seats are $10 and - reserved children (12 & under) can get in for $5 . General admission is $8 for adults, $4 for kids . That's May 12 at 8:00 p.m, Want to help the Phantom Duck of the Desert and pick up a dlacount ticket to the July 14 Coca-Cola Superbowl of Motocross all at once? Here's the deal. Promoter Mike Goodwin wanta to help out the duck. He's offering .15 seatsthe best in the house by the peristyle - for $12. "My attorneys and sponsors tell me that I can't obligate anyone to a contribution." Goodwin says, "but they sure as hell can't tell me that I can't lower my price and give everyone an extra three bucks to throw Into the Duck's kitty:' If you'll make out two checks one to Stadium Motorsports for your .12 ticket and one to the Phantom Duck of the Desart for .3, and send them both to Stadium Motorsports, 920 Glenneyre, Suite X, Laguna Beach. CA 92661, you can help yourself to a hot seat at the Superbowl and aid off-road vehicle enthusiasts, yourself included, at the same time. "I'll be damned if we can't make the BLM, legislators and everybody elsa sit up and take notice of our voting power when they look out over the L.A. Coliseum on July 14 at a sellout crowd of 84,000 fans that have the power to vote them in or out of office," Goodwin concluded. In addition to the .3 per $15 ticket. Goodwin also plans to donate the profits generated on every ticket sold over 70,000 to the campaign to save public land for everyone's usa. AMA has established a Triple Crown of Supercross. It'll include the three AMA /Toyota Supercross Series events at Atlanta , Los Angeles and Anaheim, and the top three in points totalled for the three races will receive $3,000, $2 ,000 and $1 ,000 . respectively, according to Stadium Motorsports. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources will be holding a public hearing regarding . construction of the Larch Mountain Trail, a 130mile trailbike route in the Capitol Forest. The trail will connect existing trails on the eastern and western sides of the forest. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m, at the McCleary Elementary School, McCleary, WA. More details are available at 2061753-2400, Desert star Bruce Ogil vie suffered a shoulde r separation at t he Apr. 29 D· 37 desert race and was sla ted to have the shoulder op erated on Monday afternoon, Apr. 30. T he " Big 0" will probably be out abou t six weeks , according to his mo ther. Bob Balentine found his new 420cc KTM to be just the ticket as he took it to the overall win in the Prospectors M .C. point-to-point AMA 0-37 hare 'n' hound. Balentine stopped along the way to inform club members that Bruce Ogilvie had crashed out on the course. Amateur Jeff Mathews took second overall, followed by first 250cc Expert Brian Wright. and (wowl first 175cc Expert Charlie Hamill. The second through fourth place riders were Yamahamounted. There may be some confusion regarding two separate BLM deadlines that appeared in the last issue. The May 10 deadline is for specific protests of proposed Wilderness Study Areas in the California Desert Conservation Area. Such protests must say why a specific area is unsuitable for Wilderness Study Area classification (a road runs through it or something). Send these to the BLM State Director, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. Remember that May 10 ain't too far away, so by all means. do it now. The June 1 deadline is for general public comments to be used in the BLM Wilderness Study, and these are sent to the Desert Planning Staff, 3610 Central Avenue, Riverside, CA 92506. "We just called the ho8pital and they have him in recovery," said Malco's Jim Baird when called Monday afternoon for an update on the progress of Danny "Magoo" Chandler, -, who underwent knee surgery Monday morning. We talked with Magoo by phone leter Monday afternoon and he said, "I'll be up on crutches tomorrow. I shouldn't be out too long:' Honda's endurance road race team , Christian Leon and Jean-Claude Chemarin, won the April 28-29 24 Hours of LeMans, finishing 12 laps ahead of second place. Neither Team Yoshimura bike finished the race. A telegram from France to Yoshimura R&D simply stated that the two machines had lasted 16 and 17 hours and that they had impressed people before things went wrong. HosPITal STOP: Elsinore Raceway owner Ron Guilliams DNF the SRA GP at Carlsbed after a stuck throttle caused an off·course excursion into a saven-foot ravine, where Ron wound up with a badly broken lag and bruisad ribs. He's currently in traction at Tri -Cities Hospital in Oceanside. Your sixpack is on its way in a plain brown wrapper, Ron. . Still wondering what happened to Marty Tripes' works Honda motocrosser that privateer John Roeder claimed at Hangtown? Well, Papa heard just lately that the folks at Cycle magazine have been playing with it. First they tore it all apart, discovering in the process that the onl y part on the machine that carried a stock pa rt number was the seat. Then they checked all the dimensions and (Continued to page 2J)