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Dr grace: AFlor 't on
(Continued from Page 7) sour turn of events, Whitcraft Olds. We got another old Olds!
"Most guys who are serious . brushes it off as just another It's a pair of Oldsmobiles, folks,
about it put in 20, 25 or 30 hours part of the sport, and predicts The green Camera just isn't
a week," comments Pat Whit- his car will be back in winning cutting the mustard today folks
craft. A heavy-set man with form next week. He seems set . . . Late on the green light. The
long brown hair falling over his on making a go of it as a pro, little lady was late; she could
t a n n e d shoulders. Whitcraft but admits that he's got a long have beat him, but she was late
looks to be in his mid-twenties. haul and it will take a lot of on that green light, and that'll
Ie talks about his plan for go- skill, good luck and outside sup- kill ya every time.
ing professional as he crouches port for him to reach his goal. "Y NOW, the eliminations are
beneath the hoisted rear end 'Sponsor' is the name of the well underway, and the an-
of the car he figures will take game in drag racing as in any notmcer's limp rap continues
him there, a '67 bright-red Ca- other motor sport, and paying mainly for his own benefit. This
maro named Terri's Toy in patrons are kind of hard to kind of racing is purely for in-
honor of his daughter. come by on Sibley Road these dividualists, and racers who've
The sleek red car carries a days. A few automotive com- been beaten, and their occasion-
hefty 427. cubic inch engine, but panies sometimes back a racer al fans in the stands, waste no
it's not going anywhere today. in cash or parts. "Gratiot Auto time in beating it for the exit
Whitcraft blew his car's differ- Supply and places like that will once they've lost.
ential while warming it up, he s p o n s o r people," advises In sharp contrast to the spec-
explains, and presented the oil- Meyers. tator sports of national pastime
covered metal splinters he just DUT IT'S a big step up from status, in drag-racing the track
yanked from the car's under- the local garage to a brand is virtually devoid of life by the
side to prove his point. name booster like STP or Cham- time the day's winner is deter-
Whitcraft, who works at an pion, and the preponderance of mined.
auto garage and has his boss's racers are forced to race on In the class eliminations, ra-
tow truck with hils this day, whatever meager funds they cers have the often times tricky
figures the replacement parts can muster on their own. task of beating their opponent
will "cost me about a hundred "If you're in a good class and while not surpassing their dial
bucks."you're a real good racer, the time, or the times they turned
T IKE MOST of the other sponsors might notice you," of- in on the trial runs. The pur-
racers at the track today, fers Whitcraft. "But they're pose of the dial time is to keep
he's able to maintain his racing very hard to come by." racers from laying off the gas
habit only by handling all the Whitcraft's attention returns all day and then sandbagging it,
labor on the car himself. He to the car as the strained voice in order to get matched with an
takes obvious pride in his car of the track announcer rolls ov- inferior car in the run for the
and his improvements on it and er the rapidly thinning car prize.
blames today's mishap on poor ranks: "Final call, 4G, 4H, 4I, A LL RACERS w h o surpass
tooling at the factory. 4L, and 4M . . . What do we got their dial time are elimi-
Though dismayed by today's cookin' here? Looks like an old nated, as are those who jump
Planning ahead
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neighbors at curbside in at-
tempts to get scrapbook pic-
tures of the historic visit; Secret
Service agents glanced in the
direction of every shutter click.
ALL ALONG the parade route
there had been a noticeable
show of small American flags
waved at the President. A tired-
looking Boy Scout distributing
them claimed the balloons and
flags were imported from Wash-
ington as part of Ford's cam-
paign kick-off, a lie which dis-
qualified the khaki-uniformed
lad from ever receiving an hon-
esty badge.
The balloons had been con-
tributed by the community, and
the little flags were largely the
idea of one man, Les Bieder-
man, who spent $1,500 on 5,000
flags because "it was proper to
salute the President with the
flag, and there are too many
flags burned and sewn on the
seats of pants:'
The local radio station had
picked up Biederman's plan and
community contributions for
more flags were given gener-
ously. An estimated total of
21,000 were waved along the
one and a quarter mile route.
The advance staff was not re-
sponsible for, the flags and bal-
loons, although they did help
coordinate the release of the
balloons. They were delighted
with community enthusiasm and
vigorously denied that the pa-
rade was the start of the Presi-
dent's re-election campaign. Had
it been a campaign trip, claimed
staff members, the advance
would have been quite different.
"If this were a political trip, we
would have pulled out all the
stops to raise a crowd," said
Eric Rosenberger, a member of
the White House advance staff.
"We would have made phone
calls, done a big handbill effort,
plastered the place with posters,
made public service announce-
ments, paid for T.V. spots -
everything."
THE OFFICE had originally
been concerned that Traverse
City could not produce a crowd
large enough to give the Presi-
dent an appropriate welcome,
but their doubts were soon
erased.,
"We didn't do anything to
raise a crowd," insisted Rosen-
berger. "We were very happy
with the crowd here. Although
the locals claimed it was 500,000
it was closer to half that. But
we were still very pleased with
250,000. We had some concern
that there be a good group, and
there was a good group, and
they were enthusiastic."
The enthusiastic crowd was
left to view the rest of the long
parade while Ford slipped off
to the private reception at Grif-
fin's house, then flew to Chicago.
A second advance staff in
Chicago arranged for the Presi-
dent's lodging and meals,, coor-
dinated his transportation to the
University andrback,horganized
protection during the Presi-
dent's address, arranged for the
transportation and lodging of the
press pool, and made final ar-
rangements for the President's
return to Michigan.
THE PRESIDENT returned to
Traverse City to play in a lo-
cal golf tournament on an over-
cast Saturdayafternoon.
"Secret Service came two
weeks in advance for a visit,"
said David Wynkoop, President
of the Traverse City Golf and
Country Club, and one of the
President's golfing partners.
"They inspected the whole
course, all the greens and all
the outlying areas." Local golf-
ers had complained with some
amusement that their concen-
tration had been broken on the
course by Secret Service agents
inspecting the grounds.
All those golfing in the tour-
nament were cleared by secur-
ity. The Presidential party, in-
cluding protective agents, used
19 golf carts. Almost 100 law en-
forcement officers were sta-
tioned on the course and along
the fairways.
The President finished . his
game and posed for pictures
with Gordis Howe and his ..wife.
A Secret Service agent walked
along the crowd-control rope
rimming the ninth green. "Keep
back, folks," he cautioned. "The
President will walk right along
here and 'shake hands in a few
minutes." In a few minutes,
Ford shook an outstretched hand
behind Mrs. Howe, then another,
and began to fulfill the agent's
for the
prophecy, working his way
around the semi-circle toward
the podium, where he congratu-
lated the golf tournament win-
ners and earned cheers by call-
ing Michigan "God's country."
A FTER A sports award ban-
quet, the President chop-
pered to Interlochen to meet his
wife for a concert. Mrs. Ford
had already been on a walking
tour of the Interlochen dance fa-
cilities.
The excursion to Interlochen
was also thoroughly advanced.
"They looked over the property
and decided on the best itiner-
ary," said Roger Jacoby, Direc-
tor of the Interlochen Arts Acad-
emy '"They approveddMrs.
Ford's walking route, and her
escort, and scheduled her tour-.
the meeting with some dance
students and the dance presen-
tation given. They decided on
placement of ropes for crowd
control, on a press room for the
press, and they arranged for
extra phones for the press. They
inspected the building complete-
ly and chose a landing place for
the three helicopters."
The selection of the musical
program was left to the band
conductor and Jacoby. The pro-
gram included the Michigan
Fight Song, Copland's "Lincoln
Portrait," and "The Battle
Hymn of the Republic." "We
thought if the President was
here, we ought to do something
on the patriotic side," said Ja-
coby. " 'The Victors' was ob-
vious."
After the final musical selec-
tion had been played during the
concert, Senator Griffin leaned
over to the President and asked
him if he would like to go on
stage. The President agreed
and, accompanied by his wife,
went onstage to make a brief,
stumbling speech of gratitude.
"Go i n g on stage wasn't
planned," said Jacoby, laugh-
ing. "And it made a few people
scurry a little bit. If nothing
else, the President needs pro-
tection getting up and down the
aisle,"
"THE WHOLE staff with the
President is there to pre-
pare the way and protect the
man," said Interlochen Director
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the gun at the start.
Dial times are also used to
handicap the finals. If one car
"dialed in" a second slower
than another, then the second
would get a one seco Id head
start on the first. The staggered
start is aimed at keeping things
tight at the finish line.
The driver that can turn a
good dial time and stay just shy
of it in the eliminations and fi-
nals has a good chance of win-
ning 20 or 30 dollars in prize
money for taking it all, or at
least a trophy for winning a
class. All in all, the prizes seem
a rather dismal counterpoint to
all the time and money the Sun-
day driver draggers put into
their cars.
1UT WHEN you see the racers
cruising back down the ac-
cess road that parallels the strip
after the last heat, with the
driver's door boldly held open
as far as it will go, (so they can
pick up their time slips and cool
off the car without rolling down
the decal-laced windows - it
again becomes clear that petty
cash and cheap trophies are the
farthest things- from their
minds.
Their machines are their gold.
Their reputations are their mon-
uments. Give they a clear track
and the word go, and even dirty
old Detroit Dragway will suit
them just fine.
Pres
"The hardest thing
is thinking the trip out,
thinking of a ll the
crazy, bizarre things
that can go wrong, and
trying to provide for all
of those in a manner
which puts the Presi-
dent in an atmosphere
he is comfortable in-
informal a n d relaxed
- without inconveni-
encoig ,the host."
Eric Rosenberger,
White House
Advance Staff
Jacoby. "They did their job well
and were very polite. ABC News
claimed the advance staff had
been pushy, but we found no
evidence of that at all."
"There are a thousand things
to think of when you're advanc-
ing a trip," said advance staffer
Rosenberger. "We do the Air
Force advance for the planes."
THE ADVANCE staff, in the
estimation of Traverse City
area contacts, are professional
experts.
But, it is easy to fail, to make
obvious mistakes thattreveal
lack of foresight, lack of plan-
ning, forgetfulness, oversight or
addle-brained thinking. It is
more difficult to succeed, to
have events progress smoothly
and on schedule, almost spon-
taneously.
Success for the advance staff
is when a Presidential excursion
outside of Washington seems ef-
fortless, requiring little more
advance effort than the packing
of a Presidential toothbrush and
clean underwear. The plans for
a Presidential trip are in purest
form when they are not at all
visible to the public as obvious
orchestrations, but are clear in
detail and purpose to those who
must implement them.