1961 PRO Nationals program

I have recently acquired a 1961 PRO Nationals , the first PRO Nationals help on Lake DePue , program to add to my collection. I have included a few pages from that program. If anybody has anything related to any of the PRO Nationals held at DePue and would like to share with me , as I attempt to preserve the history of the PRO Nationals on Lake DePue , please let me know. I would like to thank the racers that have already sent me photo copied stuff from heat sheets , scoring sheets , programs and magazine articles. I really appreiciate it. There will come a day when I will display what I have have for all to see and I will give credit to the people who send me information. Thanks again.

Here are a couple more pages from the 1961 program. An interesting fact is that the original President Kennedy telegram still exists today with a resident of DePue.

I want to thank RC Hawie for providing me with the articles from the 1961-1974 Propeller magazines. They have made a great addition to these records. Thanks RC !!!!!!

A little story as to how these came about. Gerald Toovey was the general chairman for the DePue Centennial committee back in 1961. I have been friends with his son Kevin since Jr High school. After last years Nationals we were talking about past races and I told him about my quest to find as much history about the PRO/Alky Nationals as I could. It was than that he told me his dad had a bunch of stuff from the 1961 races and he would get it to me. That is were these scoring sheets came from.The originals were on 11x17 sheets and I had to have them reduced to 8X12 to post them so they may be a bit hard to read. Thanks to them for allowing me to copy them.

Here are the rest of the scoring sheets from the finals of the 1961 Nationals.

And here is the final one.