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San Bernardino County Sun

San Bernardino County Sun

The San Bernardino County Sun

Burro’s Note Shows He’s Only a Jackass

July 11, 1965 featured image
โ€œThe burro race drivers are mean and cruel. When we get tired and lay down they pour sand in our ears or tie ropes around our lower jaw to pull us upon our tired feet. Even Indian Joe in Arizona wasnโ€™t this mean; he only hit us with a piece of cactus. These drivers will tell you they are not cruel to us, but they are liars. The guard turn their heads to such cruelties. One driver even had a prod stick with a wire from electric batteries attached to it. But the batteries were too low to shock us. Go see for yourself, Mr. Buie, and tell your readers to help stop this cruelty, and Iโ€™ll give you a ride sometime.

Burro Race Queen Contest Under Way

July 21, 1965 featured image
As one of the kickoff events of the โ€œMiss Burroโ€ contest, some of the young contestants from Big Bear and the Pioneertown- Yucca Valley area exchanged visits and ticket-selling sprees over the weekend, it was reported by Samuel A. Moore, Pioneertown activities chairman.

Plans Made for Old Miner Event

Old Miner Event featured image
The noon stop of the burrow wranglers will be the Copper Room at the Yucca Valley airport where lunch will be served by the Yucca Valley Elks Club. Lucerne Valley, the first nightโ€™s stop, will roll out the red carpet for wranglers and visitors.

SPCA, Humane Society Inspect

July 29, 1965 featured image
Sixty burros, which will be competing in the 12 annual National Burro Derby starting Aug.5, were inspected here Tuesday by officials of the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Southern California Humane Society.

Wild Burros Off On 3-Day Jaunt

Aug. 5, 1965 - The San Bernardino County Sun
It will be โ€œBig Bear Lake Or Bustโ€™ for 95 wild burros and their intrepid wranglers who line up here on the starting line at 7 a.m. today and begin their three-day 40-mile 12th Annual National Burro Derby. Finish line is at the Elks Club at Big Bear Lake.