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Hill Billy Jeep Club Wins
DESERT'S Conservation Award
Country
Travel
by Bill Bryan
The big family event of the past month
was the California Association of Four
Wheel Drive Club's Randsburg Roundup.
The four-wheel-drive rally and campout
in the Randsburg, California area was
attended by about 1400 people on a 20-
acre site provided by Mrs. Pearl Kelly of
Randsburg.
The weather was ideal and with so
many planned events to keep you busy all
day, including games and activities for
the kids, when night fell you were almost
too tired to attend the dance.
The campsite was laid out by the Four
Wheelers of Orange County. They were
justly complimented, as they laid out
streets and lots which made it easy for late
arrivals to find other members of their
clubs.
Chairman Jim Bond asked me to express
his sincere gratitude to the Randsburg
Museum, Constable John Turner,
Mrs. Williams, the building attendant
where the dance was held, and to all of
the people of Randsburg and Red Mountain
for their warm reception afforded our
members.
There are still some commemorative
Randsburg plaques available. If you did
not get one send $1.00 to Jim Bond, 8111
E. Garvey Blvd., Rosemead, Calif. 91770
—and tell him you got the word from
DESERT Magazine,
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Hill Billy Jeep Club of Manhattan Beach, California, as a result of a conference
with the ranger station at Fawnskin in the San Bernardino Mountains, scheduled a
run to clean up a hunter's camp before the opening of deer season.
The ranger station at Big Pine Flats Campground provided the trash barrels, and
we provided the 4-wheel-drive pickup to carry out the trash, along with elbow-grease
and 12 vehicles. A special merit badge went to Mrs. Dotty Stevens who drove her
Jeepster for the first time over a hairy jeep trail to reach the camp, because her better
half was attending the state association meeting and couldn't be present.
We filled the back of the truck with litter in disposable paper sleeping bags,
commonly used by fire-fighters, forest rangers and hunters, and carried them all back
to the ranger station at Big Pine Flat since the fire danger prohibited any burning.
The successful Randsburg Roundup of the California Association of Four Wheel
Drive Clubs wasn't just for the adults. There were many children's activities,
such as this boys' sack race, to keep the kids busy.