Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27
PET PARADE
BIG SUCCESS

even the placid turtles getting
stirred up in the excitement.
Fine Police Help
Through the efficient help of
the Junior police, the Post-Press
carrier staff, the city police and
the state traffic department, the
parade was formed despite the
fact that a number of animals
unused to a lead absolutely re-
fused to parade and had to be
pushed and hauled into place.
Led by the state traffic squad,
the parade started down Main
street, Miss Shirley Kinne in her
colorful rodeo costume and mount
ed on her Shetland pony making
an effective marshal for the par
ade.
First came the dogs, 125 of them,
from tiny puppies to huge st. Ber-
nards.. .s2
Gay costumes for both chill
dren and animals added color to
the division as did the many dec
Grated carriages which carried
some of the pets in state. A tiny
PekineSe looked out in bored fash
ion on the crowds from her Chi
nese sedan chair, which her own
er, in Chinese costume, pulled down
the street. One white woolly dog
had been dyed a sky blue and
wore pink ribbon about its neck
to match the blue frock and pink
sash of the diminutive owner.
One young gentleman, obvious
ly in his first pair of long pants,
seemed to have more difficulty
in keeping them up than in main-
tanning his pet in the parade.
Cats Come Next
Cats came next, and in this
division everything from pedigreed
angoras to the good old alley vari-
ETY. were seen.
Herded down the street in red
wagon a big Thanksgiving turkey
sullenly brooded over the situation.
Birds of every description, chick
ems, doves, pigeons, ducks, canarles,
were featured in bright cages and
baskets decorated by their owners.
One indignant rooster protested
nightly at having his masculinity
affronted by being forced to wear
a dainty lace cap.
One old biddy, however, parade
or no parade, had an eye to busi-
ness and just as the procession
reached Sixth and Main, obligingly
laid an egg on the pavement.
Rabbits, from fluffy white babies
to big black fathers of families, in
their natural colors or dyed to i'm
prove on nature, formed another
big division.
Horses Form Division
Turtles, a cockroach safely en-
closed in a box, fleas, minnoWs,
goldfish. chipmunks, skunk, mice
and rates, horned toad, pigs, and
possum, IN bewildering variety fol-
lowed, this miscellaneous division
being one of the most amusing to
the audience.
Horses formed a big division, ev-
erything from Shetlands to plough
horses appearing. Their riders
wore an equal variety of costumes
and one little girl entered "horse"
of the long-eared variety, tiny
grey burro.
Last but not least since it won
the grand prize of $500 was q
huge Holstein bull ridden by Mary
Sunderman, but being pulled and
led by nearly the entire Sunder-
man family.
At Fourth and Main the process
sion came down State street to the
Post-Press office where prizes were
distributed to the many youngsters
who crowded the street and build
ing.
Every youngster that entered the
parade received Spanky Bar from
the Arden Farms, an ice cream conc
from Christensen's drug store, and
as long as they lasted, "Our Gang
caps and buttons from Arder
Farms.
So many more children entered
the parade than was anticipated
that the ice cream and Spanky bar:
had to be replenished, and the cap
and buttons ran out long before
the end.
Herb Fawcett, watching the
parade and realizing that it was {
hot day and that youngsters ge
thirsty, rushed down to his office
and sent two big truckloads OF