NEWS BANQUET APPROACHES

The annual DPS banquet will be held at Rudi's Italian Restaurant on La Brea on Thursday, April 22, at 7:30 pm (Happy Hour starts at 6:30). The price for a fine steak dinner is $4.25 and tickets may be obtained from Les Stockton by sending checks to him (made out to Les, not the DPS) for the proper amount. His address is 505 Idaho, Santa Monica, Calif, 90403.

ELECTIONS

The March meeting is the time to make nominations for next year's management committee and additions to the peaks list. We urge you to take this opportunity to involve yourself in the workings of the section. It is always hard to get people to volunteer for the committee so if you are interested in being nominated or nominating someone please make an effort to attend. And if you don't attend you may be nominated anyway.

NEWSLETTER

As you may have noticed by the bylines only a few people are contibuting to the NEWSLETTER. Only one scheduled trip write-up for October through December had been received by press time. If you look in your schedule you will be able to identify the procrastinators. However, if the present trend continues, next month we will save you the trouble of looking them up. Outlaw trip write-ups, stories, articles, etc are welcomed and needed for a successful NEWSLETTER.

VITZ, HAVEN CLIMB LIST JOIN ARKEL ERB IN SELECT GROUP Exclusive to the NEWSLETTER by a staff writer

BISHOP, CALIF. It was learned late this afternoon that the climbing team of John Vitz and Jerry Haven, assisted by Tom Wall and Chuck MacQuillan, has successfully finished the moderately strenuous climb to the summit of Mt Dubois, a massive plateau at 13365' about fifty miles northeast of this city. This mountain was the last of the 75 peaks on the current DPS qualifying list to be scaled by these distinguished mountaineers. They now join Arkel Erb in a select group of three climbers who have accomplished this feat. The NEWSLETTER had a party at the roadhead communicating with the climbers by using a megaphone and flashlights. The alpinists would scribble notes and place them into film containers and then drop them to the reporters below. However, since the climbing party was out of range for both sight and sound and since the film containers rarely fell more than a few feet, little news had been given or received until the climbers came into sight of the NEWSLETTER helicopter which had landed a rescue party on the summit. The rescue team had brought along a 1300' rope to drop to the fatigued climbers, who had been on the mountain for 24 hours and had food and water for only 72. The rope was of little use however as it repeatedly landed only a short distance down the loose cruddy slopes when coiled and thrown. The tension continued to mount both on the summit and at the roadhead where tourist traffic was blocked for miles down Middle Canyon. Finally the climbers were seen coming over the edge and walking the two miles of sand flats to the pile of

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