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DESERT PEAKS SECTION
NEWSLETTER #44 ANGELES CHAPTER - SIERRA CLUB |
November, 1955 |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE DESERT PEAKS SECTION WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955, IN THE LIBRARY AT SIERRA CLUB HEADQUARTERS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM AT BOOS BROS. |
The DPS dinner scheduled for November 19th at Highland Park Playground had to be canceled owing to an insufficient number of reservations to cover the cost of the catered dinner we planned to have.
Copies of the Section bylaws with minor revisions will go out to DPS members within the next few days. A few extra pages of the DPS Climbers Guide are in preparation and we hope to have mimeographed copies available next month.
CONSERVATION FOR DESERT PEAKS - By Dan L. Thrapp
Mrs, Charles Foss, a valued and thoughtful Sierra Club member, writes:
This summer my family and I spent our vacation in Glacier National Park. We spent so much time in the desert, coming and going, with no place ever to stop to eat our lunch, that it gave us pause for thought. Then, on the last day coming home, we passed Manzanar, where the Japanese were housed during the war.
"I couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be if that place was made into a State or county park!
"It is large and flat and the trees are growing right up everywhere, and there is bound to be water there, or near.
Is anyone well enough acquainted with the site to back this recommendation, or make another? This column is open for any reply.
"This would not make the project more palatable to the nation's taxpayers. We contend it is still infeasible; that its cost would far exceed any benefits that the proposed power charge of .6 cent a kilowatt hour is so high as to make it almost certain that the power could not be sold...; that the land proposed to be irrigated is not worth irrigating; and that it is grossly unfair to other irrigation projects which repay (up to 85%) of their irrigation costs to let the Utah farmers off with only 17%, as proposed."
TELESCOPE PEAK FROM THE FLOOR OF DEATH VALLEY - By Freda B. WALBRECHT
Starting at Tule Spring, -253 feet, site of Bennett's Long Camp, we, Bill Stewart, his little dog Hans, and Freda Walbrecht, headed for Telescope Peak, 11,049 feet, via Death Valley Canyon. This is