Longtime DPS Member Freda Walbrecht will head the program at the forthcoming 100 Peaks Banquet? This event will take place at Les Freres Restaurant, 1911 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, on Thursday, January 21st. Many DPS members also hold 100 Peaks Section membership. Sounds like a fine evening of mountaineering.
All accidents of any significance should be reported? They are recorded and analyzed by the American Alpine Club, and appear in their annual "Accidents in North American Mountaineering" pamphlet. Such future happenings can be avoided with such safety precautions, Report these to DPS member Lothar Kolbig.
Arrests do occur in National Monuments? Recently arrested in Joshua Tree NM for painting on the rocks in the Ryan and Cove campgrounds, a Downey man received a 60-day suspended sentence provided that he completely remove all traces of the painting within ninety days. In June, an Indianan (not an Indian) was fined $25 for permitting a teen-age relative to paint names on the great granite boulders near the entrance to the Hidden Valley Nature trail. What next? Too lean a sentence.
John Robinson is extra busy changing diapers, this time for his third little female, Theresa Jeanne, born Sept 15th?.....................................
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