vbegislative Lior, ary, Parliament Bldga., 5c Victoria, B.C. VAV 1x4 CASTLE@ Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” TODAY'S PRAYER It is good to know, O God, thal You are a God Who Is y shield, my glory and the lifter of my hea VOL, 33, NO. A28 35 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JULY 6, 1980 2 Sections (A & B) The first two days of the B.C. Amateur Champlonship provided some excellent golf for ‘the spectators at the Castlegar Golf Club. Wednesdays first round saw the course record of 66 tied by Gary Puder of Vancouver. The second day, with a stiff breeze blowing, changed the character of the course and overall scores i Sun shines for golfers with the best round, a 70, being shot by Sandy Harper of Nanaimo. This gave Har- per a two round total of 187 “and the tournament lead after two days. Local golfers did well on the first two days making it look like a family affair, with father and son Bill and Jim High praise for course \. Danny and Gordie Walker, and Ken, Rob, and Ron all making the . cut to remain in the tourn- ament among the low 80 players. Other loca! players mak- ing the rut were Mike Wichert of Castlegar, Brian De Biasio of Nelson and Alan Defoe of Rossland-Trail. Tournament chairman M. Les Howard of the B.C.E.A. said he was very pleased with condition of the golf course and the amount of help provided by members of the golf club. A full report on the tournament including the fin- al two days play, will be carried in next Thursdays Castlegar News. Being held at Castlegar Golf Course B.C. Amateur Golf Championshi bitoff and Nick Sh ip ends today d local t the B.C. Amateur Golf Championship are Clay McKinley, Otto Walker, Bilt Ho edectlt John now: Phil and Mildred Sher-- “~ Nelson Police Chief George Barr Suspended chief of police for the city of Nelson, George Barr, pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges at a hearing in Nelson on Thursday. The charges: knowingly making false statements in order to get leans and credit extensions from.seven Koot- enay basis and credit unions, third chief constable ‘to be ‘suspended in Nelson in the past eight years. Nelson mayor, Tex Mo- watt, said the police board -would wait until Barr is sen- tenced before judging his status with the police force. Barr is scheduled to be d Aug. 13 and faces Savings Credit Tien and the Castle- gar branch of the Bank of Montreal. Barr had also faced charges of fraud and attempt- ing to obtain credit by fraud at each of the financial institutions. Crown pros- ecutor Leonard Doust said he stopped - prosecution on the remaining charges because the substance of the offences is contained in the charges to which Barr pleaded guilty. Barr was suspended from the Nelson police force Dec. 8 with one month’s pay after serving as. chief since February, 1976. He is the possible prison terms as long as 10 years on each count, though: under provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada provincial court could grant the suspended police chief an absolute discharge. If given an absolute discharge he will have no criminal record and could be eligible to resume his duties as Nelson chief of police. The charges against Barr alleged that he used false statements to get leans and extensions of credit totalling $150,000 from the West Kootenay banks and credit unions. Riding committee to be named soon Kootenay West Member of F Lyle Kristian- committee will advise him on and issues within sen said Thursday he hopes to name a constituency com- mittee within the next week. Kristiansen said. the the riding and will consist of nearly 80 representatives of local governments, chambers of commerce, trade unions and major employers. The saga of Marc DuMont In the news because DuMont Crescent could be flooded by the proposed Murphy Creek Dam, the street name is a tribute to one of Castlegar’s oldest families. Marc DuMont bought 200 acres of land in what is now South Castlegar (at between two and five dollars an acre!) in 1905. His story is on page two. THREE GENERATIONS — All named Marc DuMont. Standing is the late Marc DuMont, first settler in Kinnaird (South Castlegar). Seated are his father Marc DuMont and son Mark DuMont. This picture was probably taken in 1917 or 1918 at the DuMont farm, near the Columbia River. * The elder Marc DuMont was born in Cologne, Germany in 1844 and came to San Francisco in 1865, then to the Oregon Territory and Columbia goldfields. He took out American citizenship papers, but returned to Europe where he set- tn_ 1914 he came to British Columbia, living at Bridesville In the Boundary fore returning to his birthplace where In 1927 at the age of 82. tled In Belgium. count he di recently - Residents’ Committee urges CasNews Editor Charging that govern- ment authorities” want. to make Lower Arrow, Lake inaccessible, the Arrow Lakes’ residents committee Wednesday evening dev- eloped alternative goals for resettlement of the lake. The committee was * formed in opposition to plans _ Presented at a public meeting six days earlier by regional planners. More public access to the lake, wildlife sanctuaries, fish spawning channels, and early resettlement of people forced away from the lake by construction of the High Arrow (Hugh Keenyside) Dam are among the goals of the committee. “Very soon there's going’ to be a decision and we're just trying to get some input “Dr. Pat Fowler, a member of the committee, said after the meeting. “It’s a last ditch effort to be heard.” Fowler said the main thrust of government rec- ommendations is to make the lake “inaccessible.” “The authorities just want to write the Arrow Lakes off. Why should it only be accessible 0 people with $30,000 boats?’ The planners want there ‘Last ditch effort to be heard,’ says group spokesman Dr. Pat Fowler the planners want to reduce the size of Syringa Creek Park to provide building sites for to be no imp: of the road west from Syringa Creek to Broadwater which would make it “virtually impossible” for people to live there or make use of recrea- tional facilities, he said. In addition, said Fowler, The residents’ commit- tee, he said, wants to in- crease the size of Syringa Creek Park, create additional supervised day-use areas, and improve the Syringa Creek to Broadwater Road. yh, My Answer. SUPPLEMENTS Eatons — “Home Fashion Sale” Bay — "Home & White Sale” Safe (Not all supplements included in all popers.) “Syringa Creek Park is full already. We need more recreational space, not less. And what a stupid place to put a subdivision; right be- side a provincial park,” said Fowler. Among the alternative resettlement sites the com- mittee wants considered, he said, is “the big subdivision at Broadwater that’ Hydro promised and even surveyed fe resettlement many years "Fowler said the planners have proposed some sites for resettlement that’ “are not very desirable and they've eliminated the best of the ones formerly proposed.” Other residents’ commit- tee goals are wildlife sanc- .tuaries on the Phelps and upper Mackereth ranches, fish spawning channels, and strict adherence to anti-pol- lution regulations in the Arrow Lakes to protect water supplies, Resettlement of the Ar- row Lakes has been delayed for 15 years, said Fowler, while many former residents “have been writing to the government and to Hydro and been getting the brush- . + off. Everything’s been lost in bureaucracy.” The latest plans, pre- sented to the public meeting June 26, were prepared without any input from for- mer residents, he said. - “The plans were pre- sented by the planning of- ficers of the Regional District of Central Kootenay but when they started getting a lot of flak from the audience they backed off and said this isn't our plan, it’s the Koot- enay Regional Resources Management Committee plan.” The Resources Manage- ment Committee, he said, is made up of the technical staff of several government agen- cies in Nelson. ' ; You're Getting BBX convey “Those Who Died Young" First of o Series Page BI Reflections and Recollections Classitied Ads .. Erma Bombeck Writers’ Den.