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THE BEST DEALS ARE HERE... 2:44.02, Nadelie Cordiez was sixth in 2:45.53 and Tanya Anderson was 30th for me.” was sixth in 1:51.00, Michael Cordiez was 22nd in 1:56.93, Kennedy was 36th with 2:06.12, Evdikimoff was 49th in 2:15.71 and Holmes was 56th in 2:27.63. In the girls’ race, Roberts was second in 1:48.70, Nat- alie Cordiez was fourth in 1:58.94, Vockeroth was fifth in 1:54,06 and Anderson was sixth with a time of 1:54.89. At the races, the Koot enays took the zone title, ac- cumulating a total of 294 points, The north zone was second with 135, followed by the Okanagan with 68 and the Coast with 38 points. It was the third conse- cutive zone title and the sec- ‘ond consecutive girls com- bined title. Last year, racer Rindi Mc- Lellan won the title. “On that pitch, the batter gets a base hit, and eventually I get out of the inning, and once I get in the dugout I ask Sparky what it’s all about. “Oh, I just wanted to see you throw the changeup,” he said. There weren't too many more. exchanges. between James has carried the self-assurance into spring training, combining with Jeff Reardon and newcomer Gary Lucas to provide the Expos with one of the deepest bullpens in the National League. And he's doing it by throwing a nasty curve ball, that was taboo in Detroit, to set up his still- ov fastball. erpowering . “Lf the. hitters in this league start to realize that you have a quality curve ball, then you're really got them thinking,” said James. “You get a couple of strikes with the fastball and then come in with the curve. “If I can keep getting the éutve over, I think I can do as well as I did in the last few months last year.” Hernandez LAKELAND, FLA. (AP) — Detroit Tigers acquired on Saturday the left-handed re- lief pitcher they wanted, trading catcher John Woe- kenfuss and outfielder Glenn Wilson to Philadelphia Phil- lies for reliever Willie Her- ered one of National League baseball's top relief pitchers. He led the Phillies last year with 74 appearances, posting a 94 record with a 3.28 earned-run average and eight now a Tiger is dtobe And used as a late-inning defen- sive replacement for Darrell Evans, the free agent the Tigers acquired during the off-season. was ecstatic about the deal which was put to- Girls 6 - 17 years REGISTER BY SAT., MARCH 31 Fees $15/$12/$10 CAR & TRUCK PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY! 1977 Honda 2-Dr. Accord $2288 _ 3974 Jeep 4x4 Pick Up $1888 Registration forms available at schools & Recreation Complex Level 1 Softball Coaching Clinic April 28/29 — $2 Contact — Gord Gibson 365-5381 The Red Mountain Racers’ nandez and first b awards banquet will be held May 4. Cu-Dor Sports Castlegar Dave Bergman. SUNDAY FIGURE SKATING — WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP highlights, 9 o.m., FOOTBALL — USFL: 11:30.0.m., channel 4. HOCKEY — NHL: Winnipeg Jets vs. Edmonton Oilers, 1 p.m., channel 9. auTO RACING — GRAND PRIX: Brazilian Grand Prix, 5 p.m., channel 9. WEDNESDAY HOCKEY — NHL: Winnipeg Jets vs. Vancouver Canucks, 8 p.m., channel 13. SCHMOCKEY — SCHMOKEY NIGHT at orena complex. Teams in- clude media all-stors, RCMP, ambulance service and Castlegar volunteer firemen. Game time is 7 p.m. Hernandez, 29, is consid- handed batter, he was ac- quired by the Phillies from San Francisco Giants of the National League in exchange for outfielder Alexandro San- chez only hours before being forwarded to the American League Tigers. ranked third in the National League in pinch hitting last ‘year’with a 355 ‘average on 11 /hits in 31 ‘at bats. He had two pinch home runs and nine runs-batted-in. For the season, he hit .286 with six home runs and 24 RBI. . 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Stanley Humphries Secondary School & Twin Rivers. $15 per family. 2601-6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-3386 gar as the media all-stars take to the ice to battle the RCMP, ambulance service and the Castlegar volunteer firemen. The media squad — made up of Castlegar News and Tickets for the event are $1 for adults and 50 cents for Game time is 7 p.m. at the Community Complex. Be there. Spokane ‘downs Nelson CASTLEGAR MINOR SOCCER REGISTRATION FOR BOYS’ & GIRLS’ SOCCER SAT., MARCH 3 & APRIL7 10 a.m. -2 p.m. ° Castlegar Rec Complex $10 per child, $20 per family Boot Exchange — will take place at the , Rec Complex at the time of registration. din ig minor soccer CALL RANDY RICHARDSON at 365-5405. LEVEL | coaches clinic starts April 12. SPOKANE (CP) — Spo kane Chiefs took a “ Guy Paradis and Nels Ven- erus. Nelson's goals were scored by Brian DeBiasio, Bruce Martin and Ken Shersto- Randy Kirby stopped 19 in the Spokane. goal, while Dar- rel Kuntz blocked 34 for Nelson. f- Next game is Friday in Nelson. i WESTPORT CONN. (AP) — A 20-year-old Fair- field mam.was killed and hockey great Gordie Howe escaped injury early Satur- day morning. following a two-car accident on the Merritt Parkway. State police said Howe, 55, tried to pull the victim from the victim's car, but was unable to free the man. The car burst into flames before the man could be freed by rescue crews. State police identified the victim as John B. Labrusciano. Police report Howe had just pulled his car into the eastbound lane of the high- way at interchange 41 when it was struck in the left, rear corner by the car driven by Labrusciano. The Merritt Parkway is a four-lane, divided high- way. Howe escapes injury in crash Labrusciano’s car then struck several trees, be- fore bursting into flames, police: said. Police added the victim had been driv- against Howe. Howe, in a telephone in- “It was hard to see,” Howe said. “I . . . tried to reach in and shut the thing (engine) off.” Meanwhile, Howe's wife, Colleen, tried to get help by flagging down other cars, Howe said. But other cars just passed by, he said. Eventually, help did ar- rive. Howe said he then helped grab and pull the victim, but rescue efforts were halted by the fire. Weekend —____< Another of the joys of writing « column such as is that in pulling out stray “threads” of sometimes inadvertently ZI pursuit of the origin af the Dumont subdivision I had used 4 manuseript written by Father Mark Dumont, a monk at Westminster Abbey at Mission, Thad intended using a. second manuseript written by Brian Usher another member, which had been opposite side of the river to the subdivision, so I decided to call Helen Dunlop who I knew had written the definitive treatise on Waterloo Landing which was pub- lished in the Castlegar News. It was at this point that I learned that Helen had known the Dumonts personally, that she had a copy of the Usher manuscript and that she had written an excellent biography on the Dumonts in the July 6; 1990 issue of the Castlegar News. That was when I knew I had redis- covered the wheel. Undaunted, however, and expressing my indebted- ness to Helen, to Brian Usher and to Joe Killough (my frequent mine of information) I now continue with the tale of the Dumont subdivision and the stories sur- rounding it. We pick up from where we left off two weeks ago with the birth of Marc Dumont, originator of the subdivision: . Pioneer Marc Aurele Dumont's story is told by Brian Usher and, slightly edited, reads as follows: “Almost since the day Mare was born, Oct. 10, 1884 at St. Albin Epinay, France, his father (Marcus Theodor Hubert Aegedius Apollinaris DuMont) had had high hopes for him as a great sea captain. Marc’s education was, therefore, begun in Rouen, continued in Antwerp and then at the age of 14 he signed me (a common age for young would-be naval officers at that time) as a cabin-boy on a German steamboat sailing to New Orleans. “The trip could not have been too memorable, for Mare could remember little of it with the exception of one embarrassing incident in New Orleans. He had been sent to buy wine for the ship's stores and returned to the vessel empty handed — he had been kicked out of every tavern in the town! “After working on riverboats out of Antwerp, he signed on the “Unity” out of Rye, England and at the age of 16 in the year 1900 became a sailor in the British Merchant Marine. “ailing with the Unity across the English Channel was not exciting enough, however, for the young adven- turer so when the barque (a sailing ship with three or more masts) * sailed from at Tyne with a load of coal for the army in South Africa (the Boer War), one member of the new crew was Mare Dumont. “They made good time on the voyage but once in Capetown things reverted to the normal military situ- ation — hurry up and wait. In fact they lay at anchor in, the harbor for three months before getting army. priority for unloading their cargo. “After being cooped up in a ship for that length of time any land looked good to the seamen so that most of them jumped ship and joined the army. A nondescript crew described by Mare as a ‘mixture of the world’ was signed on to replace them and the ship sailed in ballast to Port Pirir, Australia. Then on April 22, 1902 they headed back to Antwerp with a cargo of lead concentrate. “After a short stay they loaded a general cargo and sailed for Seattle. During that three-month trip around Cape Horn (the Panama Canel was not started until 1904 and finished only in 1914) Mare became friends with another young lad from Belgium. They weighed the prospects of a life at sea and considered rather glumly the princely(!) sum of 30 shillings a month (about $30 in today’s terms) against the possibilities of wider frontiers and fortune of the wild coast of North America. ® “America won. On a day in May, 1903 with only the clothes on his back, a few personal effects and $5 in his pocket, Marc walked down the gangplank of the Southeast into the lonely, early morning streets of DUMONT SUBDIVISION . . shows day Dumont Castlegar, Line across the Columbia River indicates . Aerial photograph bdivision in South Seattle. He had jumped ship and said goodbye to his captain's career forever. “In August Marc arrived in Vancouver. He had paid his $3 poll tax at the border and had legally gained landed immigrant status in Canada. He worked at the Hastings Mill for a week, but he didn't remember whether he quit or was fired, and next found himself working at a stone quarry. (No, it wasn't a federal government job.) “Like other young men who arrived on the B.C. coast, it wasn’t long before Marc started fishing. Restric- tions on types of tackle weren't the same in 1903 as they are today, and they caught a boatfull — with one stick of dynamite. Marc says it wasn’t a matter of cleaning the fish — the real concern was finding pieces good enough to keep.” Soon he had seen what little there was of Vancouver in those days and felt it was time to move on; so he and a friend decided to go to Nelson. He heard the CPR needed men at Ashcroft to work on railway construction and was offering free passage. Marc's friend thought of a scheme, by. which ‘they could get the free tickets to Ashcroft then turn down the job and get a cheaper ticket from there on to Nelson. But the scheme d. The ticket schedule must approximate location of the drift ferry connecting Castlegar with Ootischenia. In this same year Marc made the second major step in his career — he bought a 200-acre parcel of land from the CPR, later to become the Dumont subdivision. It lay across the river from what Helen describes as the “jll-starred mining town of Waterloo Landing,” which by this time had already vanished into history, since it had reached the height of its growth between 1896 and the turn of the century. *"“Mark bought the land from the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. which had taken over the narrow gauge rail- way built earlier by (mining entrepreneur) Augustus Heinze to connect his Trail smelter with the rail lines at Robson.” “The land cost from $2 to $5 an acre and the tract lay in an area between the railway and the river, on both upper and lower benches. “A twisting narrow trail ran through the property from the railroad tracks down to the river where it ter- minated on the flat at the western approach of the drift ferry across the Oolumbia. This drift ferry was the only means of getting across to Waterloo Landing a the time.” ’ When Dumont built a house on the lower bench he d to use the road, and it has been in use ever have been drawn up by someone whose knowledge of B.C. geography was limited, for when they got to Ashcroft they had to pay more for their Nelson ticket than they would have had to pay in Vancouver. Worse, Nelson was also a “bust” since there were no jobs available in the mills, so Mare tried his hand at working in a smelter — pushing wheelbarrows of ore. That very first morning, Mare found out what happens when “cork” logging boots meet steel floors — nothing He quit at noon.” Shortly after he got a job at the Yale-Columbia (Wesley) sawmill located just above the present Celgar mill. This mill, taken over by American interests in 1906 became one of the largest lumbering concerns in the, province with timber limits covering 50,000 acres in the East and West Kootenays. Marc worked at the Wesley mill for the next four years and was joined by his brother Mike in 1904 and brother Hugo in 1906. since. Widened now and paved, it serves the residents of the Dumont subdivision while following the same route; the Dumonts themselves had a precipitous shortcut which could get you down the hill in a hurry if you were on foot. ‘The cable tower for the drift ferry was just north of Dumont's farm and it remained there until the subdivi sion went in, though the ferry service had been dis- continued some years after the installation of the Castle- gar ferry. After that time, it was necessary to use a rowboat to cross the river at that point.” Prior to the arrival of the Dumonts, the west (Castlegar) side of the river was known as West Water- loo, but when the CPR flagstop at the top of the hill was named “Kinnaird” (after Lord Kinnaird) the new name was adopted for the surrounding area. And so it remained AT THE LIBRARY By JUDY WEARMOUTH Librarian New novels by Joyce Carol Oates, Jan de Hartog, Marge Piercy and James Purdy are among the latest arrivals at the Castlegar library Joyce Carol Oates is still ih the gothic vein she started with Bellefleur, this time mixing mystery and murder in turn-of-the-century Amer ica. Xavier Kilgarven, detec. tive-hero of The Mystery of Winterthrun, is confronted with three baffling cases, all in Winterthurn, his birth place. In solving a series of bizarre murders, he is forced to ac- knowledge a scandalous fam ily secret, too shocking to be publicly revealed; his court. ship of his cousin, Perdita, has disturbing consequences; and his third case causes him to withdraw from the business or crime detection. JUDY WEARMOUTH eo ee Star of Peace is Jan de Hartog’s novel about a captain of an aging Dutch freighter and his pathetic cargo o& Jewish refugees. Commissioned in the summer of 1939 to take the refugees from Germany to South America, the captain dis covers on arrival that the Jews have been issued with false visas, a Nazi trick which throws responsibility for them onto his hands. Concern for his ship and crew battle with his faith and conscience. How he deals with this dreadful dilemma is the heart of this moving epic of courage and endurance. . 8 e Marge Piercy is known for the penetrating honesty of her writing, and in Fly Away Home she concentrates that in- tensity of attention on marriage and fatnily life. Daria, a successful, happily married writer, returns home to find her idyll of happy family life shattered by her husband's an- nouncement he is leaving. This all-too-familiar theme takes an unfamiliar turn as Daria’s investigation of her finances uncovers her husband's hidden second life. Her horrifying discovery of his involvement with arson and murder transforms her life and propels her into new friendships and new dangers. o 8 6 James Purdy’s writing is hard to define into any category as his novels conjure up unique worlds. In On Glory’s Course, the scene is the early 30s in a claustrophobic, mid-western small town called Fontin and the story revolves around some remarkable characters and their secret obses- sions. Adele, a woman with-a past, is the acknowledged arbiter of Fontin’s present manners and morals. Her search for the son she never knew enmeshes the two young sons of the beautiful, impoverished Elaine. An ice man with a secret passion, a gossipping, eavesdropping Widow Hughes and an unmanned Keith Gresham add to a list of boisterously real, human characters, all drawn with Purdy'’s amused and sympathetic eye for detail. . *# «@ The world-famous yachtswoman and super achiever, Claire Francis, was not content to be the subject of three TV films and two books, so she’s now turned to writing fiction, with the same flair for success as she displayed in her other fields of endeavor. Night Sky is an immensely readable wartime drama in which the destinies of three diverse char- acters are brought on a collision course which will change their lives forever. Julie Leseaux is a young English woman who moves to a tiny village in Normandy, hoping to keep secret the identity of the father of her child; Paul Vasson is a thriving Nazi col. until the towns of Kinnaird and Castlegar amalgamated in 1974. 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