CALGARY (CP) — Many city residents reacted with sympathy Thursday to a boradcast statement Redfern was freed Wednesday night but Pollard rémained hostage all day Thursday. The hostage “Same of them wanted to see it again because they didn’t understand it,” he said. CFCN radio and TV reported most calls at its switchboard sided with the hostage-taker. *‘The from an armed man holding a bailiff hostage ina taker’s wife and three children who, the man said, Switchboard operator Pat Minton said a few impression is ‘yay,"' said news superviro Very] ro ES fa i ; northeast Calgary home since Tuesday morning. have supported him willingly, were also in the thanked the station for letting the man “say his Todd. “He realiy stood up to those banks." ( pr . The man took captive bailiffs Bob Redfern and y house. piece" and only one caller objected to heavy “Everybody's in sympathy with him,” said Will Lv FI z E | - Mark Pollard, who had come to evict him and his After the broadcast, television and radio stations coverage of the incident in its nightly news- Shaw, CFAC radio assistant news director. ann a i .. family from their split-level house after a bank had reported dozens of calls from residents. Most were magazine program. . “The guy is in a bind,” he said, but noted cailers * 3 S . foreclosed on the mortgage. - sympathetic, One caller to radio station CKXL sald he was pointed out “we haven't heard the bank’ s side of the 2 In a $%4-minute videotaped statement broadcast _ Station spokesmen said the man's ‘troubles ap- going to contact friends and stage a protest march stick.” ecg on television station CFAC Wednesday night, the parently. touched a nerve among Calgary, _ hear the scene of the hostagetaking. But nothing Reporter Vern Koop of CHQR radio said one etm! hostage-taker outlined a four-year legal fight which ; homeowrters, many of wham are also saddled with _ . materialized immediately. caller to his station suggested staging a fund to bail ° me he claimed started when the local Toronto heavy mortgage payments. : - About 17 callers contacted CBC radio and " the man out of his financial trouble. a2 : _ Dominion Bank made a clerical error and did not - Almost no one seemed worried that the manwas television. One Lethbridge couple phoned to say Lots of people who called had high morigages,he ie f ” debit his account for mortgage payments. using a gun to makehis point and only afew seemed . they “backed the man 100 per cent.” _ ‘Said, and empathized with his debt burden. i H A last-ditch attempt befare the Alberta Court. ‘of interested in hearing the bank's side of the story. ‘ “Even yesterday, before he spoke, I had a couple Koop said most didn’t believe be would harm his SoG Queen's Bench to make his case ended in fallore and Ted Arnold, CFAC-TV's news director, said the. .-_- of calls from people asking if there’s a-group that _ captives. : > § the-man said he was forced Into the current situ- - station received at least two dozen calls soon after _ + gan help (the family)" said CBC radio reporter Liz “They believe thepolice that he’s remaining calm | — 1 ation. the broadcast, all positive, ‘Palmer, and that he’s nat going to shoot,"”- © . "4 wg 5 “3 YY oY ; pei ste t : | «oteM VEND, i. 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The joint was really. rocking Wednesday in the Skeena Junior Secondary School gymnasium when Spit and the Gobs (above) performed during the schools freak day. The band Is from Caledonia where it was a smash hit at a record) was named the best freak In the school and won the latest B-52’s record. She Is seen here with the athe} freaks. grounds of Alice Arm. “We're saying there's a possibility this could happen and if it does happen, it’s irrever- parison, a large river such as the Nass can . flischarge up to 40,000 tons of sediment Into the ocean ina day — and the Nass. River supports a. major salmon fishery." Born said that before committing itself to the . tailing disposal system, Amax commissioned extensive o¢eanographic studies. However, the Indians have challenged. the company’s scientific’ data and studies. Goiriell sald the fae aad Maun a national: ‘information oy ‘ public of the. taillngs’ _- danger. “We're going to urge the public to support us, because is there any guarantee that after 25 2 Tegal: opinion ‘campaign to inform the - years the envirvament ’ will be intact?!’ said. council vicepreaident . - Rod Robinsons = “We're not the only people who are going to suffer. “We're going lo point the finger at the other culprit, {he federal] | government, for creating special legislation to accom: modate this company 50 - that they can goon with _their operations,” ~ Vancouver lawyer “Don ‘Rosenbloom said be haa given the council his of the permits, ready to comment on possible legal action. _ Robinson said. that as a last resort the Indians may be forced to blockade the inlet. -~but ‘the council wasn't . * Leet te, recent dance. “We were so successful Skeena asked us to sible,” tribal council president James , Gosnell told a news conference. ; “God help us if it does. Ii this water gets mixed with the poison they’re Boing to put in there, how are you going to clean it up? We say it's impossible to clean it up, if it happens." Amax president Allen Born counters that the tailings consist mainly of ground up rocks and water that will settle tp the bottom of the inlet, The slurry is similar to sediments deposited daily by rivers along the B.C. coast, he said, More than 90 per cent of the slurry consists of silicate minerals similar to minerals which make up beach sand, he said. "The rivers flowing into Alice Arm have been estimated to de- posit 1,400 fons of sediment inte the inlet each day,” he said. “The tailing disposal system at Kitsault will . deposit an average of about 12,000 tons of © sediment into the Arm each day. By com- Coroner Bob Milmine has ordered an inquest into the deaths of Deborah Lopushinsky, 20, and Heien Lopushinsky, 47, . th of Terrace. ‘ “tte two bodies were recovered from their > yehicle, which was found in the Skeena River, shortly before neon RCMP noticed track marks leading into the river Wednesday morning, 66 kilometers west of Terrace. A missing persons report was E Thursday. . Inquest ordered into Skeena filed later in the day as a search of the river continued. The two women were returning to Terrace from Prince Rupert. | Terrace RCMP are still investigating a second accident which occurred at the same spot. A vehicle driven by Raymond Stohl of Prince Rupert left. the highway at ap- proximately 9 p.m. Thursday, The vehicle cee | River deaths landed in the Skeena River but both the driver . and passenger escaped with minor injuries. Police warn motorists to drive carefully on Highway 16 West and to watch out for black ice. They remind the public that the speed limits posted are for normal dri con- ditions, soniething not experienced in the north at this time of year. . “Judge your speed accordingly,” said a INSIDE THE HERALD Trying to motivate.motivation isn’t all that easy. And [cgging may not be the 4 answer. See Page 4. ‘ ; i Western Express lottery numbers. You . win some, you lose some. See Page 14. Burt Reynolds finally got his degree.” See People on Page 14. A bankruptcy lawyer says he’s over- booked. And he even knows why. See . Page 5. The ultimate competitor, Bob Gibson, of makes It to the hall of fame. See Page 8.” Around Town, Page ~:2. . Comics, Pages 10, FI. : 7 Classified ads, Pages 12, 13. Lina’s TV, page 2. Dear Abby, page 10.. Crossword, Page 10. a ; ‘ Horoscope, Page 10. ~ Sports, Pages 8,9. A blueprint for disaster spokesman for the RCMP. OTTAWA (CP) — The _ government's new oll and natural gas legislation is a blueprint for en- ’ vironmental disaster, Jim Fulton, environment critic for the New Democratic - Party, said Thursday. Calling the Liberats “quickbuck artists,'’ Fulton told the Commons the government's greedy haste to develop oil and gas . reserves is like burning down one’s houte to find a lost dime. The government is only interested in grabbing prolit from these energy resources, he sald during the final day of debate on second reading — approval in principle — of the con: troversial oil and gas bill. The legislation does not adequately deal with en- vironmental concerns and the environment could be irreversibly damaged because cf Liberal greed and Interests for political expediency, he added. The North is “so in- credibly fragile that the tiniest mistake could disrupt the biological bal- ance,” he said. Yet there are only eight professional biologists working in the two territories.