ai 4 “a CE a i 4 ati 50 or , surrounded him, Legislative Library Parliment Buildings Victoria, 8.c, Vev-124 Comp Serving the Progressive. ~ Northwest ee ‘ Quebec. gunman surrenders to police . QUEBEC (CP) — A man who’ barricaded himself in his home after two people were wounded with a shotgun surrendered. today after. holding police at bay for 24 hours. Jean-Claude Nadeau, 29, . was. unarmed as he calmly descended the rear steps of the upstairs. tenement flat in Quebee City’s tough 5t-Sauveur district. ‘Moments later he was taken to municipal Police headquarters for questioning. “He looked like | an early riser," said provincial police spokesman Agide Lemay, ‘'He came before the police like someone who was ex- pected to do exactly that.” Nadeau is suspected of firing shotgun blasts that wounded. a pedestrian and a motorist on Charest Boulevard, a few blocks from the house, at daybreak Wed- nestlay. Both victins ‘were slightly wounded, but news of the incident added to the shock felt In the provincial capital after three government employees were killed by @ gunman in the fational assembly Tuesday, The shotgun sniper was said to have been distressed by the killings in the legislature and byt the recent loss of his job. FEW WORDS SPOKEN . The surrender ended. tense 24- . how seige-during. vdich.pplicd. Were red on twice and Few wor tds" exchanged between Nadeau and. the mare . . policemen “who The only telephone contact was a call made at mid-day Wednesday by . members of the provincial police tactical squad, who had set up a command post in an unused school acrosa the street from the house. When he realized. who was at the other end, Nadeau hung up and refused to answer further calls, police spokesmen said. Further police attempts to make contact involved a sophisticated, remote-controlled robot equipped with a loudspeaker and ultra- sensitive microphone. “We are hereto help you," the police said through the robot at one point. “Get in touch so that we can continue our conversation by telephone.” But Nadeau never replied, nor was any movement detected inside the house overnight until about 6:30 am. EDT, when he opened one of three front windows. Several minutes later, tactical squad officers covering the back side of the house saw him emerge _ onto a porch. ‘LOOKED SCARED' . “We Invited him to come down,” one of the officers told reporters afterwards. "He was obviously scared. He tried ta tell us to go up- ' stairs and talk to him, but we didn't bite.” On a crackling police walkie- talkie, reporters heard an anxious officer whisper a description of Nadeau's approach: “He's coming down the stairs. . . he's wearing a sort of beige shirt. . . he's coming towards-us,”’ . Once in police hands, he was escorted under the shadow of high- powered rifles to the command post" in the school, where provincial police formally handed him over to their Quebec City colleagues. Lemay sald the families that were evacuated from the area Wednesday for their own safety would. be allowed back later today. Police _ meanwhile searched the house. Afler they were fired on and relatives said the man in the house had two shotguna and two rifles, police were prepared for a long selze. Thursday, May wala wo Technologists from the pathology lab at. Mill's Memorial Hospital gather around their atest acquisition, the Hitachi 705 Chemistry Analyzer. The unit; the only one of its kind in B.C., will decrease the amount of time It takes fo analyze blood samples. From left to right are Mila Sainis, Wendy Thomas. . 25 cents ‘Established 1908 Etling,. ‘Betty Campbell, Susan Urbanoski, Denis Frazer, chief technologist, and Betty Cobbs: Seated before the analyzer is Alleen Visitors to the hospital’s open house on May 12 will have an opportunity to go through the jaboratory and see what ha. phens: ‘to the: blood samples.. New. equipment. to be. shown... at Mills Memorial open house by RALPH RESCHKE Herald Staff Writer ; TERRACE— Mills Memorial Hospital will’ hold an open house Saturday, May 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors will be taken on guided tours of each department to get a “behind the scenes” look at what happens in each division. Depart- ment heads will provide visitors with Information about the operation of the hospital and answer any questions: the public might have. While this won't be the first open house at the hospital, it will be the first held in a number of years. Posters, have been placed around town by candy stripers. Tours wilt last about half a hour and will end in the cafeteria. wher tea and refreshments will be se When. passing through ‘the laboratory, take a look at the new Hitachi 705 Chemistry Analyzer; used for analyzing blood samples. - It's the first one of its kind in B.C, and one of only 44 in Canada. This highly-specialized in- strument cost $100,000, funded by the provincial governrhent ($53,000), the Regional District ($17,000), and the hospital equipment fund, The machine can perform up to 43 different tests in any combination or sequence. rapid analysis of a blood sample, cutting the time from 30 minutes per analysis to three minutes. It can perform a very — Technologists Denis Frazer and Aileen Thomas were sent to Mon- treal to be trained on the machine. The tab also handles microbiology, hematology, blood transfusion, and histopathology. Histopathology, thestudy of surgical and autopsy tissue, is a regular service the hospital provides for Kitimat, Terrace and Prince Rupert. the lab is now evaluating a blood- gas analyzer that can measure the amount of oxygen contained in blood. As well, it. can measure carbon dioxide in the blood: and check ‘the ph balance. Everyone is weleome to attand the open house., Cross-country legislature alert OTTAWA (CP) — Commons security directors were silent Wednesday about any changes to security routines after the shooting in the Quebec legislature the day before. Legislatures across Canada were placed on alert after three Quebec ‘national assenibly employees were killed and 13 wounded in a ‘one-man assault on the provincial legislature Tuesday. Canadian Forces Cpl. Denis Lortie pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree’ murder Wednesday, ‘While Commons security staff were careful to follow up all copy-cat threats, security director Raymond Quintal was trying to keep publicity to a minimum, said Lilian Chat- terjee, a spokesman in Commons Speaker Lloyd Francis's office. Chatterjee said she was told by Quintal that security around Parliament Hill was being in- creased, but Quintal refused to say how that was being done. But, she added, security staff were treating all rumors and threats as serious, : Earlier in the day, CBC reporter Stephen Bolssonneault answered a —— —— quality used parts from WHY BUY NEW? WHEN USEDWILL Do! Doyou want parts to fix up your car but your budget won't allow i? Beat the high cost of new parts with - " §.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 635-2333 or 635-9095 3690 Duhan (just oH Hwy. 16 E) a call to the parliamentary press gallery from an unidentified man claiming to be passing on in- formation about someone planning to throw a grenade during the daily Commons question period. Boissonneault immediately. toid Quintal, passing along a description of the man provided by the caller. There was little evidence of stepped-up security precautions as the usuai stream of tourists, schqolchildren. and. other. visitors lined up for 4 chance to watch the _., Commons proceedings. On Wednesday morning, . two ' people were wounded in a separate Quebec City shooting Incident. A sniper suspected of wounding the two peopleheld off police for several hours from inside his family’s Quebec City home. . Francis responded immediately after the first shooting by telling the Commons there would be a full in- - vestigation of security measures on Parliament Hill. However, his office refused to say whether, weapons will be issued to Commons security personnel, who. now are unarmed, Commons Sergeant-At -Arms Maj.-Gen. Gus Cloutier, who is charged with the review, has called in the past for a special armed security squad that would be set up to protect MPs and Commons staff, In December 1980, former Speaker Jeanne Sauve dismissed Cloutier’s security: plan as unnecessary and ordered him to return shotguns and other riot gear he had ordered ' without her approval. Bullet holes plastered as assembly cleans up QUEBEC (CP) — Tours for schoolchildren and other visitors resumed Wednesday. at the historic national assembly bullding where few traces remained of Tuesday's rampage in which three people were _ kiied and 13 wounded, Benches splintered by bullets from a submachine-gun, fired by the man bent on destroying the Part! Quebecois government, were replaced. Bloodstained carpets were removed and bullet holes plastered over. ° Denis Lortle, 25, a . Canadian Forces corporal and father of two, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first