Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba R r Pizzazz those Long lean if m society refuses Manasio or by Paul Moloney the Law society of Manitoba refused to help find a lawyer for a Winnipeg Man Donald Olson who yesterday appeared unrepresented before a Manitoba court of Appeal hearing. The Appeal court upheld a previous court decision that Olson s Case initiated in 1976 against Argus Industrial Supply Ltd. And certain company offi go ahead despite the Long delay. Olson in documents submitted to the court claimed he made strenuous efforts to have the Case resolved but that lawyers for both sides frustrated these attempts. Olson s lawsuit alleges that directors of Argus unlawfully transferred control of the voting shares of the company away from him and gave control to his former wife. Patrick Metcalfe. Counsel for Argus yesterday told the court that Olson 57 could t work with lawyers he had retained and this explained Why his Case never got off the ground. Chief Justice Samuel Freedman responded that it May be the plaintiff May be a difficult client. But still he s entitled to Justice just As much As the co operative earlier Graeme Carson chief executive officer of the Law society told the free press in an interview that a lawyer can refrain from acting for a person if he can t get along with him. There s a personality conflict that s a perfectly legitimate reason for the lawyer to get out of a Carson confirmed that the society recently turned Down Olson s request for help to find a lawyer on the grounds that he was capable of doing this on his own. The society professional governing body for the province s lawyers offers a lawyer referral service but his was designed to assist those peo ple who be never had occasion to use a lawyer Olson on the other hand has had extensive contacts and dealings with in any Case we have no jurisdiction to compel any lawyer to act for a client. There s a limit to what an individual litigant can ask the Law society to Olson was t required to address the three Man Appeal court yesterday. After hearing Metcalfe s arguments the justices unanimously ruled that Olson s Case should go ahead. The Law firm of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman had acted for Olson from 1970, when his complaint against Argus arose until 1978 when it withdrew from see former Page 4 sunny today 18 Clear tonight 1 thursday May 7, 1981 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets a. Final for Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 interest rate costly until prices let up from the Canadian press Bank of Canada governor Gerald Bouey says canadians cannot expect record High interest rates to decline while the country has a serious inflation after telling a Saskatchewan Cham Ber of Commerce conference in Moose jaw yesterday he normally does not make economic forecasts he said i will Volunteer one forecast however. Interest rates Are unlikely to decline significantly until there Are some signs of Progress in reducing the rate of the Canadian Imperial Bank of com Merce yesterday became the third major chartered Bank to increase its Standard Home mortgage rate by half a percentage Point. The new rate up from 17 per cent is for three to five year mortgages. The stabbing indirectly killed baby by Steve Pona an inquest yesterday into the death of a Newborn infant was told a Stab wound to its Mother s Abdomen a week earlier triggered a series of events which resulted in its premature birth. The baby boy born with an Oval Gash on its lower Back died shortly after it was delivered at the health sciences Centre last Jan. 6. It was said to be grossly the inquest was told the baby s Mother Bernice Daniels 23, had been stabbed in the Abdomen on Jan. 1. She was released from Hospital but subsequently re admitted complaining of severe pain. The one Day inquest was told the wound had apparently penetrated the amniotic sack and injured the fetus although witnesses testified the injury was not directly responsible for the baby s death. Or. Weisek Hwang a specialist in pathology said the baby weighed Only 400 Grams or 14 ounces and its lungs were not sufficiently developed to sus Tain Independent life. Or. Frank Manning head of mater see Canada wide Page 4 rate on a one year mortgage also was increased yesterday by half a percent age Point to 17.75 per cent. High interest rates make life difficult and even painful for businessmen Bouey said but Are the Best Way to fend off even More disastrous inflation. Only a significant moderation in inflation will make lower interest rates possible. Bouey said real growth of the econ omy has been surprisingly Strong Dur ing the last eight months contrary to popular notions that the Economy is depressed and barely moving. He said the danger is that a rebound ing Economy could fuel inflation. Fears of still worse inflation to come help cause increased demand for credit and an increase the Money Supply. Fears decline the last thing a country in Canada s dangerously inflationary situation needs is to step up Money creation in a Short sighted attempt to hold Down interest rates one effect of which would be a further decline in the Exchange the booming residential housing Market where buyers Are taking Mort gages of to 17 per cent is proof enough the inflation psychology has taken hold he said. We had All better face the fact this country does have a serious inflation to Cool inflation the government must control the growth of the Money Supply while allowing enough Lati tude to promote real economic growth he said. Edward Neufeld chief economist for the Royal Bank of Canada agreed with Bouey that strict monetary control and High interest rates Are the Only Way to keep a lid on inflation. Previous at tempts in Canada and elsewhere to use wage and Price controls to Cool inflation have not worked. The Bank of Montreal increased its rates on one to five year conventional mortgages to 17.5 from 17 per cent tuesday and the Bank of Nova Scotia increased its five year mortgage rate to 17.5 from 17 per cent monday. Other major competitors Are charging be tween 16.75 and 17.25 per cent. The new rate is a High for the chartered Banks breaking the 17-per-cent record set in april 1980, although some smaller financial institutions had previously set rates As High As 17.75 per cent. Twenty one die in crash documents and sophisticated electronic equipment lie scattered in a Remote Maryland Barley vested n w ,1 a training flight blew up in and crashed yesterday near Walkersville md., killing All 21 office in archives used in nude by Andy Blicq and Kevin Prokosh a senior provincial civil servant has used his office at the Manitoba archives building As part of a nude modelling service he operates. Jean Soliman a cultural affairs Liaison officer told potential models the service can Lead to paid sex Between models he hires and the men and women to whom he refers them. However the civil servant was Ada Mant sexual activity Between his models and clients was optional and he received no remuneration. He said the Only Benefit he receives is a free session with his models in Exchange for referring them to acquaint ances whom he described As photographers and artists like himself. Soliman said he has used his archives building office on weekends to interview potential male models and has met with others during office hours. I met somebody for an interview yes but not for modelling he said. But a University student 19, said he posed nude twice in offices in the archives building 200 Vaughan Street after being recruited by Solimon As a male Model. The free press began investigating the modelling service about two months ago after receiving a complaint from the student who was angry Over Soli Man s proposals. The student said Soliman first offered nude modelling assignments and later pay for sex. What he s really doing i Don t think is the student said. He said he took the modelling Job because he was Down to in his Bank account and desperate for work. The student said he modelled in he nude three times for Soliman and was paid for one session and for each of the other two. When told of the student s allegations in an interview this week Soliman said he went to his office in an open area of the building to conduct inter views Only. He went to his office to work on government business at the same time he said. The student said he was told by Soliman he would be modelling for Art classes and and once every two weeks i think it was i would be modelling for him for about 20 minutes or the student said he did not have any sexual relations with Soliman and did not Model for anyone other than the civil servant. After the third session the student said he became pretty suspicious about Soliman s intentions and asked when the Art classes would Start. In a Telephone conversation Soliman indicated he would not necessarily have to have sex with clients but it was unlikely he would get any jobs if he did not the student said. Soliman offered him about to per night for sex with him and others he said. See office Page 4 Garrison stalled by court by Thomas Korosec states news service Washington a Federal judge Here yesterday handed the Garrison irrigation project a major setback Rul ing that Congress must give the entire project new approval before further construction can go Forward. Judge Charles r. Richey ruled in favor of the . Audubon society and its complaint that the . Interior department made a binding agreement with the conservation group in 1976 that no further work be done until Congress considers a More recent environmental study and approves or disapproves revisions of the project. That study completed in 1979, re commended the project be scaled Back from acres As Congress approved in 1965, to acres. The Carter administration however opposed spending Money on Garrison and never submitted a new proposal to the legislature. Congress has been approving limited amounts of funding based on the 1965 plan. Irrigation plan a new proposal not necessarily the acre plan must now make its Way through Congress a place where a spokesman for the society said the group can wage an effective War to defeat proposals it considers Environ mentally the Garrison project is a scheme to irrigate lands in Central North Dakota through a system of dams canals and pumping stations based on the Garrison dam on the Missouri River. It would pump water from the southward flow ing Missouri Mississippi Basin Over a land Divide into the Souris and red Rivers which flow northward. The Canadian and Manitoba govern ments and environmental groups claim this would spread destructive Plant and fish life into Manitoba harm the re Gion s fishing Industry and violate a 1909 Boundary Waters treaty. The society has been waging Legal Battles since 1972 to Stop this from happening and Richey s ruling was greeted with glee. The decision included an injunction blocking use of any funds either million previously approved but not spent or a new Rea Gan administration proposal to add million for further engineering work. Fresh Hope Manitoba natural resources minis Ter Harry Enns applauded the . Court decision yesterday and said it gives fresh Hope to Manitoban opposed to Garrison. The minister said he expected the District court ruling would Likely be appealed but he said he welcomed anything which would delay the sche Duling of the project. The decision can be appealed to the . Circuit court and then to the . Supreme court. We believe that the american con Gress will not authorize the project As it now Enns said. To Date North Dakota has resisted All attempts to present Congress with an altered project. Enns rejected the idea of sending a political delegation to Washington in the near future since a higher court would have to consider the Appeal first. But if Congress ultimately decides to revive the project the picture could quickly change. Then it May Well be an opportune time for Federal an d provincial politicians to plead their Case on Garri see Enns Page 4 Royal distaste Queen Elizabeth has sent a letter to parents of one of the Yorkshire Ripper s 13 victims expressing her distaste for chequebook Bill attacked proposed Farmland Protection legislation has been criticized for not solving the problem of foreign investors buying Manitoba agricultural just a Miracle John Thompson s wife believes it s a Miracle he s still alive after his head was impaled by a crowbar in a traffic lineups unfair several Winnipeg lawyers say police lineups Are often unfair and useless in court Western Index Ann Landers. 28 answers. 43 Billinkoff. 7 Bridge. 29 business. 51 classified. 56 comics. 50 crossword. 31 deaths. 2, 56 editorials. 6 entertainment.32 Horoscope. 28 Jumble Puzzle. 60 letters.6 Millroy on to. 35 movies.36 people. 43 relax.43 sports. 67 sports record. 72 stocks. 52 sullivan.43 Tempo. 25 to listings.43 ;