Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, August 12, 1981

Issue date: Wednesday, August 12, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Pamela Fayerman a Wim Peg lawyer has been sanded by the Law satiety of 61 and Sheet offs have of defend to seize his and files after an audit turned up apparent irregularities with his clients test Aeter Tim William a lawyer since in private practise at 117 Regent was suspended by the Law society on the directions of its discipline committee after the committee formulated a complaint alleging fess ional misconduct on the part of among the allegations in the Law society complaint Are that a rafts lawyer files seized Drew a Cheque 5ft his test account in favour of himself for for his personal failed to record receipts and Wistesen Weirts of Trust Money in proper and failed to give prompt explanations to the Law society Tor pertaining to the Trust could not be reached for comment fast Graeme chief executive offi Cef of the Law said yesterday the accounting firm of touche Ross has been retained for a detailed Tion of we want to give the pression weve come to any kind of conclusion because it could turn out that there is no problem at we initially Garson on a court of Queens Bench judge will rear arguments on the merits of an order the Law society obtained yesterday from Justice Wilson which gives Carson Tody of abrams1 practice until the investigation is the order also allows Carson to Dis pose of the Money in Trust accounts into a Bank where it is protected until the audit is Carson said he does not know How much Money is in the Trust auditors on routine checks first noticed the irregularities on july 30 handmade a second visit to Abrams office on a gust to was on that Date that Abrams the suspension prevents him from practising it it is not Abrams faces Clear tonight 15 sunny tomorrow 30 August 1981 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets two weeks the Law society barred Lawrence who was sentenced to four years in prison last month for stealing a total of in Trust funds from another Winnipeg Jack was disbarred in november after it concluded he had misappropriated 500 of a clients Trust Bass has appealed his final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 air service to returning to Normal Wayne free press from staff and news services air operations to the United states were returning to Normal today follow ing an agreement reached Between transport minister Jeanluc Pepin and leaders of the Canadian air traffic control a transport department spokesman said full service was resuming As morning shifts reported to work across the when Canadian air traffic controllers resumed work today at backlogged flights began leaving Europe for the at a sluggish Pepin said Early today the agreement includes establishment of fac finding teams to look into safety complaints by the Canadian he announced the decision just after 1 cd following almost 10 hours of talks with leaders of the Union president Bill Robertson said the which brought the three Day disruption of air traffic to an end at is a very important i most hopeless a signed by Pepin and said the special teams will be set up at each trans order air traffic unit handling instrument flights including big commercial each investigative which will include one transport department offi Cial and one Union will operate 16 hours a Day for 90 they will look at alleged irregular including reported near misses in the and assess them to make the communique the Canadian controllers have been refusing to handle aircraft flying to or from the this brought chaos to terminal sin the and can in 12 of 14 air controllers who reported for work yesterday morn ing refused to handle flights to or from the authorities allowed them to handle Domestic flights while two others took care of air flights Page 4 Wayne free press Dougie was found wandering the streets in Bare doggies Mother has been found by Tom Goldstein doggies Mother has been Bill Winnipeg children Aid society Public information Offu said a woman went to the society this morning and identified the Burdeyna said he didst know the Childs society workers said he had responded to the boy has been in Cas care since july 30 when he was found wander ing alone on a downtown Street about the Cas decided to ask the Public yesterday for assistance in locating his parents after no one had previously come his Mother saw the boy on a television newscast last Burdeyna said doggies situation was caused by a his parents left him with relatives who later went on holidays without the child will remain in Cas pending an he the who circulated the boys picture in the area where he was will not be he everything turned out Okay As for As that Burdeyna Saul see Sqq Ucyles Page 4 Dollar gaining ground from the Canadian press the Canadian Dollar continued to rally trading at cents on the new York Money Market at yesterday the Dollar gained More than half a closing in new York at cents in heavy mondays closing quote was and the Dollar opened yesterday 3100 by mid morning it had reached the 81cent Mark and Rose higher in afternoon still Low the Dollar remains in a pos depression Low although it now is almost cents above the Al time Bottom of and in its Best showing since july there was optimism on the Chicago futures Market yesterday As the Dollar closed up 63100 at exactly 81 for september in futures Trad investors buy and sell dollars at prices set now for delivery traders agreed that yesterdays rally was due to the widening Gap Between Canadian and interest with interest rates in the declining overnight Bank deposits paying 18 per cent while similar depos its in Canada were earning per increased demand that forced an increased demand for Canadian dollars so that investors could take advantage of the higher people started Selling their dollars and buying Gold because of uncertainty Over said trader Azim Haje of Nesbitt Thomson Bon Gard in offering another that depressed the value of the Dollar and helped our dollars but Haje cautioned the recovery could be a technical Blip and that the Canadian Dollar might fall another Jan Mackay of the Royal said the very substantial interest rate differential has caused buying of George a trader with Citi corp in said the Market May have jumped the gun in anti car Pating the Start of anything but 3 temporary decline in interest bikers pay tribute bikers in 3 it feral procession on the perimeter Highway pay 4ramatic tribute yesterday to Roy pretty boy the Poplar a biker who won his third heavyweight title in the hard times boxing Competition in died last Friday in a traffic Accident West of sask Lyon unhappy wit pm from the news services prime minister Trudeau offered the worlds poor a helping hand but it earned him Little Praise from Manitoba Premier Sterling who announced a lion increase in Canadian Aid while addressing a United nations Energy conference in said would be very surprised if he was criticized at Home for promising millions of dollars to developing countries while canadians endure record interest rates and a faltering i dont think ill have much criticism along those he said As he brushed aside opposition Leader Joe Clarks demand that he recall Parlia ment Early to Deal with economic prob cant be tolerated but half Way around the world in Lyon said inflation and inter est rates in Canada just cant be tolerated much the Federal government really has got to get Down to cases with respect to the economic situation in Lyon said in an interview As the 10 provincial premiers arrived Here for their 22nd annual there is no Point in going to Energy conferences in making big Fel lows of ourselves and offering million which we Haven got and will have to add to the and trying to pretend that we can Tell the third world anything about he said Canada must resolve its own Energy and we Haven done a Good Job of it largely because of the exacerbation of the situation caused by the wrong headed and single minded policies of the Federal see Trudeau Page 4 flyer Sells buses to Boston flyer industries of Winnipeg has received a contract to build 168 diesel buses for the City of the company tendered the Low bid for the vehicles in Competition against All major North american transit bus flyer president Las Mckay said in making the an the bid was accepted at the tender opening last delivery of the buses is scheduled to begin in and Mckay said the contract now fills the company order Book for that flyer has about million Worth of orders for diesel and trolley buses scheduled for delivery by the end next Mckay said the company is consider ing increasing production capabilities because of the Large volume of business in recent in the provincially owned bus manufacturer doubled sales to million from million in 1979 and As a result of this and Cost reduction programs recorded a profit of after several years of flyer employs almost 600 people at its three locations in Starling slow the Post office is refusing mail from other countries until next week in order to flush out the system plugged by the strike by inside Connors upset Jimmy Connors became the first major casualty of the Canadian open Tennis losing in firsht Pynch action from flight the emotional and physical High of free flight makes Winnipeg sliding club a thriving nostalgia trip polio victims of the epidemic which swept Manitoba were reunited yesterday at King Deorge Ann 42 29 6 Jumble 7 sports to i i ;