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B-12 fehTIHIE IBAY Wednesday, November 18, 1981 SribuntTODAY Pension trustees told to repay losses By David Tong lost interest from a $1.5 million loan that trustees had granted to a cohvales- and Carol BenfeM Tit cent fund at below market rate. SAN FRANCISCO A federal Judge on Tuesday ordered pension fund trustees of Local 38 of the Plumbers and Pine Fitting industry union to pay back 500 in pension fund Last May, VS. Magistrate Frederick Woelflen found that the trustees had neglected their fiduciary responsibilities by making some questionable loans from the pension fund, and ordered the $20 million fund placed in the hands of an indeoend- Woelflen, in his ruling, was critical of a second loan the trustees had granted to. Schwartz to develop the SfcF health spa in Santa Rosa. He said this $650,000 loan granted after an earlier.

$2.25 million construe tion loan from the trustees had been made without adequate financial information or collateral. Weigel, who estimated that more than one independent administrator might be needed to put the pension fund back on the track, also asked the trustees to pay $57,000 in interest on other money owed. And he said the trustees' legal fees can-, not be reimbursed from either the pen- sion fund or convalescent fund. The trustees have also been ordered to post a $1 million cash or corporate, surety bond to insure the pension fundi against any losses that might be suffered in connection with the $1.5 million loan to the convalescent fund and the $650,000 loan to the spa. Union and government officials were unavailable for comment Woelflen had ruled that the $1.5 million loan violated conflict of interest provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because the trustees were in control of both the pension convalescent home funds.

Weigel also ordered the trustees to return a $200,000 overpayment for a feasibility study done by Ernest Schwartz, an acknowledged friend of one of -the trustees. The trustees had paid Schwartz for a study of the Konocti Harbor Inn in Clear Lake. The government contended the study was actually worth $50,000. Weigel criticized the selection of Schwartz as a consultant noting that he did not submit an itemized bill, had not provided any references and had never written a feasibility study before. Furthermore, the judge said, the trustees did not request bids for the study and did not check to see what other experts would have charged.

ent manager. But- he denied reauests from the US- Labor Department for additional penalties of several hundred thousand dollars that would have covered pension fund losses resulting from the actions of the trustees. Government attorneys went to a VS. District Court judge to appeal that part of the ruling. District Court Judge Stanley Weieel ordered the trustees to return $112,500 in Coalition fighting S.F.

sewer line breaks, mm 1,500 flee gas leak to wrce snaring of the Buck Fund By Carol BenfeM SAN FRANCISCO A coalition of Marin County residents and Bay Area non-profit groups are challenging the right of the San Francisco Foundation to spend $300 million from the Buck Fund trust solely in Marin County. of downtown office workers, rushed to the scene to monitor activities. crews located the broken pipe, a one-inch line linking a six-inch main to a house, and had stopped the leak by 2:45 p.m. City crews temporariliy patched the street with fill. Fire Capt Al Smyth blamed the washout on a plugged sewer line that burst under the pressure of recent heavy rainfall, causing a portion of the street to collapse upon the narrow gas line.

Last Friday, a similar storm sew-. er accident washed out a portion of the 600 block of 47th Avenue. SAN FRANCISCO The city's third sewer break in a week caused a section of Delmar Street to collapse Tuesday, rupturing a natural gas line and forcing the evacuta tion of some 1,500 residents of the Haight-Ashbury District Alarmed by the pervasive odor of gas, police cordoned off half the two-block street shortly after 2 p.m. and ordered residents and pupils at nearby St Agnes Catholic School to leave the area for 90 minutes. Mayor Dianne Feinstein, mindful of a gas main rupture last summer that spewed toxic PCBs on thousands The petitioners asked the court to channel the funds to local organizations throughout the Bay Area, such as the Oakland Citizens Committee, for Urban Renewal "The extreme need in the Eastbay cannot be A Robert Doiier (above) and a J.

Paid Russell planned to sail from Hawaii five years ago on this boat Attorney says boat sank following crash overstated," petitioner David Glover of OCCUR told reporters Tuesday. Glover complained that some people in Oakland exist "on a survival level" while Buck money is lavished in affluent Marin County. The petition was filed by Public Advocates, a public interest law firm representing 17 Marin County residents and 28 Bay Area organizations. By Paul Grabewiex Beryl Buck, who had an oil fortune and was a longtime Marin resident, bequeathed $7 million in oil company stock and other assets to the foundation in 1975 "for non-profit, charitable, religious or educational purposes in providing care for the SCORE WIN PLAY FOOTBALL FORECAST! Entry coupons and complete contest rules appear each Sunday in needy in Marin County, and for other non-profit charitable, religious or educational Durnoses in ftat county." i The sale of the oil company swelled the bequest to $265 million dollars by 1980. Public Advocates lawyer Robert Gnaizda U.S.

OKs funds for cable cars SAN FRANCISCO -The city will get a $6-million federal transportation grant kr help save its century-old cable cars. grant, and $3 million previously approved by the government, when added to $3.6 million in state money and $5 million collected so far in a private fund drive, amounts to $17.9 million, about one third of the $58' million needed to do the Job. contended that Buck wanted to help the poor and never dreamed she would be flooding Marin each year with more money than is spent by the entire county' government The San Francisco Foundation has taken the perverse, foolish, uncharitable view; that until Marin County has no more needs of any kind, no money can be spent on other counties, Gnaizda asserted. He cited the foundation's purchase of a $6.8 million ranch for a park in a county that is already 63 percent parkland. Foundation director Martin Paley countered that the wording and the spirit of the will pro vides for Marin County first Clausen House receives grant PcWcMie mm Clausen House, an Oakland program that helps retarded adults live independently, recently received an i Profile: Oakland's Cornell 000 grant to rewire an apartment building at 345 Lenox Aye.

that houses 16 persons. The award was made by the East Bay Community Foundation. In addition to Parade's features on your favorite celebrities and what's happening -in the. country and the world, this Sunday's issue will include a profile of Oakland's Cornell Maier, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation's chief executive. Meier's activities in the business and social communities of our city have made zier's wife, Russell's wife and Kristen Tomlin.

Russell and Dozier subsequently left San Francisco, the attorney said, to avoid reporters and contact a relative of Tomlin's. The attorney also said the Freedom II was possibly hit by a freighter, knocking out its power and steering gear. Previously, Russell and Dozier had told the Coast Guard only that the boat sank when its anchor line broke and it was destroyed on nearby rocks. Also unexplained was a phone call the Storey County Sheriff's Office in Virginia City, received Saturday, from a man calling himself John Farrell. Farrell said he was one of the -two survivors from the Freedom II wreck, authorities said, and he had never heard of a J.

Paul Russell. Farrell also told police he was the father of-Cherie Dozier. Numerous residents of the Vir- ginia City area said that a John Farrell, known there as "Papa John," and a Robert and Cherie Dozier had been involved in operating a bar in Virginia City since January 1980. Kristen Tomlin, the residents said, was a "helper" at the bar, called the Stage Stop Saloon. Farrell was divorced and the father of Cherie Dozier, the residents said.

Farrell and the two Posters left the area in August of. this, year, the residents said, bound for There they had a boat that they were planning to take on a cruise to Hawaii and other Pacific islands, according to the residents. When the boat left for its fateful voyage on Wednesday the employees of a Richmond marina told police, they could only see. four people on board not five. Prior to their stay In Virginia City, several residents there said, Farrell and Dozier had spoken of being in Hawaii and had traveled around the world together.

Voter registration records in Virginia City indicate that John Paul Farrell was formerly from Hawaii, and Dozier was regis-tend to vote in Hawaii in 1076. Dozier also had a Hawaiian driver's license at one time, according to police sources. A story that appeared in the Honolulu Star Bulletin in November 1975 stated that a "Bobby. Dozier" was about to embark from Hawaii on a "five- to-seven-year" world cruise. But his shipmate on the trip, the article noted, was a "John Paul RusselL" Marin Deputy Schmid said the sheriffs office is operating on the assumption that the two survivors of Thursday's accident were Robert Dozier and J.

Paul Russell. The missing women, Schmid said, were Identified by the men Tuesday as Dozier's wife, Cherie, Russell's wife, Suzanne, and Kris 'LEGAL NOTICES him a central figure in Oakland's economic renaissance. His connection with the sale of the Oakland A'i and his efforts to persuade the Raiders to remain in Oakland have contributed to his civic identity. What's behind this man's dedication to his community and its people? Find out Sunday, In PARADE Uacjazino, a regular, feature of Sunday's Oakland tribune ALAMEDA COUNTY The sinking of the luxury ketch Freedom II, which has been shrouded in mystery for several days, came after a collisoawith another unidentified shipin i stormy seas, an attorney for two -survivors said But questions remain about the three female crew members who apparently drowned in the accident Thursday night, as well as the the actual identity of the survivors. Police investigators hope to find answers to those questions today when they meet with the survivors of the boat wreck.

Marin County Sheriff's Deputy Linda Schmid said Tuesday that investigators had finally contacted the survivors J. Paul Russell, 44, and Robert Dozier, 34 and the men agreed to meet with police today to clear up confusion over the bizarre incident The two men disappeared last weekend after reporting to the Coast Guard that their boat, the Freedom II, had sunk in choppy seas Thursday night But Marin authorities are still unclear whether Russell, or a man named John Paul Farrell, was on the boat with Dozier. There is also uncertainty over the identities of three women who apparently drowned in the incident And while, initial reports stated the Freedom II sank when its anchor, cable snapped and it broke, up on the rocks, the attorney for Russell and Dozier said Tuesday that their boat went down be- cause it was rammed by another ship. Russell and Dozier first came Ho the attention of authorities Fri- day mornings when they informed the Coast Guard that their, boat had sunk off Stinson Beach during a storm. The two men told authorities at the time that they managed to swim to shore, but two women, who they identified as Russell's wife; Suzanne, 30, and.

Kristen Tomlin, 20, were missing and presumed drowned. The two men left the area Friday, police said, bound either for Las Vegas or Los Angeles. The story took a bizarre twist Saturday, when Russell called the Coast Guard to report that a third woman, Dozier's wife, Cherie Ann, 25, also had been on the boat and was now missing. When a Coast Guard official quizzed Russell on why he had not mentioned the third missing woman sooner, Russell referred him to a Las Vegas attorney. The attorney Initially told police he was not familiar, with Russell! Marin authorities then tried unsuccessfully to locate Russell and Dozier, who police said were from Virginia City, But at a press conference Toes-day, the Las Vegas attorney said he had been contacted by both Russell and Dozier.

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