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Barrie Examiner, 3 Jan 1962, p. 8

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NA Style Beauty Contest Comes Under Fire In India BOMBAY CPI Beauty conA Panlh home minister in the tests organised on Western lines Nehru cabinet with beauty have come under attack by con servative elements here The association at the name at the late Goviod Bailabh contest has provoked bitter press controversy Ortho dox llindu groups are expected to make excellent politimi cap Street Name Derivations In Montreal lire Puzzling MONTREAL tCP Norbert him and Hubert Locroix might be surprised at iinding thcm scchs in the same company as St Francis Xavier and SI Igna tius Loyola Yet there they arc Theyve made th saintly ranks as for as Montreal is con ccrncd ir Birtz oncIimc manager oi the St Louis Club inspired the name SaintNorbert Street And SaintHubert street was namcd to honor the memory oi ltlr Lacroix and his pioneer iamily People who ltfltL rondcrcd about some oi Quebecs saints may confirm their suspicions by reading chatty lI7pago book titled How Our Streets Got Their Names Montreals tendency to ignore church process in honoring citi zens is brought clearly to light In the city planning dcpart mcIIts tome it supplies the background ol 1300 street names Martyrs explorers generals FiveYear 01d Smarter Than Ilny Animal EDMONTON CPI live yearold child is for more intelli gcnt than the brightest animal This was shown by test at the University ot Alberta to compare the icarning abilities oi monkeys marmosets white rats and liveycsrold hu mans Dr Miles oi the psychol ogy department said the imme diate memory test is given 3th boxlike structure divided in two by sliding screen parti tion The animal or child to be testcd is put in one halt and in the other there are holes sunk In the wooden floor In oneIII these holes is put the bait which varies according to the partici paIIt The dividing screen is raised so the subject can see the bait in the hole Steel bars prevent the subject from grabbing the food at once The screen Is lowered and then raised ugum to roveal row of wooden blocks one of which covers the bait hole This time the subject is free to search for the food The subjects rating depends on how long it takes to find the bait Dr Miles said child nearly always finds the candy Immedi ately even it there are 10 holes to choose from cat has dif licuIty going beyond three choices The children rate first by long lead and they are toliowed by rhesus monkeys then squir rel monkeys Urn Miles said that it adults were given similar test they probably would be able to choose the right hole from about at Grim Year But No War BERLIN ReutersiFred Mi chel leading Wat Berlin clairvoyant draws grim pic ture for 1962 but foresees no major war in the coming 12 months His annual forecast issued Saturday sees Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev suffering stroke and fac ing dangerous conspiracy in the Kremlin President Kennedy meeting with an accident President Charles de Gnulle facing new nssnss ination at tempts Chancellor Konrad Adenaucr of West Germany becoming se riously ill and leaving office within six months Michel last year correctly Iorccast that the Soviet Union would orbit man around the globe in 1961 and warned of economic crisis riots disasters and local warsmainly in Asia The world will be spared major conflict in 1962 he says mainly by the efforts oi the United States Rolls BIVIC Study Plan LONDON CPI The manu incturcrs of Britains lowest and highest price cars are looking Illttl the possibility of some kind of technical collaboration The llritlnh Motor Corporation and politicians pioneers statesmen and saints legitimate and other wise parade through the pages Jacques Cartier discoverer at Canada and Arthur Sicard inA rentor oi the snow plow nec essary result are remembered So are the great French ex plorersLa Vercndryc dlbcr villc Cadillac and some at their discoveriesthe Rockies Mobile Ala Biloxi Miss Greatness or achievement did not dictate every name White Lane was so named in 1359 when Andrew White rest dent complained about its bad condition Whether the city did this in insult or appeasement Is not stated The book notes that Snint Castln Place was dubbed to honor 17th century baron known or his amazing person ality There is no elaboration here either FILTIIY VATER Other interesting titbits hold the reader hicTavish Street was named after Simon McTavish 18th cen tury landnwncr whose mansion was known to lilontrcalers as lilcTavishs haunted castle An aside to Winnipeg Street explains that Winnipeg is an AI gonquin word meaning iilthy water Researchers found that Gil lord Streets name is 75ycar old mistake The name Guibnrd was inscribed Giiiord in city records and never corrected Coronet Street was so callcd at the request of rcaltor Charles Hershon who wanted the name only because it was easy to pronounce in French and Eng lish The city admits it was stumped in trying to trace the origin at the name of Montreals main street Ste Catherine It was named between 1801 and 1817 but to this day no one has been able to unearth the ori gin of the name After tracing the background oi some of the citys other saints researchers apparently were wary of attributing the name to devotion to Ste Cath erme ital out at the episode at the an pens oi the mlins Congress party The Bombay Labor Bureau government aided institution sponsored beauty show to raise funds tor library to be constructed in In of Panth The idea touched off sizzling debate Some 01 Panths followers and admirers said is name was be ing smeared since he was iir believer in temiaino mod dianllonguagc newspapers One reader wrote To try to per petuate Mr Panths memory by means at beauty contest in which seminaked girls flaunt their charms in public is just like raising funds for Gandhi memorial by auctioning whisky bottles USE SARIS Some members oi the Com grcss party who had lcnt their names to the Panth memorial campaign had second thoughts later and it was decided the con test should be held along tradi tional Indian lines The particv ipants were told that they could appear on the stage in flowing tiveyard saris instead oi swim suits As the guests arrived for the contest they were greeted by demonstrators holding placards which rcad Dont insult Panihs Memory Beauty Contests are immoral and Down with the Enomies of Hinduism The event went at as sched uicd and Hindu girl working as hostess with Air India In tcrnntionai was crowned ltiiss Bombay Another pretty lhndu college student won the title Miss Maharashtra Stat Columnists described them as stunnineg beautilui models of Indian womanhood Thcy appeared in saris no lifll statistics were taken and the Judges group of men and women assessed their charms with lowered eyelids and as one critic put it with reveren tIal affection and parental warmth George liavies CONSTRUCTION LTD Barrie PA 83135 WEDNESDAY snsz BARR MK JAN nu Windjammers Closing Logs On Long Tour VANCOUVER CPITwo bnt tired relics oi the days oi sail have logged their final voyages Deterioration below the water line ended the sailing days oi steelhulled Windjammer that so years ago piled the seas as the Riversdale full rigged ship and the Blahmore Brit tsh barqua The beginning of the end came in the 19305 when they were stripped of their masts rigging and sails then pressed into serv ice as log and chip barges on the British Columbia coast in the last low years the Rivcrsdaie has been part at the barge Ilcct at Crown Zcilcrbnch towed back and forth between Ocean Falls and II sawmill near New Westminster The Blair more has been sunk in the bar bar at Royston where she will serve as breakwater Both ships were built in Scot land in the 18905 The Blairmorc capsized in 1857 in ltlission Bay near San Francisco but was sat voged and put back to sea as the Abbey Palmer Ilcr next owner named her Star of Eng land and for decades she ran be tween San Francisco and Bristol Bay Alaska She was towed to Victoria in 1936 to begin her life as barge liar ships bell was presented in 1955 to All 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