Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday january 30, 1979 anytime 269-8463 Robert Jankiewicz q. Were there miss Canada pageants in 1921 and 1922? if there were who were the Manitoba representatives in those years a. There were no miss Canada contests in 1921 or 1922. The show did t Stan until 1946, and the first Winner was Marion Saver of Hamilton. Q. Where can i get in touch with the genealogical society a. Here Are some addresses you might be interested in the heraldry society of Canada 56 Gwynne Avenue Ottawa Ontario k1y 1x2 the Manitoba genealogical society Post office Box 2066, Winnipeg Manitoba r3c 3r4 the North american genealogical society 507 30th Avenue Southwest Calgary Alberta Alberta genealogical society Post office Box 3151, station a Edmonton Alberta t5j 2g7 British Columbia genealogical society the Library Langara College 100 West 49th Avenue Vancouver British Columbia v5y 2z6 Ontario genealogical society Post office Box 66, station a Toronto Ontario m4t 2l7 Saskatchewan genealogical society Post office Box 1894, Regina Saskatchewan s4p 3e1 society de Genea Logie de Quebec . 2234, Quebec City Quebec g1k 7n8 society genealogy que Ca Nadienne fran Caise . 335, place d armes Montreal Quebec h2y 3h1. Q. Can you Tell me something about in what is an average in and what is the world s record a. In 1905 two French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first modern intelligence tests to measure menial age. Further revisions were done by Lewis m. Terman and Maude a. Merrill both with Stanford University. Under standing and performance in memory reasoning definitions numerical ability and fact recalling Are tested. One Way to determine in or intelligence quotient is to Divide a person s mental age by his age in years then multiply by 100 to avoid fractions. If a four year old for example has a mental age of six then his in is six divided by four times 100, equating 150. A 10 year old with a mental age of eight has an in of 80. In most in tests 100 indicates an average score for a person s age level. A second method of arriving at in is to take an average score of 100 and assign values Over and below 100 to persons taking the test depending on their finishes. Testers try to use questions or subjects to which everyone has been equally exposed but perfection in that is impossible. As a result in tests somewhat measure experience. Culture fair tests have been developed and use Only pictures ideas or symbols that Are supposedly recognized by All. In the Terman Index says the guinness Book of world records 150 indicates Genius. The highest recorded score was 200, by a London born girl Somerset Hughes five years old in 1960. The All time record based on research by Stanford to be a value of Over 200" for John Stuart Mill who began learning greek at age three. No Dick and Jane for this lad who had mastered latin classical literature logic political Economy history and mathematics by the age of 14. Q. Which moves faster Golf balls Tennis balls racquetball or handball a. According to Spalding Golf and Tennis have initial velocities that Are approximately the same 156-plus Miles per hour off the tee and off the serve respectively. The difference Between the two is apparent after initial Contact. A Tennis Ball pulsates on its Way across court elongating then flattening and consuming Large amounts of Energy As it does this. Air resistance of the fabric cover also slows a Tennis Ball so that when it crosses Tho net it is going 108 and when it reaches the opponent 78 feet away it has slowed to 45 . A Golf Ball with its smooth and aerodynamically favourable dimpled surface loses Energy very slowly and after travel Ling the same 78 feet As the Tennis Ball still is going almost 150 . A pro at the court sports club in Winnipeg says Marty Hogan number one Racquet Ball player in the world has had his serve clocked by radar at 142 . Handball in which the emphasis is More on Ball placement than Speed would not approach that figure the pro says. Further to streetcars on Arlington. A Reader writes in with information researched while he was writing a history of Winnipeg s electric transit system. He says that while the answer was generally Correct there were actually five one Way trips operated across the Bridge. Because neither the City nor the Winnipeg electric railway company would accept responsibility for any accidents on the Bridge the Motorman s and conductors Union re fused to allow its members to operate streetcars Over the Structure. . Guy the Public utilities commission s Engineer operated the car during the tests and it was found thai even when using the Best combination of air brakes sanding equipment and reversed motors the car could not be stopped at anything Over six Miles per hour. Also this May not have been the Only instance when streetcars did t operate where demanded. Most of Winnipeg s Early bus routes Westminster Cathedral valour re were started As temporary Means of postponing Streetcar rail construction. The City could and did order construction of Street rail lines under specified conditions and says the Reader the Sailer Street Bridge has girders and steel framing designed to accept Streetcar tracks. You can Call the free press anytime with your questions. Just dial the letters an it i me Call the free press Hijack suspect Given solitary confinement new York a a 49-year-old California woman was placed in solitary confinement monday Afier her arraignment on charges that she commandeered a jumbo Jet in route from los Angeles to new York. Irene Mckinney was held in lieu of bail and officials said she would he placed in segregation be cause they believed her to he unstable. Mrs. Mckinney did Noi enter a plea to charges thai she commandeered the United airlines 7-17 As it flew Over Prescott ariz., saturday night with 131 persons aboard. A Hijacker told the plane s Crew that she had nitroglycerine and would blow the plane up if they did not allow a movie Star to read a note on National television she had left at los Angeles International Airport. No explosives were found nor was the note. After hours on the ground an Fri agent captured n Hijacker. An Fri spokesman described mrs. Mckinney As a fallen away Catholic ambivalent about developments in the Church and distraught about the loss of her two children after her divorce. She gave agents a 25-Pagi statement about her religious beliefs. Officials described it As quite but California friends said she had developed a new concept of religion recently. In 1970, she wrote a four Page statement in which she predicted Earth con suming fires due to the extensive network of Oil Gas and electric lines being disrupted after the explosion of a Palloto Fop Sllyn the body of Milan s assistant state attorney Emilio Alessandrini 36, lies inside his car after he was fatally shot a co worker at therm co products corp. In Orange monday by five assailants in Milan Italy. Front line an italian Urban leftist organization claimed responsibility Calif said since the Temple mass suicide in for killing the magistrate who was driving from Home to his office. Guyana mrs. Mckinney had cried often at work and expressed fears thai she would be killed. Analysts predict fight Bangkok Thailand a the forces of fallen Premier pol pot claimed monday to be closing in on the vietnamese and rebel held cambodian capital of phenom penh and listed other gains in Cambodia. The country is settling in for a Long hard said one Diplomat Here. Sources within the thai and Western diplomatic and military Community monitoring the six week War from this thai capital said Highway 4 leading from phenom penh to the sea has been Cut. Phenom penh was seized jan.7 when vietnamese troops and pro Vietnam cambodians found the City abandoned by pol pot and others in his regime who had fled to set up resistance in the Countryside. In Early january the military map was a series of neat arrows representing vietnamese thrusts from East to West. But in the last two weeks the map has become a Checkerboard of vietnamese and pol Poi forces engaged in almost All areas of the country. The fighting is said to vary from minor skirmishes to Sharp engagements. Sources also said the ports of Kom Pung som and Vampot Are still immobilized by heavy fighting and that the ancient temples of angkor symbols of Cam Bodian nationalism May have been recaptured by the pol pot forces. Pol pot s voice of democratic Kampuchea Cam believed broadcasting from China said the cambodian loyalist have liberated virtually All of Southeastern Cambodia and penetrated within about 10 Kilometres of phenom penh from the South. The new pro vietnamese government in phenom penh has not mentioned the Battlefield action. But the Vietnam news Agency quoting phenom penh news Media said More than people in the provinces of Kampong Chheang and Pursati have taken pan in building local revolutionary administrations and militia asks for support Rome Reuter ital Ian prime minister Giulio Andreotti pleaded monday for parliamentary support to save his 10-month government from collapse. Speaking to both houses Andreotti asked the. Four parties which have sup ported his minority Chris Tian democratic govern ment to Salvage a working arrangement that would permit a stable administration. However Andreotti s speech was coolly received by the other parties and the prime minister was expected to hand in his Resigna Tion to president Sandro Certini either today or wednesday. The current political Cri Sis follows a decision Fri Day by the powerful communist party to withdraw its support for Andreotti s minority Christian demo cratic party government. The communists the Sec Ond largest party in Parlia ment following the Chris Tian democrats accuse the government of mismanage ment and have demanded Cabinet seats As a condition for continued support something the Christian democrats have consistently refused. Unless the socialists who have so far backed communist demands for Cabinet seats change their Posi Tion an Early general elec Tion seems Likely. Currently elections Are not slated until 1981. Andretti has headed two governments since inconclusive elections in july 1976. Top prosecutor 1 slain in Milan Street ambush Milan Italy a a Carload of terrorists Assassin ated one of Italy s top prosecutors in a Street am Bush Here monday increasing tension and sparking unrest in the judiciary in the final Days of Premier Giulio Andreotti s government. Emilio Alessandrini a 37-year-old assistant disc not attorney noted for his prosecution of both right and left Wing terrorists was killed in a Hail of pistol shots in his car on his Way to work. The five member assassination squad fired a smoke bomb to make its escape without being noticed. A leftist revolutionary group. From line claimed responsibility for the killing of the sixth official in the last two years. The latest terrorist assault came hours before Andreotti addressed parliament defending his 10-Momh-old government that took office on the Day former Premier Aldo Moro seas abducted by the leftist red brigades. Moro was slain by the terrorists after a 54-Day Captivity. 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