Jamaica Gleaner

THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on June 13 in the years identified:

- – GLEANER ARCHIVES

1963:records, With three broken

the final ASA swim meet before final selection of the Juvenile Mexico Games team gets under way at the National Stadium. Most praisewort­hy performanc­e is turned in by 13-year-old stalwart Wayne Rose, who comes within half a second of the current Central American record for the 1314 200 metres individual medley. Rose shatters the old Jamaican record of 2:46.5 of Randy Mair with a brilliant 2:41.8 and he beats secondplac­e Wayne Wong by half a pool. Fifty-five parliamen1­978:tarians

fail to furnish statutory declaratio­ns of assets and liabilitie­s by the March 31 deadline in 1977, and eight are still outstandin­g at December 31, 1977. This is disclosed in the report of the integrity Commission appointed under the Parliament (integrity of Members) act for 1977, which is tabled in the House of Representa­tives. Under the provisions of the act, parliament­arians are required to furnish their statutory declaratio­ns, as at December 31 1976, by March 31, 1977; but 55 of them failed to meet the deadline, the report says. In addition, there is outstandin­g on December 31, 1977 one declaratio­n, due as at the December 31, 1975. 1994:products Prices of all petroleum

supplied to the local distributi­ve trade by Petrojam will decrease with effect from today, June 13, 1994. The price movements are due to changes in the United States Gulf Reference prices. The following are the billing prices for this week: premium gasolene, $8,3217 per litre, down 27 cents; unleaded gasolene, $8,9187 per litre, down 22 cents; automotive diesel oil, $7,1936 per litre, down 17 cents; industrial kerosene, $6,685 per litre, down 14 cents; LPG, $4.6050 per litre, down 5 cents; and marine diesel oil, $6,7794 per litre, down 15 cents.

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