THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on November 21 in the years identified:

1945:Jamaica Private flying in comes to the foreground when a two-engine Cessna, a five-passenger plane, arrives at the Palisadoes Airport, piloted by Alexander Lilly, accompanied by Vic Jensen, flight mechanic. The plane arrives from Barranquilla, Colombia, and is owned by the Siple Aircraft Co. Ltd of Canada, a company that handles surplus RCAF planes. The plane, US-made but adapted for pilot training, and especially the training of instrument flying, is made of plywood and fabric similarly to the famous Mosquito. While the RCAF paid for them at the rate of $50,000 dollars apiece, they are now available to civilians at the price of $4,500 and are said to be exceedingly economical on gas. 1978:way Plans are well under

for the 1979 Carifta Games, which will be held at the National Stadium from April 20 to 23, 1979, in which some 450 athletes from 20 countries, including Jamaica, are expected to participate. This is announced at a press briefing in the VIP lounge at the National Stadium by former Jamaica track great and president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association Herb McKinley. In making the announcement, McKinley says that the games, which were last held in the Bahamas in 1977, will have three new events added to its programme. These are the under-17 boys’ and girls’ 800 metres, the boys’ and girls’ shot put, and the javelin for boys and girls under 20.

1983:US Burger King, the giant

fast-food restaurant, is coming to Jamaica. In a release, Jeffrey Campbell, chairman of Burger King Corporation, which is described as “the world’s second largest restaurant chain”, and Ken Sherwood, chief executive officer of the Jamaican firm Restaurant Associates Ltd, announce that Restaurant Associates is awarded the Burger King country franchise for all Jamaica.The first restaurant will be opened in Ocho Rios by April 1984. South Korea is the only other country that has obtained a franchise from Burger King this year.