THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on October 29 in the years identified:

1955: Helen Joyce Fisher is crowned “Miss Kingston Moravian Credit Union” at a happy social and get-together held by the Union at the open-air Hall of the YWCA in Kingston. She is chosen on the basis of regular payments towards savings and loans, attendance at general meetings and her activities in the credit union movement.

1967: Premier of British Honduras, George Price arrives in Jamaica in transit to Montego Bay, after attending the Commonwealth Caribbean Conference in Barbados. He says in an interview at the Palisadoes Airport: “I think the conference has done a great thing in bringing the leaders of the Caribbean area together. It has also caused them to think regionally.”

1968: Military personnel man fire-fighting services at the Palisadoes and Montego Bay International Airports for two hours, when firemen attached to the Civil Aviation Department reported sick and did not report to work.

1968: A member of Jamaica’s delegation to the United Nations, MP Dr. Neville Gallimore, leaves for New York by air to take up his assignment. Dr Gallimore, who was also a delegate in 1967, will be serving on the Political Committee of the General Assembly and will be sit¬ting in on the meetings of the Latin American countries.

1975: The House of Representatives vote approval of the National Minimum Wage Order after an abortive Opposition attempt to move for a two-tiered minimum of $20 for household help and $26.50 for other workers. Minister of Labour and Employment Ernest Peart formally moves for approval of the order, setting a national minimum of $20 for a 40-hour work week.