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Vol. 3, No. 11 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JUNE 5, 1953 5 cents

Cooler and Fair Governor Promises

Support In Fight

For Differential Officials of the Panama ("anal Company and Canal Zone Government will take every possible step to present the employees' case regarding the 25 percent pay differential and other benefits affected by the House cut in the Civil

Functions Bill, Gov. J. S. Sey- bold told the Governor-Em- ployee conference last week. "Management," the Governor said,

"will take every appropriate means it has to present the case of people and management to the proper authorities." The Governor's statement was the highlight of the May conference. It followed the announcement by Rufus Lovelady, AFGE president, that he had just received a cable announcing House passage, without amendment, of the . Civil Functions Bill.

UNDAUNTED by change of season heat were these youngsters from the Ancon kindergarten. A considerable part of the May con- They found a pile of snow in a shady spot and from then on instinct took over. The children: Susan ference wps devoted to a discussion of Miller, Dickie Saul, and Chase Newman. The snow: Trade secret. the various aspects of the legislation, its effect on employees generally, and the best means of seeking relief. A part of Canal Zone Dogs Will Licensed; this discussion dealt with the type of Be letters which should be written to Con- gressmen. It was the view of the con- Anti-Rabies Vaccination ference that it would be advisable to keep Required such letters short and to the point. Lengthy, involved letters are less likely An Executive Regulation requiring the tration done at one location for a few to get the attention of legislators than registration and anti-rabies vaccination days on each side of the Isthmus. those which are brief and factual, it was of all dogs in the Canal Zone and estab- pointed out by some of the labor leaders Dogs Must Wear Tags lishing other policies regarding domestic who have had much experience in such animals has just been issued by Governor After the animal is inoculated, its matters. J. S. Seybold. owner will take the certificate of vaccina- When an employee mass meeting was Only dogs will be licensed but some of tion to the License Section in the Civil suggested, the Governor said that such the provisions of the Executive Regula- Affairs building where the $2 fee will be a meeting, properly sponsored, could be tion affect cats and other domestic animals paid and a metal dog tag issued. The approved and that there should be no such as horses, cattle, hogs, etc. This re- tags must be fastened to the dog's collar objection to a meeting, provided that it gulation will be under the general admin- or harness. was conducted in an orderly manner. istration of the Civil Affairs Director with All unlicensed dogs will be subject to Governor Thanked the collaboration of the Health Director. impoundment, with Police District Com- Three employee representatives, F. H. The regulation establishes a $2 annual manders acting as Poundmasters. On Hodges for the Railroad Engineers, Sam fee for the registration of each of the ap- the Pacific side, impounded animals will Roe, Jr., who stepped out of his post as proximately 3,000 dogs living in the Canal be held at the Corozal Quarantine ken- Pacific Civic Council president to speak residents of Zone. For the Canal Zone nels. The Humane Society kennels at for the Police Association, and Mr. the fee will include the $2 anti-rabies Brazos Brook will be the Atlantic side Lovelady for the AFGE, expressed the vaccination which will be done by Health pound. Military authorities will be appreciation of their groups for "the Bureau veterinarians during the month responsible for impounding unlicensed manner in which the Governor and his of July. Residents of military reserva- dogs in military reservations. staff testified at the hearings in January." tions will also be required to have their Other highlights of the new Executive While most of the rest of the meeting dogs licensed; in their case the anti-rabies Regulations provide that: was devoted to housing, two important vaccination will be done military by announcements of possible (5m page 15) veterinarians. Female dogs, although licensed, may not run at large while in heat; Tie dog licenses will be valid from FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE August 1 of one year to July 31 of the No dog known to be ferocious, vicious, Youngsters learn about guns from a real expert page 8. or mischievous may run at large, although — following year. The anti-rabies vac- # Margarita Recreational Association sees a cinations will be given in July; times and it has been licensed; and dream coming true—page 2. ©Magistrates' Courts, and what they do places will be announced later. Present Owners must report immediately to the page 4. #House of Ideas—a picture page—page 16. ns are to have vaccination and regis- Poundmaster any animal Seepage 15) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953

Ten-Year-Old Dream Is Nearing Reality For Margarita Recreational Association

In the fast growing Atlantic side town There was a community workshop in women and children lived in Margarita of Margarita a dream of long standing the Margarita gymnasium, a chess club, the emphasis of MRA activity has is finally coming true. a bridge club, dancing classes for the shifted somewhat, from the purely recrea- Every weekend, beginning about the children. The dances, special parties, tional for all ages to increasing service to middle of the dry season, a group of regular Bingo games and community the younger generation. Margarita men, supported morally and picnics kept people busy. One of the While annual affairs such as Hallow- with occasional cooling drinks by their liveliest of the MRA sponsored activities e'en and Christmas parties and July 4 women, have been hard at work clearing was a weekly newssheet called the sports are by now standard, the officers and levelling a 10,500 square-foot plot "Margarita News." Under the slogan, and directors of the MRA feel that the of land north of the town's grade school "All the news that fits, we print," it strongest reason for community support and playground and close to the inter- carried news stories, a few want ads, comes from backing such character- section of Fifth Street and Diversion personal mentions and such items of com- building projects as its annual Pony Road. munity interest as bowling and Softball League baseball team this year the Two trained heavy equipment oper- scores, a movie schedule, and a calendar Margarita team placed s?cond in the ators, Waldo Gilley and Murrel L. Dodd, of coming events. League- and the Margarita Scouts. manned a bulldozer and a scraper, rented But an even more ambitious program The MRA sponsors the Margarita Boy from the Maintenance Division, to clear was in the collective mind of the MRA. Scout Troop and the Cub Pack, and backs and level the site. A dozen other men, They asked for, and were granted, an the Girl Scouts of the town. For a while sparked by Charles H. Bath, Jr., presi- area which could be used for picnics, the MRA had leased space in the old dent of the Margarita Recreational outdoor games, holiday celebrations and Margarita hospital as a Scout meeting Association, have done other preparatory where Girl and Boy Scout houses could place. When the hospital was vacated

work and by mid-May had forms ready be built. The site was on Espave so that it could be razed, the Scouts to pour concrete for the footing of two Avenue, opposite buildings 8021 and moved to the basement of the Margarita large and one small Quonset huts. The younger generation has pitched in, too, and Association members credit them with outstanding work. When the huts are up and fitted with lights and plumbing, they will become the new homes for Margarita's Boy and Girl Scouts, a project which has been a pet of the Margarita Recreational Asso- ciation for the past decade. Members of the Association consider it quite fitting that the completion of the buildings, now expected about the start of the school year, will follow close on the organiza- tion's official eleventh birthday. Story Of Margarita The story of the Margarita Recrea- tional Association, MRA to everyone in or connected with it, is practically the story of Margarita. According to Mrs. Julius Hentschel, now of Ancon, who was the first MRA

president, it started like many such groups do. A number of people got to- gether, talked about conditions in the then Third Locks town, asked themselves .?" "why don't we . . and the first thing they knew they had. In 1942 Margarita

was a bustling town of some 1 ,000 people, most of them working for the Third Locks contractors who organization or for the MRA president Charles II. Bath, Jr., reviews construction plans for Margarita Boy and Girl were excavating at Gatun. Scout houses with officers and directors of the organization. Left to right are: Ross Cunningham, They had more energy than ways of Mr. Bath, Mrs. Shirley Wertz, Gerard K. Senear, and Herbert Engelke. expending it and facilities for letting off steam were not available in Margarita. S060, now the contractor's area for new gym, which was also a meeting place for

Tires were rationed, it was not pleasant construction. all unhoused organizations in Margarita. driving at night with black-out headlights Locks excavation contractors, Martin About a year ago the MRA revived plans and gasoline rationing was just around Wunderlich and Okes, had donated two for the recreation area. In late October the corner. Cristobal might just as well single family houses which were to be the area on Fifth Street was assigned to have been a hundred miles away, Mrs. moved to the recreation area. One was the MRA as a location for the Scout, Hentschel said. to be for the Boy Scouts, the other for shacks. The MRA started off with a bang. the girls. For some reason, which pres- Meantime the Association had learned One of its first projects was to get per- ent members of the MRA do not know, about the three Quonset huts which had mission to use unoccupied baggage rooms this area was never developed. been stored in the Maintenance Division in Margarita bachelor quarters for dark- The best recollection of people who warehouse for several years. They had rooms for the camera club which the were active in the MRA in those days i< originally housed a small Marine detach- MRA was sponsoring. The upstairs of that because of a lot of needed grading ment near Camp Bierd and had been the Margarita Clubhouse became MRA and filling, the project turned out to be purchased, as surplus, by E. R. MacYittie headquarters and there the group- too big for the group to handle at that for the use of Cristobal Scouts. The membership in which comes with being time. Cristobal Scouts were unable to raise a Margaritan—held dances, childrens' With the cessation of work on the enough funds to have the buildings parties, and other special festivities. Third Locks, Margarita's population fell erected and they were stored and for- Small admission fees for the adult affairs off and activities dwindled. Now that it gotten by most people. went into a kitty from which funds were is becoming the heart of the Atlantic side When the Margarita project began to taken to buy ping-pong tallies and other and its population is about back to the take shape, someone remembered the huts games equipment. I'll.' level last December 989 men, and thev were then (See pagi it) .

June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Program Of Playground Activities Starts Soon In Zone Communities OUR OUT-OF-DOORS

School vacation in the ("anal Zone this The program in the local-rate towns < Inset of the rainy season does not year will he chock full of fun. frolic, and will be for only two months since schools mean that there will be no more flowering useful training for the several thousand reopen in those communities in August. trees. Rather, some of the most showy of these trees have chosen this boys and girls who participate in the The playground activities in the I '. S.- time of planned program of activities at the rate communities will continue through year to bloom. playgrounds and in the gymnasiums of August. There is the Layestroemia Flux Reginat the various communities. better known as the Queen of Flowers The playground program of the Physi- The program, planned the Physical or the Pride of India. For a short period by cal Education and Recreation Branch is Education and Recreation Branch of the

years. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. been stationed at the Naval Shipyard, Shower, like the Pride of India, is remi- Ferguson is a graduate in business admin- Long Beach, Calif., as Repair Super- niscent of States flowers. Its pink and istration from Western Reserve Univer- intendent. white flowers, which resemble apple sity. He served during World War II Captain Dunn was graduated from the blossoms, grow in clusters along the in the Coast Guard and before his em- U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis branches. The flowers are followed by ployment with the Office of Price Stabili- in 1930. cylindrical seed pods 12 to 15 inches long. zatnn had several years experience h a Captain Scheibeler is leaving about The Cassia Nodosa is a native of Bengal number of hrge retail stores in fcha July 1. He will go to Washington, D. C, and the Malaya region. Like the Poin- Washington, D. C, area. where he will be Senior Hull Member on ciana and the Pride of India, it is decidu- Mr. Clarke's service with the Canal the Board of Inspection and Survey in ous for a short period during the dry organization covers more than a quarter the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. season. of a century. He was employed on the Captain Scheibeler has headed the clerical staff of the Commissary Division Industrial Bureau, which was still known "Forty-Mile Siding" was the name in 1021, becoming its Chief Clerk in as the Mechanical Division when he given in early construction days to a 1912 and its Assistant General Manager arrived, since June 1950. His last assign- settlement near Pedro Miguel. It had in 1915. He was made General Manager ment before coming to the Isthmus was in 20 houses and a cook shed. Other now in September 1945, after the death of the Portsmouth, X. II., Naval Shipyard, forgotten settlements were Enterprise, Arthur W. Goulet. where he served as Planning Officer. Cunette, Cerro, and Caballo Viejo. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Thousands Of Varied Cases Are Handled Each Year By Zone Magistrates' Courts

case into the Magistrates' Courts. Bal- boa saw a German chemist charged with acting as a foreign agent. People who frequent the court building still talk about the size of the roll from which his $10,000 bail was posted. Four young Germans, one of them a girl, were brought before Judge Tatelman for espionage— taking photographs of a gun position at Fort Randolph. Also into the Cristobal court came officers of the 23,000-ton Italian liner Conte Bian- camano on charges of conspiring to sabotage their ship. There were cases of trading with the enemy, censorship violations, and offenses such as photo- graphing Canal installations. Riots which flared up in contract-labor camps over as little a matter as someone stepping on someone else's toe brought other problems. In Balboa the Magis- trate talked like a "Dutch uncle" to warring factions and won their promise of understanding and cooperation. Language Troubles at the AMERICAN FLAGS hang front of each Magistrates' Court, This is the staff .if the Balboa court. The official language of the courts, of Judge Altman seated at the bench. Left to right: Herbert Moore, docket clerk, Rex Beck, constable, and John Michaelis, clerk of court. Mr. Beck and Mr. Michaelis are also translators. course, is English. Sometimes the court- rooms are as polylingual as the Tower of People who run afoul of the Canal from his oatmeal can money box. Babel. In one year Cristobal recorded Zone law are apt to find themselves in In Cristobal three young soldiers faced defendants of 75 different nationalities. one of the two Canal Zone Magistrates' murder charges for the death of a YMCA Often this brought a problem of inter- Courts. watchman. pretation. One Cristobal defendant was If they live north of Panama Railroad Any such case brings heartbreak to a Jugoslav. He told his story to a man track span 22-10, that is, north of a line someone. People with faces drawn taut who spoke German. From German the which bisects the Canal Zone midway by tears and worry sit silent in the court- translation was made into Spanish and between Frijoles and Darien, they will rooms as husbands, sons, or friends make eventually into English. And this went face Judge Edward I. P. Tatelman, their first appearances in the long process for every question asked or answered! Magistrate for the Cristobal District of the law. Cases involving San Bias Indians usually since 1931. Once in a while there will come a break require both San Bias and Spanish If they are residents of the Balboa in solemn court procedure. Both courts interpreters. District, which is the southern portion of have their "mango" or "chiva lawyers" Sherman Brooks, Constable-translator the Canal Zone, they will go before who have picked up some legal termin- for the Cristobal court, speaks Spanish, Judge Edward M. Altman, Balboa ology which they use with greater ease French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well Magistrate since 1951. than exactness. Quite often their famil- as English. The Balboa court staff can All criminal cases, regardless of their iarity with court procedure comes from handle Spanish, German, and some severity, originate in the Magistrates' frequent appearances before the bench. French. Courts. One day's list of defendants No interpreter can unravel the mysteries Magistrates may but are not required may include people charged with murder, of "Bajan" and a judge has to learn that to perform marriage ceremonies. In burglary, or robbery, as well as those who "bird speed" means fast and that when both courts some 300 couples a year take merely have violated a traffic ordinance. someone complains that another man advantage of this service which is done If the Canal Zone offender has confined "don't give me a face" he means that without charge. Judge Altman once his illegal activity to a minor violation he wasn't recognized. performed a marriage ceremony for a his case will be disposed of by the Magis- The actions of more than one Magis- Russian princess. Judge Tatelman re- trate. If the offense is classed as a trate have been perpetuated in calypso calls one mass marriage over which he felony—a crime punishable by death or verse and song. presided. Eighteen couples, whose homes by imprisonment in the penitentiary—or The war years brought a new kind of were burned down in the t5«epojefij a "high misdemeanor"— layman's lan- guage for an offense for which the punish- ment exceeds that which can be imposed MOST PEOPLE think court activities are in the Magistrates' Courts, his appear- confined to the courtroom itself. A good deal ance in the lower court will be of a of work precedes and follows court sessions. Here Cristobal Magistrate Edward I. P. temporary nature. Tatel- man, center, works with Mrs. Rosemary Rear- In this latter case the Magistrate will don, clerk -stenographer, and Sherman Brooks, hold what is called a preliminary hearing constable-translator, in his office. which determines whether a crime has been committed and whether there is evidence connecting the defendant with the crime. Should probable cause be found, the defendant is remanded to the District Court for trial. Tears and Smiles

Sometimes stark tragedy appears in the Magistrates' Courts. In Cristobal there was Edward Kemp, who stabbed a fellow shipmate to death and who is now serving a life sentence in Gamboa Penitentiary. In Balboa two boys, 12 and 17 years old, were charged with murder after they killed a Chinese and pilfered a few dollars June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR INTEREST ^AND GUIDANCE INi£ACCIDENT PREVENTION VACATION ACCIDENTS

This time of tin- year many employees is far greater than at home. If you do take off with their families for vacations WORKING DAZE stay at home, you may run just as great in the States. Others, like myself, will a risk as those who go away, because you spend a few days vacation in the [nterior may do odd jobs for which you lack either of Panama, or may enter such sports as the skill or equipment. All of you, who the Panama deep-sea fishing tournament go in for strenuous sports, often expose held during July. For all of us taking yourselves to injury because of the lack these vacations there is a great possibility of training and preliminary toughening. of becoming involved in accidents. Add to these exposures an unaccustomed Death and injury are waiting for the diet and insufficient rest caused by your unsuspecting on the highways, high seas, desire to see and do as much as possible lakes, or wherever the carefree and care- in a short time, and you increase many less, by thoughtless acts, let themselves fold your chances of a serious accident. become exposed to accidents. Therefore, substitute some such slogans No matter what your general mental given below, in place of a "Home Sweet outlook may be, we can safely say that Home" picture. the welfare of a man's family always comes "A gentleman is a person who will first when the chips are down. give you the right of way even when It is generally recognized that a capable you are wrong." and usually careful employee becomes "Nothing worth while is lost by "You wouldn't be interested in my accident prone when his mind is distracted taking the time to do it right." by worry over the welfare of his family. business -I sell safety shoes!" Be that gentleman and be the one to NATIONAL SAFETY COUNC* For that reason, we hope we can im- take things easy. Get more enjoyment press upon you how important it becomes traffic accidents now head the list as the from that which you can comfortably see, to you and your family that you don't biggest killer and maimer, with home do, and remember. Try to keep the lower your guard against accidents, off, as accidents following in second place, and regular hours and steady habits which well as on, the job. recreational accidents taking third place. you observed at home. It is not possible here to go into detail It appears from this that you might be Eat foods to which you are accustomed. of ways and means to avoid accidents safer on vacation than at home. How- Some localities are famous for certain while on vacation, but since the welfare ever, it is evident that you and your foods and drinks. Try them, if you of an employee and his family are usually family will be on the move trying to wish, in moderation. It is not necessary of prime interest to himself, his cooper- crowd all you can into a short period, to show that you are a robust fellow by ation is the key in promoting off the job most of the time usually spent in a car. drinking everything in sight. Be your safety. In order to help you, as an Therefore, your exposure to traffic acci- age by avoiding those sports which are employee on vacation, see the dangers dents will be greater. beyond the strength of your muscles ahead, let's look at the types of accidents By staying in hotels, it is probable and heart. to which you very likely will be exposed. that you will not be exposed to the risks After having renewed your vigor and Considering accidents in all age groups, usually encountered at home. Many, developed a more pleasant mental out- including those remaining on the Isth- look, you should come back able to have HONOR ROLL mus, may go camping, live in trailers or a better clutch on your job, not clutching on boats, where crutches. Bureau Award For the exposure to accidents BEST RECORD Man-Hours Worked APRIL Disabling Injuries per 1,000,000 APRIL 1953 (Frequency Rate) INDUSTRIAL BUREAU AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Industrial Bureau Industrial 3 Civil Affairs 2 Health Bureau Health 2 Community Services 1 Engineering and Construction 1 Civil Affairs Bureau M arine Railroad and Terminals Supply and Service Bureau Supply and Service Division Award For Community Services Bureau NO DISABLING INJURIES C. Z. Govt.—Panama Canal Co. (This month APRIL | DREDGING DIVISION C. Z. Govt.—Panama Canal Co. (Best Year) RAILROAD DIVISION GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION Railroad and Terminals Bureau DIVISION OF SAN ITATION Marine Bureau AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Dredging 3 Engineering and Construction Bureau Grounds Maintenance 3 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Motor Transportation 3

Sanitation 3 Number of Disabling Injuries 33 Man-Hours Worked 2,779,622 Clu bhouses 2 Electrical 2 LEGEND Maintenance 2

I Canal Beat Year Storehouses 2 I Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Company Railroad 1

I Commissary I Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government^Panama Canal Company Best Year Locks Navigation '' ' V i Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year Terminals THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 r Corozal Housing Area Taking Form

HOUSES, both masonry and composite types, are beginning to dot the rolling of 75 of the 12-S buildings by November 20. Twenty-six more are scheduled terrain at Corozal where 168 apartments will be built on land turned over to the for completion by February IS, 1954, and the remainder of the buildings by Panama Canal Company by the Army. The contract calls for the completion next April 19.

Corozal, where quarters will be pro- duplex quarters with four bedrooms to official houses near the Administration vided for 16S families, is rapidly taking each unit. The Empire Street quarters Building. The Empire Street houses are sufficient shape so that passersby can get will also include two three-bedroom patio scheduled for completion by the middle of an idea of what the new development will type houses, modifications of the two October this year. look like. Some of the streets are in and a number of houses are well up. All of Varied Cases Handled By Magistrates fine. Generally, repeat violators and the Corozal quarters are scheduled for people involved in traffic accidents are completion by mid-May 1954. (Continued from page 4) Colon fire of not eligible. The photograph above was taken from April 1940, wanted Canal quarters but At the present time Balboa "TVB's" a location near the Corozal theater, look- were not eligible unless legally married. run about 35 percent of the criminal case ing toward the Canal. The houses in the The judge lined them up before the load; Cristobal's figure is 25 percent. foreground will be masonry construction; bench and did it all at once. those in the background are composite Courts And Courts construction, adapted to the site. Courts Are Unique The student of Canal Zone judicial The perimeter of the residential area, Lawyers say there is no exact parallel history can find himself tangled in a mess which was transferred to the Canal early in the United States for the local Magis- of conflicting terms. The construction last year by the Army, will be a broad trates' Courts. They perform the func- day equivalents of Magistrates' Courts street, one side of which will parallel tions of police or municipal courts, traffic were called District Courts. The present Gaillard Highway. The houses are being or domestic relations courts, juvenile or District Court corresponds to the con- built along horseshoe-shaped and dead- small claims courts. In addition the struction period circuit courts. end streets to eliminate dangerous inter- Magistrates have the added duties of The Canal Zone was first divided into sections. conducting preliminary hearings in felony five municipalities: Ancon. Empire, Gor- Forty of the 128 quarters buildings at and high misdemeanor cases. gona, Buenavista, and Cristobal, with a Corozal will be duplexes and the remainder In March and April of this year the court in each. The penal code and the will be single-family units. Most of the Cristobal court had no preliminary code of criminal procedure were adapta- quarters will be two- or three-bedroom hearings, the first time in 22 years such tions of codes then in force in Puerto units, with a few four-bedroom houses. a situation has occurred. Rico. Both masonry and composite type About nine-tenths of Canal Zone civil On April 15, 1907, President Roosevelt, quarters are being built at Corozal. All and criminal cases are disposed of in the by Executive Order, abolished the muni- of the composite houses will be one-family Magistrates' Courts. Traffic violations cipal districts and established in their units, adapted to the terrain and known are considered criminal matters, as dis- stead four administrative districts: Cris- as "hillside" type quarters. Their floor tinguished from civil actions (which tobal, Gorgona, Empire, and La Boca. plans are practically identical with early concern matters in which the sum claimed Five district judges, including a senior composite types, such as those in San does not exceed $500). judge, were appointed. Juan place. The basement area does not For the past 11 fiscal years, Balboa The present system of courts was extend the full depth of the houses be- has averaged 5,319 criminal and 23.7 established in April 1914, when the Canal cause of the sloping terrain. civil cases a year. From its inception organization was formed. Judge S. K. Two new types of masonry duplexes in 1914 in its present form, through May Blackburn, who had been a district judge are being built at Corozal. Both are 20 of this year, the Balboa court has since 1907, was the first Balboa Magis- two-storied. Nineteen of these will be handled 116,021 criminal cases. Balboa's trate. Judge John \V. Thompson was three-bedroom and seven will have four highest year was 1947 when 6,087 cases his opposite number in Cristobal. He bedrooms for each apartment. were brought into court. also had been a district judge.

The contract for the Corozal construc- During the same 11-year period, the • The Cristobal Magistrate's Court is on tion is held by Macco-Panpacific which Cristobal court has averaged 2,673 crim- the second floor of the Cristobal Admin- also is building the Margarita housing. inal and 9.5 civil cases a year. Since istration Building where it has been since The major part of the site preparation 1914 it has handled 70,193 criminal June 1930. Earlier it was in a two-story and grading at Corozal was done by cases through May 20 this year. Cris- wooden building, long since demolished Maintenance Division forces although tobal's peak criminal year was 1942 which stood behind the present American Macco-Panpacific is completing the grad- when 4,662 cases were brought into Legion building. ing and installing streets, sidewalks, and court. The Balboa Magistrate's Court has municipal facilities. Since March 1, 1948, when the Traffic been in its present location next to the Another housing project now under way Violations Bureaus were established, Balboa police station since 1938. It on the Pacific side is the construction of much of the traffic load has been removed moved there from the old Balboa police 22 quarters on Empire Street in Balboa. from the Magistrates' shoulders. In station, later the License Bureau, which All but one of the Empire Street houses these Bureaus, traffic violators may stood, until recently, opposite the Balboa are masonry. Two will be the new waive court hearings and pay a fixed elementarv school. June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly at BAI.BOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by tht Printino Plant Mount Hope. Canal Zone

JOHN S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. PaXSON, Lieutenant Governor

E. C. Lombard, Executive Secretary

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny Oleva Hastings Editorial Assistants

THE REBELS, above, of the Canal Zone Penitentiary, are now members of the Santa Cruz LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Softball League. Two teams of prisoners were organized about 18 months ago and played only Letters containing inquiries, suggestions, against each other until last January when their first games were scheduled with teams outside the prison. criticisms, or opinions of a general nature In the first half of the current season the Rebels tied for second place in the league, winning four will be welcomed. Those of sufficient interest and losing three games. In the second half of the season the prison team has a record of two games will be published but signatures will not l>e won and three lost, with three games left to play. used unless desired. Games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the prison. Other teams in the Santa Cruz Softball League are: Lucky Luciano, Soccer, Butcher, and Beven Holiday, all of Gamboa.

$1.00 a year SUBSCRIPTIONS— The consolidation of Gatun with In April, Balboa Heights had 19 days Margarita and the Cristobal areas as a when temperatures went over 90 degrees, single Atlantic Terminal district for with 96 degrees recorded at Madden SINGLE COPIES— 5 cents each Dam the purpose of assignment to quarters for the month's maximum. To make at all Panama Canal Clubhouses, On sale was made effective the middle of May. things even more uncomfortable, there were Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days after This means that an employee work- 11 straight days at Balboa Heights when publication date. ing anywhere on the Atlantic side may the temperature did not drop below 76 now live anywhere on the Atlantic side. degrees, day or night. SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL— lOcentseach An employee need no longer work at The hot weather carried over into the Gatun to be eligible for quarters there. first part of May and humidity figures also The first step toward the Atlantic began to rise. But after May 11, the BACK COPIES— 10 cents each Terminal district consolidation was maximum temperature did not go above taken in May 1952 when the Cristobal 90 degrees for a considerable period, and On sale when available, from the Vault Housing Office was responsible there several Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, made were days when the maximum for all Division activities in in Balboa Heights. Housing was the low 80's. Gatun and only one clerk was left in the Gatun Office. The clerk has now The annual turnover of residents and Postal money orders should be made pay- been moved from Building 200 to interns in the training program at able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- Building 35, the furniture warehouse Gorgas Hospital will start this month pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama near the Gatun police station. when the first of the outgoing interns Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. is scheduled to leave the organization. Col. William Nichol has been named Four of those completing their intern- Chief of the Surgical Service at Gorgas ships this Spring will be employed as NEW DIRECTOR Hospital to succeed Col. Earl C. Lowry Canal physicians: Drs. Robert Balfour, who has headed the service since July 1950. James L. Henry, Ernest O. Svenson, Colonel Nichol comes from the Army-Navy and John L. Winkler. Six of the resi- Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Colonel dents will remain for additional train- Lowry is leaving next week for his new post ing. The others are scheduled to leave at Letterman Army Hospital, San Fran- the Canal Zone starting early this cisco, Calif. month. Another new appointment to the Gorgas At the present, nine new interns are staff is that of Col. A. A. Albright who expected to start training at the hos- succeeds Lt. Col. Horace Shreck as Chief pital this year. They will begin arriv- of the Eye Section. Colonel Albright is ing during the latter part of June. due this month. He is coming Irom the It is now expected that seven new Percy Jones Army Hospital at Battle residents from the United States will Creek, Mich., to which Colonel Shreck has start training at Gorgas this year. been assigned. The first of the new residents is due to Arriving next month from Brooke Army arrive late this month. Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex., will be Lt. Col. George F. Lull. He will be the hospital's radiologist. Earl Johnson Appointed Chairman of PCC Board Bids were opened this week in New York for 2,604,000 gallons of high-test The appointment of Earl D. Johnson, gasoline to be sold at Canal gasoline Under Secretary of the Army, as Chair- stations. The premium gasoline will man of the Panama Canal Company go on sale about August 1. The quan- I tity for which the bids were advertised Board of Directors, was announced last will cover an estimated 6 months month. F. R. JOHNSON, abate, was named last month supply. The appointment was made by Robert tn succeed L. B. Moore as Director of the Supply Meantime, minor alterations will T. Stevens, Secretary of the Army, in his and Service Bureau. He is the first native-born be made at the tank farms and service Canal Zonian to head a Canal Bureau. stations for the handling of the gaso- capacity as Stockholder of the Company. Born in Ancon he was graduated from Balboa line. It will be sold at all retail sta- Mr. Johnson became a member of the High School in 1927. He holds a degree in tions except Pedro Miguel, Gatun and Board of Directors early this year. As architecture from the University of Michigan where additional storage tanks would Chairman, he succeeds Karl R. Bendet- and did post graduate work there. His first be required. There are duplicate stor- employment with the Canal organization was age facilities at all other stations. sen, former Under Secretary of the Army during summer vacations. After his college and now an official of the Champion work he was employed for nine years in the The wet season's first rains heavy Paper and Fibre Company of Houston. United States and then returned to the Canal brought relief, in the form of dropping continues as a of Zone, where he has been continuously em- temperatures, to Canal Zonians who had Mr. Bendetsen member ployed by the Canal since 1938. sweltered in change of seasons weather. the Board. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW JUNE 5, 1953 Zone Youngsters Learn Skill And Safety Handling Guns At Junior Rifle Club

Michael Dubbs wanted an air rifle and Sylvester has dealt with in the 10 years he wanted it very loudly—many many he has been teaching boys to shoot. times a day and for weeks on end. His The instructor believes most boys have parents' suggestions that air rifles and a natural instinct for shooting, inherited, nine-year-old's do not go well together he likes to think, from pioneer forefathers only marked them "fuddy-duddies" in who relied on their guns in settling the their young son's eyes. United States. He has encountered only Michael knew someone with an air two who couldn't handle guns. Those, rifle. He even bet his Dad had one when he says, were not interested, for some he was a little boy. He explained he inexplicable reason. could fire into Sosa Hill and never hurt Michael, like most boys, took to shoot- a thing. Furthermore, Christmas was ing like a young Daniel Boone, even coming . . . and so on and on and on. forgetting his former first interest in the Michael's father, C. A. Dubbs, men- Saturday morning movie. He practiced tioned to Police Chief George Herman on the range from 9 to 12 on three the air rifle problem that was blighting his Saturdays of the month. On the fourth, son's life and fostering family cold war. Mr. Sylvester, a towboat engineer who Major Herman advised against the air works on a swing shift, is on duty in the rifle but suggested that George M. Syl- Canal and adjacent waters. vester, Manager of the Cocoli Junior Gun He Got His Gun Club, might provide an alternative ac- The Club Manager reported to Michael's ceptable to both Michael and his father. THE SECOND WINCHESTER to bear father that his definite that name, Model 1873, is explained by George son had a aptitude Rolls-Royce—1929 Model M. Sylvester, Manager of the Cocoli Junior Gun for shooting so his father bought him a Club, to three Club members and ardent admirers gun. It was not the dangerous air rifle Arrangements were made for Mr. of the Manager's large gun collection. Buster which Michael had long since forgotten, Sylvester to pick Michael up the next McGowin, left, looks over a Model 1S94 Win- but a single shot .22 caliber Stevens Saturday morning in front of the Balboa chester of today. Michael Dubbs, right, and Ralph Parker, left, look, listen, and ask questions. target rifle. Clubhouse. The youngster's interest in Mr. Sylvester's only recommendation guns was lost temporarily in admiration find out for yourself that it is not. Keep in the matter of guns is that the weapons of the manager's 1929 Rolls-Royce in the bolt open all the time you are not purchased for boys be light rifles of a which they rode to the Club firing range shooting. If you know nothing about a type that could be used in the woods, for behind the Cocoli Police Station. gun, leave it strictly alone." instance, if the boy were hunting with his About 15 of the Club's 22 members Michael was also given a Junior Rifle father in the United States. already had gathered there. The mem- Handbook and was told to study particu- If one of the lads turns up with a bership would have to be reduced, Mr. larly the safety rules that comprise the "lemon," a "clunker" in Mr. Sylvester's Sylvester explains, if all the boys showed code of the Junior Rifleman. Mr. Syl- language, the instructor never lets him up at the same time to use the seven vester doesn't believe in pinning boys know that his gun is no good. He just firing positions. down to much memorizing but he does takes the weapon home with him and There were more nine-year-old's like ask for summaries of the Code to be sure works it over for the boy, bringing it up Michael in the crowd than any other age they understand its important safety to the class it should be for target work. group. Permission to admit boys of that lessons. The instructor probably also lets the age, with their parents' approval, was Later explanations by Mr. Sylvester boy find out by using the Club rifle how obtained two years ago from the Junior with a .22 target pistol teach the boys much better his gun would be if it had a Division of the National Rifle Association. rudimentary "do's" and "don'ts" about sling, which Mr. Sylvester probably also The ages in the Cocoli Club range the pistols they may run across in some installs on the weapon. upward to about 16, when boys often dresser drawer. The first time a boy shoots a good set develop interests like motorcycles and With a minimum of preliminary "les- of targets, the targets go home with him girls and lose some enthusiasm for shoot- sons," Michael got down on the mat and so that his family can share his excitement ing, the Club Manager explains. The aimed the target rifle. In the first four of accomplishment. Not the least of the maximum age is 18 for members of or five shots he got right on the target - instructor's jobs is the paper work en- junior gun clubs affiliated with the typical of most of the "novices" Mr. tailed in scoring the targets and recording National Rifle Association. While the boys who had been on the range before started target practice, under Mr. Sylvester's ever-watchful eye, Michael was introduced to the one Club gun that he would share with three other boys who did not have guns of their own.

It is a sturdy, safe, and dependable .22 caliber Remington 521T (target rifle), specially built for youngsters, purchased at reduced price through the Balboa Gun Club. Michael, like most of the youngsters Mr. Sylvester encounters, had already picked up from "Batman" and "Super- man" books considerable information about sights and targets and such things. "Youngsters are great readers," the Club Manager observes, "and they learn a lot of things from unsuspected sources."

Safety Rules

He showed Michael the parts of the rifle and explained for the first time some of the rules he would repeat over and over again in many different ways. AN ATTRACTION of the Club, as far as some members are concerned, is the 1929 "Never point a gun anywhere except ADDED Rolls-Royce of the Hub Manager, in which some of them sometimes ride to and from the firing at target. Every time you pick up the range at Cocoli Left to right are: Sam Cramer, Mr. Sylvester, Michael Dubbs, Buster McGowin, a gun assume that it is loaded until you and Ralph Parker. .

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trigger guard was completely broto a.

He restored it to it i using old tools and emulating, in many cases, crude methods used by old gunsmiths to retain the authenticity

Springs were Difficult

The springs were the hardest to dupli- cate. Wmking like the old gunsmiths long before the days of tempered steel classified by degrees of hardness, he judged the temper by the color oi the

metal as it was drawn from the forge. Mr. Sylvester made about six springs that were either too soft or too hard before he achieved the right temper for the springs for the old musket. After each unsuccessful try, he would put the project away for months before working up the courage to start on the springs again. His guns are all like the old musket. He doesn't have them if they do not shoot and they are all in excellent condition. Of course, he reloads his own shells to MEMBERS of the Cocoli Junior Gun Club are shown here with their manager, George M. Sylvester, right, at one of the regular Saturday morning practice sessions at the firing range in Cocoli. fit the outlandish calibers, using old tools of his father's that started the gun the scores with the National Rifle with relatives and friends in New England. collection. The first guns the collector Association. The Gun Club gatherings at the Syl- acquired were bought to replace weapons Boys never go home empty handed vester home were more common when his father once owned on which he used from the Club prize shoots, which are they lived close to the Club in Cocoli. the tools. Single shells for some of the old held about three times a year. Mr. Then the doorstep was worn thin by guns in the collection would cost as much

Sylvester believes in a minimum of medals young gun-enthusiast callers. as $2 if Mr. Sylvester would or could buy for prizes and a maximum of things boys The change of location doesn't reduce them outright. like, such as cartridge blocks, cleaning the steady stream of older callers who The next historical step through the rods and kits, jack knives and model cars. come to admire the collection, swap a gun collection may be two .58 caliber Prizes from Distant Friends gun for another gun or for Mr. Sylvester's caplock rifles of the Civil War era, one services as gunsmith, ask the history or made for the government by contractors Some of the most handsome prizes value of a particular piece or make use in New England and the other, dated given at the shoots have been donations of his extensive library of source material 1852, that came from the Harper's from Mr. Sylvester's friends in Massachu- on the subject. Ferry Arsenal. setts, who know of the Club only through Mr. Sylvester explains his collection Mr. Sylvester might stop next at a his letters and biennial visits home. largely in terms of the history the different .52 caliber Smith carbine, one of the Medals, diplomas, brassards, and such weapons encompass. type strewn all over the field at the symbols of achievement come to the He usually starts with a .69 caliber Battle of Gettysburg, he explains. boys as they progress through the N. R. A. flintlock musket of 1775, one of those The historical tour through the collec- junior rifleman ranks, from pro-marksman purchased, possibly by Benjamin Frank- tion might stop next at a .50 caliber to marksman, marksman first class, lin, in France or Austria for use against Sharps Buffalo Rifle; the old Winchester sharpshooter, expert and, finally, dis- the Redcoats in the Revolutionary War. '73, once used at the Canal Zone Peniten- tinguished rifleman. The words "Town of Boston" are burned tiary; a Colt revolver of 1860 of the type James A. Hale, 15, Vice President of into the stock and it has faint regimental used by Pony Express riders; or another the Club, is the only member who is now markings. old Colt "peacemaker," so called for the classified as "expert rifleman," although That old gun, like many others in his role it played in the hands of "the law" about six others are fast approaching collection, came from a pawn shop in in the old' Wild West. that mark. SLx of the younger boys are Boston. sharpshooters and the others, who are Guns for Ladies When he bought it, the mam spring comparatively new, are approaching the was broken; the old screws with their Then Mr. Sylvester might show the rank of "marksman." odd threads were rusted in, broken or visitor an 1860 four-barrel double-action Gerald Hendrickson, now a student missing; many internal parts of the lock Remington "vest pocket"^ or "lady's" assistant at the Panama Canal Library, were gone or badly broken; the ramrod gun from an era in which ladies and qualified two years ago when he was 17 for it was gone; the wood of the stock gamblers needed, carried and used such as "Distinguished Rifleman," the only was rotten and splitting away; and the weapons; an 1867 .50 caliber Navy pistol, such achievement in the history of the "a cannon that left an awful hole," the Club. collector explains; and so on through The youngest "expert" qualified by weapons from all major conflicts and up the was Kielhofer of Club Robert Pedro to the present day. achieved Miguel who that rank two Then there are the oddities like the years ago when he was 10. two-inch watch chain pistol that shoots Some Saturdays, Mr. Sylvester brings with a loud report and fires a two-milli- to Club for the boys to see shoot, the and meter bullet "that can put an eye out;" with safety reduced loads, a muzzle a light rifle with bayonet, used for drill loading "Kentucky rifle," made in Penn- by young boys in the "Bolilla," a Musso- sylvania, or an old Winchester, Model lini version of the Boy Scout movement; one of the first repeating rifles. L873, and a sizable collection of "just guns" These and other guns he shows the Mi'. Sylvester keeps for swapping purposes. his types boys from own collection are the The present Cocoli Junior Club had of weapons that settled the United its origin in a now defunct Cocoli Boys States, he explains to the youngsters. Club organized in 1946 by former Canal Collection of 200 Guns Zone Police Sergeant George V. Ritchey, Then there are cake or cookie occasions, then in charge of the Cocoli Police Station. courtesy of Mrs. Sylvester, when the LIMEADE, a good healthful cooling-off drink The original club was occasioned in Club has a conclave right in the midst of for young marksmen is provided every Saturday part by minor mischief making by a few- morning by the mother of one of the Club the instructor's gun collection. He has youngsters in the community who only members. Shown here in the limeade line are, 200 guns in his "four-family" needed, in the opinion of the sergeant, a about left to right: David Fairchild, Lewis Bateman, apartment in Balboa; others are stored Robert Paul Beals, and George Coppenhaver. good outlet for their energies and interests. —

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Weil-Known Headwaiter For Clubhouses Applications Close June 10 For 8 New Margarita Houses Retires After Long Service With Canal Applications are now being received at the Cristobal Housing office for eight and then to the building, demolished, now new houses in Margarita. The applica- which subsequently became the Ancon tions will be closed on June 10. One of theater. The present Ancon Clubhouse the houses is a three-bedroom breezew-ay, was at that time a restaurant, operated three are type 333 which have three- by a concessionaire. bedrooms, and one bath, and the re- All of his service since 1918 has been mainder are type 332, which have two at Ancon. In 1940 head- he was made bedrooms. All are single houses. waiter and for the last 13 years has been Late last month 12 of the 14S apart- seeing to it that people were seated, ments which are being built at Margarita given that menus and ice water, and they had been occupied. The Margarita hous- were served. ing project will be finished the latter he has Now retired. Last Sunday part of August. night he seated his last customer and The new houses which are occupied called his last waitress to attention. are all in the First Street Area. All Retiring with him that day were two are masonry. other oldtimers from the Ancon Club- The Margarita housing project is the house, Arthur R. Sealy, a janitor with single largest construction job, moneta- some 35 years of service, and Alexander rily, in the current housing program. The King, a waiter, who has been on the total amount of the contract is around Isthmus since 1913 and who has some $3,250,000. The Margarita contract in- 19 years of Canal service. cluded grading and site preparation for CYRIL C. LIXDO Mr. Lindo has no plans for the future. the Margarita School, which is now under At close to 65, he feels that he has earned construction, as well as area adjacent When Cyril C. Lindo came to the Canal an the right to take things easy. He and his to Gulick Road and the Bolivar Highway Zone from Jamaica in 1909, he was not wife will live in Panama, where they have intersection. entirely unfamiliar with things here. two sons and two grandchildren. the Margarita project were Two older Lindos, Abraham and David, Bids for con- had preceded him and sent word back Two other second generation Lindos opened in February 1952 and the a short time later to home that jobs were plentiful and that live in New York where one of them works tract awarded also holds the their 21 -year-old brother should have no for a dress manufacturer and the other is Macco-Panpacific, which trouble getting work. on the clerical staff of the United Nations. Corozal housing construction contract. So Cyril Lindo, who later became one of the best-known of the Clubhouse Divi- sion's head-waiters, quit his job as a messenger in the office of the Jamaican newspaper, the "Gleaner," and came to the Canal Zone. During his first few years here he thought frequently of his Jamaican home "GARD" will be arriving in the Commissaries fry find plenty of interests to keep them hap- and, after he was married and began to this month just in time to save fabrics and pily occupied. Commissary wholesale people raise a family, wished he could send his leathers from this year's rainy season rains. had that in mind when they stocked up on a children back there to school. But later "Gard" is a combination of synthetic resins lot of toys that are available in the retail that weatherproofs practically any fabric, stores now. he began to realize that the Isthmus was leather, straw, or paper. There are pedal bikes for $3.75/ regular a pretty good place to bring up his Sprayed on clothes, purses, luggage, shoes, boys' and girls' bicycles for $48.95 to daughter and three sons and to this day convertible tops, outdoor furniture, or auto- $62.50,- scooters, from $4.45 to $7.75; has never been back to Jamaica. Nor, he mobile upholstery, for instance, it waterproofs velocipedes, $8.40 to $15.40; roller skates; them but does not seal the pores of the ma- many attractive and entertaining children's says now, has he any desire to return there. terial. It will cost about 85 f for a 5-ounce, activity books; cowboy holster sets; rubber His first job was at Empire where he and $1 .25 for an 1 1 -ounce can. dolls and toys; many wooden action toys,- was, as he also was later at Portobelo, a harmonicas all kinds of things to brighten helper for a drill gang. They were the Alligator pears from Haiti —the kind Canal the vacation period for children and their old-timers drool about when they parents. men who drilled the holes into which Haitian recall former stops at Port-au- blasting pow^der was put. It was trying Pears Prince on Panama Line sailings Travelers or stay-at-homes with children and work, very often knee- to hip-deep in mud. have been ordered and are ex- I / children's laundry problems will l_i 6 In 1913 he moved to inside work, pected in the stores in June. .j !? also be interested in the large Mothers i . c i i »u lot ot cotton seersucker clothes becoming a helper in the machine shops A LOT of new luggage is in the stores now for youngsters that are coming to the Com- at Gorgona. Similar work followed in and more will be arriving soon just in time missaries soon. They are the type that need the Empire and Balboa shops. In 1915 for summer vacationers. There will be several no ironing. he became a carpenter's helper, working styles of Samsonite, Clothes-Pac's, "Wings" Flight-Pak's, and Towne and Shortrip lug- FRENCH ONION SOUP addict "from in the old Building Division in Balboa. A gage in canvas, nylon, drill, duck, leather, Onionsoupville," he says who has been One of his jobs there was to help build and vinyl, in plain colors and plaids. known to eat the stuff for breakfast, says the the forms with which concrete was poured Crosse & Blackwell French onion soup in cans for the long curving flight of steps which New large size cartons of Birds Eye frozen that is coming to the Commissaries this month »».. concentrate will be is as any he has encountered. leads from Gorgas Road to the main orange juice as good Vitamins _ , = ',_ i. r i- ; A qo a boon to big families. A 32- Other new Crosse & Blackwell canned entrance of Gorgas Hospital. by the ounce size that makes a gallon of soups that will go on sale at the same time Gallon Waiter Since 1918 juice will cost less than $1. include cream of onion, cream of shrimp, consomme madrilene, crab a la Maryland, But all the time, he recalls, he wanted A NEW ironing board cover called "Sili- and black bean and sherry. The 12- and some sort of "cleaner, inside work." cone" is scorch resistant, waterproof, heat 1 3-ounce cans will cost about 21 c to 34 c In 19 IS he became a waiter for the old reflecting, color fast, porous, stain proof, adjustable to all standard size ironing Bureau of Clubs and Playgrounds, at In Case You Didn't Know Department: The boards, and never needs to be laundered. the old Ancon Clubhouse which stood !_ , Housewares Sections have wood- It will be arriving in the commissaries soon I "en and steel legs lo convert springs approximately where the bachelor quar- and will cost about $1.40. ouse " lo Hollywood beds. There is also w re ters are now near the Ancon commissary, a new supply of glass globes for Keiller's Jams (Keiller is the export agent He was working there when the building hurricane lamps coming to the stores. for the English Crosse & Blackwell to the burned ground about 1925 and Jam by Company) are coming to the Corn- remembers that in the conflagration he Jars missaries soon. There will be F. F. V. (Favorite Foods of Virginia) appeti- lost a commissary book which he had 1 -pound jars of strawberry, rasp- zers are new in the Commissaries. They are berry, and plum that will cost about 40^. wafers about an inch square or smaller, foil- stored in his locker. wrapped to retain the freshness. There are After the fire the Clubhouse transferred SCHOOL VACATIONS will be more three types, each with its own distinctive its activities first to the Ancon playshed pleasant, at home or traveling, if the small flavor. A box will cost about 38 (!. June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Canal Zone Seal Used On Thousands although the original die ami counter were replaced in 1938. Maj. Gen. < leorge W. Davis, first Governor of the Canal Zone, Of Documents In Past 47 Years noted in March 1905 that It would be a fixture on the Isthmus "for all time." The Executive Secretary has always been the Custodian of the seal. In L906 the seal was located in his office mi the Isthmus. When the Isthmian Canal Commission was replaced by The Panama Canal organization i" 1914 an Executive Order again placed the Executive Secretary in charge of the seal of the Government of the Canal Zone and an Executive Regu-

lation of December 5, 1951, reiterated that provision in the present Canal organization. The features of what may have been the seal's forebears are not shown in present Canal files which indicate that some of its characteristics, at least, may have been inherited from French Canal builders. Exact Origin Clouded Sketchy records, conflicting personali- ties, and lines of authority in Washington and on the Isthmus during the early American Canal efforts leave some doubt as to the exact origin of the design and motto of the seal which are generally attributed to Gaillard Hunt, former Chief of the Passport Bureau of the State Department. Governor Davis submitted to the Isth- mian Canal Commission in Washington in December 1904 designs he had origi- GRAYCE LYDIA XADEAU, of the Executive Secretary's office, spells off her boss now and then when it comes to impressing the seal of the Canal Zone on some of the 5,000 documents which nated for a Canal Zone seal. His designs are so marked each year. had been executed by C. Bertoncini, then an employee of the Commission on the The official seal of the Canal Zone in eering Division. The Secretary of the Isthmus who had formerly worked for the the office of the Executive Secretary is Company in Washington is custodian of French Canal Company. the "granddaddy" of all the seals used in the corporate seal. The disposition of those designs was the near half-century history of the Pan- In addition to the Company and Canal the subject of considerable inquiry later ama Canal organization. Zone seals, there are about 200 Notary in 1905 when the Governor requested It was authorized by the first Isthmian Public seals in use in the Canal Zone as that they be returned to him, and again Canal Commission in March 1905 and well as a few other official seals used in in 1932 when correspondence in the was delivered to the Canal Zone in the Canal organization. Washington office of The Panama Canal February 1906. One is used by the Board of Local was combed and copied in an attempt to

The seal is used primarily to authen- Inspectors, principally on licenses to establish the origin of the seal. ticate official and legal documents— motorboat operators; seals of the Port A notation from a meeting of the Isth- particularly those that are to be used in Captains at Balboa and Cristobal are mian Canal Commission in March 1905, jurisdictions other than the Canal Zone. used primarily on certificates of clearance stated that the Chairman had accepted The impression of the seal is used in con- for vessels leaving Canal waters; the an offer made by Mr. Hunt to prepare a junction with the signature of the Execu- Board of Admeasurement uses a seal design for the seal. He had also designed tive Secretary attesting the authenticity primarily for tonnage certificates for ves- the seals of Puerto Rico and the Philip- and validity of official acts. sels transiting the Canal. These seals pine Islands. were changed slightly in wording in 1951 The Canal Zone seal and the muscle In reply to an inquiry concerning the to conform to the new Canal organization. power used in making impressions of it history of heraldic devices on the Isth- and the good right arm of E. C. Lombard, Seal Has Not Changed mus, which apparently originated with Executive Secretary and custodian of the The official seal of the Canal Zone, Mr. Hunt after he had accepted the com- seal, get plenty of use in the exercise of unlike all the others, has weathered mission to design a Canal Zone seal, this official function. The seal and signa- many organizational changes and remains Governor Davis wrote in March 1905 a ture are affixed to some 5,000 documents the same today as in the original design lengthy letter concerning (See page i i annually. Panama Canal Company Seal

The corporate seal of the Panama Canal Company is a brash newcomer by com- parison, bearing the date 1950 when the law establishing the new corporation was passed by the United States Congress. The seal of the corporation that was originally the Panama Railroad Company changed in design with the changes that were made in its corporate structure, from a New York State to a Federal corporation in 1948, then to the new Panama Canal Company in July 1951. The present Company seal was adopted by the Board of Directors in 1950 and "GRANDDADDY" of all the seals used in the A BRASH NEWCOMER to the seal family is history of the Panama Canal organization is this this one, the corporate seal of the Panama Canal was designed by John C. Buechele, who Official Seal of the Canal Zone. It was authorized Company. Adopted by the Hoard of Directors in in retired 1951 as Architect in the Engin- by the first Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905. 1950, it was designed by John C. Buechele. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Ten Years Ago In May Commended

The Balboa Quarantine Station was representative of the recently-formed moved to Corozal, following the transfer civic council. The name "Curundu" was from the Canal to the Navy of the former chosen in an overwhelming vote of Quarantine Station area at Fort Amador. residents in a mass meeting and then During the early days of the war, the Lt. Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the Balboa station was used for a camp for Caribbean Command, made it official. internees. The Governor requested telephone sub- Dry excavation for the Third Locks at scribers to help relieve the heavy load on Gatun was completed. The contract for the telephone system which had become the diii excavation was the first major increasingly congested. He also an- contract awarded for the Third Locks nounced that the rainy season would project. The work had started in February, bring no relaxation of regulations for the 1941, and had been conducted on a 2^-hour- conservation of water, since increased a-day, seven-day-a-weck basis until it consumption for several months had been was completed. near the filtering capacity of the system. Hoses were not to be used to clean screen*, "Skunk Hollow" or "Jungle Glen" wash vehicles, or water lawns or shrubbery became officially "Curundu." Names around quarters. for the officially unnamed Army civilian JEROME HOWARD, quartermaster on tie housing area were selected by a committee Another announcement from Balboa ferryboat Presidents Amador, won a commenda- tion last month from Governor Seybold for composed of Col. Ross E. Windom, Dis- Heights reminded local residents that rescuing a young girl from drowning. gasoline ration books must be returned to trict Engineer in charge of the area; The girl jumped from the ferryboat President Brodie Burnham, Editor of The Panama the License Section when vehicles were Roosevelt just as the two ferries were passing in American; and H. W. Northrup, a said or transferred. midstream. The quartermaster dived over- board, swam 75 feet to the drowning girl, and then towed her back to his ferryboat. Ten Year Old Dream Is Nearing Reality In his letter Governor Seybold said: "I take great pleasure in commending you for your For Margarita Recreational Association HONOR GRADUATE courageous deed which reflects great credit upon you and upon the Canal organization." {Continued from page 2) donated to the MRA for the Scouts of Margarita.

Someone else conceived an idea of C. Z. Seal Used On Thousands Of Documents raising funds to have them erected and Donald Brayton, an MRA director, coined (Continued from page It) the research he the slogan "Give your dough and watch had done and explaining in this manner it grow." By mid-May the fund stood the designs he had submitted to the at $1,593.05. The money came from Commission: about everywhere and everyone. Men of French Motto Margarita who had neither time nor skill in construction work gave money to hire "The motif of my design was, first, to what help was needed. comply with the law—second, to give it The Margarita Cubs held a county fair an essential interoceanic Canal character, and raised $100. Cristobal Girl Scouts, for the United States has but one errand feeling that Margarita may eventually be at Panama—to make a canal, to join the their future home, gave $300 from their seas for the benefit of mankind—and I, building fund. The Margarita Girl therefore, adopted a motto expressive of Scouts gave another $300. Boy Scouts that idea. contributed $75 from their treasury, and "Of course," the Governor continued, the Boilermakers Local 463 gave $25. "It is well known that M. DeLesseps It all piled up to an amazing total, and adopted a motto for his (French Canal) Company, the idea of which was that the YVONNE KUPERMAN, above, was given the according to MRA treasurer Gerard Canal Znne Junior College's Honor Award this week Senear money is still coming in. continents were divided for the benefit at the ( '"liege graduation ceremonies. Her name will When the huts are up and occupied, of mankind." be inscribed on a plaque at the entrance to the col- the MRA does not plan to relax. July 4 Artists of "Messrs. Tiffany and Com- lege building, along with the names of the 1* young pany" in New York prepared the design men and women who have been similarly honored. is coming on and the MRA has taken that recommended to the Commission The plaque was presented in 1935 by the first class over sponsorship of childrens' activities, was which was graduated from the Junior College "In up to and including the program, judges, by Mr. Hunt and was adopted by that honor of the member of each class of the Canal Zone and prizes. body—after the Chairman changed the Junior College who contributed most to the spiritual, activities to planned original word "earth" to "land" and made intellectual, and extra-curricular life of the college." Summer have be the sails of the Spanish galleon smaller. Miss Kuperman is the daughter "f Mr. an. I Mis. for the youngsters and it's not too early Maurice Kuperman of Cartagena, Colombia. Born to be making plans for Hallowe'en. The description furnished the Commis- in Cartagena, she came to the Isthmus some years The present officers of the MRA—Mr. sion with Mr. Hunt's recommendation ago and was graduated in 1951 from Balboa High Bath, E. French, vice president, was repeated in substance in the only School where she was member 4 the National Worden official Honor Society. Mrs. Shirley Wertz, secretary, Mr. Schear existing description of the seal of She has been interested in a number of school and —and the directors- Mrs. Sally Keane, the Canal Zone. The description, con- extra-curricular activities. In addition to serving as Edward C. Blount, Herbert Engelke, S. tained in an Executive Order of 1915 of the sophomore class, she was also presi- Ross designating a flag for the Governor which dent of the Natural Science Society and business Cunningham, Donald R. Brayton, of the Zone, states: manager of the college year book "The Conquista- and William C. Maynard have another displays the seal Canal dor." In her freshman year she was business man- bee in their bonnet. It's quite likely "A shield, showing at the bottom a ager of and a contributor to the "Tropical Collegian." that new officers, who will be elected in Spanish galleon of the loth Century ( She was also a member of ( iamma 'hi. June, may have the same bee. under full sail coming head on between Active also in sports, she played Softball, and was on the all-star volleyball and basketball teams. Margarita has no swimming pool, and twn high banks, all purpure (heraldic Mia-' Kuperman plans to continue her education Margaritans and the MRA are somewhat term for purple), the sky yellow with the in the United States, either at Cornell or Columbia, nmre than a little sensitive on that point. glow of sunset; in the chief the colors of and will study to be a clinical laboratorj technician. They know that they cannot raise enough the arms of the United States. Under the money to build a pool by renting the shield the motto: The land divided; The first courts in the Canal Zone were M RA-owned public address system, rental the world united." five municipal and three circuit courts, of which brings in about $10 a week and Since the time the seal was adopted and a supreme court. is the M RA's main source of income. there have been hundreds of letters from But when they wanted Scout shacks collectors of official seals, asking for an The construction of a lock-type Pan- they found them, and who knows? May lie impression, and from those who wanl to ama Canal was authorized by Congress a swimming pool might come along some reproduce the seal in bonks, on sou- in June 1906. day. venirs, handkerchiefs, shuts, needlework. June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 Canal's Apprentice Program Transiting Ship Disrupted With Draft Calls Flies Royal Flag The Personal Standard of a reigning queen flew from the mast of a transit- ing ship last month; oldtimers believe The Canal's apprentice training pro- A register and the scores of those it chalks up another "first" for the gram has been disrupted by the recent who took the examination has been com- Canal. reduction in force of some crafts and by piled and is now in the hands of Division The queen was Queen Salote Tupou the induction or forthcoming induction heads who expect to employ apprentices of Tonga, a 250-square mile island kingdom in the Southwest Pacific. into the military service of a number of about the beginning of the fiscal year, She was a passenger aboard the S. S. the apprentices. July 1. "Rangitoto" en route to England to As of the week of May 18 through 22, Present indications are that about attend the coronation of Queen the number of apprentices in training had five apprentices will be employed, but Elizabeth II. The Queen's domain is also known been reduced from 60 during the month of this number does not include those who as the Friendly Islands. It is divided reductions in the replace the apprentices who are being March to 42. Of the 1 8 mav into three main groups: Tongatabu, number of apprentices, six were given drafted. Haapai, and Yavan. reduction in force notices in the Industrial Deferments are not being requested for Edward M. Barlow of the Locks Division, who met Queen Salote Tupou Bureau and 12 had resigned to enter the apprentices but their induction may be aboard ship, was told by a member of postponed for days military service. a period of up to 90 her party that Captain Cook had visited A number of others will probably be to permit them to complete the current the islands about 1775. He left there drafted before they can complete their quarter of formal apprentice school two tortoises. One died about 50 years ago. The other still lives at the training, if the present large Selective courses in which they are engaged at the Royal Palace, having been run over Service quotas for the Canal Zone time they are ordered to report for induc- three times once by an American continue. tion. jeep —and having survived several fires. It will be several weeks, Personnel officers said, before it will be known how many—if any— of the apprentices enter- Forty Years Ago In May ing the military service will be replaced. Forty-five applicants, seven of whom were veterans, took the six-part apprentice examination at the Diablo Clubhouse on May 9. Gerald Hendrickson, a Junior College student, ranked first in each of the five written sections and the manipulative exercise which comprised the examinatior.

Supply And Service

Bureau Is Assigned

U. S. Procurement

Responsibility for supply procurement in the United States for the Company- Government has been assigned to the Supply and Service Director of the Panama Canal Company. In a circular announcing the change,

Governor Seybold instructed the Supply A JAX, one of the Dredging Division's two 250-ton cranes, is a familiar sight to most Zonians and Service Director to assume control as she now appears with her towering superstructure. But she looked like this when she arrived immediately and submit recommenda- from Germany July 9, 1914. Ajai and her sister-crane, Hercules, were ordered 40 years ago last month. tions on the organization of the Purchas- ing Office in New York so that the plan contract for two floating cranes of the Commissary and brought the I. C. C. will become fully operative by the first A of tons was to hotel there the biggest business any hotel of July 1953. 250 gross capacity awarded of in the history Canal construction. The Canal's procurement organization the Deutsche Maschinefabrik A. G. of of Duisburg, bids, from average 1,325 meals were served has been a part of the Company's New Germany. Four An of American, English, Dutch, German there daily. About 320 people were served York Office which will continue to provide and in in 35 minutes, between the passing labor the administrative support required by firms, had been opened Washington, of 1913. trains. Fifty-one waiters were employed the new unit. There are about 40 em- on January 13, proposal of the firm was by the hotel steward. ployees engaged in the procurement "The German so lower in price than any other function in Xew York. much and the experience, facilities, and reputa- Fifty mules arrived from the United The placing of the Xew York Purchas- tion of this firm were so excellent, that it States, the first large importation of new ing Office under the supervision of the was unquestionably the best of those stock since 1909. They cost $211 each. Supply and Service Director is designed received," The Canal Record reported. There were 354 mules and 84 horses then to provide closer coordination between The cranes, which later were named in service. About 50 died, were con- those units of the Company which buy the Ajax and Hercules, were to be built demned, or sold each year. In 1910, supplies and those which sell them. in Germany and delivered to the Canal 22 mules had died in an epidemic of Stateside procurement functions have Zone in 580 days. The pontoons, fitted trypanosoma disease, "analagous to the been centered in Xew York since last with a part of the machinery located surra of the Philippine Islands and the year when the Canal's Washington Pro- below deck, were to be towed to the 'sleeping sickness' of Africa," according curement Office was abolished. Prior to Isthmus. The superstructure was to be to the Canal Record. that time purchases for the Commissary shipped in a knocked-down condition. Division were made by the New York Office and other purchases were handled Nine Canal Zone Women's Clubs in in Washington. The erection at Corozal of houses moved various Canal villages which closed six The change in the procurement function from Gorgona had been expedited by the years of activity on April 19. 1013, were is similar to those made in the personnel construction of a spur track from the dubbed by the Record "unique in the history and accounting functions after the close Panpma Railroad station toward the high of the woman movement." They were the of the Washington Office when policy land on which the houses were being erected. only clubs of women ever organized in any supervision was placed under the respon- The growth of Corozal necessitated country by government authority, the Record sible official in the Canal Zone. increased fire protection and enlargement explained. 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS ANNIVERSARIES

April 15 Through May 15 Employees who observed important anni- versaries during the month of May are Employees were promoted or trans- Supply Clerk to Storekeeper (general) who listed alphabetically below. The number ferred between April 15 and May 15 are Pacific Locks. of years includes all Government service below. Regradings and \vi thin-grade Albert L. from Pilot-in-Training listed Wilder, with the Canal or other agencies. Those are listed. to Probationary promotions not Pilot. with continuous service with the Canal are ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH John F. Martin, from Locks Security indicated with (*). Jerry W. Detamore, from Records Guard to Clerk-Typist, Pacific Lock-. 41 YEARS Administrator, Records Section, to Meth- Harry W. Gardner, from Public Works ods Examiner, Property and Survey Section. Foreman, Maintenance Division, to Wharf- Maj. George Herman, Chief, Police Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson, from Secretary, Building Foreman, Dredging Division. I >ivision. Office of the Governor, to Clerk-Stenog- William E. Hopkins, from Probation- Berney J. Robinson, Steam Engineer, rapher, Administrative Branch. ary to Qualified Pilot. Terminals Division. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Elmer G. Abbott, from Pilot to Assist- 35 YEARS ant Port Captain, Balboa. Mrs. Winifred J. White, Mrs. Patri- Ira L. Wright, Assistant to Comptroller. cia F. Van Evera, Mrs. Ethel P. McDer- Robert C. Carter, from Construction Jessie K. Maurer, Supervisor Nurse, mitt, from Substitute Teacher to Elemen- Equipment and Pumping Plant Operator, Colon Hospital. tary Teacher. Maintenance Division, to Lock Operator, 30 YEARS Fred Huddleston, from Fireman to Pacific Locks. Postal Clerk. Glenn M. Cramer, from First Mate to Earl Cassell, Electrical Supervisor, Robert L. Anston, from Life Guard, Master, U. S. S. Taboga. Gat tin Locks. Division of Schools, to Fireman. Cecil Kovel, from Gauger, Division of Earl A. Dyer, Foreman, Printing Plant. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER to Property and Supply Clerk, Storehouses, 25 YEARS Alex A. Levine, from Clerk-Stenog- Dredging Division. David Norton, Car Inspector, Railroad rapher, Police Division, to Accountant, PERSONNEL BUREAU Division. Internal Audit Staff. L. B. Burnham, from Employee Coun- Robert L. Blaney, Traffic Manager, Warren Pitman, from Budget Special- sellor to Training Officer. Terminals Division. ist to Business Analyst, Management Staff. Mrs. Joanne E. Robinson, Clerk- Jeanne C. Magnuson, Accounting Robert Lessiack, from Governmental Typist, from Employment and Utilization Clerk, Accounting Division. Systems Accountant, Internal Audits Staff, Division to Personnel Records Division. Roger T. Williams, Foreman Crib- to Business Analyst, Management Staff. Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver, from Clerk- tender and Steam Engineer, Terminals Carl W. Hoffmeyer, from Postal Clerk Stenographer, Employment and Utilization I Hvision. to Construction Cost Analyst. Division, to Personnel Clerk (Stenographer) John A. Everson, District Wiremau, Albert M. Jenkins, Systems Account- Office of the Director. Electrical Division. ant, from Cost Accounts Branch to Ac- RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU Walter R. Lindsay, Chief, Grounds counting Systems Staff. N. Austin, Edmond N. Maintenance Division. Mrs. Eva M. Grassau, from Fiscal Ac- Osmond Eberly, from Helper, Locks Overhaul, to counting Clerk, Industrial Bureau, to Cash 20 YEARS Gauger and Cribtender Foreman, Term- Accounting Clerk, Costs Account Branch. Richard C. McKeown, Leader, Sheet inals Divisio i John W. Walker, from Cash Account- Worker, Maintenance Div ision. Eugene White, from Signalman, Navi- Metal ing Clerk, Costs Accounts Branch, to Eleanor A. Connor, Accounting Clerk, gatio i Division, to Gauger and Cribtender Accountant, Internal Audit Staff. of Comptroller. Foreman, Terminals Division. Office ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION George H. Sanford, Supervisor, Repro- SUPPLY AND SERVICE BUREAU BUREAU duction Plant. Leo B. Clements, from Supervisor, Henry E. May, from Assistant Super- Howard E. Turner, Assistant Chief, Water and Laboratories Branch, to Gen- intendent to Superintendent, Division of Payroll Branch. eral Foreman, Panama Public Works. Storehouses. *Douglas S. Johnston, Administrative Property and Harry F. Cody, from General Foreman, James B. Gilder, from Assistant, Community Services Bureau. Panama Public Works, to Supervisor, Supply Clerk to Commissary Assistant. Robert H. Adams, Supply Require- Water and Laboratories Branch. Floyd R. Johnson, from Assistant Sup- ments Assistant, Division of Storehouses. Charles B. Douglas, from Powerhouse ply and Service Director to Director. Robert L. Snyder, Postal Clerk. from Helper, Operator to Powerhouse Operator- Dis- William A. Hadarits, Division of 15 YEARS patcher, Electrical Division. Locks Overhaul, to Gauger, H. Hobby, Supervisor, John E. Ridge, Jr., from Painter Leader Storehouses. *Walter Body Theriault, from Supervisory Repair Shop, Motor 'Transportation Divi- to Heavy Labor Foreman, Maintenance Raoul O. Supervisory Division. Procurement Officer to Ac- sion. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR countant, Commissary Division. Elmer H. Gardner, Wireman, Electrical Norman B. Davison, from Supervisory Division. Mrs. Grayce L. Nadeau, from Clerk- Business Accountant to Supervisory Ac- Fred L. Wertz, Jr., Locomotive Engin- Stenographer, Administrative Branch, to countant, Commissary Division. eer, Railroad Division. Secretary, Executive Secretary's Office. Mrs. Mabel M. Duncan, Telephone R. L. Hendrickson, Senior Towboat Mary F. Maguire, Secretary, from Operator, from Housing Division to Com- Master, Navigation Division. Executive Secretary's Office to Office of missary Division. Lavinia R. Dahlhoff, Telephone Oper- the Governor. Frank F. Williams, from Supervisory ator, Electrical Division. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU Accounting Clerk to Procurement Officer, Harold J. McCarrick, Foreman, Public from Storekeeper, Arnulfo Manning, Commissary I (ivision. Winks, Maintenance Division. Shipping, Commissary Division, to Appren- Beverley C. Halliday, from Procure- *Ethel C. Myers, Nurse, Gorgas Hos- tice (combination welder). ment Officer to Supervisory Procurement pital. MARINE BUREAU Officer, Commissary Division. Gregory G. Cartotto, Business Ac- Theodore R. Yost, from Guard to Mrs. Frances M. Griggel, from Cash countant, Office of Comptroller. Guard Supervisor, Locks Security Branch. Accounting Clerk to Supplv Assistant, Daile D. Keigley, Governmental Ac- Thomas E. Morgan, from Helper, Commissary I >iv ision. countant, Accounting Division. Pacific Locks Overhaul, to Propertj and John J. Ryan, from Meat Cutter to John A. Dovel, Leadingman Pipefitter, Supply Clerk, Pacific Locks. Meat Cutter in Charge. Commissary Div- Industrial Bureau. James J. Morris, from Property and Ernest B. Rainier, Pilot, Navigation Division.

RETIREMENTS IN JUNE SAILINGS Honor Roll Corrections

MAY The Canal Honor Roll, which ap- ristobal c peared in the May issue of The Panama 5 Employees who retired at the end of May, Panama June Canal Review and which listed employ- their birthplaces, tiller, length oi service at Cristobal June 12 ees now in service who began work for retirement, and their future addresses are: 1" the Canal during the construction . 1 Hi nil ] line period, omitted the name of Edward W. Harold P. Bevington, Ohio; Electri- Panama June 26 Schnake, Electrical Supervisor at Mira- cian, Commissary Division; 39 years, 3 flores Locks. Mr. Schnake began work months, 12 days; Rock Stream, N. Y. New York the Canal organization in Novem- John Joseph Dudak, Pennsylvania; for Cristobal June 2 ber 1912 as a wireman on the Locks Cash Account. uit Clerk, Maintenance Divi . I neon construction force. sion; 26 years, 11 months, 28 days; Canal 16 Zone. Panama June Another correction of the Honor Daniel B. Fitchett, Maryland; Ma- Cristobal Roll as it appeared in the last issue: chinist Leadingman, Industrial Bureau; M) An asterisk should have marked the . 1 mini June

(i names of Adrien M. Bouche and Mrs. . months, and 14 days; Baltimore, tin- ship-, 11 liti from Lea K. Dugan since both are holders of Md. ( Northbound, Medal awarded Katherine E. Jessup, North Carolina; 7 ,i. in. io noon Sundays il>. ,und the the coveted Roosevelt service < -., of continuous Teacher, Balboa High School, 19 years, 8 Haiti stop is S.il 1 1 1 I . i \ for two years during the Canal's construction period. months, and 6 days; Norfolk, Va. I p. m.) .

June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Canal Zone Dogs Will Be Licensed; Marine Directors Anti-Rabies Vaccination Required

{Continued from a \ known to have bitten any person or any animal, or any animal known to have been bitten by any other animal which is suspected of having rabies. The animal which has bitten anyone

fill- may be impounded a I Way period under veterinary inspection; in the case of an animal bitten by a rabid dog the quarantine period may be four months. Poundmasters will be authorized to impound any dogs or cats which are at

large, although the dogs are licensed, if they believe the animals have been aban- doned or are in such poor health that they are a menace to public health and safety. Impounded Animals May Be Sold Impounded animals not claimed by their owners will be offered for sale after

four days. Notice that the animal is impounded will be posted publicly in two places in the district where the animal was picked up. Pound fees will be $1 a day, except for those animals picked up because they CAPT. FRANK A. MONROE, JR., who becomes Marine Director for the Panama Canal have bitten someone or have themselves Company on Sunday, is shown here talking over some of the fine points of his new job with his pre- decessor, Capt. Marvin J. West, right. Captain Munroe arrived May 23; prior to his assignment been bitten. In such cases the fee will to the Isthmus, he was commanding officer of the U. 8. N'aval Receiving Station in Seattle. Captain be 50 cents per day. West, who has been assigned to San Diego as commanding officer of the Naval Receiving Station, Dog licensing is not new in the Canal plans to leave June 10 for California. Zone. As early as 1908, dogs were licensed; the fee was $3 for a female and Governor Promises Support For Differential future meeting, if the report was true $1.50 for a male. Dogs used as watch- that two official quarters recently built from page 1 actions {Continued 1 future dogs on farms and not permitted to run near the Administration Building had were made: loose did not need licenses but their recently Director has been reevaluated and reduced The Supply and Service owners were bound by law to kill such in capital value because of excessive plan tentative plans to keep six of the Canal animals should they contract a "loath- and design costs. He also asked if this Commissaries open one evening a week; some, contagious, or infectious disease." policy would be pursued through other Consideration is being given to the Later that same year, after an Isthmian- housing, since there had been general future of the Gamboa Clubhouse which wide outbreak of rabies, the Chief Sani- employee complaint on overly high is operating at a considerable loss. tary Officer was empowered to designate engineering charges, and if some adjust- Present Commissary plans, according any area of the Canal Zone in which dogs ment in rent might be expected. to the announcement made by Edward were required to be muzzled when run- call for Question Asked A. Doolan, Personnel Director, ning loose. On February 16, 1909, Col. the Balboa, Cristobal, Cocoli, Rainbow In that section of the meeting devoted William C. Gorgas so designated the Commissaries, City, Tivoli, and Gamboa to matters carried over from previous entire Canal Zone. The order was in 1 Thursday and re- to open at p. m. on conferences, the Governor reported: effect for almost 13 months before it main open until 8 p. m. All sections of That two spiral-type clotheslines will was rescinded. the retail stores would be open during be installed for each of the new houses this period. larger than two bedrooms; in future GOETHALS MEMORIAL Should the plan be adopted, it will be construction, pipe-and-wire clotheslines

on a trial basis and would begin June 1 1 will be installed; Regarding the Gamboa Clubhouse, That no basis had been found for the conferees were told that a deficit of complaints that customers had been $5,800 was incurred there during the short-changed at the Pedro Miguel Com- first nine months of the fiscal year. The missary; in connection with such com- Gamboa Clubhouse has never broken plaints he asked that they be specific and even nor made money since it was opened; include times, dates, amounts, and places; the total deficit, which has been sub- That special police surveillance is sidized, is $160,000. being exercised on Tivoli Avenue, but The announcement emphasized that that reports that women pedestrians had no decision has been made as to the been molested could not be verified; future of the Clubhouse. That parents must cooperate in keeping Lower Cost Housing small children away from houses which On the question of housing, the Gover- are being demolished; special watchmen nor said that construction of quarters or boarding up of the buildings would be designed primarily for families in the excessively expensive. lower income brackets is being considered. Present at the meeting were the These houses would be less expensive Governor, Mr. Doolan, F. G. Dunsmoor, that the present new housing types. and Norman F. Johnson, the new Em- Walter Wagner, Central Labor Union ployee Relations Officer, for the admin- president, and several of the others pres- istration. ent commented that employees with Employee representatives were: Mr. little service, although they may be in Hodges; Robert C. Daniel, Railway the lower salary brackets, will be com- Conductors; Mr. Wagner, Ralph Curies, AX OPTICAL ILLUSION is presented bv the pelled to live in high-rent houses if a E. J. Husted, Mr. Lovelady, Carl F. ^ Goethals Memorial which is under construction at present trend continues. Employees Maedl, James P. Boukalis, for the Central the foot of the Administration Building steps at affiliated unions; H. C. with considerable service, he said, are Labor Union and Balboa Heights. The center shaft, pictured here, moving from the more expensive houses Simpson, Marine Engine rs; Chester A. will rise 56 feet from its base when it is completed. into lower-rent houses, leaving only the Luhr, Pacific Locks employees; Sherman The shaft measures four feet less in height than the width of the shallow pool in which it stands but high-rent quarters available to the com- Brooks, the Rev. Philip H. Havener, appears much taller than the pool is wide. Goodin, for the parative newcomers. Marion and Mr. Roe Work on the memorial was started late in March Mr. Lovelady asked, for answer at a Civic Councils. and it will be completed early in August. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

boards made this bookcase. Pacific Evergreen Gar- IDEAS den Club members provided flower arrangements, also OF was open 3 in THE served as hostesses the house HOUSE May when About 3,000 visitors inspected the house pictured on this page during the week it was open to the public. The "House of BBH Ideas," a duplex apartment in the new housing development at Paraiso, was furnished as a training project in home economics and vocational classes at Red Tank, La Boca, and Rainbow City High Schools. Furnishings were borrowed, made or renovated. Visitors were invited to utilize in their homes decorating and penny-saving ideas that appealed to them.

LIGHT FURNITURE that can be combined in sectional units was chosen aa to add spaciousness to living room. Drapes on traverse rods give light and BB air, can be closed for privacy. Two framed San Bias Indian molas add color.

DROP LEAF table with shelves below, drawers for silverware on the ends was specially designed to save space, provide storage area. It is inspected here by Allan Tomlin, shop student at La Boca where it was made. An open closet was fitted with a curtain that matches the drapes, open shelves above and closed cabi- net below to provide the china cabinet and storage area on the left. Material for the drop

I leaf table cost $13.15; the china closet, $4,14. YELLOW QUILTED CORNICE, made in tailoring classes at La Boca, frames the double window in the front bedroom, matching in color the spread made there for the Hollywood bed. Modern twin dressers, maroon on the out- side with the inside of the drawers painted yellow, used in this room were modern- ized steel quartermaster dressers. Their reconditioning cost $3.0(i. The cornice cost $4.92. Yellow cotton rug was $3.95.

RED BUNK BEDS with blue and white spreads both made at Rainbow City, furnished children's room. Foldaway bed with cover made at La Boca provides additional sleeping accommodations.

"LIVING CURTAIN" of plants, arranged by OUTDOOR LIVING and dining room, the patio at the back of the house, overlooks the Canal. The Pacific Evergreen Garden Club, is used instead of drop leaf table was made of a long unwieldy old school table; coffee table was another old one cut down; chairs fabric to frame the window in the kitchen that over- were made in school shop. Visitors shown here, left to right: Henry L. Donovan, Col. Richardson Selee, looks the patio. Dr. Lawrence Johnson and Mrs. Christine Tull.