THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

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NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL AWARD OF MERIT WON BY CANAL ORGANIZATION FOR NOTEWORTHY RECORD

Whee The National Safety Coun- cil's Award of Merit^has been won by the Canal organization for its noteworthy safety achievement for the calendar year 1953. The Merit Award is equivalent to a second place, being exceeded only by the Award of Honor, which is given for an outstanding safety record. The Company-Govern- ment was only a few points short of this top award.

The Award of Merit is accompanied by an embossed certificate, under glass and mounted on a wood plaque, and by a green-and-white safety flag. Both will be presented to Gov. J. S. Seybold this month during a visit to the Canal Zone of a sub-committee of the Panama Canal Company Board of Directors. A ceremony is being arranged for the presentation of the award and for the flag raising which will follow. The letter to G. 0. Kellar, Chief of the Safety Branch, from the National Safety

JULY 4 wouldn't be Independence Day without fireworks. This picture of what the Gay '90's used Council announcing the award and con- to call a "pyrotechnic display" was taken in Balboa last July 4. gratulating the Canal organization on its achievement, said: "Under the provisions of the Plan For Independence Day Is July Fifth Recognizing Good Industrial Safety Rec- ords, adopted by the Industrial Confer- This Year Throughout Canal Zone ence of the National Safety Council on January 14, 1952, your entire company July Fourth will be July Fifth this year Patriotic exercises will be held at 3:30 has qualified for the following National in the Canal Zone. o'clock at the Balboa stadium, followed Safety Council recognition—Award of Because the Independence Day holiday by a massed band concert. Fireworks Merit—by establishing injury rates sig- falls on Sunday the patriotic exercises from the top of Sosa Hill at 7 o'clock will nificantly lower than its par rates." and other activities with which the day conclude the day's events. During the 1950 - 52 period, the is celebrated will be held on Monday on Pacific Side Committee weighted average for industry showed an both Atlantic and Pacific sides of the accident frequency of 14.4, and a severity Emmett Zemer is Pacific side chair- Canal Zone. of 1.10. The Panama Canal rates for the man, his second year in this position. The Pacific side celebration gets under- same period were 15.3 and 1.03. He is being assisted by: Maj. Arthur way the night of July 3 with a Commun- Dreyer, Maj. John A. Reeves, Lt. Cmdr. Percentage Improvement ity Dance at the American Legion Club. W. S. Ralston, Maj. James E. Shelly- Par rates, for 1953 were 14.9 and 1.07; Proceeds from this dancj will cover such representing various branches of the The Panama Canal rates were 11.4 and July 4 expenses as fireworks, medals and Armed services; Judge Guthrie F. Crowe, .79—which are 23 percent better than par trophies, children's favors, etc. Mrs. Berenice Connor, and Robert Ash- in the first place and 26 {See page is) The actual Independence Day activi- baugh, of the Scout organizations; Sgt. ties will start Monday at 8 a. m. with a Walter Alves, H. G. C. Lockridge, Roger revised Pledge of Allegiance flag raising at the circle facing the Balboa A to the Michel, John Hey, and Thomas R. I'nited States flag was adopted by Con- Service Center. Imimdiately after this Murphy. gress on June 14. The new wording is: ciremony, favors will be distributed to "I pledge allegiance to the flag of On the Atlantic side, the July 4 cele- the the children and the youngst?rs will then Inited States of America and to the bration is in charge of a committee of Republic for it form for the traditi jnal Childrens' Parade. which stands, one Na- the Cristobal-Margarita Civic Council, of tion under God, indivisible, with liberty At the same time the Army will have which Fred L. Workman is president. and justice for all." tanks on display. The Congressional Resolution adds: The Atlantic side festivities will be aimed Children will be busy with rides on "Such pledge should be rendered by at the children of the community, he said. standing with the right hand over jeeps and fire engines and kiddy trains the Atlantic Side Program heart. However, civilians will always from 8:45 a. m. u itil noon. Early in the show full respect to the flag when the afternoon there will be a swimming meet Patriotic exercises will be held at 8 pledge is given by merely standing at at the Balboa pool and basketball games a. m. near the North Margarita school, attention, men removing the headdress. Persons in uniform shall render the at the Balboa gymnasium and the Bal- followed by athletic events such as a military salute." boa YMCA gym. tug-of-war, sack and potato {See page is) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

Gorgas Technician CANAL REVIEW Introduces New Feature

Gets Canal's First Of Personalized News In The Next Issue

Outstanding Rating Plans have been made to introduce a Friedland, Aids to Navigation. brand new feature in the August issue of Health Bureau: Robert L. Thompson, The Panama Canal Review. Gorgas Hospital; Robert Cole, Colon Two, or sometimes more, pages will be Hospital; Clifford V. Russell, Corozal devoted to the more personal news of Hospital; John R. Thompson, Palo Seco the Canal organization as well as to Leprosarium; Mrs. Marione J. Campbell, events or work of the various units often Panama Health Office; Roy F. Burr, overlooked in general news coverage. Colon Health Office; and Carl G. Brown,

The feature is not intended as a s >cial Division of Sanitation. column and strictly society items will not Engineering and Construction Bureau: be used. Robert A. Engelke, Dredging Division; We hope to bring you a lot of news John E. Winklosky, Maintenance Divi- and chitchat about the lesser events of sion; M. F. Millard, Electrical Division; interest which occur every month. It N. B. Stephenson, Engineering Division; will be a feature we think will be of much Mrs. Gwen Seate, Contract and Inspec- interest to you as well as one in which tion Division; W. H. Esslinger, Meteor- you can take part. ological and Hydrographic Branch; and Correspondents have been appointed C. McG. Brandl, Contractors Hill. throughout the organization to work on Personnel Bureau: Miss Jessie Pugh, a voluntary basis. These will report Director's Office; and for the Central through chief correspondents who have Labor Office Division, Charles H. Craw- been appointed from each bureau by the ford, Employment Branch; and Mrs. Lois Bureau Directors. Johnson, Records Branch. PAUL W. MORGAN A list of the correspondents of the var- Transportation and Terminals Bureau: ious units are published below. Keep Mrs. Ethel J. Roof, Railroad Division; this list or remember the correspondent Mrs. Wilma D. Crump, Terminals Divi- The first "outstanding" performance for the unit in which you are employed. sion; and Fred D. Hunsicker, Motor rating to be awarded to any employee of can help him or her by supplying Transportation Division. the Canal organization since the present You information about any special events or Supply Bureau: Richard E. Cox, Com- rating system was adopted in January any special jobs or by suggesting any missary Division; J. A. Wright, Division 1951, was given last month to Paul W. of general interest to the of Storehouses; and Mrs. May Stokes, Morgan, Supervisory Medical X-Ray special items employees in your bureau or division. Printing Plant. Technician at Gorgas Hospital. Services Bureau: Kil- The list of chief correspondents follows: Community C. W. Several employees have been nomi- the Governor- President: Mrs. bey, Service Center Division; P. Byrne nated for the outstanding rating but Office of Patricia Robinson. Hutchings, Housing Division; and Arthur none had been approved by the Efficiency Comptroller: Miss Kathleen C. Payne, Grounds Maintenance Division. Awards Committee until that given to Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau: Lt. E. L. Cotton, Mr. Morgan. Along with the rating McGuigan. Marine Bureau: Charles T. Jackson. Fire Division; Michael Zombory, Police goes a one-step, in-grade promotion. Health Bureau: J. P. Smith, Jr. Division; Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson, Postal, In order to receive an outstanding Engineering and Construction Bureau: Customs, and Immigration Division; Mrs rating, an employee must not only ex- Mrs. Faye Minton. Jean Karch, Division of Schools; Joseph c 'I'd the normal requirements of his posi- Personnel Bureau: Otto Helmerichs. V. Dignam, Atlantic side. tion but perform in a manner which is Transportation and Terminals Bureau: outstanding and deserving of special Wallace F. Russon. commendation. Six Residents, 11 Interns Supply Bureau: Bart J. Elich. summary prepared The three-page Community Services Bureau: Miss Jessie Begin Their Training Mr. Morgan was recommended for when M. Gill. outstanding rating concludes: the Civil Affairs Bureau: Mrs. Virginia Six new resident physicians and 11 characteristics "He has demonstrated Roberts. new interns began their training at which would assure an outstanding per- Correspondents for the units who will Gorgas Hospital July 1. formance by him in any other field in work with the chief correspondents will Among the new resident physicians which he was given adequate opportunity be: is Dr. Gabriel Kourany, the son of Mrs. Margaret Kourany, an employee of the for training." the Governor- President: Jerry Office of Panama Canal organization. He com- The summary is divided into three Detamore, Records Section; Mrs. Fanny pleted his rotating internship at Pres- parts and concerns the quality of his M. Sosa, Correspondence Section; Mrs. byterian Hospital in Chicago and will take his first year of residency at Gorgas performance, his productiveness, and his Clara Neville, General Counsel's Office; in medicine. qualifications as shown on the job. Mrs. Beatrice Lucas, Safety Branch; and Another Isthmian is included Mrs. Mazie Schwarzrock, Internal Secur- among It reported that Mr. Morgan keeps the new interns. He is Dr. Luis A. Branch. current with advances in his technical ity Picard-Ami, of Colon, who came to Office of the Comptroller: Robert Les- Gorgas after graduation from the field, shows considerable initiative and siack, Budget Branch; Elmer J. Nords- Creighton University Medical School in resourcefulness in all phases of his work, Omaha, Neb. trom, Rates Branch; Accounting Systems is of high order that his cooperativeness a The other five resident physicians Staff, Howard H. Sprague; Plant Inven- and that he is highly effective in develop- are: Dr. Robert H. Boon of Marianna, tory and Appraisal Staff, Daniel J. Slater; ing and training those employees who Ark., medicine;Dr. William R. Shaw of Division, Maenner B. Huff Hackettstown, N. J., surgery; work under him. Accounting Dr. Car- and Mrs. Elsie N. Smith; and in the Fis- los G. Santoro of Mayaguez, Puerto "His technical skill is of the highest Rico, surgery; Dr. George R. Zimmer- cal Division, James L. Fulton of the order," the summary says. "He has a man of Amana, Iowa, pathology; and Claims Branch; Joseph C. Turner of the Dr. Donald E. Harrison of Ontario, thorough knowledge of the operation of Treasury Branch; and Howard E. Turner Canada, pathology. all phases of the Radialogy Department of the Payroll Branch. In addition to Dr. Picard-Ami, other including highly technical equipment. Marine Bureau: Mrs. V. D. Zeese, Bal- new interns are Dr. Robert E. Braswell His knowledge encompasses a greater of Shreveport, La. ; Dr. W illie J. Greene, boa Port Captain's Office; B. G. Tipton, field than the job specifications require, Logansport, La.; Dr. Kenneth V. Hod- Cristobal Port Captain's Office; George ges, Albert Lea, Minn.; Dr. Allan Jack- and application of this has resulted in M. Lowe, Locks Division; Thomas H. son, Alexandria, La.; Dr. Richard S. ulerable monetary savings to the Kelley, Industrial Division; and H. B. Ostenso, Montevideo, Minn.; Dr. John Panama Canal Company." W. Reeder, Jr., Amarillo, Tex.; Dr. Charles E. Simmons, Oklahoma City, A native of Florida, Mr. Morgan holds Okla.; Dr. Wallace M. Snyder, San An- college degrees in business administration and laboratory technician. He was em- tonio, Tex. ; Dr. Roy B. Stewart, EI Paso, and as a medical technician. ployed at Gorgas Hospital where he has Tex.; and Dr. Robert B. White, Detroit, He came to the Canal Zone as an X-ray worked ever since, in 1938. Mich. July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Blasting Of Two Million Yards Of Rock From Contractors Hill Will Start Soon

The first charge of dynamite to be used in blasting away a sizable part of Con- tractors Hill overlooking Gaillard Cut will probably be detonated within the next two weeks. While the first shot will be but a few pounds, it is estimated that a total of 1,000,000 pounds of dynamite may be required to complete the project of removing approximately 2,000,000 cubic yards of rock. The initial blast will be the culmination of about four months of planning and preparatory steps for alleviating a poten- tially hazardous condition resulting from a deep fracture of the rock along the top of the hill and roughly paralleling the Canal. $1,000,000 Equipment

Activity in connection with the project is expected to be greatly accelerated during the coming week following the arrival of a large shipment of equipment from New Orleans. Tecon executives have announced that $1,000,000 will be spent for THE TENS of thousands who get this majestic view of the Panama Canal will see a big change equipment for the job, most of it brand when the Tecon Corporation finishs its work of stabilizing the slope of Contractors Hill. The white new from the factory. lines indicate the new slope of the hill, which will be in broad berms. The first berm shown at elevation As this issue of The Canal Review 150' will be only 65 feet above the water level in the Cut. The berm or ledge will be over 100 feet wide. The protruding mass of rock to the right of the white lines will all be removed. went to press, work was also scheduled to begin early in July on two interesting and important lesser projects directly connected with the overall operation. These are the driving of a large tunnel from the Canal side into Contractors Hill to the crack and the removal and storage of the Gaillard plaque from the face of the hill. Negotiations were concluded with the Tecon Corporation to do these two jobs. The big plaque will be removed and stored until a new location for its placement is selected. The tunnel into the side of the hill will be made to relieve hydrostatic pressure in the fissure. This problem has been given serious study by the Canal engineers and the consultants on the Con- tractors Hill project. 125-Foot Shaft The shaft will be sunk at right angles to the Canal axis about five feet above water level and near the center point of the hill. It will be five by seven feet and approximately 125feetlong. At the inter- section of the crack a room, 10 x 10 x 20 feet, will be excavated for the installation THREE ENGINEERS study a relief map of the Contractors Hill area. Lt. Col. Edward B. Jen- nings, Project Engineer for the work on the hill, is at the far right; E. McKoy, of well-pumps. The shaft will provide a C. Project Manager for Tecon, in the center; and Charles McG. Brandl, Assistant Project Engineer for* the Canal at the left. drain for water in the fissure about the water level of the Canal and pumps will crack. The ledges above that level will it will be assembled be used to lower the water and relieve and moved to the be 40 and 20 feet wide, leaving an aver- site. hydrostatic pressure below that depth. age slope of about one on one-and-a-half. E. C. McKoy, Also to be installed in the artificial Tecon Corporation's project manager for the cavern will be instruments to measure Heavy Equipment job, has been on the Isthmus any movement of the crack. This step The bulk of the machinery and equip- since early last month to initiate and coordinate plans for wiil be necessary since surface instrument to be used for the project is ex- the work. He has had more ments for measuring any movement will pected to arrive in the first shipload. It than 20 years experience in heavy be removed when excavation begins. will consist of some of the 15 Euclid 25- construction and rock work, The diagram on the picture of Con- ton rock hauling units which have been including two years as an assistant superintendent tractors Hill which accompanies this ar- ordered; two and one-half cubic yard in the Madden Dam construction. ticle indicates the extent of excavation diesel shovels; bulldozers, drilling equip- L. F. Ramer will be required and how the hill will look when ment, field lights, and generators, and superintendent of the project for the contracting firm. the work is completed. blasting equipment. He is an expert in quarry The rock will be removed in layers, The vessel bringing this material will operations with about 20 years of experience leaving wide berms or ledges in a stairway transit the Canal to Gamboa where the in this type of work, the past four of which formation up the Canal side of the hill. heavy equipment will be unloaded on have been with Tecon. The lowest of these berms will be over barges by the 250-ton floating cranes of 100 feet wide and will be 65 feet above the Dredging Division. It will then be Technicians Expected the Canal level. The second berm will lightered through the Cut to Pedro Mi- The arrival of heavy equipment oper- be approximately 105 feet above the guel Locks to be unloaded by the 75-ton ators, blasters, and other technicians re- will intersect the Canal channel level and stiff-leg crane on the west wingwall where quired is expected during (See page 15) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

ton in China, the Philippine Islands, Sing- Weil-Travelled Zonian Finishes apore, and the Straits Settlements, and 4,000 miles through India with visits to Work Toward College Degree Bombay, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Agra, Delhi, etc., and back through the enrolled for other LSU courses. She Suez Canal with a stop in Egypt. hopes, eventually, to have a Bachelor of During 1940 she managed to get to Arts degree for four years of college work. Mexico and Guatemala, and in 1949 she Two Years Of Travel again went to Europe, this time including such widely separated points as Turkey, Then she'd like to try to write, using Greece, its her travels as material. She has plenty and northermost Norway and of first-hand experience to write about. southern fjords. Three years later she Two or three years after she came to the made another trip to Europe, and she may Isthmus, and during her vacation, she take off again, but just where she doesn't visited a friend in Paris, and then went know. After all, there are not too to England, Scotland, Germany, Switzer- many interesting places where she hasn't land, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. She been. later made trips to Costa Rica and other A Book, Maybe Central American countries, Chile, Peru, She has seen the brief sun of the Arctic Ecuador, and Colombia. Another year the Himalayas around Darjeel- she went to Alaska and down the Yukon summer, of In- on a stern-wheeler, with a week spent in ing, and the marble city Udaipur, McKinley National Park on a camping dia. She has seen Inca ruins near Quito trip. and has sat behind the Iron Curtain—in Around World Finland in 1949. In 1935 she took the old Dollar Line If college degrees and travel combine around the world, stopping in Japan, to make a book, Jessie Pugh may have a Peiping, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Can- best seller one of these days. JESSIE S. PUGH

When Jessie Pugh was growing up back in North Carolina, there were two Canal Resumes Its Armoring— things she wanted: She wanted a college degree and she wanted to travel. Breakwater, Not Coats Of Mail The second of her two wishes she ac- complished first. Totaled up, the time she has spent traveling in the Americas, Europe, and around the world, amounts by now to over two years.

The first wish was a bit harder come by. What with one thing and another a sec- retarial course at the University of North Carolina had to take the place of her much-desired college education and it was not until last month that she achieved her first desire. Early last month Miss Pugh, who works in the Personnel Bureau, stood before her fellow members of the Class of 1954 of the Canal Zone Junior College and received the diploma which certified that she had been granted the degree of

Associate in Arts with honors.

Began In 1938 She began her work toward that degree about 1938 when she first enrolled in the Junior College. The war interfered with THE TOWERING CRANE Hercules unloaded big concrete blocks from dockside to the barges her plans for a higher education although on which they were carried through the Canal to Cristobal. The blocks were used to armor Cristobal breakwater. she acquired two certificates of a different sort, one from the Navy for her volunteer Three units of the Panama Canal The concrete blocks, which have been work and another from the USO for over worked together last month to carry out used for many years, supplement the rock - 2,000 hours of volunteer service, mostly a recurrent but little known operation which is the major armoring for the armoring the Cristobal breakwater. breakwater. as a tour conductor for servicemens' trips The armoring is done with great con- Crews from the Maintenance Division, to Panama City and Old Panama. crete blocks, from four to 16 tons in working with cranes, loaded the blocks of After the end the war she went back weight. Some of the blocks are cubes, onto railroad flat cars. The Railroad Div- to her classes, most of them in night ex- measuring six feet on one side, and others ision hauled the cars from the gravel tension courses, but some, during this have irregular, serrated edges like the plant to the Dredging Division yard. teeth of a saw. The blocks are cast by There the Dredging Division's big crane, past year, in the daytime. She has spe- the Dredging Division in a big, cleared Hercules, fittingly took over such a her- cialized in history and English but has area near the gravel plant where they are culean job, and removed the blocks from also taken courses in Spanish, psychology, kept until they are needed. the flat cars to two sand barges and economics, business administration, and This year 550 of the big blocks were two flat-topped barges which were towed business law. moved from Gamboa to the breakwater through the Canal to Cristobal. which was built not only to protect the At the of the run, In addition to her work at the Junior end Derrick Barge canal channel from the northers and other 157 removed the blocks from the barges College, Miss Pugh has accumulated some storms which would shoal it, but also to and placed them on the breakwater to credits for extension courses from Louisi- shield the pier area and the Limon Bay replace others which had been worn by ana State University and has already anchorage. the action of waves and weather. July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Annual Dog Registration, New York Office Moves

Vaccination Start Soon From 24 State Street

Dog days will soon be with us again. Ever since American families began to Dog days have something to do with come to the Canal Zone during the early the rising of the Dog Star; here in the part of this century, Canal Zone young- Canal Zone there are other too. dog days sters have known that if they ever became They are the the days when canine popu- separated from their parents in New York lation receives its annual anti-rabies vac- they could always go to the office of the cination and is registered. Panama Line — in those days the Panama Between last July, when vaccination- Railroad -and their parents would event- registration started in the Canal Zone, ually find them. and June 15 of this year, a total of 2,527 A good many Zone families drilled the dogs were vaccinated and registered; the address, 24 State Street, into their child- figure this year is expected to be about ren's minds just as they did the young- the same. ster's own names and addresses. Between July 13 and July vacci- 23, a If this practice is still being followed, nation and registration team will make Zone children have to learn a new address. one-day visits in towns. eight Canal Zone Last month the offices of the Panama All registration must be completed by Line, and the New York office of the August 1, when the licenses issued last Panama Canal Company, moved from summer expire. The dates on which the the 24 State Street address to a new loca- team will visit the various towns appear tion, 21 West Street, about three blocks in a condensed table on this page for the from State Street and next door to the convenience of dog owners. In each town Downtown Athletic Club. the hours will be 10 a. to 1 m. from m. p. According to information in the New and from 3 to 5 p. m. A fee of $2 is York Office, the building at 24 State charged for the registration; vaccination Street was opened in 1902 and the Pan- is done without charge. VACCINATION against rabies takes only a few ama Railroad Company was its first minutes. Rabies Control tenant. The vaccination-registration program, disease through imported infected ani- E. H. Harms, Acting General Superin- established last year, is designed to con- mals from countries where rabies is con- tendent of the Panama Line, wrote The trol rabies, also commonly known as hy- stantly present or where it occurs in Panama Canal Review: drophobia. It is one of the more than epidemic form from time to time. That "We will still be located in the Battery 80 animal diseases which may be trans- is the reason why a rigid quarantine has Park area and our offices will still be mitted to man. been imposed on dogs and cats entering easily accessible for our many freight An acute, specific, paralytic infection, the Canal Zone from off the Isthmus. forwarders and other shippers. Our space due to a particular virus and invariably The vaccination and registration pro- in the new building consists of the entire fatal, it is usually transmitted by the bite gram, Dr. Matheney explained, serves to 21st floor, totaling approximately 10,000 of an infected dog. It has been known buttress the Canal Zone quarantine. square feet, and on this floor will be lo- since the dawn of civilization; murals Through the program, owned animals are cated our Executive Offices as well as from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt immunized against rabies and the num- our Freight Department, Procurement, depict mad dogs and even Greek myth- bers of unowned, susceptible dogs are re- and Finance Divisions. In addition to ology refers to the disease. Dr. Robert duced. During the past year -up to June the above, we have rented approximately G. Matheney, Chief of the Veterinary 15—173 dogs were impounded in the 1,000 square feet on the 24th floor which Medicine Division, told The Panama Canal Zone. will be occupied by our Passenger Depart-

Canal Review: Even if the quarantine barrier should ment. The building at 21 West Street is "Rabies has been so generally dissem- fail to prevent rabies from entering the the most modern structure in the Battery inated throughout the world that only a Canal Zone, the fact that the dog popu- district and was completed in 1932. few geographically isolated areas now re- lation is composed predominately of im- "Our reason for moving to our new main free. The Isthmus of Panama munized, licensed animals should prevent location was to provide us badly needed which, of course, includes the Canal Zone rabies from becoming epidemic here, he additional space as well as to secure is fortunately one of these," Dr. Math- added, until even stricter measures could better lighting, ventilation, and more eney said. be taken. modern necessary conveniences." Although the Canal Zone has been free Procedures Endorsed from rabies since 1908, when the deaths Considerable thought and planning have of animals and humans were reported at gone into the Canal Zone's rabies vacci- Ancon (now Gorgas) Hospital, health nation program and the animal quaran- authorities consider it a serious menace tine, and these procedures are endorsed to the Isthmian community. There was by such agencies as the World Health one rabies death in Gorgas Hospital dur- Organization and the U. S. Public Health ing World War II, but the infection had Service. been contracted in Central America. The success of any such program, how- Vulnerable Location ever, Dr. Matheney stressed, depends The Canal Zone's geographic location ultimately on the understanding and sup- and its transient population make it par- port of the community. ticularly prone to introduction of the "Apathy, opposition, and compromise by officials, citizens or civic groups, have DIM I VACCINATION-REGISTRATION been primarily responsible for the inroads SCHKDULi: made by rabies in other parts of the world Date Town Location in recent years," he said. July Atlantic Side "The character of this disease and the

13 Margarita Elementary School ravages left in its wake demand a spirited, 14 Rainbow City Elementary School positive response from everyone, but 15 Gatun Fire Station particularly concerned should be our dog Pacific Side owners who owe a responsibility to their 19 Gamboa Police Station neighbors as well as to their animals." 20 Paraiso Gymnasium 21 Pedro Miguel Fire Station Not Harmful 22 La Boca Hivrh Schoi.l Stadium Contrary to the belief of some people, 23 Balboa NEW YORK OFFICES of the Panama Canal is harmful to anti-rabies vaccination not Company have just moved to this building, 21 West (10 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 3 to 5 p. m.) dogs. There were no (Set page 12) Street. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

LJML : ' ' <$? . SELECTIVE MYOPIA

The dictionary says that myopia is a often quoted when they are asked to cor- You will not find the disease selective condition of the eye in which the rays rect an unsafe condition or practice. The myopia in any medical dictionary, for the from objects are brought to a focus be- disease becomes even more critical when word seems to have been coined by a fore they form a distinct image on the they find a little money will be needed. National Safety Council editor in order retina. Selective myopia is a degenerate Usually they want to know how many to explain a condition where many of us condition which prohibits a person from accidents have been caused by this unsafe close our eyes, our minds, our pocket- focusing his eyes on things he does not condition or practice. If, by chance, books, and relax our muscles toward do- wish to see. It appears this disease there has never been an accident, then ing anything about accident prevention. affects people at all ages. In most cases this type of person may really show how Do not let this new-found disease work it is a failure of the mind rather than the critically ill he is, and become violent by on you until an accident has to occur eyes. For the eyes see but the brain flatly refusing to do anything for such before you will do anything about acci- doesn't register. accident prevention. It does not take a dent prevention, or you become so satis-

A child, running into the street after a specialist to see how critically ill he is, fied with your safety record that you ball, has eyes only for the ball, none on if it must take an accident, a workman cannot see how, or where, you can show the speeding car. A group of young injured, or maybe somebody killed before further improvement.eliminating needless people on their way to a beach, waiting he will do something to correct the unsafe accidents. Go out now and walk around impatiently for a slow freight to clear condition or practice. your office, shop, or field job. If you can the crossing, does not look for the fast ex- Selective myopia is common among find unsafe conditions and practices which press high-balling on the other track. An workmen who have been depending on you can correct now and see others you elderly woman, in dark clothes on a rainy speed and timing of their muscles to pre- can correct on a long-range plan, then night, scurrying through heavy traffic, vent an accident. It is common for the you are recovering from selective myopia. has her eyes only on the safety of the far more experienced hands to brag about curb. Such accidents are typically selective their skill in avoiding getting hurt. Many myopia cases in our everyday traffic. contend that they have been doing work Selective myopia is more critical when in such a manner for years and haven't found among those who are responsible had an accident (yet). It is plainly evi- for the prevention of accidents. A fore- dent that they have rationalized their un- man or supervisor who walks around day safe practices to such a degree of selective after day without seeing the unsafe con- myopia they can no longer see that only ditions and practices on his job needs one accident may be their last. more than a pair of glasses to correct his Even among safety personnel selective vision. He needs some sort of shock myopia takes its toll. Such an employee treatment to wake up his brain to register does not want to disturb the status quo what his eyes see. when his division seems to be satisfied Among higher management personnel, with the safety record it is now ex- the old saw of calculated risk (which is periencing. His usual reply is: "Why dis- just another form of selective myopia) is turb everybody with safety programs just to bring our frequency rate down a few HONOR ROLL more points?" The final stages of selective Bureau Award For myopia have really got him, with the BEST RECORD stage all set for the final act. Will he be MAY "Are you gonna leave those banana rudely awakened by one grand accident, peels where anybody can step on COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU or a whole series of lesser ones? It won't 'em?" AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR be long! NAHONAl SAftrr COUNCIL Community Services 3 Civil Affairs — 1 Health 1 Disabling Injuries per 1,000,000 Man-Hours Worked Supply 1 MAY 1954 ( Frequency Rale) Engineering and Construction Marine 10 20 30 40 and Terminals Transportation Community Services Bureau Division Award For mxm NO DISABLING INJURIES MAY Engineering and Construction Bureau

NAVIGATION DIVISION Health Bureau MAINTENANCE DIVISION Supply Bureau SERVICE CENTER DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION Marine Bureau MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION C. Z. Govl.-Panama Canal Co. ( This Month) AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION Civil Affairs Bureau AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Aids to Navigation 4 C. Z. Govt.-Panama Canal Co ( Last 3-Year Av.) Sanitation 4 Service Center 4 Transportation and Terminals Bureau Motor Transportation 3 ^mmmmmmssmka Electrical 2 Grounds Maintenance 2 Hospitalization and Clinics 1 Maintenance 1 Number of Disabling Injuries .27 Man-Hours Worked 2,333,071 Navigation 1 LEGEND Railroad - 1 Storehouses 1 Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average I — Commissary Dredging Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government— Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average Industrial Locks Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year Terminals E&ffiffiffl July 2,1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW OF CURRENT INTEREST Official Going Up Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr. Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor Eleanor H. McIlhenny Editorial Assistant

,- . tj*T^**J^*^*t^^^y^ SUBSCRIPTION—$1.00 a year

SINGLE COPIES -5 cents each NEW HOUSES in the Balboa Flats are fast taking shape. The construction project in this section, where 98 apartments are being built, is now well advanced. The first of the houses, near the Balboa ele- On sale at all Panama Canal Service Cen- mentary school, will be ready about the first of October. Both masonry and composite type houses are ters, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days under construction. after publication date. The new Canal townsite on the east side in the Chagres River above Gamboa Bridge, of Gaillard Highway in the Corozal area and in Agua Clara reservoir, at the instiga- SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL— 10 cents each was officially designated "Los Rios" last tion of the Tarpon Club. Eleven years month. Announcement of the official name earlier fish, later thought to have been rain- BACK COPIES— 10 cents each for the town was made in a memorandum bow trout, were planted in Gatun Lake. from Governor J. S. Seybold. The name Neither these nor the fish brought later, On sale when available, from the Vauit comes from the fact that all the streets in thrived. Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, the town are for Isthmian rivers. named In 1950, 5(1,000 trout eggs were brought Balboa Heights. from the United States to stock the Cal- dera and Chiriqui Yiejo rivers A new three-minute sterilizer has in Chiriqui Province. been added to the equipment at Gorgas Postal money orders should be made pay- Hospital. Installed in the main operating room it will be used when a quick able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- A number of changes sterilization must be done when some have been made in the location of pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama instrument in use becomes contami- Museum items as a result of the consolidation of the post Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. 7.. nated, for instance. The older type office-banking activities in sterilizer takes \2 to 15 minutes to ren- the lobbv of the Civil Affairs Building. der an instrument ready for use. The new sterilizer will decrease the time Several ship models and the French Leaving Isthmus the surgeon must wait for the sterilized hospital model have been moved to the instrument and lessens patient time on second floor outside the Library's main the operating table under anesthesia. reading room, while two paintings of the Isthmus during the 19th Century are now located in the Library itself. Three Canal Zone school teachers will Other items, such as the flat lighted teach next year in the elementary school "I case reserved for displays which are a U. S. Naval installation at Port Lyautry, changed monthly, the large lighted French Morocco. The adventurous trio is cases in the well of the lobby, the rub- made up of Frances P. Winderweedle, who ber relief map of the Canal, and the taught last year at Cocoli, Marjorie Howell case containing models of construction .iiid Myrtle Swartz. The latter two taught day machinery, remain where they at Fort Kobbe school. Miss Swartz is on have been since the Museum was estab- a year's leave of absence; the other two J v lished in the Civil Affairs Building. 1 h.i\ c resigned. r, Also unchanged is the oval room at the • m Albrook Field side of the building, the nucleus of the Museum. The Pacific Civic Council, which rep- Museum directory will resents Ancon, Balboa, and Diablo A be placed at the entrance of the lobby. The Heights, is advocating some measures \ Museum will continue to for the Canal Zone to prevent such be lighted and open to the public 9 tragedies as have occured in the United from a. m. to 8 m. States when children have suffocated p. after being locked into discarded refrigerators. Doors should be removed from I A general all-around shift took place at refrigerators not in use or those which the Civil Affairs Building have been thrown away, a Council late in June when LT. COL. DAVID S. PARKER, military a number of offices were rearranged spokesman says. An extra refrigerator to make assistant to the Governor for the past two r n for the Postal-Banking service on the in a carport or basement where it is ground floor of the building. years, will leave the Canal Zone about easily accessible to small children The headquarters of August 1 for his new post in the Portland, should be padlocked, if possible, if the the Fire Division were moved to the third floor, to the tower Oreg., Engineer District. owner goes on vacation. formerly occupied by a unit of the Civil Maj. David H. Smith, who will succeed Aeronautics Authority. The Civil Defense Colonel Parker, will arrive here about July Ten thousand black l>a-<> fingerlings were Section has also moved into the tower. A 15 with Mrs. Smith and their two small put into Madden Lake last month. The few days later the Safety Branch moved fingerlings, which were supplied by the from the Civil Affairs Building to Room .1M daughters. He comes here from the Cali- Bureau of Fisheries through the efforts of in the Administration Building. fornia Institute of Technology. shipped Lt. Gen. H. L. McBride. were to Maj. George Herman, Chief of the Police Ala. A graduate of West Point, Colonel Parker the Canal Zone from Mobile. They Division, has moved across the rotunda into should provide excellent fishing in the Lake served overseas during World War II on the space formerly occupied by the clerical within a few years. the staffs of Adm. Chester Nimitz and Gen. staff of Police Headquarters and the clerical Fish planting is done infrequently but it stall has moved into the office formerly oc- Douglas MacArthur. After the war he was has been done before in Canal Zone waters. cupied by the Postal Inspector. The office in Japan for three years. came here He In 1924, 60 cans of live black bass, brim, of the Librarian is now in the space where from an assignment at West Point. and crappie were placed in Stilson's Pond, Major Herman had his office. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

cord five years later, said that these first Canal Zone Post Offices stamps were Colombian, surcharged "Pan- ama" and with the words "Canal Zone" th overprinted with a rubber stamp. Celebrate 50 Anniversary There were no postmasters in those days as we now know them, and in 1905 the Isthmian Canal Commission report said: "The business of the service has become so important and its volume has so extended (stamp sales for the first year were $11,537.23!) that the station agents who formerly acted as postmasters can no longer give it their proper attention ... As rapidly as experienced post office men can be secured, the assignment of railroad station agents to post offices are being canceled and the offices are being placed in charge of persons not only thoroughly reliable and responsible but who also have had previous experience with the duties involved." Meantime, the question of stamps had become involved. On June 29 the Post- master General wrote the Isthmian Canal Commission that he had designated two inspectors to "assist the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone in organizing a postal service for that district." They wen' to sail from New York July 6, taking with them ten million United States stamps of various values, overprinted "Canal Zone, Panama." CONTRAST between the old and the new is shown The files are blank as to whether the here. Above is the Balboa Post Office; at the left, the La Boca Post Office, one of those established two inspectors arrived, but the stamps June 24, 1904. did and their number caused Governor Davis to write a lengthy, somewhat piloted a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty plaintive letter to the Commission chair- Hawk only a few months before. man which asked when had he ever "Must Handle Mail" ordered ten million or any other specified Establishment of post offices in the new number of U. S. stamps surcharged. Canal Zone was only one of a myriad of Taft Agreement problems which faced the first Canal ad- Panama protested the use of the United in 1904. June 20 that ministration On States stamps in the Canal Zone; in De- wrote the year, Gov. George W. Davis cember 1904, under what became known Chairman -of the Isthmian Canal Com- as the Taft Agreement, the Canal Zone mission: agreed to buy its stamps from Panama "The necessity of putting our postal at 40 percant of their face value. This service on its feet is, of course, pressing arrangement brought recurrent protests I the . . . For sometime past have had from Canal Zone officials, who held that baggage agents on the trains deliver offi- the payment to Panama put the postal Fifty years ago last week the first post cial mail to our several stations but now system hopelessly in the red, and the offices were opened in the Canal Zone. I must handle the mail of the people who protests continued until the Taft Agree- matter of imme- Snow has never proved a problem, but inhabit the Zone. As a ment was finally abrogated on May 1, rain and storms and dark of night can be diate and pressing necessity, that mail 1924. Surcharged U. S. stamps were fhen as troublesome here as anywhere else; will be carried if it is simply franked so used until the Canal Zone had its own Canal Zone postal officials are proud that that the name of the sender can be iden- stamps. their couriers —the trucks and mail cars tified as we have no postage stamps for Crede H. Calhoun, who came to the continue to make their appointed rounds. present use." Canal Zone in 1907 and who headed the letter confirmation of a cable The Canal Zone postal system is The was Division of Civil Affairs from 1916 until in which Governor Davis had asked that unique. It is not connected with th" and United States system; local postal officials nine post offices be designated urged that postal equipment, instructions and believe it to be the only completely inde- provided pendent postal service under the United above all, a supply of stamps be States flag. immediately. said he had tentatively appointed During the fiscal year which closed He acting postmasters at Cristobal, Gatun, June 30, 1953—1954 figures are not yet Bohio, Gorgona, Bas Obispo (he changed available—the Canal Zone postal system this the same day to Matachin), Empire, operated 19 post offices, 10 of them in Boca, and Ancon. Washing- military posts or stations; sold $445,616 Culebra, La ton approved and these towns were offi- worth of air mail stamps and $239,340 of designated as post offices, although other stamps, had $6,847,990 on deposit cially the official document spelled Cristobal in postal savings accounts; and handled "Crystobal," and Bohio "Boheo," an _'7,i>:;7 dispatches of air mail and 5,696 took several weeks to correct. dispatches of surface mail a dispatch error which being just what it says: one shipment, Panama Stamp whether that is a packet of letters or a Stamps were a major problem; two dozen mail sacks, to any one point. days after Governor Davis had written Those figures are a far cry from that and cabled the Isthmian Canal Commis- ear when stamp sales in one month sion, Panama agreed to furnish the Canal stamps, sur- 1 only $655.54; there was no regis- Zone with Panamanian try or money order service; a postal sav- charged "Canal Zone," at a cost of 20 ings system was still seven years in the percent of their face value. A summary CHARLES V. HINZ is the senior postmaster. future; and the Wrighl brothers had of postal operations in The Canal Re- He is :it Balboa Heights. . .. 4

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his retirement in 1947, says that after the CANAL POST OFFICES AND THEIR DATES Taft Agreement was abrogated the Canal Zone postal system did make a profit Nam Opened Closed Ktestah- Redosed Reestab- Recloted

until the early' 1940's. lished lished

In August 1905, the Canal Zone Bureau Ancon ! 6-24-04 of Posts added a registry system and 10 Cristobal 6-24-04 months later began to issue money orders. Gatun 6-24-04 The latter were highly important for they Empire.- 6-24-04 7-31-19 8-16-19 3-31-21 provided not only the means for Canal La Bcca ' 6-24-04 Zone workers to send money to their Culebra 6-25-04 9-30-27 families at home but also gave them Matachin. 6-25-04 8-23-13 some facilities for savings. By Novem- Gorgona 6-25-04 8-16 13 2 ber 1907, over $200,000 was on deposit Bohio 6-25-04 12-31 II in the 14 post offices which made up the San Pablo . . 7- 7-04 11-29-11 service. This repressnted money which Ancon Station A 3 1905 4-30-08 Canal employees had paid for money Pedro Miguel 8- 9-05 orders made out to themselves. Bas Obispo 12-28-05 2-5-14 Mr. Calhoun recalls that on pay days Corozal 4 .. 1-1-06 5-15-43 2-15-40 7-31-52 4 as much as $60,000 was paid in at one Paraiso .. 1-1-06 7-31-19 8-16-19 4-15-21 ll-S-39 6-8-43 4 post office. Since payment was in coin, Tavernilla _ _ 1-1-06 12-11-11 the money reached such physical propor- Las Cascadas 1-20-06 2-28-10 tions that it had to be stored in big mail Miraflores 10-1-08 9-16-15 sacks. These were then sent by mail to Balboa _ . 5- 5-09 the Treasurer of the Canal Zone. There Station B Cristobal, (Toro were no mail robberies. Point) 5 1-9 -11 Business Increased Station A Cristobal, (Porto Bello) 7- 1-11 4-50-14 Postal revenues increased steadily. By Monte Lirio 5-25-12 1-51-14 12-15-15 11-30-20 1909 stamp sales were almost triple what Gamboa 3-20- 1 they had been in the first year and, as Frijoles 4-16-14 9-30-14 The Record pointed out, this did not Balboa Heights 7-15-14 indicate the total amount of mail handled Fort Randolphs 4- 1-16 4-31-19 8-16-19 4-30-21 7-1-38 6-21-45 as at least 70 percent was carried under Fort Sherman 5-1-16 5-31-27 5-4-36 6-23-43 2-26-46 1-31-50 government frank. Fort Grant 6 7- 1-16 The West Indians who made up the Fort Amador.. 10-20-17 7-31-19 8-16-19 4-50-21 2-11-46 bulk of the Canal labor force were great Coco Solo.. 3- 1-19 7-31-19 8-16-10 11- 1-42 1-16-46 letter writers, Mr. Calhoun says, and the Fort Clayton 7-1-22 4-15-43 2-20-46 volume of their mail increased tremen- France Field.. 7-1-23 4-15-43 2-18-46 10-21-49 dously when mail order catalogues began Fort Davis 7-1-29 6-18-43 2-18-46 to reach the Canal Zone. He remembers Madden Dam 1-2-32 6-25-37 one letter addressed: "Montgomery Ward, Albrook Field 12-1-39 4-19-43 2-28-46 attention Mr. Ward hisself." Upham... 12-1-39 9-15-42 1-22-46 11 -16-46 Advocates of women's rights, a burn- Diablo 6- 1-40 ing issue of those days, undoubtedly Howard Field 6-1-41 6-14-43 2-16-46 hailed one of the regulations of the Canal Cocoli 7- 1-41 7- 1-54 Zone postal savings system when it was Margarita 8-15-41 authorized in September 1911. A married Chagres 4- 6-42 6-30-44 woman could open a savings deposit in FortGulick ... 6-21-42 2-8-43 2-25-46 7-1-54 her own name "free from any control or Curundu 9- 1-43 interference by her husband." The ori- Rodman 2- 1-46 ginal rules provided that no interest Quarry Heights 2-23-46 9-30-49 would be paid and that the system would be operated by a board of trustees: the 1 La Boca was changed to Balboa May 5, 1909. these offices were actually established but they were 2 Collector of Revenue, the Auditor, and There is no record to show the date this office was included in a list dated January 20, 1906, as being in the Treasurer. closed. The post office building was removed prior operation at that time although all files show Janu- to September 8, 1911, and work was performed by the ary 1, 1906. There was a delay in getting postal railroad station agent. It is believed that the post s Cristobal Station B, Toro Point was changed to savings started. The first deposits were office was abolished on or about December 31, 1911. Fort Sherman. May 1, 1916. not made until February 1, 1911. By 3 Ancon Station A was in operation in Panama 6 This station was changed to Fort Amador October June 30 of that year, 2,402 accounts had City in the old French Canal headquarters building 20. 1917. used by the ICC from 1904-08. No records are The word "field" was changed in France Field, been opened. Depositors, The Canal available to show the date the office opened hut it Albrook Field and Howard Field to "Air Force Record reported, represented 30 differ- was closed April 30, 1908, and all records transferred Base" October 1, 1948. ent nations or dependencies. to Ancon. Army Post Offices (APO's) were established in the In 1914 the Executive Order which had 4 There are no records available to show when Canal Zone July 1, 1942. and closed in 1946. established the postal savings system was revoked and all outstanding accounts tions was handled at the Cristobal Post have an up-to-date posting of arrivals and transferred to the office of the Canal's Office. Army mail was censored by the departures of mail boats. Auditor. Somstime later the present military but the Canal Zone Director of Postal People postal savings system was adopted. Posts was Chief Censor for civilian mail. Postal people have always been clan- In the early Canal days the post offices During the second world war, Canal Zone ish and even they themselves admit it. were part of the ICC Department of censorship was under the Chief of Censor- The first postal picnic was held on Taboga Revenues which included not only the ship in Washington. Local mail and mail Island on Labor Day 1911, and Zonians postal system but also the customs, in- passing through the Canal Zone was cen- were publicly advised to expect no mail ternal revenue, lands and buildings, and sored in a large building, not long ago service that day. The picnics have been the administration of estates. They later torn down, behind the Balboa post office. annual affairs ever since; this year's was became part of the Executive Depart- Between the two wars, Canal Zone held at Diablo Heights during the dry ment. When the permanent organization postal operations were largely routine. season. was formed in 1914 the Division of Posts Boat Day was Mail Day. Post offices was abolished and its work was transfer- were crowded with Zonians waiting for A roster of postal employees is studded red to the Division of Civil Affairs, the letters or packages and usually the postal with the names of well-known Zonians. chief of which was, ex officio, Director of force worked straight through until all of F. H. Wang, former Executive Secretary, Posts. the first class mail had been distributed. was once a postal clerk. Gerald Bliss, Censorship For many years The Canal Record, one of the Canal Zone's best-known fig- World War I brought censorship to the in every issue, carried a list of "nixie" ures, was a postmaster for years. Stacey Canal Zone for the first time. Panama letters without complete address; later Russell, long-time postal inspector, deliv- and the Canal Zone named a joint censor- the same information was posted on bul- ered mail for President Franklin I). ship board. Censorship for both jurisdic- letin boards. All post offices also used to Roosevelt to the Galapagos islands and .

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offices are in financial difficulties. Here, as in the United States, postal rates are not sufficient to carry the load. Here, as in the United States, a solution will have to be worked out. Just what it will be, no one knows— here, as in the United States.

Here in a handy, compact form is the information you will need about your post office with the changes which took effect at the first of this month. It gives you the type of service and the hours of operation of each. Information for the post offices in the various civilian communities is listed below.

Civil Affairs Building: Issue and pay postal monej order and postal savings certificates; stamps, registration, insurance, and parcel mailing. One service window. Hours: 9 a. in. ti> 5:30 p. m. daily, except Stuidav s and holidays. Ancon: Mail delivery only. No change in hour-- of service and general delivery, Monday through Friday.

Balboa: All regular service except banking-type operations. No change in hours, Monday through Friday.

Balboa Heights: All regular services except banking-type operations. Hours: 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. in., and 3 to 4:30 p. m., Mon- day through Friday.

Cristobal: No change in service or hours.

f Diablo Heights: All regular service ex- B >.M E ( IF thi' "Id post office people are shown in this photograph, taken about 1912. All are named, cept banking-type operations. Hours: 8:30 left to right. Front row: Gerald D. Bliss, Cooke, Tom M. Richard L. Metcalfe; second row: Anselm M. to 10:30, and 2 to 4 p. m., Monday through Warner, William G. Taylor; third row: George E. LeMire, Abel A. Hunter, Hal B. Cooper; back row: Friday. John W. rannehill, Fred L. Gorham, Cullen D. Thaxton, and Garfield 0. Gilbert. Gamboa: No change in service. Hours: 0:30 a. in. to 12 noon, and 3:30 to 5 p. m., to the open waters of the Pacific where is a history of the Canal Zone. As work Monday through Friday. the President was resting and fishing. advanced, or was campleted, post offices Gatun: No change in service or hours of operation. A. M. Warner, first postmaster at Balboa opened or closed—and they are still doing Heights, believed in postal regulations by so. A table accompanying this story Margarita: No change in service or- the book. On one occasion he intended gives the dates, listed chronologically, on hours ol operation. to require Governor Goethals to come to which the 45 post offices which have Pedro Miguel: No change in service. the post office to get a registered letter functioned here were opened; the other Hours: 9 to 1 1 a. in., and 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Monday through Friday. in person; he thought better of it and dates are those on which they closed, took the letter and the registry book to were reestablished or reclosed, if that the Governor. happened to be the case. Zonian Will Once every few years, when it sells by When excavation began at Mirarlores, Former Join bid unclaimed or undeliverable parcels, for instance, a post office was established Staff Of Gorgas Hospital the Canal Zone postal service discovers there. Likewise, when the main head- what strange things it may have been quarters of the Canal's civil administra- handling. At the last sale, in 1952, there tion were moved from Panama City to Dr. William Edward Prier, son of Dr. were such varied items as lampshades, Ancon, so was the handling of the mail. and Mrs. Vern Prier of Cristobal, is now finishing a residency suitcases, clocks, radios, wedding rings, As Gatun lake began to rise, settlements two-year at the F. Geisinger baby rattles, wrenches, and cooking pots. and post offices were abolished. In mod- George Memorial Hospital in Danville, Pa., and will join the Eggs And Cat ern time post offices were put into oper- staff ation of Gorgas Hospital in July as orthopedic They didn't wait for such a sale to dis- as the Third Locks towns and new surgeon assisting Col. G. G. McSchatko, cover the eggs or the cat. The eggs were, Army posts were built. chief of that service. or had been, handsome, hand-decorated APO's Here Young Doctor Prier was born in Colon hard-boiled eggs which had been sent By the end of the 1942 fiscal year, 23 and attended elementary school in Cris- from the States—by boat mail! The Canal Zone post offices were operating. tobal. He went to the States in 1936 to postmaster sent out a hurry call to the On July 1, 1942, the Army Postal Service attend the Kent Preparatory School in addressee of that package. The cat was was extended to the Canal Zone and dur- Kent, Conn., and entered Harvard Uni- one of a collection which belonged to, or ing the course of the year took over all versity for his premedical training in 1941 was attached bo, a postal employee at post offices in Army posts. The Navy His education was interrupted by Cristobal. It disappeared one day, to assumed operation of two post offices at World War II when he joined the V-12 turn up, thoroughly annoyed but none the Naval stations during that same year so Navy program at Harvard and was worse for wear, in a mail sack at Balboa. that by the end of fiscal year 1943 there ordered to active duty in 1944. After It could In 1 that the cat had just happened were onlv 12 Canal Zone post offices. receiving his commission at Cornell Uni- to crawl in, but it could be that it was The APO's were discontinued and the versity, he spent 18 months with the helped. military post offices returned to the Canal Navy in the Pacific. He was graduated R igular air mail service to the Canal Zone postal service in 1946. from Harvard in 1947 and for a few Zone was inaugurated in 1929 but an air Today there are 16 Canal Zone post months previous to entering Tufts Med- mail 1 tter cosf so much more 25 cents — offices. Two, Gulick and Cocoli, have ical School in Boston, he did research in for a half-ounce as compared to three just been closed. A number of others endocrinology at the Worchester Founda- cents for a ship letter—that air mail did have been placed on a four-hour service tion Hospital in Worchester, Mass. not become a major means of communi- day and some reduced to a mail delivery He was graduated from Tufts in 1951 cation until World War II made surface status only. The money order and postal and took his internship at the Geisinger shipments irregular and the air mail until savings services at Ancon, Balboa, Bal- Memorial Hospital, followed by two rate was considerably reduced. Today boa Heights, Curundu, Diablo Heights, years residency in orthopedic surgery the hulk of first class mail to and from Amador, and Albrook have been consoli- under Dr. Leonard Franklin Bush. the Canal Zone is handled by air. dated at a new unit in the Civil Affairs Accompanied by his wife and three 45 Post Offices Building. small children, Dr. Prier is expected to A history of the Canal Zone post offices Here, as in the United States, the post arrive on the Isthmus on July 15. July 2,1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

ANNIVERSARIES

Ellis D. Carey, master of the ferryboat President Roosevelt and top man on this month's list "I an-

I niversaries, figures IF goes well there I that he has crossed ALL shojld be fresh Calif- tractive new christening boots which the com- ornia fruit green in I the Panama Canal and vegetables the commissaries have for new arrivals. Of soft white missary this week-end. A large shipment of satin, they come in two styles. veision | close to 50,000 One apricots, I times. At a tenth plums, nectarines, cantaloupes, has an ankle-strap with a small pearl burton. I of a mile to a cross- oranges, lemons, lettuce, celery, and other The others are tied with colored ribbon ar.d mouth-watering fruit I ing, that amounts and salad material bordered with val-type lace. Both come in left I to a good main Los Angeles June 23 on the reefer ship white, with white, blue, cink, or maize trim.

I miles, even if it "Mormacgulf" which was due here, when A detachable tab may be sent to the manu- this column went to press, on June 30. It is facturer will I is just between ferry- and come back with baby's name slip and ferry slip. the first direct shipment of this kind from Calif- or monogram embroidered on it. There is no He came to the ornia the Commissary Division has been able charge fo. this service: The boots are $2.50. Canal Zone as a to line up since the end of World War II. Zoologists never saw serviceman, back in any of the animals In addition to the direct shipment from which are on the sock pins, a new teenage the days of World War I. and, except for a California there will be fresh vegetables fad the nine-month absence in 1921 when he went which Commissaries have and fruit coming from other ports. Sock |ust to the States to play baseball, has been here received, but it's a safe bet Other These will include corn-on-the- Pins that the ever since. Last month he completed 40 younger generation will go Shipments cob, a traditional July 4 delicacy wilder than usual them. years of Government service, over .'4 of over The if you live in the right part the them with the Canal organization. of animals are made of a fluffy, plush fabric, are country, watermelons, and other appetizing fastened to pins which have 30 YEARS a safety clasp. fresh things for Canal Zone tables. After There is a purple cat, or reasonable facsimile Six men hold second place honors in June the recent lettuce fiasco when a hot box on thereof, with orange feet and ears and pearl anniversaries. All of them have had 30 a railroad car delayed a shipment in the button eyes. A two-tailed creature is yel- years of Government service and two, Stales so that less than a third of it was fit low, with blue ears and feet. They are 50 Julius M. Culpepper and Thomas J. for use when it got here, the Commissary cents and a well-dressed high schooler will Libonati, have unbroken Canal service. people have their fingers crossed. But every- want several. Two others, Claude B. Strobridge and one is hoping. George A. Jones, Jr., came here as boys REMEMBER THE men's tailored seersucker and worked in summer jobs while they were A TOUR of the Commissary Division's robes and matching house slippers the Com- still in their teens. Mount Hope warehouses the other day missaries had last year? A new shipment Mr. Culpepper is foreman of the Air turned up a number of items which should has just arrived for sale in the larger stores Mail Field of the Post Offices at the Civil interest local buyers. Perfect gifts for late at about $4.95 a set. The tailored robes Affairs Building. Mr. Libonati is a Lock summer weddings are two Sunbeam products come in checks, stripes, or plaids, are made Operator Machinist at Pedro Miguel Locks; an automatic percolator and an automatic by Dunmar, and come in small, medium, and Mr. Strobridge is Distribution Foreman for frying pan. The eight-cup percolator will large sizes. the Electrical Division in Cristobal; and make as little as two cups, has a dial control Mr. Jones is Supervisory Business Account- which can be set for "milder" or "stronger" New dresses at budget prices for grown- ant for the Terminals Division. and in case of a party can be refilled and up girls will be appearing in all of the Com- The other two 30-year men are: William reused immediately without first having to missaries from time to time. One

H. Fisk, Kansas-born, a General Store- cool; cost: $23.50. The frying pan is square, New attractive celanese acetate print, keeper in the Division of Storehouses, and stands on its own legs, has a glass cover and Dresses sleeveless and with a plastic belt, Ralph N. Stewart, a Supervisory Account- a handle dial which can be set to jusl the has a slim matching rayon petticoat ing Clerk, with the Commissary Division. right temperature, 360 for instance, for under its full skirt, $5.25. The bodice of a 25 YEARS french toast, or 300 for fried eggs. Of heavy glazed cotton, in a luscious pink, has rows of material held together by net Three employees celebrated their Silver cast aluminum, it is good-looking enough to which gives a fagotted effect. The Anniversaries in June. They are: Ernest be used at the table, and costs $23.75. dress has a matching Angermuller, Riveter and Tank. Tester Extra covers are $1.95 each and a booklet jacket; $7.95. Another attractive dress is of shantung with perky, standout for the Industrial Division; James M. of recipes is tossed in as an extra. pockets and a big collar which is decorated with Hunter, who has spent most of his life a com- The growing number of skin-diving aficion- pletely useless but most attractive but- here and who is a small tug operator, with big ados will be interested in knowing that the ton, $5.25. the Dredging Division; and Archibald L. commissaries have their special Wright, Chtef of the Central Labor Office Skin equipment. Plain masks are $5.25 NEW ITEMS in the grocery sections this Division. month are Frescavena, a Ouaker 20 YEARS Diving and mask hoods, $12.50. Under- Oats prcd- water flashlights will sell for about uct, and IMT, an instant, saltfree liquid meat of the 20-year Two June employees tenderizer. $2.95 and a depth gauge, which is import- Frescavena is an up-to-data mix Kathleen McGuigan, Administrative As- for ant if you're going to take your diving ser- the oatmeal beverage which has long sistant in the Office of the Comptroller, and iously, for $3.50. There are "duck feet'' for been popular in Centrcl and South America. Clinton Baverstock, Pilot and small-boat grownups, $8.95 to $12.95, and adjustable In vacuum-packed tins, it will sell for 57 cents enthusiast, have continuous service with web feet for children, $4.95. for 20 ounces. A bottle of IMT, made with a the Canal. Others who celebrated their papaya base, holds eight fluid ounces and 20th anniversaries last month are: John J. 'BABY DEER" is the coy name for some at- sells for 51 cents. Crawford, Plumber with the Maintenance Division; Eugene F. Kleasner, Lock Operator Machinist Leader at Pedro DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN WRITER Colonel Cteve Will Head Miguel Locks; and Manuel Lopez, a Heavy Special Truck Driver with the RECALLS EARLY CANAL DAYS Gorgas Medical Service Motor Transportation Division. 15 YEARS An incident of Canal Zone history, Col. Edward A. Cleve, of the Army employees completed Fifteen 15 years almost forgotten except by oldtimers or Medical Corps, arrived here late last of Government service in June. The fol- students of local history, was recalled last month to take over the post of Chief lowing seven have continuous service: of Bennet G. Tipton, Supervisory Admin- month by news of the death in Saugerties, Gorgas Hospital's Medical Service. He istrative Assistant, Cristobal Port Captain's X. V., of Poultney Bigelow, whom Neivs- replaces Col. Men ill C. Davenport who Office; William J. Cronan, Police Officer week described as "newspaperman, au- has been assigned to Valley Forge Army in the Cristobal District; Carl W. Cetti, thor, lecturer, gentleman adventurer, and Hospital at Phoenixville, Pa. all of whose service has been as Pilot-in- the oldest training and Pilot; Coral A. Strickler, alumnus of Yale University." Colonel Cleve comes to the Canal Zone General Staff Xurse at Gorgas Hospital; One of his articles—Our Mismanage- from Letterman Army Hospital in San Percy A. Lawrance, Lock Operator Wire- ment in Panama —written in 1005 after Francisco. His wife and two daughters man Leader at Gatun Locks; Richard I*. a 28-hour stay in the Canal Zone, created will accompany him to the Isthmus. Potter, Electrical Engineer in the Electrical Division; and Mrs. Eleanor P. Home, a national sensation and led to a Senate He received his medical degree from Accounting Clerk, Accounting Division. Committee investigation on "all matters" Tulane and s?rved his internship in Fair- 15-year employees are: Other Thomas relating to the Panama Canal. It also field, Ala., Alabama being his home state. E. Burrow, Budget Examiner on the Execu- led, indirectly, to President Theodore He has been in the Army Medical Corps tive Planning Staff; Bob N. Maynard, Foreman Plumber, Maintenance Division; Roosevelt's visit to the Canal Zone in since 1936 and is a graduate of the Army Lt. Col. R. F. Mulholland, Corozal November 1906. Medical School and the Medical Field Hospital Superintendent; Richard J. Ma- Our Mismanagement in Panama criti- Service School. His overseas service in- honey, Supervisory Construction Inspector. cized the sanitary condition of Colon, the cludes duty as Chief of the Medical Contract and Inspection Division; Edward Serv- G. Coyle, Systems Accountant with the working force, a projected reservoir— in ice in the Army Hospital in Tokyo. Accounting System Staff; Douglas S. brief, almost everything on the Isthmus. He is a diplomate of the American Operator Machinist Smith, Lock at Gatun; Zone pranksters later named a boat used Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of Mrs. Clara M. Chambers, Clerk-Stenog- at the Mount Hope reservoir -which he the American College of Physicians, and rapher in the Navigation Division; and Robert H. Rathgeber, Steam Engineer, had said would never hold water—the a member of the American Medical Asso- for the Terminals Division. Poultney Bigelow. ciation. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954 Summer Recreation Program Forty Years Ago Entertains 771 Boys and Girls In June

Opsning of the Panama Canal to world traffic was not long off and Canal and shipping interests were busy making

plans for it, 40 years ago last month. President Woodrow Wilson named a committee of Canal officials, headed by Gov. George W. Goethals, to "arrange and provide suitable ceremonies for the official and formal opening of the Panama Canal."

No date had been set, however, and this caused some difficulty to shipping com- panies which were rearranging their mutes in order to be able to use the Canal as soon as possible.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company established a round South America service—from Liverpool to the east coast of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, up the west coast and homeward- bound via the Canal. The first vessel in this run icas due in Balboa July 3. BOYS learn wood finishing the painless way in Summer Recreation sessions at La Boca. The Luckenbach line was ready to merge its two coastal services into one intercoastal run between San Francisco and New York, and the Grace Line, operating four of its Santa ships through the Straits of Magellan, was planning to divert them through the Canal as soon as possible. This would cut the intercoastal run from 60 to 20 days.

Meanwhile the Canal collected its first tolls earnings. In June Canal officials reported that $7,356.12, representing a total of 6,1230.1 tons handled, had been collected the previous month. The income came from tolls on barges which were transferring a cargo of sugar from an American-Hawaiian line vessel at Balboa to Cristobal for forwarding. The Canal Record reported that the traffic began May 18; "since that time barges have been going through the Canal more or less regularly and will probably continue to do so as long as the car shortage exists or until the Canal is permanently opened for the passage of

GIRLS at La Bnca make skirts, bags, blouses, and do other handicraft ocean-going vessels." as their Summer Recreation projects. On June 8 the S. S. Allianca of the Pana- ma Railroad Line was locked through The Summer Recreation program, a the children make it seem like play—as Gatun Locks to lake level and back again. Community Chest activity, was in full sewing, crocheting, felt craft, rickrack The first oceangoing passenger vessel to swing last month in local-rate communi- jewelry, cord and shell craft, raffia work, enter or pass the locks, it carried a number ties. A similar program for children of basketry, textile and china painting. The of passengers in addition to its crew. Dur- the U. S.-rate communities begins next little ones, especially, have a fine time ing its passage through the locks the week in most towns, although the Fort when turned loose to finger paint, Allianca was entirely under the control of Kobbe program will not start until the In one handicraft class the other day the lock operating force. week following. the girls were making bags out of a fine burlap or embroidering skirts and had For the local-rate children Summer just finished some attractive sleeveless Recreation events began May 11 and will Annual Dog Registration, Vaccination Start blouses. close examination was needed continue through July 23. According to A to tell that an attractive lot of barrettes Mrs. Inez McKenzie of Paraiso, program (Continued from jmge 5) unfavorable physical had been made from shell macaroni. coordinator, 771 children have registered effects reported among the dogs vaccinat- The same day, at La Boca, a group of for the program. ed last year. boys aged 7 to 14, were finishing bateas Under the direction of 67 volunteers, All dogs four months of age and older and working on mop handles, which is activities arc carried out each weekday eligible for vaccination this year and what might be called learning wood fin- are morning except Saturday, at the schools must be vaccinated before they may be ishing painlessly. in La Boca, Paraiso, Santa Cruz, and registered. Owners of cats are encouraged In addition to the handicraft program, Rainbow City. Mrs. Mildred White is but not required, to have their animals the children have some athletics. Bus La Boca chairman; Mrs. Daisy Robinson immunized against rabies. loads of children have been taken to the heads the program for Paraiso; James Pacific Service Cent3r for roller skating "While the vaccination and registration Rogers is chairman at Santa Cruz, and sessions and children from both sides of team is visiting your community you may Mrs. Doris Alexis at Rainbow City. the Isthmus have spent happy hours in have your animal vaccinated and regis- While the program varies in the var- the Rainbow City pool. tered at the same time, precluding the ious towns it is divided generally into Other recreation events include square necessity of making more than one trip handicraft and athletic events. dancing, round games, and such table to accomplish this task at a later date," Handicraft includes such work but games as dominoes. Dr. Mathenev concluded. July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 CZ Communities Are In A Fog Ten Years Ago When Spray Truck Makes Rounds In June

The Canal Zone, 10 years ago last month, was out to raise a million dollars. The occasion was the Fifth War Loan Drive At Balboa and Mount Hope Stadiums the local military set up displays of mortars, jungle equipment, rocket launchers, and other such equipment, some of it price-tagged so that th" bond-buying public could see what their money was purchasing.

Thousands of Zonians turned out to see the displays and to buy bonds. At the end of the month the campaign was reported to be progressing well.

Other war repercussion*, locally: The Canal Zone ration board okayed the recap- ping of spare tires; up until the end of June motorists had been driving mi four recaps, and the hope that they would not have to use their worn-out spares.

A 30-milc-an-hour speed limit, reduced to 20 miles at night ichen car keailights were painted, was restored fur open road driving in the Canal Zone. A FOG of DDT blankets the ground when the spray truck goes by. A new addition to Margarita Hospital, to briny it to a 400-bed capacity, was nearing completion. It was to be ready about August 1. Twice a week these days when the into a fine mist or spray which is turned The Red Cross announced that a mobile nastily-biting Aedes taeniorhynchus mos- into fog by a blast of high velocity hot air canteen, made from an old commissary quitoes and the pestiferous sandflies are as it leaves the nozzle. The DDT is the truck, was ready for use. From it soft at their meanest, the Canal's fog machines killing or repellent agent; the oil is merely drinks and doughnuts were to be served roll through local communities. Fish its solvent. to transports stopping in Balboa. fanciers hurry to cover their aquariums Evening hours have been chosen for and persons suffering from asthma take use of the spray truck because day-time to their dry closets. But for a while, at rising air currents keep the fog from least, after the truck has passed the biting remaining in contact with the ground Margarita Gasoline Station insect pests are no nuisance. long enough to be effective. Experts disagree as to the effectiveness Hours Will Be Changed July 12 Health Bureau officials have worked of this type of machine for the use to which out a schedule for the machine in an Atlantic Siders will have an additional it is put, but Canal Health officials report attempt to minimize its hazard to two and a half hours daily tD buy gaso- that the fog does afford at least temporary traffic which, naturally, is impeded by the line after July 12. relief. It may be because it is effective as fog. In the towns where traffic is heavi- Effective on that date, for a trial an ins act repellent rather than a killing est, such as Balboa and Diablo Heights, period, the schedule of selling hours at agent since when DDT is dispersed in the truck makes its rounds as early in the Margarita gasoline service station will fog it has residual effect. no the evening as possible, preferably before be: 6:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. continuous, The material used by the spray truck, dark. In towns such as Gamboa, where daily except for Wednesdays, Sundays, or fog machine, is a solution of DDT in street traffic is lighter, the spraying is and holidays. On Wednesdays the station oil. It is mechanically, done at later diesel atomized hours when the DDT fog will be open from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. the experts explain, by compressed air is believed to be more effective. It will be closed on Sundays and holidays. At present the service station does not open until 9 a. m., five days a week.

Independence Day Is July Fifth

This Year Throughout Canal Zone Have you seen (Continued /mm page i) races, and by the traditional kiddy train and fire engine rides. Army and Navy teams will compete in a tug-of-war demonstration. OUR During the afternoon, there will be free movies at the Margarita Service Center, outboard motorboat races at the Cristobal Yacht Club, and baseball games at the Margarita gymnasium. I ID The fireworks display, at 7:30 p. m., -W will be set off by Harvey Sauter, and will be fired from a hilltop near Margarita. Assisting Mr. Workman in planning for Screen f the Independence Day program are Mr. Sauter, Harry Egolf, Henry Carpenter, Virgil Reed, Vincent Ridge, Max Weich, Mrs. R. L. Brians, Mrs. J. E. Erikson, and Miss Nancy Ramsey. BALBOA THEATER

The Gatun Civic Council is also arrang- ing a July 4th program. 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2,1954

Service Center Division, to Student Assist- ant, Motor Transportation Division. Cliff Sanders, from Wood and Steel Car- PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS man to Car Inspector, Railroad Division. SUPPLY BUREAU 15 through June 15 (For Commissary Division, see separate May story) Employees who were promoted or trans- Charles McG. Brandl, from Assistant John M. Purvis, from Monotype Oper- \1 i> 15 and June IS are Chief, Southern District, Maintenance Div- ator to Foreman, Printing Press Section, Regradings and within-grade ision, to Assistant Project Engineer, Proj- Printing Plant. promotions are not listed. ect 13-A. Russell E. Pierson, Property and Supply ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH John H. Foster, from Electronics Mech- Clerk, from Pacific Locks to Division of anic to Electronics Mechanic Leader, Elec- Storehouses. Mrs. Mabelle B. Walker, from Voucher trical Division. Examiner, Claims Branch, to File Clerk, Marvin J. Banton, from Hydrographic ds Section. Engineer to Supervisory General Engineer, R. Mcllvaine, from Accountant, Continuing Job Study Reed Engineering Division. Clerk, Records Internal Audit Staff, to File Paul H. Shacklette, from Surveyingand Sec lion. Cartographic Engineer to General Engineer, Begun In Commissary AFFAIRS BUREAU CIVIL Engineering Division. George F. Gercich, from Elementary Julio M. Lapeira, from Engineering Aid comprehensive, continuing classifica- School Teacher toGatun Elementary School to Supervisory Cartographic Survey Aid, A Principal, Division of Schools. Engineering Division. tion study of positions in the Commissary S. Pashales, from Guard, Atlantic John Mrs. Elizabeth I. Brown, Clerk-Typist, Division is now under way. The study Locks, to Fireman, Fire Division. from Corozal Hospital to Engineering Div- has resulted to date, in the following per- Charles H. Peavley, from Motorcycle ision. actions, some of which are desig- Officer to Detective and Policeman, Police OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL sonnel

I >i\ ision. others changes Mrs. Irene S. Walling, from Clerk- nated reassignments and Robert W. Lawyer, from Policeman to Stenographer, Police Division, to Stenog- in title. In some cases the position has Policeman and Motorcycle Officer, Police rapher, Office of General Counsel. been changed from the old CPC rating Division. Mrs. Marjorie V. Jones, from Substi- HEALTH BUREAU to the GS schedule. tute' Teacher to Elementary School Teacher, Marie V. Brauer, from Staff Nurse to Schools. Head Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. WHOLESALE UNITS I >i\ ision of COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU Richard O. Burgoon, from Accountant, General Products Storage Branch: R. C. Internal Audit Staff, to Accounting Clerk, Kerner E. Frauenheim, from Service Seivers, Jr., Supply Assistant (Bakery), Gorgas Hospital. Center Manager, Ancon, to Service Center Mrs. Roberta J. Wickstrom, from R. H. Brubaker, E. J. Cochrane, and J. Manager, Cristobal, Service Center Divi- Special Duty Nurse to Staff Nurse, Gorgas H. Payne, Bakers, all to Supervisory Baker sion. Hospital. Mrs. Edna M. Wertz, from Ticket Sel- Specialist. Dr. Albert Blanshaft, from District to Teller, Service Center Division. J. F. Manning, Assistant Supply Officer ler Physician, Gamboa, to Medical Officer, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER Pacific Medical Clinics. (Groceries) to Supply Officer (Groceries); Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff Dr. Jack I. Smith, from Medical Offi- L. J. Pillot, Property and Supply Clerk to Morris Waxman, from Construction cer, Pacific Medical Clinics, to District Coffee Specialist; J. M. Brown, Assistant Cost Accountant to Supervisory Accountant. Physician, Gamboa. Supply Officer to Supply Officer (Shoes); John R. White, from Valuation Engin- Dr. Walter G. Nelson, from Chief, E. Eder, Assistant Supply Officer(House- eer to General Engineer. Division of Quarantine, to Chief, Division E. Duane E. Hunter, from Construction of Quarantine and Preventive Medicine. wares) to Supply Officer (Housewares); L. Cost Analyst to General Engineer. Dr. Julian R. Hunt, from District Phys- W. Mcllvaine, Assistant Supply Officer A. Muller, from Valuation Engin- ician, Gamboa, to Medical Officer, Com- Jack (Housewares-Toys) to Assistant Supply eer (General) to Electrical Engineer. municable Disease Clinic. Frank R. Molther, from Valuation En- Mrs. Maxine K. Hitchcock, Clerk- Officer (Housewares); T. G. Relihan Assist gineer (General) to General Engineer. Typist, from Division of Quarantine to ant Supply Officer (Drygoods) to Supply Daniel J. Slater, from Engineer (Esti- Corozal Hospital. Officer (Drygoods). General Engineer. Mrs. Genevieve K. Field, from Recrea- mates) to Refrigerated Products Storage Branch: Carl W. Hoffmeyer, from Construction tion Assistant, Physical Education and Rec- Supply Assistant (General) Cost Analyst to Cost Examiner. reation Branch, to Clerk-Typist, Division G. D. Cockle, John D. Collins, Francis J. Reilly, of Quarantine. to Assistant Supply Officer (Cold Storage); Theodore D. Melanson, from Construc- MAGISTRATE'S COURT L. B. Hunnicutt, Storekeeper (Shipping) tion Cost Analyst to Cost Examiner. John A. Michaelis, Rex E. Beck, Sher- to Property and Supply Clerk; Mrs. M. M. Noel C. Farnsworth, from Valuation man C. Brooks, from Translator (Con- Property and Supply Clerk to Engineer to General Engineer. Bougan, to Constable. Charles M. Middleton, from Assistant stable) Accounting Clerk; L. S. Willa, P. A. Lin- MARINE BUREAU Chief to Chief, Plant Inventory and Ap- vill. Ice Cream Maker to Supervisory Milk praisal Staff. Thomas Taylor, from Policeman, Police Products Specialist; W. G. Peterson, Sau- Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator, sage Maker and M. T. Pappendick, Meat Mrs. Wilhemina K. Galloway, from Atlantic Locks. Accountant, Cost Accounts Branch, to Ac- Jack B. Tippett, from Property and Cutter (Abattoir) to Supervisory Meat Pro- counting Clerk. Supply Clerk, Commissary Division, to cessing Specialist. Boilermaker, Industrial Division. Ralph K. Skinner, from Voucher Exam- Promotions resulting from other classifi- ining and Cash Supervisor, Claims Branch, John E. Sholung, Jr., from Lock Op- cation changes, not involving changes in to Voucher Examiner, Agents Accounts erator Machinist, Atlantic Locks, to Ma- Branch. chinist, Industrial Division. title, are those of V. J. Huber and Mrs. Jack A. Campbell, Frank W. Hoh- Andrew Metzgar, from Lock Operator F. M. Griggel. Wireman Lead- man, from Cash Accounting Clerk, Treas- Wireman, to Lock Operator RETAIL UNITS urv Branch, to Accountant, Internal Audit er, Atlantic Locks. Typewriter Re- Staff. Gerald J. Kelley, from In the Retail Stores Branch, the study Pitman, from Business Analyst pairman to Senior Typewriter Repairman, Warren concerned positions which would remain to Supervisory RatesAnalyst, RatesBranch. Industrial Division. Albert S. Hendricks, from Accountant, Howard J. Schwartzman, from Proba- in the individual retail stores in the ca- \ccounts Branch, to Rates Analyst, tionary to Qualified Pilot, Navigation Div- pacity of Commissary Supervisor, Com- Rates Branch. ision. missary Assistant, and Commissary Check- PERSONNEL BUREAU ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION er. Previously these positions had been BUREAU Mrs. Eula R. Driscoll, from Personnel titled Commissary Assistant, Commissary Henry Ehrman, from Cartographic Assistant to Personnel Officer. Archibald L. Wright, from Administra- Manager, Meat-Cutter-in-Charge, and I ompilation Aid to Hydrographic Engineer, tive Assistant to Chief, Central Labor Cash Accounting Clerk. eei in' i >h ision. Carlos M. Badiola, from Construction Office Division. V. Daniels, from Personnel RETAIL MEATS Engineer, Maintenance Division, to Survey- George Assistant to Supervisory Personnel Assist- id Cartographic Engineer, Engineer- Rated as Commissary Supervisors are: ant. ing I livision, J. F. Evans, O. W. Ryan, C. L. TERMINALS Latham, Adrian M. Bouche, Jr., from Fireman, TRANSPORTATION AND BUREAU Jr., W. D. Marquard, J. C. Wallace, D. Fire Division, to Engineering Aid (Hy- E. Bruce, R. D. Melanson, W. F. Robin- draulic) Meteorology and Hydrographic John H. Joyner, from Repair Shop nch. Foreman, Ancon, to Shop Foreman, Ancon, son, R. O. Simon, R. J. Byrne, E. T. Jose G. Hughes, Azael J. Benavides, to Shop Superintendent, Assistant to the Harper, H. F. Jenner, W. R. Waldrip, District, Motor '"in I Superintendent, Northern ineering Draftsman, General, to J. G. Raymond, C. J. O'Sullivan, R. L. Engineering Draftsman, Civil, Engineering Transportation Division. Rankin, J. L. Fischer, W. D. McGowin, 1 >i\ ision. Dwight M. Van Evera, from Auto Re- Mrs. Dorothy H. Benny, from Clerk pair Machinist to Repair Shop Foreman, J. C. Cross, C. M. Nelson, J. L. Sugar, (Typist) to Clerk-Stenographer, Engineer- Motor Transportation Division. E. M. Stone, M. A. Fynan, L. C. Paul- Butler, from Train Dispatch- ! V. ing Hobart son, G. L. Cain, E. B. Verner, E. L. Robert C. Connor, from Life Guard, er and Agent Operator to Train Dispatcher, Roades, R. G. Rowe, V. F. Kepford, Jr., il Education and Recreation Branch, Railroad Division. to Student Assistant, Engineering Division. P. Margaret diBella, from Usherette, C. T. Hedman, L. D. Goulet, E. E. July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Stoakley, J. L. Snyder, L. H. Schmidt, from Contractors Hill, but Mr. McKoy Jr., J. J. Ryan, H. E. Fuller, R. T. Nel- has announced that field operations are son, I. L. Jenkins, H. C. Seaman, G. E. scheduled to begin by the middle of this Lowery, Mrs. T. G. Lowe, Mrs. L. F. month. Farr, J. L. Rhinehart, C. E. Meyer. Meanwhile, personnel for the Panama Commissary Assistant: J. N. Smith, Canal Company unit for the Contractors Mrs. J. Price, Mrs. L. Abernathy, Mrs. Hill work has been selected. The unit R. J. Bain, Mrs. M. D. Austin, Mrs. E. will be headed by Lt. Col. Edward B. A. Bullock, Mrs. R. J. McGowin, M. P. Jennings as Project Engineer. He was Trim, Mrs. M. A. Griffith, and Mrs. S. assigned to duty with the Canal by the A. Salter. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Commissary Checker: Mrs. Harper, M. Employees Transferred R. C. Pere, Mrs. R. G. Jones, Mrs. L. M. Stoakley, R. VanVliet, Mrs. W. C. The principal personnel of his unit has Brome, D. M. Howell, Mrs. E. L. Trower been transferred from other Canal units. will as Assistant Project Mrs. G. J. Connard, H. E. Bates, Mrs. He have Engin- Brandl, has M. P. Sparks, Mrs. M. M. Heintz, F. W. eer, Charles McG. who been Gurney, and M. M. Ashton. Assistant Superintendent of the Mainte- nance Division's southern district. Others transferred include Harry E. Pearl, of the Engineering Division, to be JULY SAILINGS Office Engineer; Charles Barton, of the Maintenance Division, to be Field Engi- COL. HUGH M. ARXOLD, new Engineering and Construction Director, right, looks over some plans From Cristobal neer; and Ray B. Wells, of the Fire Divi- with F. H. Irwin, Designing Engineer. Cristobal July 2 sion, to be clerk in the office. Other U. S.- Panama July 9 rate personnel to be employed in the unit ernment agencies, cannot be a member of Ancon *July 17 include four blasting inspectors, two en- the National Safety Council but it can, Cristobal July 23 gineering aids, and one clerk. Nine local- and does, compete statistically with the Panama July 30 rate employees will be used in various safety records of industry at large. Canal types of jobs. From New York safety statistics have been supplied to Ancon **July 8 the safety council since 1941. All units Cristobal July 13 National Safely Council Award Of Merit Won compete against their own safety records Panama July 20 to indicate the percentage of improve- By Canal Organization For Noteworthy Record Ancon July 27 ment. To evaluate its records, statistical tests 'Leaves Cristobal Saturday; arrives New (Continued from page l) percent better York Friday. of reliability are used very similar to than par in the second. **Leaves New York Thursday because Safety Council's quality control methods used by indus- of holiday, New York. The National Award try, which place record evaluation on a (Northbound, the ships are in Haiti from of Merit is presented only in recognition measurable basis. These tests tell 7 a. m. to noon Sunday; southbound, the of noteworthy safety achievements. Of how Haiti stop is Saturday from 7 a. m. to big a reduction must be so that the possi- the 8,843 industries surveyed for their 4 p. m.) bility of its being a chance fluctuation is 1952 safety records, Awards of Merit largely ruled out. went to only 600, slightly over six percent. The plan evaluates performance in Not all records have been evaluated for IN terms of both accident frequency and RETIREMENTS JUNE the 1953 awards and overall figures will accident severity. unit is required to not be available before next September. A attain meritorious achievement in terms Retirement certificates were presented Competes Statistically of all disabling injuries and in terms of the end of June to the following employees The Canal organization, like other gov- serious injuries. who are listed alphabetically, together with their birthplaces, titles, length of service, and future addresses: Mrs. Ann W. DeLaMater, North NEW DIRECTORS Carolina; Statistical Clerk, Division of Schools; 26 years, 10 months, 23 days; Greenville, N. C. John D. Logsdon, Maryland; Super- visory Administrative Assistant, Electrical Division; 33 years, 8 months, 22 days; Barton, Md. Nicolas E. Palat, Italy; Clerk-in-charge, Postal Service; 19 years, 10 months, 3 days; Address undecided. Charles Q- Peters, Jr., Massachusetts; Towing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks; 13 years, 4 months, 13 days; Oakland, Calif. George J. Wickens, Virginia; Lockmas- ter, Pacific Locks, 34 years, 3 months, 21 days; Plans uncertain.

Blasting Of Two Million Yards Of Rock

Hill Will From Contractors Start Soon PROMOTION OF Wilson H. Crook, left, and Bernhard I. Everson as Directors of the Community Services and the Transportation and Terminals Bureaus, respectively, was announced this week at Bal- (Continued fwm page 3) July. The boa Heights. Mr. Crook has been Acting Director of his bureau since last November, and Mr. Everson personnel brought from the States will Deputy Director since November 1. real southerner, Mr. Crook still talks in the native Misisssippi. He has be housed at Pedro Miguel. Mr. McKoy A deep drawl of his been employed by the Canal organization for 25 years. He was with the Commissary Division from 1929 has announced that all employment of until 1945 and was Assistant Supervisor of Retail Stores when he was transferred to the Clubhouses as personnel on the Isthmus will be done Assistant Director in July 1945. He was promoted to the position of Director of Clubhouses January through the Central Labor Office Division 1949 and became General Manager of the then Clubouse Division when that unit was incorporated with the Community Services Bureau July 1950. and no employment office will be estab- Mr. Everson has been a Canal Zonian since he was two years old. He worked for the Canal during lished Tecon Corporation. by summer vacations when he was in school. After he graduated, in 1934, from Carnegie Institute of Tech- Some of the technical personnel were nology he returned to the Canal Zone as a student engineer with the Municipal Engineering Division, expected to arrive before the arrival of but left that position a year later to serve an apprenticeship as a machinist with the Mechanical Division. On the completion of his apprenticeship he became Assistant to the Superintendent of the Motor Trans- the first shipment of equipment. No portation Division, and was promoted to Superintendent in 1948. In October 1952, he was appointed exact schedule has been set for the first Assistant Director of the Railroad and Terminals Bureau—now Transportation and Terminals—and blasting and removal of earth and rock became Acting Bureau Director when A. C. Medinger left the Canal service last August. —

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SUMMER TIME IS PLAYGROUND TIME

Summer time is a busy time for some 1,600 Canal Zone youngsters, enrolled in the Playground program sponsored by the Schools Division. Last week these are a few of the things which were going on at Balboa In the upper gym some of the girls were working on mats. Charlotte Schultz, Catherine Watson, Sharon Booth, Ceci Eggleston, Betty Bingham, Virginia Per- ra, Irene Michaelis, Kathleen McCon- naghy, Jeanette Read, Mary Watson, Lacey Hinkle, Joanne Baines, Barbara Clipper, and Susi Magee made a pyramid, (aliove) while others stood on their hi -ids fright). In the lower gym, William Dolan, Louis and George Barbier, Robert Schultz, Ed- ward Dolan, and Edward Cunningham were playing basketball (upper right). Upstairs, the photographer interrupted Joyce Collinge's Story Hour to ask how many of the youngsters wanted their pic- tures taken. The hands in the air indicate how many did (below).