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Vol. 7, No. 3 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, OCTOBER 5, 1956 5 cents

CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, REPLACEMENT WORK

FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR TOTALS OVER $12,000,000

In Case Of Fire Employment Openings

Should Be Available

On Various Projects

An expenditure of over $12,000,000 for new construction, engineering projects, and rehabilitation or replacement of facil- ities has been authorized for this fiscal year by the Panama Canal Company. This figure does not include approxi- mately $340,000 to be spent on street and sewer work, and other substantial sums for normal maintenance work of a varying nature. Over 200 separate projects ranging in cost from less than $100 to almost $4,000,000 have been listed by the Engin- eering and Construction Bureau on this year's work list. The largest single pro- gram will be the power conversion project for which almost three-fourths of the total FIRE EXTIXGUISHERS, and how they work, prove an enthralling subject to these very young authorized expenditure has been Zonians at Diablo Heights kindergarten. Their instructor is Sgt. J. R. Olsen of the Balboa Fire District, bud- assisted by "Sparky" the fire dog. Sparky is camera-conscious and "mugs" whenever a photographer geted. Much of the money to be spent appears, just as he is doing here. Talks to school children, when requested by their teachers, and open in this program will be actually expended house at Canal Zone fire stations will be part of the observance of Fire Prevention Week, October 8-13. after the close of this fiscal year although contracts for the work are to be awarded this year. United Fund Drive Planning In Hands The major construction and improve- ment program is expected to counteract to some extent the substantial force re- Of Newly Appointed Governor's Council duction which is scheduled in the Canal force at the end of this year. Also, most Plans for the establishment of a United campaign, within the Company-Govern- of the outdoor construction and rehabil- Fund Drive in the Canal Zone, to replace ment organization —which will serve as itation projects will be started at the the more than half dozen campaigns con- a sort of "dress rehearsal"—were estab- beginning of the coming dry season which 'ducted here annually, are now being lished recently by the White House. will provide many employment opportun- worked out by a community-wide com- Several weeks ago President Eisenhower ities at the time the reduction takes place. mittee headed by the Canal Zone's Lieu- announced his approval of a new govern- Most of the work to be done during tenant Governor, Col. H. W. Schull, Jr. ment-wide policy, based on "true volun- the fiscal year will be performed by con- This committee is to have charge of all tary giving," for collection of contribu- tract. Both new construction and rehab- "voluntary giver" campaigns in the Canal tions to recognized health and welfare ilitation jobs are scheduled in most of the organization. At the same time it will organizations by Federal civilian and mil- Canal Zone communities and should prove implement policies announced recently by itary personnel. attractive to both large and small con- the White House for charitable and welfare There are three basic principles in the tractors. drives conducted within government government-wide policy, (See page 15) The largest single job listed is the agencies. Canal Locks conversion to 60-cycle cur- Known as the Governor's Council for "We who work in the government rent. The authorized expenditure for this Voluntary Giving, it is made up of rep- want to assume our full citizen's exceeds $3,800,000. It is planned to in- resentatives of the community, labor, and share of voluntary support of the vite proposals in December and open bids the Administration. Its members are the many worthwhile private health and next March. presidents of the eight Canal Zone civic welfare organizations. Another major power job is the Pacific councils, the heads of the two major labor "True voluntary giving is based on area conversion work, for which $2,000,- groups, the Personnel Director, the Ad- the personal desire of an individual 000 is authorized. The same general ministrative Assistant to the Governor, to make a private donation to a spe- schedule for the invitation and award the Public Information Officer, and the cific agency for a purpose with which of contracts is planned. Other power Assistant Comptroller. he is familiar and which he wants to conversion projects scheduled this year The group held its first meeting Sep- support. and the amounts authorized are: Mad- tember 12 at Balboa Heights; it is sched- "The new program will make avail- den hydroelectric plant conversion, uled to meet again October 9 with Gov. able to everyone in the government $700,000; Summit substation, $300,000; W. E. Potter attending this meeting. the opportunity to give his full meas- replacement of pumps, switchgear, and The policies to be followed in working ure of support to these efforts." starters at the Mount Hope pump station, plans for a United Fund drive— and in $128,900; remote control and relay sys- Dwight D. Eisenhower conducting this year's Community Chest tem, $600,000; and the (See page 15) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1956

Getting Acquainted New York Publisher Named

Director Of Cana l Company

The appointment to the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Com- pany of Ogden R. Reid, President of New York Herald Tribune, Inc., and "Herald Tribune" editor since 1955, was announced last month. Mr. Reid succeeds T. H. Maenner of Omaha, who recently resigned.

Born in New York City, Mr. Reid is a graduate of Yale and a veteran of World War II. He is the co-author of two books: "How Strong Is America; The Score On National Defense," and "The Threat of Red Sabotage." Now only 31 years old, he is the youngest member of the Panama Canal Com- pany's Board.

Canal Will Provide

TEA PARTIES WERE the order of the afternoon last month for a large number of Canal Zone women Control Point Groups from both sides of the Isthmus. They were guests at the first two cf a series of "get acquainted" teas

to be given by Mrs. W. E. Potter in the roomy old Governor's House at Balboa Heights. Above is a group at the first tea, gathered around the attractive tea-table. For Jackpot Exercise

Participation of one complete Control Insurance Companies Invited To Submit Point advance echelon of approximately 250 members of the Canal Zone Civil Proposals For Broad Defense Corps is being planned for each Medical Group Plan of two field training exercises to be held this month on both sides of the Isthmus. Several insurance firms have been in- of 70 days. This same sliding scale, The training exercises are phases of the vited to submit proposals on a broad based on the medical service coverage, Armed Forces three-part Jackpot V exer- hospital and medical service group insur- would be used for other medical service cises in which the Canal organization has ance plan which would give adequate coverage. These benefits would be the been invited to take an active part. The coverage to Canal employees and their same in Panama or the Canal Zone. Jackpot exercises have been held for the families. Off-Isthmus Coverage past few years and consist of annual train- The plan was developed by a committee The benefits for hospital or medical ing in disaster control procedures. appointed last year to investigate the services off the Isthmus for the four The participation by the Canal Zone possibilities of group health insurance for groups of employees in the higher brack- Civil Defense organization will provide of organization. employees the Canal ets would be uniform for all groups. the first opportunity for actual field work One of the first steps of the committee, These would be $12 a for day a maximum under simulated disaster conditions. headed by F. G. Dunsmoor, Administra- of 70 days of hospitalization; $75 for mis- The Pacific side exercises in which the tive Assistant to the Governor, was to cellaneous hospital fees; $250 for surgical Civil Defense forces will be committed submit a questionnaire to all employees services; and $75 in maternity benefits. will be held October 17, while the Atlantic in an attempt to develop a unified plan In addition to these benefits, the insur- side Jackpot V exercises are scheduled for which might be applicable to all groups. ance companies were also asked to give October 30. The plan was developed from proposals quotations on major medical benefits in Participating personnel will be con- made by the various firms, based on data excess of the basic coverage which would sidered on official duty and will be ex- obtained from the questionnaires. range in steps of $1,000 each, from $1,000 cused from their normal duties without Grouped By Salaries to $6,000 for the six groups. The major leave charges. medical benefit plan would be applicable As proposed in the plan, which must be In preparation for the exercises, 72 whether service was rendered on the Isth- quoted on by October 15, the insurance employees have been appointed by the mus or elsewhere. coverage would be offered to six groups, Personnel Bureau to take a 12-hour course It is contemplated that if a satisfactory dependent upon the annual salaries. in first-aid training. This group will be rate can be provided that payments can These salary groups would be: Up to one of several to be selected by the Per- be made through payroll $1,290; $3,050; $5,400; $6,600; $9,300; deduction. sonnel Bureau from the various Canal The coverage requested under the plan and over $9,300, which are the same as units to complete the task force required those in the existing medical tariff. submitted to the four firms would be for the two exercises. based family rates with The same general benefits would be on coverage for Each of the two Control Point advance unmarried dependent children provided for employees in all groups ex- up to 19 echelons to be supplied by the Canal Zone years of age. Children attending school cept in the two lower salary groups where Government Civil Defense organization off the Isthmus would also be covered by no provision is made for medical or hos- will consist of several teams trained to the plan. pital expenses away from the Isthmus. handle various phases of disaster control Both hospitalization and medical serv- Group Participation and relief work. ice benefits would be based on charges The companies were asked to base their Among these will be a Police team, as provided in the Canal Zone medical proposals on participation by 50 percent first-aid teams, litterbearers, four mon- tariff, when the service is rendered on the of U. S. citizen employees, or 1,500 em- itoring teams, a refugee-marshaling team, Isthmus. These rates would be applicable ployees, or whichever of these two is a communications repair team, a decon- even though the service was not rendered lower; and on a no-limit basis for non- tamination team, and 18 chauffeurs. In of at one the Canal Zone Government U. S. citizen employees. addition to these, the Health Bureau will hospitals. These rates cover hospitaliza- A contract for the group insurance plan supply a professional team of doctors and tion up to 70 days, miscellaneous hospital would be for a one-year period, but it nurses to head the casualty collecting fees, surgical, and maternity charges. would be dependent upon the stated min- station. Under the plan, Employee A makes imum participation by at least half of During the Pacific side exercise the $1,290 a year and pays $1.50 a day at U. S.-rate employees, or a minimum of Main Control Center in the Administra- Gorgas Hospital, while employee B makes 1,500 of this group. tion Building basement will be manned $6,600 a year and pays $4.75 at Gorgas. An announcement of the most favor- and the Administrative Branch will pro- The insurance coverage would be at $1.50 able rates offered will be made to employ- vide the necessary personnel. The Alter- a day for Employee A, and $4.75 for Em- ees later this month after the four com- nate Main Control Center will function ployee B for a maximum hospitalization panies have submitted their proposals. on the day of the Atlantic side exercises. .

October 5, 1956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Reduced Rate For Employees To Haiti Leaving Soon it 3**— Among Revisions In Panama Line Fares

Several important changes, of reduced fares was changed after a clarifi- benefit to many employees, cation was received recently from the Comptroller General regarding separate were made by revisions in the travel on free home leave travel orders. schedules of passenger fares on the Under the new regulations, an employ- Panama Line which became effective late ee's family or dependent may take a vaca- last month. Principal among these are tion in the United States and travel at the following: reduced fares on the Panama Line even The granting of employee-rates between though the employee or head of the fam- Cristobal and Haiti; ily is unable to go. Such travel, however, A ruling that families and dependents is limited to only one trip in 12 months may travel at reduced rates separately but it would not affect the rights of the from the employee, subject to the same employee and his family to home leave limitations as employees; travel. A change in the definition of an em- The change in the definition of "de- ployee dependent; and pendent" as applied for reduced fare on An increase in the discount for steam- the steamship line will affect relatively ship fares from 15 percent to 25 percent few employees. The new definition means for dependents who do not qualify as a person, other than one included in the family members entitled to employee definition of family, who resides with an rates. employee and receives more than 50 per- Until the recent revision in the fares, cent support from the employee. employees were required to pay full com- in the discount for depend- mercial rates for travel between the Isth- The change not qualify as members of mus and Haiti. The change means a re- ents who do families will a savings of GILBERT H. FUREY, who has been closely con- duction from $140 to $35, minimum fare, employee mean nected with the production of The Panama Canal $30 to $35 a round trip on minimum fares, for an employee who takes a short vaca- Review since it was started, will watch his last issue for these individuals. tion in Haiti. However, travel time for go to press this month. He is retiring October 31 as Printer for Panama Canal Company, after vacation trips to Haiti may not be Other changes in the schedule of pass- the almost 39 years of government service here and in granted. enger fares for the Panama Line were in Washington. Mrs. Furey is already in the United clarify The change in the rule requiring em- the nature of revisions to mean- States and he will leave early next month to join her. ployee dependents to travel with the ings and none other materially affects They plan to live in California for the time being. employee or head of the family to obtain employees generally. Governor To Attend They Also Served Directors' Meeting, Hearing On Budget

Governor Potter is to leave next Tues- day to attend the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company and to appear before the Bureau of the Budget on the Company and Canal Zone Government budgets for the fiscal year 1958. After arrival in the States he will go first to Omaha where he will deliver an address to the Nebraska State Bankers Association annual meeting. The Gov- ernor will speak on economic opportunities in Latin America and the part the Panama Canal has in the economic development taking place today. The Board meeting is to be held in Washington Saturday, October 13. The Directors will review the annual financial statement on Company operations for the past fiscal year and capital items author- ized by the President of the Company since the last Board meeting. Governor Potter will present the Annual Report of the President to the Board of Directors

Behind every team of surgeons is what Mrs. Lear and Mrs. Swift are labora- at the meeting. hospitals call their "supporting team"- tory technicians. Mr. Sauvageau is a Attending the Board meeting with the those who staff the operating rooms, give nurse-anesthetist. Governor from the Canal organization on the anesthetics, do the laboratory work. The others on the team went to work the Isthmus will be Philip L. Steers, Jr., This is the Gorgas Hospital supporting when President Somoza entered Gorgas Comptroller, who is a General Officer of team which went into action last month Hospital. the Company; Capt. Warner S. Rodimon, when President Anastasio Somoza of Nic- Marine Director; and Col. Hugh M. Ar- Griselda H. de Fonsenca, far left, is an aragua was brought to the Canal Zone nold, Engineering and Construction Di- anesthetist, and was on duty in the op- for emergency surgery following an at- rector. erating room during the long operation. tempt on his life. Governor Potter is scheduled to appear Dr. Grace Stuart, Chief of Anesthesia Three of the group-Mrs. Louise F. the following week before the Bureau of (not shown here), was in the operating Lear and Mrs. Esther Swift, at the far the Budget for hearings on the 1958 bud- for the entire surgery. right; and Joffre Sauvageau, the only man room ets. He will be accompanied to these in the group -made a speedy round trip Mabel Sneider, fourth from the left, is hearings by Mr. Steers and Leroy B. to Nicaragua, before doctors reached a chief operating-room nurse. She is flanked Magnuson, Chief of the Canal's Budget decision to bring the injured president to by her assistants, Katherine Taliercio, on Branch. The hearings are scheduled for the Canal Zone. her right, and Clara Zapponi. Monday, October 15. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1956 All -Girl Work Full Time Nov. 1 Set As Date Crew Preparing Retention Registers For Reduction Notices

Force reduction notices are to be sent out by November 1 to those employees whose jobs will be abolished at the end of this year as a result of the curtailment of purchase privileges, Edward A. Doolan, Personnel Director, has announced. Personnel regulations require a 30-day notice for such terminations and the ad- ditional time, announced recently by Governor Potter, will give those affected more time to seek other employment. Since many employees will have "bump- ing" rights, the extra 30 days' notice will be helpful in making the necessary ad- justments by personnel and units affected by this procedure. Governor Potter announced several weeks ago that less than 1,000 force re- ductions would be required, and it is now estimated the actual number will be less than 900. Of these, between 40 and 50 will be employees on the U. S.-rate rolls. Two Divisions Most Affected ESTABLISHING service dates for approximately 11,000 employees and preparing retention registers this crew busy. They are, in the usual order: Carmen Sole, Ruby Ferguson, Mrs. Dorothy Webb The Commissary and Service Center keeps (standing); Maritza de Leon, Maria Company, and Gladys Davila. Not present when the picture was Divisions will lose by far the greatest taken was Vilma E. D'Anello. number of jobs by the change required by the Treaty provision requested by the A month after Mrs. Dorothy Webb and must, accordingly, receive reduction- Republic of Panama. six other pretty girls began work on a in-force notices. A force reduction of 835 in these two special project in Balboa's breezy Build- The speed with which Mrs. Webb's divisions is scheduled, of which approxi- ing she stopped long enough to take half-dozen helpers have learned their jobs mately 60 are part-time and 40 full-time 69, —only one of them had ever worked be- employees of the Service Center Division. stock. fore—amazes Mrs. Webb and her imme- About 35 positions in other divisions are "Seventy-two pencils and over 3,000 diate supervisor, George V. Daniels. also to be abolished at the end of the year. sheets of scratch paper, so far," she "Everyone of them has taken hold As a result of the reduced work-load in sighed. beautifully and far surpassed our expec- the Commissary and Service Center Div- And, before they have finished, many tations," they say, but then they add, isions the effect of this major force reduc- more pencils and sheets of paper will "but we should have expected it from tion will affect to some degree all of the have been used to prepare the retention such an exceptional group!" principal Canal units because of bumping registers which will determine who will Mrs. Webb, who is in direct charge, is rights. Many of the principal units will and who will not continue on the job a second-generation Canal employee. Her also have smaller force reductions as a after January 1 when four commissaries father, C. H. Walston, retired in 1950 as result of the secondary effects of the and four service centers close and several a steam engineer with the Mechanical change at the end of this calendar year, hundred men and women lose their jobs. Division. A graduate of Balboa High although in many cases these will be sev- At their clustered desks, Mrs. Webb School, she began her Canal career in the eral weeks or months later. and her girls are checking approximate- commissaries and has been with Person- ly 11,000 employment records, unravel- nel since 1950. ing the code symbols which indicate Senior among "her girls," and the Better Look Before You service with other government agencies, only one with previous experience, is computing this service, and totaling Ruby E. Ferguson. She is a graduate Leap Into Air Conditioning the government service for each em- of the University of Panama and holds ployee. an M.A. from the University of Mich- igan. She left the group late Planning to air condition your bed- Invaluable helping hands have been last month to teach in Panama. room? Going to buy a clothes drier? extended by Mrs. Marguerite Maphis, Or any other piece of major electrical head of the Organization Unit, and Mrs. Carmen C. Sole and Maritza de Leon equipment? Perpetua Hackett who, with Mrs. Webb, are June graduates from Ontario, Canada, convents. Miss Sole's school Then you'd better get in touch with are normally responsible for the prepar- was in Chat- ham and Miss De Leon's in the people at the Electrical Division's ation and maintenance of the retention Watertown. They work as one team. field offices in the area where you live. registers. Another team is Gladys C. Davila The reason for this is that the electrical and Mrs. and her all-girl Webb band are Maria A. Company. Miss wiring in some Panama Canal quarters Davila at- dividing the 11,000 record cards into tended Balboa High School for isn't designed to carry the load which air two years groups: Veterans and non-veterans, full and graduated from the Pan-American conditioners, driers, etc., put on it. In or part-time employees, and those on Institute. Miss Company, whose parents such cases it may be necessary to install WAE lists. Cards containing service- came from Spain, was an additional circuit— at the expense of born in Colon. dates and condensed personnel data She is a graduate of the householder. are Maria Inmaculada then filed by districts and job categories. School in Panama City. The men at the field offices will also be Pertinent data will be furnished The other member of this completely able to give advice on the proper ground- to the bilingual group is Vilma E. D'Anello, ing of air-conditioning units—which can Statistical Unit to be used in punching daughter of Panama City's Municipal give a nasty shock if improperly ground- IBM cards. Treasurer. She was graduated this year ed—and on the installation of driers. When the job is finished it will be from Penn Hall Junior College in Cham- As more and more quarters are con- possible to determine readily what the bersburg, Pa. verted to 60-cycIe current, more and more Personnel Bureau calls "job inter- interest is being shown in air condition- changeability," bumping, and retreat Where do they come from"! Ten years ers, driers, deep freezers, and like equip- rights. And it will be possible to select, ago the Canal Zone population was far ment. for example, which sales clerks, clerks ahead of that today, but school enrollment But—better do some talking to the or others in affected or related categor- then was approximately 7,700 as compared Canal's electricians before you buy! ies have the least retention rights and with 10,500 now. Octobers, 1956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Meet The Man Who Produces Rubber Stamps

50 Years Ago The complaints of Panama businessmen against the Canal Commissaries were pre- The Canal Zone had a distinguished sented to the Pan American Commercial visitor in October 1906 and was busy Conference being held in Washington. preparing for another. Secretary of State The Bureau of Efficiency was taking Elihu Root stopped in the Zone for two increased interest in the Canal and its days on a Latin American trip. operations. A new accounting plan rec- The Hotel Tivoli was being rushed to ommended by the Bureau for the Canal completion and plans were being formu- was approved by President Herbert Hoo- lated for the expected visit in November ver. The plan was designed to show true of President Theodore Roosevelt, a prec- costs of all Canal operations. It was edent shattering trip since it would be announced during the month that the the first time a President of the United Bureau would send down a team of effi- States left the country. A slight setback ciency experts to suggest improvements. occurred at the Tivoli when a bolt of The St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadel- lightning hit the building although dam- phia, 4 to 8, in the World Series. Among age was slight. other outside events of the month: Thomas Bids for building the Panama Canal A. Edison died; Hitler assumed additional were advertised early in October 1906 and powers in Germany. during the month Theodore P. Shouts, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commis- 10 Years Ago sion, wrote a letter to Secretary of War CLARENCE A. WATTS Canal traffic, employee travel, food sup- William Howard Taft strongly favoring He makes rubber stamps plies, and mail deliveries were all being building the Canal under contract. seriously in October 1946 by mari- Gen. Robert E. Wood was laying the affected There's a lot more to rubber stamps time strikes in the United States. The SS than pressing them on an ink-pad groundwork for his later career as head and Panama icas delayed on both its first whacking a piece of paper with of Sears & Roebuck 50 years ago as of them. two trips southbound. has to the Assistant Chief of the Department of Someone make stamps before The effects of World War II were still they can pressed and whacked. Labor and Quarters in the Zone. He had be evident on all sides 10 years ago. Only In the Canal Zone that someone been in the job one year and a magazine is a few camouflaged buildings had been re- Clarence Albert Watts, qualifies article appeared complimenting him on who as painted and many wartime restrictions a "singleton" because he is the his work. one and had not been lifted. One was lifted in only rubber stamp maker. He is classified It was being rumored that the Governor's October 1946 when permits to salesmen officially as a Compositor at the Printing House being built on the eastern toe of to enter the pier areas and solicit business at Hope. the Ancon Hill would be converted into an Plant Mount When rubber on merchant vessels were again issued. business is not rushing he Administration Building. It was one ru- stamp helps out Employees were given one year to reduce in the composing mor which came true. The building now room—sometimes on accumulated leave to conform with new reg- Panama Canal Review. houses the Canal Zone District Court. The ulations. had much leave in The October 1906 health report showed Most employees Rubber stamps come all sizes and over the authorized amount because the shapes, he says. contain there were 350 deaths in the Canal Zone of Some only one inability to travel during the war. word, like "Rush," or "Confidential." in September of that year—almost ex- Shortages became acute in the Com- Others consist of several actly twice the number, 176, who died paragraphs. missaries in many items. Among these of the biggest stamps he has in the Zone during the fiscal year 1956. One ever were eggs, butter, milk, shortening, mens' measured ' 4? Even that figure cheered Col. William C. made 7? 4 by i inches. shirts, and tissue paper. All of these Other rubber stamps are seals, like Gorgas as it was lower than previous the mail in Oc- months. The three principal causes of items were barred from those used by the Customs and the tober to conserve the supply because of Port Captains, and are facsimile death, in order listed, were pneumonia, some par- malaria, and tuberculosis. uncertain shipping conditions. Many signatures. cels containing these items in short sup- All of the printed stamps are made by 25 Years Ago ply in the States had been mailed by the same process, which starts out much Six officials of the companies awarded friends on the Isthmus. Cigarettes were like any other printing job. Mr. Watts the contract to build Madden Dam ar- also put back on a limited sales basis, works from copy and sets the type by rived to make an on-the-ground inspec- with one package to a customer. hand. After the proof is okayed, he tion of the project. Canal Zone matches and cigarettes made cleans the type with benzine and cuts a Ground was broken for the new Cristobal further news in October 1946. The first piece of mold-board, a plastic composition High School. Publication of plans for the postwar shipment of the famous Swedish which has replaced the plaster-of-paris he building aroused much interest because of "Canal Zone matches," which had been out once used, powders the mold and the type its unusual design. of stock throughout the war, arrived and the to prevent sticking, and puts both toge- Gov. Harry Burgess returned from price of cigarettes was increased from nine ther into a molding press. Washington with bad news. The request to ten cents a package. The mold, bearing the impression of the for funds to build the Canal Zone Junior A raise in house rents for U. S.-rate type, then goes into a vulcanizer to be College and a Canal Zone Library build- employees was announced for January dried out. Meanwhile, he cuts a sheet ing was turned down by the Bureau of 1947 to meet increased operating expen- of raw red rubber into the size of the the Budget. ses, with increases to range from 10 to 70 mold and this and the dried-out mold go Col. Julian L. Schley, Engineer of Main- percent. The principle of using the var- back into the vulcanizer together. A tenance, left for the States to be married in iabilities of desirable and undesirable fea- mold can be used to make several stamps Boston to Miss Demise Vary. He and Maj. tures was announced in fixing the new if it is handled carefully, he says. Joseph C. Mehaffey had been listed as the rents. The rubber, which now bears the letters most eligible bachelors of the Canal organi- T. A. Aanstoos, Panama Canal Printer, reading backward, is trimmed with scis- zation. General Mehaffey has never changed and Chester B. Johnson, Chief Examiner, sors and glued onto a piece of wooden his listing. were among the 12 Canal and Railroad molding, which looks like oversized fram- The trial run of the ferryboat Presi- employees retiring in October 1946. ing for pictures. This makes the wooden dent Amador was made during October base for the rubber stamp and when it 1931. It was one of several major pieces One Year Ago has been sawed to the proper size, and of Panama Canal floating equipment to The Panama Canal Company an- smoothed with sandpaper, Mr. Watts be built by the Mechanical Division dur- nounced that all of the Locks towing drills a hole and fits in one of the assorted ng the depression years. locomotives would be replaced. handles he keeps on hand {See page w) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1 956

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE '£CCIDENT PREVENTION . tJML , LJ. m «a,fex- Oar r*oacline;

Early last month a new method of placing vehicles aboard the ferries went into effect. The old method is shown in the photo- graph at the top right; the new method in the photograph below it. With cars and busses placed as they were previously, it would have been very difficult for the occupants to open the doors wide enough to get out in the event of a sudden emergency such as fire or col- lision. It was therefore, for the safety of you who use the ferries, that the new "method of single lanes on either side of the ferry was put into effect. In order to inconvenience the public as little as possible, the ferry schedule has been speeded up to the maximum during rush hours to compensate for the smaller car-load per trip. To date there has been no serious mis- hap, fire, or collision to warrant evacua- tion of the ferries. However, safety meas- ures cannot be based on past records but must anticipate the avoidance of possible future tragedies. Remember the Andrea Doria? HONOR ROLL Bureau Award For BEST RECORD AUGUST SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU HEALTH BUREAU AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Health 7 Civil Affairs.. 6 Supply and Employee Service 3 Engineering and Construction 1 Marine 1 Transportation and Terminals 1 Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES AUGUST COMMISSARY DIVISION LOCKS DIVISION

HOSPITALS AND CLINICS FREQUENCY RATE— Disabling injuries per 1,000,000 employee- AUGUST 1956 SERVICE CENTER DIVISION hours worked. HOUSING AND GROUNDS DIVISION BUREAU INDUSTRIAL DIVISION DIVISION DREDGING Supply and Employee Service RAILROAD DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION Health STOREHOUSES DIVISION POLICE DIVISION Marine AIDS TO NAVIGATION SANITATION DIVISION Transportation and Terminals AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Canal Zone Govt. -Panama Canal Co. Aids to Navigation 8 San ita tion 8 Service Center 8 Civil Affairs Storehouses 8 Commissary 7 Engineering and Construction Hospitals and Clinics 7 Industrial 7 Motor Transportation 7 Railroad 7 (Employee-hours worked 2,341,671) Dredging 6 Electrical 5 LEGEND Housing and Grounds (4 mos.) 4 Maintenance 4

Navigation 3 Frequency Rate this month Locks 2 Police(2 months).. -. 2 I'-lv'lv'.vMvM Accumulative Frequency Rate this Calendar Year Fire (2 months). 1 1953-1954-1955 Calendar Year Average Terminals _...,,,- ,,.--„.. 1 October 5, 1 956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW OF CURRENT AND FUTURE INTEREST

Three reviews will be given this month overnight. Chinch bugs have been a prob- by the Junior ROTC battalions in Balboa lem for the past three years and have been and Cristobal High Schools. especially bad in Los Rios this year. Balboa has scheduled two. ROTC The To combat the chinch bugs, the Division first, on October 10, will honor Balboa High is making new spraying machines prepara- School's principal, T. F. Hotz; and the sec- tory for the annual invasion at the begin- ond, on October will be given for Col. 31, ning of the next rainy season. The bugs H. W. Schull, the Canal Zone's Lieu- Jr., seem to lie dormant, cr almost so, in dry tenant Governor. The Cristobal ROTC weather and burst into activity when the will have in of a review October 30, honor rains start. their principal, Paul Beck. Meantime the Division is experimenting Both ROTC units elected their battalion with new insecticides and hoping that some- and company sponsors last month. At one will soon produce Balboa High School the battalion sponsor a sure chinch-bug cure. The pesky pests have developed an is Geraldine McGriff. The Company spon- immunity to DDT. sors are: Forest Wise, Company A; Maria Girard, Company B; and Susan Potter, Company C. The Cristobal sponsors are: A rare collection of first-flight airmail en- Mary Morland, for the battalion; Judy Tip- velopes is now on display at the Canal Zone ton, Company E; Sandra Motta, Company Library-Museum as a special treat to all F; and Pat Maedl, Company G. local philatelists. The collection, made Cadet Lt. Col. Robert Hamilton is bat- available by Pan American World Airways, talion commander at Balboa, and his oppos- is being shown under the sponsorship of the ite number in Cristobal is Cadet Lt. Col. Caribbean Stamp Club. Norman B. Dials. The envelopes commemorate the first- flight dates of the opening of airmail routes throughout the world, although How many babies are born each month there is par- ticular emphasis on North, South, in the Canal Zone? Plenty! and Cen- tral America. The collection began Official statistics show that between 150 about work among the Canal Zone's 1929. and 160 brand-new individuals make their OUTSTANDING young polio patients was recognized last month when The exhibit will be shown at the Library appearance every 30 or 31 days at the Museum in the Civil Affairs Building Canal Zone's two hospitals. a Distinguished Service Award, accompanied by a from $300 check, was given to Dr. James R. West, Gorgas October 1 through October 8. Atlantic This isn't anything new, though. The Hospital pediatrician. Gov. E. Pctter is shown siders may see the collection between Oct- 150-160 average has been maintained for W. presenting the award to Dr. West in the pres- ber 9 through October 14 in the lobby of the past five years or so, according to the above (in dark dress) number the Cristobal Theater. records. ence of Mrs. West a and a of other Company-Government employees who also The Canal Zone Library has declared war received awards. Dr. West ended his Canal career Philip C. Olsen, new psychiatric social on bookworms, but not the two-legged var- yesterday and left by plane with Mrs. West and worker at Gorgas Hospital, arrived recent- iety. Its secret weapon, lethal to book- their three young daughters for their new home in ly from California. He succeeds Mrs. Eliz- worms but harmless to humans, is the white Petaluma, 30 miles from San Francisco. He will be abeth Murphey on the Hospital sttff. Ar- DDT powder which is inserted into the in private practice there. riving with him were Mrs. Olsen and their spines of the library's books. four children. Until the declaration of war in June, the A native of Alamosa, Colo., Mr. Olsen was library staff was finding at least 300 of the many interesting things to see in books graduated from Adams State College in infested with the pests, Panama's National Museum as the result each month which — his home town. He is also a graduate of of a friendly hands-across-the-border ges- are the larvae of a voracious beetle com- the School of Social Work of the University monly known as a "drug store" or "tobacco" ture. The collection for the Museum is one of Denver. He is a veteran of World War II. beetle. of the projects on the agenda of the Canal The new social worker came to the Isth- The decision to use DDT powder was Zone Gem and Mineral Society. mus from the Porterville State Hospital in made after a series of conferences with ex- The idea of a so-called "starter collection" Porterville, Calif. perts on insect extermination and a con- for the Panama Museum was suggested by trolled experiment in which a number of the Club recently to Professor Alejandro insecticides were used. Mendez P., the Museum's Director, who By the middle of September about two- received the idea with great enthusiasm. thirds of the books in the main library had At present, Gem Society members plan MY PET been treated. Little bookworm damage has to make up the Panama Museum exhibit been found in the branch libraries, probably from stones now in their private collections, because these are predominately circulating using such colorful local stones and semi- collections, and the bookworms apparently precious gems as quartz, jasper, agate, sar- prefer a less-disturbed existence. donyx, rhodenite, and amphbotite, as well as petrified wood which is abundant here. will labeled and the collection Thieves and petty prowlers are now find- Each piece be in cases. Later the Museum col- ing the Tivoli Guest House well-protected displayed enlarged as the against their nefarious doings. The rear lection will be Canal Zone collectors to their finds. section of the Guest House is surrounded gem add by an 8-foot cyclone fence which extends down the two side-wings and across the A two-day celebration at Rainbow City back of the old building. last month celebrated the 12th Anniversary The fence was removed from the old of the founding of the Plus Ultra Club. "300 Area" between Gaillard Highway and Part of the anniversary was a Thanksgiving Diablo Road, and reerected at the Tivoli Service at which the guest preacher was by contract. the Rev. Roy Blakely of the Gatun Union Church. An exhibit of stones and semi-precious An auxiliary of the Ebenezer Methodist gems native to Panama may soon be one Church, the club has sponsored many com- munity activities. One of these was a trip through the Canal July 4 aboard the ferry- boat "Presidente Porras."

l..iv-L. ja^i^l Automobile license plates for the Canal Zone for 1957 will have a familiar look. Official Panama Canal Company Publication They will use the same colors, black and Published Monthly Al Balboa Heights, C. Z. yellow, as this year but the 1957 colors will Printed by the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone be reversed, with the numerals in yellow and the background black. The new plates VV. E. Potter, Governor-President have already arrived. H. VV. Schull, Jr., Lieutenant Governor Applications will be available as early as November 1. Canal Zone residents who get W. G. Arey, Jr., Public Information Officer THAT'S NOT a Davy Crockett hat as anyone can their requests in early will be in on the plainly see, says Donald Adams 7, of Diablo Heights. annual drawing for low license numbers. J. Rufus Hardy, Editor The bundle of fur on top of his head is "Pancho," This will be held sometime during the Eleanor H. McIlhenny, Assistant Editor a marmoset who has been living with the Adams' middle of November. household for several weeks. "Pancho" is one of On sale at alt Panama Canal Service Centers, three marmosets in the Adams' menagerie, but the Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days after publica- Library is not the only Canal unit only one which goes riding on Donny's head. The tion date at 5 cents each. Subscriptions, $1 a year; The mall and back copies, 10 cents each. with bug trouble. The particular difficulty other little monkeys are a female, who has shown no of the Housing and Grounds Division is inclination for such joyriding, and a baby which is Postal money orders made payable to the Pan- chinch can mottle a beautiful Donald is the son of Robert K. Adams ama Canal Company should be mailed to Editor, bugs—which too young. The Panama Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. green lawn with ugly brown patches almost of the Locks Division. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Oc»ober5, 1956 Planes And Trains, Cars And Ships, Carried Them Off On Vacation Trips

or stowed on a luggage carrier on the top of their car. The lower picture shows the family: Dick, Executive Assistant in the office of the General Manager of the Commissary Division; Shirley, who is Mrs. Cox; Brian, 17, and an Eagle Scout; Kathleen, 15, and Eileen, 13, both Curved-Bar Girl Scouts; and Kevin, 3yi, voted by the family as the best camper. They planned their 12,000-mile trip before they left the Isthmus and stuck to their itinerary with only minor changes. Their goal was Seattle to visit the girls' two pen-pals. They decided to camp wherever tentsites were available and ended up by spending 32 nights under canvas and seven in motels. At the end of the trip the Cox children found they had been in 40 of the 48 states and want to take the next trip the same wav they did this.

THE WILLS of Margarita, started their vacation $300 richer than they'd expected, after this ap- pearance on NBC's TV program, Break The Bank. Lined up, they are: James and William, 14-year-

Robert, Darnell, \ Mrs. Will; Bert Parks, old twins; Lauray, 12; Gary 4; 8; ; and master of ceremonies.

There probably aren't many places of vision. They did this two weeks later its size whose people scatter so widely as when they picked up a rebroadcast in Zonians do for vacation. Virginia, where they had stopped enroute It's always been that way, the Canal to Florida. being the heterogenous collection it Zone Gloria Shelton, who works at Balboa is, home-leave travel has helped but now Heights, didn't restrict her vacation to spread out more. There are fam- us even the United States. This summer she ilies who, for one reason now going home made a dream come true when she toured or another (usually juvenile reasons) Europe, from Spain to Italy, visiting rel- haven't been able to afford regular vaca- atives and then flew back to New York. tions for years. Her brother, in California, however, A good many Canal Zone mamas and declared that she couldn't be so near(!) papas are now able to show their small without visiting him, so she ended up fry the old swimming hole (it usually by flying across the country before she has shrunk) and the little red school- returned to the Isthmus. house where they went to school (now- family, adays it's all too frequently turned into The Cox Margaritans like the a tea room or antique shoppe). Wills, were also transcontinental travel- ers, but they did their traveling in a And a good many young Zonians are "tired old '50 Chevrolet sedan," with learning that apples really grow on trees, their tents, gasoline stove, portable re- that berries may be had for the picking, FROM HERE TO HERE, says Gloria Sheltcn, as frigerator, air mattresses, blankets (never that snow looks quite a bit like the frost she shows where her vacation took her. She visited enough, they say) jammed into the car Europe and then flew across United States. on the outside of refrigerator units. the On this page is a sampling of Zonians and what they did on their vacations, although all of them didn't restrict their vacations to the United States. The Will family of Margarita -Papa Will's name is Ray R. and he is harbor- master at Cristobal, while Mrs. Will is admitting clerk at Coco Solo Hospital started their vacation with a bang when they were chosen as contestants on the National Broadcasting Company's TV show, Break The Bank. The six Will children, shown above with their mother and master of cere- monies Bert Parks, were in the audience for Break The Bank's last show of the season. When they were invited onto the stage to answer questions about music, they were far less nervous than their mother who was with them, or their father, watching them from the front row.

The baby Gary, 4, got things started when he was able to identify the Lone Ranger's theme song, and the rest of the family carried on until they had won $300. As big a thrill as appearing on the PLANNING A TRIP is almost as much fun as taking it. Here the Cox family of New Cristobal decide the tele- program was seeing themselves on route for their 12,000-mile camping trip last summer. Even young Kevin has a vote in family plans. — —

October 5, 1956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Got To Learn To Count And Figger If You're A C. Z. Power Squadronite

If there is a marked decrease in the cific Squadron has 13 S's and 1 1 AP's. next few months in the number of small The second highest rank a Power craft plying in and out of the Pacific en- Squadron member can achieve is that of trance to the Canal, it will be because a Junior Navigator. Mr. Clark is the their owners and crews are so busy with sole JN and no local member has yet the academic side of boating that they achieved the highest possible rank, which have no time for boating itself. is that of Navigator. This year's program of the Canal Zone The present educational system for Pacific Squadron, a group of 36 avid Power Squadron members was not de- small boat enthusiasts, includes a basic veloped until 1927. Since that time each piloting course, an instructors' technique year has seen revisions to keep the train- course, a course in seamanship and, prob- ing more thorough and abreast of devel- ably, one in motor maintenance. And opments. The system of requiring a all this is in addition to the annual prac- knowledge of fundamentals as well as tical test of navigation and seamanship— modern shorter methods has produced the Squadron's Annual Rendezvous. trained members whose nautical educa- But going to classes is nothing new for tion is equal to that of those who take members of the Power Squadron. Every their training in the recognized profes- member had to pass the basic piloting sional schools. This training and an in- course before he could become eligible, sistence on members adhering to high and a good many of them have taken ideals has produced a corps capable of advanced courses.- successful competition with profession- Last May, for an instance, ten Squad- ally trained men, which was evidenced ronites and Squadronettes spent close in the war records of men who had de- to eight apiece veloped their nautical skill and know- hours taking the final FIVE STAJW of the Southern Cross appear on the examination which concluded a 24- triangular pennant of the Canal Zone Pacific Squad- how in Power Squadrons. week course in Advanced Piloting. Ac- ron. The pretty girl? Oh yes — Mrs. William T. While the activities of the Squadron Halvosa of Diablo Heights. cording to the Squadron's monthly are largely educational - witness the publication, "The Panama Tell-Tale," course after course to which its mem- former Squadron Commander. the students "came equipped with bers subject themselves all is not ser- The seamanship course is to cigarettes, cold beer, sandwiches, pil- be taught ious. There are plenty of gatherings, by Robert Bowen, who has instructed lows, and blankets." Of the ten, six large and small, where the Squadron- several men and one woman made the grade. other classes. This will stress all ites and Squadronettes get together and phases of safety at sea and the handling Like all activities of the Power Squad- talk their hobby nearly to death, and and care of small rons here or elsewhere, the basic piloting craft. others when they get together just be- The Canal course which will start this fall stresses Zone Pacific Squadron is cause they like each other. one of 204 such squadrons all safety afloat and is designed to teach its over the This summer there were plenty of such world, and its 36 students a high degree of skill in the members are only a drop gatherings to welcome an old Squadron- in the bucket in the over-all handling and navigation of small craft. enrollment ite back to the fold, at least temporarily. of some 28,300. Those taking the course learn to box the The parent organization The visitor was Charles King, now of is a compass and read charts as well as learn- 39-year-old non-profit group incor- Annapolis, Md., and formerly Assistant porated under the ing rules of the road, lights and signals, laws of the District of Personnel Director for The Panama Canal. Columbia with the title of and other basic principles of piloting. the United The Kings first came to the Isthmus in States Power Squadron. This year's basic piloting course will their own sloop, the Show Me, and now Its members, who must be the tenth since the local Power Squad- be citizens of have a craft of their own at Annapolis in the United States, hold ron received its charter in 1949. De- various ranks, which they make trips up and down the each achieved signed for neophytes in the small boat by means of an examina- Inland Waterway. Mr. King has kept up tion. Those who have successfully group, it is no cinch. Last year 58 men passed his Power Squadron affiliation and is an and women began the ten-week course. their basic piloting courses are rated as officer of the Annapolis Squadron. "P's." Next highest are the Some found it too complicated and "S's," for Officers of the Canal Zone Pacific Power Seamanship, followed dropped out. Of those who went on to by the "AP," for Squadron are Lt. Col. E. V. Chandler, Advanced Piloting. The Canal the end, only 22 made passing grades Zone Pa- of Fort Kobbe, Commander; George Hall, an unusually high figure, according to who works at the Ancon Post Office, Lieu- Squadron officers. tenant Commander; Edwin F. Rigby, of What they learn during the piloting the Division of Storehouses, Secretary; course they put into practice during the and Worden French, of the Balboa Oil Squadron's Annual Rendezvous. This is Handling Plant, Treasurer. a dry-season affair. The boats start from Colonel Chandler has been interested a predetermined point and follow a pre- in small boating ever since 1931 when he scribed course to the meeting place. Be- served his first Canal Zone tour of duty fore starting, each navigator must pre- at Fort DeLesseps. He comes from Pan- dict the time when he will reach each ama City, Fla. check-point along the way and his guesses Mr. Hall, who is another Floridian are later checked against his log. Palm Beach is his home—has not yet The second of this year's courses, the achieved ownership of a small boat but instructors' technique course, will be he has been interested in boating for taught by Brodie Burnham, who is Assist- years. In addition to serving as Squad- ant Training Officer in the Personnel Bu- ron Vice Commander, he edits the month- reau when he is not small-boating. This ly magazine, The Panama Tell-Tale. course is designed to develop additional Mr. Rigby, owner of the Nena, has instructors for the various courses spon- thousands of miles of deep water sailing sored by the Power Squadron. to his credit. He has sailed his own boat Mr. Burnham is one of the Squad- to Tahiti and about a year ago made a ron's four Senior Members. The others trip from Balboa to California. are B. J. Brown, who taught last year's Mr. French, the Treasurer, is a native piloting course; William H. Clark, who of Vermont which is a "fur piece" from is a former Commander of the local blue water. But his little over 15 years MOTORIZED and sailing sailors meet at the an- Squadron and the only member hold- on the Isthmus have made him as inter- nual rendezvous at Taboga Island. Penelope is ing the rank of Junior Navigator; and ested in small craft as owned by J. B. Webster; Kelpie is now the property any east or west Francis F. Hargy, who is also another of John S. Bingham of Cristobal. coaster. He is one of the Squadron's AP's. 10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Octobers, 1956 Did You Ever Know Rolling Pins Make Other Things Beside Pies And Cookies?

it. The porous plaster-of-paris absorbs the moisture from the slip, and a de- posit of dry clay is left. When the mold is removed, the clay is ready to be dried and fired. After firing, the pottery can be painted, or glazed. Glazing is a tick- lish step in the process; it causes the paint to change colors. Hence a color may look tan in the paint-jar and be labeled emerald green. Although it is difficult to mix and match the paints. Colonel Burke has been very successful in this area.

Out of his kiln, for example, have come beautifully colored cigarette and candy- dishes, many types of vases, and busts of a Balinese man and woman. Colonel and Mrs. Burke like to visit ceramic shows on their vacations. Two years ago they viewed the Great Lakes Ceramic Hobby Show in Detroit, Mich., and this last May they revisited the show to see more samples of the nation's best ceramic works. Through his visits to cer- TWINKLE, THE CAT, is generally an interested observer when Lt. Col. David C. Burke starts work amic shows, Colonel Burke has noticed on a new piece cf ceramics. Below are some of the handsome pieces he has made in his home hobby shop. that the popularity of ceramics has greatly increased, and that the quality of the out- put has improved. Colonel Burke especially enjoys cer- amics because it gives him a chance to do creative work with his hands. Then too, the slow pace that it demands is re- laxing after a hard day's work. The Colonel has many more projects planned ahead. For the present, he wants to complete work on a set of mugs, make a pair of bookends from a Haitian head- carving, and remake a vase cast. With more ideas for the future than time to complete them, Colonel Burke should re- main a contented and successful ceramist for many years.

Meet The Man Who Produces Rubber Stamps

(Continued from page 5) in his workshop. All surplus rubber is then cut away from the stamp itself, so that only the letters remain on the wooden base. In his hobby workshop, Lt. Col. David "The most important things," he ad- C. Burke has an oven and a rolling pin. vises, "are persistence and patience." Facsimile signatures and seals are "cliches" He is not, however, a creator of fancy Colonel Burke, who is Assistant to the made from which have been pastries. His baking is confined to cer- Health Director, does his work in a neat produced by a photoengraver. There is amics, with which he has been entertain- workshop in the basement of his Ancon no type to be set for these, but other- ing himself—and, incidentally, decorating home. In the room there are his supplies: wise the production process is the same. his home—for the past three years. Paints, clay, molds, and a rolling pin for Formerly facsimile signatures were Without ever having had a lesson, Col- flattening out balls of clay. A cabinet made with a pantograph, a copying ma- onel Burke has advanced his interest and holds his tools and ceramic pieces in dif- chine which reproduced the signature ability in ceramics until his home is now ferent stages of completion. on a chalk plate. The signature was a showcase for his work. He has made a On a work table there are plaster-of- cast into metal and Mr. Watts contin- variety of pieces, ranging from the bust paris molds, and a cast for a dragon- ued from there with the usual result. of a Chinese sage to decorative wall plates shaped pitcher. In the corner is an oven, He has no idea how many rubber and an old-fashioned oyster dish. called a kiln, in which the clay is baked. stamps he has made in the years he has It was quite by accident that Colonel The clay is a compound from the Ken- been on the job. One case in his workshop Burke became interested in ceramic work; tucky-Tennessee region of the United is filled with drawer after drawer of the it happened when he went to the aid of States, where it is especially prepared metal plates which are the first step, and his wife. and matched with the paints he uses. other cases elsewhere in the printing plant While her husband was stationed in In his workroom Colonel Burke begins hold others. Fort Campbell, Ky., Mrs. Burke en- by making a mold from plaster-of-paris. Mr. Watts, who was born in Colon and rolled in a ceramics class. She was The mold is shaped from a cast that the attended school there, started at the shaping a pitcher at home one evening Colonel has adapted and designed from Printing Plant on May 4, 1920, and has and having such a difficult time that a basic piece, perhaps a wood carving, a been there ever since. First he was a Colonel Burke offered to lend a hand vinegar bottle, or a figurine. Making the messenger boy, and that was when he had and see what he could do with the clay. mold sets Colonel Burke apart from many his only bad accident. On his way to the The results encouraged the Colonel to ceramic workers because ready-made railroad station his bicycle was rammed become an amateur ceramist. Since molds are available and used by most by a Navy truck. He still carries scars that day he has learned more about of the ceramists. on his left foot and leg, but figures he was working with clay by reading books and After the mold is made and dried, a lot luckier than the bicycle. That was periodicals and through trial and error. wet clay (called "slip") is poured into a complete wreck. October 5, 1956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

One customer suggested milk be sold in half-gallon bottles but was told that this would require expensive and exten- sive replacement of bottling equipment. Among other suggestions by the com- missary customer representatives were: Larger sizes of some canned goods such as peanut butter, fruits, and vegetables; Questions of stock control and speedier that a proposal for continuous hours for a large stock of girls' dresses in the sub- replacement of items carried by the Canal the commissaries on Saturday, without a teen sizes; early deliveries to the commis- Zone retail stores outnumbered sugges- noon-hour closing, be deferred until about saries of clothes suitable for boys and tions for new items or changes in service March when the full effect of reduced op- girls going to school in the States; a bet- during the Commissary Forum held Sep- erations will be more apparent. ter grade of women's dresses for office tember 1 1 at Balboa Heights. The meet- When the meeting was opened for gen- and street wear; hats which could be ing was attended by 12 men and women eral discussion, the customer representa- worn locally; more expensive uniforms from both sides of the Isthmus and by 7 tives indicated that there were recurrent for nurses, and a larger variety of oxford- representatives of the Supply and Em- shortages of commissary items such as type shoes for nurses; more automobile ployee Service Bureau. small-size sneakers for girls, paring knives, parts in the retail stores. Before opening the meeting to general needles, plain buttons, mercerized thread, discussion and "new business," Wilson E. girdles, and girls' dresses. Several women indicated that they Paul Friedman, Assistant to the Sup- would be interested in having cosmetic ply and Employee Service Director, and demonstrators in the retail stores from Richard L. Sullivan, General Manager of time to time, but did not want food- the Commissary Division, reported that demonstrators. This suggestion will be each sales clerk is being asked to check considered. items as they sell, by size and color, and Just before the forum closed, Mr. to suggest reorders. Mr. Crook also sug- Crook reported that experiments are gested that customers tell the section sup- underway to produce a better type of ervisors when items are out of stock. native beef which would be grain-fed, In connection with a general discussion and that the Commissary Division will on the milk supply, Mr. Crook pointed cooperate with Cornell University with a out that home deliveries are given prior- trial shipment of the new shell-less eggs. ity, and reported that a comparatively Those attending the forum were: Mrs. new item, reconstructed milk, has been Pat LeBrun, Mrs. Frances Gilley, Mrs. very successful. Walter Wagner, Miss Rita Goulet, Mrs. Since small-size bottles of this milk Anne Cunningham, Mrs. Rose Casey, were made available to school children Mrs. Mina Dee, Mrs. Robert Medinge'r, at the various cafeterias, more young- Fay Brown, R. C. Daniel, Mrs. Elsa sters are drinking milk in preference Bailey, Mrs. Eleanor Mcllhenny, W. H. to bottled soft drinks, he said. This Crook, Paul H. Friedman, R. L. Sullivan, milk is also being used in the Canal T. G. Relihan, C. P. Shay, and Mrs. SHELL-LESS EGGS, like those being examined here Zone hospitals. Gladys Conley. by Paul H. Friedman, were tested last month for the Commissary Division by the men and women who attended the Commissary Forum. Packaged at Cor- nell University in plastic containers, the eggs are Paraiso Commissary To tried Open being here for flavcr and convenience. The Soon results will be reported to Cornell.

Crook, Bureau Director, outlined some of the changes made in the commissaries as the result of suggestions from the pre- vious meeting. Among these he reported: Extra help has been assigned to the Balboa meat counter and service speeded up in this section. Some items of perishable goods, like lettuce and celery, are being price-marked when packaged to avoid delay for the customers at a pricing counter. New procedures have been adopted to cut shipping time from warehouse to re- tail stores. Sales personnel have been instructed in more careful handling of perishable fruits and vegetables, and a general train- FINAL UNIT of Paraiso's under-one-roof civic center is the commissary above. ing program continued for all personnel. It is to be opened this month. A large number of new items have been added to both drygoods and groceries Plans have been completed for the for- "reach-in" type bins and cabinets. The stock. Among these are better-grade mal opening of the new Paraiso Commis- commissary is floored in an attractive shower curtains, better-grade khaki trous- sary, which will be held this coming week. light-tan terrazo tile and the walls are ers, knee-length hosiery, American Golfer The commissary is located at the east painted in two shades of green. dresses, and several grocery items, includ- end of the new Paraiso Civic Center. Fluorescent lighting has been installed ing flake tuna, States sugar in 5-pound The two buildings, which form one unit, in the sales area and the manager's office packages, and Italian-style macaroni and are connected by a covered passageway which is in the front of the building at spaghetti. to make them the first under-one-roof the left, close by a window where facili- Mr. Crook told the group that air community center to be built as such ties will be provided for cashing checks. shipments of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Canal Zone. On the main floor are the sales area, from Miami had not been satisfactory One of the most distinctive features of the manager's office, cashiers' rooms, a because the cost of air-freight raised the new commissary is its open front receiving and stock room, a freezer room, prices beyond general appeal. Later in construction. Three 16-foot doors will and a loading platform. the conference one of the group sug- slide into overhead frames, leaving the A partial base- gested that Florida fruit and vege- entire front open during business hours. ment houses machine and locker rooms. tables might be brought here by ships Customers will walk directly from a Its electrical equipment was designed traveling in ballast enroute to pick up wide porch into the sales area, which will for use with 60-cycle current and a fre- bananas in South America; this sug- be served by five check-out stands. The quency-changer has been installed so that gestion will be investigated. shelves have been arranged as units and the equipment may be used on 25 cycles Mr. Crook also suggested to the group all cold storage items will be available in until Paraiso is converted to 60 cycles. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1 956

Contractor Devises Special Equipment Inspection Of Commercial Vehicles Will Begin Nov. 1 To Replace Transmission Line Conductors

The annual inspection of the several of the present copper con- Replacement hundred commercial vehicles licensed in ductors on the 44,000-volt transmission the Canal Zone will begin November 1. line between Madden Hydroelectric Sta- The commercial vehicles will be inspected tion and Miraflores substation with alum- inum conductors of a much larger size at the Motor Transportation Division's presented several problems which have garages in Ancon and Cristobal. been solved effectively and in a unique The vehicles will be checked for the manner by Bildon, Inc. Bildon holds the condition of their brakes, lights, etc., and contract for this project, part of the 60- cycle conversion program. will be marked with stickers when they

The aluminum conductor material is pass inspection. Vehicles without inspec- soft and elastic and cannot be dragged tion stickers will not be allowed to oper- ground. It must be strung on over the ate after the first of the calendar year. the towers, completely in the air, over The inspection of the Canal Zone li- special stringing blocks or pulleys. Part of the procedure involved is shown in the censed commercial vehicles is the first of accompanying photographs. a three-part inspection program. payout winch was constructed by The Commercial vehicles licensed in the Bildon, largely from salvage material. Republic of Panama but operating in the The special tensioning drums which main- Canal Zone will be inspected beginning tain a constant tension on the conductor being payed out from the cable reel, were December 1. Inspection of private vehi- OVER 100 MILES of aluminum conductors will be made from solid rubber truck wheels, cles licensed in the Canal Zone will start installed by men working on towers like this on the which were grooved. The tensioning- Madden Dam transmission line. soon after the first of the calendar year. a Few Happy Spirits" Organized Order Of Kangaroos 50 Years L Ago Just three days less than four months after the SS Ancon made the first official trip through the Panama Canal, 20 men who had had a part in building the water- way sat around a banquet table at the American Hotel in Panama City and dis- banded an organization which had been a gay spot for eight years. The organization was the Independ- ent Order of Panamanian Kangaroos, one of the most important and active of the fraternal orders which flourished in the Canal Zone during the construc- tion period. None of the 20 men who attended that farewell banquet is still on the Isthmus, ~~^ -^"^' but there are other former Kangaroos —-rr here. They, and others interested in Isth- SPECIALLY BUILT for the job, this is a payout- mania, now have an opportunity to ex- returned from the States with a bride," winch which feeds cable to the men replacing trans- amine some of the relics of their activities. the official history says. mission line conductors. Through the courtesy of Frank E. Greene The beneficial work of the I. O. P. K. of Detroit, who worked with the Canal took many forms. Widows of Kangar- organization from 1905 to 1918 and was oos received a $100 "death benefit." one of the 20 men at the Kangaroos' last Mr. Greene recalls that "in one partic- drums are braked by a salvaged truck- meeting, programs, directories, clippings, ular case, a widow was sent the usual brake drum, two to a tensioning drum. and other material pertaining to the amount and in due time came a letter These are connected to a common hy- Kangaroos have been added to the collec- telling about the elegant funeral her draulic braking system. Another brake tion of the Canal Zone's Library Museum. husband had and suggesting that she is attached to the cable-drum proper, to Organized 50 years ago this month, by would like to have another $100." keep the cable taut as it runs off the reel a "few happy spirits," the Kangaroos Kangaroos came from all ranks of the to the tensioning drums. The entire ap- grew rapidly. By 1909 there were almost Canal organization. Membership in the paratus is mounted on a ten-wheel-driven 2,000 members. It started as a purely order was open to any adult male United salvaged Army truck. social order but became, in addition, a States citizen of "good reputation and Pulling in an aluminum conductor re- welfare group which, in 1910 and 1911, honorable means of support," although quired close coordination and instant spent nearly $1,200 in relief work. no saloonkeepers, bartenders, liquor deal- communication between take-up and pay- The Kangaroos mixed plenty of fun ers, or gamblers were admitted. out winches and observers on the critical with their charity. According "to their Many well-known Isthmians were Kan- spans and on the towers proper. Pulls as own account, appearing in the 1909 di- garoos during the organization's heydey. long as three miles are being made and rectory, they "frequently held mock trials Some of those still on the Isthmus are: the communication problem alone is a for their own amusement, at which time, Omer E. Malsbury, former Assistant tough one. Telephone is wire strung along some unsuspecting party would be en- Municipal Engineer, now living in Pan- the full length of a section where neces- ticed to the rendezvous, put through a ama; Morris M. Seeley, who worked with sary. long trial and fined a sufficient amount of the Health Bureau from 1907 to 1942 and When a conductor is to be replaced, refreshments to add zest to the trial of now lives in Gamboa; Robert K. Morris, the old copper conductor is transferred the next victim. of Panama City, for many years the from its insulators to special stringing- "The first meeting was held in an old Canal organization's Chief Quartermaster; blocks made of micarta. One end is then French house in Empire, on October 10, Charles H. Bath, of Margarita, who was spliced to the new aluminum conductor 1906, where one of the hail-fellows-well- a sanitary inspector for many years; Ora on the payout winch and the other to a met was tried all night for leaving the M. Ewing, another Health Bureau old- cable from the takeup winch. ranks of the good fellows, he having just timer, now retired and living in Balboa. October 5, 1 956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Original Post Office Graduation Day

To Cease Operations

The closing of the Ancon post office on

January 1, announced last month by Gov. W. E. Potter at the "town meeting" held at Diablo Heights, reduces to three the number of Canal Zone post offices which have maintained uninterrupted op- erations since June 24, 1904. The surviving oldtimers, after January

1, will be Cristobal, Gatun, and Balboa post offices. Cristobal and Gatun have operated since they were opened under those names; Balboa post office was

known as La Boca until May 5, 1909. No decision has yet been reached as to what use will be made of the Ancon post office building after postal operations are stopped there. During the town meeting Governor Potter announced that the decision to

close the Ancon post office was made BADGES WERE PRESENTED by Gov. W. E. Potter last month to 73 new firefighters who had com- after an extensive survey of the Canal pleted their six-week basic training course. Shown above is Joseph V. Lord receiving his badge from the Governor. He will assigned to the Corozal fire station. graduate of Rainbow City High School, Zone postal system, specifically the oper- be A he is 24 years old. ation of the various units in relation to the Division's overall deficit. In order to maintain the most efficient and necessary postal services for the Congress Of Civic Councils To Examine Canal Zone, he said, the following steps would be effective January 1, 1957: Possibility Of Fund For Financial Aid The Ancon Post Office will be closed. (Post office boxes will be available at Diablo Heights and at Balboa Heights The Congress of Civic Councils will fund to the fullest extent. The Congress and a limited number at Balboa after take the lead in investigating all possi- is also planning to hold meetings in the bilities of establishing a fund to provide various Latin-American communities to January 1, 1957). determine the sentiment Canal Zone postal services—including financial assistance in worthy cases among among the people employees of the Canal organ- on the subject. general delivery service—will be limited non-citizen to the following: ization after retirement. The suggestion for such a fund was of Official United States Government Ellis L. Fawcett, President the Con- made by Governor Potter at his Septem- agencies; gress, has announced that the Civic Coun- ber meeting with the Civic Council rep- Residents of the Canal Zone; cils will explore the possibilities of such a resentatives. He called attention to the United States citizens residing in the minor contributions which would provide Republic of Panama who are officers or and authorized to conduct their opera- a substantial fund. employees in the regular, full-time serv- tions from a seat or place of business in A contribution of only five cents a ice of the United States of America, or the Canal Zone. week by each of the approximately 10,000 the Company-Government organization; Notification of these changes was non-citizen employees would build a $25,- Members of the United States Armed widely distributed through the postal 000 emergency fund in one year. A penny Forces residing in the Republic of Pan- service last month in order to give pa- contribution weekly would bring a fund ama, not including members of reserve trons who may be affected ample time of $5,000 in one year. forces on temporary active duty or re- to make other arrangements before Jan- Governor Potter said that such a fund tired armed forces personnel; uary 1. The notices were put in boxes should be entirely voluntary and should Organizations and business concerns and handed out at the general delivery be administered solely by contributing properly established in the Canal Zon windows. employees. In making the suggestion, the Governor said there are many instances, particu- larly among employees who have retired under provisions of the Disability Relief Act, when individuals find themselves in dire need of help and are unable for one reason or another to obtain help from one of the organized relief agencies. The Governor pointed out that most of the retired employees live on a very restricted budget with only their monthly relief checks as income. Illness or unex- pected expenses of any kind create a real hardship. A relief fund provided by em- ployees at a very minor expense to them could alleviate suffering in such cases and should be administered by leaders of the communities who are well acquainted with needs in such cases. In announcing that the Congress of Civic Councils will fully investigate the possibilities of such a plan, Mr. Fawcett said much interest has been shown. The

Congress hopes to initiate its preliminary work at an early date. Announcements on the public meetings will be made at a ANCON POST OFFICE, shown here as it looked for many years, was one of four Canal Zone post offices opened June 24, 1904. This building was replaced by the present concrete structure in 1939. later date. 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1 956

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS OCTOBER SAILINGS

August 75 through September 75 From Cristobal Crsitobal Employees who were promoted or trans- School Teacher, Division of Schools, to "October 5 A neon ferred between August 15 and September 15 Training Officer, Personnel Programs Staff. October 13 Panama are listed below. Within-grade promotions Jessie S. Pugh, from Clerk-Stenographer October 20 Cristobal are not listed. to Secretary (Stenography), Employment October 2 7 CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU and Utilization Division. From New York Daniel F. Ramsey, fiom Student Assist- SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU A neon October 4 Commissary Division ant, Terminals Division, to Distribution Panama October 11 Mrs. Elaine E. Heyd, from Clerk-Typist and Window Clerk, Postal Division. Cristobal October 18 Division of Schools to Accounting Clerk. Aneon October 25 Mrs. Jean C. Morden, Mrs. Nancy Mrs. Mary G. Livingston, from Clerk to J. "Because of Columbus Day holiday, the Hatchett, from Substitute Teacher to Senior Accounting Clerk. Cristobal leaves Cristobal one day early, High School Teacher. Mrs. Florence W. Robinette, from Ac- arrives in Port-au-Prince Sunday, and New Billie G. Blaylack, from Library Assistant, counting Clerk to Clerk. York Thursday. Library, to Elementary School Teacher. George D. Cockle, from Assistant Supply Otherwise, the ships are in Haiti on Mrs. Shirley B. Gaivez, from Substitute Officer to Supervisory Commissary Supply Mondays on both north- and southbound Teacher to Recreation Assistant. Officer. trips. Mrs. Agnes P. Johnson, Mrs. Ethel P. Norbert W. Hammond, from Supervisory McDennitt, Mrs. Doreen S. Barnett, Mrs. Storekeeper to Supervisory Commissary Virginia C. Brink, Mrs. Dorothy B. Hickam, Supply Assistant. Mr. Madison has a home in Gorgona and from Substitute Teacher to Elementary Louis B. McGoff, Maurice Sterling, J. spends most of his weekends there. School Teacher. from Storekeeper to Commissary Supply Mrs. Margaret G. Thomson, from Kind- Assistant. Junior to Mr. Madison by four days on ergarten Assistant to Elementary School Nathan W. Ashton, from Wholesale Meats the service list is Clyde L. Sharp. Under Teacher. Foreman to Lead Stockman Foreman. the official title of Branch Superintendent Mrs. Jean E. de la Pena, from Account- Kenneth N. Woodcock, from Commissary in the Postal Division, he is in charge at the ing Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch, to Ele- Assistant to Stockman Foreman. Ancon Post Office. All of Mr. Sharp's serv- School Teacher. mentary Robert G. Richardson, from Shipping ice has been with the Postal Division; before Walter Mikulich, from High M. Junior Foreman to Lead Stockman Foreman. he came here he had worked in the postal School Teacher to Senior High School Arthur S. Miller, from Car Loading Fore- service in Johnstown, Pa. Teacher. man to Lead Stockman Foreman. The list of his assignments reads almost James L. Wolf, from Elementary School TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS BUREAU like a list of Canal Zone post offices: Cris- Teacher to Junior High School Teacher. tobal, the Cristobal air mail OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER Richard D. Brown, from Chauffeur to section, Fort Davis, France Field, Margarita, Albrook, William A. Wichmann, from Auditor, In- Chauffeur and Truck Driver, Motor Trans- Howard Field, Amador, Ancon, and ternal Audit Branch, to Systems Account- portation Division. Rod- man. ant, Accounting and Policies Procedures Mrs. Cecile G. Marceau, from Cargo Mr. Sharp is connected by marriage to Staff. Clerk (Typing) to Clerk-Stenographer, Ter- an old Canal Zone family. His wife is Paul Coleman, from Electrical Engi- minals Division. the J. daughter of Jeremiah Foley who neer to General Engineer, Plant Evaluation Mrs. Edith W. Cotton, from Supervisory- worked with the Isthmian Canal Commission from and Transfer Staff. Clerk, Water and Laboratories Branch, 1905 to 1910 and later for the Panama Mrs. Myrtle P. Sparks, from Clerk-Typist, Maintenance Division, to Cargo Clerk Rail- road as a steam engineer. Central Typing and Clerical Unit, to Ac- (Typing), Terminals Division. September's other two 30-year counting Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch. employees are Eller Jane Holcomb and Arthur Mrs. Irene E. Maher, Clerk-Typist, from J. Jones. As one of the Canal Zone's two school Treasury Branch to Central Typing and nurses, Miss Holcomb tests eyes, checks Clerical Unit. sore ANNIVERSARIES thioats, helps out with physical Mrs. Muriel H. DeYoung, from Supervis- examina- tions, and does a thousand similar ory Clerical Assistant, Central Typing and tasks. Senior man of the four Canal employees She is Georgia-born and w-as on the Clerical Unit, to Accounting Clerk, Agents staff of who rounded the 30- year service mark last Colon and Gorgas Hospitals Accounts Branch. before she was month is John A. Madison of the Miraflores appointed to her present Mrs. Laura G. Casement, Accounting job. In addition Locks force. In case the "John" doesn't to hei work in the Canal Clerk, from General Ledger and Processing Zone she has strike a responsive chord among his asso- nursed at several Veterans Hospitals Branch to Methods and Relief Assignment and ciates, our Mr. Madison is the one who is during World War II served in Staff. Europe with the Army's Nurse Corps. Mrs. Frances L. Journey, from Account- Mr. Jones, the only one of the ing Clerk, Methods and Relief Assignment four who has unbroken Canal service, is in charge Staff, to Supervisory Clerical Assistant, of the stock rooms at the Balboa Central Typing and Clerical Unit. Field Office ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION of the Electrical Division. There he issues Mrs. Patricia A. Robinson, from Clerk- all tools and materials needed by wiremen Typist to Clerk-Stenographer, Electrical ^ working in the Balboa District. ** Division. Born in Camby, Minn., he spent four Carl L. Simons, from Pipefitter to Heavy years with the American Railway Express Labor Lead Foreman, Maintenance Divi- as a battery repairman and general foreman sion. before coming here in 1926, and for more Mrs. Juliet H. de Leon, Clerk- Typist, than 20 years he worked as battery repair- from Gorgas Hospital to Electrical Division. man here. He was reclassified as a wireman Mrs. Betsy R. Hoenke, from Accounting when the Electrical Division closed its bat- Clerk to Supervisory Clerk, Water and Lab- tery repair shop some years ago. oratories Branch, Maintenance Division. 25 YEARS

Mrs. Mildred J. Spivey, Accounting Clerk, September was silver anniversaiy month from Maintenance Division to Water and for six employees of the Canal organization. Laboratories Branch, Maintenance Division The six are di\ ided equally into those with Mrs. Florence W. LaClair, from Clerk to [ii continuous service and those whose Canal Accounting Clerk, Maintenance Division. service has been broken. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT The trio with continuous Panama Canal R. Trendon Vestal, from Systems Ac- service ate: Orin B. Acker, Eugene I. Askew, countant, Accounting Policies and Proced- and Clinton N. Bohannon. Mr. Acker and ures Staff, Office of the Comptroller, to Mr. Bohannon have continuous service not Organization and Methods Examiner, Exec- only with the Canal, but also with the Elec- utive Planning Staff. trical Division. Noel C. Farnsworth, from General Engi- Mr. Acker is a wireman and comes from neer, Plant Evaluation and Transfer Staff, Atlantic, Iowa. to Management Engineer, Executive Plan- THE NUMBER is nearly as big as the boy. This Mr. Askew was born in Hickman, Tenn., ning Staff. is September's senior employee, John J. Madison, and is an Admeasurer with HEALTH BUREAU the Navigation as he looked when he held his first Canal job. Division. Mrs. Patricia R. Nellis, from Clerk-Typist Mr. Bohannon, a Lead Foreman with the to Cash Accounting Clerk, Coco Solo Hosp- better known as either Allen or "Maddy." Electrical Division, is a native of Victoria, ital. He is a Machinist Foreman. Va. Robert U. Schultz, from Towing Locomo- A second generation Canal employee, he The three quarter-century employees tive Operator, Pacific Locks, to Food In- is the son of Thomas C. Madison, for many- whose Canal service has been broken are spector, Division of Yeterinarv Medicine. MARINE BUREAU years a track foreman for the Panama Rail- William C. Bailey, Gerald E. Cooper, and Nancy A. Ramsey, from Clerk-Stenog- road. "Maddy" was born in Hickory, Miss., Henry H. Shirk. rapher to Clerk (Stenography), Navigation but came to the Isthmus as a small boy. Mr. Bailey was born in the Canal Zone. Division. He drew his first Canal paycheck when he He held his first Canal job, that of a "boy" Mrs. Louise K.Allen, Clerk-Stenographer, was only 11 years old and was working dur- in the Commissary Division, when he was from Terminals Division to Navigation Div- ing the summer vacation as a "boy" in the only 1 1 years old. He is presently a Branch Cristobal Depot Superintendent with the ision. Commissary. Postal Division at Samuel H. Rowley, Towboat Master, He began his permanent Canal career Fort Amador. from Navigation Division to Ferry Service. some years later as an apprentice machinist Mr. Cooper, whose birthplace was Cin- PERSONNEL BUREAU in the Mechanical Division. He has been cinnatus, N. Y., is a Mate on the dipper- Robert S. Jeffrey, from Senior High with the Locks Division since 1939. dredge Cascadas, while Mr. Shirk is a Ma- October 5, 1956 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

chinist at Gatun Locks. He comes from Sinking Springs, Pa. 20 YEARS Chairman Of Board Spends Busy Week Two of the nine employees who completed 20 years of government service in September have continuous Canal service. They are: Attending Inauguration, Visiting Zone Robert W. Blades, a Police Officer in the Balboa District, and Ralph A. Morales, an Assistant Secretary of the Army George by Gov. W. E. Potter at the inaugural Electric Welder and Diver with the Indus- H. Roderick, Chairman of the Board of ceremonies. trial Division. Mr. Blades comes from the Crissfield, Md., while Mr. Morales was born Panama Canal Company, has been Accompanying Secretary Roderick on in the Canal Zone. spending this week on the Isthmus. He his trip were Mrs. Roderick; W. M. Whit- Other 20-year employees and their birth- arrived last Saturday as a member of the man, Secretary of the Panama Canal places are: William Adams, New York City, special United States Mission to attend Company; Col. Robert M. Burnett, Police Officer, Balboa District; Paul Cave, Ex- Ruth Township, Ohio, Lock Operator Fore- the inauguration of President Ernesto de ecutive Officer in the Assistant Secretary's man, Gatun Locks; Caleb C. Clement, la Guardia. Office; and Col. Maurice Holden, Military Ancon, and Diver, Pipefitter Gatun Locks; The Canal Zone and the Panama Canal Assistant to Secretary of the Army Wilber Gladys S. Lee, Spirit Lake, Iowa, Substi- were also represented on the delegation M. Brucker. tute Teacher, Division of Schools; Doro- thea F. McNall, Chicago, 111., Mail Clerk, Mr. Roderick has spent a busy few days Office of the Comptroller; Borghild H. Mi- Construction, Maintenance, Replacement here. In addition to attending the inaug- senheimer, Trondhjem, Norway, Teacher ural and various functions related to the Balboa Junior High School; and Irving (Con'inuel from page l) design for the re- inauguration of the new President of Spector, Brooklyn, N. Y., Small Tug Op- placement of the Mirafiores substation Panama, he has spent much time in the erator, Dredging Division. switchgear, $30,000. 15 YEARS Canal Zone in conference with Governor Thirteen Divisions or units of the Canal In addition to the power conversion Potter and his staff on Panama Canal organization are represented by the 17 em- work, nine separate projects are listed matters. He also found time to visit sev- ployees who completed 15 years of service involving over $100,000 expenditures in September. The Division of Schools leads eral Canal facilities during his brief visit each, and totaling nearly $2,000,000. . the list with three 15-year employees, while the Postal Division, the Maintenance Div- These, the amounts involved, and the 000; painting work amounting to over ision, and Gorgas Hospital have two each. month in which bids will be advertised $285,000 is scheduled; and reroofing jobs Six of the 15-year employees have un- if the work is to be done by contract, are costing approximately $190,000 are broken Canal service. They are: Milford as follows: planned. K. Bailey, Lead Plant Engineer Foreman, Maintenance Division; Mary S. Brigham, Replacement, renewal, and purchase of Many individual jobs ranging in cost

Teacher, Balboa High School; Gladys L. additional Health Bureau equipment, from $ 10,000 up to $ 1 00,000 are also listed Supervisor of Instruction Elkins, in the $106,000. on the Engineering and Construction Bu- U. S. elementary schools; Sumner E. Ewing, Deepen Cristobal anchorage, $670,000. reau's calendar this Lumber Inspector, Storehouse Division; year. These include William C. Merwin, Distribution and Win- Pacific sewage disposal facilities, $139,- new construction, design, and engineering dow Clerk, Balboa Post Office; and Chris- 000, November. projects, rehabilitation work, and pur- tine K. Newhouse, Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. Improve air conditioning at Civil Affairs chase of new facilities. Other employees with 15 years of gov- Building, $130,000, December. The following are some of the ernment service are: Carroll F. Anderson, major Balboa Commissary addition, who is on a year's leave of absence from $120,000. individual jobs of general interest which Balboa High School; Howard W. Blaney, Replace Gamboa pump station and ac- are scheduled for this fiscal year: and Window Clerk, Distribution Balboa cessory facilities, $244,000, December. Installation of sprinklers at Palo Seco; Post Office; Milton W. Canham, Electrical Renew electrical wiring system on Pier flood lights at Balboa and Mount Engineer, Engineering Division; Jessie M. Hope Cristobal, Gill, Secretary, Office of the Supply and 5, $150,000, January. stadiums; replacement of pumps at Mount Employee Service Director; Joseph F. Install baffles and remove emergency Hope Pump Stations; construction of Machinist, Industrial Green, Division; J. dam, $100,200, March. Corozal Pumping Station; enlarge Par- Douglas Lord, Supeivisory General Store- Access shaft at Pacific Locks, $256,800. aiso athletic field; gasoline service station keeper, Locks Division; Reuben M. Reed, General Stevedore Foreman, Terminals An expenditure of approximately $750,- at Paraiso; access road and new parking Division; James M. Reeves, Filtration 000 is authorized in various rehabilitation area at Gorgas Hospital; air condition Plant Operator, Maintenance Division; jobs, including painting, reroofing, and Gamboa and Cristobal telephone ex- Gertrude M. Roberto, Clerk-Typist, Mar- fender repairs. The bulk of this work will changes; design work for ROTC building ine Bureau; Austin E. Salter, Head Fore- be done during the coming season. man, Electrical Division; and Richard A. dry in Balboa ; replace 500 old-type telephones; Williams, Staff Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. Fender repair and replacements listed at replace electric ranges in quarters; and both terminal ports will cost over $250,- study of lighting of public buildings.

United Fund Drive Planning In Hands Of New Appointed Governor's Council Did They Spell My Name Right?

(Con'.imei fro-n page 1) as announced from the White House: Every employee should have full op- portunity to learn about the services to the nation and the needs of those agen- cies which want his help; Every employee should decide for him- self what agencies he wants to support and be assured that his donation goes to the agencies he designates; The employee reserves the option of disclosing his contribution or keeping it confidential. During the coming Community Chest campaign, which begins October 28, ma- terial on the Chest and its agencies will be distributed to all employees by "key- men" solicitors. These keymen within each Company-Government Bureau are to be selected by the indivual Bureaus. Throughout the drive, in accordance with the recently announced federal pol- icy, emphasis will be placed on the policy that all donations are voluntary. When the Community Chest campaign is completed, the Governor's Council will apply the lessons learned during this drive OSCAR, A BOA CONSTRUCTOR who has been a friend of Kenneth Vinton's for IS years, seems to know that there is an entire chapter devoted to him in Mr. Vinton's new book, in formulating plans for a United Fund The Jungle Whispers. The book, published last month by the Pageant Press, is a collection of lectures given by Mr. Vinton campaign. These plans are to be com- to servicemen during World War II, supplemented by other tales of his experiences in the Panama pleted, in general form, by January 1. jungles. Mr. Vinton is Instructor in Physical Science on the faculty of the Canal Zone Junior College. 16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 5, 1956

Former Zonians Sail Yacht .CO have to buy plane or train or ship tickets. -O Not so the A. H. Springthorpes, former w Atlantic siders who now make their home "C>4 in Miami. z They provision their 80-foot yacht, Lakaoia, load their menagerie of house- hold pets aboard and take off—with the wheel in the hands of Captain Spring- thorpe who piloted ships through the Panama Canal for 14 years, or in the hands of his wife who is also a competent sailor. This year they decided to travel, and are now visiting the Isthmus for the first time since they set out for Miami in September 1953 aboard the yacht Buc- caneer. They left Miami in July and took the trip across the Caribbean in easy stages, stopping along the way in Havana, Swan. Island, Cape Gracias-a- Dios in Honduras, and Bluefields in Nic- aragua. The Springthorpes man the gleaming- white Lakaoia alone, although the yacht could sleep a dozen persons. But they have aboard as company "Ring," their eight-year-old-dog; "Twinkie," the cat, nine; "Coco," the CAPT. CHARLES S. HUTCHINGS, USN, new Port Captain at Cristobal, talks things over with who is a venerable Capt. John Andrews, Jr., USN, whom he relieves this month. Captain Andrews leaves Sunday for his canary; and "Pancho," a parakeet. new station in New Orleans where he will be attached to the staff of the Commandant of the 8th Naval "We don't have any definite plans, and Captain Hutchings comes to the Isthmus from command of the attack cargo ship USS Ogle- District. we don't know from day to day what we thorpe. Last Saturday he was welcomed, and Captain Andrews farewelled, at an informal stag party former Zonians given by Atlantic siders connected with ships and shipping. will be doing next," the said last week. Meanwhile they are en- Transits By Ocean -Going Vessels for regular overhaul and will not be back joying their old friends and making the In August after November 1. in service until Panama Canal Yacht Club at Cristobal Agents for the 15,000-ton Nassau are 1956 1955 their headquarters. was Commercial 633 676 Fenton & Co.; the shore excursion Government.. 34 16 directed by Boyd Brothers. U.S. States gulf ports enroute to the Far East EXPOSITION SHIP via California. Total.. 687 692 A gpanish "exposition ship," the Ciu- Both ships are owned by Fearnley & Tolls* dad de Toledo, is scheduled to arrive in Egen Company and will be used in the on a hemispheric Line service to the Far Commercial .-$2,894,183 $2,985,970 Cristobal this month Barber & Fern trip displaying some of Spam s merchan- East via the Panama Canal. U. S. Government 105,689 75,943 dise. According to Canal records the ves- Each ship has a registered interna- October will be of 7,563 tons, gross, and Total $2,999,872 $3,061,913 sel, which is due 23, tional tonnage m^ing her first Isthmian Visit is 505 feet overall. While primarily cargo * Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. She is coming from the east coast ot ships, the two vessels have accommoda- PASSENGER SHIPS South America, where she is stopping in tions for 12 passengers each. The new Tolls collected in August from passen- a number of ports and will go on from ships are powered by two geared turbines, ger ships—cargo-passenger ships with a Cristobal to Mexico and New Orleans and have a service speed of roughly 18 capacity of 12 passengers or less are not before returning to Spain, knots, although the Kingsville made 20 included were higher during the month IMMIGRANTS knots on her first trip to the Canal. since of August than for any month July . . The ships are handled locally by W. ApproximatelyL S00 Dutch immigrants 1950. August's passenger-vessel tolls Andrews & Co. October aboard the bb were $217 718 are ^ue nere 10 Zuiderkruis enroute to their new homes BIGGEST PASSENGER Tanker' traffic, however, was light, in Australia. Their ship will transit the Undoubtedly the largest passenger to tolls-wise. Tolls paid by tankers during will berth in Balboa Canal in many moons August totaled $297,256. Since April Canal on arrival and transit the Panama f°r bunkers. saw Isthmus from a crate on the deck 1952, there have been only three months the According to Fenton Co., who are of the SS Tielbank last month. when revenue from tanker traffic was & ship, most of the immigrant live hippopotamus below the $300,000 mark. handling the The passenger was a passengers on its previous voyages have which was being shipped from New Or- CRUISE FIRST keen engaged couples who will marry leans to Auckland, New Zealand, as deck The first cruise ship of the season, an after they reach Australia. On the long cargo. The young hippo kept the crew old Canal friend, visited the Canal Zone voyage to their new home they spend busy; he had to be given a bath every yesterday with 395 passengers aboard. part f their time learning English in two hours to keep him cool. The cruise ship is the SS Nassau of the classes held for them aboard the ship. The Tielbank, of the Bank Line, is a Incres-Nassau Line. but seldom NEW CUSTOMER frequent user of the waterway During the 1920's she was the SS Mon- has such exotic deck-cargo aboard. Her used the Pan- golia of the P. & O. Line, running through Another new customer local agents are Payne & Wardlaw. from England to New ama Canal this month when the TS the Suez Canal BACK AT WORK Zealand. Later she became the Rimutaka Castlemlle—the "TS" stands for turbine and was on the New Zealand run through ship—made her maiden voyage through The Dredging Division's big dipper is on the job in the Panama Canal. the waterway. She is a sister-ship of the dredge, Cascadas, back operations. A large number of her passengers made TS Kingsville, which was southbound Gaillard Cut on her routine just completed a a transit of the Cut yesterday aboard the through the Canal—also on her maiden The Cascadas has Dredging Division's craneboat Atlas, trip—in July. They fly the Norwegian triennual overhaul, done by Industrial Hope. Large parties usually are taken through flag. Division forces at Mount haul quite a bit of rock the Cut aboard the ferryboat Presidente At the time this issue of The Panama The dredge can with one scoop of its Porras. The ferry, however, is drydocked Canal Review went to press, the Castle- and debris away bucket. at the Industrial Division at Mount Hope ville was due October 4 from United 13>^ cubic yard