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South To Tierra Del Fuego ;
igh Level BRIDGE
Approach allignment set, consultant board named
Connections with the high-level bridge across the Canal at Balboa will be pro- vided on the east side for both the Canal Zone and Panama City street and high- way systems at points of the boundary line near the Limits. A decision on the bridge approaches and the appointment of a Technical Board of Consultants to serve during the design and construction of the bridge were important steps taken last month on the $20,000,000 Treaty proj- ect, which will directly or indirectly affect most residents of Panama and Design of the bridge over the Canal was discussed last month by officials or the Zone. the Canal and the design contractors, Sverdrup & Parcel. Left to right, around
The alignment selected for the east the Governor: Lt. Gov. H. M. Arnold, E. J. Shields, project manager, H. L. approach to the bridge, subject to minor Magee, highway design engineer, and Lt. Col. R. D. Brown, E. & C. Director. modifications, will provide a two-way connection for Panama traffic with Ave- been received from all but one at the Ofliice of the Chief of Engineers; and ida de Puertos (2Sth of November Ave- end of last month. The Board will be William A. Bugge, of Olympia, Wash., nue) near the boundary. Some means composed of two structural engineers, highway engineer and Director of the of ingress and egress will likewise be pro- a geologist, a bridge architect, and a Department of Highways of the State vided to the Canal Zone, although the general highway engineer. The five of Washington. location for this connection has not been members are: Of this group, definite word that they finally determined. The alignment of the Roland P. Davis, Dean Emeritus of will serve has been received from all bridge and main approaches recommended the University of West Virginia, nationally but Mr. Bugge. Both Mr. Tudor and by Sverdrup & Parcel, Inc., design con- known expert on structural engineering; Mr. Burwell are well ac(juainted with tractors, provides no important change in Ralph A. Tudor, of the Canal's Board conditions on the Isthmus through visits the locations previously announced. of Directors, from Atherton, Calif., here in the past. The latter has made The selection of a group of five prom- whose specialty is structural engineering several trips to the Canal Zone in past inent technical experts to serve as con- and bridge design years for consultations on problems in sultants on all phases of the bridge proj- Aymar Emburv II, Architect of New his field. ect from design through construction has York City; The east side bridge approaches were been approv'ed by the Canal Company's Edward B. Burwell, Jr., of Upper- discussed in detail early last month when Board of Directors. Acceptances had ville, Va., retired Chief Geologist in the two representatives (Ste page i9)
Health agencies start drive Feb, 24
Discussing plans for the National Health Agencies drive are, left to right:
R. K. Erbe, Cancer Committee,- D. P. Paolucci, Tuberculosis Association, and R. R. Sfampfer, CARE.
cially those health agencies which could
not lie a part of the l',).")7 I'nitcd I'und cam|)ai;,'n lu'cjiuse of agreements with their national organizations. The two major health agencies in the Canal Zone the local chapt<'r of the National Tui)erculosis A.s.sociation and the Canal Zone Cancer Connnittc(> Plans are ncaring completion for the deadline for agencies to apjily'fnr inclu- have already indicated their intention of campaign to be conducted, starting late sion in this year's drive. taking part in the drive which starts this this month, by health agencies operating No over-all goal is to be set for the month. in the Canal Zone. This is the second campaign. (Contributions will l)e either Their chairmen. Dr. 1). .1. I'aolucci, and last major campaign to be conducted in cash or by check as no payroll deduc- of the Tuberculosis A.sso( iation, and R. here this fiscal year under the White tions will be made for this drive. The K. Eriie, of the Cancer Commit tee, will House directive for fund-raising in fed- campaign will be conducted through the serve as ji.int chaii men for the
"This is only one of many avenues cur- rently being explored in our endeavor to determine what we can do with existing facilities to expedite Canal traffic." Funds for initiating the short-range plan of Canal improvements, which will cost nearly $20,000,000, are included in the President's budget sent to Congress early last month. An initial appropria- tion of $1,000,000 for the coming fiscal year has been requested. The short-range plan of improvements was described in detail in The Review last August. It includes widening two reaches of Gaillard Cut north of Pedro Company Directors saw the new and the old in the Zone last month. The new Miguel Locks, installation of a lighting were the LeTourneau locomotives, the old was 350-year-oid Fort San Lorenzo. system in the Cut, new lights for the Locks, and mooring facilities north of the elementary school, junior and senior formal session the same afternoon in the Pedro Miguel Locks. high schools, commissary, service center, Board Room of the Administration Build- Because of the continued increase in this session a management Canal traffic and the increasing number and other community facilities. One of ing. During of "super" tankers and ore carriers being the iirst of these jobs to be started after review was presented and the Board con-
Directors Meet Here For Sixth Time
handled, the Board believes that these funds are made available will be the sidered problems of a fiscal and budget- plans may be too conservative and di- alterations of the large building which ary nature. rected the Governor to expedite addi- will be used for an elementary school. It The Directors left the Pacific side early tional studies. is hoped to have this building ready for the following morning by Panama Rail- The occupancy of Coco Solo began use when schools reopen next September. road car for Gatun Locks where much of the day after the Board visited the Although Coco Solo is still months the morning was spent seeing the new area, .\lthough less than 20 families away from an integrated community', its locomotives in action. Board members had moved up to the end of January, present and future residents already are were impressed by many features of the the moving schedule was to have been taking the first steps to place it in the new devices, which will be in the testing speeded up this week with the assign- forefront of Canal Zone towns. A Civic stage for several months, particularly ment of an additional moving van. Council, complete with officers, has al- their ability- to start and stop rapidly, The rate of transfers to other quarters ready been formed. Approximately 100 and their improved maneuverability over (all U. S.-rate communities on the At- future Coco Solons participated in the existing locomotives. lantic side are affected) was to be first election. After inspecting the LeTourneau ma- stepped up this week to about four a day. While the Board's meeting last chines, the Directors and top officials of Housing Division officials expect the month was one of the shortest since the Canal organization attended a barbe- "musical chairs" program to be com- the annual Canal Zone meetings were cue at Fort San Lorenzo. As on previous pleted the end of May. initiated six years ago, the Director occasions, Board members were given an Meanwhile, plans are going forward spent a busy two days here. opportunity to sample some of the native for the alterations or rehabilitation of After their visit to Coco Solo the day dishes. Among the other meats served various buildings which will be used for after their arrival, the Directors met in at the barbecue luncheon this year were tidbits of iguana. page February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Most of the Directors (See 19) Handicapped Children's Program Begins-
A Canal Zone program which will even- have been recommended for the supple- a list recommended by James Wolf, Dir- tually provide special training for more mentary reading by the classroom teach- rector of the Handicapped Children's than 200 exceptional children gets under er. Mrs. McDermitt will do additional Program. Their tra\el and school ex- way on a limited basis this month. Its screening and testing on all the children penses are paid from a special allotment first two units will be a small group of referred to her. for this program and they are drawing physically handicapped children who will A series of standardized and informal their regular salaries. Summer-school meet at Gorgas Hospital and a much tests will be administered in order to de- courses, however, will be at their own larger but scattered number of Atlantic termine the cause of the difficulty and the expense. side children who will take a special course amount of retardation. Once the type of Four of the teachers are working at in remedial reading. reading disability is identified, a differ- San Francisco State College. This quar- is: McNevin, of the Five or si.\ children, between 6 and 10 entiated program will be designed for tet Mrs. Elizabeth years of ago, will make up the little each pupil. Diablo Heights elementary school; Miss group of physically handicapped young- While these two units of the handi- Thelma Godwin, of the Cristobal elemen- sters who will have their classes in a room capped children's program are getting tary school; Miss Clara Wattley, Paraiso in Section D of Gorgas Hospital. None started, 13 members of the Canal Zone high school; and Miss Maiziee Headley, of them has ever attended school before, schools' teaching staff are scattered from Paraiso elementary school.
Now scattered all over the United States, these teachers are training (or work with handicapped children.*
although some have been taught at home. New York to California, taking special Three others are at Wayne University Because of the diversity of ages and training to equip them for teaching and in Detroit: Miss Verona Campbell, a training, their classes will be run on the working with children who are deaf, visiting teacher of Spanish whose home old "country school system." blind, or have other physical handicaps station is Paraiso high school; Miss Mable of Boca school; and Thf children will include cerebral- or with children who are mentally re- McFaninhar, La of Fort school. palsy and post-polio patients, children tarded. All (if them will be back on the Miss Lillian Haird, Kobbe who have heart ailments or are other- Isthmus next fall when the program will Mi.ss M\-d V\])vr, of the Santa Cruz school, Miss Brennan, of the wise handicapped in their ability to get be in full swing. and Mary around. Their teacher will be Mrs. They are taking this special work at North Margarita school, are at Syracuse University in New ^'ork State, and at Josephine Jones, who spent the first six different colleges and universities. University is Mrs. Mor- semester of this school year taking spe- While about 122 U. S. colleges and uni- Cdhinihia Ruth ris, of the South Margarita school. .Mrs. cial training at Columbia University in versities offer courses in special work with New Vork City. students, only about six have training in Jean Karch, who is on a year's leave of a.ssigned the whole field of special education. absence but who is regularly to The location of her classroom is ttmi- the Balboa .lunior High school, is study- porary. In September the group will be Some of the collefies specialize in " ing at the College of William and Marj' transferred to a room in the Balboa ele- what educators call " sequences. in Williamsburg, Va. mentary school so that they will be able Wayne University, for instance, has an Earl Sharick, of the Cristobal elemen- to mingle, as much as their physical con- excellent course for teachers who will tary school, is taking his special work at ditions permit, with children of their work with blind or partially - sichted Illinois State Normal, and Mrs. Adda own age. children. Others offer courses in work N'elarde. of the Santa Cruz School, is at- with the physically handicapped, and Mrs. Ethel McDermitt, who taught tending the ('atholic University of Amer- in speech- the North others are noted for courses until recently at Margarita ica in Washington, D. C. correction, or teaching deaf or hard-of- school, is in charge of the remedial read- hearing children, while others give spe- ing classes starting this month on the •Earl Sharick. Mrs. Elizabeth McNcvin, Clara Wattley. Maiziee Headley. Thelma Godwin. Mrs. cial training for teachers of mentally- Atlantic side. She was transferred to the Ruth Morris, Mrs. Jean Karch. Alva Piper. Verona retarded children. Campbell, Mabel McFarqtihar, Mrs. Adda Velarde, handicapped children's program last Marilyn Flynn, Speech Corrcctionist for the Division month. The teachers who are now in the of Schools, Sigurd E. Esser, Superintendent of Schools, James M. Wolf, Director of Special Educa- United States selected their schools from She will be a traveling teacher, going from school to school. The children with whom she will work, in small groups, THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 Here's the man Who's responsible for health
Most people see the Canal Zone for the the Health Director, spent several weeks first time when they come here to li\'e. in Washington attending the Interagency Not so Charles Olin Bruce, doctor, Army Institute for Federal Hospital Adminis- officer and, presently, Health Director of trators. Colonel Bruce himself served on the Canal Zone Government. its faculty.
lie was here 37 times before the Army In line with a plan to lift the load from Medical Corps assigned him to his present professional personnel, (iorgas Hosjiital post, two-and-a-half years ago. His 37 has its first layman administrator. He, previous peeks at the Zone convinced him in turn, is training the hospital's first ad- that it would be a fine place to live. He ministrative resident. The job of keeping still thinks so; he is delighted that his the physical end of the hospital running original three-year tour of duty has just has been transferred to a full-time pro- been extended to July, 1959. fessional housekeeper, and a program of training is The first 36 times Colonel Bruce visited ward attendants now under the Canal Zone were when, as a brand way. When this is completed, the ward new lieutenant in the Medical Corps, he attendants will be something like the was in charge of the 100-bed hospital on nurses' aides commonly used in States the troop ti-ansport Republic, then on a hospitals. They will be able to assume regular run through the Canal to Hawaii. more responsibility, take temperatures, and perform other technical duties. Today, as Health Director, he is re- Col. Charles sponsible for four hospitals with a total The biggest headache in his job, he O. Bruce bed capacitj' inany times more than says, is financial. But, he adds, "my that of the transport "Republic," for greatest satisfaction is that all of the the sanitation of the Canal Zone, for Health Bureau's people have kept on ceived his M.D., he had six months to its preventive medicine and quarantine, doing superior jobs in the face of one wait before beginning his internship at and for its veterinary services. financial crisis after another." New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He The 1,100 men and women under his The Health Bureau operates on appro- spent most of these six months at one of direction try to keep the Canal Zone priated funds, and any income from its the C.C.C. camps, getting a taste of mil- its sanitary, Treasury. clean and healthy; food and services goes into the The bal itary life. When he finished his intern- properly handled; its people from becom- ance of the cost is paid to the Treasury ship, he was commissicned into the Army. ing sick or, if they become ill, care for them by the Panama Canal Company. The The third encounter was on the Re- at hospitals and clinics. Of the people in Health Bureau budget is prepared, and public. On his first trip back from his Bureau, 64 are doctors, 30 are interns requested, nearly two years in advance. Hawaii, he met Edythe Ann Corbin, and residents-in training, and 252 are Between the time Colonel Bruce and his homeward bound with her Army parents. registered nurses. assistants have worked out what they They were married three years later, after will need and the time funds become Colonel Bruce's tour with the Health he finished a course in malariology at available, all sorts of things may happen Bureau coincides with a time of the most Water Reed Hospital in Washington. far-reaching changes since a health or- to throw their plans out of kilter. Con- Their honeymoon was, to say the ganization was set up by Col. W C. gress may authorize a pay raise, or the least, unusual. They were assigned to over 50 years ago. Some of these Company increase some of its service Gorgas British Guiana and got transportation will be the result of recommend- charges for instance. changes on a small boat the Army was sending ations by Dr. Isidore Falk, who has been Consequently, a good part of his time to Trinidad. The trip from Miami, engaged for the past year in studying the is spent making the Bureau's money go which should have taken a couple of Zone Health services. His prelim- as far as possible. The new bloodbank, Canal weeks, took a month. The boat's water inary report has already been submitted with volunteer donors, eliminated heavy system broke down, its radio quit, its the final report is not yet finished. expenditures for blood needed by hospital but engines faltered. They were unable to patients. simple sounding economy, During Colonel Bruce's two-and-a-half A identify themselves and a British patrol such as requiring doctors to make their years on the job, he has concentrated on brought them to a quick halt at the house calls in ambulances an ambulance three major programs: Providing addi- — entrance to Port-of-Spain with a shot was then on hand if a patient needed hos- tional training for Bureau personnel; across their bow. transferring the non-professional load pitalization—saved more money. Mrs. Bruce was evacuated to the the doctors and nurses to the ad- The Canal Zone's health offices in Pan- from States when the United States entered ministrative and clerical stafT; and put- ama and Colon were transferred to the war but her husband staj'ed in Briti.sh ting the health services on a more eco- Panama a few weeks after he arrived Guiana for a year. Then, after a brief nomical basis, without affecting the qual- here, but Colonel Bruce is much inter- detail in New York, he was assigned to ity of the medical care of the Canal Zone's ested in Panama's affairs. He holds the Gen. Mark Clark's stafli, a post he held He is also interested in the health Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero, in people. through the North African and Italian of the neighboring Republic rank of Knight Commander, for his problems the campaigns. and is studying Spanish in order to under- assistance in several of Panama's health Back to the States in 1945, he and Mrs. stand them better. programs. He believes that Panama and Bruce established their first real home training program is one of the the Canal Zone should have a deep con- The near Washington and their two children, Health Director's pet babies. As a med- cern for each other's problems, since dis- Michael, now 11, and Mamey, 9, were ical man, he knows the value of up-to- ease does not recognize geographic or po- born there. Colonel Bruce served for a date medical information Five of the litical boundaries. time with headquarters of the Army Health Bureau's professional people have Born in Holdrege, Neb., 49 years ago, Field Forces, then had a year at Johns already taken refresher courses in their he started as a Liberal Arts student at Hopkins to get his Master of Public specialties and several others have at- the University of Nebraska. The shop- Health degree, and served a tour in the tended medical meetings in the States. talk of medical student friends was so office of the Surgeon General. He was Colonel Bruce hopes that more can do so. interesting that he switched to medicine. Military Assistant to the Secretary of the This was one of three chance encounters The special "post graduate" training Army when he came to the Canal Zone in which had important effects on his life. has not been restricted to medical men. 1955 with Secretary Robert Stevens. Assistant to next aft«r he had re- In 1956, William Brown, The came when, That was when he saw the Canal Zone for the 37th time. He liked it then and
February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW he likes it even better now. )
Billy Graham Will Speak
At Albrook Field Sunday
Residents of the civilian communities of the Canal Zone are welcome to attend a special sen-ice to be held by famed Evangelist Bilfy Graham next Sunday at FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTDN Beam Stadium at Albrook. The sernce will begin at 6:30 a. m. The Rev. Dr. Graham is here at the invitation of 26 local sponsoring organi- How Accident Proof Is Your Driving? zations. He is appearing tonight and to- morrow night at the Panama Stadium. Special arrangements have been made 1. Is it second nature for you to lock cause you know that, if you are killed, by the Panama Railroad to accommodate doors, adjust ventilation, seat, and mir- you'll be just as dead as if you were Atlantic siders crossing the Isthmus for ror before starting; and to check tires, wrong. the services in Panama. A second section brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, 5. Do you intently and unrelentingly is being added to the late afternoon train and flashlight battery? follow the action of any person or car from Colon today and tomorrow, provid- (Of course your conduct manifests the that threatens your driving path until ing space for 1,900 persons on the regular habitual courtesy and friendliness which dead sure of his attention and intention? train and second section. The first sec- marks a good driver; you invariably 6. Do you rely too greatly on a signal tion leaves Colon station at 5:10 p. m apply the rule that the other driver is the other driver should give but does not? and the second at 5:40 p m. in the right; you are helpful and coop- (Of course, as a good driver, you not Two sections, one leaving Panama at erative; you always yield the right-of- only do not cause accidents, but you 10:10 p. m. and the other at 10:40 p. m., way to pedestrians . . . you drive unto play it safe; assume that the other driver will provide return transportation to the others as you would have them drive unto you.) is an amateur; and are sharp enough to Atlantic side. 2. Do you set your sights far enough outguess him to avoid being hit by him.) Preparations for the Billy Graham ahead- -watch out for traffic hazards at 7. Have you grown over confident be- crusade here have been under way for least half a block ahead in town, half a cause you know the road so well? Are over a month. Headquarters for the Pa- mile ahead in the country? you unconsciously developing the danger- cific side activities have been the old (Of course you are continually on the ous habit of driving blindly? Tivoli Commissary where massed choirs alert for pedestrians and animals on the 8. Are you master of your carl Do you have been holding regular rehearsals. road. You realize that the "tired driver" know its safe speed for all traffic, weather, hazard is always present You plan your visibility, road surface conditions, and trips and always know exactly what you sharp curves? Do you keep your car in Promoted are going to do next.) top-notch condition? 3. Do you hold to the center of the traffic In the event of an emergency do you lane and steer at a spot on the center of the always try to park off the roadway for driveway rather than observe side clearance"! your own safety as well as others? (WTien blinded by glare, you use the 9. In foggy or rainy weather do you
right shoulder of the road as a guide . . . hold down your speed, dim instrument- when following, you always allow at least panel lights, keep windshield and head- one car length for every 10 miles of speed.) lights clean, and use extra driving cau- 4. Do you habitually keep your eyes tion? moving, checking ahead, to the sides, 10. Do you keep your mind constantly and to the rear-vision mirror frequently? and unrelentingly concentrated on your (Of course you never pass a car on a driving regardless of troubles at home, curve, hill, or at an intersection. You fatigue, hurry, desire to find a parking never fail to give the proper signals. space, or other distractions? You curb that desire to speed because HOW DO YOU RATE? DO YOU you know that speed is the No. 1 killer! REALLY DESERVE A PASSING You don't insist on the right-of-way be- MARK?
FREQUENCY RATE Disabling injuries per I 0.000 employee-
hours worked. DECEMBER 1957
BUREAU
Marine Bureau (Honor Rollj Lawrence L. Jenrich
The appointment of Lawrence L. .Jen- Civil Affairs Bureau (Honor Roll) rich as Chief of the Internal Audit Branch, succeeding George E. Girard, Heallh Bureau (Honor Roll) was announced last month. Mr. Girard left the middle of .January for the United Suppljr and Employee Service Bureau States where he will join the staff of the General Accounting Office. Mr. .Jenrich was born in Milwaukee C.Z. Govl.-Panama Canal Co. (This Month and holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He is an Engineering and Conslrutlion Bureau Army veteran of World War II. His previous experience includes several years Transportation and Terminals Bureau with the Wisconsin Department of Tax- ation. He also worked with a private accounting firm, and with the Army Man-Hoiirs Worked 2,234,945 Audit Agency in Anchorage, Alaska, Number if Disabling Injuries 9 where he was Deputy Regional Director. Frequency Rale this month He has been with the Canal organization I since November 19.56. LEGEND ;:] Accumulative Frequency Rate this Calendar Year He is a Certified Public Accountant ~~1 1954-19551956 Calendar Year Average and a member of the American Institute of Accountants. Mr. Jenrich lives in Gamboa with his wife and three children. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 CIVIL DEFENSE Move Accomplished @ NEWS
The first copies of the new Civil Defense Disaster Relief Plan were distributed dur- ing the last week of January. The entire edition will be available for distribution in February. Thii Civil Defense Manual elim- inates the Control Point and Task Force Manual, Volunteer Corps Manual, and Plant Self-Frotection Manual, the texts of which have been included in this plan as anne.xes. With the distribution of the Disaster Re- lief Plan, the organizing and training of Company-Government personnel in the rescue services will get under way.
First-aid traiiiing lor luenilicrs of the \'olunteer Corps is being ])lanned for tlie next several weeks. Mrs. Charlotte Ken- nedy will instruct the Margarita-New Cris- tobal group. William Gordon will in- struct the Santa Cruz and Paraiso groups. The newly-established town of Pedro Miguel will either organize its own first-aid class or join with the Paraiso Class. In either case an instructor will be provided.
FEBRUARY VOLUNTEER CORPS MEETINGS Date T.iwn Pl.ue H.iur 5& 19 Marg.-N. Cristobal Serv. Center 5:00 p. m. The one-time Ancon Dispensary now houses the office of the Panama Canal (First Aid) Company's Treasurer. Seated In the foreground are W. E. Lundy and A. R. Minor. 12 Rainbow City School 6:30 p. m.
13 Santa Cruz Serv. Center 8:00 p. ra. (First Aid)
17 Paraiso School 7:30 p. m. (First Aid) Worth Knowing - - Elected - - Owners of private vehicles licensed in the Canal Zone have only three more weeks to have the operating condition of their automobiles inspected. Without the windshield sticker which certifies that an automobile is in safe and sound shape, it will not lie allowed on Canal Zone highways after March 1. The annual in- spection is required by the Canal Zone traflfic regulations. Employees of the Company-Government who have not already done so should take their cars to the iMotor Transportation Division for inspection before the end of this month. Inspection hours are 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, e.\cept Saturday and Sundays. \ ehicle inspectors check lights, turn-indicators (on cars equipped with them), brakes, steering mechanism, wheel alignment, horns, rear-view mirrors, safety- glass, etc. Average time for an inspection is 10 minutes.
Eight new alley-beds are among the new bowling equipment soon to be installed in the Balboa Bowling Center. Other new equi|jnient will include semi-automatic pin setters, automatic foul-detecting devices, and miscellaneous items. The new alley-beds will be installed to replace eight of the 12 beds in the Balboa Bowling Center. The other four were replaced a short time ago. Bids for the work are now being advertised and will be opened February 10 at Balboa Heights. Work will begin about May and only one alley at a time will be out of service
As part of an over-all plan to keep the main streets of Canal Zone communities clean, green, and beautiful all during the year, a water sprinkler system has been installed in the Balboa Prado. Now that the dr\- season is in full swing, the sprinklers are being turned on several hours each day and residents living along the Prado have been asked to cooperate by keeping their lawns well watered during the next few months. New Chairman of the Canal Zone The quarters buildings in that area were painted white with a yellow trim several Chapter of the American Red Cross months ago and the Housing and Grounds Division has been busy replacing and planting trees and shrubs. is Roger W. Adams, Superintendent of the Motor Transportation Division.
Canal employees who have problems (tax problems, that is) related to the filing of their 1957 tax returns may contact Arthur J. O'Leary, Assistant Comptroller- Accounting. Mr. 0'l.ear\, in rtaaL offering his services to Canal employees, wishes to emphasize that even though he took a three-day training course on the latest provisions of the Internal Revenue Code in Washington, D. C, last year, and prepared or received numerous corporation and individual tax returns during a ten year Official Pinama Canal Companj Publication period with the international public accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co., Published Monlbly At Balboa Heights, C. Z. he does not consider himself to be an expert on the subject of taxes. Printed by the Prinling Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone He will, however, be most happy to assist or help any who have a special problem still unanswered after reading explanatory booklets put out by the Internal \V. E. Potter, Governor-President Revenue Commission and attached to the tax form itself. Hugh M. Arnold, Lieutenant Governor W. G. Arev, Jr., Public Information Oflncer Dr. Wayne L. Sargent, who served his internship in Gorgas Hospital in 1956, J. RuFUs Hardy, Editor returned to Gorgas last month to begin his first year residency in pathology. Eleanor McIlhenny. Assistant Editor For the past year or more, Dr. Sargent has been on active duty with the U. S. \a\y and recently stationed Eunice Richard, Editorial Assistant was at the Navy Base at Rodman. Mrs. Sargent, who is also a physician, completed her internship at Gorgas Hos- ij.i ....clale atai all Panama Canal Service Centers. pital about the same time as her husband, and at present is employed in the Gorgas Commisaaries. Hotels for and 10 days after publira- Hospital Out-Patient Clinic. The Sargents are both gratluates of Rice Institute tion date at 5 cents each. Subscriptions, $1 a year; in Houston, Tex., and both of them completed their medical training mall and back copies, 10 cents each. at Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. He is a native of Middlebou'rne. Postal money orders made payable to the Pan- W. Va., and she was born in Houston. ama Canal Cotnpany should be mailed to Editor. The Pana.ma Canal Review. Balboa Heights. C. Z. Examinations, some written and some oral, test the progress of the pilot trainee.
Capt. Rainier supervises, Capls. Christian and Fetherston put it down on paper.
Pilots Lengthy training covers all
in the parts oF Canal operations making
Panama Canal pilots are not made followed"counter-clockwise from the up- Capt. C. O. Barrett is one of five men overnight. The special training which per left-hand corner, show part of what on lowboats for Canal pilot training. they need here takes many months. goes into making a pilot. All pilots must
Pilot training is a continuing process. hold masters' licenses, but that doesn't
Right now, in addition to its 81 qualified mean that they jump right into taking pilots, the Panama Canal has ten pro- vessels through the Canal.
bationary pilots, three in training, five Before a Panama Canal pilot may more on towboats, and two more re- make unrestricted transits—before he is quested. All of these will be needed not allowed to handle ships of unlimited only to the pilots Ladders like this are routine for replace senior as they size— he has accompanied a fully-quali- Capt. William Gillespie, pilot trainee. retire, but to handle the ever-increasing fied pilot on scores of transits, has han- volume of traffic through the Canal. dled, on his own, smaller vessels through
The pictures on these two pages, if the waterway, has studied pamphlets,
In the office of Assistant Port Captain E. B. Rainier, right, he joins two other
trainees, Capts. E. M. Fetherston, left, and J. Y. Christian, for a bit of chart work.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 A pilot must know Canal regulations. Capt. Fetherston catches up on the rules. Looking and learning, Capt. Gillespie watches as the long bow of the ship slides into a lock chamber at Gatun. Capt. Swain, left, is his instructor.
charts, and rules of navigation, has remains for another year. At first he is learned the how and why of Canal oper- limited to ships 385 feet long. This is ations, and has taken examinations to gradually increased, as the year goes on, prove his knowledge. until at the end of 12 months he is taking A prospective pilot first spends some 525-foot ships through the Canal. In time on a towboat, learning the Canal addition, during that year, he frequently harbors and its docks and piers. If he serves as assistant to a pilot on very large shows himself to be qualified, he becomes vessels or ships of unusual design. a pilot-in-training. He then learns how His mentor is the Assistant Port Cap- the Locks operate, what the marine traf- tain who gives him his assignments, fic controllers do. He watches harbor checks the reports made by pilots who pilots at work and accompanies other watch him work, and prepares the exam- pilots on at least 66 trips through the inations he must take. Canal.
After six months, and a stiff examina- It is not until LS months after he has tion covering everj-thing from ship hand- become a pilot-in-training that his name ling to local rules of the road, he becomes goes up on the pilot-board for "next out" a probationary pilot, a post in which he in the Panama Canal.
Canal pilots don't have much time to sit down. Right, Capt. R. H. Swain.
In the Marine Controller's office, he learns how ships are dispatched by Supervisory Controller T. H. Forsstrom, and foreground, Martin S. Sawyer.
During his stint on the Locks, he and Lockmaster Fred Newhard hitch a ride on a locks towing locomotive.
February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Digitized by the Internet Archive
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Canal's opening meant new trade opportunities for its southernmost user
Ore unloading dock oF Cic. de Acero del PaciFico, Wire and blister copper From Chile is unloaded From Chile's growing steel industry on San Vicente Boy. Grace Line ship in New York For Anaconda's mills.
Calculated on a per capita basis, Chile relatively short time. Canal records for uses the Panama Canal more than any 1915 show that approximately half the other nation on earth. 1,990,000 tons of nitrate exported by The ore carrier Chilore was a Familiar visitor to waters until During the past fiscal year 5,036,000 Canal supplanted Chile that year moved through the by supercarriers. It its carrying ore in loufj tons of freijj;ht were shipped through made maiden voyage Chilean July 1923. Panama Canal, This rapid shift in the the watei'wuy to or from Chilean ports nitrate market helped to avert a dis- along the west coast of South America. itive factor in human and international Valdivia founded Santiago, the nation's was routed around the Horn or through merce. That report noted that in 1915, aster to the nation's economy. This amounts roughly to 800 pounds per relations. capital and today one of the world's most Magellan Strait to Europe. for the first time, the United States While the nitrate trade was interrupted inhabitant of the long thin nation which This "feeling" was aptly expressed by beautiful cities, on February 12, 1541. ranked first both in exports from and im- Within a few weeks time in 1914 two when the Canal was closed by slides in lies between the Andes and the Pacific Chile's delegate to an international meet- ports into Chile. Prior to that time, the There followed 100 years of conflict events occurred which caused an al- September 1915, shipments were resumed Ocean and stretches nearly halfway be- ing held last year in Panama. He said, order of importance had been Great Brit- between the Spanish settlers and the most complete realignment of world in increasing volume when the waterway tween the Poles. The United States, in effect: We people of Chile look on the ain, Germany, and the United States. Araucanians which ended in 1641 by the trade. The two occurrences the out- was reopened in April 1916. which built Panama Canal as our own. and operates the waterway famous Pact of Quillin. Even after this break of World War I and the opening Except for the almost simultaneous The long, slender nation which is over- During the latter stages of the war the and is its liiggest user in volume of trafl!ic, compromise there was intermittent war- of the Panama Canal had a more pro- opening of the Canal, Chile's economic shadowed by the snow-capped peaks of need for nitrate for munitions became sends less than 50 pounds of commodities fare until Chile achieved independence found effect on Chile than almost any structure might have been all but wreck- the Andes for its entire distance was one such an important factor to America and a year through the Canal per capita. from Spain in 1818, after which the other country not directly involved in ed by the outbreak of war in Europe. of the first lands settled after the discov- the Allies that the old Panama Railroad The l>onds whicti link the Canal and Indians were granted equal rights of the European conflict. Her economy at that time was almost a ery of Chile are of America. steamships Ancon and Cristobal, and two lonft standing and arc more citizenship. Undoubtedly, the opening of the Canal "one crop" affair, with nitrates being pronounced than The King of Spain bestowed on Diego smaller German vessels interned in Canal those with other great Throughout this period Chile and her would have brought great but gradual the principal source of its foreign trade. de Almagro, partner of their regular trade areas, .\sido from the Francisco Pizarro had been waters, were removed from commer- people maintained a tenuous commercial changes to Chile's economy but the out- Germany and Austro-Hungary in the conquest of Peru, the of York-Cristobal runs to transport cial aspects which may be measured in "land two-thirds of the total and New link with the Isthmus of Panama as it break of war brought about an abrupt taking about Chili," which the Royal grant mineral. The vessels loaded coal in long tons, Chilean pesos, or in dollars renamed Horn in the offered the only secure trade and travel change when trade with Germany, Chile's much of it was sent around the New Toledo. The failed Orleans for and cents, there is Crown to make Hampton Roads and New a feeling of affilia- route to Spain and other Eui'opean nations. second most important customer, was sailing vessels. clear which of the two territories from Balboa tion, indefinable but nevertheless a pos- included the Canal Zone and went to These links stopped almost in a matter of days. This trade was abruptly halted by Cuzco, ancient Indian capital of southern economic were greatly Chile in ballast to load nitrate the war but foreign purchases of this Peru, resulting in a long and bloody con- strengthened over 100 years ago when With the opening of the shorter trade important commodity were largely ab- Two of these shipments were so urgently test in which both Pizarro and Almagro one of the first regular steamship services routes to the highly industrialized eastern sorbed by the United States within a needed in Europe that the ships were dis- lost their lives. in the Pacific was established by the seaboard of the United States, Chile's The civil war broke out after a two- Pacific Steam Navigation Company be- trade with her northern hemispheric year expedition into Chile in 1535-37 by tween Valparaiso and Panama. "The serv- neighbor, which had ranked a poor third Almagro and his followers. His forces ice was inaugurated in 1840 by two 800- up until then, began a steady and sus- were defeated and the leader was executed ton steamships, the Peru and Chile which tained rise. American capital invested in as a traitor. Four years later, Pizarro were brought through the Magellan the South American countries bordering was killed by Almagro's followers who Strait under their own steam. the Pacific amounted to a bare trickle surprised him in his palace in Lima. Although the company was British, before the war, with only a few pioneering However, a year before his death in 1541, its guiding spirit was William Wheel- firms such as W. R. Grace and Company Pizarro had sent his lieutenant, Pedro de wright from Massachusetts who first represented. Valdivia, to Chile to establish a perm- crossed the Isthmus in 1825 and became The effect of the Canal's opening and anent colony. one of the most ardent advocates for a the war in Europe on Chilean commerce Despite the hostility of the Arauca- Panama Canal. The service flourished for was described in some detail in a 1916 nians, Chile's native Indian population. more than 25 years but was discontinued report by the U. S. Depai'tment of Com- in 1867 because of a conflict of interests with the Panama Railroad Copper bars are loaded for shipment. Company. SS Aysen, one oF Chilean Line ships, Most oF Chilean copper sent abroad Thereafter, until the Canal was opened was used on route between Valpar- is shipped through the Panama Canal. in 1914, most of Chile's foreign commerce aiso and Cristobal alter Canal opened.
THE PANAIVIA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 February 7, 1958 11 Chile's nifrate desert is world's only commercial deposit of ore from wliich natural nitrate of soda is made. patched directly to France for unloading W. Goethals, made a complete inspection and was replaced bv commerce with the when they arrived in New York. of the big project. United States. A.sido from the need for nitrates for A special delegation was sent to the "It can be said that the opening of munitions, the use of nitrate for agricul- Zone by the Chilean Government in July the Panama (;anal brought the United ture increased tremendously in the United 1913, in connection with plans to develop States and Chile closer together, not States during this period. Consequently, the nation's mercantile fleet after the only in the strict sense of travel-miles from 1916 until the world-wide depression opening of the Canal. at sea but, above all, in the ties and of the 1930's, nitrate shipments consti- It is easy to see today in retrospect mutual cooperation which exist be- tuted one of the most important com- what tfie opening of the Canal and its tween the two nations which is one of modities moved through the waterway operation of the past 43 years has the greatest benefits derived from the from the Pacific to the Atlantic. meant to Chile and her economy. Canal. Great interest was aroused in Chile However, there was then a widespread "This geographical and spiritual tie about the Canal during its construction feeling in Chile, not shared by all of with the United States was not the only and her President, Don Pedro Montt, her leaders, that the opening of the consequence of the Canal's opening and was of one the few Chief Executives, spell Canal would economic doom for its operation today. Europe was also other than those of Panama and the the country. brought clo.ser to Chile and has given United States, to visit the Canal Zone How this feeling came to exist and more attention to the country situated while construction was in progress. Pres- what the general feeling of Chileans at the extreme end of South America— ident Montt visited the Isthmus in July toward the Canal is today is best e.\- the nation located 'at the end of the 1910 and, accompanied by Col. George pressed in a brief article prepared in World,' as it was expres.sed before, when Chile especially for this series of articles trying to reach it meant a stormy South in The Review. This is quoted in part crossing a trip around the Chile's biggest hydroelectric plant at Atlantic and Los Cipreses generates 105,000 KW. below: Horn with its legendary tempests or "In a way it appeared that the open- through the Strait of Magellan which " ing of the Panama Canal had done harm treated its visitors roughly ' J^ to the maritime trade of Chilean ports The Canal had been opened only six because up to that time the ships that days when service between Valparaiso traveled to any country along the west and New York was inaugurated by W. coast of South America had to go through R. Grace Company, one of the oldest the Magellan Strait or around Cape Horn American firms established in Latin and stop either at Punta Arenas or Val- America. This initial trip was made by paraiso to take on water, and at the same the Santa Calalina. Since that date, time load or unload some cargo, l^pon Grace Line ships have transited the opening the Canal both ports languished Canal more than 6,000 times and have because they needed that important established an international reputation stream of ves.sels coming from one or for their pas.senger and freight .-service.
another point of the world and it was One of the more important aspects of believed, naturally, that the Panama the opening of the Canal to the west Canal had meant the death of both ports coast of South America was the stimula- and a tremendous harm to Chile. tion of travel. Despite its many historic "This impression was given credence and scenic attractions, only the hardiest by many. However, comparative eco- of trawlers had the time or desire to nomic statistics prove just the opposite make the long voyage around the Horn was true. With the opening of the Canal to Chile. a new era wa.s born in Chile of greater A trickle of visitors 50 years ago has significance to its progress in every aspect now grown into a sizeable stream, greatly of life. augmented in recent years by air travel. "Immediately, Chile stopped looking Aside from the tourists' dollars, pounds, to Europe as its only center of culture, lires, or francs, this travel from Europ(> art, finance, industry, and commerce. and the United States has been import- Other markets were opened to provide ant in the cultural and economic develop- greater benefits than had before been ment by this interchange of visitors on available, and the .same was true of the an international basis. purchases made abroad. Thus, little Ity Today, it is no unusual sight to see the little, the diverse and somewhat ha|)- |)assenger ships of the Grace Line, the hazard commercial trade with Europe Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and and the Far East decreased in importance the Italian Line being locked through the
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 Canal on their way between ports of Chile and those in the United States and Europe. Among the first ships to use the Canal were those serving Chile and flying the Chilean flag. They were vessels of the South American Steamship Company, better known as the Chilean Line, whieh opened a run between Valparaiso and Cristobal to connect with ships touching the Atlantic port without transiting the Canal. This service, discontmued in 1924, was begun less than four months after the Canal was opened and represented one of the first regularly-established trade routes through the waterway. A fort- nightly service was offered at first but it was increased to weekly sailings in 1916 when slides were removed and the Canal was reopened. Undoubtedly, one of the most import- ant aspects of Chile's economy which can be directly related to the opening of the Canal was the attraction of American capital to the South American Republic. Until the shortened trade route was made available, there was little incentive for
American investments on a major scale, Steel plant at Huachipato is evidence oFChlle's growing industrialization program. with the result that ChDe's foreign trade,
her banking, communications, transpor- list it had compiled a "verj' modest" one iron and copper mining have been de- tation, and much of her mineral resources and continued that "we desire to empha- veloped to a high state in the intervening were dominated by British, German, and size the impossibilitj^ of obtaining exact 45 years with the result that Chile in re- French interests. information when mining enterprise is cent decades has become more famed as It had long been recognized that Chile still in the initial period —the period of one of the world's largest producers of possessed vast natural mineral resources, study and preparation." copper. but her economy had been almost wholly The article called attention, however, The development of Chile's iron min- dependent upon nitrate and agriculture. to a report by Chile to the first Pan ing has progressed at a far slower pace While nitrate shipments abroad still con- American Financial Congress held in and it has only been in recent j-ears that tinue to constitute a substantial part of Washington in May 1915 which said sufficient capital has been invested to the nation's foreign commerce, the value "the copper output is increasing, owing bring this industry to its present high of her copper exports today far exceeds to the development of large copper prop- state of development and one of the that of nitrates, and last year almost three erties in which North American capital nation's chief sources of income and eco- tons of iron ore was shipped through the is invested." nomic self reliance. Canal from Chile for each ton of nitrate. The Encj'clopedia also said "iron mines A succeeding article will discuss pres- In a review of Chile's mineral re- in the Coquimbo district are also being ent-day Chile, its industrial development, sources, the Encyclopedia of Latin Amer- developed by American capitalists." and the Panama Canal's part in her for- ica, published 40 years ago, called the From these modest beginnings both eign trade and economic welfare. School's Out Latin American Schools end another teaching year
Presentation of diplomas to 198 high each community. In addition to these, were raised so that newly-appointed school graduates and final report cards swimming classes are being arranged for secondary school teachers must have to all students in the Canal Zone's Latin the Rainbow Citj' children. a degree from the University of Pan- American schools brought another school The school year which has just ended ama or its equivalent. year to an end this week for approxi- marked a number of "firsts" for the Latin There were also some physical changes mately' 3,900 boys and girls. The schools American schools. Classes in English in the Latin American schools during the will reopen May 5, after the long drj'- were added for high school junior and past school year. A new air-conditioned season vacation. senior students taking the general and music room was added at Paraiso High Commencement exercises were held commercial curriculum; a course in phi- School and an additional classroom and Tuesday at the Paraiso and Rainbow losophy became part of the college pre- woodshop to the Santa Cruz School. A City high schools, and final report cards paratory course; and classes in Business covered passageway was built beti;\een the were picked up by all of the students English and Commercial Spanish were school building and gunnasium at Santa Wednesday afternoon. Both the number started in the high schools' commercial Cruz. of graduates and the number of students curriculum. were higher than last year; in 1957 there During the year, free bus transporta- There was one major change in the were 184 graduates of the two Latin tion was furnished for the first time to schools' staff. Grafton Conliffe, a teacher American high schools, fourteen less than a daily average of 294 Latin American at the La Boca Junior High School, be- this .year, and the end-of-the-year enroll- students whose homes were not within came Principal of the Santa Cruz Ele- ment of 3,942 in all schools—kindergarten walking distance of their schools. In ad- mentary and Junior High Schools. He through high school—was 64 more this dition to the students who rode busses, succeeded Adolphus L. B. Morgan, who year than at the end of the previous between 1.50 and 160 high school pupils retired in September after 36 years with school year. made the daily round trip from Santa the schools. Beginning Monday, the children of Cruz to Paraiso by train, disembarking Another continuing project, but in all of the Latin American communities at a new shelter built especially for them another line, was the Spanish-reading will have a well-planned vacation ath- at Paraiso. As in the case of the busses tests given to all students to measure letic program to occupy their time. for the others, train transportation for progress in that language since the This year's vacation program, which these students was provided free. schools have been on an all-Spanish will run from Februarj' 10 through April During the year a new pay rate was teaching program. This was the fourth 25, will provide for a Softball league, effective for teachers who hold Panama year of such tests for first through sixth archer}' instruction, and volleyball in University degrees, and requirements graders, and the third year for students February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW in the upper grades. ; :
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS RETIREMENTS
December 75 through January 75 Retirement cenificates were presented the end of January to the following em- Employees who were promoted or trans- Maker to Machinist Foreman, Industrial ployees who are listed alphabetically, to- ferred between December 15 and Januar\' Division. gether with their birthplaces, positions, 15 are listed below. Within-grade promo- Harry E. Townsend, from Instrument length of Canal service, and future ad- tions are not reported. Shop Lead Foreman to Marine Machinist dresses: Earl Cassell, Kentucky-; Chief Operations CrVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU General Foreman, Industrial Division. Willie LaBrance, from First .Assistant Foreman. .Atlantic Locks; 30 years, 3 Hooper, from Fire Sergeant to Enoch L. .Marine Engineer to Chief Marine Engineer, months. 13 days; Costa Rica for present. Fire Division. Fire Lieutenant. U.S. Taboga. Navigation Division. Ernest B. Curling, X'irginia; Machinist Wilder, from Fire Sergeant II Matthew J. Balbino Caldito, from Deckhand to Sig- Foreman I, Pacific Locks; 26 years, 7 Sergeant I, Fire Di\ision. 1 to Fire nalman, Navigation Division. months. day; Frostproof, Fla. Heald, Robert S. Knox, from Dorgan, General Robert C. Ernest G. Mika, from Signalman, Navi- WilUam J. New Jersey; Fire Sergeant II, Fire Divis- Electrical Fcrenuin H, Electrical Division; Firefighter to gation Division, to Security Patrolman, years. 2 months, 6 days; Gloucester, ion. Locks Security Branch. a N.J. E. Skelton, from Substitute Lily E. Lindberg, Pennsylvania; Staff Mrs. EUa John M. Morrison, from Machinist to to Elementary School Teacher, Nurse, (iorgas Hospital; 10 \ears 6 months, Teacher -Machinist Foreman, .Atlantic Locks. Division of Schools. 29 davs; New York Ciiy. Walter C. Watts, from Machinist Fore- Virginia C. Townsend, from Ele- Wallace T. Melanson, .Massachusetts; Mrs. man to General Mechanical Locks Foreman, School Teacher to Substitute Chief Foreman Shi|)vvriglu and Dockmaster, mentan.- -Atlantic Locks. Teacher. Division of Schools. Industrial Division; 34 years, 2 months, 4 Joseph H. Yoimg, Machinist Foreman, Eugene Breakfield, from Postal Clerk. davs: BelmoiM. Mass. from Locks Overhaul to Pacific Locks. Mail Delivery Unit, to Window Clerk, Arthur Morgan, Indiana; Dipper Dredge Locks Overhaul Division; years, 1 Postal Division. Operator. Dredging 45 The following employees have been trans- 15 days; Harry H. Com, from Finance Branch month, Panama. ferred from their regular positions, to which Walter Oliver, New Department Su[>erintendent to Foreman, Mailing Di- Jersey; they will later return, to the Locks Over- Head, Division of Schools; 15 years, 16 vision, Postal Division. haul. The position indicated is that on the days; here for the present. Moises de la Pena, from Relief Finance overhaul work. Branch Superintendent to Finance Branch Bernard Linden, Ralph E. Furlong, Jr., Superintendent, Postal Division. J. WilUam H. Geoghegan, Jr., Warren E. Donald R. Boyer, from Relief Supervisor, LeDoux, k linger; Cristobal, to Relief Finance Branch Super- Carl A. Yarbro, Jack Simon, Slaughter intendent, Postal Division. H. Sharpensteen, Robert E. Budreau, Vane Walter T. McClure, from Mailing Divis- Leves, Dallas B. Thornton, Saliiig .iiiil to .\ssistant Postmaster, First ion Foreman Paint ing Lead Forenien: Class Office, Postal Division. Lester H. Barrows, Lamar M. Lavender, Farrell, from Assistant Post- Francis G. Merrill E. Sinclair, Heavy Labor Lc.nl Postmaster, master, First Class Office, to Foremen First Class Office, Postal Division. Charles Roth-Ro£fy, Jr., Walter D. from Finance Branch J. Thomas L. Sellers, Johnston, John van der Heyden, Le.id Superintendent to Relief Supervisor, Cris- Carpenter Foremen tobal, Postal Division. Ohver H. Hendrickson, Rex V. Sellers, Harvey G. Rhyne, from Police Sergeant M.irhinist Foremen ; to Police Lieutenant, Police Division. George J. Kredell, George R. Edgington, Stewart P. Trail, from Police Lieutenant Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Joseph J. Zam- Division. to Police Captain, Police bito, MaclMnists. to Gaddis Wall, from Detective Captain Charles L. Miller, William E. Williams, Police Division. District Police Commander, Robert T. Head, Jr., Harold R. Rodell, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER .Steam Locomotive Crane Engineers; Hubert Donaldson, Daniel B. Rambo, from .Attorney-.Adviser J. J. Patrick Conley, Coml>ination Welders; (ieneral Finance Adviser, Office (Fiscal I U) Dorman L. Fulton, Checker; of the Comptroller. Robert C. Carter, Locomotive Crane Lawrence L. Jenrich, from Supervisory Ste.im Kiiginecr Foreman; Warren Pitman, Califoriii.i: Ghic-I. lind- Auditor to Chief, Internal Audit Branch. Margaret P. Fessler, Time and Leave get and Rates Division, Office of the Comp- Parr, from Auditor, General Donald M. Clerk: an.l troller; 31 years, 6 months, 5 days; Cali- Division, to Systems Accountant, Audit Mrs. Henrietta G. Winklosky, Time and fornia. Policies and Procedures StafT. Accounting Leave Supervisor. Mrs. Helen M. Rhodes, Illinois; Time, RUCTION Leave, and Pavroll Clerk, Payroll Branch; ENGINEERING AND CONS! SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ve.irs, 1 month, 15 cla\s: Pas;idena, Calif. BUREAU BUREAU 18 Capt. Albert G. Terwilliger, New York; William H. Henderson, from Apprentice Mrs. Sherie L. Perrini, from Usher and Pilot, Navigation Division; ii years, 9 Wireman to Wireman, Electrical Division. Doorman. Motion Picture Unit, to Section months. 7 clavs; New York City, N. Y. Wireman, Electri- Murray Klipper, from Head, Commis.sary Branch. Morris Welch, .Austria; Links Security Construction Representa- cal Division, to Mrs. Hilda E. Wickens, from Checker to Patrolm.m, Locks Division; 18 vears. 4 Conversion Project. tive, Power Cash .Accounting Clerk (Teller), Commis- mciiihs, l.S d.ivs; Leominster. Ma>s. Turner, Wesley H. Bailey, Robert M. sary Branch. System Mainten.mce .Mechanic from W.iter Patricia A. Myers, from Cashier to .Sec Maintenance -Machinist Foreman, I, to tion Head, Commissary Branch. M.rinlCTiaiue I)ivi>ion. William M. Brandl, Jack G. Lenneville, TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS ANNIVERSARIES frojii Water System Pipelines Rep.iirman BUREAU to Pipefitter, Maintenance Division. Donald R. Brayton, from General Yard- Senior man on the J.muary list of anni- Earl V. Romigh, from Suijersisorv Ac- master to Supervisory Railroad Transpor- versaries is Capt. Charles Stuart Towns- counting Clerk to Cost Accounts Supervi- tation Specialist. Kailroad Division. hend who is also senior in another category: Division. sor, Dredging Ralph H. Walker, from Clerk (Typist) to he has tuore service than any Panama Canal Supervisory Store- Railroad Arthur W. Smith, from Clerical .Assist, mt (.Maintenance), pilot. Last month he rounded out 35 years Clerical kee|ier (General) to Supervisory Division. of government service, almost 30 of which Division. Assistant. Maintenance Mrs. Ethel J. Bensen, from Clerk (Typ- have lieen spent in taking ships from one Mrs. Jacqueline C. Gilbert, from Clerk- ist) to Clerical .Assistant (Trans|)ortation), ocean to (he other via the Panama Canal. Dictating Machine Transcriber, Gorgas kailroad Division. Born in Narberth, Pa., not far from Phil- Hospital, to Clerk (Typing), Power Con- WilUam R. Graham, from Accounting adelphia, he began his sea-going career when x'ersion Project. .Assistant, to Supervisory .Administrative he was not much more than a stripling. In HEALTH BUREAU Services .Assistant, kailroad Division. .March 1922, after he had reached the |X)si- OTHER PROMOTIONS tion of Chief OlTuer on merchant ships, he Margaret M. Dims, from StafT .Nurse put his toe in the Panama Canal's door as Geologist, (Pediatrics), Coco Solo Hospital, to Staff Robert R. Stewart, Engineer- a lancllidiber policeman. He was on dry )iv i^icin. Nurse (General Medical Hospital), Gorgas ing I land for oidy a few months, however, before Hospital. Richard M. Conover, Position Classifier, he went to Work on the Canal's towboats, Mrs. Arline E. Mcllvaine, from Staff Wage and ('l.is!,ificalion Division. a step in pre-pilot training. He became a Hospital), Gorgas Charles W. Brown, .Administrative As- ilol r)n 1927 at noon, for Nurse (General Medical full I August 20, Hospital, to StafT Nurse (Obstetrics), Coco sistant (Typing), Power Conversion Project. some reason. Solo Hospital. Mrs. Beverly A. Stirmel, Supervisory In 1933 when the depression cut the num- Mrs. Rita E. Stetz, from Staff Nurse .Stcvv.ird. Supplv- Division. ber of the Canal's marine customers, he (General .Medical Hospital), to Staff Nurse James C. Cullen, Mechanical Engineer. was "let out" together with two other com- (Pediatrics), Coco Solo Hospital. Engineering Division. paratively new pilcts but a \car later was MARINE BUREAU Walter T. Schapow, from Instrutnent 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 back on his trans-continenlal run through the Isthmian waterway. Power Conversion' In 1942, with Capt. George H. Boomer, then Assistant Port Captain in CristoLal, he worked up a merchant shij) berthing chart which, his superiors said, "should be useful in handling ships, especially convoys, in Linion Bay." During his Canal coreer, he has handled ships of all sizes, kinds, and nationalities. One of his biggest thrills came in November 1953, when he was one of two [ilots assigned to take Queen Eliz;ibeth's ship, the SS Gothic, through the Canal. On several oc- casions, when on leave, he has piloted large ocean liners through the San Bias archipel- ago. Recently he handled the SUilcndam in San Bias. Captain Townshend will retire in May but as of now, his friends say, isn't quite sure where he will go or what he will do. A safe bet is that he will he busy, wherever he is.
30 YEARS
Two Canal Zone teachers, one from either side of the Isthmus, shared honors for the number two spot in January's anni%ers?- ries. They are: Ruth Elizabeth Creasy, principal of the Fort Koblie .ind Cocoli ele- mentary schools, and Rosalie Jones, third- grade teacher at the South Margarita school. Last month, on Januarx- 1. each completed 30 years of government service. Miss Creasy, a Hoosier from Lafayette, Ind., came here in 1925 after several years of teaching in schools in Indiana and Ohio. Conversion experts look over plans For the Pacific area. Left to right: R. E. Her first Canal Zone post was at Gatun. Three years later she returned to Indiana, Powers, Vice President of Consolidated International Electric,- J. B. Smith, but in 1930 was back on the Isthmus, as- Project Engineer; and L. B. Sartain,^\Chief, 60-Cycle Design Branch. signed to Balboa elementary school's si.\th grade. She became a principal in 1935, at Pedro Miguel, and five years later was A force of 50 men, most of them con- actual conversion work. transferred to the then new Diablo elemen- version craftsmen and mechanics, will be Meanwhile, ttie parts necessary for tary school. She has been in charge of the ready to start the Pacific Area power the conversion of domestic Kobbe and Cocoli schools since 1955. and indus- Miss Jones, whose ser\-ice has all been conversion contract on March .3, accord- trial equipment are being collected in on the Atlantic side, was born in Taylor, ing to R. E. Powers, vice president and New York for shipment to the Isthmus. and taught in Texas before she came Tex., general manager of the Consolidated In- The first shipment of such parts was to the Canal Zone in 1927. She has been ternational Electric Company of New- due in New York January at Margarita for the past year but except 15, and is to for that, and for a year's leave in the States York, who was here briefly last month. arrive here before the end of this month during the 1930's, she had taught continu- His company holds the Pacific Area con- Consolidated Electric plans to keep a ously at the Cristobal school. She is an tract and also the contract to convert to two-month's reserve supply of these expert gardener, with a true green thumb. 60-cycle current all frequency-sensitive parts on hand at all times until the 25 YEARS equipment at the Panama Canal Locks. contract is completed. At the present time Consolidated Elec- The schedule for Two of the eight men who finished a the Pacific Area con- quarter of a century of government service tric has a force of seven men in the Canal version was announced in the January here last month worked when they were Zone. They are checking inventories of Review. The conversion will start in lads. They are: Noble A. Phillips, now a equipment to be converted and making Ancon March 3, and will end in Los Rios Planner and Estimator in the Industrial an engineering analysis of the work to be about next Division, and Christian S. Skeie, Towing- September. As soon as Con- Locomotive Operator at the Pacific Locks. done, Mr. Powers said. The additional solidated Electric's forces finish the area Ml. Phillips was born in the Canal Zone 43 men are due here February 26 for the conversion, they will start on the Locks. the son of J. F. Phillips, a Master Machin- ist. All of his Canal service has been with the Industrial Division. came here in 1933. Except for the war years, Mr. Skeie whose father, also named Chris- District; Mrs. Myrtle P. Hughes, Time and he has been with the commissaries ever since. Leave Clerk in tian, was a Shipwright for the Canal, began the Marine Bureau; Walter Oliver, his Canal career with summer jobs in the 20 YEARS who retired last month but who has teen reemployed as Mechanical Division. He has been with the The two-decade mark in government serv- Super\-isor of Spanish for the Canal Zone Locks since 1955. ice was passed in January by six Company- schools; and Gloria Shelton, Translator-File The other 25-year employees all began Go\-ernment employees: Clerk in the Ad- ministrative Branch. their Canal careers as adults. Clarence L. Dimmick, a native of Dan- Other 15-year employees are: George T. Darnall, Jr., from Brandon, ville, Pa., Xa\-y veteran of World War II, Kenneth T. Daly, Miss., and the only one of the group to have now a Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Fire Lieutenant, sta- tioned at Cristobal ; unbroken Canal service, came here as a Mechanic for the Maintenance Division; Mrs. Melba M. Heintz, Accounting Clerk, Junior Civil Engineer with the Dredging Roy L. Heam, from Whynot, Mass., Industrial Division! WilUam D. McArthur, a Division. He is now with the Specifications whose first Canal job was as a motion pic- native Zonian, Liquid Fuels Ganger, and Estimating Branch of the Engineering ture operator and is now a Panama Canal Terminals Di\-ision; Mrs. Marguerite Division. pilot; Runck, Clerk-t\ pist in the Communications Branch; Wilmer L. Downing, who counts Bacton, Douglas Jordan, from Butler, Pa., who Everett White, the second native Zonian on the Pa., as his home, has worked for a number took an apprenticeship, and is now a Boiler- 15-year list. Guard, Locks Securitv Force; of Panama Canal units. He is now a Time, maker and Brick and Stone Mason for the and {"aul H. Zimmerman, born in Las Leave, and Payroll Clerk. Incidentally, he Industrial Division. Tablas, R.de P., Marine Machinist in the has a birthday only every four years; he was Ernest P. Muzzio, a native Xew Yorker Industrial Di\ ision.' a February 29 baby and World War I veteran, a Plumbing In- Richard W. Fuller, the remaining 25-year spector for the Contract and Inspection Di- vision; his is man, comes from Greenville, Mich. He is service unbroken; now a General Claims Examiner in the Henry C. Simpson, from Paxton, Fla., FEBRUARY SAILINGS General Audit Division. He started with now a .Senior Chief Towboat Engineer in the the Canal as a clerk in 1926. Ferry service; and FRO.VI CRISTOBAL Capt. 'William C. Hearon, w ho was born Ernest W. Zelnick, who comes from Chi- Cristobal ^ February 1 cago, III., and is Chief of in Brooklyn, is a World I Marine the Water and War Corps Ancon veteran. He staited his Canal career with Laboratories Branch of the Maintenance February 8 the Dredging Division and has been a Canal Division. Cristobal February 19 pilot since 1944. 15 YEARS Ancon Febr uarv 26 Carl W. Hoffmeyer, now a window clerk Five of the 11 employees who completed FRO.M NEW YORK at the Balboa post office, comes from Mor- 15 years last month ha\e unbroken Panama Cristobal February 11 gantown, W. \'a. He came to the Canal Canal seivice. They are: Ancon _ February- 18 Zone in 1938 with several years of U. S. Leslie O. Anderson, Supervisory Con- Cristobal postal experience behind him. struction Inspector, Contract and Inspec- February 28 Southbound Warren D. Marquard, Cristobal Commis- tion Division; John H. Harris, Motorcyle ships which leave Xew York Friday are in Haiti the following Tuesday. Those which sail sary Manager, was born in ^'ork. New He Officer and Policeman in the Balboa Police from Xew York Tuesday spend Saturday in Haiti. Xorthbound, the ships stop in Haiti two days after clearing Cristobal: Monday for those which sail from Cristobal Saturday, and Friday lor those which clear February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15 Cristobal Wednesday. Leaving Soon PAGES FROM THE «-^GANAI^9i HIST THIS MONTH JLJJl -^
50 Years Ago ordered a compulsory live percent cut in government expenditures. As the month of February 1908 began. Panama Canal traffic was holding its Col. George \V. Goethals went on record own. The month's 368 tran.^its were slightly to express the feeling of the Isthmian less than the month before but ship tonnage Canal Commission regarding the Na%y- icas up over a third of the figure for the requested 10-foot increase in the width preceding February. Canal pilots com- of the Panama Canal's locks. In a memo- plained that they were being worked more randum to the Secretar>- of War he than the 15 days a month their agreement pointed out that this would not only in- called for. crease the cost, but that it would up the Isthmians were delighted at news from time of filling and emptying the chambers Washington that President Hoover ex- and would thereby reduce the ship-hand- pected to visit Panama as soon as his ling capacity of the Canal, as well as successor was inaugurated the plans did affecting the "sufficiency of the water not materialize— and horrified at word supply." However, he said, the Isthmian that President-elect Franklin D. Roose- Canal Commission had felt that it should velt had been the target of an assassin's Lt. Col. David C. Burke, Assistant to be guided by the Navy's wishes for 1 10- bullet in Miami. The shots missed the the Health Director since March 1955, foot wide locks and had adopted a reso- President-elect but struck Mayor Anton has been reassigned to the Walter Reed lution to that effect. Cermak, of Chicago, standing near by. Army Medical Center and will leave the By order of President Theodore Roosevelt, Isthmus next week for his new post. dated February 8, 1908, employment by the 10 Years Ago He will be succeeded here by Lt. Col. Isthmian Canal Commission of skilled labor- The construction of a sea-level canal Harvey E. Meagher (pronounced Marr) ers, clerks, and "all others heretofore kyiown at Panama as soon as po.ssible was rec- who comes from the Army Medical Ser\-- as 'gold' employees," was restricted to Ameri- ommended to the House Foreign Rela- ice School at Fort Sam Houston. can citizens except when American labor or tions Committee by Rep. (now Sen.) service of the character required was not Mike Mansfield of ^iontana on his return available. to Washington from an Isthmian visit. MAIL BOX Had Washington's Birthday not been The Congressman declared that a lock a holiday in the Canal Zone the Canal canal was "particularly vulnerable." excavation in Fenruary 1908, would have Congress, however, was still reacting to (Editor's Note: The following letter exceeded the 3,000,000 cubic yard mark. the recent rejection by the Panamanian throws considerable light on a period in As it was, February excavation set a new National Assembly of an agreement per- the Canal's history, 25 years ago, from one of States to occupy who was in a position to know. The writer, record: 2,945,880 cubic yards rock and mitting the United defense Maj. Gen. J. L. Schley, is a former Gov- dirt removed from the Canal prism. sites outside the Canal Zone. The House also later Chief of Engineers. ernor and was In answer to a proposition from a small Appropriation Committee's $4 million He is the senior member of the Panama syndicate local merchants, the Isthmian slash in the Panama Canal's 1949 budget Canal Company's Board of Directors, and of that it was "in- the House and sent to the this year completes 30 years as a director Canal Commission decided icas passed by of the Company and its predecessor organ- advisable and impracticable to entrust the Senate for final action. The major cut was ization.) furnishing of cotnmissary supplies for the in funds for hou.'iing. private individ- 10 ago, was a live issue Pan.\m.\ Canal Review, use of its employees to any Housing, years Balboa Heights, C. Z. uals, or any combination of private indi- here. The Civic Councils, the Balboa Sirs: viduals." Woman's Club, and the AFGK submitted "Pages From I note in your column A report on health conditions for the a report on the results of a housing sur- Canal's History" in recent issues, under calendar year 1907 showed that during vey of 1,577 Canal Zone families. The "25 Years .\go," an item about the arrival cases of ma- that "housing facilities are of the new Engineer of Maintenance and the 12-month period, 16,753 report said the new (iovernor. laria had been admitted to the Canal deficient, the majority of family-quarters The full stop,' of what happened at that Zone's hospitals. Percentagewise, this are obsoli-te, poorly constructed, termite time, which will never happen again, may was half of the malaria incidence of the ridden, unsightly frame structures which be interesting to your readers. It resulted year. Conditions continued to constitute a fire hazard." An overwhelm- in my being appointed Governor by two previous Presidents and, in the process, the Canal improve in the new year; February 1908, ing majority (87.3 percent) of Zonians, found itself without a governor for a few made the most "favorable showing" of the report added, are in fa\'or of masonry weeks. any since the American occupation." housing. I was appointed Governor by President President Roosevelt Washington, President Harry Tru- Hoover in .Xugust In Washington, In of 1932. during a signed an Executive Order providing for man told Congress that he had instructed recess of Congress. trial by jury in all critninal prosecutions the Secretary of the Army to investigate the In NovemV)er, Mr. where the maximum penalty was death or status of civil rights in the Canal Zone. Rrosevelt and a to was fore- Democratic Con life imprisonment. Another Washington ac- The shape of things come gress were elected. Imn affecting Zonians was introduction of cast when Gov. .lo.seph Mehaffey left for
The new Congress l-ills into both House and Senate to com- Wa.shington to attend hearings on the bill was convened in pensate Canal employees injured in the providing for reincorporation of the Pan- the following Jan- Railroad Company. This was to be uaiy, but the new line of duty. ama President did not 25 Years Ago the first step in the formation of the pres- take office until ent Panama Canal Company. March. The new ('anal employees had their ups and A'cif pay schedules for the Canal's Democratic Con- downs 25 years ago this month. They employees were announced effective gress declined to "silver" hafl just gotten a boost from news that confirm any of Mr. with the pay period beginning February 29. than a month's that came lioloie il they were not to lose more Hoover's appointments Year Ago for action. When the session of Congress leave-pay a year during F. Y. 1 933 and One recessed in March of 19.33, all unconfirmed 19.34 when word came that a Congres- Maj. Gen. .1. L. Schley, ret., former appointments terminated according to law. sional examining committee recommended Governor of the Canal Zone, and Ralph This left the Canal organization without a of the Panama Railroad A. Tudor, San Francisco engineer, were head. discontinuance Transport named as members of the ad hoc commit- I continued, nevertheless, to function as Steamship Line and the Army Governor and, fortunately, no cne ciues- Service and the closing down of all com- tee headed by the Governor to study tioned my actions. In Anril, I was again missaries, post exchanges, canteens, and problems of the Canal's capacity. Both appointed Governor, this time by President also saw the are Directors of the Panama Canal Com- Roosevelt, and confirmation followed in Navy sales stores They due course. handwriting on the wall when the Senate pany. Yours truly, February 7, 1958 (Signed) Julian L. Schley THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW AND SHIPPING
MORE RECORDS FALL
Panama Canal records, which have been falling with almost monotonous regularit>f, were broken again during the first half of the current fiscal year when more ocean-going transits were made than in any half-year period in the Canal's history, and more tolls were col- lected than for any previous .six months. Cargo shipments, however, failed to set a new record, because of the unusually large amount of ballast traffic which is currently running at about double its normal rate. During the first six months of the present fiscal year, the period from July
1 through December 31, a total of 4,895 ocean-going vessels passed through the Canal. This was 238 more than the FIRST TRANSIT Another new name was added to the list of the Canol's previous record, set during the last six customers last month when the 1 8,739-ton MV Bergensfjord made her months of fiscal year 1957. maiden transit with 375 passengers cbocrd. She will return here March 21. Tolls for the first six months of fiscal year 1958 totaled $22,068,104, over $3,- 000,000 more than the $18,715,261 dur- MONTHLY COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC AND TOLLS ing a similar period during fiscal year Vessels of 300 tons net or over 1957 and over .$2,000,000 more than the (Fiscal years) previous record set during the last six months of the past fiscal year. Tolls Transits Although cargo tonnage for the first Month (In thousands of dollars) half of the current fiscal year totalled 1958 1957 1938 1958 1957 19.^8 25,067,293 tons, an increase of about of the 1,900,000 tons over the first half Jiih- 788 659 457 $3,668 $3,054 $2,030 past fiscal year, the 19.58 figures were 812 653 505 3,599 2,888 2,195 below the all-time record of 26,467,000 771 646 444 3,504 2,861 1 ,936 October 813 699 461 3,680 3,083 1,981 tons set during the last half of fiscal year 779 654 435 3,522 2,876 1,893 1957. December 774 751 439 3,521 3,420 1,845
The decline in cargo tonnage is believed 701 444 3,161 1 ,838 to reflect a general levelling off of ship- 673 436 3,033 1,787 808 506 3,603 2,016 ping. Over a year ago the demand for .April 767 487 3,4.?0 1,961 hea\T that many vessels ships was so May _ 783 465 3,551 1,887 were taken out of mothballs and re- 775 445 3,484 1,801 turned to service. Trade has now levelled Totals for first 6 months of! to the extent that many of these ships 4,737 4,072 2,741 $21,494 $18,182 $11,880 are now carrying cargo in one direction only. A ship, for instance, will carry a 8,579 5,524 $38,444 $23,170 of Japan but will return load coal to CANAL TRANSITS— COMMERCIAL AND U. S. GOVERNMENT empty. Several of the main trade routes Second Quarter, Fiscal Years through the Panama Canal have set new 1958 1957 1938 highs during the past six months. Trade .Atlantic Pacific between the east coast of the United to to Total Total Total iStates and the west coast of South Amer- Pacific .Atlantic ica is at a record level, largely because of iron ore shipments from Peru and Chile. Commercial vessels: Ocean-goin? 1,191 1,175 2,366 2,104 1,.?35 Trade between Europe and the west *Small 90 72 162 225 236 coast of the United States and Canada was at a post war high during the first Total commercial 1,281 1,247 2,528 2,329 1,571 six months of this fiscal year, following **U. S. Go\ernment vessels, ocean- a sharp decrease at the end of fiscal year going 42 34 76 51 1957, and trade between the east coast 64 62 126 117 of the United States and Asia, which reached a peak at the time the Suez Canal 106 96 202 1g8 was closed, is levelling off' but is still Total commercial and U. S. higher than during the pre-Suez period. Govenment 1.387 1.343 2.730 2.497 Low tanker rates were reflected in 'Vessels under 300 net tons or 500 displacement tons. heavy oil through the Pan- shipments **Ves;ieI~ on which tolls are credited. Prior to July 1, 1951, Government-operated ama Canal from Venezuela (Niv page IS) ;.hi|)> tr.iM-IlL-d frcf.
February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 17 . 1
Carnivars Here
Carnival season, one of the gayest times of the year for both tourists and Isthmians, got under way in the Canal Zone last week when the blue- and-white carnival flags were raised in Balboa and in the Tivoli Patio. On hand to help Governor Potter haul the flag to the top of its pole was Miss Rita Burrell who will bf crowned "Queen Rita I" for the Panama Carnival nest week. Also attending the festivities were Miss Irma Gonzalez, Union Club Queen this year. Miss Rosalia Barraza, 19,S7 Carnival Queen, and Miss .\nalida Alfaro, who was the International Coffee Queen last year. First of the flags to sail to the top of its pole was that in front of the Balboa elementary school, .\fter this flag raising, during which those on the platform tried a few steps of thr "tamborito," the party moved on to the Tivoli for a second flag-raising and more dancing, this time in less restricted space.
More Records Fall
(Conlinved frnm page 17} to Califor- nia during the first half of this fiscal year. .\t the present time, oil men are Dancing in the new Tivoli Patio' Followed the raising of the Carnival Flag. finding it cheaper to ship oil by tanker than to use oil pipelines from British Columbia to Los .\ngeles. Another indication of low tanker rates Principal commodities shipped through the Canal \va.s the shipment of oil from Lebanon to (All figures in long tons) the United States west coast via the Panama Canal. ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC Shipments of coal and coke to Japan Second Quarter, Fiscal Years a new high during the past six reached Commodity month period. The ri.se is more than 1958 1957 1938 seasonal but is not explained. Scrap ship- ments to Japan, however, are down al- I'etroleiim and products (excludes asphalt) 1,650,221 1.144,271 287, 5.? 7 Coal and ooke _ 1,091,064 981,576 .?7,I08 most .50 percent from the comparable Iron and steel manufactures 462„f52 625,501 479,66! fiscal year. period in the past Soybeans. .. .?()4.547 2.i6,,S87 992 Increased shipments of bananas Phcisphates ..- 265,242 ,^22,068 71,76.? through the Panama Canal during the Metal, scrap -. 169.627 404,16,? 66,942 Chimicals, unclassified 114.697 64.997 27,914 past six months, 2S.3,0(J0 tons for the Corn -. .. 106.740 .W,988 1,600 first six months of fiscal year 1958 com- 105,2.^3 75,860 pared with 197,000 tons for the like period 100,62,^ 84,908 101,599 94,572 in the past fiscal year, indicate the ba- 9.V459 114,648 86,175 90,189 18,155 nana industry's recovery from the severe 8,?, 272 81,511 40.77,< banana pro- "hlowdowns" which crippled 7.?, 098 70,601 81.751
duction last year. Wheat 71,522 46,058 9, 1 50 966,88.? U. S. foreign aid is believed to be re- Ml others - 1.125.124 1,592,059 sponsible for a sharp rise in com ship- Total 5,902,996 5,966,285 2,286,400 ments through the Panama Canal. Dur- ing the past six months, for instance, 90,000 tons of corn have been shipped PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC from the U. S. east coast to Japan. Last year, Japan got 19,000 tons of corn from Second Quarter, Fiscal Years Argentina. Commodilv 1958 1957 1938 Wheat shipments are lower than dur- past year when a crop failure in ing the Ores, various 2.109,926 1,.562, 168 524,191 France .sent tons of wheat flowing from Lumber 807.490 70r).5,?2 671.973 the North Americ/n west coast to Eu- Wheat 594.678 791,600 217.658 food prodin l- M().\M) ,?.?9.1.?<) ,?03.166 rope, but are about normal for this time Canned Nitrate of soda 284,412 286,947 306,8'>0 of year. 28.?, 772 197,992 4,911 179,.591 I, umber shipments, which have been Metals, various. . . 255,729 260,62 .?46,S45 .?02,617 declining steadily since the U. .S. build- Sugar - 225,774 Food products in refrigeration (except fresh ing boom came to a halt about the fruit ... l.?7,114 19.?, 671 64,079 I95.S, are taking a slight turn middle of Barley 125,179 122,042 57,310 upward. They are expected to increase Fresh and dried frnit> 95.818 89.184 220.750 considerably when new home building Coffee. 76.<)4.? 67,868 33.884 7 .997 32.369 raw 7 1 ,655 1 starts about 1960. Cotto'i, Petroleum and products (ex(ln
is attributed to reaction to heavy buying after last year's steel and shipping strikes. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW February 7, 1958 —
SENIOR CITIZENS Anniversary Celebration
Two oldtiraers who have been working The seventy-fifth anniversary of the for the Canal since construction days met United States Civil Service Act was com- for the first time when they had their pic- memorated in the Canal Zone last month ture taken for The Review last month. by a dinner at the Tivoli Cuest House They are Arthur Morgan, Dipper and by displays of Civil Service literature Dredge Operator in the Dredging Divi- on bulletin boards throughout the Zone. sion, and Adrien M. Bouche. Control The dinner, on January 10, was at- House Operator at Pedro Miguel Locks. tended by more than 200 persons. It Although both started working regu- was sponsored by Lodge 14 of the Amer- larly for the Canal in 1912 -Mr. Bouche ican Federation of Government Employ- had some prior service as a youngster ees whose president, Rufus Lovelady, their paths never crossed until they were made the main address of the evening. brought together as the two senior em- Offieials attending the function included ployees in point of service. ("apt. W. S. Rodimon, Marine Director, Mr. Morgan became the Canal's .senior representing the Governor; E. A. Doolan, American employee in July 195ti, on the Personnel Director; and Paul M. Run- retirement of Ceorge N. Engelke of the nestrand, Executive Secretary. Commissary Division. When Mr. Morgan Civil Service in the Canal Zone is al- retired last month, after more than 45 most as old as the Canal Zone itself. On years of continuous service, he was suc- November 1.5, 1904, all workers in the ceeded as senior ser\'ice man by Mr. Canal Zone except laborers were made Bouche who will have 42 years of Canal subject to United States Civil Service service in May. rules and regulations by a Presidential All of Mr. Morgan's service was with Executive Order. The first local Board the Dredging Division. Mr. Bouche has of Civil Service Examiners was estab- been with the Locks Division for over Two Canal veterans, Ailhur Mor- lished here .50 years ago last month. 20 vears. gan, left, and Adrian Bouche. High Level Bridge
{Continued frnrn page 2) of Sverdrup & Par- TRAFFIC MOVEMENT OVER MAIN TRADE ROUTES cel came to the Canal Zone from the The following table shows the number of transits of large, commercial vessels (300 home office of the firm in St. Louis, Mo. net tons or over) segregated into eight main trade routes: They were E. J. Shields, Project Engineer for the bridge design, and Horace L. Second Quarter, Fiscal Years Magee, Highway Design Engineer. Also discussed were the all-important design 1958 1957 1938 criteria for the bridge, including design United States Intercoastal 134 138 311 loads for traflic, wind, earthquake and East Coast of U. S. and South .\nierica.. 632 521 124 so forth. East Coast of U. S. and Central .America 147 80 3 The high-level bridge will cross the East Coast of U. S. and Far East 389 369 139 Canal on a line diagonally across the I'. S./Canada East Coast and .Australasia 47 47 42 Europe and West Coast of U. S./Canada. 216 217 252 existing Thatcher Ferry route. It will Europe and South America 234 213 142 connect with Thatcher Highway on the Europe and Australasia 88 119 38 west side by a suitable approach. .All other routes 479 400 284 The east-side approach will be along Total traffic 2,366 2,104 1,335 a gently curving line crossing the aban- doned townsite of La Boca north of the Canal Commercial Traffic by Nationality of Vessels elementary school building. From that point it will follow just outside the Second Quarter, Fiscal Years northern boundary of the 15th Naval 1958 1957 1938 District reservation. Xationality The approach will cross Amador Road Num- Num- Num- Tons Tons Tons at a point near the Boy Scout hut and ber of ber of ber of of cargo of cargo of cargo will be built out over the mud flats to transits transits transits Avenida de Puertos, which now ends
.Argentine 1 9,055 within a few hundred feet of the boundary 317 1,938,385 322 2,149,158 297 1,447,720 line. This section of the approach struc- 23 147,270 22 127,390 1 6,127 ture will probably be double-pronged for Chinese. . 13 99,597 17 123,989 Colombian 60 94,146 46 56,123 the convenience and safety of traffic. Costa Rican-_ 2 18,000 12 69,969 The connection from the bridge to the 92 297,397 79 324,929 56 220,973 Canal Zone will be by an overpass or Ecuadorean . 9 10,872 15 19,931 underpass whose specific location is still 7 27,451 8 44,233 being studied. 23 125,839 19 123,327 28 163,965 218 688,296 173 565,461 83 384,808 The Preliminary Design Memoran- 29 271,409 28 269,496 19 82,437 dum, now being assembled by the Archi- Honduran 77 73,427 115 94,858 1 869 tect-Engineer, will be completed in April 3 13 ^35 after which work will be started final Irish 1 9,300 on 49 277,475 36 213,459 13 46,192 plans and sp3cifications. Japanese 187 1,155.384 129 889,064 72 418,523 Liberian 241 2,132,839 172 1,493,491 Directors Meet Here For Sixth Time Mexican . 1 (Cmtinued from page, left the IsthmUS Netherlands 54 105,994 39 162,354 74 205,439 3) Nicaraguan 22 32,641 10 17,115 by ship or plane soon after the outdoor Norwegian 222 1,030,366 236 1,446,972 151 795,486 luncheon at the historic Spanish fort. Panamanian 139 783,044 101 539,006 39 94,155 In addition to Governor Potter, officers Peruvian 19 73,217 10 47,092 1 1,148 the Philippine 6 25,590 6 29,854 and Board members attending the Soviet 2 4 990 January meeting were Assistant Secretary Spanish. _ . 7 25,372 12 46,015 of the Army George H. Roderick, Board 43 182,988 42 196.626 27 180,032 Chairman; Robert P. Burroughs. Ralph Switzerland 1 10,338 1 10,168 H. Cake, Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, United States 503 2,653,209 452 3,159,623 464 2,583,090 Venezuelan 2 7.416 Howard C. Petersen, Charles S. Reed, Yugoslavian . 4 21,052 Ogden R. Reid, Maj. Gen. Julian L Schley, and Ralph A. Tudor, Directors; Total 2.366 12,357,017 2,104 12.229,003 1,335 6,670,241 Col. Hugh M. Arnold, Vice President; Philip L. Steers, Jr., Comptroller; and February 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW W. M. Whitman, Secretary. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA t^ SHIPS *HD SHIPPING ^fe^ MEN 3 1262 08544 4668 TR.\NSITS BY OCEAN-GOING VESSELS IN DECEMBER —and— 1956 1957 MACHINERY Commercial 751 774 Government 10 28 Total 761 802 TOLLS* Commercial $3,424,592 $3,522,830 Govermnent 46,718 74,274 Total $3,471,310 $3,597,104
•Includes tolU on all vessels, ocean-going and small. CARGO (Long tons) Commercial 4,610,162 4,058,225 Government 31,384 71,806 Total 4,641.546 4,130.031
Distinguished Guests Governor and Mrs. William E Potter will be among the passengers aboard the Swedish American cruise liner Gripsholm Februarv' 23 when the new ship makes her first trip through the Panama Canal. Flagship of the Swedish American Line and pride of the fleet, the big 23,500-ton liner is due in Cristobal from New York on Washington's Birthday and will start her trip through the Canal at 6 a. m. the following day. After docking in Bal- boa for several hours, the Gripsholm will sail early Februarj' 24 for the west coast of South America on a cruise which will take her around the tip of the southern continent. The vast dimensions o( the locks are never so evident as when fhey are emplied The Gripsholm made her first \isit to for overhaul. Work in MiraHores east chamber will be finished this month. the Canal Zone in December while she was on a Christmas cruise in the Carib- ica aboard the Grace liner Santa Barbara. bean. Completed last year, she was on New Customer Accompanied by Al \\'enzel, Vice Presi- the North Atlantic run last summer and The Japanese Daido Line, which now. dent in charge of the West Coast South is now in her first winter-cruise season. has nearly a dozen freighters using the America service, and Mike Diaz. General Panama Canal on its Japan to New York Party Freight Sales Manager for Grace Line, Family and Japan-to-East Coast South America Mr Lapham will spend three days here A trip around the world on their 40-foot services, will soon add another to the is affair for discussing with local Grace Line agents yawl Chimere a family Mr. super clipper fleet. The new ship is the the new services planned for the New and Mrs. Jean Blocho and their son, Kobu Marit, which will begin service in Cristobal late York to West Coast South America run. Jean, 1 1 . They arrived in February. It will join the Knchu Mani, At the same time it was announced last month from Sete. France, via Gua- Kosok Maru, and A'o.sy; Maru in the locally that the new cargo .ships planned deloupe and other West Indian islands, company's Japan-California, and Japan- for use on the company's west coast of and spent several weeks on the Atlantic New York service. The Kosoh Maru South America service will be lift-on side while their 14-ton craft underwent passed through the Canal recently on her container vessels. On the new ships, all extensive overhaul. maiden voyage on the satue run. The to transit the cargo area, except for refrigerated space, The Bloches planned Continental Shipping Company is agent will be used by either 17 'j or 35-foot Canal on the yawl early this month and for the vessels on the Isthmus. 2()-knot ships will sail shortly afterward for Tahiti via the containers. The new to feet long, plans Galapagos Islands. Mrs. Bloche is a Winter Layup be from 500 600 and for six to be talented artist. The Panama Canal's perigrinating will be submitted next year .'\nierican route. dredge which is out built for the South Maiden Voyoge Paraixo, the dipper on loan to the Army Corps of Engineers, Royal Family The new Royal Mail Line cargo-pass- has come to rest for the winter in Cle\-e- enger ship Lnrh Loyal arrived in Cristobal land, Ohio. A new white Empress, so new that she from been yet, has been ordered this week on her maiden voyage During the time she is laid up she will hasn't named British and European ports to the west be overhauled preparatory to work on by the Canadian Pacific Line for the .service. Fully air- coast of the United States and Canada. the St. Lawrence Seaway next July. The Liverpool to Montreal A new addition to the joint Royal Mail Paraixo, according to a news story from conditioned throughout, the new 27..500- be designed to carry 200 and Holland-America Lines cargo-passen- Cleveland, will be the biggest dredge of ton vessel will the Pacific, the Loch first cla.ss and S5() tourist pa.ssengers on ger service to North its kind ever operated by the Army Corps approximately Loyal is fitt<»d with the most up-to-date of Engineers at Buffalo. Too large to get her regular run and 500 goes winter cruises. cargo-handling etiuipment and has space through the existing St. Lawrence Can- tourists when she on of cargo, including ship is expected to .sail on her maid- for 575,750 cubic feet als, she entered the Great Lakes via the The 148,(XJ0 cubic feet of refrigerated space. Mississippi River. en voyage in the spring of 1961. lu.xurious accommodations for The new Empress will be an addition It also has When the new seaway is opened to includes the new and 12 passengers and a permanent open-air partial 14-foot navigation next summer, to the fleet which Empre^'is Enijland which ar- tiled swimming pool situated on the for- the Paraixo will work near Cornwall. luxurious of on her ward end of the bridge-deck. Ontario. rived at Cristobal January 23 The ship was launched in July at the maiden cruise to the Canal. Tho Em pre,^s Ilarland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast Grace Line President of England will make three more calls here and, prior to starting its maiden voyage Louis A. Laph:mi. President of the this season February II, March 4 and in January, loaded in South Wales. Ant- Grace Line, is schinluJed to arrive on the March 22. Local agents for the line are werp, Rotterdam, and London. She Isthmus P'ebruary 10 from South Amer- \\. Andrews & Company. called at Bermuda and Jamaica before arriving at Cristobal. 80 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Februory 7, 1958