5 cents Vol. 8, No. 2 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1957

'"'fi'fl^P'na^a UnaMuseum Won't You Walk In The Park ?

Visitors feel as if tfiey were really in the jungle when they walk down this shady path at Summit Park.

Summit Garden isn't Summit Garden posts and soon a handsome new sign will various species of heliconia and other any more. It's Summit Park now. announce that here is Summit Park. The jungle plants will border this path. Mid- Always an interesting place to visit, the grass plot in front of the main office build- way along the Tropical Walk will be 325-acre area on a slope of the Conti- ing has been surrounded by a low, spark- a grotto where a small stream will be nental Divide is being transformed into ling-white picket fence, and the one-time trained to bubble over moss-covered a real recreation center. There Zonians carport, which used to shelter several stones. and their visitors can rest and relax and, official vehicles, now houses a small zoo. The old bamboo walk and the mango- while rela.xing, learn painlessly about Already showing off for park visitors steen walk have been cleaned up. new- local flora and fauna. are John, a spider monkey who thinks he's bridges built, and benches placed at con- Transformation of the 34-year-old people; four white-faced monkeys who venient spots. Benches are already in Experiment Garden into a tropical park live in apparent harmony with several place, or soon will be, along the other is in the green-thumbed hands of the tiny marmosets; a three-toed sloth which, paths as well. Housing and Grounds Division. Kven slothwise, does nothing much: an .'igouti; The present 32 picnic tables in tl'.e special recreation survey com- an owl which eats dog biscuit; and 20 before a park will be supplemented by iO more, all parakeets of assorted shades and colors, mittee decided that the Garden had and several new barbecue pits are to be possibilities. and have been fitted out with a breeding sorts of Housing who built. One of these will be at the end forces were busy at work at cage, just in case. And there are, still, Grounds of a new path to the upper lily pond, Summit, taking advantage of those the three brilliantly hued macaws which where the old bohio is also to be rebuilt. same possibilities. have been photographic subjects for many The lily ponds have been cleaned can spot a in the past. Today, visitors to Summit a visitor ready for the next batch of youngsters marked change from the Garden of the Across the road, in a potting shed, glass to fall into and the Summit alligator past and by the time the dry season ar- containers hold a few' snakes and some is on hand to excite picture-takers. rives an even greater difference should be fantastically-colored frogs. The park also On the hillside above the upper lily evident. has on hand, soon to be put on display, a pond, bougainvillea bushes are already The entrance to the park has been beautiful collectinn of local shells. getting a start. Several varieties have brightened up with gay red-and-whitc^ .Some of the most eye-catching of the been planted and in a few years the slope changes at the park are the new serpen- will be a blaze of beauty in the dry season. C. Randall and Dudley Jones study tine walks which branch off the main J. At present, Summit Park is open from future plans for the new park at Summit. road not far from the entrance. The 7 a. m. to .i-.'M} m. on weekdays, and paths are only about a thousand feet p. from S a. m. to .') m. on Sundays. W'hen long, which isn't too far to meander p. its renovation is finished, the i)ark will under a tropical sun nor too far to run have different, longer hours, and guides if a suilden shower comes up. will be provided to escv)rt visitors around. When the planting which will border Credit for the park's renovation goes to the walks is finished, visitors will have the .1. Randall. Chief of the Housing and illusion that they are walking thriiugh a C. Division his trio of advis.)rs, tunnel of tropica! foliage. Each walkway Grounds and Sharp, Walter R. Lindsay, and A. 1. will be so screened by bushes and .shrubs Roy have an apt on-the-spot that the road, only a few feet away in Bauman. They foreman in Dudley George Jones, the some places, cannot be s»en. least desk-bound clerk anyone ever .saw. One path, which winds pa.st the orchid house, some clumps of bamboo and a huge lie has been at Sunmiit for the past 26 mango tree, will be bordered with bright years. He joined the Garden stiff not flowering shrubs and low blo.^soniing long after it was established to introduce

jjlant^s. Croton, brilliantly leafed caladi- plants from all over the world and sdc um, and variegated hibiscus will serve as what could be done with th^m hi'r>'. a background. He and Mr. Randall tramp around the Another curving path, to be named jiark several times every w<'ek and c ime Tropical Walk, will lead visitor:; through up with new ideas every time. ( Jne of the a typical jungle glade. Its entran

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 6, 1957 AN After the lowest incidence in Canal history, malaria again up. Preventive measures increased. It's ALL-OUT flares FIGHT WAR ON MOSQUITOES

Thi' most extensive ni;il;iri;i eotitrol program conduct^'d in the Canal Zone in more than ten years has been initiated to check a sudden rise in the malaria inci- dence rate which began in June and was continuing through last month. The program includes control measures designed to give immediate results as well as basic steps for the elimination of ma- laria-bearing mosquitoes and their breed- ing places. The sanitation forces of the Health Bureau are being increased and additional equipment is being bought. The overall plan was developed after a comprehensive survey by the Health Bu- reau of conditions which induced the in- crease of malaria and the preventive measures necessary. Governor Potter has taken a personal and active interest in the program.

It was initiated early in August after the Governor and Colonel Charles O. Bruce, Health Director, made an inspec- over several tion trip on horseback Gov. Potter and Col. C. O. Bruce, Health Director, took to horseback last month to known mosquito breeding areas on the examine areas on the Atlantic side where malaria mosquitoes might bei breeding. Atlantic side. The aerial spraying of several thousand acres of swampy land was begun early in the month with the ered necessary, and to carry on an effec- and will be even higher when August fig- cooperation of the Army and since then tive larvicide and mosquito control pro- ures are compiled. The rate in the Janu- three complete spray cycles have been gram in river and lake areas where mos- ary through July period of last year was completed by the Axmy planes. In quito breeding in stagnant waters and 0.5, and that for 1955 was 1.3 per thou- sand employees. addition, fogging operations were in- among aquatic plants is a problem. in all towns, while public build- Health authorities have long recognized creased The recent rise in the malaria incidence installations used at night are that there are good and bad years foi ings and rate was a strong reminder that the di- being sprayed. malaria. A recent example of this was in sease is an ever present menace in the 1954 when the Canal Zone rate was highei The control measures were greatly ex- tropics and requires constant watchful- than either the preceding or succeeding panded during the last week in August ness to prevent explosive outbreaks. The year for no explainable reason. when a sanitation team of 20, headed by incidence rate in the Canal Zone had been an experienced sanitation inspector, was exceptionally low for the past ten years employed and began work on the Atlantic and dropped to a record low last year *' side and the sanitation forces on the Pa- with a rate of only 0.6 per thousand Review'* Stands cific side were increased by ten additional among Canal employees. men. These men will be used principally The rate showed an abnormal rise in the larvaciding and other mosquito in June when 47 cases were reported to the control work and preventive measures. Health Bureau; of these, six were employ- One of the most important of the basic ees of the Company-Government. The control measure planned is the restoration number dropped to 29 in July but rose of proper drainage in several low-lying again in August. During the first 25 days areas on the Atlantic side. The Engineer- of August, 37 cases had been reported, ing and Construction Bureau has been 11 of them among employees. This was authorized to do the necessary field work the highest number of employees con- and to complete engineering studies for tracting the disease in the month of Au- the drainage of Telfers Island, the East gust for the past ten years. Diversion, and the Mindi Dairy area. The malaria rate among employees All units of the Canal organization have was very high all during the Canal con- been alerted to give their full cooperation struction period and did not fall below preventing or eliminating standing by the level of 100 per thousand employees water in areas imder their control. The until 1913. It was cut to below 50 in Mindi Dairy management has already 1916 and from then until 1947 annual joined this effort by the withdrawal of its rates ranged from 1 1 to 31 per thousand. cattle from pasturage in swampy areas New insecticides and an intensive mos- during the rainy season. quito control program conducted just Several new pieces of equipment have after the close of World War II, when an been ordered. This includes two fog- outbreak of yellow fever occurred on the ging machines, four aluminum row- Isthmus, helped to cut the rate to five boats and two outboard motors, and per thousand in 1948 and it has con- two power dusters. When these are re- tinued well below that figure since. Mildred Henry, of Balboa Commissary, ceived, it will be possible to conduct The incidence late up through Jcly of likes the new "Review" display stands. nightly fogging in all towns, if consid- this .year was reported as 2.3 per thousand The Supply Division has built 31 of them for retail sales outlets and for the Mira-

September 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW flcres and Gotun Locks entrance gates. Over $5,000,000 Spent

In Republic Last Year

By Canal Organization

Expenditures of $5,244,000 were made during the past fiscal year by the Pana- ma Canal Company-Canal Zone Govern- ment in direct purchases of consumer goods from the Republic of Panama, for ser\-iccs performed by Panama firms and individuals, and for construction and other contract work in the Canal Zone. This total represents one of the highest marks in the Canal's history, despite a substantial decline in the direct purchases

iif consumer goods during the past six months resulting from the curtailment of Commissary and Service Center sales re- ([uired by provisions of the 1955 Treaty. Direct purchases of consumer goods La Boca, Once Largest C. Z. Town from Panama sources during the past fiscal year amounted in value to S2,2')0,- Will Soon Become Just A Memory 000. .\ total of S2h0,000 was paid out for services, consisting principally of such work as typewriter and machine repairs La Boca, one of the oldest and for many missary, housed in th? town's only ma- and servicing. years one of the most populous towns of sonry building, will be closed at the end The annual report of the Contract and Zone, is to join a long list of of the year as will the Service Center the Canal Inspection Division showed that the value former towns at the end of this year. which was once the largest of any Latin of work completed on 132 construction community is now down to two American town of the Canal Zone. The The and maintenance contracts awarded last rows of frame buildin<;s, a popula- Service Center was greatly expanded lonely year amounted to $1,290,000. In addi- tion "of less than a fifth its former size, a during World War II when a large num- tion, work was completed on 50 other scant half dozen public buildings, and a ber of contract laborers were housed in contracts carried owr from the preceding where 40 years ago cricket La Boca. During that period the town's big playing field year and amounting to $495,000. lasted out an entire Sunday. population swelled to over 6,000, then matches These figures do not include any work meeting with Latin Ameri- the largest community in the Zone. At his town performed by contract on the Power Con- Council representatives late La Boca has had an interesting history can Civic \-ersion project, for which contracts Governor Potter announced and little is recorded of its early days. last month, amounting to several million dollars were quarters there are to be vacated It was near the present townsite where that all awarded or weie in process of completion the beginning of the coming year. the famous symbolic beginning of the by last year. came as a sort of a construction of the Panama Canal took The announcement The contracts and amounts of money to a long sentence. Plans for the place just 77 years before the scheduled period listed by the Contract and Inspection Di- of La Boca as a townsitc abandonment of the town. This oc- abandonment vLsion were: 60 painting contracts, $297- been stretched out now for several curred near the mouth of the Rio have 000; 61 foi general (u)nstruction and main- extensive quarters con- Grande in the afternoon of January 1, years since the tenance, $90S,500; eight for plumbing, Paraiso. 1880 when Count Ferdinand de Lesseps struction program in $79,600; and three electrical contracts, of the La Boca families took a party out on the tug Taboguilla Nearly half $4,000. assigned quarters at Pedro Mi- to inaugurate the Canal project. will be A total of $615,135 was paid out in the 12-family apartment build- La Boca had the distinction of becom- guel in salaries to Panamanian employees for have been occupied by Air ing the first deep water port in the 2,000 ings which work involved in these contracts. personnel since other areas of miles of Pacific sea coast between Salina Force The i)urchases of consumer goods from were vacated. Cruz, Mexico, and Callao, Peru, near the Pedro Mijuel Panama suppliers last year were approxi- quarters for 84 families turn of the century when the Panama There are mately $600,000 under those of the pre- pier there there and it is expected that 30 or more Railroad built a deep watei vious fi.scal year. This was the first time accommodated at Paraiso or which, in part, is still standing. can be in .several years when a noticeable decline the Cruz in quarters to be vacated by The townsite was used during Santa in such Canal purchases has been reported. retire or are separated French Canal construction work and employees who The drop in consumer goods purcha.ses before the end of this later as a town and a railroad yard by the from the service was accounted for principally by major Americans from 1904 until near the end year. decreases in such major items as Panama expected that 50 or more of the construction period. Its existence It is presently beef, sugar, coffee, and beverages required to Panama at the end as a permanent Canal Zone townsite dates families will move by the Commissary Division since the desig- the exact number being de- back to August 191 :5 when it was of the year, curtailment of its sales at the first of this of separations nated by Col. George W. Goethals as a pendent on the number calendar year. personnel occupying site to house West Indian employees and from service by The f.illowing comparative figures on it was given its official name on August Canal quarters. the pun'hases of consumer goods by quar- of the 125 bachelors now living 13 of that year. Most ters in the past two fiscal years directly will required to seek quar- in La Boca be reflect this loss in Commi.s.sary sales since ters outside of the Zone. There are ON THE COVER the first of this year: for presently only \'i quarters available 195(> IS.S7 at Santa Cruz but No wonder young Charlie Myers bachelor employees First quarter ShW.OOO S(>10.000 by employ- looks bemused. Wouldn't you, if you this number will bo increased •Second quarter ()24,fl00 7(.8,000 next January. knew you'd have to read your way eesleaving the service before Third quarter M>8,000 tO.S.OOO remaining through all these books in the next It is planned to demoii.sh th" Fourth quarter 89.S,000 .S07,000 quarters which make up the town 12 years? Charlie, whose dad is with frame It was originally estimated that com- been vacated. Balboa (Customs, entered first grade of La Boca after they have missarv sales would be cut by approxi- use there this week. Before he graduates from Some of the oldest buildings in mately $12,000,000 yearly which would rebuilt in high school he'll have used every were erected in 1910 and were iH'come available to Panama merchants others were built in 1930. volume in these heaps, if he is going 1914. Most ofthe after the Treaty provisions on the curtail- definite plans have been made for to take a colleg" preparatory course. No ment of Commis.sary .sales (See ingc I-',) the permanent use of the area or of the public buildings which will remain aftei REVIEW September 6, 1957 the town is depopulated. La Boca Com- THE PANAMA CANAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY-

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Members of the Cristobal Woman's Club were among this group which met at Empire almost 50 years ago.

Three weeks from tonight the oldest members hope, another 50 years of prog- the Club has a landlease for its new site woman's club in the Canal Zone begins its ress and philanthropy. and almost enough money in its build- second half century. The occasion wOl be One of the more tangible things these ing fund to start construction. fittingly celebrated bv the 180-odd mem- Atlantic side women can look forward To their new home they ^\'i]i move the bers of the Cristobal Woman's Club and to, in the fairly near future, is a new magnificent grand piano which was Mrs. their friends, who believe that the date clubhouse. It will be built on a hilltop Frank Ullrich's gift to the club on its will mark not the end of an era, but the where one of the Margarita Hospital twenty-fifth anniversary; a cocobolo beginning of a new one. wards stood not much more than a wood gavel, dating back to French con- Behind the Club is 50 years packed decade ago. Homeless since the Gilbert struction days and salvaged from the solid with achievements and good works, House (where they met for over 30 of the attic of the old Panama Canal Adminis- many of them unique here. Ahead is, its club's 50 years) succumbed to old age, tration Building in Panama City many years ago; the irreplaceable collection of year books; the records, many of them in A free medical clinic was a Woman's Club project for more than 20 years. fine, spidery handwriting, which trace the club's history; and all of the relics any #?^. r^SSk ^«-< organization accumulates in five decades. Some of the members who will help on that moving day are second generation Woman's Clubbers— like the club's pres- ident, Mrs. William Brooks of Margarita, whose mother, Mrs. George Horine, was president of the Cristobal club from 1948 to 1950 and Mrs. Edward J. Henriquez who holds the same position. Chairman of the Finance Committee, which her mother-in-law, Mrs. J. J. Henriquez, oc- cupied in the club's early days. There are a number cf other second- generation Woman's Club members. Mrs. Surse J. Taylor, Jr., who served as the Club's president from 1940 to 1942, is the daughter of Mrs. George H. Boomer, president from 1932 to 1934 and is an Honorary Member of the Club. ^^ Other related members are: Mrs. Mi- chael F. Greene, daughter of Mrs. Robert J. Neely; Mrs. Humberto Leignadier, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Julia Leignadier; Mrs. Arthur L. Livingston, daughter of Mrs. W. W. Griffin, who was president from 1927 to 1928; Miss Inga Prier, daughter of Mrs. Vern Prier; Mrs. Floyd L. Robinson, daughter, and Mrs. Roger ^^f L. Deakins, daughter-in law of Mrs. F. B. Deakins.

September 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW And, on hand to {Se( page 12) . 1

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION LML // i^

- HONOR ROLL Kver Alert Never Hurt lUiroau Award Pot BE.ST RECORD

Accident Prevention is a way of living SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE and, like all philosophies, has to be learned BUREAU and lived by in order to get any good from HEALTH BUREAU it. Thus we have safety .slogans or advice similar to other philosophical catch AWARDS THIS c:AI.KNDAR YEAR phrases such as: Live for Todati, Be Indus- Health 6 (;ivil Affairs trious, Don't Worry, Take It Easy. Think, 4 Engineering and Construction 3 and Do It Now. To many individuals .Supply and Employee Service i Safety is a new and different outlook on Marine . I life and foreign to their way of living. Tran.sportation and Terminals Human nature being what it is, you do Division Award For not readily adapt to suggest<>d changes NO DI.SABI.ING INJIRIES and such resistance to safety suggestions Jl'l V may be the cause of your sudden death COMMISSARY AND SERVICE CENTER or permanent disability. Therefore, the HOSPITALS problem of accident prevention becomes AND CLINICS primarily one of changing human nature. MAINTENANCE DIVISION This may take a little time, maybe years, HOUSING AND GROUNDS DIVISION and with some it may never occur. DREDGING DIVISION Why do we go to so much trouble to INDUSTRIAL DIVISION try to change an individual's outlook on ELECTRICAL DIVISION life and the way in which he lives it, . . and the scooter rider boost safety. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION especially during his working hours? Why don't we just put continuous pres.sure on STOREHOUSE DIVISION safety before our eyes and in our minds. him from above and force him to change FIRE DIVISION The pictures here show some of the his ways? AIDS TO NAVIGATION many means of reminding employees to It would seem to be advantageous for be ever alert and watch out for their own SANITATION DIVISION government and private industry to do it safety as well as for unsafe conditions. AWARDS THIS this way since we all know accidents cost CALENDAR YEAR This unique type safety reminder is seen Aids to Navigation time and money. However, successful 7 by everyone in the Dredging Division Electrical 7 accident prevention can't be obtained by Fire .shops area these days. Their originality 7 police methods, it must be sold; its lasting Housing and Grounds 7 is a credit to the workers and supervisors Sanitation advantages to the worker made self evi- 7 alike and shows that they are thinking Dredging "['_ dent and not forced. The Panama Canal (, about you and your welfare. Hospitals and Clinics __ 6 Company tries to influence you into safe Maintenance , ( ways becau.se it is interested in you and Motor Transportation 6 Storehouse your welfare. It wants you to keep fit Retirement A man coxtld retire nicely Industrial for your sake and your family's sake, too! in his old age if he could dispose of his Railroad experience what it cost him. Someone once very impressively de- for Police '"'ly.y. 1 fined safety as follows: Commissary and Service Center Eoclvs. If you take a chance, your family may . "Safety is not a si:^nal light, a jail sen- .Navigation have to take the consequences. tence, a divided highway, or an enforce- Terminals , _ ment index. Safety, in my judgment, FREQUENCY RATE Disabling injuries per 1,000.000 emijloyee- is primarily a state of mind, under which 3 hours worked. all people, realizing the imminence and JULY 1957 the conse()uence of accidents, are willing to accept those n^straints necessary to BUREAU prevent them." To aid in this constant endeavor here in the Zone, various per- Supply and Employee Service Bureau suiusive methods are employed to keep

lleallh Bureau The Dredging Division sandwich man . .

Engineering and Conslruclion Bureau

C. Z. Govt. -Panama Canal Co. (This Month

Marine Bureau

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries Man Hours Worked 2.240.010

this I Frequency Rate month

LEGEND Im::-!!.!! i-'l Accumulative Frequency Rale this Calendar Year

I 1 1954-19551956 Calendar Year Average

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 6, 1957 OF CURRENT AND FUTURE INTEREST

spend approximately a year at Gorgas Hos- pital as the hospital's first Administrative resident.

A native of Chicago, Mr. Bertone is a graduate of the University of Alabama and spent several years in the Army and Air Force as a Medical Service Corps officer. For the past two years, he has been contin- uing his studies in the administrative field at Northwestern. The on-the-job training he will receive at Gorgas this year, is one of the final requirements for his Master's de- gree in Hospital Administration. The training program for hospital admin- istration residents was started this year at Gorgas. Canal Zone Health authorities have announced that this will be a contin- uing program and that another resident will be ai(C[)ted next year.

SEPTEMBER VOLUNTEER CORPS MEETINGS Date Town Place Hour

4 Margarita and Service Center 9 a. m. New Cristobal Margarita 5 Balboa USO-JWB 9 a. m.

11 Rainbow City School 6:30 p. m. 12 Gamboa Civic Center 8:30 a. m. Both walerways and highways carry heavy traffic, although of different kinds, 12 Santa Cruz Service Center 8 p.m. delegates fo the recent Road Congress discovered during visii a to the Locks. 16 Paraiso School 7:30 p. m. 17 Gatun Service Center 9 a. m. 18 Diablo Two women physicians are joining the have been changed to approximately one Service Center 9:30 a.m. staff of Gorgas Hospital this month. Not hour before train departure time. Those the first women doctors ever to be on the who are interested in knowing the deadlines The Federal Civil Defense Administra- hospital staff, they are both firsts however, fixed at the various post offices may call the tion has approved the Canal Zone applica- in their particular fields. postmaster or supervisor. tion for the Main Control Center to be Dr. Mary V. Graham, who was due this constructed in the basement of the Admin- week from Tulsa, Okla. is not only the first Two new members have been added to istration Building, and the application woman pediatrician to join the Gorgas staff the military cadre on duty with the Junior signed by Lt. Gov. H. M. Arnold has been but she is also the first woman staff member ROTC in the Canal Zone high schools. returned to Regional Headiiiiarters in Thom- to be a diplomate of the American Board of They are Master Sergeant Gale S. Moore asville, Ga. Pediatrics. She is a native of Tulsa and was and Mpster Sergeant Fred S. I^awrence. in private practice in the United States Sgt. Moore has been detailed to Balboa before coming to the Isthmus. High School. He has had previous ROTC The Canal Zone's application for a Sur- The second woman doctor due this month experience as an instructor at the University vival Plan Study has been forwarded to of Washington for further is Dr. E. Allene Bledsoe, who will be the first Washington and before his present assign- study and a reply physician to take a fourth year residency in ment was with the 20th Infantry Regiment is expected this month. pathology at Gorgas Hospital. She is a at Fort Kobbe. He replaces Sgt. Jack E. native of Pasadena. Calif. Wallace. Sgt. Lawrence replaces Sgt. Robert Gard- Local Canal Zone mail service was revised ner at Cristobal High School. He was pre- Promoted slightly when the new train schedules be- viously assigned to the 20th Infantry Regi- came effective last month. In an effort to ment and to the 77th Special Troops at give maximum service to both sides of the Fort Campbell, Kv. Isthmus, the Canal Zone Postal service announced, northbound mail would be Establishment and administration of acci- carried on trains leaving Panama at 7:10 dent prevention programs aboard the SS a. m., 12:10 p. m. and 3:10 p. m. This "Ancon" and the SS "Cristobal," as well would bring all Pacific side mail to Cristobal as safety programs for piers and New York in time for delivery by 5 o'clock. Office Operations, is now in the hands of Southbound mail is being carried on the Charles G. Cordell, a comparatively new trains leaving Colon at 9:45 a. m., 12 noon employee of the Canal organization. He is and 5:10 p. m. The later hour for mail on the New York Operations staff, with his pickup on the Atlantic side was established office on the Panama Line pier. in order to give Atlantic siders a maximum A former Marine Corps captain, Mr. period for posting airmail. Cordell has also had service in Navy ship- Mail pickups at all terminal post offices yards in New York and the Philippines. During his three-year tour of duty overseas, from 1954 to March of this year, Mr. Cordell was Manager of Personnel and Labor Re- lations and later Administrative Officer at the time a $150,000,000 expansion program was being carried out at Subic Bay.

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Another new appointment in the New York Operations is that of Paul Published Montbl; At Balboa Heights, C. Z. Robbins as Claims Examiner. Mr. Robbins, a native Printed by the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone New Yorker, is an attorney, with a Master VV. E. PoTFiiR, Governor-President of Laws degree in taxation. Before the last war, Mr. Robbins Hugh M. .Arnold, Lieutenant Goveriior was with the U. S. Railroad Retirement Board G. Arey, Public Information Officer W. Jr., as a claims examiner in unemployment and sick benefit claims in Washington andCleve- J. RuFUS Hardy, Editor land. He served in the Army during World Eleanor McIlhknny. Assistant Editor War II and was overseas for about three Eunice Richard, Editorial .Assistant years. Since his separation from the service he has been with the Veterans' Administra- On tale at all Panama Canal Service Centers, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days after publica- tion as an adjudicator in determination of tion date at 5 cents each. Subscriptions. $1 a year; compensation and pension benefits. mall and bactc copies, 10 cents each. E. Bertone, a hospital Postal money orders made payable to the Pan- John administra- ama Canal Company should be mailed to Editor, tion student in Northwestern LIniversity in F. B. O'Brien, who hcs been wilh fhe The Panama Canal Revjew. Balboa Heights, C. Z. Chicago, is due to arrive here next week to Canal organization since 1938, is the new Superintendent of the Terminals Sepfembar 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW, Division. hHe succeeds A. E. Beck. Digitized by tine Internet Archive

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from Panama City is expected to be ac- implemented. This is the withdrawal by complished by the end of next May. the United States from the handling of commercial cargo for transshipment. The exact dates of transfer of the five This provision is contingent on the estab- areas in Colon will depend upon final lishment of satisfactory port facilities in arrangements and agreements for co- Colon. ordinated use of such facilities as water The funds appropriated for the bridge and sewer lines, street lighting, fire will be used for preliminary architectural ;ilarm systems, and electric power now and engineering design work. It is plan- serving the areas. Also, the erection of ned to have this work done by contract. a wire fence will be required in the It is expected that contracts for foun- Fort De Lesseps area before that prop- dation work on the bridge can be made erty is transferred. in about 15 months. Contracts for the It is estimated that all of the work in superstructure can be awarded within connection with such municipal services about two years, under a schedule which can be accomplished within a few days of has been prepared by the Engineering actual working time after agreements and Construction Bureau. have been made by the various Company The probable site of the high level and Panama Government units directly bridge is in the area of Thatcher Ferry, concerned. although the entire area between Mira- Except for the single wage scale and flores and La Boca will be investigated. extension of Civil Service retirement to A clearance of over 200 feet will be Panamanian employees of the Company- required above the Canal channel while Government, only one other major pro- the span crossing the channel would have vision of the 1955 Treaty remains to be a 1,000-foot clearance for ship traffic.

Full implementation of provisions of the State Department as soon as necessary 1955 Treaty and Memorandum of Under- legal formalities are completed. These standings between the United States and are Paitilla Point; the J. N. Vialette and The Panama Cily railroad yards and buildings will be transferred to Panama the Republic of Panama which concern Huerta de San Doval tracts in Panama soon as freight and passenger facilities are established within the Zone. TREATY Company-Government operations moved City; the Aspinwall tract and two mili- as toward completion in the closing days of tary reservations on Taboga Island; and August with enactment of the property the lot in Colon formerly reserved for transfer legislation and the appropriation consulate purposes. Of these, the Aspin- by Congress of $750,000 for engineering wall, San Doval, and Vialette tracts are and design work on the high level bridge properties of the Canal Zone Govern- PROVISIONS across the Canal. ment. The only remaining legislative action One of the most valuable properties required is that providing for adjust- of the Canal Company to be transferred ment of conditions of employment in at an early date under the schedule agencies in the Canal Zone. The Sen- agreed upon is the Panama Railroad ate has already approved legislation in Yard in Panama City which has served this field. the Pacific side of the Isthmus since the Five tracts of land in Colon covering a railroad was completed 102 years ago. total area of about 48>^ acres, together This transfer will be made as soon as Changes To other improvements, new fieight and passenger facilities have Come with buildings and are scheduled for early transfer to the been established in Ancon near the Republic of Panama. boundary line. It is planned to convert Some of this property has been occu- the former Tivoli Commissary into a pied and used by the Panama Canal freight depot and construct a small pas- Company or its predecessor, the Panama senger station in the area adjacent to the Railroad Company, for more than 100 former Pacific Service Center. years. Two of the areas, the Hotel Wash- The remaining properties, all of which ington and Colon Hospital sites, are are in Colon and are owned by the Com- among the most valuable of the land to pany-Government, will be transferred be transferred. All properties involved after replacement facilities are provided. have a total value of approximately These areas include the principal residen- $25,000,000. tial area in New Cristobal; the Cristobal A schedule for the transfer of all prop- High School and Colon Beach residences; erties in accordance with terms of the the residential area of Fort De Lesseps; Treaty and Memorandum of Understand- and the Colon railroad station. ings has been arranged by the Company- The withdi-awal from the Colon rail- Government, the Ministry of Foreign Re- road station and site will take place after lations, and the U. S. Embassy. The all other areas in Colon have been va- Treaty terms allow time for the Com- cated. pany-Government to construct or estab- While no exact dates have been estab- lish such replacement facilities within the lished under the transfer schedule it is Canal Zone as railroad terminal facilities, expected that legal formalities and pro- quarters, and a high school. visions for municipal services in the five In addition to the five Colon areas to Colon areas can be arranged so that for- be transferred in the immediate future, mal transfer of these areas can be made several properties on the Pacific side and before the end of October. The transfer one in Colon will be transferred by the of the Panama Railroad terminal facilities

8 September 6, 1957 September 6, 1957 Almost Three-Quarters PAGES FROM THE Of Force Now Enrolled

In Group Health Plan THIS MONTH

Approximately 70 percent of the total eligible Panama Canal force are now ac- 50 Years Ago passengers had crossed the Canal on the tive members of the group hospitalization new ferry service. first issue cf C.\n.\l Record, insurance plan, according to a report just The The Canal traffic, which had been going down issued by the Group Health Insurance which was to furnish accurate if some- steadily, took an upswing in September, Board. times dull information on the Panama 1932. The transits- -3-53 commercial ships The plan has now been in operation for Canal and its activities for over 30 years, and the tells were the highest since May, its .50 this month. six months and results thus far have been made debut years ago 1932 but still the lowest September traffic highly gratifying both from the standpoint Its primary purpose, it announced "is the for 10 years. of employee participation and the general publication of uccuratj information, based The Canal Zone's "white schools" operations. This was the concensus of the upon official records, concerning all opened September 22 with an enrollment construction Board at a recent meeting to review results branches of work of Canal of 2,SS;). This was the first time the of the plan and to discuss other business. ... In addition there will be published school year had started before October. social The Board is composed of ex officio such information in regard to the The "cclored schools," which had an en- sports, members from the Civic Council and labor life of the Zone, its amusements, rollment of 4,375 that j'ear, operated on a organizations and elected representatives and other activities as is thought to be of 12-month basis. of the employees. Robert Van Wagner, general interest." During its first month. Governor and Mrs. Harry Burgess sur- of the Maintenance Division, is president The Record reported, among other items: prised their friends and his associates by of the Board. The commissaries were feeding, clotliimj, leaving the Canal Zone September 13, more .\ccording to the report received by and otherwise supplying over 25,000 ptople. than a month ahead of the expiration of his the Board at its meeting, there were This included the ICC hotels, hospitals, term. Col. Julian L. Schley Ircanu .-\cting those Col. H,7.5() active members of the group plan messes, and private families. {In days Governor. Also in September, 1932, and applications are being received at tenderloin sold for 22 cents a pound, fresh Clarence S. Ridley arrived to take over his the rate of 10 to 12 a week. eggs icere 29 cents a dozen and butter 34 duties as Engineer of Maintenance. cents a pound. New potatoes cost 4 cents Slides in the Cut plagued the Dredging Up to .July 30, claims had numbered pound and cantaloupe 10 cents apiece.) Division 25 years ago this month. Offi- 1,040, although a rapid rise has been no- a of the Canal Zone was cially the .slide, on the East Culebra Slide ticed since that date, believed caused by The population by the Sanitary Department Extension, was described as "threatening the large number of cases of upper respira- estimated Isthmian Canal Commis- but orderly." Before Septemtier was over tory infections during August. All claims at 54,32.j; the and that of the two dredges were working around the have been processed with a minimum of sion force totalled 23,607, Railroad 6,238. clock and three separate slide movements trouble for employees and Mr. \'an Wag- Panama the locks and dams had had occurred. Although the slide came ner reported to the Board that very few The ivork on (hat it was possible to see of the Cut, traffic was complaints have been received. taken such shape close to the center soni'thing of their form. At Gatun, four not interrupted In an announcement following the steamshovels wcje digging out the site; two Organized Labor in the Canal Zone cele- meeting, employee members were urged shovels were preparing the site for the brated Labor Day with the announcement to notify the Bnj.rd when changes in their spiliwati. that local unions were backing a five-day status "takes place. iMiiployees should On September 10, 1007, a contract for week for Canal employees. Labor leaders notify the Board of any change in salary, a single-track steel railroad bridge across also announced plans to organize a chapter the birth of a baby, or when a dependent the Chagres at Gamboa was awarded to of the American Federation of Government child reaches the age of 19 years. Such the Penn Bridge Company of Beaver Employees here. notifications are important and may be Falls, Pa. The price of .$.59,600 included made to the president of the Group Health 10 Years Ago delivery at New York. Other contracts Insurance Board at Box Q, Balboa Negotiations continued through Sep- included one for the purchase of 14 new Heights, it was announced. tember, 1947, on the (luestion of U. S. 70-ton steamshovels, to bring the ICC employees joining the CJanal or- defense sites in Panama. Panama de- New total to S5. ganization may becomL- members of the livered a counter proposal stressing four Sixty fed of track on the main line of the hospitalization plan on a non- important points: Juiisdiction, mainte- group Panama Railroad, between Lion Hill and selective basis (without regard for past nance, joint consultation, and the tem- Ahorca, sank during thi morning of Sep- medical history) if they file their appli- porary naturi' ui the sites. t"mber 18; that afternoon an additional 60 cations within 30 days of their employ- The nuwe of commercial aviation from feel disappeared. A pile driver was moved ment date. the Canal Zone Air Terminal (now the up from Colon to extend the existing trestle the Civil .{{fairs Building) to Tocumen .Air- Other (employees who did not join W) fed the length of the sinkhole. port began September 4 "'''C" CO P.A, a group when the plan was being organized W. G. Bierd, General Manager and Panama-flag airline, transferred its opera- may do so at any time. Such applica- Assistant to the President of the Panama tions to the new airport. tions, however, are processed on a selec- Railroad, resigned because of ill health. .\ special Canal-.\rmy-N'avy Board tive basis which means that Mutual of He sailed for the States Sept*>mbcr 20 and completed a two-month study on the Omaha, the insuring firm, reserves the later joined John F. Stevens on the New consolidation of Canal Zone hospitals. right to exclude certain illnesses because York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The Cnited Fruit Company\ "Limon" of past medical history. Helen Varick Boswell, of the Federation took the title of the Canal's most frequent (if Women's Clubs in the United Stales, customcj; she had made 3J, transits duiing arrived in mid-September to encourage the fiscal year. Two other inited Fiuit COLLEGE SUBSCRIPTIONS women of the Canal Zone to form organiza- ships, the ".lunioi" and the "Coitcz," tied with the Federation. college? lions to be affiliated Got a son or daughter away at for s'cond place with 30 runs each. Then how about sending him or her a Before the month was over, she had women's A I2yeai-old boy and his 17-year-old special college subscription for the clubs started at Culelra, Gorgona and Cris- Canal Review?" These sub- brother were held for the munier of a "Panama tobal. scriptions, which cost only 50 cents Chinese merchant living on the Gamboa months from October apiece, cover the 25 Years Hii;id. Til boys later served sentences through May, but the special rate ap- Ago in the Canal Zone. plies to the "Review" when sent to Thatcher Ferry and Thatcher High- college students only. way, which lowered travel time to the One Year Ago Send cash, or a money order, payable firms were invited to to the TREASURER, Panama Canal Interior of Panama by at least an hour, Several insurance Company to: were officially opened Sept<'niber I, 1932. submit pr.iposals on a broad hos|)ital and Editor, "The Panama Canal A check over the Labor Day weekend medical service group insurance jilan to Re\iew" and cover Canal employees and their families. Balboa Heights showed that 3,297 automobiles 18,337 and we'll do the rest. 10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Septamber 6, 1957 It's Here To Stav

Tlu' Canal Zmic's Ki'ttiufi cdhIit al- though (luite possibly you may not have noticed it. To he sure, the inereased coolness is restricted to indoors and to houses which have been fitted with air-conditi;)ning units. Rut, as conversion to 60-cycle cur- rent moves south from Ciistobal, more and moie Zonians are rela.xing in cool, dehumidified air to the soothing hum of one or more busy little machines. There will be no more nature-provided steam baths for these Zonians, and humidity woes will disappear. It would hardly be true to say that the conversion of the Canal Zone's cur- us really comforlable," S. A. Hammond oF Margarita says. rent from the flickering out-moded 25- "Makes cycle current, on which few modern home appliances will operate, will lead to so beon covered with translucent plastic. ters occupied by Edward C. Blount of many sales that General Electric or West- In Margarita, and in neighboring the Zone police force. The Blounts inghouse can declare an extra dividend. Gatun, both masonry and frame quarters find that a one-ton unit not only is But it is quite true that the conversion have been air-conditioned. In general, adequate for cooling two bedrooms and is bringing to the Canal Zone a variety masonry houses are easier to insulate bath, but that the sealing-off which of electrical equipment to make life here provided one settles on a way to close off goes with air conditioning makes for a lot more livable. large screened areas like breezeways. The the quiet which a policeman on shift- When the Atlantic area of the Canal occupants of some of the older frame work needs. was served exclusively by 25-cycle cur- houses have been dissatisfied with their While it will be less than a year before rent there were only 18 air-conditioning air-conditioning attempts, largely be- the first Pacific area quarters are on 60- units on the entire Atlantic side. cause the vibration from the units' mo- cycle current, a number of Pacific siders Today, in Margarita alone, between 40 tors even shakes the sealing from between are not waiting for that happy day. and 50 houses are air conditioned, en- the tongue and groove-siding. Several Pacific side quarters, including tirely or in part. Several householders Not all of the air-conditioned houses those of Captain and Mrs. Jens Nilsen have fitted their dwellings with two units have been as elaborately modified as that of Diablo Heights, are equipped with air- and have the entire house air conditioned. of the Husons, although the breezeway- conditioning units which have been con- Others have limited themselves to air type house of Captain and Mrs. Kenneth verted to operate on 25-cycle current conditioning their bedrooms. Roscoe has been fitted with exhaust fans and which will be reconverted, or re- In most cases, those who have installed in the two bathrooms and the kitchen placed, when 60-cycle current comes. the cooling and drying units have done so and a circulating fan in the hallway of Several months ago, some Pacific siders for sheer comfort. In at least one house- the bedroom wing to supplement the two discovered that they could buy 25-cycle, hold, however, the air conditioning has air-conditioning units. Canadian-built three-quarter ton air con- made the difference between sickness and Both units in this house are of the ditioners. Altogether, there are now well-being for a small boy. one-ton size and the Roscoes are con- about a dozen and a half of these cooling This is the family of John W. Huson, sidering the installation of an addi- Pacific side homes, to be converted or an electronics mechanic for the Electrical tional, smaller unit for the master bed- exchanged later when 60-cycle current is Division. The Husons have a small son, room. They have used plastic screen available, and a number of others have John William Jr., who suffers from asthma and beaverboard to seal off open spaces, been ordered. and who, before air conditioning, spent and, unlike the Husons, have included Air conditioners are not being given almost as much time in an oxygen tent the kitchen in the air-conditioned area. away, but a unit costs less than some TV in the hospital as he did at home. This, however, is not satisfactory and sets. The 25-cycle units from Canada sell Now their breezeway-type house is some change will have to be made for about $330, deliveied here under em- cool and comfortable. Young Billy can there, Mrs. Roscoe says. ployee rates. The 60-cycle equipment, play as he wishes, breathing air which Another air - conditioned Margarita in general, is much less expensive. Three- has not only been cooled and dehumid- home is that of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. quarter ton units can be had from $207 ified but also electronically filtered to Hammond. They have a two bedroom to about $230, ordered through the Com- screen out the irritants which, a year masonry cottage. One one-ton unit, missary Division, and one-ton units from ago, would have brought on a choking, which can make about 600 square feet the same source range from $240 up to gasping attack. of floor space completely comfortable, has about $275. Any make is available on This remarkable and welcome change been installed and a second unit, this one order and delivery time is about 60 days.

is due to two air conditioners, one a one- of the three-quarter ton type, w-ill be in Prices for units ordered from mail order ton (or one horsepower) unit and the place soon. houses and other dealers are about in other a three-quarter ton unit. One cools The trend toward air conditioning is these brackets. the living room; the othor is installed in not restricted to Margarita. Several of Householders who run two units con- a corner of the breezeway to cool that the units have been installed in Gatun, tinuously report that their electric bills room and the bedroom wing. The kitchen another area where conversion is complete. have about doubled since the units were opening off the living room has not been Here again, both masonry and frame installed. air-conditioned and has been closed off quarters have been fitted with the units. But, as Mrs. Huson, with her small by an accordion door. All screening, has One of the latter is the duplex quar- asthmatic son, and Mr. Blount, who frequently sleeps daytimes, said,"They- Saptembar 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW are worth every cent of it." however, so did the membership of the Best Friends Woman's Club and, in April 1913, there was some doubt that it would continue. But its remaining handful of members was persistent and held it together to the ex- tent that the speakers who addressed it that next >'ear were some of the most

prominent in the Club's life. Within the next decade the Cristobal Woman's Club started on its most ambi tious peiiod and one in which the club acquired international fame. The out- break of World War I coincided with the Woman's Club move to Gillx^rt House and the as.sumption by the Club of Red Cro.ss work on the Atlantic side. As a contemporary newspajjer account put it: "Long before the United States un- sheathed its mighty sword, the women of the Atlantic .Side were ministering, as none but women can, to the needs of the maimed and wounded soldiers of Australia and New Zealand. This bright oasis in the huge ocean desert was indeed a thing of joy to the boys who had been fighting for the freedom of the world." In the summer of 1921, the Woman's Club opened a medic:il clinic in the old Colon freight house, financed by the rental from C.ilbert House rooms, revenue Brownie is special assistant to R. A. Faunce at the Morine Electric Shop. from a Woman's Exchange and a tea room at Cilbert IIou.se, and, for a time, for violation of sani- IF THE KMPi.OYEKS in the Cristobal Marine Electric Shop had their from fines collected way, a battle-scarred, middle-aged pooch known as "Brownie" would tary ordinances. there, with the aid of Atlantic side phj'- be placed on the Panama Canal Company payroll, issued an identifi- charge, the cation card, and be given retirement rights. He might even qualify sicians who served without Club offered the only free medical treat- as a member of the Electricians' Union and certainly is in line for a During medal for bravery. ment then available in Colon. its first four months, the clinic provided A lone wolf who leads a life of his own after working hours, Brownie medical care for about 5,000 destitute is no ordinary dog. He proved this one night about two years ago when he cornered two thieves in the Industrial Division yard. His men, women, and children. operations de- barks attracted the attention of the night watchman who in turn The clinic, although its open called the police. The men were apprehended. creased over the years, remained into the Brownie, who has been an unofficial member of the Industrial until 1944 when it was absorbed Division forces for the past five years, arrives promptly at the gate each Colon Health Office. operations, the club- morning at 7 o'clock. He spends most of his working hours in the During their clinic that many of those appear- Marine Electric Shop. There he is the special assistant to Ronald women found ing for treatment were suffering from Faunce, an Electrical Division employee, who sees to it that Brownie another major gets his annual anti-rabies injection and registration tag, an occa- malnutrition. This led to in on sional meal, and a new collar now and then. project, a soup kitchen a shack the grounds. Between 1921 Friendly and willing at all times. Brownie likes to leave promptly (lilbert House at quitting time. He once knocked over one of his superiors in his and 1924 the kitchen served one hot meal dash for the gate. He objects strenuously to baths, hates thunder a day to thousands who would otherwise to eat. and lightning, and has turned down all offers of a permanent bed and have had nothing board. He reportedly likes the food at the Cristobal Yacht (^lub and Shutdown of the clinic did not take judging from his scars, is a great hand with the ladies. the Cristobal t:lub out of the welfare field. Its members continued to care for the .\tlantic side indigent in other ways and now are providing about 75 HAPPY BIRTHDAY the first meeting and the decoration of the Colon families each week with clothing, meeting rooms, was much less specific some meilical care, and such basic food (Cmiinueil jjiim imjt J) inaugurate the new- about the turnout. "A large number of as rice, milk, sugar, and dried beans. building when it becomes more than a women" attended, the article says, and of to care for sketch on a drawing board, will be, the these "a large number signified their in- While they continue the wellbeing of otheis, they are not Club hopes, its two senior resident mem- tention of becoming members." physical cultural and social bers, Mrs. Dorothy Melendez, of Panama Three days later, the Club met ;igain, neglecting their own City, who joined the Cristobal Woman's this time to organize committ<'es and affairs. Before the last jjresidential elec- instrumental Club in 1916, and Mrs. R. J. Neely, of embark on an ambitious program which, tion the Woman's Club was ballot Margarita, whose membership dates back during that first year, included lectures on in letting Zonians know absentee of to 1923. home nursing, a series of papers on .Japan procedures, and many their meetings to and international According to "The Canal Record," and the Japanese, participation in a plan are devoted national there the organization of the Cristobal Wo- for standardizing teaching in the Canal affairs. On the social side are an grou|), man's (ylub, on .September 27, 1907, Zone schools, and a costume charity hall active arts and crafts which has interior decorating and pollera was an occasion "of festive character." which netted about $200 a.s a nucleus for studied .sewing grouj) which has Born in the early construction period, the Club's philanthropic i)roject,s. making, a made for Club's chairs, it and the other women's clubs in the Throughout the construction period, new cushions the and Zone were offshoots of a social worker's the Cristobal Woman's Club prospered occasional card parties, monthly teas, and suggestion that the Zone's pioneer wo- and grew. Its memlK>rs sponsored water- the annual luncheon. current major project is the prepara- men would be more contented if they ing troughs for cab horses, playgrounds A had clubs here like those which were for Cristobal anci Colon children, and en- tion of an engagement calendar, well- with local photographs. Pro- springing up like mushrooms "back gaged in a program of what were known illustrated home." in tho.se days as "cultural activities." ceeds from the sale of these will go into The Record's story, which described As the construction force dwindled, the club's treasury, to finance the philan- thropic projects and to help swell the THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 6, 1957 building fund. INTRODUCING — Walter Allen

WALTER JOSEPH WALTER PIERCE WALTER FRANCIS

Just imagine what something like this does to the postal first layman to hold the post of Assistant Director of a

service! All three of these men are named Waltef Canal Zone Hospital; he is a native of Rochester,

Allen. Wallet Jo;eph Allen, left, is Mai! and File N. Y. And Waller Francis Allen, right, is the official Supervisor in the Administrative B;anch. He comes driver for the Governor-President's car. He was born

from New Yorl<. Walter Pierce Allen, center, is the in Renova, Pa., and has been a Zonian since 1941.

books be placed in book bins on rollers. 18 Employees Are Given Awards Mr. Dee, of the Electrical Division, sug- gested accounting changes concerning During Ceremony Held Recently electric cable. Mr. Doran, of the Store- houses, suggested new procedure for An Outstanding Service Award and a casting off from a ship; Mr. Ridge, of the accounting for sales of excess property. Superior Service Award were presented Marine Bunkering Section, recommended Mr. Hoard, of the Fire Division, proposed recently to two women employees of the that the sumps of gasoline tank trucks be a new monthly report form for the daily Canal organization at a ceremony at emptied before they are filled with kero- report of firefighting apparatus. Mr. which 16 other employees were given sene; and Mr. Hendricte, of the Office of Michaelis, of the Balboa Magistrate's checks ranging from $15 to $30 for em- the Comptroller, suggested that the larger Court, suggested an improved protective ployee suggestions. gasoline stations render such additional method for certification using the Com- The Outstanding Service Award and a services as tire repair, lubrication, etc. pany Seal. And Mr. Spangler, of the check for $200 went to Mrs. Dorothy C. Hortensio Botello, Maxine A. Cawl, Maintenance Division, divised a new Webb, of the Employment and Utiliza- Herbert S. DriscoU, Kathryn C. Hum- holder for hospital equipment. tion Division for her work in preparing mer, John Vaucher, and Fred W. Whit- retention registers for the reduction-in- ney, $20 each. force actions attendant on the closing of Mr. Botello, of the Division of Sanita- Panama Railroad Timetable several commissaries and service centers tion, suggested prominent markings for Effeciive August 18, 1957 at the end of the past calendar year. Company-Government owned bicycles. A story on the work of Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Cawl, of the Balboa Port Captam's NORTHBOUND her all-girl crew appeared in the October office, proposed the adoption of a new and Leave Arrive 1956 issue of The P.\N.\M.\ Can.\l Review. improved pilot's report form. Mr. Dris- Panama Colon The Superior Service Award, together coU, of the Navigation Division, suggested 7:10 a. m. 8:30 a. m. with a check for $100, was given to Mrs. use of a red blinker light to aid ships 9:55 a. m.* 11:20 a. m. Olive Pajak of the Electrical Division for docking at night. Mrs. Hummer, of the 12:10 p. m. 1:30 m. organizing a system of accounting controls Duplicating Unit, pointed out that the p. 3:10 p. m.* 4:35 p. m. for electric current revenue. The system use of black ink for signatm-es would 4:55 p. m. 6:20 p. m. provides comparative data and prede- facilitate reproduction. Mr. Vaucher, of 10:10 m. 11:30 m. termined revenue totals for each month. the Supply Division, recommended a p. p. The employee suggestion awards were number of procedures to relieve the load SOUTHBOUND | presented as follows: of the wholesale groceries section. And Leave Arrive George E. Shoemaker, Division of Mr. Whitney suggested that towing loco- Colon Panama Storehouses, $30, for his recommendation motives be equipped with a holder for 7:00 a. m. 8:25 a. m. that Balboa and Cristobal storehouses storing lead plugs. 9:45 a. ro.* 11:10 a. m. use a single e.xcess disposal list. Margaret L. Canavaggio, Thomas J. 12:00 noon 1:20 p. m. Lorenz F. Gerspach, Robert L. Ridge, Dee, James R. Doran, Richard B. Hoard, 3:00 p. m.* 4:25 p. m. and Albert B. Hendricks, $25 each. John A. Michaelis, and Bui-man S. 5:10 p. m. 6:35 m. Mr. Gerspach, of the Loclvs Division, Spangler, $15 each. p. 10:00 p. m. 11:25 m. recommended that only towing locomo- Mrs. Canavaggio, of the Terminals p. tives in trouble sound their bells when Divisiop, suggested that bulky record All trains run dail V except those marked (*) which are daily except | Sundays and holidays September 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS ANNIVERSARIES

July 75 through August 75 35 YEARS Raymond E. Forbes, top man on the Employees who were promoted or trans- Accountant, Supply Division, to Adminis- -August list of service anniversaries, had his ferred between July 15 and August 15 are trati\e Officer. Office of Director. first look at the Canal Zone from the deck listed below. Within-grade promotions are Thomas G. Relihan, from Assistant Gen- of a Navy ship. He liked what he saw so not reported. eral .Manager, to Superintendent, Commis- well that when he had finished his Navy ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH sar\ Branch, .SuppK- Division. service, he came back here to work. Hugh E. Turner, from Supervisory Sup- Now he is the senior, from point of Christian W. Wirtz, from Supervisor\- serv- ply Officer, Division of Storehouses, to ice, of the Canal's sanitation inspectors — Administrative Officer. Supply Division, Chief, Procurement Section, Supply Divi- a job in which le has been busy for the to Forms Control Officer. Records Section. sion. past ii years. There are few places on the OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER THE Clarence W. Kilbey, from Assistant to Pacific si le of t'e Isthmus — including Pan- Albert M. Jenkins, from Chief. Plant General .Man.iger. Service Center Branch, Accounting Branch, to Supervisory Auditor, to Chief, .Administrative .Section, Supply General Audit Division. Division. Mrs. Florence K. Redmond, Clerk-Typ- Norbert M. Schommer, from Supervisor> ist, from Pa \ roll Branch to Claims Branch. .Accountant, to Chief, Budget and Statis- Mrs. Irene E. Maher, from Clerk-Typist tic^ .Section. SuppK" Di\"ision. to Clerk (Typing), Central Typing and Bart J. Elich, from S|)ecial Assistant to Clerical Unit. Gener.il .M.inager to Merchandise Promo- Pa>Toll Branch tion Manager. Suppiv Division. Winston P. Abernathy, from \oucher Raoul O. Theriault, from .Administrative Examiner. (General Ledger and Processing Officer to .Assistant to Sup|)ly and Employee Branch, to Time, Leave and Payroll Service Director. Clerk. Henry E. May, from Superintendent, Mrs. Elna G. Montayne, from Card Division of .Storehouses, to Superintendent. Punch Su|)er\ isor to Time. Leave and Storehouse Branch. Payroll Clerk. Mrs. Jeanne M. Wheeler, Mrs. Dorothy J. Herrington, Mrs. Mary E. Becker, from Edward B. O'Brien, Jr., from .Assistant Accounting Clerk to Time. Leave and Pav- Superintendent to Superintendent, Termi- roU Clerk.' nals Division. Mrs. Helen T. Kat, Mrs. Edna J. Hum- Randolph M. Wikingstad, from General mer, from Bookkee|)ing Machine Operator, Ste\edore Fciremaii I to .Assistant to General Ledger ami Processing Bra[ich, to .Superintendent, Terminals Division. Time, Leave and Payroll Clerk. Mrs. Edith W. Cotton, from Cargo Clerk Mrs. Daisy M. Tettenburn, from Retire- (T\ping), to .Supervisory .Accounting Clerk, ment Clerk to Time. Leave and Payroll Terminals Di\'ision. Clerk. Mrs. Margaret M. Dietz, from Cargo Mrs. Helen M. Tomford, from Time, Clerk to Cargo Clerk (Typing), Terminals Leave and Pavroll Clerk to Retirement and Di\'ision. Payroll Clerk. Mrs. Dorothy G. McLain, Clerk-Typist, Mrs. Yolanda E. Valencia, Clerk-Ste- from Commissary Division to Terminals nographer, from Central Typing and Cleri- Disision. cal Unit to Payroll Branch. Mrs. Helen L. Meisinger, from .Account- ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION ing Clerk to Cargo Claims .Assistant, Ter- BUREAU minals Division. Mrs. Alda L. McLeod, from Clerk-Typist Luther B. Sartain Jr., from Chief, Elec- to .Accounting Clerk. Terminals Division. trical-Mechanical Branch, to Chief, 60- Paul R. Kuyoth, fiom Senior High School Cycle Design Branch, Engineering Divi- Teacher, Division of Schools, to Chief, atna City- which he has not looked over sion. Southern District, Motor Tran.sportation with a sharp inspector's eye. Quentin R. Cooper, from Heavy Equip- Division. Born in Kearney, Nebr., he ser\ eil with the ment Operator to Heavy Equipment and Gilbert A. Sollas, from Patrolman, Locks Navy at Coco .Solo during World War I. He Pumping Plant Operator, Maintenance -Security Branch, (o Guard, Terminals returtied here late in 1923 and was on the po- Division. Division. lice force for a few tiionths. In 1924. he trans- Helen E. Barr, from Chief Usher, Balboa John K. Brayton, from Lead Stevedore ferred to sanitary work and in that capacity Theater, to Typist, Engineering Division. Foreman to General Stevedore Foreman, has served in the Panama suburbati area, HEALTH BUREAU Terminals Division. at Madden Dam, in Panatna City proper, Mrs. Arilla Kourany, Clerk-Typist, from OTHER PROMOTIONS and more recetith' in the .Ancon area sani- Office of Persiinnel Director to Gorgas Promotions which did not involve change tation office. .Almost 20 years of his service with the in Hos[)ital. in title follow: were Health Office Panama City. Mrs. Jean M. Harris, from Staff Nurse, Not long after he came to the Isthmus Clement J. Genis, Safety Inspector, Of- to Nurse, Corozal he from Gorgas Gorgas Hospital, Head fice of the Supply and Employee Service met a pretty nurse Hospital Hospital. Director. and a little later Miss Ertiia Caswell became MARINE BUREAU Ernest P. Muzzio, Plumbing Inspector, Mrs. Raymond Forbes. She is now School Emmett W. Argo, from Lead F'"oreman Contract .and Inspection Division. Nutse for the Pacific side. Their two chil- born in Carpenter II to (icneral Maintenance Gen- Clara Kirchmer, .Accounting Clerk, Ter- dren, Jim and Joan, were the Canal eral Foreman, .-Xtlaniic Locks. miii.ils l)i\isiiin. Zone Thomas F. Gibson, from Lead Foreman Dr. Temistocles Malo, Dr. Wallace M. In his spare time. .Mr. Forbes enjoys or his Painter 111 to General Maintenance Lead Snyder, .Medical Officer, Coco Solo Hos- golfing ptittering around house and car. Forbes have a place in the X'ohan Foreman 1, .Atl.intic Locks. pit.'il. The where the\' spend local leave and a summer Joseph M. Daly, from Marine Inspection Eugene I. Askew, .Admeastirer, Naviga- ^'., at Assistant to .\dmeasurer. Navigation Divi- tion DiNi-i,,,,. home near P.irishville. N. a little sion. Thelma C. Herrington, Marguerite Flynn, settlement with the fascinatitig n.imc of John C. Thompson, from Marine Ma- Mrs. Evelyn Reynolds, Mrs. Sylvia E. Jo Indian Pond. chinist 1 to Lead Foreman Painter, Aids to Staples, Mrs. Helen Hobbs, Edward H. .W YEARS Navigation .Section. Appin, Mrs. Frances P. Walker, rime, .August's second-place tiian, on the anni- Policeman, Police I'.ur.ill Clerk, l',,\r..ll Br.ui. h. James E. Haas, from Le.nc .Hid versaries list, i> tiow a tiia\i)r without a Division, to Sheetmetal Worker Apjiren- nimiii ipality. Siiiie the town of Pedro Mi- tice. Industrial Division. guel w.i> e\.ii ii.ited several years ago, and Ralph A. Morales, from Electric Welder Ernest B. Curling h.id to tiio\c to Diablo and Diver to Coni!)in;itioii Welder and Heights, Mr. Curling has put his title of Industrial Dixi^ion. SEPTEMBER SAILINGS Diver, mayor" away in mothballs and has ile- Frank J. Erennan, Glenn D. Redmond, \otcd his energies to helping with Little Eulus C. demons, Benjamin S. Favorite, KR()\I CRI.SIOBAL League affairs. Jr., Arnul.'o Manning, Fred R. Trout, Ancon Sepleiiilier 4 His 30 years of service, which includes Anthony G. Winkes, Oral E. Hardwick; CristohaL September 14 three lours of iliilx with the Canal organi- from El.'iric Wilder to ("omliination z.ition, also covers wcirk at the Norfolk Ancon... . . September 21 WckUr, Industrial Division. FROM NEW YORK .\av\ Yard and with the Ohio River project Edward M. Fetherston, Joe Y. Christian, of the Corps of l-'ngineers. .Master Pilot-in-Training, Cristobal .September 6 from Towbo.it to .A tn.ichinist, his first Panama Canal job Ancon .September 1.1 Navigation Division. was at the Balboa Shops. Later he became CrisUibnL September 24 Raul A. Swdim, from Substitute Window a Marine .Machinist at the Cristobal Shops Soutlibound Hliips which leave New Yorlt Friday Clerk. Postal Division, to Patrolman, Locks since 1939 he has been with the Locks are in llaili the foll.iwinK Tuesday. Those whicli Mil and Se.itrilN Branch. from New York Tuesday spend .Saturday in Haiti. Division. He is now at Pedro Miguel Locks. John S. Catanzaro, from Third Assistant Northbound, tlic sliips slop in Haiti two days after During the war years, when he lived in clearing Cristobal: Monday for titose wliicli .sj»il from to Second Assistant Marine Engineer Pedro \liguel, Mr. Ctirling was head Civil- frislobal Saturday, and Friday for tliose which clear {Taboga), .Aids to Navi ;ation Section. Cristobal Wednesday. ian Defense W.ir.len and was also active in SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU Norman B. Davison, from Supervisory 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 6, 1957 1;

Over $5,000,000 Spent Power Conversion In Republic Last Year

Ketiromeiit lertiliiales were prcseiueil (Cnniinued from page i) Went into effect, A Progress Report

I lie eml iif August to the l'ollowlns> einplo\ees and the first six months of operations have w ho are Hsteil al|)hal>etic-ally, together with indicated that this an accurate esti- their birthplaces, titles, length of Canal was ser\iie, anil future atklresses: mate. Conversion of frequency-sensitive elec- drop in of tric equipment, both domestic and indus- Lee R. Beil, Pennsylvania; Station Percentagewise, the amount Chief, Madden Hydroelectric I'lant; 31 goods bought from Panama suppliers has trial, is scheduled to begin in the Pacific \ears, 1 moiuh. 17 days; Pennsylvania. been much less than the drop in total sales area about April 1. This area includes May B. Clemmons, Alabama; Ticket- in the Commi.ssaries. Ancon, Halboa, Halboa Heights, La Boca, seller, Di.ililo Service Center; 15 years, 26 Diablo Heights, and Los Rios; also in the d;i\s: Cui.d Zime lor present. The above figures .show that local pur- Homer B. Cooper, Pennsx Uania; Ma- chases amounted to approximately $G50,- Pacific area are Corozal Hospital, the chinist, Indusiri.il Division; \^ years, 3 000 less in the period of January through Immigration Station, the West Ferry nioiuh^, 7 d.i\s: lloiulur.is. June of this year than in the comparable Slip, the West Side Lighthouse Line, and Capt, Roy A. Fort, Conned lent; Pilot, period the Balboa Gun Club. .M.uine Bureau; 18 ycirs, 2 niomhs, 21 period of 1956. While a six-month da\s; Florida. is too short for use as an accurate gauge The contract for the Pacific area is held Vincent J. Gonzalez, Culia; Cauger, in judging the long-range picture. Com- by the Consolidated International Elec- Terminals Division; 9 years, 4 months, 16 missary officials believe these comparative tric Co., Inc., of New York City, whose days; \ew ^'ork for present. bid for the area conversion was ,432,228. Otto L. Savold, South Dakota; Post- figures for these two six-month periods $1 ma.-ler, Cristobal, Postal Division; 31 are fairly representative of the local pur- Consolidated International has had years, 3 months, 16 da\s; Santa Clara, chase picture under present circumstances. several years of prior conversion experi- Panama. They believe, however, that the amount ence during the changeover of electric of consumer goods bought in Panama will current in Canada. A member of the Civic Coimcil affairs. In connection with increase as more goods are produced firm, here for the bid opening, said that the former, he was sent to the Civilian Pro- his tection School at Amherst, Mass., and from locally. An indication of this is the com- company expects to pre-assemble all the latter he derived his unofficial, but last- parative figures on the amount of eggs necessary materials and be in a position ing, honorary title of "mayor." bought in the Panama market from Jan- to start the actual conversion about next 25 YEARS uary through June in 1956 and 1957. April 1. of the employees who completed a Both In the first six months of the calendar Meanwhile developments are expected quarter of a century of government service year 1956 the Commissary Division spent soon on three other major power conver- in August, have had continuous service with the Canal organization. They are Lionel L. $13,854 for eggs produced in Panama. sion projects. Chronologically they are: Ewing and Herschel Gandy. In the first six months of this year, egg Installation of remote control and relays Gloster, Miss., Mr. Ewing was born In purchases amounted to $29,225, over twice for the power stations, the contract for and spent most of his service as Admeasurer the dollar volume of the previous year. which will be advertised early this month for the Marine Bureau. He began his Canal service in 1939 as a Junior Engineer in the The following figures show the dollar conversion of the West Bank-Miraflores Maintenance Division and held this position value of purchases in Panama from Janu- area, on which bids are to be opened Sep- until 1946 when he was transferred to his ary through June of this year and last of tember 13; and conversion of the locks, present job as Admeasurer. several staple food products, long bought for which the bid opening date is set for Mr. Gandy, a native of Mlllville, N. J., began his employment in 1939 as a General in bulk by the Commissaries: October 23. Clerk in the Supply Bureau and is now January through June Administrative Assistant in the Mainte- nance Division. 195(1 1957 20 YEARS Meat $315,000 §175,000 Approximately 175 Non-U. S. states and two countries are rep- Eight Sugar 326,000 102,000 resented by 12 employees who completed 20,000 Employees 20 years of government service in August. Coffee 37,000 Will Be Retired Five of these employees have continuous Beverages 62,000 47,000 Canal service. They are: Philip L. Dade, The retirement of approximately 175 There was no appreciable decline in from New Haven, Conn., Chief, Civil De- non-U. S. citizen employees of the Canal fense; Stanley Guest, from Comanche, the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables J. organization will take place between now Okla., Lead Dair\-Foreman, Commissary bought locally, the report showed. This and the first of the year. Division; Donald W. Joumeay, Trotterville, was due to the fact that most employees Staten Island, N. Y., General Engineer, The group includes more than 100 em- who lost commissary pui chase privileges Engineering Division; Sydney T. Lindh, ployees whose retirement normally would Dallarnar, Sweden, Machinist, Industrial at the first of this year were residents of have taken place during the past year but Division; and William L. Benny, Ancon, the Republic of Panama whose purchases which was deferred until last month pend- C. Z., Assistant Chief, Motion Picture of local fruits and vegetables through Branch, Service Center Branch. ing possible action by Congress on a Civil Commissary stores was negligible in the of Also completing 20 years government Service retirement plan for non-U. S. service are Paul M. Bell, Policeman, from past because of the small difference in citizen employees. The others are those Blacksburg, S. C; Mabel M. Duncan, Tel- retail prices of these products. who will reach the age of 62 years before ephone Operator, Commissary Division, The decrease in amount of consumer from Frontenac, Kans.; David E. Coffey, the end of December. goods bought in the si.x-month period Lead Forenian-Shipfitter, Industrial Div- Governor Potter announced last Au- ision, from Colon, Republic of Panama; probably would have been more decided gust that employees reaching b2 years Lamar M. Lavender, Towing Locomotive except for a substantial increase in the of age before July of this year could Operator, Locks Division, from Abbeville, purchase of building materials this year. Ga.; John W. MuUer, General Engineer, defer retirement providing they were These purchases amounted to $200,000 in Engineering Division, from Pedro Miguel, physically qualified to continue work. C. Z.; Howard W. Osborn, General Engi- the first six months of this calendar year, Up until the end of June there were 1 1 neer, Maintenance Division, from Chester, as compared w'ith only $91,000 in the such deferments. Mass.; and Helen L. Smith, Window Clerk, comparable period of 1956. These pur- Postal Division, from Deer Park, Ala. In addition to these, about 25 ethers chases, however, are subject to wide fluc- 15 YEARS will between tuations being dependent on the amount be retired now and the end Over half of the 18 employees with 15 of the because of physical disqualifi- of construction work in the Canal Zone. year years of government service have unbroken cations. There are from six to ten each Canal service. month who are placed on cash relief rolls They are: Frank J. Bartlett, Fire Ser- Gauger, Terminals Division; Tracy Hook, geant; James V. Bartlett, Fire Lieutenant — Auto Repair Machinist, Motor Transporta- because of physical disability. the Bartletts are brothers; Richard S. Bro- tion Division; James A. Hoverson, Lead The Personnel Bureau has begun work gie, Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Office Foreman, Refrigeration and .Air Condition- of processing employment records of those of the Comptroller; Howard H. Carey, ing, Maintenance Division; Gerard K. reached retirement age sir.cj last Liquid Fuels Ganger, Terminals Division; Schear, Window Clork, Postal Division; and who Eleanor L. Colbert, Head Nurse (Psychia- A. G. Terwilliger, Lead Stevedore Foreman, August, and it is planned to place a list of tric), Corozal Hospital; May B. Clemmons, Terminals Division. about 50 names before the Alien Cash Ticket .Seller, Service Center Branch —she Other 15-\ear employees are: B. F. Relief Board at its meeting in September. retired tlie end of last month; Louis S. Slaughter, i\Iachlnist, Locks Division; Rob- Thereafter, about 50 a month will be re- Damiani, Plant F^ngineer, Maintenance Di- ert E. Welbom, F'ire Lieutenant; Dr. Maur- vision; Norman S. Davison, .\dministrative ice B. Winstead, Medical Officer, Gorgas tired during the remainder of this year by Officer, SuppK' and ICmployee Service Bu- Hospital; and Josephine S. Wood, Staff which time all deferment cases will be reau: Vicente Gonzalez, Liquid Fuels Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. J. handled and normal retirement proce- dures will be resumed as individuals reach September 6, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15 retirement age. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA iiiirFffn'Ti'i! SHIPPING 3 1262 08544 4635

make Cristobal a port of call this \vint

Schedule for "Reina" The Pacitic Steam Navigation Com- pany's motor liner Reina del Paeifico, which went aground off Bermuda recently

and which is now being held in Liveipool fnr enirine repairs, will skip one of her scheduled round-trip voyages between Liverpool and Valparaiso via the Panama Canal. Her local agents report that the ship is now scheduled to sail from Liver- pool October 24 and will arrive in Cris- Breal

Total, _- $3,126,200 $3,854,547 Repeat Performance •Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. TOTAL CARGO TONS Commercial 3,872,530 4,443,437 (jovernment 45,969 01,573

Total (Long tons). 3,918,499 4,505,010

Early Cruise

The crui.se season got off to an early start this year with the arrival here late last month of the SS Evangeline on a late summer cruise of the Caribbean. The bulk of her 300 or more pa.s.sengers were members of the Jersey Standard Club, an organization of employees of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The ship had sailed from New York August 17 on the 17-day cruise which took her to Bermuda, Haiti, Cartagena, Cri.s- tobal, and Havana. The 5,000-ton vessel flies the Liberian flag. She was handled locally by Hoyd Brothers.

New Customers New ships and ships new to the Canal are still keeping Panama Canal admea- surers bu.sy. Since last February, there have been an average of .50 ships to be measured each month in Cristobal and For the second successive year, the MV Portunus has been the Canal's most fre- about 20 each month in Balboa. During quent cuslomer. Last month Cap). W. S. Rodimon, Marine Director, presented her the first three weeks of August, 37 ships master, Capt. Fritz Moebes, with a certificate. At right is Aituro Lince, Jr., agent. had been nn-asured in Cristobal and 1 1 in Balboa. During July, there were a total 16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 6, 1957

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