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GAILLARD HIGHWAY TO BE MADE BOULEVARD-TYPE ROAD FOR TWO MILES BETWEEN TIVOLI AND DIABLO CROSSINGS

Aw, Gee! Gaillard Highway, most heavily-traveled of Canal Zone thoroughfares, will be convert-

:. :: : i . *. ed to a four-lane, boulevard- type throughway between Tiv- oli and Diablo crossings this fiscal year. At the same time SCHOOL the highway will be relocated slightly, modernized, and the eight intersections in this sec- tion improved to allow for a better traffic flow to and from Gaillard Highway. The pro- ject will cost about $300,000. The design for the improvement and double laning of Gaillard Highway is being done by Robert & Company Asso- ciates of Atlanta, Ga., who recently laid out, designed, and supervised the con- struction of a system of throughways for Atlanta. This firm will also prepare the specifications for the project. Their services were obtained under a contract negotiated last month because the design force of the Engineering Divi- sion, which customarily handles work of this nature, was so loaded with other urgent work that they could not com- plete the design in time to allow the Gaillard Highway work to be started by The Time Has Come the beginning of the dry season. Start In Dry Season Next Friday will be S(for School )-Day high schools. In addition, eight instructors The design of modernized and widened for a little over 7,000 Canal Zone boys will be assigned to the Canal Zone Gaillard Highway is to be completed Oct- and girls. Junior College. ober 20. The project will then be adver- School officials, who have been almost Four new elementary classrooms will tised and the contract awarded to the clairvoyant in the past on their estimates be opened this year. Three of these will successful bidder so that wotk can begin of expected enrollments, have their be at the Fort Kobbe elementary school early in the dry season. fingers crossed this year. They believe which will then be operating at its 22- Gaillard Highway, as modernized, will that the number of pupils, which has room capacity for the first time. have two 22-foot roadways, divided by bean increasing steadily since the war Kindergartens Moving a minimum four-foot median strip. The years, is beginning to level off. Seventeen new teachers from the United road will be realigned in places but will However, for the record, they venture States will join the staff of the Canal follow, in general, its present location. this prediction for the present school year: Zone United States schools this year. Of It will be surfaced with either asphaltic 7,058 pupils in the grades which include these, 11 will be assigned to the elemen- or Portland cement concrete. Plans for kindergarten through high school in the tary schools, five to the secondary the modernization will also include traffic United States school system. schools and one to Physical Education signals both for vehicular and pedestrian If they are right, the enrollment will and Athletics traffic. One system of signals is to be lo- be another new record for the Canal School plans this year call for increased cated at the Gaillard High way- Frangipani Zone's 15 United States schools and will physical education activities in the ele- Street intersection. be 62 higher than the attendance last mentary schools. Wherever it is possible The surface of the new throughway year. recess periods will be staggered so that will be laid partly on the existing pave- More Teachers the children will have supervised physical ment after the necessary stabilization and Kindergarten enrollment, they are cer- education rather than mass play periods. levelling have been completed, and partly tain, will be higher than last year because A program of this sort has been in oper- on widened bases. of the restoration by Congress of tuition- ation at the Ancon Elementary school. The work involved in the widening and free kindergartens for children of United The plan will also provide a break in improvement of Gaillard Highway will States citizen employees. the day's activities for the elementary consist of the installation of sub-drainage, The teaching staff will be increased by school teachers who, in the past, have relocation of some utilities, widening of nine—for a total of 204 for grades one supervised recess periods and have been some cuts and fills, stabilization of exist- through high school—to handle the with their pupils continuously all day. ing pavement slabs, application of surface expected increase. Four of the increased In line with this expanded physical levelling sources, revision of surface drain- number will be assigned to the elementary education program, kindergartens will be age, and widening of the bridges and cul- schools and five to the junior and senior moved, during the school (See page W) verts which the highway (See page 2) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955 Maintenance And Paint Program Gives Canal Zone A Bright And Shining Face Never before in the history of the Migrant Moths Dot Canal Zone has it appeared with such a Zone Skies bright face. On Annual Flight While this is due partly to the demoli- To Nowhere tion of several hundred old buildings and their replacement by new quarters over This year the moth casualty rate was a period of the past five years, the im- high; the center line of most main Canal provement in appearance is due largely Zone highways was littered with little to an improved maintenance program for winged creatures which had blundered both quarters and public buildings. blindly against the windshields or sides During the past fiscal year more houses of passing cars. (One Administration were repainted, inside and out and in Building worker reported driving behind many cases both, than in any year for a woman who was unsuccessfully trying the past quarter of a century. The to maneuver her car to avoid striking maintenance program for the past year the moths!) has also hcluded repainting of roofs, Although the moths do not seem to be refinishing of woodwork, and washing of prey for birds as long as they are in the exteriors of many trame houses. flight, they become bird food as soon as Much of the program was reported in the they fall or are knocked to the ground. July issue of The Review. WINGED WANDERER. This is Cydimon fulgens, Along Diablo Road last month, grackles a migrating moth. Where it comes from, where it This Year's Program made constant sorties onto the highway goes, and why.no one knows, although the moth is not to grasp a delectable A large number of Canal buildings new. The photograph was taken by Robert F. Roche. mouthful of moth. which were not included in last fiscal Cydimon fulgens, commonly called Moths were migrating again last year's Zone-wide painting program will Urania fulgens, is nothing new in these month, more of them than for the past be freshened and brightened this year. parts. Its annual flights have been noted several years. Probably the biggest single paint job since 1917, at least, but little more is In mid-August Dr. James E. Zetek, will be the painting of the Miraflores known of the moths now than was then. entomologist and local research specialist swingspan bridge. Other major jobs will They are found from Mexico to Ecua- for the Smithsonian Institution, described include painting of the high school at dor and their migrant flight, pellmell and the annual flight of Cydimon fulgens as Rainbow City, the water reservoirs at with no known purpose, is always in the "exceptionally heavy and still increasing." Gatun and Fort Gulick, and the super- same direction, roughly from west to Reports of the flight of the moths, structure of Pier 18 at Balboa. east. They commonly fly only a few whose dark wings are banded with a During the present fiscal year con- feet from the ground but when they gilded green, began to come to Dr. Zetek tracts will be awarded for about $250,000 reach large obstacles like heavily wooded about August 1, he said. As usual, more worth of maintenance painting forPanama Barro Colorado Island or the Adminis- moths flew in the early morning and Canal Company buildings. In addition, tration Building they go up and over during the brief Isthmian twilight than the painting of Canal Zone Government rather than around. at other hours. buildings will amount to about $56,000. For many years scientists thought that the moths did not eat during their This year's program will include slight- of concrete quarters such as those on the migration but in recent years several ly over $160,000 worth of painting for the Prado and Barneby Street in Balboa. local residents have reported seeing the Housing Division. This will cover the ex- For some time, Maintenance Division moths feeding. But Dr. Zetek doubts teriors of 450 apartments, a barracks build- forces have tried to find some reasonably one of this year's reports—that the ing, the roofs of 270 houses, the interiors of economical method of cleaning concrete migrants had stung and ruined a crop of 440 apartments, 80 bachelor rooms, and exteriors. They have experimented with fine mangoes at John O. Collins' finca more than 300 halls and stairways. wire brushes, chemicals, cement washes, at Vacamonte. Interior painting is done throughout water cement paints, and just plain soap "Cydimon fulgens couldn't sting if it the year; exterior and roof painting is and water. Major problems in concrete wanted to," he says. concentrated as much as possible in the exteriors are mildew and removal of the the second and third quarters of fiscal bluish-green stains which are the result of year in order to take advantage of dry corrosion of the copper screening adjacent Gaillard Highway To Be Rebuilt season weather. to the concrete.

Consolidated Contract During the past fiscal year a large (Continued from page 1) crosses in the Late last month forces of the Engineer- number of frame quarters—which do not section which is about two miles long. ing Division, which is responsible for present the problems of concrete quar- Similar methods for reconstruction and the annual inspection of all Canal build- ters—were washed successfully. By the widening are used by highway depart- ings, were grouping the painting needs end of the fiscal year Maintenance Divi- ments in the United States; these cost and requests of the various departments sion workmen had scrubbed the exteriors less than total replacement and still pro- and divisions preparatory to taking bids of 113 buildings contahing 172 apart- vide adequate traffic capacity with reason- on the major part of the year's exterior ments, at an average cost of less than $31 able maintenance. painting requests under one advertisement. per building or $21 per family unit. Until Gaillard Highway was con- This work, which is to be subdivided During the past fiscal year in addition structed on its present route, the road into contract schedules so that contractors the Canal organization carried out the which linked Diablo Crossing to Ancon may bid on all or part of the work, is to largest single painting program in many ran through what is now Albrook Air be advertised late this month. Bids are years. Ninety-three public buildings got Force Base. In 1932 the road was relo- to be opened in October and the con- fresh outside paint jobs and seven had cated because of the construction of Al- tracts awarded as soon as possible so that their interiors repainted. The exteriors brook Field. The relocated section was the successful bidder or bidders can of 578 sets of quarters and the interiors built by the United States Army under order supplies, recruit workers, and start of 1,117 sets of family and bachelor contract and turned over to The Panama work at the beginning of the dry season. quarters were spruced up with new coats Canal to replace the old highway between Not included in this large contract are of paint. Ancon and Diablo crossing. This original the so-called "short form bids" which Members of the Engineering and Con- relocation was a reinforced concrete road are used for small contracts under $2,000, struction Bureau staff are especially 18 feet wide. It has been widened and generally on such jobs as the interior proud of the fact that all of the painting repaved several times since 1932. painting of a few sets of quarters. and maintenance during the past fiscal In 1951 traffic studies of the section of The major advantage of these short year has been done within the funds Gaillard Highway betv\eei Tivoli and form bids is that they can be advertised which had been budgeted "for the previ- Diablo crossings showed that 10,500 ve- and awarded quickly and the interior ous lower standards of maintenance," as hicles passed over that section daily; the painting done while quarters are vacant. they put it. Work was done in fiscal year hourly peak was 1,445 vehicles. Last year Also not included in the consolidated 1955 with fiscal year 1955 money which further studies showed that the daily contract is a plan to clean the exteriors was not scheduled until fiscal year 1957. traffic was approximately 12,000 vehicles. September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Effective Dates Of New Treaty Provisions

ONE of the principal provisions of the new treaty is for the construction of a would have a clearance of more than 200 feet above the Canal channel; the three bridge across the Canal to provide a permanent crossing for vehicular traffic main spans would be 2,000 feet in length; and the center span, crossing the chan- between points in the Republic of Panama. It is tentatively estimated that nel, would have a 1,000 foot clearance for ship traffic. A tremendous task in such a bridge will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000,000. The type of bridge engineering and design is required before the adoption of any final plan for a and its location are still to be determined. Among the possible sites is one near bridge across the Canal. An appropriation by Congress will be required before the present Thatcher Ferry Crossing. The picture above is an architect's the design or construction is begun. When funds for surveys and design are conception of how a cantilever bridge would look at that particular site. While appropriated, the entire area from Miraflores to La Boca will be investigated not in true perspective with the surrounding landscape, this bridge as sketched thoroughly in the selection of the final location of the bridge.

Ratifications of the New Treaty of Mutual Understanding pate in training programs conducted for their employees by and Cooperation between the United States and the Republic United States agencies in the Canal Zone. of Panama were exchanged in Washington August 23 by Exemption by the United States from the provisions of the representatives of the two nations. The exchange of ratifica- Buy American Act of articles and supplies that are mined, tions concluded almost two years of formal negotiations produced, or manufactured in Panama when such articles and between the two countries. supplies are purchased for use in the Canal Zone. Negotiations on the treaty were begun in Washington in Establishment of a policy for agencies of the Panama Canal September, 1953. The new treaty was signed by President Company, in making purchases of supplies, materials, and Ricardo Arias E. for Panama and Ambassador Selden Chapin equipment, whereby the economy of Panama will have full

for the United States in Panama City on January 25, 1955. opportunity to compete for such business so far as is permitted The National Assembly of Panama ratified the new treaty under U. S. legislation. on March 9, 1955. The treaty was ratified by the Senate of Establishment of a practice under which merchandise to be the United States on July 29, 1955. resold in Canal Zone sales stores will be acquired either from Below, The Panama Canal Review presents for the con- United States or Panamanian sources unless, in certain in- venience of its readers and for reference purposes, the time stances, it is not feasible to do so. table of the dates on which the various treaty and memorandum Reduction by Panama of 75 percent in the import duty on undertakings become effective. alcoholic beverages sold in Panama for importation into the The undertakings appearing below are those which concern Canal Zone. the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government, The increase in the Canal annuity from $430,000 to $1,930,- their operations and their employees. The undertakings which 000; this begins with the first annuity payment after the affect other U. S. agencies exclusively are not included. exchange of ratifications.

II UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE WITH THE EXCHANGE OF UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE ON SPECIFICALLY PRE- RATIFICATIONS. SCRIBED DATES.

For taxable year beginning on or after January i , : Renunciation by the United States of its monopolies respect- 1956 Taxation by Panama of certain persons in the service of the ing trans-Isthmian railroads and highways. Canal, the railroad, or auxiliary works, including non-U. S. Abrogation of the 1903 treaty provisions which authorized citizens residing in the Republic and Panamanians wherever the United States to prescribe sanitary ordinances for Panama and Colon. resident. Abrogation of the obsolete provision of the 1914 Boundary December 31, 1956 Convention respecting the free landing of small vessels at the Exclusion from Canal Zone purchase and importation privi- wall constructed by the Panama Railroad in Colon Harbor. leges of heretofore eligible persons, other than citizens of the The automatic transfer to the Government of Panama of the United States and members of the Armed Forces, who do not landing pier situated in a small cove on the southerly side of reside in the Canal Zone. Manzanillo Island. Authorization to Panama to impose import duties and other The waiver by Panama of the right to free railway trans- charges on goods destined for or consigned to persons other portation for its employees and National Guard force. than citizens of the United State who are employed by agencies Undertaking by the United States to afford equality of of the United States but reside in Panama. opportunity to Panamanians in all U. S. Government positions Withdrawal by the United States of sales to ships, except in the Canal Zone for which they are qualified and in which the for sales to ships operated by the United States and except for employment of United States citizens is not required for the sales of fuel and lubricants and sales incidental to ship security reasons. The United States will also evaluate, repair operations. classify, and title all positions in the Canal Zone without Withdrawal by the United States from non-U. S. citizen regard to the nationality of the incumbent or proposed incum- employees who do not reside in the Canal Zone of services bent; and will afford Panamanians the opportunity to partici- offered in the Canal Zone, except those which (See page is) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955 Contractors Hill Profile—

The Contractors Hill project, except for some minor clean-up work and the removal of machinery and temporary structures, last month became a part of the Panama Canal history. .PR0.

ization had a maximum force of 13 men engaged on inspection and project man- agement. By the end of last month the contractor's force had been cut to less than 50 skilled and about 30 unskilled workers, while the number of Canal employees assigned to the job had been reduced to six. Most of the Canal employees were transferred from other units to Project 13-A and in most instances they have returned to their former positions. The principal items of equipment used on the job included three 2 1 2 -yd. shovels, 15 large trucks, four bulldozers, two wagon drills, and two rotary drills. Precision Blasting One of the principal aspects of the Contractors Hill project was the necessity of blasting and removing the rocky mass without creating a hazard for Canal traffic or interfering with the movement of vessels. This was accomplished by precision drilling and blasting procedure. The strict safety measures adopted at the outset of the work resulted in no interference to Canal traffic. The num- men and machines at work in Augusi 1954 ber of accidents to personnel on the job THE JOB— was remarkably low for a project of that nature and only one serious injury was reported in the 15-month period. One workman was gravely injured by a falling rock boulder. With the conclusion of the Contractors Hill work, the town of Pedro Miguel will become practically deserted. The town- site had been slated for abandonment before the work was started but a numbei of family and bachelor quarters were made available to the contractor's force. Deserted Village The maximum number of quarters in use by these employees was last March when 26 family quarters and nine bache- lors apartments were occupied. This number has now been reduced to 16 families and nine bachelors. When the quarters are vacated, all buildings in Pedro Miguel, with the exception of some 12-apartment buildings erected during World War II, are to be demolished. Most of the public services at Pedro Miguel were discontinued several months ago. After the closing of the commissary last March the building was occupied by the Service Center Division which oper- THE TERRACES—as seen from the opposite bank last June ated a luncheonette and carried a few food items, household necessities, and sundries. This was closed at the end of August. Clean-Up Work The clean-up work remaining to be done at Contractors Hill includes chiefly the removal of a relatively small amount of rock along the Canal banks which

fell during blasting operations, and the removal of an access road on the slope of Project 13. Several temporary buildings used by the Canal and contracting forces will be demolished and removed. The clean-up work will involve the removal of material at the opening of the drainage tunnel, but no further work on ..-•*—" this is planned. It was sunk into the hill to the fissure to permit drainage of surface water and reduce the hydrostatic pressure. The Gaillard plaque was stored when

it was removed from the face of Con- tractors Hill. This is to be reerected at some suitable site after the completion of all work. THE PROFILE—looking toward the Pacific in August 1955 ) . ^

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

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Not too long ago there was a rumor going to get hurt. responsibility to assist your foreman and going around to the effect that our Glance down at the graph a moment safety man in every way possible by safety record wasn't exactly all that and notice the two bureaus at the top. calling their attention to unsafe practices could be desired and that we would be Notice that their frequency rates are and unsafe conditions which you, be- expected to make a sincere effort to zero. They both were also right there cause of your knowledge of your job conditions, be more aware of improve it in the not too distant future. the month before. It can only mean one and may running than they. The talk is still going on and it is no thing. They got their motors longer a rumor. smoothly and they're keeping them run- Actually the formula for accident of their record, There really is no good reason why our ning. They're proud prevention is quite simple. Consider its accident rate should be as high as it is. and rightly so. It reflects the sincere application to your particular line of work interest supervisors workers It is true that we have come a long way shown by and as you look it over. in the past few years, and we are gradu- in those bureaus in the promotion of safe 1. If a hazardous condition exists, ally cutting it lower and lower. We've working conditions, safe practices, and remove it if possible. had some pretty good records at times safe attitudes. They realize that SAFETY 2. If you can't remove the hazard, and some pretty bad ones at others. and Work, SAFETY and Play, SAFETY cover it up to protect the workman. Safety isn't something we can practice and just Whatever-It-Is one is doing, for a while and then drop when every- belong together just as naturally as 3. If it is impractical to cover it up, thing is going smoothly. It's like the HAM and EGGS. They've made an then protect the worker with the appro- motors on an airplane. As long as excellent start toward a fine safety record priate safety apparel. their for coming fiscal they're running smoothly everything is for bureaus the Remember, there's nothing "sissy" is year, and they've set a good example for fine. But just because everything about wearing safety apparel when it is the rest of us to follow. Let's make running smoothly, the pilot doesn't shut needed. Ask any of the fellows with one every effort to stay as close to as off the motors and expect the plane to them foot, eye, or hand missing how they feel possible. keep on going. It just won't. about it. They'll tell you. A foreman, too, could get by with let- How are we going to do it? Well, Unfortunately we seldom hear of the ting safety violations slip past now and first let's stop worrying about who has cases where hard hats have saved men then. From time to time he could over- the most hazardous job and who has the from serious injury and even saved their look a chance-taking among his men, and least hazardous one. Consider your own lives; of the numerous cases of fellows odds are good nothing would come of it— job. Maybe it is dangerous. Does who still have two eyes, only because they for a while. Sooner or later someone's everyone who works at it get hurt? had on their safety goggles when a flying Remember, there is a cause, a reason for piece of steel or concrete hit and frac- HONOR ROLL every accident. They just don't happen. tured the safety glass lens; of the many Bureau Award For If the causes for accidents could all be instances where industrial trucks have BEST RECORD removed there wouldn't be any accidents. run over a man's foot, heavy timbers JULY One of the jobs of your safety man is to and heavy iron bars have fallen on their look for these causes and see that neces- COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU feet and because the men were wearing sary action is taken to remove them BUREAU safety shoes they thought little or noth- HEALTH before an accident occurs. However, he ing of the incident. Perhaps we should AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR is not superhuman. He can't be expected mention in detail when and where and Supply 3 to foresee everything. to whom these incidents occur. When- Community Services 3 When an accident does occur it is Health 3 his ever you know of one, see that your to help the foreman Engineering and Construction 2 job discover the safety man hears of it. Even though no 1 it Transportation and Terminals cause so that may be eliminated in one is injured, the incident must be Civil Affairs 1 order to prevent the same thing from regarded as an accident, and steps taken Marine happening again. You also have a to try to prevent its recurrence. Division Award For

NO DISABLING INJURIES Disabling Injuries per 1,000,000 Man-Hours Worked JULY 1955 JULY (Frequency Rate)

COMMISSARY DIVISION 10 20 30 40 5( HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS 1 Community Services Bureau 1 MAINTENANCE DIVISION ±±±J

SERVICE CENTER DIVISION Health Bureau 1 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION m 3 1 MOTOR TRANSPORTATIONiDIVISION Supply Bureau RAILROAD DIVISION 8 C. Z. Govt.-Panama Canal Co. I This Month HOUSING DIVISION 8 AIDS TO NAVIGATION Civil Affairs Bureau

SANITATION DIVISION Marine Bureau 10 AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR 12 Govt.-Panama Canal Co. I Last Av. i Aids to Navigation 6 C. Z. 3-Year Housing 6 Maintenance 6 Engineering and Construction Bureau 12 Sanitation 6 Motor Transportation 5 Transportation and Terminals Bureau 13 Railroad 5

1 Electrical 4 ' i 1 Grounds Maintenance 4 20 30 40 50 Industrial 4 Number of Disabling Injuries... Man-Hours Worked 2,202,192 Service Center 4 .17 Storehouses 4 LEGEND Commissary 3 Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government Panama Canal Company Last 3- Year Average Dredging 3 3 — Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Locks 1 I Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government— Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average Terminals 1 Navigation Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW OF CURRENT INTEREST

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TWO JUNIOR management interns, William S. Wigg, right, and Joseph M. Watson, left, were On sale, when available, from the Vault briefed by Daniel J. Paolucei, Training Officer, last month after they were appointed to attend the Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, five-and-a-half month training program in Washington. Fifty-one selected Federal employees will Bilboa Heights. attend the program which begins next week and continues until late in January. Mr. Wigg left last Saturday by Panama Line enroute to Washington and Mr. Watson is leaving by plane next Tuesday. Mr. Wigg, Supervisory Administrative Assistant of the Administrative Branch, made the highest Postal money orders should be made pay- score in the qualifying examinations of any competing employee in the Federal service, the first time able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- a Canal employee has set such a record. Mr. Watson, Administrative Assistant in the Cristobal pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama offices of the Maintenance Division, is the only native Virgin Islander on the Canal rolls. His father Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. worked for the All America Cable Company in St. Thomas, and Joseph Watson grew up in the Islands.

A total of 263 bonded employees of the Canal Zone Junior College students Retires Canal Zone Government who have been should be interested to know that their paying the premium for their own fidelity College Drama group is listed in the August bonds will benefit from legislation enacted issue of the Theatre Arts Magazine together just before the adjournment of Congress with other schools of the theatre and com- this year. munity theatres all over the United States Under the new law, the Canal Zone Gov- and possessions. ernment will pay the cost of the bonding, a total of $480 per year. Bond premiums for bonded employees of the Panama Canal Two physicians joined the staff of Gorgas Company have been covered by the Com- Hospital during the past month. They are pany for some time. Dr. John M. Kohl, Assistant Chief of the X-Ray Service, and Dr. Bernard Willett, Chief of the General Surgical Section.

Questions most frequently asked by visi- Dr. Kohl is a Major in the United States tors to the Canal Zone or by Zonians them- Air Force and came to the Canal Zone from selves about the waterway and its traffic, Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, which general features of the Canal Zone, and was his last station. He was born in Wilkes- highlights of Isthmian history are answered barre, Pa., and received his medical degree in a handsome new pamphlet prepared by from the Jefferson Medical College in Phil- the Panama Canal Information Office. adelphia. The 16-page booklet, illustrated with Dr. Willett is a native of Newton, Mass., photographs, charts, and diagrams, is a and is a graduate of Brown University. He completely rewritten and revised version of took his medical degree in Boston College the old general information pamphlet. It is and his internship at the Boston City Hosp- entitled The Panama Canal — Funnel for ital. Before coming to the Isthmus, he was World Commerce. with the Rosengard Clinic in South Boston. Individual copies may be obtained with- out charge from the Administrative Branch. lively interest in the of the A small amount will be charged when a re- A workings Canal has always been taken quest is made for additional copies. Panama by the school children in the Republic of Pan- RANDALL H. FORD, above, has never known ama. During the past fiscal year approxi- much of any other home but the Canal Zone; he mately 1,000 students and teachers from came to the Isthmus when he was only seven years A new type of crosswalk made its appear- Panama were taken on courtesy trips old. Last month he retired after a little over 37 ance last month on the Pacific side of the through Gaillard Cut aboard the Dredging years with the Canal organization and will make his Canal Zone. Instead of being delineated Division tugs San Pablo and Culebra. Most home in Florida. by white lines, the crosswalks are indicated of the students were from public schools in He was one of two Motor Transportation Division by large blocks of white painted on the sur- Panama City although there was one group oldtimers retiring in August. The other was Michael face of the street. from the Felix Olivares School in David. I. Crooks, Supervisor of Motor Transportation who Traffic engineers believe that crosswalks Canal Zone students also made the partial had 33 years and six months service. The Crooks of this type, extensively used in Europe, are Canal transit. will live in California. Both Ford and Crooks more easily visible not only to the pedes- families sailed on the Panama Line August 20. Several prominent visitors to the Canal trian but also to an approaching motorist. Mr. Ford was the son of Walter G. Ford, a Panama Zone, among them \ ice President Richard Three crosswalks of the new type have Railroad engineer. The familv came to the Canal Nixon and former Secretary of the Army, been located on the Pacific side. One is on this trip last year Zone in 1907. Robert T. Stevens, made Diablo Road opposite Walker Avenue, one Division craft. Mr. Ford's first job, in 1916, was a chauffeur. He aboard Dredging on Roosevelt Road where students cross later served an apprenticeship as an automobile the street from the high school to the shop mechanic and all of his service, w'.iich was continuous and business buildings, and the third on except for military service in World War I, had to do Gaillard Highway at Los Rios. The first whaling fleet to transit the with motor vehicles. He also served for several Canal made the northbound passage years as a member of the Efficiency Rating Board A similar crosswalk has been installed of Review. on Randolph Road in Rainbow City. September 28, 1914. — YOURTHE PANAMA CANALTOWNREVIEW September 2, 1955

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RAINBOW CITY is the largest of the Canal communities. Its newest section is in the foreground; some of the school buildings and part of the older section of the town appear in the upper left. Camp Coiner is located across Randolph Road to the left, out of camera range.

A passenger on an Atlantic side bus- them moved onto newly filled ground so two major settlements; the files show one of the Dragnet Line, for instance close to the border that the street on which merely that there were 2,439 men, never gives his Destination simply as they faced was in Panamanian territory. women, and children in "silver" quarters Rainbow City. That would be like telling The quarters at Camp Bierd— which in the Cristobal District in 1907, and a taxi driver in New York that you'd like undoubtedly got its name from W. G. that the school, with an enrollment of to be taken to the East Side or a Boston Bierd, an early Superintendent of the 166, was the largest colored school in the chauffeur thatyou want to go to Back Bay. Panama Railroad -included a few houses Canal Zone. Rainbow City, bisected by Randolph for families but most of the Camp Bierd Population Steady Road, is spread out over such an area buildings were barracks for dock workers; The fact that Cristobal was already a that a bus passenger has to be pretty these were not the big structures which major port and railroad center kept the specific about where he wants to go: barracks are today but one-story build- population of the two settlements fairly The Cantonment, Camp Coiner, the new ings, each housing 25 men. The mess- steady, as a majority of the men living town, or the Market. house at this time was an old "magazine" there worked in the railroad shops, on To many Isthmians, Rainbow City which had been used as storehouse for the docks, or construction. Consequently is the cluster of 91 almost new masonry bricks. It later became a barracks in neither Camp Bierd nor Fox River under- houses between the Folks River estuary its own right and finally combined hous- went the decrease of population or even and the cluster of two-story wooden ing functions with those of a furniture oblivion which occurred to many Canal houses which used to be known as Silver warehouse and storeroom. towns as construction days ended. City Heights. It is hard to determine from old records Soon after the Canal was opened, a Actually, Rainbow City includes both how many people lived in each of these survey was started to determine housing these sections and the areas known until needs all through the Canal Zone. The 1952 as Silver City and Camp Coiner. answer, as far as the Atlantic side was Few of Rainbow City's buildings are concerned, indicated an urgent need for more than 30 years or so old, but its more quarters, fast. general location has been a housing area This was 1915. The population of since French Canal days. Old maps Fox River was 932 and that of Camp show a little settlement called Guava Bierd, 1,818. The Camp Bieid barracks Ridge about where the newer section of were filled beyond their capacity and 500 Rainbow City stands today. The main apartments were needed for married em- areas for the "native" housing, however, ployees in the two sections. The Canal's were further north. Quartermaster Department began plans Fox River, Camp Bierd for a new "silver town." When the American canal builders arrived early in the twentieth century Noah's Ark they found two main groups of houses in To help out the acute situation the this area. One group was at Folks River Canal took over fiom a private owner a (referred to until about 1915 as "Fox" huge structure of 140 rooms which was River) and the other was on the shore of known to Atlantic siders as Noah's Ark Limon Bay, overlooking Telfer's Island or the Long Building. For a while it where quantities of French equipment housed families, then it became bachelor had been abandoned. The first of these quarters and finally it housed both. settlements eventually became the fore- When the Ark was finally torn down in

runner of Rainbow City; the latter is 1928, new houses had to be found for its now known as Camp Bierd. 48 family and 66 bachelor occupants. The Fox River settlement was appar- According to D'Elman Clark, who has ently the. older and larger of the two. been with the Cristobal housing office It lay in the line of a sewerage layout and since 1920, the Long Building stood just •uses had to be moved about 1906. about at the north end of the present At this time there are references in old Motor Transportation Division Corral. files to "small portable houses put up by Later this location was used as a terminal the French and in bad condition" and for Isthmian Airways and for PAA's to "24 main buildings in three rows" amphibian flights.

railroad shops A fill south and east of the corral was between the and the main )( I IN ALD E. BRUCE, Manager of the Rainbow ( Sty line. Chief Engineer John F. Stevens had Commissary, and his cocker, Pudge, are inseparable. selected as the best site for the new town September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW RAINBOW CITY to house the Folks River and Camp Bierd families. Thirty-nine 12-family houses and ten 32-room bachelor barracks were built between 1919 and 1921 on the

fill which was packed hard with dirt exca- vated by the Army during the construc- tion of Fort Davis. Silver City For some time neither town nor streets were_named. The settlement was refer- red to in Canal files as silver town and Silver Town. Eventually its residents took matters into their own hands and called it Silver City. The same thing happened with the streets, which at first were numbered or lettered. It was not long before there was an Alligator Street—now St. Kitts— and a Wall Street where the more affluent Silver

Citonians lived. Wall Street is now known as Jamaica Street. Silver City continued to grow and in 1933 it got its first suburb: Silver City Heights. The difference in altitude of the two sections is barely perceptible

and the name was of local coinage. CAMP BIERD, where there i9 now only a house or two and a cluster of bachelor barracks, was once Vinesa Mundly, a Motor Transportation the bustling town shown in this old picture. The men in the foreground are lined up at the messhall. Division chauffeur who has worked for new Silver City Heights houses to shelter and under wartime restrictions. Still the Canal organization since 1914, says: the refugees and within a few months 36 standing today is the town's old bomb "It was a pleasant name and it worried cantonment-type quarters which still shelter, which now houses the Camera no one." stand provided more permanent shelter. Club and some of the activities of the Most of the buildings in Silver City At first each house had 12 apartments. schools' physical education director. Just Heights, designed primarily to accom- Not long ago they were remodeled and across Randolph Road was Camp Coiner, modate the families still living at Camp today four or six families live in each of an Army Engineer camp where, one Bierd, were two-story 12-family quarters; the long low buildings. former Engineer employee says, "men a good many of them are still standing. The war years brought another popu- and machines nested together and the Some are in bad condition and are about lation increase. Most of this, however, men fought the ever-present sandflies." ready for Chain Singh or some other was due to the importation of contract After the end of the war Silver City got building buyer; but some, of composite laborers to work on the docks and the its second suburb when Camp Coiner construction and built three years later, bulk of these were housed in barracks was transferred to the Canal. None of sport new coats of paint and are quite at Camp Bierd. Today most of Camp the Army buildings remain but some of presentable. Bierd's wartime buildings have been today's houses stand on old Army Fire Refugees torn down. William Jump, of the foundations. Later the first "experi- Silver City had barely adjusted to the Industrial Division, lives with his family mental housing" for local rate workers status of a town with a suburb when it in the remodeled Camp Bierd labor office was built in Camp Coiner. had an unexpected influx of people. On which stands alone in a section where Like A Rainbow the night of April 15, 1940, flames swept thousands of men once milled around; The last expansion of the town took through the heart of Colon, driving Camp Bierd bachelors live in a cluster of place about three years ago when 182 hundreds of families from their homes. onetime Navy barracks which they call apartments, all in two-family houses, Many of them were Canal employees. Vatican City. were built just about a mango-throw Within a few days 100 tents had gone Like other Canal towns, Silver City from the Folks River estuary. The up in rows just south of the comparatively had its civil defense, lived with blackouts houses were, and still are, painted in attractive pastel shades. The name of Rainbow City, which the residents them- selves chose in a poll, sponsored by The Panama Canal Review, was a

natural. The color scheme is still being followed. The new sewage disposal plant just opened in Rainbow City, is a cheerful pale green. The first families, among them the handful still remaining in Camp Bierd, moved into the new Rainbow City quar- ters in December 1951. Honor of being the new section's senior resident goes to Victor Pinta who moved into his quar- ters the day after Christmas that year. Rainbow City, including all of its suburbs, is the largest of the Canal towns. Its population, according to last November's census, is 4,845, and 55 percent of them are children. There are more children living in Rainbow City than the combined populations— adult and small fry— of Margarita and New Cristobal, and the Rainbow City Junior High School and the town's elementary school are the largest of the Latin- American school system.

SCHOOL PRINCIPALS William Wilkie, left, of the Rainbow City elementary school, and Owen B. Today Rainbow City has just about Shirley of the Rainbow City Junior and Senior High Schools, are responsible for over 1,650 students. the same facilities as (See page w) a .

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Your Town—Rainbow Cily CANAL ZONE CLERGY (Continued from page 9) any Canal town, although its residents receive their mail The Rev. Herbert T. Bernthal, Pastor at Cristobal. Its housewives have a of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of choice of shopping at the big concrete Balboa, is a minister's son; he and his two commissary, built in 1930, near the brothers followed their father's career. Mount Hope stadium, at the Camp 9 He has been the Pastor of the Balboa Bierd Commissary which was opened in church since July 1950, but is leaving this 1942 when Camp Bierd was not the month for a new appointment in Wash- deserted village it is today, or at Rainbow ington, D. C. City's own little market where a dozen or Born in Serbin, Tex., he grew up in so vendors sell bananas and plantains Sweet Springs, Mo. He took his pre- and such foodstuffs. ministerial studies at St. Paul's College Its people have a wide choice of in Concordia, Mo. and his theological churches. There are seven in Rainbow work at Concordia Theological Seminary City and a Church of God and an Episco- in St. Louis, graduating from the latter pal rectory are being built. school in 1923. For recreation they have, in Rainbow His last assignment, before coming City proper, a handsome swimming pool here, was in Milwaukee which the Bern- CUTHBERT C. ROWE, Manager of Camp Bierd thals still consider home. During World Service Center and the Rainbow City Luncheonette.

izations is the Women's Industrial Club, headed by Mrs. Ethlin Belgrave. There women who are experts in some line like cake-decorating, embroidery or dress- making, give lessons, without charge, in their specialties. Another women's group

is the Atlantic Army Mothers, of which Mrs. James Chambers is president. As the name implies, they are a home front for the Rainbow City boys in the service. Rainbow City's people are proud of their record of men in the armed forces. A larger number of young men from Rainbow City served in Korea and the first Isthmian to die there was Gilbert D. Francis, a Rainbow City boy. The people of Rainbow City are also great civic boosters. Listen to the Civic JOHN C. WALLACE Council President: Manager, Camp Bierd Commissary "We are proud of our improved and with a luncheonette handily nearby and' modern classrooms, our swimming pool THE REV. HERBERT T. BERNTHAL at Camp Bierd Service Center, one of the and its luncheonette with a handy mail War II, he served for a time as chaplain largest movie halls in the Canal Zone. box nearby. We hope someday to have at the Army Air Force Radio School in There is a Lodge Hall where the a large library in a building of its own Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; after his separation Foresters and other fraternal organiza- but in the meantime we are very pleased from the service he was placed in charge tions meet, in one of the few remaining with the branch library in the high school. the big Lutheran Service Center Silver City buildings, and the Inter- We'd like someday to have a movie of — in St. Louis. national Boy Scouts have a clubhouse of theater in our community proper. We USO— The two assignments had a major their own. Offices of the Cristobal are proud of our gymnasium and our effect on his Canal Zone appointment: Chapter of the CIO local and the Cris- modern commissary. We like the idea to the tobal Federal Credit Union are near the that we named the town and, well, we Mr. Bernthal was recommended local congregation by the Armed Service Camp Bierd Service Center. just like Rainbow City." of the Lutheran Church. The people of Rainbow City are avid Committee In addition to heading the Balboa ball fans; they have both big and little Increased Retirement Pay congregation, Mr. Bernthal has conducted leagues. Their team, the Dark Mil- weekly services at the Margarita gymna- lionaires, is this year's champion for the Due With November Checks Atlantic Siders. Softball League and the Silver City sium for his have enjoyed their Heights youngsters won the pennant in Those retired employees of the Canal Both he and wife leave the Canal Zone with Rainbow City's own Little League. organization whose retirement pay has stay here and considerable regret. But the new post Joscelyn Evering is president of the been less than $4,104 a year will soon overlook, Rainbow City Major Softball League; receive larger monthly checks to help presents a challenge he cannot he says. In addition, the Bernthals will the president of the Little League is them meet the present cost of living somewhat nearer to their two sons and Earle G. Moore. which, in most cases, is much higher than be daughters, all of whom are now living Cricket is, of course, another favorite at the time they retired. two in the United States. sport. For the second time this year The increased retirement annuity is the the Surrey Cricket Club of Rainbow result of legislation passed by Congress

City won the championship of the cricket before it adjourned. The bill was signed league, winning 32 out of 35 games. by President Eisenhower last month. Going! Going! The Summer Recreation program which It provides for an increase of 12 percent keeps the young'uns occupied during on all annuities up to $1,500 and an addi- Household furniture, meaning anything

their school vacation, is carried out under tional increase of 8 percent on the amount from a wastebasket to a bedroom set, will the leadership of volunteer workers. of the annuity over $1,500. A retired be auctioned off September 10 by the This year's program was one of the most employee who has been drawing $2,000 Supply Bureau. The auction will be held successful of any to date. a year, for instance, will now receive in Building 42 at Section I on Diablo Besides its fraternal bodies and its ball $2,220—$180 for the 12 percent on Road and will be open to the public from teams, Rainbow City has a number of $1,500 and $40 for the $500 above $1,500. 9 a. m. on. other active organizations. There is the No annuity may exceed $4,104 as a Richard W. Chesson, ordinarily a Civic Council, whose current president result of the legislation and no increase police officer, will be the day's auctioneer is J. J. Joseph. It meets regularly to may be larger than $360 a year. The for the furniture which was turned over discuss the town's problems and its increased annuities are effective October to the Storehouses by the Housing Divi- auctioned representatives attend the monthly "shirt- 1 ; the increases will appear in the checks sion for sale. The items to be sleeve conferences" with the Governor. sent out November 1. Widows who may be inspected at Section I between One of Rainbow City's unique organ- receive annuities will also benefit. 7 a. m. and 4 p. m. after Sept. 7. September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Veterans Preference Zone Youngsters Have Competition; Grownups Learning To Read, Too Regulations Outlined

Company-Government employees who have entered the armed forces for the first time since July 1, or who enter the military service in the future will have the status of peace-time veterans. Th?y will have job-restoration rights but they will not be accorded veterans preference for reduction in force or ad- verse personnel actions such as demotions, etc., nor will they have appeal rights except under special conditions. Irp^ffr? These points were clarified in informa- tion received by the Panama Canal \m Jfi \~T Company from the Veterans Counseling Service of the Civil Service Commission. The Commission reported that indivi- duals entering the armed services after

July 1, 1955, will be entitled to be returned to the jobs they left when they entered the service. This provision was made in the bill in which Congress extended

Selective Service to July 1, 1959. Those entering the service for the first time after July 1, 1955, however, will not CANAL EMPLOYEES who are learning to read—rapidly—are members of this class which is get- allowed the veterans preference for be ting under way under the direction of Lloyd Murphy, far right. They were the first to take the new reduction in force, etc., unless they serve course and, with the exception of Walter Lindsay, Chief of the Grounds Maintenance Division, are in a campaign or an expedition for which all from the Personnel Bureau. Left to right are John H. Terry, Mrs. Marguerite Maphis, Mrs. Ruth S. Dunscombe, Mr. Lindsay, Mrs. Betty, Frank D. Naughton, W.' J. Kilgallen, Mrs. Marie B. a campaign badge is authorized or unless de la Guardia, Robert D. Kelly, and Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver, all Pacific siders. they establish the "present existence of a service-connected disability." They will also have no appeal rights Canal employees are now being taught on the quiz of the contents of the selection under section 14 (which covers adverse to read—rapidly, that is. is combined in a single figure called the personnel actions of the Veterans Prefer- Twice each week, volunteer groups of Reading Score. ence Act) unless they attain such prefer- 10 or more employees are meeting in the An opportunity to improve this single ence from a campaign or expedition Personnel Training Center on Roosevelt over-all reading score is given the students referred to in the preceding paragraph. Avenue and are studying their reading in the subsequent lessons. According to lessons as earnestly as elementary school Lloyd Murphy, Personnel Officer con- pupils. ducting the program, there has been a Border Marker marked improvement in all cases. The lessons, however, are not elemen- The program, which was started July tary. They follow a pattern worked out 12 by the Training Office of the Personnel in the States by the Harvard University Bureau, is the first of its kind ever to be Bureau of Study Control and involve the offered in the Canal Zone. From results use of specially made films and the read- seen so far there is little doubt it will ing of a group of short essays selected to greatly improve the efficiency of the improve the student's reading and com- employee no matter what his job. prehension. These lessons have made Most employees, it was pointed out by many of the students realize that they the Training office, have to deal with have not changed their reading habits memos and reports, and the habit of since they left elementary school. writing in a clear and readable fashion Already Improved has been encouraged. This ability, how- Although the first group has completed ever, is of little value unless the em- only half of the required course, a marked ployee is also able to read and interpret improvement in the reading speed of all correctly the material given him. students has been noted. Pilot Groups This improvement is in comparison to The first two classes to take the course the results of the speed test the students were pilot groups composed of employees were given when they started in the of the Personnel Bureau and a number of class, a speed test which scored the rate of supervisory personnel from various bu- reading as well as comprehension. From reaus and units of the Canal organization. then on the program has been aimed at In August a third group was organized improving and speeding up reading rate and is now meeting two days each week and comprehension. for one-and-a-half hour sessions. Basic material for the course consists The program will be a continuing one; of a series of 16-mm. films which show according to present plans at least 30 illuminated printed phrases and parts of groups of students will be organized and lines in rapid succession. As the film trained within the next two years. progresses, the phrases are shown at an Members of the first group taking the increased rate of speed and at the end course are Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver, each person checks his comprehension by Mrs. Marie de la Guardia, Mrs. Ruth H. selecting the best answers to 10 multiple- Dunscombe, Mrs. Betty Hackett, Robert choice questions. D. Kelly, William J. Kilgallen, Walter R. Lindsay, Mrs. Marguerite Reading Score Maphis, Frank Naughton, and John H. Terry. IF you stood facing this marker your right foot The second half of each lesson con- would be in the Canal Zone and your left in the The second group is composed of R. 0. sists of the reading of a Republic of Panama. Boundary markers can be group of short Theriault, Edwin C. Jones, William E. seen in the curb along Fourth of July Avenue, but essays selected to improve the reader's LeBrun, Theodore J. Wilber, John few Isthmians have ever seen this marker, No. 66, speed comprehension. and Fisher, Herschel Candy, Russell T. Wise, on a hillside off Madden Road. It indicates the northern boundary of the Forest Preserve and the The speed with which the student com- Mrs. Dorothy Benny, Charles T. Jackson, boundary between the Canal Zone and Panama. pletes an essay and the grade he makes and Lee Kariger. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955 Promotions In Police Division

NOW a Captain, Eugene S. Shipley NOW a Major, Rodger E. Griffith NOW a Lieutenant, Robert J. Hel- heads the Cristobal Police District. is Chief of the Police Division. merichs is transferred to Cristobal.

Maintenance Division

Consolidation Planned

All Pacific side activities of the Main- tenance Division are to be consolidated CINDERELLA had glass slippers but she It may be hard to believe, with summer vaca- soon in one location in the Industrial wasn't a whit more glamorous than the modern tion just coming to a close, that Christmas Division area in Balboa. young miss who can have her dancing shoes isn't too far ahead. Now is the Remodeling of Buildings 8 and 10 in made of gold and silver plastic. School Looking time, the Commissary people lay, the Industrial area, into which Mainte- parties mean formal dresses and formal dresses Ahead to buy Christmas cards and what mean party slippers. could be better than the unusual nance Division operations and offices will The Commissaries later this month will place cards prepared for the holiday season by the be moved; the move itself; and the on sale a supply of dainty dancing sandals members of the Canal Zone Branch of the of all of the Main- demolition but two which should be as comfortable and durable National League of American Penwomen. tenance Division buildings in the Ancon as they are beautiful. One model, with a These cards, which are now being placed on sale in all the Commissary retail stores, in- and Corozo Street yards will be done by flat pancake heel, is a strip sandal, meaning clude 16 different designs. contract. Specifications for this contract there is hardly anything to it. It was meant, however, for iong hours of dancing and best Most of them are woodcuts or free-hand are now being prepared and a request for drawings of local of all it will not tarnish. Other models have scenes or have designs bids will be advertised within the next the low graceful French heel so popular this with a tropical motif which should go over the folks Extra few days. year and come in gold as well as silver. They big with back home. cards can be ordered through the Commissary if a According to present plans the transfer are made by Hannahson's and are only $6.95. certain type is out of stock at the moment. and consolidation will be completed Prices will range from 1 5 to 25 cents per card. before the end of the calendar year. For those who do a lot of walking (and expect that this consolidation in "We who doesn't at some time or another), PULP has been used for a lot of one area will reduce our expenses and the Commissary has ordered a WOOD things but never for flowers, so far as we know. make for a more workable organization," Soft shipment of Vinier "Whisper Recently, however, the Commissary got a Stepping Steps" made of soft glove leather Frank H. Lerchen, Maintenance Engin- small shipment of wood-pulp corsages —with with a so-called chrome split sole. eer, told The Panama Canal Review. earrings to match which appear natural They have flat heels, of course, and look as enough to be the real thing. Better even "In addition, we will be closer to the though they were the closest things to bed- than that, they seem to have noncrushable, storehouses and will not have to carry in room slippers we have found — in comfort nonwiltable qualities which are lacking in that is. Colors are solid yellow, red, and a our own shops such a large inventory of other types of dress posies. They are made good-looking shade of beige. supplies as we have been doing." in California and each corsage comes in its While we are on the subject of shoes, it Building 8, in the Industrial Division own private plastic bandbox. might as well be mentioned that the shoe area, will house all of the Maintenance sections will soon have a stock of white Division shops, such as painting, welding, "sweater pumps" with a closed heel and For the fall bride on your list the Commissary toe. They also come in red and the new carpentry, etc., and the Division's main Division suggests that a survey be made of shade of avocado and have low slim heels office. This building was used as a saw- the stock of electrical kitchen as well as the two-inch variety so popular Blenders for appliances now available in mill by the former Mechanical Division. with the short gals. Brides the housewares sections. In Building 10, which is now used as a addition to the Sunbeam Coffee storehouse, will be taken over for the Master, which does everything but blow EVERY WELL-DRESSED female, whether Maintenance Division's packing and reveille, they have Waring Blenders, Mix- she be teenage or grandmother, likes to wear shop, masters, Hamilton Beach portable food mixers crating storage, and heavy equip- something she saw advertised in one of the and Sunbeam automatic toasters. The Mix- ment for public works, Mr. Lerchen said. women's magazines. The Commissary Divi- master now comes with a food blender After the all except sion has been fortunate to receive a large move, buildings attachment which works just like a regular shipment of nationally advertised summer one in the Corozo Street yard will be blender and costs only $11.50. cottons designed by such well-known firms- as demolished. The sole remaining build- Jonathan Logan, Teena Paige, Henry Rosen- ing will be that presently used as the feld, and Kay Windsor. The line includes THE COMMISSARY cold storage section main office. It will be transferred to the junior miss sizes from 7 to 1 5 and also misses' reports that the shipments of seasonal fresh sizes from 8 to 20. Most of them have Personnel Division and will house oper- fruits and vegetables from both the West and glamour enough for movie dates or even for the East Coasts of the United States will con- ations of the Training Officer and of the informal cocktail parties. Naturally they tinue on into September so long as there are Apprentice School. are all washable and the prices are right for supplies available for export. This means At the Ancon yard, only one build- most pocketbooks. that there will be several more shipments of ing—the one-time office building now These, and a small shipment of more formal fresh peaches, nectarines, and cantaloupes. cocktail dresses by Marjae of Miami, There is also an ample supply of New being used by the Grounds Maintenance cotton will be on sale at the end of September. Zealand lamb legs which are definitely a Division— will remain after the transfer The cocktail dresses will be sold only in buy at 54 cents per pound, trimmed and to the Industrial Division area. Balboa. ready for roasting. September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Cristobal High SchoolSgh. Charles Two Organizational Changes To Be Made E. Finnegan will replace Sgt. Edward Souney who died suddenly August 1. Sgt. Robert Robinson has been This Year In Zone's U. S. Citizen Schools reassigned and will be replaced but his replacement has not been announced. Two organizational changes in the fields such as art, music, home economics, Lieutenant Wheeler, a native New Division of Schools- consolidation of shop, etc., which are all now administered Yorker, is a graduate of Harvard. He the principalships of several elementary by the school principals. schools and the elimination of a separ- Heretofore, the physical education ate Physical Education and Recreation teachers have operated in the schools Branch—will be made this school year under the supervision of the head of in the United States Citizen Schools. the Physical Education and Recreation The consolidation of piincipalships will Branch, G. C. Lockridge. These teach- bring the responsibilities of elementary ers will now be assigned to the schools. principals into line with the standards in Mr. Lockridge will continue as tech- effect in Washington, D. C. The District nical supervisor of physical education and of salary Columbia rates are the basis athletics on the staff of the Superin- for those in the Canal Zone and workload tendent of Schools. No changes will be requirements on which the Washington made in the number of physical education salary scales are based are as basis used a teachers nor in the program itself. for Canal Zone assignments. The following elementary schools will Five New Instructors Join be combined under a single elementary principal for each pair: North and South Cadre For Canal Zone ROTC Margarita; Kobbe and Cocoli; Diablo and Ancon. There will be no change in Cadets in the Canal Zone High Schocl the Balboa elementary school. Teacher Junior ROTC will find several new faces principals will be in charge at Pedro in the ROTC cadre this school year. Miguel, Gamboa, Gatun, and Cristobal. The cadre turnover is the largest since X the ROTC program was started in the In addition to the changes in the ele- Master Sergeant JACK WALLACE Zone schools. By schools, the changes mentary schools, the administration of are: has served in Hawaii, Korea, and Japan, the Balboa Senior and Junior High Schools Balboa High School—LL Christopher as well as in the United States. Sergeant is being combined under the principal of Wallace, Wheeler will replace Capt. Thomas a Texan, is a paratrooper. He the Balboa Senior High School who will served in Japan and Korea and held the Blake as Assistant Professor assisted two assistant senior high of Military be by rank of Captain during his Korean Science and Tactics. Captain Blake has school principals. service. Sergeant Rodgers, a former been reassigned to Fort Amador. M. Some personnel shifts will result from Marine, has been in the Army since Sgt. Jack E. Wallace will replace Sgt. this consolidation; they will be announced 1950. He comes to the Canal Zone from Carl 0. Webb who has been reassigned a post as advisor to the Oregon by the Superintendent of Schools. National to Maryland; and M. Sgt. George E. Guard. Sergeant Finnegan was born in organizational change concerning The Rodgers will replace Sgt. George Rosen, Keesville, N. Y. He has been in the will bring that program physical education who has been reassigned to Fort Leonard Army since 1951 and has served in to the same level as that of other special Wood in Missouri. Japan and Korea.

Effective Dates of New Treaty Provisions

(Continued from page 3) are essential to health or necessary to Withdrawal from the Colon railroad passenger station site permit them to perform their duties. and conveyance of such site and structure to the Republic,

Ill at such time as the removal from De Lesseps, Colon Beach, UNDERTAKINGS WHICH ARE DEPENDENT ON ENACT- and New Cristobal shall have been fully completed. MENT OF SPECIFIC LEGISLATION. Construction of a bridge across the Canal at Balboa. Conveyance to Panama of certain lands and improvements IV in the Republic of Panama, when and as determined by the UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE ON INDETERMINATE DATES, United States that these are no longer needed. AND NOT CONTINGENT ON LEGISLATION. Conveyance to the Republic of Panama of Paitilla Point Change of the boundary line between Colon and the Canal and the relinquishment of the United States' sovereign rights Zone, to place Battery Morgan and certain water areas in thereover. Colon; this is effective on completion of the withdrawal by -the Authorization of each United States agency in the Canal United States from the New Cristobal, Colon Beach, and Zone to conform its existing wage practices to the principle De Lesseps areas. of the same basic wage for any employee eligible to the position Restriction by the United States of the use of the proposed regardless of whether he is a United States or Panamanian strategic highway crossing the Isthmus wholly in the Canal citizen. Zone; this is contingent on the discontinuance of the Panama application of the Civil Service Retirement Act to Uniform Railroad and the completion of such highway. citizens of the United States and of Panama employed in the Termination by the Panama Canal Company of the manu- Canal Zone. facture and processing of goods for sale to or consumption of transfer to Panama by the United States of certain The individuals, whenever and for so long as such goods or particular of land, including the old freight house and Pier No. 3 tracts classes thereof are available in the Republic on a continuing in Colon. basis, in satisfactory quantities and qualities and at reasonable Removal of Panama Railroad terminal operations from prices; the United States will give prompt consideration to any the city of Panama and transfer to Panama of the lands and written request from the Panamanian Government concern- improvements involved, specifically including the railway ing the termination of any such activity. This provision is passenger station. effective on the exchange of ratifications but subject to the Gradual withdrawal of the United States from the Colon availability of goods in the Republic, as stated. areas known as De Lesseps, New Cristobal, and Colon Beach Withdrawal by the United States from the handling of and the conveyance or transfer to the Republic of Panama of commercial cargo for transshipment on Canal Zone piers, as the lands and improvement thereon; this conveyance or transfer soon as Panamanian port facilities are in satisfactory operation is to occur as severable parts of these areas cease to be needed. in Colon. 7

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nel changes, some of which are described as reassignments, some as promotions, and AND TRANSFERS some as changes in title. PROMOTIONS Anthony R. Lombroia, Carpenter Fore- man to Planing Mill Lead Foreman; Leon 15 August 15 E. Dedeaux, Hospital Maintenance Lead July through Foreman to Building Maintenance Lead Foreman; Burman S. Spangler, Planing Employees who were promoted or trans- inarian, from Panama Health Office to Mill Foreman to Hospital Maintenance ferred between July 15 and August 15 are Division of Veterinary Medicine. Lead Foreman; George O. Tarflinger, promotions are Paul Brooks, Sanitation Inspector, listc. I below. Within-grade J. Service Mechanic and Refrigeration and mil listed. from Panama Health Office to Division of Air Conditioning Mechanic to Refrigeration CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Sanitation. and Air Conditioning Foreman; Dr. Keane, Veterinarian, from Charles A. McGlade, from Towing Loco- Henry J. Colon Health Office to Division of Veter- Anthony J. Kucikas, Max C. Conover, motive Operator, Locks Division, to Fire- inary Medicine. from Carpenter Leader to Carpenter Fore- man, Fire Division. man; Murphy B. Alexander, William A. Eugene S. Shipley, from Lieutenant to MARINE BUREAU Clark, from Assistant Public Works Fore- Captain, Police Division. Robert U. Schultz, from Sanitation man to Lead Foreman, Roads Maintenance; Mrs. Carol M. Kocher, from Postal Inspector, Panama Health Office, to Tow- Charles Bath, Schoch, Operator, Pacific Locks. H. Jr., Max M. Clerk, Postal I )ivision, to Clerk-Typist, ing Locomotive Public Works Foreman to Lead Foreman, Division of Schools. Arthur French, from Guard, Locks Secur- Roads Maintenance; Murrel L. Dodd, Michael Zombory, from Clerk (Typist), ity Branch, to Towing Locomotive Oper- General Operator and Public Works Fore- Police Division, to Supervisory Clerical ator, Locks Overhaul. man to Lead Foreman, Roads Construc- Assistant. License Section. Robert A. Hanson, from Apprentice tion; Lester T. Brennan, Painter Foreman Rodger W. Griffith, from Assistant Cl'ief Boilermaker, Industrial Division, to Tow- to Painter Lead Foreman; Harold W. to Chief, Police Division. ing Locomotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Meyer, Frederick S. Baumbach, Painter Robert Helmerichs, from Sergeant to William E. Williams, from Construction J. Foreman to Lead Foreman, Paint Shop; Inspector, Contractors Hill, to Towing Lieutenant, Police I (ivision. Locomotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Carmine Ammirati, Tilesetter Leader and OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER James M. Walsh, from Stevedore Fore- Bricklayer Leader to Foreman Tilesetter. Bertha I. Frensley, from Clerk (Stenog- man, Terminals Division, to Towing Loco- Fred J. Blohm, Painter Foreman to Lead Systems Staff, to rapher) Accounting motive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Painter Foreman; Paree L. Roland, C.eneral (Stenography), Comptroller's Secretary Howard L. Clarke, Jr., from Rigger- Foreman to Lead Foreman, Public Works; Office. Diver, Industrial Division, to Towing John F. Shannon, Waldo B. Gilley, Fore- Munyon, from Time, Mrs. Ruth H. Locomotive Operator and Diver, Locks man to Lead Foreman, Public Works; John Branch, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Overhaul. C. Dansby, Robert L. Robinson, Carpenter Internal Audits to Clerk-Stenographer, Robert M. Bright, from Accounting Clerk Foreman to Lead Carpenter Foreman; Stall to Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Industrial Clifford M. Glenn, Peter A. Warner, Public Cassibry, Irom Clerk- Mrs. Chiquita C. Division. Works Foreman to Lead Foreman, Road Internal Audit Staff, to Clerk Stenographer, Alrick L. Nelson, from Lock Operator Construction; Oliver C. Culp, Plumbing Systems Staff. (Stenographer), Accounting Carpenter to Foreman Carpenter, Pedro Supervisor to Lead Foreman Plumber; B. Bissell, from Time, Leave, Mrs. Dana Miguel Locks. John E. Ridge, Jr., Heavy Labor Foreman Branch, to and Payroll Clerk, Payroll William M. Reynolds, from Lock Oper- to Paving and Heavy Labor Foreman; General Ledger and Accounting Clerk, ator Wireman to Lock Operator Wireman Nick M. Elich, General Quarry Foreman to Processing Branch. Leader, Pacific Locks. Lead Quarry Foreman; Carl E. Hall, Gen- from Tabulating Russell E. George, John A. Dombrowsky, from Lock Oper- eral Foreman to Lead Foreman, Equipment Supervisor, to Time, Equipment Operation ator Wireman Leader to Control House Operation and Repair; Claude E. Camp- Supervisor, Payroll Leave, and Payroll Operator, Pacific Locks. bell, Equipment Operation and Repair Branch. Gust E. Rosene, from Machinist to Foreman to Heavy Duty Equipment Fore- from Clerical Mrs. Marione Campbell, Machinist Layerout, Industrial Division. man; Robert B. Harrison, Pneumatic Tool Health Office, to Time, Assistant, Panama John F. Martin, from Postal Clerk, and Magnetic Shop Supervisor to Elec- Payroll Branch. Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Postal Division, to Guard, Locks Security trician, Pneumatic Tools and Magneto; from Time, Mrs. Helen M. Rhodes, Branch. George A. Sills, Sheetmetal Work Super- Accountant, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, to Joseph M. Daly, from Engineering Aide, visor to General Foreman, Maintenance Payroll Branch! Engineering Division, to Admeasurer, Nav- Shops. Nell Waldron, Clerk-Typist, Mrs. J. igation Division. Louis Periobon, Sheetmetal Worker Lead- from Commissary Division to Central PERSONNEL BUREAU er to Lead Foreman, Sheetmetal Shop; Typing and Clerical Unit, Accounting Jo Ann A. Fischer, from Clerk-Stenogra- John F. Hern, Sheetmetal Worker to Fore- Division. pher to Secretary, Office of the Director. man Sheetmetal Worker; Charles E. Pretz, Mrs. Betty R. Olsen, from Accounting Mrs. Doris F. Schirmer, Clerk-Typist, Refrigeration Service Engineer to Lead Clerk, Treasury Branch, to Voucher Exam- from Wage and Classification Division to Foreman, Refrigeration and Air Condition- iner. Claims Branch. Employment and Utilization Division. ing; Oather T. Brownlee, Heavy Labor ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION Foreman to Heavy Labor Lead Foreman; BUREAU SUPPLY BUREAU Carl L. Simons, from Pipefitter Appren- Harvey D. Smith, Assistant Carpenter (For Maintenance Division see separate story) tice to Pipefitter, Commissary Division. Supervisor to Building Maintenance Lead Karl Mellander, John B. Corliss, Jr., J. Mabel L. Knox, from Cash Accounting Foreman; Joseph N. Rinker, Foreman to Iron Apprentice Wireman to Wireman, Clerk to Commissary Assistant, Commis- Lead Foreman Packer and Crater; Frank Electrical Division. sary Division. R. Turman, Leader to Foreman Packer George W. Wertz, from Foreman to Lead James G. F. Trimble, from Wireman, and Crater; Sherman A. Hammond, Assist- Interior Foreman, Electrical Division. Electrical Division to Plant Electrician, ant General Foreman, Construction and Bland L. Smith, John H. Foster, from Commissary Division. Maintenance, to Lead Foreman, Public Leader Mechanic to Electronics Electronics Mrs. Melba M. Heintz, from Comissary Works. Shop Foreman, Electrical Division. Assistant to Cash Accounting Clerk (Tel- William Carson, Foreman Plumber and Robert B. Thompson, Machinist, from J. ler), Commissary Division. Plumber Leader to Foreman Plumber; Industrial Division to Dredging Division. James B. Hunt, from Fireman, Fire Div- Clifford B. Jones, General Foreman to Lead Lynn E. Stratford, from Senior Power- ision, to Stockman Foreman, Commissary Foreman, Equipment Operation and Repair; house Operator to Powerhouse Operator- Division. James A. Hoverson, Leader Service Mech- Dispatcher, Electrical Division. Harry M. Savage, Gaspar G. De Paredes, anic to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT from Commissary Assistant to Stockman Foreman; Boyd W. Ferry, Sheetmetal Mrs. Shirley L. Cozens, front Secretary. Foreman, Commissary Division. Worker Leader, to Foreman Sheetmetal < >ffice of Personnel Director, to Clerk- Earl D. Albertson, James J. Reccia, from Shop; Ray Caldwell, General Foreman, Typist, Internal Security Office. Storekeeper (Shipping) to Stockman Fore- Construction and Maintenance, to General HEALTH BUREAU man, Commissary Division. Foreman, Public Works and Building Harold R. Rodell, William R. LaChapelle, Maintenance. Harvey W. Green, from Sanitary In- from Supervisory Storekeeper to Stockman spector, Panama Health Office, to Food Foreman, Commissary Division. Inspector, Division of Veterinary Medicine. Mrs. Margeurite M. Ashton, from Com- Maj. William O. Dougherty, Dental missary Checker, to Commissary Assistant, SAILINGS Officer, from Pacific Dental Clinics to SEPTEMBER Commissary Division. Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Patricia E. George, from Ticket Mrs. Eloise M. Murphy, from Cierk- Seller, Service Center Division, to Commis- From Cristobal Typist to Accounting Clerk, C.orgas Hos- sary Checker, Commissary Division. pital. Panama September .? Elizabeth A. Allen, from Accounting Mrs. Doris M. Bussey, from Clerk- Anton September 10 Clerk to Clerk-Typist, Commissary Divi- Stenographer, Personnel Bureau, to Clerk- Cristobal September 1 sion. Typist, Coco Solo Hospital. Panama . September 24 Mrs. Eva M. Harte, from Commissary Dr. Eric R. Osterberg, from Health Assistant to Accounting Clerk, Commissary From New York Officer, Panama and Colon, to Chief, Divi- Division. Ancon September 1 sion of Preventive Medicine and Quaran- Homer M. Weeks, from Sanitation Cristobal -September 8 tine. Inspector, Division of Sanitation, to Stock- Panama September 15 Raymond G. Bush, from Supervisor) man Foreman, Commissary Division. Ancon September 22 tion Inspector, Colon Health Office, Cristobal September 29 to Sanitation Inspector, Division of Sani- MAINTENANCE DIVISION

i. it ion. A survey of Wage Board positions in the (Southbound the Haiti stop is from 7 Dr. Mary L. Holdren, from Resident to Maintenance Division, begun about three a. m. to 4 p. m. on Monday; northbound, Medical Officer, Gorgas Hospital. months ago, was completed last month. the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Mon- Dr. Kenneth C. Zimmerman, Jr., Veter- The study resulted in the following person- days, from about 1 to 6 p. m.) September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

25 YEARS AUGUST RETIREMENTS Two of the four employees passing the EXECUTIVE REGULATION 19 quarter-century mark of government serv- ice, have had continuous service with the Editor's Note: A revision of Executive Retirement Canal organization. They are Otis C. certificates were presented Regulation No. 19, covering travel and Myers, General Engineer in the Engineer- the end of August to the following em- transportation was issued at Balboa Heights ployees ing Division and Charles W. Harrison, who are listed alphabetically, recently. It will be published in install- Operator Foreman with the together with their birthplaces, titles, Electrical ments with the second installment carried Division. length of Canal service and future addresses: in this issue for the benefit of those who I. Mr. Myers worked on the Madden Michael Crooks, Nebraska; Supervisor Dam desire to clip and save the entire regulation. Motor Transportation, Motor Transporta- project in 1932 and later was with the tion Division; 3i years, 6 months; Whittier, Municipal, now the Maintenance, Division. CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT Calif. He was born in Lecompte, La. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Leslie R. Evans, Wisconsin, Chief, Mr. Harrison was born in the Canal OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT License Section; 19 vears, 1 month, 15 days; Zone and has been working for the Canal Bolivar, Mo. organization since 1930 when he began his Randall Ford, Illinois; Chief, South- Balboa Heights. Z. H. apprenticeship. He has been with the C. ern District, Motor Transportation June 24, 1955. Divi- Electrical Division since 1941. sion; 37 years, 2 months, 22 days; Florida. Revision 1— The other 25-year men were Marvin (Continued) Lela Mae Holden, New York; Teacher, J. Banton, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, who II. TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSEHOLD Ancon Elementary School; 27 years, 7 is also an engineer with the Engineering GOODS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS months, 22 days; Orlando Fla. Division and Sgt. Paul D. 2.1 Maximum allowance for transportation. Thomas H. Kelley, Massachusetts; Chief, Thompson of the Canal Zone (a) Weight. The actual costs of transporta- Administrative Section, Industrial Division; Police Division, Balboa Dis- tion of the household goods and personal effects trict, who was born in 33 years, 3 months, 12 days; Henderson- Fort Monroe, Va. of the employee, not in excess of 7,000 pounds net, and ville, N. C. of the packing, crates, boxes, lift vans, 20 YEARS or other temporary containers required for the shipment, shall be allowed Six of (he seven in the case of trans- employees who completed portation to or from points outside the United 20 years of government service during States: Provided. That employees who have no immediate family shall be entitled to the trans- August have unbroken service with the ANNIVERSARIES portation of household effects and other personal Canal organization. property not in excess of 2.500 pounds net. Gross weight shall include They are: Paul Brooks, Sanitation the net weight of the J. property and the weight of packing, crates, Miss Helen C. Milloy, one of the three Inspector with the Area Sanitation Office in boxes, or lift vans which have no connection with Panama Canal employees sharing the honor Ancon; Allen R. Flinn, Lock Operator the property except for the purposes of the immediate shipment and which do not consti- years of government serv- of completing 35 Wireman with the Atlantic Locks Division; tute a continuing part of the property of the ice during August, can boast that all of her Helen L. Meisinger, Accounting Clerk with employee. For the application of the limita- tions prescribed by this section the net weight service has been with one unit in the Canal the Terminals Division in Cristobal; George of the property shall be considered to be eighty- organization. A native of Jamaica Plains, F. Nadeau, Policeman and Motorcycle percent of the combined weight of the property Mass., Miss Milloy, now Supervisory Prop- and the packing and crating used for the ship- Officer with the Balboa District of the ment: erty and Supply Clerk at Gorgas Hospital, Provided. That in case of shipments Canal Zone Police Division; Andrew C. involving transportation by vessel over all or arrived on the Isthmus with her parents in part of the distance, the net weight of the Nagy, Time, Leave, and Payroll prop- 1916 and was first employed in August 1920 Supervisor erty shall be considered to be eighty percent of with the Fiscal Division; the combined weight of as a clerk in Ancon, now Gorgas, Hospital. and Florence M. the property and the packing, crating, boxing, and lift vans used clerical Pierson, Supervisory Accounting She has had various jobs with the Clerk for the shipment: And provided further, Hospital staff and has held her present with the Accounting Division. That when shipment is by motor freight the gross weight of the position since 1952. The one 20-year employee of the group, property shall be the actual weight of the goods transported. Thus, trans- The other two employees celebrating whose service with the Canal is not con- portation shall be allowed at Government of expense for property when packed, their 35 years government service in tinuous is Charles J. Williams, Locomotive crated, boxed, or lift August were Edward H. Halsall, Chief of Engineer placed in vans for shipment, with the Transportation and within the following maximum weights: the Locks Security Branch, and Samuel L. Terminals Bureau. Employees having immediate family: Pounds Craig, Pumping Plant Operator with the Shipment involving transportation by Water and Laboratories Branch. 15 YEARS vessel over all or part of route or by rail or motor carriers requiring packing or in Mr. Halsall was born Stamford, Conn., crating. _ Four of the 24 employees completing 8.750 and served in the U. S. Army before coming Shipment by motor carriers of household their 15th year of government service goods uncrated in 1928 to last 7,000 to the Isthmus become a member Employees having month were employed by the Canal organ- no immediate family: of the Canal Zone Police Division. He was Shipment involving transportation by ization on the same day promoted to the grade of Sergeant in 1942 and all four have vessel over all or part of route or by rail or motor carriers requiring following year transferred to continuous service with the Canal organiza- packing or and the the crating tion. 3,125 District Quartermaster, later the Commu- Shipment by motor carriers of household nity Services Bureau. Since 1952 he has They are: Bart J. Elich, Assistant to the goods uncrated . 2,500 been with the Marine Bureau. His Canal Director of the Supply Bureau; Julio M. (b) Volume. Where charges for transporta- tion are computed on a basis of measurement service has been continuous. Lapeira, Supervisory Cartographic Survey rather than weight charges will be allowed Born in Stockbridge, Ga., Mr. Craig Aid, Engineering Division; Benito Lar- regardless of weight for not to exceed 25 measure- ment tons of forty cubic feet each came to the Isthmus with his parents dur- rinaga, Small Tug Operator with inclusive of the packing, crating, and lift vans: Provided, That ing his early boyhood and first worked with Dredging Division, and William G. Mum- employees who have no immediate family shall the Canal organization in 1918 and 1920 be allowed charges for not to maw, Quarters Maintenance Foreman with exceed 9 measure- on summer vacation jobs. He was em- ment tons. the Maintenance Division, all of ployed as an apprentice machinist with the whom (c) Weight and volume on same shipment. were hired August 1, 1940. When shipment must be made over such a route Mechanical Division in 1924 and has been that the transportation Other 15-year anniversary employees necessarily involves with the Water and Laboratories Branch charges based upon weight over part of the since 1942. with unbroken service with the Canal distance and upon measurements over another organization are: Harold W. Babcock part of the distance, the following conditions shall apply: (1) If the weight does not exceed 30 YEARS with the Plumber Maintenance Division; the limitations prescribed in subsection (a), T. payment shall be allowed for actual charges One of the three employees completing Lester Brennan, Leader Foreman Painter over the entire distance regardless of whether with the Maintenance Division; 30 years of government service last month, Charles A. the measurement is in excess of the limitations was born on the Isthmus in the construc- Emlaw, Lock Operator with the Pacific imposed by subsection (b); (2) if both weight and measurement are in excess of the prescribed tion town of Bas Obispo. He is Francis Locks; Kerner E. Frauenheim, Manager of limitations, payment shall not be allowed for G. Farrell, now assistant Postmaster in the Cristobal Service Center; Albert E. the excess by weight over that part of the dis- tance charges are based Cristobal. Goguen, Policeman, Cristobal on weight, or for the District; excess measurement over that part Mr. Farrell was educated in the Canal of the dis- Julius J. Hentschel, Wireman with the tance where charges are based on measurement. Zone schools and was employed as a clerk (From section 1 7 of Executive Order Electrical Division; Robert L. Malone, 9805, as amended in the Executive Department in 1923. He by Executive Order 10196) Filtration Plant Operator, Maintenance joined the Postal Division in 1928 and had 2.2 Allowances for packing, crating, Division; Edward S. Reynolds, unpacking, been there ever since. During that time Jr., Lock and uncrating. The actual costs of packing, crating, Operator, Pacific Locks; Woodrow W. unpacking, and uncrating (not to exceed the author- he has been postmaster at Diablo, Curundu, ized weight) shall be allowed. Rowland, Lock Operator, Atlantic Locks; and Fort Clayton, and Assistant Postmaster (From section 18 of Executive Order 9805) Balboa, and Cristobal. Fannie M. Sosa, Clerk with the Adminis- at Ancon, 2.3 Allowance for drayage. In trative Branch; Clarence R. case door-to-door The other two 30-year men last month Taht, Pumping common carrier rates are not applicable, the actual were Howard R. Harris, Mechanical Super- Plant Operator with the Maintenance cost of drayage (not to exceed the authorized weight) to and from the common carrier shall be allowed. visor of the Atlantic Locks and William L. Division; and Lloyd T. Yarbray, Superin- (From Section 19 of Executive Order 9805) Russon, chief engineer on the dipper tendent of the Ancon Laundry and Dry 2.4 Items not allowable and items allowable. dredge Cascadas. Cleaning Plant. (a) Household goods and personal effects Harris was born in Decatur, III. Mr. He Those whose service is not continuous shall not include: went to work with the Canal organization are: Donald Bowen, Supervisory Wines J. Account- Liquors in 1924 when he was employed as a machin- ant, Accounting Division; Muriel H. Animals or birds not necessary in the per- ist on the Locks. He has been with the DeYoung, Accounting Clerk, Accounting formance of official duties Locks Division since 1929 and has held his Automobiles Division; Joseph C. Lunetta, present position since 1950. District Fore- Automobile tires man with the Electrical Division; Robert Boats A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Russon Motorcycles T. Thomas, Lock was first employed in 1915 as a boilermaker Operator, Atlantic Locks; Motor Scooters with the Mechanical Division. He was Walter M. Trasavage, Lock Operator, Ammunition Explosives Pacific Locks; and inflammable liquids transferred to the Dredging Division the Jordan E. Walbridge, Fire- Foodstuffs following year and with the exception of man with the Balboa Fire Station; and Other items similar to the above three short breaks in his service has been Joseph H. Young, Locks Operator with the Based in part on section 7 of Executive Order M805 and with that division ever since. Pacific Lock. Comptroller General's Decision B.'l 14689 of August 6, 1953, 33 Comp. Gen. 63) 16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955 ==

Revised Medical Tariff ^kSHlPS and SHIPPING <=>; Is Effective October 1 »; Mi Revised tariffs for hospital and medical care in Zone, announced late in the Canal 03- July by Governor Seybold at his monthly oo: conference with Civic Council representa- tives, will become effective October 1. Generally, basic rates will be changed only sufficiently to cover, partially, in- creased expenses, including recent salary increases. Other charges for private rooms, home visits, certain clinical care, and other special services will be affected. The new medical tariff also provides for a regrouping of Company-Government employees into more evenly divided wage- salary groups for the application of charges; consolidation of rates in certain areas; and simplification of the tariff schedule. The increase in rates for employees and their dependents follows one made in the per diem rate for Government agency sponsored patients on which full- cost recovery is required. The inter- agency rates became effective July 1. Some increases in hospital and medical A STRANGE SIGHT to those familiar with the scene at Miraflores Locks is this partially dismantled care will indirectly reflect the recent Miraflores and at Pedro Miguel were sold awarded emergency dam. The two dams at one under bids salary increases that moved some employ- last May to John V. Carter and John V. Carter, Jr. The eme.-gency dams have been landmarks for ees into higher wage-salary groups. residents and visitors to the Canal Zone since the Canal was opened. The dams, designed by Tollef B. not Monniche, of Boquette, have never been used for the emergency purpose for which they were erected. Final details of the new rates had The other three dams are scheduled for sale at a later date. They were remodelled about 20 years ago been completed in time for this issue of for use in flood control but none of the three has ever been required for this purpose. the Review. These were to be an-

nounced by September 1, or 30 days in

Transits by Ocean-Going Vessels August, and it was all the fault of the advance of the effective date of the in July hurricanes which were churning up the revision. 1955 1954 ___ Atlantic. When the Ancon docked in Commercial 727 640 Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 15, her THE TIME HAS COME U.S. Government-. 27 34 passengers discovered the word ANON from page year, from the in large letters on her bow. {Continued 1) Total 754 674 Diablo Heights and North The "C" which belonged there had gymnasiums at and the gymnasiums then used Tolls* been washed away by seas which broke Margarita exclusively for physical education. Child- Commercial $3,254,259 $2,652,450 over the ship's bow the second day out of ren from Coco Solito who have been U.S. Government 144,626 155,274 New York and kept passengers off the kindergarten at Margarita will boat deck and away from the swimming attending to the Cristobal kindergarten. Total ..$3,398,885 $2,807,724 pcol. now go Some changes in school districting have ' Includes .ill vessels, ocean-going and small. Passengers reported a rough trip as far made this year for the children of as Haiti. The second day out, according been service personnel, but there are no dis- July was the third month in the Canal's to one of the most sea-hardy of those changes for civilian children. 41 years of operation when tolls on com- aboard, only a third of the passengers tricting Pedro Miguel school will be oper- mercial vessels exceeded three million showed up for breakfast and only about The ated for kindergarten and first and second dollars. Both tolls and transits by half of those aboard turned out for Pupils at Pedro Miguel will commercial shipping set new monthly luncheon and dinner. grades only. from Fort Clayton and from any records in July. The heavy traffic was come in this age group remaining in Pedro due largely to an increase in the number The SS Cristobal, which left Cristobal Pedro Miguel children above in transit. There were 113 Miguel. of tankers August 6, had a hot but not particularly second grade will attend school in Balboa. transits by commercial tankers during rough trip running behind hurricane curricular changes are plan- the month. This trade has been aver- No major Connie. Spanish will continue to aging about 80-90 transits a month. ned this year. The Cristobal was slowed the down by be taught in all grades as it was last year. storm which she was following and familiar face, that of John Fawcett Canal traffic fluctuates widely from One docked in New York seven hours behind the gymnasium, will year-to-year and from month-to-month. who directs Balboa schedule. again be seen around the schools. He has This was demonstrated in August when returned from a year's leave of absence the amount of commercial traffic fell well during which he received his Master's below the high level of the month before. Another new customer made her Degree in Education from San Jose During the first three weeks of August maiden transit of the Panama Canal last Teachers' College in San Diego, Calif. the daily average number of transits was month. She was. the new 16-knot, Summing up physical changes in the 22.09, as compared with a daily average 11,600 dead-weight ton MY Kochv Muni. school plant officials pointed to an exten- of 23.45 transits for the month of July. en route between the United States sive painting program; the complete The decrease in traffic last month was west coast and Cuba. The ship belongs rewiring of the Ancon, Balboa, and Gatun most noticeable in the transit figures for to Daido Kaiun Kaisha Ltd. and will be schools to improve the quality of classroom southbound traffic. The number of ves- operated by the Daido Cuba Line. lighting, and the installation of a new sels from the United States going to This line will provide monthly sailings hot-water system in the Balboa High South America and to the Far East in from California ports to Santiago and School gymnasium. August was considerably under the figures Havana, Cuba. In addition to the for the preceding month. A drop in the Kochu Main, vessels in this service will Culebra Cut was renamed Gaillard Cut number of tankers also was partly be the Koten Mara, the KoraiMaru, and April 17, 1915. responsible for the decrease in traffic. the Kokoh Maru. Local agents for the line are the Con- The blue flag bearing the white letters The SS Ancon of the Panama Line was tinental Shipping Company of Panama P. C. has been in use on the Canal's incognito on its southbound trip in mid- City. marine equipment since 1915.