PANAMA #«Pra CANAL

BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, MARCH 7, 1958

' "WW]! -* 1 * A real jfUgHR^liJffHHMMHHiHHHHMB»J BH PHI WELCOME greets Canal's newcomers V Wm^BtSlSL There need be no more frantic first

trips to the commissary for new employ- wraSj! 'TSS^T * r ees from the United States, thanks to a 3E i Welcome Wagon service just inaugurated. ^^^ ^. A new family will find enough food ~ M 1 i& . in the Welcome Wagon assortment to k.-- J provide a palatable lunch and break- f fast the next day, too, together with a pair of sheets, a pair of pillowcases, t Jpyf towels, washcloths, light bulbs, soap, J \j°M garbage-can bags, and a few other mis- -^K^ 'M cellaneous items for household use. The new Zonians will be able to spend their first day getting unpacked and more or less settled in their new home, ^^^^ rather than having to rush off to their neighborhood commissary. Frederick Willoughby, 2, didn't pay much attention to Maxwell Smith Fitz The idea of a Welcome Wagon has and Charles, left, when they explained the Welcome Wagon service to his parents. been flourishing in the United States for almost 25 years but has never been tried vision, with the Housing Branch of the employees," the only real newcomer in here before. A few units have "settling- Community Services Division making the family was two-year-old Frederick in kits" for their newcomers-things like arrangements for the assortment and Willoughby. He was much more inter- - sheets and towels and pots and pans- providing the actual delivery service. ested in the whereabouts of his box of but these are on a loan basis, to be packed When Maxwell Smith of the Personnel animal crackers than in the fact that up and set aside for the next to arrive. Bureau notifies the housing office that a he and-t>~-is parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- hur- Some years ago, newcomers were new family is arriving, the housing office liam C jrles Willoughby, were making ried to the commissary by their escorts in turn calls the nearest commissary to local ) story. as soon as they arrived to pick up pre- assemble a standard welcome assortment. Mr. Willoughby, a graduate intern- linen packaged bedding and for which The commissary has everything packed engineer for the Locks Division, is the they paid themselves. Today's Welcome and ready and a few minutes after the third generation of his family to work Wagon assortment—from bacon and eggs new family has reached their quarters, for the Canal organization. His grand- and coffee to ice, if needed— is charged the Welcome Wagon is at their door. father, W. C. Willoughby, came to the against the division for which the new Its driver and semi-official welcomer, Canal Zone just before the Canal was employee will work. who carries the welcome assortment into opened in 1914 and his father, Fred, of In the United States the items which the newcomer's house and helps Mr. Gatun, is a foreman mechanic at Gatun make up a welcome assortment are con- Smith answer some of the many questions Locks. Mrs. Willoughby, the former Ann tributed by merchants in the newcomer's the newcomers invariably ask, is Fitz Edwards, is the daughter of Mrs. Russell community. Charles, a man with an infectious smile A. Edwards of the Payroll Branch. In the Canal Zone, the Welcome who has been driving for the housing Both are graduates of Canal Zone high Wagon is a cooperative project of the office for several years. schools, Mr. Willoughby from Cristobal Community Services Division, the Per- While the recipients of the Welcome High School in 1948, and his wife from sonnel Bureau, and the employing di- Wagon's first call were officially "new Balboa High School three years later.

New Central Labor Union -Metal Trades Council Officers Represent 1600 Employees

First Front row, I to r: Robert Mecaskey, Second Alternate Wage and Grievance Member; E. W. Hatchett, President; Sam Garriel, Alternate

row, I to r: Wage and Grievance Member,- A. J. Waldorf, Trustee; E. H. Womble, First Vice President; W. M. O. Fischer, Treasurer. Second James H. Pfau, Second Vice President; J. H. Elliott, Secretary; John Stuewe, Trustee; T. W. Womble, Wage and Grievance Member,- John M. Purvis, Legislative Alternate; R. F. Hesch, Legislative Representative; Joe Young, Sergeant-at-Arms,- J. J. Belcourt, Trustee.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958 Carnival Capers

A bevy of Canal Zone beauties, and members of his conjunto. Sue Mable, Mrs. Ellen Kurzman, and dressed in the native costume of the Miss Luchita Burrillo, dressed in a Susan Katz. nations which use the Panama Canal, handsome pollera, represented Panama The Canal Zone took an active part rode on the allegorical float entered by while Miss Ann Haskel represented the in the Panama Carnival celebration the Canal Zone in the Panama carnival Canal Zone. Other young ladies riding this year, beginning with the official parade this year. Designed by the Ar- on the Canal Zone carnival float Tues- raising of the carnival flag in Balboa chitectural Branch and built by the day, were Jessie Kirkland, Bernice Betz- and the Tivoli Guest House, and the Maintenance Division, the float was Mykland, Edna Hill, Joline Clare, Ber- appearance of the carnival queens and dominated by a huge world globe sur- tha Thompson, Christine Huff, Elaine the visiting Latin American beauties rounded by the flags of maritime na- Maduro, Lynn Raymond, Patsy Flatau, over CFN Television. William G. Arey, tions and the house flags of the ship- Eileen Damerau, Rita Jones, Madge Jr., Public Information Officer, served ping companies using the Canal. Carni- Smith/Rachel Van Dyke, Betty Dem- as official representative of the Canal val music was furnished by Victor Herr, ming, Karen Magnuson, Kathy Cox, Zone on the permanent Carnival Junta.

CONSULTANTS FOR CONGRESS DUE HERE NEXT WEEK

The panel of consultants appointed by in the Canal Zone or at alternate locations well acquainted with the Canal and its the House Merchant Marine and Fisher- in the Central American Isthmus," he operations. Both were employed here for ies Committee to study Panama Canal stated. many years and both held responsible en- transit facilities and other broad phases The panel members, all of whom are gineering positions with the organization. of the interoceanic Canal problem will expected to be here next week, are: Mr. Rowe came to the Isthmus in 1905 pay a five-day visit to the Canal Zone Francis S. Friel, of Philadelphia, Presi- and was Municipal (now Maintenance) this month. dent of the engineering firm of Albright Engineer when he left the organization of six The group, composed promi- and Friel in Philadelphia, and Vice Presi- in 1919. One of his first jobs with the nent members of the engineering pro- dent of the American Society of Civil Isthmian Canal Commission was the lo- fession in the United States, is sched- Engineers. cation, design, and construction of the uled to be here from next Tuesday Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, USA, Ret., masonry dam to provide the water supply through Saturday. A tentative sched- of Darien, Conn., formerly head of the for Panama City and Zone towns on the ule of activities prepared and sub- Manhattan Project, and now a Vice Pacific side. During his 14 years here, mitted to the panel for its approval President of Remington-Rand, Inc. he had charge of installing much of the calls for a busy period. It includes Dr. S. C. Hollister, of Ithaca, N.Y., Dean electrical and municipal facilities for the visits to the principal Canal Zone in- of Engineering at Cornell University. Canal and for the Army and Navy. stallations, and the provision of much E. Sydney Randolph, of Baton Rouge, Among the Army and Navy projects background material on Canal opera- La., industrial engineer. were France Field and the Coco Solo of tions, and other facets the problem Hartley Rowe, of Boston, Vice Presi- Submarine Base, for which he had charge is attention. which attracting national dent of the United Fruit Company. of the design and construction. The consulting board was named last John E. Slater, of New York City, con- Mr. Randolph also entered the Canal November by Representative Herbert C. sulting engineer and senior partner of the service during the construction period Bonner, Chairman of the Merchant Ma- firm of Coverdale & Colpitis in New York. and was continuously employed for al- rine and Fisheries Committee which han- Mr. Rowe and Mr. Randolph are both most 36 years before his retirement in dles Canal legislative matters in the March 1946. During this period he held House of Representatives. In announc- ARMED FORCES DAY many important engineering posts in the ing the appointment, Chairman Bonner Engineer, Residents of the Canal Zone and organization, including Office said that the special committee consult- the Republic of Panama are invited Designing Engineer, and Construction ants are expected to review and re-eval- to attend the Armed Forces Day pro- Engineer. He was in charge of the de- to be held this year on Satur- uate various proposals which have been grams sign and later the construction of Mad- day, March 15. made in the past as the result of studies den Dam and Power Plant. Later, as Albrook Air Force Base will hold on the Isthmian canal problem. Designing Engineer, he was in charge of Open House from 1 1 a. m. to 6 p. m., "I feel that it is the urgent responsibil- and Fort Davis will hold its Open the early investigation and work on the ity of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries House from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. Third Locks project. Committee to be fully informed concern- Ground and aerial demonstrations charge of all engi- are planned and static exhibits will Mr. Friel has had ing the adequacy of the existing Canal be on display. neering work for his firm for the past 26 and the need for additional facilities either years. He specializes in numerous fields of engineering, among which are flood March 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW control, dams, power plants, (See page 15) A new FAMILY

A new "second family" for the Canal Zone is due here in July. The appoint- ment of Col. John D. McElheny as the new Lieutenant Governor for the Canal Zone will be effective July 9. Colonel McElheny is presently on duty with Military Supply in the Office of the Chief of Engineers where he has been assigned for the past two years. Colonel McElheny and his family are arriving here July 9 on the SS Cristobal; three days later Colonel McElheny's pre- decessor, Col. Hugh M. Arnold, and his family, will sail on the same ship en route to Colonel Arnold's new post as Com- manding Officer of the 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Bragg, N. C. While plans are not yet definite, the new Lieutenant Governor may possibly spend three weeks here in June. The tentative dates set for this visit are June 8-28. This would enable him to watch the operations of the Canal or- ganization firsthand before he takes over his new duties. The new Lieutenant-Governor desig- nate is 43 years old. He was born in LaRue, Ohio, a small town about 70 miles due south of Toledo, which Gover- Col. and Mrs. John McElheny with Phyllis Ann, 10, and Bruce Daniel, 7. nor Potter considers his home town.

Here's One difference in Paul Runnestrand's Executive job from that of his predecessors is that, The Man besides being Executive Secretary of the Who's Secretary Canal Zone Government, he is also Execu- tive Assistant to the President of the Pan- When the position of Executive Sec- nature, concerning the Gov- ama Canal Company, with the staff duties retary of The Panama Canal was estab- operational title. Actually he is known ernment of Panama; the American Em- implied by the lished 44 years ago, it covered a great other diplomatic and consular throughout the Isthmus as the Executive many diversified activities. bassy; missions; private commercial and non- Secretary of the Canal Zone. Under the Executive Secretary's sup- commercial interests in the Republic of Mr. Runnestrand carries out his duties ervision came such widespread operations Panama; and private commercial and from a big office on the second floor of as post offices, customs, police and fire noncommercial interests in the Canal the Administration Building. The desk organizations, schools, and the clubhouses. Zone, but not including civic councils or he uses was once in Col. George W. The Executive Secretary was custodian employees' labor organizations." Goethal's office at Culebra, and the big of files and records, the administrator of estates, and was responsible for all of the timekeeping in the Canal organization. He was the Canal Zone's shipping com- missioner and its corresponding secretary. He handled all of the correspondence and communications between Panama Canal authorities and those of the Republic of Panama. One Executive Secretary even determined the proper consistency of lemon pie. Paul Meredith Runnestrand is only the fourth man to hold this position, but he is not concerned with lemon pie nor with post offices, police and fire, nor most of the items included in that original "job description," except for the relations with Panama. The Executive Secretary's position has changed from what was once an operating job to that of an adminis- trative or executive staff officer. When Governor Potter has occasion to intro- duce Mr. Runnestrand, he frequently describes him as "my Foreign Minis- ter."

Officially, this portion of his work has been described as "principal adviser, li- aison officer and responsible staff repre- serve as Executive Secretary. sentative of the Office of the Governor- Paul Runnestrand is the fourth man to President, on all policy matters other March 7, 1958 than those of a routine contractual or THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW for a new HOUSE

Temporary "White House" for the

Canal Zone is this attractive new house which will eventually be occupied by the Lieutenant Governor but which, right now, is serving as the Canal Zone's "Quar- ters No. 1." Governor and Mrs. Potter will be in their temporary residence until sometime in August when the current re- modeling of the Governor's big 52-year-

old house is due to be completed. Shadowed by great trees, the new official quarters stand on a site once occupied by the house assigned, for many years, to the Chief Health Offi- cer. Of contemporary design and partly air conditioned, it has several striking features. The wall between the living- room and patio is made entirely of sliding glass panels. The patio, a wide roofed porch, overlooks the Canal. At one point it is indented to preserve a large tree growing close to the house. The tree is completely encircled by an ornamental balustrade. Remodeling work on the Governor's house includes air conditioning the second floor bedrooms, replacing wood floors with tile, relocating the main stairways, enlarging the first-floor rooms, construct- Great trees shade new official house for Canal Zone's Lieutenant G< ing a basement service section, and re- placing the roof.

mahogany grandfather's clock in a corner in such work. He has been studying ber of other standing committees, includ- dates back to French Canal days. He the language for some time and is ing the Governor's committee which has no independent staff of his own, but leaving April 7 for Mexico City to spend recommends appointments to the various uses the facilities of the Administrative three months in the State Depart- military academies. Branch and other agency units. His dep- ment's Foreign Service Institute in As Paul M. Runnestrand, private cit- uty, Forrest Dunsmoor, also serves as Foreign Languages. This is a concen- izen, he is a vice president of the Canal Administrative Assistant to the Governor. trated course of six days each week in Zone Boy Scout Council, a member of His secretary, Mrs. John G. Higgins, speaking and reading Spanish. the Executive Committee of the Canal works also for the Governor's Military His training as an attorney -he has Zone Chapter of the American Red Cross, Assistant. According to Mr. Runnestrand been admitted to practice not only in a member of the Cancer Committee, and she is the indispensable "girl Friday" the Canal Zone courts and those of his a member of the Board of Management who keeps the office running smoothly. native state, Minnesata, but also before of the Balboa USO-YMCA, in addition The Executive Secretary exercises staff the Supreme Court of the United States to his post with the United Fund. supervision of policies and regulations and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth A little-known side of the Canal concerning, among other things, contra- Circuit in New Orleans—is helpful in Zone's Executive Secretary is his talent band control, who is and who is not many phases of his work. for music. He played saxophone and eligible to engage in business in the Canal In a single day recently, among a clarinet in dance bands from the time Zone, who has Canal Zone privileges, and numerous variety of other business, he he was in junior high school until he who may reside or remain in the Canal was in touch twice with the Panama For- was graduated from the Law School of

Zone or enter it. eign Office, once with the U. S. Embassy, the University of Minnesota, but he and once with the Preddencia, all by tel- blown a note since to He is, in effect, the United States Con- hasn't he came ephone; reviewed a memorandum to sul in the Canal Zone, responsible for the Canal Zone for the first time in accompany proposed legislation; went issuing visas for aliens living in the Canal March 1941. He doesn't even own a over a draft of a proposed Zone who want to go to the United States. agreement musical instrument except a piano on with Panama involving the establishment He signs or attests employees' retirement which, he says, his ability is "very and operation by Panama of customs certificates. He is custodian of the Seal mediocre." His daughter Sarah, who sites within the Canal Zone; talked of the Canal Zone Government, and at- with will be 10 next Sunday, has inherited the Army's local Chief of Staff on a class- tests or authenticates official documents some of his fondness for music, but ified matter; held a generally. conference on the his son Ricky, who is five, is a little too eligibility of certain persons to enter the young to be interested. The part of his job he most enjoys is Canal Zone; received innumerable visi- Born in Litchfield, Minn., Paul Run- that concerning the Canal Zone's rela- tors, including contractors' representa- nestrand grew up in Watertown, S. D. tions with its next-door neighbor. This tives in connection with the demolition After his graduation from the University and other aspects of his work involve an of the old Pacific Service Center which of Minnesota, he worked for three years active social calendar, with which he is has been given to Panama, and one old as law editor for the West Publishing aided by his wife, Betty. friend who dropped in to find out the Company in St. Paul, Minn. He maintains almost daily contact with variety of the trees in Gatun Lake which His first Canal Zone post was as an Panama's Government, particularly the have withstood almost half a century of Associate Attorney on the General Coun- Foreign Office, and with the United States submersion; and, in his spare time, did sel's staff. He was Assistant General Embassy and other embassies in Panama some work in the Canal Zone United Counsel from 1948 to 1953. From 1953 City. Quite frequently he visits one of Fund, of which he is Executive Director. to 1956 he was Assistant Secretary and these offices or receives visitors from them. In his official position, he is Chairman Attorney in the Panama Canal Com- of is Knowledge Spanish important of the Disability Relief Board and a mem- pany's Washington office. He succeeded E. C. Lombard as Executive Secretary March 7,1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW in April 1956. Coco Solo Beginning To Take On Aspects

Of Other Zone Towns

The Canal Zone's fastest-growing com- FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION munity—Coco Solo—will be about half grown by the end of this month, after which it will begin to take on some at- HAP HAZARD tributes of other Zone towns. Many of the plans for the commun- in the development ity facilities are still lOSTTHEHEAD stage. However, by the first of next OFF MY HAMMER month Coco Solo residents will be able to restock their food larders, buy a tank of gasoline, get a restaurant- cooked meal, or buy their drug supplies within the confines of their town. Most of the town's activities will focus around Building 100, the big two-story structure which formerly housed the Navy Post Exchange and sales store on the first floor and a gymnasium on the second floor. Approximately $150,000 will be spent in renovating this building and making the necessary alterations for its use as a community center. In addition to the restaurant and food- store, other facilities to be located in the building will be the retail drygoods and

shoe stores which will be transferred from NATION* SAFETY COUNCIL the Cristobal Commissary, a beauty par- lor, barber shop, tailor shop, and shoe- In ancient times, peoples en- ity -or do they? No, it is not done for- repair shop. many involving the sacrifice mally, or even consciously maybe, but According to L. A. Ferguson, Supply gaged in a worship being. This was considered in and Community Service Director, all re- of a human those of us who are interested the idea all concerned—with maining units of the Cristobal Commis- an excellent by safety of our fellowmen know only too possibly the exception of one individual. sary are to be moved to Coco Solo by well the value of a victim. We know, Why did these overwhelming majorities about August 1 . Presently, it is planned too, how hard it can cometimes be to favor this proceeding? Apparently, there to use the upstairs area for the drygoods persuade others that it is possible to read were three factors involved. The first sales unit and shoe store, while the house- the future and prevent accidents. Some- in adja- being the pious belief that they were do- wares section will be housed an times it seems that nothing but the ac- plans the ing good by propitiating a god to pur- cent building. Part of the of tuality of a human sacrifice will do. chase favors for the tribe. Secondly, they Service Branch is the establish- Sales and THEN we see oh, so clearly! Are we were undoubtedly gamblers and each one ment of an attractive gift shop similar to then like our barbaric ancestors, willing willing to take long odds that he the unit recently opened in Balboa. was to gamble on the chance that it won't Although an exact date has not been wouldn't wind up as the star performer. Third, most of them had a big streak of be me as an individual, but the other set, it is expected that the theater at savagery in their make-up which enabled fellow? Probably not, but who knows Coco Solo can be reopened by July 1. celebration fully. for sure? After installation of these facilities them to enjoy the modern times, civilized peoples at Coco Solo, both the Cristobal Com- In these sac- National Safety Council missary and Theater are to be closed. no longer use the principle of human major- Safety News Letter The building which houses the theater rifice to better conditions for the will be demolished. It is planned to keep the restaurant in the Cristobal Service Center in operation, perhaps on a modified scale, because of the large number of individuals employed in the immediate area and the consid- erable number of bachelors living in the vicinity. development of Canal Zone Gov- The JANUARY 1958 ernment facilities at Coco Solo will be at THIS a much slower pace since money for nec- BUREAU YEAR essary alterations and improvements must first AID CASES TO DATE come from appropriated funds. The first Engineering & Construction II Roll) 36 major Government facility to be made January 1957 44 1 40 1 ready will be the elementary school. Health (Honor Roll) 16 January- 1957 19 It is planned to establish the Atlantic- New York Operations (Honor Roll) 8 side High School in the new Zone civilian January— 1957 1 building to be used for community. The Supply & Community Service < H. Roll) 33 the high school will require extensive al- January— 1957 37 87 (20) 2d) 8 (7) 2(1) terations. Marine January— 1957 75 1 75 1 The development of recreational facil- Transportation & Terminals 42 1 4 I ities for Coco Solo residents is still largely January 1957 -- 59 2 47 2 30 3 in the planning stage. This phase of Civil Affairs 12 3 January 1957 4 community life in the new civilian town 42 6 C. Z. Govt. Panama Canal Company 234 6 will be developed partly as part of the January 1957 243 4 162 4 school program and partly by the initia- Overhaul Injuries Staff and Administration Included. tive of the residents, as the former Naval ( ) Locks base has several buildings which can eas- ily be adapted for group activities by civic and fraternal organizations. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958 CIVIL DEFENSE NEWS Worth Knowing © Los Angeles and C. Z. police are now look-a-likes. "Toppex" safety helmets, recently adopted as standard for the Los Angeles police The Canal Zone again this year will force, have been distributed to all Zone motorcycle officers as part participate in a nation-wide Civil Defense training exercise. Although the date has not yet been announced, the exercise will probably take place in the spring, giving the Schools Division an opportunity to demonstrate their preparedness program. The time, place, and type of attack will be decided later, and this information may not be released to the public in ad- vance as has been done in the past. Last year's exercise was centered on a simu- lated nuclear explosion over Miraflores Locks.

Work will be started this month on the reconstruction and conversion to decon- tamination equipment of two former fire engines. The work will be accomplished by the Industrial Division in Cristobal.

Arm-band identification was distrib- uted last month to the volunteers of the towns of Santa Cruz, Paraiso, and Rain- bow City. Volunteers in the U. S.-rate towns will receive their arm bands this month.

The Balboa traffic squad poses in their new helmets. L. to t.: Motorcycle Approval for the purchase of Com- Policemen R. W. Lawyer, W. G. Hoelzle, J. F. McDowell, F. R. Hollowell munications equipment has been received C. N. Little, J. H. Harris, G. R. Harris, Cato May, Sgl. Walter H. Alves, Jr. and the order for the equipment will go this month This equipment will forward of their uniforms. The helmets are a shiny white, with black rims, the field rescue service, con- be used for visors, and chin-straps. They are made of glass fiber bonded with trol points, and the control centers. A polyester resin ; their shock dissipation comes from a half-inch layer made for the acquisi- study is now being of crushable foamed polystyrene. Each helmet weighs about two necessary personnel radiolog- tion of the pounds. Traffic officers report them no hotter than the old-style, ical dosimeters. less protective visored caps.

Approval has been received for the Safety Field Day is coming up soon. The annual event for non- purchase of a special arc-light projector U. S. citizen employees will be held April 12 at Santa Cruz under for the civil defense training program. the sponsorship of the Santa Cruz Civic Council which is working This projector will make possible the closely with the Safety Branch in making plans for the annual event. showing of 16-mm. training film in the Last year's Safety Field Day was held at Rainbow City. local theaters directly from the projection booth, and affords a better opportunity educational pictures to a larger to show The Cristobal local freighthouse is having its face lifted. Under a heretofore. audience than major improvement program now going on near Dock 9, the delivery platform is being widened, a canopy constructed, and the street area MARCH VOLUNTEER CORPS MEETINGS in front of the freight house widened. Other streets in the area are Date Town Place Hour to be resurfaced. The changes will increase cargo handling space by

5 & 19 Marg.-N. Cristobal Serv. Center 5:00 p. 1 a third, and facilitate cargo delivery, especially in the rainy season. (First Aid)

12 Rainbow City School 6:30 p. 13 Santa Cruz Serv. Center 8:00 p. Bids for construction of two new school buildings in Balboa are 17 Paraiso School 7:30 p. being asked. The bids will be opened here March 26. One will be a building to house all ROTC activities. The other will be a com- pletely air-conditioned "activities building" for general use. It will contain a 600-seat auditorium. Plans for both buildings were J^jgL. drawn up by Reynolds, Smith & Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla.

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Two full pages in a recent Congressional Record are devoted to a Monthlj At Balboa Heights, C. Z. Published former Zonian. The 20-minute speech by Rep. Clark Thompson of Printed by the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zune Texas was a tribute to Brig. Gen. James Gordon Steese, who spent W. E. Potter, Governor-President many years of his service in the Canal Zone, and who was fatally Hugh M. Arnold, Lieutenant Governor injured in an automobile accident in January in French Equatorial W. G. Arey, Jr., Public Information Officer Africa. In his eulogy, which concluded with a poetic tribute writ- ten by former Isthmian Canal Commissioner Maurice H. Thatcher, Rufus Hardy, Editor J. Rep. Thompson outlined General Steese's career and his first-hand Eleanor McIlhenny, Assistant Editor knowledge of the Panama Canal and its affairs. Eunice Richard, Editorial Assistant

On ale at all Pana ma Canal Service Centers ROTC cadets are on their toes these days. The cadets, from Balboa Co nm'S! * and Hole s fr r 10 days after puhlica tion date cents each. Sl bscrlptions, $ a year and Cristobal high schools, are getting ready for the annual Field 11 an d back copies. 10 -ents each. Day which is to be held next Friday evening at the Mount Hope Postal money orders made payable to the Pan- Stadium. The program, which includes individual, squad, platoon, ama Canal Company should be mailed tn Editor. and company competition, begins at 7 p. m. Drill teams from both The Panama Canal Review. Balboa Heights. C Z. high schools will also demonstrate their maneuvers.

Mcrch7, 1958 AS CHILE GROWS so grows Canal's

importance to her ECONOMY

(This is the last of two articles on Chile in "The Review" series on hade areas served by the Panama Canal)

Despite inflation, which has plagued opposite direction there is now an ever- 15, 1914, Chile's chief source of invest- Chile more than most other Latin Amer- increasing stream of materials needed ment capital from abroad has been the ican countries in recent years, her na- in the industrial development of the United States. However, with the notable tional economy today is established on nation. exception of W. R. Grace & Co., most investors have concentrated a far broader foundation than ever before. It is remarkable to note that during on mining, chiefly copper and iron. Remarkable progress is being made in the past fiscal year, four times as much the nation's program of industrialization cargo was shipped south to Chile through The extent of United States invest- ments in Chile effects and diversification to rid the country of the Canal as in 1936. Last year 2,000,000 and some of the diversification of such investments, its economic dependence on one or two tons of cargo moved south to Chilean at products notably copper and nitrate. ports via the Canal, while 1936 shipments present and planned in the future, was Chile learned a bitter lesson during the totaled only 500,000 tons. Commodity summarized in an announcement early world-wide depression of the 1930's when movements in the opposite direction last this year by the Chilean Government the wheels of industry grated to a halt year amounted to 3,963,000 tons, as com- which said: and there was virtually no demand by pared with 2,921,000 in fiscal year 1936. "American private concerns already importing nations for her two principal While the opening of the Canal meant established in Chile will invest about saleable commodities. much to this pencil-thin nation along the $300,000,000 of both their own capital As a result of these changes, the Pacific coast of South America by the and funds made available by the Ex- Panama Canal more than ever before shortening of trade routes to the great port-Import Bank for investments in has become a much-used two-way industrial areas, the Canal's early role in Chile. With these new funds, those street to world markets for Chile. Raw Chile's economic welfare is today far investments will be brought up to materials dug out of her mineral-rich overshadowed as a supply route for the about one billion dollars, or 10 percent of the total investment of mountains still constitute the great products she buys and sells. American private enterprise in Latin America. bulk of Chile's marketable products Chile is presently embarked on a de- moved through the Canal, but in the velopment program calling for an expend- "In addition to the investments iture of $746,000,000 over an eight-year made by American concerns already period. It is designed to correct distor- operating in Chile, the Committee on tions which periodically crept into the Foreign Investments recently approved country's economy during the past few applications for a total of §52,000,000 decades and created havoc and alternate in new enterprises and investments, periods of feast and famine. Approxi- more than half in industrial activities, mately half of this spending program will the remainder in agriculture, mining, be in foreign currency to buy equipment construction, transportation, commu- abroad and the remainder will be in nications, etc." Chilean pesos to meet domestic costs. While the amount of foreign invest- Sharing in this expansion program will ments in Chile has increased substan- be such diverse activities as manufactur- tially in very recent years from sources ing, construction, mining, shipping, fish- other than the United States, the value ing, agriculture, forestry, power produc- of U. S. direct investments there since tion, communications, and an incipient World War I closely parallels the na- petroleum industry. tion's economic growth. While most of Chile's foreign commerce The following table shows the U. S. in five is transported in foreign bottoms, there direct investments in Chile dif- has been a big increase in the number of ferent years which are typical of world Chilean-flag ships using the Canal since economic conditions in varying periods: the depression years. In 1938 there were L929 $423,000,000 only nine Canal transits by ships flying L936 484,000,000 the flag of Chile and cargo tonnage that L943 .. 328,0(10,(10(1 year was 29,000 tons. Last year there 1950 _. 540,000,000 were 78 transits by Chilean merchant ma- 1957 700,000,000 rine vessels carrying 469,000 tons of cargo. Chile's economic growth in this period

Since the Canal's opening on August is shown in the world-wide index of in- dustrial production, by nations, prepared Santiago, Chile's 400-year-old capital by the United Nations. This index uses seen from Santa Lucia overlooking city. the industrial production achieved in 1953

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958 Pres. I'oanez learns how Canal operates from Gov. Potter on visit here in 1956. as the measuring rule with a score of 100 for each of the various categories. The United Nations' index shows the follow- ing statistics for Chile's mining, manu- facturing, and electric power generation for comparable years shown above: Manu- Elec- Min- factur- tric- ing ing ity 1929 133 36 14 1936 82 43 21 1943 117 58 35 1950 105 70 76 1953 100 100 100 1956 119 107 121 The index for mining reflects world economic conditions rather than the over- all economic progress of Chile during the past three decades. The mining index fell well below the 1953 par figure of 100 during the depression of the 1930's. A better mirror of Chile's economic progress and the effects of the diversifi- cation program of recent years is the index on manufacturing and the one on 1965. Imports are expected to rise to of W. R. Grace & Co. He reported that electric power production. There has $452,000,000 from the 1956 level of $346,- his firm doubled its capital investment been a steady upward climb of these in- 000,000, which will leave Chile with a there between 1946 and 1956 and will dexes since 1929, although monthly figures favorable trade balance of $169,000,000. double it again by 1962. The total in- for 1957 showed some downward trend Samplings of development plans an- vestment of the company by 1962 will in both categories because of the current American firms already be $100,000,000, he announced. internal economic conditions. nounced by some established in Chile and the monetary Its diversification is well Since Chile is the second largest copper- program of rendered the Export- producing nation, her nitrate beds are assistance being by exemplified in Chile. It now has 17 substantiate the findings of the only large natural deposits in the Import Bank offices and branches in Chile, from Arica research group. world, and her mountains are rich with the University of Chile's to Punta Arenas, with its manufacturing, iron ore and other metals, there seems Last year the Export-Import Bank mechandising, shipping, and aviation ac- million loan to Compania in head office in little doubt that the mining industry will extended a $16 tivities centered the Steel continue to be a dominant factor in the de Acero del Pacifico, S.A. (Pacific Santiago. Among the many types of its country's economy, particularly since the Co.), to enable the company to diversify interests are textile manufacturing, sugar, at Huachi- Canal offers a ready access to world mar- its integrated steel operations refining, the importation and manufac- kets on a competitive basis. pato, Chile. This brought to $76.5 mil- ture of machinery and electrical equip- in to this of oils This surmise is supported by a recent lion the amount loans extended ment, and the production edible extensive survey conducted by the Eco- firm, jointly owned by Chilean Govern- and linseed oil. nomic Research Institute of the Univer- ment agencies and private investors, by Another American firm presently em- sity of Chile. That survey indicated that the ExporWmport Bank since 1945. barked on a big expansion program in Chile's gross national product will in- A loan of $12 million has also been Chile is the Anaconda Company. It is crease 39 percent over the 1956 figures received from the Export-Import Bank spending $80,000,000 to develop an ore- by 1965. The survey predicted that agri- by the Nitrate Company of Tarapaca and body near Potrerillos where Anaconda culture will make the biggest advance Antofagasta. This is a Chilean-owned engineers recently found a large copper and substantial increases will be shown group enterprise engaged in such divers- deposit of higher grade than its famous by industry and commerce. ified activities as mining, lumber, mixed nearby Andes ore mine. This will entail The survey foresees a growth in ex- fertilizers, phosphate production, and the construction of a modern town with ports from $480,000,000 to $615,000,000 transportation. comfortable homes, schools, hospitals, in the ten-year period. Mining, princi- The extent to which United States and other modern conveniences for its pally copper and nitrates, will continue private capital is being poured into employees and their families. to account for the greater part—from Latin America is indicated by a recent Anaconda's mining interest in Chile $405,000,000 in 1956 to $497,000,000 in statement of J. Peter Grace, President dates back to 1923 when it acquired the

Chile's growing steel industry is part of her industrial- Co. plant on the Chilean coast at Huachipato. L. to r., ization program. Below are views of big Pacific Steel wire-rod production, Bessemer converter, general view.

March 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Chuquicamata mines in Antofagasta Province. This is the largest known cop- per ore-body in the world and produces more than 500 million pounds of metal a year. The company's second largest property in Chile is its Andes mine, con- centrator, and smelter at Potrerillos. Blister copper from these mining prop- erties has been shipped through the Canal since 1927 to the company's Raritan Copper Works in Perth Amboy, N. J. Anaconda's operations in Chile dem- onstrate the importance of the Canal as a two-way trade route. A steady flow of men, materials, and supplies goes south through the Canal to keep its copper production going. An im- portant part of this traffic is the ship- ment of oil. Anaconda has under char- ter two oil tankers, each making about 14 round trips a year through the Canal from refineries in the Caribbean to the company's operations in Chile. The development of Chile's steel in- dustry has come since the close of World II its has been rapid. War but expansion Anaconda's El Salvador Mine near Potrerillos. Company is spending over $80 It is a phase of the nation's diversifica- million to develop this deposit which will produce 200 million pounds annually tion program and today the integrated plant of the Pacific Steel Company of 1,123,000 tons; coal and coke, 218,000; Chile at Huachipato is furnishing much iron and steel manufactures, 115,000; Carl J. Browne Is New Head of the country's steel needs for construc- sugar, 72,000; wheat, 60,000; machinery, tion, road building, and industry. Of Canal Zone Credit 50,000; automobiles, parts, and accessor- Union The Huachipato industry is jointly ies, 37,000; agricultural implements, 11,- owned by private stockholders and the Carl J. Browne, Superintendent of the 000; and railroad equipment, 10,000. Chilean Government, and its financing Balboa Field Office of the Maintenance Mineral products constitute the bulk has been accomplished by private capital, Division, was elected last month to head of shipments from Chile through the Chilean Government agencies, and $76.5 the Canal Zone Credit Union for a year's million in loans by the Export-Import Canal to Atlantic destinations, and last Bank. year shipments of iron ore, nitrates, and As a result of the developments by copper made up 88 percent of the total. such firms as Pacific Steel, Anaconda, Total tonnage of these for the year were: and W. R. Grace & Co., as well as hun- Iron ore, 2,258,000; sodium nitrate, 867,- dreds of new businesses, both large and 000; copper metals, 220,000; and copper small, being started in Chile, there has ore, 82,000. been a noticeable change in the commod- While Chile's program of diversifica- ity movements through the Canal to tion and industrialization to supply the f***+f*ijl Chile in the past few years. The need needs of her rapidly-growing population for petroleum is growing rapidly and last will bring many changes in the future in year almost as much mineral oil was the types and amounts of goods shipped shipped through the Canal for Chile as to- through the Canal, there appears no like- tal commodity shipments of six years ago. lihood that the close affiliation of the Of the 2,000,000 tons of freight moving Canal with its southernmost user in the south to Chile through the Canal in the New World will in any way be lessened fiscal year 1957, the tonnage of nine prin- in the foreseeable future. cipal products was listed as follows: Chile today is laying a sound founda- Petroleum and all petroleum products. tion for her economic future. And, so long as the trade routes of the seas are used to transport men's needs in raw and Copper bars, important commodity in finished goods, the Panama Canal will Canal traffic, are loaded for shipment. t*L*. continue as a vital link for this growing world trade area. Carl J. Browne The construction and efficient oper- period. He took office immediately upon ation of the Canal by the United States election by the Credit Union's Board of Government has been a great boon to Directors. world economy in this century. The Mr. Browne succeeds Robert Van Wag- shipping industry and all trading na- ner who has headed the employee-owned tions have a great stake in its future. corporation for the past four years. Mr. Van Wagner will continue to serve the Credit Union as a Director. OUR COVER Other officers are: Clarence W, Kilbey, Vice President; James H. Selby, Treas- One of the most magnificent sights urer; and Jerome E. Steiner, Secretary. of the Isthmus is the night lockage All three were reelected. of a ship through the Canal. In the Organized in 1936, the Credit Union "Review's" cover picture this month was planned originally to finance vaca- the Canal's Official Photographer tions and emergencies which required un- has caught the breath-taking beauty expected funds, as well as a place for of a ship in Miraflores Locks, painted savings. against the night sky by a thousand Membership today totals over 2,800, lights. Amateur photographers now all of whom are employees of the Com- have all night to try for such a pic- pany-Government. As of January this ture while Miraflores Locks are being year, the authorized capitalization was overhauled and operations are on $3,000,000. Assets now are well over 24-hour schedule. $2,000,000.

10 THE PANAMA CANAL REV'EW Mcrch 7, 1958 66 Employees Enrolled PAGES FROM THE 9* In Training Courses THIS MONTH For Supervisory Work

When the training office of the Person- 50 Years Ago then the largest airship in the world, spent that a day hovering over the Isthmus. Two nel Bureau announced last month Construction of the Panama Canal was to start a couple of new small planes, disgorged from its underside, they were ready moving ahead at full speed 50 years ago supervisory training groups, they expected ran a ferry service between airship and this month—March excavation set an ground while the dirigible floated overhead. to receive a possible 30 nominations. alltime record of 3,480,270 cubic yards— Zonians 25 years ago were shocked by Instead, when all the Company-Gov- but otherwise the month was without from, the death of former Governor Harry ernment's divisions had been heard much news of great importance. itself with a list Burgess, in Hot Springs, Ark., He had the training office found Late in March a slide on the relocated nominees for the left the Isthmus only the previous De- of 66 men and women Panama Railroad line, at the north end training course. cember. of a fill just south of Gatun, pushed an Consequently, instead of the two embankment carrying a temporary track 10 Years Ago groups of 15 or so each which were out of line several feet. The embankment Over the protests of shippers, President planned originally, the 66 nominees sank between 10 and 20 feet for a distance Truman issued an Executive Order in- have been divided into four groups, one of about 200 feet and destroyed over 220 creasing tolls of the Panama Canal by of which is made up entirely of women. feet of trestle. approximately 10 percent, effective Oc- There is one husband and wife, Mr. Lt. Col. H. F. Hodges, General Pur- tober 1, 1948. The new rates were to be and Mrs. Charles K. Cross, among the chasing Agent for the Isthmian Canal $1 per ton for laden merchant vessels, trainees; they are in different training Commission, was placed in charge of de- 80 cents for vessels in ballast, and 55 groups. sign for the lock gates. cents per displacement ton for other float- Two of the groups are meeting Mon- A census of the Canal Zone was started ing craft. The increase was recommended days and Thursdays and the other two early in March 1908, under the direction by the Secretary of the Army. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Since most of of the tax collector for each administrative As the month ended, the president of the those enrolled in the current courses are district. American Shipowners Association an- Pacific siders, the meetings are held at The first jury trial in the Canal Zone nounced that he would recommend to the the Training Center near Corozo Cross- resulted in the acquittal of the defendant; House Merchant Marine and Fisheries ing. All of the groups are being led by he had been charged with causing the Committee that tolls be frozen until the Lloyd S. Murphy, Assistant Training death of a steamship officer during an effects of the impending increase could be Officer. altercation on the Cristobal docks. considered. - A contract for the reconversion of the Twenty-three Company Government 25 Years Ago divisions or units are represented in the SS Panama, at a cost of about $1,325,000, Much of the news in the Canal Zone four groups. The Accounting Division was awarded to the Bethlehem Steel in March 1933, was a direct result of leads with 17 representatives. The Ad- Company. The ship had been tempo- happenings in the United States, and ministrative Branch, Gorgas Hospital, rarily refitted after its return from war some of it was not good. and the Engineering, Maintenance, Nav- service; the work to be done would be a Congress passed and the President signed igation, and Terminals Division have four permanent reconversion. a bill cutting salaries of all Government each. The Electrical, Motor Transporta- Several local construction projects were employees by 15 percent. The cut was to tion, and Supply Divisions have each sent announced. The Panama Canal accepted be effective April 1 and would continue until three employees to the training courses. a bid of $153,107 for masonry houses at the end of the fiscal year when further action The remaining employees in the four Margarita, the first concrete houses in the would be governed by the cost of living at groups come from the Claims Branch, Canal Zone since 1914. Building Division that time. Industrial Division, Internal Audit forces were at work on the renovation and Although the bank holiday in the Branch, Postal Division, Accounting Poli- repair of the former Tivoli USO building, United States caused some apprenhen- cies and Procedures Staff, Contract and prior to its opening as a Canal clubhouse. sion among Zonians who had U. S. ac- Inspection Division, Library, License School officials announced plans to counts, the Canal Zone's single bank was Section, Meteorological and Hydrographic establish a junior unit of the ROTC at not affected. The Cristobal Branch of Branch the Sanitation, Schools, and Wage Balboa High School. The unit would te what is now Chase Manhattan continued and Classification Divisions. organized at the beginning of the next operations as usual. Members of the four groups are: school year, with at least 100 cadets. Zonians were waiting to see whether they Group 1: George A. Black, Jr., Robert would be able to buy beer legally on the One Year Ago L. Coffev, Mahlon D. Davis, Richard H. Zone. Congress legalized the production and March 1957, was a busy month with Egolf, Preston G. Gau, William E. Hall, sale 8.2 beer in the United States but it lots going on. In March: Enrollments for Theodore D. Melanson, H. E. Mussel- of seemed likely that a special act would have the new Group Health Insurance plan man, Robert F. Roche, and James H. to be passed covering sale or import in the swamped those trying to record them; Selby, all from the Accounting Division; Canal Zone. a new record of 808 ocean-going commer- Robert M. Graham and Grover D. Luce, Canal shipping was taking a slight turn cial vessels was set for Canal transits; Internal Audit Branch; Donald M. Parr, upward. In March 1933, 399 commercial schools officials announced entrance ex- Accounting Policies and Procedures Staff; vessels made the Canal transit. Cargo aminations for non-U. S. citizen appli- Harry D. Raymond, Claims Branch; and tonnage was over 5 percent higher than cants for the Canal Zone Junior College; Lester M. Fennel, Meteorological and March of the previous year. and John T. Ridgely was retained as a Hydrographic Branch. in The 785-foot-long dirigible "Akron," consultant for the Panama Railroad. Group 2 (all women): Catherine M. Sigl, Mary G. Livingston, Frances L. Journey, Helen D. McKeown, Eva M. M.Dixon.Wageand Classification Division. E. French and Robert A. Rathgeber Grassau, Mary H. Foster, and Ruth H. Group 3: Charles K. Cross, George Q. Terminals Division. Electrical Di- Elich, Accounting Division; E. June Vieto, Edwin C. Jones, and Fred E. Wells, Group 4: P. T. Green, Hopkins, Winnifred E. Seeley, and Rita Administrative Branch; Harold W. Grif- vision; Julian Hearne, Roger Howe, Ru- Gribbons, Gorgas Hospital; Rosemarie fin, Gorgas Hospital; Michael Zombory, belio D. Quintero, and Allen Miller, En- Division; Walter T. Schapow J. Kenealy, Claims Branch; Nita B. License Section; Robert M. Blakely, Jr., gineering Hartman, Contract and Inspection Di- and Maurice L. McCullough, Motor and Lt. K. T. Shelley, Industrial Divi- vision; Miriam H. Hawvichorst, Electri- Transportation Division; L. D. Bowman, sion; F. S. Baumbach, R. G. Laatz, H. Mainte- cal Division; Mae B. Cross, Engineering Jr., Navigation Division; Dick R. Bran- W. Osborn, and H. D. Smith, and Construction Bureau; Eleanor D. don and James D. Dunaway, Postal nance Division; Paul R. Kuyoth, Motor Burnham, Canal Zone Library; Beatrice Service; Ramel H. Masters, Division of Transportation Division; Ernest C. Flow- M. Rhyne, Division of Schools; Margaret Sanitation; Robert H. Adams and Sum- ers, Eugene E. Hamlin, and Rufus O'Neal L. Csighy, Supply Division; and Virginia ner E. Ewing, Supply Division; Worden Navigation Division; and Bernard Dorf- man and William J. Rose, Terminals Di-

March 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW '

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Theophilus Herbert shellacks new Mrs. Verna Winstead looks for items Reference Librarian Beverly Williams books in open air outside library. of local interest in new magazines. searches files in the first-floor office. A New World Opens

Life is a lot brighter these days for From then on, Mrs. Ball was on her from a comprehensive list of material, is Mrs. Florence Ball, a lively little lady own. When she finishes a book, it is re- sent to her immediately. from Georgia, who is probably one of the placed in a special folder and returned to Mrs. Ball must observe certain rules. first persons in the Canal Zone to No one else in the family may take advantage of talking books. play the talking-book records and once the records have been The talking book, of course, heard, they are to be returned is a book read aloud and re- immediately. In many ways, corded on a few long-playing Mrs. Ball says, listening to the unbreakable records, which are talking book is much better easy to handle in the mail and than actually reading a book. by the persons who receive them. When one is interrupted, the To Mrs. Ball the talking book record can be turned off. Later came as an answer to the prob- it is possible to return exactly lems which face a person who to one's place or even repeat a lives world of perpet- now in a certain part which one has en- ual twilight after spending a joyed especially. lifetime of reading, sawing, cook- A native of Moultrie, Ga., ing, and enjoying television and Mrs. Ball now makes her home as her movies as much grand- with her son-in-law and daugh- children do. ter, Fire Lt. and Mrs. James It was so easy, she said. McGloin, of Gatun. She does After arrangements were com- not believe that her lack of vis- pleted by the Canal Zone Li- ion is permanent and thinks that brary, a special record player it will be cleared considerably by arrived from the Library of Con- operations. Meanwhile, she has gress in Washington together discovered a whole new world with a "book" from the New which she hopes that other res- York City Public Library for the Blind, the Library in New York free of charge. idents of the Canal Zone, who suffer from which handles talking books for this area. Another book, which Mrs. Ball can select lack of sight, will discover too.

12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958 —

The 5,000 or so books which are added eaves of the overhang just outside the to the Canal Zone Library's collection library's back door. Sad experience has Orders may now be placed each year do not appear miraculously on taught the Library staff that air-con- the library shelves. ditioning ducts spread the shellac for bound REVIEW volume The work of getting these thousands fumes through the building if the of volumes and many hundreds of mag- work is done inside. Orders may now be placed for the azines ready for circulation is the full- When the books are shellacked he binding of volumes 6 and 7 of "The time job of at least half a dozen of the letters them in code, to tell prospective Panama Canal Review," covering Main Library's staff men and women readers at a glance whether they are the two-year period of August 1955 who, for the most part, spend their picking up a "western," a "who-dun-it," through July 1957. The binding working hours in the jam-packed first- or a biography. will be in red or black fabricoid, floor offices of the Main Library. They While the others are working on the and the price will be Sll per volume, are seldom seen by the public. books, Mrs. Verna Winstead is sur- the same as for the previous binding, Getting new books ready for circula- rounded by great stacks of new period- if the order is received prior to March tion is a real production-line performance. icals. In her post as custodian of the 31, 1958. The price on individual or- The first of the Library staff to get a look Library's magazines, she scans each new ders received after that date may be at the new books is Alfred Bushell, the magazine or newspaper for items which slightly higher. Library's clerical assistant and general may be of local interest, marks any such "Review" collectors who wish the man-of-all-jobs. she finds, and starts the periodicals on latest bound volume should send When the new books and magazines their official rounds. She reads both their orders to the Editor, "The reach the library in sacks and cartons, English and Spanish. Although her scan- Panama Canal Review," Balboa he opens each of these and checks the ning ability has always been amazingly Heights, C. Z. The orders should be new arrivals against the accompanying fast, she took a "rapid reading" course accompanied by a United States shipping lists. They then move on to recently, to speed it up even more. postal money order. The purchaser Evelyn Howell, a regular Girl Friday to Not all of the new books received in should also indicate which color the Library's staff. She stamps accession every order are released at the same time. red or black—he prefers for the numbers into each book. If they were, it would mean that an en- binding. Next stop on the production line is the tire lot one week might be detective desk of Mrs. Emily Price, the Library's stories, or scientific books, or popular fic- Cataloguer. She decides into which cat- tion. Instead, Mrs. Eleanor Burnham, Time To Pay: Income Tax egory each of the new books fits and pre- Librarian, and members of her staff select

pares an index card for it. Mrs. Ruth each week a varied assortment of the Is Due Within Six Weeks Townsend, a part-time cataloguer, does latest books they have received, so they the same thing for the new juvenile books. will appeal to a variety of tastes. Zonians, as well as other income-tax actual cards are then prepared by Although Library's staff The the unseen payers, have only a little over six weeks Rita Kevlin, Library Assistant, who spends most of its time getting books new between today and April 15, closing day file dupli- types some of the cards, cuts ready for their readers, they also work for filing tax returns for 1957. Estimated of the Li- mats on others. Cards for all with the Library's older books. Volumes tax returns are due the same date. brary branches and deposit libraries are which are salvageable are mended in the Pacific siders who have tax problems Library. prepared at the Main downstairs work-room and books which may either contact any of the 25 Canal Once the books are indexed, they move are beyond repair are discarded there. employees who were coached on tax prob- Howell, pastes a back to Evelyn who Last year the Library added 5,545 vol- lems last month, or see Wendell Lindsay, little paper pocket in the front of each umes to its collection of over 108,000 Internal Revenue Bureau representative, into to hold the book-cards and also puts books in English and Spanish. During the at the Civil Affairs Building. For the the "plate" which identifies the place same period, 6,200 books were discarded. convenience of Atlantic siders, Mr. Lind- book as belonging to the Canal Zone Li- The discards were books which were say will be in Cristobal all next week. brary. Then she passes them on to Theo- worn out, moldy, hug-eaten, out-of- Excapt for Wednesday, when he will be philus for the protective shel- date, extra Herbert or were copies of best-sellers at Coco Solo Hospital, he will be avail- lacking which all library receive. books of years past. Some obsolete books are able in Room 300 of the Post Office Build- An expert in mending and binding, kept for their historical interest but ing between 8 a. m. and noon, and 1 to which he learned at the former Occu- other old books, are ordinarily dis- 4 p. m. pational High School in he La Boca, carded when the information they Payments must be made to the Inter- the shellacking the does under wide contain is out-dated. national Division, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D. C. Zonians Learn About Income Tax

Twenty-five Canal employees were among the Zonians who learned "how-to" of income tax from two experts in February.

March 7,1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 .

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS ANNIVERSARIES

January 75 through February 75 For another year William Jump, senior employee in the Canal organization, heads the list of those who had service anniver- Employees who were promoted or trans- to Control House Operator, Atlantic Locks. saries in February. ferred between January 15 and February 15 PERSONNEL BUREAU On February 1 Mr. Jump, Timekeeper are listed below. Within-grade promotions Mrs. Virginia M. Dixon, from Position in the Industrial Division, completed 53 are not reported. Classifier to Supervisory Position Classifier. years of Panama Canal service, all of it Wage and Classification Division. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH with what' is now the Industrial Division. William D. Young, from Personnel Assist- Elizabeth Mitchell, from File Clerk to This makes him tie senior of all employees, ant, and Utilization Division, Clerk-Typist, Records Management Section. Employment from point of service, and the only one Classifier, and Classifica- to Position Wage whose service dates back to 1905. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU tion Division. Born in Gorgona, he learned French and Mrs. Kathryne S. Brown, from Educa- SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE English at an Anglican school and picked tional Specialist. Office of General Manager, BUREAU up his Spanish when he lived for a time Supplv Division, to Elementary School Corneilius O'Sullivan, from Commis- J. with a Panama City family as a sort of Teacher. sary Supervisor, to Commissary Supply As- companion and tutor in English to their Mrs. Virginia C. Townsend, Mrs. Bev- sistant, Supply Division. sons. He got his first Panama Canal job erly E. Noble, Mrs. Charla A. Roush, Mrs. Alicia M. Crasto, from Transporta- Mrs. in the old Mechanical Division when he Anita M. McClelland, Mrs. Margaret B. tion Auditing Clerk, to Transporta- Rate was only 15 years old. In this job he earned Lovelace, Mrs. Eileen M. O'Brien, from tion Rate and Claims Clerk, Supply Di- all of i l cents an hour. Substitute Teacher to Elementary School A vision. He has worked in Gorgona, in Empire, Teacher. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS and in Balboa. Since 1950, when the Me- George L. Cooper, from Policeman and BUREAU chanical Division was transferred to Mount Detective to Police Sergeant. from Road and Yard Floyd M. Johnson, Hope, he has been an Atlantic Sider. Victor H. Higgins, Jr., from Substitute Conductor, to Road and Yard Conductor Distribution Clerk to Window Clerk, Postal and Train Dispatcher, Railroad Division. 35 YEARS Division. from Policeman, Police Roy L. Vaughan, Harry F. Cody, General Foreman of the Robert A. Engelke, from Motorcycle Terminals Division. Division, to Guard, Water System for the Maintenance Division Officer and Policeman and Detective to WASHINGTON OFFICE holds second place on the list of February- Police Sergeant. Mrs. Wilhelmene H. Cushing, from Sec- anniversaries because of his 35 years of E. Van Hoose, from Guard, Term- Jack retary (Stenography), to Administrative government service. inals Division, to Policeman. Assistant (Stenography), Office of the Sec- He is one of the Canal's experts on Pan- Mrs. Jean A. Karch, from Junior High retary. ama City's water system. His knowledge School Teacher to Elementary School Mrs. Laura J. Reese, from Administra- was acquired during the years he spent as Teacher. tive Assistant (Stenography), to Adminis- foreman of the Panama City waterworks THE COMPTROLLER OFFICE OF trative Services Assistant, Office of the and as General Foreman of the Panama Mrs. Hazel F. Nail, from Clerk, Gorgas Secretary. District in the period when The Panama Hospital, to Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, OTHER PROMOTIONS Canal operated the water system under con- Payroll Branch. Promotions which did not involve a tract with the Republic and handled the B. Magnuson, from Chief, Budget LeRoy change of title were: capital's street repairs under a similar Budget and Rates Di- Branch, to Chief, Karl W. Shirley, Marine Inspection As- agreement. vision. sistant. Navigation Division. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was brought from Supervisory Bud- Robert Lessiack, Edward G. Coyle, Rates Analyst, Office to the Isthmus when he was only six years Analyst to Chief. Budget Branch. get of the Comptroller. old. His father. Michael J. Cody, was a ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION James B. Crane, Herbert A. Greene, Jr., Moulder in the Balboa Shops. BUREAU Admeasurer, Navigation Division. During school vacations, he worked as a for the Building Division, as a Mrs. Edith M. Villanueva, from Clerk- Thelma L. Capwell, Mrs. Gloria J. Hallet, messenger gardener at one of the Commissary's truck Typist to Accounting Clerk, Maintenance Mrs. Marguerite M. Orr, Mrs. Marian R. as a messenger and helper at the Division. Scott, Mrs. Mary K. White, Mrs. Kathleen farms, and Balboa Shops. After he finished an appren- David Rosenblatt, from Sanitary Engi- I. Nelson, Mrs. Jane D. Fuller, Eleanor L. ticeship as a pipefitter, he worked at that neer to Superintendent, Miraflores Filtra- Colbert, Mrs. Eileen G. Brady, Mrs. Na- trade here and in Venezuela. He has been tion Plant, Maintenance Division. dine W. Cain, all Head Nurses, Psychiatry, Corozal Hospital. with the Maintenance Division since 1939, Electrical Division Dwight A. McKabney, Attorney, Office with the exception of two years during the A. Folger, from Wireman to Elec- George of the General Counsel. war when he served as a SeaBee with the trical Distribution Foreman II. Navy in the Pacific. Thomas J. Dee, from Electrical Distribu- During the time Mr. Cod> was working tion Foreman II, to Electrical Interior Lead in Panama City, he won high praise for a Foreman II. MARCH SAILINGS training program he instituted for the Pan- Vernon L. Dahlhoff, from Electrical In- amanian personnel who were then prepar- terior Lead Foreman II, to General Elec- FROM CRISTOBAL ing to take over the waterworks. More re- trical Foreman II. for his part in Cristobal ...March 8 cently he was commended Mrs. Elizabeth A. Jorgensen, Clerk- devising a cheap method of converting fire .1 in; mi March 15 Typist, from Gorgas Hospital to Commun- fire standpipe valves to the Cristobal March 26 hydrants and ications Branch. FROM NEW YORK recently-adopted National Standard threads HEALTH BUREAU A neon March 7 Mrs. Mary B. Egolf, from Secretary Cristobal.^. ...March 18 (Stenography), to Clerk-Typist, Office of Ancon March 25 Two of last month's 30-year men are. Health Director. second generation Canal Zone employees. Southbound ships which leave New York Friday B. McNeff, from Director of Mrs. Marie are in Haiti the following Tuesday. Those which John F. Hern, Foreman Sheetmetal Nurses, to Director of Nursing, Corozal sail from New York Tuesday spend Saturday in Haiti. Worker for the Maintenance Division, was Hospital. Northbound, the ships stop in Haiti two days after born in Ancon, son of J. F\ Hern, a chauf- Cristobal: Monday for those which sail from Mrs. Marie K. Corrigan, from General clearing Mr. Hern's service with the Canal Cristobal Saturday, and Friday for those which clear feur. Medical Hospital Nurse to Medicine and Cristobal Wednesday. organization is unbroken and, allowing foi Surgery Staff Nurse, Coco Solo Hospital. administrative reorganizations, has been all MARINE BUREAU with the same division. P. Byrne Hutchings, whose lather. K. W. Joseph A. Vowell, Jr., from Checker, RETIREMENTS also a Canal employee, was Pacific Locks Overhaul, to Patrolman, Hutehings was Miss., but was so Locks Security Branch. born in Columbus, young brought to the Canal Zone John B. Spivey, from Gas Navigation Retirement certificates were presented when he was of February to the following em- that he practically counts .is a native. Mr. Aids Foreman I, Dredging Division, to the end Motor Boat Maintenance Mechanic, Nav- ployees who are listed alphabetically, to- Hutchings has worked for a number of been in Housing since igation Division. gether with their birthplaces, titles, length Canal units and has future addresses: 1940. He is now Realty Assistant in the James C. Wood, Wallace W. Priester, Jr. of Canal service, and Branch. from Marine Inspect ion Assistant to Ad- Mrs. Louis K. Allen, Canal Zone: Clerk- Housing measurer, Navigation Division. Stenographer, Navigation Division; 10 The other two Company-Government Anthony H. Hopiak, Shipwright, from years, 8 months, 11 days; Canal Zone. men who completed 30 years of government last are Withrop H. Havenor, Dredging Division to Industrial Division. Eulie M. Bennett; Storekeeper. Motoi service month Assistant Chief of the New York Account- OIlin P. Strickland, from Lead Joiner Transportation Division ; 8 years, 5 months, lor present. ing Office, anil William F. Long, a member Foreman to Lead Shipwright Foreman II 20 days; Canal Zone and Assistant Dockmaster. Industrial Di- Capt. Jack H. Hearn, Alabama; Pilot, ol the Canal Zone Police F"orce. 1(1 for the war-years, Mr. Havenor's vision. Navigation Division; M vears. months, Except continuous joined the Vincent D. Ridge, from Lead Shipwright I') days; California. service has been He February 1, 1928, as a junior- Foreman II and Assistant Dockmaster, to Henry T. Leisy, Nebraska: Elementary Company in the Accounting Chief Shipwright Foreman and Dockmaster, Si hool lee her. Schools Division; 28 years, clerk. He has served Treasurer's Office, and Exec- Industrial Division. in months, 15 days; Canal Zone for present Department, W. Mclntyre, Idaho; Engineer, utive Office in New York. William McLaughlin, Jr., from Control Bernard J. Norwood, N. C. House Operator to Chief Foreman Locks Railroad Division; .12 years, 9 months, 21 Mr. Long conies from He as Operations, Atlantic Lock?. daj s; St. Petersburg, Fla. slarled his Canal career a Locks Watch- John T. Styles, from Wireman to Wire man Foreman, Atlantic Locks. Leslie W. Croft, from Wireman Foreman 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958 Consultants For Congress Due Here Zonians Thanked By Panama (Continued fimi fageS) and indus- Warm thank-you's poured in last month to the people of the Canal Zone trial buildings, and various types of pub- for their help during and after the recent disastrous fire in the San Miguel lic works. area of Panama City. Among these were two letters to Governor Potter. General Groves is best known for his first, United States Ambassador to Panama Julian F. Harring- work as head of the Manhattan Project The from expressed Panama's official appreciation. during which he was in complete charge ton, "I have received a letter from President de la Guardia," the Ambassador of the development and planning for the wrote, "expressing his warm appreciation of the assistance rendered by the use of the atomic bomb. Among his authorities of the Canal Zone during and after the fire many important assignments were as civilian and military in the San Miguel district of Panama. This timely assistance and friendly officer-in-charge of construction for the according to the President, will inevitably strengthen the existing Quartermaster General during mobiliza- cooperation, friendly relations between the two countries which he personally welcomes." tion for World War II. and as command- David, 300 miles away, came the thanks of the city's Rotarians. ing general of the Armed Forces Special And from learned of the Canal Zone's help from a fellow member, Juan M. Weapons Project for the Department of They had of the David Bomberos, who was in the capital at the time of the fire. Defense after the close of the war. Since Arauz After hearing his report, Octavio Tribaldos, Secretary of the David Rotary his retirement in 1948, he has been asso- wrote the Governor: "It was resolved to extend through your worthy ciated with Remington-Rand. Club, gratitude to the Government and people of the United States of Dean Hollister has headed the College office our America residing in the Canal Zone and especially to the Firemen's Corps of of Engineering at Cornell for 20 years. the valuable cooperation all gave and are giving during and after His specialties are municipal, structural, said Zone for the above-mentioned fire. and flood control projects. He has served reaffirmation of our high opinion of the sense of on many important governmental and "May this serve as a of the North American people, to which once again we private commissions for engineering proj- humanitarianism thank for their valuable assistance." ects. One of his services to the United States Government was as a member of the Commission on Organization of the Expert Executive Branch of the Government, Budget better known as the Hoover Commission, from 1953 to 1955. Mr. Slater specializes in transportation and marine engineering. In addition to serving as a member of the consulting engineering firm of Coverdale & Colpitts,

he is President and Director of the Amer- ican Export Lines. He also has served two years as Chairman of the Board of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. They are tentatively scheduled to meet Governor Potter Tuesday morning for a brief orientation. This will be fol- lowed by a management review and a description of bureau operations and later in the morning by a flight along the Canal route. The afternoon will be largely devoted to a presentation and general discussion of the Canal capac- ity problem, arranged by Lt. Gov. Arnold. Among the installations to be visited by the panel members will be the Locks, Gaillard Cut and the construction project at Bend 1868, the Dredging Division, the LeTourneau towing devices at Gatun, Miraflores Locks overhaul operations, and Carl W. Tiller, center, was one of two Budget Bureau officials who gave a series the marine control operations at the Bal- of talks on budget malters last month to Canal personnel. With him are Philip

boa Port Captain's Office. L. Steers, Jr., Comptroller, and LeRoy Maguson, Budget & Rates Division Chief.

man and has been with the Police Division iu the Canal Zone. Mr. Mead's father, Field Supervisor for electrical work in the since 1940. His local service is unbroken. Burton H. Mead, was a Pipefitter at the Electrical Division's Northern District. Pacific retired 10 years ago. 25 YEARS Locks when he 15 YEARS Mr. Willumsen's stepfather, F. W. Schewe, Sixteen employees of the Panama Canal February was Silver Anniversary month was a Marine Dispatcher for many years. organization completed 15 years of govern- for three men in the Canal service: Nathan ment service last month. Those with con- Ashton, David F. Mead, and William 20 YEARS W. tinuous Canal service are: Mrs. Lucille M. L. Willumsen. Two of the seven men who completed Flenniken, Accounting Clerk, General Led- Ashton, Stockman Foreman in the 20 years of government service last month Mr. a ger and Processing Branch; Ernest C. Division's Diablo Cold Storage have not only unbroken Canal service but Supply Flowers, Admeasurer, of Balboa: Ernest S. Banjoe, Me. His first also continuous service with their divisions. Plant, comes from Gibbs, Auto Repair Machinist, Motor job was with the old Bureau of Clubs and They are Edward G. Moran, who was born Transportation Division ; Mrs. Miriam H. joined the Commissary in the Philippines and is now a Distribution Playgrounds. He Hawvichorst, Supervisory Office Services 1940 has been in supply work Clerk at the Air Mail Facility at Balboa, force in and Clerk, Communications Branch; Hazel M. since. During World War il he was and Gilbert A. Reynolds, a native of Green- ever High, Clerk-Typist, Accounting Division; but remained ville, Ky., who is a General Electrical Fore- on active duty with the Army D. Robert LaPorta, Policeman, Cristobal position. man with the Electrical Division. in his Canal District; Clara Kirchmer, Accounting Clerk, Walter E. Mr. Mead is the keeper of the old records. Other 20-year employees are: Terminals Division; Emma E. Klinger, he has been with Colclasure, born in Durant, Okla., Born in Camden, N. J., who was Staff Nurse, Coco Solo Hospital; Kenneth the Administrative Specialist with the Engineering the Record Bureau, now Contract L. Middleton, Lockmaster, Pacific Locks; jaw-breaking offi- D. Foster, a native New Branch, since 1935. His Division; Harry John R. Olsen, Fire Lieutenant, Balboa An- Plant Operator for cial title is Supervisory Management Yorker, now Filtration Station; and Sophie Stathacopulos, Clerk- Branch; Will- alyst, Records Scheduling and Disposition. the Water and Laboratories Stenographer, Procurement Division, New at Halvosa, a native Zonian, Fi- Mr. Willumsen, a Customs Inspector iam T. Jr., York Office. Superintendent, Postal Di- Cristobal, is a native of Baltimore. He nance Branch Other 15-year employees are: Mrs. Ruth whose birthplace worked for the Gatun Commissary and the vision; James L. Hatcher, Bain, Clerk-Typist, Treasury Branch; a Police Ser- J. Oil Handling Plants before he joined the was Kings Mountain, N. C, George L. Cooper, Police Sergeant, Cristo- to Balboa District; and Customs Division in 1939. geant assigned the bal District; William H. Gonzalez, Com- another second- Mr. Mead and Mr. Willumsen are the Frederick H. Smith, Jr., bination Welder, Dredging Division; Mrs. generation Canal employee, who is now second generation of their families to work Odessa F. Hearne, first grade teacher, Bal- boa school; and Victor C. Melant, Super- visory Clerical Assistant, Dredging Division. March 7, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA : s$ ,-. 3-a. ^, ( ' i tn ill urn urn ii iiiiii mi mi mi n mi mi urn 1 1 Gala Transit 3 1262 08544 4676 _ss==^=sa=s==3S33=^ TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING VESSELS IN JANUARY

1957 1958

Commercial- .. ... 701 744 Government 30 24

Total... 731 768

TOLLS*

Commercial $3,167,577 $3,380,016 Government... 129,413 87,616

Total $3,296,990 $3,467,632

"Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small.

CARGO (Long tons)

Commercial..... 4,255,121 3,736,603 Government.,. 80,146 85,971

Total 4,335,267 3,822,574

by the Shaw Savill & Albion Line. Payne Decked with flags from stem to stern, the new 23,500-ton Gripsholm makes an & Wardlaw act as agents in the Canal impressive sight when seen from Contractors Hill. The Swedish-American liner Zone.

transited the Canal for the first time February 23 en route to South America. Empress Sold Gov. W. E. Potter and a group of Canal officials were aboard for the transit. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress Of Scotland, a well-known cruise visitor to Tricolor Tugs are regular customers of the Panama Canal ports, was sold in January to the Canal. A new monthly westbound serv- A new color scheme, designed to give Hamburg-Atlantic Line for approximately ice from the U. S. Atlantic Coast to Cal- a new look to the Panama Canal's float- her agents W. Andrews & Co. ifornia and the Far East was started early $2,800,000, ing equipment, was tried out last month have learned. The 26,131-ton ship is to in the month by the MS Akibasan Mam. on the Navigation Division tug Arraijan. be renovated at a German shipyard for The itinerary includes Baltimore, Hamp- The Arraijan, the first to come under the estimated and probably ton Roads, Philadelphia, New York, an $4,284,000 new paint program, blossomed forth in a will be placed in the North Atlantic trade. Charleston, Cristobal, Los Angeles, San spanking dark- new color combination of Empress Scotland visited the Francisco, Manila, Keelung, Hong Kong, The Of blue hull, white superstructure, stack. red in 1956 on Caribbean Saigon, and Bankok. Isthmus 1955 and Eventually the new lighter and brighter cruises. She was replaced on that run The east-bound sen ice, with much the colors will be applied to all floating equip- this year by the new Empress England. same itinerary, is being started by the Of ment, including ferry boats and dredges, MS Azuchisan Maru. which took on cargo as well as to the eight Panama Canal Scrap Loaded in the Philippines and Hong Kong and tugs. The spick-and-span paint job is re- Scrap destined for the Fiat Automobile is due to make the Canal transit March placing the work-a-day buff and black, in Balboa 16 en route to Havana and New York. factory in Italy was loaded which has been standard for the Canal The United Fruit Company handles the during the weekend of February 15 floating equipment for years. ships locally. aboard the German cargo freighter Greet- Around The World siel. The ship arrived in Balboa Febru- Another Maersk ary 14 in ballast from Callao, and took The Shaw Savill & Albion liner South- on a cargo of 850 tons of scrap metal at ern Cross, which makes four round-the- The MS Lau&t Maersk, last of a series Balboa's Pier 15. A frequent visitor to world voyages each year, is due to arrive of five new Maersk liners built especi- the Canal, the Greetsiel is owned by A. in Cristobal March 17 from London via cially for round-the-globe service, passed G. Lenox and represented locally by Trinidad and Curacao. After leaving the through the Canal in February on her Wilford & McKay. Canal, the Southern Cross will call at maiden voyage from Copenhagen via Tahiti, weather permitting, and at Fiji U. S. east coast ports en route to Los Tourists Coming and Wellington, New Zealand. Angeles, Yokohama, and other far-east Tourists will be swarming over the From Wellington, the ship will return ports. Isthmus in larger numbers than usual to England via Sydney, Melbourne, Fre- Built in Denmark, the 12,520-dead- this month with nine visits scheduled by mantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Las weight-ton vessel is 455 feet in length cruise ships during March. The Homeric, Palmas. A one-class ship, the Southern with a service speed of 18 knots, making the Empress Of England, and the Stella Cross is equipped to carry 1,100 passen- her one of the fastest ships for her size Polaris all called at Cristobal during the gers, and is air conditioned throughout. in the Far East trade. past week, and the Ocean Monarch is due On this trip, all passenger accommoda- The vessel is equipped with cargo tanks Saturday. Both the Mauretania and the tions are fully booked, Andrews & Com- for vegetable oils, latex, and molasses, Arosa Sun are scheduled to dock in Criss pany reported. which are an important part of the fcobal March 15, while the luxuriou- Maersk Company's trade. Local agents Nieuw Amsterdam will come in the fol- Maiden Voyage are C. B. Fenton & Co. lowing day. A second visit will be made

Th i SS Glafki, another new Japanese- by both the Empress Of England, due built cargo freighter, passed through the Outward Bound March 22, and the Mauretania, due Panama Canal February 18 on her maid- Another group of 590 British emigrants March 30. en voyage from west coast U. S. ports on their way to New Zealand to make In addition to the cruise ships, large to Philadelphia. The 9,866-gross-ton ship their homes, arrived at the Canal the last numbers of tourists will arrive during the which has a deadweight capacity of I 1,655 week in February aboard the British month on the regular visits of the Pan- tons, had a cargo of west coast lumber Ministry of Transport liner Captain Hob- ama liners Ancon and Cristobal and on aboard. Agents at the Canal were Payne son. The ship, a frequent visitor to the the Pacific Steam Navigation liner Reina & Wardlaw. Canal, is operated as an emigrant ship del Mar due March 20 from England en- New Services by the British Government and handled route to Valparaiso, Chile. Two new services were inaugurated in

February by the Mitsui Line whose ships THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 7, 1958