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COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF CANAL ORGANIZATION

"Operating results of the "&nb #lorj» ;£>fione Srounb" Panama Canal Company for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1954, further demonstrate the loyal and* efficient service of the men and women of the Canal organization," Gov. John S. Seybold declared this week. The Governor's declaration was made in connection with the release of con- densed financial statements "covering," he pointed out, "a period of internal changes and realignments during which the Canal, with a considerably reduced force, handled a record volume of com- mercial shipping." Total net income of the Company as tentatively recorded for the year was $4,160,010. On a comparable basis this figure represents a decline of $1,729,440 from 1953 when the corresponding amount of net income (adjusted to reflect prior year adjustments recorded in fiscal year 1954) was $5,889,450. The continued high volume of Canal traffic and reduction of working forces served largely to offset the effect of increases in wage rates, cost of materials, and interest costs that have taken place concurrently and which account principally for the current decline in net income. Commercial Tolls Increase ( )NK of the most beautiful of the Christmas themes—the Shepherd and the Angel— appeared last Christ-

mas at the end of Santa Claus Lane. It was arranged by Richard R. Potter of the Electrical Division. Giving results of operations for the third year of the Canal's administration as an incorporated Federal agency, the condensed financial statements snowed Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone that although total Canal transits were slightly under the overall 1953 fiscal year To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20 figure, more ocean-going ships of com- merce transited the waterway than in any previous single year. Tolls derived from Music, which has always played a William K. Harrison, Jr., Commander- commercial vessels amounted to $33,302,- prominent part in the celebration of in-Chief of the Caribbean Command. 149, an increase of four percent over the Christmas in the Canal Zone, will be In a message commending the "meticu- previous year, while tolls credited from shared this year with fellow citizens at lous manner in which the whole project U. S. Government vessels amounted to home in the form of a musical Christmas was handled." James H. Fassett, Super- $3,888,957, a decline of 30 percent from Card. The Christmas Card will be visor of Music for CBS Radio, wrote Lt. the previous year. The decline is attri- broadcast at 11:15 p. m. EST on Decem- Gov. H. 0. Paxson, "it is a bit premature butable to the falling off of the abnorm- ber 20 by the Columbia Broadcasting to do so but I do extend to you and all ally large volume of traffic through the Company over a nation-wide hook-up, who cooperated in the production of this Canal that had resulted from the war right after the late news broadcast. program from the Panama Canal Zone in Korea. heartiest best wishes for a very The special program of Christmas Merry The level of all other operations of the music and carols was recorded here by Christmas." Company remained at a volume sub- the combined band and chorus of the Local Broadcast Decembsr 23 stantially consistent with that of the Cristobal and Balboa High Schools under The entire program will be broadcast proceeding year. Gross income of allied the direction of Victor A. Herr, Director locally the evening of December 23, maritime operations amounted to $9,407,- of Music in Balboa, and Oswald E. which is also the anniversary of the open- 270, which, added to $37,191,106 from Jorstad, Director of Music in Cristobal. ing of the Balboa Theater. The local tolls, brought total gross income of the The traditional Christmas music sung broadcast will be at 8 p. m. Canal itself to $46,598,376. and played by High School students, will Community Service Bureau officials Net operating income of the Canal and be highlighted by Christmas messages to have made plans to have the broadcast allied maritime operations totaled $25,- the folks back home from Gov. J. S. piped into the theater itself and, follow- 781,861, after direct expenses and sup-

Seybold of the Canal Zone and Lt. Gen. ing the program on the air, (See pagi to) porting services amounting (See page 16) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954 Mr. Fix-It Comes To Town

other mothers with cars full of youngsters, people working in their yards and Diablo's younger generation all have a big "hello" for him. Sometimes the housewives have a new problem for him to work on, but more often than not when someone hails him down it is to tell him: "I can close the windows now," or, "Haven't seen a termite since you were here last." As residents of the various communities become better acquainted with what pre- ventive maintenance can do for them, they will undoubtedly use the team's services even more than they are already doing. And that will mean money saved for everyone, when a series of little jobs replace a big repair project. In the meantime, Diablo husbands are finding life a lot more pleasant, as we said before. It's a lot easier to say, "Call Bill." than it is to unlimber the old wrench or hammer, any day.

Special Stamp To Honor Centennial Of Railroad Mrs. JACK SMITH (if Davis Street tells "Bill," more formally W. G. Mummaw, foreman of Diablo's Preventive Maintenance Team, that the outside of her quarters needs repainting. A special three-cent stamp, commem- orating the iooth anniversary o/ the Diablo Heights husbands have a new limited, by its very name, to those cor- completion of the Panama Railroad on January 28, will be issued by the attitude these days -and a new friend. rective measures which prevent the need 1855, Canal Zone Postal Service early in the for major repair work. Occasion- When the little woman suggests that any coming calendar year. the kitchen faucets need new washers or ally, the preventive maintenance foreman The commemorative stamp, of the that somebody 'd better do something, finds a situation which has developed same purple as United States and Canal Zone stamps of the three-cent denom- pretty mmn, about the automatic door li-wmd his scope. In such cases the ination, will picture one of the first loco- closer quit conditions are reported in detail to the which has being automatic, motives in use on the Panama Railroad. the Diablo husband just looks smug Maintenance Division for correction. The stamp was designed by Leo C. Page, Chief of the Architect .ral Branch. and says: "Call Bill." Accompanying the foreman of a pre- The iooth Anniversary Stamp, which And Bill doesn't mind being called at Diablo ventive maintenance crew through will be an event in philatelic circles, will all. It's his job if thinks that not and he Heights, for instance, is an experience in be printed in the United States. It will enough people know that he and his men human relations. He is now an ace ot sd be the first special Canal Zone issue since the West Indian Commemorative are the local Mr. Fix-It, he is apt to drop figure in daily living. As he makes his Stamp in August 1051. around to see if maybe there isn't a rounds, mothers wheeling baby carriages, little job or two that needs doing. Bill, on Panama Canal records, is William G. Mummaw, foreman of the Diablo Heights preventive maintenance CARE In The Commissaries team. Working on the theory than an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the Canal Company, about a year ago, began its own preventive maintenance program. The idea was that future major maintenance cost could be elimi- nated through advance inspection of quarters. This would allow corrective measures to be taken in the early stages of deterioration or damage. After slightly over a year's trial in Diablo Heights, the preventive mainte- nance program has proved so successful and so popular with residents of that area, that the program has been extended gradually to other Canal Zone communi- ties. Preventive maintenance teams are now working in Margarita, Balboa, and Gamboa. Housing people and engineers knew, from past experience, that most of the houses in the Canal Zone were given maintenance attention only when a defect or problem was called to thi' alt 'ii- tion of the Housing Division by the people living in the quarters.

Generally, by this time, the damag i had gotten to a point where expensive corrective measures were needed. This, naturally meant increased maintenance costs. And, in the long run, maintenance CAREpackage eai Canal Zone's commissaries. F. R. Johnson, Supply Director, costs affect rent. who has been sending Norway for some time, 1 | makes a purchase from Mrs. Florence lemers, Of course, preventive is maintenance Balboa Commissary cashier, while Manager J. F, Evans watches. December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Quarters Construction Program Nears End; 111 Apartments Will Be Ready In 60 Days

The Panama Canal Company's quar- ters construction program is rapidly drawing to a close. Within th" next (ill days, 111 U. S.-rate apartments will have been made available to Company-Govern- ment families. Some of these families are living in the 120 buildings which ate to be vacated and demolished before the end of the present fiscal year. Wilson H. Crook, Community Services Director, again pointed out that evacua- tion dates for the old quarters in Pedro Miguel and Ancon will be observed and urged that employees living in these areas apply for the newly-completed quarters as they become available. Four quarters on Quarry Road, part of the 17-building contract which includes Quarry Road and the Ridge Road area, were accepted by the Panama Canal Com- pany from the contractor, Isthmian Contractors, Inc., in November. They are now occupied. First Flats Houses

In the Balboa Flats area, where 98 RIDGE ROAD, where 13 masonry quarters are beins erected, will not be ready for its new residents until apartments in 63 buildings are presently after the first of the year. All of the houses are to be completed by mid-February. under construction by Framorco, the first five houses were—at the time this houses to be built at Balboa Heights. still living in 23 quarters which are slated issue of The Review went to press- They will replace three old "official for early demolition. Six of these quar- scheduled for completion the first week houses" which had originally stood in ters are to be vacated not later than in December. These quarters are on the Culebra or Empire and which were February 1 and the remainder by July 1. end of Carr Street near the Balboa brought to their present Balboa Heights A total of 31 Canal families are still Elementary School. Two are two-family, location about 1914. living in 28 old buildings in the section two-story masonry quarters and the Two of the executive-type houses will of Ancon which includes Culebra Road, remaining three are one-family, on-the- be built on the sites of the quarters the Tivoli Guest House section and the ground masonry houses. formerly occupied by the Lieutenant area near the hospital These families The next group of Balboa Flats quar- Governor and the Marine Director. The have been notified that they must find ters scheduled for completion are on third is to be located approximately other quarters by July 1. Morgan Avenue. According to the pres- where the former quarters of the Health Seventeen other old buildings, in ent schedule, the houses will be completed, Director stood until that building was Balboa, which house 31 families are to be inspected, and accepted in groups of four demolished about 18 months ago. vacated by December 31. or five, about every two weeks until the While the new quarters are going up, Local-Rate Housing contract is completed late in January. old quarters are coming and within down In La Boca, quarters which were The first of the Ridge Road quarters, a few months only empty spaces will vacated with the transfer of 50 families to which are all of the modified "mother- indicate where houses once stood. Santa Cruz in October, are being demol- in-law" type, will not be completed until Evacuation Schedule ished as rapidly as possible. However shortly after the first of the calendar At the present time, 75 Canal families there are still, as of November 20, 49 year. They will be inspected and released are still living in 69 buildings in Pedro family quarters housing 344 occupants by the contractor as they are finished. Miguel. As a Canal town, Pedro Miguel and seven bachelor barracks with 401 The contract will be completed about will go out of existence next March 31. occupants, still standing in La Boca. February 15. Present plans are to close both commis- The condition of these quarters requires Executive Type Quarters sary and service center on that date. that they be vacated not later than fiscal The only other housing projected for In the section of Ancon nearest the year 1957. this fiscal year are three executive-type Administration Building, 24 families are On the Atlantic side the last six of the old Silver City multiple-family quarters, built in 1918, are ready for demolition. These quarters, which are now all vacant, had been occupied by 72 families. In Chagres, at Gatun, only one house

of those scheduled for demolition is still standing. The settlement at Chagres now consists of 58 family apartments, two bachelor buildings, a small school, and a small sen ice center.

The first unit of cavalry to be stationed in the Canal Zone was the First Squadron of the Twelfth Cavalry. The unit arrived here in February, 1016.

Slides in Gaillard Cut closed the Pan- ama Canal to large, ocean-going traffic from September 15, 1915 to April 15, 1916.

During the first fiscal year of opera- tion, 1,088 commercial ships transited FIRST of the Balboa Flats quarters were to be ready for occupancy early this month. All Flats houses are to be completed by the end of January. the Panama Canal. I

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954 Memorial Plaque At Paraiso Architect-Artist Honors Korean War Veterans Shows Paintings On Shipboard

It was no surprise to many Canal Zone residents when Paul Colby, member of the design staff of the Panama Canal Architectural Branch and well-known amateur painter, walked off with two of the prizes at the Fourteenth Annual Art Week Exhibition held last month at the Tivoli Guest House. Mr. Colby's watei colors have been seen and appreciated by hundreds of Zonians and quite a few tourists who have traveled back and foith from New York en the Panama Line ships. A num- ber of Cana! residents have Mr. Colby's pictures hanging in their homes. His fame with the traveling public grew out of the practice he started several years ago of holding an exhibit of his latest works aboard ship whenever he went on vacation. The collection, dis- played in the ship's lounge, always included a number of watercolors of Panama scenes which were of interest to Canal employees as well as tourists.

Art Is Avocation

understands what the memorial at Paraiso is all about ( IELIA GRANT, 4, of Paraiso, isn't quite sure she Although Mr. Colby studied architec- but someday she'll know that it was dedieated to the young men of the Canal Zone and the Republic of ture in the University of Illinois and has Panama who served with the United States forces in Korea.

A memorial plaque honoring three Past Commander of the Veterans of young Isthmians who died during the Foreign Wars in the Canal Zone; the Korean War and commemorating all of reading of a prize-winning essay—The those from the Canal Zone and Panama Danger of Communism -which was writ- who served with the United States Armed ten by Violet Walters, a senior in the Forces during the Korean conflict was La Boca Occupational High School; an dedicated November 11 at Paraiso. address by Frank Wilder, of the Panama The memorial, which is located at the Canal's Internal Security Branch; and upper entrance to the town of Paraiso, presentation of the plaque by A. E. close to the intersection of Gaillard High- Osborne, of the Division of Schools. was and Paraiso Roads, was erected The United States Army provided a through the joint efforts of the Pacific guard of honor while the Guardia Na- Army Mothers Club, of which Mrs. Daisy tional Band represented Panama at the Robinson is president, and of the Mutual ceremonies. Aid Club, whose president is Frank B. The servicemen whose names appear on Burke. the plaque are Sgt, Jose Molina Ceballos, The morning's dedicatory program Pvt. Ben A. Franklin, and Pvt. Gilbert D. included an address bv E. J. Eglinton, Francis.

Officer, wrote regarding Colon Hospital. PAUL COLBY "Pardon if an old mossback of the good old December 1906. to April 3(1. 1937, EDITOR'S MAIL BOX days, worked on architectural design for the comments on an article in The Review of past 30 years, art has occupied a good November 5, 1954. ... On page 10 of this same issue, top picture, left, caption — part of his spare time. ED NOTE: Letters of exceptional inter- Colon Hospital admitted its first patients He has used several pen est from two Canal oldtimers reached the mediums from in 1916, its last in October 26, 1954. May sketching line oils and editor's desk last month, referring to 1 and drawings to "Unless memory fails me my first-born, articles in recent REVIEWS. They are water color. present he is working Robert Marstrand, was born in Colon Hos- At too long to reproduce in full but the perti- pital in 1911; my second, Lillian, in 1913 with water color and has painted hun- nent parts of each are given.) at . . . The ward in question was the entrance dreds of scenes both in Panama and the grounds and was on stilts. of the hospital United States. From Danby, Vt., Capt. Charles D. I milt over the water. Lillie, who signs himself, Class of 1906, Born in Onawa, Iowa, Mr. Colby "1 do know that 1 be old maternity ward writes: on stilts over the water was subject to attended the University of Illinois for 'All Dressed in the "The picture, Up' invasion by lui^e water rats, that some of three years before he enlisted in the October 1, 1954 Review brought back tbem ran across the bed . . . U. S. Army during World War I. mam fond memories. I have forgotten "The boy, my first born, was the aviator

1 ii Here In 1940 who took be picture, Ion whoevei was thai flew the first flight of the establishment Came asked the ladies to sit down. And Mrs of of I be Air Mail of the Republic Panama During the second World War, Mr. Lillie was the only one that did so. Yours Interior and return. He crashed to the Colby was called back to active duty with truly is 1 be fair-haired boj with the dark with his passengers to the Interior cm the U. S. Army and, as a Lieutenant blouse and white trousers. I am wondering Friday, September 13, 1935; he was not bow man\ ol that crowd are still in the unite 24 years ol age and had a record of Colonel, was Post Executive Officer at land hi . . the living 3,000 flying hours and two trips from the Fort Sherman until 1946. (Captain Lillie's note, written on a I'. S. to Panama, the last one solo . . . Since the end of the war, he has been Christmas card made from one of Mrs. "The Zone honored him in final and his Lillie's recent with the architectural design staff and lithographs, also enclosed a record is without a single blemish. I feel newspaper clipping showing the former his that 1 should so record his record." has continued work with water colors. Zone fireman with one of his wife's prize- is right I ED NOTE: Mr. Marstrand and He entered a number of pictures in local at winning lithographs. It was shown the so is REVIEW. The Colon Hospital THE exhibits and duiing August of this year, Vermont Craftsmen Show in Shelburne. which closed in October had opened in had a one-man show in the The lithograph won first prize in the 38th May 1916 and was the successor to the JWB-USO annual exhibition of the Society of Amer- 15-ward, 550-bed hospital which had building in Balboa. ican Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and opened in 1904, using the combined facili- Some of his best-known water colors Woodcutters in New York City. of the old French hospital and the ties have been of street scenes in Panama smaller Panama Railroad Hospital. The City, seascapes of Panama, and scenes And from Arlington, Va., Otto T. Mar- former dated back to 1883 and the latter to from the Interior. strand, who retired in 1937 as Surveying the middle part of the 19th century. I —

December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Survey Of Buildings FIRST ALL-WOMAN SUPERVISORY GROUP Asked In Connection MIDWAY THROUGH CONFERENCE PROGRAM With Long Range Plans

Bureau Directors of the Company- Government organization were asked last month to make a list of the various struc- tures which their organizations occupy or which, while presently vacant, are still assigned to their individual organizations. The request, from John D. Hollen, Chief of the Executive Planning Staff, was made in connection with the Canal's long-range building program, which envis- ages as much as possible the move of per- manent units into permanent structures. Such transfers are considered advisable not only because of the need for safe- guarding valuable records and equipment by placing them in fireproof structures, but also to permit demolition of certain temporary-type structures on which main- tenance costs are excessive. MEMBERS of the first all-women supervisory training One of the first of such moves will be group meet weekly with their conference leader, Brodie Burnham. Left to right, standing: Mrs. Ethel K. Askew, Mrs. Muriel De Young, Mrs. Dorothy the transfer of the Payroll Branch from McXall, Mrs. Dorothy Benny, Mrs. Lyla Essler, and Mrs. Ruth Campbell. Seated. Beverly Chan, Diablo Heights to the old Ancon Club- Mrs. Emily Price, Manuelita Oiler, Mrs. Kathyleen R. Miller, Mrs. Elsa Bailey, Mrs. Jean M. Wheeler, house building early next year. and Helen N. Minor. They meet at Building 69 on Roosevelt Avenue. In his memorandum to Bureau Direc- tors Mr. Hollen pointed out that in By number, the class is the 28th super- less than the average time they have lived planning the Company - Government's visory training group. The names of the on the Isthmus. They have been meet- long-range building program it is neces- 14 students and their records are tucked ing for two hours each Thursday morning sary that an inventory and evaluation be into a folder marked, simply, S-28. since October 14; they will finish their made of present surplus buildings as well Actually the group should be numbered conference program on January 27. as present building adequacies or needs. 1, for, as far as Personnel officials can Brodie Burnham, Assistant Training The Bureau Directors were asked to recall, it is the first all-woman group of Officer, who is moderator for the confer- list, not later than December 1, all supervisors to meet in the Personnel ences, admitted to The Panama Canal buildings presently idle and not released Bureau's present training conference Review, that at the start he had viewed to the Housing Division for custody; all program. the idea of the all-woman class with mixed buildings only partially utilized; all build- The 14 women supervisors, who repre- feelings. Now that they are under way, ings inadequate for present use; all sent five different Company-Government he not only enjoys being the only man buildings which are adequate insofar as bureaus, were selected by their division in such a bevy, but finds that he is the capacity and design are concerned but heads to attend the course. Seven of envy of all of the men in the Personnel which are inadequate b?eause of exces- them come from the Office of the Comp- Bureau. sive maintenance costs, bad location, or troller, three from the Personnel Bureau, Conference Same As Men's for other reasons; buildings to be replaced two from the Canal's Library, and one The conference outline for the women construction by new included in the each from the Engineering Division and supervisors' group is essentially the same program; capital and to propose any the Internal Security Branch. as that which is being followed by four change of building utilization which would They average 4.1 years as supervisors, all-men conference groups which are going be beneficial from an economic or effi- have worked for 11.8 years and have been on at the same time. Mr. Burnham said ciency standpoint. Canal employees for 10.5 years, a year that he expects that at least one session will be devoted to problems unique to women supervisors but, as the conference Little Leaguers Learn A Lesson subjects are raised by the conferees themselves, he declined to predict what these "unique" problems might be. Before the five groups— the four mens' groups and the one all-woman group began their training program, they were tested in what personnel experts call a supervisory opinion survey. The mean score for the women was exactly that of '» the mean score of all five groups—the women's group plus the four mens' groups although the men's average supervisory Boys Brought up in Sunday experience was over twice as long as the women's. School are Seldqmbroughr New Cliches Hoover And they have varied the cliches which up in Court"." training officers have come to expect during the conference sessions. A part '&>. fcSUNDA9 SCHOOL of the conference time is spent in watch- ing training films. When the movie projector is brought out the men, almost invariably, say: "Oh, Marilyn Monroe?" The women don't. They say: "Oh Gregory Peck?" The attitude of Personnel officials toward the women supervisors was CANAL Little Leaguers, who will soon be out on their playing fields in full force, gained nation- ZONE expressed by E. A. Doolan, Personnel wide publicity recently with publication of this photograph. The sign above, which appears each year Director, at the opening meeting when he along the outfield fence, is a quotation from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. The photograph appeared first in the Christian Science Monitor and later in newspapers served by the Religious News Service. described them as "trail blazers." THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW nber 3, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE CCIDENT PREVENTION i-A !£ GIVE US YOUR IDEAS

Last year you helped the Canal Zone said, "Pop, why didn't you just move the WORKING DAZE Government-Panama Canal Company reaper out of the yard in the first place'.'" win the National Safety Council's Award That's what we mean by getting in a of Merit for an outstanding safety record. rut. We get so u-ed to doing things a It was outstanding and we're all proud of certain way even when it's dangerous, and working it. It might be of interest to you to maybe we go to a lot of trouble know also that we won it at a cost of one out a way of avoiding danger when some man killed and another totally injured simple idea such as moving the reaper permanently, while 355 employees were would have solved the whole problem. injured seriously enough for them to lose Let's make an honest effort to "get out time from work. Medical and compen- of the rut." Take a look around your sation costs for these cases amounted to job and come up with some constructive over $89,000 in 1953. ideas for preventing accidents. It's just common sense to reason that a lot of us Perhaps we've been bragging too much working together can accomplish more about last year's good record. Perhaps we than any one of us can single-handed, and are taking the attitude that we've finally that's certainly true where safety is con- reached what we've been striving for and cerned. No safety man can be expected are starting to ease off a bit on safety to know all there is to know about every- matters. Maybe we're getting in a rut, thing, unless you take the trouble to tell like the story of the farmer who parked him. That's why he needs your help, his broken down reaper right on the path NATIONAL sjfcrr COUNCI your knowledge of your job, your experi- his wife took from the hen house to the ence with close calls, and your ideas on kitchen when she gathered eggs. safety to help prevent accidents. The first night it was there she fell over Remember that no idea is DUMB. the reaper, barked her shins, and dumped HONOR ROLL Some ideas may be better than others, her eggs, breaking them into an omelet Bureau Award For but if you have any ideas or suggestions in the dirt. The next night she took BEST RECORD for making your job safer for yourself cartons to pack the eggs in. She didn't OCTOBER and your fellow workers pass them along break any eggs that time but she barked to your boss. Discuss them with him ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION her shins again. when he makes the rounds. Or, ask him BUREAU Then her husband "thoughtfully" for an Unsafe Report Form and describe, kit keep her bought her a first aid to your ideas on it. Your ideas, or sugges- AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR skinned shins from becoming infected. tions, will be appreciated and every effort Community Services 6 Soon she became tired of barking her will be made to institute corrective Civil Affairs 3 shins and took to carrying a lantern. But measures. Engineering and Construction 2 that left her with only one free hand to We thank you for taking the time and Health 2 carry eggs, so she talked the farmer into interest to read this. We hope you will Supply 1 mounting a floodlight on a pole, in order give accident prevention lone thought, Marine to see where she was going and still have and pass along some constructive ideas. Transportation and Terminals two hands free to carry eggs. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas Just as the farmer and his wife were and a Happy Year, and let's all make Division Award For congratulating each other on their solu- a New Year's resolution to start tin se DISABLING INJURIES NO tion to the problem their 6-year-old son ideas rolling in. OCTOBER

MAINTENANCE DIVISION Disabling Injuries per 1,000.000 Man-Hours WorkeJ OCTOBER 1954 ( Frequency Rate) DREDGING DIVISION O 10 20 30 40 ELECTRICAL DIVISION Engineering and Construction Bureau GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION Supply Bureju

STOREHOUSE DIVISION Community Services Bureau RAILROAD DIVISION Civil Affairs Bureau AIDS TO NAVIGATION

C.Z.Govt.-Panama Canal Co. (This Month I AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 8 C. Z. Govl.-Panama Canal Co ( Last 3-Year Av.) Motor Transportation 7 Sanitation 7 Marine Bureau Service Center 7 Health Bureau Dredging 5 5 Electrical Transportation anJ Terminals Bureau Grounds Maintenance 5 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 20 30 40 50 Industrial 3 Man-Hours Worked 2,342,600 Maintenance... 3 Number of Disabling Injuries 24 LEGEM) Railroad 3 Storehouses 3 Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Canal Company Last 3- Year Average Locks -- 1 Worse Than Canal Zone Government Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average Navigation. _ 1 3 Amount — Commissary to: o:o. Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year Terminals ;.| December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

PANAMA nStn CANAL

Official

Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed hy the Printing Plant

Mount Mope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr.

Public Information Officer

ELLIS L. FAWCETT, President of the Paraiso Civic Council and Chairman of the Congress of Local Rate Councils, drew the numbers last month at the Civil Affairs Building for the annual allocation of low numbers. E. L. Farlow, at the right, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Civil Affairs Director, J. Rufus Hardy, Editor holds plate No. 21 which went to Air Force Sgt. Earl Snell of Albrook Air Force Base. Over 1,500 appli- cations were received from Zonians who wanted low license numbers. Eleanor H. McIlhenny Plans are now being made for the Arrangements have been made for local- Editorial Assistant inauguration of a First Aid Training Prog- rate employees who work in the Pacific ram designed to provide Company-Govern- Locks or Gatun areas to cash their pay ment employees with the minimum first checks in the Paraiso and Chagres Com- missaries to the extent that aid training necessary to assist accident funds are available beyond the normal operating victims. SUBSCRIPTION—$1.00 a year requirements, effective with the pay week The program which was approved recently of December 6. Governor, calls for the selection by SINGLE COPIES— 5 cents each by the Previously this check cashing service Bureau heads of Safety Inspectors and was rendered by the Treasurer of the additional personnel totaling approximately On sale at all Panama Canal Service Cen- Panama Canal Company at the Pacific 28 Company-Government employees who Locks on Tuesdays of the local-rate pay ters, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days will participate in the 45-hour Standard week and at the Gatun Railroad Station on publication date. after Red Cross Instruction First Aid Course. Wednesdays of the local-rate pay week After taking this course, these employ- Employees who work in these areas but live elsewhere SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL— 10 cents each ees will be classified as instructors and will may find it more convenient to cash their checks at the Canal Zone then teach a standard six-hour first aid Branch banks or at various places of busi- BACK COPIES— 10 cents each course to the following: All supervisors ness in Panama or Colon, it was pointed out. (leaders and above), 10 percent of the On sale when available, from the Vault remaining employees and all new employ- Eighteen I'nited States Representatives Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building. ees working on a 40-hour week basis. have been visiting visit The training of instructors and the or are about to the Balboa Heights. Canal Zone during the current instruction of employees in the six-hour recess of Congress. course will be on Company-Government First to arrive was Walter M. Mumma, time and during regular working hours, if Republican from Pennsylvania, possible. who came Postal money orders should be made pay- November 10 aboard the The program will be coordinated within SS Panama of the able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- Panama Line spent 10 the Bureau by the Safety inspectors with and days on the Isthmus inspecting various pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama over-all Company-Government coordina- Canal organi- zation activities. He returned to New York Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. tion by the Chief of the Safety Branch, November 20 aboard the SS Ancon. who will be in charge of arrangements for Other Congressmen visited putting the pioposed program into operation. who the Canal Zone during November were Representa- tive Frank J. Becker, Republican from New Electrical Field Offices The two-decked Panama Canal ferryboat York; Representative Frank T. Bow, Presidente Porras, which is scheduled to Republican from Ohio; Representative Accepting Cash Payments make at least 32 special trips with tourists James A. Byrne, Democrat from Pennsyl- either north or south through Gaillard Cut vania; Representative DeWitt S. Hyde. this winter, is having her face lifted. In Republican from Maryland; Representative Arrangements have been made for addition to a complete overhaul of the Lawrence H. Smith. Republican from loudspeaker system, the Presidente Porras Wisconsin; and Representative Thomas B. persons who are entitled to Canal Zone is being painted spanking white. Work was Curtis, Republican from Missouri, all of privileges, but who are not employees of started in November shortly after she was whom arrived November 18 on the SS .1 neon the Panama Canal Company-Government taken off the Canal ferry run. accompanied by their wives. to pay cash for private appliance work at The Presidente Porras, which can carry The following Congressmen and their as many as 500 visitors on each trip, will w ives arrived November 24 aboard the SS the Electrical Division Field Offices at take the majority of the tourists who are Cristobal: Representative Oakley Hunter. they pick their the same time that up expected to visit the Isthmus this winter on Republican from California; Representa- the appliances, it has been announced by the tour through the Cut. tive Clarence J. Brown. Republican from Electrical Division. With the exception of the Olympia, a new Ohio; Representative William R. Williams, cruise ship of the Greek Line, all of the 40 Republican from New York; The new system becomes effective Representa- or more cruise vessels due here during the tive Paul B. Dague, Republican from 1 in the Electrical Division December dry-season months have visited the Canal Pennsylvania; Representative William G. Field Offices, both in Balboa and Cris- previously. They will carry from 250 Wampler, Republican from Yirginia; Repre- tobal. Work done for Company-Gov- passengers, the number expected aboard sentative D. Bailey Merrill, Republican the Patricia, clue here December 28, to a from Indiana; Representative Ernest ernment employees will continue to be K. possible 1,500 aboard the giant French Line Bramblett. Republican from California; payroll deduction. charged by cruise vessel lie de France, due December Representative Edward A. Garmatz, Demo- The changes were made by the Elec- 30. The Nieuiv Amsterdam, luxury liner crat from Maryland and Representative trical Division following the receipt of a of the Holland-American Line, will lead the John M. Robsion, Jr., Republican from parade of cruise ships due in December. Kentucky. number of complaints that the old system She is scheduled to arrive in Cristobal the Representative Leo O'Brien, Democrat time was inconvenient and consuming. morning of December 26 on a Christmas from New York, and Mrs. O'Brien were Customers were required to obtain a cruise, with approximately 750 passengers. due to arrive from New York December 2 receipt from the Field Office, take it to The Caronia. the air-conditioned Cunard aboard the SS Panama and Representative liner, will bring the season to a close in May Samuel H. Friedel. Democrat from the nearest collection agency for payment Mary- when she arrives in Balboa May 2 and land, and Mrs. Friedel are booked for a and then return to the Field Office with makes the Canal transit northbound follow- round-trip on the SS Ancon arriving in the receipt to collect the appliance. ing a cruise to the Far East. Cristobal December 8. YOURTHE PANAMA CANALTOWNREVIEW December 3, 1954 planners felt, than Agua Clara because it was "oriented for the breeze, better adapted for road grades and building sites, with more space for garages and recreational areas." Furthermore, it would cost less to develop and be "more suitable for a permanent future town."

Four months later Margarita's first buildings were authorized; by Christ- mastime there were five families living in Margarita. Margarita's first resident was C. E. Borgis, a locomotive crane operator with the Municipal Engineering Division. The apartment into which he and his family moved on Christmas Eve

1940, is now occupied by Miss Mary L. Mehl, a second grade teacher at South Margarita School. Firemen And Policemen

Fire and police protection for the vast array of construction equipment and ma- terial which was stacked everywhere was a "must," so into Margarita's first four- family house moved two policemen, Gaddis Wall and Isaiah A. MacKenzie, and two firemen, Lt. W. E. Jones and MAKCiAI'ITA today is a far cry from the town it was a decade ago. Shrubs and flowers now surround E. L. Cotton. Captain Wall now is in many of the attractive quarters in the newly-developed sections of the townsite. charge of Cristobal's detective force, Sergeant MacKenzie is retired, and A little over 15 years ago Margarita During the decade between 1930 and Captain Jones heads Balboa's fire district was only an expanse of rolling hills; unlike 1940 a Panama Railroad conductor, to which Lieutenant Cotton is assigned. most Canal Zone communities its locale (!. G. Boynton -whose hobby was hunt- had not occupied even the most minute ing—used one of the farm's old buildings They set out to make other Margarita niche in Isthmian history. as a kennel for his dogs. His lease was pioneers feel welcome. Until the club- Today Margarita is potentially the canceled in January 1939 when the house kitchen was ready, bachelor Mar- Atlantic side's major town, which may Canal's Third Locks began to emerge garitans "messed" at the fire station. outpace, in population and importance, from the planning stage into a more Behind the police station, on a little hill, history-laden Cristobal. A year ago imminent reality. whitewashed stone letters bade newcom- Governor Seybold told Civic Council ers: "Welcome to Margarita, C.Z. Police." Agua Clara Too Hilly representatives that he foresees Margarita As Lieutenant Cotton recalls it, the eventually as the Balboa of the Atlantic- Since the Third Lock's largest single first Margaritans were a "good-natured side, under the growing conception of the project was to be the triple flight at bunch" who made the best of the mud Canal Zone as two large urban com- Gatun, it was obvious that there would and the board-walks, construction noises, munities. have to be a settlement reasonably close and long hour's. Everything but the Gradually Margarita is being devel- by to house the construction forces. sandflies. They were the plague of oped to meet this conception. The Gatun itself was not suitable but if the Margarita and not to be taken lightly. long-desired swimming pool is now an terrain around Agua Clara had been more Those first residents bought pyrethrum item in a future budget; a deposit library to the engineers' liking, Margarita might in 10-pound bags and burned it in their was opened last summer as a branch of never have been developed. houses, in bachelor quarters, and in such the Canal Zone Library; Margarita is the It was not until April 1940 that the public buildings as Margarita had. only Canal Zone community with two "Mount Hope area" in brackets was Eventually, as the town grew and new elementary schools; and other changes to added: [Margarita Hog Farm] -was insecticides were developed, sandflies be- make the town into a modern major recommended for the Atlantic side's new came less of a pest but Margaritans today, community are still in the long-range townsite. It was more suitable, the somewhat immune, still see an occasional planning stage. Named For Island

Indirectly Margarita derived its name from the little island which is now Fort Randolph, but where that island, origin- ally known as Margarita, got its name is lost in history. In 1917 a concrete road was built from Fort Randolph to Mount Hope. People had not yet gotten used to the new name of Fort Randolph and the highway was commonly known as the Margarita Road rather than as the Randolph Road. That same year the Commissary Divi- sion established a hog farm "in the Mount Hope district on a point on the new Margarita Road;" the farm, quite natur- ally, was known as the Margarita Hog Farm and its location is where Margarita now stands. The road to the Hog Farm led off Diversion Road about where present 5th Street runs; for years after the farm was abandoned (after an outbreak of hog cholera in the late 1920's) this general PALM trees, which border Margarita's civic center, were only a few feet tall 111 years ago. The post .as one the most popular Lovers' of office is on the far side of the parking lot; the commissary and service center face tun other sides; and Lanes on the Atlantic side. 12-fatni!y quarters, the first to !«• occupied in Margarita, are on the fourth side. December 3, 1954MARGARITATHE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FRANCES MOOMAW, Principal of South LEALAND LARRISON' is Postmaster HELEN' RUSHING, Principal of North Margarita School for Margarita Margarita School nutlander guest slapping surreptitiously they are still standing in the company's in population from Cristobal to Margarita at legs or ankles. little town just off the Boyd-Roosevelt began during the last of the war years. Highway near the cement plant. This was spurred still further in 1945 Town's First Party when 11 new two-story, two-family, By March 1941, Margarita was ready Fast-Growing Town houses were built in the Casuarina and for its first community affair; the location Margarita grew fast, once it started. Hevea Place neighborhood. was the newly completed fire station. From a half a dozen families in Decem- Some 200 Margaritans and friends turned New Quarters ber 1940, the population increased to out for the party; it was supposed to last When Margarita got its first on-the- 1,032, a fifth of them children, in 1943. from 7 to 9 p. m., but was still going ground masonry houses, in 1948, close to Margarita had its own hospital, only strong at 3 a. m. a thousand people turned out to inspect recently demolished, quarters for the Margarita, in its early days, was a them. The Chief Quartermaster, then hospital staff, a commissary, clubhouse, town divided by employers- spiritually the Grand Mogul of Housing, later wrote post office, gymnasium, elementary school and physically. In one section, around their occupants asking what they thought and kindergarten. For years all con- the present community center, were the of the new houses. Their replies were struction halted at Espave—named for homes of Third Locks people and a highly complimentary. one of Panama's largest forest trees which handful of others like the policemen, In 1950 Margarita began to boom. abound in this area—and 3d Streets. firemen, clubhouse, and commissary Barracks which had housed Third Locks The exception was Ghost Hill on the employees. bachelors were demolished to make room high ground not far from Fort Gulick A short distance away, where the for Margarita's le-development. The where Lychee Street was built later. It Church of the Holy Family and the townsite was extended and new houses was a smallish clearing, surrounded by Knights of Columbus Hall now stand, began to appear. The first of these were jungle, with a dozen or so houses, and a were the homes of the contractors' em- occupied in October 1951. lonely place to be on foot patrol at night, ployees. They lived, for the most part, Today, Margarita is bounded, more or Captain Wall remembers. in tiny pre-fabricated houses which less, by a horseshoe made up of Espave Although Margarita was definitely a everyone called "doll-houses." and Margarita Avenues, on the east and construction town, it was fairly well- "I never saw anything grow like that west. Its numbered streets run, also behaved. There were incidents, to be Contractor s' area," Captain Wall says more or less, north and south. sure, and some funny and unprintable now. "For a while the doll-houses were Margarita, which has little past, is a ones, but by and large there was remark- popping up faster than one a day." town with a future. It has the most ably little of people poking other people Years later some of the doll-houses were modern elementary school building in the in the nose or bottle parties which went sold to the Panama Cement Company; Canal Zone. Two churches (See page li) on to all hours. At first Margaritans had to go "to town" Cristobal or Colon for their fun. Some of them belonged to the Progressive Dance Club which met regu- larly at the Hotel Washington. Then came the still-flourishing Margarita Recre- ation Association which was the subject of a Review story in June 1953 and which has sponsored everything from dances to picnics to hobby groups to Scout Shacks. It once even had its own weekly news- paper, whose slogan was: "All the news that fits we print." With the cessation of the Third Locks project, old Margaritans say, the town "practically died." The contractors people packed up and went away; the Third Locks force was cut to a clean-up squad. But Margarita's population in 1944 was 854, which doesn't sound very moribund. It wasn't long before Atlantic siders began to see the advantages of suburban 0. .1. MARCEAU, Manager of Margarita E. T. HARPER. Manager of the Margarita Service Center living; despite gasoline rationing a shift i iommissary December 3, 1954 10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Personnel Bureau Transportation and Terminals Engineering And Construction

hod its hands The Panama Railroad really Mrs. lulu R. Driscoll, Assistant to the curs full, passenger- full «r should it be its Personnel Director, has been granted a year's purl November when during the first of lea r of absence and is now in the frilled heavy because oj trans- Isthmian travel was Si, ties for medical treatment. During her holidays. Panama's National absence, ' ordon M. Prick will take over her Railroad i the q„ \ Ion Day, duties. 1,404 ried 1,818 passengers. Of these • • • they included 2d4 were first class passengers- New members of the Personnel Bureau dependents per the military personnel and Include Mr-. Doris F. Schirmer, of Laguna were second- transport Gibbins and 3,414 Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Doris M. Busse\, class passengers. ol Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. Schirmer is a • • • Clerk-Typist in the Wage and Classification busy times Tourist season always brings Division and Mrs. Bussey a Clerk-Stenou- year it got under for the railroad and this rapher in the Employment Branch. exceptionally early. On November 9, way • • • the Railroad handled a tourist special of SS .1 nd two other members of the Personnel six coaches for 372 tourists from the "Ryndam." They made the trip through Bureau are leaiing soon. Mrs. Betty J. Thomas. Clerk-Stenographer in the office of the Cut by boat, were delayed at Pedro and Utilization Miguel because of heavy rain, and arrived the Chief of the Employment Division, will lea e soon with her husband, back at shipside at the Cristobal Docks sailing is being reassigned to Fort Bliss, in just 20 minutes before the 7 p. m. who Paso, Bex., and Mrs. Shirley I. Shiiiu. time. J El Placemen! and Records • • • Clerk- Typist in the specials Branch, is also departing with her husband. There .ire, already, five tourist JOHN F. HERN ol The Shinns will go to Fort Monmouth. X. J. lined up for December, all lor the end the month. John F. Hern, of the Roofing and Sheet On the day after Christmas, Panama Metal Shop of the Maintenance Division in Tours has reserved a special for approxi- Balboa, was receiving congratulations from mately 400 tourists from the SS Nieitie Community Services Bureau associates last month. He another two days later, on his friends and Amsterdam and Television, tourists from had completed a course in Radio, December 28, for about 200 Within a few days now Christmas decora- and Electronics. the Queen of Bermuda. tions will be going up in the Tivoli Cues! tour Persons Travel Bureau has two His two years of work and his successful House, Hotel Washington, and oilier units 28, one for the SS examinations in this parties on December passing of all required of the Service Center Division. other for the SS Maasdum. course of study was Patricia and the technical and practical • • • On December 30, Persons Travel Bureau acknowledged by the National Schools, 350 The former town of Red Tank has become has lined up a special for approximately Los Angeles, with a letter of praise for his a teakwood plantation. Over half of the tour'sts from the SS lie de France. work. A diploma, of course, was sent by vacated Red Tank townsite has now been • • • the school. - planted in teak trees about 750 of them its face—well, • • • Pier 18 at Balboa is getting according to Walter R. Lindsay, Chief of — in anyway, its midsection relifted. The craneboat Atlas which was placed the Grounds Maintenance Division, under bay at 'The' door of the center longitudinal a standbv reserve status and tied up whose supervision the Experiment Gardens brick paving, days of the pier's covered section is Gamboa last month, ended its working at Summit have conducted local propaga- ground. Over the set in coral fill on original in a blaze of business. tions of teak trees for a number of years. as much as vears this center bay has settled went nut Not long before the craneboat The teak, or tectoria grandis, is a native two feet in some places, probably because of of active sen ice, it carried 157 students and Asia or Malaya, and due the lateral movement of the supporting dirt. of Southeastern Dr. Belisario Porras covered bays and teachers from the to its fast growth it is planted in the tropics The floor system of the other from the School and 155 pupils and teachers foresting and timber purposes. the deck areas on each side of the covered area for School—both in the Justo Arosemena • • • is of concrete-beam-and-girder construction of Panama—on a trip through supported on concrete caissons. Republic from Pedro Miguel Locks to A small unit of the Service Center Divi- settlement became Gaillard Cut Since 1925, when the sion was opened last month at the Coco scleral studies 1 '.amboa. troublesome, there have been Solo Hospital. It is located in the hospital several • • • on corrective measures to be taken and annex, across the patio and to the rear of It has now been into the m hemes have been proposed. The tug "Culebra" also got the hospital. decided to install a floating slab over the sightseeing business. The tug was used settled of Itemx available there are magazines and sunken midsection and then repair the to transport ib teachers rom the town merchandise as toilet articles, cigar- concrete in the entranceway. The 'work is Nata on a trip through the Cut. such and cold sandwiches, desserts, now being accomplished. ettes. Hot • • • and hot and cold beverages are also sold. The drill barge Vulcan went into oper- • • • pieces Marine Bureau ation the night of November 8 to drill Special Christmas dinners will be served which broke from the of a large slab of rock at the Tivoli Guest House, the Hotel The S. Navy's net-tender, USS Hazel. fell into U. face of Contractors Hill and the Washington, and the various Service was delegated to the Industrial Division This was west side of the Canal channel. Centers. The managers will be glad to 1,1-1 month for general overhaul, drydocking in the month finished in eight davs but late give information as to time and price. This is one of the sizable ami alterations. the Vulcan was called out again to drill undertaken by this division this ol For those who prefer to stay at home for jobs pieces from the second bank break the dinners but who dislike the fiscal vear. month. their holiday Oilier Industrial Division work was the idea of "standing over a hot stove," the • • • overhaul and drydocking of the tug Arrai- Guest House, Washington, and Service November a number of get- l,ni. which wax started during the month, During Centers effer a turkey-roasting service. held after work by Mainte- anil the redecking, drydocking, and general togethers were It includes stuffing the beast, too. employees to say "Good overhaul of the ferry President Roosevelt nance Division "Bon Voyage" to three fellow • • • Luck" and workmen who were returning to the Andrews, Cristobal Port Capt. John United States. Supply Bureau I aptain. had a surprise last month. He was Smith and Antone Long, both nisi about to call it quits for the day, on Joseph worked in the Northern November 1", when some 4(1 employees and plumbers, had Paul II. Friedman, Assistant Director of Filgren had been employed friends converged on his office. The subse- District; H. E. the Supply Bureau, combined business and and Sheet Metal Shop in quent rendition of " Happy Birthday" may in the Roofing pleasure on a recent trip to the States. For District. have left something to be desired, melodically the Southern the last week of his stay he was on duty speaking, hut it was done with enough vigor with the New York Office of the Panama In make up for any lock of musical qualities. Canal Company. 111 Bierman, 'Traffic Engineer, returned Snacks, and similar refreshments, took the Mel, • • • Kansas City, Mo., where he place of the traditional birthday cake recently from Retiltan, formerly manager attended the annual meeting of the Institute Thomas G. of • • • people the Wholesale Drygoods Department of the of Traffic Engineers. Phi 450 who Administrative Division, has assumed the Charles T. Jackson, Jr., attended Hie Institute represented 35 stales, Commissary office of the Marine Direc- of Superintendent of the General Assistant in the the District of Columbia, Canada, ami duties Priscilla, position formerly held by tor, and his daughter, Marilyn England. Products Branch, a almost 2, are having their annual problem Furl C. Tare, who retired September 30. that technical sessions and what to ask for for Christmas and what to He reported them during the daytime Mr. Relihan is being replaced by Vincent ask for for their joint birthday. Christmas shop talk kept busy social activities I. 1 1 uber. who has assumed the duties of and birthday being identical for both, they hilt that in the eienings speeds, volumes. Acting Manager of the Wholesale Drygoods occasionally feel that they are being short- eliminated all thoughts of Department. changed. and accidents. December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Governor-President's Office Civil Affairs Bureau Health Bureau The story of the Panama Canal, with Dr. John IF. Gayles, a former member of emphasis on the safety angle, was given a the Colon Hospital medical staff, is expected prominent play in the October issue of to return to the Isthmus this month to join National Safety News, copies of which the staff of the Coco Solo Hospital. He was reached the Canal Zone last month. employed by the Health Bureau in 1949 and Unsafe practices were plentiful and 1950, and since that time has been practicing protective equipment scarce during the medicine in Texas. construction days, the lengthy story re- A native of Fort Worth, he is a graduate ported. From 1904 to the end of the of Southern Methodist University and of construction period in 1914, accidental Baylor Medical College. He served in the deaths totaled 1,219. This contrasts Army during World War II, from 1944 to sharply with modern safety days, for in the l»4o. Mrs. Gayles and their two young 13-year period from 1940 through 1953, daughters will accompany him to the Canal there was a total of 127 deatl'^. Zone. "The Safety Story of the Panama Canal. • • • " 'The Land Divided and the World United," Nurses are now on duty in the emergency is illustrated with seven pictures, including room attached to the Receiving Desk at an aerial view of Miraflores locks, pictures Gorgas Hospital, and in all the Gorgas taken during locks overhaul, and several Hospital out-patient clinics. Within the construction-day photographs. near future nurses will also be assigned to the emergency room attached to the Receiv- ing Desk at Coco Solo Hospital. All matters dealing with military person- nel attached to the Canal organization are • • • now being handled by Maj. David Smith, Two new clerks, one of whom worked for Military Assistant to the Governor. the Canal organization previouslv, have JACK F. MORRIS, sergeant of the Canal Zone been employed in the Admitting Office at Police, takes notes as a technician in the FBI national Gorgas Hospital. They are Reginald Another step toward modernization and laboratory examines a suspected murder weapon for Hayden, formerly a clerk with the Personnel efficiency was taken by the Administrative bloodstains. Sergeant Morris was a member of the Bureau and the Administrative Branch, and Branch last month when it abolished the 54th Session <>f the FBI National Academy from Mrs. Maureen Picard-Ami, whose husband, spittoons which for 35 years had cluttered which he was graduated November Id. Dr. Luis Picard-Ami is an intern on the the floor of its big office on the second floor Gorgas Hospital staff. of the Balboa Heights Administration • • • Building. Two Canal Zone Fire Division officials, Dr. Amadeo Mastellari is This decision was reached only after a (apt. Arthur J. Troup and Capt. William back on the job survey revealed that there has been a E. Jones, received high honors from the as Chief of the Chest Service at Corgas Hos- pital marked decline in the number of employees Republic of Panama on November 28, after a trip to Europe. He attended who chew tobacco or use snuff. Panama's Bomberos' Day. two medical conferences on tuberculosis, held in Spain. • • • Captain Troup, Chief of the Fire Division, One of the conferences was in was presented with the Golden Medal of Madrid and the other in Barcelona. The French Ambassador to Panama, Panama, and Captain Jones, District Com- Monsieur Lionel ]'asse, and Madame Vasse mander of the Balboa Fire District, with were conducted on a tour of Contractors Hill The basketball season of the Canal Zone Silver the Medal. The medals were pre- schools got off to fast last last month by the 1 overnor's Military a start with the open- sented in recognition of assistance and aid Assistant. The French Ambassador remark- ing game on November 23 between Junior rendered Panama's Fire Corps. ed that work was certainly progressing more College and Cristobal High School. Basket- Captain Troup has just finished 30 years rapidly than in the days when the French were ball will be the game until mid-January, service with the Canal organization and working in the same general location with when it will be replaced with dry season's Captain Jones is in his 26th year. pick and shovel. baseball. The Panamanian awards were made dur- • • • ing an official reception which was arranged The Canal Zone under the direction of Comandante Raul Museum recently Office Of The Comptroller received three very interesting Arango of the Cuerpo de Bomberos. historical articles from Frank I. Clark, of Wabash, Russell E. George, Bennett Williams, J. Ind. Mr. Clark, who is a retired employee, and Robert F. Roche, all of the Payroll gave the Museum a briquette of test con- Branch, took part in the Panama Marlin Ft. Ernest F. Cotton of the hire Division crete from Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Club Tournament at Pinas Bay last month. attended a Civil Defense Fire Conference in Locks; the commission, signed by President They boated a total of eight sailfish and Atlanta, Co., early last month. Later he Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State raised three marlin on the nine-day trip. made a quick trip to Rock Stream. Y. 1"., to William Jennings Bryan, miking David Of course you should have seen the ones visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frnest C. Marks a member of the Joint Land Com- that got away! Cotton, former Zonians. mission; and a United States passport • • • Mr. Cotton. Sr., who retired two years ago issued to Mr. Marks in 1913. The articles, Appraisal never do things by after many years service with the Mount Hop? Staffers whose presentation was made through halves; sometimes they do them by doubles, Printing Plant, is well known also tinder the arrangement of Fred deV. Sill, are now surprised Bruce pen name of Doc Atmy, Jr., under which he so no one was too much when on display. wrote sport for years. • laze reported in with news twin boys, news of • • • Allan and Keith, 5 pounds and 9 ounces Alumni '36 of the La Boca Alumni and 5 pounds, respectively. ! nry, 12, and Association are sponsoring a series of Brenda, 8, thought the idea of two brothers The shops at the Canal Zone Penitentiary inter- are esting lectures on cultural topics, presented at once a fine one. beginning to resemble Santa's work- • • • shop. Convicts, who have won the privi- by different speakers each month. October's speaker was Dr. Rodolfo One of the Canal Zone's Barbershop lege through good behaviour, are sawing, Y. Young of Gorgas Hospital, Quartets has become a trio with the hammering, painting, and otherwise fash- who addressed the group on the subject of tuberculosis. departure of Daniel Slater, of the Plant ioning colorful toys for Christmas distribu- November 28 Inventory and Appraisal Staff. He and tion to poor and needy children on the On a special program of Thanksgiving music was given at his family left recently to make their home Isthmus. Under the supervision of Police- the Pacific- Service Center for the benefit of in Texas. man Karl D. Glass, they are making dolls, the Chor- wagons, toy animals, jigsaw puzzles, fire rillo fire victims. The program was pre- engines, and numerous other articles. sented by the La Boca Alumni Glee Club, direction ^ 4%k» #'4^ *%*** <"^t* -^1^* &&** The project is part of the penitentiary's under the of Miss Emily Butcher. rehabilitation program; this is its third year. Alfred C. Bushell, secretary of Alumni Materials for the toys are bought with '36, and an employee of the Canal Zone Christmas Coming? money from the Convicts Welfare Fund or Library, has announced that because of the are received from donations from residents holidays there will be no program in Decem- gift subscriptions What about of Panama and the Canal Zone. ber. In January, at a date to be announced to The Panama Canal Review later, Frank Wilder of the Internal Security as presents for friends and family Branch, will talk on Communism. Motion pictures on the in the States? For those Zonians who want to be sure subject of each that their mail is delivered in the United month's talk, supplied by the United States Make out your lists and send States before Christmas Day, December 3 Information Service, accompany each them, together with $1 Money is the latest date for mailing cards and program. Order (payable to the Treasurer, packages by ship mail. Ship mail posted by December 10 may reach its destination Canal Company) for The Corozal elementary school, one of Panama in time, provided it does not get caught in each subscription to the Editor, a bottleneck in one of the large U. S. cities. the first to be opened in the Canal Zone, The Panama Canal Review, Air-mail cards and packages should be was closed in November, 1915. Balboa Heights. posted in the Canal Zone not later than December 17, to insure Christmas delivery. An attractive gift card bearing In December, 1904, the Canal force your name will be sent to each totaled 5,500 employees. of those persons to whom your Mrs. Marion 1 >. Wells, of Balboa, is presently serving as secretary in the office are to go. The United States District Court at subscriptions of the Chief, Postal, Customs, and Immigra- Ancon moved into its present building tion Division, during the absence on leave of Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson. in February, 1916. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954 Forty Years Ago School Patrols Top Space Patrols In November In Minds Of Canal Zone's Students

Although slides had halted Canal traffic twice in a period of less than a month, the number of ships which tran- sited and the amount they paid in tolls increased monthly. Tolls, since the

Canal had been opened on August 15, passed the $1 million mark on November is. in years ago. The total tonnage since the Canal was opened was also over the million mark.

[ccordinq to The Canal Record, (jrain from North Pacific ports of the United States to Europe had so far made up the largest single item of cargo carried through

thi' Canal. < >irr five million bushels of barley and wheat had transited aboard 17 ships. The next most frequently carried cargo icas nitrates from the West Coast of South America.

The 250-ton crane Ajax, which had been built in Germany, towed across the DENNIS HHADSHAW, Ancon School sixth grader, is on patrol duty when Ancon students make the Atlantic and assembled in the Canal daily trip to the Tivoli Guest House for lunch. Zone, was placed in service in November l')14. Its first job was removal from the Outside of being an engineer on the these days is that of School Safety Canal of the hull of the drill barge Panama Railroad or perhaps a pilot of a Patrolman. Teredo, which had been sunk in an jet plane, the position most coveted by These young men -and young wom- explosion in July. Canal Zone Elementary School children en—who wear Sam Browne belts and safety patrol arm bands occupy a position of trust and responsibility. They must Your Town— Margarita come to school early. They have a short lunch hour and stay at school longer than their classmates in the afternoon, but they

love it, and they take their duties seriously. Working as a group, sometimes under the leadership of a captain and a lieu- tenant, the patrolmen must learn the safety rules of the school and have a general knowledge of the Canal Zone traffic regulations. At no time are they supposed to leave the curb and step into the street. On busy corners, they assist the Canal Zone police officers who are on duty to direct traffic. Special Duties

Special duties, such as the patrol of the street corners to be crossed by the Ancon Elementary School children who go to the Tivoli Guest House for lunch, have been worked out by the various schools as the need arises. Sometimes they are given jobs as ushers at school functions, monitors during fire drills, or safety guards at the playgrounds during recess. In most schools, the members of the Safety Patrol are chosen by the teachers and the principal from pupils in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades on the basis of scholarship, behavior, and on

STARFORD I. CHURCHILL and Lt. JAMES BAKTLKTT head Margarita's fire-fighting force. all-around good citizenship. In some of the schools, the patrol members are selected by the students themselves. m Pagi 9) serve Mar- teenagers, with a Civic Council com- The number of patrolmen at each garita and land has been assigned for mittee standing ready to give advice, school is governed by the size of the three others. The Elks and the Knights when asked. school and the number of safety hazards of Columbus have their own buildings, Margarita's town Hallowe'en parties which exist in the area. as do the Veterans of Foreign Wars. are famous and its Fourth of July cele^ The Atlantic Side Saddle Club, the AAA Backs Patrols bration serves the people of the Atlantic Brazos Rrook Country Club, the Cris- The Balboa Elementary School, for side. Its town spirit has kept pace with tobal dun Club, and the Colon Humane instance, has an enrollment of more than its growth. One old-time Margaritan Society's kennels are practically next door. 1,000 children and is situated near busy has a peculiar thermometer for both. Its Civic Council, consolidated with street corners. The school has 14 patrol- "See those palm trees," he said the that of Cristobal, is an ardent advocate of men, headed by a captain and a lieu- other day, "they were not over a couple Margarita's progress. One of its latest tenant, each of whom serve a one-month ts is a Teenage Club, in a building of feet high when I came here 14 years tour of duty during the school year. recently assigned by the Governor. It ago. Now some of them are topping 30 The Cristobal Elementary School, on is being refurbished by the youngsters and feet. That's the way Margarita has the other hand, has hardly any traffic some parents and will be run by the grown, too." problems and uses only four patrolmen. December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

ANNIVERSARIES

SENIORITY of one day puts Alton White, Chief of the Canal's Dredging Divi- sion, at the head of this month's list of anniversaries. His service date is Novem- ber 1 1, 1924, a day ahead of that of James IF YOU HAVEN'T, most of your Christmas shopping done by now, you're just like the rest B. Crane, who, in turn, is senior to Joseph of us. So here goes with the annual roundup of suggestions for gifls for him and E. Moore by one day. Along with George her and them. Bui before start, A. Wills, they completed 30 years of we let's talk about a few very special items. First, did you ever heat of Advent Government service in November. calendars? Made abroad, they are slreel scenes, church exteriors, etc., on Born in Pascagoula, Miss., Alton White heavy cardboard. Windows and doors are numbered for ihe days between December 1 grew up in the Canal Zone and went through and Christmas Day. Each day you open one and see what's inside, with the Chrislmas Day elementary and high school here. His first window having the besl display of all. If Canal job was as a helper in the Mechanical they delight your youngsters as much as they delighted ihe Division. He joined the Dredging Division commissary people who ordered them you should enioy this holiday season. as ,i recorder in 1925 and The moved up steadily calendars will be in the stores any time now and will be 50 cenls or less. in thai organization, which he has headed Anc thsr nostalgic item is what are known as 'filling toys." They are hollow cardboard for four years. As Chairman of the Cam- Sanlas or snow men or skiers, or what-have-you. paign Committee of the Community Chest Concealed in their bases is space to fill he has been much in the public eye recently. with gumdrops or somelhing cf the sort. They'll be 20 to 70 cenls each. And finally: How silly can you gel? The commissaries have ladies' pipes, but not ihe James B. Crane, another 30-year man in kind Mammy Yokum smokes. Called Lady Medico, the pipes sell for $1.45 each, or $3.65 November, was a Bostonian and is now a for a set which has zippered Quarantine Inspector with the Navigation a pouch and fillers, along with the pipe. Division. Most of his Government service And now down to business: was « iih the Navy; he was a Chief Pharma- FOR HIM cist's Mate for 21 years. Later he worked Under $5: Alligator billfolds, keycases, with Navy Public Works and joined the or belt;, made from Panama's own "caimanes," Canal organization in 1948. Hickok jewelry, like very modern-looking tie bars and cufflinks, and handsome diamond- E. Joseph Moore, whose service with the shaped pearl studs,- brush-kils, which are a good stiff clothesbrush wilh a zippered top which Panama Canal is continuous, comes from holds a razor, nailfile, comb, toothbrush along with lillle tubes of shaving cream and tooth- Dallas, Tex. He has worked at many of paste, sleeveless orlon sweaters, in the Canal Clubhouses, now Service Centers, a variety of good looking colors like green heather, for instance. and is presently a relief manager. His present assignment is Gamboa. to $5 $10: Camisilla jackets, which some people call guayaberas, made in Panama, Like Mr. Crane, George A. Wills is a about $5.95, new and striking Arrow shirts, Massachusetts man; he comes from Revere. like "Collectors' Items," handscreened prints inspired by famous architectural motifs, a is Now a supervisor in sheet metal work for the Venetian Lion one ; or "Key West," which is Maintenance Division, (Sei page 14) a blend of silk and acetate in a nubbly weave and properly manly colors; travel alarm clocks; bar accessories,- Ronson cigarette lighters; golf bags, and smoking stands.

$10 and up: Cashmere sweaters, long-sleeved pullovers for $19.75, or sleeveless, but also Ten Years Ago pullovers, $15.25; fishing rods and reels,- Thermos ice pails,- Benrus watches,- Ham- ilton-Beach mixers —and if you ihink thal's a sissy present, just gel him one and see what he whips In November up; Sunbeam electric razors, luggage, and, if you really wanl to go all out, combina- tion radio-phonographs or record players. In the humorous side the news, three of FOR HER high school boys stole the rope from the Under $5: Can-can petticoats, black, with ruffles Administration Building's flagpole so that edged in rose and pink, or white, wilh pink and blue-green they could ring the school bell— considered edged flounces, $3.35; Seam-Prufe petlicoals of nylon tricot, in while with red ruffles, also $3.35; acetate pajamas, |usl the a great feat in those days. It wasn't so ihing for the teenage girl, in misses sizes one of them has a mandarin collai, and is prinled all over with funny when they icere fined $10 each. — fan; and butterflies, $2.75; small clutch bags wi.h compact, comb, and mirror, some in satin, others in velvet or suede, $2.75 to $4.65, lace-lrimmed chiffon evening handkies, 80 cents to $1.50. Don 't go on States vacation unless you are certain of transportation back, Gov- $5 to $10: All kinds of nylon tricot lingerie, like gowns, trimmed with lace or embroid- ernor J. C. Mehaffey told Zonians, in ered chiffon, in while and pink, $5.50 to $8.95,- dress-length nighties, made by Mo|ud of effect. In more formal language in a nylon tricot, in colors like Blue Heaven, Sea Spray, or Petal Pink, $4.75 to $7.25, "shorlie" general memorandum, he warned that gowns, lace trimmed on an all-over flower print, $5.45; dusters, which wouldn't shed a bit transportation was still difficult to obtain of dust but which would make a gal look mighty glamorous at the bieakfast table (they are and added; "There will be no priorities short housecoats without buttons), of nylon chiffon, wilh lace or ruffle trim, $7.95 to $8.95, (for Canal employees) and vacations will mesh bags, $6.95 up, electric travel irons; Lady Buxlon wallets (some of these are under be extended only when the continued $5, too) absence of the employee will not adversely $10 and up: Radios, for use beside her bed, or anywhere else she wants; Benrus affect the operations in which he is watches; electric frying pans,- Sunbeam toasters,- vacuum cleaners; silver services for coffee engaged." or tea/ waffle irons, now known as "Waffle-Bakers/' automatic electric irons, plated and sterling silverware. Zonians were also affected by other FOR THEM wartime measures, 10 y.-ars ago last month. Under $5: Simon & Schuster's Golden Bocks for children, like the "Book of Trains," All air-mail packages had to be inspected the "Make-It Book, 75 cents to $3.75,- gift-boxed, Cannon and Dundee towel sets, some cf before mailing, to detect any explosive, them with brilliants set in, and they aren't supposed to scratch a bit, Ronson and Zippo inflammable, or other unmailable matter; lighters, flashlights, gadget bags, liquor sets,- cutlery sets; boudoir lamps,- piclure frames; practice alert brought out all Z. civil a C. glass punch sets; open stock English lead crystal. defense workers and put the military on an $5 to $10: Cannon sheet and pillowcase sets —one set has a pastel green sheet, alert status; Air Force planes bombed Bal- double-bed size, with a flowered border and matching, flower-sprinkled pillowcases, boa, but their missiles were facsimile U. S. $7.25,- smoking stands, triple-layer vanadium stainless steel cooking utensils, hassocks, steak Savings Bonds advertising the start of the sets; table lamps with shades; Haeger pottery; Imperial candlewick glassware; copper- Sixth War Loan Drive. bottom Revere-ware.

$10 and up: All sorts of electric equipment for a kitchen, dinner sets, Twenty-six local-rate families moved Heywood-Wake- field maple furniture, lawn chairs, wool-rayon rugs; pressure cookers; and, into the newly reopened town of Paraiso for a luxury present that really is one: Bates Heirloom bedspreads, in the Queen Elizabeth during November 1944. Paraiso, which pattern which defies this column's power of description but which looks as if it were embossed, in dated back to construction days, had white, aqua, soft yellow, and other muled colors, twin or double bed size, at about $25 each. been used by the Army as a post dining most of the World War II years; it had been returned to the Canal, for use as a sworn into the Army, They received the tinguished Service Medal for "exception- civilian community, earlier in 1944. rank of Colonel. ally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility from At a ceremony at Quarry Heights, Frank Another military item was the an- July 11, 1940 to April 19, 1944." The H. Wang, the Canal's Executive Secretary, nouncement that former Gov. G. E. dates were those of his tour of duty as and L. W. Lewis, Chief Quartermaster, were Edgerton had been awarded the Dis- Governor of The Panama Canal. 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

ANNIVERSARIES

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS (Continued from page 1,1) he was with Iiast Coast Navy yards before he came to the Canal Zone in 1948 to work for the Con- October 15 Through November 15 struction Quartermaster.

Employees who were promoted or trans- Ticket Seller, Service Center Division, to All but one of November's six 25-year employees have continuous ferred between October 15 and November Clerk, Coco Solo Hospital. service with the Canal organization. IS are listed below. Regradings and within- Mrs. Leah H. Blakeley, from Steward grade promotions are not listed. (Trainee), Service Center Division, to Alphabetically, they are: Frank A. Supervisory Steward, Coco Solo Hospital. Dorgan, a native of New Jersey, a Lock- ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH master at Gatun ; Anna M. Jackson, once Richard O. Burgoon, from Accountant, an Empire Stater, now a Cardpunch Operator Sidney Temple, from Housing Manage- Internal Audit Staff, to Hospital Admin- with the Payroll Branch; Helen E. King, ment Aid, Housing Division, to File Clerk. istrative Assistant, Gorgas Hospital. Records Section. formerly of Greensburg, Pa., one of Gorgas Bailey, Clerk- Mrs. Lynda Q. from Hospital's Nurse Supervisors; Ella L. Typist, CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Atlantic Medical Clinics, to Clerk, Pease, Iowa-born Library Assistant at the Coco Solo Hospital. Elvis H. Robsrtson, from Guard, Atlantic main Library; and Ralph E. Shuey, who Locks, i" Fireman, Fire Division. Mrs. Allene Cassell, Clerk, from Atlantic comes from Kansas and is now Clerk-in- Medical Clinics to Coco Solo Hospital. Charge at the Balboa Post Office. Mrs. Frances E. Huber, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Keigley, from Substitute Teacher to Kin- Mrs. Anita B. Collins, from Clerk-Typist, November's other 25-year employee, is dergarten Assistant, Division of Schools. Coco Solo Hospital, to Clerk, Atlantic Francis W. Hickey, whose birthplace was Medical Clinics. Scranton, Pa. and who is steam engineer OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER on MARINE BUREAU a locomotive crane at the Division of Leo L. Presho, from Tabulating Machine Storehouses. Operator to Tabulating Machine Operation Curtis L. Mullins, Elwood E. Compton, Supervisor, Payroll Branch. Irom Tractor-Bulldozer Operator, Mainte- Seven employees completed 20 years of nance Division, to Towing Locomotive Government service in November. Adelia Shacklett, from Clerk-Typist, J. Operator, Pacific Locks. Central Typing and Clerical Unit, to Four of them have unbroken Canal Accounting Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch. Glenn E. Storm, from Plumber, Mainte- service: nance Division, to Towing Locomotive Ira N. C. Reed, from Supervisory Ac- Ralph E. Harvey, Fiscal Accountant, Operator, Pacific Locks. counting As-.isiant, Gorgas Hospital, to Agents Accounts Branch; Robert S. Herr, Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Accounting Joseph D. Foulkes, from Towing Loco- Principal Review Clerk, Postal Service; motive Operator, Atlantic Locks, to Dock Lester L. Largent, Police Lieutenant on 1 )i\ ision. Foreman, Navigation Division. duty at Gamboa Penitentiary; and Mary ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION J. Richard L. Pennington, from Lock Oper- Yaeger, Accounting Clerk, Fiscal Division. BUREAU ator (Machinist), Atlantic Locks, to Tool- Mrs. Yaeger is a true Zonian; she was born at Gorgona. Louis H. Charles, from Painter Foreman. maker, Industrial Division. Also completing 20 years of in Maintenance Division, to Construction SUPPLY BUREAU service Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division. November were: Leo Chester, Filtration Norbert M. Shommer, from Accountant Plant Operator with the Maintenance Divi- William F. Bartholomew, from Chief to Supervisory Accountant, Commissary sion; James A. Mable, Lock Operator- Senior Engineer, Craneboat Atlas, to Chief Division. Machinist at Miraliores; and Frank Engineer, Pipeline Suction Dredge, Dredg- J. McLeod, who. like Mr. Chester, is one of ing Division. George H. Sanford, from Supervisor to General Foreman, Duplicating Unit. the Maintenance Division's Filtration Plant Mrs. Carol G. Rigby, from Clerk-Typist Operators. to Clerk (Typist), Electrical Division. Mrs. Gladysteen D. Renfroe, from Card Punch Supervisor to Tabulating Machine Glenn H. Burdeck, from Clerk (Typist) F"ive of November's 15-year employees Operator, Division of Storehouses. to Clerical Assistant. Electrical Division. went to work for the Canal organization on Mrs. Helen T. Bradley, from Clerk to Frederick S. Baumbach, from Painting t he same day, November 2, 1939. They are: Tabulating Machine Operator, Division of Supervisor to Painter Foreman, Mainte- Clyde S. La Clair, Official Photographer; Storehouses. nance Division. James D. MacLean, a wireman with the Dredging Division; Albert Saarinen, Con- Everette N. Clouse, Combination Welder, TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS struction Inspector with Contracts and from Maintenance Division to Dredging BUREAU Inspection; Burman S. Spangler, a Plan- Division. William R. Dixon, from Auto Repair ing Mill Foreman with the Industrial Mrs. Lorine C. Meyer, from Clerk. Main- Machinist to Motor Transportation Super- Division, and Daniel J. Sullivan, Operator tenance Division, to Accounting Clerk, visor, Motor Transportation Division. Foreman Mechanic with the Power Branch and Laboratories Branch. Water William H. Gonzalez, from Combination of the Electrical Division. Henry T. Carpenter, from Construction Welder. Dredging Division, to Guard, Other 15-year employees whose Canal and Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Terminals Division. service is continuous are: Division, to Maintenance Foreman, Coco Charles P. Barton, a construction engineer Solo Hospital. on the Contractors Hill project; John R. Architectural Engineer, Leon M. Warren, Hammond, Jr., Supervisory Mechanical from Maintenance Division to Engineering Engineer in the Engineering Division; Division. DECEMBER SAILINGS Samuel J. Garriel, Plumber. Maintenance Daniel M. Eggleston, from Planning Division; Willie J. Hatchett, Machinist at Engineer, Office of Engineering and Con- Mirarlores Locks; Howard R. Johnson, From Cristobal one struction Director, to Assistant to Design- of the Canal's pilots; Edward W. MacKenzie ing Engineer, Engineering Division. Panama.- ..December 4 Chief Towboat Engineer with the Naviga- Nelson E. Wise, from Assistant to Main- Ancon December 11 tion Division; Norbert H. McCauley, tenance Engineer, Maintenance Division, Cristobal . December I 7 Budget Analyst with the Executive Plan- to Planning Engineer, Office of Engineering Panama.- .December 24 ning Staff; John G. McKenna, Cribtender and Construction Director. Foreman, Terminals Division; Harold W. From New York Meyer, Painter Foreman with the Main- Charles Connor, from Foreman, Pipe- J. tenance Division; Clarence E. Priest, Police- line Suction Dredge to Drill Barge Master, Ancon ..December 2 man in the Balboa Distrkt; John F. Shan- Dredging Division. Cristobal - - December 9 Panama. December 16 non, Principal Foreman, Maintenance Divi- Slaughter H. Sharpensteen, from Tow- Ancon ..December 23 sion; James E. Stearns, Cristobal High ing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks, to School Teacher; Stuart Wallace, a Claims Cristobal - . December 30 Drill Runner, Dredging Division. Examiner with the Fiscal Division; and Victor C. Melant, from Accounting Clerk (Southbound the Haiti stop is from about Milton H. Wright, Motor Boat Mainte- to Drill Runner, Dredging Division. 7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Monday; northbound, nance Mechanic. Navigation Division. Walter W. Carlson, from Guard Super- the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Mon- Employees who completed 15 years, but visor to Drill Barge Blaster. Dredging day.) whose Canal service is not continuous are: Division. Roger W. Adams, Superintendent, Motor Claud M. Kreger, from Pump Operator, Transportation Division; Frank J. Bren- Pipeline Suction Dredge, to Drill Runner, nan, Electric Welder. Industrial Division; I Iredging l)i\ ision. NOVEMBER RETIREMENTS Raymond G. Bush, Supervisory Sanitation Inspector, Sanitation Division: Henry C. HEALTH BUREAU DeRaps, Police Sergeant. Cristobal Dis- Mrs. Ellen F. Husum, Clerk-Typist, from Retirement certificates were presented trict; Robnett B. Elliff, Steam Engineer, Office of Health Director to Gorgas Hos- the end of November to the following em- Terminals Division; Dorcas W. Gregory, pital. ployees who are listed alphabetically, Elementary School Teacher; Robert C. Mrs. Vivian E. Zimmerman, from Kinder- together with their birthplaces, titles, length Herrington, Construction Equipment Oper- Division; garten Assistant, Division of Schools, to of Canal service, and future addresses: ator, Maintenance Fred W. Law- rence, Sanitary Engineer, Maintenance Medical X-ray Technician, Gorgas Hos- Mrs. Mabel D. Andrews, Indiana; Clerk- Division; George H. Moore, Payroll Super- pital. Hospital; 26 years; 7 Typist, Gorgas months visor, Payroll Branch; Glenn D. Redmond, 1 N. 11. Mrs. Rosamond T. Doran, from Com- day; Yershire, Electric Welder, Industrial Division; John missary Checker, Commissary Division, to Edward W. Schnake, Illinois; Electrical H. Stevens, Procurement Officer, Commis- Clerk, Gorgas Hospital. Supervisor, Mirallores Locks; 33 years,' 7 sary Division; and Delaplaine A. Waddell, Mrs. Mary C. Robertson, from Usher and months, 6 days; Houston, Tex. Jr., Policeman, Cristobal District. December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

New York Leads List Of 48 States towers, Christmas trees on the lock walls, Christmas lights, and music. As Residence For Canal Employees Locks Christmas Trees At the Gatun Locks there will be a 12-foot Christmas tree on the wall and four smaller decorated trees on the con- trol-house balcony with a Christmas greeting banner in between. Christmas music played over loudspeakers will greet the crews of the ships in Gatun and a Christmas card carrying the season's greetings will be placed aboard each passing vessel. A special holiday decor- ation for the locks wall is being planned at Gatun but it will be kept a secret until it appears shortly before Christmas. The Pacific Locks will feature the ornamentation of Miraflores bridge with a lighted star on each end and colored lights strung in between. There will be lights around the balcony at Pedro Miguel and a Christmas greeting banner. The commissaries, service centers, libraries, and other public buildings in the Canal Zone will be decorated inside and out and there will be recorded Christmas WHERE do Zonians come from? This map shows, by areas, places of actual residence. The highest music played from loudspeakers in the percent, 22.14, come from the middle Atlantic States. New York State leads all 48 states with 396 Zonians. lobby and marquee of the Balboa Theater Building. If figures mean anything—and there Carolina, 23; South Dakota, 4; Tennessee, Neighborhood Decorations are those who think they do one might 49; Texas, 112; Utah, Vermont, — 1; 6; As the holiday season approaches, deduce that the people of Utah like to Virginia, 116; Washington, 42; West Vir- lights and decorations will blossom forth stay home and that the people of New ginia, 36; Wisconsin, 44; and Wyoming, 6. in the Canal Zone in private homes and York State don't. Of course it could be on public buildings. Some of the most that there are considerably fewer people colorful on the Pacific side are the decor- in Utah to start with than there are in Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone ations on the Central Police and Fire New York, which would be one reason To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20 Stations in Balboa. The official Canal why 396 Company-Government employ- Zone Christmas tree, a South Pacific ees come from New York and only one (Continued from page 1) the members pandanus tree located near the Balboa from Utah. of the combined high school bands and Railroad Station, will be decorated again Figures compiled by the Personnel choruses who made the recording, will this year by the Electrical Division with Bureau as to the place of actual residence appear on the stage and present additional colored lights and a star. at the time of their employment of 3,035 Christmas music selections. The most colorful and interesting mass Canal employees show that New York Meanwhile, students of all the Canal display of Christmas lights and decora- State heads the list of the 48 states, with Zone schools are making plans to sing the tions is provided annually by the 14 fam- Utah bringing up the rear. traditional Christmas carols and present ilies living on Oleander Place in Balboa. New York, together with the other the traditional Christmas pageants in the About this time of the year, the street North Atlantic States -- Connecticut, various auditoriums and school grounds turns into Santa Claus Lane and is the Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, during the week preceeding the holidays. star attraction for the residents of the New Hampshire, and Maine—accounts These programs will begin as early as Pacific side, children and adults alike. for the home locations of 20.79 percent December 16 when the Balboa Junior of Canal employees. High School Orchestra and Glee Club Balsam Firs Due Soon The Middle Atlantic States, marked will give a concert at 7 p. m. in the upper Christmas trees will be set up in most together on the accompanying map, are Balboa Gymnasium. of the service centers and special decora- the places of actual residence of 22.14 The Rainbow City Junior and Senior tions are planned for all of the commis- percent of employees. In descending High Schools will present their program saries. Balboa, for instance, plans to order, by percentages, are the East Cen- of Christmas music December 18 at feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, tral States, 15.19 percent; South and 7 p. m. in the Rainbow City Gymnasium; complete with flashing red nose. Gulf States, 11.3 percent; Pacific Coast the La Boca High School program is The Canal Zone will not have a short- States, 10.08 percent; South Atlantic planned for December 20 at 7:30 p. m., age of Christmas trees for both private States, 9.42 percent; West Central under the La Boca High School Building. and public use if the Commissary Division States, 7.48 percent; Rocky Mountain The Balboa High School will have its has anything to do with it. There is an States, 3.06 percent; and the territories, annual program of choral and instru- ample supply of balsam firs from northern 0.53 percent. These last are Puerto mental Christmas music on the steps of New York and a large number of small Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Virgin the High School building December 21 at table trees on order. The small trees Islands. 7 p. m. and on the Atlantic side, the probably will be on sale by the time The The 48 States, and the number of Cristobal High School plans a two-part Review goes to press. employees for which they are the actual program for 7:30 on the evening of Canal Zone residents can also plan on place of residence, follow in alphabetical December 22, to be held in the auditorium having a bright and sunny day for their order: and on the lawn of the school building. Christmas celebration for usually the Alabama, 52; Arizona, 15; Arkansas, The younger school children are plan- Christmas season is characterized by the

15; California, 238; Colorado, 28; Con- ning their own program : of pageants and fine clear weather of the early part of the the before necticut, 34; Delaware, 8; District of songs to be given week Christ- dry season. in the classrooms of the Columbia, 75; Florida, 134; Georgia, 68; mas elementary If it rains, however, no one, least of all Idaho, 9; Illinois, 117; Indiana, 48; Iowa, grades of the Canal Zone schools. Parents the weather man would be surprised. 46; Kansas, 13; Kentucky, 48; Louisiana, and friends are invited to attend. There have been a few wet Christmas days 71; Maine, 30; Maryland, 63; Massachu- Decorations Everywhere on record and during the construction era setts, 135; Michigan, 43; Minnesota, 43; A typical Christmas on the Isthmus there was one so damp that it is known Mississippi, 53; Missouri, 53; Montana, touch will be the annual holiday greetings on old reports as the Christmas flood of 19; Nebraska, 16; Nevada, 3; New given by the employees of the Locks 1909. That year the rain started on Hampshire, 8; New Jersey, 183; New Division to the ships passing through the Christmas, increased the following day, Mexico, 12; New York, 396; North Canal. and continued well into January. The Carolina, 61; North Dakota, 8; Ohio, As in other years, the personnel of both floods in the Madden watershed area 120; Oklahoma, 40; Oregon, 26; Pennsyl- the Atlantic and Pacific Locks are plan- were so heavy that they interfered seri- vania, 227; Rhode Island, 22; South ning special decorations for the control ously with the Canal construction work. 16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF ORGANIZATION

mately $3.5 million for the housing replacement project. to; Detailed Statements Later ©; Detailed financial statements and sta- 01; tistical data will be published at a later date M J in the Company's annual report. -4" The release of new income in tentative ID; figures is necessitated by the fact that the final determination has yet to be made, as required in the Company's Federal charter, on valuation policies and capital value of property transferred to the Company at the time of the Canal's incorporation. During the year the ap- praisal program for establishing these valuations progressed to the point that most of the more significant adjustments have been reflected in the accounts. As a result, the interest and depreciation accruals shown in the present statement are not considered as being subject to

material adjustment when the final

valuation is completed.

$56,541,000 To Treasury

Since the July 1, 1951 legislation incorporating the Canal, the Company has paid into the Treasury a return on the Government's investment (interest) total-

ing $23,957,000, and in addition it has )UA*V> reimbursed the Treasury (or credited against charges for Government tolls) "We'll have to go around $31,294,000 for the cost of Canal Zone the Horn. They won't take a cheek." (Reproduced from The New Yorker, with permission! Government, and $1,290,000 represent- ing the annuity paid to the Republic of (Continued from page 1) to $18,559,632 for the year amounted to $6,410,203, of Panama. These fixed charges total, for and depreciation on direct facilities which approximately $2 million related to the three-year period 1951 through 1954, amounting to $2,256,883. improvements to the Canal and approxi- $5(5,541,000. Supporting Operations

Supporting operations of the Company Balboa High School Class Of 72 produced an operating margin over direct expenses totaling $2,549,197 resulting from sales and services to governmental agencies, employees, and others in the amount of $39,796,801 less $37,247,604 in cost of goods sold and other direct expenses.

Under General Corporate Expense the net cost of operations of the Canal Zone

Government, for which the Company is required by law to reimburse the Treas- ury, was $10,366,079, only slightly more than the preceding year after excluding a major abandoned construction project

(Cardenas townsite) written off in that w^'^x?' year. Administrative and other general expense totaled $4,957,714, and the interest payable to the United States

Treasury amounted to $8,847,255. The 5! * Company's obligation for interest payable > to the Treasury, based on the Govern- ment's net direct investment subject to V MS' •'-'><-'( ~7 *-'^ interest, increased from $7,744,181 for

1953, reflecting the increase in the rate established by the Secretary of the "I'M OLDER than you are," Joseph Anthony Herring of Ancon, left, will he able to tell his first cousin, Brian Francis Herring of Diablo, when they get to the argument stage. The cousins met at Gorgas Hos- Treasury from 2.05 percent for 1953 to pital where Joseph Anthony was born November 15, and Brian Francis the following day. Joseph's

2.342 percent for 1954. father is G. J. Herring, a conductor for the Panama Railroad. Brian's dad is Thomas Herring who is a towing locomotive operator at the Pacific Locks. Joseph is the seventh of his family; Brian is the Thomas Capital expenditures by the Company Herring's fourth child.