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THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Januaiy 3, 1958 Megaphone Needed Board of Directors Due Jan a CjCj^l-JZ3^ (. "V Ca CANAr° "fl'^- Vol. 8, No. 6 BALBOA. HEIGHTS, CfNAL ZONE, JANUARY 3, 1958 5 cents SEA ROUflTESjTO WORLD TRADE THE CANAL'S [ROLE IN NEW WORLD ECONOMY The great day's coming Pacific Area Conversion Starts In March opposite side will not be converted until several weeks later. During the early stages of the Pacific Area conversion, 60-cycle current will be supplied from the Gatun Hydroelectric plant. It will be possible to substitute or supplement this with power from the diesel generating plant at Cocoli. The first generating unit at Madden Dam Hydroelectric Station is scheduled for conversion for 60-cycle operation by May 1, after which that unit will supply the Pacific side. The middle of last month the Consoli- dated Electric personnel began an inven- tory of the household equipment requiring conversion. This inventory is final, and 25-cycle equipment not listed during this inventory will not be converted at the cost of the Panama Canal Company. For this reason, householders have been requested to cooperate fully with personnel making the inventory and to check their inventory lists with care. According to the contractor's sched- ule, all but a few of the residential areas in Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights will be converted by the end of May. Since much of the conversion work will be in progress during the coming vacation season, employees are being re- quested to make arrangements to have someone assume responsibility while their equipment is being converted if they are Nearly all homes in Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights will be converted to be away from the Isthmus at that to 60-cycle by the end of May. The map gives a general picture of the months time. The names and addresses of such in which vcrious areas will be converted. San Juan Place in Ancon, the Gavilan persons should be listed with the con- area, and much of (he Balboa flats are scheduled for conversion next June. tractor well in advance. Forms for such notifications can be obtained from the Consolidated Electric Company's office. 'Conversion of frequency-sensitive house- map comes from the fact that the con- Householders can estimate that the hold electrical equipment to 60 cycle is version will be done for all houses serviced conversion of their equipment will be scheduled to be started in the Pacific ter- from the same feeder before progressing made about two and a half months after minal communities March 3 by the Con- to another such group. For this reason the inventory now being taken. How- solidated International Electric Company there are some places where houses on ever, a final notice of the exact date of which was awarded the Pacific Area con- one side of a street will be converted conversion will be given to individual version contract last September. early in the schedule while those on the householders one week in advance. Under the schedule submitted by the contracting firm, the job, one of the big- gest of the entire conversion project, is Commissary Preview to be completed by about next Septem- ber. The firm already has personnel at making for Equipment Display work and is plans an acceler- 60-Cycle Now On ated program. Gordon B. Merchant has been assigned Special plans have been made by the Commissary. The display consists of to the project a Administrative Super- and Bureau to refrigerators, washing machines, driers, visor and John G. Hobbs, Conversion Supply Employee Service give Pacific side Commissary customers air-conditioning units, television sets, Engineer, will be in charge of field oper- topnotch service during the Pacific Area record players, ami a wide variety of ation i. i onversion work. appliances, much of which have never The Consolidated Electric ha before been stocked because of the I as igned office and warehousing space in ml i plans developed, an employee difficulty in obtaining the equipment two buildings on Diablo Road adjacent who elects to take cash in lieu of for 25-Cyde operation. to the Storehouse Division yard. The conversion for any piece of equipment Arrangements have been made for per- larger of the two buildings, No. 42-D, may have a 60-cycle replacement unit calls lo he made Commissary will be used as an office and warehouse, delivered ami ready for use when the old sona] by personnel at all homes the con- with the fornvr being located in the north refrigerator, washing machine, or air- when tractor's representative has been notified end of the building which was originally conditioning unit is disconnected. that the owner will take cash in lieu of erected just before the beginning of \\ orld \ nle from this special service, the conversion for any equipment. ( Irdera War II for use in storing tires. Commissary Branch will have ample for replacement may be made at thai The accompanying map gives a gen- stocks to meet the requirements of Pad lime, and delivery will be made when eral Idea of the aroas which arc to he lie side residents in all types of appliances Consolidated Electric returns some two first i inner led during the three months. and major household equipment. and a half months later fortheconvorsion. The anas on the map not indicated for \ special display of the types <>f Under the deferred payment plan re- conversion before the end of May will equipment to be on sale was placed cently authorized for Commissary pur- be started during June and the con- on view during the past few days in most of the major electrical equip- tractor's schedule calls for beginning the Housewares \nne\ of the Balboa ment can be bought under this plan. conversion in Diablo Heights and l.os Kios in July. The gerrym of the THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Januaiy 3, 1958 Megaphone Needed Board Of Directors Due Jan. 13 For Annual Meeting On Isthmus The future of Atlantic side communi- Members of the Board are scheduled ties for American employees and their to leave the Pacific side early Wednes- families will be one of the principal prob- day morning for the Atlantic side, lems tackled by the Board of Directors going first to Gatun Locks for a dem- of the Panama Canal Company at the onstration of the new LeTourneau tow- annual meeting in the Canal Zone this ing locomotives. The remainder of the month. morning will be devoted to the inspec- Because of the effect of the occupa- tion of various Canal installations on tion of the Coco Solo Naval Station the Atlantic side. upon long-range plans, already well A barbecue luncheon has been planned developed, for the housing and com- at Fort San Lorenzo on Wednesday. munity installations to replace those Some of the Directors will board the in New Cristobal, Board members have Cristobal that afternoon and others, re- scheduled a visit to Coco Solo as the turning to the States by plane, will come first order of business and before any back to the Pacific side that afternoon formal meetings are held. after the ship sails. Several of the Board members, includ- While subject to change, four Directors ing Assistant Secretary of the Army are to come to the Isthmus this month George H. Roderick, Board Chairman, with Secretary Roderick on the SS Cris- are scheduled to arrive here Monday tobal. They are Maj. Gen. Julian L. afternoon, January 13, aboard the Pan- Schley, Charles S. Reed, Howard C. ama liner Cristobal. Other Directors are Petersen, and John W. Martyn. to come by plane. Board members coming by plane in- Division Reservations have been made for the The men in the Engineering clude Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, blueprints of this length Directors at the Tivoli Guest House. A who work with Ralph H. Cake, Robert P. Burroughs, is the reception and cocktail-buffet in their could use a megaphone. It one of Ralph A. Tudor, and Ogden R. Reid. blueprints of the Agua Clara diesel sta- honor will be held that night by the Also coming to the Isthmus for the tion which had to be consulted in con- Canal Bureau Directors and Chiefs of the January Board Meeting will be W. M. nection with the power conversion project. staff units. Whitman, Secretary of the Panama Canal Reading clockwise, the engineers study- The Board will go to the Atlantic side Company, whose headquarters are in ing this blueprint are: Numan H. Vasquez, Tuesday morning, January 14, for an in- Washington. Mr. Whitman is expected Joaquin Ponce, Edwin F. Barnes, Milton spection of the housing and other build- to arrive by plane several days prior to W. Canham, and Allen K. Miller. ings at Coco Solo. the meeting. Incidentally, there is another way of Only one formal session has been sched- handling such blueprints: they can be uled. This will be held in the Board Room The Directors arriving by Panama Line will be met at shipside by Governor cut into strips and bound in book form. of the Administration Building on Tues- day afternoon and evening. In addition Potter and other Board members already for employee on the Isthmus. The entire party will New Towing Locomotives to a consideration of plans housing and community facilities of a return to the Pacific side by special Pan- ama Railroad motor-car. Being Readied For Test permanent nature on the Atlantic side, the formal meeting will be devoted to a The departure dates of the Directors An experiment which can mean savings management review, and consideration of are not definite in all cases, although of many millions of dollars for the Pan- budgetary and fiscal matters.
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