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Vol.2, No. 11 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JUNE 6. 1952 5 cents

WELCOME PLANNED FOR GOV. JOHN S. SEYBOLD ON ARRIVAL IN CANAL ZONE FOR NEW DUTIES

Executive And Wife Resided At Corozal

In Early Army Life

Plans have been completed for the welcome of Governor and Mrs. John S. Seybold on their arrival in the Canal Zone Monday morning aboard the Panama liner Panama,. Governor Seybold is the eleventh to hold office as Governor of the Canal Zone since the Panama Canal was opened to world traffic in August 1915. He took the oath of office in Washington May 27 and his arrival on the Isthmus will be as Gov- ernor and, concurrently, as President and Director of the Panama Canal Company.

The oath of office was administered by Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., in the office of the Secretary. A brief des- cription of the ceremony and statements made by Secretary Pac and Governor Seybold appear on page 2 of this issue of The Canal Review. The new Governor and Mrs. Seybold will be welcomed at the pier in Cristobal on their arrival by a group of officials headed by Acting Governor and Mrs. Robert M. Peacher. After brief shipside

• ceremonies the entire party {Ses i>agc s) . DmrvT raw.-Dr f ^ j o l u l v. tl n j l- r A RECENT PIC Tl RE of Governor and uMrs. Seybold is shown above. The new Governor and his wife will arrive Monday morning aboard the Panama liner Panama. The Isthmus of Panama is not new =r=^^^^^=^==^= to them. They lived at Corozal for three years, 1922 to 1925, not long after Governor Seybold was grad- n • • ri\ • uated from the United States Military Academy. LOntlllUBS AS LlMinTlfln

New Canal Traffic Record Is Expected

This Year If June Transits Are Heavy

A new annual record will be set this July and August. fiscal year in ocean-going commercial The following table gives a month-by- traffic through the Panama Canal unless month comparison of commercial traffic some unexpected trend develops in the through the Canal in the record year of normal shipping pattern during this 1929 and this fiscal year:

month. I 'i."I 196S The former monthly record for transits July 492 49:! set in January 1929 has been exceeded Augusts. 510 490 September 482 516 in three months of this year. October 543 :

In a brief and simple ceremony, un- precedented in many respects in the Canal's history, Brig. Gen. John S. Sey- bold took oath of office as the eleventh Governor of the Canal Zone on May 27 in the office of the Secretary of the Army in the Pentagon Building in Washington, D. C. The oath of office was administered by Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., who is the designated representative of the President for the supervision of the administration of the Canal Zone Govern- ment, and is the Stockholder of the Pana- ma Canal Company. Attending the cere- mony were Karl R. Bendetsen, Under Secretary of the Army and Chairman of the Board of the Panama Canal Com- pany; Roberto Heurtematte, Ambassador from Panama to the United States; and Edward Miller, Assistant Secretary of State. It was the first time that the oath of office for Governor has been administered in the United States. The occasion was also unprecedented by the attendance of a Secretary or Assistant Secretary of State or a Panama Ambassador. The importance of the mission of the A NEW GOVERNOR takes office. Governor Seybold, right, takes oath of office administered by Governor was stressed by Secretary new Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., in the latter's office in the Pentagon building in Washington. In after General Pace in a brief statement the center is Karl R. Bendetsen, Under Secretary of the Arm)', who is Chairman of the Board of the Seybold took the oath. The statement of Panama Canal Company. the Secretary follows: to you, and through you to all of the Panama to the United States and of "Congratulations, Governor. This new people who are engaged with you in this Assistant Secretary of State Miller is post that you now assume is one of trans- vital enterprise." further evidence of the fine relationship cendent importance not only to the Army The following brief reply was made by existing between our two countries and of but to the United States of America. Governor Seybold in response to the "Building on the splendid accomplish- the importance both nations attach to Secretary's statement: ments of those who have preceded you, in this relationship. "Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I feel the days and years in which you will "I approach the performance of the keenly the responsibilities of the position undertake this important service you will duties of this office in all humility but you have entrusted to me. I am in full not only have the opportunity to main- with a determination to bring to the task accord with your comments in regard to tain, protect and improve this great and all the understanding and vigor at my the relationship that exists between the truly majestic enterprise, but you will command. The expression of your confi- operation of the Canal and the advance- responsibility of maintaining also have the dence and support is most gratefully ment and maintenance of close and cordial strengthening the close and cordial and is source of reassurance to relations with our sister Republic of received and a relationship that now exists between our Panama. The very presence here today me. I shall do everything in my power to country and the Republic of Panama. I of the Ambassador of the Republic of measure up to the confidence you express." know that you will not only undertake the important assignment of seeing that the It is believed unlikely that a new yearly manifold responsibilities incident to the New Canal Traffic Record Is Expected operation of the Panama Canal are well record will be set this year in the amount Year If June Transits Are Heavy managed but that you will, in addition, This of tolls collected. The existing record was assume and wisely fulfill the requirements made in the fiscal year 1929 with a total l) exceeded GOO of our relationships in the international (.Continuedfrom page of $27,1 11,000. The amount of tolls col- sphere that have such importance today. transits in one month last March when lected during the first 10 months of this monthly records were established in fiscal year is approximately $650,000 I know that these view? are in accord with new of those of the Assistant Secretary of State, the number of transits, net tonnage under the tolls for the first 10 months in Mr. Miller, who has worked so assiduously vessels, and tolls. The number of transits 1929 and it is not believed the difference the pre- in this direction; Ambassador Heurte- in March was 613, or 16 above will be overcome during May and June. matte, who has done such an unusual job vious record set in January 1929. The There has been a general increase of of of placing the problems of the United new tolls record was $2,512,008.72, as traffic within the past year over all the States and of Panama in a common per- compared with the former record of principal trade routes through the Canal spective; the Under Secretary of the $2,501,949.64, also set in January 1929. with the notable exception of the United of net ton- Army, Mr. Bendetsen, who has, I think, The Panama Canal net tonnage com- States intercoastal route. The rendered a truly significant contribution mercial vessels in March was 2,872,628, nage loss on this route was reported at first S of in this field; and General Pick whose wise as compared with the 2,718,923 net-ton- 41.6 percent during the months judgment and guidance in your selection nage record established in July 1950. this fiscal year in comparison with the have been most helpful. The number of Canal transits again 1951 fiscal year figures. "You undertake at this particular exceeded the 600 mark in April, and a new- The heaviest gains in net tonnage over period an office of great importance and high monthly record was set in May with the various routes have been recorded on great responsibility in the discharge of 622 ocean-going commercial vessels. With those from the east coast of the United which you will have the unqualified sup- the new record last month in the number States and Canada to Australasia; from coast of the port of the Secretary of the Army. I am of transits, it is probable that new highs Europe to Australasia; east sure that those who serve with you will were also established for tolls and net United States to the west coast of Central of the serve well. And so in the great mission tonnage of the ships, although these fig- America; Europe to the west coast you are about to undertake, Governor ures are not available until several days United States and Canada; and from the Seybold, I offer you my support and ex- after the close of business at the end of east coast of the United States and Can- tend my congratulations and good wishes each calendar month. ada to the Far East. June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Welcome Planned For Gov. Seybold { On Arrival For Duty In Canal Zone VISITC TO THE

(Continued from page 1) will board a special Panama Railroad motor car for return to the Pacific side Further wel- coming ceremonies by various officials will take place upon arrival of the party at the Balboa Heights railroad station. The principal event of the Governor's first day in the Canal Zone will l>e a special program which will be held Mon- day night at the Balboa Stadium. Full details of this program will be announced in the daily press of the Isthmus. The new Governor is a native of Topeka, Kan. Neither he nor Mrs. Sey- bold are new to the Isthmus. They lived at Corozal for three years, from Novem- ber 1922 until November 1925, when he served as a Lieutenant with the 1 1 th En- gineers. His assignments during that period included the Military Survey and Mapping Program for Panama. Governor Seybold is recognized as one of the ablest general officers of the Corps of the Engineers with wide experience in administration as well as in both civil and PETER BEASLEY, Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Army, this month is making his third entire career military engineering. His visit to the Canal Zone. Mr. Beasley came to the Isthmus early this year to attend the meeting of the since his graduation from the United Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company and spent several weeks here at that time. He returned States Military Academy in 1920 except in March for a two-week visit as the head of a committee appointed to investigate and select a site for new housing on the Pacific side. As a result of this study, additional land at Corozal was made available for three months following his graduation for use by the Canal Company. Mr. Beasley arrived on his present visit, which is of indefinite duration, Artillery when he served in the Coast early this week. Corps, has been as an officer of the Corps after and one-half years as assistant eral large military construction projects of Engineers in which he has served with two there. for the and Air Force in California, distinction in assignments of increasing engineer Army responsibility. Supervised Largest Earth Dam Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and in Hawaii. Following his return from overseas duty Governor Seybold was awarded the Conies Here From Washington - in 1945, he served as District Engineer at Legion of Merit fo exceptional meritor- has been Assistant Chief of Engi- He Syracuse, N. Y., and later at Baltimore, ious services in the Procurement Branch neers for Personnel and Administration Md. In 1947 he became District Engineer in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, and since 1951, having been chosen for May of the Garrison District, with headquar- wears the Bronze Star Medal for his out- that exacting position while serving as ters at Bismarck, N. D., with responsibil- standing service ir. the European Theater. Division Engineer for the South Pacific ity for the construction of the world's His first prorrotion in the military Division with headquarters in San Fran- largest rolled-earth-fill dam on the Mis- ranks after his graduation from West cisco, Calif. souri River at Garrison, N. D. Point came while serving at Corozal when In addition to his bachelor of science His assignment as Division Engineer of he was promoted, June 17, 1925, from degree from the United States Military the South Pacific Division began in May Second to First Leutenant. His last pro- Academy at West Point, Governor Sey- 1950. In this position he was responsible motion to Brigadier General came last bold received a degree in Civil Engineer- for the administration of flood control, July with the da;e of rank from June 30, ing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute river and harbor improvements, and sev- 1951. in Troy, N. Y. in 1922, and has completed Engineer School courses at Camp Hum- of employees entering and leaving the phreys, Va. He also served four years as Employees Conference locks areas was discussed at length. It Assistant Professor of Military Science was raised by Dajiel P. Kiley, representa- and Tactics at the Agricultural and Me- tive of the Pacific Side Locks Employees. chanical College of Texas. Brings Up Wide Range Other questions brought up during the His tours of duty with troops have May meeting ncluded: included assignments at Camp Grant, 111; Of OldJew Subjects Unlabelled canned goods in the Com- Fort Dupont, Del; and FortHancock, N.J. missaries; the qaality and price of gaso- Served In European Theater A wide range of subjects, many of them line sold in the Canal Zone; housing, es- When the United States entered World discussed to some extent during previous pecially bachelor apartments and the War II, Governor Seybold was on duty meetings, were brought up May 29 at reservation of quarters for those being in the office of the Chief of Engineers as the Governor-Employee Conference at required to move as the housing program Chief of the Procurement Branch, to Balboa Heights. progresses; -losing of medical clinics on which he had been assigned in 1938. He Captain Robert M. Peacher, Acting holidays ant the general inconvenience of continued in that office in charge of pur- Governor pending the arrival of President- the out-patrat service at Gorgas Hospital. chases of all engineer equipment for the Governor John S. Seybold, presided over Following a discussion of tolls and the Armed Services and for international aid the meeting. overall fiscal program, Mr. Hammond until transferred overseas in 1943. As he opened the conference, Acting asked whether tve Canal Zone was not the His overseas assignment in 1943 was Governor Peacher explained that ques- only governmen agency where employees to the European Theater where he became tions raised at the May meeting would be themselves have to pay for schools and Executive Officer of the Engineer Section investigated and the answers prepared so police. for the Services of Supply. In May 1944 that Governor Seybold could be ready to Attending the conference were: Acting he was named Chief of the Supply Divi- continue with them. Governor Peachr; Forrest G. Dunsmoor, sion of the Office of the Chief of Engineers Two matters were raised by Charles W. Executive Assisant to the Governor and in the European Theater until his return Hammond, president of the General Com- Acting Executive Secretary, and Edward to the United States after the end of the mittee of Civic Councils; Mr. Hammond A. Doolan, Personnel Director; Mr. Ham- war. asked if something could not be done to mond, C. W. Chase, Rev P. H. Havener, Like other Army Engineer Officers, obtain money for Civil Defense here, in Raymond Ralpl, and S. W. Sowa, Civic Governor Seybold has held many respon- view of the large amount being spent in Councils; Robert Daniels, Railw^ Con- Mr. sible peacetime civil works assignments the United States, and also asked for ductors; Rufus Lovelady, AFGE; William necessary to a well-rounded civil engineer- clarification of designation of profits from Kiley; Jamt-s Ahwirn, Plumbers: Wag- ing experience. He was in charge of the the recent dance recital at the Balboa S. McKee, Machinists; and Walter Labor Engineering Division of the Vicksburg, theater. ner and C. W. Hoffmeyer, Central Miss., Engineer District in 1937 and 1938, The question of checks by locks guards Union. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

Photos Show Progress

Of Quarters Program

Quarters for Company -Government employees are springing up on both sides of the Canal Zone to such an extent that summer vacationers will find a marked change in the landscape when they return in the Fall. In scope, the quarters construction program this year rivals that of any year since the close of the Canal construction period when housing was being provided in the new townsites for the operating force. Mos of the work is being dune by contract although the Maintenance Divi- sion has charge of the construction of new houses in the Pyle Street Morgan Avenue area in Balboa and the municipal develop- ment in the new building site at Corozal.

Not all of the construction sites are pictured on this page. Those not shown in the five pictures at the right are: CARDENAS, where an entire new townsite is being developed north of Corozal for local-rate employees on the Pacific side. This work is being done under contract by Macco-Panpacific, Inc.

BALBOA, where construction of 11

composite houses with 15 apartments is nearing completion; COROZAL, wher? grading and other municipal work has been started; and

PARAISO, where Tucker McClure is engaged in building 244 family units.

Taking the pictures at the right, from top to bottom, in order: At Rainbow City, 96 new apartments, all in two-family masonry on the ground houses, are due for completion September 28. Isthmian Constrictors holds the $645,730 contract for Rainbow City houses. They will lie identical to those completed earlier this yar.

Margarita, 131 Houses

Macco-Panpacific ho'ds the $3,136,247 contract for the new quarters at Marga- rita (second from the top) in the northern extension to the present town. A total of 131 houses are to be built, all masonry. They are due for compcthn on June 28, 1053. Twelve new masonry hoises are going up in Diablo Heights (c«nt>r picture) on a bluff overlooking Alb'oot Field. The Republic Construction aid Maintenance Company Ls the contractor inthe $273,(100

project. All of these houses are to lie masonry and work on the entire job is about 45 percent done. Completion date

is November 8.

In ( latun, I fourth phot

Ancon, 48 Huses

Largest of the Pacificside projects, in the U. S.-rate communties, is that at Ancon where 4s new quarters, to house 71 families, are rapidly taking form. Like all orK. quarters pictured here, the Ancon houses will be of masonry. Framorco, Inc. holds the $1,096,652 contract for Ancon bottom picture . with thi last of these houses to be com-

pleted by next March 3. June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE CCIDENT PREVENTION / WML i-l !£

Little Jack Horner riding lessons, and study other safety Stand on the corner subjects geared to their own interests.

Watching the traffic go by Every year the police and fire divisions

But when it patted coordinate the safety lessons they have lie crossed orer at last for children with the programs and cur- And said, "What a good boy am I!" riculum in the schools. Their assistance

Starting in the first grade with jingles in the safety program results in demon- like this, all the students in the Canal strations of the use of fire equipment, Zone schools receive frequent safety les- proper bicycle riding, and the annual sons. classroom emphasis on the observation of They are taught from the time they Fire Prevention Week. first enter kindergarten that safety is Something new in safety lessons in the everybody's responsibility. past two years are the air-raid drills,

Safety is a regular part of the school which have been held periodically. In curriculum and the subject is taught in "hit-the-deck" drills, for attacks without many different ways to fit the age-level warning, children learn to seek shelter and the current interests of children in under desks, or seats or any protection their day-to-day activities. nearby. In the more formal drills, the Some classes write stories and others children are conducted to the best shelter write slogans and others draw pictures available in or near the school, designated and posters. In some schools there are for attacks preceded by warnings. dramatizations of the work of traffic offi- The safety lessons are on many sub- cers and illustrations of stop and go lights. jects but they fall into these general Young students illustrate safety situa- classes: tions in classroom sandtables and they Lessons on safety at home and in school learn and sing little safety songs. Many include instructions about falls, injuries read safety stories, then draw up their from sharp objects, the medicine cabinet, THIS POSTER, done by sixth grade students own sets of safety rules. matches, electrical appliances, stoves, Marie Bleakley and Charles De Tore of Cristobal There are also motion pictures and safety on the playground, and asphyxia- Elementary School, is one example of the safety work filmstrips and field trips to fire stations tion. done in Canal Zone schools. The poster is displayed and classroom demonstrations of fire Street safety lessons teach children in this picture by Balboa kindergarten students equipment. proper actions at crossings, on rainy days, Alpheus Sloan III of Fort Amador and Margaret Henson of Albrook Air Force Base. Older students learn in the classroom in automobiles, playing in or near streets, to identify dangerous plants, have bicycle at traffic signals, bicycle riding, and roller skating. papers on subjects ranging from safe HONOR ROLL Fire safety lessons teach children about Hallowe'en and Christmas celebrations burns, fire-alarm boxes, use of fire extin- to warning against climbing on construc- Bureau Award For guishers, fire drills, and fire hazards. tion equipment and rules against paper BEST RECORD Children also learn about water safety wads and bean shooters. April and wild plant and animal life as part of But even so, the Schools Division and COMMUNITY SERVICE their safety education. the Safety Branch recognize that there BUREAU First-aid lessons are taught first in have been too many accidents involving grade school, in simple, easy-to-under- children. As much as they plan and as stand form. in high school, there is much as they teach to make the Canal AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Then a required course in first aid as part of Zone a safe place for children, they be- Community Services 3 the physical education program. lieve the most effective safety lessons are I ndustrial 1 Civil Affairs 1 The school safety work is a continuous the ones youngsters learn in their own Engineering and Construction program but has been accentuated during homes. And as teachers they know that Health the past two months. The lessons being the best teachers of all are foresighted Marine Railroad and Terminals taught came to light in many children's and painstaking parents. Supply and Service

Disabling Injuries per 1,060,000 Man-Hours Worked Division Awards For APRIL 1952 NO DISABLING INJURIES (Frequency Rate) April

Community Services Bureau HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS Health Bureau DREDGING DIVISION Civil Affairs Bureau CLUBHOUSE DIVISION Industrial Bureau ELECTRICAL DIVISION Supply and Service Bureau RAILROAD DIVISION Panama Canal Co. C. Z. Gov't (This month)

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION Panama Canal Co.-C. Z.Gov'l (Best Year; AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR Panama Canal Co.-C. Z. Gov't 1952 to Dale Engineering and Construction Bureau Clubhouses 3 Electrical _ 3 Marine Bureau Grounds Maintenance 3 Railroad Motor Transportation 2 and Terminals Bureau Storehouses 2

Dredging 1 Hospitalization and Clinics 1 Number of Disabling Injuries 41 Man-Hours Worked 2,941,843 Navigation 1 Railroad 1 Sanitation I LEGEND Commissary Locks 3 Amount Better Than Panama Canal Company— Canal Zone Government Best Maintenance Year Terminals 3 Amount Worse Than Panama Canal Company—Canal Zone Government Bert Year —

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6/1952 Lock Operator and Wife Specialize In Wild Animal Buying and Training

Charles E. Bradley has been catching, In 1948 and 1949 he was an animal buying, selling, trading, stuffing, training, trainer for a West Coast dealer who and talking wild animals and reptiles for handled jungle-bred animals for the something like 20 years and has learned to movies. There the animals came in wild like "cats" and snakes best. but were all well trained before they "Cats," he says, "are like women- appeared before movie cameras. moody, jealous, smart, dangerous, and His wife is newer to the animal business interesting—with all due respect to my but is a junior working partner. He thinks beauteous wife." her business sense suffers from liking As for snakes, who helped him meet her, animals too much to sell them but she is he likes them probably because he knows good with "cats," and once handled one them best and has for a long time back. panther no one else could manage to train. Mr. Bradley is a machinist by trade and When Mr. Bradley first laid eyes on his a lock operator at Pedro Miguel. Animals future wife in Miami in 1946 he told her and snakes are a sideline that have been about his snake collection and invited her his big or small-time business all his out to see them. He believes she took grown-up life. little stock in the snake story approach He doesn't catch them himself these or that's what he thinks now—but she days but buys the animals, birds, and did go out and she did see snakes—that snakes other hunters bring him. Then he day and from that time on. CHARLES E. BRADLEY, lock operator at sells them, as he has for years, to zoos, pet Then from "I do" day their choice of Pedro Miguel Locks, holds one of the many animals shops, museums, and snowmen in many pets made them popular like the plague. he has owned and handled in his long-time animal business. parts of the world. Travelling Boa Constrictor From 1945 to 1947, he was in the animal Junior, their boa, was a much-traveled collecting business with headquarters in snake who lived in every hotel in Florida. buffaloes from Africa, and tapirs from Barranquilla, Colombia. At the height of But with hotel managers and other guests Central America. The smallest was the his activity there, he sent out a planeload he was a snake very non-grata. So for mouse oppossum, a three-inch animal of animals, birds, and snakes every check-ins and check-outs, traveling around native to Panama. two weeks. and other public appearances, they For about a year, in 1947, he demon- Jaguar And Gorilla Dangerous snuggled his six feet in a suitcase or bag or strated to audiences in different parts of twined him around Mr. Bradley's middle. The most dangerous animals in Brad- the United States the process of milking Cheeta, a puma, was their favorite pet, ley's experience are the jaguar and the a rattler. His lectures on poisonous but she pushed one landlady almost to gorilla. The jaguar, which he considers snakes—demonstrated with the rattler for suicide. After that they saw to it that the worse, is good showmanship sound effects—were a big cat common in Panama, Cheeta's charms were hidden so they which attacks unprovoked and is known usually for Scout groups. could keep a roof over their heads. The to be moody and a killer the natives honor system of explaining her first and won't hunt. Bitten Five Times then asking for a place to live only made Every animal and snake is a person- His fondness for snakes has not been landlords fearful and didn't help them a ality, he says, and they don't go by bit with their housing dimmed by five rattler and fer-de-lance constant headaches. family patterns. Some want to be All well for quite some time in bites followed by five grave periods in went an friendly if the approach is just right but the hospital. apartment in Chicago. Cheeta was walked others would be killed before they are night, view in He doesn't like to live dangerously, he by hidden from the shad- broken. slept says, but he does prefer peril nearby. ows of nearby alleys. She with the Bradleys as she always had, protesting if Mr. Bradley Started Young they hogged the covers. She ate her raw Mr. Bradley started catching snakes meat and lolled around the house as if when he was about 14. Later, he covered she were home in the Volcan. a large part of the South collecting rat- Landlady Discovers Pet Puma tlers, cotton-mouths, and copperheads Then one day when the Bradleys were and milking them for their venom. gone, the landlady heard a fan amiss in He first became acquainted with jungle their apartment. She walked in the room animals when he came to the Canal Zone and went to the windows and opened the in 1942. He had been a machinist for Venetian blinds. Then she turned around several years and came here to work in to look and saw Cheeta, also just looking the Mechanical Division. After three around. years with the Canal, he went to Colombia The landlady screamed and ran back and then to the United States, to follow to the window, yelling for police, firemen, the animal business. He came back to the and her family. Everyone came and tried Canal Zone in December 1950 as a ma- hard to calm her to keep her from jumping chinist at Atlantic Locks. six stories. When the Bradleys arrived, There are only a few things he does not the suicide had been averted but, of buy in his sideline animal business. The course, they were homeless again. lesser anteater is on the list because his Then there was a jaguar of 350 pounds diet of termites cannot be assured in Mr. Bradley took calling on a restaurant captivity. Animals with hoofs, and par- owner. The jaguar was trained but when rots, parakeets, and macaws are too much it came time to go home he just didn't trouble because of complications arising want to go into his cage. The diners from control measures for the poultry around began to thin out when all means disease, psittacine, and hoof and mouth

of coaxing proved futile, and it was four disease. hours and two gallons of ice cream later The Bradleys' home in Pedro Miguel before he was finally caged. has only their household-size pets. Other Among three people left when the cap- animals are housed in a jungle stockade ture was made was a girl with a very safely distant from unplanncd-for visitors. strict mother. When her daughter came Asked if people are curious and bother home late, she just wouldn't believe those him to tell them all kinds of things about MRS. BRADLEY is a junior partner in the ani- wild stories about ice cream eating jagaurs. animals, Mr. Bradley said, yes, they all mal business in charge of small birds and animals. The biggest animals Mr. Bradley has want to talk but they don't ask him, they Here she is shown with the current batch of baby gato solos. handled were American buffaloes, water tell him the answers. June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

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Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope. CanalZone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

E. C. Lombard, Executive Secretary

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor Eleanor H. McIlhenny Oleva Hastings Editorial Assistants LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters containing inquiries, suggestions, criticisms, or opinions of a general nature will be welcomed. Those of sufficient interest will be published but signatures will not be used unless desired.

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BACK COPIES— 10 cents Each On sale when available, from the Vault Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, Balboa Heights. CAPT. ROBERT M. PEACHER, above, is the third United States Naval Officer in the Canal's history to act as Governor cf the Zone. Postal money orders should be made pay- Canal He was appointed to that position, effective May 23, by Secretary able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- of the Army Frank Pace, Jr. He was also delegated to perform the duties of President pany, and mailed to the Editor, The of the Panama Canal Company which relate to the Company's activities on the Isthmus. Panama Canal Review, Balboa Heights, Acting Governor Peacher last month completed two years of duty with the Canal organization. C. Z. He succeeded Capt. P. S. Nichols, now retired, as Marine Superintendent in May 1950 and became Marine Director two months later in the reorganization which made both the Locks and Dredging Divisions units of the Marine Bureau. The Acting Governor will until To Subscribers serve the arrival of Governor John S. Seybold next Monday. He and Mrs. Peacher plan to sail for the States next Friday and he will be on temporary duty in New York until the end of this month when he will retire from active service with the Navy. Please notify us promptly of any The two Naval officers who had served as Acting Governor prior to Captain Peacher were Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward and Commodore Stewart A. Manahan, both change in your mailing c dd ress. now retired. Both held the rank of Captain in the Navy at the time they served as Acting Governor. Post offices everywhere have pre- Admiral Woodward served briefly as Acting Governor in 1929 during the absence of Governor Harry Burgess and the illness of Maj. Gen. Julian L. Schley, the Engineer of Maintenance. Com- pared postal card forms for notices modore Manahan served a short time as Acting Governor' in May 1942 when Governor Glen E. Edgerton was in the United States and Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Me'haffey, then Engineer of Main- of changes of address. tenance, was ill in Gorgas Hospital.

Captain is the Peacher first head of the Marine Bureau, or Division, to be appointed to head the Canal organization. Both Admiral Woodward and Commodore Manahan became Acting Gov- ernors by an "order of succession" established in 1922 by an order issued by Secretary of War John Promoted W. This procedure Weeks. was abolished in January 1950, by a Presidential order providing for the Secretary of the Army to appoint an Acting Governor in the absence of both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor from their duties.

Most drugs and medical supplies used in Recent moves among Canal offices the Canal organization will be purchased included the transfer of the main office through the Army starting July 1, effecting of the Housing Division from the a considerable economy in the procurement Administration Building at Balboa of these items. Heights to the second floor of the The supplies will be ordered from the Balboa Housing Office; and the trans- Army Medical Supply Depot at the Madden fer of the Panama Line ticket office "Y" instead of requisitioning them through from the Housing Office to the former the Canal organization for purchases in the Balboa Dispensary building. United States as in the past. The bulk supplies now on hand at Section Thirty young men will enter the Armv J of the Balboa Storehouse, where they have from the Canal Zone in July, the largest been kept in the past, will be transferred to number to be inducted the Army Medical Supply Depot sometime in one month since Selective Service machinery was established before the first of July. in the Canal Zone. All those to be inducted The summer session of the Louisiana will be alien volunteers, according to State State University's Caribbean program Selective Service Headquarters. for armed forces personnel again will The most inducted in one month up to be open to U. S. citizen employees of Julj were nine in January, March, and Mav. the Canal organization on a space 1952. Three went into the Army from the available basis. Canal Zone in June. Summer courses will run from CAPT. MARVIN J. WEST, Chief of the Naviga- June 30 through August 21. Canal personnel tion Division and Captain of the Port in Balboa, will Residents should contact the LSU office at Ouarrv of Balboa "Flats" recently succeed Capt. Robert A. Peacher as Marine Director were Heights, telephone 2131, or C. polled to determine their ideas when the latter leaves later this month for Xew York L. Munden at Fort and preferences concerning traffic regu- and retirement from the United States Navy. This Amador, telephone 3116, for additional information. lations which should be placed in effect will be the first time in the Canal's history that a in that section. Captain of the Port has been promoted to head the Employee elections for U. S.-rate repre- The polling was conducted by the Marine Bureau (formerly Division) immediately after sentatives to serve on the Panama Canal Pacific Civic Council at the request of completing his assignment as Port Captain. Captain Company-Canal Zone Government Perform- the Canal Zone Traffic Committee and West is a native of Spartanburg, S. C, and was ance Rating Board of Review and the was the first ever conducted among graduated from the United States Naval Academy Grievance Advisory Committee will close Canal residents to obtain their views with the class of 1925. He was on duty in the Office June 11 after about two weeks of balloting. on the traffic situation in their own of the Chief of Naval Operations as Chief of the Three principals and two alternates will community. Harbor Defense Unit in the Undersea Warfare Divi- be named to serve on each of two bodies Results of the survey will be turned sion before his assignment with the Canal in July elected, one for classified and related em- over to the Traffic Committee for 1949. ployees and the other for wage board group. further action. —

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952 Medical Treatment And Common Sense Are Used To Aid Patients At Corozal

The long-time Canal institution now to its founding, "Corozal Cripple Farm." Clerk; Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Personnel called Corozal Hospital is a lot more than Refuge For Indigents Clerk; Mrs. Ruth Lord, Stenographer; a hospital and its atmosphere is not very and 127 local-rate and 24 U. S.-rate It was planned as a refuge where in- institutional. attendants, cooks, and helpers. digents, crippled in Canal service, could The medical, administrative, and insti- For the insane, live and, if they wanted to, work. Corozal Hospital has tutional practice Col. of George E. Hesner, an enviable record among such institu- Today's "chronics" are the counterpart Superintendent, and his staff, leaves a lot tions for the number of recoveries. of the cripples for whom the farm was of leeway for common-sense consideration "Shock" founded. former Treatment Given for patients as personalities. They are Canal em- ployees and dependents, the About 8,000 electric shock treatments He believes his doctors, nurses, attend- taken from outside where they are helpless and given have been given to about 400 Corozal ants, and helpers do more work and do it patients since this method was first used better than any comparable group he at Corozal a place to live, good food, medical attention, and a more-than-insti- there in September 1947. About SO per- knows of, but the efficiency seems painless cent of those tutional amount of human kindness. treated "went back over the to the staff, the patients, and the outsider fence" recovered, Dr. Hudock says. looking on. They come from former ranks of both He prefaced an explanation of treat- Corozal Hospital houses a motley lot U. S.- and local-rate Canal forces and they ments for the insane with the words of that falls into two main groups, the insane suffer all manner of diseases and infirmi- G. K. Chesterton which he says are as and the so-called "chronics." Chronics, ties, blindness, deafness, lameness, heart true today as when they were spoken: Colonel Hesner explains, are homeless conditions, arterial sclerosis, and just age. "In the treatment of insanity the treat- people who helped make the Canal Panamanian insane were cared for at ment must be drastic and the cure a possible. Corozal from 1915 to 1933 and 1934 miracle." The insane are at Corozal because the when they were transferred to Retiro No one knows the court sends them there, according to the Matias Hernandez in Panama City. how convulsions in- duced by electric shocks or other means Superintendent. The large number of Spanish-speaking erase aberrations from the human mind, Thorough Examinations patients now at Corozal prompted the but they do—in some cases and in some Persons believed to be psychotic are remark by a former Chief Health Officer types of insanity, Dr. Hudock says. sent first to a general hospital. There after he made the rounds with Colonel Metrazol, which is injected intra- they are X-rayed and given electro- Hesner, "George, these people would hair venously over a considerable period of cardiographic, chest, and spine examina- to be crazy to understand your Spanish." time to bring about the curative convul- tions which determine, among other Colonel Hesner Is Popular sion, was used at Corozal from 1935 to things, whether or not they can be given But fractured as the language may be, the time the electric shock treatments electric shock treatments. to like the Spanish-speaking patients seem were started there. Then they are sent to Corozal where it just as well as those who speak English Insulin has been and is used at Corozal they are under observation for 30 days when Colonel Hesner takes them by the on rare occasions but with considerable pending the issuance of a court order arm or shoulder, kids them about their reluctance as far as the staff is concerned. committing them to this institution. At foibles or just greets them—from 8 to SO This treatment is prolonged and delicate the end of that period, Corozal authori- with the usual "Hi there, young man" or compared to electric shock, and is given ties ask the court for a commitment "young lady." only if a patient's family insists and fur- order or, if they believe the derangement present Corozal re- The census— which nishes special nurses for the careful and may be only temporary, an extension of mains fairly constant— includes 240 in- constant observation necessary. the observation period. sane and 100 chronics. One Colonel Hesner considers it better to Lobotomy Performed To take care of these patients, there err on the side of prolonging the observa- Also by special arrangement made by are in addition to the Superintendent, Dr. tion period rather than commit to Corozal one patient's family, a lobotomy recently George B. Hudock, clinical director, Col. anyone with only a temporary mental was performed on one woman at Corozal Leon Malock, and Maj. T. B. Hauschild, upset and later, go through the involved who was taken to Dr. Antonio Gonzalez- all psychiatrists. legal process of a release. Revilla, a Panamanian brain surgeon, for Corozal Hospital was originally "Coro- Mrs. Marie McNeff, Chief Nurse, heads the delicate operation which could not be zal Farm," or, as it was more generally the staff of 15 nurses. done at Corozal. She came back a com- referred to in the correspondence leading There are also Robert Cole, Chief pletely changed and vastly improved personality.

Electric shock treatments for the in- sane, in most general use at Corozal and elsewhere, were first tried on a human patient in 1938 by Dr. T. Cerletti, an jpyqp[4^^ Italian neuro-psychiatrist. Most of his previous experimentation with electricity as a possible means of inducing convulsions safely and quickly was done on animals in Rome's slaughter- houses. He believed -and experimentation showed that the electric shock used to "kill" animals did not actually kill them but that they would recover from the

convulsions and subsequent coma if butchering did not begin immediately.

After Cerletti's successful use of elec- tric shock on a human patient his treat- ment spread rapidly throughout the medical world, being introduced in the United States in 1939. At Corozal, electric shock treatments are given three times a week and the number for a particular patient may THE SETUP for electric shock treatments, which have resulted in the recovery of about 80 percent range from 6 to 60. of the insane patients treated at Corozal Hospital, is demonstrated here by the doctors, nurses, and attend- "Snake Pit" horrors to the contrary, ants who help administer the treatments. The doctors are (left to right) Leon Malock, T. B. Hauschild, and George B. Hudock, clinical director. Facing the camera is Chief Nurse Marie McNeff. the machine that furnishes the current is June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW small and innocuous in appearance and the shock is so quick and certain that patients suffer little apprehension and scarcely know what happened to them. Low Voltage Current Used

The current is something like 130 volts for .2 second for a small woman and 120 volts for the same period for a large man. Many special precautions worked out for electric shock treatments at Corozal might make the staff seem over-cautious, Colonel Hesner says. However, there have been few accidents dislocated joints, fractured vertabrae- and no fatalities. When the treatment first came into general use in the United States in the early 1940's, the fatalities were as high as 16 to IS percent, Dr. Hudock says. The use of Metrazol, on the other hand,

SET IN A SCENE < >f tropical beauty is this ward building of Corozal Hospital. was a much more complicated and pro- longed process and the patient's reaction Sundry Civil Act of June 23, 1913. was far from pleasant. A patient came in diseases. world considers Corozal patients Canal Zone insane patients were first under his own power for the first Metra- If the there is no indication that cared for in the old French quarters at zol shock, Dr. Hudock says. For the unfortunates, staff regards them as anything but Miraflores. In 1907 they were moved to second treatment, it took two attendants the the insane ward 7, Ancon Hospital, on the to bring him and after about the fourth people. all of location of the present San Juan Place. shock, several attendants had to carry Ward rounds turn up kinds con- quips. In the insane asylum was him bodily to cope with his violence. versation, questions, and March 1915, bid for attention in the transferred to Corozal Farm when the Corozal s main obligation to the chron- One patient's of vague, indefinable pains got this farm and asylum were consolidated under ics, in the opinion of Colonel Hesner, is to form lucky those the "Corozal Hospital." make them as comfortable and happy as answer: "Aren't you to have name to Early farming operations were plagued possible. That means there are few rules pains. God gives you pains make you in- with problems—and consequent revisions regarding their activities. They sleep think about yourself—a good guy— stead of a bunch of no-good people." of regulations—as to whether or not when and if and as long as they want to to if they could; rates and work and do other things very much And another who wanted seeds and a patients had work workers; the same way. plot of ground to grow peanuts and white of pay for different classes of roses! Who- provisions for housing, with as little fight- Their food, like that of all the patients, roses was told, "Peanuts and that! friction possible, patisnts and comes from the hospital kitchen presided ever heard of a combination like ing and as different nationalities and over by the long-time stew-ard David H. You can't eat roses—but we'll see." dependents of sometimes cantankerous character; thiev- Hines, who will retire in November. And Patients Have Gardens ing; plant and animal diseases; and, in Colonel Hesner, once exposed to a Cooks A few small plots of ground assigned to later years, economic headaches arising and Bakers School in his long Army patients for their own gardening — mainly from competition from other agricultural career, is not averse to raising an author- as an occupational-therapy measure— is interests employing able-bodied laborers, itative eyebrow and question to let the all that remains of the farming which particularly Chinese gardeners. cooks know he thinks he knows what once made Corozal about SO percent self Even so the farm thrived and in the made a pie taste like paste or bread slices supporting. peak years of the early 1920's included a that were too thick or too thin to make The farm, under the direction of a farm 120-head dairy, about 400 hogs in a the supply come out right. manager, was started in February 1913 "piggery," poultry yard, nursery, vege- Many Special Diets with 750 acres and 35 able-bodied laborers table and flower gardens, a coconut grove, Besides the regular meals, which would to break the land and get the farm going and many papaya, mango, citrus fruit, be the envy and despair of budget-minded so that patients could carry on the work. and alligator pear trees. Guinea pigs, housewives, there are many special diets Congressional authorization for this insti- rabbits, and pigeons also were raised on for patients with different infirmities and tution for disabled indigents came in the the farm at different periods. Other Occupational Therapy Many of the farming activities, in- cluding the dairy and hog farms, were abandoned for lack of sufficient workmen when Panamanian patients were trans- ferred to Matias Hernandez. Later, pa- tients were provided employment in a broom factory, sewing room, the ceme- tery, which was a part of Corozal until July 1950, and the vegetable and flower gardens, some of which were retained until the early 1940's. The present occupational-therapy work, under the direction of Mrs. Anna Cund-

liffe, consists of many types of sewing, rug-making, and making of straw baskets, mats, bags, and hats, which are sold pri- marily to individuals. Material for this

work* is furnished by the hospital, with the help of the Community Chest. The Corozal Small Animals Hospital and Quarantine Kennels were under the direction of Corozal Hospital until 1950. Growing military establishments re- sulted in the transfer to the armed forces of sizable chunks of land from Corozal COLOXEL GEORGE E. HESNER, right, who will retire at the end of June after many years Farm. Other parts went to form new or as Superintendent of Corozal Hospital, is shown with three favorite employees at Corozal who have expanded Canal communities, and the also served there the longest. Left to right, they are: Thomas Petrekin, grounds foreman who has once-spacious farm finally dwindled to its been at Corozal since 1913; Beatrice Lewis, attendant, who says she "raised" Colonel Hesner in her 40 years of service; and Hubert Lovell, who has held the thankless job of gatekeeper for 32 years. present 75 acres. 10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

School Closing Opens Head Janitor Watches Pranks Of Zone Students Since 1915 Zone Vacation Season structed. For 12 years before that, he held the same job at Balboa Elementary Vacation activities moved to the fore- School. From 1915 to 1917, he was also front in the Canal Zone with the arrival a school janitor at Cristobal School, which of June. was then in the annex of the Hotel By the time the last school bells rang Washington. this week, a record number of 550 stud- In his present job, he cleans IS rooms ents had been graduated from the Cristo- daily with the help of one assistant. He bal and Balboa High Schools, the La picks up pens and pencils and sometimes Boca and Rainbow City Vocational High pocketbooks and delivers them to the Schools, and the Canal Zone and La Boca High School office.

Junior Colleges. He listens a little to classroom work if In addition to the graduates, some it's convenient and arouses his interest. 4,500 other students put aside thoughts He does many little chores for the of books and examination papers as the teaching staff and whatever he does, he Canal Zone schools closed one of the most does well. He says the teachers and successful years in their history. principal are always nice and he takes Many of the graduates and students well to the kidding they give him. will find employment during the summer He finds some notes but he doesn't read vacation period as student assistants in them, and he could sometimes report stu- various Panama Canal Company and dents, but he just never does. The only Canal Zone Government units. trouble he ever finds are dogs who follow As a result of their training, some of students to school. the graduates employed during the sum- They're no real problem but Atherley mer will be retained in permanent posi- believes they just don't belong in the tions similar to those they held during classroom. And no matter how much their assistant training period. their masters beg, he's adamant and The closing of schools also meant, the chases them away. usual exodus of many Canal employees Has Job As Secretary and their families for the United States. Outside the high school, Atherley has AUBREY ATHERLEY, head janit.ir at Balbos Although there are fewer Canal vacation- Junior High School, scoots out one of many students a heavy job as secretary of the Barbadian ers bound for the States this summer than dogs who want to go to school. Progressive Society of Panama, a mutual in recent years, northbound sailings of the benefit insurance organization for persons Panama Line for the past few weeks have Several generations of students at Bal- of Barbadian ancestry. been taken with near-capacity passenger boa Junior High School have learned that His other main interests are his son, lists. Aubrey Atherley is on their side but he who lives with him in La Boca, and a The rush of Canal employees toward has no time for backtalk. niece that he reared, who has been in Lcs the States started early in May. This As a long time janitor in Canal Zone Angeles for seven years with the family year, it is expected that all Canal employ- schools, he has had a lot of experience for whom she worked in the Canal Zone. ees who have requested transportation on with students. Atherley came from Barbados in 1910 the Panama Line will be accommodated He says he speaks to them when they're and went to work first in Culebra, as a by the northbound sailing on June 20, doing wrong but he's too busy to look for member of a utility gang. thus disposing of the backlog of transpor- mischief. He plays no favorites and tattles After his first two years as a school tation requests. no tales and they always get along janitor at Cristobal, he spent three years The thousands of Canal employees and all right. cleaning bachelors' quarters at Cristobal their families who will spend the summer Atherley has been head janitor at the and Balboa, and in September 1921, he here will find vacation fun in the Summer Junior High School since September 1933, started to work at Balboa School where Recreation Program which has been when the present building was con- he has been working ever since. planned in most Canal Zone communities. The six-week program of arts and Clubhouse Opens Self-Service Section crafts classes, as well as sports and other recreational activities, will start June 9 in the local-rate communities where schools close earlier, and July 7 in the U. S.-rate communities. Instructors for the program, all volun- teers, are attending special training classes.

The program is under the direction of the Canal Zone Summer Recreation Board. Mrs. Peggy Parker will again be the coordinator for the program in the U. S.-rate communities, and E. Stanley Loney, who has had several summers' ex- perience, will serve as coordinator in the local-rate communities. Asifle from fun and frolic during the coming three months, school work will continue at the Canal Zone Junior Col- lege where summer school courses will be offered for students and adults who desire special training. Most of the summer school work will be in night classes, although a few classes will be held in the morning. BALBOA CLUBHOUSE has just instituted a new self-service merchandise section. courses being offered include ele- The Designed to facilitate and expedite customer purchases, and at the same time to permit an effective mentary typing, elementary Spanish, means of displaying merchandise, the new section is provided with island-type sectional displays. There Spanish for English-speaking students, are wide, easy-to-move-in aisles, and an arrangement permitting adequate opportunity for browsing through the section's wide assortment of magazines, phonographs records, home remedies business law, business English, shorthand, and many other readily available convenience items. and a course in engineering drawing which Further improvements will complete the changes and will provide even greater customer conveni- will be held on Saturday mornings. ence, at the same time adding to the section's generally attractive appearance. —

June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 1 Art Blossoms As Avocation Here

THESE ART LEAGUE members are shown deep in preparation for their Annual Beaux Arts Ball, which is not only fun but helps

to finance the organization's art scholarship.

Une of the biggest and most enthusiastic make this aid possible, the organization Many of the group for whom it wai Canal Zone groups bound together by a has had three annual Beaux Arts Balls. formed were recent graduates of art common interest in after-work-hours is One paralyzed teacher was provided a schools or had had brief careers in art the large and growing number of people scholarship for correspondence work in before they entered the armed services. who comprise the local art colony. art as a result of the League's efforts in The local tropical scenery and atmosphere At the hub of the activities of many of his behalf. provided new and tempting subject mat- these artists is the Canal Zone Art League The membership of the present Art ter for many of these young artists and whose artistic interests have spread to a League includes engineers, teachers, elec- wartime conditions created the need for large part of the Canal Zone community. tricians, and persons in various other vo- an outlet for their creative interests. Among Art League members are many cations. Among the members are several The first art clubs and classes for serv- prolific artists known to the public through husband and wife teams. Persons from ice personnel were organized and directed the League's exhibitions. Last year they 15 years of age or more may participate by E. C. Stevens at the Balboa YMCA. outgrew one annual show of their work, in the club's activities. But the constant shifting of the armed which has been held since the organiza- Besides those who paint, in watercolors forces artists created a need for a civilian tion was founded, and established a per- or oils, there are ceramists, woodcarvers, group to stabilize any such art groups, manent gallery at the Jewish Welfare and print makers. In all fields of art, the and the Art League was formed to create

Board in Balboa. League attempts to keep abreast of the such a nucleus and to fill the need of that At the Balboa gallery, exhibits of work major and current art movements. time. individual are changed every organization is by members The guided by the Roger Morrow First President two weeks, and the League also arranges American Artists Professional League The first president of the newborn Art for exhibits of the work of guest artists which the members may join if they League was the Canal employee, Roger from Panama. choose. It was originally a part of, and Morrow. As the organization grew, the The Canal Zone Art League was the local officers were members of the exhibits increased until they were too planned primarily as an outlet for mem- national art organization. large for the YMCA lobby. Then arrange- bers' talents but as the membership grew Art Week Is Institution ments were made for the organization to and their interests broadened there was American Art Week, which has become use the YMCA basement area, w^hich was a resulting increase in activities. a well-known community institution, was also outgrown in 1951 as a space for the One of its main aims is to encourage originally a child of the American Artists annual exhibition. At that time the Jew- the work of young artists. The League Professional League. ish Welfare Center provided space in its welcomes new members into their group It is now observed with a large exhibi- former music room for the present per- especially those new in the community tion with prizes for outstanding artists. manent ballery. and through its activities provides them Among the donors who have contributed Much of the work in the early Art an opportunity to improve and exhibit prizes are the Elks Club, the American League days was done in pencil, pen and their artistic productions. Legion and Auxiliary, various women's ink, and watercolors because of the war- Now On Community Scale clubs, and the YMCA which has always time difficulty in obtaining other art With study and sketch groups and been generous in support of American Ait materials. other activities, the League furthers the Week and the smaller exhibitions that The early interaction of art ideas be- work of its members. And on a commun- grew out of it. tween the local artists and armed forces ity scale, it has set itself to provide a The League came into being in the war members new to the Isthmus influenced high standard of art appreciation in the days of 1944 primarily for the benefit of the style and approach of the group and Canal Zone. persons in the armed services. It was resulted in a new freshness of style. The As a special help to promising artists, organized to arrange art activities and quality improved as it has since that the League has made provisions for an exhibitions for armed forces artists who time—and the amount of oil painting art scholarship. To swell the funds and visited or were stationed on the Isthmus. increased. 12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

Industrial Bureau Repairs New Civil Intelligence Branch Chief

Craft Which Haul Ex-Kings And King Tuna During May

Fishing boats are fishing boats to the Panama Canal Company's Industrial Bu- reau, whether the fishing craft be those which carry ex-kings or those which carry king tuna. Both types were under repair last month in the Industrial Bureau's yards at Mount Hope. The ex-king's fishing boat, Young Joe, is not quite that, technically. Along the Canal waterfront, the 315-ton former minesweeper became known as the king's yacht almost from the minute she touched port in April with former King Leopold of Belgium aboard. But members of the Young Joe's crew insist that the vessel is ROBERT C. WALKER, left, assumed his duties early last month as Chief of the Civil Intelligence Branch. succeeded on a scientific expedition and that the He Earl J. Williamson, right, who is leaving this month to accept another position with the Federal presence aboard of the former king was Government in Washington. D. C. Mr. Walker served six years as Deputv Director of the Intelligence and Security Division coincidental. for the Field Command of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, with headquarters in Albuquerque, N. Mex., before joining the Canal organization. Mr. William- The Young Joe belongs to the Inter- son has several years of Canal service and since last March he has been Chief of the Civil Intelligence national Society of Marine Biological Re- Branch. search, to translate its French name some- what literally, and has aboard a group of scientists who are primarily interested in Panama Canal Theaters plankton, small fish, and fish parasites. They are also somewhat interested in MOVIETIME bats, as witnessed by two hour-glass SCHEDULE shaped cages of the flying mammals, some of them vampires, which hung on Starts BALBOA Starts CRISTOBAL the Young Joe's rear deck. Saturday June 7th Saturday June 14th The one-time minesweeper is equipped with electrical fishing gear which stuns marine life so that it can be brought 02 aboard without the damage caused by either hook or net. Presence of the Young Joe in the Mount Hope shipyard was for a general overhaul on its two engines. The Young Joe had ; transited the Canal May 6 after a fishing DAN DA!LEY JOANNE ORU trip to the Pearl Islands. The former king and his wife and several of the SCHEDULED FOR scientists did not remain aboard but went RELEASE on to Venezuela. EARLY In the meantime the overhaul was de- layed pending the arrival of several parts M-G-Ms - which had to be ordered from the States. SINGIN- * Many could have been manufactured here SWINGIN but special tooling would have been re- GLORIOUS quired and the cost for such work—here FEELIN MUS ICAL or anywhere else—runs high. ffity While the overhaul of the Young Joe's i engines was going on, a fishing boat of another vintage was dry-docked on the Technicolor marine railway not far away. This was 7 Gene Kelly* the 391-ton tuna fisher, Del Sur, which had ripped off most of her keel and bent donald o'connor her rudder when she ran onto a reef off Debbie Reynolds the Pearl Islands late in April. She was A Paramount Picture towed here for repairs. Industrial Bureau craftsmen first had to get her into the supporting cradle which raises the vessel a man's height Tropical Treasure! Typhoon! and Temptation 1 from a wooden platform. This was ac- complished by running the prepared cradle down a marine railway, part of whose tracks are submerged, until the damaged fisher could be maneuvered into the exact center and shored into place. Once on dry land, the damaged keel was completely torn off, a new keel made from a piece of 24 x 24 inch lumber, 80 feet long, and the rudder straightened. The two fishers were only two of the ERROL RUTH jobs which occupied the Industrial Bu- reau's marine experts. In addition there were small Navy craft for overhaul or FLYNN ROMAN repair and a whole drydock full of small, pla»>* N. RICHARD NASH v GORDON DOUGLAS miscellaneous vessels of one sort or another. June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Student Leaders

There's a baron in the Commissaries now A weather-proof salt named Diamond for almost every budget and every set "i Crystal is new in the -ions these days. The

tastebuds. Four new nationally advertised maker assures that in laboratory te I il

I Hili'il St. ilcs brands lieen t base added, linn ed lour imes n i re istanl to damp each with its own heavy or lighl or other- ness than ordinary sail. wise distinctive run' thai marks the special and secret process ol its manufacturer. Bigger frozen fowl are in the commissar- current first quality are Wil- The bacons ies now. They weigh lour pounds and more, son's Certified, Armour's Star, and in fit big families and big appetites. Brand- Puritan, all in one-hall Cudahy's Frozen turkeys are now being sold in the Name pound packages. Swift's Oriole, commissary prepackaged meal ection Bacon the fourth addition, is a popular I he pliofilm-wrapped birds, weighed and No. 2 bacon. priced and ready to take- home, cost 82 These are in addition to the bacon sold cents a pound if they are eviscerated, and under the Commissary label, also currently 68 if they are not. sliced from a well-known nationally adver- tised brand; and bacon squares, the real For June wedding belles, the Baker; Sa penny-saver of the lot at 30 cents a pound. lion points out they make wedding cakes CARL PINTO, elected at the end of the past For a paint job that makes ladies' lips for just such occasions, you tell school year, will serve as the new president of the look good and stay that way all clay, there's And your store manager just what you Student Association at Cristobal High School. He a liquid lacquer Lip-Stae to June want and furnish the ornaments fourth named wear on has attended school at Cristobal since the decoration. top of lipstick to keep it on. Brides for Then the Bakery grade and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fabian Pinto Section works hard to fix what you of Colon. A new lot of lamb, at a more comfortable ask for . . . for 75 cents a pound. price, was bought by the Commissary Div- Special bakery orders are also taken for ision in Ireland. If a steady supply can be individual ice cream squares and sheet cakes assured, there'll be more of this lamb to iced in pastel shades, and cut to lit the please Scotch budgeteers and all true sons number of guests at a party. of Erin.

A new and good gadget is a porcupine Would-be gift givers who are scratching soap tray to keep your soap their heads over gifts for the head of the New high and dry. It has rubber home, might consider this Father's Day Household bristles that stand up in the air suggestion list from men in the Commissary Gadget that serve also as a rubber Division. massage brush. Zippo cigarette lighters engraved with the Panama Canal Company and the Don't Canal Zone Government seals that Pillsbury and Gold Medal flour can now Forget cost $4.25, and regular Zippos for be bought in 2-pound packages as well as in the 5-pound bags sold before. Father $1.95 . . . Penfold golf balls made in England cost 58 cents each and could be bought by the box for a fancy There's a large lot of scissors in the stores

golf-bend gift . . . Kaywoodie pipes cost right now, including pinking shears for po-

$2.75 . . . Benrus Sea Baron watches at tential home seamstresses. $27.95 are waterproof and shockproof, and the Barracuda by the same maker is a 17- This is the time of year when the sugar jewel shockproof, waterproof, and self-wind- in the commissaries comes from cane fields ing watch that costs $36.75 . . . there are in the Republic of Panama. From about fishing reels from $3.85 for the snook fisher- March through August, after the crop in CHARLES A. SMITH has been elected President men and on up to $56 for deep-sea fishing Panama is made into sugar, the largest put- Balboa High School Student Association for fathers . . . casting rods range from $6.55 of the chases by the Commissary Division are the 1952-1953 school year. He was vice president of to $20.75 ... to go with the rods and reels made. The native sugar is bought on the junior class and has attended the Canal Zone there are nylon, linen, and cuttyhunk lines his basis of United States Federal Specifications schools since he entered the first grade in 1943. He . . . sheathed hunting knives bv W. R. Case and the money value amounted to $146,- is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John \V. Smith of Rous- for$3.30 . . . toilet sets, Old Spice, Yard- 159.39 last fiscal year. seau. ley's, and John Hudson Moore for $1.20 to

$4 . . . ties—many Wembleys and Arrows, For dietetics and dieters who don't like among others . . . And good for all men who like to be to gain pounds, there's a new non-fat milk comfortable is a new Arrow Bi-way shirt powder called Sanalac. OUR OUT-OF-DOORS with a disappearing neckband that makes it comfortable and good looking either as And for salad fanciers who like to dress a sport or dress shirt. It comes in colors up their dressings, there are these vinegars or fancy stripes and costs either $3.60 or you might not know about: Heinz white, PLANTING TIME $3.95. malt, tarragon, and red wine.

(Prepared by Canal Zone Experiment Gardens!

gardenias, coffee roses, periwinkles, ixora, doors; however, this need not discourage For those people interested in having a pentas, roses, and other similar plants one too much. Philodendrons, ferns, be- wet-season flower bed or a few choice hold up well as cut flowers allowing one gonias, violets, peperomias, and many shrubs and trees around their quarters, to enjoy their beauty indoors as well as others will do well under shaded condi- this will act as a reminder that now is a out. They grow readily and many of tions. good time to get started. The rains will them flower throughout the year. Planting around Canal quarters is per- apparently be with us for several months A wide variety of handsome flower- and mitted in many areas and if there should and the earlier we get the plants in the shade-trees will be found to meet every be any doubt, permission can be secured ground the better. This will give them a landscape need. Such trees as the num- through the Grounds Maintenance Divi- good chance to get established before erous cassias, Iagerstroemia, jacaranda, sion. In most of the quarters now being next dry season. royal poinciana, to mention a few, give constructed, only the front lawn areas Materials required are few and inex- a beautiful show of color when in flower. are landscaped, leaving the rear areas for pensive as compared with most hobbies Choice budded fruit trees such as the occupant to plant as he wishes. This or sports one might become interested in, orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, and should allow room for that special flower either for pleasure or the exercise involved. mango are available at the Gardens and bed or any flowering shrubs you might A spade or shovel, rake, hoe, and possibly will give you shade as well as fruit. What desire. a pick for heavy digging are about all that could be nicer than your own limes for Any questions you might have in re- is required in the way of tools. You will your favorite drink? gards to plant material, planting methods, need fertilizers, sprays, and preferably Those who wish to limit their garden- plants best suited for your particular area, good soil brought in if the present soil is ing to indoors will also find a wide range can be answered through the Gardens. poor. From there on, it is a matter of of plants suitable for this purpose at the To fulfill that desire to exercise out of securing desired planting material and Gardens. The lack of sunlight in most doors, begin now on your planting and giving it the proper care. of the Canal Zone quarters somewhat you will be more than satisfied with the Many of the flowers available such as limits the plants that can be grown in- results. 14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

THIS MONTH'S CALENDAR ANNIVERSARIES

JUNE 23d— Machinists, No. 699, Margarita K. Employees who observed important anni- of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. versaries during the month of May are listed 6th—American Legion Post No. 6, Gam- VFW Auxiliary, Post 3822, Post Home, alphabetically below. The number of years boa, 7:30 p. in. 7:30 p. m. includes, all Government service with the 7th—Track Foremen, Balboa B & B Shops. 24th—Operating Engineers, No. 595, Canal or other agencies. Those with con- 8th—Pipefitters, Margarita Clubhouse, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7 p. m. tinuous service with the Canal are indicated 9:30 a. m. VFW Post No. 100, Old Boy Scout with (*). Sheetmetal Workers, No. 157, Balboa Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 40 Years Clubhouse, 9:30 a. m. 25th—AFGE No. 88, Margarita Club- Maj. George Herman, Chief, Police Plumbers, No. 606, Balboa Lodge Hall, house, 7:30 p. m. Division. 9:30 a. m. American Legion Auxiliary No. 2, Berney J. Robinson, Steam Engineer, 9th— Machinists, No. 699, Margarita K. Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. Bunkering Section, Terminals Division. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. 26th Governor-Employee Conference, American Legion, Post No. 1, Balboa, Board Room, Administration Building, 35 Years 7:30 p. m. 2 p. m. Francis J. Moumblow, Lockmaster, 10th Electrical Workers, No. 397, Wirz Gatun Locks. m. JULY Memorial, 7:30 p. 25 Years VFW Post No. 100, Old Boy Scout 1st Gamboa Civic Council, Community Landen H. Gunn, Operator, Pipeline Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. — Center, 7:30 p. m. Suction Dredge, Dredging Division. American Legion Post No. 2, Cristobal, Gatun Civic Council, Gatun Clubhouse, George F. Herman, Construction and 7:30 p. m. 7:30 p. m. Maintenance Foreman, Dredging Division. American Legion Post No. 7, Fort 2d—VFW Post No. 40, Wirz Memorial, *Greta E. Mann, Nurse, Gorgas Hos- Clayton, 7:30 p. m. 7:30 p. m. pital. American Legion Auxiliary No. 1, 3d —Carpenters, No. 667, Margarita Club- Balboa, 7:30 p. m. 20 Years house, 7:30 p. m. 11th—Carpenters, No. 913, Balboa Lodge Deslondes, General Store- 4th — Independence Day James O. Hall, 7:30 p. m. keeper, Storehouses Division. Pacific Civic Council, Board Room, Donald P. Hutchinson, Junior Control Administration Building, 7:30 p. m. House Operator, Pacific Locks. 13th— Blacksmiths, No. 400, with Boiler- 15 Years makers No. 463 and 471, Margarita June Sailings K. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. Frank A. Anderson, Jr., Plumber,

Maintenance I )ivision. 15th—CLU-MTC, Balboa Lodge Hall. From Cristobal 8:30 a. m. Robert M. Blakely, Machinist Leading- 16th—Truckdrivers, Balboa Lodge 1 1, ill. Ancon-- June 6 man, Industrial Bureau. Russell W. Elwell, Ironworker-Welder, 7:30 p. m. Panama ___Junel3 Electrical Workers, No. 677, Gatun Industrial Bureau. Masonic Temple, 7:30 p. m. Cristobal ... _ _ _ June 20 Peter S. Legge, Steam Engineer, Dredg-

17th— Machinists, No. 811, Balboa Lodge Ancon ...June 27 ing 1 livision. Hall, 7:30 p. m. Mary F. Maguire, Secretary, Office of Operating Engineers, No. 595, Marga- From New York the Executive Secretary. rita K. of C. Hall, 7 p. m. John A. McNatt, General Investigator. 18th—AFGE No. 14, Balboa Clubhouse, Panama -June 4 Frank W. Van Home, Lock Operator,

7:30 p. m. Cristobal . June 11 Pacific Locks. Van Wagner, Administrative American Legion Auxiliary No. 3, Ancon--- June 18 Robert Gatun, 7:30 p. m. Assistant, Maintenance Division. Panama June 25 19th—American Legion Auxiliary No. 6, F. C. Willoughby, Operator-Foreman Gamboa, 7:30 p. m. Mechanic, Electrical Division.

RETIREMENTS PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS April 15 Through May 15 IN MAY

The following list contains the names of Charles P. Morgan, from Superintend- those U. S.-rate employees who were trans- ent, Refuse Collection and Disposal, Ground Employees who retired at the end of ferred from one division to another (unless Maintenance Division, to General Construc- May, their birthplace, titles, length of the change is administrative) or from one tion Inspector, Contract and Inspection service at retirement, and their future type of work to another. It does not con- Division. addresses are: tain within-grade promotions and regrad- BUREAU Kathleen T. Baxter, Maine; Teacher, ings. INDUSTRIAL Ancon Elementary School; 30 years, 7 William H. Gonzalez, from Electric CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU months, and 23 days; Waterville, Me. Welder to Combination Welder, Industrial Frank Koenig, from Guard, Locks Div- Bureau. Sue P. Core, Indiana; Teacher, Ancon ision, to Postal Clerk, Postal, Customs, and Elementary School; 33 years, 6 months, and Immigration I (ivision. MARINE BUREAU 18 days; future address uncertain. Alexander, from Guard, Howard H. William C. Keepers, from Control- Illinois; Finance Locks Division, to Policeman, Police Divi- William H. Dunlop, House Operator to Lockmaster, Pacify Director; 26 years, 4 months, and 13 days; sion. Locks. uncertain. Mrs. Emily J. Price, from Library plans Arthur J. O'Donnell, from Lock Oper- Assistant to Librarian, Library Branch. R. Holmelin, New York; Senior ator Wireman Leader to Control House Gustaf Beverly G. Y. Chan, from Library Chief Towboat Engineer, Navigation Divi- ( Iperator, Pacific Locks. Assistant to Museum Aid, Library Branch. sion; 36 years, 6 months, and 24 days; East Daniel P. Kiley, from Lock Operator William H. Stephens, Jr., from Cus- Meadows, N. Y. Wireman lo Lock Operator Wireman Lead- toms Guard, to Postal Clerk, Postal, Cus- er. I '.ii ific l.oi ks. Electri toms, and Immigration Division. Harland V. Howard, Vermont; Genova J. Gibbs, from Lock Operator Mrs. Marion M. Webb, from Substitute cian Operator Foreman, Power Branch; 23 Machinist to Lock Operator Machinist High School Teacher, Schools years, 11 months, and 14days;Wesl Wood- Teacher to Leader, Pacific Locks. -id, 1 livision. k, Vt. William J. Gilbert, from File Clerk, Mrs. Nancy N. Cottrell, from High F. Kariger, Louisiana; Pilot, Administrative Branch, to Guard, Atlantic Gordon School Teacher, Teacher to Substitute Locks. Navigation Division; 19 years, I month, Schools I livision. and 4 days; Norfolk, Va. William E. Hof>kins, from Pilot-in- Training to Probationary Pilot, Navigation Maguire, Maine; General AND CONSTRUCTION James G. ENGINEERING Division. Foreman, Electrical Division; 38 years, 4 BUREAU Victor C. Melant, from Drill Runner to months, and 11 days; Old Orchard Beach, Roy J. Wilkey, from Lock Operator Storekeeper, Dredging Division. Me. Win in. mi, Pacific Locks, to Wireman, Elec- Joaquin E. Cruz, from Supply Clerk, Division, to Accounting Clerk, Solomon S. Shobe, Missouri; Dipper trical I >i\ ision. Housing

Dredge Operator; Dredging Division; 32 James W. Riley, from Telephone Instal- I iircLing I livision. Rutberford B. H. Stroop, III, from years, and 1 days; Birmingham, \l.i. ler-Maintainer to Automatic Switchman, Electrical Division. Customs On, ml, Postal, Customs, and Im- Clarence Sibus, York; Assistant New Mrs. Mae B. Cross, from Clerk-Typist migration Division, to Marine Dispatcher

I Superintendent, Pacific Locks; 28 yeai , ision. i ion I to Clerk, Maintenance Division, I ainee, Xa\ igat >i\ month, and 20 Winter Park, Fla. days; Leon M. Warren, from Assist. ml Supei Alfred Gloss, from 'Third Assistant Ma- Edna C. Whitver, Missouri; Govern- intendent, Southern District, to Construc- rine Engineer, Aid- t" Navigation Section, mental Accountant, Finance Bureau; 25 tion Management Engineer. Maintenance to Chief Towboat Engineer, Navigation (See page years, 3 months, and 1 day; Orlando, Fla. 1 )i\ ision. Division. 15) June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

General Rice Supplies Valued At $1,380,000 Bought Leaves

This Fiscal Year From Panama Sources

Panama Canal purchases of supplies in Panama in the third quarter of this fiscal the Republic of Panama totaled $1,380,- year over that of last year in the various

(ii)(l for the first nine months of this fiscal categories other than sugar and building year, a gain of $205,000 over the com- materials. parable period in the fiscal year 1951. The following figures, in round num-

These figures are exclusive of purchases bers, show the amount of purchases for by other Government agencies and con- the two third quarters: tractors in the local markets. January - March Local purchases by the Canal organiza- Meat products... - $180,000 Siss.niwi tion during the third quarter of this fiscal Fruit and vegetables l"»,oihi 37,000 year, January through March, were re- Other agricultural products.. 10,000 12,000 Other food products 4,000 ported at $475,000 as compared with 9,000 Beverages- ... 26,000 35,000 during the third quarter of last $521,000 Sugar and alcohol 55,000 2,000 fiscal year. The $40,000 decrease was Forest products.... 13,000 30,000 attributed to the heavy purchases of Industrial products 115,000 63,000 MAJ. GEN. GEORGE W. RICE, Health Director, sugar and building material from Jan- Miscellaneous supplies.... 83,000 99,000 will complete his assignment in the Canal Zone this through March of last year. uary Totals... $521,000 $475,000 month, lie plans to sail for the States late this month and expects to be temporarily assigned to duty The purchase of all commodities, other at Brooke Medical Center in San The following table shows total pur- Antonio, Tex . where than sugar and building materials, showed he and Mrs. Rice plan to make their future home. chases for the first 9 months of the fiscal a substantial gain this year over the 1951 Oeneral Rice took office as Chief Health Officer of years 1951 and 1952: figures. The sugar supply for the Com- The Panama Canal in May 1949, the title being July I950 - July 1951- changed to Health Director when the reorganization missary Division is bought on a contract Mar. /

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Kenneth G. Taylor, from Policeman, Your Health Police Division, to Guard, Locks Division. The malaria season, like Christmas, Unless have real business out- PERSONNEL BUREAU (1) you comes every year, but holds out longer. doors at night, stay indoors where there from Loron B. Burnham, Employee Malaria isn't fun like Christmas, either. are good screens around you. Relations Assistant to Employee Counsel- It kills some people and it makes some The hunting and fishing, forinstance, lor, Employment and Utilization Division. very sick—not just once, but sometimes could wait until dry season when you RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU off and on for years. don't catch so many mosquitoes. John F. Droste, from Auto Repair Ma- The malaria germs that make you sick And if you must go to the interior for chinist, Motor Transportation Division, to always go around with mosquitoes. And your weekend fun, stay away from the Auto Repair Machinist, Terminals Division. mosquitoes are thickest in the rainy beaches and unscreened buildings after Richard H. Harper, from Policeman, season months from May right through dark. Police Division, to Auto Repair Machinist, December. If you have to be outdoors at night, Terminals Division. (2) The germs are choosey about their keep moving—and use an insect repellant. Marion E. Taake, from Policeman, Po- lice Division, to Cribtender Gauger and friends; they stick with Anopheles mos- (3) Chills and fever are signs to be Foreman, Terminals Division. quitoes. watched. See a doctor when they develop.

Robnett B. I Hill, from Gauger and But you seldom can ask a mosquito his Steam Engineer and Foreman, Cribtender, name before giving him permission to to Steam Engineer, Terminals Division. bite you. On November 1, 1904, the police Maxwell S. Sanders, from Steam Engin- of So it's best not to play with mosquitoes department the Canal Zone consisted eer to Relief Assistant Marine Bunkering of three officers, 85 men, a chief clerk, Foreman, Terminals Division. at all if you don't want to mix with and one assistant. Roy W. Perkins, from Assistant Relief malaria. Marine Bunkering Foreman, to Assistant To miss the mosquitoes who carry the Terminals Marine Bunkering Foreman, germs who carry the disease of malaria, Division. there are time-tested rules that you too The Isthmian Canal Commission in- Fred W. O'Rourke, from Assistant Ma- can try that have kept smart people herited from the French company 2,175 rine Bunkering Foreman to Marine Bunk- ering Foreman, Terminals Division. healthy before you. buildings. 16 r THEJ>ANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952 New Apprentice Course Begins In July g

POTENTIAL APPP.EXTIC'ES in the Canal's apprentice training program are shown here taking the apprenticeship examination administered by 0. A. Dubbs, Training Officer. Successful candidates will start in July four-year training courses in nine crafts in the Canal organization.

Sixteen apprentices in the Canal organ- The four-year training program in- as they become more specialized. ization will start in July four-year train- cludes practical shop experience and class- The amount of classroom work varie3 ing programs leading to qualification as room work, under the general direction for the different trades but amounts to journeymen in 10 crafts. of Philip Green, Industrial Training Co- something like 500 to 850 hours in the The apprenticeship examination, the ordinator. four years of training. The times and results of which form the register from The classes, taught by Mr. Green, are periods for classwork also vary consider- which the 16 apprentices will be chosen, very much the same for all apprentices ably for different trades and at different was given to 41 applicants on May 10. during the first year of training, with less periods of the training but are frequently The test, which is given annually in time but more individualized instruction given one day weekly. May, was administered by C. A. Dubbs, Training Officer, and B. G. Mauzy, Major Ramos' commendation Assistant Training Officer. was de- Colon, Cristobal Police livered to him by D. The apprenticeships to be established Edward White, Jr., President of the Cristobal - this year will be in the following crafts Margarita Praised For Joint Patrol Council, in the presence of Col. and Canal units: Richard- son Selee, Industrial Bureau: Three machinists, Civil Affairs Director, and Maj. George Herman, Chief of two combination welders, and one boat- Resolutions of commendation for their the Canal Zone Police. builder. part in maintaining the joint police patrol The commendation for Captain Fahnestock was sent Electrical Division: Four wiremen, two which has operated successfully in the to the Governor who forwarded it cablesplicers and one automatic-tele- New Cristobal area for the past year were to Captain Fahnestock with phone switchman. made last month by the Cristobal-Mar- an accompanying congratulatory note. Commissary Division: One refrigera- garita Civic Council to Maj. Pastor Ra- mos of the Colon Police and Capt. John tion-service mechanic. In November 1904, the Isthmian Canal Printing Plant: One printer and one Fahnestock of the Cristobal Police. Commission's employees on the Isthmus offset pressman. Colon and Canal Zone police share the numbered 3,500. In Results of the apprenticeship examina- motor patrol which operates in this area November 1905, tion serve as an aid to the employing on a 24-hour a day basis. they totaled approximately 17,000. officer in the units in which apprentices are to be appointed. The pattern of tests is made up of: The New Military Assistant To Governor Otis Test of Mental Ability; the Bennett Test of Mechanical Comprehension; the HH O'Rourke Test of Mechanical Aptitude; the Purdue Industrial Classification Test; the Minnesota Test of Spatial Relations; a manipulative exercise; and a test of numerical ability. Last year 24 apprentices were appointed from among 71 applicants taking the test. Applicants must be high school grad- uates between the ages of 172 and 23. Five of the six who ranked highest on this year's examination were under 18 years of age and the same five were all from the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. The results of the examination form only one of the bases on which applicants are chosen for the apprenticeships. The applications which go to the employing officers in the various units also include

('« the standard Form 57 United States ( lov- I.T. IL. W. W. SMITH. JR., (left) has arrived on the Isthmus to take up his duties as Military

ernment application, the applicant's high Vssdstant to the Governor. He will suec I Lt. Qol. Marvin L. Jacobs, (right), who has been assigned as Professor of Military Science and at school and college transcripts, and recom- Tactics Rose Polytechnic Institute in Indiana. Colonel Smith, before coming to the Isthmus, had been on the Staff and faculty of the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, mendations from school authorities. \ irginia He arrived on the Isthmus last month, accompanied by his wife and their three children.