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DAVID S. PARKER. Lieutenant Governor VROBERT D. KERR and JuLio E. BRicENo FRANK A. BALDWIP Official Panama Canal Publication CEditorial Assistants Panama (anal Information Officer Published monthly at Balboa Heights. , C.Z. EUICE RICRARD, TOB BITTEL, and ToiAs A. CUPAS Printed at the Printing Plant, Mount Hoepe,(C.Z.

Distributed free of charge to all Panama Canal Employees. Subscriptions, $1 a year; mall and back copies, 10 cents each. I J r I mde payable to the P aama Cnal C mp d ube male tit Box M. Il bo Heightc. CZ. Edit~fa Ofices are loae inth A4m C 'Wilding, I It, Ileight., CZ

Index

Man of Destiny ------3 "El Anericano"-Bullfighter ------5

Isthmus Industry _ _ _- -- 6

-- 8 Pure Water for You - - - 8 Filling a Gap in Education 11

Canal History, Retirements - 12 Anniversaries - _- _ _ _ _ _ 13

Promotions and Transfers - - 14 New Director ------15 Shipping ------16

o. . nd a JVew took EFFECTIVE with this issue, THE PANAMA CANAL REviEw is being made available to all employees without charge. The step is being taken to help keep all employees ON OUR COVER is a view looking south along a section of the informed on Canal programs, projects, and original right-of-way of the Panama Railroad on the west bank of procedures which affect the employees. the Canal, with a sketch of a locomotive of those days as it would Believing that better understanding today have looked "coming 'round the bend." makes for a better future tomorrow, the In right foreground of the picture are two 44-cubic-yard Canal administration thinks all employees scrapers on approach to a spoil area in the latest project area for should take advantage of this opportu- widening of the Canal channel from 300 to 500 feet. nity to improve their knowledge of the Above is the same view 4 weeks later, by which time the objectives, goals, and activities of the contractor, \Ioretti-Harrison, had leveled the hilly jungle terrain organization and other Canal employees. tt, the left, removing 607,682 cubic yards of earth and rock. Trces The policy of providing retirees with a an both pictures identify the area as the same. And note the ship year's free subscription upon retirement transiting at left in the above picture. will be continued, as will the policy of subscriptions being available to non- A dozen years before the French Canal Company had started employees of the Canal organization at ups rations on the Isthmus (in 1879), the Panama Railroad already $1 per year. i dl irried more than 400,000 passengers and transported some IIappy reading! S million in coin and 300,000 sacks of snail.

2) JUNE 7, 1963 HE LIBERATED lands which now5 are a v iade the struggle for indepen- attitude that was the most powerful nations of more than 40 million people denec a path to satisfy personal greed. was to alienate some of them from him and more than 2 million square miles. Greatly impressed by the writings of and sow the seeds of disunion already His dreams for a federation of nations Rousseau and Voltaire, he was an elo- clearly apparent by the time of his never materialized, but through the quent spokesman for individual liberty, death. political ferment of more than a century an unyielding foe of slavery and oppres- A poet, soldier, and statesman, Boli- has evolved a Pan-American units of sion. ie freed his own slaves and made var was a warrior, rather than a strate- approach to common problems possibly freeing of all slaves a basic point of gist. It was riot until after 1817, when more lastingly effective. Differences in the liberation ideals. He shared an he began to emulate Napole6n, that heritage, geography, topography, arid development background might have proven fatal to a federation. He, of course, is Simon Bolivar. In tl e t his honor arid in tribute to his memory, June 22 is observed as Bolivarian Dayo It was on that day in 1826 that the first Pan-American Congres, called together by "The Liberator," met in Panama. The historic noting of American s ao sj

TnE PANAMA CANAL REViEW 3 1512, 2 yeanr after the patriots had over- and then build canals connecting the ulous, torn as he was between divided throwni the Spanish regime in Vene- Atlantic and Pacific. loyalties, conflicting courses of action, zutl a, Was regarded by many of the As early as 1819, rivalries between and discouragements over uprisings, if suiperstitious as a judgment of God Venezuela and New Granada, trifling in he always had been above reproach. against the First Republic. It was nature at the time, pointed to future At Potosi, in what was to become exploittd in favor of the Spanish cause danger zones. As distrustful of the Bolivia, he declared: anLd marked the start of the physical "gentle philosophers of Colombia" as of "In 15 years of continuous and ter- and moral collapse of the Republic. the wildest of his fighters, Bolivar rific strife, we have destroyed the edifice Bolivar's real greatness in his early declared they wanted to create repub- that tyranny erected during 3 centuries ears lax in the fact that each defeat- lics like the Greek, the Roman, or the of usurpation and uninterrupted vi- antd there were many-found him ready North American (all with different olence," and he said of the rich silver to re-examine his ideas, confess mis- backgrounds), and asserted that they veins which were Spain's treasury for takes, and begin the hazardous course "build a Greek structure on a Gothic 300 years, "this material wealth is as all over again. He had personal magne- foundation, and they build it at the nothing compared with bearing the tism x idt nt in his pen as well as in his edge of a volcano." ensign of freedom spoken words, to such an extent that he Bolivar early chose Panama as the His eloquence veiled only thinly a was a liberator of thoughts and ideas as haven for South American federation, dual purpose: manifestation of the well as of nations, and events came to the aid of the unity of the people for its effect on His leadership qualities for many patriots. On November 28, 1821, a South America as well as on the outside years kept top officers and troops faith- representative council met, declared world. ful in spite of understandable distaste Bolivar sought voluntary union, for more battles on searing coastal rather than the type imposed by the plains, in the humid jungle heat of t Holy Alliance in Europe on small and river valleys, and on the crests of the defenseless nations. The Congress of towering Andes. Panama was a failure, admittedly, achieve its main Bolivar sought not only to liberate, 4) because it did not of nations. Its im- but to instill in the masses a na- objective of a union fact that it was tional conscience and consciousness. He 9 portance lay in the wished for power and glory to serve the J conceived well over a century ago and ideals to which he had dedicated his g that there was a definite attempt. life. In his striving toward these goals, 1 0 Barriers of geography, race, and na- in his iary ears at war, he was a tional prejudices separated the new gambler while learning strategy, lurch- states. The transition from dependent ing into headlong sallies rather than 7 colonies could not be made as rapidly "military" campaign moves. The fact as Bolivar hoped. In the face of internal that there were no static fronts often troubles, in a proclamation to the people was his salvation in his gambles. of Guayaquil urging them to remain The fire of his personality pierced loyal to Greater Colombia, he urged, indifferences of those who were his The memorial medallion issued for the "You are not the ones responsible. The associates and several times brought historic meeting of 19 heads of American people can never be responsible. The permicious and erroneous ideas come him back from exile (at least once nations in Panama in 1956. who bring lf-ikxie) cause xe couldn't stand from the leaders; it is they sel-eive),s stabout the public calamities." inaitiity, In a moment of despair, Bolivar Bolivar viewed unity as necessary to Panama independent, and stated its pleaded, "I am not God that I can stability of liberty, and was convinced desire to unite with Colombia. The change men and matters," and later, republics could not exist side by side Republic- of Colombia thus gained an "The influence of civilization gives our with states which were the colonial eighth department, and a strategic one, people indigestion, so that what should possessions of monarchies. This was without force of arms. nourish us, ruins us." one conviction which led to his cer- In later years, petty rivalries among Public opinion at times interpreted tainty that there must be a federation subordiiate leaders, and betrayals by Bolivar's leniency with conspirators as of freed nations. them because of their greed for power weakness. It could, with at least equal A continent, not a country, was the or gain, led to virtual anarchy. Flat validity, be interpreted as sacrificing a fitId of his thinking, his visions, his disobedience by some left Bolixar and desire for revenge and to be rid of leadership. Ont historian observed, "III his forces isolated many times. In spite enemies to the greater goal of pre- 1815, while (South) America,was still of these and other trials, however, he serving the Colombian Republic, which under Spanish domination, Bolivar was hoisted the "flag of resurrection, not was threatened with disintegration. not only prophesying the immediate insurrection," and if some of his judg- To the day of his untimely death, conflicts, but lie envisioned a century's ments andl decisions of later years were hastened by the hardships and sacrifices d(velopmntit of 10 nations." subject to criticism, his goal was not. of warfare over many years, and re- i attemnptiig to lurch tie British to Genius that he wyas, he was not with- peated forced compromises between tiipi th patiots ainpaigns, he hal out human and humanizing frailties. vision and practicality, Sim6n Bolivar It a ioiin should get the Some were to work against his stature bore the marks of destiny in lands of Nii ig;a- and aims, but it would tifhave Paunabeen mirac- destiny.and a

4 JUNE 7, 1963 "El Natural"-the bullfighter passes the red cloth in front of the bull. The cloth is hung from a heavy stick. In his right hand, the bullfighter holds a weighty sword.

Robert Lopez, "El Americano," was spent March and April in Mexico, where front (f the hull's hod, Th< o mes awarded an ear when he appeared in a he scored a triumph at Jungapeo, and th, work of thi piadoi aho places the bullfight in Mexico. then toured the Provinces, where five lances d signed d to r -, tlhf str ogth fights were scheduled. in the bull's ne k mus< 1 s. The hande- S., He received only $20 to $30 a bull- rillas can he place ed by the matador El A m ericano fight. Top bullfighters, he said, receive himself, or his assistant loh it prefs from 80,000 to 100,000 pesos which, not to do this. Then cm, - tlhe hna de "OLE!" shouted with spirit may never at 12.50 to the dollar, is a goodly inub ta, xwith the hollfigi ti using a red reverberate from the staid Balboa Post amount, but not yet a princely sum con- 1l0th 5Os(p ncd d from a h, ., -tick to Office walls. Nor may a bull ever come sidering the risk to the man involved. fight and tire the bull until it ix ready hhthe doors. But an As in most fields, competition in for the kill. honesthto ughdres the DOES Mexico is keen. Right now, in Mexico Legs in good shape fist r fl o-;, nid work there. City, he says there are about 1,000 strong arms and i -gs an rquit, s for bullfighters. a bullfighter. The bullfighter is Canal Zone-born Aside from the danger-and he "Scared?" "Certainly. Mnolet ad- Robert Lopez, known in bullfight circles as "El Americano." He also is known as mitted he was scared and now bull- "el novillero norteamericano," which H Takes Turns fighters aren't afraid to admit th truth," means that while he is recognized as a he say s. professional bullfighter, he is not yet a Bullfighte rs belong to a union, too. full matador. The matador title comes pointed out that a fighting bull is faster His is La Union de Matadores ' when a novillero has built up his name. than a race horse for the first 100-feet No illeros. Robert Lopez is a second generation and more maneuverable than a polo In fact, say s Robert Lopez, every one Panama Canal employee, his father pony-there are expenses involved. connected with the bullfight ring in being a former Motor Transportation Topping all others is the cost of the \exico belongs to some union or other. Division employee, now retired. Robert bullfighter's outfit, heavily hand em- g is a graduate of Balboa High School, boidered with gold and silver threads. He hopxs to be able to appear in the class of 1956, and spent 4 years in the The price starts at $300 and goes up. Panama City bullfight ring, and in the Air Force. Robert purchased his second-hand, but meantirn continues practicng. He started taking bullfighting lessons in good shape, for one-third that price. while a sophomore, and continued He explained traditional phases of a through his junior and senior years. bullfight, starting with the cape work or In Bull Ring Every day, after school, he'd go to the veronicas-the passing of the cape in Macarena bullfight ring in Panama City for a bullfighting lesson from a Spanish Another view of "El Natural" as the bull swings into action. gypsy, Citanillo Salom6n Vargas. First he had to learn all the passes. Then came the beginning of actual work with small bull calves. A high point in his career came last April, when he appeared in a Mexican bullfight ring and was awarded an ear. He has appeared in bullfights in the interior of Panama this year, first in Anton in January, and then in Ocn in February. In an encounter with a bull at the Ocl Fair he was gored. Six stitches were required to close the wound. But a mere goring didn't deter Robert, the Canal Zone bullfighter. He

THE PANAMA CANAL REviEw 5 This is the Cemento Panama plant at Quebrancha, about 2% miles east of Buena Vista on the Trans-Isthmian Highway. The company has added three kilns (upper left) and several silos (right) where the finished product is stored. The two buildings in the foreground house plants for making Fibrolit and Panalit.

Isthmus CEMEnTO PAnnmA Industry:

An example of the clean-lined architecture possible with modem concrete design. Horizontal planes for shade create shadow patterns which change hourly as angles of the sun's rays change, and provide protection from rains without making it necessary to close windows except when winds are high. Porch floors, ceilings and other overhangs serve as sun breakers.

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7- M _oe& W " "V, m BUILDINGS designed primarily for the tropics and other warm climates have been spreading rapidly in recent years into even the colder areas of the temperate zones with increasing use of concrete for industrial and commercial buildings and homes. Adaptability of concrete, concrete block, and allied products to varied designs, and relatively maintenance- free construction, have been important factors in Cemento PanamA becoming one of the Republic's largest suppliers in Panama's biggest industry: construction. The Republic's construe- tion industry dollar volume has totaled approximately $150 million during the past 15 years. Cemento Panami has had a direct 0& _ and forceful impact on the Republic's economic health, adding more than $34 million to the nation's economy since it came on the industrial scene. The firm was founded July 1, 1943, Dramatic domes such as these, and other geometric patterns, are meeting increasing favor and the first bags of cement came out for homes, commercial and industrial buildings, with varied exterior designs leading to of the plant in 1945. Since then it has novel and fresh approaches to interior design and decoration. sold 28 million bags of cement in Panama and exported 6% million. The company's annual payroll now is ture of the portland type of cement, it tions for various types, and the firm also approximately $750,000. should not have to be imported into can manufacture high quality special Its beginnings were beset by many the country. types of cement to meet special problems, not the least of them that of High quality of the cement produced requirements. getting enough capital together. This by the company has been attested by In 1961, Panalit, a plant for manufac- was solved by the late ex-President of American Standard Testing Materials, ture of asbestos cement, was started. the Republic Augusto S. Boyd, whose the Society of Engineers and Archi- It produces roofing and ceiling materials son, Augusto S. (Sammy) Boyd, now tects, the University of Panama, and and ornamental structural divisions. is president of the board of directors the Panama Canal. It regularly has A new kiln placed in operation late of Cemento Panami. Another hurdle tested well above minimum specificas (See p. 15) for the infant company was obtaining machinery, for in those years of World War II, needs of the far-flung military efforts took top priority. Calcified stone is graded with the help of a crane, which deposits it in separate storage The idea of founding Cemento PanamA came from former President of the Republic Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who felt that since Panama had the natural resources for manufac-

Augusto S. Boyd President, Board of Directors Cemento Panama 9 ORADLD

Spraying or aeration of the water removes most of the tastes and odors from d solved gases, replacing them with oxygen, eliminating the flat taste. Purified water is pumped to reservoirs such as those at right in the picture above. Part of Panama City is visible at left. There are 14 reservoir sites on the Pacific side. Three of these s 45d sites having seven reservoirs are the source of water for Panama City. Republic of Panama consumers now take 74 percent of the Canal Zone purified water production.

___P P URU R E "IS THE DRINKING water safe?" cities, Panama and Colon, and their This is one of the questions asked most suburbs. frequently by Brst-time visitors to the The water distribution system has im- [i[ t[ Isthmus.provedhealth, immeasurably strength- .: . "Of course it's safe," is the invariable ened flre defenses, and bright many WAT E _Kreply. "You may drink the water in the other benefits to the Isthmus, including - - - mCanal Zone and neighbormg, Panama elimination of such tropical banecs as City and Colon without fear." svater-borne typhoid, cholera, and 6asualness of the reply-and the fact dysentery. that the same reply can't be given in In the lifetimes of many swho read many countries-emphasizes one of the this, water had to be stored in cisterns tremendous benefits to Panama from in Panama City and Colon. Often it the Canal Zone and the Panama Canal. had to be brought from some distance The water purification plants and and purchased, because of scarcity of distribution systems installed at each good wells atid springs, especially season. Canal by the United States during the dry U atend theof thestart Y J of its 1904 construction The United States spent $10,600,000 e Mo craersyn ontr man with a model of the sand filter heds. Water effort are responsible for one of the during Canal construction days to enters from the settling basins on the top invest, safest water systems in this part install a then modern water system of a 30-inch layer of graded Cbame sand, of the hemisphere. designed to take care of forseeable which is supported by graded rock. Any After alum is mixed with the water, it passes through these settling basins, Color, turbidity, The benets are enjoyed not only by future needs. At the time, Panama City remaining amparities ae strained ant as bacteria, and other impurities attach themselves to the sticky, gelatinous particles formed the Canal Zone community, bat also by had a population estimated at 18,000, by the alum. Most of these particles settle to the bottom of the tanks. residents in the Republic's two biggest and Colon's was 5,000. Today, the

The 20 filter beds shown here are the final mechanical step in purification of the water, removing the last of the foreign matter and discharging pure water into a well beneath the plant. JK- At right, W At left, Arcadio Matamoros, Ilenry Tooke, laboratory C Miraflores water attendant, Prepares plant superintendent, samples for tests checks one of the of the water. Tests gages which are made as the regulates the rate of water enters T - introduction of the plant, as it passes alum into the through the -water. Identical treatment processes, equipment is used and on samples to regulate the flow taken frm of fuoride, added various points in to all water leaving the distribution the plant, which system. Chemical , a- reduces dental physical, decay in children's and bacteriological teeth. tests are made. -J An aerial view of the Miraflores water plant. The aeration spray is visible at right, the set- ting basins are the center pools, and filter beds are - in the building at left.

population of burgeoning Pan ina md l e t the contract for la in 14,000 announced that expansion of the system its, environs is above 300,000, and that bc t of 12-nc h pipe to deliv er fresh, is to be completed in 1967. of C oon and its sui bs is in the puifl d a ter to the now small \tlantic- A few figures illustrate the increase n.i iorhiood of 70,000. sih communities of C ati a, Puerto in Panama's use of water purified in \ tm a ll, the original distribution Pilon, Sabanitas, and \ illa Loi n in the Canal Zone: In 1934, 34 percent s - m

Between 3,800 and 5,500 pounds of alum are required daily. Lump A 30-inch main to meet increasing demands of Panama City and alum in these sacks is dissolved in concrete tanks and put into the its suburbs. water as a liquid solution.

I~ -r In Education:

BRIDGING ' A GAP

Busy fingers fly as Sheltered Workshop group works on a variety of projects.

CALABASH AND woven twine hand- Approximately 192 children this year Clay and Panama polished stones bags, drawn burlap barbecue table- received instruction under the special are turned into pendants by the girls, with seashells cloths, block printed Indianhead table education program for the orthope- and plaster is combined and candle mats, plaster and shell favors or paper- dically and mentally handicapped. Ages for favors, paperweights, weights, and clay flower holders, of pupils range from 6 to 21 years. holders. arranged in the display cases at the This past year, four afternoons a The girls used a Thatcher Ferry their block Civil Affairs Building, Ancon, last wek, five girls have participated in the Brid-g motif for some of d materials. Lowly burlap was month attracted visitors' immediate "Sheltered Workshop" program, meet- print trtisfore bh drawn- ork into an attention. ing for instruction at the old Diablo Nearly everyone stopped for a Post Office building where this work- dish towels wre parked up with color- closer look at the handicrafts, which shop, the only one of its kind on the ful embroidery, as fingers were trained were labelled "Products of Sheltered Isthmus, is located. Two of the girls to increased skill. Workshop of the Canal Zone Special are charter students, members of the The Shlitered Workshop is self- Education Program." first class taught in the "Sheltered sustaining through the sale of the In June the Sheltered Workshop, Workshop." workers' products. This year's sale was under the Canal Zone Special Educa- Seated at a long table, the girls are held at the Fort Clayton Elementary tion Program, will complete its fouth each engaged in a separate project. One Library Room and was a sell-out, as it has been in past years. Demand for year of occupational therapy service may be embroidering a dish towel, table- Sheltered \ Workshopfor articlesyoung haspeople ex- who have reached another doing drawn work on a crayon cteded the supply, right from the start their capacity of academic under- cloth, others working on melted standing in the Canal Zone Special drawings, or with raffia-type materials. 4 years ago. Profits from the sales of handicraft Education Program. Graduated to the Native materials are used as much Sheltered Workshop, they are taught as possible. For instance, Panama cala- worrs a riding to points for acco manual skills and occupational work bashes, supplied by the father of one plisment they have earned during habits so they may be better equipped of the pupils from a finca in the interior the year. Profits also arc nvested in to bridge the gap between formal of Panama, are the base of unusual more materials for projects during the schooling and simple jobs. handbags turned out by the class. following school year. The occupational therapy teacher is The calabash handbag's construction Making change, and budgeting Mrs. Jean A. Karch of the Canal Zone is as unusual as the material used. First, nioner, is a weekly drill period for those Division of Schools and her "Sheltered part of the calabash is removed, then attenling the Workshop. And the pupils Workshop" is part of the Canal Zone holes arc drilled and woven hemp there are learning skills that will help schools' special education program. attached. thein hold jobs and earn in the future.

THE PANAMA CANAL REViEw 11 RETIREMENTS

50 lYear. 4go 10 ({eari ago EMPLOYEES who retired in April are listed below, with positions, and years MORE THAN 99 percent of the entire THE FIRST town organization to be of Canal service: quantity of concrete to be placed in established for Civil Defense among Wallace C. Bain, Supervisory Merchan- the locks had been laid at the close of the civilian communities in the Canal dise Management Officer, Supply Divi- work on May 10, it was announced, Zone was accomplished at a meeting in sion, Pacific Side; 37 years, 4 months, 2 days. the amount in place being 4,449,373 the Santa Cruz Clubhouse. Fred J. Busch, Conductor Road and Yard, cubic yards. A heavy spilling of water over Railroad Division, Atlantic Side; 19 At Portobelo on May 14-15, 10.65 Madden Dam was continued for 2 days years, 1 day. inches of rain fell during a 24-hour to lower the Lake level about 12 feet Celestino Cies, Roofe , Maintenancmonh period. This 24-hour record had been to permit some overhaul work on the 29 days. exceeded only once during the period drum gates at Madden Dam. The Mrs. Hamner C. Cook, Assistant Retail of records. The record rain, also at amount of water released raised Gatun Store Manager, Supply Retail Store Portobelo, was 10.86 inches of rain in Lake level more than a foot and brought Theodore A. Daisley, Warehouseman, 24 hours December 28-29, 1909. a rise in the Chagres River of about Supply Division, Pacific Side; 19 years, The east end of the dike separating 10 feet for some distance below 10 months, 25 days. the ocean channel from the only section Madden Dam. Faustino de la Lastra, Laborer, Community at the Service Division, Pacific Side; 15 years, Pacific end of the Canaf remain- Wind velocity in gusts up to 35 miles 7 months, 3 days. ing to be dredged was dynamited an hour was recorded May 26 when the Arcadio Escudero, Gardener, Community May 18. The blast, one of the largest Pacific side was struck by a damaging Services Division, Pacific Side; 22 years, ever shot off in connection with Canal storm. Small craft were blown from 3 months, 27 days. work, consisted of 32,750 pounds Mrs. Leonora W. Fearon, Sales Checker, of their moorings or dragging anchor and Supply Division, Atlantic Side; 20 years, 60 percent dynamite, planted in 120 Thatcher Ferry service was suspended 3 months, 24 days. holes, some of them drilled to a depth for several hours. Edgar H. Freeman, Medical Technician, of 70 feet. Gorgas Hospital; 18 years, 2 months, 1 day. One Year c4o Archie W. French, Lock Operator (Iron- 25 earJ ag o worker-Welder), Locks Division, Pacific A NEW REGULATION becoming Side; 36 years, 6 months. TWO SENATORS urged establishment effective carries a fine of not more than Reed E. Hopkins, Jr., Firefighter, Fire of a U.S. Government radio station to $100 or a sentence of 30 days in jail, Division; 25 years, counteract broadcasts of propaganda 3 monthS 24 day ire or both, for littering any Zone highway Division, Atlantic Side; 25 years, 3 from Germany and Italy beamed to or street. months, 29 days. Latin America. A 70-foot steel beam became the con- Rene J. Isidore, Painter, Industrial Divi- Site preparation and foundation work necting link joining the two sections of s18nAtlantic Side; 36 years, 8 months, w.as started for the new $34,000 Ancon Thatcher Ferry Bridge when it was Ram6n G. Madrigal, Hospital Attendant, Sub-Police Station, to be erected at placed in position and bolted into Gorgas Hospital; 20 years, 4 months, the junction of Ancon Boulevard and place temporarily May 16 while tugs 15 days. Portobelo Street. tooted and Canal and bridge workmen MSr Aels DiaPdon, tantiCo munity The U.S. House of Representatives cheered. years, 4 months, 2 days. was reminded by a California legislator The Marine Bureau's two new 53- Wallace W. Priester, Admeasurer, Naviga- that there had been no denial of charges foot launches, the U.S. Ray and U.S. tion Division, Pacific Side; 20 years, that German and Japanese agents were Sailfish, arrived in Cristobal after a SalatorhsRinaddys.Contraband active in the Canal Zone Control and Central 1,100-mile voyage across the open Inspector, Customs Division, Atlantic and South America. Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Side; 26 years, 5 months, 24 days. Natalio F. Rivas, Laborer (Cleaner), Main- tenance Division, Pacific Side; 23 years, 19 days. -- ArC 177 " Cornelius Samuels, Helper Liquid Fuels Wharfman, Terminals Division, Pacific F' RSide; 23 years, 1 month, 9 days. Alejandro Santizo, Helper Lock Operator, Locks Division, Pacific Side; 23 years, 10 months, 4 days. David J. Sewell, Chauffeur, Coco Solo Hospital; 39 years, 5 months, 29 days. Joseph F. Shea, Engineman (Hoisting and Portable), Maintenance Division, Pacific Side; 30 years, 8 months, 11 days. AS Harman Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Divi- LiSES son, Atlantic Side; 32 years, 3 months, 7 days. '63 *6k 162 -63 *62 Jonathan F. Smith, Oiler, Miraflores Locks; ALL UN ITS 225 208 19 6 203 266 38 years, 6 months, 17 days. YEAR TO DATE 96(36 917 67(9) 40 945 Camilo A. Velez, Helper Electrician, Elec- 996(6) 6(9)trical Division, Pacific Side; 33 years, ( Locke Overhaul Injurie Ind ded ln tota.- 11 months, 23 days.

12 JUNE 7, 1963 ENGINEERING AND OFFICE OF THE CONSTRUCTION BUREAU COMPTROLLER Arthur F. Jones Howard E. Turner Mate, Dipper Dredge Digital Computer Systems H. n ia&_-Aalyst F cH Raimundo B era aleaA. Connor te," ' , Oiler (FlodffT1rt) 'coiting Technician Gtge wis / aun dispatcher 'Clintov EGeorge ng Clerk F tusn 9ckh d William A. Kirton SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY Maintenanceman $EOVICE BUREAU F6ix Vill .Adams Helper Loc er ervisory Storage Officer

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Patricio Blackman Charles A. Davidson George W. Coleman Supervisory Clerk Cemetery Worker Francis Fire Sergeant Thomas A. Brathwaite John Joe Stabler Helper Lock Operator Laborer Cleaner Fire Sergeant Harold S. Gaskin Laborer Mack B. Hicks Helper Lock Operator Doris Goldson Lilybel Kariger Horace L. Morgan Utility Worker G6mez Recreation Specialist (Sports) Helper Lock Operator Florencio Eric G. Weekes Laborer ENGINEERING AND Helper Lock Operator Antonio N. Lewis CONSRUCTON BREAUStockman CONSTRUCTION BUREAU Rupert Wynter Feliciano Marin Howard E. Munro Helper Lock Operator Utility Worker Chief, Power Systems C. A. Licorish Otilia Perez Dispatcher, Balboa Seaman Sales Clerk Substation Angel G. Morales Angel Manuel Rauda Leslie D. Wood Oiler Grounds Maintenance Lead Foreman (Marine Equipment Operator Electrical) Sidney Morris Carmen A. Richards Edward 0. Pike Launch Dispatcher Sales Clerk Leverman, Pipeline Marcos T. Ord6uiez Fitz R. Scantlebury Dredge faintenanceman 4A"p*qd Lead Foreman (Grounds) Alcides Asprilla Wire Cablp Victor M. Vega Leader Seaman on harp Utility Worker Ricardo A. GonzAlez S amn Violet Williams Maintenanceman '* Sales Clerk Agustin Santana R a N. ng Priscilla Yard Seaman Sales Clerk E ard W. mM HEALTH BUREAU kand TRANSPORTATION AND Alfred R. Graham -- ro M. nn TERMINALS BUREAU Staff Nurse (Medicine and La ch Seama Frederick J. Wainio Meli Br) Administrative Services Nursing Assistant (Psychiatry) OFFICE OF THE Officer Phoebe De Costa COMPTROLLER Arthur E. Critchlow Nursing Assistant (Medicine Leader Carpenter and Surgery) Iris V. Walters Frank Gittens Toribio Dominguez Card Punch Operator Helper Carman (Wood Hospital Food Service and Steel) Worker SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY Frederick A. Lawrence Alfredo W. Vilches SERVICE BUREAU Truck Driver File Clerk Leon D. McNally Felicia Worrell Erwin F. Ramsey Helper Liquid Fuels Nursing Assistant (Medicine Leader Engineman (Hoisting Wharfman and Surgery) and Portable) Granville R. Moore Jun F.Rmote mechanic MARINE BUREAU Marcos A. Argiielles Gilbert F. Lee Guard Linehandler Towing Locomotive Operator Beryl Elaine Carson Ithran T. Stewart W. W. Richardson Stock Control Clerk Cargo Checker Leader Lock Operator Walter A. Clarke Antonio F. Vivies (Iron-Worker Welder) Warehouseman Stevedore

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

PITLOYEES promote d or transferred HEALTH BUREAU Locks Division "Ari 5 a \M S (w ithin- Division of Preventive id promotions ad j v r Naifia- D s Medicine and William NJ. Johnson, Eduardo Mufloz, o rntie Nathaniel F. Whitfield, Painter (Main- Promot nd jolb assi - Quarantine tenance) to Painter. utios ic not list ed: Elizabeth M. Kosan, Staff Nurse (Medicine Alfredo Coco, Lawrence D. Duncan, P4AAA CANAXL INFORMIATION and Surgery), Gorgas Hospital, to Health Public Helper Lock Operator to Oiler. Nurse. Clarence A. Lambert, Linehandler to OFFICE Theophilus C. Omeaire, Carpenter, Main- Timekeeper. Francisco C. AzcArraga, Canal Zone Guide tenance Division, to Laborer (Cleaner). Antonio Burgos, Adolfo Cruz, Linehandler to Canal Zon, Guide (interpreter), Canal Gorgas Hospital to Helper Lock Operator. Z Guide Service. Jimmy R. Givens, Administrative Services SUPPLY AND CO.MMUNITY CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Assistant, Office of the Director, to SERVICE BUREAU Joseph B. Clemmons, Jr., Administrative Accountant. Supply Division Officer (Assistant to Cixil Affairs Direc- Sara S. Keegan, Accounts Maintenance Clerk to Examiner. Raymond P. Laverty, Jr., Merchandise tor) to Adnistrative Voucher Oficer, (Assistant Miriam A. Wall, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse Management Officer (Housewares) to Director, Civil Affairs Bureau). (Pediatrics). General Supply Officer. Frances D. Jones, Clerk-Typist to Clerical Martha C. Hester, Staff Nurse to Staff Cleveland Roberts, Storekeeping Clerk to Assistant (Stenography), Police Division. Nurse (Medicine and Surgery). Restaurant Manager. Oswvald A. Ebanks, Cook to Leader Rupert E. Ifill, Guard, Industrial Division, Isaac 0. Edwards, Nursing Assistant (\led- Jorge A. Hinds, Sales Checker to GuestCook. to Distribution Clerk, Substitute, Postal icine and Surgcrv) to Nursing Assistant HoeA Clerk. Division. (Operating Roo in . Arthur B. Boyd, Washman to Leader, Yolanda Diaz, Clerk-Typist, Division of Extractor and ENGINE BRINGAND CONSTRCTION Pree Tumblerman. ntive tediu in, aiind Quarantine, to Valtosal Hudson, Pantryman to Cook. BUREAU Cle rk. Theodore NJ. Griffiths, Utility Worker to Amos R. Swalm, Lead Foreman (Public David L. Matthews, Food Service Worker Pantryman. W urks Road Construction), maintenance to Hospital Food Service Worker. Gladstone N. Lewis, Leader Presser (Flat- Dixision, to Construction inspector Thomas A. Barrett, Vincent H. King, work) to Leader Marker and Sorter. SContract and Inspection Di\i- sClifford Pierre, Gerald N. app, Henr Clibice Boyce, Josephine L. Orville, Emily na n- Johnson, Azariah Brown, James S. . Thomas, Presser (Garment) to Presser Yard, Walter Sandiford, Henry G. (Shirts). Electrical Division Weeks, Miximo Acosta, Reuben R. Arturo Aguirre, Laborer (Cleaner) to Laun- Henry V. Ross, Inspector (Hospital Medical Rhaburn, Chauffeur to Medical Aid dry Worker (Heavy). Equipment), Gorgas Hospital, to Electri- cian. Community Services Division Coco Solo Hospitalto Accounts ain- Edostido Andrades, Florencio J. Guerrero, Doris T. Acheson, Staff Nurse (Obstctrics) tnance Clerk. l ainternancenan to Leader \lainte- to Staff Nurse (Operating Room). Eligio Castillo, Laborer to Grounds Main- aInceman. Marcia E. Jones, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse tEia nCs Equipment Operator. Doroteo Guerrero, Palancaman to lain- (Medicine and Surgery). tenanceman. Ila G. Foster, Sales Clerk, Supply Division, TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS Dagoberto Illueca, Laborer (Heavy) to to Nursing Assistant (Medicine and BUREAU Helper Surge'rv), Electrician. Zetta R. Stamp, Seamstress (Production) to Terminals Division Dredging Division Nursing Assistant (Medicine an(d Sur- Irvin E. Krapfl, Lead Foreman (Fuel Oper- James B. Bennett, gry). ations) to General Foreman (Fuel Oper- Electrician to Leader Alberto J. Howell, Storekeeping Clerk to Elec trici (Lineman). ations). Adicail Aid. Agustin Cedefio, Hector Geart, Winchman to Leader Benjamin Parada, Seaman to Jose Norville, Pantryman to Pantry Worker Stevedore (Ship). Painter. (Special Diets). Bertram 0. Bryce, Linehandler to Steve- Ralph Rowland, Laborer (Heaxy) to Clerk. Atanaiildo Henriquez, Lesep L. Barrett, dore. Cirilo J. Alexander, \lessenger to Store- Hubert E. Yard, Hubert M\. James, Jacinto G6mez, Juan Samaniego, Pedro keeing m:lerk. Sydney 0. White, Chauffeur to Medical Solis, Daniel Villanueva, Dock Worker Arde A. Burgess, Laorer (Clea.nr), Aid (Ambulance). to Stevedore. A nsi . B res, S. erovi D(Ii i n r) Aid (eARINE BUREAU Edward Stewart, Laborer (Cleaner), Sup- C i m it ' i nd to H p AR I NE BU R. . .p ly Div isio n , to C l k Ti eu uus dl a rg o Mark er. t n (Htiihoisting and Portable . Navigation D ivision Maintenance Division Keith E. Lippincott, Engineer, Dipper Motor Transportation Division Lloyd S. McConnell, Leader Joiner to Dredge, Dredging Division, to Chief Eleuterio GAlvez, Truck Driver to Guard. Lod 1Freman Joiner. Engine5 r, Towboat. Clive Ibarra, Service Station Attendant to Richard E Parker, Automotive .Michinist Wallace 0. Stendahl, First Assistant Engi- Truck Driver. neer, Pipeline Dredge, Dredging Dixi- Carl R. Cumberbatch, Laborer, Supply M1 tr Transportation Division, to En- sion, to Chief Engineer, Towboat. Division, to Truck Driver. Anin ian (i toitoig and Portable). Eustorio Morales, Oiler to Boiler Tender. Industrial Division OTHER PROMOTIONS which did not Gilberto Budil, Helper Roofer to Truck Rodolfo T. Smith, Apprentice (Shipwright) involve changes of title: Driver, to Shipwright. Truman H. Hoenke, Supervisory Geri- Rudolph V. lyrie, Laborer (Heavy to Joseph U. Williams, File Clerk Dredging eral Engineer (Superintendent, Pacific Hlfhipr II, frigeration and Air Condition- Division, to Guard. Branch), Locks Division. in, l , hni. Ernest V. Baptiste. Stock Control Clerk to William A. Van Siclen, Jr., Super- omingo Gonzilez, Lahorr to Field Trai- Stors ke ping Clerk. visory General Engineer (Superinten- Rudolph f. IHuggian, Linehandler to dent, Atlantic Branch), Locks Division. Helper latinist Harvey E. Beall, Adinasurer, Navigation Stephen C. Pirre, Laborer (Heavy) to Oliver F. R. Ifil, Carpenter, maintenance Division. 01 rin Division, to Helper Shipwright. Rex F. Beck, Constable, Magistrate Courts. Pablo Lasso, i bori r (Heavy) to Helper Woodrow L. Gordon, Helper Machinist to Thomas J. Dwyer, Admeasurer, Naviga- lachuinot lainitaiit, Toolroonm Attendant. tion Division.

14 JUNE 7, 1963 Promotions and Transfers Pure Water (Continued from p. 14) (Continurd from p). 10) William S. Hinkle, Geologist (Engineer- cation, storage, and delivery. Th rate ing), Engineering Division. is calculated to cover these costs and Rolanda M. Dahlhoff, Clerk-Typist, Ac- is below that charged United States counting Division. agencies on the Canal Zone and wl Marta E. Lavergne, Clerk-Stenographer, below rItes charged for similar servicts Office of the Director, Engineering and in the States. Construction Bureau. Silvia Blackwood, Geraldine L. Watson, When the United States turn(,d] th Antolino De Leon, Geraldine G. Smoll, water and sexer facilities it had con- Samuel Moore, Margarito Wilson, James structed in Colon and Panama City ovr N. Dawson, Vicencio Quintero, Vin- to the Panamanian Government in cent Gordon, Constantine Braithwaite, Marion D. Stephens, Olivia Ni. De Hall, 1946, the transfer agreement governed Gwendolyn L. Hanley, Doris V. Lyons, the fixing of rates until 1954. Under the Maria T. Louis, Alicia M. Pomare, Fe- 1954 agreement, it w'as agreed that the lipa De AlemAn, Verona A. Clarke, El- Panama Canal would charge Panama riaPattn, rising Assistant ( d- only 8.7 cents for each 100 cubic feet Ed, in I, Martin Oliver L. Bailey, Joseph B. Gordon, John of purified water delivered to Panamna C. Hoy, Narciso Olayvar, Filer Clerk, City and only 8.3 cents for that Office of General Manager, Supply delivered to Colon, regardless of the N w Director Division. price charged ultimate oiiconsumers by Panama. A hundred cubic feet is 750 gallons. NEWLY-APPOINTED to the Board ot Isthmus Industry In 1956, to cox r the icret aed cost Directors of the Panama Canal, Edwin for water delivered to Panama Citx , M. Martin, Assistant Secretary of State (Contmued from P. 7) expanding suburbs, the charge Na for Inter-Aruican Affairs, will attend last year is expected to double present increased 2 mills to 8.9 cents per 100 his first meeting as a member of the production capacity. One of the largest cubic feet for the suburbs only. board in July. ever installed in Central America and Under a directive of President With the State Departmtn lt since Panama, it is 400 feet long and 11 feet Eistnhower in 1960, a ntw rate struc- 1945, Mr. Martin was a rt prt st ntativ in diameter-large enough to hold more ture resulted in a flat 7.5 cents per to the August 1961 meeting of the than 200 automobiles. 100 cubic feet for the first 100,000 units linter-Aime rican Economic and Social The new kiln, with the two others of 100 eubic feet and 7 events per unit Council at Punta cli Este, Uruguay, previously in operation, can jointly of 100 cubic feet for all water furnished and with the U.S. delegation to the supply all of Panama's cement requirt- over 100,000 units each month. This Inter-American Bank meeting in Brazil, merits for the next 20 years, on the basis rate applies to Colon, Panama City, and serving as Assistant Sccretarv of State of projected expansion of demand. suburbs. It was accepted by tht Pan- for Economic Affairs during this time. The most recent venture of Cemento amanian Government in an exchange of Mr. Martin entered Government Panama is its Fibrolit plant, which notes for period starting July 1, 1960. service in 1935, first xw ith the Central manufactures pressed cement and wood Panama in turn, through IDAAN Statistical Board, later with the Bureau fiber planks and blocks for use in inte- (National Water and Sewage Admin- of Labor Statistics, War Production rior and exterior walls. It also can be istration), sells the water to consumers Board, and Office of Strategic Services. used as acoustic material and for roof at a rate fixed by IDAAN. (The Panama sheathing. Known in the international Canal charge to IDAAN of 7.5 cents \Vith the Department of State, le market as fiberdyne, it costs less than p1r 100 cubic ftet equals 10 cents Pt was Chief of the Division of Japanese cement blocks, lumber, and other types 1,000 gallons; 7 cents per 100 cubic and Korean Economic Affairs and then of construction materials. feet equals 9.3 cents per 1,000 gallons.) had economic, trade policy andi mutual For the first time in Panama, The pure water from the Canal Zone security post assigmisients, followed by Cemnento PanamA will distribute 10 per- treatment plants also is very soft, having work with the North Atlantic Treaty cent of its profits among all its workers. a hardness index only about half that Organization and European Regional This gives every worker a direct stake of the softened water in man cities in Org anizations as deputy chief of the in the company's successful operation. the States which have municipal U. S. Mission. Employment now averages 274 versus softening plants. H x as the St ertar of Statt's prin- only 100 in 1950. And the employees Consequently, consumers here bene- cupal acliser and coordinator for the have nearly 1,600 dependents. fit from major' savings in soap, don't U.S. de leg ition at the uct tng of the At Christmas, the firm has an annual have the expense of home softening joimt I nit d State s-japan Conuittet on Christmas party for all employees and equipment, or problems of deposits oi Tradc and Econosic Affairs at Hakone, their families. More than 1,500 workers the insides of pipes and boilers. There's Japan late ii 1961, and their families, including company also less abrasive action oil clothes, since A iatixc Of Jivtoui, Ohio, Mr. Martin executives and technicians, attended fibers are freer of insoluble and gummy \icds ls hc r ci a ret the last one. Presents such as television conspouns such as are left by w ashin sets, stoves, bicycles, sexing machines, with hard water, and the fibers sta fro N ox n t s nd d and other gifts were distributed clean longer. In ratuatt work thcrt i political sciitcit Cemento PanamA also provides Another quality of the water can't His itgai rtsiduct is Piqua. Ohio. His schools, churches, playing fields, and be measured in any wax except the xxit is the forn r \argaret \ilbirn similar community benefits for its cm- "homing" instincts of thousarsds xwho of Baltinore. Tht ha a damhter, ployces, and offers annual scholarships have tasted the water of the Chagres: Mr, P edo X Saniuan, and a soi, to outstanding students. "He who drinks it always returns." Edxsin M., Jr.

THE PANAMA CANAL REvIEw 15 New Name, Same Game TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING in this service will be the Verdi in July . VESSELS IN APRIL and the Rossini in December. AN OLD Panama Canal customer is The three ships, formerly on the inning through the Panama Canal 1963 1062 Italy to Australia route for Lloyd Tries- these days in disguise. She is the bulk Commercial . 919 942 tino, have been refitted to offer more rice carrier SS Sello Rojo, which started U.S. Government . 22 19 comfortable staterooms and public serve ice between the U.S. west coast and Free. 7 9 rooms and are completely air condi- Puerto Rico a few years ago as the Total. ..948 970 tioned. They have accommodations for Marine Rice Queen. The 10,500 dead- TOLLS * 168 passengers in first class and 446 weight ton liberty ship was sold recently in tourist class. by the Marine Transport Lines to the Commercial . $4,762,315 $4,963,535 in tris lass. U.S. Government -99,315 102,910 Final trips through the Canal were Bulk Food Carriers, Inc., of Delaware made in May by the Antoniotto Usodi- and renamed. Total. . $4,861,630 $5,066,445 mare and early in June by the Marco The ship is continuing to carry bulk CARCO** Polo. The Amerigo Vespucci will con- rice for the California Rice Growers Commercial . 5,379,025 6,103,611 tinue in the service until November. Association with Wilford McKay as U.S. Government 78,541 118,783 agents at the Canal. The sale price is Free .. 23,562 46,099 New Japanese Liner reported at $1 million. The ship is Total. 5,481,128 6,268,493 ONE OF THE largest Japanese pas- capable of unloading 650 tons of bulk *Includes tolls on all vessels. ocean-going and small. senger liners built in Japan since the rice an hour and of making a turn- Cargo figures are in long tons, war will arrive back at the Canal around voyage between Stockton and Jtne 10 on the second leg of her maiden Puerto Rico every 40 days. voyage between Japan and the east . . , coast of South America. The ship is the Two Launches Built MS Sakura Mart, the Osaka Shosen THE MANTA and the Alola (below) Kaisha Line's newest and largest pas- are two 50-foot passenger launches of singer ship, which was designed to display trade exhibits and is easily woodenwodncnsrcin construction whichhcper were builtul - 4 Zconvertedciner.trd into exhibtsanda spacious spassenger asily entirely at the Gamboa Launch Repair Facility Shed by Industrial Division On her maiden voyage which took forces. Work on them began from - her through the Canal for the first time scratch last March and the final trials . . N on April 26, the ship was in the role after the engines were installed were Itaian Lines New Ships of a passenger ship, with accommoda- held early in May. BEGINNING this month, the Italian tions for 152 in cabin class and 800 in The formal transfer and acceptance Line is replacing the 10,000-ton Italy third class economy accommodations. by the Navigation Division took place to South America passenger vessels The modern 12,000-ton ship is com- in Gainboa in the presence of Marine Marco Polo, Amerigo Vespucci, and pletely air conditioned and her engines Division officials with Capt. Eli D. Ring Antoniotto Usodimare with the 13,000- are located aft. taking acceptance of the Alanta for ton sisterships Donizetti, Verdi, and On her run from the Far East, the Balboa and Capt. Ernest B. Rainier Rossini. The Donizetti will open the Sakura Mar calls at Kobe, Honolulu, Angeles. After taking the Mola for Cristobal. new service when she sails from Genoa San Francisco, and Los June 10. She will arrive in Cris- leaving the Canal, she goes to Curacao, Before the two launches left for their tobal June 26 after making calls at La Guaira, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, and respective home ports, the men who Naples, Cannes, Barcelona, Teneriffe, Buenos Aires. Boyd Brothers, agents built them were given a complimentary La Guaira, Curacao, and Cartagena. for the ship here, said that she would cruise oii Gatun Lake. For most of Following her transit through the clock at Cristobal on her return trip them, it was the first time that they had Canal, the ship will go to Buenaventura, to Japan. Four other O.S.K. passenger- ridden aboard the sleek new craft since Guayaquil, Callao, Arica, Antofagasta, cargo ships also are in service over they had been put into actual operation. and Valparaiso. Following the Donizetti this route.

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