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Contractors Hill Latin-American Schools Open Tuesday; Project Nears End Slight Enrollment Drop Is Expected After Year's Work Slightly over 3,800 boys and girls, quarters in La Boca and the consequent kindergarteners to junior college students, decline in that community's population, The Contractors Hill project on which will start a new school year Tuesday registration at the La Boca elementary work was started a year ago this month when the 12 schools of the Latin-Ameri- and junior high schools will be lowei than is now in its final phase, with only about can system open for the 1955-56 term. that of last year. On the other hand an 325,000 cubic yards of material still to This year's anticipated enrollment, increased enrollment is expected at the be rempve'd. which school officials approximate on the schools in Paraiso and Santa Cruz, the The latest excavation figures show that basis of past enrollments and population two towns to which a number of La l,600,00b\cubic yards of rock and 550,000 changes, is expected to be about 100 less Boca families have recently been trans- cubic yards of the Cucaracha formation than the 3,976 students who were regis- ferred. had been removed up to the end of June. tered in the Latin-American system The school year which begins next These figures included all material above during the past school year. The enroll- Tuesday will end on March 2. Present the 230-foot elevation and the Cucaracha ment figures cover kindergarten through plans call for the following school year formation excavated from Project 13 by junior college. to begin about May so that the Canal

Tecon Corporation, con- (See page 8) Because of the gradual demolition of Zone's Latin- Ameiican schools will then have the same student year as the public New Lieutenant Governor Arrives schools in the Republic of Panama. Spanish In All Grades

The major change in the Latin-Amer- ican school system for the school year beginning next week will be the conver- sion to Spanish-language instruction in grades seven through 12. English will continue to be taught as a supplementary subject in all grades. The curriculum of the Latin American schools is being patterned after that of the Republic of Panama's school system. This will enable school children to transfer from one system to another without difficulty. Again this year, Temistocles Cespedes, Chief of the Panama Schools' Technical Service Sec- tion, has been retained as a consultant for the Latin-American schools. Teachers in the Latin- American schools system spent their non-teaching months perfecting their Spanish in the Summer Institute, held annually by the Division of Schools. The teachers were divided into two groups. Teachers who were already fluent in Spanish worked out the curriculum and prepared materials for the coming school year. Those less proficient in Spanish spent the period from April 11 to June 3 improving them- selves in this language. Their instructors were teachers who had formerly taught Spanish in the upper grades, when Span- ish was the secondary instead of the primary language, and others who were in the group considered proficient in Spanish. Two Institutes

Summer Institutes were held on both sides of the Canal Zone. That at the A CHANGE in the Canal administration's top command took place last month with the arrival of Col. La Boca High School was under the H. W. Schull, Jr., to become Lieutenant Governor of the Canal Zone President of and Vice the Panama direction of Robert Beecher, while Owen Canal Company. B. Shirley was in charge of the group The new Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Schull are shown above aboard the Panama Liner Anton when it docked in Cristobal on June 15. Colonel Schull (pronounced "Shool" as in school) had been on which met dailv at the Rainbow City duty as District Engineer in Jacksonville, Fla., for three years before his appointment as Lieutenant High School. Governor. Text books in Spanish were ordered Colonel Schull was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated from the United States Military some time ago and will be available in Academy in 1927. Among the varied important assignments during his 28 years of service with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers was a three-year tour of duty as advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Peru- most subject fields in the s?condary vian Army in Lima, Peru. schools when classes (See page ;s) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955

New C. Z. Health Director Civil Defense Tests Considered Success Arrives Here Next Week

But Average Zonian Needs More Training Col. Charles O. Bruce, new Canal Zone Health Director, will arrive here next Although the Canal Zone portion of the Their occupants must remain in the Wednesday aboard the Panama Liner nation-wide Civil Defense exercise "Oper- vehicles or go to a more protected Ancon to take over his new duties. ation Alert, 1955" was considered a suc- shelter if one is readily at hand. During Colonel Bruce succeeds Brig. Gen. Don cess on the whole, the average Zonian Operation Alert some vehicles stopped Longfellow who left the Canal Zone I still needs further education if he is to be in the middle of the road and in other early this week on completion of his tour prepared to defend himself in case of any cases, motorists got out of their cars to of duty here. General Longfellow has enemy attack in this area. look around instead of taking shelter. been assigned to the Army Review The June 15 exercise halted all Canal Those who are caught in the open Council in Washington, D. C. Zone civilian operations except ships and when the siren signals Take Cover should Prior to his assignment to the Canal trains en route from one side of the lie down behind a protective covering, Zone, Colonel Bruce has been Military Isthmus to the other, and involved a rather than standing next to a building, Assistant to Secretary of the Army majority of Canal Zone civilian residents under trees, or beneath a roofed-over Robert T. Stevens. He was a member and workers. bus stop as some did June 15. of the Secretary's official party when Mr. In a report prepared last week on the Those who are at home when the Stevens was here early this year.

exercise, W. G. Dolan, Civil Defense Take Cover sounds should go immedi- The new Health Director is a native of Chief, pointed out a number of deficiencies ately to the structurally strongest part Nebraska and received his medical degree which were shown up by the exercise. of their quarters. Parents should drill from the University of Nebraska. He The present location of the warning their children, to ensure that they know attended the Army Medical School and

sirens will be surveyed, Mr. Dolan said. what to do and where to go if they should is a graduate of the Medical Field Service A number of reports were received that not be in school when the Take Cover is School. He holds the degree of Master the sirens could not be heard in certain heard. of Public Health from Johns Hopkins. localities. Recruitment Campaign Contractors Hill Work Nears End Other steps which will be taken to strengthen Canal Zone civil defense will include a recruitment campaign in the Warden Service so that Child Care Centers can be established in every block, and the number of first-aid workers increased. A more extensive training program on Control Center arrangements and operations will also be started for the wardens. Mobile amateur radio operations will be incorporated in the Control Point staff to provide communication facilities. The Main and Alternate Main Control Centers will also begin to use live com- munications, such as radio and telephone, in all exercises from now on, and each component of the Civil Defense organi- zation will hold at least one indepandent exercise before the annual overall test. Zonians should also learn the following, Mr. Dolan added. Vehicles must be stopped, at the side of the road or highway, immediately on sounding of the Take Cover signal.

Employees Look Forward CONTRACTORS HILL, less than a year ago a towering mass of rock and earth, is now a series of great terraces. From Gold Hill, on the opposite side of narrow Gaillard Cut. the hill looks like a staircase To Fatter Paychecks for Paul Bunvan.

(Continued from page I) tractors for the work. ation, while nine Panama Canal engineers, Approximately 1,700 classified and According to J. L. Phillips, Project inspectors, and office personnel, have postal employees in the Canal organiza- Manager for Tecon, the work will have been assigned to Project 13-A. tion last week were looking eagerly for- progressed to the point within another The head of the Canal force since late ward to "extra dividend" checks plus month that a curtailment in the volume April has been Charles McG. Brandl, several dollars more in their biweekly pay. of activity will be necessary. By that Project Engineer. He succeeded Lt. Col. The past several weeks have been a time the various benches or steps being E. B. Jennings when the latter was period of suspense for these groups of cut into the hill will be completed to a transferred to the Electrical Conversion employees as the long-discussed pay point so low and so near the Canal chan- Project. raise was in the legislative mill in Wash- nel that there will be insufficient room Machine Task ington. for efficient operation of all the equip- As announced at the beginning of the checks covering the retroactive pay ment, now in use. work, the removal of the bulk of Con- raise for postal employees were scheduled When this stage of the work is reached, tractors Hill has been primarily a machine to be delivered next week, at the time sometime early in August, the contract- task. The principal heavy equipment this issue of The Review went to press. ing firm plans to withdraw all surplus used by the contracting firm has been It was expected that the extra pay equipment for overhaul, following which three shovels of two-and-a-half cubic checks for classified employees would be it will be stored in some suitable area at yards capacity each; 15 large Euclid distributed by the middle of this month, the job site until final disposition or for trucks for hauling; four bulldozers; and providing the pay bill was signed by the use as replacement of equipment in use, three rotary and three wagon drills. President before the end of June. if required. When project is completed a total It is estimated that the pay increases Because of the nature of the work and of 1,800,000 cubic yards of rock, and for classified employees in the Canal the limited area of the project, a com- 625,000cubic yards of Cucaracha, or shale, service will average about $350. At paratively small number of employees will have been removed. For this yard- s rate, the cheeks for the retroactive has been engaged on the Contractors Hill age, an estimated 800,000 pounds of ex- would average slightly over $100 job. A top force of about 150 employees plosives will have been used in the 130 for the four-month period. has been engaged by the Tecon Corpor- miles of holes drilled into the hill. <• July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Annual Registration Day-Long Programs Are Planned For July Fourth Celebration Of Canal Zone Dogs Begins On July 18

The annual vaccination against rabies of the approximately 2,000 dogs in the Canal Zone and licensing of the animals for the year which begins August 1 will get under way July 18 when vaccinating teams begin their annual rounds of the various towns. Each team is composed of a registrar, a veterinarian, and his assistant. As has been done in the past two years since anti-rabies vaccination and dog registration became compulsory, the teams will start their rounds on the Atlantic side. Tn3y will set up their stations for one day in each of seven Canal Zone com- munities. Last year they covered eight towns, bvit Pedro Miguel has been dropped', from the list this year. The dates on which the teams will visit the various communities appears in tabular form on this page. The hours will again this year be 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., FOURTH OF JULY would not be complete without kiddie trains and 3 to 5 p. m., giving dog owners who are employed an opportunity to take The last check on plans for a fitting be the speaker at the patriotic exercises their pets to the vaccinating stations observance of Independence Day is being at Margarita. Lt. Col. E. B. Jennings, during the noon hour or after work. made this weekend by committees on Project Engineer for the Power Conver- either end of the Canal Zone. As this sion Project, will be the Pacific side Atlantic Side issue of The Review went to press, speaker. Date Town Location programs for the July 4 celebration had Both sides will conclude their activi- July 18 Margarita Elementary School not been printed, but plans were definite ties with fireworks. At Margarita, the

19 Rainbow City Mt. Hope Stadium enough to report: fireworks will be set off from the rise 20 Gatun Fire Station The major Pacific side celebration will near the old hospital site. On the be at Balboa, with the Stadium and its Pacific side, Sosa Hill, as usual, will be Pacific Side surrounding area as July 4 headquarters. the launching platform for the rockets. 25 Gamboa Old Police Station The Atlantic side will have its major Balboa's July 4 celebration actually Paraiso Locks Warehouse 26 celebration at Margarita although there gets underway tomorrow night, with a Bldg. No. 336 will be boat races off the Cristobal Yacht dance at the American Legion Club. 27 La Boca Pacific Bakery Bldg. Club and swimming races at Gatun pool. Net funds from the sale of tickets for the 28 Balboa Stadium Both sides will start their day's cele- dance will finance the Independence

a. to 1 ra 3 to m.) JO m. p. ; 5 p. bration with parades, and both have Day program. arranged for band concerts, patriotic- The Atlantic side committee is headed New License Tags exercises, and the fire engine and kiddie by Virgil C. Reed, President of the As in the past two years a fee of $2 trains without which July 4 would not Cristobal-Margarita Civic Council. Em- will be charged for the registration. The be complete for the children. Philip mett Zemer and John A. Everson are anti-rabies vaccination is given without Dur, United States Consul in Colon, will co-chairmen for the Pacific side committee. charge. New license tags, which all Canal Zone dogs must wear or be impounded, are Contractor Begins Preliminary Work For Conversion already on the Isthmus. The tags will roelectric Plan t In 60-Cycle be handed to the dog owners at the vari- Of Gatun Hyd Program ous vaccination stations when the regis- Preliminary work in the conversion of pany employees will be sent here. They tration fee is paid and the dog vaccinated. the Gatun Hydroelectric station from 25 will be supplemented by locally available Each tag is equipped with a metal loop cycles to 60 cycles has been started by technicians. by which it may be fastened to the dog's the Sachse Electrical Company of Lake The first construction undertaken by collar. Charles, La. The company holds the the Sachse Company was erection of a This year's tags differ considerably in $490,332 contract for this portion of the combined field office and material and those of the now ending. shape from year — electric conversion project. tool storage shed on the apron outside They are a fancy butterfly shape "a The Sachse Company was given notice the hydroelectric plant. Toward the butterfly with wings extended"—they to proceed with its contract on May 17. end of June the company had begun to were described at the License Section. Its first personnel, Edwin Duhom, Proj- break concrete for a duct line into the Between last July and June 15 of this ect Superintendent, and Asa P. Dartez, plant proper. year, a total of 2,034 dogs were registered Project Engineer, arrived in the Canal The contract, which is in seven parts in the Canal Zone. This figure includes Zone May 24. Late in June two skilled and which is to be completed by Septem- slightly over 700 animals whose homes craftsmen and some equipment, such as ber 21, 1956, calls for the Sachse Com- are on military posts. All of the dogs, trucks and electrical tools, were brought pany to furnish and install transformers of course, were inoculated against rabies. to the Isthmus. Only a few more com- in the hydroelectric station, to convert Balboa, where 263 dogs were vaccin- the station's service equipment, and to ated and registered in one day, drew the provide new switch gear and make the largest attendance during last year's The Canal Zone program, which was alterations necessary for its installations. registration-vaccination program. established under an Executive Regula- The Panama Canal Company contracting Established In 1953 tion issued by Gov. J. S. Seybold, is officer's field representative is Earl O. The vaccination-registration program designed to control rabies and buttress Dailey. was established in the Canal Zone in 1953 the quarantine regulations which require Quarters have been provided for the on a Zone-wide basis. Canal Zone dogs that all animals brought into the Canal Sachse employees in New Cristobal. had been licensed and registered during Zone from any areas where there are Mr. Dartez was accompanied here by his the early construction days but this rabies must be isolated for a specified wife and daughter. Mr. Duhom's wife practice was later abandoned. period of time. and 10 children remained in Louisiana. —

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955 Across-The-Border Conferences Precede Closing Of Colon, Panama Health Offices

Heads from both sides of the invisible Zone will also be inspected by representa- border which divides the Canal Zone tives of the Company-Government. Vet- from the Republic of Panama are meet- erinary inspection of the abattoir and ing these days over conference tables in food-processing plants at the Commis- the Panama Health Office on the second sary Division's units at Mount Hope and floor of the Panama Railroad Station Balboa will, of course, be continued. and in the Colon Health Office at the In the June issue of The Panama comer of 2d and Melendez Streets. Canal Review, readers were given an The heads belong to sanitation experts overall picture of the United States from the Canal Zone Government and activities in health and sanitation in the from the Republic of Panama's Public- Republic of Panama over a 50-year Health Department. The subjects they period. For a more detailed look at are discussing have to do with what is some Health Office activities let's follow known, officially, as the "phaseout" by part of a day with R. H. Masters. He is the Canal agency of the health and a Sanitation Inspector and has been with sanitary work which the United States HOP for 10 years. With the closing of has performed in the terminal cities for the Panama Office, he will be transferred over 50 years. to the Division of Zone Sanitation. Actually, the phaseout of the United Thousand Buildings States and the phasein of Panama has be?n going on for some time. Over The area of Panama City for which he three years ago Panama took over the Dr. ERIC R. OSTERBERG has been in charge of and his two sanitary patrolmen have registration of all births and deaths in the Panama and Colon Health Offices since February been responsible straddles Central Avenue 1954 Panama City and Colon. Two years in the heart of the city. There are about ago this month the Republic began its a thousand buildings— stores, restaurants, own garbage collection, street cleaning, tion in the terminal cities of Panama and tenements, houses- in this section. and water management. Colon will be transferred to the Republic It has been up to him to see that these On March 1 of this year sanitary of Panama not later than July 31; at that buildings were kept in a sanitary condi- patrolmen from the Panama City Alcalde's time HOP and HOC will be closed. tion, that their plumbing was operating, office began the routine inspection of Although the two offices will be dis- that their drains were open, that their restaurants, markets, and bars, a func- continued, the Canal Zone Government sidewalks were clean, and that any tion which previously had been performed will continue some sanitary inspection repairs which would help attain these by inspectors working out of the two in the Republic. All food-processing conditions were made. Anything which Health Offices. The Panamanian patrol- plants—such as dairies, seafood sup- had to do with the physical safety of a men had been trained for over three years pliers, bottling plants, and bakeries in building—such as rotten floor boards, by inspectors in the Health Office in Panama - with which the Canal organ- unstable balconies or rickety staircases Panama City, HOP to those who have ization may have or will make contracts has been the responsibility of Panama's worked there. for food supply will be inspected by Security Office. All sanitary operations which have CZG inspectors. Dairies which have The other day, he began his rounds in been performed by the Canal organiza- permits to distribute milk in the Canal the big cemetery just off B Street. He was looking for mosquitoes and for breeding spots for other pests. A quick stir of his finger showed mosquito larvae wriggling on top of the stagnant water in several unemptied flower vases. He made a note to have the vases sprayed

with DDT, if they were fastened in place and immovable; those which could be emptied he did, and turned upside down. Tenement Troubles

From the cemetery he drove several blocks to inspect some tenement houses about which HOP had received com- plaints. In one, the toilets which serve many families were not working. In another, garbage cans were uncovered and an adjacent lot littered with trash. In a third, a woman tenant complained that water was dripping from an upper floor into the corner she used as a kitchen. In a fourth house, he found rat trails near the ceilings. Next stop was a huge old tenement, built around a court between Central Avenue and Avenue B. In this warren of old two-story wooden houses and a few one-story masonry row-type apart- ments live almost a thousand men, women and children, sometimes as many as 17 persons dwelling in one room. Part of the buildings around the court have been condemned but the remainder must be kept in as sanitary a condition as possible until they can be torn down. Fairly close by, he dropped in at a LITTLE MISS BIG EYES, of Colon, isn't at all sure that she is going to enjoy being vaccinated, even if building on which there had been earlier the vaccinating needle is being wielded by Miss Agnes E. Sugrue. Public Health Xurse at the Colon complaints. It was a marked contrast Health Office. In the past nine years Miss Sugrue has vaccinated against smallpox every newborn baby to the teeming warren. It been in Colon—in one year, 1954, there were 6,674 of them—and has given smallpox and yellow fever inocu- had lations to any traveller leaving the Atlantic side who needed such vaccinations. newly painted, repaired and free of July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

rats. Its garbage cans were covered and its bathrooms working. An open ditch between the railroad tracks and nearby buildings was the next project on his day's list. The drain, bordered with grass and deeply sunk, must be kept open and running freely.

If it clogs up, if water stands any length of time, mosquitoes will appear. After he had made sure that the ditch needed no attention that day, he stopped to look over his notebook. Here he had jotted down the complaints of tenants and his own recommendations as to what would have to be done in each case. Before the day was over he would have to talk to the owners or agents of each building which needed repairs to make them decent, from a sanitation point of view. Nurses At Work

While he and the other sanitation inspectors were making their daily rounds, ALL THESE employees of the Colon Health Office have served under the HOP's four public health nurses three Colon Health Officers, Dr. Jessie L. Byrd, Dr. Wayne Gilder, and Dr. Eric Osterberg. were on their jobs. Jilma Castro and In the usual order they are: Eladio J. Vega, a Sanitation Patrolman; M. de J. Carrasco, a National

Ester Carranza were visiting clinics, ( iuardsman who is on duty with the Health Office half days, delivering complaint slips to Colon residents; homes, and hospitals, vaccinating new- Jose I. Villalobos, Sanitation Patrolman; Cyril J. W. Grant, also a Sanitation Patrolman; Leopoldo A. Cantoral, who, with 24 years service, is dean of the Sanitation Patrolmen; born babies against smallpox and check- Miss Agnes E. Sugrue, Public Health N'urse; Roy F. Burr, Clerical Assistant; and Raymond G. Bush, Supervisory Sanitation Inspector. ing any communicable diseases, In one Absent at the time this photograph was taken was Burt W. Watson, also a Sanitation Inspector. year, the nurses made over 8,000 visits. At the office in the Railroad station, the two other nurses, Elena Busta- weeks, 1,971 dead rats were found on the certificates for animals which were to be mente and Mrs. Digna Anderson were baited premises. shipped out of the country and super- busy with a group of young babies and Pools And Restaurants vised the tuberculin testing of thousands with adults who had dropped in for of head of cattle each year. Swimming pools in Panama City and vaccinations or yellow fever inoculations. Most of the personnel in HOP and Colon must be inspected regularly by The babies were vaccinated and, if they HOC worked outside, inspecting, making personnel from the two health offices. had not already received them, were given house calls in the terminal cities. But Water samples are taken periodically the triple inoculations against diphtheria, their anchors to the home port were and sent to the laboratory for analysis. whooping cough, and tetanus. In. the always the clerks in the two offices, Mrs. Until March 1, when Panama took over course of a year the nurses gave over Marione Campbell in Panama and Roy inspection of bars, restaurants and mar- 5,000 immunizations. Burr in Colon. They heard the com- kets, inspectors from the health officer At the Miss Agnes Sugrue has plaints -- which the inspectors later looked HOC, visited several hundred such establish- been the lady behind the vaccinating into— and they made the reports of what ments every month. Here, as in tene- needle and the inoculation syringe. This the office force had done. It was their ments and dwelling houses, the word office been designated as Official job, also, to issue the burial permits has "Sanidad" has been an Open Sesame. Vaccinating Station No. 34, by the World without which no one could be buried Veterinarians attached to the two Health Organization, for yellow fever in Panama City and Colon. offices were responsible for the cleanli- inoculations. Most western hemisphere They also ordered the supplies, not as ness, sanitarially speaking, of dairies and countries have established yellow fever dull a job as in some offices. Sometimes, pasteurization plants in both terminal inoculations as an. entry requirement. Mrs. Campbell says, her supply order has cities. In addition they issued health One year she inoculated 516 travellers. sounded like a shopping list for a buffet Once a month, the 28 midwives who dinner. It has included such items as work in the capital come into the HOP salad oil, salami, cheese, and cornmeal. for a brush-up on their technique and the All of these were part of the ingredients five licensed midwives in Colon go through which went into the rat baits. a similar procedure at HOC. Their The first Panama Health Officer was supply of medicines to be put into the Dr. Lewis Balch; his counterpart in eyes of newborn infants is refilled, and Colon was Dr. E. H. Wheeler. During their bags and equipment checked. They the following years, a number of well- are also given help in filling out birth known men have served in these posts. certificates and are given a chance to Some of the best-known of the Panama discuss any problems they may have. Health Officers were Dr. Samuel Goldth- One of the most important of the waite, Dr. J. C. Ellington, who is now functions of the two health offices has with the State of Virginia's Health been rodent control— or, putting it more Department; Dr. Forrest Brown, now simply —keeping the terminal cities' rat with the Health Department of the State population as low as possible. On the of Oklahoma; Dr. Kenneth O. Courtney, Pacific side, this work has been under the who is now with the World Health direction of Paul Brooks; Ray Bush has Organization, and Dr. Carl Johnson, who held a similar job at the Colon Office. now heads the Gorgas Memorial Labor- When a tenant reports that there are atory in Panama City. rats in the building where he lives, or On the Atlantic side, Dr. M. E. Connor, when an inspector finds the unmistakable later with the United Fruit Company, traces of rats in a building, the rodent served for years. Another well-known control men go to work. One year Colon Health Officer was Dr. Jesse Byrd recently, in Panama City alone, 10,139 who retired several years ago. He was wooden spring-type traps were s jt out. followed by Dr. Wayne Gilder, who is now One recent large-scale rough-on-rats with the United Fruit Company in performance took place in Panama City New Orleans. when, in a two-wesk p?riod, six men set In February 1954, the administration out 17,467 Warfarin baits in 309 man- of both offices, HOP and HOC, was SWIMMING POOLS are tested in holes. Of these baits, the rats ate regularly by combined and Dr. Eric R. Osterberg spectors from the Panama and Colon Health Office?. 14,355. After the rains began, Warfarin was named Health Officer for Panama Wielding the long dip-stick is senior sanitation bait was set out inside buildings. In six inspector Ray E, Forbes. and Colon. )

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

, urn JUL ti€ PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

We have been hearing a lot about statistics of previous wars with the result that they needed to know more about Preventive Medicine lately. Right now that less soldiers died of disease than by the employee and what he did with him- the one getting the head lines is Salk's bullets. self when off the job that would have a anti-polio vaccine. Not long ago it was The National Safety Council reports bearing on his reaction to stresses on the penicillin. Years ago vaccination for that the industrial doctors and nurses are job. Certain danger signals were ob- small pox was compulsory and still is in the first line of defense in cutting down served as indicating that the employee many places. Old Timers will recall the the severity of injuries occurring on the was under some sort of mental stress. bottie of quinine placed on all dining- job. In a minor way the training, now When the causes were not found and room tables to be taken like sugar at being given to our employees in Indus- corrected, it was noted that the em- every meal. It is evident that we take a trial First Aid, will help to prevent shock ployee's condition gradually worsened lot of preventive medicine in one form or and infection, which, if neglected, could until he caused an accident, injuring another as the years go by, including cause a disabling injury. himself or others. huge amounts of the proverbial "snake This points to another ssrvice now Since it is difficult for the doctor to bite" medicine. being given by the industrial doctors to interview and follow each and every Those who were in World War I may help prevent accidents. They are now employee daily, it was suggested that the still remember the series of shots given trying to keep the employee in such a employee's immediate supervisor get to at every opportunity for this and that. state of good health that he will be fully know each employee and his background, Yellow fever shots were added in awake on his job and can prevent then watch him for the following danger World War II, and yellow pills were taken accidents to himself and others. The signals: to prevent malaria. Blood plasma was prospective employee is given a thorough 1. Coming to work tired and unhappy. administered to the wounded by First examination to see that he has the 2. Nervousness or jitters. Aid teams to help prevent shock caused necessary health for the job. If not, 3. Pacing and unable to concentrate by the loss of blood. Other methods he is placed where the handicap he may on the job. were instituted, such as spraying around happen to have in no way endangers 4. Chain smoking. military camps with DDT to control himself and others. The employee then 5. Appears sick or losing weight. mosquitoes and thus prevent malaria. is examined periodically to see that his 6. A griping attitude. News reels showed military teams dust- standard of health is maintained. 7. A sudden falling off of the employ- ing refugees to kill lice and fleas and thus Now the latest trend, as reported by ee's work. prevent typhus and plague. It was by the National Safety Council, is that some 8. Drunk or drinking. such preventive measures that the mili- industrial doctors have made a study of 9. An increase in intensity of any of tary doctors and nurses reversed the some 30,000 accidents to find out what the above. they can do to help prevent accidents. When any of these danger signals were HONOR ROLL It was found that the following were noticed, the supervisor was to take the Bureau Award For prolific accident causes: employee aside and try to learn his BEST RECORD 1. Irresponsibility of workers who troubles by giving him a chance to talk MAY didn't seem to care about their jobs them over. By this method a remedy SUPPLY BUREAU 2. Maladjustment of workers who may be. found and the situation relieved didn't know their jobs or seem to want ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION before a serious accident occurs. to learn. All this appears to be a good sign that AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR 3. Pre-existing disability of workers Preventive Medicine is also getting into Supply 3 who came to work when they were sick the field of Accident Prevention. It is Engineering and Construction 2 or crippled by some ailment. well that this is happening for it brings Civil Affairs 1 4. Alcoholism — workers who came to to the aid of the Safety Engineer one more Community Services — 1 work influence of Health 1 under the alcohol or talented group and a new angle of Transportation and Terminals 1 who drank on the job. attack in the uphill fight to prevent Marine This led the Industrial doctors to feel death and injury on the job. Division Award For Disabling Injuries per 1,000.000 Man-Hours Worked NO DISABLING INJURIES MAY 1955 I Frequency Rale) MAY SERVICE CENTER DIVISION DREDGING DIVISION Supply Bureau

INDUSTRIAL DIVISION Engineering and Construction Bureau ELECTRICAL DIVISION MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION Health Bureau STOREHOUSE DIVISION C. Z. Covl.-Panama Canal Co. I This Month HOUSING DIVISION AIDS TO NAVIGATION Community Services Bureau

SANITATION DIVISION Marine Bureau AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR C. Z. Govl.-Panama Canal Co.l Last 3-Year Av.l Aids to Navigation 4 Electrical ._ 4 Civil Affairs Bureau I lousing 4 M aintenance 4 Sanitation 4 Transportation and Terminals Bureau Dredging 3 Industrial 3 Motor Transportation 3 CO 30 40 50 Railroad 3 Number of Disabling Injuries Man-Hours Worked 2,277,329 Storehouses 3 .21 Commissary 2 LEGEND Grounds Maintenance 2 Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government Panama Canal Company Last 3- Year Average Service Center 2 J —

' Hospitalization and Clinics 1 F Amount Worse Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average Terminals 1 3 Than Canal Zone Government— Locks

: : : Navigation f: :-: : X»?j Ac-cumulative Frequency Rate This Year July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

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Automatic and administrative in-grade review of rates for several groups of quar- On sale when available, from the Vault step increases will be made for all Local Rate ters may be required in advance of that Building, Clerk, Third Floor, Administration employees who are eligible, effective with date, it has been announced. Balboa Heights. the pay period beginning July io, it has been announced by the Personnel Director. Hundreds of students in the Canal Zone This is the quarterly automatic and ad- Postal money orders should be made pay- ministrative in-grade step increase which Latin- American schools took advantage of the summer athletic program sponsored Treasurer, Panama Canal Com- is effective with the beginning of the first able to the Physical pay period immediately following the quar- by the Education and Recreation pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama Branch of the Canal Zone Schools Division ters ending March 31, June 30, September Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. during the recent vacation months. The Canal 30, and December 31. program was brought to a close June 24 following a swimming meet at the Rainbow One young man has been accepted as an City Swimming Pool, a Field Day, and apprentice by the Panama Canal Company table tennis championship match held at and seven others have been reemployed and the Santa Cruz Gymnasium. Over $18,000 Donated are already back at work in the crafts in Because dry-season weather prevailed which they were specializing before they during the early part of the program, the left the Canal service to serve with the students were able to participate in more For Zone Cancer Fund Armed Forces. outdoor sports than they had in other Domingo David Hinds, a Balboa High years when vacation months fell during School graduate, who served two years with the wet season. the LI. S. Army at Fort Kobbe, is the one Among the sports and activities offered A generous response from people of all new apprentice accepted so far this year during the period were archery, football, in success- walks of life resulted the most by the Panama Canal Company. He will roller skating, baseball, swimming, table ful Cancer Fund crusade last month take his training as a machinist with the tennis, volleyball, and basketball. Division. Mr. Hinds was born since the Canal Zone Cancer Committee Industrial The swimming meet, which closed the in Ancon and is the son of a retired Panama program, was held the morning of June 22 was formed in 1951. Canal employee. as were Field Day and the table tennis The amount of contributions an- Those apprentices, who are returning match in Santa Cruz. are all within the nounced at the close of the drive was after military service, electrical trade and are now in the third or $17,717.65, but cbnations received later fourth year of their apprenticeships. Their For the past two weeks a team of three brought the figure up to over $18,000. names and their specific craft training are electrical engineers have been making a Receipts from employees in the various as follows: house-to-house survey of frequency-sensi- Richard O. Egger, apprentice wireman, tive equipment used in Canal Zone quarters Company - Government units totaled fourth year, Electrical Division; Kenneth in Gamboa. The survey is in connection nearly $8,800. F. Millard, apprentice wireman, fourth with the five-year project for the conversion Heading the two committees of solici- year, Electrical Division; Gerald L. Dare, of electrical current from 25-cycle to 60- electronics mechanic, third year, cycle and includes an inspection of all tors in the Canal organization were apprentice Electrical Division; John A. DuVall, domestic equipment such as washing George A. Tully for the Atlantic side, apprentice cablesplicer, fourth year, Elec- machines, deep freezers, refrigerators, and Francis J. Moumblow for the Pacific trical Division; James R. Nellis, apprentice clocks and other appliances which now side. Mr. Tully also headed the benefit armature winder, third year, Electrical operate on 25-cycle current. appren- of the team, which is shows by the Elks which resulted in Division; Robert M. Wilford, Jr., Each member tice automatic telephone switchman, third composed of T. S. McKibbon, Ralph Otten substantial aid in the campaign. The year, Electrical Division, and Thomas M. and Hubert Oken, presents proper creden- General chairman of the campaign was Jordan, apprentice cablesplicer, third year, tials when calling at homes. Residents L. M. Brockman, Assistant Personnel Electrical Division. have been requested to cooperate in the is of the Director. survey, which an important phase The seven percent discount, which has conversion program. Contributions from U. S. Army Carib- been in effect on all rents of U. S.-rate When the survey has been completed, bean totaled $4,014,613; Caribbean Air quarters in the Canal Zone since January each housaholder will be furnished a Command, $2,029.27; Fifteenth Naval of this year, will be reduced to three percent duplicate copy of the appliance list made by the members of the team. It will then District, $862.54; and miscellaneous, effective this month. As was announced recently, the discount be the responsibility of the owner to give $2,016.17. All of these were consider- involves no change in the established rental notice of any change in the list or change ably higher than the amounts received rate but is a form of adjustment made semi- of address. from these sources in previous campaigns. annually in which economies effected in the Emphasis has been made on the im- housing administration are passed on to portance of supplying supplemental inform- The work being done by the Canal employees. ation because of the necessity of ordering Zone Cancer Committee was described The new rental rates will again be sub- conversion parts well in advance of the in the May issue of The Review. ject to review next January, although a actual conversion. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW YOUR W July 1, 1955 that this was the situation when he reported for work there in the fall of 1907. He was standing by the tracks, his small trunk-lockei beside him, wonder- ing how he could reach the hotel, when he was approached by a huge Martini- quen laborer who offeted in sign language to help him. The Maitiniquen put the trunk on his head and indicated to Mr. Seeley that he should climb on top of it. He cauld not lie persuaded into making two trips, one with the trunk and the other with the man, so Mr. Seeley followed instructions, perched on top of the trunk and was conveyed safely to dry land. East Balboa was on higher ground, and was, primarily, a residential section for those working on the harbor develop- ment. La Folic Dingier— or Dingler's Folly stood on the side of Ancon Hill, above East Balboa, looking out over Panama Bay. It was a massive edifice which had been built in 1885 for, but never occupied by, Jules Dingier, Direc- tor General of the French Canal Com- pany. After the Canal Zone was BALBOA, Pacific terminal town, was still in the early stages of construction when this photograph was established, it was used for several years taken De-ember 23, 1914. The first offices in the Administration Building, on Big Tree Hill, had been as a quarantine detention station. It occupied a few months earlier. was razed in 1910. Between the two Balboas were several Balboa, Pacific terminal town for the Pyle Street section—were known as Old community buildings. A "hotel," con- Panama Canal, could have been very La Boca and New, or East, La Boca struction day term for a restaurant, was different than it is today. respectively. After 1909 they became approximately opposite the present day If the original Canal plans had been Old Balboa and East Balboa. St. Mary's School. The building was followed, there would be a lock about Old Balboa included a native town, later used by the YMCA. The commis- where the Balboa Terminal Building now which had once been known as Carta- sary, opened in 1909, the post office, stands and a great dam would link Sosa genita, the marine shops and docks, a which sold its first stamp on May 5, 1909, and Corozal hills; a man-made lake base for dredges working in the harbor, a lodge hall, still standing but soon to be would cover what is now Balboa. a few offices, and a restaurant with demolished, and a one-story office build- If town planners had had their way bachelor quarters on the upper floors. ing, housing the Assistant District Quar- about 1913, the Balboa Commissary, A few of the buildings dated back to the termaster, were clustered around what is Post Office, and Service Center would be French days, as did the steel pier which now the Barneby Street-Balboa : Road connected by arcades which, in view of w as the Pacific terminus, a spur of the intersection. some November rainfalls, might not be Panama Railroad. a bad idea. Conveyor System Tide Waters

If studies made during the 1920's and A sea of knee-deep, oozy mud fre- This "civic center" was separated from 19.30's had been carried out, the bulk of quently covered the area between the East Balboa by a wide ditch through Balboa's housing would be located where railroad tracks and the "hotel" which was which tide waters flowed twice a day as far La Boca today is fast disappearing. on the side of a hill later removed to as the base of the hill on which the Administration And, if suggestions of a 1950 report had make room foi the dry dock. Building was later built, been adopted, Balboa today would be Morris Seelev, of Gamboa, remembers The ditch was crossed by an iron bridge. ringed by Morgan Avenue, which would When the flats were filled with spoil from start from the sea end of the Gavilan Balboa haibor, the bridge was buried; area, overpass Balboa Road, underpass it was uncovered some years ago when the Administration Building's long front La Boca Road was built. steps, Roosevelt Avenue, and the railroad Railroad tracks skiited the foot of tracks, and join eventually with Gaillard Administration Building hill. One spur Highway. ran from Ancon to the old PRR pier, But none of the "ifs" did happen. around the north side of Scsa Hill. An- Today Balboa, second largest Canal other set of tracks ran to a dump area— town, is a sprawling assortment of housjs, now Fort Amador -along present-day office buildings, schools, shops, churches, Amador Road and Empire Street. lodges, business establishments, and docks Fred deV. Sill, a gay blade in those scattered over the flats, up and down days, recalls that after a dance at the hillsides and along the waterfront. Tivoli, Isthmian beaux would "borrow" a railroad handcar and ride their ladies to Named In 1909 the end of the line and back, pumping The settlement on the Pacific end of manfully. Even on a dry-season night, the Canal was not called Balboa until such exertion did a stiff collar no good. 1909. The name was suggested by the By 1910 it was definite that there would Peruvian Minister to Panama who be a large harbor at Balboa, and that a advanced the idea that the south?rn terminal town would be built near the t srminal should honor the discoverer of Pacific entrance to the Canal. A huge the Pacific, just as the northern terminal harbor- -it was first to caver 176 acres honored the discover?) of the new world. and was later enlarged to 246 acres- Up to that time, the two Pacific side would provide a haven for ships. Typical settlements in the Canal Zone — one of those happy-prenuclear days was this extending from the old Panama Railroad c raiment from The Canal Record: Pier near what is now Pier 6 to the present "The harbor as planned will afford an Balboa docks area and the other a group absolutely safe anchorage. It will be Sl'PERSALESMEX are these t.vo Balboans: B. S. of quarters and service buildings in the practically . . Chisholm, Manager of the Service Center, left, and landlocked . and merchant general area of today's Morgan Avenue- J. F. Evans, Manager of the Commissary. shipping will be secure from all attack as CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955 BALBOATHE PANAMA school, on the top floor, had a faculty of five, including its principal, Jessie H. Daniels. The eight elementary grades '.' : were on the first floor where Elise Cage, as principal, supervised her five teachers- Neither teachers nor pupils suffered any adverse effects from the police station-

jail, directly across the street. Clubhouse Opens The clubhouse, once the pride of Empire, was moved to Balboa and offi- cially opened on Christmas Eve 1914. Five months later Balboa commissary admitted its first customers who were duly impressed by the baskets of flowers which were the opening day gift of the landscape architect's gang. At first, Balboa had nowhere nearly enough quarters to accommodate the families to be assigned there. For a while some Balboa families lived in La Boca. Closing of Corozal as a Canal town in 1915 threw an additional load on the already C'APT. B. A. DARDEX overstrained bousing and it was several CAPT. WILLIAM E. JONES Police District Commander years before the situation eased. Fire District Commander Balboans, like other Zonians, made the harbor will be directly under the lee of their own fun. One early event was a meaning of the word— to dine there and the proposed fortifications on Sosa Hill.' Christmas dance in the Old Balboa hotel, it was the fashionable place to drop in Several groups planned layouts for the given in 1911 by the Balboa volunteer fire for coffee or hot milk after a dance. terminal town, but it was not until 1912 department. In 1915, the town cele- Other recreation centers were the that a final decision was reached. Austin brated its first July Fourth. Fireworks Balboa Community House, now St. Lord, the architect who designed the went off as scheduled from Ancon Hill Mary's School, the Balboa Yacht Club Administration Building, laid out the but a heavy storm rained out a street which today, remodeled, houses the town around a central avenue, now the dance. The merry-makers took it in American Legion, the YMCA, and a Prado, with community buildings grouped their stride, adjourning to the Balboa YWCA which was located on Carr Street at the Sosa Hill end connected by a con- Clubhouse and the Tivoli. and later became the dormitory for many tinuous arcade. Quarters for the office Trams And Movies students at the Junior College. force of the Administration Building By 1920 the townspeople were practic- There were tramcars to ride to Panama, were to be adjacent to and northeast of ally busting out of the small movie hall shops, for women market-bound, and far out on the Building. Employees of the on the second floor of the clubhouse, and terminal facilities live the Sabanas, for families on a Sunday docks, and would a special "moving picture room was added outing. After automobiles became more in quarters to be built on the slope of to take care of this increased patronage," numerous one could drive around "The Sosa Hill and on the new fill, later to be according to the Governor's annual report. Albrook known as The Flats. Loop," through what is now Pranks And Pranksters The architect's plan did not meet Field, or along Amador Road to inspect grownup Zonian still remembers, universal approval. One dissenter ob- the fast-growing new military post, or One with some delight, how he and his friends jected on the grounds that there might onto the docks. restaurant, the used to break up movie performances be goings-on around a police station not When the Balboa now police station, was built about 1917, it regularly by rolling stones down a drain fit for the sight of women and children centers. which ran under the building. Which and that, furthermore, "a space 74 by became one of Balboa's social the society is probably as good a place (See page ID 22 feet for the sleeping of 46 prisoners Some people even dressed- in and containing 26 plumbing fixtures is surely luxurious confinement." In addi- tion he thought that a dormitory, instead of rooms in the individual quarters, should house the servants. By late 1913, Balboa townsite was fairly well laid out. When the House of Representatives Appropiiations Com- mittee arrived in November they found white-painted stakes marking the street pattern. Town Fills Up Load after load of dirt, from Balboa harbor and Diablo Hill, were hauled to

fill the flats and hydraulic dredges added their considerable bit. Meantime, work began on 10 four-family concrete quarters on the s'ope of Sosa Hill, the first to be built in Balboa. It was not u^til 1917 that the frame four-family hous?s in The Flats could be constructed. By the latter part of 1914, Balboa had

begun to fill up. Over 2,0'JO Pacific siders gathered on the piers to watch the SS Ancon complete the first formal Canal transit. By the following July, Balboa's residents numbered 893 men, 230 women, and 250 children. The children attended school in a building which had been put THIS TRIO rules school-going Balboa. T. F. Hotz, left, is principal of Balboa High School. Mis. Marie together from four frame quarters which Xeal is principal of Balboa Elementary School. And Roger D. Michel keeps a firm hand on the sub- had once housed bachelors. The high teens in the Junior High School. 10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955 Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Civil Affairs Bureau Marine Bureau Engineering And Construction Arrangements have been made for Marvin Mrs. Christine L. Tull, who resigned her Banton of the Surveys Branch to witness ition as teacher of home economics at J. a demonstration of survey depth recorder the Balboa High School last month, lias equipment during his current visit to the accepted an appointment as assistant United States. professoi ai the University of Hawaii, in The demonstration will be made by the the department of teacher training of home manufacturers, the FIdo Corporation ol economics. She will reside in Honolulu College Point, N. Y. A test of the equip- but, i" her capacity as supervisor of home plane between five ment is being arranged to determine if it , .mil's, will travel by would be suitable for use in obtaining different Hawaiian islands to supervise survey data of Canal waters. If one of the classes on each of the islands. Mrs. Tull instruments is purchased it could be used plans to take some special work at the in the annual survey chart work of the Universit) of Michigan during the summer Canal channel and waters, and would months; she will travel to Honolulu in time eliminate much of the lead-line soundings lor school opening in September. work. • • • now required in channel survey • • • Henry /.. Donovan, Civil Affairs Dirt-dor, accompanied by Mrs. Donovan and daughter A 10-man gang from the Surveys Branch Peggy Ann, left June 18 by Panama Line is presently engaged on clearing the Canal for a vacation of five weeks in the United Zone boundary in the Gigante River area. States. The Donovans wilt visit in New This work is done on an intermittent basis. York, New England, and Illinois, and will It includes the inspection, clearance, and return on the Panama Line to the Isthmus maintenance of the boundary on the 100- 260- the end of July. foot contour around Gatun Lake and During Mr. Donovan's absence, Sigurd E. foot contour around Madden Lake. Ewer, Superintendent of Schools, will act as Civil Affairs Director, in addition to his /. Hartley Smith, Electrical Engineer, am! other ditties. Chief Admeasurer in Cristnhal on vacation in the • • • NEIL H. WILSON, his family are presently 1951, was promoted last month to Director of .States, and Roy D. Reece is Acting Employees of the Civil Affairs Bureau since United Admeasurement. He will, however, continue also Engineer. Mr. Smith and his located for duty on the Pacific side of the Electrical will have his headquarters in country to visit at his Isthmus, from Gamboa to Ancon, reported in his former post and family drove across Cristobal. He is in charge of 11 men whoso job it mother's home in La Mesa, Calif. They during the last two weeks of May to the for tolls purposes, all ships transiting Albuquerque by their son Paul, Chest Clinic of Gorgas Hospital for chest is to measure, were joined at first time, or refigure the measure- University New Mexico. X-rays. The chest survey program for the Canal for the a student of the of ments on any ships which may have been altered Atlantic side employees will be announced • • • since their last Canal transit. He is also in charge later by the Health Bureau. A considerable change is being made in of the 7 quarantine and 4 customs-immigration • • • the arrangements of desk space in the inspectors. When Mrs. Ruth Miller, of the Canal headquarters of the Electrical Division at Zone Library staff, returned last month Balboa Heights. The change is being John S. (Jack) Watson has resigned as from a vacation trip to the United States, made for better utilization of office space. Admeasurer in Balboa and will enter she brought news of Miss Hulda Henderson • • • business in Florida. He and his family formerly Reference Librarian with the section of Gaillard Highway in the plan to leave this month for their new The Canal Zone Library, who left the Isthmus vicinity of Curundu Culvert was repaired home in the States. in May to make her home in the Division forces last month. 1954 Mr. Watson was born and raised on the by Maintenance United States. consisted of placing several Isthmus. His father, the late Ro\ R, The work Miss Henderson is now Librarian at the plant mix on the Watson, was formerly Chief Quartermaster hundred tons of asphalt White Sands Proving Ground in New adjacent to the culvert to bring of The Panama Canal. Jack has been roadway Mexico and makes her home at nearby road up to the level of the culvert. employed in the Canal organization for the the Alamogordo. She has built a new home This repair work has been done several past 15 years. He was employed in the in Alamogordo, which she has decorated the highway was constructed. Dredging Division in July 1°40 and was times since with furnishings acquired in Mexico during by the sinking of the transferred to the position of Admeasurer It is made necessary her travels. roadbed in the old mangrove swamp area in 1947. • • • • • • which it crosses. The big drainage culvert the Cristobal Fire /./. John A. Tuber of Comdr. N. R. Fuller swapped one tropical under the road is built on piling which attend the Damage Station has been selected to climate for another when he moved from the prevents the culvert from sinking. Center the U. S. Navy, • • • Control Training of island of Guam to the Canal Zone. He is where he will take a at Philadelphia, Pa., now Assistant Chief of the Industrial Maintenance Division forces completed course in instruction during C. fire-fighting Division, succeeding Lt. Comdr. Russell the rebuilding of Morgan Avenue in Balboa The same course was taken last August. Rice who has been transferred to Tampa, along the slide area which developed after by I.t. Perc F. Graham of the Balboa the year Fla. Prior to his appointment to grading in the Balboa Flats area for the Fire Station. Industrial Division, Commander Fuller was macadam road • • new housing. A permanent • for on duty in Guam as Planning Officer surfacing was installed. The slide had The Civil Affairs Bureau is giving em- facilities. the U. S. Naval Ship Repair caused a considerable buckling of the more than 20 young people ployment to The Industrial Division's new assistant roadbed and extensive damage to the months. Eight student during the summer chief arrived here late in June. He was pavement. working in the Schools Divi- their assistants are accompanied by Mrs. Fuller and • • • sion, the Library and the Civil Defense son and daughter. Fulop has been employed as Section. Six of them are working with the Mrs. Lucille Recreation Branch clerk. stenographer in the office of the Engin- Physical Education and Brack Hauler, Jr.. of Duke University, a1 summer playground eering and Construction Director. She takes in connection with the Balboa; Jay Clemmons, Dorman Fulton, Mantovani the plate of Mrs. Theresa C. Wright who has program. They are Lambert A. Herbert Ravbourn, all of Balboa High and been granted 15 mouths leave of absence ai the Ancon Gymnasium; James W. Reece, pool; S. A. Herring, Bob School, at Balboa complete work her F. Stevens, (luring which she will for .11 Diablo Gymnasium; James Connor, and H. E. Ehrman. of Balboa High degree at the Florida State University in at Gamboa Gymnasium; Albert A. Smith, and Dan George and School at Gamboa; employed sev- Louise M. Tallahassee. Mrs. I Itlop was and I .11 Cristobal Gymnasium; G. E. Rodriguez of Cristobal High Scl Palumbo, at eral years ago in the Health Director's office. Edmonson and Luke T. at Gatun. Margarita Gymnasium. Shirley Million • • • • • • Library and Government's annual is working at the Canal Zone The Canal Zone The Dredging Division's 250-ton floating transacted in Beverly A. Crawford is employed in the report of insurance business crane Hercules has been placed on a Section. Zone during the calendar year office (if the Civil Defense the Canal standby basis. In the future it will l.e kept spending in June. The booklet hour college students, who are 1954 was published on a "cold boiler" basis and will he manned also been Concerning Licensing of the sii miner on the Isthmus, have includes "Laws onlv when required for special jobs. employed for the Physical Education and Insurance Companies, as Compiled by the assistants. Bureau for the Executive Recreation Branch, as recreation Civil Affairs Bureau They are Joseph Oliver, Jr., of the C. Z. Secretary." Health • • • ii .r College, who is on duty at the Pedro Police entertained with Mai. William O. Dougherty has been Miguel swimming pool; William McKeown, The Canal Zone and Golf Tourna assigned to the Canal Zone to replace Mai is at a Familv Barbecue Picnic also of the C. /. Junior College who at at the Gamboa Charles (',. Kendall in the Dental Clinic Diablo Gymnasium; Nancy Kariger ol the ment on Saturday, June 11, Golf and Country Club. Present were Gorgas Hospital. Vlarysville State Teachers College in orders Police Division, their Major Kendall has received .a the Balboa swim- members of the niri, employed to Washington, D. C. He families, and guests. assigning him ,111; pool and' Diablo gymnasium; and the sports will lake advanced dentistry courses at the Mississippi Southern A turkey shoot was one of Join 1). Hayes of School of the Army enjoyed during the afternoon; 12 fat Research and Graduate University, who is working at the Gatun Walter Reed turkevs were presented as prizes. Medical Department at gymnasium. will leave Morris of Balboa was 111 Hospital. He and Mrs. Kendall as life guards .11 Sgt. Jack F. Young people employed ol this for the da} s the Canal Zone about the middle swimming pool are Adele Meissner charge of arrangements the Zone month. of theC. Z. Junior College, at Pedro Miguel; entertainment. July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11 YOUR TOWN — BALBOA

tor in the top of a garbage can and then waited for the collector to make his rounds. They still feel the result was worth the effort. Balboa Grows

Balboa townsite's first major enlarge- ment came in the late 1920's when 163 houses, including those which now line Amador Road, were built in the area between Plank Street and the sea. Some of these quarters are now in the Naval reservation. The next large-scale growth took place just before World War II when 12-family houses mushroomed in Williamson Place, the Gavilan area, and the section behind the YMCA. The biggest single recent change in Balboa has been the construction of 98 apart- ments to replace the old frame four-family houses in The Flats. The last of these new quarters was occupied early this year.

Balboa Heights, geographically, is

considered part of Balboa, but is still the AKTHl'R COTTON HAKR Y C. EGOLF Balboa Postmaster capital of the Canal Zone as it was I lousing Manager designed to be. Its Administration Build- {Continued from page 9) as any to talk by hundreds of Balboa women. War about some of the minor outrages bond carnivals at Balboa stadium drew perpetrated by Balboa's younger set. crowds of many thousands and sold bonds The ringing of the school bell on Hal- worth many thousands of dollars. loween was traditional for years; the Second Largest Town students would go to any lengths to rig Today up the necessary Rube Goldberg appara- Balboa's population of 2,709- or 2,876, if you include - tus. Another, more costly, prank in- Balboa Heights is exceeded only volved throwing dye into the swimming by that of Paraiso. Its people can pool. For years, Balboa small fry had a attend any one of eight churches, can bank at running feud with the firemen to see who two'banks or bor- row or deposit could be first to burn the dried grass on money with the Canal Zone Credit Sosa Hill. Union, can attend fraternal functions For several weeks one year, homeward- at any one of four handsome lodge halls, or parties bound servants were terrified almost out at the two USO centers. They can of their wits by white-sheeted young pay their income tax Balboans who jumped from behind at the Canal Zone headquarters of the Internal bushes at them in the early dusk. Another Revenue Service or, if veterans, take their gang of youngsters, now respectable problems to the Veterans Administration citizens, coiled a large dead boa constric- Office at Balboa Service Center. Their children can attend school ROGER C. HACKETT from Dean of the Canal Zone Junior College kindergarten through Junior College, Community Services Bureau without leaving Balboa. Wide screens were installed at Gamboa. ing dominates the Pacific side landscape Balboa is also one of the two centers of Svinta Cruz, and Camp Bierd Theaters just as the two-story, wide-porched house commercial activities in the Canal Zone. during June. This completes the wide- occupied by the Governor dominates its At the Balboa Terminal Building, 14 screen program for the Division. residential section. This big old house shipping agencies handle the business of • • • had been occupied by the Chairman of the a great number of steamship lines. Four Work was completed on the placing of Isthmian Canal Commission in 1907 at oil companies, at least one of which quarry tile on the floor of the Diablo Service was Center kitchen area, and behind the cafe- Culebra and moved to Balboa Heights located in Balboa in 1907, have offices teria counter. Glazed wall tile was also in 1914. and tank farms here. Several shipping placed on walls in the kitchen area. The Balboa Heights' other big, old official and oil companies have residences for tile not only greatly improves the appear- houses, all their officials in Balboa. ance of the areas concerned but will permit of which had been moved in easier cleaning. from towns "along the line," are gradu- Balboa's New Look • • « ally being torn down. Some of them and A comparatively new Balboa develop- Philip Bauman, formerly employed at the some of the smaller frame cottages were Cristobal Service Center and more recently ment, and one which never fails to im- replaced this year with 17 new masonry a member of the Armed Forces stationed in press those who have been away for houses a the United States, has been discharged on Ridge and Quarry Roads. from few years, is the transformation of Balboa duty with tin- Army. He will be reemployed Wartime Balboa Road between the Service at Margarita Service Center. Center and As a town, Balboa was much affected Gavilan Road. This stretch is rapidly by World War II. A few hours after being lined with handsome commercial, Office Of The Comptroller Pearl Harbor, truckloads of Japanese religious and fraternal buildings. The George E. Girard, Chief of the Internal internees began to stream along Balboa newest of these is a Reading Room for the Audit Staff, began a three-month leave Road, headed for the temporary First Church of Christ Scientist, which June 20. During this time he will be on a camp short official detail at the New York Office which had gone up overnight at the is going up next to the Credit Union of the Panama Canal Company. Quarantine Station on the banks of the Building. • • • Canal. Radio and cable censorship offices This section is particularly attractive Robert M. Graham is a new employee in were established on Gavilan Road and a at Christmas time when lighted trees, the Internal Audit Staff, He was em- three-story frame building hastily put galloping, if unofficial, reindeer, and Na- ployed as an auditor on May 27. Mr. up behind the Balboa Post Office was tivity scenes bring Graham, whose United States residence is the holiday spirit to Oak/and. Calif., was formerly -with Price. headquarters for postal censors. Balboa. Another section which specializes Waterhouse & Company in Panama City. Long rows of tankers lined the Balboa in the Christmas scene is the street off • • • docks and from time to time Balboans Gavilan Road known as Santa Claus Land. Another new employee is Mrs. Dorothy glimpsed ships from the Pacific fighting, Balboa, not too long ago, was known L. Garcia. She was employed as a Book- some of them badly damaged, on. their as a "boiler keeping Machine Operator in the Account- makers' town." Today it is, ing Division May 25. Her States residence long voyage home. Canteens at docks and rightly, the center of the Pacific is Columbus, Ga. and at Albrook field hangars were staffed side community. 1 S1

12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955

COMMUNITY SERVICES EMPLOYEES LEAD CANAL ZONE CLERGY IN PURCHASE OF U. S. SAVINGS BONDS

Half a century ago the Salvation Army began its operations in the Canal Zone. Since 1953 its Isthmian organiza- tion, which includes churches in La Boca, Paraiso, Rainbow City, and Pana- ma City, two centers in Colon, and an outpost at Changuinola, has been undet the direction of Senior-Captain Edward W. Hodgson, as Sectional Officer. Captain Hodgson represents the second generation of his family in the Salvation Army. His parents, Lt. Commissioner and Mrs. H. S. Hodgson, now retired in England, were at one time Territorial Commanders of the Central America and West Indies Territory. Captain Hodgson was trained at the Salvation Army's Training College in London and became an officer in 1940. He served in the East End of London during the World War II blitz.

His present Isthmian assignment is his second. He was first stationed here for RAVINGS BOND chairman from Company-Government Bureaus were given letters of commendation from 1943 to 1947, as Welfare Officer on completion of the recent drive to increase employee participation in the pay-roll savings plan for bond British merchant marine and troops purchases. The letters were presented at a short meeting in the Governor's Office. transiting the Canal. Left to right are: Norman Johnson, Saving Bond Officer; Otto W. Helmerichs. Personnel Bureau; John W. Hare, Community Services Bureau; Miss Kathleen McGuigan, Office of the Comptroller; C. E. Ewing, Transportation and Terminals Bureau—representing Norman E. Demers; Captain B. A. Darden; Civil Affairs Bureau; and Gov. J. S. Seybold. Max R. Hart, Supply Bureau, was on vacation when the letters were presented.

More employees of the Community ployees and over Hi percent among local- Services Bureau proportion-wise — are rate employees. now buying U. S. Savings Bonds through The total number of employees now the payroll deduction plan than of any buying bonds through the payroll deduc- other single Company-Government Bu- tion plan is 4,762, of whom 3,453 are on reau. Savings Bond chairman for the the local-rate rolls. Community Services Bureau is J. W. Numerically, the largest number of Hare. new U. S.-rate bond buyers was in the An organization-wide campaign to Civil Affairs Bureau where 99 additional sign up employees for the savings bond employees were signed up. The Supply plan and to increase the amount of pur- Bureau headed the list for the number of chases by those who had already been new local-rate purchasers, with 381 buying was held during May. reported. When figures on the campaign were Several bond-buying plans were avail- compiled by Norman Johnson, in his able again this year and a number of capacity as Savings Bond Officer, they employees who were already buying bonds showed that over 35 percent of U. S.-rate increased the amount of their purchases. employees and slightly over 32 percent of The percentages do not show the local-rate employees have authorized the several hundred employees who upped purchase of savings bonds through pay- the amounts of their deductions for bonds. roll deductions. This was an increase of The table below shows the results of over 10 percent among U. S.-rate em- the recent Savings Bond Drive. CAPT. EDWARD. W. HODGSON

' Participating ' oPartici voting i His next assignments were in Trinidad, A umber of ncu Total now par- following June following May subsmlirr: ticipating 1954 campaign 1956 nim I'liii/n where he was After-Care Officer and Chaplain at His Majesty's Prisons, in u. s. /.. R. C.N. /.. A'. U. S. /.. R. V. s. /.. R. Britain Community Services Bureau: Great where he took a special Chairman, J. W. Hare 14 ISO 55 742 43.5 36.4 71. 4 56.6 course at the Salvation Army's School foi Personnel Bureau: Officers, and in Kingston, Jamaica, where 7(1.0 si. Chairman, Otto Helmerichs - 13 4 45 23 47.1 60.2 5 he was accountant at headquarters for i Iffice "f Comptroller: the same territory of which his Chairman, Kathleen McGuigan. 42 8 159 IS 44.2 43.8 114.4 56.3 parents Transportation and Terminals Bu- had been territorial commanders. reau: One of Captain Hodgson's great inter- III ITS 20. 'J 24.1 43.4 22 2 Chairman. Y E. Demers . 122 529 ests is school for the blind Supply Bureau: a which meets in Chairman, M. I!. Hart 31 381 111? 1.(177 26 3 22.4 2 53.8 weekly in Panama City. From an orig- Civil Affairs Bureau: inal enrollment of six, the school now •54. s

• trained in London and supervises the rmon, Mrs. F. Minton 38 134 *193 129 23.7 •11.6 "29.6 '2S.II Marine Bureau: organization's work among women here.

< Jackson 49 llll 252 298 23.3 6.5 28.6 13.2 irman, 'harles The Hodgsons have three children, th Bureau:

'!'l (1 Marjorie Ann, Edward Robin, and nan, A. E. Schulei 20 58 *111 id.) 0.4 •24.0 "19. Total: Panama Canal Co.-Canal Herbert John. All three were born at Zone Government 370 1.13(1 1.309 3.453 25.0 15.9 35. li 32.4 Gorgas Hospital. They now attend Balboa elementary school and are ardent

mate based on incomplete report. Boy or Girl Scouts. 13 July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Paint, Maintenance

Program Gives Zone

Bright Fresh Look

If the Canal Zone, as a whole, has a fresher, brighter appearance these days, it is not due merely to the widespread do-it-yourself landscaping projects of Zone residents.

A great deal of the rejuvenated look is because several hundred thousand dol- lars have been spent during the fiscal year which ended yesterday for mainte- nance painting of quarters, office build- ings, shops, and other Company-Govern- ment structures. The painting program

is the largest of its sort ever undertaken in a 12-month period. In addition a considerable amount of repair work was done and maintenance, in general, speeded up. In many cases, where painting was not necessary but where buildings needed freshening up, exteriors were washed by Maintenance Division forces. Most of the 109 quarters buildings which were scrubbed this year were in three towns, Balboa, Gatun, and Margarita. The first quarters to have their exteriors BALBOA COMMISSARY customers have taken to the new covered step-and-ramp approach from the washed were a group on Amador Road Clinton Street parking lot with such enthusiasm that the old front entrance is practically neglected. in Balboa. Construction of the side entrance, done by Dillon and Hickman Construction Company, involved some minor alterations and rearrangements inside the store. $345,000 For Quarters Note to the camera fans: This picture was taken about 7:30 p. m. on a recent Thursday, from the During the fiscal year slightly over porch of quarters 727. The photographer used Royal Pan film at a twenty-fifth of a second at f5.6 and $345,000 has been spent for painting of a four-flash unit equipped with No. 22 bulbs. quarters; this figure covers both interior SUMMER SHOES are coming out in bright Panama Canal quarters have made Canal and exterior painting. According to the colors this year and the Commissary Division Zone residents patio-furniture and barbecue- Housing Division the exteriors of 577 has promised that a large shipment of play minded. The houseware department reports quarters were painted and new coats of shoes in the latest colors and styles will arrive a steady demand for barbecue grills and will on sale im- barbecue accessories all of which are being paint put on 279 roofs. Interior painting during July and be placed mediately. The styles will include flats, kept in stock in the Commissary houseware was done in 801 apartments, 264 bachelor sandals, and the new so-called skimmers sections. rooms, and 179 hallways. which are as flat as pollera slippers and With this in mind the Commissary Division The painting of quarters and public- probably as comfortable. has ordered a new gadget designed to make buildings was principally done by con- patio meals even less trouble than they are It is junior serving cart called is casual now. a a tract. possible, ALREADY ARRIVED a shipment of Wherever during the with shoes by the well-known Sandler people "Hotess Serv-a-Teer," steel fitted legs fiscal year, the exterior trim of all con- swivel casters which it simple of Boston which may be on sale and make a crete buildings of the office, shop, and Carefree soon enough for the Fourth of July task to wheel around the terrace or the living commissary type was refinished. At the Casuals holiday week end. Included are room. It carries two medium-sized painted Notes," trays which can be removed easily for serving. Administration Building, for instance, all white kid flats called "Low with a snap strap and a low leather heel. The whole contraption can be folded up with woodwork on the windows has been There are some beige suede numbers called a twist of the wrist and stored in some con- repainted, Venetian blinds refinished, and "Bubbles" by the manufacturers. These have venient cubbyhole. By cutting a few corners budget their tapes renewed. a new sole material said to be of the lightest from the grocery any housewife can owner of weight, and greatest flexibility yet known. be the proud of one or two these Public Buildings The shipment also includes a whole selection time savers; they will be put on sale at the for only $4.95. of Sandler ballet-type shoes in solid red, commissaries The list of buildings which have been black, and white. All these are certain to painted, some entirely and some partly, with the teenage crowd as well be popular THE SCOTCH KOOLER and its companion is too long to be enumerated. These as their older sisters and they will sell for piece, the Scotch Grill, have also proved public buildings include: Gamboa, Rain- only $5.95 and $6.95. popular with the outdoor- bow City, and Margarita Commissaries, Scotch Plaid conditioned Canal Zoners. Another shipment will be the Ancon Laundry, the wholesale plat- THE MEN are not being neglected in the summer shoe orders made by the Commissary received soon with the Scotch Kooler in a form at the Balboa Commissary, the Division either. During July a large selec- convenient two-gallon size which sell at Balboa gasoline station, woodwork on the tion of men's sport shoes, with crepe soles, $5.25. The grill, as you know, is about the Balboa pump station, the Paraiso Theater and two-tcned loafers are due to appear in same size and shape as the Kooler and is the answer to thai old problem of how to build a the exterior woodwork at the Office of tiie Commissary shoe sections. fire on a windy beach, or any other picnic the General Manager of the Commissary spot for that matter; a' $5.95. Division at Mount Hope, the Mount PLAY CLOTHES as well as play shoes being on minds of most of the female population of Refrigeration Plant, the Balboa Hope the Canal Zone during the RIGHT OFFHAND we don't know a person Service Center, woodwork at the old Denim Duds summer vacation months, com- who is too happy when he finds that he has Balboa Dispensary, now ticket office for missary customers should be to eat a meal off a paper plate. On the other hand, what hostess 'ooks forward the Panama Line, the Diablo Heights glad to know that another shipment of the to popular Caroll Chris from California has washing a mess of dirty dishes after an infor- Service Center, the two-story building been received and will be on sale soon in mal evening? We think that this can be solved formerly used as a fire station and now an the dress sections. These include denim by a plastic picnic plcte soon to be sold by office building at Diablo Heights, the toreador pants, shorts, and pedal pushers the commisscry for 1 5 cents each. They in bright red, green, and yellow Diablo gymnasium, one of the old SED witn blouses and the popular Italian jackets come and ta match. They come in the blue, charcoal, are partitioned — to keep the potato salad out buildings at Diablo Heights, several orange, pink, and aqua and some in stripes of the hamburger — and have a space for a schools, the Junior College dormitory with a combination of several colors. As cup or glass. Since they are plastic, they for boys, and a number of Electrical may be remembered, these sporl clothes are are unbreakable and, since they are cheap can 'mown without Division buildings, including the Gatun all under $12 and, being of denim, should they be away breaking wear like iron despite the constant launder- the annual budget. They are sturdy enough, and Cristobal Telephone Exchanges, the ing necessary in the tropics. however, to be used more than once if they Balboa Power Station, and the Miraflores are washed in lukewarm suds and allowed to and Agua Clara Diesel Stations. PATIOS AND BREEZEWAYS of the new dry on a rack. .

14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1,1955

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

May 15 Through June 15 From Cristobal Cristobal -July 2 vh • were promoted or i rans- Motor Transportation Division, to Guard, Ancon 9 between May 15 and June IS are Locks Security Branch. July isted below. Within-grade promotions are Russell C. Meissner, from Control Cristobal July 16 not listed. House Operator to Lockmaster, Pacific- Panama _. July 23 Locks. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Ancon July 30 Leonard B. Wilson, from Fireman, Fire Patrick H. Boggs, from Fireman to Fire- Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator, From man, Driver-Qperator, Fire Division. New York Pacific Locks. Robert E. McCullough, from Supervisor Cristobal Roy A. Hall, from Engineer, Pipeline July 7 to Junior High School Teacher. Division ol Suction Dredge, Dredging Division, to Panama July 14 Schools. Chief, Towboat Engineer, Navigation Divi- Ancon July 21 Sadie E. Springer, from Supervisor to sion. Senior School Teacher. Division of Cristobal July 28 High Neil H. Wilson, from Chief Admeasurer, Si hools. Navigation Division, to Director of Admeas- (Southbound, the Haiti stop is from 7 A. Karch, from Supervisor to Junior Jean urement, Office of Marine Director. a. m. to 4 p. m. on Monday; northbound, School Teacher, Division of Schools. High Charles V. Scheidegg, from Electrical the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Mon- B. Shirley, from Junior High Owen Coordinator, to Lock Operator Wireman days, from about 1 to 6 p. m.) School Teacher to Assistant Principal, Leader, Atlantic Locks. Occupational High School, Division of Andrew Metzgar, from Lock Operator Schools. Wireman Leader to Lock Operator Wire- Josephine A. DiBella, from Ticket Seller, man, Atlantic Locks. Service Center Division to Student Aid, Christian S. Skeie, from Sanitation ANNIVERSARIES Library. Inspector, Panama Health Office, to Tow- Frank J. Degeer, from Junior High School ing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks. Teacher to Senior High School Teacher, Mrs. Katherine Foulkes, from Clerk John H. Leach, Local Agent, Cristobal Division of Schools. Stenographer to Shorthand Reporter, Office FYeight House and Albert H. Evans, As- COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU of Cristobal Port Captain. sistant Chief of the Administrative Branch, D. Love, from Stevedore Foreman, both of celebrated 35 years of govern- Marcy H. Carpenter, from Usher, Serv- John whom Terminals Division, to Dock Foreman, ment service in June, are the senior men on ice Center Division, to Student Assistant, Navigation Division. the anniversary list this month. Housing Division. Mrs. Nellie K. Whitney, from Fiscal Charles R. Soukup, from Guard, Term- Mr. Leach, whose service date of June Accounting Clerk to Accounting Clerk, inals Division, to Steward, Service Center 16, 1920, makes him two days senior to Division. Industrial Mr. Evans, is a native of London, Ark. I livision. He came to the Isthmus in 1919 with his OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER PERSONNEL BUREAU parents and took his first job with the Mrs. Catherine B. Sigl, from Bookkeep- William N. Taylor, from Position Classi- Canal organization during summer vaca- ing Machine Operator to Bookkeeping fier to Chief, Local Rate Section, Wage tions as a messenger. In 1922 he was Machine Supervisor, Machine Accounting and Classification Division. employed as a clerk with the Receiving and Unit. SUPPLY BUREAU Forwarding Agency, now the Terminals Mrs. Eldermae A. Duff, Accounting Division, in Cristobal and has been with Analyst, Clerk, from General Ledger and Processing Joseph B. Burgoon, from Cost that division ever since. He was acting Branch to Reports and Reconciliation Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff, to local freight agent in both Balboa and Cris- Branch. General Foreman, Dry Cleaning, Commis- tobal on several occasions and was pro- Mrs. Jeanne M. Wheeler, from Book- sary Division. moted to Local Agent in Cristobal in 1953. Supervisor, Machine Mrs. Eva M. Harte, from Usher, Service keeping Machine A native of New York, Mr. Evans served to Plant Accounting Center Division, to Commissary Assistant, Accounting Unit, three years with the V. S. Army before he Inventory and Appraisal Commissary Division. Assistant, Plant came to the Isthmus in 1924. His first job Johnny Vaucher, from Accounting Clerk Staff. with the Canal organization was with the to Accounting Supervisor, Commissary Paul F. Helton, Accountant, from Inter- Administrative Branch at Balboa Heights Division. nal Audit Staff to General Ledger and and he has remained with the same unit Gerald J. Kelley, from Typewriter Processing Branch. during all his years of service. In 1941 Repairman, Industrial Division, to Com- Florian B. Hopson, from Supervisory he was made Chief of the Record Section missary Assistant, Commissary Division. Accountant, General Ledger and Processing and was promoted to Administrative Branch to Accountant. Reports and Recon- TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS Assistant in 1944. Since 1951 he has ciliation Branch. BUREAU been Assistant Chief of the Administrative Henri E. Moehrke, from Steam Engineer, Branch. John H. Allen, from Wood and Steel Floating Crane, Dredging Division, to 25 YEARS Carman to Car Inspector, Railroad Divi- Cost Analyst, Plant Inventory and Ap- Two of the four employees who passed sion. praisal Staff. the cpaarter-century mark of government Theodore A. Albritton, from Assistant Maria I. Dawson, Clerk-Typist, service during the month of June have Mrs. Roundhouse Foreman, to Roundhouses and Inspection Division, unbroken Canal service. Three of them from Contract and Equipment Foreman, Railroad Division. Fiscal Division. are mid-westerners and one is a native to Claims Branch, William Rose, from Diesel Locomotive Bradley, from Time. J. Canal Zonian. Mrs. Helen T. Machinist to Assistant Roundhouse Fore- Bookkeeping The two with unbroken Canal service are I.ea,ve, and Payroll Clerk, to man, Railroad Division. Machine Accounting Fred Yaeger, Pumping Plant Operator with Machine Operator, Mrs. Alda L. McLeod, from Typist to the Maintenance Division and Capt. Unit Clerk-Typist, Terminals Division. Horatio A. Lincoln, Captain of the Balboa ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION John K. Brayton, from Supervisory Port. BUREAU Traffic Clerk to Stevedore Foreman, Captain Lincoln was born in Grand Brandl, from Assistant to Terminals Division. Charles McG. F'orks, N. Dak. and has been Port Captain Project Engineer, Project 13A Division. Richard M. Conover, from Supervisory in Balboa since 1952. Most of I is govern- Nancy A. Ramsey, from Clerk-Typist, Storekeeper to Supervisory Traffic Clerk, ment service has been with II. S. Navy on Terminals Division, to Clerk (Typist), Terminals Division. other assignments. He is scheduled to Electrical Division. complete his tour of duty here in July. Powerhouse John Clayton, Jr., from The Canal Zonian celebrating his 25th Powerhouse Operator, Operator to Senior service anniversary this month is Theodore Elect rical Division. C. Henter, who was born in the construc- Engineer, JUNE RETIREMENTS Peter S. Legge, from Steam tion-day tov\ n ot Gorgona. He is now Floating Crane, to Engineer (Pipeline Assistant Chief Hvdrographer in the Suction Dredge), Dredging Division. Meteorological and Hydrographic Branch Retirement certificates were presented Harry W. Gardner, from Wharfbuilding in Balboa Heights. the end of June to the following employees, foreman to Relief Foreman, Dredging The fourth man completing 25 years of listed alphabetically, together with their I livision. government service is John F. Greening, birthplaces, titles, length of service, and HEALTH BUREAU a native of Hamilton, Ohio, who is Lock- future addresses: Dr. Rafael Alvarez, from Resident. master at the Gatun Locks. Fahnestock, Mississippi; Hospital, to Medical Officer, Atlan- Captain John M. 20 YEARS Police District Commander; 26 l i Cristobal al < )linics, Six employees passed their 20-year anni- Colbert, from Staff Nurse, years, 5 months, 2 days; Gulfport, Miss. - Eleanor L. versary in June and three of them have Hospital, to Read Nurse, Corozal William H. Metivier, Rhode Island; Mail unbroken service with the Canal organiza- Supervisor, Administrative Branch; 30 tion. The three with continuous service MARINE BUREAU years, 1 1 months, 16 days; address uncertain. are Bland L. Smith, Electrician Leader. George W. Parker, Denton W. Broad, Joe H. Richardson, North Carolina; FZlectrical Division, Mount Hope; Eric A. from Lock Operator Wireman Leader to Policeman, Gamboa Penitentiary; 24 years; Fagerberg, Machinist, Industrial Division, Wilmington, N. C. rol House Operator, Pacific Locks. Cristobal; and Robert J. Helmerichs, born James P. Hayman, Walter M. Hartman, Capt. Macon A. Turner, North Carolina; in Ancon, Detective Sergeant stationed at from Lock Operator Wireman to Lock Captain of Detectives, Balboa Police Dis- the Balboa Police Station. Wireman Leader, Pacific Locks. trict; 26 years, 7 months; address un- The other three with 20 years of Govern- James 3. Rigby, from Truck Driver, decided. ment service whose Canal service is broken July 1, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

EXECUTIVE REGULATION 49 Husband -And -Wife Team Vanguard Editor's Note: The following Executive Regulation, covering the construction or Of New Gorgas Hospital Interns placing of signs, bills, posters, or other advertising devices in the Canal Zone, was Tex. and her husband hails from Middle- issued last month at Balboa Heights. bourne, W. Va. They have been married CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT two years and so far their careers com- PANAMA CANAL COMPANY plement each other's perfectly. Their plans following their internship at Gorgas OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT are still indefinite, mostly because Dr. Balboa Heights, C. Z., Dwayne will probably be called into the June 10, 1955. Executive Regulation No. 49 Army and Dr. Barbara will tag along if OUTDOOR ADVERTISING possible. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Governor The Sargents are one of two medical by section 843 of title 5 of the Canal Zone Code, as couples among the 16 amended June 13. 1940 (Ch. 358, sec. 3, 54 Stat. new doctors who 390). the following regulations covering the construc- will take their internship at Gorgas tion or placing of signs, bills, posters, or other adver- tising devices on lands, buildings, or other structures Hospital this year. The other couple in the Canal Zone, other than within military or is Dr. naval reservations, are hereby prescribed: Edward G. Long and his wife, 1. No sign, bill, poster, or other advertising device Dr. Cherie C. Long, both graduates of shall be constructed, placed, or displayed except in conformity with these regulations and shall not be the Louisiana State College of Medicine. constructed, placed, or displayed unless the location, The Longs, together with design, and type of display have first been approved most of the by the Civil Affairs Director, in whom authority to other new interns, arrived the last week administer these regulations is hereby vested. 2. Advertising of the following types, or in the in June. following locations, is hereby prohibited, except in Other new interns cases in which the Civil Affairs Director makes an and the medical exception in writing supported by written findings schools they attended are: Dr. Albert E. indicating strong considerations of public interest as warranting such exception: Anderson, Tufts Medical School; Dr. (a) Signs of billboard size. John P. Brady, Boston University Medi- (b) Any sign over 4 feet high or 20 feet long. * (c) Signs that are indecent or otherwise con- cal School; Dr. Robert C. Brandmeyer, trary to the public mores. Kansas University Medical Center; Dr. (d) Multiple type (Burma Shave) signs. NEW INTERNS (e) Any sign: (1) within 10 feet of the edge of a Robert A. Chapman, Columbus Medical street or road. (2) on the inside of a curve. (3) Left to right, or right to left, the Drs. Sargent within 75 feet of an intersection, or (4) any sign School; Dr. Dean T. Collins, University which for any reason would create a hazard to Dr. Dwayne L. Sargent his wife, of Kansas Medical School; traffic or interfere with traffic or traffic signs or and Dr. Charles signals. Dr. Barbara Sargent, who arrived here H. Glines, University of Michigan Medi- (f) Signs that would mar natural scenic beauty or the appearance of a community. by plane early in June, were the vanguard cal School; Dr. Paul R. Hanson, State 3. Signs advertising single events, sponsored by of a new crop of interns will University of Iowa religious, civic, or employee organizations, or events who train at Medical School; Dr. of a cultural nature, shall not be fixed or erected Gorgas Hospital this year. The medical Gene E. Johnson, Indiana University more than 4 weeks prior to the event, except as may be authorized by the Civil Affairs Director on con- husband-and-wife team were both gradu- School of Medicine; Dr. David E. Living- siderations ?>f the public interest, and shall be removed ated from Rice Institute in in ston, University of by the sponsoring organization within 3 days after Houston Rochester Medical closing of the event advertised, unless such time is 1951 and both completed their medical School; Dr. John C. Loofbourow, Univer- iurther extended by the Civil Affairs Director. 4. These regulations shall not be applicable to the training at Baylor University College of sity of Minnesota School of Medicine; display by commercial firms or other organizations Medicine in Houston this year. Dr. Stephen J. Plank, established in the Canal Zone of signs located on University of premises owned, leased, or held under license by Dr. Barbara is a native of Houston, California Medical School; Dr. Richard them; Provided, however. That the Civil Affairs Director may prohibit, or require the removal of. Siegler, University of Chicago Medical any such sign that would be contrary to the public School, and Dr. John E. mores or otherwise inconsistent with the general Latin-American Schools Open Tuesday Woods, Western purposes of this regulation. Reserve University Medical School. 5. Any person who violates any of the regulations established hereby is punishable, as provided by sec- (Continued from page 1) begin. Text books tion 843 of title 5 of the Canal Zone Code, as amended, for by a fine of not more than $25.00. or by imprison- the lower grades are already on hand. ment in jail for not more than 10 days, Library or by both, The books are those used in the schools Zone Sends Magazines and every day that any prohibited advertising device remains in violation of these regulations constitutes of such countries as Panama, Cuba, a separate offense. To Readers In Fiji Puerto Rico, Islands 6. These regulations shall become effective 60 days and Mexico. after the date of issuance thereof. A number of changes have been made It's a long way from the Canal Zone to S. Sevbold J. in the teaching staff of the Latin-Ameri- Nadi in the Fiji Islands, but almost half- Governor of the Canal Zone President. Panama Canal Company can schools system this year. Eleven way around the world isn't too far for new teachers, have been assigned to the friendly hands from the Canal Zone are John R. Smith, who was born in Cule- elementary schools. Library to reach. Today Fiji Islanders bra, Supervisor of Generation and Trans- Students returning to school Tuesday may be browsing through magazines mission of the Power Branch, Electrical will find several new principals which, not too Division, Balboa Substation; John A. on duty. long ago, were perused by Dombrowsky, also born on the Isthmus, Mrs. Elouise Small, who had been on the Canal Zonians. Lock Operator, VVireman, Pacific Locks; teaching staff of the Rainbow City ele- It all started this way: Several years and Mrs. Doris B. McDonald, Chief mentary school is now principal at the ago an issue of UNESCO's Bulletin for Dietitian at Gorgan Hospital. elementary school at Chagres. She suc- libraries, which is printed in several 15 YEARS ceeds Miss Pearline Carter who has been languages, carried an offer from the Eight of the 16 employees completing appointed principal of the La Boca Canal Zone Library to 15 years of service in June have continuous supply noncurrent service with the Canal organization. They Elementary and Junior High Schools. periodicals, which were no longer needed are L. Leroy Barfield, Lock Operator, Robert Beecher, who has been a high here, to other libraries. Atlantic Locks; Mortimer Brennan, J. school teacher, is the new principal of Soon afterward the Library received Leader Wireman, Electrical Division; Porter the La Boca High School and Owen B. requests from W. Crawford, Foreman Cribtender, Term- several libraries for old inals Division; John H. Foster, Leader Shirley has been promoted from vice magazines. One of the letters came from Electronics Mechanic, Electrical Division; principal to principal of the Rainbow the Ramakrishna Library in Nadi. Robert F. Roche, Accountant, Payroll City High School. Not long ago Mrs. L. B. Burnham, Bureau; Edwin Roddy, Plumber, Main- J. Another change in the schools system Canal Zone Librarian, tenance Division; Trendon Vestal, Account- received another is ant, Accounting Systems Staff, and Eliza- the assignment of Kenneth V. Griffith letter from the Islands, thanking her for beth F. Walsh, Accountant, General Man- as full-time librarian in charge of the magazines which had been sent, and ager's Office, Service Center Division. Rainbow City High School library. asking her again for assistance. The Other employees who completed 15 years The library will now serve the entire Fiji librarian wrote that hospital library of Government service in June are: Phra A. Ashby, Maintenance Mechanic, Corozal community as well as the school. Books service, on a small scale, had been started Hospital; Louis C. Caldwell, Operation in Spanish are available in the school in the Laukota Hospital, second largest Supervisor, Storehouse Division; Charles libraries and others are being ordered. in the colony. H. Crosby, Lock Operator, Machinist, Only a few physical changes have been "If you have any duplicate Pacific Locks; George V. Daniels, Chief books of the Local Rate Records Branch; Henry made in the schools. Among these is the which can be spared, we shall feel grate- C. Freeman, Stevedore Foreman, Trans- addition of a small playground area, ful if they can be presented to this portation and Terminals Bureau; Albert E. which is being equipped with swings, for library in a distant isolated island group Greene, Customs Inspector, Balboa; John the Chagres school. This will provide in the Southwest Pacific," he wrote. T. O'Donnell, Jr., Machinist and Diver, play space for Industrial Division; and Virgil C. Reed, the children in the two- Mrs. Burnham and her staff will do Maintenance Superintendent, Grounds room school, attended by children from their best to send some more materials, Maintenance Division. grades one through six. she told The Panama Canal Review. 16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 1, 1955

SHIPS .no SHIPPING

Transits By Ocean-Going Vessels In Maj Floating Crane To Be Sold m 1955 1954 Commercial 698 689 U.S. Government 24 30 Total 722 719

*Tolls

Commercial $3,080,281 $2,929,034 U. S. Government 73,345 90,090 Total $3,153,626 $3,019,124'

* Includes tolls cm all vessels, ocean-going and small.

With commercial traffic through the Canal maintaining a high level during July, the total number of transits by ocean-going ships was expected to exceed 8,000 in the fiscal year 1955. This was the first time in the history of the water- way that transits by ocean-going com- mercial ships exceeded this mark. The previous record for commercial traffic of 7,784 was set in the fiscal year 1954, and this mark had been passed on June 21. The big decline in the number of ocean- going U. S.-Government ships in transit AJA X, one of the largest floating cranes in service and one of a pair which had been built for the Panama during the 1955 fiscal year more than Canal in 1914, was put up for sale last month. Bids for the crane were advertised the latter part of June; offset increase in commercial traffic the they will be opened September 30. with the result that the fiscal year figures Like its identical twin, Hercules, the Ajaz was built in Germany and towed across the Atlantic. for all traffic were expected to be under The Ajax's trans-Atlantic crossing took 74 days and was completed just before World War I broke out. During its career the 250-ton floating crane has been used in a number of spectacular jobs. One of those in the fiscal years 1953 and 1954. its first assignments was to raise the sunken drill barge Teredo from the Canal channel. Later the Ajaz hauled up, from the bottom of Cristobal harbor, the USS OS which had been damaged in collision with a freighter. All members of the crew were saved. Up to the end of May there had been Together with the Hercules, the Ajaz later raised a Navy tug which had sunk besides the Balboa 265 transits by ocean-going Government docks and in 1936 raised a derrick barge which went down in Cristobal harbor. vessels as compared with 760 in a com- parable period in the previous fiscal year. A Swiss flag was among the many in One of the best-known figures in Canal the stream of traffic moving through the shipping circles ended many years of asso- Isthmus Old-time residents of the who (-anal last month. The vessel was the ciation with local waters recently. He polar ships transit the have seen several SS Nyon en route from New Zealand to is Capt. J. J. Jansen, master of the Royal to Canal may have an opportunity soon London with a general cargo. It was the Netherlands Steamship Company's 7,600- Glacier. see the Navy's biggest icebreaker second ship flying the Swiss flag to pass tor. Bennekom and senior master of the late in The big icebreaker, launched through the Canal this year, the other steamship line's fleet. May at Pascagoula, Miss., is to be being the SS Ludendra which transited Captain Jansen, who has been with the flagship Admiral Richard E. Byrd's on last February. There were 11 ships of Dutch line for over 41 years, began his the Antarctic exploration next winter. the Swiss merchant marine which trans- sea career as a sailer and worked up to No information has been received on ited the Canal in the fiscal year 1954 but senior master. He began his association waters its possible arrival date in Canal only five have been listed in the fiscal with the Canal about the same time, as but it was announced at the time of its year which ended in June. the ships on which he was stationed were launching that it would leave in about trading here even before the Panama five weeks. Canal was opened. He has been master Ships of Admiral Byrd's two previous of the Bennekom since 1952. A deckload of bears, lions, and camels Antarctic expeditions transited the Canal When the Dutch freighter transited made up part of an unusual cargo listed to and from the polar region. The the Canal, Canal pilots learned that it in Canal traffic in June. The load of Glacier is an 8,500-ton ship, 310 feet long, was Captain Jansen's last trip before his wild animals was aboard the German and is designed to break through ice 15 retirement. He was accompanied by his vessel SS Rheinstein. The animals were feet thick. It is said to be the largest wife for this last voyage. When the Ben- being shipped from Hamburg, Germany, icebreaker ever built outside of Russia. nekom reached Cristobal, Canal pilots to a zoo in Salvador. The Rheinstein had a boquet of flowers waiting for the transited early in June with no previous wife of their old friend —a kind of thank The third of four large new motorships notice of the cargo and thus the Canal you and goodbye. built for the Westfal-Larsen Company- banks were not lined with small fry for a free view of the travelling zoo. Line is expected to make its maiden OUT-PATIENT BILL DEDUCTIBLE voyage through the Canal within another DURING CURRENT PAY PERIODS few weeks. The MS Evanger was recently launched in Bergen, Norway, and is Two United States cruisers and several Announcement that deductions will be scheduled to enter service between the destroyers are scheduled to arrive late made in current pay periods for out- east coast of South America and the this month with some 1,375 midshipmen patient bills of $3 or less for local-rate Pacific coast of North America sometime taking Naval ROTC training at various employees paid biweekly was made late in August. Two sister ships, the A^or- universities throughout the States. This last month.

r and Hardanger, have already will be the largest of such groups ever This change is to be made effective entered the service and a fourth is to visit the Isthmus on a summer cruise. immediately and the charges will be scheduled for the route. Each vessel is The ships are expected to arrive July 25 scheduled for deduction in current pay 8,600 tons deadweight with an average and leave July 29. Several Canal Zone periods regardless of whether an in-patient speed of 15 knots and accommodations boys are expected to be among the big bill is being liquidated at the same time, for 12 first-class passengers. group of midshipmen. it was announced.