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The Panama Canal Review 9 WORLD PORTS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LIBRARIES Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/panamacanalrevie1411pana Vol. U, JUNE,J^64 .1^91^ ii ' 2 7 #|ffl|k "^ Robert J. Fleming, Jr., Governor-President Robert D. Kekr, Press OflScer David S. Parkek, Lieutenant Governor . Publications Editors >'faf^ fl;j>»-t Richard D. Peacock and Julio E. Briceno Frank A. Baldwin Panama Canal Information Officer Editorial Assistants Official Panama Canal Publication Eunice Richard, Tori Bittel, and Published monthly at Balboa Heights, C.Z. Tomas A. Cipas Printed at tlic Printing Plant. La Boca, C.Z. Distributed free of charge to all Panama Canal Employees. ^<;^ # 0fi iiiiiii II nil mi I The British luxury liner Canberra made her second trip through the Panama Canal on May 28. She is shown here entering Pedro Miguel Locks on her initial trip through the Canal. Norton Lilly is the agent at the Canal. Index cTtbout ZJne Cover New Board Members 3 JOSEPH PENXELL, an enthusiastic and sensitive Transits at New High 4 American artist, never surpassed the sketches he did on Shipping Charts 4 the Panama Canal. They are brilliant, bold, and convey New Radio System 6 the \igorous spirit of the building of the Canal. "The Sandfly Solution 8 Native Village," this month's cover, was one of his por- trayals of life as he found it on the Isthmus in 1912. Pennell Port of Houston 10 felt that he was sketching "the most wonderful thing in Canal History 11 the world," and he captured it, he said, at its most Shipping News 12 picturesque moment. History has proved that his judg- Anniversaries 13 ment was accurate. One of the limited number of original Ear Muffs and Sound 14 lithographs of this sketch hangs in the Canal Zone Librarj'-Museum. The Stamp Committee 15 2 June 1964 NEW BOARD MEMBERS and bachelor of laws degrees. He prac- ticed law in Laredo from 1934 to 1942. In 1942, when he joined the Foreign Service, Mr. Mann was first assigned as Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in Montevideo, Uruguay. He returned to the Department in 1943 as assistant chief of an economic di\ision. Later, he was assigned as Chief Thomas C. Mann Paul R. Ignatius Assistant Secretary of State for of the Division of River Plate Affairs in Under Secretary' of the Army Inter-American Affairs the Department and as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for a member of a staff responsible for pre- THE BOARD of Directors of the Pan- American Republics Affairs. In 1947, paring a comprehensive manual for the Canal has two new ama Compan\- mem- Mr. Mann was assigned to the United Nav\ 's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. bers. Thev are Thomas C. Mann, States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, In Februarx- 1947 Mr. Ignatius was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- in charge of political and petroleum awarded the degree of master in busi- American Affairs, and Paul R. Ignatius, affairs. ness administration from Harvard Uni- Under Secretar\' of the Axmy. Mr. \ersit\-. In the following 3 \ears he In Januarx' of 19.50, he returned to Mann, of Laredo, Tex., was sworn into serx-ed as a research assistant and as an the Department of State as Director of his new post as Assistant Secretar\- of instructor in business administration Affairs tlie Office of Middle-American Affairs, State for Inter-American on at Harvard. in January 3. He also is Special Assistant and November of that \ear he was He resigned from the Harxard staff to the President and U.S. Coordinator of named Deput\' Assistant Secretary in in 1950 to form, with txvo of his Harvard the Alliance for Progress. Mr. Ignatius the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Business School associates, the manage- assumed the post of Under Secretary of In August of 1953 Mr. Mann again was ment, consulting, and research firm, the Arm\- on Februar\- 24. assigned abroad, going to Athens as Harbridge House, Inc. Mr. Mann succeeds Edwin M. Martin, Counselor of Embass\'. In October of During the next 11 years, Mr. \\ ho was designated b\ Pres. Lyndon B. 1954. he was named Counselor of Ignatius plaxed a major role in the de- Johnson as U.S. Ambassador to Argen- Embassy in Guatemala City. He was x'elopment and expansion of Harbridge tina. Mr. Ignatius succeeds Stephen appointed Ambassador to El Salvador House. A great part of this effort xvas Ailes, who was appointed bv the in October 1955 and he continued in dexoted to consulting and research in President as Secretary of the Arm\'. that capacit\ until November 1957. militarx supply and procurement and Mr. Mann, a career Foreign Service in procurement responsibilities of Mr. Mann is married to the former the officer, served from 1961 as Ambassador defense industry. NancN' Milling A\ nesworth of Waco, a large segment of to Mexico. This will be the second time Among the major projects he undertook Mr. Mann serves as Assistant Secretary Tex. and the\' have a son, Clifton xvas the planning and establishment of of State for Inter-American Affairs, a A\nesworth Mann. the Armx- Management School at post he previoush- held from Sep- Mr. Ignatius is a native of Los An- Fort Belvoir and the Army Logistics tember 1, 1960, to March 30, 1961, public schools geles, Calif. He attended Management Center at Fort Lee. when he was appointed as .Embassador in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles. On May 22, 1961, Mr. Ignatius xvas to Mexico. In 1942, he received an A.B. degree appointed Assistant Secretary of the From September 19.57 to September with honors from the University of Armx- (Installations and Logistics) and was Assistant Secretary I960 Mr. Mann was elected to Southern California and held that position until he assumed the of State for F]conomic Affairs, and was Phi Beta Kappa. office of Under Secretary of the Anny on active in numerous aspects of United During World War II, Mr. Ignatius Februarx- 28 of this year. States relations with Latin America. served as a lieutenant in the Navy, prin- married He was born in Laredo on Novem- In 1947. Mr. Ignatius Nancy Mass. ber 11. 1912, and was graduated from cipally as an aviation ordnance officer Sharpless Weiser of Holvoke, Ba\lor Universit\- in Waco, Tex., in aboard the carrier Manila Bay in the Thex have four children: David, 13; 1934, receiving both bachelor of arts Pacific. For a brief period of time he was Sarah, 12; \m\\ 9; and Alan, 5. The Panam.\ C.\xal Review CANAL COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC BY NATIONALITY from U.S. gulf ports. Far East cargo PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES SHIPPED THROUGH THE CANAL moving to the Atlantic consists of Pacific to Atlantic finished goods manufactured in Ja- (All cargo pan and iron ore from Peru carried figures in long tons) the ships on which load coal for the Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 1964 return trip to Japan. Commodity Average 1964 1963 1951-55 Wheat shipments from United 1,381,084 States and Canadian west coast ports Ores, various 1,493,594 1,563,792 Lumber 961,032 to Europe amounted to nearly 2 1,119,227 988,427 868,628 Petroleum & products (e.xcludes asphalt) 521,022 350,657 249,439 Wheat million tons tins past fiscal year. 494,618 352,651 508,144 Sugar 366,267 416,310 233 804 These may drop by as much as Canned food products 220,736 235,009 304,637 Nitrate of soda 700,000 tons if predictions of a good 226,483 181,503 360,514 Barley 151,917 169,378 58,964 wheat crop in Europe prove correct. Bananas 354,126 274,884 192,445 Metal, various Grain shipments usually slack off 298,492 268,530 162,399 Food products in refrigeration (except fresh during summer montlis because of fruits) 260,659 282,339 163,265 Coffee 110,486 98,206 routing of grain through the St. 76,638 Fishmeal 333,667 323,443 Lawrence Seaway. Iron and steel manufactures 306,667 219 518 60,502 Pulpwood 126,818 ] 19,956 48,257 The commodities expected to hold All others 1,565,591 1,577,477 660,674 their own in future Canal trade Total 7,950,370 7,422,080 4,909 342 movements are petroleum and ba- nanas. Both may increase in the com- Atlantic to Pacific ing year. There may be continued in- Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 1964 crease in shipments of gasoline from Commodity 1964 1963 Average gulf ports to the U.S. west coast; re- 1951-55 Petroleum sidual oil to the Far East and crude & products (excludes asphalt)- 2,860,421 2,222,273 968,731 Coal and coke 1,704,659 1,242,702 676,946 oil to the U.S. west coast. Iron and steel manufatures 401,581 245,565 420.153 Phosphates 602,821 500,545 195,587 Bananas, for many years among Sugar 104,543 68,669 101,508 Soybeans the top commodities in Canal trade, 504,110 404,302 134,079 Metal, scrap 644,261 344,815 16,632 are being shipped in a steadily Sorghum 114,552 Com 245,419 increasing volume from Central and 769,756 19,077 Paper and paper products. 115,965 62,682 88,306 South American ports to the United Ores, various 392,704 228,610 27,416 Fertihzers, Unclassified 113,436 80,824 34,616 States and Europe. Swift refrigerated Cotton, raw 116,614 80,572 66,290 Chemicals unclassified banana boats take the fruit to its des- 199,618 119,797 41,822 Metals, various 137,385 90,987 31,882 tination in record time and return All others 1,554,429 1,244,306 1,219,126 through the Canal in ballast to pick Total 10,336,855 7,182,068 4,042,171 up new cargoes.
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