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^-/^3o; Gift ofthe Panama Canal Museum .US. Vol. 6, No. 3 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, OCTOBER 7, 1955 5 cents COMPANY BUDGETS EXPENDITURE OF $7,170,000 FOR REPLACEMENT OF LOCKS TOWING LOCOMOTIVES Canal Zone's Front Door Specifications Call For Speedier "Mules" With Greater Pull The biggest single replace- ment order for Canal equip- ment—cost-wise— in the history of the waterway is scheduled for this fiscal year when the Panama Panama Canal Company will award a contract for the replacement of its locks towing locomotives. An expenditure of $7,170,000 was authorized in the Company's 1956 bud- get for the replacement program which will include, at a later date, three towing locomotives modified for seven-ton crane use on the Canal Locks. Proposals will be invited for manufac- ture and delivery of locomotives of Pan- ama Canal Company design and also locomotives designed by the manufac- turer. A total of 57 locomotives will be required of the design to be furnished by the Company. Other towing methods CRISTOBAL TODAY bears little resemblance to Cristobal of 1907 and absolutely none to the old French village of the 1880's. Here, looking across the railroad tracks is the Cristobal fire station, will also be considered. on the right, with part of Steamship Row in the background. Cristobal's story begins on page 8. Test Models The specifications which are scheduled to be ready about October 15 will call for test models to be furnished and tested "Good School System" Is Opinion Of at the contractor's expense prior to the fulfillment of the entire order. Proposals will be received next February. Evaluators Who Visited Canal Zone The design to be furnished by the Com- pany will call for locomotives to operate on direct current with a "pull" of approx- (Following is the first in a series of four fields in the continental United States, articles Balboa and imately 35,000 pounds, as compared with reviewing reports on these reports have been forwarded as a Cristobal High Schools and the Canal Zone the 25,000-pound pulling capacity of ex- guide for use in further improving the Junior College as prepared by Visiting Com- isting equipment. It is also planned to mittees representing the Middle States school system. The findings provide a increase the idle running speed from five Association of Colleges and Secondary highly professional and objective list of to eight miles an hour. Schools who were here in February and both commendations and recommenda- March 1954 for the purpose of evaluating The increased towing capacity will tions. the three schools for accreditation.) permit the use of fewer locomotives per school Placed against a severe yardstick of "A good system, intelligently ship in many instances. The increased administered for the welfare of excellence, the Canal Zone schools have boys and idle running speed will result in savings girls" is the way the Zone's educational measured up to size. in lockage time at Gatun and Miraflores plant is described in the overall special Locks where the return of locomotives The degree to which a education sound report written by Dr. Ira K. Kraybill, from one towing job to the next is a fac- program is being conducted in the Zone is Executive Secretary of the Commission tor. The return speed of the locomotives enunciated in a special written report and on Secondary Education who was as- is not a significant factor in lockage time in graphic summaries received by the signed by the Middle States Association at Pedro Miguel. Schools Division from the Philadelphia to serve as Chairman of the Visiting Com- With the improved design, the ship- Pa., Office of the Chairman of the Com- mittee to study and evaluate the Balboa handling capacity of 57 locomotives will mission on Secondary Schools of the and Cristobal high schools. equal that of the 67 now in service. Middle States Association. The detailed In his paper, furnished as being of If the contract is awarded on the basis reports are the tangible outcomes of an "some value in presenting overall impres- of the design calling for direct-current extensive evaluation and inspection pro- sions of the two schools by someone who equipment, rectifiers will be installed at cedure which had been in progress over has no local connections," Dr. Kraybill the three locks to supply direct cut rent the past two years. praises the "fine caliber of the personnel to the towing tracks. Offering convincing evidence that it of the school system in the Canal Zone. The provision in the specifications for is no myth that the Canal Zone school From the Superintendent down to the testing the ship-handling equipment will plant, teachers, methods, and pupils, com- newest teacher excellent background, apply to locomotives of the Company's pare most favorably with the best in their good professional skill See page is) design, as well as to those (See page IS) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW October 7,1955 Second Inoculations Complete Fire Prevention Week Last Of "Mass" Polio Program To Begin Next Monday The message of fire prevention will be brought home to Canal Zone residents during the coming week as the Canal Zone Fire Division joins forces with other fire- fighting organizations on the Isthmus in observance of Fire Prevention Week. This year's observance has been planned to emphasize the importance of prevent- ing fires by people of all ages. Particular emphasis will be given to the program in the schools. The entire week of October 9-15 has been designated as Fire Prevention Week as a national observance by a proclama- tion issued by President Eisenhower. Overall plans for the observance on the Isthmus have been made by a special committee composed of representatives from the fire fighting organizations of the Canal, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Re- public of Panama. The Canal's represen- tatives were Capt. W. H. Casswell, Chief of the Cristobal District; Capt. W. E. Jones, Chief of Balboa District; and Lt. P. F. Graham of Balboa Central Station. Parades On Monday like this were last month all over the Canal Zone when of children SCENES enacted hundreds were The week's observance will start Mon- given Salk polio vaccine inoculations. Miss Jeriline Patrick and Mrs. Catherine C. Reid gave the day with parades on both the Atlantic vaccinations; Frances Brandl, far left, and Forest Wise, far right, handed out the lollipops, and Lt. Gov. H. W. Schull, Jr., and Col. Charles 0. Bruce, Health Director, watched. This picture was and Pacific sides. The Atlantic side par- taken at Paraiso. ade is scheduled to start at 1:20 o'clock in the afternoon from the Fort Sherman The last of the "mass" poliomyelitis Of the 15,761 children between six Ferry-slip, while the Pacific side fire inoculations planned by the Health months and 15 years of age eligible, 6,956 fighters and their equipment will start at Bureau in the Canal Zone was completed had received two inoculations, and 1,664 9 o'clock from Plaza Porras in Panama last week when second vaccinations were others received first injections last week. City. The line of the parades, to be an- given to 3,046 children between six These figures include both military and nounced in the daily newspapers, will months and 15 years of age, inclusive. civilian. cover most of the principal residential The Salk vaccine program will be The inoculating teams visited the areas. continued but the inoculations will be Latin American schools on Thursday A series of school lectures coupled with administered individually at the medical morning and children were excused from demonstrations of fire fighting and first clinics or first aid stations. The program classes individually. All classes in the aid equipment has been planned for the will continue on a voluntary basis with United States schools were dismissed Canal Zone schools. Several public dem- the same eligibility rules. The inocula- Friday afternoon to expedite the program. onstrations of equipment also are planned. tions are now being given free of charge Three centralized vaccinating stations The latter will be mostly in industrial since Federal funds became available for were established—at Balboa Gymnasium areas for the benefit of employees, but this purpose. Gamboa Medical Clinic, and North Mar- the general public is invited to attend. Second Injections Given garita School Gymnasium for civilian All Canal Zone fire stations will be on dependents. The dependents of military an open-house basis throughout Fire Pre- Most of those inoculated in last week's personnel were inoculated at the various vention Week and residents are invited program were given second injections. Army, Navy, and Air Force dispensaries. to visit the stations in (See page W) They were in the new age groups not eligible under the program at the begin- ning. It was announced early in Sep- tember that the age groups would be expanded to include those between three Your COMMUNITY CHEST and 12 years of age, and a short time later a further expansion was made to include those from six months to 15 Aids years, inclusive, and pregnant women. Balboa Armed Services-USO Girl Scouts of America More than half of the eligible children have now been inoculated. Figures re- Boy Scouts of America International Boy Scouts vaccine program after leased on the Salk Congress of Local Rate Councils International Girl Scouts the vaccinations last week showed a response of more than 50 percent Corozal Hospital Jewish Welfare Board-USO Cristobal Armed Services-USO Salvation Army Service Centers Selling Cristobal-Margarita Civic Council Summer Recreation Programs "Special Delivery" Stamps This Year's GOAL is United States special-delivery stamps J* are now available to customers of the Canal Zone Service Centers.
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