Gift ofthe Panama Canal Museum THE Vol. 3, No. 2 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 5 cents DIRECTORS TO MEET IN CANAL ZONE NEXT WEEK FOR SECOND TIME SINCE COMPANY WAS FORMED Board Chairman President And All But Two Members Will Attend Sessions Opening Next Monday The Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company will meet in the Canal Zone beginning September 8, 1952. This will be their second meeting on the Isth- mus since the reorganization of July 1951 established the Company in its present form. A previous meeting occurred here in January of this year. The sessions for the September meeting are scheduled to open Monday in the Board Room of the Administration Building at Balboa Heights with Under Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen, Under Secretary of the Army Bendetsen Governor Seybold Chairman of the Board, presiding. The housing program and other capital expenditures proposed for this fiscal year Canal Buys Over $2,000,000 In Supplies and next are expected to be considered by the Board at its meeting next week. Pre- liminary reports on the financial results In Fiscal of the Canal Company's first full year of From Panama Sources Past Year operation will be presented at the meet- ing, and the Directors will also review the budget for the coming fiscal year which is Farmers, merchants, and manufactur- Heavy purchases of sugar, meats, and scheduled to be presented a few weeks ers in the Republic of Panama sold more industrial products during the last quarter later to the Bureau of the Budget. than $2,000,000 worth of their supplies to of the fiscal year 1952 were responsible for The second meeting in the Canal Zone the Panama Canal during the past fiscal the high total last year. The total amount will give Board members another oppor- year which ended June 30. This total is purchased during the last three months of tunity to make a first-hand observation exclusive of sales made to the armed forces the 1952 fiscal year was $685,000. of Canal operations and installations. or other Government agencies and con- The Canal has long maintained a policy tractors in the Canal Zone. of buying supplies in the local markets Two New Members Will Attend Canal purchases in Panama last fiscal when merchandise of standard quality is Two recently appointed members of the year were the highest on record and ex- offered at competitive prices and on firm Board will attend the meeting. They are: ceeded the $1,525,000 of the previous deliveries. heavy increase in such The Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Engi- fiscal year by about 22 percent. Last purchases recently was largely due to co- neers, U. S. Army, and Matthew Robin- was the third consecutive year in operative efforts the part of year on Canal son, Special Consultant to the Secretary which purchases from Panama firms buyers and suppliers in the Republic to of the Army. General Pick is scheduled to totaled more than $1,500,000 although improve marketing methods. arrive Monday morning on the S. S. last fiscal year was the first time the total Practically all of the local purchases Panama, and Mr. Robinson was to exceeded the two-million mark. made by the Canal organization are those arrive today with Mr. Bendetsen. The following tabulation shows the of the Commissary, Clubhouse, and Store- Eleven of the 13-man Board and all but amount of purchases in Panama during house Divisions. All of the meat and food one of the general officers of the Company the last three months of and for the total products are bought by the Commissary will attend the meeting {See page 3) fiscal year 1952: Division for resale. Clubhouse Division principally limited April, May, Tola!, purchases are to mis- June 1952 cellaneous supplies and services although SEPTEMBER FEATURES Meat products. ._ $203,000 $735,000 some of its purchases are for resale # What Canal Division has a "green thumb" —catches tiger cats and deer—empties your Fruits, vegetables.. 35,000 134,000 through its various retail units. Most of garbage can, and does many another odd Other agricultural the forest and industrial products bought chore for you?—See Pages 8, O and 10. £ Archaeology has enthusiasts all over products 13,000 51,000 locally are purchased by the Storehouse the Isthmus seeking ruins and valuable Other food products 10,000 32,000 Division for construction and other in- relics of pre-hlstoric days —See Page 6. An inventory of the Canal's assets valued Beverages 42,000 146,000 dustrial uses in the Zone. # Canal at more than $400,000,000 net Is ready to Sugar and alcohol.. 70,000 76,000 Purchases made by the Canal in the start —See Page 3. Forest products... House hunting becomes something more 29,000 151,000 Republic of Panama were higher last year than a pastime as walls and roofs appear Industrial products 175,000 360,000 than the previous fiscal year in practically on buildings—See Page 16. # C. W. Kilbey, of the Clubhouse Division, Misc. supplies 108,000 377,000 all prod- categories. The amount of meat was a former bandsman with some of the ucts bought in the fiscal year just ended top leaders in the United States. He now selects your records—See Page 4. Total.... $685,000 $2,062,000 amounted to almost twice the (See page 7) THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5,1952 Efficiency Can Cut To The Employees . Costs, Governor Tells In many respects the spirit of good com- participated in Civic Council work have munity relations has been developed to a performed a highly creditable job in repre- very high degree in the Canal Zone. Evi- senting their communities. Employee Conference dences of this are the highly successful The Civic Councils have been of great campaigns in the past to raise funds for value in helping to determine the general that what they are If people can realize such worthy causes as the Red Cross, the sentiments of Canal Zone residents on doing in their Canal jobs they are doing Community Chest, the Cancer Fund, the matters pertaining to the general welfare. for themselves, possibly some operational Infantile Paralysis Fund, and many others. There have been many instances during the S. Seybold costs can be cut, Governor J. It is notable that in none of the drives of 15 years of their existence in which they representatives who at- told employee this general nature has it been necessary to have been of aid to the Canal administration. Governor-Employee tended the August employ high pressure methods to insure Aside from these few examples of a Conference. their success. This indicates clearly that highly developed sense of responsibility in the "It is of the utmost importance," the average resident of our Canal Zone com- community welfare, there are numerous Governor said as the conference was munity recognizes his or her responsibility others. These include the Boy Scouts, Girl ending, "that all of us sitting around this to community endeavor and responds Scouts, beneficent societies, musical, art, and table insist that jobs be done with the willingly. theater groups, and organized hobby groups. to utmost efficiency . Everyone has This ready response here is by no means The list might be extended indefinitely. because b3 alert to do the best he can confined to subscription of funds for chari- All of these things, conducted within what he does as an individual affects him, table and similar worthwhile causes. reasonable limits, are certainly on the credit as an individual. And we ought to take During the past month the annual Sum- side in our small and relatively isolated at elbow, a look at the fellow working our mer Recreation Program was brought to a community known as the. Canal Zone. the because his efficiency is reflected in close after a highly sxiccessful season. Many Quite aside from these organized commu- cost." hundreds of youngsters and adults took part nity endeavors, there is another equally people working He pointed out that the profitably and enjoyably in this program important phase of community relationship. for the Canal organization would have which was provided in all communities. This is just plain good tieighborliness. if they slight respect for the officials While the Summer Recreation Program is Charles Dickens had one of his memorable officials were not believed these same one of the Community Chest participants, characters express the thought thus: "What it that doing everything possible to see to its success did not depend alone on the we've got to do," he wrote, "is to keep up our improvements and adjustments were money raised by this method. spirits, and be neighbourly. We shall come being made. Its success depended to a great extent all right in the end, never fear." applies to This same policy, he said, upon the volunteer workers who assisted the Our community in the Canal Zone is made expressed the individual workers and he relatively few paid personnel, who devoted up of so many diverse elements that it is positions hope that people in supervisory their entire time to the work. Each of these impossible that all groups have at all times would listen to suggestions for improved volunteers who participated in making pos- the same objectives as other groups. For and women of efficiency from the men sible the program of recreation and useful this reason, it is most important that each their organizations. handiwork for the young people deserves the should be considerate of the others.