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Vol. 7, No. 6 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JANUARY 4. 1957 5 cents

'•ANOTHER CHALLENGING YEAR AHEAD"—GOV. POTTER

It is a pleasure to convey to all our

present and former employees and their families through our own publication an

expression of best wishes for the New

Year. Most of us use the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one to assess the occurrences and our accomplishments

of the preceding twelve-month period and

hope and plan for the next 12 months.

No recounting of the many events of 1956 is required to emphasize its import- ance to the Canal organization and its employees. Neither is a seer needed to

foretell now that 1957 will likely be as eventful and challenging to us in the Canal Zone as the year just ended. We begin the New Year with the

prospect of changes in our organization

and some major realignments in our

operations as a result of the 1955 Treaty. These changes include the loss of some 900 of our employees whose

services will no longer be required be- cause of the restriction of purchase

privileges. Secondary effects will be

felt in all parts of the organization.

No other provision of the 1955 Treaty

and accompanying Memorandum of Understandings will affect in such a personal way our employees as a whole. For the coming year, however, we may

expect many additional changes as a re- sult of the Treaty when legislation neces- sary to implement certain commitments

of our Government is enacted. President Eisenhower has announced he will urge

early enactment of this legislation.

Treaty commitments in which there

are most general interest include: The

single wage plan; extension of Civil Servic3 retirement to our Panamanian employFull Schedule Is Planned

For January Board Meeting

A full working schedule with few

social functions is planned for the three-day Board meeting at the end of

this month.

The directors will take time out, however, for a picnic lunch at one of the historic spots of the Canal Zone. A trip through Gaillard Cut by tugboat is planned for Tuesday and the

entire party will go to Culebra, the construction era capital of the Zone,

for lunch.

The old townsite was located at one

of the highest points overlooking the Canal from the west bank, nearly midway between Pedro Miguel Locks and

Gamboa. Most of the old town has

reverted to jungle but there are a few

foundations of public buildings re- maining.

(For further details of Board's pro- gram, see page 3.)

ees; transfer of land and facilities of New

Cristobal, Colon Beach, DeLesseps, and

the Panama Railroad terminals in Pan- ama City and Colon to the Republic of Panama; and construction of a bridge

across the Canal. The adoption of a single basic wage

plan will provide a uniform wage policy

for all Government agencies in the Canal Zone under which a definite wage stand- ard will be adopted for all jobs regardless

of the citizenship of the employee.

The Canal Administration has long

sought a fair and equitable retirement

plan for the non-U. S. citizen employees. The extension of the Civil Service retirement plan for these employees

will meet this long-sought objective.

Of great personal interest to our employees on the Atlantic side is the pro- posed withdrawal from the residential areas in Colon since it entails moving a considerable number of employees to new

places of residence and the construction

of new service facilities costing many

millions of dollars. Anticipating the en- actment of the required legislation during

the first session of the next Congress,

preliminary plans have been made for the extensive changes needed.

Additional housing, schools, commissary, and service center facilities are planned at Margarita. Preliminary plans

for this development have been made and

Atlantic side residents have been asked

to comment on plans which envision what we believe is a great forward step in long-range community planning.

At the earliest, construction can begin

late this calendar year but this will, of course, depend on the schedule of the Congress in considering the necessary

legislation. This important townsite de- velopment cannot be completed within

less than two years but when finished

should provide us with a model community on the Atlantic side. The withdrawal from terminal operations of the Panama Railroad in Panama

City and the transfer of that property to the Republic of Panama will be accomplished soon after legislation is enacted. The transfer of the Railroad's terminal

facilities in Colon will be made after the withdrawal from other Colon areas is completed. The Colon withdrawal cannot, of course, take place prior to the completion of the Margarita development

although phasing in will start with the completion of the first units. Terminal facilities will be provided

for the Railroad within the Canal Zone

on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides near the Canal Zone boundaries in order that we can accommodate both

the passenger and freight traffic ex- pected to continue.

Since legislation authorizing construction of a bridge across the Canal at the

Pacific terminal and an expenditure of $20,000,000 for this structure was passed

by the last Congress and approved by the

President, actual initiation of this project awaits only an appropriation of funds. Our plans contemplate that the design

work on the bridge will be started this year and actual construction will begin

during the following year. During the next few weeks we will be

in the midst of an adjustment period so

far as our commissaries and service centers are concerned. During this period,

I hope that the customers of these very

essential services will be patient. I can

assure all that officials responsible for these changes, including myself, are giving full attention to developing a sales and service system for our employees and

their families superior, if possible, to the one of the past. The consolidations nc c- essary will result in larger, more complete

stores and we plan to get the most competent advice in management and merchandising for the reduced size of operation. In a wholly different field for 1957, I sincerely hope that we can take some

important steps in our civic and community life. I hope the Civic Councils

and other employee groups will take an

ever increasing role in those affairs which

pertain directly to employee welfare. The guidance and advice I have already

received has proven invaluable and has

resulted in better service (Sez page 15)

IN THIS ISSUE

# The Year In Pictures: pages 8 and 9. • Coin Collectors' Club: page 10. • Henry Donovan's "The Man Who" (page

5) and Frank Naughton's "The Singleton:" page 11. # Evaluators Report On Latin Amerlcau

Schools: page 13.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1 957

Canal Already On Way To Its New Goal: ZONE MALARIA

The Second Billionth Ton Of Transit Cargo! RATE LOWEST

IN HISTORY

CAMERAS WERE everywhere when Governor Potter presented Capt. R. A. Carhart with a scroll attesting that his ship, the Edward Luckenbach, carried the billionth ton of cargo through the Canal. December 12 was a memorable day in the Canal's history. It was Billionth Ton

Day.

That day the billionth ton of cargo to pass from ocean to ocean via the Panama

Canal moved from Atlantic to Pacific. Two weeks later, as The Review went

to press, the Canal was about two and a half million tons on its way towards the second billion, a mark which should be

reached, if the present shipping trend

continues, sometime in 1975 or 1976. Practically no one needs to be told that the ship which carried the Canal's first billionth ton was the 7,870-ton U. S.- registered Edward Luckenbach. Until al- most the last minute she was running a

close race with the Young America but

during the last few hours before they

reached Cristobal the Young America lost time and came in four hours late—and

out of the running. Port officials had stayed up late the night before figuring the Canal's tonnage

to the close of business the day before and the tonnage reported as due. About 6.15 a. m. on December 12, members of a Canal boarding party told Capt. R. A. Carhart that his ship, the Edward Luckenbach, was carrying the Canal's billionth ton. By the time the honored ship started up the Canal, she was dressed from stem

to stern and bore a large "Billionth Ton"

poster on her port side. At Gatun, where the locks were hung

with the house flags of 120 lines and a

big poster, welcoming the Luckenbach

freighter by name—space made it neces- sary to shorten the first name from Edward to a more familiar "Ed."—the cere- monies were short and impressive.

Capt. Warner S. Rodimon, Marine

Director, told a crowd of several hundred

that if all the cargo in the billion tons were loaded into freight cars, the cars would circle the earth more than seven

times at the equator. He introduced to the audience a representative of each of the Canal Units which have a hand in putting ships through. Governor Potter presented a large

A PIECE of red ribbon from the lock gates is Leslie Ann Butcher's souvenir of Billionth Ton

Day. Leslie Ann, 4, is the daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Henry P. Butcher, Jr., of Margarita and

great-granddaughter of oldtimer Adrien Butcher.

framed scroll to Captain Carhart after paying tribute to the men who designed

the canal, the men who operate it, and

the agents who "put cash on the barrel- head" for the ships' transits. Riding the lead locomotive which

pulled the Edward Luckenbach through

Gatun Locks was a visiting oldtimer,

Dow Walker, now of Asheville, N. C. He had been on the lead locomotive for the first Canal transit and for the twentyfifth anniversary transit of the SS Ancon

on August 15, 1939. Another oldtimer, Adrien Butcher, now

of Elmer, N. J., missed the ceremony by

a matter of hours. He arrived by ship that afternoon to visit relatives here. His great-granddaughter, Leslie Ann

Butcher, 4, of Margarita, however, has

as a souvenir a piece of bright red ribbon

which stretched across the lock gates

until Governor Potter cut it to let the

Billionth Ton through.

Malaria, public enemy number 1 of the construction period, has been licked. During the past calendar year the malaria rate was only 0.7 per thousand

per annum, the lowest figure since American forces undertook the construction of the Panama Canal almost 53 years ago. This means that only 9 employees contracted malaria during the past year. Investigation of the cases showed that

only one was contracted in the Canal Zone. But malaria, health officials warn, will not stay licked without continued sanitation and without the use of good judgment on the part of the men and women

of the Canal Zone. There are still anopheles mosquitoes in the Canal Zone, there are still persons who carry the malaria parasite in their blood streams and anopheles mosquitoes

plus malaria parasites still mean malaria.

It is still good sense, experts say, to stay behind screens after dark in unsanitated areas and to keep water from col- lecting in places where mosquitoes may

breed hordes of hungry little mosquitoes

eager to bit all humans within reach. Greatest Killer

Statistics for malaria during the first two years of the Canal construction period are not available on the per-thousand

basis. However, in 1905 the Isthmian

Canal Commission reported: "The largest

number of deaths during the year attrib- uted to any one disease was due to malarial fever, which claimed 85 victims in the 4 months from May 1 to August 31." In 1906, the first year for which modern statistical data were kept, the annual

malaria rate was 821 per 1,000 per annum.

This was cut in half the next year, but

still in March 1907, a total of l',576 malaria cases was reported, with 16 deaths. In 1908 malaria incidence had dropped

to 282 per 1,000, but even so, in March,

there were 533 malaria cases, of which

nine were fatal. Gradually, as men and machines quit

tearing up the earth, and sanitation measures became more effective, the malaria

rate dropped. In 1916, after the Canal

had been putting ships from ocean to ocean for a year, the malaria figure was down to 16 per 1,000. In April of that year health officials reported the first week

without malaria in Zone history.

No Deaths Since 1949 From then until the outbreak of the second World War the malaria rate was

fairly constant, with some ups and downs.

In i942, when the Canal Zone jungles were filled with soldiers and practically every hill top had an observation post or

anti-aircraft or searchlight battery, the

rate rose again sharply to 25 per 1,000. Since 1953 the malaria rate has never gone above 3.2 per 1,000. The last death

from malaria in the Canal Zone was that

of a 10-months-old child at Fort Gulick

in July 1949. While Canal Zone health officials are jubilant over this year's all-time low fig- ure, they still say: "Be careful. We may have it licked now, but it isn't going to stay licked unless we all use our common sense."
J anuary 4, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REViEW

Board To Devote Special Attention

To Canal Capacity At Meeting Here

Special attention will be devoted to problems relating to the present and

future capacity of the Panama Canal at the annual meeting of the Canal Company's Board of Directors in the Canal Zone beginning January 28. A three-day meeting has been planned

for this year to give Board members full opportunity to make first-hand studies

of this and other items slated for consideration. Among these will be the pro- posed housing and school construction program at Margarita, lands and struc- tures to be transferred to Panama under

the 1955 Treaty, and an inspection of the proposed site of the bridge across the Canal. Also occupying much attention at the January meeting will be the usual review

of proposed capital items for the Company-Government, fiscal operations of the Company, and the President's annual re- port to the Board of Company operations for the past fiscal year. The question of increasing the capacity

of the Canal has been under continuing

review by the Board of Directors for the past five years. In March 1953 the Board adopted a two-phase plan with

this as the objective. The first phase,

consisting primarily of alterations to the Locks for increasing traffic capacity during overhaul periods, is being completed

this year. Board members will have an opportunity during one of their field trips to visit the Pacific Locks where work is in proggress on the alterations. A trip will be arranged through Gaillard Cut where

work of widening the channel and improving its alignment is proposed.

The attention to the over-all problem

of the Canal's capacity to meet future needs of world commerce and those of national defense will be centered to a

great extent on the trend (See page 4)

Insurance Board Voting

OVER 7,400 BALLOTS for employee representation on the Group Health Insurance Committee had

been received at the time this issue of The Rfview went to press. The ballots were counted and the

results tabulated in three meetings under the supervision of the ex-officio members of the board. Results should be announced this week. Shown above is the counting and tabulating group at their first meeting. Right to left are: Harold W. Rerrie, Charles Davis, and Xesbit P. Alexis, all of Rainbow City; James G. F. Trimble, Balboa; Henry T. Carpenter, Margarita; and Edward W. Hatchett, Ancon. In the

center, at the head of the table, is Dr. Daniel J. Paolucci, Coordinator of the Personnel Programs Staff.

Future Plans For Modern Margarita Described To

Atlantic Siders At Recent Meeting With Residents

Preliminary plans for the enlargement

and modernization of Margarita, which

will become the main Atlantic side settle- ment when Congress acts upon legislation to implement provisions of the 1955

Treaty, were presented last month to res- idents of Margarita, Cristobal, and Gatun.

Col. Hugh M. Arnold, Director of the Engineering and Construction Bureau Achievements Honored

AWARDS FOR UNUSUAL and outstanding accomplishments in performance of their work were made

last month to these two members of the Canal force. Mrs. Muriel De Young was given the Superior

Service Award for scheduling and supervising the increased typing work caused by the closing out of Plant Accounts. Oliver L. Riesch, Systems Accountant in the Office of the Comptroller, won the Dis- tinguished Service Award, fourth Canal employee to do so. He devised and implemented a new payroll processing system.

and David A. Yerkes, an architect in the Engineering Division who worked up the Margarita plans, made the presentation.

In his talk, Colonel Arnold stressed that all of the plans are tentative and

that the move to Margarita would de- pend on when Congress approves the necessary legislation and appropriates the funds needed. The cost of the entire project would be about $15,000,000; construction would take about two years. Civic Center They involve construction of a Civic and Shopping Center, which will include a super-market, service center, restaurant, theater, post office, first-aid station,

bowling alley, beauty and barber shop,

and small meeting hall, all within handy

distance of a 700-car parking lot; an area devoted to schools, where a new high

school and junior high school, kindergarten building, and athletic facilities includ- ing a swimming pool, baseball and football fields and grandstands will be located; and new housing for families and bachelors.One of the most striking features of the Margarita planning is the Civic and

Shopping Center. Set on a plot about

450 by 300 feet, exclusive of the parking

area, it contains a group of one-story

buildings, connected by covered passage- ways but separated by pedestrian courts connecting the various facilities and land- scaped with shrubbery and ornamental

trees. All of the buildings will be on the same level and all will be air-conditioned except the post office. One of the main buildings will be a

theater, seating 600. The dining-room

section of the service (See page 15)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1 957

IT'S PAPAYA SEASON NOW

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SOMETIMES papayas are almost too big for a little boy to hold.

"Tell us about papayas," an oldtimer wrote The Panama Canal Review re- cently from the States. All right, oldtimer —and newtimers,

too—here's your story about papayas,

with a little bit about some of the Isth- mian citrus fruits, which are just coming

into season, tossed in for good measure.

In the first place a papaya tree is so

distinctive that the rankest botanical novice can't possibly confuse it with anything else. It seldom grows more than

15 to 20 feet high. Some of the people

in the Interior have a tradition that a

little papaya tree should always be

planted by someone who is seated on the ground. That, they say, ensures that it will never grow so tall that its great melon-like fruit cannot be easily picked.

Botanically it is known as carica papaya, a member of the Passifloraceae

family. The English name, papaw or pawpaw, is probably derived from some

of the many names in use such as papaia, papeya, and papia. However, it is confused by many with the casimina triloba pawpaw which is so well-known in the

central and southeastern States. According to Webster's Dictionary,

"the papaya tree is crowned by long

petioled palmately seven-lobed leaves and clusters of dioecious yellow flowers"

Translated, that means that the tree

is crowned by long, slender-stemmed,

hand-shaped, seven-lobed leaves, radiat- ing from a center point, and having clus- ters of staminate and pistillate flowers borne on different individual trees. Which brings things up to the popular

belief that a papaya tree can change sex when necessary for instance, when all trees in a group turn out to be female and

there is no male for reproduction.

That isn't inevitable, according to Roy

Sharp of the Summit Experiment Garden.

It has been argued pro and con, he says. Sometimes, through severe pruning or

mutilation, a tree will change its sex, but this isn't at all certain. Papayas contain papain, an enzyme

which greatly resembles animal pepsin in

its digestive action and is the basis for most meat tenderizers. Meat tenderizers

excited no great local interest when they were introduced here. For many years

local cooks had been tenderizing their meats by wrapping them in crumpled pa- paya leaves overnight or dribbling papaya

sap onto them. And any interiorano knows that a piece of papaya is the best

possible thing to eat if one's digestion is out of whack.

Papayas in the unripe stage may be

boiled and used as a vegetable they

taste somewhat like a summer squashor they may be pickled. Ripe papayas

served icy-cold are delicious with or without a sprinkling of lime juice, and

are an indispensable part of any local fruit cup or salad. Papaya seed tastes something like water cress. The trees grow well in rich, loamy,

well-drained soil, in a sunny place, and

should bear in 9 to 12 months. Trees producing thick-fleshed papayas are better than those having thin skin and flesh because of one enemy, the local fruit fly. The female of this fruit fly has an

ovipostor, or egglayer, longer than her

body. She inserts this through the fleshy

part of the papaya fruit to reach the seed cavity. If she manages this, the eggs

will develop into little worms which

eventually become fruit flies. The eggs

or larvae, however, will not survive in the

fleshy fruit. Any young undeveloped

fruit which falls from the tree is usually loaded with little worms and should be

destroyed.

One local superstition about papaya

trees is not too well known. In some

parts of Panama's interior, a farmer

"beats" his trees once each year to guarantee that they will bear. This annual

beating is always done on Good Friday

and always with the belt or rope which

he is wearing to hold up his trousers. A

spare belt won't do, at all. Enough about papayas? Now about

citrus fruits

Oranges, both the big sweet-meated

navel variety from Boquete and the juicier seedy variety from the lowlands,

are beginning to flood the market and

it should not be long now before a housewife can buy juice oranges for less than a penny apiece, if she buys half

a hundred or more. Boquete oranges

are always more expensive.

Botanically the orange fruit is a berry;

its thick yellow or reddish yellow rind is known as the epicarp. The tree is evergreen, and orange wood is much used for

fine carvings.

The best oranges on the Isthmus come

from the highlands like El Valle and Boquete, but good juice oranges can be grown in any well-drained rich soil in the open sun, although in the Canal Zone the

tree must be well-fertilized. An orange

tree will bear in five to six years, Mr.

Sharp says, but naturally there will be no

fruit if the owner picks the blossoms to ornament a bride's veil. The best lowaltitude juice orange is known as a

Valencia; the navel oranges hereabouts

are usually the variety known as Washington. There are also a few King oranges which are a cross between an orange and

a tangerine found here. Grapefruit, tangerines, and limes—all

members of the citrus family—are also abundant now. El Valle produces an es- pecially good variety of heavy, thin- skinned juicy grapefruit. Tangerines,

which are botanically known as citrus re- ticulata, and are also called mandarin

oranges, were developed in China. They

are distinguished by their loose wrinkled

skin.

Board To Devote Special Attention

To Canal Capacity At Meeting Here

(Continued from page.S) of Canal traffic which has been constantly upward since the close of the war and on the increasing

size of ships using the Canal. The tentative schedule for the annual

Board meeting this month provides for an inspection of Company-Government

installations on the Atlantic side on Monday morning, January 28. This trip

will include visits to Margarita townsite

and the site of the proposed developments

there, Mount Hope installations, and

other Atlantic side areas. A formal meeting in the Board Room

of the Administration Building is scheduled for that afternoon for a management

review to be presented by the various Bureau Directors and Staff members.

All of the second day will be devoted

to field trips. These will include a trip

through Gaillard Cut, a visit to Sosa Hill to inspect the possible bridge site and

approaches, and a visit to the sea-level canal model at Diablo Heights. In connection with the latter visit, discussions

will center on present Canal operations

and its capacity, shipping trends, a re- sume of improvement plans, and other matters involved with future Canal operations. A night meeting is being planned for Tuesday, January 29, at which a formal agenda for the Wednesday sessions will be adopted. Items to be included for the

final day will include the President's re- port, the Comptroller's report, approval

of capital items, and a review of budget

assumptions for the fiscal year 1959. Other subjects for the agenda will be determined at the night meeting.
January 4, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Here's The Man

Who's Zone's City Manager

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Two Conversion Contracts

Due For Award In January

THE HATS, books, mail sacks, and other things on this table all represent units of the Civil Affairs Bureau, of which Henry L. Donovan is Director.

Henry L. Donovan, who has headed

the Civil Affairs Bureau since November

1953, is a man of many parts. He is the "Big Boss" for the men and women who educate the Canal Zone's

children, the firemen who fight—and pre- vent—Canal Zone fires, the policemen

who protect Canal Zone property and

lives. Under his direction come the customs

inspectors—including those who check

contraband, the post office personnel

who handle all incoming and outgoing

Canal Zone mail, the librarians who pro- vide the books which any Zonian may

read. Besides these, he directs the people

who issue licenses of any sort, those who

administer estates, and the small force which staffs the Civil Defense Corps. Yet he is neither school teacher,

policeman, fireman, customs inspector,

postman, librarian, license clerk, estate administrator, norCivil Defense worker.

The nearest he ever came to any of these jobs was when he worked parttime in the Boston Post Office a good

many years ago and when he was reg- ional director for the Civilian Defense

organization on the Pacific side during

World War II. Because he has never been a teacher,

fireman, policeman, etc., he is first to give credit to those who are and who

head the various Divisions and Branches

which make up the Civil Affairs Bureau. Not long ago he was awarded the Gold

Medal of Panama during ceremonies

commemorating the 69th Anniversary of the founding of the Cuerpo de Bomberos.

The medal was given in appreciation of the cooperation between the fire-fighting services of the Canal Zone and Panama.

As Civil Affairs Director, he accepted the medal but, he feels, it was meant for every man on the fire-fighting force. "I have to depend on the operating

heads to keep things rolling," he said the other day. He is proud of the morale of the Bureau, which he considers the highest in the organization but considers that

this happy situation is so only because

everyone is pulling together as a team. "Without this cooperation," he says, "such a complex Bureau as this one

wouldn't function as well as it does." By size the Civil Affairs Bureau is a middling one. Its personnel numbers

about 1,159, more or less halfway be- tween the Marine Bureau's over 3,000

employees and the Personnel Bureau's

85.Its operations have been compared to those of a municipality and the job of Bureau Director to that of a City Manager. Henry Donovan finds the comparison quite true. Sometimes when he faces some new problem for which there is no

answer based on past experience, he can

find the suggestion he needs in references

of the City Managers' Association, which

he keeps in his office in the Civil Affairs Building.

The variety which occurs not only

from day to day but also from minute to minute in his job is the part of it he finds most challenging, he says. In less than an hour he may discuss such different matters as a new police uniform, the use

of the Canal Zone post offices, and the pay for kindergarten teachers. Fortunately, the peak loads of the various units

are spread pretty well around the calenREMEMBER!

If you live in Canal Zone communities

and own an automobile, motorcycle,

scooter, or any other sort of motorized

vehicle (motorboats are not included), you must have it inspected before the end of February in order to drive in the Canal Zone. Who? Anyone indicated above. Cars

entitled to Post passes, however, will be

inspected by the Armed Forces. What? An inspection of brakes, steering gear, tires, horns, lights, etc. When? Before the end of February.

Inspectors are now on duty between g and ii a. m. and noon and 6 p. m., Mondays through Fridays.

Where? Motor Transportation Division Garages at Ancon and Cristobal. A charge of 50 cents is made.

Cocoli Diesel Station will become the main standby power plant for the Canal Zone on completion of a 12,000-volt tie- line between the Cocoli plant and the

Miraflores sub-station, according to Col. E. B. Jennings, Project Engineer for the

60-cycle Power Conversion program. The tij-line is one of two major conveision projects for which contracts will be awarded this month. The other will be for furnishing and installing new pump

and switchgear for the Mount Hope fil- tration plant which supplies water for the

entire Atlantic side including Colon. Bids on the tie-line were to be opened

today; those for the filtration plant were opened last week, after a postponement

from December 12. Also during this month, steel, delayed

by the recent strike, will arrive to enable

Bildon, Inc., to begin work of construct- ing 15 new transmission line towers be- tween Summit and Miraflores. Work will also be started this month

on the new Summit sub-station; the contract for this is held by L. R. Sommer.

The new sub-station will be located in the Madden Wye section.

dar—the Postal Division and the License

Section are busiest at Christmas time, the Schools have their biggest workload

in September and May when the schools reopen. No one who has talked to him for more

than a few minutes has any doubt where

Henry Donovan comes from—Boston. To be exact, he was born in Brookline,

which isn't more than a few subway stops

from Boston Common.

He was working for the City of Boston's Engineering Department in 1929 when

he took and passed a Civil Service examination which lead to a job as a structural draftsman in what is now the Canal's Engineering Division. He and his bride were on their honeymoon when they came here in October that year. During the construction of the present towns of Gatun and Gamboa he was

loaned to the Constructing Quartermaster

as Chief Building Inspector but in 1937 was back with the Office Engineer as

structural designer. In 1945, after several promotions, he was assigned to Quarry Heights as an engineering consultant. There he served on the Commanding

General's staff as civilian advisor on

matters relating to The Panama Canal

and the Republic of Panama. In 1950 he was returned to the Panama Canal

organization proper as the first Director

of the Community Services Bureau.

His outside activities have included baseball— he was president of the Balboa

Baseball Club and the Canal Zone Baseball League and, later, the first Commissioner for Little League Baseball—and

the Red Cross, for which he served as campaign chairman during two fund

drives. Mrs. Donovan is as well known as her husband. She has been active in the

Inter-American Woman's Club, of which

she was president about two years ago, and in the Red Cross. They have one

daughter, Peggy, now a freshman at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1957

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND

am.

GUIDANCE

Ul

IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

NOVEMBER

SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE

BUREAU

MARINE BUREAU

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

HEALTH BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Health 10

Civil Affairs... 7 Supply and Employee Service 4 Engineering and Construction 2 Marine 2 Transportation and Terminals. 1

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

NOVEMBER

COMMISSARY DIVISION

NAVIGATION DIVISION

LOCKS DIVISION

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

SERVICE CENTER DIVISION

HOUSING AND GROUNDS DIVISION

DREDGING DIVISION

INDUSTRIAL DIVISION

ELECTRICAL DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

STOREHOUSE DIVISION

POLICE DIVISION

SANITATION DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 11 Sanitation 11 Storehouses 11 Hospitals and Clinics 10 Industrial 10 Motor Transportation _. 10 Service Center 10 Commissary 9 Dredging .-! 8

Electrical 8 Railroad 7 Housing and Grounds (9 mos.) 7 Maintenance 5 Navigation 5 Locks 4

Police (5 mos.) 4 Fire (5 mos.) 3 Terminals 1

Recently 2,700 tons of scrap iron were

loaded from our Balboa docks into the holds of a ship without one single dis- abling injury occurring. The scrap ranged

in size from small nuts and bolts to pieces

weighing tons. The heavier pieces were

handled by machinery, the smaller pieces

by hand. This was just one of many similar ship- ments handled yearly at our docks. Other dangerous cargo such as heavy

cotton bales, cement, chemicals, barbed

wire, and others too numerous to mention, are routine work for the stevedore. As of this writing, Pier 18 has worked

over 430 days without one disabling in- jury occurring. This can be attributed

to safety meetings, safety movies, discus- sions of serious accidents and how they

could be prevented, but most of all to the efforts of the head stevedore foreman

who gives the workers daily safety talks regarding the type of cargo they will be

required to work on that shift, and dis- cusses with them ways and means of handling that particular cargo safely.

Hard hats are a "must" for everyone working in danger areas, and safety equipment such as gloves, respirators, etc., are provided when the nature of the cargo

requires it for the safety of the worker. A record of 430 days plus without a

disabling injury for a group engaged in such hazardous work as this is something

to be proud of and it is concrete proof

that taking time to discuss the dangers

of a job, and planning to accomplish it the safe way, cannot help but save money

for the Company and, more important,

send our workers home to their families uninjured.

OVER 2,700 tons of scrap were handled over Balboa docks recently without a single lost-time accident.

NOVEMBER 1956

BUREAU

Supply and Employee Service

Marine

Engineering and Construction

Health

Canal Zone Govt.-Panama Canal Cc.

Civil Affairs

Transportation and Terminals

Number of Disabling Injuries

FREQUENCY RATE—Disabling injuries per 1,000,000 employeehours worked.

Si 1* ) 5 10 15 20

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i Frequency Rate this month

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5 10 15 20

Employee-hours worked 2,197,815

S1953-1954-1955 Calendar Year Average
Januaiy 4, 1 957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

OF CURRENT AND FUTURE INTEREST

Conducted tours of Summit Experiment

Garden, which have been an annual dry- season event for several years, will be

stirted as soon as the weather "dries up," according to members of the Garden staff. If the dry season gets well underway this month, it is possible that the tours can be

started late in January. If last year's weather prevails, the tours cannot begin

until February.

Regardless of the date when they begin, the conducted tours will be held on Sat- urday mornings and will continue as long as the dry season lasts. The Garden staff suggests that those interested watch the

local newspapers for announcement of the

first of the Garden tours.

Coi. Julien C. Kennedy, a diplomate in psychiatry, has been assigned to Gorgas

Hospital and will arrive next month for his new post as a psychiatrist for the Health

Bureau. He comes to the Isthmus from

Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. Born in Colorado, he received his medical

degree from Indiana University and at- tended the Michigan Graduate School of Advanced Medicine.

Looking back at the past year, the staff of the Meteorological and Hydrographic

Branch found a number of records and

near-records in 1956 weather. The dry season was one of the two rainiest on record— the other was 1915 —and

did not have the usual well-marked beginning and end. The rainy season also did

quite well. On October 7 the Moran weather station, on the Ciri River, reported

7.54 inches of rain in one hour, setting a new all-time Isthmian record. The pre- vious record for an hour's fall, 5.68 inches, was set at Gatun on December 6, 1939. There was also a dry record set in the

rainy season in 1956. Pedro Miguel, with

only 3.56 inches of rain in the month, re- ported the driest June in 49 years of record. The weather at Balboa Heights was hot and cold. On January 10, the air temperature dropped to 65.1, the lowest of any month since 1924. On November 23, the thermometer stayed below 70 for several hours and dropped to 68 , the lowest Nov- ember minimum since 1911. The mean of 72 for the day tied with November 8, 193 1, for an all-time low mean. On the hot side, the daily average temperature at Balboa Heights for the first 10 days of April averaged 93.

7

:

, with the highest for the month, and the year, recorded on April 8 when the temperature hit 96;

John M. Purvis, Jr., head of the letter- press section of the Printing Plant at Mount

Hope, returned to the Canal Zone late last month after a six-week refresher course in offset printing at the Technical Trade

School, Pressman's Home, Tenn. He had two years of offset press experience in the Army during World War II, in addition to what he has done recently

at Mount Hope.

A completely revised and expanded edition of the Correspondence Manual, the

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly At Balboa Heights, C. Z. Printed by the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone

W. E. Potter, Governor-President H. W. Schull, Jr., Lieutenant Governor W. G. Arey, Jr., Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor Eleanor H. McIlhenny, Assistant Editor

On sale at all Panama Canal Service Centers. Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days after publication date at 5 cents each. Subscriptions, $1 a year; mail and back copies, 10 cents each.

William Jump, well-known Atlantic sider. About 40 persons attended the party which was held in the Music Room of the Rainbow

City School. During the evening, a Christmas program was presented under the direction of Mrs.

D. Alexis, Zone Warden, and a buffet supper, prepared by the women, was served. Mr. Dade's personal contribution to the

affair was a large cake, iced in white and

bearing the Civil Defense seal, worked out

in colored frosting. The bakers of the Margarita Service Center prepared the cake.

Mrs. Emily J. Price, of the Canal Zone

Library staff, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Balboa Women's Club held

last month in the Fern Room of the Tivoli. Mrs. Price talked on Christmas books, both new and old. Among the modern

books she mentioned were: "Christmas for Tad," by Helen Topping Miller, a story of Abraham Lincoln and his family, and

"Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter," a humorous story of the ups and downs of a family- man at Christmas by the author of "Father

of the Bride." FIRST LAYMAN to hold the post of Assistant Dire ;tor of Gorgas Hospital is going to be Walter P.

Allen, above. With his wife and their two children he is now en route to the Isthmus. He comes here from Springfield, Ohio, where he was Assistant Director of the Springfield City Hospital. Born in Rochester, N. Y., he holds degrees from the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin and has

a graduate degree in Hospital Administration from

the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American College of Hospital Administrators.

Panama Canal Company's style book for stenographers, secretaries, and office workers, is to be issued this month by the Administrative Branch. The revised edition was prepared by the Records Management

Section of the Administrative Branch.

In addition to its practical use for style and form, the Correspondence Manual is a handy thing for anyone's desk, because of

its tips on grammar, good usage, and writ- ing in general.

A Christmas party was given last month

by women volunteers of the Rainbow City

Civil Defense Corps in honor of Philip L. Dade. Chief of Civil Defense. Other honored guests were William H. Gordon and

Maurice McLean, first-aid instructors, and

An identifying inscription may soon be

carved on the Aspinwall-Stephens-Chauncey

monument which has stood for many years near the old and new Hotels Washington

in Colon. The monument, which has been an historic landmark but which has puzzled visitors because of the paucity of information on it, was erected in 1867 by the Panama Railroad Company in honor of the three men—William Henry Aspinwall, Henry Chauncey,

and John Lloyd Stephens— who founded

the railroad. The monument, triangular in shape, bears only the names of the trio. According to specifications on a contract

to carve an additional inscription on the base of the monument, the following will be added: "Erected in 1867 to founders of the Panama Railroad Company, first trans- continental railroad of the Americas, completed 1855." The dates of each man's lifespan will be carved in the stone under each name.

Bids for the work were opened last month

at Balboa Heights but at the time this issue of The Review went to press the

contract had not been awarded.

Postal money orders made payable to the Pan- ama Canal Company should be mailed to Editor, The Panama Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

GORGAS HOSPITAL'S Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service was split last month between these two.

Lt. Col. Franklin L. Spann, left, now heads the Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, while Dr. Robert H. Rupp is chief of the new Eye Service. The change is in line with modern practice in most hospitals.


10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1 957

Piggy Banks Aren't For Zone Hobbyists

Even Though They Collect And Save Coins

MONEY MAD? No; coin collectors! Allen Swicegood, president of the Canal Zone Coin Club, center,

with Earl Dailey, secretary, left, and Capt. Frank Kerley, right, look over a coin collection.

When is a coin collector not a coin

collector? The individual who puts all his spare change in the piggy bank might well be

a coin collector but unless he knows the

difference between a pillar dollar and a Maria Teresa thaler, he is no member of the growing throng of Canal Zone numismatic enthusiasts. The coin collection facts of life were

revealed the other day when a small group

of collectors met at the Margarita Service Center to organize the Canal Zone's

first Coin Club.

Organizers and officers in the group

include Allen Swicegood, president; Capt.

Frank Kerley, vice president; and Earl

Dailey, secretary. All have been inter- ested in coins for several years and have

growing collections in their own right.

At the drop of a hat any of these ex- perts will discuss their hobby and will trace the history of each precious piece

in their collections. Captain Kerley, for instance, has

collected coins, medals, and paper- money from all over the world. As a master of a cargo ship, he traveled for many years prior to his marriage and

became interested in numismatics

when he first went to sea. One of the first things he learned about

his new hobby was the vast difference in, say, the collection of United States In- dian-Head pennies and the intricacies and

pitfalls of collecting coins from other

parts of the world. The collectors of European coins, as a rule, are interested

in a representative collection from each

country.

The reason is apparent enough. The

United States has used the same type of coins almost since the foundation of the Republic. In Europe, the coins issued during the years reflect the rise and fall

of governments, the march of armies

across the continent, and even the per- sonality of the rulers of each country.

The whole business is so complicated in

fact, that Captain Kerley found himself taking several history courses offered by

Louisiana State University at Fort Clay- ton and Fort Davis to brush up on dates he had forgotten since school days.

Some of the earliest pieces in his collec- tion are coins used 396 years before Christ by Alexander the Great, and some minted

for Julius Caesar, about 44 B. C. Others were issued by Napoleon during his march

through Europe; some show the influence

of the Austrian businessmen in the time

of Empress Maria Teresa, and still others

reflect the growth of world trade in the Far East. The famous old gold Napoleon, al- though issued about 1803 to 1814, is still a measuring standard for gold coins all over the world and is a medium of ex- change in North Africa. The Maria Teresa thaler issued in 1780 is considered hard cash in the

Middle East to this day. A large silver piece about the size of a silver dollar,

it is still minted and, together with the

picture of Maria Teresa of Austria, bears the original date of 1780, the only date

considered authentic by merchants.

Another interesting coin in his collec- tion is the Spanish-minted pillar dollar, the standard coin used by the American

colonists from 1776 until 1792 when the U. S. Mint was established. It was the

principal coin used in most of the States although British and French coins were

in circulation and the Continental Congress issued a paper dollar. The pillar dollar was divided into one, two, and

four reales and from these pieces came

the current expressions "two bits" and

"four bits." Trade dollars were used by European

countries when trade was opened up in the Far East. Most European countries

issued a silver doll; r bearing the name

of the country issuing it and the word

"Trade Dollar." Oriental traders and

shopkeepers had little faith in the good

intentions of the westerners and would

not accept the coin unless its full value

in silver was engraved on the face. A very interesting collection of United

States coins is one of Indian Head and

St. Gaudens gold coins. The popular $20,

$10, and $5 gold pieces are always avail-

| able and the hard-to-find $3 and $1 gold

coins may be located with a minimum of correspondence. A large plastic holder is custom-made to protect and display

coins. These inexpensive holders have 12 openings for the 12 different U. S. gold

coins. Captain Kerley, who is trying to complete a set of gold coins, thinks that one

of the most interesting pieces in his col- lection is a gold Ecuadorean ten-sucre

piece issued in 1899, which he obtained

when the collection of former King

Farouk of Egypt was recently placed on

the auction block. The coin was minted

in Birmingham, England, is no longer

used in Ecuador, and has a current

value of about $60. In his collection are also a number

of medals and paper currency, a legitimate part of the numismatic hobby,

and often just as interesting as old

coins. He picked up in Germany, after the

war, a medal which Hitler gave to his supermen in recognition of 10 years of loyal service with the Gestapo, and a handsome military medal which Franco

of Spain gave to German soldiers who

fought on his side during the 1936 Spanish Civil War. He has the Japanese

civilian medal of the Rising Sun and the Nationalist Chinese medal of the Rising

Kite. Other collectors have other interesting

coins. Earl Daily has a handsome album

of early half-dollars; first minted in the United States in 1794; they have been

issued yearly since then, except in 1798,

1799, 1804, 1816, and 1841. To collect one coin of each date is a Herculean task which requires years of searching.

The purpose of the local group is to

affiliate with the American Numismatic

Association and give coin fans a chance

to exchange ideas with other local collectors; to encourage others to take up the study of coins; and to make use of the huge numismatic library at the Association's headquarters in Omaha, Neb.,

where material is available by mail

without cost. The founders of the Atlantic side club hope that the budding Isthmian collectors

will not be bashful but will turn up at the next meeting even if their interest is more scientific than practical. To be a

coin collector, they say, it is not neces- sary to own a large collection of coins. In fact, some numismatic experts do not own coirs at all but it is dollars to doughnuts that these characters are few

and far between, as anyone who has

caught the bug can tell you. The local coin collectors, moreover, feel that they

have a geographical advantage over other

enthusiasts living, sav, in Warrensburg,

Mo.

The dyed-in-the-wool coin collectors have a word of advice to the hopeful

novices: Never no matter how much

you love her let your wife swipe your

coins for her charm bracelet.
January 4, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

PAGES FROM THE

AVS HIST

THIS MONTH

50 Years Ago

When bids "to complete the construction of the ship canal upon the Isthmus

of Panama between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean," were opened in Washington on January 12, 1907, four proposals were submitted. The bids, on

a cost-plus basis, ranged from 6.75 to 28

percent of the total cost of the work. The low bid was made by a combine—

William J. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn. (who enraged Zonians by statements to the press as to changes he intended to make), and Anson M. Bangs, of New

York. At the end of the month the pro- posals were still under consideration. Sparked off by published reports that the proposed site of Gatun Dam was "untenable

because of lack of foundation," the Senate Committee on Canals requested from the Isthmian Canal Commission a detailed re- port on all boring made at the proposed sites for locks and dams. On January 13, 1907, buildings at Cul- ebra were lighted by electricity for the

first time. According to a contemporary

account, "houses equipped with the new

service have at least one 16-candle-power

light in every room and on every piazza."

Fifty tons of foodstuffs, together with

tents, medical supplies, and miscellaneous

articles, including 200,000 wooden dinnerplates, were shipped from Cristobal to Ja- maica on the SS "Advance" when the city of Kingston was severely damaged by an earth- quake. Between 500 and 1,000 persons died. W. G. Bierd, General Manager of the Panama Railroad, developed a new tracklifter. Tried out on the Tavernilla dump,

it moved more than a mile of heavy track

in a 10-hour working day, with a crew

of five men.

At the end of the month the Isthmus

buzzed with rumors that Theodore P. Shonts had resigned from the chairmanship of the Isthmian Canal Commission. The rumor

was true; he left March 4 to become presi- dent of the Interborough-Metropolitan Rail- way Company of New York City.

25 Years Ago

Work was well under way 25 years ago

this month on the completion of what

later was named Thatcher Highway, be- tween the Canal and Arraijan. Over a

mile and a half of the highway had been

concreted by the end of January and

George Green, Municipal Engineer, said

it would be ready for use by May 5. Orders were placed in the United States for equipment to be used in the Madden

Dam power station. This included two turbines, two generators, and switchgear; the

total cost was reported as $334,656.

A surprised operator and a Gatun

Locks towing locomotive got an unexpected dunking when the "mule" was

jerked from the lock wall by the SS Pennsylvania. The operator jumped through

the window, hitting the water about the same time the locomotive did, and swam

ashore. The Canal Zone schools were expecting an increase of about 80 children in the

student population—then 6,600—with the imminent opening of Albrook Field. The emergency dam at Miraflores Locks was tested for the first time to see whether or not it could be used as a spill- way, in case the need ever arose. The

test took two days and was reported as

successful, although one of the Lock sills was slightly damaged.

The Department of Operation and Maintenance began a study of plans for new

townsites of Gatun and Mount Hope.

They would be needed "when the present sites at Old Cristobal and Gatun become obsolete or crowded," a Canal spokesman said. Ships and shipping attracted considerable attention 25 years ago. Through the Canal in January 1932, was a steady flow

of Navy vessels, including the cruisers Omaha and Cincinnati, the aircraft carriers Langley and Wright, en route to maneuvers in the Pacific. Other maritime visitors were the world's biggest

yacht, the 227-foot Savarona; Vincent

Astor's yacht, Nounnahal; and the cruise ship Stella Polaris, on her first round-the- world trip. Bids were advertised for the "operation

of Canal Zone restaurants, lunch rooms, and messes." some of which were already

being operated under contract.

10 Years Ago

The Central Labor Union's court action, to prevent an increase in Canal Zone

rents, presented one development after another in January 1947. Finally, after the District Attorney had asked dismissal of the suit and Judge Bunk Gardner

had denied a petition for a restraining order to stop collection of the higher rents, Secretary of War Robert Patterson ended

the whole matter by authorizing the Governor to "fix and adjust" rents for Canal Zone quarters.

All positions in the Canal organization

ivhich were vacant on December 31 were

abolished in January. Heads of depart- ments and divisions were cautioned about

staying within their force ceilings.

Brig. Gen. Frank J. McSherry, labor consultant and former director of operations for the War Manpower Commission,

began a long study of labor policies and

relations for The Panama Canal.

Clearing and grading were started in Diablo Heights on the largest permanent

residential site undertaken for some years. Forty-four quarters, housing 83 families,

ivere to be built there. En route to the Antarctic, Rer.r Admiral Richard E. Byrd, aboard his flagship the Philippine Sea, met with men and women who had been fourth-graders in Balboa when he last talked to them 16 years before on his way home from Little America.

This month's visitors included Trygve

Lie, Secretary General of the United Nation. One Year Ago

Two groups of men were on the Isth- mus looking into Canal affairs. One was

the Board of Directors of the Panama

Canal Company, the other representatives of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Frank Naughton:

His Business Is

Trouble Shooting

EVERYONE'S TROUBLES are Frank Naughton's

business.

Frank Dasher Naughton has broad

shoulders and a sympathetic manner. He

needs them. As Employee Counsellor in the Personnel Bureau and latest in The Re- view singleton series he is available to

listen to the troubles, and to try to do

something about them, of anyone in the Canal organization or of any member of an employee's family.

If someone can't get along in his

office and can't get things ironed out with his boss, he goes to Frank Naughton. If a husband is spending so much

money on lottery tickets that there

isn't enough left to buy milk for the

baby, his wife sees Frank Naughton.

If an employee dies, one of the first to

visit the widow or widower is Frank

Naughton.

He does all the leg-work in grievance

procedures and attends all grievance

hearings when they get to the stage in- volving Bureau Directors or the Griev- ance Advisory Committee.

He is the Canal's official troubleshooter, in most cases, and must be al- ways available to give advice as to how

to approach or handle any type of per- sonal complaint or problem. There aren't many controversial situations he doesn't get into, sooner or later. Because his job deals with all the frailties human flesh is heir to, it isn't the most cheerful work, but occasionally a

lighter incident comes his way to break

the gloom.

One of these lighter touches came

along the other day when he received

a letter from a man who was trying to

collect $100, which he had loaned out

at 20 percent interest a month. The

borrower, he wrote indignantly, was

lending out that $100 at 20 percent

interest every two weeks. For some time he served as Chairman

of the Home Service Committee of the

local Red Cross chapter but the depressing features of that job and of his Canal

work were too much for one person to

bear. He has been able to keep his emotional equilibrium and his faith in human

nature despite over- (See page 12)
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1957

C. Z. Electrical Workers Had Hand Final Estimated Tax

In Newly-Published Technical Book p

aymenl Due Jan lg

SINCE UNION MEN had a hand in it, it was appropriate that James G. F. Trimble, President of Local

397, IBEW, should present a copy of Electrical Testing and Troubleshooting to Mrs. Emily Price of the Canal Zone Library.

Nearly 450 Canal employees have had

a hand in a book which will be available some time next month and which is based

in great part on their experience.

They are members of Locals 397 and

677 of the International Brotherhood of

Electrical Workers; the book is Electrical Testing and Troubleshooting, published by

the Industrial Press. It was written by

Philip T. Green, Coordinator of the Industrial Training Program for the Pan- ama Canal Company.

The purpose of the book is to explain

how to locate and correct faults in electrical circuits of all kinds, including controllers, motors, transformers, and trans- mission lines. It opens with a simplified

briefing on electrical symbols and diaFrank Naughton: Trouble Is His Business

grams, followed by a detailed discussion

of the various topics. Only a basic knowledge of simple arithmetic is necessary to use and understand its principles and

procedures.

"All of the material in the book was

originally written in response to requests

from field maintenance men for information on different phases of testing and

troubleshooting work," Mr. Green says

in his foreword. "Some of the ideas are old standbys.

Some were developed by the joint efforts of the men of the two Canal Zone Unions,

397 and 677, of the International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers and the author . . . The craftsmen pointed out to the author the problems of the men in the field, suggested ideas that might be developed into methods for solving these problems, and then tried out the methods

under actual working conditions in the

field."

Zonians who pay their estimated in- come tax in quarterly installments were reminded last month that the fourth and

final payment on the 1956 estimated tax

is due January 15. Final returns on the 1956 tax and the

first payment on the estimated tax for 1957 will not be due until April 15. Because, they live outside the conti- nental United States, Zonians have an

additional two-month period of grace

until June 15—for filing their final re- turns but anyone taking advantage of

this extension will have to pay interest for the period between April 15 and June 15. Meanwhile the Internal Revenue Service announced that the Canal Zone office was transferred recently from the Jacksonville, Fla., District to the International Operations Division in Washington.

Checks for the final payment on the 1956 estimated tax are to be sent to

Jacksonville. Those due in April for

final returns and for the first payment of the 1957 estimated tax are to be sent to the International Operations Division, Internal Revenue Service, Washington

25, D. C. Payment should be in the form of a

check, bank draft, or postal money order,

made payable to the Internal Revenue

Service. For the convenience of Canal Zone taxpayers, arrangements have been

made so that personal checks drawn on the Canal Zone branches of the First National

City Bank and the Chase Manhattan

Bank may be used to pay income tax. The 1957 Taxpayers' Assistance Pro- gram, to assist local taxpayers in filing

final returns on 1956 taxes, has already

begun. Morris Goldfarb, Internal Revenue Agent from the International Operations Division, arrived this week from

Washington to assist Wendell L. Lindsey,

Canal Zone representative.

They are available to assist taxpayers

from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through

Friday in the Balboa Service Center. One

representative of the team will be at the

Cristobal Administration Building from

9 a. m. to 4 p. m. every Monday.

(Continued from page 11) whelming evidence

to the contrary—only by not "taking the job home" with him.

Although he was not born in the United

States, he is a native-born American.

How? Because Oklahoma was still Indian

territory when he joined the Naughton

household in the little cross-roads town

of Hughes, near McAllister. This favorite quip about his citizenship once got

him into hot water with a humorless in- spector when he returned to the States on leave. Early in his working career he spent

three years with the Standard Fruit

Company in Nicaragua; there he learnd

to speak some Spanish and to love the

tropics. One Massachusetts winter,

later, was enough to convince him that

he did not like cold weather.

Mr. Naughton came to the Isthmus

in 1932 to work on Madden Dam. After that job, he spent several years with

contractors or as civilian employee of the

military services before he became a rail- way mail clerk in 1937. In the year he

rode the trains, he crossed the continent

about a thousand times. He has been

with what is now The Personnel Bureau

since 1938.

Rainbow City Students Set To Plug

Library To Friends And Neighbors

"Can we interest you in a few books?"

boys and girls of Rainbow City will be

saying to their neighbors next month.

The young people will not be selling

encyclopedias or magazine subscriptions

to put themselves through college, but

they will be selling the Rainbow City's

community library to their friends and

neighbors.

As this issue of The Review went to

press, the youngsters were preparing a book-cart which can be trundled from

house to house, displaying some of the books which can be borrowed by any

resident of the community from the li- brary on the ground floor of the Rainbow

City High School. The house-to-house canvass is a project of the newly-organized Rainbow

City Library Club, which had a charter

membership of 10 students. The only

requirements for membership are: An

interest in library work, a "B" average

in their school work, and good citizen- ship at school and in the community.

Their sponsor is Kenneth V. Griffith,

Branch Librarian. According to Mr. Griffith, the Club

has three objectives:

To serve as a source for library assist- ants when they are needed in the future; to sponsor a greater interest among students and residents of the community in the use of books and the library's service; and to stimulate reading.

Meetings are held each Friday from 3

to 4 p. m. One meeting each month will be devoted to book reviews, another to information about library organization; the others will be of general interest. Two committees were organized at the

first meeting. The Book Committee will make brief reviews of new and old books

which may later be publicized in the

school and the community. The Scrapbook Committee will keep clippings of all news of school activities which appears

in local publications, and of other news

which would be of historical interest to the school. The scrapbook which the committee is compiling will also include programs, pictures, and r?ports.
January 4, 1 957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Exhaustive Report Presented By Group

Which Evaluated Latin American Schools

"Within the limitations, difficulties, problems, and other circumstances pointed out in this report, the Latin American

Schools contribute effectively to incor- porate into Panamanian nationality a good nucleus of potential citizens." In very broad terms this quotation

summarizes a lengthy and exhaustive re- port submitted late last month to Governor Potter by the three prominent Pan- amanian educators who served as an

Evaluating Committee on the Latin

American school system in the Canal Zone. The survey was made to provide the Canal administration and school officials with information of a nature similar to that received in the evaluation of the United States schools and Junior College

last year. The report and recommendations of the committee will provide a re- view of the objectives and accomplish- ments of the Latin American Schools, now in their third year of operation.

The Latin American school system was

established with the educational training

of students on a comparable level with

those of the same grades in the schools of Panama as one objective. In this connection, the Evaluation Committee re- ported that the Latin American schools

are "closely paralleling" those in the Republic as to curricula and educational

opportunities.

Serving as members of the Evaluation

Committee were Max Arosemena, former

Minister of Education; Dr. Rafael Moscote, Dean of the Department of Philos- ophy and Education at the Univerity of Panama; and Professor Temistocles Cespedes, formerly Chief of the Technical

Services Section of the Ministry of Education. The committee's report has already

received high praise from Governor Potter and Zone school officials. After a per- usal of the report, the Governor said the

report "is as objective as any I have seen

in many a year and should be very helpful." School officials also agree that the

report provides an objective viewpoint of the Latin American schools and are pleased with the thoroughness of the survey by the three educators. As in the case of the Evaluation Committees which last year surveyed the United States schools in the Canal Zone and the Junior College, the report of the Latin American school committee contained commendations, criticisms, and

recommendations. The three educators submitted a detailed report of some 50

pages in which the various phases of the educational system, school plant, and

Better Get Your Order In

For Top Soil Deliveries

Governor And Oldtimers Meet

Canal Zone gardeners who want topsoil for their yards and flower beds may

now put in their orders with the Housing

and Grounds Division. Pacific siders should telephone 2-2121 and Atlantic

siders should call 3-2373. There is no guaranteed date for the

delivery of the top soil, and it is strictly a spread-it-yourself project once it is delivered. Weather permitting, deliveries should begin in February.

PROBLEMS OF RETIRED Canal employees living on the Isthmus were under earnest discussion when

this picture was taken at a meeting in the Board Room of the Administration Building, held at the invi- tation of Governor Potter. The conference with retired employees was the second since Governor Potter's arrival on the Isth- mus. He has expressed a desire to meet with retired employees at intervals to get the benefit of their background knowledge of the Canal and to assist them in their problems. The principal topic of discussion at the conference early in December was the loss of commissary

privileges by retired employees at the first of this month. The Canal administration had just been

officially informed that the Panama Government would no longer issue permits for commissary purchases. The privilege, not covered by Treaty commitments, had been granted for about 20 years to retired employees living in Panama. The Board Room was crowded with well-known oldtimers when Governor Potter, shown in white

suit talking to the group above, opened the conference which lasted for about two hours.

other features were discussed in detail. The committee divided its report into ten principal phases under the subjects

of: Buildings and grounds, materials and

equipment, libraries, curriculum, teaching programs, teaching staff, teaching

methods, textbooks, the student body,

and the educational philosophy and eval- uation of the system.

In their introductory remarks, the Evaluation Committee said in part: "The Commission feels that the visits made to the different schools have contributed to an objective evaluation of the Canal Zone Latin American Schools' educational system. Despite the short time

within which this report was prepared,

the Commission was able to form an

overall picture of the school system, its problems, and its needs."

Generally, the report was commendatory on the school plant as well as the materials and equipment. Points of crit- icism included the school plant of the Paraiso High School, particularly the lo- cation of the music room and shops and

the lack of a convenient gymnasium.

Special praise was expressed for the facilities for teaching typing, dressmaking,

shop work, and auto mechanics.

In connection with this phase of the system, the committee recommended an

extension of the Vocational Courses for the male students in the senior high

schools. Except for the lack of a gymnasium at Paraiso high school and a concrete gymnasium floor at Rainbow City, the Committee was highly commendatory of the gymnasiums and playing fields. Of the school libraries, the committee

said: "The libraries at the different

schools visited are well-organized for school purposes and offer besides a service to the respective communities." It recommended, however, additional books

in Spanish to provide a wider reading

field, particularly of Panamanian authors

in the fields of literature, poetry, consti- tutional law, history, and geography.

The Committee devoted considerable

attention to the curriculum in the report. After giving a detailed analysis of the curriculum of both primary and second- ary schools, the committee made only two direct recommendations in this field. These were to include a course in Intro- duction to Philosophy in the college pre- paratory curriculum, and to change the seventh grade program to include a study

of Panama.

Except for urging that the academic

training of the teaching staff be progressively improved, the report was generally favorable in its discussion of the staff other than in isolated instances where it was stated that some teachers have defi- ciencies of speech in certain subjects. It was also recommended that measures be adopted to reduce the teacher-pupil ratio, particularly in the lower grades of the primary schools. Among the recommendations of a general nature concerning the Latin American schools system, the Committee sug- gested further joint efforts on the part

of the educational leaders of the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama on

editing and selecting textbooks; coordi- nating the work of teachers during the summer with Panama University's sum- mer school; the analysis of teaching pro- grams; and promotion of student ex- changes between schools of the Zone and Panama.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1957

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

November 15 through December 15

Employees who were promoted or transferred between November 15 and December

15 are listed below. Within-grade promotions are not reported.

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Earl A. Dyer, from Group Chief. Printing

Plant, to Superintendent, Printing Plant. William S. Wigg, from Supervisory Administrative Assistant to Administrative

Assistant (General), General Services Section. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Michael J. Archer, from Guard, Locks

Security Branch, to Policeman, Police Division. Mrs. Marion O. Wells, from Clerk-Sten- ographer, Executive Planning Staff, to Clerk-Typist, Division of Schools. Russel E. Hellmund, Edward G. Moran, James D. Dunaway, from Distribution and

Window Clerk to Transfer Clerk, Tocumen

Airport Unit, Postal Division. Mrs. Margaret H. Cornelius, from Substitute Teacher to Elementary School

Teacher, Division of Schools. Ralph E. Shuey, from Branch Superin- tendent to Balboa Post Office Station Examiner, Postal Division. William J. Cozens in, William H. Ste- phens, Jr., William A. Alonis, Joseph L.

Sestito, from Mail Clerk to Window Clerk, Postal Division. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Frank A. Anderson, Jr., from Lock Operator (Pipefitter), Pacific Locks, to Plumber,

Maintenance Division. John P. Bidwell, from Machinist, Industrial Division, to Fleet Machinist, Dredging

Division. James H. Bowen, Wireman, from Pacific Locks to Electrical Division. HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Eloise M. Murphy, from Accounting Clerk to Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Adele M. Major, from Clerk-Typist

to Clerk (Typing), Gorgas Hospital.

Lt. Col. Franklin L. Spann, from Chief, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, to Chief, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, Gorgas Hospital. Dr. Robert H. Rupp, from Assistant Chief, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, to

Chief, Eye Service, Gorgas Hospital.

John R. Thomson, from Clerk to Clerical Assistant, Palo Seco Leprosarium. Mrs. Louise E. Griffon, from Clerk-Sten- ographer to Secretary (Stenography), Coco

Solo Hospital. Mrs. L. Irene B. McLaughlin, from Supervisory Accounting Clerk to Supervisory

Accounting Assistant, Coco Solo Hospital.

Mary M. Costello, from Typist, Engineering Division, to Clerk-Dictating Machine

Transcriber, Gorgas Hospital.

MARINE BUREAU

Paul V. Rozmeski, from Commissary

Supervisor, Commissary Division, to Guard, Locks Security Branch.

Arnulfo Manning, from Apprentice Welder to Electric Welder, Industrial Division. George K. Hudgins, Jr., from Mail Clerk, Administrative Branch, to Guard, Locks

Security Branch. Joseph B. Braswell, Jr., from Pump Operator, Dredging Division, to Guard, Locks

Security Branch. William M. Martin, from Wireman Fore- man to Control House Operator, Pacific Locks.

Albert B. Abreu, from Wireman to Wire- man Foreman, Pacific Locks. Daniel B. Rambo, from Painter-Body Re- pairman and Combination Welder, Motor

Transportation Division, to Towing Loco- motive Operator, Pacific Locks. Lawrence Barca, Machinist, from Maintenance Division to Pacific Locks. John G. Carlson, from Pilot-in-Training,

Navigation Division, to Towboat Master, Ferry Service. Ivan L. Jenkins, from Commissary Supervisor, Commissary Division, to Towing

Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks. Emmet T. Harper, from Commissary

Supervisor, Commissary Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Atlantic Locks. Ewell Knight, from Guard, Terminals

Division, to Motor Boat Maintenance Mechanic, Navigation Division. Russell A. Weade, from Signalman, Navigation Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks. SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU

Joseph L. H. Demers, from Supervisory

Storage Officer to Supply Cataloging Supervisor, Division of Storehouses. James R. Doran, from Supervisory Ac- counting Assistant to Supervisory Storage

Officer, Division of Storehouses. Joseph H. White, from Supervisory Stor- age Officer to Supply Requirements Officer, Division of Storehouses. Harold I. Tinnin, from Stockman Fore- man to Supervisory Storage Officer, Division of Storehouses. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Milton H. Wright, from Motorboat Maintenance Mechanic, Navigation Division, to Auto Repair Machinist, Motor Transportation Division. Jack Kaplan, from Auto Repair Machinist to Battery and Ignition Electrician, Motor Transportation Division. Maurice J. Sterling, from Commissary

Supply Assistant, Commissary Division, to Guard, Terminals Division. Louis B. McGoff, from Commissary Supply Assistant, Commissary Division, to Supervisory Cargo Assistant, Terminals

Division. Milton H. Wright, from Auto Repair

Machinist to Battery and Ignition Electrician, Motor Transportation Division.

RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of December to the following employees who are listed alphabetically, toge- ther with their birthplaces, titles, length of Canal service and future addresses: Paul W. Colby, Iowa; General Architect,

Engineering Division; 12 years, 9 months,

29 days; Panama, R. P. Vendrize E. Foster, Cayman Islands; Ferry Custodian, Navigation Division; 22

years, 8 months, 26 days; Florida. Gregor Gramlich, Washington, D. C;

Master, Dipper Dredge Cascadas, Dredging

Division; 44 years, 11 months, 15 days;

St. Petersburg, Fla.

GREGOR GRAMLICH

The Canal's senior employee retires.

ance Division; 30 years, 11 months, 25 days; Guadalajara, Mexico. Mrs. Sallie F. McKeown, Pennsylvania;

Accounting Clerk, Industrial Division; 32

years, 8 months, 28 days; Isthmus for the

present.

Ella L. Pease, Iowa; Library Assistant, Canal Zone Library; 27 years, 5 days;

Grand Junction, Colo. Ralph F. Schnell, Virginia; Statistical

Officer, Executive Planning Staff; 33 years,

3 months, 11 days; Florida. Matthew Shannon, Georgia; Lead Fore- man Painter, Dredging Division; 17 years,

7 months, 12 days; Panama.

Harry A. Stone, New York; Customs In- spector, Customs Division, 15 years, 9 months, 18 days; Canal Zone.

JANUARY SAILINGS

From Cristobal Panama. _. January 5 Ancon_ _ -January 12

Cristobal January 19 Ancon*___ January 30 From New York

Ancorff__ January 4

Cristobal} January 11 Ancont January 22

Cristobalt „ January 29 *Leaves Cristobal Wednesday.

jLeaves New York Friday. JLeaves New York Tuesday.

ANNIVERSARIES

Mrs. Frances Horter, New York; Clerk, Payroll Branch; 15 years, 1 month, 18 days;

Isthmus, for present. Arthur E. Jamison, Pennsylvania; Supervisory Administrative Assistant, MaintenWith the retirement last month of Gregor

Gramlich, after just 15 days short of 45

years service, this month's top anniversary man becomes the senior American employee, from point of service, in the entire Canal

organization.

He is Arthur Morgan, dipper dredge operator on the Cascadas. On December 16, he completed 44 years of service —all with

the Dredging Division. His first job was as a water tender. He

has been an engineer on drill boats and suction dredges, a mate on all sorts of Dredging

Division floating craft and, since 1923, an

operator on a dipper dredge. Born in Indiana, he has spent so much

of his life here that he is a true Isthmian. Last fall he went to the States on vacation,

to see what things there look like, and

ended up by taking a train-and-bus trip from coast to coast.

35 YEARS

Thirty-fifth anniversaries, which are quite

a lot of anniversaries in anybody's life, rolled around last month for two Canal employees —both captains, but of different varieties. One is Capt. Henry E. Falk, secondgeneration Canal pilot, and the other is Capt. Albert J. Mathon, of the Fire Division's Balboa District. Captain Falk has spent almost three- quarters of his life in, on, or around ships, and is now the senior pilot on the Canal

force. His first Canal job was as a seaman when he was only 16. Several months later he started his formal marine training on the New York State nautical training ship Newport, from which he was graduated in 1917. For the next several years he served on merchant ships and returned to the Canal Zone in 1923. He has been a pilot for over 30 years. One of his biggest moments came

in December 1953, when he was one of two

pilots assigned to bring Queen Elizabeth's

ship, the Gothic, through the Panama Canal. Captain Mathon has had experience

fighting fires not only here but also in Waterbury, Conn., after he was discharged from the Army as a lieutenant after World

War I. He came to the Canal Zone in 1927, working briefly with the Motor Transportation Division and the Mechanical Division

before he became a Canal Zone fireman in June of that year. Most of his service has been on the Pacific side; he has helped man

fire equipment at Ancon, Balboa, Diablo,

and Pedro Miguel.

In 1951, he was one of the five Canal Zone
January 4, 1 957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

fire lieutenants selected to attend the Navy

School of Aircraft Crash fire fighting.

30 YEARS

All but one of December's quartet of 30-year employees have not only unbroken

service with the Canal organization, but also unbroken service with their own divisions. First on the list is Miss Hazel Alsing, one of Gorgas Hospital's head nurses. She

has been on the Gorgas Hospital staff since she came to the Canal Zone in December

1926, from a hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Miss Alsing is a native of San Francisco, but her San Francisco is in Colorado, not

California. Next, alphabetically, is Sylvester D. Callender, District Commissary Assistant. Until it was closed the end of last month, he was manager of the Pacific Service Center. A true Zonian, he was born in Empire,

when it was a bustling construction town. Richard E. Cox, Executive Assistant to the Acting General Manager of the Commissary and Service Center Division, is the

third 30-year employee for December. He

comes from Newburgh, Ind. Last of the 30-year men for December,

and the only one with broken service, is Walter A. Wieman, Assistant Manager of the Balboa Housing Office. He began his Canal career with the former Record Bureau

but has been in housing work since 1929.

25 YEARS

Twenty-fifth anniversaries in December

apparently are for men only; there were

five of them who passed this milestone this year. The last three, alphabetically, are

closely connected with the waterway itself. Wilbur C. Dunscombe, Chief of the Chemistry Section of the Board of Health

Laboratory, has been in medical chemistry

ever since he joined the Canal organization. His service is unbroken. Howard M. Fuller, who was born in Greenville, Mich., is a Budget Analyst in the Office of the Comptroller.

George K. Hudgins, a Panama Canal

pilot has been taking ships from ocean to ocean since 1936. His service is also continuous. He comes from Virginia.

George L. Radel, who was born in Dauphin County, Pa., is a Foreman Machinist

at Gatun Locks and has continuous Canal

service. His big boss, Roy C. Stockham, Chief of the Locks Division, is the remaining 25- year employee for December's list. He

started as a towing locomotive operator. Mr. Stockham comes from Akron, Colo.

20 YEARS

Seven employees completed 20 years of government service in December and with

the exception of Mrs. Kathryn P. Stapf, a Supervisory Accounting Clerk in the Terminals Division, all have continuous Canal

service. They are: Paul L. Beck, Principal of Cris- tobal Senior and Junior High Schools —all of

his service has been with the schools; Ber- nard J. Brown, Civil Engineer in the Engineering Division —he, too, has service with

only his division; Sidney Hayes, Policeman

on duty at Balboa station —and a crack pistol shot; Scott J. McKay, Chief Senior Towboat Engineer on the Ferry Service; Harry

W. Moist, Locomotive Machinist, Railroad

Division; and Raymond M. Schneider, Lo- comotive Electrician, Railroad Division.

15 YEARS

Eight of the 15 employees who completed

15 years of Government service in December

have unbroken service with the Canal or- ganization. They are: Felipe K. Ben, Jr., Civil Engineer, Engineering Division; Juan A. Cazorla, Detective,

Police Division; Helen E. Chisholm, Accounting Assistant, Motor Transportation;

Richard Condon, Fire-fighter, Fire Division ; Louis Davis, Wireman, Electrical Division; Raymond L. Harvey, Auto Repair Machinist, Motor Transportation Division; Archie Manikas, Policeman, Cristobal Distiict; and Blanche A. Mclntire, File Clerk, Inter- nal Security. Other 15-year employees are: Rowan H.

Bailey, Machinist. Gatun Locks; Mary A. Baldwin, Accounting Clerk, Motor Transportation Division; Homer B. Cooper, Machinist, Industrial Division; Peter Hotsko,

Supervisory Cargo Assistant, Terminals

Division; A. Paul Jones, Jr., Dipper Dredge

Engineer, Dredging Division; George E.

Mitchell, Machinist, Gatun Locks; and N. May Stokes, Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Printing Plant.

Wreckers At Work

THIS USED TO be Balboa Stadium, and shows what wrecking crews can accomplish in a few weeks. The stadium, built in 1916, will be replaced by bleachers seating 1,500. The dressing room section will be enlarged and modernized.

Future Plans For Margarita Described

(Continued from page s) center will accom- modate 230. The commissary will be

divided into two sections—a super-market

primarily for foodstuffs and a "depart- mert-store section" which will stock

clothing, hardware, etc. School Area The schools will be grouped together

in the area near the present South Margarita school, to which a 24-room wing

and 4-room kindergarten will be added. The school area will occupy the entire block which is bounded by Espave Street on the north, Brazos Boulevard on the

east and southeast, Gulick Road on the

south, and Bolivar Highway on the west. An athletic area which will include the

football and baseball fields and the grandstands, will be on the opposite side of Gulick Road. Two churches and the Knights of Columbus hall will remain.

All of the buildings in the school group

will be connected by covered passageways. These will include an administration

building, a junior and senior high school, an auditorium, a band-and-chorus room, wood and metal shops, an all-purpose room, and a library. Also in the school- group will be a separate four-room kindergarten unit and an ROTC building

which will have an indoor rifle range and

a small auditorium, known as an audiovisual laboratory, where cadets can see

training films and hear lectures. This room will also be used by the shops for audio-visual instruction. Other features of this section will be an off-the-road parking area for school busses to load and unload and a separate

section where parents may pick up or drop their children. The quarters part of the Margarita

program calls for construction of 125 sets

of family quarters and 28 bachelor apart- ments. The family housing will be lo- cated southeast of the area now occupied

by the United Fruit Company and Pan- ama Agencies quarters. The new houses

will be built on the high ground over- looking the Brazos Brook golf course. The bachelor quarters will be unlike

"Another Challenging Year Ahead" Governor Potter Says

(Continued from pa^e t) in many areas.

I have been highly gratified by the response shown by the Civic Council

leaders in many matters during the

past few months. At the December

meeting with Council presidents and

representatives, a broad program for the future was outlined which can be

beneficial. Its success depends only on

the effort expended by the Councils

and their citizens. There are two innovations for 1957 which are worthy of special mention.

These are the Group Health Insurance

plan and the adoption of a single Fund

Drive for the Canal organization. Both

of these are excellent examples of what

can be done by united employee initiative. As we look back on 1956, we in the Canal organization can use the trite ex- pression and "point with pride." It was

a year in which all former records of our

basic function—putting ships through the waterway—were broken. Other than this we overhauled Gatun Locks, we watched

the billionth ton of cargo go through the waterway, we helped the Tivoli celebrate

its 50th birthday, we changed administrations, and we welcomed hundreds of distinguished guests, including most of the Presidents of the American Republics.

Moreover, we did all these and our

regular duties during a period when a

series of the most radical changes in the Canal's history was being made.

In prospect for 1957, I say we can do

all these things and a few more, and

maybe even do them a little better. Before I came here last May, I heard

the Canal had a great organization. I believed it then; I know it now. It is good to be a part of it. A Happy New Year to every one of you; both here and all over the world.

any single-person dwellings ever built in the Canal Zone. "Motel type," they will be one-story concrete buildings, each unit containing a living room, bath, bedroom,

and small kitchen.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 4, 1957

^lShipsind shipping,!^ Landlubbers9 Brigantine

Makes Last Canal Transit Transits By Ocean-Going Vessels In September

1966 1.955 Com m ercial 654 627

U. S. Government 19 26

Total. 673 653

Commercials .$2,882,551 $2,709,897 U. S. Government. 81,755 106,695

Total $2,964,306 $2,816,592

! Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small MIAMI BY YACHT

Under the command of no less than two Panama Canal pilots and carrying a crew of four other Canal employees in- cluding a Canal Zone physician, the 85- foot motor yacht Westlake sailed from

Cristobal the last part of December en

route to Miami.

Undaunted by the fact that they would

be spending Christmas at sea, the members of the crew were looking forward to spending New Year's Day in Miami.

The luxurious craft, the property of Lawrence Hamilton, of Washington,

D. C, has been in the Canal Zone waters

for the past two months. She was re- paired at the Industrial Division docks

in Cristobal before she left the Canal.

Officjrs and crew included Capt. Kenneth Roscoe, Capt. William Hopkins,

Dr. Edwin Riefkohl, of Coco Solo Hospital, John L. Haas, of Margarita, Rich- ard Egger, of Margarita, and H. K.

Peterson, of Cristobal. SALVAGE TRIP

The Merritt-Chapman & Scott salvage

tug Cable made a hurried transit south- bound through the Canal December 18 en

route to Chile to assist the SS P and T

Seafarer which ran aground December 8

off Los Vilos, Chile, while en route from Buenos Aires to San Francisco. The Seafarer, a regular Canal customer,

is one of the four vessels of the former

Pope & Talbot Pacific-Argentine-Braxil

Line which were sold recently to the Moore-McCormack Line. IRISHMAN TRANSITS

The Irish Larch, the second Irish ship

to visit the Cand since fiscal year 1954, made the Canal transit southbound during December on her maiden voyage. Completed this year in Glasgow, the

Irish Larch is a 6,217-ton freighter travel- ing from New Orleans to Yokohama with

a cargo of soya beans. In recent years Irish-registered ships

have been infrequent visitors to the Canal. Three passed through the Canal

in 1954, although there were 28 during

the fiscal year 1953 and 26 during 1952. The Irish Larch was represented here by

Payne & Wardlaw.

LONG JOURNEY

A long, uninterrupted voyage was in view for the officers and crew of the British freighter Andover Hill which went

south through the Canal in December

en route to Japan. On charter to the Japanese NYK Line, the vessel arrived

in Cristobal December 15 from London

via Curacao on her first trip to the Canal

in 15 years. She sailed the same day

directly for Yokohama, a voyage which

will take 35 days. The ship was carrying

9,085 tons of iron, steel, and general cargo. Norton Lilly were her agents.

CAPT. IRVING JOHNSON of the brigantine Yankee is on his seventh—and last—cruise around

the world.

The tall-masted brigantine Yankee, on which landlubbers become sailors faster than you can say "ship ahoy," made her

last trip through the Panama Canal early

in December on her way around the world. Her last previous visit here, in December 1953, coincided with that of Queen

Elizabeth II of England. The Yankee

and the Gothic were both tied up at Pier

18, although on opposite sides of the pier, and the brigantine's crew had a double

thrill being in their second foreign port

and seeing a queen, close-up.

Her present world cruise is the sev- enth for skipper-owner Irving Johnson

and his wife, who are in charge of a crew of 17 young men and four women.

After this trip, which follows generally

the course taken by the "Yankee" on

several previous cruises, Capt. and Mrs. Johnson plan to retire in New England.

To the other members of the crew, however, life on the bounding main is brand new. With the exception of Chris- topher Sheldon, a young teacher from

Norwalk, Conn., and Dr. Alice Strahan, a youthful physician from Miami, Fla., the crew is made of of students, who, in addition to contributing their part to the expenses of the trip, pitch in as members

of the crew. Although several books have already

CASH ON BARREL HEAD

Probably the smallest tolls bill charged

any one ship during the month of Dec- ember was paid by the auxiliary sailing

yacht Typhoon which was billed only

$3.50 for her northbound transit from

Balboa to Cristobal. The vessel arrived here from the West Coast via Puntarenas

with a crew of three young Americans.

NEW CUSTOMER DUE

The passenger-freight ship Yoshinasan

Maru, latest addition to the Mitsui Line,

left Kobe December 18 on her maiden

voyage to West Coast, Caribbean, and

South American ports. She is due in Cristobal January 26 and after discharging cargo will sail for Havana, Ciudad

Trujillo, Curacao, La Guiara, Rio de

Janeiro, and Santos, Brazil. The Mitsui

Line, which celebrated its 80th birthday

last November 1, is represented locally

by the United Fruit Company.

been written about the Yankee's cruises around the world, most of the youngsters

making this last cruise also plan to break

out in print when they reach home.

The Yankee is an interesting ship in her own right. Second of that name, she was built 40 years ago in Germany and

was used for several years as a North Sea

pilot schooner. When the vessel was pur- chased by Capt. Johnson after the second

World War to replace the original Yankee,

she was completely rebuilt but was per- mitted to retain all the original features

of a rugged turn-of-the-century sailing

ship.

Since 1932, the Johnsons have been

taking landlubbers on cruises and

making them work their way. The

cruises have ranged from short hauls

off the New England coast to year-long

trips around the world. When the crew members return home, they know all there is to know about a sailing ship

and much more about the countries

they have visited. The plan has been so successful both

for the Johnsons and their passengers

that a similar idea for students is being

worked out by Mr. Sheldon, to be put

into operation in the Caribbean after the Johnsons retire.

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S. S. "Panama," Now In Port,

Pays Last Visit To Zone

The Panama liner Panama, now in port, is on its last trip to the Isthmus

under the familiar Panama Line flag. The transfer of the vessel to the American President Lines is expected to be accomplished after its return to New York. The Board of Directors of the Panama

Canal Company were considering the bid

for the sale of the ship when this edition

of The Review went to Press. A bid of $5,704,000 was entered by

the American President Lines. Only one

other bid was received, that being one from the Grace Line for $4,277,000. The

Panama was offered for outright sale or charter by the Maritime Commission for the Panama Canal Company, and no

offers were received for charter when bids were opened on December 19.

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