Gift ofthe Panama Canal Museum

THE

Vol. 3, No. 2 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 5 cents DIRECTORS TO MEET IN CANAL ZONE NEXT WEEK

FOR SECOND TIME SINCE COMPANY WAS FORMED

Board Chairman And President

Under Secretary of the Army Bendetsen Governor Seybold

Canal Buys Over $2,000,000 In Supplies

From Panama Sources In Past Fiscal Year

Farmers, merchants, and manufacturers in the Republic of Panama sold more

than $2,000,000 worth of their supplies to the Panama Canal during the past fiscal year which ended June 30. This total is exclusive of sales made to the armed forces or other Government agencies and contractors in the Canal Zone. Canal purchases in Panama last fiscal year were the highest on record and ex- ceeded the $1,525,000 of the previous

fiscal year by about 22 percent. Last

year was the third consecutive year in which purchases from Panama firms

totaled more than $1,500,000 although

last fiscal year was the first time the total exceeded the two-million mark. The following tabulation shows the amount of purchases in Panama during

the last three months of and for the total

fiscal year 1952:

April, May, Tola!, June 1952 Meat products. ._ $203,000 $735,000

Fruits, vegetables.. 35,000 134,000 Other agricultural products 13,000 51,000 Other food products 10,000 32,000 Beverages 42,000 146,000 Sugar and alcohol.. 70,000 76,000

Forest products... 29,000 151,000

Industrial products 175,000 360,000

Misc. supplies 108,000 377,000

Total.... $685,000 $2,062,000

Heavy purchases of sugar, meats, and

industrial products during the last quarter

of the fiscal year 1952 were responsible for the high total last year. The total amount

purchased during the last three months of the 1952 fiscal year was $685,000. The Canal has long maintained a policy

of buying supplies in the local markets when merchandise of standard quality is offered at competitive prices and on firm

deliveries. The heavy increase in such

purchases recently was largely due to co- operative efforts on the part of Canal

buyers and suppliers in the Republic to improve marketing methods.

Practically all of the local purchases made by the Canal organization are those

of the Commissary, Clubhouse, and Store- house Divisions. All of the meat and food products are bought by the Commissary

Division for resale. Clubhouse Division purchases are principally limited to miscellaneous supplies and services although some of its purchases are for resale through its various retail units. Most of the forest and industrial products bought

locally are purchased by the Storehouse

Division for construction and other in- dustrial uses in the Canal Zone. Purchases made by the Canal in the Republic of Panama were higher last year than the previous fiscal year in practically

all categories. The amount of meat products bought in the fiscal year just ended amounted to almost twice the (See page 7)

All But Two Members

Will Attend Sessions

Opening Next Monday

The Board of Directors of the Panama

Canal Company will meet in the Canal Zone beginning September 8, 1952. This

will be their second meeting on the Isth- mus since the reorganization of July 1951

established the Company in its present form. A previous meeting occurred here

in January of this year. The sessions for the September meeting

are scheduled to open Monday in the Board Room of the Administration

Building at Balboa Heights with Under

Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen, Chairman of the Board, presiding. The housing program and other capital expenditures proposed for this fiscal year and next are expected to be considered by

the Board at its meeting next week. Pre- liminary reports on the financial results of the Canal Company's first full year of operation will be presented at the meeting, and the Directors will also review the budget for the coming fiscal year which is scheduled to be presented a few weeks

later to the Bureau of the Budget. The second meeting in the Canal Zone

will give Board members another opportunity to make a first-hand observation

of Canal operations and installations. Two New Members Will Attend Two recently appointed members of the Board will attend the meeting. They are: Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, and Matthew Robinson, Special Consultant to the Secretary

of the Army. General Pick is scheduled to arrive Monday morning on the S. S. Panama, and Mr. Robinson was to

arrive today with Mr. Bendetsen. Eleven of the 13-man Board and all but

one of the general officers of the Company

will attend the meeting {See page 3) SEPTEMBER FEATURES

# What Canal Division has a "green thumb" —catches tiger cats and deer—empties your

garbage can, and does many another odd

chore for you?—See Pages 8, O and 10. £ Archaeology has enthusiasts all over the Isthmus seeking ruins and valuable

relics of pre-hlstoric days —See Page 6. # An inventory of the Canal's assets valued

at more than $400,000,000 net Is ready to

start—See Page 3. House hunting becomes something more

than a pastime as walls and roofs appear on buildings—See Page 16. # C. W. Kilbey, of the Clubhouse Division, was a former bandsman with some of the

top leaders in the United States. He now

selects your records—See Page 4.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5,1952

Efficiency Can Cut

Costs, Governor Tells

Employee Conference

If people can realize that what they are doing in their Canal jobs they are doing

for themselves, possibly some operational

costs can be cut, Governor J. S. Seybold

told employee representatives who at- tended the August Governor-Employee

Conference.

"It is of the utmost importance," the Governor said as the conference was

ending, "that all of us sitting around this table insist that jobs be done with the utmost efficiency . . . Everyone has to b3 alert to do the best he can because what he does as an individual affects him,

as an individual. And we ought to take

a look at the fellow working at our elbow, because his efficiency is reflected in the

cost." He pointed out that the people working

for the Canal organization would have

slight respect for the officials if they

believed these same officials were not

doing everything possible to see to it that improvements and adjustments were

being made.

This same policy, he said, applies to individual workers and he expressed the hope that people in supervisory positions would listen to suggestions for improved

efficiency from the men and women of their organizations. The Governor's impromptu talk wound

up the conference during which subjects from airfields in Guatemala to sugar in the commissaries entered the discussion.

Civil Defense Plans Governor Seybold had reported, in answer to questions raised at previous

meetings, that a full-time Civil Defense

chief is being appointed in the Executive

Office. Lt. Col. David Parker, the Governor's Military Assistant, is working on

Civil Defense questions now and a report was to go to the Governor within about 10 days. Fuller information on a Civil Defense program, the Governor said, would

have to wait until after this report is in. The matter of sugar in the commissaries came up in connection with a strong re- quest that they stock sugar from the United States in addition to the native sugar which is now being sold. The

conferees said they would prefer to have

the two sugars available. Other Conference highlights were:

Application of the Pure Food and Drag

Act here: The Commissary Division, al- though not required by law, feels that it

is bound by the provisions of this act and

has so acted in everything except some

technical points such as labelling. The

standards of the law are being met by the Commissaries which are also gradually meeting the technical requirements such

as labelling; conferees were told this will be accomplished within a short time. Gasoline: This, as usual,, led to a long, general discussion which concerned pri- marily the octane rating of gasoline sold

in the Canal Zone. The Governor said that if the general feeling of the conferees was that people here wanted higher- priced gasoline he would look into just what additional costs would be entailed. He felt that if a higher octane gasoline were obtained, two qualities would have

to be kept on hand, since the present

gasoline meets specifications for GovernTo The Employees . . . In many respects the spirit of good com- munity relations has been developed to a

very high degree in the Canal Zone. Evidences of this are the highly successful campaigns in the past to raise funds for such worthy causes as the Red Cross, the Community Chest, the Cancer Fund, the Infantile Paralysis Fund, and many others.

It is notable that in none of the drives of

this general nature has it been necessary to employ high pressure methods to insure

their success. This indicates clearly that

the average resident of our Canal Zone com- munity recognizes his or her responsibility

to community endeavor and responds

willingly. This ready response here is by no means

confined to subscription of funds for charitable and similar worthwhile causes. During the past month the annual Summer Recreation Program was brought to a

close after a highly sxiccessful season. Many

hundreds of youngsters and adults took part

profitably and enjoyably in this program

which was provided in all communities. While the Summer Recreation Program is one of the Community Chest participants,

its success did not depend alone on the money raised by this method.

Its success depended to a great extent upon the volunteer workers who assisted the

relatively few paid personnel, who devoted

their entire time to the work. Each of these volunteers who participated in making possible the program of recreation and useful handiwork for the young people deserves the

heartiest thanks of their communities. Another phase of community effort in the Canal Zone which deserves and should have

the wholehearted support of the residents is the work of the Civic Councils. These organizations, first established in 1937, have an

important role to perform. Despite the public apathy which has sometimes attended

their efforts, the men and women who have

participated in Civic Council work have performed a highly creditable job in repre- senting their communities. The Civic Councils have been of great value in helping to determine the general sentiments of Canal Zone residents on

matters pertaining to the general welfare. There have been many instances during the 15 years of their existence in which they have been of aid to the Canal administration. Aside from these few examples of a

highly developed sense of responsibility in community welfare, there are numerous

others. These include the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, beneficent societies, musical, art, and

theater groups, and organized hobby groups. The list might be extended indefinitely. All of these things, conducted within

reasonable limits, are certainly on the credit side in our small and relatively isolated community known as the. Canal Zone.

Quite aside from these organized community endeavors, there is another equally important phase of community relationship. This is just plain good tieighborliness. Charles Dickens had one of his memorable

characters express the thought thus: "What

we've got to do," he wrote, "is to keep up our

spirits, and be neighbourly. We shall come

all right in the end, never fear." Our community in the Canal Zone is made up of so many diverse elements that it is impossible that all groups have at all times

the same objectives as other groups. For

this reason, it is most important that each should be considerate of the others. This

spirit of neighborliness is no less important

to us in our daily lives than the spirit of charity which is so notably exemplified in the instances already mentioned.

New Directors To Attend Meeting

TWO NEW MEMBERS of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company will attend the meeting which opens Monday at Balboa Heights. They are Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Engineers

(left), and Matthew Robinson, member of the Shroeder-Roekefeller Banking Corp., of New York City, General Pick is expected to arrive on the Isthmus Monday and Mr. Robinson was scheduled to arrive today with Karl R. Bendetsen, Under Secretary of the Army and Chairman of the Board of Director.--. Mr. Robinson has served as Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Army on several occasions and in this capacity has attended all meetings of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company,

including the one held here last January. ment vehicles. Factors to be looked into include what facilities and handling would be duplicated.

Subsistence allowance: This was also an answer to an earlier question. Governor

Seybold said that the matter is under

study in the Finance Bureau and that

some change is contemplated in view of

rising living costs. Housing: The Governor was unable to answer a question as to the eventual

future of Pedro Miguel since, he said, the Board of Directors had not as yet put its stamp of approval on the (See page U)
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Canal's Assets Valued

At Over $400,000,000

Are To Be Inventoried

What are Gatun Locks worth today?

lluw many and what is the current value of the cars and trucks Uncle Sam

owns in the name of the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government? How long will the Administration

Building at Balboa Heights be usable? These and countless other questions of a similar nature are to be asked and

answered in an all-inclusive inventory of the Canal's assets, which is scheduled to begin within the next few weeks. It is in fact an appraisal of net assets of the United States presently valued at more

than $400,000,000. An organization to make the gigantic inventory, composed principally of ac- countants and appraisal engineers, is now

being formed and will work under the

direction of the Comptroller. The job is expected to require two years for completion. Authorized By Board An appraisal of assets of the Panama

Canal Company was authorized by the Board of Directors at its first meeting

held after the company was formed in July of last year. The proposal for a complete inventory

of property, plant, and equipment for rate-fixing purposes was put forward

before the Canal was transferred to the Company in 1951. It was recommended

by a firm of accounting consultants employed to study the Canal's fiscal policies and financial procedures in connection with the corporate reorganization. The results of the inventory will have

little or no effect on the average employee

but they will have a major effect on the establishment of tolls or other major

tariff rates, which are partly based on the value of capital assets of the Company or Government.

In Accord With Policy The inventory will be made in con- formity with a fiscal and accounting

policy statement adopted at the Company's first Board meeting. The inventory will require a physical

inspection of practically all buildings, in- stallations of any nature, plant, and

equipment now owned by the Company

and Government. Also, the work will involve the establishment of present-day

value of each asset under appraisal and

the expected life of such property or equipment.

In addition to appraising each piece of property, such as Gatun Locks, the

appraisal engineers and accountants will also determine the value and expected

life of the component parts of such major

installations. The segregated cost by

major components is required when a part

of the asset or property is removed and

replaced. Example Of Appraisal For example, the elevators in a masonry

building may have a shorter life expect- ancy than the building and therefore their present day value will be established on

a different basis from that of the building

proper. There are hundreds of similar determinations to be made in the plant and equipment now in use. One of the objectives 'See pagz is>

DIRECTORS TO ATTEND MEETING

Gen. Glen E. Edgerton •John W. Martyn

Edward D. McKim Matthew Robinson

Gen. J. L. Schlev Daniel E. Taylor \Y. M. Whitman, Secretary

Directors To Meet In Canal Zone Next Week

For Second Time Since Company Was Formed

iCnniinued from page i) next week. Secre- tary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., Stockholder and general officer, and Gordon

Gray, President of the University of North Carolina and formerly Secretary

of the Army, will be unable to attend. In addition to the two new Directors, those who will attend and the expected

arrival time of the visiting Directors are

as follows: GOVERNOR SEYBOLD, President of the Company. W. R. PFIZER, Vice President and

head of the Panama Canal Company

headquarters in New York, will arrive Monday on the Panama. MAJ. GEN. JULIAN L. SCHLEY,

retired, former Panama Canal Governor,

arriving Monday on the Panama. MAJ. GEN. GLEN E. EDGERTON,

retired, former Panama Canal Governor,

arriving Monday on the Panama.

T. COLEMAN ANDREWS, senior

partner in a firm of Certified Public Accountants in Richmond, Va., will arrive Sunday by air. EDWARD D. McKIM, insurance

executive of Omaha, Nebr., arrived Thursday by plane. DANIEL E. TAYLOR, President of the West India Fruit and Steamship Company, Inc., of West Palm Beach, Fla., will arrive bv plane Monday morning. JOHN W. MARTYN, Administrative

Assistant to the Secretary of the Army,

will arrive Monday on the Panama. Some of the Board members will be accompanied by their families. Several

are expected to remain on the Isthmus for a few days following the close of the Board sessions although the exact schedules of the individual members have not been announced.

In addition to the Board members, the

sessions will be attended by Lt. Gov. H. O. Paxson, Vice President; Lindsley H.

Noble, Comptroller; and W. M. Whitman,

Secretary, all general officers of the Company; and Peter Beasley, Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Army.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952

OUR OUT-OF-DOORS

Ex-Bandsman Picks Clubhouse

Beethoven And Jazz Records

Regions like the Isthmus of Panama,

long occupied by people of many lands in constant contact with remote parts of the

world, frequently have many cultivated plants of foreign origin. Here, however, there is scarcely one

native shrub of any special interest that

is generally used in landscape plantings, although there are many beautiful and

interesting species that grow naturally and thrive in this area. Some of the most noteworthy of the native flowering shrubs, generally con- spicuous for their absence from Isthmian

gardens and lawns, are listed here for the

benefit of gardeners and flower lovers. The "candelito" (little candle, so-called

for the resemblance of the individual

flowers to candles) or the hertia haen- kiana in botanical language, is a shrub common in thickets.

THIS IS THE "CANDELITO," or "Isertia haenkiana" in botanical language, a handsome shrub

native to the Isthmus which, like other "natives," is cultivated surprisingly little for local landscaping.

Its bright yellow flowers, in large ter- minal clusters, are tinged with red. They

are WaiyZ inches long, are very showy

and are often used for decoration. The

leaves are large and obovate—meaning,

very roughly, shaped like an egg sitting on its small end. "Panama Poinsettia" (Warscewiczia

coccinea) is an occasional shrub or small

tree in the forests that resembles the Christmas Poinsettia (Euphobia pulche- rimma). It has small cymes (again, roughly, groups of flowers in which each blossom is borne on a separate branch) of flowers in long, narrow panicles, or pyra- mid-shaped clusters. One calyx lobe (the outer, usually green, portion of the

flower) of one flower in each cyme, or

cluster, is expanded into a large oblong,

bright red, leaflike blade. It has large obovate (again, egg-shaped) leaves. The

plants flower in the summer—or dry

season—months. The "frangipani" (Plumeria acutifolia) a native of the Isthmus, is best known in Hawaii and other South Pacific islands, where it is used for the "leis" which go

with the sway of hula hula dancers, the strum of Hawaiian guitars, and the turn- over of tourist money.

Strings of frangipani are used in Central America to decorate altars, especially on

the third of May, the feast of flowers, or the Day of the Cross, when crosses erected

in homes are lavishly decorated with

flowers and other objects. Small groups of sweet-smelling white,

pink, and sometimes yellow flowers at the ends of the branches of the frangipani blossom in the dry season when the plants

are leafless. The frangipani is probably

FLAPPERS WERE FOX TROTTING to "Happy Days Are Here Again" when this band was

playing at Toots Shor's "Castle Farms" just outside Cincinnati.

In this lineup of bandsmen in the Tracy-Brown Orchestra of 1929 is C. W. Kilbey (fifth from the

left), now Assistant to the General Manager of the Clubhouse Division, and the Clubhouse record expert. He played banjo, guitar, and fiddle in the band. Other names of note in the orchestra were Mattie Matlock, fourth from the right; Ray McKinley,

third from the right; Manny Strand, second from the right, later owner and director of the orchestra at Earl Carroll's Vanities in Hollywood; and Spud Murphy, now a well-known arranger. The Tracy-Brown Band recorded for Columbia. C. W. Kilbey, in the picture above, may

not look like a hep cat or long hair. But

the fact that he is a bit of both is at the bottom of the Clubhouse record business. He fiddled his way through his first dance band job at the age of 14 and for the next 18 years made popular music

with orchestras and vaudeville shows. On the classical side, he played violin

in the St. Joseph (where they love Jack Benny) Symphony Orchestra. He played his last professional note in

cultivated more extensively on the Isth- mus than any other shrub native to the Central American-Caribbean region. Brownea macrophylla, in its natural swampy habitat, flowers into flames of

fiery red in areas so shaded by large trees that there is scarcely more than twilight at midday. It is a large shrub or small

tree abundant in the swamps near the

Atlantic coast of the Isthmus, and is one

of the most striking and beautiful plants

of this region. The flowers are in dense rosette-like clusters 6 inches in diameter, which pop

out of the plant indiscriminately, any- where from the ground to the tip cf the branches. The Heliconian or "wild bananas," as they are commonly called, are among the most abundant and conspicuous plants on

the Isthmus. Although they are seldom

cultivated in local gardens, they are fre- quently used for cut flowers. Eight species have been listed in the Canal Zone alone, and many others arc found in Panama.

Probably the most handsome of the

local species is the Heliconia curtispaiha, which is common on the Atlantic slope of the Isthmus. Its long pendant spikes are

often more than a yard long and have

brightly colored bracts spur-like leaves on the floral axis or stem below the flower.

1937 and soon after that stepped into a job with the Panama Canal. Now he's Assistant to Wilson Crook, General Manager of the Clubhouse Division. So it isn't surprising that Mr. Kilbey, with his Clubhouse ear tuned to the public,

is the majordomo of music for his unit. Customers like the service—and the Clubhouses like to please their cus- tomers—so more and more music has been added since Mr. Kilbey took charge. Now you can buy both records and

sheet music in seven Clubhouse record

sections. Sheet music alone is sold in two

others where there is little demand for the records. Public Reaction Studied Back of the scenes arranging for the

records, Mr. Kilbey searches every issue

of Billboard and Variety and uses his own

means to gauge public reaction to tunes on radio request shows.

If it's ballad or boogie or a bedtime

story or a complete recording of Aida, he

tries to have it for Clubhouse customers

before they know that they want it. But if a customer wants a certain record that is not to be found in the Clubhouses, he will try very hard to find the tune that he pines for. Trying to fill these special requests is a job that is not easy what with searching

the catalogs for the name of the company

that recorded Joe Blow, the bassoonist, only to find that bassoon business was bad and there are no more bassoon records by Blow. What kind of music do people want

those who buy records in the Clubhouses? Yma Sumac Records Popular Two of the best sellers in the last year

or two have been the albums of Yma

Sumac in Voice of the Xtaby, and Mario

Lanza in The (ireat Caruso. Among single records, the best consist- ent sellers have been (See page io>
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

/ ML it !£

SAFETY

ON THE LOCKS

LAWRENCE W. CHAMBERS, Safety Inspector Looks Division. ANNOUNCEMENTS

During the absence of G. 0. Kellar, now

on leave, H. H. Shacklett will act as Chief, Safety Branch. During the absence of Max R. Hart, now on leave, Earl H. Trout, also will act

as Safety Inspector for the Division of Storehouses and Motor Transportation

Division. HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

July COMMUNITY SERVICES

BUREAU

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services. 5

Civil Affairs 2 Industrial 2 Engineering and Construction 1 Health 1 Marine

Railroad and Terminals

Supply and Service

Division Awards For NO DISABLING INJURIES

July DREDGING DIVISION CLUBHOUSE DIVISION MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Grounds Maintenance 6 Clubhouses 5 Dredging 3

Electrical 3 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Motor Transportation 3 Storehouses 3 Railroad 2 Sanitation 2 Navigation 1 Commissary

Locks Maintenance

Terminals. __

The Locks Division has reason to be proud

of its advances in safety. Over the i> i-t 12 years safety committees were formed .it .ill Locks and a full time safety man appointed. The Locks record has improved accordingly. Jim Tenni* n, appointed safety assistant in 1945, was one person who knew the Locks

thoroughly and contributed a lot in reducing

accidents. Upon Mr. Tennien's retirement

in 1950, Jack Patterson carried on the good work until he felt the urge to further his education and resigned to return to college

in 1951.

In 1940 there were four fatalities at the Locks; in 1951 there were none. The fre- quency rate in 1940 was 44; in 1951 it was

18, an improvement of which we are justly- proud. The job of putting ships through the Locks is a complicated affair. When viewed from a distance it seems very simple but a

trip through the control tower with its myriad of control switches, power indicating

lights, gauges, etc., will convince you

otherwise. Each switch or button controls a vital moving part of the Locks, from a 600-ton

miter gate to a small signal light. In the

tunnels, with their miter gate moving machines, rising stem valves, cylindrical valves, chain moving machinery and hundreds of appurtenant small machines, are miles of electrically operated devices controlled from

the tower to slow or speed the ship through

the Canal. The Locks safety program covering an

average monthly 200,000 man-hour force, touches the safety and health of laborers,

artisans, scythe men, carpenters, tractor operators, welders, machinists, electricians, boilermakers, locomotive operators, crane

operators, lockmaster, clerks, etc., in fact, it will run the whole gamut of industry from A to Z. Considering the frequency rates of compardk mduotn in the I nited Stitei we

find thai the averages will run from the communications industry, with a low of about 2, to the lumber industry with a high

"I aboul 47. Our rate of 14 for the fiscal year 1952 proves that our program is gelling

results. The seven safety meeting- per month

held at the three Locks are revelations of cooperation and interest, giving the 125 committeemen the urge to pass the word SAFETY on to their fellow workers. These

meetings are carried out in the traditional

spirit ol democratic friendly arguments, free discussion and good suggestions, augmented

with safety movies, educational sessions and

elemental first aid training. There have been many instances in which

the program has paid dividends; for example,

the recent instance in which a Lockman

rescued a drowning soldier at the north end

of Pedro Miguel Locks, and another in which a helper giving an electrician artificial respiration at Gatun Locks probably saved

his life when the electrician was shocked

into insensibility. Safety has to be sold, just like anything

else with intangible results and in addition

to outside publications, the Locks issues a monthly newsletter, giving helpful hints and monthly statistics; a humorous periodic payroll insert on safety, on the lighter side; and

discussions of near-accidents to advertise

safety. All of this tends to keep the sub-conscious mind working to prevent accidents. Mr. Chambers, who was appointed Safety

Inspector for the Locks last October, has

since attended the 22d annual Michigan

Safety Conference at Detroit, the 22d annual Ohio Safety Conference at Columbus, and

the Safety Training Institute at the National

Safety Council in Chicago. It is believed that some of the Safety know-how of the

biggest men in the movement has rubbed

off on him and will show up in time with fewer accidents on the Locks.

Disabling Injuries per 1,090,000 Man-Hours Worked

(Frequency Rate) JULY 1952

Community Services Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Marine Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Supply and Service Bureau

Health Bureau

C. Z. Gov't Panama Canal Co. (This month)

C. Z. Gov't Panama Canal Co.(1952 lo Date)

C. Z. Gov't-Panama Canal Co. (Best Year)

Industrial Bureau

Railroad and Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries. 40 Man-Hours Worked 2,900,959 LEGEND

I I Amount Better Than Panama Canal Company—Canal Zone Government Best Year ^^^3 Amount Worse Than Panama Canal Company—Canal Zone Government Best Year
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952 Many Canal"Diggers" AndNaturalists

Look For Man-Made, Natural History

Many Canal employees spend their spare time shoveling and sifting the Isth- mian earth or spying on the local outdoors

in search of man-made or natural history

in the raw. The surroundings are so rich in either

field, there probably are few who haven't

tried one or the other. Aside from the few-time diggers and

dabblers, there is quite a large number

who, because of long and strong enthusiasms in the matter, refer to themselves

as amateur—in most cases—archaeologists,

naturalists, or collectors of history-making

antiquities. Two societies made up largely of latter day Canal "diggers" have been formed from the group of real enthusiasts who

follow these interests regularly. One is the Panama Society for the Ad- vancement of Archaeology and Natural

Science formed in 1949, which has 18 members. The other, the Sociedad de la Tierra Firme, organized three months ago, has

eight members interested solely in archaeology. In neither case is the age of the organi- zation an indication of the amount of time

spent by individual members on archaeol- ogy or natural history. Both have members to whom these interests are the part- time pursuits of a life time. In both groups also there are members

whose part-time probing of the past—or past and present natural history—is a

family affair in which mama, papa, and

small fry take off together through the

jungles and up the rivers and streams in search of material. The Society for the Advancement of Archaeology and Natural Science has

several "specialists." Foremost of these are the honorary members: Professor Alejandro Mendez,

Director of the National Museum of Panama; Max Arosemena, former Minister of Education; and Karl P. Curtis, unrivaled local authority on archaeological

A FLUTED SPOUTED POT AXD COVER, excavated remnant of Code Indian culture, is inspected

here by officers of the Panama Society for the Advancement of Archaeology and Natural Science: (left to

right) Kenneth W. Vinton, President, head of the science department of the Canal Zone Junior College; Mrs. Gerald A. Doyle, Secretary-Treasurer; and Harry A. Dunn, Vice President of the Society, General

Supervisory Medical Technician at Gorgas Hospital. Other officers, members of the Board cf Directors, are: Wells B. Wright, Assistant Designing Engineer; Hayward Shacklett, Safety Engineer; and Gerald A. Doyle, General Architect.

field work who has for many years served

as guide for most visiting archaeological

expeditions. Kenneth W. Vinton, head of the Science Department of the Canal Zone Junior

College and President of the Society, has had several articles on natural science and archaeology published in scientific publications. He was recently honored by the inclu- sion of his article, "Origin of Life on the Galapagos Islands," which appeared in the May 1951 issue of the American

Journal of Science, in the Smithsonian

Institution's Panorama of Science for 1952, an annual series of the 25 best

scientific articles published during the

year. Captain Robert G. Rennie, Panama

Canal Pilot, spends most of his off-duty hours (often accompanied by his family)

NEITHER LAKE XOR JUNGLE deters the "diggers" and searchers. This trim craft is the Jungle

Queen, an lS-foot motorboat built specially fur operation "ii Madden Lake. Its owner is John W. Acker, Motor Transportation Division employee, shown standing at the right aft of the cabin. II. was assisted

in its building by U. S. Coast Guard Captain C. R. MacLean, "ii duty with the Fifteenth Naval District, seated in front, and R. G. Rennie, Panama Canal Pilot, standing alongside Mr. taker. The motor launch was christened by Sherry Lynne Acker, daughter of the owner, who sometimes accompanies her father and

his treasure hunting friends on their expeditions.

collecting old Spanish relics, particularly along the Cruces and the Porto Bello

Trails. Anything which casts additional light on the history of the Colonial Spanish on

the Isthmus and in the New World is potential material for his first book, now

in the course of compilation, or others which might follow. Harry A. Dunn, General Supervisory Medical Technician at Gorgas Hospital, whose particular field is plant life, is best known locally for one cf the finest Isth- mian orchid collections. Wells D. Wright,

Assistant Designing Engineer for the Canal, is another member of the Society who collects orchids. Hayward Shacklett, Safety Engineer in the Canal's Safety Branch, prospects for semi-precious stones, cuts some of them, and also has an impressive collection of specimens and photographs of tropical woods and trees. Gerald A. Doyle, General Architect for the Canal, and Vice President of the Society last year, and Elmer B. Stevens, Chief of the Structural Branch of the Engineering Division, have made numerous trips into the hostile Cuna Indian

territory on the Bayano River. Their first trip to Piria and the headwaters of the Bayano in 1950 was about the third known to have been made by white men.

Neville A. Harte, civilian employee of the Army at Fort Gulick, has concentrated a great deal of his archaeological attention on a study of the so-called lost wax process by which early Indian resi- dents of the Isthmus east gold and other metals into the hvacas and other orna- ments and equipment which are the "trade marks" of certain cultures. He has succeeded in casting simple arti- facts which are good copies cf the originals turned out of the ground by many archaeologists and, in the process, has proved to

his own satisfaction that the process most contemporary experts believe to have

been used would not have worked. Judge E. I. P. Tatelman, of the Cristobal Magistrate's Court, is one of the

Society's most ardent Seepage li)
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

JUeJ-, IW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly at I5ALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONK

Printed by the I'rinling Plant

Ifffuni Hop*, Canal'/.ont John S. Seybold, Governor-President H. O. PAXSON, Lieutenant Governor

E. C. Lombard, Executive Secretary

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Oleva Hastings

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criticisms, or opinions of a general nature

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Please notify us promptly ol any change in your

mailing address. Post Offices everywhere have pre- pared postal card forms for notices of changes of address.

Canal Buys Over $2,000,000 In Supplies Form Panama Sources In Past Fiscal Year

ConKmudfrom page 1) dollar value of such supplies bought the previous year. The amount of beverages increased from

$110,000 in 1951 to $146,000 in 1952. The

amount of forest products bought was

practically tripled within the one-year

period and the 1952 purchases in this cate- gory are expected to be approximately doubled during this fiscal year because of large contracts for native lumber awarded

several months ago. Most of the deliveries on these contracts are to be made

during the present fiscal year. .Meat purchases, principally Panama

beef cattle, constituted more than onethird cf the total money value of all purchases last year. The purchase of sea foods from Panama sources constitute a year-round source of revenue for dis- tributors of these products. During the

last three months of the past fiscal year

the Commissary Division bought over

$15,000 in sea foods. Other meat products bought in substantial quantities in- clude locally-grown chickens and turkeys. The amount of sugar bought from Panama producers last year was consider- ably less than the year before. The Commissary Division's sugar requirements are bought on a long-term contract basis and

no local producers entered the bidding to furnish sugar until the latter part of the

year. The supply for the last three months of the fiscal year 1952 was

OF CURRENT INTEREST

GUTHRIE F. CROWE assumed his new duties a? United States District Judge for the Canal Zone

following his arrival here August 11. He served for four years as State Police Commissioner for Kentucky

before coming to the Isthmus, and had previously served one term in the Kentucky House of Representatives and acted as Municipal Judge in La Grange.

Ky., his home town. He served in the Navy in both

the Atlantic and Pacific theaters in World War II and was Kentucky State Commander of the American

Legion for a year before ecming to the Canal Zone.

Lt. Col. Richard F. Mulholland assumed

his new duties as Superintendent of Corozal

Hospital August 26, replacing Col. George

Hesner who resigned from Canal service in June. Colonel Mulholland came to the Isthmus from Fort Dix, N. J., where he had served

as Chief of the Psychiatry and Neurology

Services and Chief of Mental Hygiene since January 1950. He was assigned to Letterman General

Hospital in San Francisco in February 1947, and completed residency training in psychiatry there in January 1950. Marking the close of an era, about

30,000 files on former contract employees brought to the Canal Zone for war- time projects from 1940 to 1944, were

transferred during August to dead

storage. The contract laborers (there is a file for each one employed) came from

Salvador, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and

Colombia, completed their contracts and were repatriated. The transfer released the equivalent

of about 30 four-drawer filing cabinets

of filing space. Three new, light, industrial-tvpe ambulances for use at Gorgas and Colon Hospitals are expected to arrive en the Isthmus

in September. Two will be used at the Gorgas ambulance

service and the other at Colon Hospital. They are Chevrolets and will be used as re- placements for present obsolete equipment. They are of the type used to transport patients from hospital to trains and vice versa and for use in first aid sen-ices.

Examinations for applicants wdio wish to qualify as plumbers in the Canal Zone will henceforth be given by the Personnel Bureau rather than by the Examining Board, which has been abolished. The change was bought locally. Although local purchases by the Commissary Division and other Canal units have been greatlv increased during the

past few years, the purchases still repre- sent only a small part of the potential

total.

It has been estimated that the amount

of local purchases could be expanded

greatly, particularly in locally-grown food

products, if such supplies could be fur- nished on firm delivery schedules and at competitive prices and qualities.

announced recently in an amendment to the Plumbing Regulations foi the Canal Zone.

Applical ions fo I is plumbers « ill be received bj the Engineering and Construction Director and the applicants will then be examini d and graded by the unit of

the- Personnel Bureau which condui I l.ir C'i\il Service and employment examinations. f"he Chief Plumbing Inspector, or his representative, will be on hand to assist

in conducting the oral and practical examinations. Written and oral examinations will be

given for Mastei and [ourneyman Plumbers,

but no written examination will be required

for Nsu. ii ice of a liivn-eas Wist ant I 'lumber. New regulations have recently been

issued in the Personnel Manual for the observance of and compensation for holidays under a recent Executive

Order." These new regulations extend to employees working irregular work weeks

other than the normal Monday through

Friday schedule, the same type of holi- day privileges and additional compensation as have been enjoyed in the past by the regularly scheduled employees.

Canal employees are now eligible for a 10 percent discount on one-way airline fares to or from the United States on joint air-sea

trips between the United States and Panama

on the Panama Line and Pan American World Airways. On return trips by air (on which transpor- ts inn to the United States is on the Panama

Line), the discount applies to trips origi- nating at any point in the United States from which Pan American Airways has through rates to Panama.

Those points of origin are: Houston, Los

Angeles. Miami, and New Orleans, served

directly by Pan American; and Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco,

Philadelphia, New York, and Washington,

D. C, served by connecting carriers with which Pan American has interline agree- ments for through rates to Panama.

Canal employees who wish to take ad- vantage of the airline discount on joint air- sea trips must first purchase their steamship

tickets from the Panama Line on the Isth- mus. There the ticket will be stamped to designate it as part of a joint air-sea trip

ticket. Then arrangements for the airline portion of the trip may be made with Pan American Airways representatives in Panama.

For passengers who pay the regularly scheduled tariff rate on the Panama Line, the 10 percent disccunt applies to both the

airline and ship fare for the round-trip package travel plan.

W. M. WHITMAN", recently-elected Secretary of the Panama Canal Company, is renewing acquaint- ances among his many friends on the Isthmus during

his present trip to the Canal Zone. The Secretary was employed for eight years, 1940 to 1948, in the General Counsel's Office, the last five of which he

served as Assistant General Counsel. After leaving

the Isthmus, Mr. Whitman was employed as Attorney

in the Canal's Washington Office. He is a native of Omaha, Nebr. He was graduated with an A. B.

degree from Northwestern University and received

his degree in law from Nebraska' University. He and

his family reside in Kensington, Md.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952 "Outdoor Keepers" For Zone Communities

Deal With Plants, Annoying Creatures

Startled and startling snakes which dawn on Panama Canal communities, deer which gourmand and grow fat on shoots

of garden shrubbery, or sloths which h"ang around a house to which they haven't been

invited are apt to find themselves afoul

of the Grounds Maintenance Division. This "green-thumbed" unit turns thumbs down on creatures that keep

plants from growing and deals with many

unloved flying, crawling, and four-legged things which wander around outdoors where they aren't wanted.

Strictly outdoorsy, the Grounds Maintenanc Division takes care of Canal communities from the eave lines out—planting and priming, carting off garbage, sweeping

the streets, and serving as general outdoor

keepers. Two Canal Zone cemeteries, at Mount Hope and Corozal, are also cared

for by this Division. Most of the flowers and foliage that surround Canal homes and offices got

their start in the Division's Experiment Gardens at Summit, best known as a showplace whose exotic and commonplace

tropical flora attract many tourists and

local visitors. So did many plants— probably thou- sands of species— now grown commercially and for decoration on the Isthmus and in surrounding Central and South American countries. The number of "accessions"—every

separate seed or group of seeds, plant, slip of a plant, or group of plants brought in from another area—introduced by the Experiment Gardens number more than

14,000, about half of which continue to grow in this part of the world. Intruders Finished Off The Grounds Maintenance Division's dealings with unwanted creatures which

disturb people in Panama Canal towns is an individual matter of rerouting or fin- ishing off each intruder who occasions a protest. Favorite snake story among Division employees—who have more than their

fair chance to originate them —is about an

WALTER R. LINDSAY (left) Chief of the Grounds Maintenance Division, was born in the Hawaiian Islands and was a horticulturalist there

before joining the Canal organization in 1930. He is shown here with A. I. Bauman, Pacific side Superintendent of the Division.

Experiment Garden laborer who stepped up on a log to reach into a tree he was

pruning. When the log moved to protest

its position as a footstool, the laborer found it to be a 12-foot boa constrictor. Most of the snakes dealt with by the Division usually by a foreman and any

available "volunteer"— don't come in sizes that are impressive. Those that cause most

calls from householders are the little whip

or bush snakes, who are particularly fond

of vines around houses, and coral snakes.

ROY A. SHARP, Grounds Maintenance Foreman for the Gamboa District, i bi of the nursery at the < 'anal Zone Experiment Gardens at Summit, in the area which he

a part

The black panther, which has been re- ported to roam at night around the houses

near the wooded base of Ancon Hill, is

( if he roams there or ever did ) a project for Headley McAdams, the Division's Pacific

side hunter. Armed with a shotgun, he goes after animals, birds, and snakes about which

the Grounds Maintenance Division re- ceives complaints. When there's no

hunting to be done, he prunes trees and

shrubs and cuts grass in one of the regular grounds maintenance gangs. Deer Roundup Planned As for the deer which bedevil the gar- deners at the foot of Ancon Hill, Grounds

Maintenance people are plotting a round- up in a stockade on the hill. The plan is subtle. If it works, the deer will be deported like this: They will come into the corral to eat salt planted to tempt them there; then they will be cap- tured and transferred to some other forest area where they won't bother their human

neighbors. The deer on the hill are believed to have

sprung from a pair, originally pets, possibly freed when their former owners left the Isthmus or got tired of them. Whenever or however the deer got on the hill, and from there to the yards of Balboa

Heights residents, they run a close second

to leaf cutting ants for the number of complaints they occasion. Then there are possums which play nighttime games and sloths which appear around Canal houses. Dead animals and

birds present other problems- all to be taken care of by the Grounds Maintenance Division. The Canal Zone Experiment Gardens

were established in 1923 —on the site of an

earlier poultry farm—to introduce plants from all over the tropical world and dis- seminate them free of charge to holders of land leases in the Canal Zone and to residents of Panama and surrounding

countries. Four years later, a studv of plants in the Canal Zone by Paul C. Standley of the Smithsonian Institution attributed to the Gardens and to plantings by French nuns when they were in charge of Ancon, now Gorgas, Hospital, all the plants considered interesting or unusual. All others then growing in the Canal Zone were common to all tropical areas, he said. After the frne distribution of plants was

stopped about 1927, the sale of plants from the nuisery at the Gardens con- tinued to spread new and different species to areas where they had not been grown

before. The experimental fropagation of acces- sions from other aieas is a continuing

process, although the number has de- creased in recent years. Many Plant Kxports About $1,000 worth of budded and

grafted citrus fruit trees recently went

from the nursery at the Gardens to Dutch Guiana. Philodendron cuttings are frequently- sent to nurseries in the United States, which supply slips for the large dime-store

retail store business, for instance. Some time ago, a shipment of the medicinal plant ipecac i eephadis ipecacuanha ) was sent from the Gardens to Australia,
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

where it was bo provide the beginnings for future commercial plantings. The seeds of rubber trees, first intro- duced experimentally at Summit about

1925, were sent out by the thousands to different parts of Latin America during World War II in an attempt to get the rubb iri ldustrystart ! in thish imisphere. Teak s seds, which do exceptionall r « 11 on th Isthmus, were also shipped oul by

the thousands to surrounding countries from trees that were first introduced at the K\t> Hnie't Gardens in 1926. Manila hemp has be3n introduced to many par!' of Latin Am rica from plantings at Summit some of which came

from th> last shipment to leave the Philippine islands btfors such export* w 're banned in 1926. Anoth :• potentially interesting tree commercially which has been a from Summit in limited quantities is the West African timber tree, Terminalia

myriocarpa, a relative of the tropical almon 1. It is an excspti aially fast growing tree which produces wood comparable to mahogany which is ready for cutting in about 20 years, compared to 50 or 75 for mahogany.

Java grass, which thrives in the acid

soil cf the Isthmus, was introduced by the Gardens in 1926 and is now used here almost exclusively for lawns. Napier grass, introduced by the Gardens for use at Mindi and other dairies on

the Isthmus, proved exceptionally good

and is now used extensively as a dairy

feed as well as in soil erosion work along

the highways. A more recent accession is a hybrid between napier and merker grass, which

is an equally good feed and is also resist- ant to a leaf-spot fungus which killed all napier grass in Hawaii. During World War II, the Gardens had

300 acres under cultivation —compared to the present 250—largely to provide plants

for the extensive armed forces building programs then in progress at Fort Kobbe

and Fort Clayton. Landscape plans for new Canal build- ings are drawn with a view to the shrubs and trees available at the Experiment

Gardens. Some of the planning and all of the planting and subsequent care are under the direction of the Division. An extract used at Gorgas and Colon

Hospitals to counteract certain allergies comes from the pollen of mango and

palm flowers picked by workmen in the Grounds Maintenance Division. Sap Used For Parasites Another odd job th" Division p jrforms

in the interest of medicine is the tapping

of wild fig trees for the sap which has been used at the hospitals to kill certain

intestinal parasites in children. Care of grounds for the Canal organization is the Division's single largest job. Second in size is the collection of some

S00 cubic yards of garbage and 660 cubic yards of trash thrown out daily in Canal towns and armed forces posts in the Canal

Zone. This service extends to all armed

forces installations except those on the West Bank of the Canal en both the

Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Isthmus. Collections are made from 8,078

of the familiar 24-gallon garbage can.i around Canal quarters and about 80 of the super-garbage cans of 4- or 6-cubic yard capacity (called Dempster buckets)

at Commissaries, Clubhouses, Army mess

halls, etc. To haul the garbage away to disposal

EDWARD A. BAQUIE (left) became such an Atlantic side tradition in his 46 years service at Mount Hope Cemetery (he left the organization at the end of July) that he gave rise to the now near- legendary final words of comfort—"Now don't you worry; Baquie will take care of you."

Chester E. Headley fright) Foreman in the New Cristobal area, has been around a while too. He has worked in the Atlantic side Grounds Maintenance Division organization since 1911.

Virgil C. Reed (center) is Supervisor for the Northern District, and one of many people in the Division who point with pride to the records of these old timers.

areas in Old Panama, for the Pacific side, and a sanitary fill at Mount Hope on the

Atlantic side, it takes 101 employees; five 42-ton packer trucks that carry 15 to 18 cubic yards of tightly pressed garbage from the small cans around Canal quarters; and two 8-ton trailer trucks that carry 30 cubic yards of garbage from the

big Dempster buckets. Then there are eight more trucks that

pick up trash from Canal towns and carry

it to dumps at Diablo Heights, on the

Pacific side, and Mount Hope, on the

Atlantic side. The standing 8,078 garbage cans have

to be replaced at a rate of about 200 (at $7 each) per month. This replacement

rate is one of the persistent headaches of the Division, which puts new bottoms in many cans, buys many new ones, and

always pleads with their own garbage men and Canal Zone residents generally

please not to leave soupy messes in the bottoms, which cause the cans to rust away to more replacement problems. Household garbage goes into the big packer trucks that go directly to the

disposal areas, where it is buried immediately. Garbage from the big Dempster

buckets is consolidated and taken in large lots in the trailer trucks to the

disposal areas. Since the establishment of the Grounds

Maintenance Division in July 1950, this Canal unit has been in charge of Corozal Cemetery, of 45 acres, and the Mount

Hope Cemetery, of 75 acres. This involves the care of grounds; grave

digging; burials and disinterments; rec- ords and correspondence concerning the

7,000 burials at Corozal and 25,000 at Mount Hope; permits to place markers;

erection of markers for veterans or for other burials, if requested; (See page toy

Canal Treasurer To Retire This Month

J. WENDELL GREENE, Panama Canal Treasurer since July 194S and Paymaster for three years

before that, will retire from the Canal organization

at the end of September. His Canal service, which

started in 1909, covers a period of about 43 years, about 23 of which he spent in the Paymaster's or Treasurer's Office.

JOSEPH C. TURNER will succeed Mr. Greene

as Treasurer of the Panama Canal Company. The new Treasurer has been Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Paymaster since 1948 and has been employed by the Canal since December 1934. He became

Assistant Paymaster in October 1945 and Assistant Treasurer in July 1948.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952 Memory And Meat Handling Expert

Known To Thousands In Cristobal

Ex-Bandsman Picks Clubhouse

Beethoven And Jazz Records

CLIFFORD L. GREEN, Foreman of the Meat Section at the Cristobal Commissar)-, is shown with Mrs. A. A. Doyle, one of several long-time, regular customers to whom he has been selling meat since her

bridal days and before.

Clifford L. Green, Foreman of the Meat

Section at the Cristobal Commissary, is a combination butcher, public relations expert, and artist in the best soda jerk tradition of slap-bang super service. In the 36 years he has worked in the meat section, he has built an Atlantic

side reputation as a good-will emissary

of the Commissary. One of his claims to local fame—before cash was used in the commissaries—was

his way with a commissary coupon book. He removed the exact amount of a pur- chase in about three lightning zip-zip

zip's. Although he didn't seem to watch as he

jerked the coupons out, his accuracy was

as remarkable as his speed. He did make

a mistake the Commissary manager re- members one —but caught it and reported

it the minute it was made. Commissary books helped in another way to enhance Green's local fame. He

took one look at a newcomer's book and knew her from that time on. The next

time she bought meat, it was "Good

morning, Mrs. Smith," or "How about a

nice rib roast, Mrs. Brown?"

Without help from coupon books, now

that meat is bought with cash, there are few customers he doesn't call by name. Grandchildren Now Customers Among the younger customers who

bring their mothers' lists to be tilled by

helpful commissary employees, there are children and even grandchildren of the customers Green has known so long he can just about detail their family trees. And among the mothers and the grand- mothers who make meat purchases at the commissary, are the "girls" Green helped

with meat menus when they were brides. For instance, there are Mrs. E. C. Cotton, Mrs. A. A. Doyle, Mrs. E. I. P. Tate] man,

Mrs. Donald R. Brayton, and others, some of whom Green served in their Canal Zone school days. Then and now, the buying of meat in- cludes just as much help and advice as a customer chooses. Green knows the meat

in stock and tells the housewives the

best buys if they choose to seek his help

in planning meals. The soda jerk technique, which has made supervisors and customers gape,

isn't so much in evidence any more. But

before prepackaged meat, every purchase was weighed and wrapped with a showy

unconcern for possible spills. Pitched

adroitly on the scales, the meat was

caught the second it touched and was

wrapped and priced before it stopped its glide. N. Y. Yankees His Favorite The pitch may have been borrowed

from the greats of Green's favorite team

the Yankees he has been rooting for

for years. The long-time butcher—he's 52—has

lived in the Canal Zone since he was

eight years old. He came from Jamaica

with his father, who worked in the Cris- tobal Commissary for 28 years before he returned to Jamaica in 1941. Many of his fellow employees owe much

of their success to Green's training and

helpful advice during their early days on

the job and he is held in high esteem and

respect by them as well as by his supervisors, all the way up the line. His home is Rainbow City in one of the new Canal houses where he and his wife have lived for the past two years. Aside from following local baseball teams and

rooting for the Yankees, they spend their spare time in their flower garden, raising

roses, lilies, and gardenias. Paula, their dog, is also a gardener, but has not

been known to benefit the flowers.

"Outdoor Keepers" For Zone Communities

Deal With Plants, Annoying Creatures

iCoritimud from page 9> the scheduling

of funerals and many other details. The exact date at which burials were

first made in the Mount Hope Cemetery

is not known. It is known to have been

used as a cemetery in 1853, according to a brief history compiled by Edward A. Bacquie, who is undoubtedly an authority on the subject if anyone could be. When he left Canal service at the end

of July, he had worked at the cemetery

for 46 years. Cemetery Records Burned

Although a fire destroyed the records of burials there before 1904, Grounds Maintenance personnel have gone to great

'Continued from page 4) Les Paul and his

wife, Mary Ford. Edging them for first place is the newly risen star, Johnny Ray.

Classical records in 33g and 45 r.p.m. speeds are sold in most record sections. There is practically no demand for this type of recording in the 78 r.p.m. speed. Complete operas, at $17 to $25, are

sold to a small group of steady customers. Record headaches? The Clubhouses have them too—especially breakage and

mishandling. Many records prove too fragile for the beating they must take to get from the United States to the Canal Zone. Record

breaking customers sometimes lean too hard when they browse through record

sections. Some are ruined when they are

tried out by potential record buyers. Records Come By Freight The breakage is worse by parcel post than by freight and the shipping costs prohibitively higher. So most Clubhouse

records are shipped by freight, taking 60

to 90 days in transit. That means that the Clubhouse record buyer must do some fancy crystal ball gazing to order this month the tunes you'll be wanting at Hallowe'en and Thanksgiving time. His batting average is high on antici- pating top tunes before they arrive at the

top. But he does sometimes miss and

that is the reason there are some sales of shopworn records.

lengths to search old newspaper files and

burrow through all available sources of in- formation to answer inquiries concerning

early burials. Corozal Cemetery has been used for burials since 1914, when the Pacific side Canal Zone cemetery was transferred there from the location of the present Ridge Road.

Walter R. Lindsay heads the Grounds

Maintenance force of 414 Local-rate and

13 U.S.-rate employees scattered throughout the Canal Zone. Born in Paia, Maui,

Hawaii, he was a horticulturalist in agri- cultural and experiment stations in Hawaii and studied the same subject at the University of Hawaii and Washington

State College before his employment in 1930 as Supervisor of Culture at the Canal Zone Experiment Gardens. His administrative "staff" consists of Boyd M. Bevington, Administrative Assistant, and Arthur C. Payne, Accounting

Clerk, at the Division's headquarters at Diablo Heights and Mrs. Audra Dugan,

Cashier and Clerk in the Cristobal office. At the head of the field force are Virgil C. Reed, Superintendent on the Atlantic

side and directly in charge of the Grounds

Maintenance work in New and Old Cristobal, the de Lesseps area and the garbage

disposal at Mount Hope; and A. I. Bauman, Pacific side Superintendent, also directly in charge of the work in Ancon

and Balboa Heights. Other Grounds Maintenance Foremen

and the areas which they supervise are: Roy A. Sharp, Gamboa, including the Experiment Gardens; John W. Purvis, Pedro Miguel, including Corozal Cemetery; Burton J. Hackett, Balboa and La

Boca; Ralph L. Banners, Margarita and

Gatun; and Gene E. Clinchard, Rainbow

City, France Field, and Mount Hope

Cemetery.
September5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Fight Against Beetles

Is Extended To Ships

Visiting Canal Waters

Agents for copra-carrying vessels which

transit the Panama Canal will be asked to have holds containing the copra sealed off during the transit and for 24 hours before entering and after leaving the Canal Zone

waters. The cooperation of the ships' agents ami

operators is being asked to prevent copra

beetles, which infest such ships, from

getting ashore in the Canal Zone. A re- quest that some action against the copra bugs be taken was made at the July Government-Employee Conference by Ray- mond Ralph of Gatun who said that the

beetles were a nuisance in towns along the Canal. The matter was referred to the Health

Director, Brig. Gen. Don Longfellow, who

reported to the Governor's office that during the year 1951, 269,000 tons of copra passed through the Canal. This

represented about two ships a week. The

cargoes, usually from the Philippines, are heavily infested with immature copra bugs which mature during the ocean

voyage. The United States Department of Agriculture, General Longfellow said, does not

require fumigation of copra-carrying ships although ships destined for the port of Baltimore are fumigated while transiting the Panama Canal.

Several possible solutions, including the mandatory fumigation of all copracarrying ships, at a cost of some $2,000

per ship or over $100,000 a year, were

considered. Specimen copra bugs were

subjected to an insecticidal fog but they

apparently had sufficient resistance to permit them to fly for a considerable

distance before paralysis set in. The study has also shown that copra bugs do not increase in numbers after they reach the Isthmus but die off in a few days for lack of suitable environment. The Health Bureau is continuing its program of obtaining more information on

the copra bug nuisance. As additional

facts are developed, other steps may be

able to be taken to lessen the nuisance

value of this hardy insect.

Efficiency Can Cut Costs, Governor

Tells Employee Conference

• Continued from pags i) housing pro- gram. The program, he said, would be

discussed at the Board meeting. Meantime, he said, provisions will have to be made for maintenance of existing quarters. The Governor also promised to look

into the question of the return by the Navy to the Canal administration of the Old Quarantine area which was turned

over to. the Navy at the beginning of World War II. House Rents Discussed The matter of rents and a possible in- crease of these also came up during this discussion. Governor Seybold said that he does not know what percentage rents

will be increased, or when, but that he hoped that something definite could be announced as soon iftei the Board

Two Governors Discuss The Situation

GOVERNOR JOHNSTON D. MURRAY of Oklahoma (right) is shown exchanging a quip with Canal Zone Governor John S. Seybold (left) when the Oklahoma executive called on Governor Seybold during

his recent visit on the Isthmus.

Faculty Changes in Canal Zone Schools

FRANCIS A. CASTLES has been appointed

Principal of the La Boca Vocational High School and Dean of the La Boca Junior College, replacing George

C. Wright.

ROGER D. MICHEL, mathematics teacher at Balboa High School since 1950, is the new Principal

of the Balboa Junior High School.

meeting as possible. Some phases of the

rents question are still being studied by

the Finance Bureau.

Sixty-cycle current: Governor Seybold

agreed with the conferees that it would be

desirable to make the conversion to 60-

cycle current as soon as possible and that

this change had been unduly delayed. He

indicated that some thought is again being given to this project. School busses: Commenting that theoretically a combination of school bus

facilities would seem economically desir- able, Governor Seybold said that he doubted that this could actually be put

into practice so that civilian children could ride service busses. Limitations

placed by Congress on funds appropriated

for the services require that the funds be

spent for specific purposes only and that the law would be violated if this were not

followed to the letter. He also doubted the practicality of a

suggestion that the schools operate their own busses rather than hire them from

the Motor Transportation. Costs rise, he

pointed out, when services are duplicated.

Many Other Subjects Other subjects touched more briefly in- cluded the condition of cold storage equip- ment at the Gatun commissary; lighting

in the Cristobal boiler shops; overtime for holiday work; copra bugs; speed limits; and a question on automobile licensing

fees.Present at the conference were: the Governor, Edward A. Doolan, Personnel

Director, and Forrest G. Dunsmoor, Administrative Assistant to the Governor,

for the Administration, and the following employee representatives: Herschel Gandv for the AFGE; Walter Wagner, E. W. Brandt, Owen Corrigan, and J. J. Tobin for the Central Labor

Union; Andrew Lieberman, Marine Engineers; Willard E. Percy, Machinists; Daniel P. Kiley, Pacific Locks; Robert

Daniels of the Railroad Conductors;

Charles P. Hammond, General Commits

tee of Civic Councils; C. W. Chase, Pacific Civic Council; Jack Rice, Cristobal- Margarita Civic Council; Raymond Ralph, Gatun Civic Council; and William H. Ward, Gamboa Civic Council.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952

There's a rug cleaner in the Commissaries now that made its maker a fast million or

so when it first appeared on the United

States market and created such a buying

sensation —probably with the help of an

article in Readers Digest —that Time it took the Housewares Section Saving at Mount Hope about six Rug Cleaner months to get some of it into export channels for Commissary customers. The cleaner removes all variety of mussiness —plain old dust and dirt and even chewing gum —from Chinese rugs and others made of wool —and does it so fast that they

are completely dry and ready to walk on in 15 to 30 minutes. The name of this minor miracle is "Glamorene." which looks like moist sawdust. You sprinkle it on a rug, brush it with the

special brush available to go with the

cleaner, then in a few minutes vacuum off the accumulated grime. Spun nylon argyle anklets for men will be

in the stores again about the end of Sep- tember. These are the colorful and comfortable socks that look and feel like wool.

For your youngest and prettiest heir or the new and noisy arrivals in your friends' homes, the Commissary has a few fancy handmade hairpin-lace sacque, cap, and

bootie sets of nylon yarn in baby colors of white, pink, and blue. These sets cost $6. There are also some pretty handmade

crocheted booties for $1.25.

Frozen concentrated tomato juice, now

in the frozen food sections, is on trial. If Commissary customers like it —as much as the orange and grapefruit juice concentrate,

for instance —it will become a regular item. To make a 12-family or 4-famiIy or just most any Canal house look more like the

women s magazines picture ver- "Cafe sions of contemporary taste and

Curtains" ingenuity, the Commissary Division has the so-called "cafe curtains," which hang from mid-window down. A comparatively new dress-up version of the garden variety kitchen "cottage curtains," the cafe curtains hang from tbe-r own bone rings sewed to the peaks of scal- loped tops. The Balboa and Cristobal Commissaries have them in gold, wine, and brown mottled percale. Fur felt hats by Mallory, for bound-forStateside men, will be in the stores this month.

Creme-coated graham cracker crunches

are a new and tasty kind of cornflake-coated cookie in the grocery sections. An 8-ounce package costs 30 cents.

Something new to help the going-to-school crowd make like Einstein are multiplier

pencil boxes, which have a junior-style slide rule on top that does the multiplication

tables without undue exercise of brain cells.

Pearl earrings —little ones, big ones, those

that hang down and those that clip tight, alone or decorated with many different trimmings —are in the Commissaries now.

They're the costume jewelry variety that cost'from $1.75 to $3.95. An automatic cold drink dispenser foi home refrigerators, new in the housewares

sections, is a neat, useful, and

For sturdy gadget for thirsty Your families. Refrigerator It is a plastic gallon box-like container with its own spigot which fits neatly in a relrigerator and stays put where everyone can pour his own. Both

the dispenser and a companion crisper

same shape and size—have "stack-a-top"

Many Canal "Diggers" And Naturalists Look For Man-Made, Natural History

i Continued from page «) archaeological collectors, showing slightly more enthusiasm

than other members for buying as well as digging for his collection of antiquities. Fred W. Morrill, Surveying and Cartographic Engineer for the Canal, a member

of both societies, has been searching for traces of early civilization most of his life. Starting with arrowheads and flints picked up in his native state of Georgia, he had gathered a sizable ccllection of antiquities from the southern part of the United States, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and fi om Korea before he came to the Isthmus in 1947.

covers that makes them stay put the way

you stack them.

There's also a "Lazy-Susan" type re- volving refrigerator tray that is new in the

stores. Installed on the shelves of refrigerators, it turns all the contents around so you

can see them and make use of the forgotten

leftovers in the farthest darkest corners. Something new in easy-to-apply and

lovely-to-smell fragrances are cologne sticks by Yardley in Bond Street, Lotus and

Lavender scents. To perk up a pretty teen-ager, try a combination of a shirred strapless camisole and

a ruffled organdy petticoat. They're coining

to the Commissaries in September.

Otaheite apples can now be bought in cans. They come from the same canning

firm in Jamaica from which the New Commissary Division also buys Canned guava jelly. Fruit An encyclopedia of foods describes the fruit, which grows i>n the Isthmus and is cultivated also in Florida, as aromatic, subacid, and juicy—if that's any help in your decision to spend or not to spend 24 cents to try the Commissary

canned variety. PEDRO MIGUEL CHILDREN PROUDLY DISPLAY HANDICRAFT

TYPICAL OF SOME 2.000 children in Canal Zone communities who took part in the Summer Recreation Program during the past vacation period are these youngsters at Pedro Miguel who are pictured soon

after the final exhibit of their summer's work in arte and crafts classes. Their jubilation stems from the theater tickets they are holding which they were awarded for the arts and crafts work they displayed a short time before to families and interested friends. The summer program extended to about 2,000 children in both (J. S. and local-rate communities and was carried on with the assistance of some

200 volunteer workers. Arts and craft • classes were taught for the first time this year on Army and Navy bases. Mrs. (1. 0. Parker served as coordinatoi for the I

. S.-rate program and E, Stanley Lcney, for tin- local-rate program. The athletics program was under the direction of the Physical Education Branch of the Schools

Division. Safe bicycling classes were taught this year at Balboa and Gamboa

with the ( potation of police instructors. Squat e dancing, toiler skating, and many special programs and events were included in the summer pro- gram, in addition to the arts and crafts and athletics activities.
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 Driftwood Forms Decorative Scheme

At Cristobal Music Teacher's Home

A papa, mama, and baby-sized porpoise

that leap right out of the lawn in front of House No. 8175 in Margarita mark this the home of a driftwood fancier. The households' and driftwood hobbyist is 0. E. Jorstad. Music Instructor at Cristobal High School, who is doubling in brass this summer as Leader Crater and

Packer in the Maintenance Division. His driftwood creations appear all over

the house and yard. On the lawn, next to the leaping porpoises, a driftwood turtle suns himself. Inanimate serpents of roots, in bust, half, or full-length size, raise their heads menacingly from a stair post or slither along an overhead beam in the basement. An alligator with seven pairs of legs stretches out on a basement post. Sus- pended in midair from a beam is a drift- wood duck in flight and another wierd

fowl, the pterodactyl, straight from the

prehistoric funny-strip era of Alley Oop.

Upstairs in the living room an eagle that was once a water-soaked and wormeaten board preens himself, stretching his wings after an imaginary shower. And on

a table next to the davenport sets a

graceful sweep of driftwood which is being transformed into a lamp. Imagination Is Required

Mr. Jorstad explains that some of his "creations" are formed only by the play

of an active imagination on driftwood in

its natural state—gnarled, twisted, and

bleached. To help the uninitiated and

"unseeing" onlooker Mr. Jorstad places the piece at its "proper" angle to show up

to best advantage the form he has in mind. Other pieces are altered slightly by the hobbyist to fit their new roles as birds or beasts or feet or table lamps. The porpoises, for instance, were originally Siamese triplet bamboo roots—whose

twisted and weird shapes are more pro- ductive of new forms than any other type

of driftwood. Aside from those pieces which assume new or different forms, Mr. Jorstad 's driftwood collection includes many items once used by natives—cayuco partitions, slingshots, or paddles for pounding

clothes which got away from their owners,

drifted to sea, and finally came to rest on

the shore. Four turtle floats—wooden piecss which

help hold up the nets in which the turtles are snared—which were retrieved on the beach now form a family "roll" on the

front door of the Jorstad home. UnderCanal's Assets Valued At Over

$400,000,000 Are To Be Inventoried

{Continued from pag? 3> of the inventory

will be to classify and define more clearly the various assets in accordance with

present business practices. Actually, this phase is in the nature of a refinement of information already in use concerning the value of assets. When the present survey, or inventory,

is completed a more refined set of figures

will be available on which to base tolls or other tariffs affected by capital values. In

addition, the Canal will also have a more

complete inventory of all its capital assets, with a definition and a stated life expect- ancy of each and their component parts.

' D A MODELS DISPLAYED BY MR. JORSTAD

neath a "mailbox" for notes of callers, are the four floats, each carved with the name

of a member of the household—Clara, who is Mrs. Jorstad; Judy, who is now in the University of Michigan; and Jon, a

lusty five-year-old. A poem on the "note-box" reads: "If we're not here. Just leave a note; We're still in the Zone

'Cause we missed a boat." As a matter of fact the Jorstads have

missed several and seem to have found a

lot to keep them happy in their tropical

setting. Mr. Jorstad has been teaching music at Cristobal High School since Sep- tember 1938. Mrs. Jorstad is also a music

teacher and her husband's substitute in his high school position. The driftwood collection is pretty much

a family affair. It got its start in 1945 when Mr. Jorstad and two other teachers Carl Maedl and C. F. Anderson, acquired

12 hectares fronting on Pin a Beach and

built themselves a house there. Since that time the three families have

spent a great deal of time there and ac- quired a considerable interest in the objects the Atlantic washes up onto their beach. Aside from the driftwood, plain or re- vamped, the Jorstad collection from the beach includes many sponges, shells, rocks, and strange types of plant life. Another find, washed up by the sea, is a

5-inch brass Navy shell in its original aluminum carrying case. Mr. Jorstad 's collecting instinct also extends to ship's lanterns—also prominent in the Jorstad home—and almost any native item of interest.

Goethals Memorial Planned In Balboa

THE GOETHALS MEMORIAL, shown in this picture as planned by the architects, moved a step nearer reality last month when a contract for the erection of the monument was awarded to the Panama

firm, Consrructora Martinz, S. A. Notification of the award came from Shaw Metz & Dolie, Chicago architectural and engineering firm, which designed the memorial. The plans were approved by President Truman last April. The monument, a 5Woot marble shaft rising from a reflecting peol, is to be located in the circle at the upper end of the Balboa Prado in front of the Balboa Elementary School.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952

Employees who observed important anniversaries during the month of August are

listed alphabetically below. The number of years includes all Government service with

the Canal or other agencies. Those with continuous service with the Canal are

indicated with (*).40 years Patrick S. Coakley, Chief Dispatcher, and Station Chief (Diesel Generation), Power Branch, Electrical Division.

35 years Clarence E. Sherwood, Armature Shop

Foreman, Electrical Division.

30 years Raymond E. Forbes, Sanitary In- spector Supervisor, Division of Sanitation, Health Bureau. James W. Grey, Storekeeper (Checker), Terminals Division, Railroad and Terminals

Bureau. Mabel B. Taylor, Clerk, Housing Division. Florence A. Whiteside, Public Health

Nurse, Division of Preventive Medicine, Health Bureau.

25 years Daniel J. Considine, Lock Operator

(Machinist), Atlantic Locks. Ernest B. Curling, Lock Operator (Machinist) Leader, Pacific Locks. Charles S. Hardy, Manager, Hotel Washington, Supply and Service Bureau. Ann W. de la Mater, Statistical Clerk, Division of Schools.

20 years Lionel L. Ewing, Admeasurer, Navigation Division. Herschel Gandy, Administrative Assistant, Maintenance Division. Gertrude B. Onderdonk, Library Assistant, Division of Schools.

15 years *William L. Benny, Assistant Chief, Motion Picture Branch, Clubhouse Division. Richard C. Carter, Jr., Electrical Engineer, Commissary Division. David E. Coffey, Leadingman Shipfitter, Special, Industrial Bureau.

*Philip L. Dade, Chief, Contraband

Control Section, Civil Affairs Bureau. Mabel M. Duncan, Telephone Operator, Housing Division. Norman W. Franseen, Principal Fore- man (Construction and Maintenance), Maintenance Division. Stanley J. Guest, Dairyman, Commissary Division. Gilbert H. Hulcher, Plumber, Maintenance Division. Donald W. Journeay, Construction

Engineer, Maintenance Division. Milo F. Kissam, Plumber, Maintenance

1 >ivision. *Sydney T. Lindh, Lock Operator (Machinist) Pacific Locks. John W. Muller, Construction Engineer, Maintenance Division. Howard W. Osborn, Construction Engineer (General Maintenance Division.)

September Sailings

From Cristobal Panama _. September 5

Cristobal September 12 Amcow... ..September 19 Panama . . . September 26 From New York

Cristobal ...September 3 Ancon . September 10 Panama ..... September 1

Cristobal . ... September 24 Ancon . _ ..October 1

THIS MONTH'S CALENDAR

5th—American Legion Post No. 6, Gamboa Legion Home, 7:30 p. m. 6th—Track Foremen No. 2741, B & B

Shops, Balboa. 7th—VFW Post No. 3857, Cristobal Veterans Club, 9:00 a. m. 8th—Machinists No. 699, K. of C. Hall, Margarita, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Post No. 1, Legion Home, 7:30 p. m. 9th—Electrical Workers, No. 397, Wirz

Memorial, 7:30 p. m. VFW Post No. 100, Old Boy Scout

Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. American Legion, B. T. Clayton Post No. 7, Fort Clayton, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary Unit No.

1, Balboa Legion Home, 7:30 p. m. 10th—Carpenters and Joiners, No. 913, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7:30 p. m.

Pacific Civic Council, Board Room,

Administration Building, Balboa

Heights, 7:30 p. m. American Legion, Elbert S. Waid

Post No. 2, Legion Home, Old Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 12th—Blacksmiths, No. 400, Boiler- makers 463 and 471, K. of C. Hall, Margarita, 7:30 p. m.

14th—Pipefitters, Margarita Clubhouse,

9:30 a. m. Plumbers, No. 606, K. of C. Hall, Margarita, 9:30 a. m. Sheetmetal Workers, No. 157, Bal- boa Clubhouse, 9:30 a. m. 15th—Electrical Workers, No. 677, Masonic Temple, Gatun, 7:30 p. m. Truckdrivers, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7:30 p. m. 16th—Operating Engineers, No. 595, K.

of C. Hall, Margarita, 7:00 p. m. Machinists, No. 811, Balboa Lodge

Hall, 7:30 p. m.

17th—American Federation of Teachers

No. 227, General Library, Balboa High School, 7:00 p. m. A.F.G.E. No. 14, Balboa Clubhouse,

7:30' p. m. American Legion Auxiliary, Nathaniel J. Owen Unit No. 3, Legion Home,

Gatun, 7:30 p. m.

18th—American Legion Auxiliary, Chagres River Unit No. 6, Gamboa

Legion Hall, 7:30 p. m. 21st—CLU-MTC, Margarita Clubhouse,

8:30 a. m. 22d—Marine Engineers, No. 96, USOIVYB, Balboa. Machinists, No. 699, K. of C. Hall, Margarita, 7:30 p. m. VFW Auxiliary, Post 3822, Post Home

7:30 p. m. 23d—Operating Engineers, No. 595, Lodge Hall, Balboa, 7:00 p. m. American Legion, B. T. Clavton Post No. 7, Fort Clavton, 7:30 p. m. VFW, Post No. 100, Old Bov Scout

Bldg., Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 24th—AFGE, No. 88, Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary, Elbert

S. Waid Unit No. 2, Legion Home,

Old Cristobal, 7:30 p. ra. 25th—Governor's Conference, Board Room, Administration Building, Bal- boa Heights, 2:00 p. m. OCTOBER

1st—VFW, Post No. 40, Wirz Memorial,

7:30 p. m. 2d—Carpenters and Joiners, No. 667, Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. 3d—American Legion, Post No. 6, Gamboa Legion Home, 7:30 p. m. PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

July 15 Through August 15

The following list contains the names of those U. S.-rate employees who were transferred from one division to another (unless the change is administrative) or from one

type of work to another. It does not contain within-grade promotions or regradings. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

William M. Whitman, from Assistant Chief of Office, Washington, to Secretary, Panama Canal Company.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Harry H. Corn, from Postmaster, Pedro

Miguel, to Clerk-in-Charge, Postal Service. Nolan A. Bissell, from Postal Clerk to Postmaster, Gamboa, Postal Service. Thomas L. Sellers, from Postmaster, Coco Solo, to Postmaster, Margarita, Postal

Service. Jasper L. Long, from Postmaster, Margarita, to Postmaster, Coco Solo, Postal

Service. Mark L. White, from Special Postal Clerk to Clerk-in-Charge, Postal Service. Donald R. Boyer, from Postmaster, Rodman, to Postmaster, Cocoli, Postal

Service. David C. Rose, from Special Postal Clerk to Postmaster, Rodman, Postal Sen ice. Paul F. Karst, from Postal Clerk to Postmaster, Pedro Miguel, Postal Service. Lealand A. Larrison, from Postal Clerk

to Postmaster, Fort Gulick, Postal Service. Robert S. Herr, Kenneth F. Zipperer,

from Special Postal Clerk In Principal Re- view Clerk, Postal Sen i< e. Dick M. Brandon, from Postmaster,

Cocoli, to Postal Clerk, Postal Service. Nicholas E. Palat, from Special Postal Clerk to Clerk-in-Charge, Postal Service. Raymond A. Taylor, from Postmaster, Gamboa, to Postal Clerk, Postal Service. Carroll E. Kocher, from Postmaster, Albrook, to Postmaster, Howard Field, Postal Service. Ralph E. Shuey, from Special Postal Clerk to Postmaster, Albrook, Postal Sei vice. Arthur L. Endicott, from Special Postal

Clerk to Postmaster, Fort Clayton, Postal

Service. William C. Bailey, from Postmaster, Fort Clayton, to Postmaster, Curundu,

Postal Service. Clyde L. Sharp, from Postmaster, Fort Amador, to Clerk-in-Charge, Postal Service. Louis E. Hasemann, from Postal Clerk

to Postmaster, Fort Amador, Postal Service. Julius M. Culpepper, from Clerk-in- Charge, Airmail Field Postoffice, to Fore- man, Airmail Field Postoffice, Postal Service. Walter T. McClure, from Special Postal Clerk to Mail Foreman, Postal Service. Calmer A. Batalden, from Director, Vocational Education, Colored Schools, to Supervising Teacher, Occupational High

School, Schools Division. George C. Wright, from Principal, La

Boca Occupational High School ami Dean, La Boca Junior College, to Director, Vocational Education, Colored Schools, Schools

I (ivision. Francis A. Castles, from Junior High

School Principal, Balboa, to Principal, La

Boca Occupational High School and Dean,

La Boca Junior College, Schools Division. CIVIL INTELLIGENCE BRANCH

William E. LeBrun, From Property and

Supply Clerk. Administrative Branch, to Administrative Assistant, Civil Intelligence Branch.COMMUNITY SERVICE BUREAU

Henry J. Chase, from Administrative

Assistant to Supply Assistant, Merchandise and Field Operation, Clubhouse Division. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Murrel L. Dodd, from General Operator

in General Operator and Construction and

Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Division. Jose E. Luttrell, Jr., from Structural Engineer, Engineering Division, to Civil Engineer, Water and Laboratories Branch, Maintenance Division. (See page IS)
September 5, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

RETIREMENTS

IN AUGUST

Employees who retired at the end of August, their birthplaces, lilies, length of service at retirement, and their Future addresses are: Allan L. Amok', Pennsylvania; Customs

Guard, Balboa; 25 years, 5 months, and 16 days; Pottstown, Pa. Clifford E. Currier, Minnesota; Small Tug Operator, Dredging Division; 21 years,

10 months, and 14 days; Los Angeles, Calif. Fred Frank, New York; Assistant to Superintendent, Terminals Division; 38

years, t months and 8 days; Los Angeles,

Calif. Otis C. Fuller, Maryland; Wireman,

Electrical Division; 26 years and 5 days;

near Washington, I). C. Michael J. Crane, Poland; CarmanCabinetmaker, Railroad Division; 28 years, months, and 19 days; Panama. Agnew C. Jones, North Carolina; Towboat Master, Dredging Division; 17 years,

1 month, and 29 days; Hampton, Ya. Ernest M. Kieswetter, Massachusetts;

Drill Barge Master, Dredging Division; 33

years, 6 months, and 25 days; Gulfport, Fla. Mrs. Vivian E. Rader, Illinois; Office Appliance Operator, Finance Bureau; 12

years, 2 months, and 18 days; Canal Zone. William H. Wingertzahn, New York;

Security Guard, Pacific Locks; 6 years, 6 months, and 20 days; Panama.

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

(Continued from page 11,) FINANCE BUREAU

David I. Kelleher, from Commissary Assistant, Commissary Division, to Governmental Accountant, Finance Bureau. Howard M. Fuller, from Accounting

Clerk to Budget Specialist, Finance Bureau. Preston G. Gau, from Tabulating Machine Operator to Tabulating Machine

Operator Supervisor, Finance Bureau. HEALTH BUREAU

Gertrude E. Ladd, from Clerk-Typist, Housing Division, to Clerk- Typist, Gorgas

Hospital. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

Dante J. Cicchelli, from Shipfitter to

Shiplitter Leader and Loftsman, Industrial Bureau. David E. Coffey, from Shiplitter Leader and Loftsman to Special Shiplitter Leading- man, Industrial Bureau. Earl H. Turner, from Locomotive Machinist, Railroad Division, to Machinist,

Industrial Bureau. MARINE BUREAU

Ernest W. Bates, from Locks Security Guard to Guard Supervisor, Pacific Locks. Kenneth G. Miller, from Junior High

School Teacher, Schools Division, to Admeasurer, Navigation Division. Robert T. Boatwright, from Air Compressor Operator, Industrial Bureau, to Lock Operator Machinist, Pacific Locks. Earl E. Mullins, from General Operator, Maintenance Division, to Dipper Dredge

Mate, Dredging Division. Robert E. Anderson, from Dipper Dredge Mate to Dipper Dredge Operator, Dredging Division. William A. Sullivan, from General

Storekeeper, Storehouse Division, to ClerkTypist, Pacific Locks. RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU

Donald S. Hause, from Boilermaker,

Industrial Bureau, to General Mechanic,

Terminals Division. SUPPLY AND SERVICE BUREAU

Mrs. Henrietta M. Bruce, from Cash

Accounting Clerk to Accounting Clerk, Commissary Division. Mrs. Louise K. Allen, from Clerk- Stenographer, Division of Storehouses, to Accounting Clerk, Printing Plant. Walter E. Marek, from Plumbing In- spector, Contract and Inspection Division,

to Pipefitter and Plumber, Commissary

Division.

FORTY YEARS AGO

In

August

GATUX DAM, the artificial barrier which stretches across the old valley of the Chagrea River and impounds the waters of Gatun Lake, looked like this 40 years ago this month. The finished dam

is lj miles long and 100 feet wide at the top. The hydraulic fill for the dam was begun in March

1909 and completed in September 1912, and the dry fill was started in 1907. The spillway, which

is 800 feet long, has 14 gates.

Gatun Lake began to be a lake 1ft years ago in August. The upper guard gates of Gatun Locks were closed and were pro- nounced ready to hold back the water. The

sluice gates in the curve of Gatun Spillway Dam were closed and, by the end of the month, the lake was rising about half a foot

daily, its rise and spread being plainly

perceptible. Forms were being built for the construction of the piers along the top of the Spill- way Dam and the l\ Spillway gates were

being completed nearby by the contractors. The north and south toes of the west wing

of the earthen Gatun Dam ivere brought

together during the month. The toes of the

east wing had been brought together the pre- vious March. Hydraulic filling icas almost completed and the Dam was to be finished

with dry fill.

breakwater from 2,000 to 3,100 feet and

to do the work then while the organization which had been at work for a year on the first two docks and one pier was

still in existence.

Austin W. Lord, head of the depart- ment of architecture at Columbia University, returned to New York with pre- liminary studies made on the Isthmus for the construction of permanent Canal Zone

buildings, which he had been employed

to design. The Canal Record reported: "With

the information acquired he will devise a scheme in which all of the permanent

buildings from Toro Point to Taboga

Island will be of prevailing style, probably

a modification of the Spanish Renaissance, with appropriate adaptation of adjacent landscapes."

Canal construction forces were building a

residence in Colon for Porfirio Melendez, a former governor of the Province of Colon. The construction was in accordance with

the terms of an agreement whereby the Isthmian Canal Commission would replace

his former home in Bohio—a two-story frame house and the largest in the town—

which had to be abandoned in preparation

or the filling of Gatun Lake. A "moving picture film" showing views

of the steamship Titanic as the vessel left the dock on its initial trip was shown at the Isthmian Canal Commission Clubhouses 40 years ago.

Promoted

The Panama Canal Act, which formed

the basic legislation for the Canal organization until the establishment of the new Panama Canal Company in July 1951, was signed by President Taft 40 years ago

in August. It provided for "the opening, maintenance, protection, and operation of

the Panama Canal and the sanitation and

government of the Canal Zone."

Plans for the permanent terminal docks

at Cristobal were revised to extend the

GEORGE C. WRIGHT has been named Director

of Vocational Education for the Schools Division. He

has served as Principal of the La Boca Occupational High School since 1946 and in addition, has served as Dean of the La Boca Junior College since its establish- ment in 1950.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 5, 1952

PATIO TYPE HOUSE IX ANCON XEARIXG COMPLETION

New Types Of Canal Houses Attract

"Window Shopping" House Hunters

Househunting is becoming a common

diversion among Canal employees now

that 1952 housing projects are turning

into walls and roofs and windows that

potential future occupants can see in their

real settings. Many of the house inspections and

house discussions—either in a window

shopping vein or based on serious intentions of moving into the new quarters

center around new types of houses that have not been seen before in Canal

communities. Four of the seven new types in this year's building program are shown in these pictures. All of those shown are in the development between Ancon Boule- vard and Gaillard Highway in Ancon. Three other new types in this year's construction program are being built only

in Margarita. THE HOUSING "window shoppers" in the two

upper pictures are: Howard W. Osborn, General Conitrjction Engineer in the Maintenance Division. Mrs.

Osborn, and their son Jimmie. The house shoppers in the lower pictures are James

H. Bowen, District Wireman at Balboa, his wife and

their youngsters, Sandra Lee and Jimmie. From top to bottom, the new house types are shown in order. THIS NEW patio house (Type 3341 is being built both in Margarita, where seven are under construction, and in Ancon, where there are 12 in this year's building program.

It is a two-bedroom house whose main feature is, of course, the central covered patio. The clerestory

roof, used for the first time last year in Canal building,

lets light and air into the dining-living room. The house shown in this picture is located on one

of the highest points in the Ancon Boulevard develop- ment—on the Boulevard where it turns into the new

housing area in the vicinity of the Christian Science Church. A DUPLEX VERSION of the patio house (Type

335) can be seen without a roof at the bottom of the

hill on which the Osborns are standing. The duplex

is two Type 334's put together. Five of these duplexes are being built in Ancon

and 1 1 in Margarita this year. A NEW TYPE COTTAGE (Type 331) is shown

across the street from the duplex in the second picture from the top and in the third picture from the top,

in which the Bowens are shown in the doorway.

This is a comparatively small three-bedroom house

with two baths and a maid's room, which also has a bath. It has an L-shaped living room with dinette

space. There are 13 of these houses under construction along Ancon Boulevard in the new development area; three in Diablo Heights; and 19 in Margarita. A similar house (Type 332) which has two bed- rooms and a large kitchen with dinette space is another of the new types in this year's building pro- gram. Xine of the Type 332 houses are under construction in Ancon and 37 in Margarita. THE OXLY FOUR BEDROOM HOUSE in this year's building program is Type 329, shown in the bottom picture. The three being built this year are

all in Ancon.

This is the breezeway house, built for the first time

last year in Diablo Heights (Type 328) with minor

changes in floor plan and with a bedroom added. The four-bedroom patio type house shown here has in addition to the central covered patio, a roofed area 12 feet wide between the bedroom and living room wings, providing something like a covered

terrace. ~ £ NEW TYPE, THREE-BEDROOM COTTAGES IX ANCON AXD MARGARITA

THREE FOUR-BEDROOM, "BREEZEWAY" HOUSES \l:K BEING BUILT IX ANCON yj.l- J^{3)