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Vol. 3, No. 11 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JUNE 5, 1953 5 cents Cooler and Fair

. UNDAUNTED by change of season heat were these youngsters from the Ancon kindergarten. They found a pile of snow in a shady spot and from then on instinct took over. The children: Susan

Miller, Dickie Saul, and Chase Newman. The snow: Trade secret.

Canal Zone Dogs Will Be Licensed;

Anti-Rabies Vaccination Required

An Executive Regulation requiring the

registration and anti-rabies vaccination

of all dogs in the Canal Zone and establishing other policies regarding domestic

animals has just been issued by Governor

J. S. Seybold. Only dogs will be licensed but some of the provisions of the Executive Regulation affect cats and other domestic animals such as horses, cattle, hogs, etc. This re- gulation will be under the general administration of the Civil Affairs Director with

the collaboration of the Health Director. The regulation establishes a $2 annual

fee for the registration of each of the ap- proximately 3,000 dogs living in the Canal

Zone. For residents of the Canal Zone

the $2 fee will include the anti-rabies vaccination which will be done by Health Bureau veterinarians during the month

of July. Residents of military reservations will also be required to have their dogs licensed; in their case the anti-rabies vaccination will be done by military

veterinarians. Tie dog licenses will be valid from August 1 of one year to July 31 of the

following year. The anti-rabies vaccinations will be given in July; times and

places will be announced later. Present

ns are to have vaccination and registration done at one location for days on each side of the Isthmus.

a few

Dogs Must Wear Tags

After the animal is inoculated, its owner will take the certificate of vaccination to the License Section in the Civil

Affairs building where the $2 fee will be

paid and a metal dog tag issued. The

tags must be fastened to the dog's collar or harness.

All unlicensed dogs will be subject to impoundment, with Police District Commanders acting as Poundmasters. On

the Pacific side, impounded animals will be held at the Corozal Quarantine kennels. The Humane Society kennels at Brazos Brook will be the Atlantic side pound. Military authorities will be

responsible for impounding unlicensed dogs in military reservations. Other highlights of the new Executive

Regulations provide that: Female dogs, although licensed, may

not run at large while in heat; No dog known to be ferocious, vicious, or mischievous may run at large, although

it has been licensed; and Owners must report immediately to the Poundmaster any animal Seepage 15)

Governor Promises

Support In Fight

For Differential

Officials of the Panama

("anal Company and Canal Zone Government will take every possible step to present

the employees' case regarding

the 25 percent pay differential and other benefits affected by

the House cut in the Civil Functions Bill, Gov. J. S. Seybold told the Governor-Employee conference last week.

"Management," the Governor said, "will take every appropriate means it has to present the case of people and management to the proper authorities." The Governor's statement was the

highlight of the May conference. It followed the announcement by Rufus

Lovelady, AFGE president, that he had

just received a cable announcing House

passage, without amendment, of the

Civil Functions Bill. A considerable part of the May conference wps devoted to a discussion of the various aspects of the legislation, its effect on employees generally, and the

best means of seeking relief. A part of

this discussion dealt with the type of

letters which should be written to Congressmen. It was the view of the conference that it would be advisable to keep

such letters short and to the point. Lengthy, involved letters are less likely to get the attention of legislators than

those which are brief and factual, it was

pointed out by some of the labor leaders who have had much experience in such

matters. When an employee mass meeting was

suggested, the Governor said that such

a meeting, properly sponsored, could be approved and that there should be no

objection to a meeting, provided that it was conducted in an orderly manner. Governor Thanked

Three employee representatives, F. H. Hodges for the Railroad Engineers, Sam

Roe, Jr., who stepped out of his post as

Pacific Civic Council president to speak

for the Police Association, and Mr.

Lovelady for the AFGE, expressed the appreciation of their groups for "the manner in which the Governor and his

staff testified at the hearings in January." While most of the rest of the meeting was devoted to housing, two important announcements of possible (5m page 15) FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE

Youngsters learn about guns from a real expert—page 8. #Margarita Recreational Association sees a dream coming true—page 2. ©Magistrates' Courts, and what they do

page 4. #House of Ideas—a picture page—page 16.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Ten-Year-Old Dream Is Nearing Reality

For Margarita Recreational Association

In the fast growing Atlantic side town

of Margarita a dream of long standing

is finally coming true. Every weekend, beginning about the middle of the dry season, a group of Margarita men, supported morally and

with occasional cooling drinks by their women, have been hard at work clearing and levelling a 10,500 square-foot plot

of land north of the town's grade school and playground and close to the inter- section of Fifth Street and Diversion Road. Two trained heavy equipment operators, Waldo Gilley and Murrel L. Dodd, manned a bulldozer and a scraper, rented from the Maintenance Division, to clear and level the site. A dozen other men,

sparked by Charles H. Bath, Jr., presi- dent of the Margarita Recreational

Association, have done other preparatory work and by mid-May had forms ready

to pour concrete for the footing of two

large and one small Quonset huts. The

younger generation has pitched in, too, and Association members credit them

with outstanding work. When the huts are up and fitted with

lights and plumbing, they will become the new homes for Margarita's Boy and

Girl Scouts, a project which has been a

pet of the Margarita Recreational Association for the past decade. Members of the Association consider it quite fitting that the completion of the buildings, now

expected about the start of the school

year, will follow close on the organization's official eleventh birthday. Story Of Margarita The story of the Margarita Recreational Association, MRA to everyone in or connected with it, is practically the story of Margarita. According to Mrs. Julius Hentschel, now of Ancon, who was the first MRA

president, it started like many such groups do. A number of people got to- gether, talked about conditions in the then Third Locks town, asked themselves "why don't we . . .?" and the first thing they knew they had. In 1942 Margarita was a bustling town of some 1 ,000 people, most of them working for the Third Locks

organization or for the contractors who

were excavating at Gatun. They had more energy than ways of expending it and facilities for letting

off steam were not available in Margarita.

Tires were rationed, it was not pleasant

driving at night with black-out headlights and gasoline rationing was just around

the corner. Cristobal might just as well have been a hundred miles away, Mrs.

Hentschel said. The MRA started off with a bang. One of its first projects was to get per- mission to use unoccupied baggage rooms

in Margarita bachelor quarters for dark- rooms for the camera club which the MRA was sponsoring. The upstairs of the Margarita Clubhouse became MRA

headquarters and there the groupmembership in which comes with being

a Margaritan—held dances, childrens'

parties, and other special festivities. Small admission fees for the adult affairs went into a kitty from which funds were

taken to buy ping-pong tallies and other games equipment.

There was a community workshop in the Margarita gymnasium, a chess club, a bridge club, dancing classes for the

children. The dances, special parties, regular Bingo games and community

picnics kept people busy. One of the

liveliest of the MRA sponsored activities was a weekly newssheet called the "Margarita News." Under the slogan, "All the news that fits, we print," it carried news stories, a few want ads, personal mentions and such items of community interest as bowling and Softball

scores, a movie schedule, and a calendar

of coming events. But an even more ambitious program was in the collective mind of the MRA.

They asked for, and were granted, an

area which could be used for picnics, outdoor games, holiday celebrations and

where Girl and Boy Scout houses could

be built. The site was on Espave

Avenue, opposite buildings 8021 and

women and children lived in Margarita

the emphasis of MRA activity has

shifted somewhat, from the purely recreational for all ages to increasing service to the younger generation. While annual affairs such as Hallowe'en and Christmas parties and July 4 sports are by now standard, the officers and directors of the MRA feel that the

strongest reason for community support comes from backing such characterbuilding projects as its annual Pony

League baseball team this year the Margarita team placed s?cond in the League- and the Margarita Scouts. The MRA sponsors the Margarita Boy

Scout Troop and the Cub Pack, and backs

the Girl Scouts of the town. For a while

the MRA had leased space in the old Margarita hospital as a Scout meeting

place. When the hospital was vacated

so that it could be razed, the Scouts moved to the basement of the Margarita

MRA president Charles II. Bath, Jr., reviews construction plans for Margarita Boy and Girl Scout houses with officers and directors of the organization. Left to right are: Ross Cunningham,

Mr. Bath, Mrs. Shirley Wertz, Gerard K. Senear, and Herbert Engelke.

S060, now the contractor's area for new

construction. Locks excavation contractors, Martin

Wunderlich and Okes, had donated two

single family houses which were to be moved to the recreation area. One was

to be for the Boy Scouts, the other for the girls. For some reason, which pres- ent members of the MRA do not know,

this area was never developed. The best recollection of people who

were active in the MRA in those days i< that because of a lot of needed grading and filling, the project turned out to be

too big for the group to handle at that

time. With the cessation of work on the Third Locks, Margarita's population fell off and activities dwindled. Now that it

is becoming the heart of the Atlantic side and its population is about back to the

I'll.' level last December 989 men,

gym, which was also a meeting place for

all unhoused organizations in Margarita. About a year ago the MRA revived plans

for the recreation area. In late October

the area on Fifth Street was assigned to the MRA as a location for the Scout, shacks. Meantime the Association had learned about the three Quonset huts which had

been stored in the Maintenance Division warehouse for several years. They had

originally housed a small Marine detach- ment near Camp Bierd and had been

purchased, as surplus, by E. R. MacYittie

for the use of Cristobal Scouts. The

Cristobal Scouts were unable to raise enough funds to have the buildings erected and they were stored and for- gotten by most people. When the Margarita project began to take shape, someone remembered the huts and thev were then (See pagi it)
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Program Of Playground Activities

Starts Soon In Zone Communities OUR OUT-OF-DOORS

School vacation in the ("anal Zone this year will he chock full of fun. frolic, and

useful training for the several thousand

boys and girls who participate in the planned program of activities at the playgrounds and in the gymnasiums of the various communities. The program, planned by the Physical Education and Recreation Branch of the Division of Schools, got started this week with registration for the variety of

activities in the local-rate communities.

Registration for playground activities in the U. S.-rate towns will be held June

8, 9, and 10 except at Pedro Miguel where it will be only on June 8 and 9.

V. J. Clarke Retiring;

Successor Is Named

The coming retirement of Vincent J- Clarke, former General Manager of the Commissary Division and more recently

in charge of purchasing in New York for the Panama Canal Company, was an- nounced last week at Balboa Heights. Mr. Clarke's retirement will be effective August 1. He will be succeeded by L. W. Ferguson, a comparative newcomer to the Canal Company's staff. Mr. Ferguson

visited the Canal Zone late in May to

familiarize himself with local operations. He has come to the Canal Company

from the Office of Pries Stabilization where he has been Director of the Con- sumer Goods Division for the past two

years. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr.

Ferguson is a graduate in business administration from Western Reserve University. He served during World War II in the Coast Guard and before his employment with the Office of Price Stabili- zatnn had several years experience h a number of hrge retail stores in fcha Washington, D. C, area. Mr. Clarke's service with the Canal

organization covers more than a quarter

of a century. He was employed on the

clerical staff of the Commissary Division

in 1021, becoming its Chief Clerk in 1912 and its Assistant General Manager

in 1915. He was made General Manager

in September 1945, after the death of Arthur W. Goulet.

The program in the local-rate towns

will be for only two months since schools reopen in those communities in August. The playground activities in the I '. S.- rate communities will continue through

August. The playground program of the Physical Education and Recreation Branch is coordinated with, but is not a part of, the Summer Recreation Program. The lat- ter consists chiefly of arts and crafts training and special events for the youngsters participating. "Fun Day" at the Balboa Gymnasium

on June 12th will start the balls rolling and the games going for the summer

playground program in that community.

Another feature for the opening day in Balboa will be "Dress-Up-Day" for the

five-to-eight-year-olds, when children's costumes will depict famous child characters and will include a parade if weather permits. The program will wind up with the judging of costumes and refreshments for the children. "Fun Day" is for children from 9 years old up through the teen age and

will include games, hikes, boating, swimming, and a picnic. Special events, similar to the opening day in Balboa, have also been planned

for other towns. The climax to the summer program

will come during the closing weeks when

championships in the various sports will be decided. Tournaments and Championship play will be held in the U. S.- rate communities during August. Inter- playground competition is scheduled throughout the summer vacation in the

local-rate communities. The summer playground program this year will include, tennis, swimming,

volleyball, basketball, badminton, archery, tumbling and acrobatics, story telling, story acting, finger painting, clay modeling, softball, kickball, speedball, soccer, badminton, horseshoes, bowling, paddle

tennis, table tennis, ping pong, croquet, organized games, story hours, boxing,

wrestling, apparatus, and other activities.

Capt. Elmer Dunn Will Head

Canal's Industrial Bureau

Capt. Elmer J. Dunn, USN, has been

appointed to succeed Capt. John J. Scheibeler, USN, as Director of the Industrial Bureau. Captain Dunn is arriving on

the Isthmus about June 18. He has been stationed at the Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, Calif., as Repair Superintendent. Captain Dunn was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis

in 1930. Captain Scheibeler is leaving about

July 1. He will go to Washington, D. C,

where he will be Senior Hull Member on

the Board of Inspection and Survey in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Captain Scheibeler has headed the

Industrial Bureau, which was still known

as the Mechanical Division when he

arrived, since June 1950. His last assign- ment before coming to the Isthmus was in the Portsmouth, X. II., Naval Shipyard, where he served as Planning Officer.

< Inset of the rainy season does not mean that there will be no more flowering

trees. Rather, some of the most showy

of these trees have chosen this time of year to bloom. There is the Layestroemia Flux Reginat

better known as the Queen of Flowers

or the Pride of India. For a short period

<luring the dry season the tree drops its leaves; after the first few rains it breaks

forth in full flower. A medium-sized tree and a native of Ceylon, India, and Malay, it starts to flower when small, making it particularly

desirable. It has been planted throughout the Canal Zone as an ornamental

shade tree. Resembles Crepe Myrtle

Its flowers break forth from the ends

of the branches in large, erect panicles of mauve or pink flowers. They resemble

a large Crepe Myrtle, and the tree is closely related to this flowering shrub. One of the most spectacular of the trees which flowers at this time of year is the Delonix Reyia. People know it as the Royal Poinciana or Flame Tree. Native to Madagascar, it has been

planted throughout tropical America and

the frostless southern United States.

It is a medium-sized, spreading tree, with handsome, fine, feathery leaves. For

a short period during the dry season it is usually bare of leaves. Burst of Color The wide-spreading picturesque top is covered with large sprays of brilliant scarlet flowers, making it one of the out- standing flowering trees of this region. An especially handsome poinciana is on Carr Street, near the Balboa elementary

school. Other handsome poincianas are near the Balboa Heights Baptist Church. While its blossoming is not confined to

this time of year as it flowers several times annually, the Cananyium Odoratum

or Hang Hang tree is another well-known

in the Canal Zone, but is noted for its scent rather than its appearance. A medium-size, quick growing, soft- wooded tree, native to the Philippines and Java, it can be identified by its usually droopy branches. Scented Flowers

It is cultivated in many areas for the

large, greenish-yellow flowers found in clusters along the ends of the branches. The flowers are highly scented and pro- duce oil used in the manufacture of perfumes. The odor persists even in dried flowers. The Cassia Nodosa, or Pink and White

Shower, like the Pride of India, is reminiscent of States flowers. Its pink and

white flowers, which resemble apple

blossoms, grow in clusters along the branches. The flowers are followed by

cylindrical seed pods 12 to 15 inches long. The Cassia Nodosa is a native of Bengal and the Malaya region. Like the Poinciana and the Pride of India, it is decidu- ous for a short period during the dry

season.

"Forty-Mile Siding" was the name

given in early construction days to a

settlement near Pedro Miguel. It had

20 houses and a cook shed. Other now

forgotten settlements were Enterprise, Cunette, Cerro, and Caballo Viejo.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Thousands Of Varied Cases Are Handled

Each Year By Zone Magistrates' Courts

AMERICAN FLAGS hang at the front of each Magistrates' Court, This is the staff .if the Balboa court. Judge Altman seated at the bench. Left to right: Herbert Moore, docket clerk, Rex

Beck, constable, and John Michaelis, clerk of court. Mr. Beck and Mr. Michaelis are also translators. People who run afoul of the Canal Zone law are apt to find themselves in one of the two Canal Zone Magistrates' Courts.

If they live north of Panama Railroad

track span 22-10, that is, north of a line which bisects the Canal Zone midway

between Frijoles and Darien, they will face Judge Edward I. P. Tatelman,

Magistrate for the Cristobal District since 1931.

If they are residents of the Balboa

District, which is the southern portion of the Canal Zone, they will go before Judge Edward M. Altman, Balboa

Magistrate since 1951.

All criminal cases, regardless of their severity, originate in the Magistrates'

Courts. One day's list of defendants may include people charged with murder,

burglary, or robbery, as well as those who

have merely violated a traffic ordinance.

If the Canal Zone offender has confined

his illegal activity to a minor violation

his case will be disposed of by the Magistrate. If the offense is classed as a felony—a crime punishable by death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary—or

a "high misdemeanor"—layman's lan- guage for an offense for which the punish- ment exceeds that which can be imposed

in the Magistrates' Courts, his appear- ance in the lower court will be of a temporary nature. In this latter case the Magistrate will hold what is called a preliminary hearing which determines whether a crime has been committed and whether there is evidence connecting the defendant with

the crime. Should probable cause be

found, the defendant is remanded to the

District Court for trial. Tears and Smiles Sometimes stark tragedy appears in the Magistrates' Courts. In Cristobal

there was Edward Kemp, who stabbed

a fellow shipmate to death and who is now serving a life sentence in Gamboa

Penitentiary. In Balboa two boys, 12 and 17 years

old, were charged with murder after they

killed a Chinese and pilfered a few dollars

from his oatmeal can money box. In Cristobal three young soldiers faced murder charges for the death of a YMCA

watchman. Any such case brings heartbreak to someone. People with faces drawn taut by tears and worry sit silent in the court- rooms as husbands, sons, or friends make

their first appearances in the long process

of the law. Once in a while there will come a break

in solemn court procedure. Both courts have their "mango" or "chiva lawyers" who have picked up some legal termin- ology which they use with greater ease than exactness. Quite often their familiarity with court procedure comes from

frequent appearances before the bench. No interpreter can unravel the mysteries

of "Bajan" and a judge has to learn that "bird speed" means fast and that when

someone complains that another man

"don't give me a face" he means that he wasn't recognized. The actions of more than one Magistrate have been perpetuated in calypso

verse and song. The war years brought a new kind of

MOST PEOPLE think court activities are confined to the courtroom itself. A good deal

of work precedes and follows court sessions. Here Cristobal Magistrate Edward I. P. Tatel- man, center, works with Mrs. Rosemary Reardon, clerk -stenographer, and Sherman Brooks,

constable-translator, in his office.

case into the Magistrates' Courts. Bal- boa saw a German chemist charged with

acting as a foreign agent. People who

frequent the court building still talk about the size of the roll from which his $10,000 bail was posted. Four young Germans, one of them a

girl, were brought before Judge Tatelman

for espionage—taking photographs of a gun position at Fort Randolph. Also

into the Cristobal court came officers of the 23,000-ton Italian liner Conte Bian- camano on charges of conspiring to sabotage their ship. There were cases

of trading with the enemy, censorship

violations, and offenses such as photo- graphing Canal installations. Riots which flared up in contract-labor camps over as little a matter as someone

stepping on someone else's toe brought

other problems. In Balboa the Magistrate talked like a "Dutch uncle" to warring factions and won their promise

of understanding and cooperation. Language Troubles The official language of the courts, of course, is English. Sometimes the court- rooms are as polylingual as the Tower of Babel. In one year Cristobal recorded defendants of 75 different nationalities. Often this brought a problem of inter- pretation. One Cristobal defendant was

a Jugoslav. He told his story to a man

who spoke German. From German the

translation was made into Spanish and

eventually into English. And this went

for every question asked or answered! Cases involving San Bias Indians usually

require both San Bias and Spanish

interpreters. Sherman Brooks, Constable-translator

for the Cristobal court, speaks Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well

as English. The Balboa court staff can

handle Spanish, German, and some

French. Magistrates may but are not required

to perform marriage ceremonies. In both courts some 300 couples a year take advantage of this service which is done

without charge. Judge Altman once performed a marriage ceremony for a Russian princess. Judge Tatelman recalls one mass marriage over which he

presided. Eighteen couples, whose homes

were burned down in the t5«epojefij
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR INTEREST^AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION i£

VACATION ACCIDENTS

This time of tin- year many employees

take off with their families for vacations

in the States. Others, like myself, will spend a few days vacation in the [nterior

of Panama, or may enter such sports as the Panama deep-sea fishing tournament

held during July. For all of us taking

these vacations there is a great possibility

of becoming involved in accidents. Death and injury are waiting for the unsuspecting on the highways, high seas, lakes, or wherever the carefree and careless, by thoughtless acts, let themselves become exposed to accidents. No matter what your general mental

outlook may be, we can safely say that

the welfare of a man's family always comes

first when the chips are down.

It is generally recognized that a capable and usually careful employee becomes

accident prone when his mind is distracted by worry over the welfare of his family. For that reason, we hope we can impress upon you how important it becomes

to you and your family that you don't lower your guard against accidents, off, as

well as on, the job.

It is not possible here to go into detail of ways and means to avoid accidents while on vacation, but since the welfare

of an employee and his family are usually

of prime interest to himself, his cooperation is the key in promoting off the job

safety. In order to help you, as an employee on vacation, see the dangers

ahead, let's look at the types of accidents

to which you very likely will be exposed. Considering accidents in all age groups, HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

APRIL

INDUSTRIAL BUREAU AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Industrial 3

Civil Affairs 2 Health 2 Community Services 1 Engineering and Construction 1 Marine Railroad and Terminals

Supply and Service Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES APRIL DREDGING DIVISION RAILROAD DIVISION GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

DIVISION OF SANITATION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Dredging 3 Grounds Maintenance 3 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Motor Transportation 3 Sanitation 3 Clu bhouses 2

Electrical 2 Maintenance 2 Storehouses 2 Railroad 1 Commissary

Locks

Navigation Terminals

WORKING DAZE

"You wouldn't be interested in my

business -I sell safety shoes!"

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNC*

traffic accidents now head the list as the

biggest killer and maimer, with home

accidents following in second place, and

recreational accidents taking third place.

It appears from this that you might be

safer on vacation than at home. However, it is evident that you and your

family will be on the move trying to crowd all you can into a short period, most of the time usually spent in a car. Therefore, your exposure to traffic acci- dents will be greater. By staying in hotels, it is probable

that you will not be exposed to the risks usually encountered at home. Many,

including those remaining on the Isth- mus, may go camping, live in trailers or on boats, where the exposure to accidents

is far greater than at home. If you do

stay at home, you may run just as great

a risk as those who go away, because you may do odd jobs for which you lack either the skill or equipment. All of you, who

go in for strenuous sports, often expose

yourselves to injury because of the lack

of training and preliminary toughening. Add to these exposures an unaccustomed

diet and insufficient rest caused by your

desire to see and do as much as possible

in a short time, and you increase many

fold your chances of a serious accident. Therefore, substitute some such slogans given below, in place of a "Home Sweet Home" picture. "A gentleman is a person who will give you the right of way even when

you are wrong." "Nothing worth while is lost by

taking the time to do it right." Be that gentleman and be the one to take things easy. Get more enjoyment

from that which you can comfortably see, do, and remember. Try to keep the

regular hours and steady habits which you observed at home. Eat foods to which you are accustomed. Some localities are famous for certain foods and drinks. Try them, if you

wish, in moderation. It is not necessary

to show that you are a robust fellow by

drinking everything in sight. Be your

age by avoiding those sports which are beyond the strength of your muscles and heart. After having renewed your vigor and

developed a more pleasant mental outlook, you should come back able to have

a better clutch on your job, not clutching

crutches.

APRIL 1953

Industrial Bureau

Health Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Supply and Service Bureau

Community Services Bureau

C. Z. Govt.—Panama Canal Co. (This month |

C. Z. Govt.—Panama Canal Co. (Best Year)

Railroad and Terminals Bureau

Marine Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 33

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

(Frequency Rate)

Man-Hours Worked 2,779,622 LEGEND

I I Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Canal Company Beat Year

I I Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government^Panama Canal Company Best Year

V

'' ' i Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953

r Corozal Housing Area Taking Form

HOUSES, both masonry and composite types, are beginning to dot the rolling terrain at Corozal where 168 apartments will be built on land turned over to the Panama Canal Company by the Army. The contract calls for the completion

of 75 of the 12-S buildings by November 20. Twenty-six more are scheduled

for completion by February IS, 1954, and the remainder of the buildings by

next April 19.

Corozal, where quarters will be pro- vided for 16S families, is rapidly taking

sufficient shape so that passersby can get an idea of what the new development will look like. Some of the streets are in and

a number of houses are well up. All of the Corozal quarters are scheduled for completion by mid-May 1954. The photograph above was taken from

a location near the Corozal theater, looking toward the Canal. The houses in the foreground will be masonry construction; those in the background are composite

construction, adapted to the site. The perimeter of the residential area, which was transferred to the Canal early

last year by the Army, will be a broad

street, one side of which will parallel Gaillard Highway. The houses are being

built along horseshoe-shaped and dead- end streets to eliminate dangerous inter- sections. Forty of the 128 quarters buildings at Corozal will be duplexes and the remainder

will be single-family units. Most of the quarters will be two- or three-bedroom

units, with a few four-bedroom houses. Both masonry and composite type

quarters are being built at Corozal. All

of the composite houses will be one-family

units, adapted to the terrain and known

as "hillside" type quarters. Their floor plans are practically identical with early composite types, such as those in San Juan place. The basement area does not

extend the full depth of the houses be- cause of the sloping terrain. Two new types of masonry duplexes

are being built at Corozal. Both are

two-storied. Nineteen of these will be three-bedroom and seven will have four bedrooms for each apartment. The contract for the Corozal construction is held by Macco-Panpacific which

also is building the Margarita housing. The major part of the site preparation and grading at Corozal was done by

Maintenance Division forces although Macco-Panpacific is completing the grading and installing streets, sidewalks, and

municipal facilities. Another housing project now under way

on the Pacific side is the construction of 22 quarters on Empire Street in Balboa.

All but one of the Empire Street houses

are masonry. Two will be the new

duplex quarters with four bedrooms to each unit. The Empire Street quarters

will also include two three-bedroom patio type houses, modifications of the two

official houses near the Administration

Building. The Empire Street houses are scheduled for completion by the middle of October this year.

Varied Cases Handled By Magistrates

(Continued from page 4) Colon fire of April 1940, wanted Canal quarters but were not eligible unless legally married. The judge lined them up before the bench and did it all at once. Courts Are Unique

Lawyers say there is no exact parallel

in the United States for the local Magistrates' Courts. They perform the functions of police or municipal courts, traffic or domestic relations courts, juvenile or small claims courts. In addition the Magistrates have the added duties of conducting preliminary hearings in felony and high misdemeanor cases. In March and April of this year the Cristobal court had no preliminary

hearings, the first time in 22 years such

a situation has occurred. About nine-tenths of Canal Zone civil and criminal cases are disposed of in the Magistrates' Courts. Traffic violations are considered criminal matters, as dis- tinguished from civil actions (which concern matters in which the sum claimed does not exceed $500). For the past 11 fiscal years, Balboa

has averaged 5,319 criminal and 23.7

civil cases a year. From its inception

in 1914 in its present form, through May

20 of this year, the Balboa court has handled 116,021 criminal cases. Balboa's

highest year was 1947 when 6,087 cases were brought into court. During the same 11-year period, the

Cristobal court has averaged 2,673 criminal and 9.5 civil cases a year. Since 1914 it has handled 70,193 criminal

cases through May 20 this year. Cristobal's peak criminal year was 1942 when 4,662 cases were brought into court. Since March 1, 1948, when the Traffic Violations Bureaus were established, much of the traffic load has been removed

from the Magistrates' shoulders. In

these Bureaus, traffic violators may

waive court hearings and pay a fixed

fine. Generally, repeat violators and

people involved in traffic accidents are not eligible. At the present time Balboa "TVB's"

run about 35 percent of the criminal case

load; Cristobal's figure is 25 percent. Courts And Courts The student of Canal Zone judicial history can find himself tangled in a mess

of conflicting terms. The construction day equivalents of Magistrates' Courts

were called District Courts. The present

District Court corresponds to the construction period circuit courts. The Canal Zone was first divided into

five municipalities: Ancon. Empire, Gorgona, Buenavista, and Cristobal, with a court in each. The penal code and the code of criminal procedure were adaptations of codes then in force in Puerto

Rico. On April 15, 1907, President Roosevelt, by Executive Order, abolished the municipal districts and established in their stead four administrative districts: Cris- tobal, Gorgona, Empire, and La Boca.

Five district judges, including a senior

judge, were appointed. The present system of courts was

established in April 1914, when the Canal

organization was formed. Judge S. K. Blackburn, who had been a district judge

since 1907, was the first Balboa Magistrate. Judge John \V. Thompson was

his opposite number in Cristobal. He

also had been a district judge.

• The Cristobal Magistrate's Court is on

the second floor of the Cristobal Administration Building where it has been since June 1930. Earlier it was in a two-story wooden building, long since demolished which stood behind the present American

Legion building. The Balboa Magistrate's Court has been in its present location next to the Balboa police station since 1938. It moved there from the old Balboa police

station, later the License Bureau, which

stood, until recently, opposite the Balboa elementarv school.
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly at BAI.BOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by tht Printino Plant Mount Hope. Canal Zone

JOHN S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. PaXSON, Lieutenant Governor

E. C. Lombard, Executive Secretary

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Oleva Hastings

Editorial Assistants

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters containing inquiries, suggestions,

criticisms, or opinions of a general nature

will be welcomed. Those of sufficient interest

will be published but signatures will not l>e used unless desired.

SUBSCRIPTIONS—$1.00 a year

SINGLE COPIES—5 cents each On sale at all Panama Canal Clubhouses, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days after publication date. SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL—lOcentseach

BACK COPIES— 10 cents each On sale when available, from the Vault

Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, Balboa Heights.

Postal money orders should be made payable to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Company, and mailed to Editor, The Panama

Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. NEW DIRECTOR

I

F. R. JOHNSON, abate, was named last month

tn succeed L. B. Moore as Director of the Supply and Service Bureau. He is the first native-born Canal Zonian to head a Canal Bureau. Born in Ancon he was graduated from Balboa High School in 1927. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and did post graduate work there. His first employment with the Canal organization was

during summer vacations. After his college work he was employed for nine years in the United States and then returned to the Canal

Zone, where he has been continuously employed by the Canal since 1938.

THE REBELS, above, of the Canal Zone Penitentiary, are now members of the Santa Cruz

Softball League. Two teams of prisoners were organized about 18 months ago and played only

against each other until last January when their first games were scheduled with teams outside the prison. In the first half of the current season the Rebels tied for second place in the league, winning four and losing three games. In the second half of the season the prison team has a record of two games won and three lost, with three games left to play. Games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the prison. Other teams in the Santa Cruz Softball League are: Lucky Luciano, Soccer, Butcher, and Beven Holiday, all of Gamboa. The consolidation of Gatun with

Margarita and the Cristobal areas as a single Atlantic Terminal district for the purpose of assignment to quarters was made effective the middle of May.

This means that an employee working anywhere on the Atlantic side may

now live anywhere on the Atlantic side. An employee need no longer work at Gatun to be eligible for quarters there. The first step toward the Atlantic Terminal district consolidation was

taken in May 1952 when the Cristobal Housing Office was made responsible

for all Housing Division activities in Gatun and only one clerk was left in the Gatun Office. The clerk has now

been moved from Building 200 to Building 35, the furniture warehouse

near the Gatun police station.

In April, Balboa Heights had 19 days when temperatures went over 90 degrees, with 96 degrees recorded at Madden Dam

for the month's maximum. To make

things even more uncomfortable, there were

11 straight days at Balboa Heights when

the temperature did not drop below 76

degrees, day or night. The hot weather carried over into the

first part of May and humidity figures also began to rise. But after May 11, the maximum temperature did not go above

90 degrees for a considerable period, and

there were several days when the maximum

was in the low 80's.

Col. William Nichol has been named

Chief of the Surgical Service at Gorgas

Hospital to succeed Col. Earl C. Lowry who has headed the service since July 1950. Colonel Nichol comes from the Army-Navy

Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Colonel Lowry is leaving next week for his new post

at Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco, Calif. Another new appointment to the Gorgas

staff is that of Col. A. A. Albright who

succeeds Lt. Col. Horace Shreck as Chief

of the Eye Section. Colonel Albright is due this month. He is coming Irom the Percy Jones Army Hospital at Battle Creek, Mich., to which Colonel Shreck has been assigned. Arriving next month from Brooke Army

Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex., will be Lt. Col. George F. Lull. He will be the

hospital's radiologist. Bids were opened this week in New

York for 2,604,000 gallons of high-test gasoline to be sold at Canal gasoline

stations. The premium gasoline will go on sale about August 1. The quantity for which the bids were advertised

will cover an estimated 6 months

supply. Meantime, minor alterations will be made at the tank farms and service stations for the handling of the gasoline. It will be sold at all retail sta- tions except Gatun and Pedro Miguel, where additional storage tanks would

be required. There are duplicate stor- age facilities at all other stations.

The annual turnover of residents and

interns in the training program at Gorgas Hospital will start this month

when the first of the outgoing interns

is scheduled to leave the organization. Four of those completing their intern- ships this Spring will be employed as Canal physicians: Drs. Robert Balfour, James L. Henry, Ernest O. Svenson, and John L. Winkler. Six of the resi- dents will remain for additional training. The others are scheduled to leave the Canal Zone starting early this month.

At the present, nine new interns are expected to start training at the hospital this year. They will begin arriv- ing during the latter part of June.

It is now expected that seven new

residents from the United States will start training at Gorgas this year. The first of the new residents is due to

arrive late this month. Earl Johnson Appointed

Chairman of PCC Board

The wet season's first heavy rains brought relief, in the form of dropping

temperatures, to Canal Zonians who had

sweltered in change of seasons weather.

The appointment of Earl D. Johnson, Under Secretary of the Army, as Chair- man of the Panama Canal Company

Board of Directors, was announced last month. The appointment was made by Robert

T. Stevens, Secretary of the Army, in his capacity as Stockholder of the Company.

Mr. Johnson became a member of the Board of Directors early this year. As

Chairman, he succeeds Karl R. Bendetsen, former Under Secretary of the Army

and now an official of the Champion

Paper and Fibre Company of Houston. Mr. Bendetsen continues as a member of the Board.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW JUNE 5, 1953 Zone Youngsters Learn Skill And Safety

Handling Guns At Junior Rifle Club

Michael Dubbs wanted an air rifle and

he wanted it very loudly—many many

times a day and for weeks on end. His

parents' suggestions that air rifles and

nine-year-old's do not go well together only marked them "fuddy-duddies" in their young son's eyes. Michael knew someone with an air

rifle. He even bet his Dad had one when

he was a little boy. He explained he

could fire into Sosa Hill and never hurt

a thing. Furthermore, Christmas was

coming . . . and so on and on and on. Michael's father, C. A. Dubbs, mentioned to Police Chief George Herman

the air rifle problem that was blighting his son's life and fostering family cold war. Major Herman advised against the air

rifle but suggested that George M. Sylvester, Manager of the Cocoli Junior Gun

Club, might provide an alternative ac- ceptable to both Michael and his father. Rolls-Royce—1929 Model

Arrangements were made for Mr.

Sylvester to pick Michael up the next Saturday morning in front of the Balboa

Clubhouse. The youngster's interest in guns was lost temporarily in admiration

of the manager's 1929 Rolls-Royce in which they rode to the Club firing range

behind the Cocoli Police Station. About 15 of the Club's 22 members

already had gathered there. The membership would have to be reduced, Mr.

Sylvester explains, if all the boys showed up at the same time to use the seven

firing positions. There were more nine-year-old's like Michael in the crowd than any other age

group. Permission to admit boys of that

age, with their parents' approval, was

obtained two years ago from the Junior

Division of the National Rifle Association. The ages in the Cocoli Club range upward to about 16, when boys often develop interests like motorcycles and

girls and lose some enthusiasm for shooting, the Club Manager explains. The maximum age is 18 for members of junior gun clubs affiliated with the National Rifle Association. While the boys who had been on the range before started target practice, under Mr. Sylvester's ever-watchful eye, Michael was introduced to the one Club gun that he would share with three other boys who did not have guns of their own.

It is a sturdy, safe, and dependable .22 caliber Remington 521T (target rifle), specially built for youngsters, purchased

at reduced price through the Balboa Gun

Club.

Michael, like most of the youngsters Mr. Sylvester encounters, had already picked up from "Batman" and "Super- man" books considerable information about sights and targets and such things. "Youngsters are great readers," the Club Manager observes, "and they learn a lot of things from unsuspected sources." Safety Rules He showed Michael the parts of the

rifle and explained for the first time some

of the rules he would repeat over and

over again in many different ways. "Never point a gun anywhere except

at the target. Every time you pick up

a gun assume that it is loaded until you

THE SECOND WINCHESTER to bear

that name, Model 1873, is explained by George M. Sylvester, Manager of the Cocoli Junior Gun

Club, to three Club members and ardent admirers

of the Manager's large gun collection. Buster McGowin, left, looks over a Model 1S94 Winchester of today. Michael Dubbs, right, and Ralph Parker, left, look, listen, and ask questions.

find out for yourself that it is not. Keep

the bolt open all the time you are not

shooting. If you know nothing about a gun, leave it strictly alone." Michael was also given a Junior Rifle Handbook and was told to study particularly the safety rules that comprise the code of the Junior Rifleman. Mr. Syl- vester doesn't believe in pinning boys down to much memorizing but he does ask for summaries of the Code to be sure they understand its important safety

lessons. Later explanations by Mr. Sylvester with a .22 target pistol teach the boys rudimentary "do's" and "don'ts" about

the pistols they may run across in some

dresser drawer. With a minimum of preliminary "les- sons," Michael got down on the mat and

aimed the target rifle. In the first four

or five shots he got right on the target - typical of most of the "novices" Mr.

Sylvester has dealt with in the 10 years he has been teaching boys to shoot. The instructor believes most boys have

a natural instinct for shooting, inherited, he likes to think, from pioneer forefathers who relied on their guns in settling the United States. He has encountered only two who couldn't handle guns. Those, he says, were not interested, for some

inexplicable reason. Michael, like most boys, took to shooting like a young Daniel Boone, even

forgetting his former first interest in the Saturday morning movie. He practiced on the range from 9 to 12 on three Saturdays of the month. On the fourth, Mr. Sylvester, a towboat engineer who

works on a swing shift, is on duty in the Canal and adjacent waters. He Got His Gun

The Club Manager reported to Michael's

father that his son had a definite aptitude

for shooting so his father bought him a gun. It was not the dangerous air rifle which Michael had long since forgotten, but a single shot .22 caliber Stevens

target rifle. Mr. Sylvester's only recommendation

in the matter of guns is that the weapons

purchased for boys be light rifles of a type that could be used in the woods, for instance, if the boy were hunting with his father in the United States.

If one of the lads turns up with a "lemon," a "clunker" in Mr. Sylvester's language, the instructor never lets him know that his gun is no good. He just takes the weapon home with him and

works it over for the boy, bringing it up

to the class it should be for target work. The instructor probably also lets the boy find out by using the Club rifle how

much better his gun would be if it had a

sling, which Mr. Sylvester probably also

installs on the weapon. The first time a boy shoots a good set

of targets, the targets go home with him

so that his family can share his excitement

of accomplishment. Not the least of the

instructor's jobs is the paper work entailed in scoring the targets and recording

AN ADDED ATTRACTION of the Club, as far as some members are concerned, is the 1929 Rolls-Royce of the Hub Manager, in which some of them sometimes ride to and from the firing range at Cocoli Left to right are: Sam Cramer, Mr. Sylvester, Michael Dubbs, Buster McGowin,

and Ralph Parker.
JUNE 5, 1953 THE'PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

MEMBERS of the Cocoli Junior Gun Club are shown here with their manager, George M. Sylvester,

right, at one of the regular Saturday morning practice sessions at the firing range in Cocoli.

the scores with the National Rifle Association. Boys never go home empty handed

from the Club prize shoots, which are held about three times a year. Mr.

Sylvester believes in a minimum of medals

for prizes and a maximum of things boys

like, such as cartridge blocks, cleaning rods and kits, jack knives and model cars. Prizes from Distant Friends Some of the most handsome prizes given at the shoots have been donations from Mr. Sylvester's friends in Massachusetts, who know of the Club only through

his letters and biennial visits home.

Medals, diplomas, brassards, and such symbols of achievement come to the boys as they progress through the N. R. A.

junior rifleman ranks, from pro-marksman

to marksman, marksman first class, sharpshooter, expert and, finally, dis- tinguished rifleman. James A. Hale, 15, Vice President of the Club, is the only member who is now

classified as "expert rifleman," although about six others are fast approaching

that mark. SLx of the younger boys are sharpshooters and the others, who are comparatively new, are approaching the rank of "marksman."

Gerald Hendrickson, now a student

assistant at the Panama Canal Library,

qualified two years ago when he was 17

as "Distinguished Rifleman," the only such achievement in the history of the Club. The youngest "expert" qualified by

the Club was Robert Kielhofer of Pedro

Miguel who achieved that rank two

years ago when he was 10. Some Saturdays, Mr. Sylvester brings

to the Club for the boys to see and shoot, with safety reduced loads, a muzzle

loading "Kentucky rifle," made in Pennsylvania, or an old Winchester, Model

L873, one of the first repeating rifles. These and other guns he shows the boys from his own collection are the types

of weapons that settled the United

States, he explains to the youngsters. Collection of 200 Guns

Then there are cake or cookie occasions, courtesy of Mrs. Sylvester, when the Club has a conclave right in the midst of the instructor's gun collection. He has about 200 guns in his "four-family" apartment in Balboa; others are stored

with relatives and friends in New England. The Gun Club gatherings at the Syl- vester home were more common when

they lived close to the Club in Cocoli. Then the doorstep was worn thin by young gun-enthusiast callers. The change of location doesn't reduce

the steady stream of older callers who

come to admire the collection, swap a gun for another gun or for Mr. Sylvester's

services as gunsmith, ask the history or value of a particular piece or make use

of his extensive library of source material on the subject. Mr. Sylvester explains his collection largely in terms of the history the different weapons encompass. He usually starts with a .69 caliber

flintlock musket of 1775, one of those purchased, possibly by Benjamin Franklin, in France or Austria for use against

the Redcoats in the Revolutionary War. The words "Town of Boston" are burned

into the stock and it has faint regimental markings. That old gun, like many others in his

collection, came from a pawn shop in Boston. When he bought it, the mam spring was broken; the old screws with their odd threads were rusted in, broken or

missing; many internal parts of the lock were gone or badly broken; the ramrod

for it was gone; the wood of the stock was rotten and splitting away; and the

LIMEADE, a good healthful cooling-off drink

for young marksmen is provided every Saturday morning by the mother of one of the Club

members. Shown here in the limeade line are,

left to right: David Fairchild, Lewis Bateman,

Robert Paul Beals, and George Coppenhaver.

trigger guard was completely broto a. He restored it to it i using old tools and emulating, in many

cases, crude methods used by old gunsmiths to retain the authenticity

Springs were Difficult The springs were the hardest to duplicate. Wmking like the old gunsmiths

long before the days of tempered steel classified by degrees of hardness, he judged the temper by the color oi the metal as it was drawn from the forge. Mr. Sylvester made about six springs that were either too soft or too hard before he achieved the right temper

for the springs for the old musket. After each unsuccessful try, he would put the

project away for months before working up the courage to start on the springs

again. His guns are all like the old musket. He doesn't have them if they do not

shoot and they are all in excellent condition. Of course, he reloads his own shells to

fit the outlandish calibers, using old

tools of his father's that started the gun

collection. The first guns the collector acquired were bought to replace weapons

his father once owned on which he used

the tools. Single shells for some of the old guns in the collection would cost as much

as $2 if Mr. Sylvester would or could buy them outright. The next historical step through the gun collection may be two .58 caliber caplock rifles of the Civil War era, one made for the government by contractors

in New England and the other, dated

1852, that came from the Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Mr. Sylvester might stop next at a

.52 caliber Smith carbine, one of the type strewn all over the field at the

Battle of Gettysburg, he explains. The historical tour through the collec- tion might stop next at a .50 caliber Sharps Buffalo Rifle; the old Winchester

'73, once used at the Canal Zone Penitentiary; a Colt revolver of 1860 of the type used by Pony Express riders; or another

old Colt "peacemaker," so called for the

role it played in the hands of "the law"

in the old' Wild West. Guns for Ladies Then Mr. Sylvester might show the

visitor an 1860 four-barrel double-action Remington "vest pocket"^ or "lady's" gun from an era in which ladies and

gamblers needed, carried and used such weapons; an 1867 .50 caliber Navy pistol, "a cannon that left an awful hole," the

collector explains; and so on through weapons from all major conflicts and up

to the present day. Then there are the oddities like the two-inch watch chain pistol that shoots with a loud report and fires a two-milli- meter bullet "that can put an eye out;"

a light rifle with bayonet, used for drill by young boys in the "Bolilla," a Mussolini version of the Boy Scout movement;

and a sizable collection of "just guns"

Mi'. Sylvester keeps for swapping purposes. The present Cocoli Junior Club had

its origin in a now defunct Cocoli Boys

Club organized in 1946 by former Canal Zone Police Sergeant George V. Ritchey, then in charge of the Cocoli Police Station. The original club was occasioned in part by minor mischief making by a few- youngsters in the community who only

needed, in the opinion of the sergeant, a good outlet for their energies and interests.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Weil-Known Headwaiter For Clubhouses

Retires After Long Service With Canal

CYRIL C. LIXDO When Cyril C. Lindo came to the Canal Zone from Jamaica in 1909, he was not

entirely unfamiliar with things here. Two older Lindos, Abraham and David, had preceded him and sent word back home that jobs were plentiful and that

their 21 -year-old brother should have no

trouble getting work. So Cyril Lindo, who later became one

of the best-known of the Clubhouse Division's head-waiters, quit his job as a messenger in the office of the Jamaican

newspaper, the "Gleaner," and came to the Canal Zone. During his first few years here he

thought frequently of his Jamaican home

and, after he was married and began to

raise a family, wished he could send his children back there to school. But later he began to realize that the Isthmus was

a pretty good place to bring up his daughter and three sons and to this day

has never been back to Jamaica. Nor, he

says now, has he any desire to return there. His first job was at Empire where he

was, as he also was later at Portobelo, a helper for a drill gang. They were the men who drilled the holes into which

blasting pow^der was put. It was trying work, very often knee- to hip-deep in mud.

In 1913 he moved to inside work, becoming a helper in the machine shops

at Gorgona. Similar work followed in the Empire and Balboa shops. In 1915 he became a carpenter's helper, working

in the old Building Division in Balboa. One of his jobs there was to help build the forms with which concrete was poured

for the long curving flight of steps which

leads from Gorgas Road to the main

entrance of Gorgas Hospital. Waiter Since 1918 But all the time, he recalls, he wanted some sort of "cleaner, inside work."

In 19 IS he became a waiter for the old Bureau of Clubs and Playgrounds, at the old Ancon Clubhouse which stood approximately where the bachelor quarters are now near the Ancon commissary, He was working there when the building burned to the ground about 1925 and remembers that in the conflagration he

lost a commissary book which he had

stored in his locker. After the fire the Clubhouse transferred

its activities first to the Ancon playshed

and then to the building, now demolished, which subsequently became the Ancon

theater. The present Ancon Clubhouse was at that time a restaurant, operated by a concessionaire.

All of his service since 1918 has been

at Ancon. In 1940 he was made headwaiter and for the last 13 years has been

seeing to it that people were seated, given menus and ice water, and that they were served. Now he has retired. Last Sunday

night he seated his last customer and

called his last waitress to attention. Retiring with him that day were two

other oldtimers from the Ancon Clubhouse, Arthur R. Sealy, a janitor with some 35 years of service, and Alexander

King, a waiter, who has been on the Isthmus since 1913 and who has some

19 years of Canal service. Mr. Lindo has no plans for the future. At close to 65, he feels that he has earned

the right to take things easy. He and his wife will live in Panama, where they have two sons and two grandchildren. Two other second generation Lindos

live in New York where one of them works

for a dress manufacturer and the other is on the clerical staff of the United Nations.

Applications Close June 10

For 8 New Margarita Houses

Applications are now being received

at the Cristobal Housing office for eight new houses in Margarita. The applications will be closed on June 10. One of the houses is a three-bedroom breezew-ay, three are type 333 which have three- bedrooms, and one bath, and the re- mainder are type 332, which have two

bedrooms. All are single houses. Late last month 12 of the 14S apart- ments which are being built at Margarita had been occupied. The Margarita housing project will be finished the latter part of August. The new houses which are occupied

are all in the First Street Area. All are masonry. The Margarita housing project is the

single largest construction job, monetarily, in the current housing program. The

total amount of the contract is around

$3,250,000. The Margarita contract in- cluded grading and site preparation for the Margarita School, which is now under

construction, as well as an area adjacent

to Gulick Road and the Bolivar Highway

intersection. Bids for the Margarita project were opened in February 1952 and the contract awarded a short time later to Macco-Panpacific, which also holds the Corozal housing construction contract.

"GARD" will be arriving in the Commissaries

this month just in time to save fabrics and

leathers from this year's rainy season rains. "Gard" is a combination of synthetic resins that weatherproofs practically any fabric, leather, straw, or paper. Sprayed on clothes, purses, luggage, shoes, convertible tops, outdoor furniture, or auto- mobile upholstery, for instance, it waterproofs them but does not seal the pores of the material. It will cost about 85 f for a 5-ounce, and $1 .25 for an 1 1 -ounce can.

Alligator pears from Haiti —the kind Canal

old-timers drool about when they Haitian recall former stops at Port-au- Pears Prince on Panama Line sailings

have been ordered and are ex- pected in the stores in June. A LOT of new luggage is in the stores now

and more will be arriving soon just in time

for summer vacationers. There will be several

styles of Samsonite, Clothes-Pac's, "Wings"

Flight-Pak's, and Towne and Shortrip lug- gage in canvas, nylon, drill, duck, leather, and vinyl, in plain colors and plaids. New large size cartons of Birds Eye frozen

»».. orange juice concentrate will be

Vitamins _ , = ',_ i. r ; i- A qo

by the Gallon

a boon to big families. A 32- ounce size that makes a gallon of juice will cost less than $1. A NEW ironing board cover called "Sili- cone" is scorch resistant, waterproof, heat

reflecting, color fast, porous, stain proof, adjustable to all standard size ironing boards, and never needs to be laundered.

It will be arriving in the commissaries soon and will cost about $1.40.

Keiller's Jams (Keiller is the export agent

for the English Crosse & Blackwell Jam by Company) are coming to the CornJars missaries soon. There will be

1 -pound jars of strawberry, raspberry, and plum that will cost about 40^. SCHOOL VACATIONS will be more

pleasant, at home or traveling, if the small

fry find plenty of interests to keep them happily occupied. Commissary wholesale people had that in mind when they stocked up on a

lot of toys that are available in the retail stores now.

There are pedal bikes for $3.75/ regular boys' and girls' bicycles for $48.95 to $62.50,- scooters, from $4.45 to $7.75;

velocipedes, $8.40 to $15.40; roller skates; many attractive and entertaining children's

activity books; cowboy holster sets; rubber

dolls and toys; many wooden action toys,- harmonicas all kinds of things to brighten

the vacation period for children and their parents.

Travelers or stay-at-homes with children and

l_i I / children's laundry problems will

.j6

!? also be interested in the large Mothers i . c i i »u lot ot cotton seersucker clothes

for youngsters that are coming to the Commissaries soon. They are the type that need

no ironing. A FRENCH ONION SOUP addict "from Onionsoupville," he says who has been known to eat the stuff for breakfast, says the Crosse & Blackwell French onion soup in cans

that is coming to the Commissaries this month

is as good as any he has encountered. Other new Crosse & Blackwell canned

soups that will go on sale at the same time

include cream of onion, cream of shrimp, consomme madrilene, crab a la Maryland, and black bean and sherry. The 12- and

1 3-ounce cans will cost about 21 c to 34 c

In Case You Didn't Know Department: The

!_ , Housewares Sections have woodI "en and steel legs lo convert springs ouse" lo Hollywood beds. There is also w re a new supply of glass globes for hurricane lamps coming to the stores.

F. F. V. (Favorite Foods of Virginia) appetizers are new in the Commissaries. They are

wafers about an inch square or smaller, foil- wrapped to retain the freshness. There are

three types, each with its own distinctive

flavor. A box will cost about 38 (!.
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11 Canal Zone Seal Used On Thousands

Of Documents In Past 47 Years

GRAYCE LYDIA XADEAU, of the Executive Secretary's office, spells off her boss now and

then when it comes to impressing the seal of the Canal Zone on some of the 5,000 documents which

are so marked each year. The official seal of the Canal Zone in the office of the Executive Secretary is the "granddaddy" of all the seals used in the near half-century history of the Pan- ama Canal organization.

It was authorized by the first Isthmian Canal Commission in March 1905 and

was delivered to the Canal Zone in February 1906. The seal is used primarily to authenticate official and legal documents—

particularly those that are to be used in jurisdictions other than the Canal Zone. The impression of the seal is used in conjunction with the signature of the Executive Secretary attesting the authenticity and validity of official acts. The Canal Zone seal and the muscle power used in making impressions of it and the good right arm of E. C. Lombard,

Executive Secretary and custodian of the

seal, get plenty of use in the exercise of

this official function. The seal and signa- ture are affixed to some 5,000 documents

annually. Panama Canal Company Seal The corporate seal of the Panama Canal Company is a brash newcomer by comparison, bearing the date 1950 when the law establishing the new corporation was

passed by the United States Congress. The seal of the corporation that was

originally the Panama Railroad Company

changed in design with the changes that were made in its corporate structure, from a New York State to a Federal

corporation in 1948, then to the new Panama Canal Company in July 1951. The present Company seal was adopted by the Board of Directors in 1950 and was designed by John C. Buechele, who

retired in 1951 as Architect in the Engineering Division. The Secretary of the Company in Washington is custodian of the corporate seal. In addition to the Company and Canal Zone seals, there are about 200 Notary

Public seals in use in the Canal Zone as

well as a few other official seals used in the Canal organization. One is used by the Board of Local

Inspectors, principally on licenses to motorboat operators; seals of the Port Captains at Balboa and Cristobal are used primarily on certificates of clearance

for vessels leaving Canal waters; the Board of Admeasurement uses a seal primarily for tonnage certificates for vessels transiting the Canal. These seals were changed slightly in wording in 1951

to conform to the new Canal organization. Seal Has Not Changed

The official seal of the Canal Zone,

unlike all the others, has weathered many organizational changes and remains

the same today as in the original design

although the original die ami counter were

replaced in 1938. Maj. Gen. < leorge W.

Davis, first Governor of the Canal Zone, noted in March 1905 that It would be a fixture on the Isthmus "for

all time." The Executive Secretary has always

been the Custodian of the seal. In L906 the seal was located in his office mi the Isthmus. When the Isthmian Canal Commission

was replaced by The Panama Canal

organization i" 1914 an Executive Order

again placed the Executive Secretary in charge of the seal of the Government of the Canal Zone and an Executive Regulation of December 5, 1951, reiterated that provision in the present Canal

organization. The features of what may have been

the seal's forebears are not shown in present Canal files which indicate that some of its characteristics, at least, may

have been inherited from French Canal

builders. Exact Origin Clouded

Sketchy records, conflicting personalities, and lines of authority in Washington and on the Isthmus during the early American Canal efforts leave some doubt

as to the exact origin of the design and motto of the seal which are generally attributed to Gaillard Hunt, former

Chief of the Passport Bureau of the State Department. Governor Davis submitted to the Isth- mian Canal Commission in Washington

in December 1904 designs he had origi- nated for a Canal Zone seal. His designs had been executed by C. Bertoncini, then an employee of the Commission on the Isthmus who had formerly worked for the French Canal Company.

The disposition of those designs was

the subject of considerable inquiry later

in 1905 when the Governor requested

that they be returned to him, and again

in 1932 when correspondence in the Washington office of The Panama Canal was combed and copied in an attempt to establish the origin of the seal. A notation from a meeting of the Isth- mian Canal Commission in March 1905, stated that the Chairman had accepted an offer made by Mr. Hunt to prepare a design for the seal. He had also designed

the seals of Puerto Rico and the Philip- pine Islands. In reply to an inquiry concerning the history of heraldic devices on the Isth- mus, which apparently originated with Mr. Hunt after he had accepted the commission to design a Canal Zone seal, Governor Davis wrote in March 1905 a lengthy letter concerning (See page i i

"GRANDDADDY" of all the seals used in the

history of the Panama Canal organization is this

Official Seal of the Canal Zone. It was authorized by the first Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905.

A BRASH NEWCOMER to the seal family is this one, the corporate seal of the Panama Canal Company. Adopted by the Hoard of Directors in 1950, it was designed by John C. Buechele.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953 Ten Years Ago In May Commended

The Balboa Quarantine Station was moved to Corozal, following the transfer from the Canal to the Navy of the former

Quarantine Station area at Fort Amador.

During the early days of the war, the Balboa station was used for a camp for internees.

representative of the recently-formed

civic council. The name "Curundu" was

chosen in an overwhelming vote of residents in a mass meeting and then

Lt. Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the Caribbean Command, made it official.

Dry excavation for the Third Locks at Gatun was completed. The contract for

the diii excavation was the first major

contract awarded for the Third Locks

project. The work had started in February,

1941, and had been conducted on a 2^-houra-day, seven-day-a-weck basis until it was completed.

"Skunk Hollow" or "Jungle Glen" became officially "Curundu." Names

for the officially unnamed Army civilian housing area were selected by a committee composed of Col. Ross E. Windom, District Engineer in charge of the area; Brodie Burnham, Editor of The Panama

American; and H. W. Northrup, a

The Governor requested telephone subscribers to help relieve the heavy load on

the telephone system which had become

increasingly congested. He also an- nounced that the rainy season would

bring no relaxation of regulations for the conservation of water, since increased consumption for several months had been near the filtering capacity of the system. Hoses were not to be used to clean screen*, wash vehicles, or water lawns or shrubbery around quarters.

Another announcement from Balboa

Heights reminded local residents that

gasoline ration books must be returned to the License Section when vehicles were

said or transferred. HONOR GRADUATE

YVONNE KUPERMAN, above, was given the Canal Znne Junior College's Honor Award this week

at the ( '"liege graduation ceremonies. Her name will be inscribed on a plaque at the entrance to the col- lege building, along with the names of the 1* young men and women who have been similarly honored. The plaque was presented in 1935 by the first class which was graduated from the Junior College "In

honor of the member of each class of the Canal Zone

Junior College who contributed most to the spiritual, intellectual, and extra-curricular life of the college." Miss Kuperman is the daughter "f Mr. an. I Mis. Maurice Kuperman of Cartagena, Colombia. Born

in Cartagena, she came to the Isthmus some years ago and was graduated in 1951 from Balboa High

School where she was member 4 the National Honor Society. She has been interested in a number of school and

extra-curricular activities. In addition to serving as

of the sophomore class, she was also presi- dent of the Natural Science Society and business manager of the college year book "The Conquistador." In her freshman year she was business manager of and a contributor to the "Tropical Collegian." She was also a member of ( iamma ( 'hi. Active also in sports, she played Softball, and was

on the all-star volleyball and basketball teams.

Mia-' Kuperman plans to continue her education

in the United States, either at Cornell or Columbia, and will study to be a clinical laboratorj technician.

The first courts in the Canal Zone were

five municipal and three circuit courts, and a supreme court. The construction of a lock-type Pan- ama Canal was authorized by Congress

in June 1906.

Ten Year Old Dream Is Nearing Reality For Margarita Recreational Association

{Continued from page 2) donated to the MRA

for the Scouts of Margarita. Someone else conceived an idea of raising funds to have them erected and Donald Brayton, an MRA director, coined

the slogan "Give your dough and watch

it grow." By mid-May the fund stood

at $1,593.05. The money came from

about everywhere and everyone. Men of Margarita who had neither time nor skill in construction work gave money to hire what help was needed. The Margarita Cubs held a county fair and raised $100. Cristobal Girl Scouts,

feeling that Margarita may eventually be

their future home, gave $300 from their building fund. The Margarita Girl Scouts gave another $300. Boy Scouts

contributed $75 from their treasury, and

the Boilermakers Local 463 gave $25.

It all piled up to an amazing total, and

according to MRA treasurer Gerard

Senear money is still coming in. When the huts are up and occupied,

the MRA does not plan to relax. July 4

is coming on and the MRA has taken

over sponsorship of childrens' activities, up to and including the program, judges, and prizes. Summer activities have to be planned

for the youngsters and it's not too early to be making plans for Hallowe'en. The present officers of the MRA—Mr.

Bath, Worden E. French, vice president, Mrs. Shirley Wertz, secretary, Mr. Schear —and the directors- Mrs. Sally Keane, Edward C. Blount, Herbert Engelke, S. Ross Cunningham, Donald R. Brayton, and William C. Maynard have another

bee in their bonnet. It's quite likely that new officers, who will be elected in June, may have the same bee. Margarita has no swimming pool, and

Margaritans and the MRA are somewhat

nmre than a little sensitive on that point. They know that they cannot raise enough money to build a pool by renting the M RA-owned public address system, rental

of which brings in about $10 a week and

is the M RA's main source of income. But when they wanted Scout shacks

they found them, and who knows? May lie a swimming pool might come along some

day.

JEROME HOWARD, quartermaster on tie ferryboat Presidents Amador, won a commendation last month from Governor Seybold for rescuing a young girl from drowning. The girl jumped from the ferryboat President

Roosevelt just as the two ferries were passing in midstream. The quartermaster dived over- board, swam 75 feet to the drowning girl, and

then towed her back to his ferryboat. In his letter Governor Seybold said: "I take

great pleasure in commending you for your

courageous deed which reflects great credit upon you and upon the Canal organization."

C. Z. Seal Used On Thousands Of Documents

(Continuedfrom page It) the research he had done and explaining in this manner

the designs he had submitted to the Commission: French Motto

"The motif of my design was, first, to comply with the law—second, to give it an essential interoceanic Canal character,

for the United States has but one errand

at Panama—to make a canal, to join the

seas for the benefit of mankind—and I, therefore, adopted a motto expressive of that idea. "Of course," the Governor continued,

"It is well known that M. DeLesseps

adopted a motto for his (French Canal) Company, the idea of which was that the continents were divided for the benefit

of mankind."

Artists of "Messrs. Tiffany and Company" in New York prepared the design

that was recommended to the Commission by Mr. Hunt and was adopted by that body—after the Chairman changed the

original word "earth" to "land" and made

the sails of the Spanish galleon smaller. The description furnished the Commission with Mr. Hunt's recommendation was repeated in substance in the only

existing official description of the seal of the Canal Zone. The description, contained in an Executive Order of 1915

designating a flag for the Governor which

displays the seal of the Canal Zone, states: "A shield, showing at the bottom a Spanish galleon of the loth Century

under full sail coming head on between twn high banks, all purpure (heraldic term for purple), the sky yellow with the glow of sunset; in the chief the colors of the arms of the United States. Under the

shield the motto: The land divided; the world united." Since the time the seal was adopted

there have been hundreds of letters from

collectors of official seals, asking for an

impression, and from those who wanl to reproduce the seal in bonks, on souvenirs, handkerchiefs, shuts, needlework.
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13 Canal's Apprentice Program

Disrupted With Draft Calls

The Canal's apprentice training pro- gram has been disrupted by the recent reduction in force of some crafts and by

the induction or forthcoming induction

into the military service of a number of the apprentices. As of the week of May 18 through 22, the number of apprentices in training had

been reduced from 60 during the month of March to 42. Of the 1 8 reductions in the number of apprentices, six were given reduction in force notices in the Industrial Bureau and 12 had resigned to enter the

military service. A number of others will probably be

drafted before they can complete their

training, if the present large Selective Service quotas for the Canal Zone

continue.

It will be several weeks, Personnel

officers said, before it will be known how many—if any—of the apprentices entering the military service will be replaced. Forty-five applicants, seven of whom were

veterans, took the six-part apprentice examination at the Diablo Clubhouse on May 9. Gerald Hendrickson, a Junior College

student, ranked first in each of the five written sections and the manipulative

exercise which comprised the examinatior.

Supply And Service Bureau Is Assigned

U. S. Procurement

Responsibility for supply procurement

in the United States for the CompanyGovernment has been assigned to the Supply and Service Director of the Panama Canal Company.

In a circular announcing the change, Governor Seybold instructed the Supply and Service Director to assume control immediately and submit recommendations on the organization of the Purchasing Office in New York so that the plan

will become fully operative by the first of July 1953. The Canal's procurement organization has been a part of the Company's New

York Office which will continue to provide

the administrative support required by

the new unit. There are about 40 employees engaged in the procurement

function in Xew York. The placing of the Xew York Purchasing Office under the supervision of the Supply and Service Director is designed

to provide closer coordination between

those units of the Company which buy

supplies and those which sell them.

Stateside procurement functions have

been centered in Xew York since last year when the Canal's Washington Pro- curement Office was abolished. Prior to that time purchases for the Commissary

Division were made by the New York

Office and other purchases were handled

in Washington. The change in the procurement function

is similar to those made in the personnel and accounting functions after the close

of the Washington Office when policy supervision was placed under the responsible official in the Canal Zone.

A register and the scores of those who took the examination has been compiled and is now in the hands of Division heads who expect to employ apprentices about the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1. Present indications are that about

five apprentices will be employed, but

this number does not include those who mav replace the apprentices who are being

drafted. Deferments are not being requested for apprentices but their induction may be postponed for a period of up to 90 days

to permit them to complete the current quarter of formal apprentice school courses in which they are engaged at the time they are ordered to report for induction.

Transiting Ship

Flies Royal Flag

The Personal Standard of a reigning queen flew from the mast of a transit- ing ship last month; oldtimers believe

it chalks up another "first" for the Canal. The queen was Queen Salote Tupou

of Tonga, a 250-square mile island kingdom in the Southwest Pacific. She was a passenger aboard the S. S. "Rangitoto" en route to England to attend the coronation of Queen

Elizabeth II. The Queen's domain is also known

as the Friendly Islands. It is divided

into three main groups: Tongatabu,

Haapai, and Yavan. Edward M. Barlow of the Locks

Division, who met Queen Salote Tupou

aboard ship, was told by a member of her party that Captain Cook had visited the islands about 1775. He left there two tortoises. One died about 50 years ago. The other still lives at the Royal Palace, having been run over three times once by an American

jeep—and having survived several fires. Forty Years Ago In May

AJAX, one of the Dredging Division's two 250-ton cranes, is a familiar sight to most Zonians

as she now appears with her towering superstructure. But she looked like this when she arrived from Germany July 9, 1914. Ajai and her sister-crane, Hercules, were ordered 40 years ago last month. A contract for two floating cranes of 250 gross tons capacity was awarded to the Deutsche Maschinefabrik A. G. of Duisburg, Germany. Four bids, from

American, English, Dutch, and German

firms, had been opened in Washington,

on January 13, 1913. "The proposal of the German firm was

so much lower in price than any other and the experience, facilities, and reputation of this firm were so excellent, that it was unquestionably the best of those

received," The Canal Record reported. The cranes, which later were named

the Ajax and Hercules, were to be built

in Germany and delivered to the Canal Zone in 580 days. The pontoons, fitted with a part of the machinery located below deck, were to be towed to the Isthmus. The superstructure was to be

shipped in a knocked-down condition.

of the Commissary and brought the I. C. C.

hotel there the biggest business of any hotel

in the history of Canal construction. An average of 1,325 meals were served

there daily. About 320 people were served

in 35 minutes, between the passing of labor

trains. Fifty-one waiters were employed

by the hotel steward.

Fifty mules arrived from the United

States, the first large importation of new

stock since 1909. They cost $211 each. There were 354 mules and 84 horses then

in service. About 50 died, were con- demned, or sold each year. In 1910, 22 mules had died in an epidemic of trypanosoma disease, "analagous to the

surra of the Philippine Islands and the

'sleeping sickness' of Africa," according

to the Canal Record.

The erection at Corozal of houses moved from Gorgona had been expedited by the construction of a spur track from the Panpma Railroad station toward the high land on which the houses were being erected. The growth of Corozal necessitated increased fire protection and enlargement

Nine Canal Zone Women's Clubs in various Canal villages which closed six years of activity on April 19. 1013, were dubbed by the Record "unique in the history of the woman movement." They were the only clubs of women ever organized in any

country by government authority, the Record

explained.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 5, 1953

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

April 15 Through May 15 ANNIVERSARIES

Employees who were promoted or trans- ferred between April 15 and May 15 are

listed below. Regradings and \vi thin-grade promotions are not listed. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Jerry W. Detamore, from Records

Administrator, Records Section, to Methods Examiner, Property and Survey Section. Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson, from Secretary,

Office of the Governor, to Clerk-Stenographer, Administrative Branch.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Mrs. Winifred J. White, Mrs. Patricia F. Van Evera, Mrs. Ethel P. McDermitt, from Substitute Teacher to Elementary Teacher. Fred Huddleston, from Fireman to Postal Clerk. Robert L. Anston, from Life Guard,

Division of Schools, to Fireman. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Alex A. Levine, from Clerk-Stenographer, Police Division, to Accountant,

Internal Audit Staff. Warren Pitman, from Budget Specialist to Business Analyst, Management Staff. Robert Lessiack, from Governmental

Systems Accountant, Internal Audits Staff, to Business Analyst, Management Staff. Carl W. Hoffmeyer, from Postal Clerk

to Construction Cost Analyst. Albert M. Jenkins, Systems Accountant, from Cost Accounts Branch to Ac- counting Systems Staff. Mrs. Eva M. Grassau, from Fiscal Accounting Clerk, Industrial Bureau, to Cash

Accounting Clerk, Costs Account Branch. John W. Walker, from Cash Accounting Clerk, Costs Accounts Branch, to Accountant, Internal Audit Staff. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Leo B. Clements, from Supervisor, Water and Laboratories Branch, to General Foreman, Panama Public Works. Harry F. Cody, from General Foreman, Panama Public Works, to Supervisor, Water and Laboratories Branch. Charles B. Douglas, from Powerhouse

Operator to Powerhouse Operator- Dis- patcher, Electrical Division. John E. Ridge, Jr., from Painter Leader

to Heavy Labor Foreman, Maintenance

Division.OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Mrs. Grayce L. Nadeau, from Clerk- Stenographer, Administrative Branch, to Secretary, Executive Secretary's Office. Mary F. Maguire, Secretary, from

Executive Secretary's Office to Office of the Governor. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

Arnulfo Manning, from Storekeeper, Shipping, Commissary Division, to Apprentice (combination welder). MARINE BUREAU

Theodore R. Yost, from Guard to Guard Supervisor, Locks Security Branch. Thomas E. Morgan, from Helper,

Pacific Locks Overhaul, to Propertj and Supply Clerk, Pacific Locks. James J. Morris, from Property and RETIREMENTS IN MAY

Employees who retired at the end of May,

their birthplaces, tiller, length oi service at retirement, and their future addresses are: Harold P. Bevington, Ohio; Electri- cian, Commissary Division; 39 years, 3 months, 12 days; Rock Stream, N. Y. John Joseph Dudak, Pennsylvania; Cash Account. uit Clerk, Maintenance Divi

sion; 26 years, 11 months, 28 days; Canal

Zone. Daniel B. Fitchett, Maryland; Machinist Leadingman, Industrial Bureau;

. (i months, and 14 days; Baltimore, Md.

Katherine E. Jessup, North Carolina; Teacher, Balboa High School, 19 years, 8 months, and 6 days; Norfolk, Va.

Supply Clerk to Storekeeper (general)

Pacific Locks. Albert L. Wilder, from Pilot-in-Training

to Probationary Pilot. John F. Martin, from Locks Security Guard to Clerk-Typist, Pacific Lock-. Harry W. Gardner, from Public Works

Foreman, Maintenance Division, to WharfBuilding Foreman, Dredging Division. William E. Hopkins, from Probationary to Qualified Pilot. Elmer G. Abbott, from Pilot to Assist- ant Port Captain, Balboa. Robert C. Carter, from Construction Equipment and Pumping Plant Operator, Maintenance Division, to Lock Operator,

Pacific Locks. Glenn M. Cramer, from First Mate to Master, U. S. S. Taboga. Cecil Kovel, from Gauger, Division of Storehouses, to Property and Supply Clerk, Dredging Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

L. B. Burnham, from Employee Counsellor to Training Officer. Mrs. Joanne E. Robinson, ClerkTypist, from Employment and Utilization Division to Personnel Records Division. Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver, from Clerk- Stenographer, Employment and Utilization Division, to Personnel Clerk (Stenographer)

Office of the Director. RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU Osmond N. Austin, Edmond N.

Eberly, from Helper, Locks Overhaul, to Gauger and Cribtender Foreman, Terminals Divisio i Eugene White, from Signalman, Navigatio i Division, to Gauger and Cribtender Foreman, Terminals Division. SUPPLY AND SERVICE BUREAU

Henry E. May, from Assistant Superintendent to Superintendent, Division of Storehouses. James B. Gilder, from Property and

Supply Clerk to Commissary Assistant. Floyd R. Johnson, from Assistant Supply and Service Director to Director. William A. Hadarits, from Helper, Locks Overhaul, to Gauger, Division of Storehouses. Raoul O. Theriault, from Supervisory Procurement Officer to Supervisory Accountant, Commissary Division. Norman B. Davison, from Supervisory

Business Accountant to Supervisory Accountant, Commissary Division. Mrs. Mabel M. Duncan, Telephone

Operator, from Housing Division to Commissary Division. Frank F. Williams, from Supervisory Accounting Clerk to Procurement Officer, Commissary I (ivision. Beverley C. Halliday, from Procure- ment Officer to Supervisory Procurement

Officer, Commissary Division. Mrs. Frances M. Griggel, from Cash

Accounting Clerk to Supplv Assistant, Commissary I >iv ision. John J. Ryan, from Meat Cutter to Meat Cutter in Charge. Commissary DivJUNE SAILINGS

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liti from

,und the

Employees who observed important anniversaries during the month of May 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 (*).41 YEARS

Maj. George Herman, Chief, Police

I >ivision. Berney J. Robinson, Steam Engineer, Terminals Division.

35 YEARS

Ira L. Wright, Assistant to Comptroller.

Jessie K. Maurer, Supervisor Nurse, Colon Hospital.

30 YEARS

Earl Cassell, Electrical Supervisor, Gat tin Locks. Earl A. Dyer, Foreman, Printing Plant.

25 YEARS

David Norton, Car Inspector, Railroad

Division. Robert L. Blaney, Traffic Manager,

Terminals Division. Jeanne C. Magnuson, Accounting

Clerk, Accounting Division. Roger T. Williams, Foreman Crib- tender and Steam Engineer, Terminals

I Hvision. John A. Everson, District Wiremau,

Electrical Division. Walter R. Lindsay, Chief, Grounds

Maintenance Division.

20 YEARS

Richard C. McKeown, Leader, Sheet Metal Worker, Maintenance Div ision. Eleanor A. Connor, Accounting Clerk,

Office of Comptroller. George H. Sanford, Supervisor, Reproduction Plant. Howard E. Turner, Assistant Chief, Payroll Branch. *Douglas S. Johnston, Administrative

Assistant, Community Services Bureau. Robert H. Adams, Supply Require- ments Assistant, Division of Storehouses. Robert L. Snyder, Postal Clerk.

15 YEARS

*Walter H. Hobby, Supervisor, Body

Repair Shop, Motor 'Transportation Division.Elmer H. Gardner, Wireman, Electrical Division. Fred L. Wertz, Jr., Locomotive Engineer, Railroad Division. R. L. Hendrickson, Senior Towboat

Master, Navigation Division. Lavinia R. Dahlhoff, Telephone Operator, Electrical Division. Harold J. McCarrick, Foreman, Public Winks, Maintenance Division. *Ethel C. Myers, Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. Gregory G. Cartotto, Business Ac- countant, Office of Comptroller. Daile D. Keigley, Governmental Accountant, Accounting Division. John A. Dovel, Leadingman Pipefitter, Industrial Bureau. Ernest B. Rainier, Pilot, Navigation

Division.

Honor Roll Corrections

The Canal Honor Roll, which ap- peared in the May issue of The Panama

Canal Review and which listed employees now in service who began work for the Canal during the construction

period, omitted the name of Edward W.

Schnake, Electrical Supervisor at Miraflores Locks. Mr. Schnake began work

for the Canal organization in November 1912 as a wireman on the Locks

construction force. Another correction of the Honor

Roll as it appeared in the last issue: An asterisk should have marked the names of Adrien M. Bouche and Mrs. Lea K. Dugan since both are holders of the coveted Roosevelt Medal awarded

for two years of continuous service during the Canal's construction period.
June 5, 1953 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15 Marine Directors

CAPT. FRANK A. MONROE, JR., who becomes Marine Director for the Panama Canal Company on Sunday, is shown here talking over some of the fine points of his new job with his pre- decessor, Capt. Marvin J. West, right. Captain Munroe arrived May 23; prior to his assignment

to the Isthmus, he was commanding officer of the U. 8. N'aval Receiving Station in Seattle. Captain

West, who has been assigned to San Diego as commanding officer of the Naval Receiving Station, plans to leave June 10 for California.

Governor Promises Support For Differential

{Continued from page 1 1 future actions were made: The Supply and Service Director has

tentative plans to keep six of the Canal Commissaries open one evening a week;

Consideration is being given to the

future of the Gamboa Clubhouse which

is operating at a considerable loss. Present Commissary plans, according

to the announcement made by Edward

A. Doolan, Personnel Director, call for the Balboa, Cristobal, Cocoli, Rainbow

City, Tivoli, and Gamboa Commissaries,

to open at 1 p. m. on Thursday and re- main open until 8 p. m. All sections of the retail stores would be open during

this period. Should the plan be adopted, it will be on a trial basis and would begin June 1 1

Regarding the Gamboa Clubhouse,

the conferees were told that a deficit of $5,800 was incurred there during the

first nine months of the fiscal year. The Gamboa Clubhouse has never broken

even nor made money since it was opened;

the total deficit, which has been subsidized, is $160,000. The announcement emphasized that no decision has been made as to the

future of the Clubhouse. Lower Cost Housing On the question of housing, the Governor said that construction of quarters designed primarily for families in the lower income brackets is being considered. These houses would be less expensive

that the present new housing types. Walter Wagner, Central Labor Union

president, and several of the others pres- ent commented that employees with

little service, although they may be in the lower salary brackets, will be compelled to live in high-rent houses if a

present trend continues. Employees

with considerable service, he said, are moving from the more expensive houses

into lower-rent houses, leaving only the high-rent quarters available to the comparative newcomers. Mr. Lovelady asked, for answer at a

future meeting, if the report was true

that two official quarters recently built near the Administration Building had

recently been reevaluated and reduced

in capital value because of excessive plan and design costs. He also asked if this policy would be pursued through other

housing, since there had been general employee complaint on overly high

engineering charges, and if some adjust- ment in rent might be expected. Question Asked

In that section of the meeting devoted

to matters carried over from previous

conferences, the Governor reported: That two spiral-type clotheslines will be installed for each of the new houses

larger than two bedrooms; in future

construction, pipe-and-wire clotheslines

will be installed; That no basis had been found for complaints that customers had been

short-changed at the Pedro Miguel Commissary; in connection with such complaints he asked that they be specific and

include times, dates, amounts, and places; That special police surveillance is being exercised on Tivoli Avenue, but

that reports that women pedestrians had

been molested could not be verified; That parents must cooperate in keeping

small children away from houses which

are being demolished; special watchmen

or boarding up of the buildings would be

excessively expensive. Present at the meeting were the Governor, Mr. Doolan, F. G. Dunsmoor,

and Norman F. Johnson, the new Employee Relations Officer, for the administration. Employee representatives were: Mr. Hodges; Robert C. Daniel, Railway

Conductors; Mr. Wagner, Ralph Curies,

E. J. Husted, Mr. Lovelady, Carl F. Maedl, James P. Boukalis, for the Central Labor Union and affiliated unions; H. C. Simpson, Marine Engine rs; Chester A. Luhr, Pacific Locks employees; Sherman

Brooks, the Rev. Philip H. Havener, Marion Goodin, and Mr. Roe for the

Civic Councils.

Canal Zone Dogs Will Be Licensed; Anti-Rabies Vaccination Required

{Continuedfrom \ a known to have

bitten any person or any animal, or any

animal known to have been bitten by any

other animal which is suspected of having rabies. The animal which has bitten anyone may be impounded fill- a I Way period under veterinary inspection; in the case

of an animal bitten by a rabid dog the quarantine period may be four months. Poundmasters will be authorized to impound any dogs or cats which are at

large, although the dogs are licensed, if they believe the animals have been aban- doned or are in such poor health that they are a menace to public health and

safety. Impounded Animals May Be Sold Impounded animals not claimed by

their owners will be offered for sale after four days. Notice that the animal is impounded will be posted publicly in two places in the district where the animal was picked up. Pound fees will be $1 a day, except for those animals picked up because they have bitten someone or have themselves been bitten. In such cases the fee will be 50 cents per day. Dog licensing is not new in the Canal

Zone. As early as 1908, dogs were

licensed; the fee was $3 for a female and

$1.50 for a male. Dogs used as watchdogs on farms and not permitted to run

loose did not need licenses but their owners were bound by law to kill such

animals should they contract a "loath- some, contagious, or infectious disease." Later that same year, after an Isthmian- wide outbreak of rabies, the Chief Sani- tary Officer was empowered to designate any area of the Canal Zone in which dogs were required to be muzzled when running loose. On February 16, 1909, Col. William C. Gorgas so designated the

entire Canal Zone. The order was in

effect for almost 13 months before it was rescinded. GOETHALS MEMORIAL

^ AX OPTICAL ILLUSION is presented bv the Goethals Memorial which is under construction at the foot of the Administration Building steps at Balboa Heights. The center shaft, pictured here,

will rise 56 feet from its base when it is completed. The shaft measures four feet less in height than the width of the shallow pool in which it stands but appears much taller than the pool is wide. Work on the memorial was started late in March

and it will be completed early in August.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

THE HOUSE OF IDEAS

About 3,000 visitors inspected the house pictured on this page

during the week it was open to the public. The "House of Ideas," a duplex apartment in the new housing development at Paraiso, was furnished as a training project in home economics and vocational classes at Red Tank, La Boca, and Rainbow City High Schools. Furnishings were borrowed, made or renovated.

Visitors were invited to utilize in their homes decorating and

penny-saving ideas that appealed to them.

boards made this bookcase. Pacific Evergreen Garden Club members provided flower arrangements, also served as hostesses when the house was open May 3 in BBH

LIGHT FURNITURE that can be combined in sectional units was chosen aa to add spaciousness to living room. Drapes on traverse rods give light and BB air, can be closed for privacy. Two framed San Bias Indian molas add color.

DROP LEAF table with shelves below, drawers for silverware on the ends was specially designed to save space, provide storage area. It is inspected

here by Allan Tomlin, shop student at La Boca where it was made. An open

closet was fitted with

a curtain that matches

the drapes, open shelves above and closed cabi- net below to provide

the china cabinet and

storage area on the left. Material for the drop

I leaf table cost $13.15;

the china closet, $4,14.

RED BUNK BEDS with blue and white spreads both made at Rainbow City, furnished children's room. Foldaway bed with cover made at La Boca

provides additional sleeping accommodations.

YELLOW QUILTED CORNICE, made in tailoring classes at La Boca, frames the double window in the front bedroom, matching in color the spread made there for the Hollywood bed. Modern twin dressers, maroon on the outside with the inside of the drawers painted yellow, used in this room were modernized steel quartermaster dressers. Their reconditioning cost $3.0(i. The cornice

cost $4.92. Yellow cotton rug was $3.95.

"LIVING CURTAIN" of plants, arranged by

Pacific Evergreen Garden Club, is used instead of fabric to frame the window in the kitchen that over- looks the patio.

OUTDOOR LIVING and dining room, the patio at the back of the house, overlooks the Canal. The

drop leaf table was made of a long unwieldy old school table; coffee table was another old one cut down; chairs were made in school shop. Visitors shown here, left to right: Henry L. Donovan, Col. Richardson Selee, Dr. Lawrence Johnson and Mrs. Christine Tull.