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TOWNSITE PLANNING IS IN ADVANCED STAGE

FOR NEW TOWNS OF SUMMIT AND CARDENAS

Study By Specialists

Will Aid Canal Plans

For New Construction

Recommendations of three townsite- planning specialists who have spent the summer on the Canal Zone will be in- corporated into the new towns of Summit

and Cardenas. Studies they have made

during the past 10 weeks will also be

utilized in planning the extension to Margarita and in future improvements

to the already existing Canal Zone towns. The three specialists are H. M. Gifft, Taylor B. Lewis, and Melvin M. Rotsch. Mr. Gifft and Mr. Lewis are sailing today

for New York to return to Cornell University where they are, respectively,

professor of Sanitary Engineering, and

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering. Mr. Rotsch, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, is leaving tomorrow to return to Texas. Experts in their lines—Mr. Gifft for water supply and waste disposal, Mr.

Lewis for highways and traffic, and Mr.

Rotsch for housing—they have assisted Canal Zone planners on the new townsites and the revamping of the older towns. Their recommendations are in connection with street patterns, grading,

housing sites—especially the adaptation

of housing to the Canal Zone's generally

rugged terrain, and the waste disposal

problem.

City planning, Mr. Rotsch told a group

of engineers recently, is a comparatively new profession. The place to start such

planning is a growing town but too often municipal planning is not done until a town becomes a city, he said.

First City Planning In 1880 There was no city planning, in its present sense, until the late 1800's when

the first "satellite" towns were planned

outside of London but there was no

general movement in the direction of overall planning until after World War I. Harvard University had one of the first such schools, opened in 1932, and other

universities and colleges are now offering

city planning courses in connection with

their schools of architecture, landscape

architecture or engineering, either as graduate or undergraduate work. The three specialists have collaborated with the Civil Engineering Branch on

future plans for Margarita, Paraiso,

Ancon, Silver City, and the new towns of Summit and Cardenas. The studies of Summit are far enough (See page la)

P 5P.TMS£D TOWNSITE OF SUMMIT C.7

SUMMIT, the new U. S. rate townsite, is shown above, in model form and as projected by townsite

planners. An arrow in the lower left points north and the town is seen as if from a plane flying toward

Cristobal. The thoroughfare at the left wr hich splits at the town erttrance is Gaillard Highway. The large buildings in the center of the photograph are the civic center—commissary, clubhouse, postoffice, and schools

area. The main buildings are laid out in a hollow square with streets passing behind the buildings and parking

space adjacent. Small, bare areas in the residential sections would be playgrounds for small children. Canal Buys Over $1,500,000

In Panama During Past Year

Purchases totaling more than

$1,525,000 were made by the Canal organization in the Republic of Panama during

the past fiscal year, according to the annual report of the Supply and Services Bureau. These were exclusive of purchases made by armed forces or other Government agencies in the Canal Zone. Nearly half of these purchases, in dollar value, were Panama beef cattle and other

agricultural produce of a varied nature. Meat purchases for the year totalled nearly $395,000, while slightly over

$315,000 was spent for agriculture products, mostly fresh fruits and vegetables.

Other purchases listed by the Supply

and Services Bureau included the fol- lowing: Industrial products, $325,000;

beverages, $110,000; forest products,

$53,000; and miscellaneous items ranging

from oystershells to advertising, $335,000.

The heaviest buying was during the months of January, February, and March,

when meat and agricultural produce deliveries were heaviest. The monetary

value of the products bought that period

amounted to over $520,000. Purchases in the other three quarters of the past fiscal year averaged well above $300,000.

The Canal organization has long fol- lowed a policy of making local purchases

where quality, supply, and price meet

requirements. This policy has the double

objective of stimulating local agriculture

and industry as well as the elimination of costly handling and shipping charges re- quired on products bought elsewhere. During recent years the principal purchases, in money value, have been beef, cement, lumber, sugar, building materials,

and fresh fruits and vegetables.

While Panama beef constitutes the

principal item of the meat purchases,

other meats are bought in considerable

quantities when available. These include

chickens, turkeys, lamb, pork, fish, lobster, and shrimp.

Locally produced sugar has been a major item bought from Panama pro- ducers during the past two years. The great variety of produce bought in the Republic of Panama (See page IS) FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE

# Think you have a ticklish job? Read

about the troubles of Marine Dispatchers In making the Canal transit schedules. See page 8. • A complete list of those employees from

the Canal organization who participated In the Civilian Antiaircraft Training program.

See page 11. General plans for this year's house build- ing program are described in this Issue. See page 4.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

Many Student Assistants Employed

With Canal During Vacation Period

Richer in experience as well as in pocket, 74 young Canal Zone people this month are finishing a summer's work as Student Assistants. They have worked

in virtually every division of the Company-Government organization.

Ten of the group were in temporary

positions earning the regular rates paid

for such jobs. Almost all of these were

college students home for vacation. The other 64 were mainly those who are

still in high school or who have just fin- ished school here. The 43 boys and 21

girls of this group were selected from

almost 300 who applied for summer work.

This year's summer employment pro- gram has been a reactivation of a policy

which dates back to 1913. In June of that year Col. H. F. Hodges, Acting Chairman

of the Isthmian Canal Commission,

approved a recommendation that American boys "of suitable age and qualifica- tions" be employed as messengers. By

the late 1920's the program was in full force. Some well-known employees who were summer workers of that period are B. I. Everson, Superintendent of the Motor

Transportation Division; his brother,

John, now with the Electrical Division; Captain Richard C. Sergeant, now a Canal Pilot; Russell J. Jones, of the Fi- nance Bureau; and E. J. Hack of the Administrative Branch.

Program Expanded in 1930 During the depression years of the

early 1930's, the program was curtailed—

employment preference went to adults who had been laid off previously—but the plan began to recover late that decade.

It reached a peak 10 years ago when 177

students were employed in the summer of 1941, and 164 the following summer.

Later the demand for summer employees

decreased. The work to which the student assist- ants were assigned this year has been, in great part, far from the routine filing and

clerking a good many of them had

expected. Wherever possible, their sum- mer jobs have tied in with their school work. Take attractive, 18-year old Martha

Hook of Diablo Heights, for instance. An

incoming sophomore at the Canal Zone

Junior College, where she is a chemistry

major, Miss Hook spent her vacation

working at the Water and Laboratories

Branch of the Municipal Division. Mornings she made a bacteriological examination of water and assisted in other tests at the water laboratory. Afternoons she typed reports and helped with other

clerical work. She thinks her summer

experience has been invaluable and hopes

to continue similar work later at the Board of Health Laboratory.

Jobs Aid To College Work

For at least two of the older students,

Orlando Smith of Ancon, and Robert J. Saarinen of Balboa, their summer jobs

have been, in effect, part of their college courses. The former is entering his sophomore year at Clemson College where

he is taking civil engineering. He spent

the summer as a cartographic surveys aid, doing work he would normally be expected

to do in the vacation between his sopho- more and junior years. He hopes to get

college credit for his Canal Zone work.

Young Saarinen, at 19, is entering his junior year at the Cornell School of Hotel

Administration at Ithaca, N. Y. His

course requires him to have summer work

in an allied field. This summer he has

been a "supervisor of service" at the

ORLANDO SMITH

FOURTH GENERATION of her family to work for the Panama Canal,.Joan Gibson has spent

the summer as a student assistant for the Electrical Division. Joan, 17, is the daughter of Mrs.

Gertrude H. Gibson, who works in the Communications Branch. Her father, the late Captain

Stuart D, Gibson, was a towboat master until his death in 1945. Joan's grandfather, Thomas

W. Harrison, worked for the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama Canal's Mechanical

Division from 1906 until his retirement in February 1946, and her greatgrandfather, the late Stephen Calvit, also went to work here in 1906 and was retired in 1928. Joan is a senior at Balboa High School.

Cocoli Clubhouse, unofficially a restau- rant manager. He is especially interested

in the preparation and attractive presentation of food and believes his summer

job has helped a lot. "You've got to have

first-hand information," he says. Postal Work Not Dull Oscar Kourany, 18, of Panama City, is one of the high school group. He will be

a senior at Balboa next year and after that hopes to take a science course at Morningside College in Iowa. He is one

of five boys who have been working at the Balboa Heights Post Office, processing

philatelic mail for the new stamp issues. Under the direction of Moises de la Pena,

Postal Clerk, the boys helped prepare

11,000 first-day covers for the new air mail stamp which was issued July 16th, and handled over 5,600 covers for the West Indian commemorative stamp which came out August 15th. He had expected to find postal work

dull but was pleasantly surprised. "It's been nothing of the sort," he said the

other day. "It's been something different every dayandnowl'vegotanew interest.

'

In the Division of Storehouses, Patricia Neckar and Dorothy King, both grad- uates last June from Balboa High School,

have had the stupendous job of typing some 60,000 cards and are credited by

Storehouse officials with a "very fine job." Under a former Storehouse system,

large sheets were typed out from time to

time, listing all of the roughly 36,000

stock items carried at the General Store- house. A new system, for which the two

girls have been preparing, sets up "stock- protection" cards for each item, to be used whenever necessary for preparing a

requisition from the United States. The

cards will be utilized in place of the large sheets and can be used over and over

again.

Types Of Work Done

Here, by Company-Government units, are what some of the other assistants have done: The Administrative Branch used its seven student assistants principally for screening old, out-of-service personnel

files, eliminating non-essential papers. The Terminals Division employed

two girls for typing, and four boys as messengers. The Electrical Division {See page 4)
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

SIX MEMBERS of the Panama Canal Company Board of Directors who met in the Canal Zone last February are shown above in committee sessions. They are, left to right: T. Cole- man Andrews, Edward D. McKim, Major General Julian L. Schley, Lieutenant General R. A. Wheeler, Governor Newcomer and W. R. Pfizer. Others who met with the special committee

to consider problems of the Canal's reorganization, shown, are Arnold Bruckner (standing), Robert E. Maxwell and Lieutenant Governor Herbert D. Vogel, Vice President of the Panama

Canal Company. The Board is scheduled to meet this month in Washington, D. C. Other members of the 13-man board are Frank Pace, Jr., Secretary of the Army, Major General Glen E. Edgerton, Karl R. Bendetsen, B. F. Burdick, John W. Martyn and Daniel E. Taylor.

Atlantic Side Hospital Survey Under Way,

Governor Tells Shirtsleeve Conference

A survey of hospital facilities on the

Atlantic side is now being made, Governor

F. K. Newcomer told the "Shirt-Sleeve Conference" August 30 at Balboa Heights.

The conference met in the enlarged and

re-decorated Board Room on the third

floor of the Administration Building. In answer to a question from Rufus

Lovelady, President of A. F. G. E. Lodge

No. 14, on rumors that Colon Hospital is to be closed and Margarita Hospital reactivated, Governor Newcomer said that a study is now in progress. Since the Atlantic side population center is shifting from Cristobal to Margarita, consideration is being given to the

possibility of reopening the Margarita

Hospital, he said. The survey which has been requested

from the Engineering Division will pro- vide a basis for a decision whether it would be better to spend money on Margarita or Colon Hospital. The Engineering Division, the Governor said, has been

asked for an estimate as to the probable

cost of putting the Margarita establish- ment back into shape where it would be

a good hospital.

The hospital question was one of two

concerning medical facilities on the Canal Zone which were reported by the Governor.A few minutes earlier he had announced

that the medical clinics (dispensaries) in Pedro Miguel, Ancon, and Balboa are to be closed, because of the current and

acute lack of doctors to staff them adequately. To replace these dispensaries,

Wards 1 and 2 of Section A at Gorgas

Hospital will be set up as a central dis- pensary. This will enable centralization

of the doctors from the three towns and, the Governor believes, will provide better patient service. The change will be made

as soon as the proper facilities can be

installed in the two hospital wards. First aid stations will be set up in Pedro Miguel

and, possibly, Balboa. Another important announcement made

during the conference concerned the rental of furniture. Effective September 1, the Governor said, rental charges on fur- niture will be adjusted and the arrange- ment made that those renting furniture

will own the furniture they now rent,

after the payment of eight months of the new rate. After next May there will be no more

furniture rental except to new employees,

who will continue to be furnished with

basic furniture proportionate to their family needs but on a short-term basis. The rate adjustment has been made in view of the 2,300 separate furniture rental accounts which were being maintained

under the old rental plan. Some of these were for amounts as low as 11 cents per month. Generally, under the new system,

those paying furniture rental of between

one cent and $1 will pay a $1 rental charge; those paying between $1 and $2,

will pay $2, etc. Questions raised during the August conference covered subjects from musty flour to school bus rates. An unusual feature

of the most recent informal discussions was that most matters were raised by

Atlantic siders who, one man declared, considered themselves classed as "secondclass citizens." Governor Newcomer opened the conference with a breakdown, promised at the last meeting, of the retail cost on a storehouse item. Mimeographed sheets giving the breakdown were supplied to each conferee. When the Governor read a memoran- dum from the Schools Division that, unless higher bus rental rates are made by

the Motor Transportation Division there

will be no increase in school bus fares, Raymond Ralph of the Gatun Civic Council protested that the Gatun rates had just been increased. Further discus- sion disclosed that Gatun is using concession busses and when Mr. Ralph

learned that the Pacific side children had

transportation from the Motor Transportation Division, he asked why Gatun

could not have the same thing. A tele- phone call by Lt. Gov. H. D. Vogel to the Supply and Service Bureau established that government busses can be provided

if Gatun wishes to make a change.

Other matters, including a number of personal problems, which were brought up

included: a report that gasoline being sold

in Gamboa comes from Navy supply and

Directors To Consider

1953 Budget For Canal

At September Meeting

An examination of the Panama Canal

Company's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year will be one of the

principal items on the agenda of the September meeting of the Board of Directors. The meeting, originally scheduled to be

held in the Canal Zone, will be held September 17 in Washington, D. C. It will be the first Board meeting since the Panama Canal Company came into being.

Governor Newcomer, President of the Company, has announced that he will bring to the attention of the Board of Directors preliminary reports on a possible

change in Panama Line schedules with a view to instituting more formal studies if deemed desirable. It was announced last month that preliminary studies have been

initiated to determine the possible advantage of using a more southerly port than

New York for the northern terminus of the line. The present studies have included an

investigation of possible schedule changes

which would permit ports of call for the

three liners on their north and south runs. The problem is primarily an economic one and will require much additional study

and data before any change is made in event the Board of Directors consider

further studies worthwhile.

The 1953 fiscal year budget figures to be presented at the September meeting

are only in the preliminary stage and do

not take into consideration any rate changes which may later be required. It

is not expected that the Board will consider any material changes in any Company rate schedules until the financial

results of operations for a period of several months can be examined.

is of inferior octane rating, which was

checked by Col. Vogel, with the report that the gasoline comes from Panama

Canal tanks and is identical with that

sold elsewhere on the Canal Zone; an

appeal on behalf of retired employees by

several civic council representatives to the effect that these retired employees be

permitted to retain quarters; a question

as to why employees' cars cannot be unloaded from incoming southbound ships on the day of arrival as is done in New

York—the answer being that this is a

question of loading and number of cars

carried; compulsory insurance on automobiles, and the marked increase recently

in flies on the Atlantic side. Those attending the meeting were the Governor and Col. Vogel, E. A. Doolan,

Personnel Director, and Forrest G. Dunsmoor, Executive Assistant to the Governor, for the Administration; Carl W. Hoff- meyer, Mr. Tobin, Albert Saarinen, W. R. Howe, E. W. Hatchett and Walter Wagner for the Central Labor Union-Metal

Trades; Vincent Biava of Gamboa, F. J. Moumblow of Gatun, Charles A. Garcia

of Balboa, J. H. Jones of Pedro Miguel,

Boris Creich of Cristobal-Margarita and

Raymond F. Ralph of Gatun, for the Civic Councils; Chester A. Luhr for the Locks Employees; Ed Brown for the Marine Engineers; James Boukalis for the Machinists; Robert C. Daniel for the Railroad Conductors, and H. J. Chase

and Mr. Lovelady for the A. F. G. E.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

Quarters Program for 1952

Provides for Over 500 Units

Electrical Engineer

To Retire This Month

Approximately 500 quarters units are scheduled for construction during the current fiscal year, according to present

plans. The total is divided about equally

between the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Canal Zone. This year's program,

part of the long-range "$80,000,000

housing and townsite development plan,

calls for the expenditure of about

$11,000,000.

It is expected that much of the construction work will be done by contract but exactly how much will depend on bids

received. At the present time, plans call for the construction of the following: Silver City

townsite extension; Paraiso townsite ex- tension; quarters in Ancon, Balboa,

Diablo Heights, Gatun and Margarita,

Paraiso, and Silver City; together with

clearing, grading and site preparation,

including utilities, for next year's building

at Summit, Cardenas, and Margarita.

The first bids to be solicited will be for the Silver City townsite extension the

latter part of September.

Number Of Units Not Settled A final determination on the exact number of quarters to be built during the

fiscal year has not been made, except in a few instances. At July's "Shirt-sleeve conference," Lieutenant Governor H. D.

Many Student Assistants

Employed During Vacation

(Continued from page 2) assigned one

girl to its Main Office where she typed,

did routine filing, and answered the tele- phone; another girl to similar work in the t?lephone exchange; one boy to general

helper's duties at the Cristobal Trans- former station; another to the Gatun

Hydroelectric station; and the third to the Balboa substation. The License Section used its boy and

girl assistants on general office work "and

they were a great help," they say. The Police Division put its girl assist- ant to work at headquarters, its boy at the Balboa station, both of them helping on the clerical end of police work. Help On 4,000 Files The Personnel Bureau used six student

assistants to eliminate extraneous matter from more than 4,000 files, processing applications, tracing records, and readying

for filing such material as job descriptions.

The Meteorological Branch used Perry

Young for taking weather observations,

helping change seismograph sheets and

even sent him on a three-day hydrographic observation trip to the headwaters of the Boqueron River. The Locks Division had five student

assistants, the boys bringing up to date

records of miscellaneous drawings and the

girls typing.

And there were others: Three in the Municipal Division; six in the Dredging

Division; two in the Housing Division; a

student typist in the Engineering Division; three in the Aids-to-Navigation

Branch; two in the Commissary Division;

eight—most of them were connected with

the summer recreation program—in the Schools Division; and three with the Clubhouses.

Vogel reported the following plans for U. S.-rate quarters: Margarita, 100 units; Ancon, 70 units; Diablo, 12; Balboa, 12. Final plans have been approved for 14

units in Balboa and 10 units are also scheduled for Gatun.

Final plans for 118 local-rate quarters

have been approved for the northern sec- tion of Paraiso and of 96 units at Silver City.

The type of the houses to be built in Margarita has not been determined, but

the buildings probably will be mostly of masonry construction. No decision has been made as to how many of the 100

will be cottages and how many will be

duplexes, although if the previous construction pattern is followed, about 40

percent of the apartments will be cottages. Types To Be Determined

In Ancon, again, the exact types are not

definite. Final plans covering some promising new designs are being rushed to completion. Most of the new Ancon

housing will be in the Ancon BoulevardChagres Street area where a large area was graded earlier this year. The new housing in Diablo will be constructed on Endicott Street, where an

area is to be cleared behind the old messhall. These houses will be of masonry,

on-the-ground construction, and will in- clude both cottages and duplexes.

The Balboa apartments will be built on

Pyle Street and the adjacent lower end of Morgan Avenue, and will include both

cottages and duplexes. They will be composite, off-the-ground construction, similar to the new houses in the San Juan

Place area in Ancon. The 10 apartments at Gatun will pro- bably be masonry, the type not yet

definite. They will be built on the high

ground along Jadwin Road where construction has been going on this year.

A. C. Garlington, who came to the Canal Zone in 1910 and has served as Electrical Engineer for the

past 24 years, will voluntarily retire from Canal

service at the end of this month. He and Mrs. Garlington plan to leave the Isthmus early in October. Their plans are still indefinite but they expect to make their future home somewhere in the Carolinas.

Retirements In August

Employees who retired at the end of August, their birthplaces, titles and length

of service at retirement, and their future addresses are: Leon Borden, Austria, Senior Machinist Foreman, Building Division; 25 years, five months, and 22 days; Florida. Edward E. Ellis, New Jersey, Clerk, Receiving and Forwarding Agency ; 30 years,

five months, and 27 days; Cristobal. Patrick J. Henry, New Jersey, Chief

Engineer, Towboats, Navigation Division; 22 years, five months, and 16 days; Brooklyn, N. Y. Herbert R. Judson, Massachusetts,

Chief, Coupon Section, Audit Division; 32

years, nine months, and 17 days; Balboa

Heights.

Benjamin F. Kuller, Jr., Pennsylvania,

Filtration Plant Operator, Mount Hope; 25

years, two months, and 12 days; Franklin,

North Carolina. TOUR HEALTH

An excessive number of visitors for hospital patients can do much to hinder

their recovery according to one of Washington's leading medical men. The June

issue of the Medical Annals of the District of Columbia carries the following article by the Association's outgoing President, Dr. William M. Ballinger. It is presented

here for the thoughtful consideration of those who may have relatives or friends who are Canal Zone hospital patients.

"Have you ever considered the problem

of hospital visitors? From the patient's

viewpoint it seems certain that the fewer

the better. They disturb his rest, inter- rupt his carefully planned routine, interfere with his medications and often his feedings, and tire him to the point of hindering his recovery. "From the doctor's viewpoint, visitors are almost totally a menace. They bring

in current acute infections; they fre- quently interfere with the attending

doctor's daily check-up and bedside consultation; and all too frequently they are the cause of confusion of ideas and understanding not only of the patient himself but also between the patient and his physician.

"From the hospital's viewpoint, visitors are most certainly a great burden and a

nuisance. They take up a great deal of the nurses' time in answering endless

questions. They crowd the elevators, spread confusion and litter throughout

the wards, thus necessitating the hiring of extra help, which in turn increases the

cost of maintenance.

"Isn't it time we do something about

all this? We should start immediately by

educating our patients and the public that

visitors have no place in the hospital sick- room. Coincident with this, hospitals should pass new rules drastically curbing

visitors. One or two only of the patient's

immediate family or intimate friends should be allowed visiting privileges, but no more than one or two."
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR

Al

INTEREST AND

JLML.

IDANCE

-JUL

PREVENTION

Our organization with 3,000,481 manhours of exposure and 39 disabling injuries experienced a frequency rate of 13 for the month of July with a resultant 24

percent improvement over our best year.

The Safety Branch is now located in Rooms 102 and 103 of the Civil Affairs Building, mailing address: Balboa

Heights, telephone number 2-3726. We would like to take this means to extend our best wishes to a friend and

former associate, Jack F. Paterson, who

recently resigned his position as Safety

Inspector, Locks Division, in order to continue his formal education at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

The following units of our organization

will receive Honor Roll Certificates for completing their operational assignments

without a disabling injury during the month of July: Locks Division, Clubhouse

Division, Electrical Division, Motor

Transportation Division, Division of Storehouses, and Division of Sanitation. These units are to be congratulated for

this accomplishment inasmuch as the combined man-hours of exposure amounts

to 603,122.

Again we find that the INDUSTRIAL

BUREAU is to receive the Bureau Honor

Roll Award for the best record for July.

This bureau, not taking any chances on

receiving this recognition, completed the month with no disabling injuries, hence a frequency rate of ZERO. Congratulations. Honor Roll

BUREAU AWARD FOR

Best Record

JULY

INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

CIVIL AFFAIRS 3 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION... 2 INDUSTRIAL 2 HEALTH 1 COMMUNITY SERVICES 1 MARINE _ SUPPLY AND SERVICE... RAILROAD AND TERMINALS

DIVISION AWARD FOR

No Disabling Injuries

JULY

LOCKS DIVISION

CLUBHOUSE DIVISION

ELECTRICAL DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIV.

DIVISION OF STOREHOUSES

DIVISION OF SANITATION

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

ELECTRICAL. 4 MOTOR TRANSPORTATION 4 RAILROAD 3 DREDGING 3 MUNICIPAL 3 SANITATION 3 STOREHOUSES 3 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE 2 LOCKS 2 CLUBHOUSES 2 BUILDING.... 1 HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS 1 TERMINALS.. COMMISSARY

NAVIGATION

The Community Services Bureau in its varied operations includes nearly all classifications of labor.

It has been noted however in reviewing

the records that all injuries fall into cer- tain common classes with closely allied causes. In the order of their incidence

rate the major types of injury are:

1. Cuts or lacerations sustained in the

use of sharp tools and power equipment.

2. Strains or sprains incurred while

lifting.

3. Falls from ladders, moving equipment, uneven terrain, and slippery floor surfaces.

4. Cuts and punctures received from

concealed objects.

5. Bruises received from objects falling or being bumped.

6. Foreign matter in eyes.

7. Burns sustained from hot engines, caustic materials and kitchen equipment.

8. Infections as the result of animal and

insect bites. Safety rules vary with the requirements

of individual jobs. It is not practicable in this article to list regulations pertaining to

specific operations; however, since it is generally conceded that the majority of injuries result from causes within the

control of the workers themselves, it is

felt that the following basic rules for employee conduct will be of help to all:

1Be alert at all times. Avoid recklessness. An inattentive man or one who

habitually takes chances causes injury to himself or his fellow workman. Preview

all new work for danger point to avoid, then proceed.

2. Practice good housekeeping. Keep

all areas under your control in a clean and orderly condition. Place supplies

securely on shelves to prevent injury

from falling objects and locate equipment

so as to allow safe passage at all times. Follow all instructions regarding the handling and storage of volatile or caustic

materials.

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JOHN WELLS HARE, Safety Engineer, Communnity Services Bureau

3. Have respect for tools and equipment as potential sources of danger.

Report any defects to Supervisor. Use

care while handling, transporting, and

sharpening tools. Never adjust power

equipment with motor running.

4. Obey Supervisor's instructions. When he issues orders for work to be

performed in a particular manner there

are reasons born of experience which are

for safety of man and machine.

5. Dress in adequate clothing that

offers protection but is not so loose that

it might snag on obstructions or get

caught in machinery. Utilize all safety

protective devices prescribed for your job such as goggles, gloves, safety shoes, etc.

6. Report immediately to your fore- man any injury received or observed re- gardless of its severity. A small injury

may result in serious illness through

neglect.

7. Report all unsafe conditions or practices to your supervisor for correction.

JULY 1951

Industrial Bureau

Supply and Service Bureau Community Services Bureau

Marine Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

C. Z. GovVPanama Canal Co. (This month)

Civil Affairs Bureau

C. Z. GovVPanama Canal Co. (1951 to Date)

Health Bureau

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

Railroad and Terminals Bureau

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

(Frequency Rale)

Number of Disabling Injuries. .39 Man-Hours Worked 3,000,481

LEGEND

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

I Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Canal Company Best Year
THE PANAMA'CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

White Schools Reopen

After Summer Recess

Hundreds of new faces—most of them

are very young faces—are being seen around the Canal Zone schools these days.

Most of them are the ex-kindergarteners

who graduated from fingerpainting and

rhythm bands to the more adult world of reading and writing and arithmetic. The Canal Zone's white schools opened

last Wednesday. The total enrollment has not yet been compiled but school

officials expect it to be close to last year's

figure, approximately 4,900. This figure covers the 14 elementary, junior and

senior high schools on the Canal Zone. Other than the increased tuition charges announced several months ago and increases in pay, effective today, for substitute and night school teachers,

comparatively few changes have been

made in the schools this year. A full school schedule, kindergarten

through sixth grade, is being given at both the Fort Kobbe and Cocoli elementary schools. Children from Cocoli proper

are attending the Cocoli school; all other West Bank children are enrolled at the Fort Kobbe school. The latter was opened as a school for the first time last year. At first only

grades one and two were taught but last April additional grades were transferred

to the Kobbe building.

Ancon elementary school, which had

only five grades last year, will have six grades again this year. In addition to the new faces among the student population, there are new faces

in the 162 man and woman teaching

staff; some familiar faces are missing

temporarily this year and others will be found in new jobs or new locations. Twenty-five new teachers for the sec- ondary schools and 13 elementary school teachers have joined the schools' faculty

as replacements.

Six teachers are on a year's leave: Miss

Claude Aycock and Miss Katharine

Clark of Balboa High School, Miss Mary

Worrell of Cristobal High School, Miss

Lois Morgan of Balboa Junior High

School, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Rowley of the Gatun Elementary School, and Mrs. Alma Castel of the Margarita School. Back from extended leaves are Calmar

Batalden, Director of Vocational Education, and Kenneth Vinton, science in- structor at the Canal Zone Junior College- Neil Branstetter, who taught music at Balboa High School for many years, has been made supervisor of music for the white schools. Harold J. Zierten, formerly

mechanical drawing teacher at Balboa

High School, is the high school's new

counselor. Kenneth Krogh, shop teacher

at Balboa High School, has been named

head of the La Boca Occupational High

School shops.

Other transfers are: Mrs. Dorothy

Smith and James Stearns, from Cristobal Junior High School to the Cristobal High

School faculty; Miss Grace Rider and

Victor Herr, from the Balboa Junior High

School to the faculty of Balboa High

School, and Miss Borghild Hermo from

the teaching staff of the Balboa Elementary School to that of the Balboa Junior

High School.

WEST INDIANS who helped to build the Panama Canal were honored August 15 when a

special commemorative stamp was issued. Here Governor Newcomer talks with a group of the

oldtimers at a ceremony at the Mount Hope Ball Park. THIS MONTH'S CALENDAR

7th—AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 6, Gamboa Legion Hall, 7:30 p. m.

V. F. W., Post No. 3857, New Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 9th—STEAMFITTERS, No. 652, Balboa Lodge Hall, 9:30 a. m. PLUMBERS, No. 606, Margarita K. of C. Hall, 9:30 a. m. 10th—CRISTOBAL- MA RGA RITA

CIVIC COUNCIL. Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. PEDRO MIGUEL CIVIC COUNCIL, Union Church, 7 p. m. BLACKSMITHS No. 400, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7:30 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 727, Fort Clavton,

7:30 p. m. MACHINISTS, No. 699, Margarita

K. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 3822, Curundu

Road, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 1, Balboa Hall, 7:30 p. m. 11th—AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, Unit No. 1, Balboa Hall, 7:30 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 100, Old Boy

Scout Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. PAINTERS, No. 1232, House 0838, Balboa, 7 p. in. ELECTRICAL WORKERS, No.

397, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 7, Fort Clayton, 7:30 p. m.

12th PACIFIC CIVIC COUNCIL, Jewish Welfare Board, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 2, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 16th—CENTRAL LABOR UNIONMETAL TRADES COUNCIL,

Margarita Clubhouse, 8:30 a. in. 17th—ELECTRICAL WORKERS No.

677, Gatun Masonic Temple, 7:30

p. m. 18th—OPERATING ENGINEERS No.

595, Margarita K. of C. Hall, 7 p. m. 19th -V. F. W., Post No. 40, Balboa K. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. in. A. F. G. E., Lodge No. 14, Balboa

Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, Unit No. 3, Gatun Legion

Hall, 7:30 p. m. TEACHERS, No. 227, Balboa High

School Library, 7 p. m. 20th—AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, Unit No. 6, Gamboa Legion

Hall, 7:30 p. m. 21st— V. F. W. Post No. 3857, New Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 24th—V. F. W. AUXILIARY, Post 3822

Post Home, 7:30 p. m.

Panama Line Sailings

For September

From Cristobal Ancon September 7 Panama September 14

Cristobal September 21 Ancon September 28 From New York

Panama September 5

Cristobal September 12 Ancon September 19 Panama September 26

25th—OPERATING ENGINEERS, No.

595, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 7, Fort Clayton, 7:30 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 100, Old Boy

Scout Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 26th—AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, Unit No. 2, Cristobal Legion

Home, 7:30 p. m.

A. F. G. E., Lodge No. 88, Margarita

Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. 27th—GOVERNOR-EM PLOYEE CONFERENCE, Board Room, Administration Building, 2 p. m. OCTOBER

1 st— C R I S T O B A L - M A R G A R IT A

CIVIC COUNCIL, Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. PEDRO MIGUEL CIVIC COUNCIL, Union Church, 7 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 727, Fort Clavton,

7:30 p. m.

V. F. W. Post No. 3822, Curundu

Road, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN LEGION, Post No. 3, Gatun, 7:30 p. m. POSTAL EMPLOYEES, No. 23160, Balboa Lodge Hall, 8 p. m. 2d—GAMBOA CIVIC COUNCIL, Community Center, 7:30 p. in. GATUN CIVIC COUNCIL, Gatun

Clubhouse, 7:30 p. in. 3d—V. F. W. Post No. 40, Balboa K. of C.

Hall, 7:30 p. m. 4th—CARPENTERS No. 667, Margarita

Clubhouse, 7:30 p. in.
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Panama Canal Press Mount Hope, Canal Zone

F. K. NEWCOMER

Governor HERBERT D. VOGEL

Lieutenant Governor

E. C. LOMBARD

Executive Secretary

J. RUFUS HARDY

Editor LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters containing inquiries, suggestions, criticisms or opinions of a general nature will be accepted. In all cases

possible, letters to THE Review will be

answered individually. Those of suffi- cient general interest will be published

in this paper. Letters must be authentic and be signed although signatures

wilf not be published unless requested

and names of authors will be kept confidential. Return address should be

given but The Review will not undertake to return correspondence of any

nature. SUBSCRIPTIONS

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address in the Postal Union:

$1.00

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made payable to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Company, and mailed

to the Editor, The Panama Canal

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SINGLE COPIES

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sale at all Panama Canal Company

Clubhouses, Commissaries, and

Hotels for ten days after publication

date for: 5 Cents a Copy

Single copies after the close of general sales and individual copies

by mail

10 Cents Each

Back copies of The Review, when

available, may be bought from the

Vault Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, Balboa Heights,

Canal Zone. No copies of the first issue are available for sale.

SPECIAL BINDERS

for the PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

are available at the larger

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for 50 cts. EACH

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leather may be ordered direct from

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each, and imitation leather binders

may be ordered direct from the Press

for $2.50. Both of the special kinds

of binders come with your name

imprinted in gold leaf.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

BALBOA LOST last month one of Ha oldest and best known landmarks. The old Balboa Police Station which had stood at the head of the Prado—since 1914—was

sold on high bid and was demolished during the past month. It was originally built in Empire

in 1906 and was moved to Balboa in 1914 when it became the Balboa Central Police Station. The police moved out of the building in 1936 when the station was transferred to its present quarters on La Boca Road. Since then the old station has been used variously by the License Bureau, the Silver Personnel Bureau, the Girl Scouts for storage, and the Schools Division. Since 1938 the upper floor has been used as a girls' dormitory for the Canal Zone Junior College.

STOVE CLEANING FREE

The present charge of $2 for the clean- ing of electric ranges when quarters are vacated will no longer be made. Approval

of the recommendation to drop this charge was given recently by Governor Newcomer. The monthly charges made for the use of

electric ranges includes ordinary mainte- nance and replacement of parts. The cost

of cleaning ranges after quarters are vacated

will now be absorbed in the regular maintenance charges.

Julian L. Schley; General Robert E. Wood,

former Chief Quartermaster of the Canal and later President of Sears, Roebuck and

Co.; and Chan Gurney, former United

Slates Senator from South Dakota.

NEW PHONE DIRECTORY

Listings for the 1952 edition of the Panama Canal Company's telephone

directory may still be made if received within the next few days, according to an announcement at the Electrical Division offices. While August 30th was originally set as the deadline for new or revised

listings in the telephone directory, the

additional time has been given to per- mit last-minute changes. The direc- tory is scheduled to go to press late this year. Listings should be submitted in duplicate to the Chief of the Communications Branch, Balboa Heights. A

charge of $1.50 is made for each original

listing and 75 cents for each crosslisting. Phone books are given free to subscribers with each original listing.

PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM

Matters pertaining to public safety

in the Canal Zone and particularly those related to a major disaster of any

nature will be handled during this

fiscal year by the Safety Branch.

Edward M. Altman, Position Classifier in the Personnel Division, has been

transferred to the Safety Branch as a

result of the additional work. He will assume his new duties next Monday.

He has been employed by the Canal for the past ten years, most of the time in personnel work. He is a member of the Canal Zone Bar and has served on

several occasions as Acting Magistrate.

The public safety program is designed

to provide a coordinated program in the Canal Zone in event of any major

disaster.

GOETHALS MEMORIAL

COMMISSION

Three new members, including Governor Newcomer, have been appointed by Presi- dent Truman to the Goethals Memorial

Commission. Both of the others, Ralph

Budd and R. H. Whitehead, are well known

United States industrialists and were prominent on the Isthmus during the Canal construction period.

The Goethals Memorial Commission was

first appointed by President Franklin D.

Roosevelt after a bill authorizing a suitable memorial to the famous Canal builder was

passed by Congress in 1935. Some funds from the original appropriation for the memorial are still available but additional money is being sought to complete the

project. Other members of the Commission now

are: Former Panama Canal Governor

DOCTOR NAMED TO WHO

Dr. Amadeo V. Mastellari, Chief of the Tuberculosis Section of Gorgas Hospital

and Advisor to the Health Director on

Tuberculosis, has been named to the Expert

Committee of the Tuberculosis Section of the World Health Organization of United

Nations. There are seven members of the Committee chosen from a panel of about 50

tuberculosis experts from all parts of the world. The committee directs the work

done in the field of tuberculosis by the

international organization. Dr. Mastellari has been Chief of the Tuberculosis Section at Gorgas since April 1950 and through special arrangements with

the Canal Health Bureau now serves as advisor for the tubercuslosis vaccinal ion program in the Republic of Panama. He has served as Director of the Panama

Health Department, Director of the Tuberculosis Division of the Panama Health Department, Chief of the Chest Division

of Santo Tomas Hospital, and consultant

in the Panama Health Office.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

Arranging Ships9 Transits, Dockages,

Keeps Panama Canal Dispatchers Busy

There were 12 northbound and 13 southbound ships in the Canal. The

blackboard at one end of the Balboa dis- patchers' office was white with writing.

The little markers which represent ships were spaced at intervals of a foot or less along the miniature Canal on the wallsized, magnetic board. "We couldn't fit another ship in with

a shoehorn, if we tried," Balboa Chief

Dispatcher R. L. Dickerson said. One of the northbound vessels was an

oreship, carrying some 25,000 tons of iron ore from Chile to the U. S. East Coast. It had to go first in order to clear Gaillard Cut before any southbound ships arrived. There was one late arrival which had to be worked in so that no ships would meet

in the Cut after dark. At almost the last minute, Cristobal reported by telephone

that it was starting its 13th ship.

Fitting ships into a schedule for transit

of the Panama Canal is a major part of the work of the 14 marine dispatchers.

The dispatcher has been called the

representative of the Panama Canal

in t most matters which relate to its pri- mary mission, serving shipping. That is one way of describing one of the Canal

Zone's most interesting jobs and one

which, dispatcher Leonard Wolford ex- plained, "can be learned only by osmosis."

Radio Arrival Time

An inbound ship is required to radio her expected arrival time to the Marine Dispatcher. Canal regulations state that

ships due in Balboa must radio when they

are 48 and 24 hours out and when they

pass Cape Mala. Ships arriving in Cris- tobal are expected to send a radio when

they are no less than 24 hours from port.

It will be a happy day when every ship does what is expected, one dispatcher

commented.

These radio messages are official gov- ernment communications and are carried

free, via either Navy or commercial wavelengths. Radioed messages to a ship's

agents come at commercial rates. These

latter may request oil, water, supplies, or dockage to handle cargo, and are relayed

to the dispatcher by the agents.

Each afternoon the dispatchers at

either end of the Canal begin making out

a tentative schedule for the following

day's transits or dockages. In the evening

the two dispatchers on duty exchange by

telephone their lists of the next day's

business. Next morning the dispatchers

confer again and later in the morning Mr.

Dickerson decides with Thorwald H.

Forsstrom, Cristobal Chief Dispatcher,

how many ships each side will handle. If there is an unusually large number of

ships, which means the locks may have to work overtime, the question is referred to Capt. Robert M. Peacher, Marine Director, who decides how much overtime

will be authorized.

Usually Transit In Order

Ordinarily, ships transit in order of their arrival. There are certain exceptions

to this rule. Loaded oreships, vessels carrying hazardous cargo —their tiny replicas on the Canal miniature are bright red—and unusually large vessels must be scheduled so that they will not meet other

ships in the Cut. A tanker with one type

cargo must have daylight all the way,

Cut, locks, and all. A tanker with another type cargo requires daylight through the Cut. Tankers with a third type cargo

require only a clear Cut.

Preference in transit is given to pas- senger ships, on regular runs, with accommodations for 51 or more passengers, and

to government vessels which request such

handling. Such ships need not be started

first but may pass earlier starters during

transit. A dispatcher's job, according to Stanley

F. Yost, one of Balboa's senior dis- patchers, is a little like planning a newspaper's front page. Something unexpected

CANAL DISPATCHERS have worse cases of telephonitis than Hollywood movie moguls, with better reason. Into their offices feed 21 telephone, two radio and two teletype circuits. Here Cristobal Chief Dispatcher Thorwald H. Forsstrom answers a telephone call while

assistant M. A. French, gives radio instructions to a boarding party.

happens and the whole layout has to be

revised. Capt. Marvin J. West, Balboa

Port Captain, put it this way:

"A dozen things can happen to throw

off the schedule. A ship master can underestimate or overestimate arrival time. Cargo handling at the docks may go more

slowly than was expected because of a heavy rain and the ship, which was to undock and transit on an early schedule,

may be delayed several hours."

Pilots Given Schedule

After the last arrival-time radio, the

dispatcher, knowing approximately how

many ships are due and figuring on how

many can be handled, notifies the pilots

needed, arranges for the crews of seamen who handle ships' lines during transit and

prepares port clearances—after tolls have

been collected. As the ships arrive in the Bay, he

assigns boarding parties to them. He

keeps in touch with the boarding party

by one of the two voice radio circuits which come into his office. On this same

circuit, he can also talk to all transiting

ships. The other circuit provides for ship-to-shore operations. In addition to his two radio circuits, the dispatcher handles two teletypes and 21 telephone circuits. There are direct lines to all locks, signal stations, and other Canal units concerned with handling or supplying ships. So far, it may sound routine, but a dis- patcher's typical day can provide more

activity than Barnum and Bailey. For

instance, in a few hours the other day:

Every Day Is Busy

A pilot radioed that the ship he was

aboard had mail which had not been taken

off in Balboa; would the dispatcher ar- range for its removal in Cristobal? The Pacific Locks reported difficulty

with a lock chain, which momentarily

.was slowing down handling of vessels

there. The situation was reported by

telephone a few minutes later as having

been corrected. The Balboa boarding party radioed in a query as to the transit schedule for a

vessel they were about to board. The Cristobal dispatcher telephoned on

his direct line to request that a doctor be put aboard a southbound ship to inoculate some of the crew. Flamenco Island reported a goodsized ship in sight 30 minutes out. The

dispatcher told the boarding party to stand by.

The Cristobal dispatcher telephoned

that his office would send two more ships

and that Balboa's No. 11 northbound

would clear Cristobal about midnight.

Balboa's dispatcher began notifying 12

of his pilots that they would have to work

again the following day. Some of this was

done by radio to transiting ships.

Many Telephone Calls

While all of this was going on—it was

interruped by frequent telephone calls from a woman who did not understand

why she could not board a ship at Pedro

Miguel to greet a transiting friend—re- ports on ship movements were coming in to the dispatchers' office. Each gave the
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

information needed to locate on the Canal

diagram the numbered models which rep- resent every ship.

A glance at this board enabled the busy

dispatcher to tell Southbound 5 to follow Southbound 4 down the west side of Pedro Miguel locks, or to order the pro- ceed signal at La Pita signal station for a northbound vessel. The Marine Dispatchers are part of the

force of the two Port Captains' offices. The Port Captains are Navy officers, on a two-year detail to the Canal. Senior of the two and, as such, Chief of the Navigation Division, is Capt. West at Balboa. Captain William S. Parsons of Cristobal

arrived here last month.

Theoretically the Balboa office controls

transit traffic from Gamboa south. In actual practice the Balboa dispatchers handle all ships south of Gatun. Before

leaving Gatun locks the pilot of a south- bound ship learns from the Balboa dis- patcher what time he is to pass Gamboa.

Balboa handles most of the transit traffic, but Cristobal has more harbor work. Each side has an Assistant Port Captain, always a man with many years

experience as a Canal pilot. Captain

Everett 0. Swinson is Balboa's Assistant- Port Captain; Captain Samuel L. Brown

holds a similar post on the Atlantic Side. They are relieved by a senior pilot during

vacation or other absences.

Over 35 Years Of Service

Balboa's Chief Dispatcher, Mr. Dickerson, has more than 35 years of govern- ment service. Cristobal Chief Dispatcher Forsstrom came to work for the Canal in 1916 and was made a dispatcher the

following year. His assistant chief dis- patcher is Merwin A. French, with J. T.

Oliver in a similar post on the Pacific Side. Each office has seven dispatchers and

Balboa has, in addition, one man in training. They work eight-hour shifts around the clock. The Chief Dispatcher

is on duty ordinarily from 7 a. m. to 3

p. m. For Balboa, a new position has just

been authorized which will put one additional man on duty from 2 p. m. to 10

p. m. at the time when most ships are in the Cut and traffic is at its peak. Balboa's dispatchers are: Mr. Yost, D. T. McNeil, J. H. Hunt, Mr. Wolford,

and L. D. Bowman, with Preston Trim,

Jr., in training. They are assisted by the

following local rate dispatchers' clerks: E. C. Sterling, A. G. Smith, G. A. Lateau,

E. H. Sealey, R. A. Padmore, E. E. Taylor and E. U. Petit. Cristobal's dispatchers are: Hermanns

Kleefkens, Nelson R. Clark, Rufus C. O'Neal, Oscar 0. Brown, Jr., and William

E. Weigle, Jr. Their dispatchers' cleiks

are: A. R. Morrison, Dan Savage, Huntley

F. Mignott, Wilfred E. Lindo and Lincoln

B. Boyce.

A dispatchers' duties have been called unforeseeable. The dispatchers agree but

they add, "They're never dull."

Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of

stories concerning the men whose business it is to put ships through the Panama Canal. The next will

deal with the boarding parties.

The Panama Canal measures 40.27

statute miles from shoreline to shoreline but it is 50.72 statue miles from deep

water to deep water. The airline distance from the Atlantic to Pacific terminals is 43.05 miles and the transit of a ship

through the Canal ordinarily requires

about eight hours.

LIFTING SHIPS is just part of the day's work for E. C. Sterling, senior of the dispatcher

clerks at the Balboa Part Captain's office. 'with his service with the Marine Divisions (now

Bureau) dating back to 1916. When telephone calls report that a ship has passed a certain point

in the Canal, he lifts |its [replica and [moves it farther along on the [miniature Canal. Born in Jamaica he came to the Canal Zone June 17, 1909. FORTY YEARS AGO

In

July - August

Culebra, now Gaillard, Cut was giving

Canal Builders trouble 40 years ago. A fall

of soft earth and rock covered steamshovcl 225 so that only the end of its boom was

visible. Mud slid from the east side at Las

Cascadas, blocking all tracks. The new

breaks in the Cut's banks called for a revision of excavation figures. With 65,514,-

865 cubic yards excavated, 23,929,140 was

still to be done.

One man was killed, five hurt when a locomotive, drawing a coal-loaded flat

car, ran onto a piece of track undermined

by a slide on the Cut's west incline. The

locomotive and car were thrown 40 feet into the cut. A premature explosion of dynamite at the Ancon quarry killed four, seriously injured two.

Elsewhere construction moved along.

About 59 percent of the concrete for all locks was in place; concrete work on the Gatun spillway was over 65 percent completed. The McClintic-Marshall Company

was given the award for 22 spillway gates

at Gatun and Mirafloies, along with two

steel caissons and 22 pier-connecting

bridges, as well as a contract for rising stem valves, guard gate valves, bulkhead

gates and lock screens. Construction

expenditures to July 1 totaled $4,399,772.

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

arrived July 13 for a 10-day visit. He

walked the length of the Cut in two install- ments and inspected work of the Atlantic and Pacific divisions. His party included

Brig. Gen. Clarence Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. The Canal

Fortifications Board, headed by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, were also July visitors.

The graves of 31 men, women, and chil- dren who had been buried during the previous 50 years on Flamenco (Dead Man's)

Island, were transferred to the Ancon cemetery, now Ridge Road. Most had died aboard ships. Many were yellow fever

victims.

After 65 stowaways who had arrived

early in July were given Canal jobs, others tried it. A search of one ship in Trinidad uncovered 65 men hiding; two more were found at Savanilla, another at Cartagena. All were put ashore and, as a warning to others, crewmen painted the heads and faces of some of the stowaways

with red lead.

Hotel business boomed. The Tivoli was

getting a new wing and plans were ap- proved for a "new hotel building of the Spanish colonial style—to be situated on

Colon Beach." In preparation for the

latter, the present Hotel Washington, the

old hotel at this site was placed on rollers and moved behind Christ Church.

And: The Isthmian Canal Commission

was trying out a cement gun to prevent

disintegration of rock in the Cut; plans were completed for a new University Club

Building near Las Bovedas in Panama City;

4,200 free lunches were served at Cristobal's July 4 celebration; the Canal force totalled 32,690, a drop of almost 3,000 from the year before; a shipment of 29,363 cases of dynamite, the largest cargo ever brought to

the Isthmus on one ship, was discharged in

Cristobal; and bullfights, dog fights, and

cockfights were outlawed.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

Zone Youths Register

For Selective Service

Canal Zone men—United States citi- zens between the ages, of IS and 26—who

registered yesterday at Local Boards No.

1 and 2 will soon receive printed classifi- cation questionnaires from the Board

with which they registered. This form,

known as No. 100, will request considerable additional information from each registrant, Selective Service Director A. C. Medinger said. On the basis of the information given

at registration and supplied in these forms, classifications of the registrants

will be made. The classification is expected

to take between one and two months.

Registrars spent a busy day yesterday.

The more than a dozen and a half regis- trars worked at Local Board No. 1 's office at the Balboa Railroad station and at Board No. 2 in the Administration Building at Cristobal. Pacific side registrars were headed by E. L. Payne; the Atlantic

side group worked under the direction of

Abe Howard.

At press time for the Panama Canal

Review, however, the exact number of registrants had not been compiled.

Membership in the two local boards was increased recently to five for each

board. The additional appointments pro- vide for a minimum of at least three members and allow for vacation and other

absences. Harold I. Perantie, of the Executive

Secretary's office, is acting chairman of Local Board No. 1 during the absence on

States vacation of Board Chairman F. H.

Irwin. NEWS OF YOUR COMMISSARY STORES

ABOUT COMMISSARY BUYING

Although the principal energy of the Commissary Division

is devoted to the sale of merchandise in the 19 retail stores operated, there is also a large force devoted entirely to the

original purchase of the goods which eventually reach the

retail counters. Goods From Many Sources Almost the entire world (outside the Iron Curtain) has a

direct hand in caring for the Zonian's well-being.

Although 82 percent of the value of purchases in fiscal year

1951 came from the United States, there was bought locally, including purchases from other Company units, $1,673,000; Central and South America furnished $835,000 worth; Europe

and the Orient slightly over half-million dollars worth. By

classes of products, these purchases consisted of the following amounts:

Groceries $5,592,614

Refrigerated Foods 3,503,031

Drygoods ....... 2,752,817 Housewares 1,653,094

Shoes 884,299

Candy and Tobacco .... 826,875

Gasoline and Oil 777,473

*Raw Materials 1,186,073

$17,176,277

*Supplies used in manufacturing other items, and operating materials. The Company's purchasing office at 24 State St., New York

City, headed by the Division's former General Manager, V. J. Clarke, does all of the States buying aided by a small staff in San Francisco and a shipping representative in New Orleans. Most of the buying is done in accordance with specifications

prepared on the Isthmus but there are many items which need

on-the-spot judgment and the New York office staff has the necessary trained specialists, particularly for fresh produce,

drygoods lines, and shoes.

Other Offices Active

With only a few exceptions, merchandise purchased in the United Kingdom, Europe, India, and Japan (the only Oriental source of supply currently used) is handled by a single world- wide purchasing organization, under a contractual arrange- ment whereby they will not act as a selling agency but will, instead, restrict their activities to purchasing.

This organization's various offices in London, Paris, Brussels,

Zurich, Madrid, Florence, Lisbon, Bombay, and Stockholm

are fully informed as to the types of merchandise we regularly

require from the various areas and are very active in keeping

us supplied with latest information as to market prices and

availability of goods. As an example, nearly every week sees a new batch of suiting

swatches or sketches of the latest styles of camelhair coats

arrive from London. The few thousand families we are privileged to serve obviously could not afford more than a relatively small fraction of all the goods offered, but the data is freshly at hand when we need to place re-orders for future delivery to replenish sold-out stocks. These offices are also alert to tell us about new and different items which they believe you might like to have, often basing

their thinking on purchases made by visiting buyers from

large States department stores, many of whom use, through- out the year, the same buying organization which serves us.

Local Purchases Are Handled Locally

All purchases from Central and South America (including the West Indies) are handled by the Division's main office at Mount Hope, often direct with the producer, at other times

with sales representatives located on the Isthmus. Many large concerns maintain staffs here and, in other in- stances, where a source of supply has to be sought out, as in the case of rice and other agricultural products, a local agent

with contacts in the country of production and freedom to travel at his own will, can often put us in touch with resources with which we could not otherwise expect to become acquainted.

Most of the large scale local purchases, including those from

nearby countries, are made from competitive offerings, bids being submitted as the result of local newspaper advertising

plus direct solicitation of all known producers and selling

agencies of the desired goods.

Consumer's Demand is Guide

The Commissary Division's entire buying effort is directed to but a single end: that there shall be available for sale to its patrons, when the patron wants them, all of the things that

are considered necessary and convenient to the American way

of living, and which will fit into the limits of its customers' varying incomes and expenditure budgets.

This is obviously an impossible aim; however, based on

historical patterns of sales behavior, broken into long-run

trends, cyclical fluctuations, and seasonal variations, we feel that we generally hit pretty close to the mark for the great

majority of our trade, especially with staple goods. For other than staples, such as currently styled wearing apparel, novelties, fancy foods, household appliances and gadgetries, the problem of knowing what you are going to feel like spending your money on—not tomorrow or next month, but about two months from now—is much more difficult. We do, however, have a considerable number of ways of knowing fairly exactly what you will want. Most obvious, of course, are your comments to salesclerks and supervisory per- sonnel, and the notes you drop into the suggestion boxes

located in each retail store. The verbal suggestions are passed on by key salesclerks when they attend their regular monthly conference in the warehouses at Mount Hope, and by the managers who have a

separate meeting in the main office once a month, along with

heads of the wholesale sections. Likewise, we who do the buying and recommending of purchases are also customers and

our aggregate personal likes and dislikes will probably match

up with the preferences of a large segment of our trade. We know from trade journals to which we subscribe what

items will be featured in nationally distributed magazines and

our regular sources of supply keep us informed of new develop- ments in their lines. In addition to the other means of knowing what is available

(or, more appropriately at present, the items that are in short supply or discontinued) our drygoods, housewares and shoe managers make regularly scheduled official trips to the States,

to visit manufacturers' showrooms, select new merchandise,

contact new sources of supply and inspect other modern retail stores for ideas that can be applied to our own operations.

Next month we will tell you exactly how we go about buying

toys. This should be an interesting and timely article for most, inasmuch as our Annual Toy Preview will be held on

October 19, with our usual giant-size centralized Toy Sales commencing on the following day.

This space is devoted exclusively to news of the Retail Stores prepared by the Commissary Division
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11 Canal Zone Workers Are Highly Lauded

For Response In Antiaircraft Training

"The success of the Antiaircraft Civil- ian Auxiliary Program may be attributed

entirely to the outstanding cooperation

and assistance of the people of the Canal

Zone, the Canal Zone Government, and

the Panama Canal Company," Col. Sanford Goodman, Commanding Officer

of the 65th AAA Group, told The Pan- ama Canal Review.

The results of the local training pro- gram, which ended August 25 with auto- matic weapon firing at a towed sleeve target and a radio-controlled target plane,

will determine whether a similar program

of training volunteers to man antiaircraft defenses will be undertaken in the United States. "Speaking for the men and officers of the 65th AAA Group," Col. Goodman

continued, "may I take this opportunity

to express our sincere appreciation for the fine work of each and every volunteer. "The enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and ready acceptance of the many re- sponsibilities delegated reflect great credit not only on each individual but on the Canal Zone as a whole." The following 140 employees of the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government, or members of the

families of Company-Government employees have served as volunteers in the

test of civilian adaptability to an antiaircraft program:

a. AAOC Group

(1) Wire-Radio Communications

Section

Kenneth R. A. Booth, Lawrence C. Callaway, Robert A. Engelke, Everett L. Farlow, William D. Hardie, Doris R.

Kintigh, Betty Lu Malone, Gladys E. Napoleon, Hans P. Pedersen, Florence M.

Pierson, Edward Scott, Helen D. Walker,

Melvin E. Walker, and Ella E. Wertz.

(2) Plotting Section

Martha M. Carriker, Doris C. Y. Chan,

Garland F. Dowling, Patricia E. Kenealy,

Beatrice E. Lee, Elizabeth W. McNevin,

Eleanor D. Miller, Helen N. Minor,

Muriel C. Treadwell, and Josephine P. Withers.

(3) Switchboard-Teletype-M 209 Converter Section

Helen Beil, Virginia K. Christian, Rosalie A. Demers, Willie Marie Duvall,

Patricia B. Gregory, and Mary D. Parker.

b. Gun Group

( 1 ) Gun Section

William B. Allen, Woodford M. Babbitt, Lee R. Beil, Mirt Bender, James P. Boukalis, Bernard J. Brown, Benjamin S. Chisholm, John J. Crawford, Robert D.

Daniels, John T. Dillon, John J. Dudak,

Arthur J. Farrell, Clarence L. Foiles, Kerner E. Frauenheim, Fletcher R.

Gregory, John W. Hare, John F. Hern,

Charles F. Hinz, Charles J. Hinz, Clar- ence D. Howell, Charles W. Hummer,

Charles T. Jackson, Jr., John J. Kennedy,

Patrick Kennedy, DeWight M". Kers'h, Fred H. Lee, Frank D. Naughton, Gerald

0. Parker, James W. Riggs, William J. Rose, George H. Sanford, Earl E. Trout, Randolph N. Trower, Stuart Wallace,

Howard E. Walling, William G. Wood,

George C. Wright, and James M. Zelsman.

(2) Range Section

Helen E. Chisholm, Dorothy E. Cole,

and Loretta M. Pace.

(3) Radar Section

Kathryn C. Hummer, Rose Hunt,

Louise L. Jones, Beulah A. Sanford,

Georgianna Stephenson, Ruth L. Straus, and Margaret F. Wiggin.

(4) Communications Section

Margaret E. Brandl and Antoinette

Huff.

c. Automatic Weapons Group

(1) 40 MM Section

Walter J. Allen, Robert L. Anderson,

Thomas J. Breheney, John A. Everson,

w ... ..

A CIVILIAN antiaircraft gun crew waits tensely for their shell to meet the target in the

clouds over a defense position. Seated in the center is Gayle 0. Kellar, Chief of the Panama

Canal Safety Branch, lookout and lateral gun pointer for the volunteer crew. Standing above him is Louis M. Pacs, a Navy civilian employee. Passing the ammunition, and with his back to the camera, is John E. Ridge of the Municipal Division. His brother, Robert, an employee of the Oil Handling Plant, is behind Mr. Pace.

Guy R. Exon, Roy E. Graham, Arthur J. Hanson, Murray D. Hawk, Russell E. Hellmund, Douglas S. Johnston, Gayl

Kellar, Walter R. Lindsay, David H.

Long, John J. McConaghy, Henry McElhone, William D. McGowin, James W.

Myers, Jasper L. Myers, Antonio Orsini, Richard R. Peglar, Bronson B. Powell,

John E. Ridge, Robert L. Ridge, Michael

A. Romeo, Hugh B. Smith, Wesley H.

Townsend, and John E. Winklosky.

(2) .50 cal Multiple Machine Gun

Section

William E. Dobson, James R. Doran,

Carl P. Hoffman, Sr., Pasquale P. Monaco, DeWitt E. Myers, Harry D. Raymond, William N. Taylor, James M.

Thompson, William F. Young, Joseph L. Hummer, Norman C. Anderson, William

L. Benny, Roy F. Burr, Robert A. Duvall,

William T. Harness, Henry H. Lee, Jr. Ellis J. Lowe, Robert Lowry, John A. Morales, Gordon E. Walbridge, Fred E.

Wells, and Russell T. Wise.

(3) Communications Section

Natalie C. Adams, Margaret L. Csighy, Constance G. Engelke, Alberta P. Latti- more, Mildred A. McMahon, Dorothea

F. McNall, Elsie D. Naughton, Gertrude

M. Roberto, Lorraine B. Schriftgiesser,

and Margaret A. Spreadbury.

Hearing Aid's Return

Brings German Thanks

E. T. Suse, of Hamburg, Germany,

thinks the United States is pretty fine

all because of a hearing aid. Late in 1941 his Sonotone auditory ap- paratus was turned over to E. R. Carr, then Acting Chief of Customs at Balboa,

for safekeeping. The exact circumstances

have faded with the years but it is believed that Mr. Suse had been picked up with a group of other Germans and held here in immigration. He was sent from the Isth- mus before the hearing aid could be re- turned to him.

Several months ago he wrote and asked

for it. At first it could not be found but

later it was located, damaged by long

storage in the tropics, and in June it was

started to its owner. Recently he wrote acknowledging its receipt and concluded

his letter: "The reason for writing you is caused by my surprise that an insignificant gadget could still be produced and returned

to me after almost exactly 10 years. I think that is something unique in today's world and only possible in a country like the United States of America where the

rights of the individual are not being

stepped upon.

"Please accept my most sincere and

deep gratitude and the assurance that 1 should be very glad if I can ever offer to an American citizen a similar service and proof of integrity."

The Atlantic entrance of the Panama

Canal is 33.52 statute miles north of and

27.02 miles west of the Pacific entrance.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

TEN YEARS AGO

In

July - August

War was casting its dark shadow

fat (her over the Canal Zone ten years ago. Canal ports were closed from dark to dawn. After scores of fishermen were ap- prehended in the mine fields off Balboa

and Cristobal, military authorities re- leased for publication diagrams of the

restricted areas. Woodrow Spier of Pedro Miguel became the first Zonian to

be drafted. He was sworn into the service

at Camp Paraiso. Defense bonds were

soon to go on sale. Hunting licenses were

revoked for the duration.

Governor Glen E. Edgerton instructed

heads of departments and divisions to

conserve their use of magnesium, aluminum,

tungsten, nickel, and zinc. The Commissary

Division replaced metal caps for milk

bottles with paper caps. Householders

donated their old pots and pans to a scrap

drive.

Six Japanese ships which had waited

for more than a week in Limon Bay to

transit the Canal cleared from Cristobal

to continue their voyages via Cape Horn

or the Cape of Good Hope.

The Canal Zone was busting at the seams

in 1941. A police census showed a civilian population of 1,2,846, an increase of 13,368

in two years. Preliminary plans were announced for a $4,000,000 quarters

building program, with new houses for Ancon, Balboa, Margarita, Cocoli, and

Gamboa, and a $700,00 addition to Colon

Hospital. The Margarita Post Office opened and work was being rushed on the

first unit of Margarita Hospital. The Ancon Laundry, handling 45,000 pieces

daily, asked customer cooperation in careful listing and wrapping.

On July 24th, as a local newspaper

reported it, "A Colombian stepped on a Jamaican's toe and set off another inter- national labor riot." Altogether in July

six such disturbances were reported. The

largest, at Gatun, involved 2,500 men.

Segregation of the laborers by nationality was recommended and local magistrates

pleaded with the rioters brought before them for tolerance in relations with their

fellows. _____

Work continued on the. Third Locks. A

225-Um suction dredge, towed down from Kansas City, Mo., was hauled overland to an artificial lake near the new Gatun Lock*. The site of the new locks at Gatun was

ordered shifted 850 feet nearer Gatun Lake,

onto better rock foundation. Six million bands if cement, nearly the total amount

used during Canal construction, were

'

ordered for the new locks. The Dredging

Division began work on the north approach

channel to the new Mirafiores Locks.

Col. R. A. Wheeler, Engineer of Maintenance, was suddenly ordered to Washington, after 14 months of local duty. He

subsequently sarved in Burma and later headed the Army's Corps of Engineers.

He is now a member of the Panama Canal

Company's Board of Directors.

Other notes of the period:

The first iron lung arrived for Gorgas

Hospital; A. C. Medinger succeeded Leonard Foote as Assistant Superintendent

of the Dredging Division; Gayle 0. Kellar

was named Safety Officer; the Panama

Line chartered two freighters; and Congress- man Dow Harter praised Canal defenses

after a brief visit here.

Anniversaries

Employees who observed important

anniversaries in the United States Govern- ment Service during the month of August

are listed alphabetically below. The

number of years include all Government

service, with the Canal or other agencies.

Those with continuous Canal or Railroad

service are indicated by (*) asterisks.

30 Years

Robert L. Jordan, Tovvboat Master, Navigation Division. Richardson Selee, Civil Affairs

Director. Christian Simonsen, Mechanic, maintenance and construction equipment, Municipal Division. 25 Years

*Earl R. Baltozer, Meatcutter-in-charge,

Commissary Division.

*S. L. Churchill, Sergeant, Fire Division. Alfred B. Fox, Gauger, Division of Storehouses. Francis X. Kerr, Supervising Structural Engineer, Engineering Division. *Walter Van Vliet, Electrician, Aids to Navigation Section. Charles Walsh, Senior Foreman, construction and maintenance, Building Division.Robert M. Wilford, Assistant Master

of Transportation, Railroad Division. Christian W. Wirtz, Administrative

Assistant, Commissary Division.

20 Years Kenneth W. Anderson, Clerk, Municipal Division.

*S. N. Belanger, Master of Transportation, Railroad,jDivision.

*Joshua A. Cunningham, Policeman,

Police Division. *Waldron E. Eldridge, Nurse, Gorgas

Hospital.

Manuel Lichtenbaum, Pharmacist,

Gorgas Hospital.

John A. Morales, II, Payroll Clerk. Finance Bureau. Charles E. Stepp, Investigator, Contra- hand Control Unit. John H. Terry, Records Position

Clerk, Personnel Bureau. Frank F. Williams, Cash Accounting

Clerk, Commissary Division.

15 Years Paul Badonsky, Materials Engineer, Locks I division. *Eleanor D. Burnham, Librarian,

Civil Affairs Bureau. Eulus C. Clemons, Electrical Welder,

Industrial Bureau. Nick M. Elich, Principal Foreman,

Municipal Division. Alton J. Hayward, Machinist, Industrial Bureau. Winters A. Hope, Engineering Drafts- man, Dredging Division. Alberta P. Lattimore, Retirement

Clerk, Personnel Bureau.

F. J. Meisinger, Traffic Clerk, Terminals Division. Charles G. Rickards, Senior Towboat

Master, Dredging Division. *Walter T. Schapow, Instrument Maker, Industrial Bureau. Chester C. Turck, Tunnel Operator, Locks Division.

Annual Dance Planned

By Zone Fire Fighters

The Canal Zone Fire Fighters are planning a Ball, to be held at the Hotel

El Panama, Friday evening, November 9. Balls sponsored by the Canal Zone

Police Association have long been features

of Isthmian life, but the November 9th dance will be the firemen's first venture

along such elaborate lines. The firemen hope that this will be the first of a series of annual affairs. Fred Huddleston is in charge of ar- rangements for the Fire Fighter's Ball. Tickets will go on sale in the near future.

Canal Chauffeur Does Pencil Sketches

PENCIL SKETCHES of people and places are made by McDonald Allen, a chauffeur at

the Motor Transportation Division in Ancon, during his odd moments.

.The above picture shows Allen with a pencil sketch he did of Governor Newcomer from a

recent photograph. He has never taken any art lessonc and the knack of sketching what he sees is called by

Allen "just a pastime." He has never attempted other art work, such as watercolors and oils. Born in Panama City, Allen is the son of two old-timers who came to the Isthmus during

the early Canal construction period from their home in Barbados. He attended schools in Panama

City and has been employed in the Canal Zone for the past 14 years, of which ten has been spent

as a chauffeur for the Motor Transportation Division. Now 34 years old, Allen is married and lives in La Boca with his wife and young daughter.
September 7,1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Leo Cagley Is Appointed

Engineering Branch Chief

The appointment of Leo Cagley as Chief of the Civil Engineering Branch

of the Engineering Division was an- nounced recently. The appointment

was effective August 27. Until Mr. Cagley's appointment the

position of Chief of the Civil Engineering Branch had been occupied by Wells

Wright, in a dual capacity as Assistant

Designing Engineer and Acting Chief

of the Chief Engineering Branch.

Mr, Cagley came to work with the Panama Canal in August, 1941, soon

after his graduation from Iowa State He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 and recently completed a year of graduate study at Harvard University.

Community Chest Heads

Start Work On '52 Drive

Plans arc now being made for the 1951—

52 Community Chest drive which starts October 1. The coming campaign will again be conducted by the Civic Councils.

F. J. Moumblow, chairman of the General

Committee of Civic Councils, will serve as chairman of the drive and Mrs. Douglas Johnston has agreed to serve again this year as director. William Jump is expected

to again head the group which will handle

solicitation in the local-rate communities.

Budgets for the 1951-52 Community

Chest are now being prepared, Mr.

COMING EVENTS AT

YOUR

CLUBHOUSE THEATERS

"TAKE CARE OF MY LITTLE GIRL"

20th Century-Fos

Starring

JEANNE CRAIN

We are especially proud to exhibit this film, which has won unstinted praise from al' who have seen it. It is a merry tale of campus life and of the trials and tribulations of the co-eds who are away from home for the first time. We feel that we are very timely

in presenting it at Balboa Theater on September 8, to coincide with the opening of another

school year.

"STRICTLY DISHONORABLE"

M-G-M

Starring

EZIO PINZA — JANET LEIGH

Except for those lucky ones who have seen him in "South Pacific," we have all heard a

lot about Ezio Pinza, the great singing star, but we have not yet seen him. Now, however,

he will be seen at Clubhouse theaters in this excellent picturization of an outstanding

Broadway stage hit, "Strictly Dishonorable." The story concerns an opera star who is forced to enter into a "marriage of convenience" to escape a frame-up. You will have an

opportunity to enjoy the justly famous singing voice of Pinza as well as to see a picture

that will keep you laughing all the way home.

"MR. BELVEDERE RINGS THE BELL"

20th Century-Fox

Starring

CLIFTON WEBB

You all have seen, no doubt, the previous laugh-classics featuring the antics of Mr.

Belvedere. In this, his latest vehicle, he takes over an old folks home to prove that "you

can be young at 80." As usual, Clifton Webb plays his role with verve, finesse and earns a laugh a minute. He is ably supported by Joanne Dru and Hugh Marlowe. This is a picture

that the whole family will want to see.

"RICH, YOUNG, AND PRETTY"

M-G-M

Starring

JANE POWELL — VIC DAMONE

Miss Powell needs no introduction to Clubhouse audiences after her outstanding singing

and dancing with Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding." Vic Damone is well known through

his Mercury recordings of "If," "Vagabond Shoes." and other hit tunes; however, this is his first appearance as a motion picture star. The picture is filled with gay songs, comedy,

and is filmed in glowing Technicolor.

KATHRYN

"SHOW BOAT"

M-G-M

Starring

GRAYSON — AVA

HOWARD KEEL

GARDNER

This trio of capable young actors is well cast in the old favorite, "Show Boat." You all know both the story and the music from this great American musicale. As sung by these

talented young stars, however, the score takes on a fresher and more pleasing meaning.

Filmed in Technicolor, "Show Boat" is a real treat to the eye and to the ear.

Moumblow said, and will be presented

shortly to the Chest's Executive Committee. Funds totaling $33,753.18 have been

distributed to 14 Canal Zone welfare or community activities which participated

in the 1950-51 Community Chest drive,

according to the final report of the auditors which has just been submitted to Governor F. K. Newcomer

The remaining $3,178.77 of Community

Chest funds remains on hand to begin

the 1951-52 drive next month.

Last October's drive, the fourth to be

held in the Canal Zone, had a goal of $30,500, but this was oversubscribed by

$5,370. It was conducted under the

sponsorship of the Canal Zone Civic

Councils, with Emmett Zemer as chair- man and Mrs. Johnston as director.

Agencies Received Their Quotas

Agencies which participated in last

year's campaign, their quotas and the amounts they received are shown below. In each case the difference between the quota and the amount received is the

agency's share of the campaign expenses. Salvation Army: Quota, $5,000; expenses, $478.71; net, $4,521.29.

Balboa Armed Services YMCA: Quota,

$3,333.34; expenses, $319.14; net,

$3,014.20. Cristobal Armed Services YMCA:

Quota, $2,500; expenses, $240.98; net,

$2,259.02.

Girl Scouts: Quota $3,000; expenses

$289.83; net, $2,710.17.

Boy Scouts: Quota, $3,000; expenses, $289.83; net, $2,675.17, plus $35 which was received in personal checks from

donors issued in the name of the Boy

Scouts and delivered to the Scouts as part of their allocated funds. JWB Armed Forces Service Center: Quota, $3,333.32; expenses, $319.14; net,

$3,014.18.

National Catholic Community Services: Quota, $3,333.34; expenses, $319.14,

net, $3,014.20. Corozal Hospital: Quota, $3,806.57; expenses, $364.75; net, $3,441.82. International Boy Scouts: Quota, $1,-

582.14; expenses, $153.06; net, $1,429.08.

Margarita - Cristobal Civic Council: Quota, $250; expenses, $24.42; net, $225.-

58.Gatun Civic Council: Quota, $250; expenses, $24.42 (quota authorized but pay- ment not affected; this amount, $225.58,

is banked as part of Chest funds).

Gamboa Civic Council: Quota, $250;

expenses, $24.43; net, $225.57.

Pacific Civic Council: Quota, $250; expenses, $24.43; net, $225.57.

Summer Recreation Program: Quota,

$4,000; expenses, $384.27; net, $3,615.73.

Campaign Expenses Total $3,347

The expenses of the campaign, up to December 19, 1950, totaled $3,256.55.

This amount was charged against the quotas of participating agencies. Subse- quent expenses increased the total operating expenses to the sum of $3,347.23.

Supplies, printing, postage, telephones,

and other miscellaneous expenses account- ed for $1,139.39 of the campaign expenses

for the 1950-51 drive. The remainder of the expenses, $2,207.84, was paid in administrative salaries.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

From July 15 through August 15

The following list contains the names

of those employees who were transferred from one division to another or from one

type of work to another. The promotion

list does not contain within-grade promotions nor regradings.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Mrs. Barbara M. Schmitt, from Clerki Panama Local Agency, Railroad and Terminals Bureau, to Clerk-Typist, Contraband

Control Section. G. Leroy Koontz, from Clerk-steno- grapher to Administrative Assistant, Police

I >i\ ision. Robert A. Wainio, from Customs Guard

lo Customs Inspector, Postal, Customs and

Immigration I >ivision. Kenneth C. Krogh, from High School

readier i<> Supervising Teacher, Occupational High School. Marvin Rosen, from Fireman, Fire Division, to Postal Clerk, Postal, Customs and

Immigration I >ivision. COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

Willis E. Martin, from Clerk to Assistanl

to Housing Manager, Cristobal Office, Housing Division. Earl W. Sears, from Accounting Clerk to Clerk, Balboa Office, Housing Division. Roy A. Hall, from Inspector to Supervisor, Buildings and Equipment, Clubhouse

Division. Barbara A. Ely, from Student Assistant

to Library Assistant, Library.

Paul T. Roth, from Supp'ly Clerk, Pedro

Miguel Housing Office, to Accounting Clerk, Balboa Housing Office. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Gerald J. Fox, from Maintenance and

Construction Equipment Mechanic, to Principal Foreman of Construction and

Maintenance, Municipal Division. John A. Barbour, from Telephone

Repair Shop Foreman, to Wire Chief, Balboa, Electrical Division. David C. Ryan, from Telephone Installer- Maintainer to Telephone Repair Shop Fore- man, Electrical Division. Harold M. Fraser, from Telephone

Maintainer, to Wire Chief, Cristobal, Electrical Division.

Joseph T. Verchinsky, from Machinist,

to Principal Foreman, Water and Laboratories Branch, Municipal Division. Austin E. Salter, from Wireman, to Wireman. Leadingman, Electrical Division. Howard E. Munro, from Powerhouse

Operator-Dispatcher, to Power Dispatcher,

Electrical I (ivision. Herbert F. Paddock, from Power Dispatcher, toStation Chief (Hydro-Generating

II) Electrical Division. Earl M. Seagrave, from Station Chief (Hydro-Generating II) to Supervisor, Generation and Transmission, Electrical I >ivi- sion. Jamie J. Carruth, Clerk to Administrative Assistant, Building Division. Ralph H. Otten, from Engineering Aid

to Architect (general) Engineering Division. Luis D. Crespo, from Engineering

Draftsman to Civil Engineer, Engineering

I )ivision. Arthur V. Corbett, from Wireman,

Leadingman, to Electrical Foreman, Electrical Division. John Clayton, Jr., from Powerhouse

Operator to Powerhouse Operator-Dispatcher, Electrical Division. Fred Yaeger, from Signalman, Navigation Division, to Pumpman, Municipal

Division. FINANCE BUREAU

Mrs. Pauline Kaplan, from Ticket

Seller, Clubhouse Division, to Card Punch

Operator, Accounting Division. Howard M. Fuller, from Clerk, Railroad and Terminals Bureau, to Accounting

Clerk, Accounting Division. HEALTH BUREAU

David C. Mcllhenny, from Hospital Foreman to Funeral Director, Colon

Hospital. H. Max Green, from Probationary

Policeman to Sanitation Inspector, Colon Health Office. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

Robert G. Brown, from Commissary

Assistant to Apprentice Shipwright, Pro- duction Division. MARINE BUREAU

John A. Dombrowsky, from Lock

Operator, Wireman, to Senior Lock Operator, Locks Division.

Preston M. Trim, Jr., from Payroll

Clerk, Payroll Division, to Marine Dis- patcher, Navigation Division. Charles J. Connor, from Pump Operator to Pipeline Suction Dredge Eoreman,

Dredging Division. Rutherford P. Rivet, from Foreman to Pipeline Suction Dredge Mate, Dredging

Division. George D. Suddaby, from Chief Operator to Pipeline Suction Dredge Master, Dredging Division. Landen H. Gunn, from Mate to Pipeline Suction Dredge Operator, Dredging

Division. Camillus T. Askew, from Operator to Chief Operator, Pipeline Suction Dredge,

Dredging Division. William P. Quinn, from Maintenance

Supervisor to Assistant Chief, Aids to Navigation Section. Murray Klipper, from Wireman, Electrical Division, to Lock Operator, Wireman,

Locks Division. Russell C. Mattheis, from Dipper Dredge Mate to Locks Operator, Steam Engineer

Locomotive, Locks Division. Spencer C. Lincoln, from Wireman,

Electrical Division, to Lock Operator, Wire- man, Locks Division. Daniel H. Rudge, from Clerk-Steno- grapher to Safety Inspector, Navigation

Division. Grover C. Cooper, from Electrician, Commissary Division, to Lock Operator,

Wireman, Locks Division. Henry E. May, Jr., from Gauger, Division of Storehouses, to Pump Operator,

Dredging Division.

RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU

Bernard Dorfman, from Clerk to Traffic Manager, Panama Local Agency.

George R. Reel, from Pumpman, Municipal Division, to Fiscal Accountant,

Director's Office, Railroad and Terminals

Bureau.

SUPPLY AND SERVICE BUREAU

John F. Manning, from Commissary

Manager to Superintendent, Abattoir and

Cold Storage Plant, Commissary Division. Carl L. Simons, from Student Assistant, Division of Schools to Apprentice Pipelitter, Commissary Division. John L. Dougan, from Supervisor

Buildings and Equipment, Clubhouse Division, to Steam Refrigeration Engineer and

Machinist, Commissary Division. Lloyd W. Peterson, from Clerk, Rail- road Division, to Supply Clerk, Division of Storehouses.

-TCE^Rqi

of tl i] ite summer spoi fca for tht* ( 'anal Zone's younger geni Robin Hoods from Pedro Miguel line up for a morning shoot.

ation. Here a group of emhryoni
September 7, 1951 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Townsite Planning In Advance Stage

For New Towns Of Summit, Cardenas

(Continued from page l) advanced to pre- sent a picture of the birth of a town. Summit, with its total area of about

371 acres, has about 300 acres scheduled

for town development.

Location Of New Town

The selected townsite lies to the right

of northbound traffic on Gaillard Highway and roughly is between the present

Gun Club and the Golf Club. This area was selected over an alternate site less than a mile away and nearer the Summit

Experimental Gardens. Grading costs would have been less at the site nearer the Gardens, but utility costs would have

been higher. Other undesirable features

of the Gardens section were the proximity

of the main highway and the railroad which would have divided the townsite. A major factor in the final choice was the

fact that sewage from the area nearer the Gardens would have been drained into the Canal above the water intake at Paraiso. The new Summit townsite will accommodate a street development of slightly over

7.50 apartments and will give a population

density of three and one-half apartments

per developed residential acre. (The

present Balboa Flats area has a population density of between eight and 11 apartments per residential acre). At the new town, 30 acres are set aside

for a civic center and schools area. Plans

call for a swimming pool, as well as out- door recreational areas adjacent to the

schools. In addition, five playgrounds

for smaller children would be scattered throughout the residential area in such a way that no house would be more than a quarter-mile distant from a play area. Natural recreation areas would be pro- vided at the edge of the townsite by

thinning out trees, removing under- growth and improving drainage.

Summit Is Crescent Shaped

At the present time the planners, local and visiting, envision Summit townsite as a crescent-shaped development. Its open end is toward Gaillard Highway in the

direction of the prevailing breeze. There

is room for future expansion, if this be

needed, eastward and in the direction of the Pedro Miguel River. Ultimate plans may provide that the new town would be connected to the main traffic artery of Gaillard Highway

by a divided entrance road. Traffic

Coal Stock In Cristobal

For Sale To High Bidder

The bulk of the remaining supply of coal at the Cristobal Coaling plant will be

sold this month to the highest biddei

The Coaling Plant is to be closed at the end of this year and slightly over 12,000 tons of coal remain in stock. Of this, 10,000 tons will be sold to the highest bidder. The stock is run-of-the-mill bitumi- nous coal. Bids will be opened September 20 and

bid forms may be obtained from the

Office of the Superintendent of Store- houses in Balboa, Canal Zone. The Cristobal Coaling plant, built soon

after the Canal was opened, was once a busy place. The business declined as coal burning vessels were replaced by oil burners and the sale of coal last year dropped to an all-time low.

leaving Summit toward Balboa would

feed into Gaillard Highway through an

underpass which would prevent drivers from having to make a left-hand turn

across traffic. As the planners see it, Summit's in- ternal traffic would be handled by feeder

streets 36 feet wide and residential streets

of a 26-foot width. (Gaillard Highway, in the section between the Tivoli Commissary and the Civil Affairs Building is 37

feet wide; the new section of Ancon

Boulevard through the San Juan Place

area has a width of 28 feet). The 26-foot roads in the residential area would allow parking on one side and

permit two cars to pass, but would not be

wide enough to encourage reckless, highspeed driving, Mr. Lewis pointed out. Summit's crescent layout takes advantage of the townsite's natural amphitheater terrain. Residential areas would

be laid out on the rising ground on either

side and one end of the flatter central space. On the steep slopes both onestory and off-the-ground houses would be

so placed that the higher structures would

have view and ventilation over the roof

of the adjacent, lower houses.

Location of Civic Center The civic center would be located in the more level center space of the horseshoe. As it is now seen, this civic center would

be in the form of a hollow square, or pedestrian court, around which would be

located the commissary, clubhouse, theater, and postoffice. Space would be pro- vided adjacent to these buildings for off- street parking and the schools area would

be close by, but removed from traffic hazards. In this central area would also be half a dozen "public lots" for churches,

etc. Bachelor quarters would be centrally

located, with respect to Clubhouse cafeteria and bus facilities and the planners

suggest that, since these concentrated,

large units are prominent structures in a town of predominately low houses, they

deserve particular architectural study.

The family quarters would be spaced

for maximum privacy, with about 60 feet between buildings and no house closer than 30 feet to the street. Large backyards would provide an area for what Mr.

Rotsch feels is a neglected phase of Canal Zone life—outdoor living. The Summit

area is not heavily wooded but what large

trees there are would be left whenever

possible. As Summit is planned, in this preliminary stage, the houses would vary

in type, roof shapes, and color, and would

include both on- and off-the-ground

construction.

First Sewage Treatment Plant

If Summit is approved as it stands in

its present planning, it will have the Canal Zone's first town sewage treatment

plant. (The Army has some such plants

but there are none in the Panama Canal

towns).

This plant would be located so that

waste, treated in sedimentation tanks and

chlorinated, would be discharged through

gravity sewers below Pedro Miguel locks. The same treatment plant would also serve the growing town of Paraiso. Canal Zone planners see each apartment equipped with an individual garbage

disposal unit, provided these can be manufactured for 25-cycle current. Present

plans call for Summit and other new

towns to utilize the regular 25-cycle current, because of conversion costs and

since there is a 10 percent power loss when conversion has to be done on the site

of consumption. In addition, a particular

local situation is that employees are fre- quently transferred from town to town in connection with their work. Warehouse And Storage Areas

Other details which planners hope can

be incorporated into the new development

are a warehouse group, located well back

from the highway and screened by land- scape planting, to serve both Summit and

Paraiso and to include parking space, warehouse and yard storage space for such units as the Municipal and Building

Divisions, the Motor Transportation Divisions, and Grounds Maintenance Division, and a District Wireman's shop;

removal of the high voltage transmission

line from its present location, which

would be through the edge of the community center and parts of the residential

areas, to a location west- of the highway

and completely outside of the town; and

location of Summit's electrical sub-station near the center part of the town but re- moved from the residential areas. The

sub-station would be accessible to, but

removed from major streets. Other problems on which the planners

have been working include some connection with the "outside world" for Margarita, where a large expansion is planned

in preparation for which a traffic check was made late last month, arterial connections for the new local-rate townsite of Cardenas, and the waste disposal problem

on the Atlantic side. Cardenas, which straddles the Army's

Corozal-Clayton "back road," will comprise roughly 280 acres lying between the Rio Dos Bocas and Cerro Corozal. A

major problem for this new town will be

the connection at heavily travelled Gaillard Highway and the main entrance road

to the new town. An additional problem on which the

visitors have been consulting with local planners is that of the remodeling of Balboa where the work of reducing population densities is now in progress as part

of the overall housing and town planning program.

Canal Buys Over $1,500,000

In Panama During Past Year

(Continued from page 1) is indicated by

the list of products. It contains some 75

separate items among the agriculture products, and about 50 different classifica- tions of the industrial and miscellaneous

purchases.

The heaviest buying among the items

for industrial uses are cement, building

materials, office equipment and supplies,

parts for automotive, electrical, and machinery equipment, and paints.

Among the miscellaneous items bought

in Panama during the past fiscal year, the

largest amounts were spent for film

rentals; periodicals, newspapers, and

printing; and photographic work and

supplies. Over $125,000 was spent both

for film rentals, and for periodicals, newspapers, and printing. Purchases of photographic work and supplies totalled over $50,000 in value during the past year. Two extensive trips were made during

the past year by Commissary Division

representatives in an effort to stimulate and develop additional markets for pro- ducts sold in the commissary stores. The

last of the two trips was made in May by

F. R. Johnson, Assistant Supply and

Services Director, in company with repre- sentatives of the Panama Government.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 7, 1951

Scrap Metal Salvage Here Again Aids

Nationwide Drive To Avert Shortages

Scenes reminiscent of World War II are being reenacted at the Balboa Storehouse

scrap yard where hundreds of tons of scrap metal are being gathered, sorted, and made ready for shipment to the steel mills and foundries in the United States. Approximately 2,700 tons of ferrous scrap are being offered for sale and bids

will be opened September 10. In addition, bids were opened last week on 150 tons of non-ferrous scrap metal. The collection of scrap metal is a part of a nationwide program recently launched on a regional basis by the National Production Authority. In charge of the Canal Zone program is Jerome F. Prager,

Superintendent of Storehouses, who was

recently appointed Scrap Salvage Administrator for the Panama Canal Company.

Mr. Prager is well acquainted with the

task of ferreting out scrap metals by long

experience during the past war. The

Storehouse Division was awarded a pen- nant early in 1945 for its work in the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. During that period three supervisors, two

crane operators, and 85 local-rate workers were engaged in the program.

Nation Inventories Low

Inventories of scrap iron and steel at the Nation's 200 mills and foundries are dangerously low, the National Production

Authority has announced, and unless scrap supplies are appreciably expanded

within the next few months the steel pro- duction program may be seriously affected. The accompanying pictures indicate the extent and some of the work required

in processing scrap before it is shipped.

In the upper picture, a locomotive crane

is hip-deep in unclassified scrap being unloaded. A heavy cutting machine shown

in the middle picture, is used to reduce some of the material to proper size. Heavier scrap is cut by torches. The

lower pictures shows hundreds of tons of metal in the scrap yard ready for shipment after being classified and cut. The scrap collection program has the

following objectives:

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A search of all properties for dormant

scrap, such as obsolete machinery, tools,

jigs, dies, fixtures, and other abandoned

equipment which is broken or worn be- yond repair.

2. A survey of potential wrecking and

dismantling projects likely to produce

scrap, such as abandoned buildings and

other obsolete or useless material.

3. The collection and disposition of all iron and steel as quickly as possible

through normal channels.

All units of the Canal organization have

been requested to cooperate. The general

public can also greatly assist, Mr. Prager

says, by reporting any items of abandoned

scrap metal which may have been otherwise overlooked. An example of this kind of aid was

recently given by a report of a large col- lection of metal in the jungle area near Madden Dam. The Scrap Salvage Administrator is now waiting for the coming

dry season to cut trails to the find so it can be cut and the metal hauled to the Balboa yards for salvage.

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Series "E" Bonds May Be Held

For Ten Years Longer

A reminder has been given to employees

that their United Savings Bonds of Series "E" may be held up to 10 years after maturity.

An increasing number of employees will have "E" Bonds mature this year and

those who plan to take advantage of the plan approved by Congress to hold the bonds up to ten years longer are not

required to take any action. The extended bond will earn simple

interest on the face of the amount at the

rate of two and one-half percent for the

first seven and one-half years, and thereafter at a higher interest rate to provide an aggregated return for the 10-year ex- tension period of 2.9 percent compounded.

If Series "E" Bond holders desire, they

may exchange their bonds in amounts of $500, or multiples, for a current issue of

Series "G" of the United States Savings

Bonds. These earn interest at the rate of two and one-half percent a year which is payable semi-annually. This series is re- deemable at par any time after six months

of issue date on one calendar month's

notice.