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ZONE'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IS REASSIGNED

TO ARMY STAFF G-2; SUCCESSOR IS ANNOUNCED

CIVIL DEFENSE CHIEFS

MEET TO STUDY PLANS

What could be done to house homeless persons in the Canal Zone if an atomic

bomb dropped without warning?

Where could they be fed? What clothing could be furnished? How could they

be quickly evacuated to places of safety?

How could injured and dead be handled

without confusion and extra loss of life? These and many other questions were

studied by the Technical Staff Chiefs of the Company-Government Civil Defense

organization in the test exercise "Operation Interim" at the end of last month.

The exercise was confined to the technical staff and the principal heads of the

Civil Defense organization. It was part

of a general test of a similar nature held throughout the Southeastern United

States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Is- lands, although in some cities limited public participation was included. The test was held in the Civil Affairs Building, main control center for this

exercise. The problem involved was the explosion without warning of an {See page 3)

Lt. Gov. HARRY 0. PAXSON

The reassignment of Lt. Gov.

Harry 0. Paxson to the Office

of the Assistant Chief of Staff of

the Army, G-2, was announced

by the Department of the Army

at the end of February.

Something To Tell Mommy See pages 8 and 9 for slory and more pictures of the visit of Vice President and Mrs. Nixon to the Canal Zone

IT WAS A RED LETTER DAY for these first-graders in the Ancon Elementary School when Mrs. Nixon

stopped her car and personally greeted them on her tour of the Canal Zone. Movie actresses could not dis- play more animation and pleasure than these young students. Left to right in the front row are Sonia

Larsen, Emilie James, and Katherine Vaughn (half hidden behind the flags), Judy Robles, Catherine Zylstra, and Linda Koehler.

Col. HERMAN W. SCHULL, Jr. He will be succeeded in his

post as Lieutenant Governor

by Col. Herman W. Schull, Jr. who is presently on duty with

the Corps of Engineers as District Engineer with headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. He

has been serving in that position since 1952.

The change in assignments will be

trade within about a month.

Aside from his official duties as Lieu- tenant Governor of the Canal Zone and

Vice President of the Panama Canal Company, Colonel Paxson has taken a prominent role in civic and community affairs since his arrival here early in July 1952. He has been specially interested in Scout work and is now serving his third term

as President of Boy Scout Council 801. [Scout Activities Expanded

Under his leadership the Canal Zone Boy Scout organization and its activities have been greatly expanded. He has also lided in the expansion of Girl Scout work

and the International Boy and Girl Scout

organizations.

Both the Lieutenant Governor and

Mrs. Paxson have been active participants in many other phases of Isthmian

affairs during their residence in the Canal

Zone. Mrs. Paxson is a member of the Executive Board of the Girl Scout Council and both she and her husband have

been active in church work and many

civic and welfare programs.

In a statement issued when announce- ment of the reassignment of Colonel Paxson was made. Governor Seybold ex- pressed personal and official regret on the

loss to the community. At the same time he said that Lieutenant Governor Paxson

is to be congratulated upon {Seepage t)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

Canal Units Increase Panama Purchases

By Over $250,000 In Half Year's Period

New Assistant Port Captain

Food and supplies bought in the Republic of Panama by the Panama Canal

organization during the first half of this

fiscal year—July through December—

exceeded by more than a quarter million

dollars the value of purchases made during the first half of the previous fiscal year. The Canal pui chases from producers

and suppliers in Panama this fiscal year

totaled $1,444,743 up through December,

as compared with $1,177,803 during the

first six months of the previous fiscal year. The purchases listed in the report were

exclusive of any made by other United

States Government agencies, contractors

or individuals. The quarter million dollar increase was

due principally to heavy purchases of

office equipment and supplies, increased

sales of Panama-gi own coffee by producers, and purchases of fresh eggs. The

dollar value of these three items bought

in six months exceeded $260,000.

New Items On Purchase List The value of office equipment and

supplies bought from July through December amounted to $168,300, or over

four times the value of such equipment

bought in the comparative period of the previous year. This increase was made

possible when certain types of office equipment, principally typewriters, was

offered locally at favorable prices.

The fresh egg item is a comparative newcomer on the Canal's purchase list. There were no fresh eggs bought during

the first half of the fiscal year 1954. This

year, however, 18,500 dozen fresh eggs were bought from Panama producers at a total value of about $14,500.

The addition of fie in eggs to the pur- chase list was made possible because of increased production in the Republic and

the fact that fresh eggs are now being

offered at prices more nearly competitive

than in the past. Although substantial

quantities are now being bought, the amount represents only a small percent- age of the potential market and local purchases could be greatly increased if firm deliveries at competitive prices were

offered. The following table shows the amount

of purchases made in the Republic of Panama during the first half of the pres- ent and previous fiscal years:

1954 1955 Meat products $401,635 $345,346

Agricultural products:

Fruits and vegetables 61,057 WW

Sugar . 236,817 277,103 Other agricultural products. -

.

22,647 103,183 Other food products 13,193 23,716 Beverages - 76,596 76,174

Forest products -

.

30,620 59,369

Industrial products and miscellaneous 334,639 481,426

Total $1,177,805 $1,444,743 As in the past few years, the purchase

of fresh beef represented the bulk of the food bought during the first half of

this year. Since practically all beef sold

in the Panama Canal Company Commissaries for the past several years has been

bought in Panama, the purchase figures are directly affected by the number of employees. Accordingly, the amount of beef bought this year has declined as a

result of a force reduction which has

taken place over the past year among

commissary customers. Seafood bought from Panama suppliers

during the first six months of this year

totaled nearly $40,000 in value. Major

purchases were 66,000 pounds of fish, 56,000 pounds of shrimp, and 4,000

pounds of lobster. The amount of fruits and vegetables

bought by the Canal Company varies with the seasons and available supplies.

There was comparatively little difference

in the amount of money spent for fresh

fruits and vegetables this year and last. The substantial increase of purchases

listed under the item of "other food products" was due to the addition of

fresh eggs to the list. Panama Grown Coffee Is Bought

A total of $S1,396 in green coffee was

bought during the first half of this fiscal year, while the amount bought in the

first six months of the previous fiscal year was comparatively small. This item ac- counted principally for the increased pur- chases of "other agricultural products"

by almost five times. Cement and office equipment and supplies were the principal items in the list of industrial products and miscellaneous

purchases. A total of $71,291 in cement

purchases was listed this year. Also among the major miscellaneous

items were film rentals, and periodicals.

The Panama Canal Service Centers spent

$58,562 in the rental of films during the

first half of this fiscal year, while a total

of nearly $70,000 was spent for periodicals and printing.

The purchase of men's shirts being

manufactured in Panama is being con- tinued this fiscal year, as shown in the

list announced for the first six months.

This also is a relatively new item in the purchase list, but almost $10,000 worth

of locally-manufactured shirts were bought

during the first six months of the year. The bulk of the Panama Canal pur- chases in the Republic of Panama are made by three units, the Commissaries,

Service Centers, and Storehouses. The

majority of items in the long list of pur- chases are for resale but many of the bulk purchases, such as building materials, office equipment, and forest products

are for direct use by Company-Government units.

Zone's Lieutenant Governor Reassigned To Army Staff G-2; Successor Is Named

(Continued from page 1) his Selection to fill the responsible position with the

security intelligence of the nation in which field he has had previous experience

Classmates At West Point

Both the Lieutenant Governor and his successor are natives of Philadelphia and

both were graduated with the Class of 1927 from the United States Military

Academy.

After his graduation from West Point, Colonel Paxson was assigned to duty in Hawaii, following which he attended the University of Iowa and completed work

for a degree in civil engineering in 1932. During World War II he was assigned

to duty in Africa with an Intelligence

Mission, serving with that mission in 1942.

('APT. Ernest B. Rainier, left, appointed last month

to be Assistant Port Captain in Cristobal, is shown

with ('apt. John Andrews, Jr.. USX, Cristobal Port Captain. A native of Mathews County, Va., Captain Rainier has been a member of the Panama Canal

Pilot Force since 1939. He had mine than 12 years

of service at sea with the Colombian Steamship Company and the Panama Line before becoming a Canal

Pilot.

Later he served in five' campaigns in the

Italian theater as Deputy Engineer for the Fifth Army. In 1945 he was on duty

with the Headquarters Operations Section of the 15th Army Group in Italy. For his war service, Colonel Paxson holds

the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf

clusters, the Order of the British Empire,

and the French Medaille de Reconnaissance. After the close of the war he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Headquarters

of the United States Armed Forces in Austria. When he returned from overseas he served two years as Military Assistant

to the Secretary of the Army, and in 1949 was assigned to the National War College. Upon his graduation there in 1950

he became a member of the faculty of the War College where he was on duty

when assigned as Lieutenant Governor

of the Canal Zone. Colonel Schull's Army Career

His successor in his present post has

also had a varied and distinguished career

as an officer of the Corps of Engineers

since his graduation from West Point. Soon after graduation fiom the Military

Academy he was assigned to Cornell University where he received a degree in

civil engineering. Colonel Schull served during the first part of World War II as Executive Officer

of the 21st Aviation Engineer Regiment,

then as CommandingOfficer of the Fourth

Engineer Aviation Training Center, and

as Engineer of the 14th Air Force in China. During the last two years of the war he was in command of an Engineer

Training Group and was Chief of the War

Plans Division in the Office of the Chief

of Engineers.

This will be Colonel Schull's second

assignment in Latin America. He served

for three years, from 1947 to 1950, as advisor on military engineering to the Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Army,

with headquarters in Lima. His next assignment was as District Engineer in Buffalo, N. Y. He has been on duty as

District Engineer in Jacksonville since

1952. In the latter post he became well acquainted with many projects in the Canal Zone since it comprises a part of the Jacksonville, Fla., Corps of Engineers

District.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Canal Employees Enroll

For Lubrication Course

Thirty-eight students have been enrolled for a series of night classes being

held in Balboa on the principles and

practices of lubrication and the selection

of lubricants. A similar class was being organized

in Cristobal, with the opening session on February 28. The Balboa classes be- gan February 16 and are being held for an hour, one night a week. The Cristobal

classes will be held from 6:30 until 7:30

o'clock on Monday nights.

The two classes are being conducted

under the sponsorship of the Balboa and

Cristobal locals of the International Association of Machinists. While intended primarily as off-the-job

training for machinists, a number of other Panama Canal employees and other personnel have enrolled because of theit work which requires an understanding of lubrication problems.

The need for such classes was called to the attention of organized labor in 1952 by a night seminar group of electricians who pointed out that lubrication practices

locally need an infusion of modern methods. The classes resulted from work of night seminar groups of machinists on

both sides of the Isthmus which were

organized to discuss lubrication problems

encountered in the field and to help de- velop a course on lubrication which would

be suitable for craftsmen. Those enrolled in the Balboa course

are: Howard Armistead, Joseph Bateman,

R. J. Boatwright, John F. Brennan, T. A. Brennan, P. T. Corrigan, C. H. Crosby,

Milton Davis, James H. Elliott, G. T.

Fitzgerald, R. D. Gangle, Frank Hall, John M. Hanson, Ray F. Hesch, Gerrit Joustra, Arthur A. Kopf, Ted Krzys, James A. Mable, J. A. Madison, Ted A. Marti, Henry E. May, Sr., J. R. McGlade.

William S. McKee, Herbert Moore, W.

W. Morse, Willis N. Pence, Willard Percy,

W. E. Pullen, Raymond Ramirez, Albert N. Ruoff, Sydney Sasso, D. J. Sullivan,

Donald Tribe, Carl Wanke, Frank Wagner, George H. Wear, K. Wilson, and

Joseph Young.

Civil Defense Chiefs Meet To Sludy Plans

[Continue* from page 1) atomic bomb

equivalent to some 50,000 tons of TNT.

It was theoretically exploded 500 yards

east of Miraflores Locks with the damaged area covering most Pacific side communities. The representatives were given 21 problems, one every five minutes, and

were requested to note on prepared forms

what could be done by their individual

?ervices. Purpose Of Test The primary purpose of the exercise was not to test individuals but to assist

in establishing a working agreement in advance of such a disaster, uncovering

unforseen problems that might arise, and

arriving at an accurate conception of the nature of the disaster and the best methods of meeting the emergency. The two-hour test was followed by a

five-hour communication-type exercise

fcr the Zone organization in cooperation

with the Regional headquarters in Thomasville, Georgia. This consisted of for- warding reports of simulated conditions and requests for assistance.

SS "Panama" Goes Into Freight Only Service

Following Voyage To Canal Zone This Month

The SS Panama will enter a new tvpe

of service at the end of this month when

it sails from New York on March 31 as a freighter.

The picture above shows the Panama

on a recent trip to the Isthmus as it was

about to dock in Cristobal. Its skipper,

Capt. Charles L. Foley, is shown in the

inset. Announcement that the Panama would

be used for the transportation of freight

only was made last month following ap- proval of a change of operations in the Panama Line by the Board of Directors

of the Panama Canal Company. The

change is being made princirjally because

of an expected decrease in the number of employees who will be using the Panama

Line services under the new home leave

legislation. Last Passengers March 19 The last passengers to be booked front* Cristobal will be for the March 19 sailing

northbound.

The change in operation of the SS Pan- ama to freight service only will not affect present sailing schedules nor the operation of the other two Panama liners as passenger-freight vessels. The weekly

service in both directions between New

York and Cristobal will be continued but no passengers will be booked on every

third ti'ip. When the SS Panama goes in to exclusive freight service it will mark a fourth

distinct phase in the 16-year-old vessel's

life. The other three were: Its service as a passenger-freight ship for two years

after it made its maiden voypge to the Isthmus in Mav 1939; its service as the Armv transoort James Parker during

World War II; and its nine years of service since the war, plying back and forth between New York and Cristobal, carrying passengers and freight. First To Go In Service The Panama was the first of the new Panama liners to go into service in 1939 and on its maiden vovage in Mav of that year it made a transit of the Canal and a gala reception was held aboard in Balboa.

It had a distinguished war record, carrying troops and supplies to all parts of the

world. Just before her return to civilian service, the ship was used to transport war brides and babies, and on one trip

it brought back $80,000,000 worth of famous paintings which had been looted from the various European capitals during the war. The Panama was returned to the Pan- ama Line on Mary 15, 1946. It was

hastily refitted for civilian service and

made its first postwar trip to the Isthmus

in September 1946. For several months

thereafter it was filled to capacitv by

employees who had long delayed their vacations because of the war and wartime

restrictions on travel. During the first few months of this s°rvice it was the only one of the three ships on the run, the SS Ancon and SS Cristobal being refitted for reentry into their regular service.

Forty Years Ago In February

Heavy rains during the so-called dry- season month of February were the subject of severe complaints on the part of

the Canal Zone residents 40 years ago,

just as they have been this year. Beginning about noon February 9, when the "most severe norther of recent years" hit

the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, heavy

rain fell all over the Tsthmus for two days.

According to The Canal Record precipitation was reported as high as 11.29

inches at Brazos Brook and new records

for dry-season rainfall in two days were

established on the Atlantic side. At all

stations except Miraflores and Pedro Miguel rainfall was in excess of the average

for the entire month of February.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4,1955

26 Employees Complete Red Cross First Aid Instructors Course

TWENTY-SIX First Aid instructors are now ready,

to begin a program of training employees in the various operating units of the Canal. This picture wai; taken last month when the 26 completed the standard

The first step in a program designed

to train a big segment of Company-Government employees in first aid was completed last month when a group of 26

selected employees were presented graduation certificates for completion of the standard 45-hour Red Cross Instructors Course. The certificates were presented by Lt.- Gov. H. 0. Paxson in a ceremony held during the latter part of February in the Hoard Room of the Administration Building at Balboa Heights. In a brief talk the Lieutenant Governor explained the aims of the program and complimented

the graduates on their work and interest. The program is a part of one which is being sponsored throughout the Federal Government by the Federal Safety Council and the American Red Cross. Instructor for the 45-hour course in

first aid training was William G. Dolan,

Chief of Civil Defense and a qualified

First Aid Instructor. Safety Men Take Course

Those taking the instructor's course included 12 fvll-time employees in the

safety program. The others were selected from operating units in the Canal organization so that each major unit will have

one or more of its own personnel available

for the shorter course of instruction. The program is being coordinated

within each bureau by its safety representative, while the overall CompanyGovernment program is under the direction of the Chief of the Safety Branch.

Representatives from the various units who completed the course were: Engineering and Construction Bureau

M. F. Millard, A. H. Cooke, J. E. Winklosky, C. H. Mitchell, R. R. Arnold, E. J. McElroy, and W. H. Townsend.

Transportation and Terminals Bureau—

W. L. Russon, W. D. Goodwin, J. A. Barrett, R. L. Ridge, W. R. Dixon, and C. E.

Staples.

Community Services Bureau—J.J. Pearce, A. C. Payne, W. E. Benny, and R. S. Brogue.

Marine Bureau—L. W. Chambers, D. H.

Rudge, and M. G. Klontz. Supply Bureau—M. R. Hart, C. J. Genis,

and F. N. Dahl.

45-hour Red Cross instruction and were presented with certificates by Lt. Gov. Harry 0. Paxson, front row, third from left. The ceremony was attended by

William G. Dolan, Chief of Civil Defense, who conducted the course. Mr. Dolan is shown in the first row at the extreme left, and next to him is G. 0.

Kellar, Chief cf the Safety Branch, who is in charge of the program which will extend to all operating units

.

Industrial Division Timekeeper

Completes Fifty Years' Service

William Jump, who completed 50 years

of continuous service with the Canal or- ganization last month, has the distinction not only of being the senior man on the U. S.-rate rolls, he is the employee with

the longest continuous service with one

unit. He probably has another service

distinction. The first pay he ever drew

from the Panama Canal was all of 3 W

cents an hour, and there are few, if any, employees still in service who can match

that. To be sure, the 3 'j -cent hourly rate

lasted only eight days. He was promoted

then, and for some time earned the munificent sum of 5 cents an hour. But, as he says today, 5 cents bought two pounds of apples in 1905. These first jobs were when he worked

as a "boy" in the Gorgona Shops. Later

he became a timekeeper and in that ca- pacity has served the Mechanical Division, its predecessors, and successors ever

since. Gorgona In French Days

Born in Gorgona, then the third largest town along the French Canal route, he grew up tri-lingual. He went to one of the Anglican schools which that church

maintained in towns "along the line." Classes were conducted in Spanish during

the morning session and in English during the afternoon. His third language,

French, he just "picked up," for when

William Jump was a boy the French were

still making a somewhat desultory at- tempt to build the Panama Canal. Although much of the French equipment was laid up in what today would be

called "mothballs," the French kept a

supervisor in each of the Canal towns. They had to, he says, to keep their contract alive. He recalls vividly the line after line of railroad cars, dump cars, and

dredges which had been stored away

against possible future use. He was only 15 when he went to work

Safety Branch-G. 0. Kellar, H. H.

Shae.klett, and R. T. Wise.

for the Isthmian Canal Commission, but he had already been earning his board

and keep for two years before that. In

1903, a prominent political figure in Pan- ama set out to find a bi-lingual or tri- lingual youngster who could teach him

English. Young William Jump was se- lected for the task and for two years was

part of this family, interpreting for them

and teaching English to the father and

children. Moved With Shops

As the Canal work progressed the young timekeeper moved with it. When

the main Canal shops were in Gorgona,

he worked there. The next stop was

Empire, to which part of the shops were moved; shops and timekeeper were then

transferred to Balboa. Until the Mechanical Division was moved to Mount

Hope in 1950, his headquarters were at a desk in the Balboa shop area. Last Sunday, William Jump's friends and associates did him honor for his half-century of service, not only to his job but to the community as well. A scroll attesting to his worth was

presented to him at a program arranged

by the Rainbow City Civic Council and

held in the Rainbow City gymnasium.

Governor Seybold spoke as did

the Alcalde of Colon. Ellis L. Fawcett, President of the Congress of Local- Rate Civic Councils, told the large audience of Mr. Jump's work in the community- how he had been an active fig- ure in the International Boy Scout or- ganization, the Civic Councils, and the Canal Zone Community Chest. Capt. Robert Emerick, as Chief of the

Industrial Division and the honored

guest's top boss, spoke of Mr. Jump's

50-year career with the Isthmian Canal

Commission, The Panama Canal, and

now, with the Panama Canal Company.

William Jump has done a job to be proud of, Captain Emerick said. From

the applause, the audience agreed with him.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Mama And Papa Learn Spanish, Too,

In Council -Sponsored Night Classes

CLASS OF GROWNUPS at La Boca are learning Spanish with Mrs. Margarita Eastmond, a graduate of Santiago Normal School, as the teacher. Over 200 grown-ups in the Canal Zone's

local-rate communities are not letting their youngsters get ahead of them

When the children of these families come home from school speaking Spanish, they aren't going to be able to put

one over on their parents; father and

mother are going to know just what the youngsters are saying.

The adults, 218 of them, almost all parents of Canal Zone school children, are enrolled in the evening Spanish classes which are being given twice a week in the

four local-rate communities—La Boca,

Paraiso, Santa Cruz, and Rainbow City.

Most of them are learning Spanish for the first time and are enrolled in the ten

classes for beginners, although some of them have sufficient Spanish background

that they have been classified into the

four classes for intermediate students. Civic Councils' Idea The idea of Spanish classes for adults

originated with the Congress of Local- Rate Civic Councils. The Councilmen

felt that such classes would not only help

the parents individually, but would also

assist them, as a group, in understanding

the ultimate conversion of the Canal

Zone's Latin American schools to all- Spanish teaching.

The first of the night classes for adults were started in November. Each student pays $1 per month; out of this comes the

salary of the teachers, who are chosen from the staff of the Latin American

schools. The Schools Division is furnish- ing books on a ban basis, as well as class- room space and janitor service. According to Ellis L. Fawcett, Presi- dent of the Congress of Local-Rate Civic Councils who worked out plans for the Spanish classes with Sigurd E. Esser, Superintendent of Schools, the original interest in the classes has been sustained.

In December, 232 adult students had

enrolled in the 10 beginning and four inter- mediate classes. By mid-February, all but 14 of them were still going strong. The largest enrollment is in RainbowCity; there, 84 students are divided among four beginning and two intermediate classes. Santa Cruz, where four be- ginning and one intermediate classes are being held, comes next, with 72 enrolled. Paraiso's 37 Spanish students are split into one beginning and one intermediate

class, and at La Boca the 25 students are

all beginners.

They have been classified, according to

their knowledge of Spanish, by their

teachers. So far, no advance Spanish

classes are being given.

Talk And Learn The beginners' class at La Boca, which

meets in the Occupational High School

Building each Monday and Wednesday

evening between 7:30 and 8:30, is typical

of the adult classes. The teacher is Mrs.

Margarita Eastmond, a graduate of the Santiago Normal School who is now in her last year at the University of Panama.

Daytimes, she teaches kindergarten at La Boca. So far, she says, the work has been

largely conversational. She conducts all her class sessions in Spanish, paraphrasing from her original sentences as she goes along and switching into English with a key-word or two only when she sees that

her point has been lost, completely. The

first thing, she believes, is to build up a vocabulary, though sometimes she has to swing into sign language to help.

Homework is assigned at the end of each session. Mrs. Eastmond finds her

pupils cooperative in this extra stint, and

somewhat amused at the idea. Ninetyfive percent of her students are parents, who understand all about homework.

The night Spanish classes for adults

will not recess when the Latin American

schools close the end of March for the long vacation. They will continue on a

trial basis throughout the year, Mr. Fawcett said. At the present time a general course

is being planned for the adult classes, so that students may transfer from one class to another, in case they move from one town to another. Both students and teachers are enjoying the classes, and the youngsters find

it a novelty to be told: "Quiet, now. Mother's got to get her homework done."

It should not be long before Mother

will be saying that in Spanish, too.

Consultants Inspect Pedro Miguel Locks

CONSULTANTS on the Plant Inventory and Appraisal program visited the Canal Zone last month. They

were John V. Bowser, Executive Director of the Secuities and Exchange Commission, and Walter J. Costello, Chief Engineer of the SEC. They are shown here while on a visit to the Pedro Miguel Locks. Left

to right are: Capt. Frank A. Munroe, Jr., Marine Director. Mr. Bowser, Mr. Costello, and Lindsley H. Noble, Comptroller. The consultants were here at the request of the Director of the Budget to advise him' in connection with his approval of the final valuation of Panama Canal properties as required under the law.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE !£CCIDENT PREVENTION

Rat Traps And Things

Have you ever tried to set a rat trap?

The chances are that if you have, it fascinated you, and you tripped it a couple

of times just to hear it CRACK. No

doubt, you handled it very gingerly.

You treated it with a great deal of respect, for you knew what it would do to you if you had your finger in the way

when it snapped shut. You were probably very careful to keep your fingers in

the clear when you set it. You may even have felt a sense of relief when at last it was safely placed under the stove, and it hadn't "gone off." HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

JANUARY

COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

HIGHWAY ZOO

The GOOSE

This, of course, is the honker. To him, expert driving is steering straight ahead with one hand and giving em

the horn with the other. Saves on braker-and brains! Take the horn away om this footer and he'd be

like a politician with a sore throat!

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 1

Civil Affairs Engineering and Construction

Health

Marine

Supply

Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

JANUARY

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

INDUSTRIAL DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

RAILROAD DIVISION

HOUSING DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION

A rat trap is just another THING.

We handle THINGS all day long, from

the moment we get up in the morning

until the alarm clock is set at night and we go to sleep. On our job we handle THINGS and handle them in a routine manner—THINGS that can do far more damage than the rat trap which we treat with so much respect. It is ROUTINE

(force of habit) that causes the trouble. When you sharpen a machete, use a

screwdriver, pick up a wrench, start to grind a chisel, or handle any tool regardless of what it is—treat it with respect

Improperly used, it could harm you.

Statistics show that nearly one fourth

of all industrial injuries are caused by- people handling something.

The next time you start to handle THINGS - STOP — THINK — BE

CAREFUL as you would if you were

handling a somewhat strange THING

such as a rat trap. Remember, your fingers, your toes, your earning power, all can be affected

if you cause things to slip or rip—gash or mash—fall or maul. Your back, too, will

collect a baker's dozen of assorted aches and pains if you lift with your sacroiliac instead of your legs. Remember too, if you receive a minor

injury, get First Aid immediately. A

"minor" is easily promoted to a "major'

'

in a big hurry with a little influence by

the right kind of GERM! About one out

of every five hand or finger injuries winds

up with an infection.

If handling THINGS on your job has become ROUTINE, stop and think. Ask

yourself how that particular tool could

injure you. Decide on the best method

of working with it to avoid injury. Treat

it with respect. If you do this, the day

will never come when "professional handlers" will cart a certain object, namely

YOU, off for emergency repairs at the "body shop."

JANUARY 1955

Community Services Bureau

Health Bureau

Supply Bureau

C. Z. Govt.-Panama Canal Co. ( This Month I

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

( Frequency Rale)

Marine Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

C. Z. Govt.-Panama Canal Co ( Last 3-Year Av.)

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aid,8 to Navigation

Grounds Maintenance

Housing

Industrial Maintenance

Railroad _ _ Sanitation

Commissary

Dredging

Electrical _ Hospitalization and Clinics Number »i Disabling Injuries 21 Locks _ Motor Transportation

Navigation l I Amount Better Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average

Service Center •_ Storehouses

Terminals k%R8S%}

?0 30 40

Man-Hours Worked.. .2.316,09* LEGEND

3 Amount Worse Than Canal Zone Government—Panama Canal Company Last 3-Year Average

Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

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Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

Prominent Texas Executive

Appointed Member Of Board

The appointment of John H. Blaffer, prominent businessman of Houston, Tex., as a member of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company was an- nounced late last month. He succeeds Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, retired, of Boston, Mass., who recently resigned and

who had served on the Board for about

one year.

The new director is a native of Houston and is an officer in several of the

largest companies in the Southwest. He

is a graduate of the University of Virginia

in the Class of 1936. He has been an

independent oil producer since 1937, ex- cept for war-time service with the United

States Coast Guard and Navy.

He is director and president of the

Blaffer Oil Company, R. L. Blaffer and

Company, Surburban Realty Company,

and San Jacinto Wharf Company, all of Houston. He is Chairman of the Board

of the Marine Gathering Company in Houston, and holds a directorship in the

following well-known firms: Texas National Bank, Reed Roller Bit Company,

Texas Fund, Inc., Federal Royalty Company, Walnut Hill Farms, Freeport National Bank, and Benjamin Franklin Savings and Loan Association.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

AT MOST OF THEIR STOPS during their visit in the Canal Zone, Vice President and Mrs. Nixon took time to chat briefly and informally with employees on duty. Here they pose with the train crew just before

leaving the Colon Station for their ride across the Isthmus. At Mrs. Nixon's right are Joseph Vowell, Conductor, and Louis B. Dalby. Fireman. Standing between the Vice President and Mrs. Nixon is Samuel -I. Deavours, Engineer.

A contract for the construct ion ol the new Civic Center in Paraiso was awarded

this week to Isthmian Constructors. Inc.. which entered a low lump-sum bid of $164,000 for the project. The new building

will be the first of its kind in any Canal Zone town. It will be located on Paraiso Road and will house the post office, medical

clinic, luncheonette, barber shop, beauty

shop, and a meeting room. The new building is scheduled for completion by August of this year. While it

is under construction, the Service Center at Paraiso will operate on a reduced scale on

the ground floor of a building near the

existing Service Center.

Canal Zone residents who used to get a bad case of taxitis around March 15 can

relax this year- at least for another month. The income tax deadline for returns for the

past year has been moved up one month

and will fall on Friday, April 15. But, that doesn't mean that the taxpayer

should wait until the last minute to file returns. The income tax forms and infor- mation material was mailed out early this year in the Canal Zone as usual, and resi- dents have been requested to file their re- turns early and avoid a last-minute rush.

Balboa Flats is rapidly assuming again

the appearance of a distinctive Canal Zone

community. For nearly two years now the demolition of the old four-family buildings

and the construction of new quarters has

resulted in a depopulation of the area. The last of the new houses are scheduled

for completion within a week and all are

to be transferred to the Housing Division during the coming week. All but 19 of the houses have been completed and these are now about ready for their new occupants. Most of the apartments in the Flats were

assigned in advance to speed up the moves

from old houses in Pedro Miguel, Ancon, and Balboa, which are still to be demolished. The occupants of houses to be de- molished have been urged to apply for

other quarters.

Among the distinguished visitors to the Isthmus this month will be Lord Brookeborough, Prime Minister of North Ireland. He and an official party will transit the Canal about the middle of March enroute from New Zealand and Australia to England. The party will include Lady Brookeborough; Sir Robert Grandsen, Secretary to the Cabinet; and Miss Jill Whitfield, the Prime

Minister's personal secretary.

J. Douglas Lord, Storekeeper in the Locks

Division, returned to the Isthmus recently- after completing the sixth Junior Management Intern training program of the U. S. Civil Service Commission in Washington.

D. C, from September through January.

After completing a course in public ad

ministration at George Washington University, Mr. Lord was given rotating assign- ments in various units of the Federal Gov- ernment and the District of Columbia. A

native of Melrose, Mass.. he has been employed in the Canal organization since 1941 except during the period of 1944 to 1946 when he served with the U. S. Navy.

The first construction work on the 60-

cycle conversion project began February 21 when L. R. Sommer, contractor, broke ground for the new Mount Hope Substation. This substation, which will cost 8815,213,

is scheduled for completion in April I956 ) at which time it is expected that conversion

of the first generators at the Gatun hydroelectric plant will be finished and 60-cycle current will be available in the Cristobal

area. The new Mount Hope Substation is being

built to serve all Atlantic side areas except

Gatun, Fort Davis, and Fort Sherman. It

will replace the old Cristobal Substation

located in the Camp Bierd area. Its construction was authorized after it had been

determined that it would be more econonomical than converting and modernizing

the old Cristobal facilities.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

Canal Employees Paid High Tribute

By Vice President Richard M. Nixon

The Vice President of the United States and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon captivated a big audience in the Canal Zone when they

devoted most of their day on Thursday,

Feb] uary 24, to seeing the Panama Canal

and the people of the Canal Zone.

( )n th"se two pages and elsewhere in this issue, The Canal Review presents

EMPHASIZING A POINT. One of the highlights of the visit to the Canal Zone by Vice President and Mrs. Nixon was their train trip across the Isthmus during which the Vice President made three "whistle stop" speeches—at Gatun, Gamboa, and Balboa Heights. This picture was taken while he was addressing the crowd at the Balboa Heights Railroad Station during which he highly praised the Canal Administration and Canal employees for their job in operating the Panama Canal. Standing on the rear platform of the

train are Mrs. Nixon and Governor Sevbold.

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,

VICE PRESIDENT at the controls. Under the expert guidance of Edward Barlow, Operational Supervisor

at Miraflores Locks, at the left, Vice President Nixon locks through a ship. Like any visitor to the Control House for the first time, the Vice President was fascinated by the control board. After turning the levers which fill the lock chamber, or open the gates, he rushed outside to see what happened below. Mr. Barlow has explained the operation of the locks to many a distinguished visitor but never to one more

interested than Vice President Nixon.

a brief picture story of some of the highlights of the day, some of the places they

visited, and some of the thousands of people they saw. The most important aspect of their tour of the Zone during their three-day

visit to the Isthmus was what the Vice

President and his wife thought of the people of the Canal Zone and how they

operate the Panama Canal. Words of high praise were expressed by Vice President Nixon for Governor Seybold, members of his Staff, and for all employees in the Canal organization.

The following quotations from Vice

Fresident Nixon's speech at the Balboa

Heights Railroad Station at the conclusion of his train trip across the Isthmus

will last long in the memory of employes:

"It is a privilege to bring to you di- rectly from the White House greetings

from President and Mrs. Eisenhower. I know they would want me to say 'hello' to you from them.

"I also want to say that although

you're a long way from home, we in the Government appreciate the work that is being done here. The Panama Canal has been one of the greatest ventures in the

history of the United States. "We want you to know that we appreciate the work that is being done here by

the thousands of American citizens who

live here and work in the Canal Zone.

Certainly, the work that is done is something to make us very proud of our country and of the Administration in the Zone.

"I also wouldn't want this opportunity

HIGHLIGHTS OF VISIT

It was a busy day for Vice President and Mrs. Nixon on February 24 when

they visited the Canal Zone.

In the morning Mrs. Nixon visited Gorgas Hospital, Palo Seco Leprosarium, Canpl Zone Junior College, and

Paraiso Elementary School. During that time the Vice President

inspected Miraflores Locks, took a trip through Gaillard Cut on the tugboat

"Culebra," and attended a special sesion of the Panamanian National Assembly.

After a plane trip across the Isthmus,

they were guests of the Colon Chamber

of Commerce at a luncheon at the strangers Club. They then inspected

the Colon Free Zone. They boarded a special train at 3:30

p. m. for the trip across the Isthmus. The Vice President made three "whistle

stop" speeches to crowds at the Gatun,

Gamboa, and Balboa Heights Railroad

Stations. Band music was furnished at Gatun

by the Cristobal High School Band; at Gamboa by the Rainbow City High

School Band; and at Balboa by the Balboa High School Band. Attending

at each station were uniformed Boy and

Girl Scouts, and International Scouts. Presidents of the various Civic Councils were introduced to the Vice Presi- dent at the stops, and at Gatun, William Jump, who has just completed 50 years

of Canal service, was introduced and

received Vice Presidential commendation for his long service. At Balboa, the Vice President was

presented with a pair of bookends made

from one of the Panama Railroad's

original crossties. At Gatun, Mrs. Nixon was presented with an orchid corsage, and the Vice President with a black palm walking stick, handmade by G. G. Thomas, President of the Gatun Civic Council.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

to pass without expressing appreciation

to those people who are working in the Zone who are not citizens of the United

.States. We're mighty proud of you, too. We're happy to have you all working to- gether to make this project such a successful one as it is. "We in Washington are very appreciative of the splendid job that is being done

by the Governor, the members of his

staff, and all of those who have run such

a fine operation in the Canal Zone." A special Vice Presidential commendation of "tops" went to the Balboa High

School band for its music at the Balboa

stop. The heart-warming words of Vice Pres- ident Nixon at Balboa followed the theme

he expressed in "whistle stop" talks made

to the audiences at Mount Hope, Gatun,

and Gamboa.

STOPPING TO CHAT with Harry Wentzler, Towing Locomotive Operator, Vice President NLxon

learned that Mr. Wentzler is the son of an oldtimer

of the Canal organization. Governor Seybold, standing at the right, listens while Mr. Wentzler explains the operation of the "electric mule."

CROSSING THE LOCK GATES at Miraflores. Vice President N'ixon stopped for a better look at a ship being raised to the next level. At his left is Governor Seybold and Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter American Affairs, one of the officials in the party.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC audience greeted the Vice President at each of his train stops across the Isthmus

Here is a view of part of the throng at Gatun Station.

AT PAIUISO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Mrs. Nixon, center, visited several classrooms. At her left is Mrs. Se\ bold, wife of the Goveraor, and at her right is Ellis L. Fawcett, Principal of the school.

( lARNTVAL was reenaeted for Mrs. NLxon when she visited Palo Seco Leprosarium. Here Mrs. Ezra Hurwitz, wife of the Superintendent, dances to a Carnival tune.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Supply Bureau Civil Affairs Bureau Community Services Bureau

Christmas already? Certainly, in the Commissary Division righl now, or there would be no Christmas for the customers

nine months from now Lew \\ Mcllvaine, Santa Claus' local representative, is in New York, attending

the I ''55 Toy Fair to make a selection of toys for next Christmas sales. He expects

to return late this month but won't bring the toys with him; they will start arriving

.i few months latei Mr. Mcllvaine is also buying additional toys to freshen up the selection which is kept in the larger stores all year around. W. R. Waldrip, who has been in charge of the Balboa Toy Center for the past several

years, is t<» be with Mr Mcllvaine during

part of the buying expedition.

• • • Vincent J. Hither, Acting Manager of the Commissary Division's Wholesale Drygoods

Section, is also on official detail with the New )'ork (» iff. I If will concentrate on the drygoods field, especially wearing apparel.

• • • Small boating is a popular Isthmian hobbv and Commissary Division employees

are among its aficionados. George P. All- gaier, Foreman of the Division's Mechanical

Services, launched the 38-foot, twin-screw,

raised deck cabin cruiser Louise on February 9. The boat is part of the Panama

(anal Yacht Club's power squadron.

Paul Linvill, who has been Supervisory Milk Products Assistant, resigned February

6. He will transit the Canal soon on the double-ended auxiliary ketch Skoal. Skoal

is a Hanna-designed-Tahiti-type craft which was brought down from the United States.

• • • O. W. Ryan, Manager of Cristobal Commissary, has returned from a vacation in Miami and was back on the job as of February 23. D. E. Bruce, who has been in the

relief spot at Cristobal, will take a short period of leave locally before going back to his regular post at the Rainbow City Store.

• • • Good news for onion-sandwich fans! The

Commissary Division has added to its vegetable line, on a trial basis, a small amount

of Bermuda onions. There is nothing much

better on a slice of fresh, buttered bread.

Office Of The Comptroller

Two officials of the Securities and Ex- change Commission in Washington arrived

in February for a stay of several weeks. The two officials, John Y. Bowser, Executive Director, and Walter Costello, Chief

Engineer, will work with the plant inventory

• mil appraisal program.

• • • Another February arrival was Earl J. Donnelly of the Bureau of the Budget. Mr. Doniiflly arrived aboard the SS Cristobal on Feb- ruary In and will he in the Canal '/.one for about three weeks.

lie will work in cooperation with the Governor and his Staff and other officials on

budget problems.

• • • The annual "Decimal Point Pushers"

golf tournament, held each year by employees of the Office of the Comptroller, took

place February 22 at the Panama Golf Club.

• • Fellow workmen and women from the Comptroller's Office honored two retiring employees

within a short period. I'lie first honoree was

Clarence II I me of the Plant Inventory and

Appraisal Staff. The party -was held at the Army-Navy Club and was given jointly by

fellow employees of the Plant Inventory and

Appraisal Slo;i and by former co-workers from the Engineering Division. Ilw other retirement party is scheduled to be given tonight, honoring Craig S. Neville, and will also be held at the Army-Navy Club.

Mr. Neville, Chief of the Commissary Inventory Control Section in the Accounting Diviretired the last day of February.

• • • William E. Hall, who was a graduate

trainee with the old Clubhouse Division from 1948 to 1949, has joined the staff of the Office of the Comptroller as an AccotintCapt. Rodger W. Griffith, Assistant Chief

of Police, was named "Man of the Year"

at the annual ball sponsored last month by

the Cristobal Chapter of the Canal Zone

Police Association. Captain Griffith is shown examining a beautifully-wrapped door prize which he

received after being selected as "Man of the Year." The surprise prize a deodorized skunk—was graciously accepted. Shown

admiring the pet are Capt. B. A. Darden,

Balboa Police District Commander; Capt. Robert H. Emerick, USN, Chief of the Industrial Division; Mrs. John Andrews,

wife oi the Cristobal Port Captain; and

Mrs. Macon A. Turner wife of Detective Captain Turner, of the Balboa Police District.

• • Speaking of Police A fairs, one of the big- gest of the year is the annual Policemen's Ball on the Pacific side which is scheduled to be held on the night of March II at the Hotel El Panama. The few customers who have escaped the eagle-eyed Pacific side policemen eon still get tickets —not necessarily for traffic violations —by accosting any member of the Force.

• • • Three farewell parties were given toward

the end of February for employees retiring

from Civil Affairs units. Employees feted were Theodore E. Englebright, of the Police

Division, who retired January 31; Kenneth

Zipperer, of the Postal Service, and Raymong A. Koperski, of the Customs Service, both of whom retired at the end of February. The party for Mr. and Mrs. Englebright was held at the Rancho Ramos on February 28, where two nights earlier Mr.

and Mrs. Koperski were honored. Mr. and

Mrs. Zipperer were honor guests at a sup- per dance given by a large group of Postal

Division employees and other friends at the Non-Commissioned Officers Club at Al- brook Air Force Base.

• • • A holiday group of past and present Canal Zone Postal Officials enjoyed a week's motoring trip to El Volcan last month. In the party were Elmer B. Oberg, former

Postal Inspector, now of Denver, Col., visit- ing Earl F. Unruh, Director of Posts; William D. Taylor, oi Panama, formerly Post- master in Balboa. Cristobal, and other Zone

towns; Arthur T. Cotton. Balboa Post111, tsler; and Leonard Long, Clerk-in-Charge

of the Cristobal Post Office.

• • Art students of all grades in the Canal /.one schools are sending entries to the Latham

International Poster Contest being held in May. Numerous awards have been won by

'/.one students in past years in this contest. The subjectsfor this year's posters are humane

treatment of animals, and world peace. Awards will be announced at the end of May.

ing Assistant in the Accounting Division. A native of Ohio, he has been working with

the General Exchange Insurance Corporation in Springfield.

Three promotions in the Housing Division

rwere made lust month. J. C. Randall is now

Chief of the Division, Harry C. Egolf is Housing Manager for the Southern District and Wendell C. Cotton is Housing Manager

for the Northern District.

With the consolidation of the housing activities of the Gamboa District with the Balboa District, now all under the Southern

District, Gamboa Housing Ylanager J. J. Pearce was transferred to the Balboa Housing Office. One local-rate clerk will remain at the Gamboa Housing Office to handle keys and

minor requests.

February was moving month for 13 families assigned to the new quarters on Ridge

Road. The last two of the 17 new houses

in the Ridge Road and Quarry Road section were released to the Housing Division by Isthmian Constructors about the middle

of February.

C. W. Kilbey, Assistant to the General Manager of the Service Center Division, was

awarded $25 by the Efficiency Award Committee for an idea which would result in increased Company revenue. This is his second employee suggestion award.

His suggestion concerned an improved

method of merchandising in the Division.

Work was started last month to begin

moving the La Boca Service Center from

the old clubhouse building to Building 900

near the La Boca Commissary.

The La Boca theater will continue to operate in the clubhouse for the time being.

Price reductions made by manufacturers

of long-playing records have been followed by the Service Center Division. RCA, London, and other records which formerly sold

for $5.90 are now retailing for as low as

$3.98 each.

Transportation And Terminals

The Panama Railroad does not expect to celebrate another centennial for some time and meanwhile business goes on as usual. An interesting recent railroad cargo has been large, steel, glass-lined tanks for the National Brewery of Panama. The tanks

are being shipped from the United States

via the Panama Line and transshipped by

rail from Cristobal to Panama.

At the end of last month, the Railroad had eight more of the tanks to move, to complete the 54 which are being received. Each tank measures 10 by 10 by 35 feet.

Eleven special trains have been reserved

for tourists this month. The month got off to a good start with specials for cruise pas- sengers from the SS Mauretania on March 1 and the SS Nieuw Amsterdam and the SS

Tradewind on March 3. Today the SS Stella Polaris is due. She

will be followed by:

The SS Ocean Monarch on March 5; the SS Antilles on March 8; the SS Patricia on March 12; the SS Olympia on March 15; the SS Empress of Scotland on March 16. Two cruises of the SS Tradewind, on March

17 and March 31, will close the month's

tourist business.

Other special trains will be run this month

for passengers aboard the transport USS

( -ibbins. Two trains were scheduled, one last Wednesday and one March 23. In addition, the Railroad generally adds several extra coaches on Train No. 2 for outgoing military

personnel.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Engineering And Construction

A new function has been set up in the

office of the Engineering and Construction

Director to carry out his recently added

responsibility for administration of all capital project expenditures which involve in- stallation or construction. In addition to administering the expenditures, the Engineering and Construction

Director will coordinate with the other Bureau Directors in scheduling the work to be done on authorized construction projects.

The administration of this program is under the direction of Nelson E. Wise,

Budget and Projects Coordinator. Mrs. Mae Cross and Mrs. Ruth B. Adams have been added to the staff of the Director's

office for this work.

• • The suction dredge Mindi, which began

its annual dry season clean-up operation* on the sea tangent in the Pacific entrance

to the Canal January 25, will go into dryclock March 14 for its three-year overhaul. The dredge is now working opposite Fort Amador. Approximately 600,000 cubic yards of sand, silt, clay, and rock will be excavated from the Canal channel.

• • • Nelson W. Magner, Superintendent of Atlantic side operations for the Maintenance

Division, returned to work February 1 after a long illness.

• • • Representatives of the Engineering and

Construction Bureau attended a Civil Defense briefing session February 14. It was

conducted by William Dolan, Civil Defense

Director.

• • • Carl H. Giroux, Special Assistant to the Chief of Engineers for the U. S. Army, spent about 10 days here last month. Mr. Giroux is a consultant on the develop- mental study of lockage methods and the 60-

cycle electrical conversion program.

• • • Col. Hugh M. Arnold, Engineering and

Construction Director, was on official duty

in the United States last month, for about

a week's period. He visited the Office of the Chief of Engineers and the Panama

Canal Company in Washington and the General Electric Company in New York in connection with the 60-cycle conversion pro- gram and the locks towing locomotives.

Marine Bureau

A rigorous screening and testing program

has resulted in three appointments to the Marine Traffic Controller force. Philip Whitney and Richard Thompson,

both former Postal employees, were ap- pointed to the force in Cristobal, and Adrien Bouche, Jr.. transferred from the Meteorology and Hydrography Branch to the Bal- boa Port Captain's Office. Another shift in personnel brought Oscar

O. Brown from the Cristobal Traffic Control Office to Balboa to fill the vacancy

caused by the retirement of Joe Oliver, a

long-time employee at Balboa. Mr. Oliver died suddenly soon alter his retirement.

• • • Lionel L. Ewing, Senior Admeasurer at Balboa, has transferred to an Engineering

position with the Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff.

• • • Personnel of the Industrial Division were

interested last month in the two-masted

schooner Vileehi which was put onto the marine railway for repairs. The yacht is owned by a grandson of Samuel Morse, who

developed the telegraph.

It carries 1,100 square feet of sail and got

its strange name from the family of its owner:

the Vi for Violet, the lee from Lee, and the Hi from Hiram.

Health Bureau

Mrs. Nina P. Robinson, who retired at the end of February after 27 years of service as a nurse with the Health Bureau, was

honor guest at a retirement party given

February 16 by the staff of Corozal Hospipital. The party was held at the home of Colonel and Mrs. R. F. Mulholland at Corozal. Mrs. Robinson was presented with a farewell gift from her co-workers and

friends, the presentation being made by

Colonel Mulholland, Superintendent of the

hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson leave

this week to make their home in Florida.

1955 Red Cross Drive Opens

This Year's Goal: $25,000

The Canal Zone Chapter of the American Red Cross joins with hundreds of other chapters throughout the United

States this month in its annual appeal

for funds. The goal for this year's drive in the Canal Zone is $25,000, and Red Cross

officials have urged the full cooperation

of all employees which will be needed to achieve the objective. Governor Seybold, as President of the Canal Zone Chapter, has issued an appeal

to all Canal employees to give their co- operation. In his statement, the Governor called particular attention to the

consistently high standard of giving

which has characterized other Red Cross

drives in the Canal Zone. The 1955 Red Cross drive is being

headed by Charles A. Dubbs with Daniel

J. Paolucci as Vice Chairman. The general plans for the appeal this year is being made under the direction of Carl

J. Browne who was recently elected Chairman of the Canal Zone Chapter.

All contributions are voluntary and

Company-Government employees may

elect to contribute through the payroll

deduction plan or by cash contributions.

New Public Health Nurse

HEADS OF COMMUNITY

SERVICE DIVISION

PROMOTIONS in both the Housing Division and

the Service Center Division of the Community Service Bureau were announced last month.

Philip S. Thornton, right, was promoted to General Manager of the Service Center Division. He

has lived practically all his life in the Canal Zone and most of his 30 years of service have been with

the hotels. He was Manager of the Hotel Washington and Tivoli Guest House before his new appoint- ment.

In the picture below, at the far right, is shown

Jack C. Randall, new Chief of the Housing Division. He is conferring with Wendell G. Cotton, left, Housing Manager in Cristobal, and Harry C. Egolf, Housing Manager in Balboa. Both Housing Managers were promoted last month after Mr. Randall's appointment. Mr. Cotton was born and raised in the Canal Zone, and Mr. Randall has spent most cf his life here. Mr.

Egolf was born in Reading, Pa. The new Housing

Division Chief began work with the Canal organization in 1926, and both Housing Managers have many

years of service in that division.

KEEPING well babies well is now the job of Mrs

Catherine C. Reid, who has been transferred from Gorgas Hospital to the post of Pacific Side Public Health Nurse. Lorraine Elizabeth Erbe, four and a

half months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Erbe of Los Rios, is much more interested in The

Review photographer than in Mrs. Reid or the

weighing-in procedure. Mrs. Reid is succeeding Mrs. Kathrvn M. Swain who retired recently.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4,1955

Dr. Kraybill Praises Balboa And Cristobal

High Schools; Junior College Study Starts

MEMBERS OF the Atlantic side committee meet with Dr. Ira Kraybill to discuss Cristobal High School's merits for accreditation. Dr. Kraybill, standing, is examining one of the many reports prepared during

the self-evaluation by the school faculty during the past two years.

Balboa and Cristobal High Schools are "good schools of which residents of the Zone may be justly proud" in the words

of Dr. Ira Kraybill who completed last month an analysis and evaluation of the

schools for accreditation by the Middle

States Association of Colleges and Sec- ondary Schools. Dr. Kraybill is Executive Secretary of the Commission on Secondary Education

of the Association, and was assigned by

the Association to carry out the final phase of the evaluation. The first phase

consisting of a self-evaluation by faculty

members of the two schools has been performed over the past two years under

the general supervision of C. A. Dubbs,

Director of the Secondary Education

Branch of the Schools Division. The study of the Canal Zone Junior

College for accreditation by the Middle

States Association began this week with

the arrival of two committee members.

They are Dr. Paul D. Shafer, President

of Packer Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Dr. Charles A. Seidle, Director of Admissions at Lehigh University. They arrived Wednesday and

planned to be here until Saturday, returning to New York by the Panama Line. Dr. and Mrs. Kraybill spent two weeks

in the Canal Zone during which he worked

with two special committees composed

of school officials, teachers, and others. On his departure, Dr. Kraybill said: "I have had an interesting visit heir

seeing how Balboa and Cristobal High

Schools operate. It seems to me that these are good schools of which the resi- dents of the Zone may be justly proud.

The self-study carried 0:1 by the staff of these two schools was well done. "Words fail me to describe the hospitality of everyone we have met. We can

only say 'thank you' for the many kind- nesses we have received. We return to the States with a host of pleasant memories." Formal accreditation of a high school

is granted only upon an extensive study

and evaluation of many broad phases of school work. Upcn accreditation of a high school, its graduates may be ac- cepted for the following ten-year period

for admission to most colleges without

the requirement of entrance examinations

or other qualifying rules. The self-evaluation program, described

in the June 1954 issue of The Canal Review, included such broad subjects as

qualification of staff members, the pupil

activity program, library service, school

plant, program of studies, school administration and guidance service.

It was a review of this extensive self- evaluation and a personal inspection of the school plant and program which was

done by Dr. Kraybill preliminary to for- mal accreditation by the Middle States

Association which has jurisdiction over

schools outside the continental United

States.Members Of Two Committees

The following committee was selected

to assist Dr. Kraybill in the evaluation

of Balboa High School: Roger Hackett, Dean of the Canal Zone

Junior College; Russell Johns, Principal

of La Boca High School; Paul Beck, Principal of Cristobal High School; Roger

Adams, Superintendent of the Motor

Transportation Division; Daniel Paolucci,

Training Officer. Personnel Division; Roger Michel, Principal of Balboa Junior

High School; Mrs. Eleanor Burnham,

Canal Zone Librarian; John Pettingill, Assistant Director of Physical Education

and Recreation Branch; C. A. Batalden,

Supervisor of Shop at La Boca High

School; Kenneth Vinton, Science Teacher

in the Canal Zone Junior College; Walter

Oliver, Supervisor of Spanish for U. S. elementary schools; Neil Branstetter, Supervisor of Music; Mrs. Jean Karch, Art Supervisor in Elementary Schools; Miss Bess Liter, English teacher at Cristobal; and Miss Sally McLimans, Home

Economics teacher at Cristobal. Those serving on the Cristobal High

School Committee were:

T. F. Hotz, Principal of Balboa High

School; Judge E. I. P. Tatelman, Magistrate of Cristobal Court; R. L. Sullivan,

General Manager of the Commissary Division; R. F. Haining, Principal of Rainbow City High School; James Lyons,

Canal Zone Junior College instructor; Miss Eloise Munroe, Home Economics

teacher at Balboa High School; Robert

McCullough, Supervisor of Shop at Rainbow City High School; Miss Margaret

Whitman and Edward Hatchett, Balboa

High School teachers; Subert Turbyfill,

Canal Zone Junioi College instructor: and Mrs. Karch, Mrs. Burnham, Dean

Hackett, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Branstetter.

Swimmers And Swim Meet Officials

OXE OF the biggest athletic events in the Canal Zone in many months was the annual swimming meet at the Oamboa Swimming Pool held February 21. More than 311(1 entries, including champions and would-be champs, provided the overflow crowd with a spectacular display. The meet was held under the supervision of the Canal Zone Physical Education and Recreation Branch.

It was sponsored by the Gamboa Civic Council. Shown above are James Hunter, President of Gamboa

Civic Council, and Charles Connor, Chairman of the Civic Council's Swim Meet Committee (holding megaphone). A row of young girl contestants are waiting at the edge of the pool in front of the two officials for the starting gun in one of the races.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

ANNIVERSARIES

Popular Centennial Feature

Except For William Jump, the Canal's

mid-centenarian, in point of service, whose

story appears elsewhere in this issue, February's senior employee is David S. Smith,

formerly of Aydon, North Carolina, and one

of the few Army and Navy veterans in the Canal service. Diplomatically, he declines

to name his favorite team at Army-Nav>

football games. He served with the Army's SOth Division during World War I; later he enlisted in the Navy and was sent to the Canal Zone

to serve at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station. A girl and a senator had a good deal to do

with his staying here. The senator arranged

for him to be discharged in the Canal Zone and as for the girl —he married her. He is now a steam engineer on a locomotive crane

at the Industrial Division. In February he completed 35 years of government service.

Five other employees turned the 35-year

corner in February and for one of them,

Craig S. Neville, Supervisory Accountant

in the Office of the Comptroller, the month

was eventful on another count; he retired from active service the end of February and

is leaving soon to make his home in Phoenix,

Ariz. Two other of this month's 35-year employees are twins on service dates. They

are Anne Williams, Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk with the Payroll Branch who has been in accounting work of one sort or another since 1927, and Spencer C. Lincoln, whose Canal service has been divided be- tween the Locks and Electrical Divisions and who is now a Lock Operator W ireman

at Pedro Miguel.

The two others who completed 35 years

of service in February were Alfredo Lombana, who went to work for the Canal or- ganization on February 24, 1920, and who

is now a Tabulating Machine Operator in the Office of the Comptroller, and Joseph

H. Michaud, onetime of Van Buren, Me.

Since 1924, he has been with the Receiving

& Forwarding Agency or its modern successors; he is now Local Agent for the Railroad and Terminals Bureau in Panama.

30 YEARS

Two of February's 30-year emploj nhave unbroken service with the Canal or- ganization: Harold M. Fraser, who, as Wire Chief, sees to it that Atlantic Siders have no difficulty with telephone calls, and

Hugh E. Turner, Supervisory Supply Offi- cer in the Division of Storehouses. Mr.

Fraser, Brooklyn-born, took his apprenticeship as a telephone maintainer in the Canal

Zone. Mr. Turner started his Canal career as a clerk in the Accounting Division, transferring to the supply business in 1931. February's other 30-year men are Noe E. Dillman, Jack H. Hearn, and George H. Logan. Mr. Dillman, a crack shot, was

born in North Dakota at a little town named Devil's Lake. He is a Pumping

Plant operator with the Maintenance Division. "Captain Jack" Hearn is a native of Alabama but came to the Canal Zone when

a boy. He has been a Canal pilot since 1937. Mr. Logan comes from Michigan. His Canal service, all of which has been with

the Record Bureau or its successor units, was broken only by his World War II service. He is a Records Analyst.

25 YEARS

The six quarter-century employees are

-plit three and three as far as continuous or broken service with the Canal is concerned. Those with continuous service are Mrs. Johanna E. Hargy, a nurse at the Atlantic Medical Clinics and one of three nurses in the February 25-year bracket; Roy D. Reece, a onetime Hoosier and now Assist- ant Electrical Engineer in the Electrical Division; and Angela F. Reilly, a native Mew Yorker who is on the nursing staff at Gorgas Hospital.

Twenty-five year employees with broken

service are Frances G. Clary who teaches

fourth grade at the Ancon Elementary

school; Rae F. Elicker, Assistant Director

of Nurses at Coco Solo Hospital; and William C. Keepers who has been with the Locks Division since 1937 and who is now

a Lockmaster at Mirafiores. Their home

towns cover a wide geographical spread: Miss Clary comes from Melrose, Minn.;

Miss Flicker from York, (See page 14)

YOUTHFUL customers were steady customers at the soft drink stand at the Balboa Railroad station when

the Canal Zone celebrated the Panama Railroad's centennial. When they found out that the drinks that day were "on the house" as part of the Canal administration's contribution to Centennial Day, their thirst became phenomenal.

SPRING which even in the tropics means new clothes, Easter eggs, and a new outlook on life will be busting out all over in the Commissary retail stores this month. From a woman's point of view, naturally, spring means new clothes, and the Commissary

people believe that even though Easter is several weeks away, the gals will be interested

in getting a preview of the new spring lines.

With this in mind, the Commissary buyers ordered early, and the first of the new spring p clothes have already arrived from n California and will be put on sale

_ f ai-ir \/ in \An rr-r\ I k^w ronfiirA cr-\/-\rtc Early

early in March. They feature sports and informal cottons made by the well-known California house of Carole Chris and a number of more formal cottons and

synthetics for juniors ranging from 5 to 15 —in dress size, that is. The California clothes are mostly in good serviceable denim which

comes in stripes and such luscious solid colors as lime, avocado, gold, helio, pink, and

orange. Styles range from the so-called tor- eador pants and short shorts to strapless sundress, plain button-down-the-front sleeveless

frocks and the ever-popular jumper which

comes in black as well as pastel. The jumpers will be wonderful with the new blouses featured by the Commissary recently in the

retail stores. The shorts and pants come with matching blouses which can be purchased

separately and used with other costumes. NONE of these items will sell for more than $10 or $12 and many are in the $5 and $6

brackets which will be easy on father who

has the income tax to worry about.

Speaking of father, who probably will need some Easter cheer, the Commissary DivPink Shirts

ls ' on '"ias orc'ered a new line of

fo Podc postel shirts made by Jayson and

by the Arrow people. In addition to the popular pink, these shirts will come in —hold everything—helio, pale green and maize. The materials are pique sheer,

cotton, and broadcloth. The collars are soft, both medium-spread and button-down which

can be worn either with business suits or with sports wear. Some of the shirts have

French cuffs—cufflinks also are available in the men's wear department.

IF DADDY wants to be a gayer blade yet, he can buy some of the new nylon stretch and cotton argyle and striped hose which are now made in high fashion colors or perhaps a pair of pink and black shoes to match his pink shirt.

Easter being a holiday for the children as

well as a time for Mama and Daddy to dress c„.„ p.. :„ up, the Commissary will soon

taster ounnies , i r . i for the place on sale taster egg dyes

v„„„j.„ decorating kits, Easter bask- Youngsters . u j i i i els, sturted animals, and yel- low and white chenille chicks. Smart Easter baskets will be filled with cellophane grass

this year in a variety of colors. A large

shipment of Easter candy, including jelly beans, chocolate covered eggs and animals

for the children, and boxes of candy for the lady of the house, will arrive during the last of March and will be placed on sale immediately after arrival. A VERY SPECIAL Easter gift for a special

junior miss will be on sale at the Commissaries

this month. It is another edition of the popular "Littlest Angel" doll which was a favorite with the young fry at Christmas time. This

Littlest Angel is ten and one-half inches

high, walks, sits, stands, moves her head, and

closes her eyes. In fact she can do almost

everything except dress herself, a job which

will be left up to the young mother who can

choose the doll's wardrobe from a variety of

outfits sold separately for as little as 89 cents. The Littlest Angel costs only $2.75 and is made of scrubbable plastic.

Those who have been giving their bar- becue grills a work-out during the past year

Spare Parts or j° may f, " d ,ha V

ne 9

r ' d

/ and tray are the most expendBarbecue ?

ble pa V °f ,he equipment.

Qri ll s lo save barbecue enthusiasts thetrouble and expenseof re- placing the whole outfit, the Commissary Divi- sion has ordered a stock of grids and trays which will fit most all of the grills sold recently

by the Commissaries. They are made of steel with aluminum paint and will sell for $4.20.

THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE should welcome

the new shipment of Instant Carnation nonfat

dry milk which dissolves instantly when mixed

with water. It can be prepared by the glass

or by the quart and kept in the refrigerator. No beating, no shaking, no foaming, no

lumping— so the manufacturers claim.

Also in response to customers' requests, the Commissary Division has ordered a new

stock of canned fruits in eight-ounce tins These fruits are packed by various well- known companies and include strawberries,

blackberries, oranae sections, raspberries,

and pineapple tidbits. Thev are just the

thing for salads and come in handy when o busy mother wants to open a small portion

of fruit for Junior's lunch.
.14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS FEBRUARY RETIREMENTS

January 15 Through February 15

ees \\ ho were promoted or trans

: between January 15 and Februarj IS

.ire listed below. Regradiogs and within

"I listed.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Mrs. Margaret M. DeGeer, Mrs. Marjorie I. Day, Mrs. Estelle J. Lusky, from

itute Teacher to Elementary School

er, I in ision ol Schools, Mrs. Ruth H. Arnold, from Substitute reacher to Library Assistant, Division nj S I i iols. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Mrs. Irene L. Veno, from Propert) and

Suppl; I lerk, I >i \ isi< >n of Storehouses, to Clerk-Typist, Central Typing and Clerical

I nit. Mrs. Ruth H. Munyon, from Clerk-Typist

License Section, to Time, Leave, and Pavroll Clerk. Payroll Branch. Mrs. Lois H. Bunker, from Stenographer,

Central Typing and Clerical Unit; to Clerk- Stenographer, Rates Branch. Mrs. Yolanda E. Valencia, from Clerk

Typist to Stenographer, Central Typing and

Clerical I nil . Mrs. Janet N. Harness, Accounting Clerk, from Methods and Relief Assignment St. ill to General Ledger and Processing Branch.

Arthur J. Wynne, from Supervisory Ac

ounting Assistant to Supervisory Accountant, Reports Control Branch.

Ira N. C. Read, from Supervisor} Ac- counting Clerk, Methods and Relief Assign- ment Staff, to Accounting Clerk, Plant In- ventory and Appraisal Staff. Wilmer L. Downing, from Clerical Assist- ant (Typist), Fire Division, to Time, Leave, and Payroll Supervisor, Pavroll Branch. Mrs. Helen T. Bradley, from Clerk-Tj i -

ist. Central Typing and Clerical Unit, to

["ime, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Branch. Jacob Plicet, Jr., from Tabulating Machine Operator to Tabulating Machine Operation Supervisor, Payroll Branch. Mrs. Susan H. Boles, from Clerk-Stenographer to Clerk-Typist, Internal Audit

Staff. Albert M. Jenkins, from Systems Ac- countant to Assistant Chief, Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff. COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

Jack C. Randall, from Assistant Chief to Chief, Housing Di\ ision. Philip S. Thornton, from Manager, lintels. to C.eneral Manager, Service Center Division. Harry C. Egolf, from Manager, Cristobal Housing Office, to Assistant Chief. Housing

Division, and Manager, Balboa Housing

i Iffice. Mrs. Vivian G. Corn, from Clerk-Typist

to Clerk. Housing Division. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Dignam, from Clerk1 ypist to Clerk (Typist). Housing Division. Richard S. Brogie, from Supply Clerk

(General) to Clerk, Housing Division August I. Bauman, front Administrative

Assistant to Assistant Chief, Grounds Main

nee 1 (ivision. Virgil C. Reed, from Superintendent, Rel

use Collection and Disposal, to Grounds

Maintenance Superintendent, Grounds

Maintenance Division. ENGINEERING ANT) CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Benjamin Suisman, from Ganger and

'reman. Marine Bunkering

ion, to C.eneral Construction Inspector,

tact and Inspection Division. Alfred J. Waldorf, from Pumping Plant Operator and Tractor-Btflldozer Operator,

to Pumping 1'l.mt Operator, Water and

Branch. Joseph P. Baker, from Relief Foreman to Station foreman, Dredging

Division. Mrs. Violet P. Freker, from Fiscal Ac- counting Clerk. Industrial Division, to Clerk. Electrical Division. Dorothy E. Hannigan, from Clerk-Stener to Clerk (Typist), Flo trical Di\

- Vernon C. Douglas, from Filtration Plant Operato-. Water and Laboratories Branch,

to Publii Work- Foreman Maintenance

Carlos M. Badiola, from General Engineer to Construction Engineer, Contractors

Hill Division. James F. Ahearn, Samuel J. Garriel, from Plumber to Quarters Maintenance

Foreman, Maintenance Division. Edward P. Scott, from Apprentii e to Construction Equipment Operator, Mainte- nance Di\ ision. OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL

Mrs. Grayce L. Nadeau, from Secretary,

Office ol the Executive Secretary, to Law

Clerk (Stenographer), Office ol the General

Counsel. HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Edythe S. Glazer, from Clerk-Stenographer, Gorgas Hospital, to Supervisory

Clerk-Stenographer, Board of Health Laboratory. Dr. Willard F. French, from Denial ( lit. cer, Atlantic Dental Clinics, to Chief, Denial Service, Coco Solo Hospital. Dr. Lewis E. Fontaine, from Dental Offi- cer to Chief, Dental Service, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Annette P. Fields, Mrs. Esther V.

Swift, from Medical Technician (Chemistry), to Medical Technician (General)

Board of Health Laboratory. Grace Belden, Clerk-Typist, from Pacific Medical Clinics to Gorgas Hospital. Tulia E. Rodriguez, Clerk-Typist, from Gorgas Hospital to Pacific Medical Clinics. INTERNAL SECURITY OFFICE

William E. LeBrun, from Assistant Per- sonnel Security Officer to Security Assistant. MARINE BUREAU

Robert B. Thompson, from Apprentice Mac hinist to Machinist, Industrial Divison. Mrs. Nellie K. Whitney, from Clerk-Sten- ographer, Rates Branch, to Fiscal Accounting Clerk, Industrial Division. Adrien M. Bouche, Jr., from Engineering

Aid, Meteorological and Hydrographic

Branch, to Marine Traffic Controller, Navigation Division. Henry C. Simpson, from Chief, Towboat

Engineer to Senior Chief Towboat Engineer.

Ferry Service. Richard W. Thompson, Philip F. Whitney,

from Postal Clerk. Postal Service, to Marine

Traffic Controller, Navigation Division. Donald R. Kimzey, Mrs. Julia J. Holmes,

from Clerk-Typist to Supervisory Clerk

(Typist), Pat ific Locks. Mrs. Gladys B. Humphrey, from Clerk1 v pist to Time and Leave Supervisor, (Typist |, Atlantic Locks. Ernest B. Rainier, from Pilot to Assistant Port Captain, Cristobal. Peter Bolton, from Pilot-in-Training to Probationary Pilot, Navigation Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Mrs. Beatrice M. Rhyne, from ClerkIN/pist, License Section, to Clerk-Stenographer. Employment and Utilization Division.TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Everett H. Lippincott, from Heavy Special Truck Driver, Motor Transportation Division, to Guard, Terminals Division. Edward B. O'Brien, Jr., from Marine

Terminal Superintendent, to Supervisory

Transportation Operations Officer, Terminals Division.

MARCH SAILINGS

From Cristobal Ancon .. March S Cristobal .. .March 12 Panama _ March 19 Ancon March 2d From New York

Cristobal March 3 Panama .. March 10 Ancon .-March 17 Cristobal ..March 24 Panama*. .. .... March 31 (Southbound the Haiti stop is from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Monday; northbound ships are also in Port-au-Prince Monday, from about 1 to 6 p. m.)

Freight onlv

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of February to the following employees who are listed alphabetically, together with their birthplaces, titles, length of service and future addresses: Mrs. Johanna Hargy, Alabama; Nurse.

.Atlantic Medical Clinic-; 25 years, 9 days;

address uncertain. Raymond A. Koperski, Michigan; Cus- toms Inspector, Cristobal; 24 years, 1 month,

' daj s; address uncertain. Thomas J. Libonati, New [ersey; Lock

Operator Machinist, Pedro Miguel Locks;

'"

j ears, 8 months. Id dav s; Gorgona Beach,

R. cle P. Craig S. Neville, Kentucky; Supervisory

Accountant, Office of the Comptroller; 3*2

) ears, 10 days; Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Nina P. Robinson, Maryland; llv.ul Nurse, Corozal Hospital; 26 years, 9 month-.

22 days; Washington, D. C. Louie E. Rocher, South Carolina; Towboat Master. Navigation Division; 15 years,

Hi days; Jacksonville, Fla. Raymond B. Ward, Texas; Lock Operator Machinist Leader, Gatun Locks; 30

years, 8 days; Houston, Tex. Kenneth F. Zipperer, Florida; Principal Kcv icvv Clerk, Office of the Director of Posts; 17 years, 4 months; Winter Haven,

Fla.

ANNIVERSARIES

(Continued from page 13) Pa., and Mr.

Keepers from Key West, Fla.

20 YEARS

Four of the nine employees who cele- brated their twentieth anniversaries in gov- ernment service in February have unbroken

Canal service. They are: Henry Ehrman, General Engineer with the Surveys Branch of the Engineering and Construction Bureau; William

T. Nail, Policeman and Motorcycle Officer

in the Balboa Police District; Hugo Schenkenberger, Construction Equipment Maintenance Mechanic with the Motor Transportation Division; and Frank G. Tester,

a Policeman, and like Mr. Nail, with the Balboa District. Other 20-year employees are: Mrs. M.

Frances Barr, Cash Accounting Clerk with

the Commissary Division; Samuel J. Deavours, a Locomotive Engineer with the Railroad Division; Daniel H. Rudge,

Safety Inspector in the Office of the MarineDirector; Mrs. Anna D. Thomas, Tele- phone Operator at Balboa Heights; and Dr. John W. VVilkerson, Superintendent of Coco Solo Hospital.

15 YEARS

Two pairs of the employees whose 15 years of Government service has been con- tinuous with the Canal share service dates.

J. S. Cristopher, Foreman Painter with

the Maintenance Division, and Donald

Mathieson, Senior Chief Towboat Engineer with the Navigation Division, went to work for the Canal on February 1, 1940. Hugh Maloney, a pilot with the Navigation Division, and James C. Reid, Senior Chief Towboat Engineer with the Nav iga- tion Division, share a February 15, 1940,

starting date. Other 15-year employees with continuous Canal service are: Philip Arrieta, Cash

Accounting Clerk with the Division of Storehouses; Vincent Biava, Machinist Leadingman with the Dredging Division; Graydon W. Brown, Control House Operator at Pedro Migml; Raymond J. Kiel- hofer, Lock Operator Wireman Leader at Pedro Miguel; James G. Murray, General

Engineer with the Industrial Division; and

Francis J. Sweek, Plant Electrician with

the Commissary Division. Employees completing 15 years of service

lint whose Canal service is broken are: Russell W. Demers, General Construction In- spector. Contract and Inspection Division; Mrs. Frances G. Getman, Head Dieti- cian at Gorgas Hospital; Stella B. Ogden,

Staff Nurse at Gorgas Hospital; Donald C. Parker, Steam Engineer with the Marine

Bunkering Section of the Transportation and Terminals Bureau; Evelyn S. Slowick,

Stall Nurse at Coco Solo Hospital; Helen

G. Wallace, Elementary School Teacher at Balboa; and Walter B. Wolberg, Time,

Leave, and Pavroll Supervisor in the Payroll Branch.
March 4, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Nuclear Weapons Bring Need For New Type

Of Civil Defense Planning To Save Lives

The RT. REV. REGINALD HEBER GOODEN

«n<m***s>«w

CIVIL DEEEXSE home-protection volunteers. Left to right are Mrs. Margaret J. Hendricks, Assistant Zone Warden; Mrs. E. J. Husum, Child Care Center Leader; and Mrs. W. A. Colclasure, Zone Warden,

of the Diablo Heights Warden Service. The "extra volunteer" at the left who is completely indifferent to the camera is Mrs. Husum's young daughter, Karen, who came along to see what was going to happen.

Nuclear weapons have not only brought

a new concept to warfare, they have

brought many new and greatly magnified

problems to civil defense where thousands

of lives may be saved only by volunteer workers who have been trained to move

swiftly in times of disaster. One phase of this new type of civil defense is the protection of homes in which efforts are being made to enlist some 1,500 Canal Zone housewives to

participate. These are to be trained in Civil Defense Warden Service which is a volunteer home protection branch of the

Civil Defense Program. At present more than 400 women from

13 of the 15 Canal Zone communities

have volunteered their services and are taking part in the Warden family pre- paredness educational program which is conducted on a neighbor-to-neighbor

basis and which is designed to make every

family relatively self-sufficient in time of

disaster.

First Aid Training Given

Key personnel from townsites already

organized are presently taking the Canal Zone Government 12-hour first aid course which is basic training for all Warden

personnel regardless of volunteer duty

assignments.

Simultaneously, plans for the organi- zation of Civil Defense Warden Service

in Balboa Heights and Ancon are being

completed and work of recruiting additional volunteer personnel for Neighborhood Self-Protection Squads and other key positions in the Warden Service, is behig continued. Housewife volunteers in local townsites provide the indispensible, trained, on-theground relief forces which would go into immediate action should disaster strike within their neighborhoods to carry on

life saving and damage control operations

until technical teams could take over. Since the relief work done by the Warden Service is merely an extension of the housewife's domestic skills, she does not

require any long or specialized training

to operate efficiently as a disaster worker. Housewives Can Choose Jobs

Housewives volunteering their services may choose from a variety of jobs with

the Defense Warden Service. They in- clude Zone Warden, Section Warden or

service as a member of one of the Neighborhood Self-Protection Squads.

The Zone Warden heads the community Civil Defense volunteer organization.

During normal times the Warden supervises the establishment and maintenance

of a subordinate Section Warden organi- zation and conducts a family educational program. In time of disaster, the Warden

supervises relief operations if her town is in the affected area and mobilizes her relief forces for dispatch to affected areas

if her town is not within the disaster area. The Section Warden is responsible to the Zone Warden for 30 to 50 families residing within her immediate neighbor- hood. In normal times the Section Warden assists the Zone Warden in organizing and maintaining Neighborhood Self- Protection Squads. In time of disaster, she operates a Section Control Center,

supervising relief operations within her neighborhood. If the neighborhood is not

in the disaster section, she mobilizes her

relief forces and keeps them on a stand-by

basis. Included in the Neighborhood SelfSince May 24, 1945, when the Right

Reverend Reginald Heber Gooden ar- rived in the Canal Zone, he has traveled

as many miles as would be required to make a one-way trip to the moon, he says. As head of the Episcopal Missionary

District which includes the Republics of Panama, Nicaragua. Costa Rica, and

Colombia, Bishop Gooden travels an

average of 24,000 miles a year, in everything from a DC6 plane to a dugout canoe. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he is a graduate of Stanford University and of Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven,

Conn. Much of his excellent Spanish he

learned while he was a graduate fellow at the University of Madrid.

Bishop Gooden was ordained to the Deaconate in Long Beach by his father, then Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. His ordination as Priest took place a year later in Havana, Cuba.

He served at St. Paul's Church in Camaguey, Cuba, and later as Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana, prior to his election as Bishop.

In addition to being one of the widestflung dioceses in the Episcopal Church,

the Missionary Diocese, for which the headquarters are in Ancon, comprises 90

parishes, missions, and Parochial Schools

including the Bella Vista Children's Home.

Bishop and Mrs. Gooden have two

sons, Reginald Heber, Jr., and Hiram

Richard. The boys attend their father's alma mater, Harvard Military Academy

in North Hollywood, Calif.

In addition to his church work, Bishop

Gooden is active in community affairs. He is a Mason and a member of the Committee of Management of the Balboa

YMCA-USO.

Protection Squads are the First Aid

Squads, the Light Rescue and Fire Guard

Squads, and the Child Care Leaders. All are organized, trained, and supervised by

the Section Warden. All offer a variety

of relief tasks for the housewife who

wants to participate in a program which means protection for themselves and their families as well as for the entire coni- munitv.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW March 4, 1955

S^v

THIS FIRST TEST of the emergency dams at Gatun Locks was held in May 1914, to determine if the}

could stem the flow of water in event a lock gate was lost.

Emergency Dams Will Be Offered For Sale

A target for tourist questioning for the past 40 years—the emergency dams at the Panama Canal Locks—are to be dis- mantled and sold for scrap. Each of the upper lock chambers at Gatun, Pedro Miguel, and Miraflores is

fitted with one of these ungainly-looking masses of structural steel. None of the

six emergency dams has ever been used

for the primary purpose for which they were built—to check the flow of water

through the locks in case of damage to the gates. The emergency dams were erected

shortly before the Canal was opened and

they have attracted the attention of the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Panama Canal Locks for the past 40

years. While most visitors display curi- osity as to the dams and their purpose, doubtless only one in ten thousand understood the principle of their operation

which is difficult to describe in simple

terms. Three Dams For Sale First Three of the dams are to be sold first. These are the two at Miraflores and one on the west chamber at Pedro Miguel

Locks. The other three dams were re- modeled several years ago for possible use as spillways in flood control and

these are to be sold at a later date. Specifications for the dismantling and

purchase of the scrap metal in the three dams are in the course of preparation.

Invitations for bids probably will be

ready for distribution to prospective bid- ders early this month. The bids will be

widely advertised among firms engaged

in salvage and scrap metal operations,

steel manufacture or construction, and

similar operations.

Costly Safety Devices

The emergency dams were far and

away the most expensive of many safety devices installed on the Panama Canal

when it was built. The contract for the

material, erection, and testing of the dams was awarded on competitive bid in 191 1 to the U. S. Steel Products Companv.

The low bid was $2,238,988.40, with only

three offers being received. The dams were designed by Tollef B. Monniche, of Boquete, who was one of the leading designing engineers of the Canal construction period. Mr. Monniche later supervised the construction of the six dams which were then two and a

half times heavier than any drawbridge

ever built and larger than any swingbridge ever constructed up to that time. The emergency dams were completed

well before the Canal was opened in August 1914. They were given operational tests as they were completed, but

the first test under a full head of water was held in May 1914 after Gatun Lake

had been filled to its normal level. Construction And Operation

Each of the emergency dams is constructed on a steel truss bridge of the

cantilever type, pivoted to the sidewalk

When not in use, the dams parallel the lock chamber. When in use, the bridges

are swung across a lock chamber.

Each dam is equipped with a series of

six sets of two steel girders, each of which

can be lowered into the approach channel

with the bottom ends resting in iron pockets embedded in the floor of the

locks. When this operation is completed,

THIRTY THREE Y'EARS after the first test of the Uatun emergency dams, another test was held to determine how efficient the dams were in spilling water from the lake in event of a big flood. None of the

six emergency dams has ever been used for their primary purpose nor as spillways, except in tests.

a series of six steel wickets or panels are lowered on roller bearings in the girders to form a dam at the bottom ten feet- high. This operation is repeated with each horizontal tier of panels forming

dams until the dam is completed from

the bottom upwards.

The wickets are steel plates, 10 by 18

feet, and rest on the upstream side of the

girders. After these are in place, leakage

between the panels can be further checked

by driving steel pipes between the sides

of adjacent panels.

The operation might be compared to lowering the extended fingers of a hand

into a small stream and filling the blank

spaces between them with sheets of tin until the flow of water was effectively blocked. Kept In Readiness For 40 Years

Although the emergency dams have

never been used for their primary purpose, they have been kept in readiness

for an emergency since the Canal was

opened in 1914. During all these years they have been given periodic tests to

make sure that all machinery and parts

are in operating condition and to give

Locks personnel experience in operating

the dams.

Not only have the dams never been

used to save Gatun or Miraflores Lakes

from running dry, but they have never been used for flood control. However,

they have been tested for this purpose on

several occasions. They were first tested for use as spill- ways for flood control about 20 years ago when three gates were slightly altered for such use. More extensive tests were con- ducted in 1947. At that time 15,000 cubic

feet of water a second was spilled over one of the dams at Gatun. This was ap- proximately one-fourth of the amount

which was estimated could be safely

spilled over one of the dams in event of extreme flood conditions, which have

never resulted since the Canal was built. Under present plans, the remaining

three emergency dams will not be dis- mantled until after the overhaul of Pedro

Miguel Locks in the dry season of 1958.