There's Fun To Be Had

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Shipping took a back seat as Scout crews paddled their cayucos through the Canal last month. The two boats here are racing toward Pedro Miguel Locks.

Looking over Hideaway Beach, near Thatcher Ferry, as part of the recreation

survey, are: Edward Gaskin, C. M. Brandl, L. L. Llewelyn, and C. E. Haywood.

The present recreational facilities of the Canal Zone include almost every conceivable field of recreational interest or

activity. They need only to be developed

to make them available to virtually every Zone resident. These, basically, are the findings of a committee app:)inti'd recently by ( lover- nor Potter to survey what is available in the recreation field in the Canal Zone and

suggest plans for improvement. The committee has not yet sub- mitted its full report to the Governor, and, to date, has made only "piece- meal" recommendations to him. One of these "piecemeal" recommendations, elimination of admission charges to Canal Zone swimming pools, was an- nounced by Governor Potter at a Community Meeting held at (Jamboa May 22. The committee, which is delving into the entire matter of recreation in the

Canal Zone, is headed by Col. Hugh M.

Arnold, Engineering and Construction

Director. Other members are Henry L. Donovan, Civil Affairs Director; Philip

L. Steers, Jr., Comptroller; and F. H. Johnson, of the Executive Planning Staff. They have been assisted by a "working

subcommittee." Its chairman is Charles Mc(;. Brandl, who is employed in the Engineering Division and is well known

here for his work with Civic Councils, Scouting organizations, and other <-om- niunity groups. Other members of the subcommittee are Robert d. Laatz, Robert Lessiack, and C. C. Lockridge. This group, working for several weeks,

studied recreational facilities throughout

the Canal Zone, listing all of those now

existing and classifying them as to condition and ease of access. The survey included such official facilities as swimming

pools, playgrounds, and gj-mnasiums, and

such non-governmental facilities as clubs and other employee organizations "de- voted to the recreational, cultural, and

fraternal requirements" of the Canal

Zone's people. They discussed the aims and prob- lems of the program with Civic C:ouncil groups and the Councils, in turn, helped by listing what facilities were

already available and recommending

others which their townspeople wanted. When its members had completed the survey, the subcommittee submitted a detailed 10-page report, breaking recre- ational facilities and needs down into geographical areas. The present Canal Zone recreational program, they decided, represents at least as far as the physical plant is concerned

a somewhat haphazard accumulation of

facilities acquired over the past 40 years, and commented that the periods of ex- pansion and constriction of several towns

were reflected in their recreational facilities. This was particularly true of Balboa, Gamboa, and Gatun and, to a lesser degree, of Diablo Heights and Margarita. Some of the present facilities, this group

found, were still useful but almost obsolescent. One of the major sub-headings of this group's report dealt with "parks and monuments" such as Fort San Lorenzo, Barro Colorado Island, Summit Experi- ment Garden, the Madden Road Forest

Preserve, and Madden Dam and the lake behind it. The subcommittee saw possibilities for a major park in the Summit Garden area and suggested that picnic facilities be

increased there and that additional pic- nic site's and camping places be located

in the adjacent forest preserve. Other

possibilities they suggested for this area, which is easily accessible by both rail and

road, included a zoo of local animals and

an amusement park. Boat-launching facilities were recom- mended for Madden Dam to utilize its possibilities as a picnic ground and a location for water sports and outdoor camping. The subcommittee \isited beaches on

both sides of the Isthmus, finding "little general interest" in these on the Atlantic

side. Two beaches ,they suggrsted, might

be deveIo|)e(l for public use on the Pacific. One of these would be the present Hide- away Beach and another, for future

consideration, is \'enado Beach, once a popular swimming spot for Pacific siders. Within the (own areas, the subcommittif looked into the matter of swim- ming pools, athletic fields, g\ ninasiums

tennis courts, and the Service Centers. Their recommendations in this cate- gory included replacement of the Hal- boa pool with a "moilern, accessible one," tennis courts in each town area, and modern soda fountains in the

Service Centers. If some of the tennis courts were roofed and lighted, the re- port said, they could he used for skating, games, and town meetings. Neighborhood projects and private- clubs, as well as employee hobby groups, were also surveyed and reports on these occupied a brief part of the report. A

considerable part of the recreation in the Canal Zone, the subcommittee commented, was provided by such groups and

organizations.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957
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Zonians are on'jthe move. As one can

plainly see from the cover of this month's Review and from the picture above, it's vacation time—the time of year when we

scatter from New Jersey to California and

from Maine to Texas. For weeks now, Zone families, vacation bound, have been boarding Panama Line

ships at Cristobal, planes at Tocumen, or United Fruit Co. ships at Balboa, and many others will follow in the next few

weeks. Where do they go and how do they get

there? The best qualified to answer these questions are the half-a-dozen men and women of the Transportation Section who

right now, are inundated with the flood

of seasonal travel requests. During April and up until May 22, this Section had issued travel orders for

168 Canal Zone families, numbering more than 400 persons, and the bulk

of these travel orders were for those going under the Home Leave Travel Plan which returns them to their States home, transportation paid, every

two years. Since these travel orders are issued well ahead of the actual embarkation date, the families involved may

be starting out anywhere up to 30 days from now. The Home Leave Travel plan has been

in effect since September 1954, but most

families took their "paid" vacations the

following summer. Since employees in general must agree to remain in the Canal

service 22 months after they return to duty from their home leave, the families who took their first "paid" vacations in 1955 are just now again becoming eligible for the home leave and, consequently,

travel may be heavy throughout this summer. The 168 families for whom travel orders were issued in the April 1-May 22 period do not include the many others who are paying their own way to the United States

either because they do not yet have the two years of service which entitles them

to Home Leave Travel, or because they

are making short trips on personal or family business—college graduations are

A. M. Faucelte, Counsel For the Senate Civil Service and Post Office Committee, center, spent ten days here in May, talking with Zone officials and

labor groups on treaty provisions. Above he is shown with Maj. Gen. Louis

T. Heath, Chief of Staff, Caribbean Command, and Governor W. E. Potter.

Vacation

a major family interest, just now and want to save the "paid" transportation

for a later time. A check of these 168 travel orders shows

that the Panama Line's two ships are

still the favorite means of transportation

for Zone families. Of the 168 families, 72

are making the round trip aboard either the Ancon or her sister ship, the Cristobal. Since the early part of May, the Panama Line ships have been running

full on their northbound voyages and

at the time this issue of "The Review" went to press, the southbound sailings on June 28 and July 5 were booked solid. Another 50 of the 168 families had worked out a combination of plane and Panama Line travel; by far the majority

of them fly to the States and return by

ship, for several reasons, according to James Thompson and Fred M. Wells of the Transportation Section. Some people just simply want to get

started on their vacations (See. page lo)

June 7, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

TIPS TO TRAVELERS

. . . The underside of automobiles which are being taken to the States aboard ships must be washed by a pressure hose or steam cleaned before the cars are loaded. This is a Department of Agriculture require- ment.

. . . Travelers between the Isthmus and the States, both north- and

southbound, should have with them

a vaccination certificate, preferably an international certificate, issued within three years of the travel date.

. . . Returning vacationists report the confiscation at the N. Y. piers

of fruit they were carrying, including Haitian alligator pears. Permits

to import fruits and vegetables into the States must be obtained from a U. S. Quarantine office whose address is given as 209 River St., Hoboken, N. J., and in making such

requests the traveler must know the

scientific name of the fruit or plant he is importing. Fumigation or defoliation may be necessary.

. . . And air travelers also report frequent bans on taking flowers into Miami, a plant disease preventive measure.
many are from employees who did not

sign up earlier. In the case of the latter, the insurance is selective, i. e. exceptions may be made for treatment

of some chronic or other ailments. Employee representatives in the various Company-Government divisions still have a supply of the forms needed for original applications. They also have

forms used when additional coverage is desired, such as in the case of a new de- pendent -a bachelor employee may ac- quire a wife or a married couple a new

baby for instance. Also available from

the.se employee representatives are forms

used when there is a change in pay status and the payroll deduction cards which must be signed in duplicate and accom- pany each application.

Robert Van Wagner, Insurance Board Chairman, meets Omaha Mutual officers. Group Health Insurance

—A Report To The Reader

Canal employees are utilizing the services of their (iroup Health Insurance

plan. This was established clearly last month by figures released by the In.sur- ance Board. Bv the middle of May, more than S;,400 of the approximately 13, ()()() employees

on the Company-Covernment rolls were members of the insurance plan, the first of the kind to be made available to employees a.s a whole. And as of the same

date, 337 claims had been presented to the insurance company by members of the (Iroup Health Insurance Program. The claims ranged from major surgery to removal of a splinter. While employees continued to enroll and while claims were being paid, Robert \an Wagner, President of the Canal Zone (Jroup Health Insurance

Board, was in Omaha, conferring with

officials of Mutual of Omaha, the underwriting firm for the master policy. Mr. Van Wagner, who is shown above

reviewing details of the program with Emerson Adams, executive vice president, and dale Davis, vice president in charge

of group operations, is on leave in th( United States. He spent part of last month in Omaha, obtaining first-hand in- formation on the claims and administrative procedure of the insurance company. The local plan has been in effect for such a comparatively .short time that not all members are aware of the e.xtent to which

they and their dependents are covered. The policy for Company-Government

emploj'ees pays for all surgery performed by a .surgeon or a licen.sed physician, re- gardle.ss of whether this surgery is per- formed in a hospital or elsewhere. One

recent claim wa.s for surgery necessary for the removal of a part of an arrow from

an employee's finger. Claim forms for surgery may be obtained bv writing the insuring company

at Box i()()2, Diablo Heights, C. Z., or from the Mutual offices, now located in DeLesseps Park in Panama City, facing the new Legislative Palace. Although the charter enrollment period for the insurance plan ended March

25, applications are still being received. Some of these are from new employees

or from employees who were on leave during the enrollment period, but

Need Targets?

He Makes 'em

Clay pigeons belie their name. They

aren't made of clay in the first place, and

in the second they don't look at all like pigeons. But regardless of all that, clay pigeons

are an essential part of any skeet shooter's

sport; those which shatt<>r before the ex- pert fire of Canal Zone shooters are a

j)urely local product produced by the

skillful hands of Lee B. Carr, President

of the Pedro Miguel Gun Club. He puts out a steady supply by carefully salvaging all bits and pieces of the shattered targets, melting them down in a large tank, and then remodeling them

into their original shape with a huge "Rube Goldberg" machine of his own in- vention. What emerges from this monster are small round black discs with white

centers which must be as fragile as the

shell of an egg, but strong enough to stay together when fired from the tar- get ejecter. They are usually composed

of river silt and pitch, as clay is too durable to break easily when hit.

-Mr. Carr, who is a retired Canal employee, supplies the targets for Gamboa,

Cristol)al, and Balboa Gun Clubs, as

well as for Pedro Miguel. During the war, no clay pigeons were

available on the Isthmus due to the inter- ruption of shipments from the United

States. He volunteered the use of his machine to the Army which ran it 24 hours a day supplying tiirgets for the

soldiers. Retired in 1944 from his job as boiler- maker, Mr. Carr has spent the last 13 years traveling and working at his hobbies, which include making gunstocks,

carved from mahogany, in his workshop

adjacent to the skeet range.

Lee B. Carr, President of the Pedro Miguel Gun Club, inserts a clay pigeon, one

of the many he produces in his workshop at the skeet range, into target ejector. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957
TREES

(Now You'll

Know Them)

Even tho village smithy knew when he was standing under the spreading chest- nut tree that is, he knew it was a chestnut tree and not a sugar maple. But down in the tropics, most visitors and even residents of long standing have

difficulty in identifying any tree more unusual than the common mango or perhaps

the frangipani. This unusual state of affairs came to the attention of the members of the Canal Zone College Club Nature Study Group

recently after having had a few sad ex- periences themselves with the questions asked by visiting tourists. In Balboa and Ancon alone they found there were hundreds of beautiful trees of various types which could

be found along the principal streets of most Canal Zone towns and in gardens. Only a few residents knew the names

of some of them and no one seemed

to be able to identify all of the trees. Headed by Mrs. H. W. Schull, Jr. and

Mrs. Roger W. Adams, members of the. club, working in teams of two, took Walter Lindsay, Panama Canal Agronomist, in tow and made a systematic tour

of Ancon and Balboa. They identified

If

A Christmas Tree, but not the holiday kind, makes a background For Mrs. Roger Adams, left, and Mrs. H. W. Schull, Jr., who helped label 100 trees. most of the trees and after pooling their

findings, decided that a representative group was located on a trail starting near

the Goethals Memorial in Balboa, continuing over the Balboa Heights Road,

past the Governor's residence and dowi

Gorgas Road to the former Ancon Post

Office and the Tivoli Guest House. Along this route, 100 of the most inter- esting trees were labeled with large metal

New Project Engineer for the Power

Conversion Project, effective July i, is J. Hartley Smith, left above. He has been

on duty in the Power Conversion Office since the middle of May but does not

officially assume his new post until the

first of July when he succeeds Col. E.

B. Jennings in that position. Colonel Jeimings will leave early in July for his new assignment at the Armed Forces

Staff College in Norfolk, Va.

Succeeding Mr. Smith as Electrical Engineer, the title borne by the Chief

of the Electrical Division, will be Roy

D. Reece, who is presently Assistant

Electrical Engineer and is shown at the

right above. Both the engineers are Indianans, both are graduates of Rose Polytechnic

Institute, and neither has ever worked

for any other Canal unit except the

Electrical Division.

June 7, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

tags bearing both the Latin and common

or local names. The labels are large enough to be seen from the road if the tour is being taken by car. The Nature Study Group members

found that the research was an education

in itself and that names given to many

of the trees made the tour through Bal- boa sound like a trip to Never-Never land. Below the Administration Building

at Balboa Heights, for instance, there

are a sacred fig, a sausage tree, and a

rain tree. The latter shuts its leaves when the skies are overcast. The wood

is used in Hawaii for the manufacture

of fine furniture. Near the Balboa Heights Railroad sta- tion is a monkey pod tree which pro- duces a fine brazil-type of nut which is edible in small quantities. Too many

will make a person deathly ill and in time

he will lose his hair. This actually happened

one time to one skeptical Canal employee. A cigar box cedar, whose wood is really used for the manufacture of cigar boxes,

is located along Heights Road; a rubber

plant of the type which produces Brazil- ian rubber stands near the Governor's

residence near where there is also a Pan- ama hat palmetto, the fiber of which is used in Ecuador for the manufacture of Panama hats. Some of the other varied and e.xotic trees listed are the Chinese fan palm,

Pacific Island palm, cocao, breadfruit, Waringian fig, star apple, Pride of India,

teak, calabash, mangosteen, sand box, cabbage bark tree, and cuipo. Members of the Nature Study Group

whose ultimate aim is to write a book

on the flora of the Canal Zone, include

in addition to Mrs. Schull and Mrs. Adams—Mrs. George 0. Lee, Mrs. Walter Dryja, Mrs. J. C. Turner, Miss Kaye

Clark, Mrs. John R. Hammond, Mrs. Walker M. Alderton, and Mrs. D. B. Hathaway.
FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE

LUBM. t-L IN^ACCIDENT PREVENTION

HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

APRIL

SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU HEALTH BUREAU

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Civil Affairs 3 Health _. 3 Supply and Employee Service 2 Engineering and Construction 1 Marine 1 Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

AF'RIL COMMISSARY AND SERVICE CENTER

DIVISION NAVIGATION DIVISION HOSPITALS AND CLINICS MAINTENANCE DIVISION HOUSING AND GROUNDS DIVISION DREDGING DIVISION INDUSTRIAL DIVISION ELECTRICAL DIVISION MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION RAILROAD DIVISION STOREHOUSE DIVISION POLICE DIVISION

FIRE DIVISION AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 4 Electrical 4

Fire.. 4 Housing and Grounds 4 Industrial 4 Motor Transportation.. 4 Sanitation 4 Commissary and Service Center 3 Dredging 3 Hospitals and Clinics 3 Main tenance - 3 Police 3 Railroad 3 Storehouses 3 Locks 2 Navigation 2 Terminals 1

SAFE BETS

How many times have you driven around a curve in a highway at night and suddenly come upon a truck, bus,

or car parked on the pavement without

lights? Then only by frantically manipulating the wheel and a great deal of luck—you managed to miss the several people standing around watching a man,

squatting out in the middle of the high- way, changing a tire? Finally, when your

car had come to a stop and your heart had dropped back into place, hadn't you

then noticed no one seemed much con- cerned by the fact that they had created

a very hazardous situation and had just escaped injury, if not sudden death?

This is no unusual experience. There

occur many such cases, som.e resulting in most unhappy consequences. Most States have laws prohibiting parking on the pavement of highways at any time, especially at night without

lights. Such highways are being constantly patrolled and violators are soon

picked up, but few people down here pay

any attention to highway safety and will park out on the highway at any time and

at any place. Let's suppose, however, that you have

a flat tire and are parked on a curve at night. Have you protected yourself and

family with ample accident insurance?

Is the premium paid? Does your family

care about you or would they rather have your insurance? Do you value the old

tire more than your life and the price of

a new one, rather than move to the shoulder? Are you prepared to assume

the moral responsibility if someone else

is injured or killed by your thoughtlessness and laziness? Remember you are

just as responsible in creating this hazard

as you would be by throwing a switch in front of an oncoming train and wrecking

it. There are better ways to protect yourself other than outlined above:

1. Keep your car in repair and with good

tires on all the wheels.

2. If you do have trouble, pull well off the pavement and give yourself safe room to work, even at the expense

of the inner tube.

3. Look in the December 195G number

of the Conxumerx Ref.raTch Bulletin, available at the Library, and read up

on the safety lights on the market. Most are battery powered and when

placed right will give adequate warning to others that danger and you

are ahead.

4. If you are planning a trip to the States

or to the interior of Panama by automobile, you should not be without

at least one of these red-flashing

lights. Supplement it with a couple

of red flares similar to those used on

the railroad, or some red scotch-light

past{>d on pieces of plywood with a hinged leg to make it stand upright. Then if you have trouble, or run into someone else in trouble, place these

well to the rear for the safety of your

family, yourself, and others. SAFETY BELONGS TO THOSE WHO

PLAN IT

FREQUENCY RATE Disabling injuries per 1,000.000 employeeC hours worked. APRIL 1957 BUREAU

Supply and Employee Service Bureau

Health Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

C. Z. Govt. Panama Canal Co. i This Monlh )

Marine Bureau

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 3

3 5 10 15

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Employee-hours worked 2,137,250 Ht^HC. Frequency Rate this month

[••-••: ::\v'Tl Accumulative Frequency Rate this Calendar Year EUnZIZ] 1954-1955-1956 Calendar Year Average THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957
OF CURRENT AND FUTURE INTEREST

He's Retiring

Raymond Jackson An idea of what Raymond C. Jackson,

Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Panama Canal Company's Secretary,

is going to be doing from now on can be

githered from the picture above. Mr. Jackson retired May 31 after over 38 years of continuous service with The Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Company. Only one employee now in the Washington Office has a longer period of employment.

"Jack," as he is affectionately called by

hi5 fellow-workers, had an ability to locate

historical and statistical records pertaining

to the construction of the Panama Canal

uij^ualled by none. His special jobs have

to do with records management and property control. He is well known to many

employees in the Canal Zone, especially those who have visited the Washington

Oince on official business. He plans to catch up on some of the chores on his small farm near Gaithersburg, Md., and hopes also to cut enough oS his golf score to beat his two sons. He

plays an expert game of checkers, but admits that there is room for improvement in his chess game —a project which may oc- cupy him on winter evenings.

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

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

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

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

tnall and bacic copies, 10 cents each.

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

Chincli bues ha:I belter duck for cover

these days. The Housing and Grounds Division has declared total war and, since the rainy sea.son began, the Division has started

a systematic spraying of all tht lawns on

linth sides of the Isthmus. The spray has

111 unpleasant odor which will dissipate in

a ^hort time, hut Zone authorities believe

I li.it the residts will be more successful than

I hose achieved last year. .Spraying is being done by means of several new power sprayers which are doing a

last and efficient job. The spray being used was found to be successful in Floiitla re- cently, but experiments will continue locally

initil .something can be found which kills the unpleasant pests which have ruined many good lawns in the past two years. In addition to the spra\-, the Housing and

Grotinds people are also experimenting with new kinds of grass which may be resistant to the chinch bug. Most lawns in the Canal Zone are now planted with Java grass which

grows like wildfire in the tropics but is steak-and-potatoes to the destroying chinch. One of the new types is the soysia grass, now being grown in Florida. So far, however, it hasn't spread, as it should, in the Canal Zone.

Authorities say that there are more than

200 varieties of chinch bug and that the type which is ruining Isthmian lawns has

not \et been identified. The most common

of the species goes by the Latin name of

Blissiis Leucopterus. Like all chinch bugs, he likes to attack the grass roots when they

first begin to grow. They have been a

scourge in Florida for many years. A "slightly" overdue library book is back on the shelves of the Canal Zone

Library, but how and when it went on its long travels, no one will ever know.

Last month. Librarian Eleanor Burnham

received a package, and a note from Carl W. Hull, former librarian for the Army at Quarry Heights. He was enclosing, he

said, a "slightly overdue" book which had

turned up on the shelves of the Cambria

Free Library in Johnstown, Pa., where he

is now hbrarian. He had no idea o.' how long the book, a copy of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," had been

in Johnstown or how it had gotten there. The copy had been borrowed from the

Cristobal Library on March 10, 1933. John ^L Purvis, [r.. Pressroom Head of the Panama Canal Press (which prints The

P.WAM.^ Canal Review), has just been awarded a diploma in American Law and

Procedure by LaSalle E.xtension University

of Chicago, after three years' study in his spare time.

.\ graduate of Balboa High School, he

studied for a year at Carnegie Institute of Technology. This is the third correspond- ence course he has completed in the past three years. He took two courses with the

International Printing Pressmen and Assist- ants LInion of North America in addition

to his LaSalle law training. He is now Legislative Chairman of the Canal Zone Labor Union and plans to continue his studies in the legislative field and

graphic arts. Applications are now being accepted for renewal of Hcenses to hunt in the Canal

Zone. Pacific siders may get their hunting

permits at the License Section in the Civil Affairs Building; Atlantic siders may get

the application blanks at the Cristobal PoUce Station. In either case, the cost is $1. Dr. Harold Mondragon was scheduled to arrive here this week to succeed Dr. Gerald

E. Cosgrove, Jr., as Chief of the Board of Health Laboratory in .Ancon. Doctor Cos- grove leaves later this month to join the

staff of the Oak Ridge National Laboratorv

in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Doctor Mondragon

comes to the Canal Zone from the First Army Medical Laboratory in New York. Doctor Cosgrove has been here since June 1955, having come here from Rapid

City, S. Dak. He has been Chief of the Laboratory since last October.

He's Leaving

tojor Two young officers of the Corps of Engineers will swap assignments next month

when Capt. Peter Grosz succeeds Maj. David H. Smith as Military Assistant to the Governor. Captain Grosz has just completed a

course at the Army Command and General

Staff School at F'ort Leavenworth, Kans., and when Major Smith leaves here he will head for Kansas to enter the same school. The two officers graduated from West

Point together in 1946 and both saw service

in Korea, although not in the same outfit. Captain Grosz is married and has three

children —a stepson, 13, and boy-and-girl

twins, 7. He and his family w ill arri\e here about the middle of July. An extremely interesting science motion

picture film, entitled "Our Mr. Sun," pro- duced by the American Telephone & Tele- graph Company, was shown last month to pupils from fifth grade up, in all of the Canal Zone schools. The showing took

place in the Service Center theaters. Also during May, students in biology

classes saw another science film. This pic- ture, of a more technics 1 nature, was entitled "Hemo, the Magnificent."

CIVIL DEFENSE

NEWS

Philip L. Dade, Chief of the Civil Defense

Section, returned to the Canal Zone late

last month from an official trip to the States which took him to the Civil Defense Staff College at Battle Creek, Mich. He also visited Civil Defense offices in Washington, D. C, and Thomasville, Ga. Common household items mav be used

to make an improvised stretcher in a civil defense or other emergency, the Federal

Civil Defense Administration points out.

Possibilities include an ironing board, the

leaf of a dining table, a door, or a windowshutter. The FCDA also suggests that hot-water

heaters would provide a good source of un- contaminated water aftei a nuclear attack.

June 7, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

JUNE VOLUNTEER CORPS MEETINGS

Date Town Place Hour

5 Margarita and Service Center 9 a. m. New Cristobal Margarita

6 Balboa 2428 Morgan Ave. 9 a. m.

IJ Rainbow City School 6:30 p.m.

13 Gamboa Civic Center 8:30 a.m.

17 Paraiso School 7:30 p. m.

18 Gatun Service Center 8:30 p. m.

19 Diablo Service Center 9:30 a.m.
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ANAMA SEA-LEVEL CANAL

FLOOD CONTROL SYSTEM

With Gafun Lake dry, this is how the Canal Zone would look as proposed in the 1 947 Studies. A flood control system would divert the Chagres to the sea.

When William Howard Taft was Secretary of War, it came his turn in 1906

to express his opinion on the advisability

of constructing a sea level or lock canal and he summed up a world of argument

in a very few words. He concluded a ten-page letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, forwarding the majority and minority reports of the Board of Consulting Engineers and the view of the Isthmian Canal Commission,

with the following words: "Wc may well concede that if we

could have a sea level canal with a prism from .WO to 400 feet wide, with

curves that must now exist reduced,

it would be preferable to the plan of the minority (for a lock canal), but

the time and cost of constructing such

a canal are in effect prohibitory." The arguments pro and con on a sea

level canal arc no less acrimonious today

than they were a half century ago, but

neither side has erased the question of whether the costs are prohibitive. Lay- men may continue their arguments for another century on whether a Panama

sea level or lock canal is better, but the answer will be made on the basis of national policy. The dollars and cents

of the simplest, shortest, safest canal must be balanced against a possibly cheaper more vulnerable substitute. When

either will be needed depends upon deci- sions of higher authorities. There are a thousand and one complexities in the debate, not the least of which

are nuclear weapons, vulnerability, national welfare, and national defense. But

even these, important as they are, all point finally to the question: Are the

costs prohibitive? The conversion of the Panama Canal

to a sea level waterway as recommended

by flov. Joseph C. Mehaffey on the basis

of the Isthmian Canal Studies of 1947 would have cost $2,483 million. The

plans and cost estimates were reviewed

in 1955 by the New York engineering firm

of Parsons, BrinckerhofT, Hall & MacDonald and a new cost estimate of $3,688 million was set. The 1947 Studies were conducted by

the Special Engineering Division, first established in 1940 for the Third Locks

project. It was headed by Col. James H.

Stratton, now retired and member of a

consulting firm. His staff of never more

than about 200 was composed mainly of carefully selected young men with out^ standing records in various branches of engineering and science, some of whom

today are leading authorities in their

fields. The studies were made with pains- taking care and, throughout, the Special Engineering Division had the assistance and advice of both Government and pri- vate agencies interested in the problem. At the outset, a Board of Consulting Engineers was appointed to serve in an

advisory capacity on the studies and eval- uation of the results. This was composed

of some of the most eminent engineers

of the United States. Model testing and laboratory investi- gations were employed on a wide scale both on the Isthmus and in the United

States. U. S. Government agencies assist- ing in the investigations included the Atomic Energy Commission, the U. S. Army Ordnance Department and Chemical Corps, various branches of the U. S. Navy, and others. The report and recommendation of Governor Mehaffey were reviewed in draft form by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of the Navy, and the Atomic Energy Commission, all of which fully concurred in the main

premises of the final report. At the first meetmg of the Board of Consultants a resolution was adopted to the effect that no plan affecting the Pan- ama Canal would be approved under

which the capacity of the Canal would

be impaired or seriously reduced during

the course of such changes. This important factor was kept well in the forefront throughout the studies which related to modifications to the existing waterway,

construction of a third set of locks, build- ing a parallel sea level canal, the terminal

lake plan, and the conversion plan. Extensive studies were devoted initially to two routes in or adjacent to the Canal

[Fifth And Final Article In A Series On Canal Capacity] Sea Level Or A Lock Type Canal?

Battle Of The Levels Is Not New

No feature of the proposed sea level canal has iroused more speculation than tides, gram above shows the navigable pass, and that lelow illustrates the tidal regulating The diafacilities.

Zone which became identified as the Chorrera and Panama Parallel routes. These were made because a sea level canal could be constructed on either of these routes without traffic interference. Subsequent studies, however, disclosed that the existing Canal could be converted

to sea level without appreciable traffic disi-uptions. While the Chorrera and Panama Parallel routes were found to be

feasible the present Canal route follows the more favorable alignment and the conversion cost would be less than constructing a new canal. The plans evolved for converting the Canal into a sea level waterway were so

fully developed when the studies were

concluded that the project could have

been initiated without delay. Although the sea level project would

be one of the greatest engineering tasks

II

ever contemplated, no problems of an engineering nature were encountered which

were insurmountable, and the final plans were reduced to the utmost in simplicity

for a work of its magnitude. Several sali- ent features either new or formerly considered impractical were developed. These

included:

1. An excavation plan whereby ap- proximately 70 percent, or 750 million cubic yards of material would be re- moved by dry excavation and only

300 million cubic yards by the more

expensive method of dredging. Modern

earth-moving techniques could reduce

even this figure.

2. The design development of dredging equipment for excavation of the new channel to required depths in sec- tions of Gatun Lake or the Canal channel where wet excavation methods

Tide-making machines duplicated the Atlantic and Pacific tides in the mile-long sea level canal model at Miraflores. The section above is looking north.

would be used. This would permit the lowering of Gatun Lake in one stage

at the completion of the work.

3. Simplified tidal regulating and

flood control features.

4. Non-interference with normal

Canal traffic while the work was in progress and a trafHc interruption for about seven days at the end of the

project to empty Gatun Lake and re- move land plugs at the new channel

extremities. The proposed canal would be a broad, open waterway free of dangerous curves.

It would be about five miles shorter than

the present Canal and would save about

four hours in transit time. The channel would be 60 feet deep at low tide with a

600-foot width at a depth of 40 feet below

the low tide level. With the dimensions and the proposed

alignment, the canal would have a capacity far in excess of requirements predicted

for the remainder of this century and

would provide the maximum in safety.

It was estimated that 37,000 employees would be required on the project which would take ten years for completion. A feature of a sea level Panama Canal

which has aroused much dissension over

the years is the control of tides which have a variation of as much as 20 feet between the Pacific and Atlantic entrances. To solve this problem a mile- long test model was built near Miraflores and fitted with tide-making machines to duplicate in miniature the tidal effects. By extensive tests of this scale model and other hydi'aulic studies it was de- termined that currents up to a maximum

of 4.5 knots would be generated in the channel during extreme tidal variations. This would shade to slack water twice

daily because of the diurnal tides in the

Pacific. The 1947 report recognized that navi- gation through an uncontrolled sea level channel would be entirely feasible with

currents up to 4.5 knots but recommendations were made for tidal regulating

facilities as a safety factor and for the convenience of shipping.

A simple scheme providing wide lati- tude in operation was proposed. This was for a tidal lock, 200 by 1,500 feet, on

the main channel with a movable tidal barrier or dam on a parallel and connecting navigable pass. Both the main channel and navigable pass could be kept open

an average of 7.7 houi's a day, operating on a schedule to permit currents in the Canal up to two knots. With this schedule, the Canal's capacity would be 86

transits a day, far more than predicted

in this century, without consideration of the capacity during the remainder of a 24-hour period when the tidal lock would

bo in operation. The most formidable and trouble- some problem of the original Canal

builders was that of landslides. This

could be eliminated in converting the Canal to sea level by use of present-day knowledge of the strengths and behavior of soils and the complete information developed on the type of materials through which the channel would be

dug.Advanced techniques in soils mechanics were employed both during the investigation phases of the Third Locks project and the 1947 studies in determining the proper slopes to avoid landslides. Soils mechanics was an unknown science in the days of the Canal construction and slopes were set by rule of thumb. Today's sci- ence adequately determines soils characteristics to a degree that the threat of future slides could be eliminated. By

setting all slopes to the proper grades,

slides can be prevented, even when dig- ging in loose sand. The determination of the proper slopes on the proposed sea level alignment was an extremely tedious task because of the diversity of the geological formations. At some points it was determined that

slopes of such extreme flatness of one foot

in depth to 15 feet in lateral cut would be

required because of the weakness of material to be encountered. The use of dry excavation methods for using nearly three-fowths of the billion cubic yards of material to be mo\ed is possible partly because of the channel alignment but chiefly because of an in- genious plan developed during the studies.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957 June 7, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW
This plan involves driving a series of finger canals into the land mass from Gatun Lake. These would parallel the excavation site and material being re- moved would be loaded directly into dump scows operating on the finger canals. .\s the cut was deepened and

extended, new finger canals would be

driven farther into the land. The practicabOity of the deep dredging

plan permitting the accomplishment of all wet excavation before emptymg Gatim

Lake was determined through design contracts with some of the largest manufacturers of dredging equipment in the United States. Their reports concluded

that the plan is feasible and they sub- mitted preliminary designs for dredges which would excavate to the unprece- dented depth of 145 feet. There were few new or unknown prob- lems in constructing a sea level Panama

Canal when the Isthmian Studies were

undertaken. The main features were rec- ognized by the French in thoir attempts

to construct a sea level canal during the

ISSO's. They were well explored and de- bated during consideration of what type

of canal to build after the United States Government undertook the job in 1904. One of the most important of the old problems for which the investigators needed an answer in 1947 was that of flood control. With the disappearance of Gatun Lake, one of the largest bodies of artificial water

in the world, the entrance of the Chagres and other large tributary streams into the canal channel would make navigation difficult in normal times and impossible during floods. The development of an ade- quate flood control plan was one of the major engineering problems of the 1947

studies. A plan was developed to block off all streams and tributaries of any conse- quence by using excavated material to form wide, flat dams which would be

diflicult of destruction. The Chagres

River would be dammed at Gamboa, cre- ating a new reservoir there, and diverting

its flow through a long diversion channel

to the Atlantic. Similarly, barrier dams would block the flow of large streams on the west

side of the Canal and a large reservoir, now a part of Gatun Lake, would be formed for the Trinidad River which

would have its outlet into the Carib- bean through the Chagres River bed

below (;atun Dam.

The care taken in the Isthmian Canal

Studies of 1047 is indicat<'d in part by

the final report. The text alone, summarizing the studies and recommendations,

includes over 100 pages of written material, maps, and charts; in addition, eight annexes were published, each larger than

the text, dealing with specific pha.ses. The subject of these, indicating their contents, are: Panama Canal Commercial

Trafl[ic Survey by Dr. Roland L. Kramer;

Future Capacity Needs; Geology; Slides and Excavation Slopes; Meteorology and

Hydrology; Panama Canal L(jck C'anals; Panama Sea L<;vel Canal; and Security. Also included in the report were 21 ap- pendices containing detailed data and in- formation on every principal phase of the

project. The report is probably the most complete and meticulous engineering report ever written. It deals exhaustively with

all the alternates ever seriously proposed

PAGES FROM THE

CANAVS HIST

THIS MONTH

50 Years Ago

Steamshovels were back at work

throughout the Canal Zone 50 years ago

this month and the Canal force was

making up for lost time. Official figures showed that, despite the strike, the material taken from Culebra Cut during the

first five months of 1907 exceeded by

almost one million cubic yards the total

for the entire 12 months of 190G.

.4 "change fraught with evil." the editorial writer for the "Star & Herald" predicted, commenting on rumors that the Sanitary Department of the ICC was "endeavoring to transfer the responsibility for

the sanitation of Panama City to the Republic." According to reported plans, the United States would pay $20,000 annually

toward this task, the balance would be paid

by Panama. "The sanitation of Panama

has never been so perfect as it is today,"

he declared, urging against the change. Gertrude Beeks, of New York City, Secretary of the Welfare Department of the Civic Federation, arrived to investi- gate housing, food, and amusements of the Canal Zone's working force. She had

been appointed to this job bv Secretarv

Taft. She spoke at the CuJebra Club- house June 21; according to the Star tt Herald, the result of her talk was that her audience became ICC champions. The Cristobal Clubhouse, last of the four

built by the Canal Commission, was opened

formally on June 29. Bids were asked for two more large suction dredges, each capable of handling

as much material as three or four steamshovels. One of the dredges would be

stationed at Balboa, the other at the

Atlantic entrance to the Canal. A highly-touted novel entertainment, a

fight between a bull and a tiger in Panama

City, turned out to be a first-class fiasco. The tiger was a jaguar, and a timid one

at that. He escaped into a panicky crowd

of over 4,000 ami had to be shot. 25 Years Ago

Zonians continued to watch the activities of Congress with some apprehension

as Representatives and Senators slashed away at funds and tried to bring (jovern- ment spending in line with the President's

di'ciared Kconomy Program.

.l.s the month ended, the Congress passed

the Economy Bill which would cut salaries of Government employees by either 8^4 or 10 percent, depending on whether they were

switched from a six- to a five-day iveek or given a month furlough. Reports from

Washington indicated that the limitation of one working-employee in a family had been included in the bill; the Canal Administration had to wait official word before it could

prescribe its policy. Canal leave, however.

whether in Panama or other countries. No matter which way the eventual deci- sion goe.", the engineering is ready for use. For many years to come the only answer

required will be to the question, "Which

plan do we build?"

iiad not been cut, although the leave of other Government employees was restricted to 15

days. Because of the decrease in Canal traflSc, working shifts of towing locomotive operators were to be reduced at Gatun and

Miraflores Locks from four to three, and

from three to two at Pedro Miguel Locks. The effective date was to be July 1. With the reduced force, only one side of Gatun and Miraflores Locks would be in use before 9:30 a. m. and after 5:30 p. m.

The newly-formed Canal Zone Women's

League spent a busy month. First, they

sold 2,000 buttons, at $1 each, to retain

legislative representative H. A. .\lcCon- aughy in Washington to look after Canal

interests, and later in the month they met

to discuss the need for a Canal Zone Junior

College. On June 22, Governor Burgess

said that appropriations for a junior col- lege would be included in budget e.'iiimates for the next fiscal year. Governor Burgess approved plans to build two "modern one-family houses" on a shoulder of Ancon Hill then occupied by women's bachelor quarters. (These two houses are now occupied by Paul

Bertz, General Counsel, and Col. Hugh

M. Arnold, Engineering and Construction

Director.

)

Isthmiana: Eighty-two seniors received

their diplomas at Balboa High School;

Cristobal High School graduated Jfi; trunks

alone were barred at the Balboa swimming

pool men bathers had to wear full suits

if they wanted to swim; Governor Burgess was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General; and the month's visitors included Dr.

.Arthur Compton, of cosmic ray fame. 10 Years Ago

Zone labor unions went into action against two bills which would extend federal income tax to U. S. citizens employed

in the Canal Zone. The Canal Zone budget was slashed by

almost $i million by the House .Appropriations Committee. Governor Mehaffey approved plans to increase rental on "silver" quarters, al- though the increase would not be effective

for about two months. The Canal organization adopted a policy

of giving 30 days notice of force reduction

to silver-roll employees, other than those on

a "casual or intermittent basis." Drawings and specifications for the new

Balboa theater, submitted by a New

York firm, were approwd and accepted.

,4 New York shipping strike tied up the SS "Panama" and threw the schedules of

the other ships out (f kilter. James Marshall succeeded C. H. Cal- houn as Chief of the Division of Civil Affairs and Capt. Edward S. Hutchinson

took over the duties of the Balboa Port Captain. One Year Ago

.As June ci'dcd, tile Panama ("anal had

set an all-time year's record for traflic and tolls: S,2(I0 ocean-going commercial

vessels of 300 tons and over; a total of $37,450,951 collected in tolls.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957
Here's The Man

Who Keeps Things Moving

If it has wheels and moves on them

and belongs to the Company-Government

organization, it probably is the business

of Bernhard 1. Everson. As Director of the Transportation and

Terminals Bureau, he's responsible for the Panama Railroad and its 9 locomotives and 42 passenger cars and 453

freight cars, and all of the rest of its roll- ing stock. In the same capacity, ho has

the say-so when it comes to the 49 sedans and numerous trucks, station wagons,

busses and carryalls, and all of the other

vehicles operated by the Motor Transportation Division. And, since the Terminals Division is part of his bureau, he is concerned with its lift-trucks and tractortrailers. Even if the wheeled equipment does not "belong" to his divisions, its re- pairs are still his concern. Police cars and hospital ambulances, for instance,

are carried on the property lists of the

Police Division or the Division of Hosppitals and Clinics, but they are taken

to the Motor Transportation Division when a carburetor goes bad or a tie-rod needs fixing. Over 400,000 passengers each year ride on the railroad he supervises and the line cirries tonnage well over the 100,000- mark. Each of the "official cars" in the Motor Transportation pools runs about

12,000 miles a year, carrying engineers on

field trips, the official photographer on

picture-taking expeditions, and dozens of other employees wherever official errands

take them. Every day during the schoolyear, more than 600 boys and girls ride from home to school and back again in busses based at the Ancon and Cristobal

"corrals," and the men under his direc- tion supervise the operation of almost 90

public transportation busses which run under franchise on both sides of the Canal

Zone.

All of these things, of course, come

under the Transportation part of his job. The Terminals are something else, but

they are not as far divorced from Transportation as the uninitiated might think. Most of the docks and piers, on either

side of the Canal Zone, come under his direction and it is his ultimate responsibility to .see that ships which refjuire suj)- plies are able to take on water or fuel or load or discharge cargo. During the fiscal year which ended

last June 30, over 3,200 ships berthed

at the Canal Company's docks and

piers in Balboa and Cristobal which

handled a v.ork-load of over 2,000,000 tons of cargo, and 15,000,000 barrels of petroleum products. The Terminals Division serves as local agents for the Panama Line ships and for a number of other lines which do not maintain a local agency. Occasionally,

this entails the Railroad Division too: Cargo shipped from New York on a Panama Line ship is discharged in Cristobal, shipped across the Isthmus by

railroad, and reloaded in Balboa for a port in South America, for instance. Like all jobs, that of Transportation and Terminals Director has its joys and

its headaches. The most interesting part

of it, Mr. Everson believes, is the dayto-day working contacts with people in the shipping and transportation fields. And the major headache, currently, is working out some means of returning

business to the Panama Railroad and im- proving its service to its customers, while

at the same time reducing costs. This month's "Man Who" has several

distinctions. He has spent more time

here than any other of the Bureau Directors, he is the only Director to have

attended elementary and high school here, and he is the only member of the "top

brass" to have spent his entire working

career in the Panama Canal's service. Born in Brevik, Norway, closer to the

Arctic Circle than the Isthmus is to the Equator, he was christened Ingvar Bernhard Everson. When he grew up, he switched his first two names, so that he is now Bernhard Ingvar, or the "Emo" by which he is known to his

friends. As a boy, Emo could speak

the Scandinavian languages but he has

forgotten much of what he once knew.

In 1914, he and his mother and brother

B. I. EVERSON

If things move on wheels, they're his. came here from Norway to join his father, a chief operator on Dredge 86. Like most

families of those days, they lived 'round and about in Panama City at the old Hotel Imperial, in a pension on what is now Tivoli Avenue, and in Colon and

Paraiso before they finally found permanent housing in Pedro Miguel. Emo Everson held his first Canal job

as a messenger in the old Correspondence Bureau in 1927, when he was a freshman

at Balboa High School. The next year, he transferred his allegiance to the Marine Division and worked there, first as a

rollkeeper's helper and {See page 12) Blood Bank

Not one Canal employee has had to pay

for blood transfusions at Canal Zone hospitals since February 1, 1956, and it has not been necessary for the hospitals to purchase blood since last November.

This is due to a program under which employees of each Division in the Canal

organization donate blood for fellow employees who need it. Under a similar arrangement, members of the Armed

Forces and units such as the U. S. Embassy which use Zone hospitals donate

blood to replace that used for their per- sonnel. Between November 23, when this blood replenishment program went into effect, and May 3, when the latest figures were

compiled, 445 pints of blood have been

given free of charge. Before the present program was started blood donations were obtained from a

small group of volunteer donors and by

purchase from professional donors. Last

fall, an intensive campaign was carried on in the Canal organization and a body

of potential donors was signed up. The blood bank at Gorgas Hospital is located in the Out-Patient Clinic and operates between 1 and 4 p. m. Monday,

Wednesday, and Friday. In case of emergencies, blood is drawn at the Emergency Room. Few difficulties have been encountered

although in a relatively small blood bank

such as this, there are occasional short- ages of a specific type of blood. A pro- gram for the typing of all potential donors

will be initiated in the near future. At the present time the list of donors maintained by the various Bureaus is made up almost exclusively of employees. Wives and dependents may also register

June 7,1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

as donors to help meet the problem of providing blood for charity patients, veterans, and foreign seamen, as a community effort. Below is a summary of the Blood Replenishment Program, by Bureaus, for the period November 23, 1956, and May

.3, 1957:

Bureau Donors ; tentt Office of Governor-President, Administrative Branch, and Miscellaneous . 8 Supply and Employee Service 24 32 Personnel 7 1 Engineering & Construction 18 19 Marine 44 51 Transportation & Terminals. 23 35 Comptroller's Office 5 2

Civil Anairs 24 24 Health Bureau 26 15

Total 179 179
And Not An Alp In Sight!

Every respectable St. Bernard carries a keg; a blizzard might just happen!

Snow storms and mountain avalanches come to mind at the mention of St. Ber- nards—not palm trees and the tropics—

but residents of Diablo Heights are be- coming accustomed to the two giant St. Bernards belonging to Herman Panzer,

of 52S2 Morrison St. Teddy, the six-year-old prize-winning

St. Bernard, weighs 155 pounds. He is one of the rar.?, almost perfect, specimens

of the breed and has the weight, height, and shape of head and body that makes

a champion. He has participated in seven dug shows. Teddy is a show dog in another way too, having had a fling at acting

in the show, "King of Hearts," produced

recently by the Balboa Theater Guild. Queenie, the two-year-old, came to the

Unique he-re are ih^ tvjo Si. Bernards owned by Heiman Panzer of Diablo

Heights. They don't seem to mind the heat and humidity of the Zone.

Here's The Man Who Keeps Things Moving

(f'lmiinualfrom piii/e. II) later as a Seaman

for the rest of his summer vacations. After his graduation as a Mechanical

Engineer from Carnegie Tech, ho went

to work for the former Municipal Engineering Division as a filtration plant oper- ator at Madden Dam, but a year later decided that he needed to learn more

about crafts work and began an apprenticeship as a machinist. He is probably the only Canal employee who ever stepped right from a completed

apprenticeship into a job as assistant to the head of a Division, but that is what

he did in iO.'iS when he became A.ssistant to the Superintendent of the Motor

Transportation Division. Ten years later he became its Superintendent. In 1952 he wa.s made A.ssistant Director of the then Railroad and Terminals Bureau; he has been its director, under its new name,

since 19.54. His extracurricular duties include a number of tilings, one of the most important of which is headingj the alternate main control center for Oivil Defense on tlij Atlantic side. In his spare

time, he goes tarpon fishing on the

Chaftres River from the 18-foot outboar<l motorboat "Kirsten" (named for

his mother) which he owns jointly with John ISruland. So far, a 25-pounder is the bijljiest tarpon he has ever landed, but he has hopes. He is a member of the Canal Zone Boy Scout Council and its committeeman

from Margarita where he lives with his wife and their three sons, John, IS; Randall, known as Randy, Ifl; and B. 1. Junior, .S, who has just decided that he

is going to be called Rimby for no reiison anyone can figure out. Mrs. Everson,

incidentally, is named Phyllis, but is known all over the Isthmus as "Fee,"

also for no very logical reason. He is also a member of the Board of Management of the Cristobal YMCAUSO and the Canal Zone Cancer Committee, and is a Major in the Air Porce

Reserve.

Zone when she was only six weeks old and was so small that Mr. Panzer could

fit her neatly into his coat pocket, but

she has grown rapidly and is now only

10 pounds lighter than the male. In ex- plaining Queenie's fast growth, Mr. Panzer pointed out that St. Bernards' diet must be carefully watched during this growth process and extra calcium added

to avoid bone diseases. At this time young St. Bernards often develop a lop-sided appearance when two

of the legs grow faster than the other two. Although Queenie was able to adapt to

the climate immediately Mr. Panzer spent

a year and a half in California near the

desert to acclimate Teddy gradually before bringing him to the Canal Zone. Both St. Bernards live in the house and are exceedingly good housedogs, ac- cording to Mr. Panzer, who points out

that St. Bernards are often pictured in china shops to show their gentle gracefulness. The Panzer house is a good test for them since Mr. Panzer collects crj'stal, china, and pott«ry figurines of dogs, and

Mrs. Panzer has a similar collection of

cats. The dogs St. Bernards, not figurinesare expensive animals to maintain. They

eat an average of six pounds of beef each

per day and require a great deal of attention to keep their coats shiny and in good

condition.

Committee Appointed

To Plan United Fund

Drive For Canal Zone

Details of a United Fund Drive for the Canal Zone are now being worked out by

a seven-man st<>ering committee, ap- pointed last month at a meeting of "givers and receivers" held at the Balboa

Theater. The committee was to submit a report

late last week and this report will be presented to another "givers and re- ceivers" as.semblage within the near fu- ture. One of their recommendations will concern the dat<', probably in September

or October of this year, for a United Fund Drive and the way in which it can

be conducted. The idea of a United Fund campaign,

to replace the numerous money-raising

drives carried on throughout the year, has been discu.s.sed for some time. Last

fall Canal Zone voters were asked to indicate' their preference for one or several drives and voted overwhelmingly, on ballots for Civil Council members, in favor

of the single drive. Members of the organizing committee

for the campaign are: Paul M. Runnestrand, Isxecutive Sccretar\'; Col. L. L. Manly, Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for the Caribbean Command; Ellis L. Fawcett. Principal of the Paraiso Migh

Scho<iI; .Anthony F. Raymond, A.ssistant Manager of the Unit<'d PVuit Companv

in Cristobal; Alton White, Chief of the Dredging Division; Carl J. Browne, Superintendent of the Balboa Field Office of the Maintenance Division; and Arnold Hodgson, Executive Secretary of the Balboa YMCA-USO.

12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 7, 1957
—Honored

Mrs. Nina Brown Kosik To Nina Brown Kosik went the honor this week of learning that her name will be engraved on the bronze

plaque at the entrance to the Canal Zone Junior College as the graduating student who has contributed most to the college in scholarship, character, and student activities. She is the twenty-third student to be so honored, and the second one

to have been married at the time

the honor was given. The announcement was made

during the graduation ceremonies Wednesday.

Mrs. Kosik, the third generation

of her family to live in the Canal

Zone, is the daughter of Mrs. Emma

E. Brown of Balboa, and the late John L. Brown, and granddaughter

of Mrs. Marie Van Clief who retired recently from the Canal service. She

was born in Colon and was graduated from Balboa High School in 1955. During her freshman year at the Junior College, she was selected as the friendliest student and this year

as the most-all-around student. She was editor-in-chief of this year's "Conquistador" the college year- book, and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa national honorary scholastic

fraternity. She was married last year to August J. Kosik, an employee of the

Civil Aeronautics Administration. Thev live at Rousseau.

Zone License Sections

Will Be Consolidated

Consolidation of the Land License

office and the License Section, both units

of the Civil Affairs Bureau, will be effec- tive July 1. John W. Hare, presently Chief of the Land License Unit, will head

the new consolidated Section. He will be assisted by Michael Zombory. As a preparatory move toward the

consolidation, the Land License Office was moved May 15 to the front section

of th« License Office in the Civil Affairs Building. Land License operations had

previously been carried on from an office in the lobby of the building.

The Diablo Heights Commissary, now

open from 1 to S p. m. on Mondays, will have a new set of hours for that day, to be effective within the next few weeks. This was decided May 27 at a Commissary Forum attended Ijy representatives

of various civic and labor groups from

the Canal Zone's U. S. Rate communities. The new hours, which will be on a

trial basis for a period of about two months, will be 9 a. m. to noon, and

2 to 6 p. m. each Monday. On its other

selling days, the Diablo Heights Commissary hours will remain unchanged. The shift in hours was the result of customer comments and complaints that

there is at present no retail store open Monday morning where Pacific side commissary shoppers can replenish their larders after the heavy weekend consumption

at home. Several of the Pacific siders indicated a preference to have Balboa Commissary open Mondays, but when

the question was put to a vote, the majority favored retaining Diablo Heights

as the open store on Monday but changing the hours to permit morning shopping. The date on which the change in hours

will be effective is to be Monday, June 10, according to Wilson H. Crook, Supply and Employee Service Du-ector, who con- ducted the May forum. The entire matter of commissary hours, including a lengthy discussion as to whether the noon-hour closing be aban- doned and the stores revert to the former shopping hours when there was no noontime closing, occupied much of the time

of the lengthy May 27 forum.

B. J. Elich, Special Assistant to the General Manager of the Commissary and

Service Center Division, displayed a

series of charts showing sales throughout

a day at the Balboa Commissary based on data compiled for the January 27-Feb- ruary 9 period. These indicated that

there were two daily peaks, one at about

11 a. m. and the other from about 4:30

to 5:30 p. m. On Thursday, when the

store opens at 1 p. m. and closes at 8

p. m., the peak was also between 4:30 and 5:30 p. m. Other charts showed what the shopping load would probably be were the

store open continuously, the costs of this increased service (both with additional personnel and with a staggered

force), and two plans to revise the pres- ent shopping hours. The cost charts showed that continuous hours at Bal- boa would cost an estimated additional

.'58,878 per month, if additional help were added, and about S2,700 per month if the force were staggered. Another possibility, also displayed in chart form, involved a minor revision of the present store hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, to allow for morning

hours of 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. but with the same afternoon hours, the present hours on Thursday unchanged, and continuous

operation from 8:30 a. m to 5:30 p. m.

on Saturday. The cost of this would be

June 7, 1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

a minimum of $8,100 a year more than

the present cost of operating this commissary. Problems which would arise from a

shift to continuous operation, Mr. Elich showed, by another set of charts, would

involve: Preparation of stock prior to

store opening, inventory control, supervision and training of employees.

In connection with the discussion on

hours, several of those present reported

that shelves are insufficiently stocked when the commissaries open in the morning, delaying housewives and others who

want to get their shopping done during

the early part of the day. Commissary

representatives were asked to look into

this matter and take steps to correct it. At the beginning of the forum, the customer representatives were told that

a trial shipment of fruit and vegetables from the southern part of the United

States had not proved satisfactory be- cause of the delayed arrival of the ship bringing this produce to the Canal Zone.

"First-hand losses" were as high as 52

percent on celery and 40 percent on green

peppers. Less perishable items, such as potatoes and watermelons, arrived in sat- isfactory condition. Investigation, however, will be continued into the possibility of such shipments, provided a line can be found which will make a direct trip to the Zone. Also being investigated is the matter of air shipments of fruits and vegetables, if a satisfactory freight rate can be obtained. Customers indicated their approval

of a system, tried recently at Balboa when a large shipment of women's

dresses was sold by assigning different

sizes to different days, and also said that they were pleased with the type and quality of women's clothes now

being carried. Other commissary matters reported

included the following: Dress patteni- books will be available in Balboa and

Cristobal commissaries soon; customers may order from these books and the pat- terns will be available the following day. Arrangements have been made to have

a scissors sharpener outside the Balboa Commissary one day weekly. Better

quality cotton lingerie is now on sale, and a wider variety of shoes of all types

is now being ordered. Additional items requested at the forum

included: A larger stock of teenage dresses

especially size 12, small-size blouses,

girdles for teenagers, French-cuffed dress

shirts for teenage boys, dacron slacks for growing boys, small-size T-shirts and pa- jamas for boys, and good khaki trousers

for men.

Considerable time was devoted near the end of the conference to questions on the

inspection of food products obtained in Panama. Mr. Crook assured the cus- tomers that all of these food producers

are subject to inspection at any time and

said: "You can rest assured that what we are selling has been approved by the Health Bureau."
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS JUNE SAILINGS

April 75 through May 75

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

listed below. Within-grade promotions are not reported.

CrV'IL AFF.MRS BUREAU

Leslie R. Thomas, from Elementary

Teacher to Junior High School Teacher,

Division of Schools. Curtis B. Jeffries, from Substitute Win- dow Clerk to Window Clerk, Postal Division. Louis A. Austin, from Guard, Locks Security Branch, to Substitute Window Clerk,

Postal Division OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Mrs. Mabel F. Peterson, Accounting

Clerk, from Conimissan,- Division to Accounting Division. Mrs. Jeanne M. Wheeler, from Plant

.Accounting .Assistant. Plant Accounting

Branch, to Accounting Clerk, Payroll Branch.

James J. Morris, from Contract Specialist to Construction Inspector (General), Contract and Inspection Division. Manuel A. Smith, from Engineering .'\id (Hydraulic) to Meteorological .Aid, Meteorological and Hydrographic Branch. Mrs. Janice G. Scott, from Accounting

Clerk to Cost .^counting Clerk, Mainte- nance Division.

J. Douglas Lord, from Supervisory Store- keeper (General) to .Administrative Assist- ant (TvpingI, Power Conversion Project. Thomas H. Jordan, from Apprentice

Cablesplicer to Cablesplicer, Electrical Division. Harvey D. Smith, from Lead Foreman II to Lead Foreni.m III, Building Maintenance, Maintenance Division. Mrs. Gertrude M. Roberts, from ClerkTypist, Office of Chief. Locks Division, to .Accounting Clerk, Water and Laboratories Branch. Robert J. Risberg, from Assistant to Chief to .Assistant Chief, Water and Laboratories Branch. William C. Williford, from Lead Foreman,

Quarters Maintenance, to Lead Foreman II, Building Maintenance, Maintenance Division. Peter S. Legge, from Engineer, Pipeline Suction Dredge, to Chief Towboat Engineer, Dredging Di\isi(>n. Edward J. Shepherd, Guard Supervisor from Pacific to Atlantic Locks, Locks Security Branch. Joseph A. Janko, Guard Supervisor, from

.Atlantic to Pacific Locks, Locks .Security Branch. Frank Borsellino, Charles D. Wood, from Guard to Guanl Supervisor, Locks Security Branch. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

Irma A. Leignadier, from Illustrator to

Statistical Draftsman, Executive Planning

Staff. HEALTH nUREAU

Mrs. Mildred D. Frensley, from .Super- visorv Slorekecpini; Clerk to .Supervisory Supply Clerk ( Medi( al), Coco Solo Hospital'. MARINE BUREAU

Dorothy B. King, Clerk-Typist, from Division of Storehouses, to Oflfice of Chief, Lockn Division. Henry M. Pridgen, Arthur Tuttle, Jr., Richard A. McLean, Norman M. Currier, from Towlio.ii M.i^icr to Pilot-in-Training, Navigation Division. Thomas F. Gibson, from Lock Operator

Carpenter to Lead Painter Foreman, Atlantic Locks. George J. Kredell, from Substitute Window Clerk. Postal Division, to Towing Lo- comotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Ernest C. Stiebritz, from Machinist, In- dustrial Division, to Lock Operator Machinist. Atlanli<' Lo< ks. John F. Stephenson, from Marine Inspection .Assistant to .Adnieasurer, Navigation

Division. G. G. Thomas, from Maihinist I'Oreman

to Lockmaslcr, .Atlantic Locks, George C. Scheibe, Clifford S. Asbury, from Machinist to Machinist Foreman,

.Atlantic Locks. Theodore L. Bailey, from Probationary

Pilot to Towboat Master, Navigation Division. Samuel F. Mason lU, from Towboat

Master to Pilot-in-Training, Navigation

Division. WilUam J. Nickisher, Gas Plant Operator

to Electric Welder, Industrial Division. SUPPLY AND EMPLOYEE SERVICE BUREAU

Hilton B. McPheters, from Towing Lo- comotive Operator, Pacific Locks, to Heavy

Equipment Operator, Division of Store- houses. Mrs. Gertrude J. Connard, from Commissarv' .Assistant, Commissary Division, to Supervisory.Steward. Service Center Branch. Mrs. Alberta M. Stone, from .Accounting Clerk to Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Commissary Division. TR.\.\SPORTATION AND TERMINALS BUREAU

Jimmie Scott, from Guard to Supervisory Cargo .Assistant, Terminals Division. Lee B. Hunnicutt, from Supervisory Cargo Clerk to Supervisory Cargo .Assist- ant, Terminals Division. OTHER PROMOTIONS

Promotions which did not involve changes

in title follow: Mrs. Audra C. Dougan, Clerk, Housing and Grounds Division, Grounds Section. Comeilius J. O'Sullivan, CommissarySupervisor, Commissary Division. Jfames L. Snyder, Commissary Supervisor, Commissary Division. Mrs. Eunice L. Hamilton, Supervisory

StevvarrI, Service Center Branch. William Goldfein, Systems .Accountant,

.AciDuiitini; Policies and Procedures Staff. Mrs. Anna H. Pruitt, Position Classifier. Wage and Classification Division, RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of May to the following employees who are listed alphabetically, together W'ith their birthplaces, titles, length of Canal

service and future addresses: Kyle C. Andress, Florida; Towing Loco- motive Operator, Pacific Locks; 11 years,

2 months, ,? <lays; Address undecided. Homer V. Crooks, Oregon; Sergeant,

Police Division; 29 vears, 5 months, 25 davs; Sun Rafael, Calif. Julius M. Culpepper, .Alabama; Air Mail Tour l'"orcman, Postal Division; 28 years,

1 month, 1 da\-; Ochlochnee, Ga. James W. Grey, X'irginia; .Supervisory Cargo .Assistant, Terminals Div-ision; 33

years. 3 months, 18 days;Canoga Park, Calif. Raymond L. Hendrickson, New York;

Senior Towboat Master, Navigation Division; 16 vears, 17 days; Bayshore, Long

Island, N,'V. Henry C. Hotz, Oklahoma; Track Fore- man, Railroad Division; 24 years, 3 months,

]3 clav>; Kissiiiunee, Fla. Duncan Laird, Scotland; Boatbuilder,

Industrial Division; 13 years, 9 months, 12 days; address imdecided. Thomas Lutro, Ohio; Lockmaster, Atlantic Locks; 26 vears, 11 months, 28 davs;

llialc.di Park, Fla. George Carter Orr, Michigan; Pipeline

.Suction Dredge Ojjeralor, Dredging Divisif)n; 27 vears, 8 months, 23 days; St. Peters- burg, Fla. George W. Parker, Massachusettf ; Control House Opcr.itor. Pacific Locks; 24

year>, 10 d. IV s; Denver, Colo. Mrs. Margaret Peterson, Wisconsin ; Fiscal Accounting Clerk, Industrial Division; 20 years, 10 months, 3 days; Florida. Louis Pierobon, Luxembourg; Lead Fore- man, Sheet metal Shop, Maintenance Division; 17 years, 2 months, 17 days; Chicago,

III., for time being, Mrs. Florence Robinette, Sp.inish Honduras; Clerk, C"onnnissary Division; 14

years, 9 months, 6 days; Alexan<lria, La. George S. Zimmerman, .Michigan; Lockmaster, Atlantic Locks; 28 years, 4 months,

15 davs; Florida.

FROM CRISTOBAL

Cristobal June 1 A neon June 8

CnsU)bal June 19 Ancon ... - June 26 FROM NEW YORK

CrislobaL ,'. June 1

1

Ancon. June 18

Cristobal June 28

Southbound ships which leave New Yoric Friday

are in Haiti tlie following Tuesday. Those wliicli sail from New York Tuesday spend Saturday in Haiti. Xorlhbound. the ships stop in Haiti two days after clearing Cristobal: Monday for those which sail from

Cristobal Saturday and Friday for those which clear Cristobal Wednesday. ANNIVERSARIES

The 41 ye.irs of government sorv ice which Edward P. Walsh, Filtration Plant Operator at Mount llofie, completed on May 25, puts him in top spot on the May list of anniversaries. .Although his service has been

broken, it has all been with the Canal or- ganization and he is one of the nine men,

still working, whose service began before the Panama Canal was opened. Born in Perth .Amboy, N. J., he had his

first look at the Canal Zone from the deck

of the old S. S. Allianca, when he was a youngster just entering his teens. A few

years later (after some odd jobs during summer vacations) he joined the Canal or- ganization as a checker at the Gatun Commissary.

In 1929, when he had risen to the position

of foreman, he left the Canal Zone to work

for a grocery chain in the United States. He returned here in 1933 atui rejoined the Canal force as a checker at Cristobal Drydock. .All of the remainder t)f his service has been with what is now the Maintenance

Division. He has worked as a construction foreman on what were then new quarters

in Gatun, as a construction foreiuan laying sewer and water lines in the burgeoning town of Margarita, and since 1944 in the Mount Hope Filtration Plant. He lives with his wife and their three

children in Margarita, where he spends his spare time gardening or puttering around

the house. He used to do a lot of bowling and played a fine game of baseball, but not any more, he says.

35 YEARS

With the exception of a short lime when

he worked as a salesm.in in tin- Commissary

Division, all of William G. Frederick's 35

years of service has been with ilic sliii)piiig end of the Canal's operation. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, in the British West Indies, he attended the British Army

Signal School before he catue to the Isth- mus in 1919, Much of his Panama Canal

.service has been as a signal mati.

In this job, he has been i)art of the "eyes"

of the Panama Canal dispatchers, who manage the control center from which all Pan- ama Canal shii)ping operations are directed. He is on duty in the Cristobal signal station.

.10 YEARS

Mav's two 3()-vear men both come from

below the Ma.son-Dixon Line, and both have to do, directly or indirciily, with

shipping.

J. Ernest Tigert, who was born in Ml.

Pleasant, Tex,, is a Guard Supervisor in the

Industrial Division where .dl ni.iritinie re- pairs are done, and Landon H. Gunn, who

is a native of Savannah, (ia., is an operator on the pipeline suction ciredge Mindi. Mr. Tigert says he has no particular hobbies, but Mr, Gunn goes on busman's holi- days. As if he didn't spend ciiougli time

afloat, his hobby is building and sailing small craft. His current sailboat is a 20-

fooier, which he uses to cruise up and down

the coastline.

25 YEARS

Silver anniversaries for 25 years of Government service rolle<l aroimd List month

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June?, 1957
COMING SOON

Lt. Col. R. Duncan IJrowii, Jr., lOxccir

tivt> Officer of the Omaha Kiifjinwr District, fia.s been as.signed to the Canal Zone

as Kngineerinji and Construction Director, it was announced last month. Accompanied by Mrs. Brown and their four children, he expects to arrive here

for his new post about July 23. As EnsjineiTing and Construction Director, Colonel Brown will succeed Col. Hugh M. Arnold. His new assignment will be his third under Governor Potter. He served with

the Governor in Alaska during the late 1940's and, more recently, in the Omaha

Engineer District.

for two of the Caii.tl';; well-known employees, James O. DesLondes and Donald P. Hutchinson.

.Mr. DesLondes, a (ieneral Supply Officer

in the Division of Storehouses in his working hours, and a baseball fan the rest of the time, was born in Lafayette, Ind., but

started his Canal career when he was a schoolboy and held several vacation jobs. Mr. Hutchinson, a native of Scranton,

Pa., couldn't carry on his present occupation in his home town —he is a Control House Operator at Miratlores Locks.

20 YEARS Two of the eight employees who cele- brated twentieth anniversaries last month

have unbroken service with the Canal or- ganization. These two are: Peter S. Legge, a native New Yorker, who is now a Chief Towboat

Engineer with the Dredging Division, and

Frank W. Van Home, Iron-Worker Welder

at the ['acific Locks. Mr. \'an Home was

born in Meadville, Pa. The other si.\ include two

Mary F. Maguire and Robert Van Wagner—who were

born outside the continental L'nited .States. Miss Maguire, Secretary for the GoxernorPresident for the past four years, is a native Zonian and a second generation Canal employee. Mr. \'an Wagner was born in Me,\-

ico. He is Supervisory Administrative Assistant in the Maintenance Division; one of

his major extra-curricular posts is that of President of the Employee Group Health

Insurance Board. Others who completed 20 years of govern- ment service in May are: Robert M. Blakely, Lead Foreman Machinist in the Industrial Division, a native of Somerville, Ma,ss.; John A. McNatt, .\uditor in the General Auditing Division —he counts Nashville, Tenn., as his home; Mary B. Raymond, a native of Roanoke, \'a., second-grade teacher in the .\ncon Elementary School; and

F. C. Willoughby, Operator Foreman Mechanic in the Electrical Division. He comes

from Cheyenne, Wyo.

15 YEARS

Seven of the 16 employees who completed

15 years of government service last month

have continuous service with the Canal or- ganization. This septet includes: Eva M. Grassau, Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Fiscal Division; Ralph L. Hanners. Lead Grounds Foreman, Housing and Grounds Division; Ruth B. Krziza, Clerk- Stenographer in the Office (jf the Mainte- nance Engineer; Elva G. Montayne, Card- Punch .Supervisor, Payroll Branch; Ruth K.

Peterson, Clerk - Stenographer. General Audit Division; Alphonse J. Roy, Second

.Mate, L'. S. S. Taboga; and Lee E. Sparks, Supervisory Produce Specialist, Commissary Division. Other 15-year employees on the May list are: Roscoe C. Crump, Locomotive Crane

Operator and Rigger and Diver, Industrial Division; Thomas A. Frensley, PolicemanDetective, Police Division; E. Guy Huldtquist —a native Zonian —Chief Towboat

Engineer, Navigation Division; Earl H.

Johnson, Wood and Steel Carman, Rail- road Division; Juanita O. Jones —another

born Zonian —Clerk-Typist, Division of Schools; G. Leroy Koontz, Adiuinistrative

Assistant, Police Division; Ernest M. Krueger, Machinist, Pacific Locks; Ida M. McDade, Staff Nurse, Communicable Disease

Clinic; Robert McGuinness, Towing Loco- motive Operator, Pacific Locks.

CANAL ZONE CONSUMER PRICE COMPARISON

TIME-TO-TIME INDEX

0956 -100'

1956 LEVEL

1 ALL ITEMS

1

1 FOOD

f" ";

- ,

M

MONTHS

AGO Zone Food prices were down slightly in May From the previous monfFi; tFiere was a slight increase in tFie all-item column, according to price index Figures.

[Continued from fage S) and figure, for some reason, thai; vacation doesn't start

until they have set foot on their homeland. Others have arranged to buy new

cars in the States, fly up to get them, but

bring them back by ship. And still others want the relaxed feeling which comes w^ith the si.x-day sea trip as the happy ending

to a fine vacation. Zone families are becoming increasingly air-minded, the figures show. The re- maining 46 of the 168 Canal Zone families going on home leave travel under orders

issued between April 1 and May 22, are making the round trip by plane. Some

of them are going only as far as Florida; others are California-bound by plane. They are among the thousand or so passengers who enter and leave the Canal Zone each month via Tocumen Airport

in Panama. In a good many cases, the

air travelers are couples, but there were

families of five who had arranged to fly. The Canal Zone's traveling families go all over the United States. Florida

is a favorite vacation spot; Texas, New

York State, and California drew several families. The other states listed as va- cation destinations were Virginia, North

Carolina, Massachusetts, Alabama, In- diana, Missouri, West Virginia, Okla- homa, Louisiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Georgia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. One family was headed for Washington, D. C, and another was bound simply for "New England." The largest family, among these 168, was one of seven and family-size goes down from that family to the bachelor- maids and men. The family of seven is that of Dr. Richard Ostenso of Gorgas

Hospital. The Ostensos and their fom- sons and one little daughter are traveling both ways by Panama Line on their 10- week vacation. They plan to drive from New York to their home in Wisconsin. The Forrest Dunsmoors he's Deputy

E.xecutive Secretary—were somewhere be- tween California and the East Coast when

this issue of The Review went to press. They traveled to San Francisco by ship, bought a car there, are driving back to New York, and will return by Panama Line. Charles A. Dubbs, Director of Secondary Education in the Canal Zone schools, and his family are both air and highway

minded. They are flying to Miami, rent- ing a car there to drive to Indiana and

June 7,1957 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

New England, and returning to Florida

to catch a plane back to the Canal Zone. The length of vacations varies as much

as the destinations. A few took only a month - these are the fliers, in general and a few were to be away for almost

four months. The average seemed to be about two and a half months.

Until this year's travel orders are finally counted and tabulated for May, it will be hard to say whether the total issued this year will surpass the 285 issued in April and May of last year. But on a guess, at the moment, Mr. Thompson thinks this summer's travel, as a whole, will be a "shade higher" than last summer's. And because of the heavy season travel, whether it sets a record or not, families have been cautioned to give advance

notice of change of plans which would

involve cancelation of their sailings on

the Panama Line ships, just as they would

have to do in case of rail or plane travel.

Failtire to give this advance notice may

involve a loss of priority for later sailings.

Budget, Finance Group

Of Board Of Directors

To Meet Here In June

Budget estimates for fiscal year 1959

will be e.xamined and the budget and

financial program of the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Govern- ment for fiscal year 1958 will be reviewed

next month when four members of the Company's Board of Directors meet here. The four directors, former Governor

Glen E. Edgerton, Ralph H. Cake, Robert P. Burroughs, and Howard C. Petersen, comprise the Board's Budget and

Finance Committee. They will be in session here from June 24 through June 27. In preparation for these meetings, the budgets of the various operating units

are now being revised to conform with recommendations of the Management Review Committee which examined the budgets in detail in a series of sessions last month. Members of the Management

Review Committee are: Governor Potter;

Col. H. W. Schull, Jr., vice president;

Col. Hugh M. Arnold, Engineering and

Construction Director; and John D. Hollen, Chief of the Executive Planning Staff.
SHIPPING

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

3 1262 08544 4999

Her ccnled Flightdeck made Ine Ticond TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN APRIL

1956 19.57 Commercial 692 767

r. .S. Government 27 13

TotaL^ 719 780 TOLLS*

Commercial _ $3,025,809 $3,436,371 U. S. Government. 92,700 68,737

Total $3,118,509 $3,505,108

Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. New Customers Panama Canal admeasurers who board

vessels and measure them for tolls are hcing kept on the hop these days by the

larf^e number of new ships, some just

built, and some just new to the Canal. During April, 58 new ships arrived at Canal ports, 42 at Cristobal and 1(5 at Balboa. And up to May 15, a total of

21 were counted and measured for tolls, 15 of them at Cristobal and ti at Balboa. The influx of new customers is apparently the largest since the period shortly

after World War II when hundreds of war cargo vessels arrived here after being turned over to the merchant marine service for operation. The new ships fly the flags of all nations. The majority are dry-cargo vessels, built to utilize every inch of cargo space, and the huge combination ore-and-oil

carriers which ply between South America and U. S. east coast ports. More Maersks

The Maersk Line, one of the most fre- quent of the Canal's customers, has added two more ships to its fleet of pass- enger-freighters running between New- York and far eastern ports via the Pan- ama Canal. During the past two months, the SS

Leda Maersk and the SS Luna Maersk made their maiden Canal transits en

route to the Far East. The two 9,7()0-ton pas.senger-freighters

join a fleet of .54 freighters and tankers owned by A. P. Molier of Copenhagen. Most of them are regular customers of the Panama Canal and are handled here by Fenton & Company.

erogo too wide to transit the Canal . . .

Deck Cargo When the Panama Line's Cristobal sailed for New York May 15 she carried two unusual pieces of deck cargo. One

was a 43-foot auxiliary motor yacht Maraa, owned by the Crane Plumbing Company, and the other was a 30-foot

steel gangplank. The Mama had arrived here earlier in the month from Tahiti as deck cargo on

the French ship Tahilian. She was trans- ferred to the Cristobal and was taki-n to New York for sale. The gangplank was taken to New York

for use on the Panama Line's Pier ()4, where it was used shortly after the Crit^- tohal's arrival to assi-st the debarkation

of 800 passengers from a vessel of the Sitmar Line. Swiss Ship The MS Silvaplana, one of the four

Swiss-registered vessels to use the Pan- ama Canal since 1955, made the Canal

transit southbound recently, en r.uK' from Baton Rouge to Yokohama with a cargo of 10,000 tons of soybeans. Three other Swiss ships have transited

since last July; they are the first to have made the Canal transit since fiscal year

1955 when four Swiss vessels went through

the Panama Canal. The Silvaplana was built in Yugoslavia

in 1956 and is registered in Basle, Switzerland. World Wanderers

^()u don't have to join the Navy to see

the world any more. Judging by the number of small sailing craft and auxiliary yachts arriving in Cristobal recently,

a iot of lucky people are doing it on

their own.

Last month a number of small pri- vatelv-owned vessels were tied up at the Yacht Clubs at Balboa and Cristobal, taking on fuel and stores for voyages to the West Coast and the South Seas. One of the smallest was the 11 -ton Nona, out of London en route to Auckland, New Zealand, with a crew of three aboard. Another Cristobal arrival was the Tnily

Fair, a 25-ton auxiliary craft which ar- rived here from Miami by way of Haiti and is en route to San Francisco via Acapulco with a crew of four. She was

southbound through the Canal May 16. The .5()-ton Briijadnon II made the Canal transit May 13 en route to the U. S. West Coast via Puntarenas and

Pinas Bay. She carried a crew of six. PLEASE PREPAY . . . Employees and their dependents who

order articles to be shipped by Panama

I,ine vessels to the Canal Zone should

in all cases prepay the inland freiftht or express charftes from the point of origin of the shipments to New York, Panama Line officials warned last month. Some transportation companies in the United States have accepted orders without collecting the transportation

costs to New York and then have billed the Panama Line direct for such

charges. This has resulted in a delay

of shipments to the Canal Zone plus unnecessary work by the Panama Line.

but the atomic-powered submarine Nautilus made the passage with ease-