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IN THIS ISSUE

Development of Human Resources

New Cristobal Schedule

Improved Library Service

ROTC Units Honored

JVew J^ooh in Canal Zone_

'ol. 18, No. 12

July 6, 1962
ic i J. Fleming, Jr., Governor-President

\Y. P. Leber. Lieutenant Governor Will Arev

Panama Canal Information Officer \. D. Christensen, Press Officer

.£^K -Q^JeaJk Publications Editors:

[OSEPH I d GUILLERMO RODOLPO \ Editorial Assistants: Eunice Richard and Tobi Bittel

William Burns, Official Photographer

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at Balboa Heighls, C. Z.

Printed at the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone On sale at all Panama Canal Service Centers, Retail Stores, and the Tivoli Guest House for 10 days after publication date at 5 cents each Subscriptions, $1 a year; mail and back copies, 10 cents each.

Postal money orders made payable to the Panama Canal Company should be mailed to Box M, Balboa Heights, C. Z. Editorial Offices are located in the Administration Building. Balboa Heights. C. Z.

Cy,ru£ J\obert£ Vance

NEW

STOCKHOLDER

Cyrus Roberts Vance.

THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY was to get a new Stock- holder this month, as Cyrus Roberts Vance, former General

Counsel for the Department of Defense and partner in the New York City law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett assumed office as Secretary of the Army.

Mr. Vance was preparing to take over his new duties as The Review prepared to go to press, succeeding Elvis J. Stain, jr., who resigned as Secretary of the Army, effective fune 30, to become president of Indiana University.

Named Secretary of the Army by President Kennedy,

Mr. Nance thus continued a career in Government service which goes back to 1957, when he served as Special Counsel

for the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the

U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.

The new Stockholder of the Panama Canal Company, a post

he holds in conjunction with his duties as Secretary of the Army, was born in Clarksburg, W. Va., on March 27, 1917. He was graduated from Kent School in Kent, Conn., and

received a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University in 1939, with a major in economics. Continuing his studies at Yale Law School, the new Stockholder received his bachelor

of law degree in 1942.

Upon graduation from law school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy's V-7 program and was graduated as an ensign in the

U.S. Naval Reserve in August 1942. During World War II, he served for 20 months at sea aboard the destroyer Hale,

during which time it performed aircraft carrier escort duty

between Canada and Panama and participated in a number

of active operations in the Pacific area.

As he prepared to assume his new duties, Mr. Vance pro- vided The Review with the following statement about his

duties in connection with the Canal Zone:

"1 am pleased to act as the representative of the President

of the United States in Canal Zone Government matters and

to serve as Stockholder of the Panama Canal Company.

"I have always shared the intense pride that we all have in

the Panama Canal as a product of American imagination and

engineering skill. The long success of the Canal has been made

possible b) a half century of cooperation and goodwill

between the United States and the Republic of Panama.

"The invaluable contribution which the Canal has made as

a 'Funnel for World Commerce' is well known, but I am

impressed todav with its added significance in Inter-American

development and friendship. I look forward to my association

with the dedicated men and women, American and Panamanian, who operate this vital waterway, and hope that together we can make a further contribution to a proud legacy."

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Supervisor

of the new Canal Zone Guide Service.

Robert Byrne,

right, and Guide

Fred Berest at

Pedro Miguel Locks

as Canberra

approaches for

transit.

nEw look in

cnnflL zone

Guide service, center of

interest signs, historical

markers, Canal tours, all

designed to better tell the

Panama Canal story.

THE PAHAMA CANAL

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THERE'S A NEW LOOK in the Canal Zone. During

recent weeks, new emphasis lias been placed on the

appearance of the Canal Zone and on the reception of the visitors who come to see the installations which have

made it a worldwide tourist attraction. Gov. Robert J. Fleming, Jr., has taken a personal

interest in providing increased attention to the job of

acquainting tourists from afar and local residents with the

engineering and natural wonders of the Zone.

This increased attention includes the formation and

inauguration of a Canal Zone Guide Service of bilingual

local residents, composed of United States citizens and

citizens of the Republic of Panama.

Members of the Guide Service in their distinctive brown and white uniforms will escort visitors to the

Locks, famous Gaillard Cut, Madden Dam, and other

attractions. Thev will meet tourists debarking from pas- senger vessels docking in Cristobal and Balboa. They

will provide information about the Zone and Panama to

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Mrs. 'Roberto F. Chiari at lock controls. Governor and Mrs. Fleming greet President and Mrs. Chiari on recent visit to Canal

Isthmian Historical Society President Roger Hackett and Mrs. Amy

McCormick examine historical marker at Governor's house.

all new arrivals or the locally curious. They will meet

individuals calling at the Administration Building at Balboa Heights, either as sightseers or on business, a reception desk having been placed in the rotunda of the

building for this Guide.

The program developed to date also includes the

development and installation of attractive "Center of

Interest" signs in both Spanish and English along the

streets and highways of the Canal Zone to alert those

unfamiliar with such points. Similar signs have been

erected marking "Recreation Sites." The rich historical lore of the Isthmus where the oceans were united by the sacrifices, skills, and determination of dedicated men and women long has been of

interest to professional and amateur historians. Now

many of the most historic buildings and locations in the

Zone are being recognized by attractive, informative

markers.

The Canal's sightseeing launch Las Cruces has been and

w ill continue to be made available to the increasing flow

ol Isthmian visitors. The launch and other facilities of the

Canal organization are being made more readily available to non-profit groups who wish to see and learn more

about the Canal. Partial transits are occurring almost

daily, as more and more people direct new attention to

the Isthmian waterway, its installations, and its present

role in world commerce.

While the Canal Zone is busil) preparing for increasing

attention to visitors, the Panama Tourist Institute of

the Republic ol Panama, headed by this month's Review

"cover girl," Miss Irma Arango, also is stepping up efforts

to attract an increased How of tourists. The Canal Zone

effort to welcome visitors properly and make them feel

at home is expected to be of direct benefit to Panama's

current preroeram for encouraging tourist business.

July 6, 1962
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Governor Fleming with Ovidio Diaz, center. President of the Panamanian Societj of Engineers and Architects, and John D. Hollen, President of the Canal Zone Societ) of Professional Engineers, during a partial transit made hy the Panamanian group. There is evidence that tourist visits to Panama are on

the increase. During the first 3 months of 1962 there w as a marked improvement over the two previous tourist seasons and Panama officials recorded 900 vehicles

arriving at the Costa Rica-Panama border on the Inter- American Highway during the past dry season month of February. This is believed to indicate a favorable traffic potential on this highway.

An increasing flow of visitors to the Canal Locks also indicates a growth of local tourist traffic. During the past

11 months, more than 72,000 persons visited Gatun and

Miraflores Locks, with more than 13,000 of them including

a tour of the control houses in their visit. Close cooperation between the Canal's Guide Sen ice and the Panama Tourist Institute already has been

initiated. One of the first steps is to be the joint exchange

in training of personnel who meet and attend to the needs

of visitors. Under this program, members of the Guide

Service are expected to attend training classes being held

by the Tourist Institute, and those dealing with visitors to the Republic are expected to attend the classes being

organized for the Canal Zone Guides.

The Canal organization also is expanding its informational services about the waterway by the use of auto- matic slide projection equipment telling the Canal story

at a number of locations in Panama and the Zone. The

first of these are being placed at Tocumen Airport,

the University' of Panama, and the Panamanian-North

American Institutes in Panama City and Colon.

The Zone's expanded program to more adequately

welcome visitors is not designed solely for tourists,

however. It also is intended to encourage Zone tours by

those local residents who never have visited the Canal

installation, although they've lived near it much of

Las Ciuces in Pedro Miguel Locks.

their lives. The initiation of the Canal Zone's "new look" is coming

just as the Canal organization prepares to inaugurate the

first documentary film ever prepared on the waterway

under auspices of the organization itself. Wide distribution of the film in the United States and throughout South

and Central America will start soon. The film is in both

the English and Spanish languages, with bilingual

actors in all roles, led by Carlos Montalban, well-known

Mexican film star.

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CONTRACTORSH/LL

THE PANAMA CANAL

Guide Mrs. Fanny Hernandez and Robert Byrne, Supervisor

of Guide Service, enjoy view from overlook at Contractors Hill.

Millions of individuals are expected to view the documentary film during the next year or two. Such wide

presentation is expected to generate a new flow of tourists

to the Isthmus, anxious to see and learn more about the

waterway and the Republic through which it carries the

world's commerce from ocean to ocean. And while the new arrangements will provide greater

services to Isthmian visitors, they also will increase the

ease with which local residents may visit and see the

points of interest which have made the Isthmus an internationallv famous tourist attraction, just as it once was

famed as the center of Spanish interests and colonization

in the New World.

The whole point of the increased emphasis on service

to visitors can be summed up simply: You are welcome,

you will be greeted and treated courteously and respectfully, and you will leave with new understanding and

knowledge about the "•Funnel for World Commerce."

Guide Supervisor Byrne describes operation of locks to visiting Panamanian engineers at MiraHores Locks during partial transit.

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LAUNCHING RAMP

Guides Fred Berest and Mrs. Hernandez greet passengers arriving

in Balboa aboard the Rangitiki as she made her final transit.

July 6, 1962
Canal Zone

jobs such

as the Gorgas

Hospital

project provide

training in new skills for many local

residents.

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TRAINING FOR PROGRESS

IN A SPACE AGE WORLD .it rockets

to the moon, men in orbit, transistorized communications systems, and electronic

brains, it sometimes seems that the onl) technical skills which are important arc those of a complex, scientific nature. This simply is not true.

In the non-industrialized, non-mechanized sectors of the world—and e\ en more so in those sectors where industrialization and mechanization have

reached an advanced stage—it is important to future development that local residents learn the techniques which

can contribute to that development.

Literally hundreds and hundreds of local residents are learning new wa\ s. new skills, and new attitudes through

employment with the Canal organization and contracting firms working for it. A very limited sampling of these

individuals and their experiences is given on the succeeding pages. Multiply

these examples main times and you will have some idea of the role which the Canal organization fills on the Isthmus

as a developer of human resources and skills. The Canal administration is happy to be a part of such development and

constantly is looking for new ways to develop greater efficiency and producThe Panama Canal Review 7

tivit) ol its employees, while training

them in new skills. Fresh, pure water, for example, is essential to the protection of public

health in heavily populated districts, including even small villages. To get such water and assure a continuous

supply of it requires knowledge and

skill. If the water is to be stored, reser- voirs must be built and the most econ- omical method of doing so is with hea\ \ construction equipment. If it is to be

provided from deep wells, someone

must drill the wells. A number of men who went to work

on the multi-million dollar project to widen the Panama Canal channel from

300 to 500 feet through the Continental

Divide have acquired skills which can be utilized in these very areas. And their

skills also can be used in much of the construction work which must take place to provide highways, airports,

seaport facilities, commercial buildings,

and industrial plants for a growing

economy.

Constructing a bridge or a huge

building requires the solution of many

special problems with which skilled engineers must deal, but such tasks also require a vast variety of skilled efforts on the part of workmen.

This they have done on the ["hatcher Ferr\ Bridge project and the Gorgas

Hospital construction program. And, in both cases, numerous locally hired employees have acquired new skills which

will be useful and essential in future construction jobs on the Isthmus, where

future development will require increas- ing numbers of skilled workmen who

know their tasks and can do them

rapidly, efficiently, and safel) .

Supervision of other men and women

always will be important, despite the

increasing importance of electronic sys- tems to direct and manage routine tasks. The supervision and management of other men and women never is a simple

task, simply because every man and woman in this variegated world is differ- ent, each from the other. There arc common principles, however, and these must be found and taught to supervisors. Employees of the Panama Canal

in supervisory positions regularly are trained in new skills to improve their

abilities.

All of these training tasks are being

achieved on the Isthmus by the Canal

organization and contractors working

for it. The individual cases presented here tell how it is being done.
REINALDO MEDINA is a graduate of the Panama National

Institute and studied ei\ il engineering at the International Schools in Los Angeles. Since graduation from the Los Angeles

school, he has been employed by the Panama Government

on the Interamerican Highway, bv the Interameriean Geodetic

Surve) on mapping projects, with local contractors on road

and building construction, and with the Panama Refinery. Mr. Medina now is employed by Uhlhorn Construction Co.

on the Gorgas Hospital project as their senior field engineer

• ind. among other things, it is his job to see that the four

coiners of the big building are in line and that the supporting

columns are straight up and down. There is no doubt in the

mil ids of his employers that Mr. Medina knows his business. His part in the construction of the 8-story hospital building

will lie a new experience in his engineering career, however,

providing him with valuable experience for future building

construction of this nature.

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JUAN ABAD. a Panamanian engineer who was graduated

from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is employed b) the contractors on the Gorgas Hospital construction project

as one of their topflight consulting engineers to supervise

placement of special reinforcing steel, used as protection

against earthquakes.

It is a delicate and painstaking job and keeps Mr. Abaci

tntl; "ii the alert. Before joining the Uhlhorn Construco. mi the hospital project. Mr. Abad also is emploved by

iovernment as an engineer, but his present duties

•lis total of on-the-job experience, an important

hi future construction jobs.

RUBEN PETRO is a 28-year-old native of Bocas del Toro who went to work on a Chiriqui Land Co. banana plantation

when 17 years of age. He first learned something about

operating hoists and cranes during his 10 vears with the Chiriqui Land Co. This knowledge was put to good use later when he got a job with A. C. Samford, Inc., a contracting

firm which built houses in La Boca for the Panama Canal

Company. He was emploved on the Gorgas Hospital project

as a crane operator and at present is increasing his skill in this line while working on installation of the chilled water central

air conditioning system. Mr. Petro hopes to have enough

experience after this contract is completed to get a job with

the Canal organization or to earn a spot with a construction

firm which can use his abilities.

July 6, 1962
MIGUEL ANGEL SAMANIEGO, a carpenter by trade, is 29 years old and a graduate of the Panama Arts and Crafts

School. He was employed in Panama repairing business machines when he was hired by Fruin, Colnon, LeBoeuf &

Dougherty, to work on construction of the bridge cofferdams

in which the bas_> of the concrete bridge piers were built. His

skill as a carpenter has improved under the expert guidance

of the more experienced men with and for whom he has worked on the bridge job.

After work on the bridge is completed, he does not expect

to have any trouble finding a job on the Isthmus, using his new skills and knowledge. His talents range from hea\ \ construction to light forms of carpenter work, combined with

his previously acquired machine repair. In his spare moments

he is a member of the Panama Wrestling Team, a fact evidenced by his bulging arm and shoulder muscles.

ANTONIO ACOSTA, a 26-year-old Panamanian from Colon,

lias had what Elmer Stevens, bridge project engineer, considers the advantage of learning the rigging art from Walter

Cathey, one of the heavy construction industry's real experts. Mr. Acosta also was employed on the substructure contract

for the bridge, did rigging during the cofferdam and bridge

pier construction, then went on to the superstructure workas a sandblaster and painter.

His on-the-job training will enable him to qualify for a number of jobs on the Isthmus following completion of the

bridge. He will be valuable in heavy construction, where

riggers are in demand. He also has experience valuable to a stevedore or a lock operator helper and can take on most an)

job involving painting or sandblasting, his present specialties.

FRANCISCO SOTO RANGEL is 32 years old. He took a correspondence school course in welding and applied for a job

with the substructure contractor on the bridge when the work

began. Like Mr. Samaniego, he worked on the cofferdams and

later on the land and water piers. His application for a job on the assembly of the framework of the superstructure was

accepted on recommendation of the substructure contractor, and he has been on that project since work was started. He

says that both the high level work and the job in the deep

cofferdams was routine—once he got used to it.

Francisco previously was employed on the Cut-widening

work and by several construction firms in Panama. He recently

applied for a job with the Canal organization and hopes his

training and past experience will enable him to continue in some kind of construction work, either in Panama or the Canal Zone.

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KENNETH MOHL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Mohl of Balboa, and Michael Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Norton

of Balboa, are student assistants working with Charles McG.

Brand], project engineer on the Cut-widening Project. They

are helping assemble data on underwater blast patterns on the

project, making inventories of supplies, and otherwise assisting Mr. Brandl. Young Mohl was graduated from the Canal Zone

Junior College this year and plans to enter Clemson College

in September. He plans to major in chemistry. Young Norton

is a third-year student in the University of New Mexico, where

he is studying architectural engineering.

JOSE AUCUSTO "TORRES "operates the control mechanism

of an Ingersoll-Rand, self-propelled, crawler-type rotary drill with hydraulic tower on the Cut-widening work. This is one

of the machines he has been taught to use by Selby Drilling

Corp. under its apprentice training program. The drill rod,

shown in rotation, is operated by a 600-foot-per-minute

compressed air-driven mechanism.

Mr. Torres is one of four apprentice drillers on the cut- widening work who have learned to operate the complicated

and powerful rotary drills used in the Zone II underwater

drilling. In doing so they have increased their salaries 100 percent, from SI to $2 an hour, and acquired skills which can be valuable to them and the Republic of Panama, where

well-drilling operations require such trained individuals.

THE 6-CUBIC YARD Lima 2.400 shovel in the foreground

is operated by Andres A. Castillo, locally hired employee who

handles the big machine. Mr. Castillo was hired by Foster- Williams Bros., Inc.. as a machine operator on the Cut- widening project at $1.40 an hour. During his employment

he has mastered the art of operating this monster, the biggest shovel built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. His salary now

lias increased to almost 100 percent, to $2.75 an hour.

In the background is a Bucyrus-Erie 2%-yard shovel, which

is operated by Savino C. Carreta, a former tractor operator,

who also has been promoted to shovel operator. A number of other locally hired employees on the Cut-widening work also have been trained in handling other large construction equipment used on the project and, like Mr. Castillo and

Mr. Carreta. have earned increased pa\ rates for their newly-acquired skills.

10 July 6, 1962
VICTOR KOURAXY, 26-year-old native of Panama, has been

an employee of the Canal organization for the past 5 years and recently completed his second supervisory training course. A 1954 graduate of the Panamerican Institute in Panama

City, Mr. Kourany is employed at the Corozal cold storage

warehouse of the Supply Division. His first supervisory training course was one given to a large

number of Supply and Community Service Bureau personnel

and dealt with basic information important to supervisors.

From the first group of which he was a member, 19 supervisors

including Mr. Kourany, were selected for a more advanced

training course, in which on-the-job problems were presented

and discussed. The second group completed their course of instruction and were presented with certificates last month.

PETER XEBLETT, 55, completed his second supervisory

training course recently, along with 19 other supervisors of the Supply and Community Service Bureau. Mr. Neblett said. "The training has given me a wider view of the business, how

vou should treat emplovees, and how much you should expect

from them." Starting with the Canal organization as a messenger 36 years ago, Mr. Neblett has served as a file clerk,

billing clerk, has handled accounts and cash, and is presently

a supervisor in the Balboa Retail Store.

In addition to his job at the Balboa Retail Store, Mr. Neblett

plays piano in his own 5-piece combo which was started in 1933 as a 12-piece dance band. Other members of the band

are Kenneth Brown, Maintenance Division, bass: Wally

Reid, Army employee at Corozal, trumpet; Caleb Williams,

Dredging Division, drums; and Richard Kelly, professional

musician, tenor sax. They have played dates for many Canal Zone organizations.

EGBERT M. BEST. 44. has been employed by the Canal

organization for 25 years. He has been with the Maintenance

Division for the past 6 years and now is a supervisor of a grounds maintenance crew. Like Mr. Kourany, he attended

the preliminary training course for supervisors, then was

selected to attend the second session. He previously had

attended another supervisory course of instruction. Mr. Best savs the courses of instruction have provided him

with much new knowledge about his duties as a supervisor,

including more information about how to deal with the per- sonnel he supervises. The important man-to-man relationships

which confront every supervisor were a major part of the latest training course completed bv Mr. Best. He feels he now is better able to deal with such matters, as a result of the

instruction he has received.

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ALFREDO GONZALEZ was bom in Panama and is a 1959

graduate of the La Salle School in Panama. He attended

Wayne State Teachers College in Wayne, Nebr., on a scholarship, but was forced to return to Panama because of financial problems at the end of his first year. At the Nebraska college,

he received his tuition free in exchange for teaching Spanish.

Now a first-year apprentice at the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Shop in Balboa, he is learning a trade which will make him a fully qualified air conditioning and refrigeration

journeyman craftsman at the end of his 4-vear apprenticeship.

The future air-conditioned comfort of hundreds of Isthmians very likely will depend upon the skills he now is "learning

while earning," as all Panama Canal Company apprentices

are paid a starting wage of $1-25 an hour. Their pay increases annually throughout their apprenticeship.

PEDRO A. PINZON was born in Santiago de Veraguas and

graduated in 1960 from the Normal School of Santiago. He

applied for apprenticeship training with the Panama

Canal Company and was accepted as a refrigeration and

air-conditioning apprentice.

He will go into his third vear of apprenticeship in July of

this \car. When he completes his training, Mr. Pinzon hopes

to remain with the Canal organization as a journeyman crafts- man in his field. If unable to obtain employment immediately,

he probably will continue his studies. One of the educational

benefits which he says his Canal training has provided is the

learning of a second language—English.

JORGE Ml'RAD was born in Panama 21 years ago and has

lived in Panama all his life. His excellent command of English was acquired partly at home and partly by experience during

his 2 years as an apprentice in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Shop. All of his formal schooling, however, has been in Spanish-language schools in Panama, where he

attended public schools and was graduated from the Institute Arosemena in Panama City.

His instructors in the apprenticeship call his work in

refrigeration machinery outstanding. He will enter his third

year apprenticeship in July and hopes to join the Canal organization as a journeyman refrigeration and air-conditioning

craftsman after graduation.

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MARCIA DE GRACIA, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgilio de Gracia of Panama. Graduated this year from the Miami

Norland High School in Miami. Fla., Mareia hopes to return

to the United States and college in September to study secretarial science. She is employed in the Field Office of the Maintenance Division as a student assistant clerk, gaining

actual work experience in the same field she hopes to pursue.

PATRIGIA KOCHER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kocher

of Balboa, is working in the Treasurer's Office in Aneon. She was graduated from Balboa High School this year and this is her first job as a student assistant. She plans to attend Otterbein

College in Westerville, Ohio, this fall, but believes the work

experience she now is getting will prove rewarding, whatever

future use she makes of it.

Student c4d3i3tant3 U^earn, Uoo

SUMMER VACATION is not all June, moon and spoon for a good number of Canal Zone high school graduates and

college students. At least not for those

interested in "learning while earning"

and who applied for and have been

assigned temporarv student assistant positions with the Panama Canal Company Canal Zone Government.

Applications for employment as Canal

Zone Student Assistants are received

and processed long before schools close. This year, 1 12 young people have joined the ranks of Canal Zone employers as student assistants. The program is de- signed to give these eager young people

work experience and to assist them in selecting and planning lifetime careers. The Canal organization's Student Assist- ant Program is expected to carry its own

weight, and the student assistants per- form useful and essential work while

helping with the workloads of the

organizations to which they are assigned

during the peak summer leave period

for man) regular employees.

In past years, the Student Assistant Program opened with a general orientation. This year the orientation was

decentralized, with each bureau and

independent unit conducting its own

program of familiarization. The Office of the Comptroller started

its own orientation program 3 years ago. Continuing the program this year, an

orientation lecture is being given each

week for a period of 7 weeks for the Student Assistants working in the Office

of the Comptroller for the first time this summer. Employees who joined the

Office of the Comptroller during the

past year also are given an opportunitv

to attend the lecture series. Considered bv the Personnel Bureau

to be a model for other units, the program developed bv the Office of the Comptroller is designed to give a general picture of the various functions

of the office. The lectures are given bv

top officials of the organization, each

Monday, in the Civil Defense Room of the Administration Building.

Philip L. Steers, Jr., Comptroller of the Panama Canal Company Canal

Zone Government, welcomed the stu- dent assistants. The initial orientation

lecture on "Financial Policies and

Accounting Svstems," was given by

Tohn E. Fisher, Chief of the Accounting

Policies and Procedures Staff. Robert Lessiack, Chief of the Budget

Branch, explained the distinctions between the Panama Canal Company

and Canal Zone Government budgets.

|ames L. Fulton. Chief of the Rates and Analysis Branch, outlined for the student assistants, "Rate-making Policies and Procedures," explaining the multi- faceted considerations which are applied

by those in charge. Thomas H. Scott. Chief Accountant, addressed the group

on general accounting last Monday.

Although the orientation lectures are generally given on Mondays, one of the

series will be given on Wednesday,

July 11, at Building 365, Ancon, where

the Payroll and Machine Accounting

Branch is located. At that time, Malcolm

A. Johnston, Jr., Chief of the Payroll and

Machine Accounting Branch, will speak on "Payroll and Machine Accounting

Operations."

On July 16, Jerome E. Steiner, Acting

Treasurer, will address the student

assistants on "Treasurer's Operations."

This will be followed, on Julv 23, by a discussion on "Claims," by Harry D. Raymond Chief of the Claims Branch.

The closing lecture in the series will be "Internal Auditing" bv Albert M.

Jenkins, Chief of the Internal Audit

Branch.

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CHRISTINE HARRISON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Harrison of Balboa, is working as a student assistant in the Press Office of the Panama Canal Information Office. A junior

I at Florida State University, she is majoring in English and

Spanish. Her duties in the Press Office include gathering and

writing information for press releases, The Panama Canal

Review, and The Spillway. She is shown interviewing

Egbert A. Best, subject of one of the "Training for Progress"

items in this section.

DANIEL DESLONDES, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Des

Londes of Balboa, is a junior at the University of Indiana. This is his fourth year as a student assistant in the Panama

Canal Student Assistant program. He always has been

employed by the Office of the Comptroller and this year is in the Accounting Department working at general accounting.

KAY FLOWERS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Flowers of Ancon, is working as a student assistant at Corozal Hospital.

A 1960 graduate of Balboa High School, she already has

completed her pre-medical school studies at Wake Eorest

College. Next fall she will be a first-year medical student at Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College.

Her work at Corozal has included reviewing case histories of patients selected for a remotivation project. This and her other

duties, like those of may of her fellow student assistants, are

closely related to her chosen field of study.

JETZABEL FERAUD, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Juan M.

Feraud of Panama, is a student in the Canal Zone Junior

College, where she is taking a commercial course. Employed

in the Employment and Utilization Division of the Personnel Bureau as a clerk, her job fits in nicely with her academic

studies. This is her first job as a student assistant.

14 Iuly 6, 1962
Honors for

Zone ROT

C

Units

Cadet Capt. Frank Reichhart and Miss Nancj Turner, sponsor of Company A, Balboa High School ROTO, lead company as cadets pass in a brisk inspection performance.

BALBOA AND CRISTOBAL high

school ROTC units again have been

awarded an "Honor School" rating bv

Headquarters, U.S. Army Caribbean, as

a result of the annual formal inspection

conducted in May.

The "Honor School" rating is awarded to those units of the Junior Division of ROTC whish have maintained exceptionally high standards of military training and discipline during

the school year. This year's inspection was conducted

by Maj. Lloyd H. Newcomer. Jr., of the Inspector General's Section, and Capt.

J. M. McCarthy of the G-3 Section,

USARCARIB. The inspection includ <1

all phases of ROTC training.

Each cadet was inspected in ranks,

where he was asked questions pertaining to subjects studied in ROTC and

his personal appearance and rifle also were inspected. The equipment provided

by the Army for use in training, the

administration, facilities, and methods

of instruction also were rated bv the

inspectors. A parade was held at each

school to round out the inspection. The

inspectors had many complimentary re- marks to make about the ROTC pro- gram in the Canal Zone High Schools. The Balboa High School ROTC

unit was activated on July 1, 1918. Tint

fall, the first cadets were enrolled in the Junior ROTC program. The

quality of the unit developed during

this first year resulted in the Balboa

ROTC unit receiving the coveted

"Honor School" designation. The Cris- tobal ROTC unit was organized in 1950, developed rapidly, and soon was

giving Balboa stiff competition.

Since then, there has been steadv

improvement in the two units, in both appearance and knowledge. Balboa has

received the designation of "Honor

School" every year since the unit was

organized and Cristobal has received

it 10 of the 12 years it lias been in existence. The military sck nee course on the Junior ROTC level in the Canal Zone

program is designed to give the student "such military training as will be of benefit and value to him if he should

become a member of the military service." Its main purpose, however, is "the laying of intelligent citizenship within

the student," bv teaching principles of leadership, respect for authority, and

habits of precision, orderliness, courtesv, hygiene, and correctness of posture and

deportment.

The 3 years of training normally are

the last years of high school, but the Army commander here has granted

authority to enroll freshmen in Cristobal High School, provided they meet

all other qualifications and are at least

1 4 v ears of age.

First year students are given instructions in basic military subjects, includ- ing care of themselves and their equipment in the field, as well as a background of leadership.

During the second year of ROTC

training, emphasis' is placed on training cadets in the techniques of being

leaders of small units. Each cadet is given many opportunities to take com- mand of small groups and lead them in pursuit of a common goal.

The third year of training is the climax of a cadet's Junior ROTC

career. During this final year, the cadets assume greater responsibilities of

leadership. Senior cadet positions are

filled from this class, and all have an

opportunity to practice the theory thev have been absorbing during their first years. Instruction in the finer techniques

of leadership, including delegation of authority and responsibility, and supervision of subordinates, highlight this year's instruction. Third-year cadets frequently are required to prepare and

teach classes to junior cadet classes. The third-year cadets thus achieve the

practical experience so necessary to an)

potential leader. The Cadet Corps is organized to achieve as much realism as possible.

The program provides cadets with an

opportunity to put into practice the theory taught in the classroom. The

organization that is found in the Canal

Zone Corps, is fashioned closely after

t\ pieal Army organizations and the

positions of leadership are similar in most aspects to those that would be

encountered in an active unit of the regular service. Basically, the cadets themselves command the various organizations, with the regular Army staff serving in a supervisory capacity.

The Canal Zone high school ROTC

units have been commanded bv Maj.

Robert E. Whitelaw for the past 2 years. Major Whitelaw recently was reassigned

to the 1st Battle Group, 20th Infantry, Fort Kobbe. He has been succeeded by

Maj. Frank T. Currier, formerly in- structor of military science at Cristobal. Other members of the present regular

Army staff are, Sfc. Bichard R. Golden,

Sfc. James G. Guhlin, Sr., Sgt. Milton

L. Bridges, Sgt. Ambrose Larson,

S. Sgt. Thomas Metcalf, and M. Sgt. Melvin Blackburn.

The Panama Canal Review 15
For Vacation Season

Ualce

a

ZJip

Driving:

Have your car checked.

Have emergency equipment such

as a flashlight, first-aid kit. tow

rope, fire extinguisher etc. Drive defensively, watching for unsafe actions by others. Observe traffic signs. Don't speed. Don't drive when tired. Swimming:

Know your capabilities and don't exceed them.

Look where you are diving.

Check water depths.

Check underwater obstacles. Don't be involved in horseplay. Never swim alone.

Recreation:

Exercise moderately. Rest when tired. Take sun in mild doses. Eat less. Drink plenty of water.

Boating:

Step in the center of your boat. Once seated, stay seated. Don't overload. Have life preservers, flashlights,

and a fire extinguisher.

Hang onto a capsized boat until help arrives. Clamping:

Know and avoid poisonous plants

such as ivy and sumac. Watch out for snakes and if bitten get prompt medical attention. Extinguish camp fires before

leaving.

Boil drinking water when in doubt. Fishing:

Re careful with hooks. Don't wade out too far. Watch for moss-covered stones and

other stumbling blocks in the

water. Don't fish near dams or spillways

if there is a chance of slipping

into the water.

s

A

F

E

T

y

PAYS

THE DESIRE for "getting away from

everything" is perhaps more pro- nounced during vacation season than at any other time of the year. People want

to forget work—think more about play.

Some people leave all safety alertness

at their place of work when they head

for a vacation. Taking one's mind oft the job when leaving for vacation is fine, but not the relaxing of interest in your own personal safety—and the safet) of

others. Being carefree is one thing. Being

careless is something else again. Don't

let an accident spoil your vacation.

Statistics show that vacation time

brings on a heavy surge of all kinds of accidents, ranging from simple cases of

iv\ poisoning and sunburn to fatal traffic accidents and death by drowning.

Why is it that an individual who

wouldn't try to lift anything heavy on

the job without asking for help may

attempt to swim out far beyond his capabilities at the beach? How about

the man who insists upon a safety can

for flammable liquids at his workbench

—and then transports gasoline in a glass

jug for the family motorboat? —ACCIDENTSFOR

THIS MONTH

AND

THIS YEAR

MAY

ALU UNITS

YEAR TO DATE

FIRST AID

CASES

•62 "61 256 237

1231 1811(699)

DISABLING

INJURIES

•62 '61 7 12

47 63(4)

DAYS

LOST

•62 '61 237 378.7 1 7182 7805-95)

( ) Locks Overhaul injuries Included in total.

16 July 6, 1962
Accident prevention is a full-time assignment, not just a function for the convenience of management. It's wise to apply your industrial safet) knowledge

to all of your activities. Traffic accidents top the list each

year, whether it's vacation season or

not, so it's just common sense to exercise extreme caution on the highways

at all times. Be sure to have your car checked before "hitting the road" for a few days of relaxation. When vacationers are traveling on

unfamiliar roads, it is well for them to drive below normal speed, especially

after sundown or when visibility is limited. Stopping early in the evening,

before fatigue can become an added

accident factor, is sound advice. A good

nights' sleep and an early start the next morning will do a lot toward a safe vacation. The water claims many lives even summer—mostly children. Keep the youngsters under close supervision

and guarded by someone capable of rescuing them if necessary. Adult

drowning usually results from fatigue,

cramps resulting from swimming too soon after eating, and diving in unfamiliar areas. Swimming alone also is a dangerous pastime.

Too much exercise for non-physical

workers is responsible for many vacation deaths. Eighteen holes of golf, several hours in the water, and a game

of softball have killed main a fun-loving

vacationer who hasn't had that much

exercise in a year. Play in moderation,

rest when tired, and don't try to "live

it up" all in a few days of vacation. Summer sun has caused more dis- comfort that any torture weapon ever

devised. And all because we want to be

tan as a lifeguard in about 2 days—in two 8-hour stretches. Take it in easy doses and avoid some uncomfortable

nights-as well as possible infection. Boating's popularity has increased

the number of water injuries and deaths tremendously in the past 10 years. Mostly because people don't follow simple safety rules. Everybody knows

it is unsafe to stand up in a boat or change places in the middle of a lake, but they still do it. Some make it successfully—others don't. Adequate life preservers and fire extinguishers are almost as important

as having a good skipper on the craft. Be prepared for all emergencies, and

heed all weather warnings. Don't gamble with squalls. Know the capacity

of your boat and never exceed it. These suggestions and the accompanying list of vacation safety tips will go a long way toward assuring you

another vacation—next year.

Joe McGoff-Cristobal High School

senior and jump shot artist, averaged

13 points per game this season.

Dale Stevens—Selected "Athlete of the Year" by Balboa High School coaching staff for value in football, baseball, basketball, and track.

ALL STARS

THE CANAL ZONE Interscholastic Basketball teams completed the 1902

season with Balboa High School taking

the championship.

The coaches from Balboa High

School, Cristobal High School, and the Canal Zone Junior College, recognized

the skill and talent of individual players

bv selecting an all-star team. Three

players from Balboa High School, one from Cristobal High School, and one

from Canal Zone Junior College were

selected for coveted places on the Zone

Interscholastic All-Star Basketball Team.

The team, tallest to be selected in many years, was chosen by the coaches on the basis of scoring, handling of

positions, sportsmanship, and general

athletic excellence. <^\ mm

John Wainio—Balboa High School

senior and 6-foot, 2-inch, team captain; will continue his education at the University of North Carolina.

Tom Murphy— Former star in the Syra- cuse High School league and leading

scorer of the Balboa High School

basketball team.

John D. Cronan—Canal Zone Junior College team captain; led squad in rebounds, scored 172 points during

season, for average of 14.3 per game.

The Panama Canal Review 17
Mrs. Catherine Brown,

library branch

coordinator, and

Daniel A. Viafora,

Terminals Division

clerk, assist patrons of the new

library unit in

Cristobal pier area.

Patrons, left to

right, are Charles Malmsbury,

Ciistiano Gomez,

and

Walter E. Blcnman.

TAKING BOOKS

TO WORKERS

"LOS LI15ROS. Una clave esencial en

su porvenir."

This message, attractively lettered on

a sign at the entrance to the Terminals

Division Training Center in the Cristobal pier area, is an inducement for employees to use books to improve

themselves for the future. A second sign, in both Spanish and

English, explains the presence of the slogan about the value of books. This

second sign, on the opposite side of the doorway, announces:

"Circulating Library. Reading is fun.

All Panama Canal employees can enjoy

it. Borrow a book for yourself and your

famil)

."

Inside the doorway Hanked by the two signs is the Canal Zone's first mobile

library on a job site. Opened and operated under supervision of the Canal

/.one Library, the library unit is an

initial realization of Governor Fleming's

aim ol bringing books and employees

together.

Although the unit has been open onl\

eeks, employees of the Ters Division already have checked

out dreds of books and magazines

in bo. ni.li and English.

Daniel Alexander Viafora, a bilingual

file clerk employed by the Terminals

Division, handles the task of checking

Crede Calhoun,

retired Canal

employee

and voracious

leader, selects a

book at the

Main Library

in Ancon.

New library unit

in Cristobal is

located at jobsite

the books and magazines in and out. Taking a special interest in his library

duties, Mr. Viafora is fast becoming

IS July 6, 1962
adept at assisting employees in making

selections, taking notes on books re- quested and passing them on to the Canal Zone Library, and his other

library duties. Most popular with the mobile librar) 's patrons are books on world history,

sports, religion, conduct of life, eti- quette, and self-improvement. Books

that tell how to speak well, how to relax, and how to get rid of tensions are in constant demand and never remain long on the shelves. Seventy-five percent of the material now stocked at the library unit is in Spanish, but employees want books in English, too, and borrow them extensively. English books on famous sports

figures are much in demand, as are those in Spanish in the do-it-yourself

field. Of the latter, the most sought

after are books on carpentry, radio, and

television. Textbooks for home study of various

subjects, books about the United States, and a supply of popular magazines also are carried at the unit. Mr. Viafora said the range of interests of even a single patron often is surprising. He cited one Spanish-speaking

reader who checked out "El Arte del Exito," (The Art of Success), "Un

Hombre de Scotland Yard," (A Man

of Scotland Yard) and "Modelos de

Cartas," (Sample Letters).

A stevedore using the library—

"The mobile library brings the books

right here to us," a stevedore said, explaining why he likes the unit in the

pier area. "I for one don't have to go home and change before going to get a book to read. Here I stop in at the

library on the way out of the area, choose my book and can go home to relax and enjoy it without having to make a special trip." The unit in the pier area is open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Catherine

Brown, branch coordinator for Canal

Zone libraries, supervised establishment

of the unit. A library assistant at the University of Pittsburgh before coming

to the Canal Zone, Mis. Brown was

post librarian at Fort Clayton and Fort Kobbe for about 3 years before joining the Canal Zone Library staff several years ago. Like all other Zone libraries, the pier area unit is open to anyone who lives or works in the Canal Zone. Other

library units operated by the Canal Zone

Government include the Cristobal and

Rainbow City branches on the Atlantic

side of the Isthmus, one branch in Paraiso, and the Main Librar) in the

Civil Affairs Building in Ancon.

Worth Knowing

New Film Ready for Release

THE FIRST documentary film on the Isthmian waterway ever made under

auspices of the Canal organization has been completed and soon will be re- leased for widespread public viewing.

The documentary was made by Bay

State Film Productions, Inc., of Springfield, Mass., and prints of it now are being produced in multiple copies to provide enough to answer expected

requests for showing throughout the Western Hemisphere.

With well-known Mexican film star Carlos Montalban in a leading role, the documentary has been filmed in both

English and Spanish.

The superb color photography of the

film, the dialogue which describes the

construction, maintenance, and continued operation of the Isthmian water- way, and the educational value which

it has is expected to make the film extremely popular in the United States, where several million persons are expected to see it during the next year. Organizations in the United States which would like to obtain a copv of the film for showing should contact

the office of Association Films, Inc. Addresses are: Broad and Elm, Ridgefield, N.J.; 561 Hillgrove Ave., La

Grange, 111.; 799 Stevenson St., San

Francisco 3, Calif; and 1621 Dragon

St., Dallas 7. Tex.

Distribution on the Isthmus will be

handled by the Panama Canal Information Office at Balboa Heights, through

which prints also may be purchased for $125 each. Case of the Bobbing Beer Bottle

IT WAS JUST an old beer bottle left floating on the foam. And like the old beer bottle in the song, it had a message

inside.

In [une, 8 months after he had cast the bottle adrift from the SS Cristobal. Leo Krziza, Administrative Assistant in the Motor Transportation Division, got an answer to the note cast upon the waves. Donald D. Ball, a resident of Corpus

Christi, Tex., said he and his wife

recovered the bottle May 19 on Padre

Island, a strip of land bordering the Texas coast along the Gulf of Mexico.

The writer also sent a map issued by

the U.S. Geological Survey showing the exact spot where the bottle was found

and the approximate distance it had

traveled. He said the bottle must have

been deposited on the beach recently

because it was near the high tide mark. Mr. Krziza, who has been heaving

bottles overboard from ships for yearsbottles with messages, that is—said this was the first time he ever had received an acknowledgment. He said the bottle was thrown overboard from the Cristo- bal last September when the ship was

about 200 miles south of the entrance

to the Mississippi River.

RETIREMENTS

RETIREMENT certificates were pre- sented at the end of May to the employees listed below, with their positions

at time of retirement and years of Canal

Priestley L. W. Alleyne, Leader Seaman,

Dredging Division; 46 years. 10 months,

14 days. Alfred Brameld, Chief Tovvboat Engineer,

Dredging Division; 6 years, 3 months,

4 days.

Benjamin Clarke, deckhand, Navigation

Division; 42 years, 3 months, 2.5 days.

Clifford Cordon, Stevedore, Terminals Division; 32 years, S months, 26 days. Nicolas Crenard, Launch Operator, Navigation Division; 34 years, 10 months. 27 days. John W. B. Hall, Stevedore Foreman, Terminals Division; 27 years, 10 months, 27 days.

Capt. Bemice A. Herring, Dipper Dredge

Master, Dredging Division; 22 years, 3 months, 8 days. James A. Lyons, Junior College Teacher.

Division of Schools; 24 years, 8 months.

14 days. Archie Manikas, Policeman, Police Division; 12 years, 9 months, 16 days.

Ceorge B. Murray, Chief Tovvboat Engineer, Navigation Division; 20 years. 8 months, 28 days.

Philip S. Thornton, Superintendent, Service Center Branch, Supply Division; 36 years, 10 months. Lucio Torres, Laborer, Community Services Division; 14 years, 2 months, 5 days. E. H. Turner, Chief Engineer, Electrical Division; 21 years, 5 months. 24 days.

Elphina A. Wiiliams, Sales Clerk, Supply

Division; 20 years, 2 months, 9 days.

Malcolm H. Williams, bookbinder, Administrative Branch; 45 years, 2 months,

18 days.

Phillip Williams. Clerk, Locks Division 25 years, 1 month, 13 davs.

The Panama Canal Review 19
ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

G. M. Jac

File Cler' ENGINEE

CONSTRUCTION

Herman H. Keepers

Lead Fore David J. T\ Distribut Maintenance

INE BUREAU

ainter

erator F THE

OLLER

e, and Payroll

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Francis A. Cutkelvin

File Clerk Harold Lewis

Hand Compositor

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

James A. Lowe

Fire Sergeant James A. Marchuck

Police Sergeanl

George C. Anderson

Police Private Rupert W. O'Neill Clerk Daisy S. de Redhead

Teacher, I ..ctin American

Schools ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Philip A. Downs

Lead Foreman Electrician Robert G. Havnes

Welder

A. Montenegro

I .aunch Operator

Jose D. Urriola Palancaman

David Bowen

Carpentei

HEALTH BUREAU

Robert U. Sehultz

\\i ;ii Inspector

( larlos Lopez

I le.i\ \ I'esi Control I laborer Benigno I. Camano

Hea\ \ Pest ( lontrol Laborer Claude II. Walton

Patienl Food Service

Rosan R. I e\ ers MedicalDixon

. i mi ( Iperating

Reuben R. Rhaburn

Chauffeur

Julia Loupadiere

Nursing Assistant, Medicine

and Surgery

Luis A. Diaz

Nursing Assistant, Psychiatry- Anita B. Collins Clerk Martin J. de Silva Nursing Assistant, Medicine

and Surgery

MARINE BUREAU

Maurice B. Nickel

Industrial Engineer

John S. Cat

Chief E

or Fei Arthur C. Clierr Towboat or Ferr William K. Price General Fore and I'i Preston M

Lead Foreman, i ,o< CnntAil House, Carl W. Reynolds Leader Lock Operato

Machinist Genova J. Gibbs

Lead Foreman. Lock

Operations

Pablo Prado Deckhand

Franeios Nozierre Deckhand

Guillermo Lope/ Boatman

Edgar T. Pain's Toolroom Attendant Maximo Amaya

Cemenl Finisher Carlos Smith

Deckhand

O. T. Scantlebury

Toolroom Attendant

Alfredo Rodriguez

Deckhand

Lester A. Vendieys

Deckhand

Emeterio Hernandez

Deckhand

Norris C. Brewster

Clerk

Felipe Brenes Deckhand

Federico Mendives

Deckhand

Louis Gelate Timekeeper

Raul Viquez

Launch Operator

Rujwit )i J^oatwrighl

I .ockOperWc >r Machinist

I -yil*. A.

1 tStdrigW^z

CE OF THE

COMPTROLLER

Keren H. Barnabas

Accounts Maintenance Clerk Richard H. Egolf Accountant Gwendoline P. Jordan Card Punch Operator

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Roy A. Sharp

Chief Foreman, Grounds

Branch James J. MeDade, Jr. Maintenance Representative,

Buildings and Utilities James W. Windham

Supervisory General Supply

Clerk

Virginia E. Sigfrid Teller Everett W. Bowen

Sales Clerk Daisy Louise Burke

Sales Clerk

Felipe Catuy

Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

C. A. Archbold Laborer Cleaner

Elias Lopez

Laborer

Julio Marroquin

Laborer Cleaner Ruth Jemmott

Sales Checker, Food Service

Lillian M. Joshua

Sales Clerk Josephine Haywood

Retail Store Sales Checker

Ilene C. Brown

Sales Clerk Owen Francis Baker Leonardo Lopez

Utility Worker

E. I. Brathwaite Counter Attendant

Selvyn L. Moody

Crane Hookman

Robert Phillips

Utility Worker

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Walter F. Allen Chauffeur, Car of President

Rasil G. Coke

Clerk Typist Harold L. Conrad

Liquid Fuels Ganger

Henry Williams Brakeman

Gerald R. Fruth

Supervisory Accounting

Assistant

20 July 6, 1962
Sailing Schedule of SS Cristobal

June 1962 through October 1963

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Leave
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

EMPLOYEES who were promoted or transferred between May 5 and June 5

are listed below. Within-grade promotions and job reclassifications are not

listed. OFFICE OF THE

GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

J. Patrick Conley, from General Finance

Adviser, Office of the Comptroller, to Administrative Officer, Assistant Executive Secretary. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Ralph F. L. Blades, from PhotocopyingEquipment Operator Trainee, to Photo- copving-Equipment Operator, Printing

Plant.CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Ralph E. Shuey, from Postal Inspector, to Postmaster, First-Class. Postal Division. Fire Division

Cyril N. Adamson, from Helper Anglesmith, Industrial Division, to Firefighter. Clarence C. Hansen, from Chauffeur,

Gorgas Hospital, to Firefighter. Division of Schools

Alfonso C. Greaves, from Senior High

Teacher, Latin American Schools, to Secondary Teacher, Latin American

Schools. Juan E. Hoyte, Viola B. Duncan, Harold

S. Knowles, from Junior High Teacher,

Latin American Schools, to Elementary

and Secondary School Teacher, Latin American Schools. Janet A. Marshall, from Substitute Teacher,

Latin American Schools, to Senior High

Teacher, Latin American Schools. Wilfred E. Layne, from Substitute Teacher,

Latin American Schools, to Junior High

Teacher, Latin American Schools. . Thelma L. Lee, Amy E. C. Boyce, Maria

F. Sanjur, from Elementary Teacher,

Latin American Schools, to Elementary

and Secondary School Teacher, Latin American Schools. Cedric L. Bailey, Sergio A. Ruiz, Elisa A. Zentner, from Substitute Teacher, Latin American Schools, to Secondary Teacher.

Latin American Schools. Clelia Campodonieo, from Substitute Teacher, Latin American Schools, to Elementary and Secondary School

Teacher, Latin American Schools. Constance A. Gallop, Substitute Teacher

and Elementary Teacher. Latin American Schools. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

Eucaris E. Carranza, from Cold-Type Composing Machine Operator, to ClerkDictating Machine Transcriber. Engineering Division. Dredging Division John F. Runck, from Propertj and Supply

Clerk, to Administrative Assistant. Joseph C. Gagnon, from Lock Operator,

Engineman-Hoisting and Portable, Locks

Division, to Dipper Dredge Mate. Clarence E. Sykes, from Lock Operator

Machinist, Locks Division, to Marine

Machinist. Pablo Marin, from Lighthouse Keeper, to Leader Maintenanceman.

Daniel Cunningham, Florentino Jackson,

Isidoro Prestan, from Assistant Light- house Keeper, to Maintenanceman.

May 5 through June 5

Joseph M. Lavalas. from Fireman, Floating

Plant, to Water Tender, Floating Plant. Medardo Quiros, from General Helper, to Navigational Aid Worker.

Electrical Division Joseph F. Green, Domingo D. Hinds, Paul W. Kramer, Jr., from Marine Machinist,

Industrial Division, to Mechanical Shift Engineer.

Kazimierz Bazan, John L. Mason, from

Electrician, to Senior Operator, Generating Station. Guillermo Ho, from Shipfitter Apprentice, Industrial Division, to Electrician Apprentice.

Maintenance Division Lloyd S. McConnell. from Wood and Steel Carman, Railroad Division, to Leader

Joiner. Joseph Granger, from Sandblaster. to Painter. Rupert V. Arthur, from Heavy Leader

Laborer, to Leader Asphalt or Cement

Worker.

Arthur G. White, from Line Handler, Locks

Division, to Helper Painter. Manuel Gonzalez, Alberto A. Nicolas, from

Heavy Laborer, to Asphalt or Cement

Worker.

Silverio Castillo, from Heavy Laborer, to Helper Maintenance Machinist. Rudolph V. Myrie, from Waiter, Supply

Division, to Laborer. Contract and Inspection Division Benjamin Suisman, from Supervisory Construction Inspector, to Supervisory Construction Representative.

HEALTH BUREAU

Gorgas Hospital

Max W. Finley, from Supervisory Funeral

Director, to Funeral Director. Florence A. Smith, from Staff Nurse, to

Staff Nurse, Medicine and Surgery. Charles V. Greene, from Warehouseman,

to Teller. Vicente Arauz, from Hospital Laborer, to Warehouseman.

Enrique Alareon, from Laborer, Community Services Division, to Hospital Laborer. Corozal Hospital

Margaret A. Nagy, from Stall Nurse. Medicine and Surgery, Gorgas Hospital,

to Head Nurse, Psychiatry. Berton I. Knight, from Storekeeping Clerk,

to Clerk.Palo Seco Leprosarium

Victor A. Thompson, from Truck Driver,

to Messenger, Motor Vehicle Operator.

Lloyd Griffith, Jr., from Firefighter, Fire Division, to Nursing Assistant. MARINE BUREAU

Navigation Division August J. C. Egle, from Towboat or Ferry

Master, to Pilot-in-Training.

Leonard V. McLeod. Constantino Seferlis, from Launch Seaman, to Launch

Operator.

Herman A. Cox, from Seaman, to Leader Seaman.

Herbert V. Hutchison, from Deckhand, to Deckhand Boatswain. Esteban Griffith, from Deckhand, to Sea- man.

Gladstone L. King, from Seaman. Dredging

Division, to Deckhand.

Prince M. Grant, from Helper Core Drill Operator, Dredging Division, to Heavy

Laborer. Leroy Griffiths, Clerk, from Customs Division. Industrial Division Edward J. Friedrich, from Lead Foreman

Marine Machinist, to Chief Foreman

Marine Machinist. Rupert E. Ifill, from Guard, to Guard

Supervisor.

Benjamin F. Slaughter, from Marine Machinist, to Lead Foreman Marine Machinist. James L. Sikes, from Apprentice Pipefitter, to Pipefitter. Earl D. Hines, from Laborer Cleaner, to General Helper.

Earl W. Alleyne, from Warehouseman,

Electrical Division, to Heavy Laborer. Ricardo Gordon, from Palancaman, Electrical Division, to Laborer Cleaner. Locks Division Edwin E. Dorsett, Alfonso Rowland, from

Timekeeper, to Supervisory Timekeeper.

George A. Grant, from Timekeeper, to Supervisory Timekeeper and Special Waiter. Rodolfo Avarza, from Deckhand, to Line

Handler.

Uriel M. Martinez, from Line Handler, to Asphalt and Cement Worker. Thomas A. Brathwaite, Isidro Sanchez,

from Line Handler, to Helper Lock

Operator.

Felix Z. Modestin, from Pinsetter, Supply

Division, to Line Handler.

Victor M. Perez, from Dock Worker, Terminals Division, to Line Handler. Pedro P. Duran, from Line Handler, to Timekeeper. Bernard J. Craig, Jr., from Police Private, Police Division, to Guard. OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER

Accounting Division Eugene L. Ruonviri, from Guard, Locks

Division, to Time, Leave, and Payroll

Clerk. Irma V. Pasco, from Clerk-Typist, Division

of Schools, to Time, Leave, and Pavroll

Clerk. SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Richard K. Erbe, from Management Analyst, Executive Planning Staff, to Administrative Officer, Office of the Director. Supply Division

Phvllis D. Powers, from Time, Leave, and

Payroll Clerk, Accounting Division, to Service Center Supervisor.

Eduardo Galvan, from Meat Cutter Assistant, to Optical Worker.

Andres Griffin, from Food Service Sales Checker, to Clerk. Ines Palmer, from Car Hop, to Sales Clerk. Agustin Caballero, from Laborer, Dredging Division, to Dairy Worker.

Arthur S. Davis, from Messenger, to Clerk. Nieomedes Fria, from Laborer Cleaner, to Messenger.

Horacio Delgado, from Package Boy, to Heavy Laborer.

Clfton O. Bailey, from Waiter, to Heavy

Laborer. Walter G. Campbell, from Utility Worker,

to Counter Attendant.

Pallu E. Jarvis, from Sign Painter, to Leader Painter. (See p. 23)

oo July 6, 1962
CANAL

HISTORY

50 Years Ago

RESIDENTS of all Canal Zone towns from Ancon to Cristobal attended the

celebration of Fourth of July held in Ancon and Balboa 50 years ago. Most

of the out-of-town people found the

slopes of the hill near the Ancon school- house ideal for picnicking, as well as a good vantage point for the track and

field events held in the forenoon. During the afternoon, water sports were held in front of the Panama rail- road wharf and a baseball gam;' was

played in Ancon. Rain curtailed the

fireworks display but a large crowd

attended the dance at the Tivoli. On the Atlantic side, strict precautions were being taken against the bubonic plague, which existed at that time in Venezuela and the islands of Trinidad, Grenada, Cuba, and Puerto

Rico. Upon arrival at Colon, all pas- sengers from plague ports were detained

in the quarantine station for 7 days from

the time the vessel left the infected

port. Vessels calling at Colon were not allowed to go to the wharf in any of the plague ports except La Guayra, Venezuela, where a special U.S. health

representative kept the vessels under

strict supervision.

25 Years Ago

FUNDS FOR OPERATION of the Panama Canal were short 25 years ago

this month as President Roosevelt ordered a 10 percent cut in the amount

of money immediately available for the operation of the waterway during fiscal year 1938. Balboa Heights announced

that neither reduction in personnel ol

Promotions and Transfers

(Continue

Herbert N. Whittaker. from File Clerk, to Timekeeper.

Delroy C. Lewis, from Waiter, to Utility Worker.

Guillermo Archibaldo, from Pinsetter, to Utility Worker.

Hortencio Aranda, from Laborer Cleaner,

to Utility Worker.

Ignaeio Martin, from Clerk, to Accounts Maintenance Clerk. Luis C. Barrios, from Heavy Laborer, to High Lift Truck Operator.

Toribio Peneda, from Laborer Cleaner, to Heavy Laborer, Community Service

Division. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

Terminals Division Thomas W. Drohan, Philip A. Hale, Jr., Louis B. McGoff, Fred W. Sapp, Milton

E. Stone, from Supervisory Cargo Assistant, to Supervisory Cargo Checking

Assistant.

I hi i- M H 1 1 ul L. Cockburn, from Supervisory Clerk Checker, to Supervisory Cargo

Cheeking Assistant. Lionel I. MacPherson, from Chief Fore- man Stevedore, to Foreman Stevedore. John K. Brayton, from General Foreman

Stevedore, to Chief Foreman Stevedore.

Victor Williams, from Leader Stevedore,

to Lead Foreman Stevedore. Pablo A. Palaeios, from Baker, Supply

Division, to Stevedore. Benjamin Mozo, from Boatman, Engineering Division, to Stevedore. Segundo M. Gallo, from Laborer Cleaner,

Community Services Division, to Stevedore. Cayetano Cubilla, Jose Prens, Frank A. Saunders, from Stevedore, to Winchman.

Joseph P. Belmo, Gilbert P. Blackwood,

Fitz H. Evering, Bernard R. Reid,

Reynold L. Stewart. Basil A. Thomas,

cl from p. 22)

from Clerk Checker, to Cargo Clerk. Paulino F. Abrahams, from Baggage Room

WOrker, to Leader Heavy Laborer. Eduardo V. Lindsay, from Utility Worker,

Supply Division, to Laborer Cleaner. Railroad Division

Albert L. Pope, from Wood and Steel Carman, to Inspector. Sidney Crawford, from Maintenanceman,

to Oiler. Motor Transportation Division Jorge Julian, from Service Station Attendant, to Truck Driver. OTHER PROMOTIONS

PROMOTIONS which did not involve changes of title follow: Raoul O. Theriault, Assistant Director,

Supply and Community Service Bureau.

Dr. Bernardo Granadino, Medical Officer, General Medicine and Surgery, Coco

Solo Hospital.

Thomas C. Lear, Funeral Director, Gorgas

Hospital. James N. Doyle, Graduate Intern, Business

Administration, Supply and Community

Service Bureau.

Delia L. Hancock, Teletypist, Administrative Branch.

Lionel D. Bellamy, Timekeeper, Navigation Division. Mavis I. Bushell, Clerk-Dictating Machine

Transcriber, Gorgas Hhospital.

Ramon Brenes, Lionel B. Cyrus, Lincoln

E. Tomlinson, Cargo Clerk, Terminals

Division. Diva D. Reyes, Clerk-Typist. Division of

Schools. Harold E. Graham, Optical Worker, Supplv Division. Ronald P. Holder, Utility Worker, Supply

I )i\ ision.

the Canal organization nor cuts in the

salaries of the employees was anti- cipated, but that economies would be

made in operational plans.

Pan American Airways started a 12-hour air service between Cristobal and Miami, with the planes also call- ing at BarraiKjuilla, Colombia, and

Kingston, Jamaica, on a twice-a-week

schedule. The Canal Zone postal divi- sion authorized the use of a special

cachet for the so-called "sunrise to sunset" air mail schedule between the Canal Zone and the United States.

Official figures revealed the Japanese

shipping through the Canal had soared

to a new high during fiscal year 1937. 10 Years Ago

THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

observed its first birthday under the new fiscal system for Canal operations

in July, 1952, as official figures showed

that commercial shipping through the Canal had exceeded the previous all- time record for a fiscal year by 3.7 percent. Transits of large commercial ships

of 300 Panama Canal net tons or more,

totaled 6,524 for the fiscal year, or 235

mi iic than during the previous record year of 1929. A bill was introduced in Congress to create a new Interoceanic Canals Commission to study the question of inter- oceanic canals connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The measure would

provide funds for commissioners to study the construction of a new Panama

Canal of sea-level design and also the

construction and ownership by the United States of another canal or canals. The Senate Judiciary Committee re- commended Senate approval of the nomination of Judge Guthrie F. Crowe

as U.S. District Judge for the Canal

Zone. 1 Year Ago

EDWARD KENNEDY, 29-year-old

brother of President John F. Kennedy,

visited the Canal Zone last Julv and

accompanied Gov. W. A. Carter on an

inspection tour of the locks and a partial

transit of the waterway. Another prominent visitor was Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, former Chief of U.S. Naval

Operations, who called on Governor

Carter at Balboa Heights and received

a Master Key to the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal Review 23
SHIPPING

Grace* Ship Renamed

I I IK NEW Crate Liner Santa Mariana.

inched in M.i\ at Bethlehem Steel's

"~ Sparrow Point, Md., shipyard by the

"\\ ife of the President or Ecuador, is

• Srrying the name of an old Grace Line

4 Ship which is still operated in

, the Pacific Coast-west coast of South

\mci;ica trade. Due at the Canal earl) in 1963, the new Santa Mariana is the second of four new 2QJcfiqt passenger-cargo vessels now under construction to serve the

Uni'tid'-States*. Atlantic. Canal Zone, and

w est coasbbf SoutiilAnierica trade. The

first in the series>

is the SanUi Magdalena, which is due here..iri December.

The. old Santa Mariana will continue

to operate on its former run under the name of Santa Clara, which is also a venerable Grace Line ship name. The

first Santa Clara operated between the United States east and west coasts through the Canal and later from NewYork to the west coast of South America

before World War II.

Northern Star in September

A NEW LINER on round-the-world

service which carries no cargo and

has accommodations for approximately

1,400 passengers in single class accommodations will arrive at the Canal on

her maiden voyage September 12. She

is the new Shaw. Savill liner Northern

Cross. Built by the Vickers-Armstrong,

Ltd.. at Walker-on-Tyne, England, and

launched last summer, the ship is to operate in conjunction with the Southern Cross on a service which will take her from England, around South Africa,

to Australia and New Zealand, and

through the Panama ( filial. W. Andrews tS: Co.. local agents for the line, said the ship is to leave England

]nl\ 1(1 and will arrive at Balboa this

fall from New Zealand via Tahiti. On

liri maiden trip homeward, she will call

at Curacao and Trinidad, The \essel is 650 leet iii length, is complete!) air Conditioned, and is equipped with

closed-circuit television in the public

rooms. I. ike the Southern Cross, the propelling machiner) and funnel are

situated alt

Hail and Fairwell

\ VESSEL making her maiden voyage on a new service between ( Jreat Britain and New Zealand and a venerable pas- 3

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN MAY

1961 1962 Commercial 1,002 984

U.S. Government 16 16 Free J3 11

Total L031 1,011

TOLLS *

Commercial... $4,963,955 $5,124,471

U.S. Government 71,309 95,265

Total. . . $5,035,264 35.2 19,736

CARGO"

Commercial . . . 5,954,029 6,057,628

U.S. Government 83,918 1 26.131

Total . . . 6,037,947 6,183,759

'Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small.

•• Cargo figures are in long tons.

senger ship on her last trip on the same

run made the Canal transit during the month of June. They were the New

Zealand Shipping Co.'s new Remuera, a former Cunard liner which was reccntk

reconditioned for the New Zealand

trade, and the Rangitiki, which was on

its way back to England to be sold and scrapped.

The Remuera arrived at Cristobal June 14 from Southampton and made

the southbound transit en route to NewZealand by way of Tahiti. She will replace the Rangitiki and her sister ship.

Rangitata, which also is being retired from service. The Rangitiki entered the New Zealand service in 1929. On her last trip

through the Canal on June 20 she was

presented with a certificate by Governor

Fleming attesting to her 146 transits of the Isthmian waterway. Capt. Philip

Calcutt, master of the vessel, was to

retire when the ship reached port in England. A transit certificate also was

presented by Governor Fleming to Capt. Albert Hocken, Master of the

Rangitata. when she made her last trip

through the Canal in April.

Canberra Transits Nortli

One of the largest ships to be built in England since the Queen Mary, and one

of the largest passenger ships ever to use the Canal, the liner Canberra made

her first trip through the waterway in June. Despite her size, 820 feet in length

and 102 feet in beam, the passage through the locks was made without any

unusual incident. The Canberra arrived

in Balboa from the U.S. west coast June 10 and docked in Balboa. A group

of local officials, including Gov. Robert

J. Fleming, Jr., made the trip through

the Canal on the ship. She is seen below

at Pedro Miguel Locks with 6 of the 12 towing locomotives which assisted her through the lock chamber.

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