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IN THIS ISSUE

Raking Canal Waters

Alliance For Progress

Moving Job: King Size

sthmus Industry

Vol. 14, No. 2

SEPTEMBER 1963 Monumental J^abor^c4 Monument Uo J^abor

9t6.Stn& D ) til
Robert J. Fleming, Jr.. Governor-President

David S. Parker. Lieutenant Governor

Ftunk A. Baldwin Panama Canal Information Officer

Official Panama Canal Publication

Published monthly al Balboa Heights. C.Z.

Printed at the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, C.Z. Distributed free of charge to all Panama Canal Employees

Joseph Connor, Press Officer

Publications Editors Robert D. Kerr and Julio E. Briceno

Editorial Assistants Eunice Richard, Tobi Bittel, and Tomas A. Cupas

Power 3or Prog,reA5

MANPOWER AND BRAINPOWER of working men

and women hold the key to our future as they have

created the present from struggles, success, and failures

of the past.

This is the message of Labor Day, which some of us paused to observe this week. First laws officially recognizing Labor Day date back nearly 80 years. The Labor Day

message is a message of tribute to contributions to progress and security; of recognition of the need to dedicate ourselves to the effort to solve still pressing problems;

to urge that we crystallize our thinking as to goals; to make certain of the validity of the goals.

With growth of power came recognition of labor's responsibility to serve not only the interests of the

working force, but also to serve and protect national

interests. This recognition has been made evident in many

ways, among them expanded and expanding support of

civic and national causes.

Social consciousness for social progress has helped

knock down the barriers of geographical and social isolation, illiteracy, and lack of educational opportunities.

Broad participation by labor in economic growth has

helped cure these economic diseases. It has helped kill the seeds sown in the fertile soil of ignorance and poverty

by cynical foes of the basic ideas and ideals of democracy.

It has been said that freedom will be lost the day we

lose the ability to defend it. Labor has proven its strength

and power for progress in both war and peace. It carl prove them further in freedom's future. Index

Raking Canal Waters 3

Alliance for Progress 4

Printing Plant Moving Soon 6

Isthmus Industry 8

Promotions and Transfers 10 Canal History, Retirements 12

Fiscal Year Shipping Tables 14 Shipping 16

ON OUR COVER is a portion of the story of the Twentieth Century miracle of the building of the Panama

Canal, one of the most gigantic projects on which a labor

force ever was engaged. The scene shows the construction of part of Miraflores Locks, with attention centered

mi one of the huge culverts that gravity feeds the water

to raise and lower ships transiting from ocean to ocean. This is part of one of the four main mural panels decorating the rotunda of the Administration Building. They

have been a major Canal Zone attraction for years.

New Marine Director

NEWLY ABOARD as Marine Director of the Panama

Canal is Capt. M. J. Prince, USN, below, who comes

here from duty as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Plymouth Rock,' a large landing ship, dock, amphibious

type.

Prior to that command, for 3 years he was assistant

division director of the Navy Command Systems Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. His previous

service record also lists command of a destroyer and other

line and staff assignments in operations, intelligence,

communications, gunnery, personnel, and training.

He was commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve

in 1940 and his regular Navy commission is dated 1946. Captain Prince saw duty on the seaplane tender Hulberi,

the battleship Ioua, and as commanding officer of an LST during World War II. He holds the Commendation Medal with Combat "V"

in addition to campaign ribbons, Victory Medal, and

a European Occupation ribbon.

A native of Seattle, Wash., his official residence is

California, and he has resided mainly in the San Diego,

Calif., and Washington, D.C., areas. He attended school

in Los Angeles and is a graduate of UCLA; later, while

in the service, also attending the General Line Officer's School and Senior School of the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va. Captain Prince succeeds Capt. Richard G. Jack, who

was reassigned in July as commanding officer of the

U.S.^Naval Receiving Station at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Raking Canal Waters

CLEARING PANAMA CANAL waters isn't merely for the sake of appearance. Aquatic growth could become a threat to Canal traffic if not controlled. Large masses

float out and get in locks operating valves. They could be sucked into the water

intakes of transiting ships and plug condensers. The attractive water hyacinth, which

in the past has caused about 80 percent of the problem, still is prevalent. Growth of aquatic grasses such as coontail, fanwort, and elodea grass, however, has been so rapid that these now account for approximately half the difficulty.

This is the business end of the rake system, 30 feet wide, 16 feet deep, and 10 feet across from the teeth, as it was being fabricated at Dredging Division. No, that man isn't holding

it up. It was securely shored up with two 12 x 12-inch blocks. He's at work helping wire

the heavy mesh screen to the rake framework.

The rake above, operated from a derrick barge, has been removing about 120 tons

of aquatic grass daily from Canal waters. One type, a recent intruder, has a stem as much as 50 feet long and grows so dense

small fish can't penetrate it to destroy culex and mansonia mosquito larvae which cling to it. When the rake was put to work, there was an estimated 4 million square feet of aquatic growth, some of it apparently

moving into deeper waters. A rakeful of "grass" ready to be unloaded

into a scow. Some comes out roots and all. Loaded 1,000-cubic yard scows are taken through the locks out into the Pacific and

dumped. The aquatic growth won't propagate in salt water and deteriorates rapidly.

An estimated 10,600,000 floating and

anchored aquatic plants were removed in

fiscal year 1963 at a cost of $67,500.
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Alliance Boosts Panama's

Accelerating Growth Rate

Farm to market road project in Code

Province.

THE ALLIANCE for Progress is picking up momentum in Panama, where it contributed substantially to a healthy

acceleration in the economic growth

rate during the past year. Panama's industrial production,

foreign and domestic trade, and construction activities reached encouraging

levels during the final quarter of 1962. Output of the major food crops was

also larger than a year earlier, due to expansion in the area cultivated.

All indications are that the country's

economic growth rate accelerated

during the year, according to the U.S. Embassy in Panama City. Tentative

estimates of Panama's aggregate 1962

output indicate that the gross national product amounted to approximately

$500 million at current prices, an in- crease of roughly 8.5 percent over 1961,

and that per capita GNP was approximately $445, a gain of about 5.5 percent.

One of the major contributing factors was the expanding public investment

under the Alliance for Progress. Ten

additional rural schools were completed

during the fourth quarter, making a

total of 19 built under the Community

Aided Rural School Construction Pro- gram since its inception early in 1962.

Contracts had been awarded for 8 more

school plants totaling 168 classrooms,

representing an investment of about

$1.5 million. Five integrated health centers had

also been contracted for by the end of 1962. Resource surveys were under

way for hydroelectric power, minerals,

forestry, and fisheries, and a study on

the development of chemical industries

is also being prepared.

Work was started on the construction

of a terminal fish market which will include facilities for the refrigeration, storage, and processing of fish. It will service recently established fishing

cooperatives in the commercially un- developed Central Provinces area on

the Gulf of Panama, which are jointly

This article is a condensation of one appearing in a recent issue of International Commerce, a publication of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Since it was published, as an additional factor in Panama's economy, U.S. Embassy reports indi- cate that expenditures in Panama

originating in the Canal Zone

amounted to $82 million in calendar

year 1962.

IN LATIN AMERICA THERE ARE BIG DIFFERENCES IN PER CAPITA INCOME

Average Latin America $3Si

AS WELL AS THE RATE OF GROWTH OF INCOME

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico Panama E

Paraguay

Peru

Venezuela

i

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Venezuela

100 200 300 400 500 GDP (Grau domalie production) per cipita in "real" terms—1960 f

I irnomic Commission for Latin America,

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-10 1 2 3 4 5 6

average annual increase (decrease') 195090

September 1963
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sponsored by AID, CARE, and the Pan-American National Agency for Economic Development (ANDE).

An outstanding 1962 accomplishment was the completion of 180 kilo- meters of farm-to-market roads, which

will serve an estimated 10,000 rural people in previously isolated communities and should stimulate a transition from subsistence farming to small-scale commercial production.

During 1962 Panama negotiated ex- ternal loans totaling $20.2 million, the major share of which was unobligated

at the end of the year and will be avail- able to help finance economic and social development projects in 1963. Other major factors in Panama's

accelerated economic growth rate were

a rising income from transactions in goods and services with the Canal Zone,

as a pick-up in business activity in the Colon area due to an increase in the Colon Free Zone's trade, and the operation of the new $30 million petroleum

refinery, beginning in the second

quarter of 1962. The Colon Free Zone's trade, which

slipped in the third quarter, rebounded

to a record high in the fourth quarter.

The total 1962 trade turnover reached an all-time peak of $177.4 million. The

favorable balance rose to $35.7 million, an increase of $4.6 million over the 1961 figure.

The value of building permits issued

in Panama City dropped toward the end of the year, but the $5.7 million

total reported for the second half of 1962 was the highest second semester

figure of any recent year. A large part

of this gain was in permits issued to private firms and individuals. The

shortage of mortgage money is being

eased through the resumption of home

mortgage lending by the Social Security

Fund, resulting in good prospects for an increase in private residential consruction in 1963. Another development which holds promise of stimulating private construction was the enactment on Jan- uary 31, 1963 of a law authorizing the establishment of an Institute of Insured

Mortgages. Press reports indicate that

it will provide for insuring business

and professional construction up to

.

$500,000 and private housing up to $10,000. They also indicate that a

savings and loan association will form

part of the organization.

To give more consideration to the new budget presented by the President

last October 16, the fiscal year which

formerly coincided with the calendar

year, was changed. Law No. 47 of November 15, 1962, adopted a fiscal year which begins March 1. On

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Demonstration

of use of animal-drawn

plow.

Many campesinos now are using

only sticks for plowing.

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One of the many new school buildings constructed in the Republic of Panama with Alliance

for Progress funds.

In an Alliance

fishing cooperative

organized in Panama,

70 fishermen in the villages El Farallon and

El Higo are replacing their old equipment and

establishing a new

marketing system, with a $40,000

refrigerated

processing plant

part of the package. At right

is one of the

old cayucos

previously used.

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This view gives an idea of the size of the job ahead when the Printing Plant is moved across the Isthmus from Mount Hope to Building

911, La Boca, on the Pacific side starting next month.

The composing room. Here is where the type for all sorts The pressroom, showing several of the 18 presses used for all types and

of jobs is assembled, locked in forms, and prepared for sizes of work which require different technical treatment,

printing on one of the presses.

FOR PRINTING PLANT

Moving Days

Coming Up

A collator-stitcher, one of the largest pieces of equipment to be moved into a new home

in the former La Boca retail store. This machine places the previously printed and folded

sheets in proper order on the conveyer, gathers, and stitches them into a finished pamphlet

ready for trimming. The new Printing Plant quarters are being remodeled and converted

at a cost of more than $150,000, including air conditioning.

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The big offset press at right prints The

Panama Canal Review. Jack Purvis, press- room foreman, makes an adjustment. The

task of moving huge pieces of equipment

like this necessitated planning for a three- phase moving job expected to take in all about 6 weeks.

In the background below is a huge knife grinder to sharpen paper cutter blades. The

machine in the foreground folds and slits pages of brochures and similar printing

jobs. The Printing Plant will stay in busi- ness during the entire move, with parts of

the work being done on both sides of the Isthmus at the same time.

Nieht view of process area showing the crude furnace and distillation tower with the pilot flare stack in background. The furnace chimney stack in foreground is approximately IV* times the height

of the Panama Hilton Hotel.

3ithmu5

3nauAtry,

Original jungle, swamps and snake pits were cleared, filled hydraulically with coral

to form a site for the process plant, storage

tanks, shops, offices, and laboratories.

REFINER1A PANAMA'S plant on Las Minas Bay 5 miles east of Colon, built

at an original cost of $30 million, is the largest industrial installation in the Republic of Panama.

It also represents the largest foreign investment in industry in the Republic. The firm is owned by Continental Oil Co. and National Bulk Carriers. The

refinery was officially dedicated by

President Don Roberto F. Chiari on

April 24, 1962. Work was begun in September 1959

with the clearing and filling of a 200-

acre site in Las Minas Bay, where the

processing, storage, and port installa- tions were erected. Six million cubic- yards of material were dredged from

the bottom of the bay to open a deep- water channel. The material was used

to raise the refinery site about 10 feet above sea level. Construction of the refinerv itself began in September 1960. More than 100 miles of steel pipe, more than 10,000 tons of steel, and more than 120.000 bags of Panamanian

cement have gone into the plant.

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REFINERIA

PANAMA

Aerial view of the refinery- Tanker dock and barge loading dock are in fo|und

Panama's first deep water pier. The VA million barrels of tank storage e, rmidiiii ma

proper is in the center and the pilot

One of the most spectacular installations is for storage. The tanks-among

them four of the world's largest-have

a total capacity of 3J£ million barrels

(1 barrel equals 42 gallons), of which

a million barrels is in storage tanks

built in the last few months. The refinery's salt-water pumping installation for cooling purposes requires 53 million gallons of water daily, approximately the amount needed for

transiting a ship from ocean to ocean

through the Panama Canal. The two steam turbine generators required to serve the refinery, each of 3,000 kilowatts, supply enough electric power for a city the size of Colon.

To extreme left center is the dry cargo dock,

to the right, out of the picture. The refinery

to the left.

With construction of the refinerv, Panama had its first deep-water cargo

pier (28 feet) for ocean-going ships. The refinery operates its own deep

water pier (40 feet) for super-tankers. At the peak of construction activity, more than 1,300 workers, 95 percent of them Panamanians, were employed on

the project. Refineria Panama now employs 320 persons and the percentage

of Panamanian personnel is above 86

percent, notwithstanding the technical nature of most operations. This reflects a policv established bv

the company long before it started operations: training the largest possible number of Panamanians, with the ultiK, H. Dunbar, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of Refineria Panama.

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The refinery is highly automated. All process units are operated from a single control room. A semigraphic flow diagram is above the electronic units and in the foreground an operator

is at the central control desk.

Super-tanker unloading crude

across Refineria Panama's dock at Las Minas Bay

directly into storage tanks for

later processing

into various

refined fuel oil products.

mate goal of operating a plant run by Panamanian personnel. Training has

consisted of not only on-site instruction, but also of scholarship grants to enable

personnel to become specialists in various phases of engineering.

Refineria Panama has a processing

capacity of 55,000 barrels of petroleum

products per dav—enough to supply the

entire Republic of Panama, the Canal

Zone, transiting ships, and leaving some for export. Products are tested

for quality under exacting international standards in the refinery's own

laboratory. The products are: Gasoline of all octane ratings for automobiles, kerosene, jet aviation fuel, diesel oil for trucks, tractors and industrial motors, marine diesel fuel, asphalt and asphalt products, and liquified petroleum gas

for domestic and commercial use. The refinerv operates two areas for bunkering ocean-going ships by barge, and also uses facilities available at the

refiners pier itself and at the Cristobal and Balboa piers. The bunkering area

in the Atlantic is in Colon harbor, inside the Cristobal breakwater. The other is off Taboga Island, in the Pacific. The fact that additions to storage

facilities and plant improvements

became necessary only 15 months after operations began is evidence of the wide acceptance of the refinery's products in Panama's market and the growing demand.

Since Refineria Panama began operations, the prices of a number of petro- leum products have decreased as a

direct benefit to consumers in Panama, The contribution of Refineria Pana- ma to the country's economy is felt not only in employment, but also in pur- chases bv the firm from other Panamanian industries and commerce. And the

large investment made is evidence of confidence in the future industrial development and economic stabilitv of Panama.
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

EMPLOYEES promoted or transferred between July 5 and August 5 (withingrade promotions and job reclassifica- tions are not listed )

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Postal Division Walter C. Reed, Clerk, Railroad Division,

to Distribution Clerk, Substitute. Stanford Levy, Jr., Apprentice (Painter, 3d Year), Maintenance Division, to Distribution Clerk, Substitute. Ashton A. Brown, Jr., Laborer (Cleaner), Maintenance Division, to Window Clerk,

Substitute. Alfredo T. Brooks, Waiter, Supply Division, to Distribution Clerk, Substitute. ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Joanne L. Allen, Geologist (General) to Geologist (Engineering).

Simeon Blake, Louis A. Browne, Juan Melony, Navigational Aid Worker, to Maintenanceman (Distribution Systems).

Electrical Division George H. Egger, Jr., Electrician, to Test Operator-Foreman (Electrical- Power System).

Arlington A. Petro, Clerk, Navigation Division, to Apprentice (Electrician, 1st Year). Winston H. Forde, Surveying Aid, to Apprentice (Electrician-Telephone, 1st Year).

Maintenance Division

Carl L. Simons, Lead Foreman (Public

Works Road Paving), to Lead Foreman

(Public Works Road Construction).

Norman H. Pedersen, Jr., Apprentice

(Sheetmetal Worker, 4th Year), to Sheet- metal Worker.

Harold M. Meyer, Apprentice (Plumber,

4th Year), to Plumber.

Joseph L. Cicero, Apprentice (Plumber,

4th Year), to Pipefitter. Ricardo Chen, Apprentice (Welder, 4th

Year), to Welder.

Cecil G. Callender, Clerk-Typist to Clerk. Winfield Ford, Timekeeper to Clerk. Gilbert Myers, Clerk to Procurement Clerk. Rupert V. Arthur, Leader Asphalt or Cement Worker to Lead Foremen

(Public Works Road Paving). Esteban Justavino, Laborer (Heavy) to Helper Welder.

Joaquin E. Triana, Laborer (Cleaner), Supply Division, to Laborer. HEALTH BUREAU

Jack E. Van Hoose, Housing Project

Assistant, Office of Chief, Community

Services Division, to Graduate Intern (Administrative Services), Office of the

Director.

Gorgas Hospital

Clotilde Benavides, Staff Nurse (Medicine

and Surgery), to Staff Nurse (Surgery).

Mary M. Quigley, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse (Medicine and Surgery). Dr. Edward W. Healey, Hospital Resident, 2d Year, to Hospital Resident, 3d Year.

Carmen Ho, Clerk (Stenographer), Coco

Solo Hospital, to Clerk-Dictating Machine Transcriber. Howard A. Thompson, Office Machine

Operator to Clerk. Coco Solo Hospital

Nicolas D. Bishop, Counterman, Supply

Division, to Messenger.

Simeon N. Senior, Laborer (Cleaner), Division of Schools, to Laborer. Corozal Hospital Joan W. Thompson, Staff Nurse (Pediatrics), Gorgas Hospital, to Head Nurse

(Psychiatry). Rosaura Cardoze, Clinical Social Worker

to Supervisory Clinical Social Worker. MARINE BUREAU

Navigation Division William E. Weigle, Jr., Marine Traffic Controller to Supervisory Marine Traffic Controller. Herbert S. Driscoll, James H. Hagan,

General Foreman (Docking and Undocking) to General Foreman (Harbor)

(Assistant Harbormaster).

Industrial Division Burton E. Davis, General Engineer (Plant Engineer, Plant Branch) to Supervisory General Engineer (Plant). Raul A. Swalm, Apprentice (Shipfitter, 4th Year) to Shipfitter. Rodolfo C. Soley, Seaman, Dredging Division, to Apprentice (Sheetmetal Worker,

1st Year). Locks Division

Leslie W. Croft, Control House Operator

to General Foreman (Lock Operations). Oliver H. Hendrickson, Lead Foreman

(Lock Operations) to General Foreman

(Lock Operations).

Lloyd M. Smith, Leader Lock Operator

(Electrician) to Control House Operator.

Woodrow W. Rowland, Lock Operator

(Electrician) to Leader Lock Operator

(Electrician). Richard N. Phillips, Apprentice (Machinist, 4th Year) to Machinist. Robert L. Webb, Machinist to Lock Operator (Machinist). Roswell D. Boston, Jr., Electrician to Lock

Operator (Electrician). Hubert J. Jordan, Apprentice (Electrician, 3d Year) from Electrical Division. Comelio Trotman, Helper Lock Operator

to Painter. Antonio Castro, Painter (Maintenance) to Painter. Arnold South, Helper Lock Operator to Leader Maintenanceman (Rope and

Wire Cable). Jerome E. Steiner, Jr., Distribution Clerk,

Substitute, Postal Division, to Apprentice (Electrician, 1st Year). Joseph D. Powlett, Carpenter (Maintenance) to Maintenanceman. James E. Scott, Helper Lock Operator to Maintenanceman.

Leonardo A. Illueca, Helper Lock Operator

to Painter (Maintenance). Cesario Rujano, Seaman (Launch), Dredging Division, to Linehandler.

Claude C. Jesse, Oiler (Floating Plant), Dredging Division, to Linehandler. Clement A. Griffiths, Amott B. Julien, Samuel Walker, Linehandler to Helper

Lock Operator.

Basilio Acosta, Jose Cordoba, Alfred Hall, Fireman (Floating Plant), Dredging

Division, to Linehandler. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Duane A. Rigby, Accountant, to Cost Accountant, Accounting Division. SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

BUREAU

Jesus M. Mena, Field Tractor Operator, to Lead Foreman (Grounds), Community

Services Division. Supply Division Joseph B. Burgoon, Laundry and Dry

Cleaning Plant Superintendent (Laundry

Manager) to Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Plant Manager.

Frank E. Day, Assistant Commissary Store Manager to Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Plant Superintendent.

Norma E. Hamilton, Secretary (Stenography), Office of the Director, to Administrative Assistant, Office of General Manager.

Alfred A. Cox, Guest House Clerk to Guest House Assistant. Hilda F. Mootoo, Clerk-Typist to Teller (Typing). Bernice C. Barnett, Grocery Attendant to Sales Clerk. Mildred Z. Johnson, Clerk to Sales Checker. Edna L. Tipton, Clerk-Typist, from Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine. Kermit Pusey, Assistant Cook to Cook. Nicomedes Fria, Messenger to Storekeeping Clerk. Ignacio Gondola, Garbage Collector, Community Services Division, to Truck

Driver. Wilfort B. Gordon, Duncan S. Williams, Jr., Laborer (Heavy) to Warehouseman.

Ralph H. Worme, Laborer to Milk Plant Worker.

Vivian E. Brooks, Laundry Worker (Heavy)

to Extractor and Tumblerman.

Gilberto Anaya, Railroad Trackman, Terminals Division, to Laborer (Heavy).

Llewellyn J. Bowen, Package Boy to Laborer. Ruben Olmos, Foods Service Worker to Utility Worker. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Terminals Division William D. McArthur, Leader Liquid

Fuels W'harfman to Liquid Fuels Dispatcher.

Leyton B. Ellis, Pablo Galvan, Medardo

Ovalle, Enrique Pichon, Albert M. Rowe, Dock Worker to Stevedore. George M. Ottey, Milk Plant Worker,

Supply Division, to Cargo Marker.

Percival McLenan, Laborer, Maintenance

Division, to Stevedore. George C. Clarke, Alfred F. Madeam,

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Hugo Salazar, Arnold C. Sandiford, Utility Worker, Supply Division, to Cargo

Marker. Motor Transportation Division Minnie B. Burton, Clerk-Stenographer,

Office of Director, Engineering and

Construction Bureau, to Clerical Assist- ant (Stenography). Ivan E. Haywood, Motor Vehicle Dis- patcher to Supervisory Motor Vehicle

Dispatcher. Albert D. Lord, School Bus Driver to Motor Vehicle Dispatcher.

Courtney E. Jarvis, Apprentice (Automotive Mechanic, 3d Year) to Automotive Mechanic. Lorenzo Barrera, Linehandler (Deckhan),

Navigation Division, to Truck Driver. Joseph Lancelot, Utility Worker, Supply

Division, to Truck Driver. Thomas L. J. Bowe, Waiter, Supply Division, to Automotive Equipment Service- man.

Railroad Division Calvin M. Landrum, Lead Foreman (Rail- road Track) to Lead Foreman (Railroad

Yard). OTHER PROMOTIONS which did

not involve changes of tide: James P. MacLaren, Supervisory Sanitary

Engineer (Chief, Division of Sanitation) Health Bureau. Roscoe M. Collins, Raymond B. Will, Chief Foreman (Harbor) (Harbormaster)

Navigation Division. Balph L. Stinson, Jr., Digital Computer

Systems Analyst, Accounting Policies and Procedures Staff. Bobert L. Siedle, Clinical Social Worker,

Corozal Hospital. Gilbert M. Smith, Accountant, Accounting

Division. Louis E. Egea, Construction Inspector

(General), Contract and Inspection Division. Jacob C. Baker, James A. Jones, Joseph A. Maganini, Admeasurer, Navigation Division. Maria del C. Hernandez, Secretary

(Stenography), Office of GovernorPresident. Margaret L. Canavaggio, Cargo Claims

Clerk, Terminals Division. Thelma M. Sasso, Clerk-Stenographer,

Maintenance Division.

Julio Aponte, Jr., Cafeteria Manager,

Supply Division. Margaret F. Evans, Accounts Maintenance

Clerk (Stenography), Office of the

Director, Engineering and Construction Bureau. Herman J. Feurtado, Supervisory Timekeeper, Terminals Division. Ovid A. Laurie, Clerk, Community Services Division. Cristobal A. Buddie, Nicholas J. Ford,

Clay-ton F. Osborne, Guard, Terminals

Division. Epifanio Zamora, Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator, Community Services Division. Carlyle S. Babb, Clerk (Work Orders), Maintenance Division. Ashton Brooks, Arnoldo A. Young, Bookkeeping Machine Operator, Accounting

Division. Diamantina E. Davis, Card Punch Operator, Accounting Division. Myrtle O. Campbell, Edith C. Harper, Leonora C. John, Sales Clerk, Supply

Division. Dawson Jolley, Storekeeping Clerk, Supply

Division.

CONSTRUCCION

REPUBLICA DE PANAMA

ESTAOOS UNIOOS OE AMERICA

The self-help housing program in Panama envisages a total of 540 homes in the suburbs of Panama City and the interior. A total of $600,000 has been allocated for this program. Future tenant-owners provide the labor and some of the materials, while the Panama

government provides the land.

Alliance Boosts Panama's Growth Rate (Continued from p. 5)

January 30 the National Assembly

approved an ordinary budget of $77.3

million for the fiscal year, a $10.5

million increase over 1962. Receipts for 1962 totaled $67.9 million, an in- crease of $5.8 million over 1961. Indi- cations are that the 1962 budget was

more nearly in balance than in most

recent years, when sizeable deficits were incurred. The 1963 budget,

however, is expected to have a deficit of approximately $3 million. The only general tax change

approved by the National Assembly

during the last session involved a surtax of 1 percent on all imports. This measure is designed to supplement

Government revenues and keep the

deficit as low as possible.

Banana exports were off sharply in the fourth quarter, reflecting the aftereffects of the third quarter blowdowns.

A part of this decline also was due to the December shipment stoppage

resulting from the dock strike in the United States. Fourth quarter shrimp exports,

though down seasonally, are estimated

at $2 million, bringing the yearly total

to an estimated record high of approximately $8 million, an increase of more

than one-third over 1961. Incomplete trade figures indicate

that during the first quarter of 1962,

the United States took close to 90

percent of Panama's exports and

supplied slightly less than 50 percent of

its imports.

Roughly 13 percent of the Free

Zone's outgoing shipments in 1962

represented deliveries to Panama,

which totaled $14.1 million, or $2.9

million more than in 1961.

In response to an invitation to join

the Central American integration movement, Panama has expressed a desire

for closer economic association with

members of the Organization of Central American States (OCAS) but says that

it is not yet in a position to take a decision on full membership. It has been

implied that Panama will carefully evaluate the effects that membership

could have on her international rela- tions and economic structure, which is based on the country's situation as a

place of international transit. Although moderate increases in rice and corn production appear likely due

to increased plantings, agriculture is lagging behind other sectors of the economy. This has been attributed to continuing relatively low yields of both' rice and corn, and the general lack of progress in raising agricultural

productivity.

The coffee situation also deteriorated

in 1962, with the new crop estimated

to be at least 25 percent smaller than

1961. One improvement has been in beef cattle production, which has risen

in both quantity and quality.

Although Panama's imports seem

likely to increase more than exports, the general outlook for 1963 holds promise

of a further rise in Panama's economic

growth rate. A large increase in public works is planned, utilizing funds now available from grants and loans previously negotiated under the Alliance for Progress

and receipts from the sale of newly

authorized bond issues by the Govern- ment of Panama. Prospects also are favorable for expansion of private

construction. The $9 million loan

which the Government of Panama

negotiated with private American in- vestors in December reportedly will be used to stimulate private investment

in construction and industry.

The Panama Canal Review 11
CANAL HISTORY

50 1/earJ cAg.o

CONSTRUCTION of temporary wing

dams was approved to curb erosion taking place on the shore of Limon Bay

immediately to the west of the west

channel. A considerable section of the shore had worn away. Studies of effects of the temporary dams were planned to determine whether permanent structure would be needed.

An official circular extended the

territory within which hunting was per- mitted to include all the area in the Zone west of the Canal between the

Atlantic Ocean and the Mandingo

River. Hunting of birds remained pro- hibited by Executive order pending

issuance of regulations.

An Executive order declared it to be

unlawful for any person to operate an

"aeroplane, balloon, or flying machine

of any kind" in or across the Canal Zone

without authority from the Chief

Executive of the Canal Zone.

25 yeard cAg.o

PRESIDENT Franklin D. Roosevelt

arrived at Balboa August 4 aboard the U.S. Houston. In press conferences he

said he felt the good neighbor policy was working out very well and found

things in the Canal Zone "running

awfully well." During an informal interview later, the President said a vast roadbuilding

program here would be recommended

to Congress as a Canal defense measure. An outline of plans being considered

for increasing Canal capacity included

construction of a third set of locks, 1,200 by 125 feet, and raising the level of Gatun Lake 5 feet or so to permit

transiting ships of deeper draft.

10 IfearJ c4ffo

THE MONTH of August went down

on the records as one of the hottest. Temperatures on the Pacific side

reached 92 on 3 days before midmonth. The long weather record for Balboa Heights showed that an August

day with a temperature that high

occurred only about once every 3 years. Plans were announced for reorganization to make the Industrial Bureau a

division of the Marine Bureau and to transfer the Dredging Division from

the Marine Bureau to the Engineering

and Construction Bureau. Assignments were made to the 20

one-family houses on Empire Street in Balboa, and residents of Ridge Road,

Balboa Heights, and 20 additional four- family houses in Balboa Flats were

notified that those areas were to be

cleared for new quarters construction.

OnelJ,ear f9o GOVERNOR FLEMING addressed a group at the Pedro Miguel townsite for the dedication of the streets of Jamaica,

Trinidad, and Tobago, named in honor

of the newly-independent West Indian

nations. Canal Zone Police Lodge No. 1798,

American Federation of Government

Employees, was the first employee

organization granted formal recognition

by the Panama Canal organization

under the new Employee-Management

Corporation program. The Reina Manuelito I, a Panama

Canal tourist launch, was officially christened by Panama's first official Carnival Queen for whom the craft is named: Dona Manuelita Vallarino de

Morrice.

RETIREMENTS

EMPLOYEES who retired in July, with

their positions at time of retirement and

years of Canal service: James J. Belcourt, Lead Foreman (Railroad

Yard), Railroad Division, Pacific Side; 19 years, 3 months, 14 days.

George A. Bennard, Helper, Locomotive

Engineer, Railroad Division, Atlantic

Side; 22 years, 5 months, 28 days.

William Black, Maintenance Superintendent, Locks Division, Pacific Side; 34

years, 7 months, 10 days. Lionel Brown, Deckhand, Navigation Division, Pacific Side; 20 years, 7 months,

12 days. James F. Dougherty, Associate Supervisory

Inspector, Railroad Division, Atlantic

Side; 31 years, 11 months, 22 days.

.ACCIDENTSFOR

THIS MONTH

AND

THIS YEAR

JULY

ALL UNITS

CASES

•63 '62 231 206

CASES

DAYS

ABSENT

YEAR TO DATE 1729<36i 1742

l.ockH

•63 '62 - 63 "62 14 12 148 121

115(9) 72 15395 998 7667

Overhaul injuries Included In total.

Allen R. Flinn, Leader Lock Operator

(Electrician), Locks Division, Atlantic Side; 22 years, 5 months, 12 days. Clarence A. Greene, Control House Operator, Locks Division, Atlantic Side; 25

years, 6 months, 21 days.

Bellcel A. Harris, Dock Worker, Terminals

Division, Atlantic Side; 4 years, 10 months, 24 days.

William G. Hoelzle, Police Private, Police Division, Pacific Side; 22 years, 5

months, 22 days. Mrs. Borghild H. Misenheimer, Teacher,

Junior High, U.S. Schools, Schools Division, Pacific Side; 26 years, 4 months,

7 days. Milton L. Nash, General Foreman, Lock

Operations, Locks Division, Atlantic

Side; 28 years, 9 months, 8 days.

Joseph J. Paul, Lead Foreman Stevedore

(Dock), Terminals Division, Atlantic

Side; 40 years, 5 months, 12 days. Arthur B. Rigby, Locomotive Engineer, Yard and Road, Railroad Division,

Pacific Side; 15 years, 1 months, 18 days. Mrs. Carol G. Rigby, Accounting Clerk,

Electrical Division, Pacific Side; 18

years, 4 months, 22 days. Luis A. Rodriguez, Leader Maintenance- man (Rope and Wire Cable), Locks

Division, Pacific Side; 34 years, 6

months, 2 days.

Mahnga Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division, Atlantic Side; 33 years, 1 month,

27 days. Subert Turbyfill, Instructor, Schools Division, Pacific Side; 29 years, 7 months,

16 days. Walter J. Wilkinson, Water System Controlman, Maintenance Division, Atlantic

Side; 21 years, 10 months, 22 days.

Leonard Wolford, Supervisory Marine

Traffic Controller, Port Captain's Office, Pacific Side; 23 years, 9 months, 5 days.

12 September 1963
ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

RINE BURE

ed A. Newhard

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Dp :ration/) / SUI PL If AND \

Erne

Stc

lOMMUNm

SERVICE BUREAU

illiams eeping Cler

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Egbert A. Williams Helper Locomotive

Engineer

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Bernhard I. Everson

Civil Affairs Director ENGINEERING AND,

CONSTRUCTION

BUREA

Nita B. Hartman

Supervisory Administra

Assistant Bertie E. Allen Wharfbuild . Joseph Granger

Painter Catalino Tuiion

Blaster MARINE BUBEAU

Yane Leves Towing Locomotive

Operator

Wilfred H. Anderson

Painter

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

ERVICES BUREAU

:lton A. Mason

Timekeeper

Charles A. Thomas

UtilityjWSrker

Dudley H. T&otman

Servire SAtion Attendant

. Trc

Stat

TRANSPORTATION AND

ERMINALS BUREAU

Gerald L. Neal

Conductor.Yard

Cliff Sanders

Inspector (carman, wood,

and steel) Harvey L. Jones School Bus Driver

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Edward C. Blount

Police Private Clara Kelsay

Window Clerk Margaret V. Whitman

Instructor (College)

Earl W. Wrenn

Fire Sergeant, Class 3

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Lloyd M. Kent

Master, Towboat

Ewald A. Wiberg, Jr. Electronics Mechanic

Eugenio Arauz

Sandblaster

Alfred W. Browne, Jr. Oiler (Floating Plant) Richard A. Lindo

Helper (General)

Pastor Marcelino

Helper Refrigeration and

Air Conditioning

Mechanic

Alberto McKenzie

Oiler (Floating Plant) Maxwell S. Morgan

Stockman

Martin G. Naar

Helper Plumber

Joaquin M. Ponce

Engineering Draftsman

(Electrical) Edmond Smith

Leader Seaman

Luther B. Ward

Seaman

HEALTH BUREAU

Flora R. Hack

Staff Nurse (Medicine

and Surgery)

Amy I. Andrewn

General Supply Clerk

Jos£ D. Barrios Ward Service Aid

Enrique Dominguez

Diet Cook

Alfonso Dutary

Laborer (Heavy, Pest Control) Clinton J. Everett Ward Service Aid

Eugenio Hernam

Hospital At

Vincent H. Kii Chauffeur Lloyd B. McCoy

Nursing Assistant and Surgery)

Jose A. Ramire

Food Servic

Julian Rudri

Assistant Tomas Rodriguez Boatman

Geronimo Rodriguez Laborer (Heavy, Pest Control)

MARINE BUREAU

Maurice F. Dunn

Master, Towboat

Hubert Hart Towing Locomotive

Operator Warren E. Ledoux

Lock Operator (Rigger)

George Bell Linehandler (Deckhand)

Oliver H. Brathwaite Helper Lock Operator

Hubert E. Brown

Truck Driver

Jose Cerda

Helper Lock Operator Juan B. Gochez

Linehandler

Jose R. Gonzalez

Linehandler (Deckhand)

Emiliano Hall

Painter (Maintenance)

Osbourne Hoy

Seaman

Henry Madeam

Motor Launch Captain

Hubert L. Marie Rose

Linehandler (Deckhand)

Wilfred McQueen

Helper Lock Operator

Joel.aunch DispMcher

and)

Linehandler (Deckhand)

Desmond Williams Toolroom Attendant

OFFICE OF THE

COMPTROLLER

Edward H. Appin

Time Leave and Payroll Clerk

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICES BUREAU

William D. McGowin

Commissary Store Department Manager

(Supermarket)

Jose A. Arias Lead Foreman Eugene Burrell

Sales Checker

Ophelia M. Burrowes

Sales Checker (Retail Store) David L. Donaldson

Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

Egbert N. Francis Warehouseman

Aura Garcia

Presser (Garment)

Jacinto Jaramillo Laborer (Cleaner) Dorothy E. McDonald

Sales Clerk

Alejandro Ruiz Crane Hookman

Stanley V. Waterman

Lead Foreman (Grounds)

Ethel C. Yearwood

Clerk-Typist

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Luis De Gracia

Railroad Trackman

George H. Long

Stevedore

Oliver Maxwell

School Bus Driver

Jose F. Quinonez

Clerk Matthew E. Scott Truck Driver Edward G. Thomas

Leader Stevedore (Dock)

Rupert A. Vaughn

Truck Driver (Heavy)

Asisclo Zambrano A. Linehandler

The Panama Canal Review 13
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC AND TOLLS

Vessels of 300 tons net or over

(Fiscal Years)

Month

July 1962

August

September

October November

December

January 1963

February

March

April

May

June

Total for Fiscal year_

Transits

1963

978

950

909

882

924

947 769

841 991 919

988

919

1962

931 934

892

935

891 938

917

841 980

942

984

964

11,017 11,149

Avg. No.

Transits 1951-55

557

554

570

607 568

599

580

559

632

608 629

599

7,062

Gross Tolls °

(In thousands of dollars)

1963

$4,980

4,926

4,617

4,411

4,684

4,983

3,871

4,313

5,084

4,761

4,991

4,747

1962

$4,776

4,749

4,523

4,646

4,443

4,870

4,735

4,388

5,098

4,961

5,122

4,979

$56,368 $57,290 $29,969

Average

Tolls 1951-55

$2,432

2,403

2,431

2,559

2,361

2,545

2,444

2,349

2,657

2,588

2,672

2,528

° Before deduction of any operating expenses.

TRAFFIC MOVEMENT OVER MAIN TRADE ROUTES

The following table shows the number of transits of large, commercial vessels (300 net

tons or over) segregated into eight main trade routes:

United States intercoastal East coast of United States and South America . East coast of United States and Central America

East coast of United States and Far East United States/Canada east coast and Australasia Europe and west coast of United States/Canada

Europe and South America

Europe and Australasia

All other routes

Total traffic

Fiscal Year 1963

1963

384

2,339

485

2,049

316

945

1,260 388

2,851

11,017

1962

468

2,419 368

2,404

276

911

1,140

409

2,754

11,149

Avg. No.

Transits 1951-55

656

1,716

508

1,028 204

702 474

341

1,432

7,061

CANAL COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC BY NATIONALITY
Ketch On World Cruise

AROUND THE WORLD in a 42-foot

ketch, Kismet, is the objective of two

U.S. couples. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth

Wunderlich and Mr. and Mrs. James Wales plan a 2-to-3-year around the world sail from Boston, through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific, up

through the Suez Canal, up the Rhine

and Rhone Rivers in France, and back

across the Atlantic to Scituate Harbor.

Hardly a spur-of-the-moment venture, the two couples have been

planning the trip for almost 5 years. The Kismet, which sailed last month

from Chesapeake Bay, has a pointed

stern, which means she can take rough

seas with a minimum of pounding, is equipped with an inboard engine, a fathometer, a ship-to-shore radio and

radio direction finder. Principal means

of navigation, the couples say, will be

celestial. On starting their world trip, and

heading for the Panama Canal, the couples estimated costs at $1,500 a year per couple. Most of that, they figure, will go into maintenance, for they plan, every few months, to haul out, scrape and repaint the bottom of the vesse.l.

4th Santa Launched

A NEW Canal Customer and another

ship in the American merchant fleet was

launched at Sparrow's Point, Md., when

the Santa Mercedes, fourth of the Grace

Line's 20,000-ton cargo-passenger

liners, went down the ways in the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s shipyard.

Like her sister ships, the Santa Magdalena and Santa Mariana, now in service, and the Santa Maria, scheduled

to enter service this fall, the Santa Mercedes will sail in Grace Line's route from New York to the Caribbean,

transit the Panama Canal, and visit the

Pacific coast of South America.

The Santa Magdalena transited just a week ago on her return voyage after

visiting Buenaventura, Colombia, and

Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Santa Mariana transited August 24 on her return voyage to New York. The Santa Maria, dedicated to the Republic of Panama, will make her

maiden voyage to Panama in October.

The four ships cruise at 20-knot

speeds. Each has first class accommodations for 125 passengers. The Panama

Agencies Co. acts as the ships' agents

in the Canal.

CANAL TRANSITS - COMMERCIAL AND U.S. GOVERNMENT
Honors

For

Captains

Capt. A. C. Jones

WITHIN A SPACE of a dozen days, an Honorary Pilot's License, Unlimited,

for all Canal waters, was presented two

sea captains who have been taking

their vessels through the Panama Canal

almost from the time the Canal was

opened to shipping.

The captains themselves came from

two different hemispheres, two differ- ent oceans. One was Capt. Tasuke Kawai of Kobe, Japan, who is retiring after being

employed by Osaka Shosen Kaisha,

Ltd., since 1915. The other was Capt.

A. C. Jones, Commodore of the Shaw

Savill fleet, who made his 91st and final voyage through the Canal in the SS

Corinthic His first transit was in 1919. The August transit was Captain Jones' 56th transit in the SS Corinthic, which

he joined in September 1951. The SS

Corinthic is a sister ship to the SS

Gothic, which was used by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on the latter's last trip

through the Canal. Captain Jones is an avid photographer and is the proud owner of a most extensive set of slides that show

Canal improvements since such improvements began. He carried a complete Canal pictorial record with him

in his cabin, neatly catalogued in boxes

and files, and usually had the answer to any question pertaining to the Panama

Canal, its maintenance, its improvements, and the dates when any changes were made.

Capt. Tasuke Kawai

And It Has Gold Plated Plumbing Fixtures

THE ALETA, above, a sleek, trim,

white beauty owned by Daniel Peterkin, Jr., of Chicago, has become a

familiar sight in Canal waters—and the envy of fresh water and blue water

fishermen. After being anchored in Gatun Lake for some weeks, the Aleta now is spending some time in the David area, trying the fishing grounds

thereabouts. Capt. Olin L. Williams of Miami,

Fla., is master of the Aleta, and the

local agent is L. K. Cofer. The vessel is completely air conditioned, is carpeted all through

the owner's quarters, has telephones

throughout, and has music piped all through the yacht. The Agfa's stereo plays no matter what the weather. Guests are quartered in four state- rooms, each stateroom with large closet space. Italian marble and gold plated

plumbing fixtures are features in the bathrooms.

On the aft deck is an electric organ, and in a couple of big freezers is a stock

of $4 per pound sirloin strip steaks. The Aleta carries all sorts of electronic gadgets, and ship captains who have

visited the vacht have stated that many

big ships are not so well equipped

electronically as is this one. The vessel has power steering, and has two diesel generators besides the main engines;

two hot water heaters, one electric and

one diesel fuel; and two pressure systems for hot and for cold water. Four boats are carried "on top" for

fishing, one a 20-foot inboard launch

and three Boston Whaler skiffs.

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN JULY

1963 19€! Commercial 944 978

U.S. Government 25 28

Free 7 7

Total 976 1,013

TOLLS °

Commercial $4,902,286 $4,981,987

U.S. Government 137,827 168,056

Total $5,040,113 $5,150,043

CARGO00

Commercial 5,924,862 5,495,623

U.S. Government 172,764 175,507 Free 36,970 35,016

Total 6,134,596 5,706,146

'Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. " Cargo figures are in long tons.

From the inside looking out, on the Aleta, one sees the white electric organ on the aft deck.




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