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GAILLARD HIGHWAY TO BE MADE BOULEVARD-TYPE ROAD

FOR TWO MILES BETWEEN TIVOLI AND DIABLO CROSSINGS

Aw, Gee!

i . :. *. :: : SCHOOL

The Time Has Come

Next Friday will be S(for School )-Day

for a little over 7,000 Canal Zone boys

and girls. School officials, who have been almost

clairvoyant in the past on their estimates

of expected enrollments, have their

fingers crossed this year. They believe that the number of pupils, which has bean increasing steadily since the war

years, is beginning to level off. However, for the record, they venture

this prediction for the present school year: 7,058 pupils in the grades which include kindergarten through high school in the United States school system.

If they are right, the enrollment will be another new record for the Canal

Zone's 15 United States schools and will be 62 higher than the attendance last year. More Teachers

Kindergarten enrollment, they are certain, will be higher than last year because

of the restoration by Congress of tuitionfree kindergartens for children of United

States citizen employees.

The teaching staff will be increased by

nine—for a total of 204 for grades one through high school—to handle the expected increase. Four of the increased number will be assigned to the elementary

schools and five to the junior and senior

high schools. In addition, eight instructors

will be assigned to the Canal Zone

Junior College. Four new elementary classrooms will be opened this year. Three of these will be at the Fort Kobbe elementary school which will then be operating at its 22- room capacity for the first time. Kindergartens Moving

Seventeen new teachers from the United

States will join the staff of the Canal Zone United States schools this year. Of

these, 11 will be assigned to the elementary schools, five to the secondary

schools and one to Physical Education

and Athletics School plans this year call for increased

physical education activities in the ele- mentary schools. Wherever it is possible

recess periods will be staggered so that

the children will have supervised physical

education rather than mass play periods.

A program of this sort has been in operation at the Ancon Elementary school. The plan will also provide a break in the day's activities for the elementary

school teachers who, in the past, have

supervised recess periods and have been

with their pupils continuously all day.

In line with this expanded physical

education program, kindergartens will be moved, during the school (See page W)

Gaillard Highway, most

heavily-traveled of Canal Zone

thoroughfares, will be converted to a four-lane, boulevardtype throughway between Tivoli and Diablo crossings this

fiscal year. At the same time

the highway will be relocated

slightly, modernized, and the

eight intersections in this sec- tion improved to allow for a

better traffic flow to and from

Gaillard Highway. The project will cost about $300,000.

The design for the improvement and

double laning of Gaillard Highway is being done by Robert & Company Associates of Atlanta, Ga., who recently laid out, designed, and supervised the construction of a system of throughways for Atlanta. This firm will also prepare the

specifications for the project.

Their services were obtained under a contract negotiated last month because

the design force of the Engineering Division, which customarily handles work of

this nature, was so loaded with other urgent work that they could not complete the design in time to allow the

Gaillard Highway work to be started by

the beginning of the dry season. Start In Dry Season

The design of modernized and widened

Gaillard Highway is to be completed Oct- ober 20. The project will then be advertised and the contract awarded to the

successful bidder so that wotk can begin

early in the dry season. Gaillard Highway, as modernized, will have two 22-foot roadways, divided by

a minimum four-foot median strip. The

road will be realigned in places but will follow, in general, its present location.

It will be surfaced with either asphaltic or Portland cement concrete. Plans for the modernization will also include traffic signals both for vehicular and pedestrian

traffic. One system of signals is to be lo- cated at the Gaillard High way-Frangipani

Street intersection. The surface of the new throughway

will be laid partly on the existing pave- ment after the necessary stabilization and

levelling have been completed, and partly on widened bases. The work involved in the widening and

improvement of Gaillard Highway will consist of the installation of sub-drainage,

relocation of some utilities, widening of some cuts and fills, stabilization of exist- ing pavement slabs, application of surface

levelling sources, revision of surface drainage, and widening of the bridges and cul- verts which the highway (See page 2)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

Maintenance And Paint Program Gives

Canal Zone A Bright And Shining Face

Migrant Moths Dot Zone Skies

On Annual Flight To Nowhere

Never before in the history of the Canal Zone has it appeared with such a bright face. While this is due partly to the demolition of several hundred old buildings and

their replacement by new quarters over

a period of the past five years, the im- provement in appearance is due largely

to an improved maintenance program for both quarters and public buildings.

During the past fiscal year more houses were repainted, inside and out and in many cases both, than in any year for the past quarter of a century. The

maintenance program for the past year

has also hcluded repainting of roofs, refinishing of woodwork, and washing of the exteriors of many trame houses. Much of the program was reported in the July issue of The Review.

This Year's Program

A large number of Canal buildings

which were not included in last fiscal year's Zone-wide painting program will be freshened and brightened this year. Probably the biggest single paint job

will be the painting of the Miraflores swingspan bridge. Other major jobs will include painting of the high school at Rainbow City, the water reservoirs at Gatun and Fort Gulick, and the superstructure of Pier 18 at Balboa. During the present fiscal year contracts will be awarded for about $250,000

worth of maintenance painting forPanama

Canal Company buildings. In addition, the painting of Canal Zone Government

buildings will amount to about $56,000.

This year's program will include slightly over $160,000 worth of painting for the Housing Division. This will cover the exteriors of 450 apartments, a barracks building, the roofs of 270 houses, the interiors of 440 apartments, 80 bachelor rooms, and more than 300 halls and stairways.

Interior painting is done throughout

the year; exterior and roof painting is concentrated as much as possible in the second and third quarters of the fiscal year in order to take advantage of dry

season weather. Consolidated Contract

Late last month forces of the Engineering Division, which is responsible for the annual inspection of all Canal buildings, were grouping the painting needs and requests of the various departments

and divisions preparatory to taking bids on the major part of the year's exterior painting requests under one advertisement. This work, which is to be subdivided

into contract schedules so that contractors may bid on all or part of the work, is to be advertised late this month. Bids are to be opened in October and the contracts awarded as soon as possible so that

the successful bidder or bidders can

order supplies, recruit workers, and start work at the beginning of the dry season. Not included in this large contract are the so-called "short form bids" which

are used for small contracts under $2,000,

generally on such jobs as the interior painting of a few sets of quarters. The major advantage of these short form bids is that they can be advertised and awarded quickly and the interior painting done while quarters are vacant. Also not included in the consolidated

contract is a plan to clean the exteriors

WINGED WANDERER. This is Cydimon fulgens, a migrating moth. Where it comes from, where it goes, and why.no one knows, although the moth is not new. The photograph was taken by Robert F. Roche.

Moths were migrating again last month, more of them than for the past

several years. In mid-August Dr. James E. Zetek,

entomologist and local research specialist for the Smithsonian Institution, described

the annual flight of Cydimon fulgens as "exceptionally heavy and still increasing."

Reports of the flight of the moths,

whose dark wings are banded with a

gilded green, began to come to Dr. Zetek

about August 1, he said. As usual, more

moths flew in the early morning and

during the brief Isthmian twilight than

at other hours.

of concrete quarters such as those on the Prado and Barneby Street in Balboa. For some time, Maintenance Division

forces have tried to find some reasonably

economical method of cleaning concrete

exteriors. They have experimented with

wire brushes, chemicals, cement washes, water cement paints, and just plain soap and water. Major problems in concrete

exteriors are mildew and removal of the

bluish-green stains which are the result of corrosion of the copper screening adjacent

to the concrete. During the past fiscal year a large

number of frame quarters—which do not

present the problems of concrete quarters—were washed successfully. By the end of the fiscal year Maintenance Division workmen had scrubbed the exteriors

of 113 buildings contahing 172 apartments, at an average cost of less than $31 per building or $21 per family unit. During the past fiscal year in addition

the Canal organization carried out the

largest single painting program in many

years. Ninety-three public buildings got

fresh outside paint jobs and seven had

their interiors repainted. The exteriors

of 578 sets of quarters and the interiors

of 1,117 sets of family and bachelor

quarters were spruced up with new coats

of paint.

Members of the Engineering and Construction Bureau staff are especially

proud of the fact that all of the painting

and maintenance during the past fiscal year has been done within the funds which had been budgeted "for the previ- ous lower standards of maintenance," as they put it. Work was done in fiscal year

1955 with fiscal year 1955 money which was not scheduled until fiscal year 1957.

This year the moth casualty rate was

high; the center line of most main Canal Zone highways was littered with little winged creatures which had blundered

blindly against the windshields or sides

of passing cars. (One Administration

Building worker reported driving behind

a woman who was unsuccessfully trying

to maneuver her car to avoid striking the moths!)

Although the moths do not seem to be

prey for birds as long as they are in

flight, they become bird food as soon as they fall or are knocked to the ground.

Along Diablo Road last month, grackles

made constant sorties onto the highway

to grasp a delectable mouthful of moth.

Cydimon fulgens, commonly called Urania fulgens, is nothing new in these

parts. Its annual flights have been noted

since 1917, at least, but little more is known of the moths now than was then. They are found from Mexico to Ecuador and their migrant flight, pellmell and

with no known purpose, is always in the same direction, roughly from west to

east. They commonly fly only a few

feet from the ground but when they

reach large obstacles like heavily wooded

Barro Colorado Island or the Administration Building they go up and over

rather than around. For many years scientists thought

that the moths did not eat during their migration but in recent years several

local residents have reported seeing the moths feeding. But Dr. Zetek doubts

one of this year's reports—that the migrants had stung and ruined a crop of

fine mangoes at John O. Collins' finca at Vacamonte. "Cydimon fulgens couldn't sting if it wanted to," he says.

Gaillard Highway To Be Rebuilt

(Continued from page 1) crosses in the

section which is about two miles long. Similar methods for reconstruction and

widening are used by highway depart- ments in the United States; these cost

less than total replacement and still pro- vide adequate traffic capacity with reasonable maintenance.

Until Gaillard Highway was constructed on its present route, the road

which linked Diablo Crossing to Ancon

ran through what is now Albrook Air Force Base. In 1932 the road was relo- cated because of the construction of Al- brook Field. The relocated section was

built by the United States Army under

contract and turned over to The Panama

Canal to replace the old highway between

Ancon and Diablo crossing. This original relocation was a reinforced concrete road

18 feet wide. It has been widened and

repaved several times since 1932. In 1951 traffic studies of the section of Gaillard Highway betv\eei Tivoli and

Diablo crossings showed that 10,500 vehicles passed over that section daily; the hourly peak was 1,445 vehicles. Last year

further studies showed that the daily

traffic was approximately 12,000 vehicles.
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Effective Dates Of New Treaty Provisions

ONE of the principal provisions of the new treaty is for the construction of a

bridge across the Canal to provide a permanent crossing for vehicular traffic between points in the Republic of Panama. It is tentatively estimated that such a bridge will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000,000. The type of bridge and its location are still to be determined. Among the possible sites is one near

the present Thatcher Ferry Crossing. The picture above is an architect's conception of how a cantilever bridge would look at that particular site. While

not in true perspective with the surrounding landscape, this bridge as sketched

would have a clearance of more than 200 feet above the Canal channel; the three main spans would be 2,000 feet in length; and the center span, crossing the channel, would have a 1,000 foot clearance for ship traffic. A tremendous task in engineering and design is required before the adoption of any final plan for a

bridge across the Canal. An appropriation by Congress will be required before the design or construction is begun. When funds for surveys and design are appropriated, the entire area from Miraflores to La Boca will be investigated thoroughly in the selection of the final location of the bridge.

Ratifications of the New Treaty of Mutual Understanding

and Cooperation between the United States and the Republic

of Panama were exchanged in Washington August 23 by

representatives of the two nations. The exchange of ratifica- tions concluded almost two years of formal negotiations

between the two countries. Negotiations on the treaty were begun in Washington in September, 1953. The new treaty was signed by President Ricardo Arias E. for Panama and Ambassador Selden Chapin

for the United States in Panama City on January 25, 1955. The National Assembly of Panama ratified the new treaty on March 9, 1955. The treaty was ratified by the Senate of the United States on July 29, 1955. Below, The Panama Canal Review presents for the convenience of its readers and for reference purposes, the time

table of the dates on which the various treaty and memorandum

undertakings become effective. The undertakings appearing below are those which concern

the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government,

their operations and their employees. The undertakings which

affect other U. S. agencies exclusively are not included.

UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE WITH THE EXCHANGE OF

RATIFICATIONS.

Renunciation by the United States of its monopolies respect- ing trans-Isthmian railroads and highways.

Abrogation of the 1903 treaty provisions which authorized

the United States to prescribe sanitary ordinances for Panama

and Colon. Abrogation of the obsolete provision of the 1914 Boundary

Convention respecting the free landing of small vessels at the

wall constructed by the Panama Railroad in Colon Harbor. The automatic transfer to the Government of Panama of the landing pier situated in a small cove on the southerly side of Manzanillo Island. The waiver by Panama of the right to free railway trans- portation for its employees and National Guard force. Undertaking by the United States to afford equality of opportunity to Panamanians in all U. S. Government positions

in the Canal Zone for which they are qualified and in which the employment of United States citizens is not required for security reasons. The United States will also evaluate,

classify, and title all positions in the Canal Zone without

regard to the nationality of the incumbent or proposed incumbent; and will afford Panamanians the opportunity to participate in training programs conducted for their employees by

United States agencies in the Canal Zone. Exemption by the United States from the provisions of the Buy American Act of articles and supplies that are mined,

produced, or manufactured in Panama when such articles and

supplies are purchased for use in the Canal Zone. Establishment of a policy for agencies of the Panama Canal

Company, in making purchases of supplies, materials, and

equipment, whereby the economy of Panama will have full opportunity to compete for such business so far as is permitted

under U. S. legislation.

Establishment of a practice under which merchandise to be

resold in Canal Zone sales stores will be acquired either from

United States or Panamanian sources unless, in certain in- stances, it is not feasible to do so. Reduction by Panama of 75 percent in the import duty on

alcoholic beverages sold in Panama for importation into the Canal Zone. The increase in the Canal annuity from $430,000 to $1,930,- 000; this begins with the first annuity payment after the exchange of ratifications.

II UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE ON SPECIFICALLY PRESCRIBED DATES.

For taxable year beginning on or after January i , 1956 : Taxation by Panama of certain persons in the service of the Canal, the railroad, or auxiliary works, including non-U. S. citizens residing in the Republic and Panamanians wherever

resident. December 31, 1956

Exclusion from Canal Zone purchase and importation privileges of heretofore eligible persons, other than citizens of the United States and members of the Armed Forces, who do not

reside in the Canal Zone. Authorization to Panama to impose import duties and other charges on goods destined for or consigned to persons other than citizens of the United State who are employed by agencies

of the United States but reside in Panama.

Withdrawal by the United States of sales to ships, except

for sales to ships operated by the United States and except for the sales of fuel and lubricants and sales incidental to ship

repair operations.

Withdrawal by the United States from non-U. S. citizen employees who do not reside in the Canal Zone of services

offered in the Canal Zone, except those which (See page is)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

Contractors Hill Profile—

*.-..PR0.<JE<K13 m

THE PLACE—the narrowest stretch of the Canal

THE CRACK-a threat to the precipitous hill

THE PLAN—a series of terraced setbacks

The Contractors Hill project, except

for some minor clean-up work and the removal of machinery and temporary

structures, last month became a part of the Panama Canal history. Because of the potential danger from

the rock fissure which ran across the rocky mass parallel to the Canal channel,

the project attracted worldwide attention, particularly during the early phases.

The contract for the work was awarded

May 25, 1954, to the Tecon Corporation

of Dallas, Tex. While the original contract called for the removal of 1,700,000 cubic yards of rock and 150,000 of Cucaracha formation, this was later extended

and the total excavated up to the end of August was approximately 1,820,000 cubic yards of rock and 605,000 cubic- yards of Cucaracha, or shale. In addition to the principal contract

for the removal of a big part of Contractors Hill, the Tecon agreement was

extended early this year for the removal

of 250,000 cubic yards of Cucaracha from

Project 13. This project has been in progress on a intermittent basis for about

20 years. It provides for the widening

of Culebra Reach to a bottom depth of 500 feet. Under the supplemental agreement,

the Tecon Corporation removed all of the remaining Cucaracha formation near the water level. While a two-month extension was granted because of this work,

the entire project was practically completed by the end of the original timelimit of the contract. Except for the contracts awarded for the Third Locks project, the Contractors

Hill work, officially designated as Project

13-A, was the largest ever awarded in the history of the Canal. The total excavation nearly equalled that required

in the construction of Miraflores Locks. Tecon subcontracted with the local firm of Bildon, Inc., for the construction

of a drainage tunnel, five by nine feet, from the Canal side of the hill to intersect with the rock fissure, and the removal of the bronze tablet on the face of Contractors Hill erected to the memory of Col. David DuBose Gaillard. This subcontract was completed in July and August

of last year. Machine Job

Most of the equipment required on the

job was brought new by the Tecon

Corporation and arrived in July 1954. Excavation work was begun in August of

last year and for a period of about six weeks one ten-hour shift a day was used. A second shift was added in the middle

of September and the excavation was

continued on this basis until early last month when one shift was discontinued. The excavation reached its height during the last dry season; during the latter par t of the work an average of alojt

8,000 cubic yards of material was being

handled daily. The highest one-day

record was sat on May 20, 1955, when

10,070 cubic yards of rock were removed.

The Contractors Hill work was largely a machine job because of the nature of the job and the limited area involved. The maximum force employed by the contracting firm was 84 employees in skilled and supervisory work, and 73 in semiskilled and unskilled work; this was

last June.

In addition to these, the Canal organ-
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Before And After Tecon

ization had a maximum force of 13 men

engaged on inspection and project management. By the end of last month the

contractor's force had been cut to less than 50 skilled and about 30 unskilled workers, while the number of Canal

employees assigned to the job had been

reduced to six. Most of the Canal employees were

transferred from other units to Project

13-A and in most instances they have

returned to their former positions.

The principal items of equipment used on the job included three 2

1 2 -yd. shovels, 15 large trucks, four bulldozers, two wagon drills, and two rotary drills. Precision Blasting

One of the principal aspects of the Contractors Hill project was the necessity

of blasting and removing the rocky mass

without creating a hazard for Canal

traffic or interfering with the movement

of vessels. This was accomplished by

precision drilling and blasting procedure.

The strict safety measures adopted at the outset of the work resulted in no

interference to Canal traffic. The number of accidents to personnel on the job was remarkably low for a project of that nature and only one serious injury was

reported in the 15-month period. One

workman was gravely injured by a falling rock boulder. With the conclusion of the Contractors

Hill work, the town of Pedro Miguel will become practically deserted. The townsite had been slated for abandonment

before the work was started but a numbei

of family and bachelor quarters were made

available to the contractor's force. Deserted Village

The maximum number of quarters in use by these employees was last March

when 26 family quarters and nine bachelors apartments were occupied. This

number has now been reduced to 16

families and nine bachelors. When the quarters are vacated, all buildings in Pedro Miguel, with the exception of some

12-apartment buildings erected during

World War II, are to be demolished.

Most of the public services at Pedro

Miguel were discontinued several months

ago. After the closing of the commissary

last March the building was occupied by

the Service Center Division which oper- ated a luncheonette and carried a few

food items, household necessities, and

sundries. This was closed at the end

of August.

Clean-Up Work

The clean-up work remaining to be done at Contractors Hill includes chiefly the removal of a relatively small amount

of rock along the Canal banks which

fell during blasting operations, and the removal of an access road on the slope of Project 13. Several temporary buildings

used by the Canal and contracting forces

will be demolished and removed.

The clean-up work will involve the removal of material at the opening of the drainage tunnel, but no further work on

this is planned. It was sunk into the

hill to the fissure to permit drainage of surface water and reduce the hydrostatic

pressure. The Gaillard plaque was stored when

it was removed from the face of Contractors Hill. This is to be reerected at some suitable site after the completion

of all work.

THE JOB—men and machines at work in Augusi 1954

THE TERRACES—as seen from the opposite bank last June

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THE PROFILE—looking toward the Pacific in August 1955
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

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Not too long ago there was a rumor

going around to the effect that our

safety record wasn't exactly all that could be desired and that we would be expected to make a sincere effort to improve it in the not too distant future. The talk is still going on and it is no

longer a rumor. There really is no good reason why our

accident rate should be as high as it is.

It is true that we have come a long way

in the past few years, and we are gradually cutting it lower and lower. We've

had some pretty good records at times

and some pretty bad ones at others. Safety isn't something we can practice

for a while and then drop when everything is going smoothly. It's like the motors on an airplane. As long as

they're running smoothly everything is

fine. But just because everything is running smoothly, the pilot doesn't shut

off the motors and expect the plane to keep on going. It just won't. A foreman, too, could get by with letting safety violations slip past now and

then. From time to time he could over- look a chance-taking among his men, and

odds are good nothing would come of it—

for a while. Sooner or later someone's HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

JULY

COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

HEALTH BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Supply 3 Community Services 3 Health 3 Engineering and Construction 2 Transportation and Terminals 1 Civil Affairs 1 Marine

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

JULY

COMMISSARY DIVISION

HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

SERVICE CENTER DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATIONiDIVISION

RAILROAD DIVISION

HOUSING DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 6 Housing 6 Maintenance 6 Sanitation 6 Motor Transportation 5 Railroad 5

Electrical 4 Grounds Maintenance 4 Industrial 4 Service Center 4 Storehouses 4 Commissary 3 Dredging 3 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Locks 1 Terminals 1 Navigation

going to get hurt. Glance down at the graph a moment

and notice the two bureaus at the top. Notice that their frequency rates are

zero. They both were also right there the month before. It can only mean one

thing. They got their motors running

smoothly and they're keeping them running. They're proud of their record,

and rightly so. It reflects the sincere

interest shown by supervisors and workers

in those bureaus in the promotion of safe working conditions, safe practices, and

safe attitudes. They realize that SAFETY

and Work, SAFETY and Play, SAFETY

and just Whatever-It-Is one is doing,

belong together just as naturally as HAM and EGGS. They've made an

excellent start toward a fine safety record

for their bureaus for the coming fiscal year, and they've set a good example for the rest of us to follow. Let's make

every effort to stay as close to them as

possible.

How are we going to do it? Well,

first let's stop worrying about who has

the most hazardous job and who has the

least hazardous one. Consider your own

job. Maybe it is dangerous. Does

everyone who works at it get hurt? Remember, there is a cause, a reason for every accident. They just don't happen.

If the causes for accidents could all be removed there wouldn't be any accidents. One of the jobs of your safety man is to look for these causes and see that neces- sary action is taken to remove them

before an accident occurs. However, he

is not superhuman. He can't be expected

to foresee everything.

When an accident does occur it is his job to help the foreman discover the

cause so that it may be eliminated in order to prevent the same thing from

happening again. You also have a

responsibility to assist your foreman and

safety man in every way possible by

calling their attention to unsafe practices

and unsafe conditions which you, be- cause of your knowledge of your job

and conditions, may be more aware of than they.

Actually the formula for accident prevention is quite simple. Consider its application to your particular line of work

as you look it over.

1. If a hazardous condition exists, remove it if possible.

2. If you can't remove the hazard, cover it up to protect the workman.

3. If it is impractical to cover it up, then protect the worker with the appropriate safety apparel.

Remember, there's nothing "sissy"

about wearing safety apparel when it is needed. Ask any of the fellows with one

foot, eye, or hand missing how they feel about it. They'll tell you. Unfortunately we seldom hear of the

cases where hard hats have saved men

from serious injury and even saved their

lives; of the numerous cases of fellows who still have two eyes, only because they

had on their safety goggles when a flying

piece of steel or concrete hit and frac- tured the safety glass lens; of the many

instances where industrial trucks have

run over a man's foot, heavy timbers

and heavy iron bars have fallen on their

feet and because the men were wearing

safety shoes they thought little or nothing of the incident. Perhaps we should mention in detail when and where and

to whom these incidents occur. Whenever you know of one, see that your

safety man hears of it. Even though no

one is injured, the incident must be regarded as an accident, and steps taken

to try to prevent its recurrence.

JULY 1955

Community Services Bureau

Health Bureau

Supply Bureau

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

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Civil Affairs Bureau

Marine Bureau

C. Z. Govt.-Panama Canal Co. I Last 3-Year Av. i

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries... .17

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

(Frequency Rate)

10 20 30 40 5(

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1

1

1 ±±±J

1 m3 1

8

8

10

12

12

13

1 20 30 40 50

Man-Hours Worked 2,202,192 LEGEND

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

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

Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President H. W. Schull, Jr. Lieutenant Governor William G. Arey, Jr. Public Information Officer

J. Rufits Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Assistant Editor

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Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

Retires

RANDALL H. FORD, above, has never known much of any other home but the Canal Zone; he came to the Isthmus when he was only seven years

old. Last month he retired after a little over 37

years with the Canal organization and will make his home in Florida. He was one of two Motor Transportation Division oldtimers retiring in August. The other was Michael

I. Crooks, Supervisor of Motor Transportation who

had 33 years and six months service. The Crooks

will live in California. Both Ford and Crooks

families sailed on the Panama Line August 20. Mr. Ford was the son of Walter G. Ford, a Panama

Railroad engineer. The familv came to the Canal Zone in 1907. Mr. Ford's first job, in 1916, was a chauffeur. He

later served an apprenticeship as an automobile mechanic and all of his service, w'.iich was continuous

except for military service in World War I, had to do

with motor vehicles. He also served for several years as a member of the Efficiency Rating Board

of Review.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

Off To Washington

TWO JUNIOR management interns, William S. Wigg, right, and Joseph M. Watson, left, were

briefed by Daniel J. Paolucei, Training Officer, last month after they were appointed to attend the

five-and-a-half month training program in Washington. Fifty-one selected Federal employees will attend the program which begins next week and continues until late in January. Mr. Wigg left last Saturday by Panama Line enroute to Washington and Mr. Watson is leaving by plane next Tuesday. Mr. Wigg, Supervisory Administrative Assistant of the Administrative Branch, made the highest

score in the qualifying examinations of any competing employee in the Federal service, the first time

a Canal employee has set such a record. Mr. Watson, Administrative Assistant in the Cristobal

offices of the Maintenance Division, is the only native Virgin Islander on the Canal rolls. His father worked for the All America Cable Company in St. Thomas, and Joseph Watson grew up in the Islands.

A total of 263 bonded employees of the Canal Zone Government who have been

paying the premium for their own fidelity bonds will benefit from legislation enacted

just before the adjournment of Congress

this year. Under the new law, the Canal Zone Government will pay the cost of the bonding,

a total of $480 per year. Bond premiums

for bonded employees of the Panama Canal Company have been covered by the Company for some time.

Canal Zone Junior College students should be interested to know that their College Drama group is listed in the August

issue of the Theatre Arts Magazine together with other schools of the theatre and community theatres all over the United States and possessions.

Questions most frequently asked by visi- tors to the Canal Zone or by Zonians themselves about the waterway and its traffic, general features of the Canal Zone, and

highlights of Isthmian history are answered

in a handsome new pamphlet prepared by

the Panama Canal Information Office. The 16-page booklet, illustrated with

photographs, charts, and diagrams, is a completely rewritten and revised version of the old general information pamphlet. It is entitled The Panama Canal—Funnel for World Commerce.

Individual copies may be obtained with- out charge from the Administrative Branch. A small amount will be charged when a re- quest is made for additional copies.

Two physicians joined the staff of Gorgas

Hospital during the past month. They are

Dr. John M. Kohl, Assistant Chief of the X-Ray Service, and Dr. Bernard Willett, Chief of the General Surgical Section. Dr. Kohl is a Major in the United States

Air Force and came to the Canal Zone from

Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, which was his last station. He was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Phil- adelphia. Dr. Willett is a native of Newton, Mass., and is a graduate of Brown University. He

took his medical degree in Boston College

and his internship at the Boston City Hospital. Before coming to the Isthmus, he was

with the Rosengard Clinic in South Boston.

A new type of crosswalk made its appear- ance last month on the Pacific side of the Canal Zone. Instead of being delineated by white lines, the crosswalks are indicated by large blocks of white painted on the surface of the street. Traffic engineers believe that crosswalks

of this type, extensively used in Europe, are more easily visible not only to the pedestrian but also to an approaching motorist. Three crosswalks of the new type have been located on the Pacific side. One is on

Diablo Road opposite Walker Avenue, one

on Roosevelt Road where students cross the street from the high school to the shop

and business buildings, and the third on

Gaillard Highway at Los Rios. A similar crosswalk has been installed on Randolph Road in Rainbow City.

A lively interest in the workings of the Panama Canal has always been taken by

the school children in the Republic of Pan- ama. During the past fiscal year approximately 1,000 students and teachers from Panama were taken on courtesy trips through Gaillard Cut aboard the Dredging

Division tugs San Pablo and Culebra. Most

of the students were from public schools in Panama City although there was one group

from the Felix Olivares School in David. Canal Zone students also made the partial Canal transit. Several prominent visitors to the Canal

Zone, among them \ ice President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of the Army,

Robert T. Stevens, made this trip last year aboard Dredging Division craft.

The first whaling fleet to transit the Canal made the northbound passage September 28, 1914.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

YOUR TOWN

i—.; - 'Onggy " !'j .."

RAINBOW CITY is the largest of the Canal communities. Its newest section is in the foreground; some of the school buildings and part

of the older section of the town appear in the upper left. Camp Coiner is located across Randolph Road to the left, out of camera range.

A passenger on an Atlantic side busone of the Dragnet Line, for instance

never gives his Destination simply as Rainbow City. That would be like telling a taxi driver in New York that you'd like to be taken to the East Side or a Boston

chauffeur thatyou want to go to Back Bay.

Rainbow City, bisected by Randolph

Road, is spread out over such an area

that a bus passenger has to be pretty

specific about where he wants to go: The Cantonment, Camp Coiner, the new

town, or the Market.

To many Isthmians, Rainbow City

is the cluster of 91 almost new masonry

houses between the Folks River estuary

and the cluster of two-story wooden

houses which used to be known as Silver City Heights.

Actually, Rainbow City includes both

these sections and the areas known until 1952 as Silver City and Camp Coiner. Few of Rainbow City's buildings are more than 30 years or so old, but its general location has been a housing area

since French Canal days. Old maps

show a little settlement called Guava

Ridge about where the newer section of Rainbow City stands today. The main

areas for the "native" housing, however, were further north. Fox River, Camp Bierd

When the American canal builders arrived early in the twentieth century

they found two main groups of houses in this area. One group was at Folks River

(referred to until about 1915 as "Fox"

River) and the other was on the shore of Limon Bay, overlooking Telfer's Island where quantities of French equipment

had been abandoned. The first of these settlements eventually became the fore- runner of Rainbow City; the latter is now known as Camp Bierd. The Fox River settlement was apparently the. older and larger of the two.

It lay in the line of a sewerage layout and

•uses had to be moved about 1906. At this time there are references in old

files to "small portable houses put up by

the French and in bad condition" and

to "24 main buildings in three rows"

between the railroad shops and the main

line. Chief Engineer John F. Stevens had

them moved onto newly filled ground so

close to the border that the street on which

they faced was in Panamanian territory.

The quarters at Camp Bierd—which

undoubtedly got its name from W. G.

Bierd, an early Superintendent of the Panama Railroad -included a few houses

for families but most of the Camp Bierd

buildings were barracks for dock workers;

these were not the big structures which

barracks are today but one-story buildings, each housing 25 men. The messhouse at this time was an old "magazine"

which had been used as storehouse for bricks. It later became a barracks in

its own right and finally combined housing functions with those of a furniture warehouse and storeroom.

It is hard to determine from old records how many people lived in each of these

I )( IN ALD E. BRUCE, Manager of the Rainbow ( Sty Commissary, and his cocker, Pudge, are inseparable.

two major settlements; the files show

merely that there were 2,439 men, women, and children in "silver" quarters

in the Cristobal District in 1907, and

that the school, with an enrollment of

166, was the largest colored school in the Canal Zone.Population Steady

The fact that Cristobal was already a major port and railroad center kept the population of the two settlements fairly

steady, as a majority of the men living there worked in the railroad shops, on

the docks, or construction. Consequently

neither Camp Bierd nor Fox River under- went the decrease of population or even

oblivion which occurred to many Canal towns as construction days ended. Soon after the Canal was opened, a survey was started to determine housing

needs all through the Canal Zone. The

answer, as far as the Atlantic side was

concerned, indicated an urgent need for more quarters, fast. This was 1915. The population of Fox River was 932 and that of Camp

Bierd, 1,818. The Camp Bieid barracks were filled beyond their capacity and 500 apartments were needed for married employees in the two sections. The Canal's Quartermaster Department began plans

for a new "silver town." Noah's Ark

To help out the acute situation the Canal took over fiom a private owner a huge structure of 140 rooms which was known to Atlantic siders as Noah's Ark

or the Long Building. For a while it housed families, then it became bachelor

quarters and finally it housed both. When the Ark was finally torn down in 1928, new houses had to be found for its 48 family and 66 bachelor occupants.

According to D'Elman Clark, who has been with the Cristobal housing office since 1920, the Long Building stood just

about at the north end of the present

Motor Transportation Division Corral. Later this location was used as a terminal

for Isthmian Airways and for PAA's

amphibian flights. A fill south and east of the corral was

selected as the best site for the new town
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

RAINBOW CITY to house the Folks River and Camp

Bierd families. Thirty-nine 12-family houses and ten 32-room bachelor barracks were built between 1919 and 1921 on the

fill which was packed hard with dirt exca- vated by the Army during the construction of Fort Davis.

Silver City For some time neither town nor streets were_named. The settlement was refer- red to in Canal files as silver town and

Silver Town. Eventually its residents took matters into their own hands and

called it Silver City. The same thing

happened with the streets, which at

first were numbered or lettered. It was

not long before there was an Alligator Street—now St. Kitts— and a Wall

Street where the more affluent Silver Citonians lived. Wall Street is now

known as Jamaica Street. Silver City continued to grow and in 1933 it got its first suburb: Silver City

Heights. The difference in altitude of the two sections is barely perceptible

and the name was of local coinage.

Vinesa Mundly, a Motor Transportation

Division chauffeur who has worked for the Canal organization since 1914, says: "It was a pleasant name and it worried no one." Most of the buildings in Silver City

Heights, designed primarily to accom- modate the families still living at Camp

Bierd, were two-story 12-family quarters; a good many of them are still standing.

Some are in bad condition and are about

ready for Chain Singh or some other

building buyer; but some, of composite

construction and built three years later, sport new coats of paint and are quite

presentable.

Fire Refugees

Silver City had barely adjusted to the

status of a town with a suburb when it had an unexpected influx of people. On

the night of April 15, 1940, flames swept

through the heart of Colon, driving

hundreds of families from their homes.

Many of them were Canal employees.

Within a few days 100 tents had gone up in rows just south of the comparatively

CAMP BIERD, where there i9 now only a house

the bustling town shown in this old picture. The

or two and a cluster of bachelor barracks, was once men in the foreground are lined up at the messhall. new Silver City Heights houses to shelter the refugees and within a few months 36 cantonment-type quarters which still stand provided more permanent shelter. At first each house had 12 apartments.

Not long ago they were remodeled and

today four or six families live in each of the long low buildings.

The war years brought another population increase. Most of this, however, was due to the importation of contract

laborers to work on the docks and the bulk of these were housed in barracks

at Camp Bierd. Today most of Camp

Bierd's wartime buildings have been

torn down. William Jump, of the

Industrial Division, lives with his family

in the remodeled Camp Bierd labor office which stands alone in a section where

thousands of men once milled around; Camp Bierd bachelors live in a cluster of onetime Navy barracks which they call Vatican City.

Like other Canal towns, Silver City

had its civil defense, lived with blackouts

SCHOOL PRINCIPALS William Wilkie, left, of the Rainbow City elementary school, and Owen B.

Shirley of the Rainbow City Junior and Senior High Schools, are responsible for over 1,650 students.

and under wartime restrictions. Still standing today is the town's old bomb

shelter, which now houses the Camera

Club and some of the activities of the

schools' physical education director. Just

across Randolph Road was Camp Coiner, an Army Engineer camp where, one

former Engineer employee says, "men

and machines nested together and the men fought the ever-present sandflies." After the end of the war Silver City got

its second suburb when Camp Coiner was transferred to the Canal. None of the Army buildings remain but some of today's houses stand on old Army

foundations. Later the first "experimental housing" for local rate workers was built in Camp Coiner. Like A Rainbow

The last expansion of the town took

place about three years ago when 182 apartments, all in two-family houses, were built just about a mango-throw

from the Folks River estuary. The

houses were, and still are, painted in attractive pastel shades. The name of Rainbow City, which the residents themselves chose in a poll, sponsored by

The Panama Canal Review, was a

natural. The color scheme is still being

followed. The new sewage disposal plant

just opened in Rainbow City, is a cheerful

pale green. The first families, among them the handful still remaining in Camp Bierd,

moved into the new Rainbow City quarters in December 1951. Honor of being

the new section's senior resident goes to Victor Pinta who moved into his quarters the day after Christmas that year. Rainbow City, including all of its suburbs, is the largest of the Canal

towns. Its population, according to last November's census, is 4,845, and 55

percent of them are children. There

are more children living in Rainbow City

than the combined populations— adult and small fry—of Margarita and New

Cristobal, and the Rainbow City Junior

High School and the town's elementary

school are the largest of the Latin- American school system.

Today Rainbow City has just about

the same facilities as (See page w)
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

Your Town—Rainbow Cily

(Continuedfrom page 9) any Canal town,

although its residents receive their mail

at Cristobal. Its housewives have a choice of shopping at the big concrete commissary, built in 1930, near the Mount Hope stadium, at the Camp

Bierd Commissary which was opened in 1942 when Camp Bierd was not the deserted village it is today, or at Rainbow

City's own little market where a dozen or so vendors sell bananas and plantains

and such foodstuffs.

Its people have a wide choice of churches. There are seven in Rainbow

City and a Church of God and an Episcopal rectory are being built. For recreation they have, in Rainbow

City proper, a handsome swimming pool

JOHN C. WALLACE

Manager, Camp Bierd Commissary

with a luncheonette handily nearby and'

at Camp Bierd Service Center, one of the

largest movie halls in the Canal Zone. There is a Lodge Hall where the

Foresters and other fraternal organizations meet, in one of the few remaining

Silver City buildings, and the Inter- national Boy Scouts have a clubhouse of

their own. Offices of the Cristobal Chapter of the CIO local and the Cris- tobal Federal Credit Union are near the Camp Bierd Service Center. The people of Rainbow City are avid

ball fans; they have both big and little leagues. Their team, the Dark Millionaires, is this year's champion for the

Softball League and the Silver City

Heights youngsters won the pennant in Rainbow City's own Little League.

Joscelyn Evering is president of the Rainbow City Major Softball League;

the president of the Little League is Earle G. Moore.

Cricket is, of course, another favorite

sport. For the second time this year

the Surrey Cricket Club of Rainbow

City won the championship of the cricket

league, winning 32 out of 35 games. The Summer Recreation program which

keeps the young'uns occupied during

their school vacation, is carried out under

the leadership of volunteer workers. This year's program was one of the most

successful of any to date. Besides its fraternal bodies and its ball teams, Rainbow City has a number of other active organizations. There is the

Civic Council, whose current president

is J. J. Joseph. It meets regularly to discuss the town's problems and its representatives attend the monthly "shirt- sleeve conferences" with the Governor. One of Rainbow City's unique organCANAL ZONE CLERGY

CUTHBERT C. ROWE, Manager of Camp Bierd

Service Center and the Rainbow City Luncheonette.

izations is the Women's Industrial Club,

headed by Mrs. Ethlin Belgrave. There women who are experts in some line like cake-decorating, embroidery or dress- making, give lessons, without charge, in their specialties. Another women's group

is the Atlantic Army Mothers, of which

Mrs. James Chambers is president. As

the name implies, they are a home front

for the Rainbow City boys in the service. Rainbow City's people are proud of

their record of men in the armed forces. A larger number of young men from

Rainbow City served in Korea and the

first Isthmian to die there was Gilbert D.

Francis, a Rainbow City boy.

The people of Rainbow City are also great civic boosters. Listen to the Civic Council President: "We are proud of our improved and

modern classrooms, our swimming pool

and its luncheonette with a handy mail

box nearby. We hope someday to have

a large library in a building of its own

but in the meantime we are very pleased with the branch library in the high school. We'd like someday to have a movie

theater in our community proper. We

are proud of our gymnasium and our modern commissary. We like the idea that we named the town and, well, we

just like Rainbow City."

Increased Retirement Pay

Due With November Checks

Those retired employees of the Canal

organization whose retirement pay has been less than $4,104 a year will soon

receive larger monthly checks to help

them meet the present cost of living

which, in most cases, is much higher than

at the time they retired. The increased retirement annuity is the

result of legislation passed by Congress

before it adjourned. The bill was signed

by President Eisenhower last month.

It provides for an increase of 12 percent on all annuities up to $1,500 and an additional increase of 8 percent on the amount

of the annuity over $1,500. A retired employee who has been drawing $2,000

a year, for instance, will now receive $2,220—$180 for the 12 percent on

$1,500 and $40 for the $500 above $1,500.

No annuity may exceed $4,104 as a

result of the legislation and no increase may be larger than $360 a year. The

increased annuities are effective October

1 ; the increases will appear in the checks

sent out November 1. Widows who

receive annuities will also benefit.

The Rev. Herbert T. Bernthal, Pastor

of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Balboa, is a minister's son; he and his two

brothers followed their father's career. 9 He has been the Pastor of the Balboa

church since July 1950, but is leaving this month for a new appointment in Washington, D. C. Born in Serbin, Tex., he grew up in Sweet Springs, Mo. He took his pre- ministerial studies at St. Paul's College

in Concordia, Mo. and his theological

work at Concordia Theological Seminary

in St. Louis, graduating from the latter school in 1923. His last assignment, before coming

here, was in Milwaukee which the Bernthals still consider home. During World

THE REV. HERBERT T. BERNTHAL

War II, he served for a time as chaplain

at the Army Air Force Radio School in Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; after his separation

.

from the service he was placed in charge

of the big Lutheran Service Center—

a

USO—in St. Louis. The two assignments had a major

effect on his Canal Zone appointment: Mr. Bernthal was recommended to the

local congregation by the Armed Service Committee of the Lutheran Church.

In addition to heading the Balboa

congregation, Mr. Bernthal has conducted

weekly services at the Margarita gymnasium for Atlantic Siders. Both he and his wife have enjoyed their stay here and leave the Canal Zone with

considerable regret. But the new post

presents a challenge he cannot overlook, he says. In addition, the Bernthals will be somewhat nearer to their two sons and

two daughters, all of whom are now living

in the United States. Going! Going!

Household furniture, meaning anything

from a wastebasket to a bedroom set, will be auctioned off September 10 by the Supply Bureau. The auction will be held

in Building 42 at Section I on Diablo

Road and will be open to the public from

9 a. m. on. Richard W. Chesson, ordinarily a

police officer, will be the day's auctioneer

for the furniture which was turned over

to the Storehouses by the Housing Division for sale. The items to be auctioned

may be inspected at Section I between

7 a. m. and 4 p. m. after Sept. 7.
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Veterans Preference

Regulations Outlined

Company-Government employees who

have entered the armed forces for the

first time since July 1, or who enter the

military service in the future will have

the status of peace-time veterans. Th?y will have job-restoration rights

but they will not be accorded veterans

preference for reduction in force or adverse personnel actions such as demotions,

etc., nor will they have appeal rights

except under special conditions. These points were clarified in information received by the Panama Canal

Company from the Veterans Counseling

Service of the Civil Service Commission.

The Commission reported that indivi- duals entering the armed services after July 1, 1955, will be entitled to be returned

to the jobs they left when they entered

the service. This provision was made in the bill in which Congress extended

Selective Service to July 1, 1959. Those entering the service for the first time after July 1, 1955, however, will not

be allowed the veterans preference for reduction in force, etc., unless they serve

in a campaign or an expedition for which

a campaign badge is authorized or unless they establish the "present existence of a

service-connected disability."

They will also have no appeal rights

under section 14 (which covers adverse

personnel actions of the Veterans Prefer- ence Act) unless they attain such prefer- ence from a campaign or expedition

referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Border Marker

Zone Youngsters Have Competition;

Grownups Learning To Read, Too

IF you stood facing this marker your right foot would be in the Canal Zone and your left in the Republic of Panama. Boundary markers can be

seen in the curb along Fourth of July Avenue, but

few Isthmians have ever seen this marker, No. 66, on a hillside off Madden Road. It indicates the northern boundary of the Forest Preserve and the boundary between the Canal Zone and Panama.

Irp^ffr? \m Jfi \~T

CANAL EMPLOYEES who are learning to read—rapidly—are members of this class which is get- ting under way under the direction of Lloyd Murphy, far right. They were the first to take the new

course and, with the exception of Walter Lindsay, Chief of the Grounds Maintenance Division, are

all from the Personnel Bureau. Left to right are John H. Terry, Mrs. Marguerite Maphis, Mrs. Ruth S. Dunscombe, Mr. Lindsay, Mrs. Betty, Frank D. Naughton, W.' J. Kilgallen, Mrs. Marie B.

de la Guardia, Robert D. Kelly, and Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver, all Pacific siders.

Canal employees are now being taught

to read—rapidly, that is. Twice each week, volunteer groups of 10 or more employees are meeting in the Personnel Training Center on Roosevelt Avenue and are studying their reading

lessons as earnestly as elementary school

pupils.

The lessons, however, are not elementary. They follow a pattern worked out

in the States by the Harvard University Bureau of Study Control and involve the use of specially made films and the reading of a group of short essays selected to improve the student's reading and comprehension. These lessons have made

many of the students realize that they

have not changed their reading habits

since they left elementary school. Already Improved

Although the first group has completed

only half of the required course, a marked

improvement in the reading speed of all students has been noted. This improvement is in comparison to the results of the speed test the students were given when they started in the

class, a speed test which scored the rate of reading as well as comprehension. From

then on the program has been aimed at improving and speeding up reading rate and comprehension.

Basic material for the course consists of a series of 16-mm. films which show

illuminated printed phrases and parts of

lines in rapid succession. As the film progresses, the phrases are shown at an

increased rate of speed and at the end

each person checks his comprehension by

selecting the best answers to 10 multiple- choice questions.

Reading Score The second half of each lesson consists of the reading of a group of short essays selected to improve the reader's speed and comprehension.

The speed with which the student completes an essay and the grade he makes

on the quiz of the contents of the selection

is combined in a single figure called the Reading Score. An opportunity to improve this single

over-all reading score is given the students

in the subsequent lessons. According to Lloyd Murphy, Personnel Officer con- ducting the program, there has been a marked improvement in all cases. The program, which was started July

12 by the Training Office of the Personnel Bureau, is the first of its kind ever to be

offered in the Canal Zone. From results seen so far there is little doubt it will greatly improve the efficiency of the employee no matter what his job.

Most employees, it was pointed out by

the Training office, have to deal with memos and reports, and the habit of writing in a clear and readable fashion has been encouraged. This ability, however, is of little value unless the employee is also able to read and interpret

correctly the material given him.

Pilot Groups

The first two classes to take the course were pilot groups composed of employees

of the Personnel Bureau and a number of supervisory personnel from various bureaus and units of the Canal organization. In August a third group was organized

and is now meeting two days each week

for one-and-a-half hour sessions. The program will be a continuing one; according to present plans at least 30

groups of students will be organized and

trained within the next two years. Members of the first group taking the course are Mrs. Nina J. Coppenhaver,

Mrs. Marie de la Guardia, Mrs. Ruth H. Dunscombe, Mrs. Betty Hackett, Robert

D. Kelly, William J. Kilgallen, Walter R.

Lindsay, Mrs. Marguerite Maphis, Frank

Naughton, and John H. Terry.

The second group is composed of R. 0.

Theriault, Edwin C. Jones, William E. LeBrun, Theodore J. Wilber, John

Fisher, Herschel Candy, Russell T. Wise, Mrs. Dorothy Benny, Charles T. Jackson,

and Lee Kariger.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

Promotions In Police Division

NOW a Captain, Eugene S. Shipley heads the Cristobal Police District. NOW a Major, Rodger E. Griffith

is Chief of the Police Division. NOW a Lieutenant, Robert J. Hel- merichs is transferred to Cristobal.

Maintenance Division

Consolidation Planned

All Pacific side activities of the Maintenance Division are to be consolidated soon in one location in the Industrial Division area in Balboa. Remodeling of Buildings 8 and 10 in the Industrial area, into which Maintenance Division operations and offices will be moved; the move itself; and the demolition of all but two of the Maintenance Division buildings in the Ancon

and Corozo Street yards will be done by

contract. Specifications for this contract

are now being prepared and a request for bids will be advertised within the next few days.

According to present plans the transfer and consolidation will be completed

before the end of the calendar year. "We expect that this consolidation in one area will reduce our expenses and

make for a more workable organization,"

Frank H. Lerchen, Maintenance Engineer, told The Panama Canal Review.

"In addition, we will be closer to the storehouses and will not have to carry in our own shops such a large inventory of supplies as we have been doing."

Building 8, in the Industrial Division

area, will house all of the Maintenance

Division shops, such as painting, welding,

carpentry, etc., and the Division's main

office. This building was used as a sawmill by the former Mechanical Division. Building 10, which is now used as a

storehouse, will be taken over for the Maintenance Division's packing and

crating shop, storage, and heavy equipment for public works, Mr. Lerchen said. After the move, all buildings except one in the Corozo Street yard will be

demolished. The sole remaining build- ing will be that presently used as the main office. It will be transferred to the Personnel Division and will house operations of the Training Officer and of the Apprentice School. At the Ancon yard, only one building—the one-time office building now

being used by the Grounds Maintenance

Division—will remain after the transfer to the Industrial Division area.

CINDERELLA had glass slippers but she wasn't a whit more glamorous than the modern young miss who can have her dancing shoes made of gold and silver plastic. School

parties mean formal dresses and formal dresses mean party slippers. The Commissaries later this month will place on sale a supply of dainty dancing sandals which should be as comfortable and durable

as they are beautiful. One model, with a

flat pancake heel, is a strip sandal, meaning

there is hardly anything to it. It was meant,

however, for iong hours of dancing and best

of all it will not tarnish. Other models have

the low graceful French heel so popular this year and come in gold as well as silver. They

are made by Hannahson's and are only

$6.95.

For those who do a lot of walking (and

who doesn't at some time or another),

the Commissary has ordered a

Soft shipment of Vinier "Whisper

Stepping Steps" made of soft glove leather with a so-called chrome split sole. They have flat heels, of course, and look as though they were the closest things to bed- room slippers we have found—in comfort

that is. Colors are solid yellow, red, and a good-looking shade of beige.

While we are on the subject of shoes, it might as well be mentioned that the shoe

sections will soon have a stock of white "sweater pumps" with a closed heel and

toe. They also come in red and the new

shade of avocado and have low slim heels

as well as the two-inch variety so popular

with the short gals.

EVERY WELL-DRESSED female, whether

she be teenage or grandmother, likes to wear

something she saw advertised in one of the women's magazines. The Commissary Division has been fortunate to receive a large

shipment of nationally advertised summer

cottons designed by such well-known firms- as Jonathan Logan, Teena Paige, Henry Rosenfeld, and Kay Windsor. The line includes

junior miss sizes from 7 to 1 5 and also misses'

sizes from 8 to 20. Most of them have glamour enough for movie dates or even for informal cocktail parties. Naturally they

are all washable and the prices are right for most pocketbooks.

These, and a small shipment of more formal

cotton cocktail dresses by Marjae of Miami,

will be on sale at the end of September. The cocktail dresses will be sold only in Balboa.

It may be hard to believe, with summer vacation just coming to a close, that Christmas

isn't too far ahead. Now is the Looking time, the Commissary people lay, Ahead to buy Christmas cards and what

could be better than the unusual

cards prepared for the holiday season by the members of the Canal Zone Branch of the National League of American Penwomen.

These cards, which are now being placed on

sale in all the Commissary retail stores, in- clude 16 different designs. Most of them are woodcuts or free-hand drawings of local scenes or have designs

with a tropical motif which should go over

big with the folks back home. Extra cards can be ordered through the Commissary if a

certain type is out of stock at the moment.

Prices will range from 1 5 to 25 cents per card.

WOOD PULP has been used for a lot of

things but never for flowers, so far as we know.

Recently, however, the Commissary got a

small shipment of wood-pulp corsages —with

earrings to match which appear natural enough to be the real thing. Better even

than that, they seem to have noncrushable, nonwiltable qualities which are lacking in other types of dress posies. They are made

in California and each corsage comes in its own private plastic bandbox.

For the fall bride on your list the Commissary

Division suggests that a survey be made of the stock of electrical kitchen Blenders for appliances now available in Brides the housewares sections. In addition to the Sunbeam Coffee

Master, which does everything but blow

reveille, they have Waring Blenders, Mixmasters, Hamilton Beach portable food mixers and Sunbeam automatic toasters. The Mixmaster now comes with a food blender

attachment which works just like a regular blender and costs only $11.50.

THE COMMISSARY cold storage section

reports that the shipments of seasonal fresh

fruits and vegetables from both the West and

the East Coasts of the United States will continue on into September so long as there are

supplies available for export. This means

that there will be several more shipments of

fresh peaches, nectarines, and cantaloupes. There is also an ample supply of New

Zealand lamb legs which are definitely a buy at 54 cents per pound, trimmed and

ready for roasting.
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Two Organizational Changes To Be Made

This Year In Zone's U. S. Citizen Schools

Two organizational changes in the Division of Schools- consolidation of the principalships of several elementary

schools and the elimination of a separate Physical Education and Recreation

Branch—will be made this school year

in the United States Citizen Schools. The consolidation of piincipalships will bring the responsibilities of elementary

principals into line with the standards in effect in Washington, D. C. The District

of Columbia salary rates are the basis

for those in the Canal Zone and workload

requirements on which the Washington

salary scales are based are used as a basis

for Canal Zone assignments.

The following elementary schools will be combined under a single elementary

principal for each pair: North and South

Margarita; Kobbe and Cocoli; Diablo

and Ancon. There will be no change in the Balboa elementary school. Teacher

principals will be in charge at Pedro

Miguel, Gamboa, Gatun, and Cristobal.

In addition to the changes in the ele- mentary schools, the administration of the Balboa Senior and Junior High Schools

is being combined under the principal of the Balboa Senior High School who will be assisted by two assistant senior high

school principals.

Some personnel shifts will result from

this consolidation; they will be announced

by the Superintendent of Schools. The organizational change concerning

physical education will bring that program

to the same level as that of other special

fields such as art, music, home economics,

shop, etc., which are now all administered

by the school principals.

Heretofore, the physical education

teachers have operated in the schools under the supervision of the head of the Physical Education and Recreation

Branch, G. C. Lockridge. These teachers will now be assigned to the schools. Mr. Lockridge will continue as technical supervisor of physical education and

athletics on the staff of the Superin- tendent of Schools. No changes will be made in the number of physical education

teachers nor in the program itself.

Five New Instructors Join

Cadre For Canal Zone ROTC

Cadets in the Canal Zone High Schocl

Junior ROTC will find several new faces

in the ROTC cadre this school year. The cadre turnover is the largest since the ROTC program was started in the Zone schools. By schools, the changes

are:Balboa High School—LL Christopher

Wheeler will replace Capt. Thomas

Blake as Assistant Professor of Military

Science and Tactics. Captain Blake has been reassigned to Fort Amador. M.

Sgt. Jack E. Wallace will replace Sgt. Carl 0. Webb who has been reassigned

to Maryland; and M. Sgt. George E. Rodgers will replace Sgt. George Rosen,

who has been reassigned to Fort Leonard

Wood in Missouri.

Cristobal High SchoolSgh. Charles

E. Finnegan will replace Sgt. Edward

Souney who died suddenly August 1. Sgt. Robert Robinson has been reassigned

and will be replaced but his replacement

has not been announced.

Lieutenant Wheeler, a native New

Yorker, is a graduate of Harvard. He

X

Master Sergeant JACK WALLACE

has served in Hawaii, Korea, and Japan,

as well as in the United States. Sergeant

Wallace, a Texan, is a paratrooper. He

served in Japan and Korea and held the rank of Captain during his Korean

service. Sergeant Rodgers, a former

Marine, has been in the Army since

1950. He comes to the Canal Zone from

a post as advisor to the Oregon National

Guard. Sergeant Finnegan was born in Keesville, N. Y. He has been in the Army since 1951 and has served Japan and Korea.

in

Effective Dates of New Treaty Provisions

(Continued from page 3) are essential to health or necessary to permit them to perform their duties.

Ill UNDERTAKINGS WHICH ARE DEPENDENT ON ENACTMENT OF SPECIFIC LEGISLATION.

Conveyance to Panama of certain lands and improvements

in the Republic of Panama, when and as determined by the United States that these are no longer needed. Conveyance to the Republic of Panama of Paitilla Point

and the relinquishment of the United States' sovereign rights thereover. Authorization of each United States agency in the Canal Zone to conform its existing wage practices to the principle

of the same basic wage for any employee eligible to the position

regardless of whether he is a United States or Panamanian

citizen. Uniform application of the Civil Service Retirement Act to

citizens of the United States and of Panama employed in the Canal Zone. The transfer to Panama by the United States of certain

tracts of land, including the old freight house and Pier No. 3

in Colon. Removal of Panama Railroad terminal operations from

the city of Panama and transfer to Panama of the lands and

improvements involved, specifically including the railway passenger station. Gradual withdrawal of the United States from the Colon

areas known as De Lesseps, New Cristobal, and Colon Beach

and the conveyance or transfer to the Republic of Panama of the lands and improvement thereon; this conveyance or transfer

is to occur as severable parts of these areas cease to be needed.

Withdrawal from the Colon railroad passenger station site and conveyance of such site and structure to the Republic,

at such time as the removal from De Lesseps, Colon Beach,

and New Cristobal shall have been fully completed.

Construction of a bridge across the Canal at Balboa.

IV UNDERTAKINGS EFFECTIVE ON INDETERMINATE DATES,

AND NOT CONTINGENT ON LEGISLATION.

Change of the boundary line between Colon and the Canal

Zone, to place Battery Morgan and certain water areas in Colon; this is effective on completion of the withdrawal by -the United States from the New Cristobal, Colon Beach, and

De Lesseps areas. Restriction by the United States of the use of the proposed

strategic highway crossing the Isthmus wholly in the Canal

Zone; this is contingent on the discontinuance of the Panama

Railroad and the completion of such highway.

Termination by the Panama Canal Company of the manufacture and processing of goods for sale to or consumption of individuals, whenever and for so long as such goods or particular

classes thereof are available in the Republic on a continuing

basis, in satisfactory quantities and qualities and at reasonable

prices; the United States will give prompt consideration to any

written request from the Panamanian Government concerning the termination of any such activity. This provision is effective on the exchange of ratifications but subject to the

availability of goods in the Republic, as stated. Withdrawal by the United States from the handling of commercial cargo for transshipment on Canal Zone piers, as soon as Panamanian port facilities are in satisfactory operation

in Colon.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

July 15 through August 15

Employees who were promoted or transferred between July 15 and August 15 are

listc. I below. Within-grade promotions are

mil listed.CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Charles A. McGlade, from Towing Loco- motive Operator, Locks Division, to Fire- man, Fire Division. Eugene S. Shipley, from Lieutenant to Captain, Police Division. Mrs. Carol M. Kocher, from Postal

Clerk, Postal I )ivision, to Clerk-Typist,

Division of Schools. Michael Zombory, from Clerk (Typist),

Police Division, to Supervisory Clerical Assistant. License Section. Rodger W. Griffith, from Assistant Cl'ief to Chief, Police Division. Robert J. Helmerichs, from Sergeant to Lieutenant, Police I (ivision. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Bertha I. Frensley, from Clerk (Stenographer) Accounting Systems Staff, to Secretary (Stenography), Comptroller's

Office. Mrs. Ruth H. Munyon, from Time,

Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Branch,

to Clerk-Stenographer, Internal Audits

Stall Mrs. Chiquita C. Cassibry, Irom Clerk- Stenographer, Internal Audit Staff, to Clerk

(Stenographer), Accounting Systems Staff. Mrs. Dana B. Bissell, from Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Branch, to Accounting Clerk, General Ledger and

Processing Branch.

Russell E. George, from Tabulating

Equipment Operation Supervisor, to Time,

Leave, and Payroll Supervisor, Payroll Branch. Mrs. Marione Campbell, from Clerical Assistant, Panama Health Office, to Time,

Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Branch. Mrs. Helen M. Rhodes, from Time,

Leave, and Payroll Clerk, to Accountant,

Payroll Branch! Mrs. Nell J. Waldron, Clerk-Typist, from Commissary Division to Central Typing and Clerical Unit, Accounting

Division. Mrs. Betty R. Olsen, from Accounting

Clerk, Treasury Branch, to Voucher Examiner. Claims Branch. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

(For Maintenance Division see separate story) Karl J. Mellander, John B. Corliss, Jr., Iron Apprentice Wireman to Wireman,

Electrical Division. George W. Wertz, from Foreman to Lead

Interior Foreman, Electrical Division. Bland L. Smith, John H. Foster, from

Electronics Leader Mechanic to Electronics Shop Foreman, Electrical Division. Robert B. Thompson, Machinist, from

Industrial Division to Dredging Division. Lynn E. Stratford, from Senior Powerhouse Operator to Powerhouse OperatorDispatcher, Electrical Division. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

Mrs. Shirley L. Cozens, front Secretary.

< >ffice of Personnel Director, to ClerkTypist, Internal Security Office. HEALTH BUREAU

Harvey W. Green, from Sanitary In- spector, Panama Health Office, to Food

Inspector, Division of Veterinary Medicine. Maj. William O. Dougherty, Dental

Officer, from Pacific Dental Clinics to Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Eloise M. Murphy, from Cierk- Typist to Accounting Clerk, C.orgas Hospital. Mrs. Doris M. Bussey, from Clerk- Stenographer, Personnel Bureau, to ClerkTypist, Coco Solo Hospital. Dr. Eric R. Osterberg, from Health

Officer, Panama and Colon, to Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine. Raymond G. Bush, from Supervisor)

tion Inspector, Colon Health Office, to Sanitation Inspector, Division of Sanii. it ion. Dr. Mary L. Holdren, from Resident to Medical Officer, Gorgas Hospital. Dr. Kenneth C. Zimmerman, Jr., Veterinarian, from Panama Health Office to Division of Veterinary Medicine. Paul J. Brooks, Sanitation Inspector, from Panama Health Office to Division of Sanitation. Dr. Henry J. Keane, Veterinarian, from Colon Health Office to Division of Veterinary Medicine. MARINE BUREAU

Robert U. Schultz, from Sanitation

Inspector, Panama Health Office, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks. Arthur French, from Guard, Locks Security Branch, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Robert A. Hanson, from Apprentice

Boilermaker, Industrial Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. William E. Williams, from Construction

Inspector, Contractors Hill, to Towing

Locomotive Operator, Locks Overhaul. James M. Walsh, from Stevedore Fore- man, Terminals Division, to Towing Loco- motive Operator, Locks Overhaul. Howard L. Clarke, Jr., from RiggerDiver, Industrial Division, to Towing

Locomotive Operator and Diver, Locks

Overhaul. Robert M. Bright, from Accounting Clerk

to Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Industrial Division. Alrick L. Nelson, from Lock Operator

Carpenter to Foreman Carpenter, Pedro

Miguel Locks. William M. Reynolds, from Lock Operator Wireman to Lock Operator Wireman

Leader, Pacific Locks. John A. Dombrowsky, from Lock Operator Wireman Leader to Control House

Operator, Pacific Locks. Gust E. Rosene, from Machinist to Machinist Layerout, Industrial Division. John F. Martin, from Postal Clerk,

Postal Division, to Guard, Locks Security Branch. Joseph M. Daly, from Engineering Aide,

Engineering Division, to Admeasurer, Navigation Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Jo Ann A. Fischer, from Clerk-Stenographer to Secretary, Office of the Director. Mrs. Doris F. Schirmer, Clerk-Typist, from Wage and Classification Division to Employment and Utilization Division. SUPPLY BUREAU

Carl L. Simons, from Pipefitter Apprentice to Pipefitter, Commissary Division. Mabel L. Knox, from Cash Accounting

Clerk to Commissary Assistant, Commissary Division. James G. F. Trimble, from Wireman,

Electrical Division to Plant Electrician, Commissary Division. Mrs. Melba M. Heintz, from Comissary

Assistant to Cash Accounting Clerk (Teller), Commissary Division. James B. Hunt, from Fireman, Fire Division, to Stockman Foreman, Commissary

Division. Harry M. Savage, Gaspar G. De Paredes, from Commissary Assistant to Stockman

Foreman, Commissary Division. Earl D. Albertson, James J. Reccia, from

Storekeeper (Shipping) to Stockman Fore- man, Commissary Division. Harold R. Rodell, William R. LaChapelle, from Supervisory Storekeeper to Stockman

Foreman, Commissary Division. Mrs. Margeurite M. Ashton, from Commissary Checker, to Commissary Assistant,

Commissary Division. Mrs. Patricia E. George, from Ticket

Seller, Service Center Division, to Commissary Checker, Commissary Division. Elizabeth A. Allen, from Accounting

Clerk to Clerk-Typist, Commissary Division.Mrs. Eva M. Harte, from Commissary

Assistant to Accounting Clerk, Commissary

Division. Homer M. Weeks, from Sanitation

Inspector, Division of Sanitation, to Stock- man Foreman, Commissary Division. MAINTENANCE DIVISION A survey of Wage Board positions in the Maintenance Division, begun about three months ago, was completed last month. The study resulted in the following personnel changes, some of which are described as reassignments, some as promotions, and some as changes in title. Anthony R. Lombroia, Carpenter Fore- man to Planing Mill Lead Foreman; Leon

E. Dedeaux, Hospital Maintenance Lead Foreman to Building Maintenance Lead

Foreman; Burman S. Spangler, Planing

Mill Foreman to Hospital Maintenance

Lead Foreman; George O. Tarflinger, Service Mechanic and Refrigeration and

Air Conditioning Mechanic to Refrigeration

and Air Conditioning Foreman;

Anthony J. Kucikas, Max C. Conover, from Carpenter Leader to Carpenter Fore- man; Murphy B. Alexander, William A. Clark, from Assistant Public Works Fore- man to Lead Foreman, Roads Maintenance;

Charles H. Bath, Jr., Max M. Schoch,

Public Works Foreman to Lead Foreman,

Roads Maintenance; Murrel L. Dodd,

General Operator and Public Works Fore- man to Lead Foreman, Roads Construction; Lester T. Brennan, Painter Foreman

to Painter Lead Foreman; Harold W.

Meyer, Frederick S. Baumbach, Painter Foreman to Lead Foreman, Paint Shop;

Carmine Ammirati, Tilesetter Leader and

Bricklayer Leader to Foreman Tilesetter. Fred J. Blohm, Painter Foreman to Lead

Painter Foreman; Paree L. Roland, C.eneral Foreman to Lead Foreman, Public Works;

John F. Shannon, Waldo B. Gilley, Fore- man to Lead Foreman, Public Works; John

C. Dansby, Robert L. Robinson, Carpenter Foreman to Lead Carpenter Foreman;

Clifford M. Glenn, Peter A. Warner, Public Works Foreman to Lead Foreman, Road

Construction; Oliver C. Culp, Plumbing

Supervisor to Lead Foreman Plumber; John E. Ridge, Jr., Heavy Labor Foreman

to Paving and Heavy Labor Foreman;

Nick M. Elich, General Quarry Foreman to Lead Quarry Foreman; Carl E. Hall, General Foreman to Lead Foreman, Equipment

Operation and Repair; Claude E. Campbell, Equipment Operation and Repair Foreman to Heavy Duty Equipment Fore- man; Robert B. Harrison, Pneumatic Tool and Magnetic Shop Supervisor to Electrician, Pneumatic Tools and Magneto;

George A. Sills, Sheetmetal Work Supervisor to General Foreman, Maintenance

Shops. Louis Periobon, Sheetmetal Worker Leader to Lead Foreman, Sheetmetal Shop;

John F. Hern, Sheetmetal Worker to Fore- man Sheetmetal Worker; Charles E. Pretz,

Refrigeration Service Engineer to Lead

Foreman, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning; Oather T. Brownlee, Heavy Labor Foreman to Heavy Labor Lead Foreman; Harvey D. Smith, Assistant Carpenter

Supervisor to Building Maintenance Lead

Foreman; Joseph N. Rinker, Foreman to Lead Foreman Packer and Crater; Frank

R. Turman, Leader to Foreman Packer and Crater; Sherman A. Hammond, Assist- ant General Foreman, Construction and

Maintenance, to Lead Foreman, Public Works.

William J. Carson, Foreman Plumber and

Plumber Leader to Foreman Plumber;

Clifford B. Jones, General Foreman to Lead

Foreman, Equipment Operation and Repair; James A. Hoverson, Leader Service Mechanic to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Foreman; Boyd W. Ferry, Sheetmetal Worker Leader, to Foreman Sheetmetal Shop; Ray Caldwell, General Foreman,

Construction and Maintenance, to General Foreman, Public Works and Building

Maintenance.

SEPTEMBER SAILINGS

From Cristobal

Panama September .? Anton September 10

Cristobal September 1

7

Panama . September 24 From New York

Ancon September 1 Cristobal -September 8 Panama September 15 Ancon September 22

Cristobal September 29 (Southbound the Haiti stop is from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Monday; northbound,

the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Mondays, from about 1 to 6 p. m.)
September 2, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

AUGUST RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of August to the following employees who are listed alphabetically,

together with their birthplaces, titles, length of Canal service and future addresses: Michael I. Crooks, Nebraska; Supervisor Motor Transportation, Motor Transportation Division; 3i years, 6 months; Whittier,

Calif. Leslie R. Evans, Wisconsin, Chief, License Section; 19 vears, 1 month, 15 days;

Bolivar, Mo.

Randall H. Ford, Illinois; Chief, Southern District, Motor Transportation Division; 37 years, 2 months, 22 days; Florida. Lela Mae Holden, New York; Teacher, Ancon Elementary School; 27 years, 7 months, 22 days; Orlando Fla. Thomas H. Kelley, Massachusetts; Chief, Administrative Section, Industrial Division; 33 years, 3 months, 12 days; Hendersonville, N. C.

ANNIVERSARIES

Miss Helen C. Milloy, one of the three Panama Canal employees sharing the honor

of completing 35 years of government service during August, can boast that all of her

service has been with one unit in the Canal

organization. A native of Jamaica Plains, Mass., Miss Milloy, now Supervisory Property and Supply Clerk at Gorgas Hospital, arrived on the Isthmus with her parents in 1916 and was first employed in August 1920

as a clerk in Ancon, now Gorgas, Hospital. She has had various clerical jobs with the Hospital staff and has held her present

position since 1952. The other two employees celebrating

their 35 years of government service in August were Edward H. Halsall, Chief of the Locks Security Branch, and Samuel L. Craig, Pumping Plant Operator with the Water and Laboratories Branch. Mr. Halsall was born in Stamford, Conn., and served in the U. S. Army before coming

to the Isthmus in 1928 to become a member

of the Canal Zone Police Division. He was

promoted to the grade of Sergeant in 1942 and the following year transferred to the

District Quartermaster, later the Community Services Bureau. Since 1952 he has been with the Marine Bureau. His Canal

service has been continuous. Born in Stockbridge, Ga., Mr. Craig came to the Isthmus with his parents during his early boyhood and first worked with

the Canal organization in 1918 and 1920 on summer vacation jobs. He was employed as an apprentice machinist with the Mechanical Division in 1924 and has been

with the Water and Laboratories Branch

since 1942.

30 YEARS

One of the three employees completing

30 years of government service last month, was born on the Isthmus in the construction town of Bas Obispo. He is Francis G. Farrell, now assistant Postmaster in Cristobal. Mr. Farrell was educated in the Canal Zone schools and was employed as a clerk

in the Executive Department in 1923. He

joined the Postal Division in 1928 and had

been there ever since. During that time

he has been postmaster at Diablo, Curundu,

and Fort Clayton, and Assistant Postmaster

at Ancon, Balboa, and Cristobal. The other two 30-year men last month

were Howard R. Harris, Mechanical Supervisor of the Atlantic Locks and William L. Russon, chief engineer on the dipper

dredge Cascadas. Mr. Harris was born in Decatur, III. He

went to work with the Canal organization

in 1924 when he was employed as a machinist on the Locks. He has been with the Locks Division since 1929 and has held his present position since 1950. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Russon was first employed in 1915 as a boilermaker

with the Mechanical Division. He was

transferred to the Dredging Division the

following year and with the exception of three short breaks in his service has been

with that division ever since.

25 YEARS

Two of the four employees passing the quarter-century mark of government service, have had continuous service with the Canal organization. They are Otis C. Myers, General Engineer in the Engineering Division and Charles W. Harrison,

Operator Foreman with the Electrical Division. Mr. Myers worked on the Madden Dam

project in 1932 and later was with the Municipal, now the Maintenance, Division. He was born in Lecompte, La. Mr. Harrison was born in the Canal Zone and has been working for the Canal

organization since 1930 when he began his apprenticeship. He has been with the

Electrical Division since 1941. The other 25-year men were Marvin J. Banton, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, who

is also an engineer with the Engineering

Division and Sgt. Paul D. Thompson of the Canal Zone Police Division, Balboa District, who was born in Fort Monroe, Va.

20 YEARS

Six of (he seven employees who completed

20 years of government service during

August have unbroken service with the Canal organization.

They are: Paul J. Brooks, Sanitation Inspector with the Area Sanitation Office in Ancon; Allen R. Flinn, Lock Operator

Wireman with the Atlantic Locks Division; Helen L. Meisinger, Accounting Clerk with

the Terminals Division in Cristobal; George

F. Nadeau, Policeman and Motorcycle

Officer with the Balboa District of the Canal Zone Police Division; Andrew C. Nagy, Time, Leave, and Payroll Supervisor with the Fiscal Division; and Florence M.

Pierson, Supervisory Accounting Clerk with the Accounting Division. The one 20-year employee of the group, whose service with the Canal is not con- tinuous is Charles J. Williams, Locomotive

Engineer with the Transportation and

Terminals Bureau.

15 YEARS

Four of the 24 employees completing

their 15th year of government service last month were employed by the Canal organization on the same day and all four have

continuous service with the Canal organization. They are: Bart J. Elich, Assistant to the

Director of the Supply Bureau; Julio M.

Lapeira, Supervisory Cartographic Survey

Aid, Engineering Division; Benito Larrinaga, Small Tug Operator with the Dredging Division, and William G. Mummaw, Quarters Maintenance Foreman with

the Maintenance Division, all of whom

were hired August 1, 1940. Other 15-year anniversary employees

with unbroken service with the Canal

organization are: Harold W. Babcock

Plumber with the Maintenance Division; Lester T. Brennan, Leader Foreman Painter with the Maintenance Division; Charles A. Emlaw, Lock Operator with the Pacific Locks; Kerner E. Frauenheim, Manager of the Cristobal Service Center; Albert E. Goguen, Policeman, Cristobal District; Julius J. Hentschel, Wireman with the

Electrical Division; Robert L. Malone,

Filtration Plant Operator, Maintenance

Division; Edward S. Reynolds, Jr., Lock

Operator, Pacific Locks; Woodrow W.

Rowland, Lock Operator, Atlantic Locks; Fannie M. Sosa, Clerk with the Administrative Branch; Clarence R. Taht, Pumping

Plant Operator with the Maintenance

Division; and Lloyd T. Yarbray, Superin- tendent of the Ancon Laundry and Dry

Cleaning Plant. Those whose service is not continuous

are: Donald J. Bowen, Supervisory Accountant, Accounting Division; Muriel H. DeYoung, Accounting Clerk, Accounting

Division; Joseph C. Lunetta, District Fore- man with the Electrical Division; Robert

T. Thomas, Lock Operator, Atlantic Locks; Walter M. Trasavage, Lock Operator,

Pacific Locks; Jordan E. Walbridge, Fire- man with the Balboa Fire Station; and

Joseph H. Young, Locks Operator with the

Pacific Lock.

EXECUTIVE REGULATION 19

Editor's Note: A revision of Executive

Regulation No. 19, covering travel and

transportation was issued at Balboa Heights

recently. It will be published in install- ments with the second installment carried

in this issue for the benefit of those who

desire to clip and save the entire regulation.

CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT

PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

Balboa Heights. C. Z. June 24, 1955.

Revision 1—(Continued)

II. TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSEHOLD

GOODS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS

2.1 Maximum allowance for transportation.

(a) Weight. The actual costs of transportation of the household goods and personal effects of the employee, not in excess of 7,000 pounds

net, and of the packing, crates, boxes, lift vans,

or other temporary containers required for the shipment, shall be allowed in the case of trans- portation to or from points outside the United

States: Provided. That employees who have no

immediate family shall be entitled to the trans- portation of household effects and other personal property not in excess of 2.500 pounds net. Gross weight shall include the net weight of the property and the weight of packing, crates, boxes, or lift vans which have no connection with

the property except for the purposes of the immediate shipment and which do not consti- tute a continuing part of the property of the employee. For the application of the limita- tions prescribed by this section the net weight

of the property shall be considered to be eighty- percent of the combined weight of the property and the packing and crating used for the ship- ment: Provided. That in case of shipments

involving transportation by vessel over all or part of the distance, the net weight of the property shall be considered to be eighty percent of the combined weight of the property and the

packing, crating, boxing, and lift vans used

for the shipment: And provided further, That when shipment is by motor freight the

gross weight of the property shall be the actual weight of the goods transported. Thus, trans- portation shall be allowed at Government

expense for property when packed, crated, boxed, or placed in lift vans for shipment,

within the following maximum weights: Employees having immediate family: Pounds

Shipment involving transportation by

vessel over all or part of route or by rail or motor carriers requiring packing or crating. _ 8.750 Shipment by motor carriers of household goods uncrated 7,000 Employees having no immediate family: Shipment involving transportation by

vessel over all or part of route or by rail or motor carriers requiring packing or crating 3,125 Shipment by motor carriers of household goods uncrated . 2,500

(b) Volume. Where charges for transportation are computed on a basis of measurement

rather than weight charges will be allowed

regardless of weight for not to exceed 25 measure- ment tons of forty cubic feet each inclusive of packing, crating, and lift vans: Provided, That

employees who have no immediate family shall be allowed charges for not to exceed 9 measure- ment tons.

(c) Weight and volume on same shipment. When shipment must be made over such a route

that the transportation necessarily involves charges based upon weight over part of the

distance and upon measurements over another

part of the distance, the following conditions

shall apply: (1) If the weight does not exceed

the limitations prescribed in subsection (a), payment shall be allowed for actual charges over the entire distance regardless of whether

the measurement is in excess of the limitations imposed by subsection (b); (2) if both weight and measurement are in excess of the prescribed

limitations, payment shall not be allowed for the excess by weight over that part of the dis- tance charges are based on weight, or for the

excess measurement over that part of the dis- tance where charges are based on measurement. (From section 1 7 of Executive Order 9805, as amended

by Executive Order 10196)

2.2 Allowances for packing, crating, unpacking, and uncrating. The actual costs of packing, crating, unpacking, and uncrating (not to exceed the authorized weight) shall be allowed. (From section 18 of Executive Order 9805)

2.3 Allowance for drayage. In case door-to-door common carrier rates are not applicable, the actual

cost of drayage (not to exceed the authorized weight)

to and from the common carrier shall be allowed. (From Section 19 of Executive Order 9805)

2.4 Items not allowable and items allowable.

(a) Household goods and personal effects

shall not include: Wines

Liquors Animals or birds not necessary in the per- formance of official duties Automobiles Automobile tires Boats Motorcycles Motor Scooters Ammunition

Explosives and inflammable liquids Foodstuffs Other items similar to the above

Based in part on section 7 of Executive Order M805 and Comptroller General's Decision B.'l 14689 of August 6, 1953, 33 Comp. Gen. 63)
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 2, 1955 == ^kSHlPS and SHIPPING

A STRANGE SIGHT to those familiar with the scene at Miraflores Locks is this partially dismantled emergency dam. The two dams at Miraflores and one at Pedro Miguel were sold under bids awarded

last May to John V. Carter and John V. Carter, Jr. The eme.-gency dams have been landmarks for residents and visitors to the Canal Zone since the Canal was opened. The dams, designed by Tollef B. Monniche, of Boquette, have never been used for the emergency purpose for which they were erected. The other three dams are scheduled for sale at a later date. They were remodelled about 20 years ago

for use in flood control but none of the three has ever been required for this purpose.

Transits by Ocean-Going Vessels

in July

1955 1954 Commercial 727 640

U.S. Government-. 27 34

Total 754 674

Tolls*

Commercial $3,254,259 $2,652,450

U.S. Government 144,626 155,274

Total ..$3,398,885 $2,807,724

' Includes .ill vessels, ocean-going and small.

July was the third month in the Canal's

41 years of operation when tolls on commercial vessels exceeded three million

dollars. Both tolls and transits by

commercial shipping set new monthly

records in July. The heavy traffic was

due largely to an increase in the number

of tankers in transit. There were 113

transits by commercial tankers during

the month. This trade has been aver- aging about 80-90 transits a month.

August, and it was all the fault of the hurricanes which were churning up the

Atlantic. When the Ancon docked in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 15, her

passengers discovered the word ANON

in large letters on her bow.

The "C" which belonged there had

been washed away by seas which broke

over the ship's bow the second day out of New York and kept passengers off the boat deck and away from the swimming

pcol.

Passengers reported a rough trip as far as Haiti. The second day out, according

to one of the most sea-hardy of those aboard, only a third of the passengers showed up for breakfast and only about

half of those aboard turned out for luncheon and dinner.

Canal traffic fluctuates widely from

year-to-year and from month-to-month.

This was demonstrated in August when

the amount of commercial traffic fell well below the high level of the month before. During the first three weeks of August

the daily average number of transits was

22.09, as compared with a daily average

of 23.45 transits for the month of July.

The decrease in traffic last month was

most noticeable in the transit figures for southbound traffic. The number of vessels from the United States going to South America and to the Far East in August was considerably under the figures

for the preceding month. A drop in the number of tankers also was partly

responsible for the decrease in traffic.

The SS Ancon of the Panama Line was

incognito on its southbound trip in midThe SS Cristobal, which left Cristobal August 6, had a hot but not particularly

rough trip running behind hurricane Connie.

The Cristobal was slowed down by the storm which she was following and

docked in New York seven hours behind

schedule.

Revised Medical Tariff

Is Effective October 1

Revised tariffs for hospital and medical

care in the Canal Zone, announced late in July by Governor Seybold at his monthly

conference with Civic Council representatives, will become effective October 1. Generally, basic rates will be changed

only sufficiently to cover, partially, in- creased expenses, including recent salary

increases. Other charges for private rooms, home

visits, certain clinical care, and other

special services will be affected. The new medical tariff also provides for a regrouping of Company-Government

employees into more evenly divided wagesalary groups for the application of charges; consolidation of rates in certain

areas; and simplification of the tariff schedule. The increase in rates for employees

and their dependents follows one made

in the per diem rate for Government

agency sponsored patients on which full- cost recovery is required. The inter- agency rates became effective July 1. Some increases in hospital and medical

care will indirectly reflect the recent

salary increases that moved some employees into higher wage-salary groups.

Final details of the new rates had not been completed in time for this issue of the Review. These were to be an- nounced by September 1, or 30 days in advance of the effective date of the

revision. ___ THE TIME HAS COME

Another new customer made her maiden transit of the Panama Canal last month. She was. the new 16-knot,

11,600 dead-weight ton MY Kochv Muni.

en route between the United States west coast and Cuba. The ship belongs

to Daido Kaiun Kaisha Ltd. and will be

operated by the Daido Cuba Line. This line will provide monthly sailings

from California ports to Santiago and

Havana, Cuba. In addition to the Kochu Main, vessels in this service will be the Koten Mara, the KoraiMaru, and

the Kokoh Maru.

Local agents for the line are the Continental Shipping Company of Panama

City.

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{Continued from page 1) year, from the gymnasiums at Diablo Heights and North

Margarita and the gymnasiums then used

exclusively for physical education. Child- ren from Coco Solito who have been

attending kindergarten at Margarita will now go to the Cristobal kindergarten.

Some changes in school districting have

been made this year for the children of service personnel, but there are no districting changes for civilian children. The Pedro Miguel school will be oper- ated for kindergarten and first and second

grades only. Pupils at Pedro Miguel will come from Fort Clayton and from any

in this age group remaining in Pedro

Miguel. Pedro Miguel children above

second grade will attend school in Balboa. No major curricular changes are planned this year. Spanish will continue to be taught in all grades as it was last year. One familiar face, that of John Fawcett who directs the Balboa gymnasium, will again be seen around the schools. He has

returned from a year's leave of absence

during which he received his Master's Degree in Education from San Jose Teachers' College in San Diego, Calif. Summing up physical changes in the school plant officials pointed to an extensive painting program; the complete

rewiring of the Ancon, Balboa, and Gatun

schools to improve the quality of classroom

lighting, and the installation of a new

hot-water system in the Balboa High

School gymnasium.

Culebra Cut was renamed Gaillard Cut

April 17, 1915.

The blue flag bearing the white letters P. C. has been in use on the Canal's marine equipment since 1915.