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_L His First 30 Days 4

Gray Ladies Go International. . 8

New Cristobal Schedules 15

What CARNAVAL Is All About. 10

•ol. 12, No. 8

March 8, 1962
Robert J. Fleming, Jr., Governor-President

VV*. P. Leber, Lieutenant Governor Will Arey

Panama Canal Information Officer

N. D. Christensen, Press Officer Joseph Connor, Publications Editor

Editorial Assistants: Eunice Richard and Tobi Bittel

William Burns, Official Photographer

Official Panama Canal Ctmpany Publication

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$60,000,000

Statu* of Major

Canal Smprovement*

WIDENING OF GAILLARD CUT: All widening work on the

Empire Reach section of Gaillard Cut will be completed by

December 1962. The contract for widening of Las Cascadas and

Bus Obispo Reaches is scheduled for award in June of this year

and for completion early in fiscal year 1966. At that time die

entire 8-mile Gaillard Cut will have been widened from the

original 300 feet to at least 500 feet.

LIGHTING BANKS OF GAILLARD CUT AND CANAL

APPROACHES: All lights have been installed along the banks

<>f the Cut except for certain sections on the west bank where

widening work is in progress. Lights in the Locks are complete

and operating. Lighting of the approaches from Balboa to Miraflores and from Cristobal to Gatun is scheduled for completion

next month.

NEW LOCOMOTIVES FOB LOCKS: The first six of the new

towing locomotives being built by Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.,

in Japan arrived early in January and are undergoing tests on the East lane of Gatun Locks. (See article on page 6 of this issue.)

MABINE TBAFFIC CONTBOL SYSTEM: Specifications for the new electronic system designed by Gibbs & Hill, Inc., of New

York now are being prepared and will be advertised for bids in June of this year. The contract for the project is to be awarded

in October 1962 and installation is scheduled for completion in January 1964.

NEW LOCKS MAINTENANCE METHOD: Plans are in the

final stages for procurement of material to be used in Lock

scheduled for 1963 and 1964. The material will be used

to modify Lock gates and other appurtenances so that in future

rhauls, no Lock lane will be out of service for more than

24 hours at any one time. The method to be used is being planned

with the help of the Corps of Engineers.

In This Issue

THIS MONTH is Carnival time in Panama and the

first few days of March will be devoted to the gay, pie-Lenten festival. The origins of the holiday, its legends, and the manner in which it is observed all are described in the article which starts on page 10

of this issue. The cover picture on this months issue is a clever

bit of photography bv Jerry Stec, owner and operator of the El Halcon photographic shop in Panama.

Jerry admits that there is a bit of fakery involved

in the picture, which was taken, intentionally, as a double exposure. He first took a time exposure of Carnival fireworks, then saved the film to shoot the scene of Miss Marcela de Janon, now Mrs. James A. Reid, climbing from the treasure chest.

Canal Zone Wage Rates 3

Busy, Busy Month _- 4

New Machines for Old Job _ - __ 6

Ladies in Gray 8

This Is Carnaval- - 10

Schedule of Cristobal Revised _ 15

Worth Knowing 16

People 18

Anniversaries. . 20

Promotions and Transfers 21

Retirements 22

Canal History _ . 22

Safety 22

Budding Artists __ 23

Shipping .. 24

2 March 2, 1962
CANAL ZONE

WAGE RATES

A Significant New Policy

A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE in the

policy governing pay increases for Canal Zone wage base employees was made last month with announcement of a two-fold plan to give greater recognition for skills, provide more incentive

for employees, and to narrow the gap

between area-based wage rates and

U.S.-based rates. The new policy, for the first time in the history of U.S. Government agencies on the Zone, provides a direct tie between the rates paid to workers in U.S. wage base positions and those in Canal Zone wage base positions.

To be fully implemented on July 1, 1964, the new wage policy provides for two major benefits:

1. Adjustment of Canal Zone

wage base pav schedules, beginning on July 1, 1963, whenever

U.S. wage base schedules are adjusted on or after that date.

2. A series of administrative wage increases for the upper grade

levels of Canal Zone wage base

positions as funds become avail- able over the next 3 years. The first increases under the new

policy will become effective April 1, when approximately 10,000 employees

of the Panama Canal Company/Canal

Zone Government will receive increases ranging from 3 to 29 percent as a result

of the new policy.

The new policy resulted from a study

Changes in Pay Rates To Be Made April 1, 1962

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Busy,

Busy

Month

Many duties and

obligations face Canal Zone

Chief Executive during

first month in office

Gov. Robert J. Fleming, Jr.

Governor Fleming

is greeted by

Lieutenant

Governor Leber

upon arrival at Tocumen Airport.

Looking on is

llaydcn Williams,

Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense.

THE DUTIES of a Governor of the Canal Zone are many and diverse at all times, and for a new Governor there are many obligations which must be

met in a very short time, as Gov. Robert

J. Fleming, Jr., found during his first busy, busy month as Governor of the Canal Zone and President of the Panama

Canal Company.

Arriving in the Canal Zone on the evening of February 2 aboard the same

plane which brought U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert J. McNamara to the Isthmus for one in a series of overseas conferences with local military commanders, Governor Fleming found himself launched on a fast-paced schedule

of conferences, official calls, receptions,

and work-a-day decisions. Having been sworn into office by

Secretary of the Army Elvis

J. Stahr, jr.,

in Washington the day before his arrival on the Isthmus, Governor

Fleming said upon his arrival that he was "delighted" with his new assignment.

"During my service," the new Governor said, "I have had, from time to time, assignments which were some- what different from those normally considered usual. In retrospect, it now

seems there must have been a design in these unusual assignments, for they

have certainly been excellent training

for this new challenge. I believe that because of these past experiences, I am

more concerned with social and human

March 2, 1962
Panama President Roberto F. Chiari welcomes Governor

to Presidencia.

Antonio Caballero. one of two

honorary aides assigned to Governor

during visit to Colegio Javier Fair. stands at attention as Governor greets him.

factors than with the material and the

finite. And I hope that I can bring to

this new assignment a sincere appreciation of the problems involved in human

relationships."

His first weekend was largely devoted

to the conference held by the Defense

Secretary, but early Monday morning

the new Governor held his first weekly

staff meeting, at which he outlined some

of his basic viewpoints and working

methods. During his first "work daw'

he also visited the Latin American

schools in Paraiso and called on U.S. Ambassador Joseph S. Farland. During that first week, he also participated in the Panama Open, greeted

the visiting Burgomeister of Oslo,

Norway, called on President Roberto

F. Chiari at the Presidencia, attended a press reception at the home of Information Officer Will Arev, received a number of courtesy calls, was host to retired Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther on a partial

transit of Gaillard Cut, and attended

the Colegio Javier Fair. The start of the second week found

him beginning a series of calls on diplomatic representatives of other countries

in Panama and attending the monthly

meeting of the Isthmian Historical Societv. During the week, he also held

his first meeting with the Zone's Latin

American Civic Council officers, during

Governor Fleming and Lieutenant Governor Leber talk with delegation from Rainbow

City Civic Council during meeting of Latin American Civic Councils at Santa Cruz in mid-February. Left to right are Wilfred E. Harrow, Seabert Haynes, and Astor N. Lewis. H

which he again voiced his concern with

problems involving people, while pointing out that getting ships from one

ocean to the other continues to be the primary mission here. As the second

week ended, he visited the Industrial Division at Mount Hope and, while

there, presented a gold watch to Porter McHan, a foreman in the division, for making the most valuable employee

suggestion submitted during 1961. On Saturday, February 17, with his third week as Governor getting under

way, he visited some of the housing

projects being carried out in Panama

through Development Loan Fund fi- nancing and the following day was a guest at the World Friendship Tea of the Canal Zone Council, Girl Scouts

of the U.S.A., at Quarry Heights.

On Monday, February 19, Governor

Fleming returned to the Atlantic side

to greet his wife, who arrived aboard

the Cristobal, having staved in the United States to close out their

affairs there. Governor Fleming's third week also included courtesy calls by representatives of some of the unions which

represent Canal Zone employees, the

official reception in honor of Governor

and Mrs. Fleming by Lt. Gov. and Mrs. W. P. Leber at the Tivoli Guest House,

speaking at the annual Engineers Banquet, and meeting with the U.S. Civic

Council officers of the Canal Zone. He

concluded the month's activities by

officiating at a ceremony honoring

retirees from Company/Government

service. Thus the first month was one of work,

work, work, duty, duty, duty, a few- hours for playing golf, and an on-the- spot introduction to the operations of the Isthmian waterway.

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Japanese-built locomotive, with

single cab, and an old-style locomotive with cab on each end

pass each other on Gatun Locks center wall incline.

New Machines for Old Job

The new locomotives, in one of their early assignments, help Telde through Gatuii Locks. Japanese- built locomotives

assigned to duty at Gatun

. . . and doing fine.

THE FIRST SIX of the Canal's new

towing locomotives are at work these days putting ships through Gatun Locks. And they are doing just fine. Testing of the new mules started in January shortly after they arrived from

Japan and were set up on the Gatun

i ast lane tracks. As of mid-February,

they had handled everything sent through that lane, from ships measuring 338 feet in length to the mediumsized super/carriers of 642 feet. Since the new locomotives are capable of using two cables as well as one, many of the larger vessels have been

towed through the locks by only four machines using two cables each. This

size ship required eight of the old-style.

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one-line locomotives. As a safety measure, however, the two remaining test machines have stood by with slack lines. By the time the tests are completed,

it is expected that the six powerful, new,

two-cable mules will be able to take

ships through the locks which must be

assisted by 12 old-style locomotives.

So far, the visiting Japanese engineers

and the Canal officials who are keeping

close check on the tests, have found few

"bugs" in the new towing locomotives.

There are a few minor alterations which

will be added to the specifications of the additional mules, but up to now,

both the engineers and the men who

operate the machines are happy with

their speed, strength, and handling ease. Juichi Kaku, Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal Company Locomotive

Engineering Center for Mitsubishi Shoji

Kaisha, Ltd., and Hatsuo Sasano, Chief

of Rolling Stock Export Division,

Machinery Export Department of Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Ltd., recently

arrived on the Isthmus in connection

with the locomotive contract. They joined Keisako Sugi, Hiroshi

Higara, and Mitsuo Kubota, three representatives of Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha,

who have been here since the beginning

of the tests. Also in the Canal Zone for the testing period is Robert Donaldson,

the Panama Canal's resident engineer

in Tokvo and Yasushigo Kisamori, his administrative aid and interpreter.

While the Canal's six new towing

locomotives are being given their final

tests, a new signal system also is being

tested to facilitate communication

between the towing locomotive operators and pilots aboard transiting ships.

The system is a type of "walkie-talkie" which will enable the pilot to communicate immediately and simultaneously

with the operator of the mules attached

to either side of the transiting vessel and thus eliminate the historic bell and

hand signal system.

When tests on the first six new loco- motives are successfully completed,

orders will be issued for work to start on the construction of at least 33 more

machines which will eventually replace

all existing Canal mules. These will begin arriving in the Canal Zone about

December 1962 and all Canal towing

equipment is scheduled to be completely replaced by the summer of 1963. Also to come are three electric cranes which are included in the towing loco- motive contract. They are to be built on frames identical with those of the towing locomotives and will have lifting

capacity of 14 tons at a radius of

13 feet. The cranes are to be built by

Tovo Denki Seizo, subcontractors for Mitsubishi.

Yasushigo Kisamori

beside one of new locomotives

at Gatun.

THE ABILITY to speak fluent English,

car-driving skill, and a deft hand with

the cooking pot combined to provide a magic carpet on which 30-year-old

Yasushigo Kisamori was able to leave

his native Japan for the first time and

visit the Isthmus. Hired in Tokyo by Robert Donaldson,

the Canal's resident engineer during

construction of the new locomotives, Mr. Kisamori proved to be such an able employee that he has been made administrative aid to Mr. Donaldson in addition to his original duties as chauffeur and interpreter.

While in the Canal Zone, he continues

to serve as an interpreter between Canal

officials and Japanese-speaking engineers

Keisako Sugi and Mitsuo Kubota, two

representatives of Mitsubishi Shoji

Kaisha, Ltd., who are here to assist during testing of the locomotives.

A second job, however, is aimed at keeping the visiting Japanese engineers

adequatel vand happily nourished during

their stay on the Isthmus. To accomplish this, Mr. Kisamori supervises pre- paration of the Japanese-style food

which they prefer. As vice president in charge of the Japanese kitchen he has established in Gatun for himself and his two visiting

compatriots. Mr. Kisamori has had some

difficulty with the local food supplv,

which he finds is considerably different

from that of his homeland. So far, however, he has managed to produce

reasonable facsimiles of Japanese and

Chinese dishes. Native cooking is much

too spicy for the Japanese palate, he says. Training for his wide variety of pres- ent skills and duties was received during

his youth, when he worked at a number

of odd jobs in Tokyo. His uncle was an

accomplished Japanese-style cook and

his grandfather was an expert in Chinese-style cooking. He helped them

cook after school and during summer

vacations, acquiring the knowledge of the cooking art which now is serving

both him and the two Japanese

engineers so well. After the war, Mr. Kisamori acquired

a command of GI English while working

for the U.S. Armed Forces. It was

through his employment with the Armed

Forces that he also learned to drive an

automobile.

Despite the number of skills he has

acquired during his 30 years of life, Mr. Kisamori has definite plans for learning more. He hopes upon his return

to Japan to wangle a bid to a helicopter

pilot school in the United States, if he

can learn to operate a whirlybird, Mr. Kisamori believes he will have a bright future in the new Japanese air transportation system, which is using

helicopters for passenger and freight service between the main Japanese

islands.

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members of training class for Spanish-speaking Gray Ladies from Central America and Panama help in children's playroom.

First course in Spanish

for Red Cross Gray Ladies LADIES IN GRAY given at Gorgas

"COMO MIEMBRO del Servicio de

Dama Oris de la Cruz Roja Americana, vo prometo conciente y leal servicio al hospital donde sirva," (As a member of the Gray Lady Service of

the American Red Cross,' I pledge a conscientious and loyal service to the

hospital in which I serve)

.

In solemn voices, in unison, 22 representatives of the Red Cross from

Central America, Panama, and the

( inal Zone repeated this pledge after Judge John E. Deming, chairman of the Canal Zone Chapter of the American Red Cross, immediately after

receiving their Gra) Lady caps, certificates, and pins February 14 in the Base

1 In ii i of Albrook Air Force Base. As they repeated the pledge, the

ladies Faced the flags of their respective

countries, in front of which stood the

First Lady "f Panama, Mrs. Roberto

F. Chiari, Ambassadors, diplomatic representatives, U.S. Army officials, American Red Cross officials, and representatives of the Canal Zone Health Bureau

and Gorgas Hospital.

The capping ceremony concluded the program of the first Gray Lady training course in Spanish ever given under the

auspices of the American Red Cross for women of Central America and Panama.

The course was given at Gorgas Hospital, with local Gray Ladies and hospital personnel as instructors. The class also was visited by retired Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross, who spoke to the

trainees about the importance of the

training they were receiving.

Three representatives of the Women's

Committee of the National Red Cross

Society in each of the six countries rep- resented by the trainees came to the

Canal Zone for the course of instruction,

which started on February 5. On arrival here, they were joined by four Spanishspeaking Canal Zone women, also members of the class. Upon return to their respective countries, the newly-capped

Gray Ladies will act as instructors for other groups in their own Red Cross

societies. The Canal Zone women will work with the Gorgas Hospital Gray

Lady program. The capping ceremony was opened

with an invocation by Lt. Col. Jack Moses, chaplain at Albrook Air Force

Base. A welcome to the guests was given

by Mrs. Daniel J. Paolucci, chairman

of Volunteer Services, Canal Zone

Chapter, American Red Cross, and a

brief talk was given by Miss Hester E. Garrett, American National Red Cross

Field Director at Gorgas Hospital.

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The Gray Ladies were introduced by

Mrs. J. Carl Baquie, chairman of the Gray Ladv Volunteers at Gorgas Hospital. The certificates were presented

by Col. Edward Sigerfoos, Director of Gorgas Hospital, and Mrs. Paolucci

presented the women with their' pins.

During the training course at Gorgas,

each of the representatives wore ihe uniform and cap pertinent to the Women's Committee of the National

Red Cross Soci-tv in h_T country. The

day of the capping ceremony, the ladies came to the Albrook Theater in uniform,

but without caps. Then came the moment when they received the caps symbolic of their new role as Grav

Ladis from Miss Beatrice Simonis,

Director of Nurses at Gorgas Hospital. In: Grav Lady Pledge, administered

by Judge Deming, concluded the cen mony.

The Albrook Air Force Base Band

provided music for the program. After

the ceremony, a reception for the newlycapped Gray Ladies was held at the Albrook Officers Club. The training course at Gorgas in- cluded a briefing on a volunteer's duties and responsibilities, as well as on-thejob training in the many ways a Gray

Lady may help in a hospital.

They were given a review of how the Gray Lady can help in the food service; how the volunteer can best serve the

patients of the surgical and orthopedic sen ices; how to best serve the patient

of the medical sen-ice, the nursing senGray Lady trainees listen attentively to retired Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, President of the American Red Cross, who visited the Isthmus in connection with the instruction program.

ice, and to assist in the children's wards.

One afternoon during the course, the

volunteers were addressed by Miss

Hester E. Garrett, who outlined the Red

Cross program in a hospital and the role of the volunteer in the Red Cross Hospital program. She described the adminAccompanied by a regular member of the Gorgas Hospital Gray Ladies, a second group

of trainees helps with book and magazine distribution in one of the hospital wards.

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instration of the Gray Lady program,

the supervision of the program, and its policies and procedures.

Miss Garrett also spoke on the pur- pose of social service, the purpose of the recreation sendee in relation to patient needs and interests, with emphasis on the role of the Gray Ladv in the hospital recreation program. The various representatives left for

their home countries on Februarv 15. The members, and graduates, of this

first Spanish-language training course

at Gorgas Hospital were:

Mrs. Lidia Castillo de Bequillard, Ni- caragua; Mrs. Marina de Charlaix, El

Salvador; Mrs. Margarita de Dubois,

Panama; Mrs. Magdalena Conte de

Duque, Panama; Miss Mercedes Gordillo, Nicaragua; Mrs. Gladys de Capriles

de Maduro, Costa Rica; Mrs. Marta

McCray, Panama; Mrs. Laura de

McEntee, El Salvador; Mrs. Maria

Asuncion de Mejia, Honduras; Miss

Esther Mezenille Ossaye, Costa Rica; Mrs. Alicia Mayorga de Palarea, Guatemala; Mrs. Aurora Presas, Curundu,

Canal Zone; Mrs. Thelma C. de Quijano, Panama; Mrs. Estela Portillo de

Ramirez, Guatemala; Mrs. Pura James de Ross, Guatemala; Mrs. Simcha Sasso de Sasso, Costa Rica; Mrs. Josette Strat- mann, Curundu, Canal Zone; Mrs. Car- men de Valdez, EI Salvador; Mrs. Cora

Ann Yore, Panama; Miss Eva Dolores

Zapata, Honduras; Mrs. Francisca Elena

de Ordonez, Honduras; and Mrs. Liana

Somarriba de Morales, Nicaragua.

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Former Panama Carnival Queens Miss Catita Lewis; Mrs. Sarita Chiari Selee; Miss Ruti Ehrman; Mrs. Elena Aleman Tapia, Queen of the

Pollera; Mrs. Manuelita Vallarino Morrice, Queen of the 1910 Panama Carnival; Miss Vivian Nahmad, 1962 Balboa High School Carnival Queen; Miss Elida Arias; and Mrs. Maria Esther Arango Arosemena at Isthmian Historical Society meeting. Mrs. Amy McCormick,

moderator, and Mrs. Marie Arias Smith, a member of the 1910 Carnival Court, are seated behind table. This Is Carnaval

Its history, traditions, color, spirit,

legend, whys, and wherefores.

( anal Zone Gov. Robert J. Fleming, Jr., greets 1961 Panama Carnival Queen Ana Raquel

Chanis during Hag-raising in Balboa. At left is Hernan Arias and, in the center, Enrique Rogers.

IN SPANISH it's Carnaval, in English,

Carnival, in French it's Mardi Gras. But

in any language it is a term applied

to a time of festivity, gaiety, and

general merriment.

The festival, no matter what it is called or where it is celebrated, has its origin in religion and ancient traditions dating to the pre-Christian era, but in Christian garb it has emerged as a pre-Lenten holiday.

In Panama, the 4-day festival begins on the Saturday before the arrival of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Each of the 4 days has been, by tradition, given over to a distinct set of events and

traditions, but each and all of them

have a single motif: Celebrate now in preparation for the austere season

of Lent. The opening day of the 1962 Carnival of the Americas, in Panama, will be Saturday, March 3, and the observ- ance will come to an end at dawn on Ash Wednesday, March 7. The first day of the Panama Carnival

is, traditionally, Coronation Day. The

Carnival Queen and her entourage enter

the city during the morning and greet

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Momo, Monarch of Merriment, who

will reign for 3 days. At the end of the 3 days, Momo, in the role of Pescado,

Prince of the Fishes, must return for another year to the kingdom of his

fathers. As a mark of the times, Momo

now arrives at Tocumen Airport. In days of yore, he would come in a boat

from Taboga-way. Saturday evening,

the coronation of the Carnival Queen

takes place. With the seating of Momo

and the crowning of the Queen, the

fiesta is considered officially open. Sunday, the second day, is Pollera Day and everyone who has one of the

colorful dresses participates in a seemingly never-ending parade along Central Ave. Sunday evening is one of the

gayest of the Carnival, with pollera and

montuna-clad participants attending

dances throughout the city. Monday, which has no official title, usually is the quietest of the Carnival. The Queen and her court appear in comparsa, or group costumes, and Carnival revelers follow suit, engaging in their own brand of festive hi-jinks.

The fourth and last full day of Carnival, Tuesday, is highlighted by the Carnival parade of floats in the after- noon, while the frenzied beat of Carnival music throbs faster and faster for the dances that start early and conclude

only with the dawn. The Carnival

Queen, her court, and all her subjects, appear in their most elaborate and colorful costumes. On this final day of Carnival, all serious business is put aside

until Lent begins.

The beginning of the Lenten season and the conclusion of the Carnival comes with the "burial of the fish." This ceremony, held at dawn on Ash Wednesday, is symbolic of the legendary

transformation of Momo, god of the fun and frolic of Carnival, into a fish because he overstayed the earthly

sojourn permitted him by his masters

in the ocean deeps. With the return of the fish to the sea, the gaiety subsides. Carnival is over, and the austerity of Lent begins.

All residents and tourists in Panama

at Carnival time are welcome to participate in the 4-day celebration. Doing

so is simply a matter of being in the

right place at the right time—and understanding at least the basic ingredients

of the spice and ginger cake which

is Carnival. Throughout the festivities, there are many scheduled and unscheduled activities of a public or semi-public nature in which one and all are free to participate.

The start of pre-Carnival planning

and preparation always is signaled by

the raising of the Carnival flag in the

various communities of Panama and the

Queen

of the Pollera Mrs. Elena Aleman Tapia

displays

pollera de lujo.

Canal Zone. This year, the flag was

raised on the Pacific side of the Zone,

with members of the Board of Directors

of the Panama Canal Company and the 1961 Carnival Queen, Ana Raquel

Chanis, participating, on January 19. The Cristobal flag-raising ceremonies, held in conjunction with the Colon

flag-raising, was held on February 1. The following day, the Carnival flag

went up in Santa Cruz, halfway

between the two oceans, and on February 25 the flag was raised in Rainbow

City, to bring the entire Zone into the

whirligig of pre-Carnival preparations.

These pre-Carnival activities include

the readying of the costumes to be worn,

floats to be used in the parade, and, most important of all, selection of queens bv the various communities and

participating organizations planning

their own localized observances in connection with the festivities. Although most of the public attention is, by the nature of such things, focused on the Queens of Panama City and Colon, each

of the queens is sovereign onlv in the community which she represents. Last month, as the pre-Carnival pre- parations moved into high gear on the Isthmus, the monthly meeting of the Isthmian Historical Society featured a discussion of Carnival events over the

years since the first official Carnival was held under the sanction and supporting sponsorship of the Government

of the Republic of Panama in 1910. Carnival Queens from 1910, 1915, 1918,

1924, 1925, and 1929 were present. Mrs. Elena Aleman de Tapia, Queen of the Pollera, and Miss Vivian Nahmad,

1962 Carnival Queen of Balboa High

School, also participated in the pro- gram. To complete the Carnival-oriented

meeting, a number of native dances were performed by Queen Vivian and

Professor Domingo Dominguez, in whose dancing class she is a pupil. Professor Dominguez also danced with

Mrs. Tapia, herself a skilled performer

of the tamborito, the punto, and the

intricate cumbia.

Mrs. Frank Morrice was the first

official Carnival Queen of Panama. The

1910 festival over which she reigned was the first Carnival endorsed and sup- ported by the Republic of Panama.

Until that year. Carnival had been

almost solely a haphazard observance

celebrated with much rowdiness.

The 1910 Carnival, spurred on by a

contest in the leading daily newspaper

to select a Queen, launched the. official festival. The contestants for Queen

dwindled to five finalists and was won

bv Manuelita Vallarino, now Mrs. Morrice. She was crowned in the National

Theater on the last day of the festivities,

(See p. 14)

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Carnival ZJimeyJ Jun for cAll

Photos bjfl Halcon

Monio. Monarch of Carnival Merriment, joins in dancing.

I'lie sea and the life it contains are a central theme of Carnival

as these two parade floats indicate.

Children also get into appfjate costumes for Carnival.

A group of young men formu's distinctive parade unit.

Dancing and general revelry frequently continues into the wee, small ho

Parade float depicting legendary Chinese dragons also features beautiful girls.

The parade, highlight and near-conclusion of the 4-day Carnival, produces, crowds, crowds, and more crowds.
Balboa High Queen

Vivian Xalimad

with

Professor Domingo

Dominguez,

Anthony Seotttino, and

Julio Barba.

This Is Carnaval

i Continued from p. 11 )

rather than on the first day as presentclav queens are crowned. Mrs. Marie

Arias Smith, a member of the court in 1910, described the beauty of the coronation ceremony.

Miss Ruti Ehrman, Panama's Carnival Queen of 1929, spoke of the changes in the Carnival celebration the year she was crowned, when the Union Club in Panama was the center

of the Queen's activities. She was the onlv contestant for Queen that year. "There was no competition. Everything was peaceful," she recalled. Another of the Queens, Miss Elida

Arias, said that in those days, the Carnival Queen always was treated with

the greatest gallantry and often sup- planted the President of the Republic

at functions attended by both. Both Mrs. Tapia and Miss Nahmad

wore polleras and the highly stylized

jewelry which completes the costume,

while Julio Barba, Miss Nahmad's

escort, wore the male's traditional Carnival costume of montuno and the "sombrero de Penonome."

These costumes, as much a part of the Carnival tradition as Momo and the various Queens, are peculiar to the Isth- mus and are believed to have developed

among the servant classes. Each of them

s an intriguing history, as Mrs. J. Bar- Smith explained to those attending

the meeting.

The word "pollera" comes from

"polla," or chicken, a slang term for a young girl. Although it has become

more and more elaboi ate over the years,

tradition governs the fashioning of the dress. The pollera de lujo worn by Mrs. Tapia was embroidered exquisitely in blue and adorned with handmade lace. The background of the pollera always is white handkerchief linen of fine lawn,

and the skirt is full, ranging from 6 to 8 yards at the hem. Cross-stitch embroidery or applique, all by hand, are used

in decoration. Handmade insertion is whipped onto each hem of the pollera's numerous ruffles, and to this is gathered

lace edgings.

Colored yarn is drawn through the meshes of the wide "off-shoulder" lace bertha and ends in a large pom-pom at front and back. Small ribbon tabs at the waistband and heelless slippers, or

zapatillas, match the embroidery and

pom-poms.

One to three petticoats are worn

under the pollera, with the outer one

also elaborately adorned with needle- work and fine lace, for it is shown

when the skirt of the pollera is coquettishlv lifted during the traditional native dances. Tembleque ornaments, worn in pairs, now are fashioned of tinsel wire and

beads into the shape of flowers, birds,

and butterflies and are anchored to hair- pins in clusters at either side of the head. Heirloom tembleques, however,

treasured by many of Panama's older and wealthier families, are entirely of

gold. Above the tembleques are worn

gold-mounted peinetas and, at the back

of the head, stately peineta de balcon,

or high comb, and peineta de luces, which reflect light and glisten in it. Onlv yellow gold is worn with the

pollera, and pearls and coral are the

only jewels allowed. Mrs. Tapia wore

heirloom jewelry, with the traditional cadena chata, a flat gold chain which

usually ends in an ornamental religious

piece or a flexible fish, the latter forming

a link with the legend of Pescado. Pearls are used in the mosqueta, a rounded

gold disk with graduated terraces set with pearls, with a large pearl in the center. The montuno still is the customary

attire of men in the remote interior provinces of Panama and derives its name

from the fact that it was originated by

mountaineers.

Fashioned of heavy, coarse, white

cloth, the montuno has short, belowthe-knee trousers, which frequently are

ravelled into a fringe thieklv inter- spersed with colored threads, and a loose tunic, or overshirt, similarly

ravelled and decorated. Leather sandals

are worn on bare feet and, since the

trousers have no pockets, a handwoven

mochila is slung from one shoulder to carry anything ordinarily carried in pockets. The costume is topped by a hancKvoven hat, the "sombrero de

Penonome."

The feminine counterpart of this cos- tume is the montuna, sometimes called

a rumba hombre, or man-killer. In colonial days, this was the dress of the

servants, or slaves. The full-gathered

skirt is made of gay-flowered material edged with narrow lace at the hem.

Small ribbon tabs at the front and ba?k

of the skirtband match the flat slippers

and pom-poms of the lace-trimmed, off- the-shoulder blouse. The chief differ- ence between the blouse of the montuna

and that of the pollera fiesta is that the former has one ruffle, while the latter has two. A handwoven hat also is worn with

the montuna. This hat, like the man's,

is turned up in front and usually is fastened with a pom-pom, while a matching ribbon streamer hangs down

the back The original wearers of the montuna had long black braids, which

today's girls, with their short hair, often

imitate with yarn braids. "Toldos," open air-dance halls that are as typical of Panama as the pollera, are erected in different areas of the city for dancing and merriment. Here a person may dance all night for a small

fee. Outside the toldos, vendors have

tamales, tortillas, carne en pahto (small

pieces of barbecued beef on a stick), and beverages available for the dancers. Thus is the Carnival and its traditional costumes, dances, legends, and

history upheld in present-day Panama,

where the entire populace joins in the

colorful festivities and general merri- ment of the pre-Lenten celebration.

14 March 2, 1962
DESPITE a change in plans for the accelerated vacation season sailing

schedule of the Panama Canal Company's Cristobal, all employees with

reservations on the vessel for the

affected period will be accommodated

within a few days of their originally

scheduled dates. In announcing a revised scheduled

for the vessel for the remainder of this year, officials of the Water Transportation Division said the revisions were

necessary in order to provide more time

between arrival and departure of the

ship at both New Orleans and Cristobal. Under the revised plans, the Cristobal

will make the round trip from Cristobal

to New Orleans and back to Cristobal

in 11 days instead of 10 days during

the accelerated sailing schedule, which

goes into effect with the April 2 sailing

from Cristobal. The present winter

schedule of 14 days for the round trip

is not affected by the changes.

Employees scheduled to sail from

New Orleans on July 3 under the

originally planned schedule will be

divided between the sailings of June 26

and July 7. Those with school children who were scheduled to sail from New

Orleans on July 3 are being reassigned

to the July 7 sailing, while those without

school children will be reassigned to the June 26 sailing.

The original plans for the accelerated vacation schedule provided only 14 hours for unloading and loading the

ship at Cristobal. This was found to be

too short a time and under the new

schedule there will be 32 hours between

arrival and sailing at Cristobal. The

53 hours allotted for stevedoring at New

Orleans will be extended to 56 hours. During the 11-day schedule, the ship

will leave Cristobal at 3 p.m. and New

Orleans at 4 p.m. Arrival time at New

Orleans will be 8 a.m. and at Cristobal

it will be 7 a.m. The complete schedule

through the remainder of 1962 is printed herewith, along with a listing of the changes made in reservations issued prior to the change from a 10-day

round trip to an 11-day round trip for the vacation schedule.

Schedule of Cristobal For Remainder of 1962

Leave

New Orleans

1 p.m. February 27

March ' 13

Leave

New Orleans 4 p.m. March

April

Arrive

Cristobal 7 a.m. March 3

March 17

Arrive

Cristobal 7 a.m.

April

May

May

May

[une

June

June

"Julv

'July

"July

"August

"August

"August

"September

September

October

October

October

November

November

December

26

9

20

112

23

3

14

26

7

18

29

9

20

31

1122

3

16

30

13

27

11

March

April

April

May

May

May

June

June

June

July

July

August

August

August

September

September

September

October

October

November

November

December

December

30

13

24

5

16

27

7

18

30

11

13

24

4

15

26

720

3

17

1 15

Leave

Cristobal

1 p.m. March 5

March 19

Leave

Cristobal 3 p.m.

> April

Arrive

New Orleans

8 a.m. March 9

March 23

Arrive

Neiv Orleans

8 a.m.

April

April

May

May

"May

"June

"June

"July

"July

"July

August

August

August

September

September

September

October

October

November

November

December

December

1425

6

1728

8

19

1 1223

3

14

25

5

16

27

5

19

3

18

April

April

April

May

May

June

June

June

July

July

J«iy

August

August

August

September

September

October

October

October

November

November

December

December

6

18

29

10

21

11223

5

16

27

7

18

29

9

20

1 1226

9

23

7

Schedule

of Cristobal

Revised

Reservation Changes

FROM

Former

Reservation

March

April

April

April

May

May

May

June

June

30

9

1929

9

19

29

18

28

7

1727

616

26

July

July

July

August

August

August

September 4 September 14 September 24

FROM

Former

Reservation

Sails at 1 p.m.

" Preference for passage on these ships will be given to teachers and employees with

children of school age traveling with them.

April

April

April
Public tribute to retiring Governor Carter brought a crowd of spectators and participants to the Balboa Heights Administration Building.

This is the artist's concept of how the new Gamboa post office will look when completed.

MODERN functional post office design

main feature of the new Gamboa

Office now under construction by

li rias Unidas de Colon, S.A. at a

E $] 1,700. Built on the foundations oi th former frame post office building, the new post office will be of

steel and cement block construction.

It will have outside post boxes on one

side, a lobby for the service windows

at the front and a loading platform at the back. Scheduled for completion

about July 15, it will be opened to the

public short time later. During the time that the new post

office is being built, a temporary post

office for Gamboa has been set up in the Gamboa Housing Division Office.

THE TAMBORITO and the cumbia,

danced with graceful sweeps of polleras to the beat of native drums, brought

a brief flurry of gaiety and native color

to the staid Balboa Heights Administration Building late in January when a group of Panamanian citizens honored

retiring Gov. W. A. Carter at a public

ceremony of tribute. One of the first such events ever

staged at the Administration Building,

the demonstration was attended by offi- cials as well as private citizens from

Panama. Students from the National

Institute of Panama participated in the

native folk dancing, which concluded a ceremony during which Governor

Carter was presented a medallion as

a token of esteem from the Panamanian

people.

The former Governor left the Isth- mus by plane January 25 for Washington, D.C., where he took over his new

position as senior engineer advisor of the Inter-American Development Bank.

He was succeeded in February by Maj. Gen. Robert J. Fleming, Jr., who first visited the Isthmus during the January

meeting of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company and then

returned on February 2 to assume his new duties as Governor of the Canal

Zone and President of the Panama

Canal Company.

16 March 2, 1962
ll/orth Knowing,

"WHAT'S WRONG with you guys?

I sent my little boy up there with his older sister and it should be obvious

I wanted a doctor to see him. I certainly didn't want him sitting there for an hour while you goofed around trying

to call me." The speaker is an irate parent and the

listener a member of the hospital staff who frequently has difficulty over- coming the angry flow of words to explain the whys and wherefores of the

situation, which is typical of a recurring

problem for the hospitals and a source

of annoyance to parents.

Back of the misunderstanding is the requirement that Canal Zone hospitals must have the consent of a parent or

legal guardian before a doctor can examine or provide treatment for a minor. Even in an emergency, treat- ment must await authority from the parent unless delav would endanger the

life or future health of the child. Hospital and legal authorities point out that all the difficulty can be avoided

if parents unable to accompany a minor child to the hospital send a written consent, or telephone immediately prior to the appointment to give

verbal consent. ( Under Canal Zone law,

an) person under 21 years of age is considered a minor, except a married

female 18 years of age or older.

)

In preparing a written note for the

child, the parent or legal guardian

should give the youngster's name and

refer to the condition for which treat- ment is sought, for a consent is not valid

if too general or if it refers to unrelated

conditions. The hospital and legal authorities

also point out that the requirement is for the protection of the minor against

mistreatment and thus should be viewed

by parents as an additional assurance

rather than an annovance.

THE COMPASS, an external house

organ published bv the Soconv Mobil

Oil Co., Inc., devoted the entire cover and five inside pages of the JanuaryFebruary issue to an article on the Panama Canal, which it refers to as "The Canal That Couldn't Be Dug."

The cover picture, in color, shows a ship and tug northbound in Gaillard Cut near Contractors Hill. The pictures

illustrating the article, all but one of them in color, show the locks, work on

the current Cut-widening project, and

other Canal sights. Photographs used

for both the cover and to illustrate the

article were supplied by the Panama

Canal Compam

.

Karma Carles of Muehachas Guias,

Martha Jane Spinney

of Girl Scouts of

the U.S.A., and

Petunia Marshall

of International Girl

Scouts symbolize

international

character of

Isthmian Girl Scout

activities.

MORE THAN 1,000 Canal Zone Girl Scouts and approximately 300 adult

leaders paused late last month in their usual round of troop meetings and activities to honor the memory of the founder

of the Scout movement. Lord Robert

Baden-Powell, and Juliette Low. who

established the first troop of Girl Scouts

of the U.S.A. The same girls and adult leaders also were making special preparations to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of that first troop by Juliette Low on March 12, 1912. Since that first troop of 12 girls met in Savannah, Ga., almost 18' • million girls, women, and men have participated in programs asso- ciated with the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. The Girl Scouts in the Canal Zone,

like their counterparts in the United

States and 48 other countries around the world where U.S. citizens live, have a long tradition of international friendship. Each year, hundreds of teenage

girls and adults participate in an inter- national exchange program sponsored

by the Girl Scouts of" the U.S.A. in cooperation with 51 member countries

of the World Association of Girl Guides

and Girl Scouts. In the Canal Zone, however, associations between girls of three different and

distinct scouting organizations are almost

daily events. For here, the Girl Scouts

of the U.S.A. rub shoulders and exchange

experiences and knowledge with both

the Muehachas Guias of Panama and

the International Girl Scouts of the Canal Zone.

Officials of both the other Girl Scout

organizations on the Isthmus were

guests of the Canal Zone Council, Girl

Scouts of the U.S.A., at the Juliette Low teas held on each side of the Isth- mus last month to honor the woman

who first introduced Girl Scouting to the United States. The international friendship programs

carried out by troops of the Canal Zone

Council, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.,

include welfare projects on behalf of various organizations in Panama, with

particular emphasis on orphanages and

similar institutions. There also are frequent meetings

between troops of the various Girl Scout

organizations on the Isthmus. These

meetings usually are planned to provide an exchange of knowledge between the

girls of the different organizations. In

this way. members of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. learn something of Isthmian

and Caribbean folkways, handicraft,

and language, while members of the Muehachas Guias and International Girl Scouts learn similar things about the United States and its citizens. Capstone of local events marking the 50th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. on March 12 will be

issuance of a stamp commemorating the

date. This stamp, issued by the Canal

Zone Postal Division, carries a trefoil design in the foreground and palm trees,

tents, and the Canal in the background.

Present officers of the Canal Zone

Council, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., are Mrs. Harold Spinney, Los Rios, President; Mrs. Walter O'Conner, Fort

Clayton, First Vice President; Mrs. Robert Piper, Quarry Heights, Second

Vice President; and Mrs. Nellie T.

Farrell, Executive Director.

The Panama Canal Review 17
JOHN E. DOVE, who said his goodbyes at Palo Seco Leprosarium on

January 30, will be remembered fondly

by the patients, who honored him on

his last day there. Later, he went to the Administration Building at Balboa

Heights to receive a retirement certifi- cate lor 47 years, 2 months, and 12 days

of Company/Government service. Handkerchiefs were used unashamedlv

!o wipe away tears during a gathering

in the Palo Seco Recreation Hall, as several of the patients at Palo Seco

voiced the deep appreciation of their fellow patients and themselves for the

ministrations they had received from

Mr. Dove for more than a third of a century.

Francisco Arosemena, endeavoring to put his gratitude and that of other

patients into words, said, '"For 37 years you've lived with us and aided us, and

our deepest thanks go out to you for all you did for us. I well remember how

vou came to us in the little launch, even when the seas were roughest. May God

go with you."

Simeon Hall, with tears streaming

down his face, said there was no music,

but no music was needed; there was no

chorus of voices to sing a farewell melody, but no farewell songs were

required by those present, moved, as they were, by sincere sentiment.

In addition to the verbal tributes, Mr. Dove was presented a watch from

patients and fellow employees at the

John E. Dove, in suit, poses with patients and fellow employees at Palo Seco Leprosarium.

leprosarium. The presentation was made

by Adrienne Charles. An inscription on

the back of the watch bears the name

John E. Dove and the dates, August

1925-January 1962. The honor guest noted, in his speech

of acceptance, that he had come to Palo Seco for a temporary assignment, expecting to remain 7 days at the most. He

remained for 37 years. Arriving on the Isthmus on May 1, 1914, Mr. Dove's first employment

with the Canal organization was as a

waiter. He worked at the Tivoli Hotel,

the Hotel Aspinwall on Taboga Island,

and in the La Boca restaurant. In 1917

he transferred to the Health Bureau and,

prior to his position at Palo Seco, was

an attendant at Ancon Hospital.

On August 7, 1925, he went to Palo Seco as a medical aid and, in his own

words, "dedicated myself to the purpose

for which I came." The spontaneous

tributes paid him by the gathering in the Palo Seco Recreation Hall on his

last work day demonstrated that his dedication was sincere and appreciated.

PEOPLE

Joseph Trower, left, and Roger Chastain.

f"* )

tt»OaBoA YOUNG MAN on his way up. This

description would seem to fit Joseph

Trower, a Balboa High School graduate

who is studying industrial engineering

at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and simultaneously is becoming

a success in the entertainment field. Young Joe recently stepped up

another rung on the ladder to success as

a professional musician when he and a college friend recorded a guitar and

vocal version of a song named "Jungle

Lullaby."

The record, according to first reports

from such experts as American Bandstand and National Music Survey, Inc., has all the earmarks of a hit. In fact, the recording was chosen In- National Music Survey, which services about 1,200 stations all over the United

States, as its pick hit of the week and

American Bandstand gave it 97 out of a possible 98 points for first place in a weekly review.

In record publishing circles, this means that success in a difficult field may be in sight and that the students

may really break into the "big time." Young Trower and his friend, Roger

Chastain of Georgia, call themselves

"The Legends," when appearing professionally. In private or student life, they

are a pair of senior engineering students who expect to graduate from Georgia

Tech in June. Joe is the son of the late R. M. Trower

and Mrs. Trower of Balboa. He was

born in the Canal Zone, attended Canal

Zone schools, and was graduated from

Balboa High School in "l958. He took up the guitar in his primary school days

and became expert in his high school

vears under supervision of Victor Herr,

former Director of Music at Balboa

High School.

In college, he met young Chastain.

joined the glee club, played the guitar,

and last \ car made a tour of Europe

with a group of other students from

Georgia Tech. They also appeared on amateur programs and in night clubs

in addition to keeping up with their

.iiLMiuri ing studies at college

IS March 2, 1962
HfW.

WALTER R. LINDSAY, Canal Zone

agronomist, a man who has left his mark

on the Isthmus in the form of many of the now common trees and shrubs used

in local landscaping, is on his way to a hobby-filled retirement in Florida. 'With

his wife, Mr. Lindsay Lft the Isthmus on February 20 aboard the Cristobal,

after 31 years, 1 month, and 11 days of service with the Canal organization.

The retiring agronomist has been

responsible for bringing many new

plants to the Isthmus, but few of them

are more striking than the Norfolk Island pine trees which can be seen here and

there in both the Zone and Panama.

This vividly green tree with the characteristic pine contours has survived in the Isthmian climate, but Mr. Lindsay

fears they may never reproduce.

His landscaping work also has contributed to the beauty of both the Zone

and Panama, where he frequently has

aided and advised friends and officials in their landscaping problems. Mr. Lindsay directed the work performed at the Canal Zone Governor's residence in pre- paration for the visit of Her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth II in 195.3. Six years

later he repeated the performance to provide a background for the reception

for Prince Philip. Mr. Lindsay was born at Paia on the

island of Maui, in what was then the

Territory of Hawaii, and grew up in the horticultural environment of the 50th State. His father was an engineer

on vessels which traveled to the Orient,

but Walter followed in the footsteps of an uncle who had the onlv nursery on

the island of Maui.

Having chosen agronomy as his field. Walter spent summer vacations working

as a supervisor of laborers on pineapple

plantations in the Pacific island group. He joined the Canal organization in December 1930, after receiving his bachelor of science degree from Washington State College. His first job was

supervisor of cultures at the Canal Zone

Experimental Gardens, Summit. The

Gardens were relatively new in those

days, having been established only some

half-dozen years previously on the site of a former poultry farm. Named Acting Directorof the Gardens

in mid-1936, he was advanced to Director 2 years later and in June 1950 was named Chief of the then newly established Grounds Maintenance Division. He was transferred to the position of agronomist with the consolidation which

resulted in the present Community

Services Division. Mr. Lindsay is the author of papers on mangosteen cultivation, on teak in the Canal Zone, on the natural resources

of the Panama area, and on edible and

poisonous fruits of the Caribbean area. He was one of the organizers of the Canal Zone Gem and Mineral Society, was a charter member of the Orchid

Society, and was 1961 president of the Canal Zone Natural History Society.

Walter R. Lindsay and Norfolk Island pine.

That hobby-filled retirement? Even

before he left the Isthmus, Mr. Lindsay

had forwarded numerous orchids and

rocks to St. Petersburg, Fla., thus pre- paring to continue two of his several hobbies in the additional spare time

which he now will have. OF INTEREST

TEN DAYS spent in the Canal Zone

undoubtedly will be remembered

fondly for many years by 11-year-old

Beida Batista, a resident of a small Panamanian village north of Divisa. Winsome Beida, shy but inquisitive, visited the Zone as a houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Loga of Los Rins. The Logas first met Beida last summer,

after renting a house in the Panamanian village of Paris, where the young

girl makes her home with the farm

family of Julio Cedeno.

Living next door, Beida soon became

a frequent visitor, assisting Mrs. Loga

with the housework. Pleased with

Beida's intelligence and natural charm,

the Canal Zone couple promised her the Zone visit if she got good grades in school. The young girl paid heed and

completed her fifth year of school with

the equivalent of five A's and one B. The 10-day visit to the Zone followed. The trip to the Zone was the first time

that Beida had been south of Divisa,

which is 12 miles from Paris. The

journey, made in the company of

Mr. Loga anil a hunting companion,

Clifford Samuels, elicited a constant

flow of questions from Beida. Fascinated bv the people, traffic, stores, merchandise, and other unfamiliar sights in the Zone and the neighboring parts of Panama, Beida was treat d

to several shopping and sightseeing trips into Panama Citv. These included a

visit to tho-^fnarket. another—to- -the Sunday morning drawing of the National

Lottery, and a trip downtown to watch

the parade in honor of Don Bosco on

January 31. In the Canal Zone, she visited Miraflores Locks, Contractors Hill, the

Administration Building at Balboa

Heights, was conducted on a tour of the SS Cristobal, and made a round trip

between Balboa and Gamboa on the Panama Railroad.

Outfitted with the first readymade

clothes she ever has owned, Beida left for home 10 days after arrival, pro- fuse in her thanks and appreciation.

Undoubtedly she has been busily telling of her adventures ever since, but the

fond memories are not hers alone— the Logas also have main that will not soon be forgotten.

Beida Batista

The Panama Canal Review 19
ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

WalpeiTy? Bernard

Storekeeping Clerk

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

James J. Morris

ruction Inx^i

rathwaitj

Drive ARISE fiUREAU

W- Lloatanye

rv, ?ttertygrapliv Pa

'nter

s Simons enance Painter SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Samuel J. Silcott Heavy Laundry Worker

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Clyde S. Prescott Track Leader Laborer

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Julius Cheney

Leader Electrician Robert W. Anderson

Stockman

Ralph L. Sell Lead Foreman, Quarters

Maintenance

Meano Actorus Brown

Oiler Christopher T. Cox

Laborer Cleaner Manuel M. Camarena

Heavy Laborer

Liyala £. Bailey

Heavy Laborer

Seiford N. Lynch

Floating Plant Water Tender

George McKenzie

Maintenanceman

Reginald P. Young

Seaman

HEALTH BUREAU

Nadine W. Cain

Head Nurse, Psychiatry

Ruby E. Ford

Staff Nurse

Antonio Olmedo

Heavy Pest Control Laborer

Cecil G. Wilmot

Nursing Assistant Vivian V. Pinto G>ok

1 1 airy White

Hospital Laborer MARINE BUREAU

R<>\ G. Lattin Chief Engineer, Towboat or Ferry

Fred M. Weade

Canal Pilot Nelson R. Clark

Supervisory Marine Traffic Controller Lambert W. Kat Towboat or Ferry Master

Rupert A. Tomlinson

Helper Shipwright

Jose Gonzalez Seaman

Edgard U.

Teletypist Inocencio Torres General Helper

Julio Macia

Oiler Marcial Esq

Seaman

James P. B

Leader

John S. Romelis

Timekeeper

James S. Best Heavy Laborer

L. C. Greenidge

Oiler Renaldo E. Henry

Deckhand

Emelio B. Humphries Boatman

Vincent Correa Maintenance Painter Marcos Darkuin

Helper Lock Operator

Alejo G. Guevara Heavy Laborer

Rogelio A. Canizales Launch Operator Juan Gorrichategui

Launch Operator

Frank L. Maloney

Helper Lock Operator

Louis E. Palmer

Sheetmetal Worker

Luis C. Quintero

Typewriter Repairman

OFFICE OF THE

COMPTROLLER

Thomas H. Scott Chief Accountant

Cost Accountant

rator MMUNITY

JREAU

Cecil W. Haughton

Warehouseman

Louis George Jean

Clerk

Enith U. Clarke Meat Packager

Annetta B. Remice

Counter Attendant Egbert Arboine

Dry Cleaning Presser Rosa Amelia Prados Meat Packager

Elphina A. Williams

Retail Store Sales Checkei

Lloyd H. Harriott General Helper

Agustin Garcia

Service Center Supervisor Ernest Bernard Baker

_ May Louise Johnson

Retail Store Sales Checker

Cathrine Brown

Cook

Pablo Del Cid

Leader Milker Claudine A. Daxon

Sales Clerk William B. Mallory

Chief, Motion Picture Service, Balboa Theater

Estella T. Nelson

Sales Clerk Ruth I. Callender

Retail Store Sales Checker

John II. Blades Maintenanceman

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Lorenzo Garay

Lead Foreman Dock Cargo

Operations Gustavo Rivas Automotive Mechanic

George G. Mandeville

Truck Driver Clarence P. Whyte

Helper Locomotive Engineer

Rupert S. Austin Automotive Equipment

Serviceman

Victor L. Caldera

Railroad Trackman

Vernal C. Williams Chauffeur

Reginald M. Myrie

Truck Driver

Phillip A. Gill Truck Driver Uriah A. Williams Brakeman

Joseph Savoury

Painter

20 March 2, 1962
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

EMPLOYEES who were promoted or

transferred between January 5 and

February 5 are listed below. Withingrade promotions and job reclassifica- tions are not listed. EXECUTIVE PLANNING STAFF

Thomas E. Burrow, from Supervisory Organization Methods Examiner, to Management Analysis Officer (Assistant Chief, Executive Planning Staff). R. Trendon Vestal, from Organization and

Methods Examiner, to Management

Analyst (Plans Officer). CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Wiltna D. Crump, Secretary (Stenography),

from Office of the Director, Transportation and Terminals Bureau, to Office of the Director. Hector Ching, from Truck Driver, Motor

Transportation Division, to Detention

Guard, Police Division. Division of Schools

Anita M. McClelland, from Substitute Teacher, to Elementary and Secondary- School Teacher. Eunice E. Mason, from Substitute Teacher,

Latin American Schools, to Elementary

Teacher, Latin American Schools. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

Edward M. Browder, Jr., from General Engineer (Assistant Engineering and

Construction Director), to Supervisory General Engineer (Assistant Engineering

and Construction Director), Office of the

Director.Engineering Division Meyer S. Slotkin, from General Engineer

(Assistant Designing Engineer), to Supervisory General Engineer (Assistant Designing Engineer).

Edward H. Allen, from Mechanical Engineer (Industrial Equipment), to Supervisory General Engineer (Chief, Locks Overhaul and Maintenance Branch).

Wayne H. Nellis, from Electrical Engineer

(General), to Electronic Engineer

(General). Sidney Temple, File Clerk, from Administrative Branch. Dredging Division Francesco Viglietti, William H. Gordon,

Larchan H. Robinson, from Launch

Operator, to Motor Launch Captain.

John F. Runck, from Guard, Locks Division, to Property and Supply Clerk. Joseph Mathurin, from Seaman, to Floating

Plant Oiler. Rieardo R. Reefer, from Utility Worker,

Supply Division, to Heavy Laborer.

Electrical Division Robert H. McConaughey, from Apprentice Power Plant Operator, First Year, to Apprentice Power Plant Operator,

Second Year. Livingstone B. Reece, from Helper Armature Winder, to Electroplater (Limited I. Henry S. Steven, from Laborer, to Heavy

Laborer.Maintenance Division Meano A. Brown. Hector M. DeSouza,

Sidney A. Gordon, Herman G. Myles.

from Oiler, to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Plant Operator. Salvador Navas, from Heavy Laborer, to General Helper.

Carlos Herazo, from Utility Worker, SupJanuary 5 through February 5

ply Division, to Asphalt or Cement

Worker.

Contract and Inspection Division Junior C. Billingsley, from Towing Locomotive Engineer, Locks Division, to Construction Inspector (General). HEALTH BUREAU

Jimmy R. Givens, from Accountant, to Graduate Intern (Administrative Services) Office of the Director. Reginald F. Sandiford, from Hospital

Laborer, Gorgas Hospital, to Nursing

Assistant (Psychiatry), Corozal Hospital. Carlos L. James, from Laborer Cleaner,

Supply Division, to Kitchen Attendant,

Palo Seco Leprosarium.

Gorgas Hospital Alexander Egudin, from Pharmacist, to Supervisory Pharmacist. Geraldine W. Knick, from Staff Nurse, to Nurse Supervisor.

OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Jerome E. Steiner, from Supervisory

Cashier, to Supervisory Cashier (Assist- ant Treasurer), Treasury Branch. John C. Paige, from Teller, to Supervisory

Cashier, Treasury Branch.

Phyllis D. Powers, from Accounting Assistant, Supply Division, to Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Accounting Division. MARINE BUREAU

Walter A. Dryja, from Administrative Services Officer (Assistant to Marine Director) to Industrial Engineer (Assistant to Marine Director), Office of the Director. George Warren, from Service Station Attendant, Supply Division, to Helper

Rigger, Navigation Division. Jose M. Yanguez, from Laborer, Community Services Division, to Helper Carpenter, Industrial Division. Locks Division Martha J. M. McGee, Clerk-Typist, from

Employment and Utilization Division, to Office of the Chief. Marjorie R. Butler, from Clerk, to Statisti- cal Clerk, Office of the Chief.

Jerald S. Burke, from Toolroom Attendant,

to Stock Control Clerk.

Eliott F. Brathvvaite, from Stock Control

Clerk, to Sign Painter. Floreneio Rios, from Boatman, to Leader

Boatman.

Rieardo A. Smith, from Helper Lock Operator, to Toolroom Attendant. Antonio Jimenez, Carlos F. Master, from

Line Handler, to Helper Lock Operator.

PERSONNEL BUREAU

Arline L. Millard, Clerk-Typist, from

Gorgas Hospital, to Employment and

Utilization Division. SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

George H. Neal, Instrument Repairman,

from Industrial Division. Maria T. Lopez, from Utility Worker, to Sales Clerk. Edith Edwards, from Sales Clerk, to Clerk. Roosevelt L. Grant, from Kitchen Attendant, to Cook. Maudline Jemmott, from Car Hop, to

Utility- Worker and Car Hop.

Allan R. Ellis, from Package Boy, to Laborer Cleaner. Napoleon B. Ashby, from Package Boy, to Heavy Laborer. Monica O. Marecheau, from Utility Worker,

to Counter Attendant. Alfonso Elliott, from Laborer Cleaner, to

Utility Worker.

Luis C. Quintero, Jules Vreux, Typewriter

Repairman, from Industrial Division. Oscar Edmund, Jr., Edgar R. McCollin, Anel E. Moreno, from Pinsetter, to

Utility Worker. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMLXALS

Norman E. J. Demers, from Administrative

Services Officer (Assistant to Transportation and Terminals Director) to Transportation Operations Officer (Assistant Transportation and Terminals Director),

Office of the Director. George B. Erskine, from Warehouseman,

to Accounting Clerk, Motor Transportation Division. Joseph A. Vowell, from Road and Yard

Conductor, to Road and Yard Conductor

and Train Dispatcher, Railroad Division. Terminals Division Frank A. Aird, Eric Malcolm, from Leader

Industrial Tractor Operator, to Leader

Stevedore. Florentino Chero, Vincent Mullings, from

industrial Tractor Operator, to Stevedore. Miguel Prados, from High Lift Truck Operator, to Stevedore.

Jose P. Paruta, from Dock Worker, to High

Lift Truck Operator. Pablo Bonilla, from Dock Worker, to Helper Liquid Fuels Wharfman.

Juan Tud, from Railroad Trackman, to Helper Liquid Fuels Wharfman.

Donald A. Clarke, from Clerk Checker, to Cargo Clerk. OTHER PROMOTIONS

PROMOTIONS which did not involve

changes of title follow: Marciano Batista, Nursing Assistant, Coco

Solo Hospital. Thatcher A. Clisbee, Management Analyst

(Capital Program Coordinator), Executive Planning Staff. Joseph M. Cooke, Supervisory General Engineer (Designing Engineer), Engineering Division. Sigurd E. Esser, Director of Schools (Super- intendent of Schools), Division of

Schools. Ruth A. Fishbough, Medical Record Librarian, Gorgas Hospital. Juan Flores, Winchman, Terminals Division. Margaret M. Gallardo, Medical Clerk

(Typing), Gorgas Hospital.

Eddie B. Goodrich, Electrical Engineer

(General), Engineering Division. Reginal A. Guillette, Clerk-Typist, Community Services Division. Charles T. Jackson, Jr., Administrative

Services Officer, Office of the Director,

Marine Bureau.

Earl C. Keeney, Teller, Treasury Branch. Arthur J. O'Leary, Deputy Comptroller,

Office of the Comptroller.

Harold I. Perantie, Office Services Manager

(Chief, Administrative Branch), Administrative Branch. Norman L. Randall, Jr., Structural Engineer, Engineering Division. Luz E. Reyes, Clerk-Stenographer, Accounting Division. Roy C. Stockman, Supervisory General Engineer (Chief, Locks Division), Office of the Chief, Locks Division. William C. Willoughby, Mechanical Engineer (Industrial Equipment), Engineering Division.

The Panama Canal Review 21
RETIREMENTS

EMPLOYEES who retired from service with the Panama Canal Company and

( unul Zone Government during January

are listed below with their position at the time of retirement and years of Canal service: Dhola S. Archibold, Shipworker, Terminals

Division, Cristobal; 27 years, 9 months,

23 days. , Benjamin A. Bilton, Shipworker, Terminals

Division, Cristobal; 32 years, 1 month,

6 days. Pedro B. Caceres, Heavy Laborer, Ter- minals Division; 22 years, 2 months,

14 days.

George E. Coleman, Sheet Metal Worker,

Industrial Division; 22 years, 2 months, 7 days. Eric S. Cooper, Helper Lock Operator;

15 years, 1 month, 21 days. Chris A. Devine, Electrician, Electrical Division; 11 years, 2 months, 17 days.

John E. Dove, Medical Aid, Palo Seco Leprosarium; 47 years, 2 monuis, 12 days.

Buth Dunscombe, Position Classifier, Per- sonnel Bureau; 19 years, 7 months, 22 days.

Wilbur Dunscombe, Supervisory Chemist,

Gorgas Hospital; 25 years, 3 months,

18 days. „ . Felix Ehrman, Leader Boatman, Pacmc

Locks Division; 35 years, 9 months,

20 days.

Percy M. Greenidge, Nursing Assistant, Gorgas Hospital; 42 years, 11 months, 27 days.

Enrique Grifo, Clerk, Supply Division; 36 years, 1 month, 14 days. Frederick W. Hensler, General Foreman,

Navigation Division; 13 years, 8 months,

17 days.

Zephaniah J. Jesse, Helper Pipefitter, Industrial Division; 30 years, 2 months,

6 days.

Anthony B. Lombroia, General Foreman,

Maintenance Division; 35 years, 9

months, 15 days.

William F. Long, Policeman, Atlantic District; 21 years, 5 months, 19 days.

William E. Lundy, Assistant Treasurer, Treasury Branch; 32 years, 8 months,

5 da) s. Jeanne C. Burgoon, Accounting Technician,

Accounting Division; 33 years, 7 months, 29 days.

William C. Merchant, Water Systems Controlman, Water and Laboratories Branch,

Maintenance Division; 21 years, 6

months, 27 days.

Eusebio Monserrate, Line Handler, Atlantic Locks; 42 years, 8 months, 25 days. Albert E. Prince, Storekeeping Clerk,

Supply Division; 39 years, 11 months,

1 L days.

Bomualdo Bamos, Cattle Attendant, Mindi

Dairy; 15 years, 10 months, 2 days. Walter E. Bobison, Inspector Carman, BailI Division; 20 years, 5 months,

20 days.

Joslin J. Soares, Laborer Gorgas Hospital, Health Bureau; 24 years, 7 months, 23 days. orge M. Sylvester, Senior Chief Towboat

itii in I )ivision; 18 years, 26 days.

Theophilus Trumpet. I aborer, Community

Servi ion; 32 years, 7 months,

16 < I John J. Williams, gh Lift Truck Operator, Terminals Divis i years, 5 months,

14 days.

CANAL

HISTORY

50 Years Ago

THE SPILLWAY at Gatun Dam was

closed 50 years ago this month, and

Gatun Lake was rising, under the prevailing dry season flow, at the rate of about an inch a day. Arrangements had

been made to keep the water from

rising above any specified level by dis- charging any excess. Concrete work in the spillway of Gatun Dam was more

than 81 percent completed.

Work was advancing on installation of towing locomotive tracks at both

Gatun and Pedro Miguel Locks. The

tracks to carry the electric locomotives

which control the movement of vessels through the locks were unique in comparison with ordinary first class railway

construction, with special emphasis on

durability.

President William Howard Taft ruled

that no automobile, motorcycle, or bicycle should be driven or operated over

the roads or streets of the Canal Zone

at a speed exceeding 15 miles an hour. 25 Years Ago

BIG NEWS on the Isthmus 25 years ago

this month was the announcement that a destroyer and submarine base would

be built by the U.S. Navy on the Pacific side and a U.S. Navy air station on the

Atlantic side. The plans were revealed

in Washington with publication of tes- timony in the hearings on the $526 million Navy supply bill. The bill had been

reported upon favorably by the House

Appropriations Committee and was

passed by Congress late in the month.

Gov. Clarence S. Ridley, in testimony

before the House Merchant Marine and

Fisheries Committee, urged that favor- able action be taken on a bill authorizing

superannuitv pay for non-U. S. -citizen employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad on the Isthmus. 10 Years Ago

The House Appropriations Committee

called for increased toll rates for ships

using the Panama Canal and cut the appropriation requested for the Canal

Zone Government by $1% million. Canal

officials indicated that the tolls question

would be among the first business to be

considered by the Board of Directors at a meeting in Washington, D.C. Three Department of the Army representatives met on the Isthmus with

Canal and Army officials to discuss the proposed transfer of areas in military resrvations on the Pacific side to the Panama Canal Company for the Canal

housing project. Representatives from

the office of the Secretary of the Army

were headed by Peter Beasley, Special

Consultant to the Secretary of the Army.

One Year Ago

APPOINTMENT of Col. W. P. Leber

to succeed Lt. Gov. John D. McElheney

was announced last March by Gov. W. A. Carter. Colonel Leber was to come to the Canal Zone from Washington, D.C, where he was Executive

Officer to the Chief of the Corps of Engineers.

Be Careful - Not a Statistic —ACCIDENTSFOR

THIS MONTH

AND

THIS YEAR

JANUARY FIRST AID

CASES

ALL UNITS

YEAR TO DATE

•62 188

188

•61 535(322)

535(322)

DISABLING

INJURIES

•62 '61 10 16(2)

10 16(2)

DAYS

LOST

•62 '61 6078 97

6078 97

( Locks Overhaul injuries included In total.

Maik ii 2, 1962
u^

Mrs. F. R. Johnson discusses Japanese block print with Lt. Gov. and Mrs. W. P. Leber.

Capt. Richard G. Jack signs guest book. BUDDING ARTISTS

Show at Tivoli features work

of art students in Canal Zone

Junior College classes.

BUDDING Isthmian artists, some of whom had little or no art instruction

prior to last fall, had the thrill last month of seeing their work exhibited

in the Little Gallery of the Tivoli Guest House. Under the joint sponsorship of the Canal Zone unit of the National League

of American Penwomen and the Canal

Zone Division of Schools, the show

opened late in January and continued

through March 2. The exhibit was

opened formally by Roger C. Hackett,

Dean of the Canal Zone Junior College,

and Mrs. Philip Thornton, President of the local chapter of the American Pen- women, assisted by Mrs. F. R. (Pete)

Johnson, instructor of the experimental

art classes of the Canal Zone Junior College and other school officials.

Dean Roger C. Hackett of Junior College opens Little Gallery show. Left to right are Mrs.

Johnson, Mrs. Philip Thornton, Dean Hackett, Sigurd E. Esser, Mrs. Esser,and Mrs. Hackett.

The exhibit included the best work

produced during the first semester

classes by students in the studio painting classes which meet on Saturdays

and the design classes which meet each

Thursday afternoon. The design class exhibits included

woodblock prints in oil and watercolors produced by students using the Japa- nese method of woodblock printing.

The studio paintings included repro- ductions of contemporary art and oil paintings of various subjects. Mrs. Johnson completed her studies

in fine arts last year at Columbia

University and during recent years in- structed the Palette Group of Morgan's

Hill. In addition to the Junior College

art classes, she teaches art in Diablo

Heights Junior High School. Her students this year included a number who had studied with the

Palette Group, as well as several adults who never before had tried their hand

in the field of art. The results, Mrs. Johnson says, were highly satisfactory,

especially in the work with Japanese

wood prints.

The exhibit was the first of its kind

ever held in the Little Gallery, which

normally is used to display the paintings

of professionals or advanced students. The Junior College art classes, now

several years old have grown from an

original enrollment of about a dozen

to the present enrollment of 55 in the two classes.

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o H I F F I N G

New Grace Liners

THE DIVERSITY of cargoes being

carried through the Panama Canal by

Grace Line ships in the west coast of South America trade has had a great

influence on the flexibility of arrange- ments for stowing and handling cargo

in the new vessels now being built

for the line by the Bethlehem Steel Co. yard- at Sparrows ^ Point, near

Baltimore, Md.

Southbound, the Grace ships carry automobiles and other vehicles; lubri- cating oils, detergents, and general cargo that can.be packaged in containers. Northbound ' the) "Transport

fruits from Chile, cocoa beans, balsa,

and bananas from Ecuador, coffee from

Colombia, frozen shrimp from Panama,

and liquid cargoes such as molasses and

sperm oil from Peru:' The new $17 million passenger-cargo

ship Santa Magdalena-, which was

launched in February, will be able to carry 175 standard 20-foot containers

or truck trailer vans with a total capacity of 188,600 cubic feet. She also will have 390,000 cubic feet of temperaturecontrolled space, and 24.000 cubic feet of deepfreeze space. In addition, there

will be tanks for oils, detergents, and

petroleum items. The new ships are expected to have

space for bananas loaded at Canal ports. Banana conveyors, being installed as part of the ship's standard equipment,

will load the fruit at the rate of 2,409

stems an hour.

Anton Up For Sale

THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY'S

Ancon, taken out of service in June 1961

after 22 \ ears, will be sold to the

highest bidder above $550,000 on March 9. The bids will be opened in the ( teneral Accounting Office in Washington b\ representatives of the U.S. Maritime Administration, which is handling the disposal of the ship.

Since the Ancon was removed from

service with the Panama Canal Company, she has been docked in New

Orleans, where she was used for training

Army reservists. The purchaser of the

I will be required to operate it for

at least 5 years under the U.S. Bag.

Coal for Japan

\ NEW BILK CARRIER which in imber transited the ('anal with one

ol the biggest cargoes of coal ever

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN JANUARY

1961 1962 Commercial 893 918

U.S. Government 15 25

Free transits 12 7

Total 920 950

TOLLS *

Commercial $4,451,077 $4,736,955

U.S. Government. 71,818 156,897

Total $4,522,895 $4,893,852

CARGO" °

Commercial 5,072,598 5,465,458

U.S. Government. 73,447 139,347

Total 5.146.045 5,604,805

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

** Cargo figures are in long tons.

loaded into an ocean-going ship, is scheduled to transit southbound again

in March with similar cargo. She is the 669-foot Naess Clipper, a brand new

supership built by the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Japan for the Anglo-Pacific Shipping Co., Ltd., of Bermuda, a subsidiary of the Naess

Shipping Co.

In December, the vessel arrived here from Hampton Roads with 37,800 tons

of high grade metallurgical coal from

the New River region of the Chesapeake

6 Ohio Railroad. The coal was for the Yawata Iron & Steel Co. of Japan.

United States shipping experts said it was the beginning of a long-term contract with Japanese steel firms which was negotiated by C. H. Sprague & Son,

largest exporter of U.S. coal. Eventually,

11 million tons will be shipped annually

under the contract. The Naess Clipper is one of two ships now engaged in the operation. The

second, the Naess Cavalier, completed

by Mitsubishi in December, went north through the Canal at the end of

February. Both ships load iron ore in Peru on their return trip from Japan to the east coast of the United States. The

Naess Shipping Co. vessels are repre- sented at the Canal by Wilford & McKay.

New Canal Customers

THE PANAMA CANAL was used for the first time bv 418 ocean-going ships

of all sizes and types during the first 7 months of fiscal year 1962. With most

of the first transits arriving at Cristobal, the Atlantic side admeasurement office handled 305 of the vessels and 113 were

handled by the Balboa office.

If the number of first transits continue

at the same volume during the remaining 5 months of the fiscal year, the total may exceed the 653 first transits recorded during the previous fiscal year.

^5£*

-JUNDER THE ABLE HAND of Panama Canal pilot Capt. R. W. Rubelli, the giant trans- Atlantic liner United States is eased into her berth at pier 9 in Cristobal as she arrived

there February 9 for the first of two visits during the month. The big ship, making her first

Visit to a Canal port, is one of the largest commercial vessels ever to dock here. Stretching

990 feet from bow to stem, the United States took all but a comparative whisker of the

1,000-foot long Cristobal pier. The ship made its second visit on February 20. Approximately

850 passengers were aboard on each visit.

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