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COCO SOLO HOSPITAL TRANSFERRED TO CANAL ZONE;

EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS TO TAKE ABOUT FIVE WEEKS

Gorgas Hospital

Already Receiving

Military Patients

Atlantic Side Medical Center

coco SOLO HOSPITAL, above, was transferred to the Canal Zone Government by the Navy this week and will soon become the medical center for the Atlantic side. During World War II survivors from torpedoed s'lips were nursed back to health there. The hospital's distinguished visitors include Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Panama Line Ships To Make Over-Night

Stop In Haiti During Winter Season

A new schedub for the Panama Line

ships, establishing an overnight stop in Haiti on th-^ northbound voyage during

SHIP SCHEDULES

Effective November 4, 1954 WINTER SEASON

Southbound

Leave New York , Thursday

.Arrive, Leave Haiti Monday

.\rrive Cristobal Wednesday

Northbound

Leave Cristobal Monday

Arrive Haiti Wednesday

Leave Haiti Thursday

.\rri\e New York Monda\-

Effective April 14, 1955 SUMMER SEASON

Southbound

Leave New York Thursday

.Arrive, Leave Haiti Monday

.\rri\e Cristobal Wednesday

Northbound

Leave Cristobal Tuesday

.Arrive, Leave Haiti Thursday

.Arrive New York Monday

the winter ssason, becomes effective with

the siiling of the SS Panama from New

Yorlv November 4. On the southbound

trip the Haiti stop remains of a few hours

duration, as at present, during both

winter and summer seasons. The winter season for this year will end April 7. At the same time the new schedule goes

into effect, minimum fares for commercial

passengers will be increased $5 for the one-way trip between New York and

Port^au-Princ3 during the summer season and $15 during the winter season; or $9 on a round trip between New Y'ork and

Haiti during the summer season and .$27 during the winter season. Minimum commercial rates between

New York and Cristobal will be increased $15 during the summer season and $30

during the winter season, on a one-way

basis; round-trip fares, minimum, will be $27 more during the summer season than

at present, and $54 higher than at present

during the winter season. The new schedule also changes the days of sailing from New York from the present Tuesday to (,S'ec pagt is)

With the formal transfer of Coco Solo Hospital by the U. S. Navy to the Canal Zone Government last Wednesday, extensive alterations were being scheduled

to transform it into a 170-bed general

hospital adequate to meet requirements

of the Atlantic side.

•<" While no definite date has been set for the reopening of the hospital, it is presently estimated that the alterations

will require about five weeks before the

buildings are suitable for expanded use. The transfer of hospital facilities from

Colon Hospital to Coco Solo will depend

on completion of work being done by

Engineering and Construction Bureau

forces. The transfer and alteration of Coco

Solo Hospital will complete the hospital consolidation program authorized and

directed by Congress in legislation passed

earlier this year. Facilities on the Pacific side have already consolidated, six vacant wards and other stand-by facilities at Gorgas Hospital having been readied for service again late last month.

Name Not Chosen

A new name for the Coco Solo Hospital, which was built during the war years

for the use of Naval persoimel stationed

in the Canal Zone, has not been chosen;

the same name will continue to be used

for the time being.

Coco Solo Naval Hospital discontinued

the admission of patients in mid-August

and immediately thereafter Colon Hospital began to accept military patients.

On the Pacific side of the Canal Zone

the military services began to refer their patients to Gorgas Hospital on August 15 and announced that as of August .31 the Fort Clayton Hospital would be reduced

to the status of a dispensary.

A number of changes and alterations

are planned by the Canal Zone Govern- ment for the Colo Solo building, which

has a permanent capacity of about

170 beds. As used by the Navy, the ground floor contained offices, an outpatient department, a dining room, kit- chen, and some storage space. The

second, third, and fourth floors were

divided into offices, wards, clinics, phar- macy, and laboratory space. The small out-patient facilities on the ground floor will be enlarged and a number of clinics will be moved to this floor, according to present plans. The pharmacy and laboratory will (&e pstgi is)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

Police Get Together

SHOP TALK was swapped last month when

policemen from two widely separated jurisdictions

Kilt together. Hosts were Capt. J. M. P'ahnestnck

and men from the Cristobal Police District; thi>

quests were 8upt. H. A. Larsen and members of hi^

Royal t'anadian Mounted Police command who were

here on the motor schooner St. Roch. Barbecued

venison, tropical style, and baby tapir are on the

plates Captain Fahnestock and Superintendent

Larsen are holding.

The in4-foot Si. Roeh, which nets 80 tons, right, is

the only ship to have gone through the Northwest

Passage in both directions. The schooner was en

route to Vancouver where she will be decommissioned

and placed on exhibition in Stanley Park. Zone Schools Expect Increase

Of 500 Pupils For New Record

An increase of close to 500 pupils in the Canal Zone's United States schools is expected for the school year which begins next Thursday, according to the pre- opening planning of the Division of Schools. School officials, whose estimates have

been uncannily correct in the past, expect

that the largest increase, close to 400,

will be shown in grades 1 through 6; this reflects the rising birth rate which

began here and elsewhere —soon after the end of World War II and which has not decreased. An increase of about SO

pupils is exp3cted in the secondary

schools. Total enrollment in grades 1 through

12 last year was 6,485; for the coming

school year about 6,850 pupils are expected

in the 1 1 elementary and four secondary

schools. New Faces

Students will find new faces, some

changes in structure and, for two groups, new subjects, when they return to their classrcoms. Nine new teachers have come from the United States to join the teaching staff of the elementary

schools and seven special teachers for Spanish, all Panamanians, have been

added to the schools staff. Eight teachers, new to the Isthmus, joined the

faculties of the secondary schools and

four new instructors are with the Physical

Education and Recreation Branch, at Balboa. Five of the elementary schools have new principals this year. Miss Dova

Antill, formerly at Pedro Miguel, moves

to Ancon to replace Miss Florence Jacobs

who retired in .June. Mrs. Elsie Naughton, formerly at Gamboa, replaces Miss

Antill at Pedro Miguel, and Miss Ellie F. Fanning goes from a teaching position

at the Balboa elementary school to (lamboa. On the Atlantic side. Miss

Ruth Crozier, formerly principal at Gatun, moves to the Cristobal elementary school to replace Miss Lenora Smith who also retired this year. Miss

Crozier will be succeeded at Gatun by

George Gercich, formerly of the Cristobal elementary school faculty.

School Districting Four new classrooms will be added this year at Fort Kobbe and one each at Cocoli and the North Margarita School. A reduction of one classroom each, however, will be made at Gamboa, Gatun,

and Cristobal elementary schools. Several changes hqve also been made

in school districting this year. Children

living in the "Old Corral Area" in Ancon

will attend Balboa elementary school rather than Ancon. Grade 6 children from Albrook Air Force Base, who were

formerly at Balboa, will attend school at Fort Kobbe this year. Also going to Kobbe School will be Curundu children,

in grades 5 and fi, who formerlv attended

the Diablo Heights School. Fort Clayton children, split last year between

Diablo Heights and Cocoli, will be

divided this year as follows: Grades 1 and 2, Cocoli; grade .3, Diablo Heights;

and grades 4, 5, and (See page is)

Congress Passes

Three Major Bills

Affecting Zonians

[EDITOR'S Note—News of the

President's signature or veto of

Vacation Travel and Fringe Benefits legislation was being awaited at press time.]

Three pieces of hTi^htion benefiting

employees of the Panama Canal Company-Canal Zone Government were passed

by Congress in its closing sessions. A

fourth bill, which w.ould have provided

five percent pay raises for postal and

classified employees, was passed by Congress but vetoed by the President. The three major pieces of legislation

are: The bill providing low-cost group life insurance for all Federal employees; a

bill providing fringe benefits, which will affect employees locally; and the bill providing that the employing agency pay

the cost of round-trip vacation travel

for its employees.

The group insurance was made effective here with the pay period beginning

August 29. An overwhelming percent- age of Company-Government employees

are participating. Last Monday the Personnel Bureau reported that only 97

out of the 3,850 employees who are

eligible for the insurance have indicated that they are not interested. The others

are automatically blanketed into the insurance coverage.

It provides for insurance coverage up

to the next $1,000 of annual salary at a

cost of $6.50 per $1,000 of coverage; double indemnity in case of accidental death; disability payment for loss of an

eye or eyes or limbs; free, though reduced, coverage on retirement for age or

disability.

Fringe Benefits Major provisions of the fringe benefits

bill are: Longevity step increases for employees in grades 11 through 15; abolition of the CPC (Crafts, Protective,

and Custodial) Schedules and transfer

of employees in these ratings (such as lock guards, stewards, ground mainte- nance foreman) to other wage systems;

extension of full time-and-a-half for overtime compensation to employees up

to GS-9; authorization for a maximum

allowance of $100 a year for employees

(policemen, firemen, etc.) required to wear uniforms; and provision for lump- sum payment of current accrued annual

or vacation leave to survivors of a deceased employee.

Application of the vacation travel allowance, at the time this issue of The

Panama Canal Review went to press, was waiting signature by the President

and regulations prepared by the Bureau of the Budget. These regulations will establish broad policies to be followed by the overseas agencies. In general terms the bill provides for round-trip vacation transportation to employees of the Federal Government

and its agencies, and their families, from

their posts of duty overseas to their place

of actual residence in the United States

after completing an agreed period of service, which, in the case of Canal

employees, is expected to be two years.
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Household Electrical Equipment Survey

Begun For 60-Cycle Conversion Project

The time when all Canal Zone households are served by 60-cvcle electric cur- rent moves a step closer this month with

the beginning of a house-to-house survey

of all frequency-sensitive electrical equipment in homes on the Atlantic side. A survey of the heavy, industrial-type

equipment on the Atlantic side has been

practically campleted and engineers as- signed to the conversion project are scheduled tj begin work in the individual homes during the coming week. The

survey is to be conductsd in Gatun first, to be followed by Margarita and the other Atlantic side communities.

A team of five will be assigned to survey

the household equipment. They are T. S. McKibbon, Ralph Otten, Leland Slick, George G. Bouche, and Hubert Oken.

Survey Important

Canal Zone residents are requested to give their full cooperation in making the survey, as this is one of the important

phases of the multi-million-dollar conversion program which will require about

five years for completion.

In making the survey of domestic

equipment, the men in charge will present proper credentials in calling at the homes.

They will then inspect and list all fre- quency-sensitive equipment, including

the serial and type numbers, and other

pertinent information. Such domestic

appliances as washing machines, refrig- erators, clocks, ironers, sewing machines,

record players, fans, vacuum cleaners,

electric trains, and power motors will be listed. When the survey has been completed

the individual owner will be furnished with a duplicate copy of the list. After

this, it will be the responsibility of each owner to give notice of any change in the list—both new equipment installed or old equipment sold or discarded. Such notice must be made in writing to the Engineering and Construction Director. This requirement of furnishing supplemental information is important because

of the necessity of ordering conversion

parts at least a year in advance of the

actual conversion. Under the overall policy of conversion,

all regularly used frequency-sensitive

equipment privately owned will be con- verted free of charge. Generally, only

equipment or appliances in actual use or that which is deemed a reasonable reserve supply will be converted or replaced at Company expense.

Pacific Side Next Year

It is planned to complete the survey of domestic equipment on the Atlantic side early next year, after which the team will be immediately assigned to Pacific side communities.

Under the present schedule the first use of 60-cycle current in homes on the Atlantic side will be the latter part of calendar year 1956 while Pacific side homes will not have 60-cycle current

until sometime early in 195S. The survey and inventory of domestic

equipment is but one of several important

steps to be taken during this fiscal year

in the conversion program.

Contracts for approximately $2,00U,U0U

Contractor' s Hill Excavation

Passes 100,000- Yard Figure

%;.^j^ai^<£^^

GIANT SHOVELS on top of Contractors Hill, look like tiny specks when seen from a helicopter. This

progress picture was taken the day after the 100,000th cubic yard of rock had been removed from the hill.

The Contractors Hill project, which

involves removal of some two million cubic yards of rock and earth, and

stabilization of the slope of the hill, was

considered as approximately 20 percent

accomplished as August ended. The organization of Tecon, the contracting firm, is now set up, field oflices and shops established, and much preliminary work is now completed. This last includes the removal of the Gaillard memorial tablet from the hill facing the Canal and driving a tunnel into the

hillside from the Canal bank, both of which have been done by subcontract. The 100,000-cubic-yard mark, for actual removal of the rock on the hill, was passed on August 26. The contractor is working

on both the 370- and 350-foot levels. The

top of the hill formerly was 417 feet high;

about 50 feet have been sliced off. A 3,450-pound dynamite blast, the

heaviest fired to date, was exploded on August 25, the day before the hundredthousandth cubic yard was removed.

This blast was one of three fired the same

day. A total of 5,000 pounds of dynamite was used for the three blasts. The big blast was witnessed by a group

of Latin American students who are attending the Engineer Division of the USARCARIB School. The 18 students

represented Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia,

Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Venezuela.

Lt. Col. E. B. Jennings, Project Engineer, explained the work on the hill and

Roy Ramer, Tecon superintendent, exworth of equipment and the expenditure

of about $400,000 for the construction of a new substation at Mount Hope and the replacement of some facilities at the Gatun power station are other phases of the project authorized for this fiscal year.

plained and demonstrated dynamite techniques. Later the visiting oflicers in- spected the tunnel which runs 104 feet

into an inspection room which is centered around the crack in the hill. In order to keep to a minimum the amount of rock which falls into the Canal

the contractor stopped his heavy blasting

about 20 to 25 feet from the face on the Canal side of the hill. This last few feet, which formed a sort of protective wall along the Canal, is drilled and blasted with small charges, placed and timed in such a way as to cause the wall to break and fall away from the Canal. By using this procedure the contractor has allowed very little rock to fall into the Canal to date.

Two Former Canal Officials

Named To States Positions

Two former Canal oflicials, both

retired from active Army duty, were

appointed to new positions in the United

States last month.

Brig. Gen. Herbert D. Vogel, who

served here first as Engineer of Maintenance and later as Lieutenant Governor,

from July 1949, until May 1952, has been

appointed by President Eisenhower,

Chairman of the Board of the Tennessee

Valley Authority.

The other appointment is that of Maj.

Gen. George W. Rice as Acting City

Manager for San Antonio, Tex. General

Rice was Chief Health Oflficer for the Canal organization from 1949 until 1952. After his retirement he and his family

settled in San Antonio; he was made

City Health Officer there July 1, 1953. As city manager, he succeeds Ralph

Winton.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

The Budget: Here's How

A Typical Item Is Handled

Results Of Research

Paraphrasing a familiar saying, a lot of people talk about "the budget" but few- know anything about it. Some to hide their ignorance, and

others, because they know, speak glowingly of "the budget" as if it were a baby

brother. They talk in such tsrms as budget call, justifications, baby budgat,

summary budget, budget review, policies

and assumptions, budget hearings, firm

justifications, defend the budget, cut the

budget, the budget does not permit, allowances and allotments, apportioned

funds, capital items, operating budgat,

and so on ad infinitum.

If you're in that 99.99 percent who is a

novice at these things, don't let them

fool you. All they mean is getting money

and spending it. There's A Law

Simmered down to the very lowest common denominator the budget for a (Government agency and the family budget proceed along the same general lines. The former is far more complicated and

is ringed-around with far more rules for

the protection of the Government's

interests. On a strict family budget, money which

has been set aside "for the movies is never

transferred over to help buy a new set of

tires for the car, but there's no law saying

you can't do it. On a Government budget, money set

aside or appropriated to repamt Gorgas

Hospital can't be used to buy a new

launch for the Navigation Division. There's a law says it can't. Time Is A Factor

There is another big and notable

difference between a Government and a household budget. That is time. Because of regulations and legislative processes involved, it is necessary, except for emergencies, to plan for the spending of money at least two years in advance. Let us suppose, for example, the Panama Canal Company plans to build a modest office or shop building in Balboa. Here are the budgetary processes that are followed from the time its need was conceived until the money becomes

available to construct the building.

1. The Chief of "X" Division deter- mines in July 1954 that a small shop

building will be needed in Balboa for

RECORD HOLDER

More than one million stems of bananas were carried through the Panama Cana! last fiscal year by a

single vessel. The ship was the motorship "Brazilian Reefer" which

holds the 1954 fiscal year record for the number of Canal transits. Between July 1, lOSS, and June 30, 1954, the "Brazilian Reefer" transited the Canal 40 times, more than

any other craft. On each northbound trip she carried about 56,000 stems of bananas from Esmeraldas,

Ecuador, to New Orleans. Of Danish registry, the "Brazilian

Reefer" is owned by J. Lauritzen of Copenhagen and is under charter to the Inter American Trust Corporation, whose local agents are the Continental Shipping Company of Panama City. She grosses 3.946 tons and is 407 feet overall. Her

master is Capt. Frederik Matzen.

work to be done in 1957, and recommends

its construction to his Bureau Director.

2. In October and November of this year preliminary plans for the building

"and an estimate of its cost are prepared

and submitted to the Executive Planning

Staff. Preliminary Budget

3. Before March 1955, after the need

has been determined by Management, the

Office of the Comptroller will include the item in th? preliminary budget document.

4. In March 1955 th? Governor will review this with th^ many other similar items presented by other divisions and

units and will determine that it is a

project to be submitted for approval to the Board of Directors.

5. Between March and June 1955, cost estimates for the project will be firmed

up and a description of the project and

general details for its construction will be prepared.

Baby Budget

6. During May and June 1955, the Budget Staff in the Office of the Comptroller will include this item in the sum- mary or "baby" budget prepared for approval by the Comptroller and the Governor-President.

7. In June 1955 the proposal to construct the building will be submitted with

the many other items in the summary

budget to a committee from the Board of Directors. These hearings will be at- tended by the Bureau Director concerned

so that he can give additional background

information on the need and plans for the

building.

8. In June 1955 the Budget Staff will make any revisions necessary, based on committee action. To Bureau Of Budget

9. The Board of Directors will review

and approve submission of the budget for construction of the building to the Bureau of the Budget.

10. In July 1955 the division will write up the full details and justification of the

project as approved by the Board.

11. The proposal for the building will be included in the formal budget docu- ment which is prepared by the Budget

Staff from July to early September 1955. The formal budget document includes

this and all other information about the Company's forecast of operations for the

fiscal year 1957. It must be submitted

by the Governor-President to the Bureau

of the Budget in Washington not later than September 15, 1955.

12. In October 1955 the Governor,

accompanied by the Comptroller or other members of his staff, will attend hearings

before Bureau of the Budget examiners.

President's Budget

13. In October 1955 the Company will be notified by letter from the President

of the United States that the building is authorized. These formal notifications are known as "Letters of Allowance" and

indicate the President's desires concerning the proposed expenditures. If the

project is denied the Company has an

opportunity to appeal for reconsideration.

14. Budget estimates as finally ap- proved then become "The President's Budget." In support of the President's

SOME OF the Employee Relations data compiled from three years of research is examined by .J. B.

Smith, Electric Engineer, right, and T. J. Wilber, Supervisory Administrative Assistant in the Electrical

Division. The more than 400 pieces of literature cover Employee Relations Programs of 30 U. S. industrial companies and corporations employing a total of more

than 1,500,000 employees. The data is being used to formulate the Electrical Division Employee Relations Program.

budget, a book of justifications is prepared

by the Budget Staff. For the building

in question it will consist of a brief narrative description of the building and

why it is needed. The book of justifi- cations is prepared for use by the Appropriations Committees of the House and

Senate. Congressional Hearings

15. In January 1956, the President will submit the Budget to the Congress. The

Governor will attend hearings by the House Subcommittee on Canal Appropriations to defend and explain the budgets. If any question is raised about

the building needed by Division "X,"

the Governor has additional information on costs, plans, and need for the structure.

16. Between February and April 1956, he will attend similar hearings by the Senate Subcommittee at which the pro- cedure followed by the House is repeated.

The Comptroller, the Secretary of the Company, and other members of the

Staff will accompany the Governor to these Congressional hearings.

17. Congressional approval on the budget will be given between April and

June. Cuts made by the House can be

appealed to the Senate for restoration. Cuts initiated by the Senate can generally be appealed to the Joint Conference

Committee.

18. A formal budget review will be made in July 1956 by the Board of Directors with an authorization to pro- ceed with the building after action by

Congress is final.

19. In July 19.56 the Company requests

the Bureau of the Budget to "release" funds to construct the building. This is

a part of the annual "apportionment of funds." Green Light

20. The final step, from the budget

standpoint, will be the issuance of an

allotment to Division "X" to construct

its new building. This will be done in July 1956, just two years after the first formal steps were taken by the Chief of Division "X."

These 20 steps tell generally the course

of a budget item and give (See page lo)
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FR'TIUX AND FAL'T are checked out to readers over the desk in the main library at the Civil Affairs Building.

Is There Anything You Want To Know?

Just Ask The Staff Of The C. Z. Library

Division, the central library remained

open during the noon hour and after 4 o'clock, and a book-sehction committee was appcinted.

By 1924 the library had almost 6,000

registered borrowers— today it has over

<S,000; its collection had increased to over

20,000 volumes and almost 8,000 pamphlets; the system compri-ed the main

library and six branches. It was technically part of the Panama Canal's Record

Bureau, under which it remained for administrative purposes until it became

part of the Civil Affairs Bureau in 1950.

Self -Improvement

Reading habits have kept pace with

the library's growth, its staff believes. In 1924 80 psrcent of its circulation was

fiction. Today that figure has dropped.

Mystery stories and westerns, of which

the library has a good stock, are still prime favorites among library borrowers and books on Panama and the Caribbean

have a wide appeal, but the staff has noted a trend toward "self-improvement" on the part of its readers. If a borrower

takes out half a dozen books, one of the

library staff pointed out, he is pretty

certain to include something he's "always

meant to get around to reading," like Pi-escott's Conquest of Peru, or a book on

music appreciation, or a volume of essays. "How-to" books are especially popular

right now, as people are learning the fun

of doing things with their hands or for themselves. Borrowers ask for books

on home carpentry, furniture making,

household decoration, and even instruc- tions on taxidermy and earthworm

culture. Dogs and Airplanes

Just as borrowers do not like some

books, librarians do not like some bor- rowers. "We just hate people who cut things out of books and magazines, things like house plans or pictures of hair-do's and

dresses," one of them said the other day.

Deliberate mutilation of a publication is one thing, accidental damage is another,

although if a book is so badly damaged

that it isn't fit for circulation the negligent borrower must pay its purchase

price. Dogs seem to have a peculiar

affinity for books which they find fine eating; their appetites are usually keener

for $7.50 volumes than the $2.50 variety.

One borrower dropped a library book

out of an airplane—the library doesn't remember just how. That was carelessness, and he paid for the book. But

another, whose borrowed book was hopelessly damaged in a plane crash—the borrower was not—was held not responsible and the book was marked off to loss. How Many Pancakes?

The Canal Zone Library—the Museum

is part of the Library but that's a story

by itself offers an assortment of facili- ties to its patrons. For instance, it has

a large collection of States telephone

books which are in constant demand,

especially around the time for making out Christmas card lists. Its story hours at the La Boca Branch

and at Santa Cruz have been popular

Saturday morning events for several

The man at the library desk said he'd

like a copy of "Petrified Sam, please."

The librarian did a double take, said, "just a minute," and disappeared into the

stacks. A few minutes later she came

back, book in hand. "Would this be what you had in mind?"

she asked, and handed him the volume.

The customer leafed through it a minute, beamed broadly, said it was exactly

what he wanted, and departed happily,

with Booth Tarkington's Pernod and

Sam tucked under his arm.

Librarians get used to such occurrences, according to the staff of the Canal Zone

Library. All of the librarians eventually could produce, or have the borrower fill out reservation cards for. From Here to Eternity, no matter what title was given;

their favorite misnomer for that one was From Here to Futility. Readers today have things a lot better than they did 40 years ago when the Canal Zone Library had just gotten be- yond the gleam-in-the-eye stage. Then,

if they could wedge theii' way past shelves and stacks in the not overly large room

in the Administration Building at Balboa

Heights which was th° Library's original

location, they would have found such

soporific literature as The Boot and Shoe

Industry in Massachusetts as a Vocation for Women, or sterling tomes on naval

reciprocating engines, WTitten originally

for class use at Annapolis and, probably,

passed on to the library by an ex-midshipman.

Thousands Of Books

Today there are more than 103,000

volumes on the shelves of the main library on Gaillard Highway or distributed among

the library's two branches at Cristobal and La Boca and five deposit libraries at Gamboa, Gatun, Paraiso, Santa Cruz, and

Margarita.

This is a far cry, in quality and quantity, from the 7,500 to 10,000 items which were housed in the original one room and

which were still being catalogued when

the library was two years old. The Canal Zone Library began as a

collection of books and catalogues which

might be of use, work-wise, to the Canal

force. Its nucleus was volumes of general engineering interest which had been

spread around the various offices and

which were, for the first time, gathered

into one place.

The collection was probably valuable

as a source of reference—the library today

emphasizes its official reference servicebut this first group of books and pamphlets must have been just about as

inspiring to a general reader as the

library in an engineering school. Library Meager

There were no books of fiction, travel, or biography in the original library.

What of these were available to Canal Zone readers were in the YMCA club- houses and, according to an editorial appearing in the Star & Herald in 1916, these left much to be desired. This same

editorial suggested that possibly AndrewCarnegie, traditional donor of libraries, might be prevailed upon to provide one

for the Canal Zone. There is no record

that this suggestion was ever followed up. About this same time, Maj. E. E. Persons, Assistant Chief Health Officer and apparently an omnivorous reader, added his bit in a memorandum to the Acting Governor:

"In this large community of Englishspeaking people, having an average

financial income and an average of intel- ligence considerably above that of most

communities in the United States, library

facilities are so meager as to be practically

negligible," he wrote. Major Persons' opinion was echoed by A. R. Lang, Superintendent of Schools. Both immediately

found themselves appointed to a committee to see what could be done to improve this situation. The committee's suggestion for a

library association, with annual dues of $2.50, was not accepted but their spadework and that of subsequent library committees led to eventual far-reaching

improvements. The clubhouse libraries were consolidated with the Canal library, the library itself was moved into the

larger room which is now the Engineering

years.

Its reference librarians (Sec page 12)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

-i— CJMc— ,—/,, £ %Sr _—_— . —

AFTER YOUR VACATION-WHAT?

"Ah, safe at home.

"I would like another month to rest up." So says the employee just back from a

Slatesside vacation. But—are you safest at Home?

Let's take a look at your situation. Now you are low in cash and prefer to

relax before getting back into harness.

Hovvex-er, the hedge grew while you were awav, so, to save a couple bucks, you

decide to trim it vourself. "What! You thought the stepladder had

been repaired?"

"Oh, well, a few nails and a cleat or two

will lix it." The picture above shows the unsafe

situation in which you are now involved. Will yon fall and break your neck, or

just skin your elbows.' How about the wife? HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

JULY

COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 5

Civil AfEairs 2 Health 2 Supply 1 Engineering and Construction

Marine

Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

JULY

DREDGING DIVISION

RAILROAD DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation. _ (> Sanitation 6 Motor Transportation _. 5 Service Center 5

Electrical 3 Grounds Maintenance 3 Dredging _ 2 Hospitalization and Clinics 2 Railroad 2

Industrial I Maintenance 1 Navigation 1 Storehouses 1 Commissary

Locks

Terminals

Well, cm \acalion she did no cooking, nn house cleaning, and you paid the bill- Look at her now! She has been tormenting you to haxt- ilu- (oaster and the floor lamps repaired.

Now you see her attempting to fix the

electrical system with a pair of scissors. Should we call an ambulance, turn in a

lire alarm, or let nature take its course? What are the kids up to?

Jiniior had a lousy time in the States

trailing around after a lot of old people.

Now all the gang is back, and the girls are

keener. He is all set to make up for lost time. He dashes off in your car. Mary Lou passes them balanced on the back end of a smooth

cycle with plenty horses. Her steady can

slide through traffic at 70 per without

scratching a lender. They must hurry; hea\y date on this evening.

Will Junior survive to make the football team, or only tire himself out dashing from

date to date?

Will Mary Lou become a fatality statistic

in the almost certainty of the next spill, or only mash her pretty little face? JohiHiy, 8. what is he doing?

Looks like he is plajing Cowboy and

Indian. He is defending a fort which is the

scafl'olding around those new houses being

built by the contractors. Even with superior guns the enenn' is hard to hit. You see him yelling at an

Indian in the bushes, "You're dead!" The $64 question is: W'ill he sur\ive

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being shot off the scafi'olding, or will he fall trving to escape the hail of imaginary

bullets?

Little Cindy, 5—look what she is doing!

She has abandoned her tricycle in the

street and is now hiding between the parked

cars, preparing to dash out in front of an oncoming car.

Is it some sort of game, or are they just

doing it to annoy the driver of the auto- mobile?

Well, \ou may not be up in the air al)Out

\()tir own or your family's salet\': your wile may prefer to work on the assumption that out of sight, not her responsibility, but the

bab>-, in reaching for the hot pan, will bring

her back to reality. What will bring you back to earth?

Will it take a plaster cast and traction on your leg to make you realize that

Occident prevention is more than a catch

slogan invented by Safety Engineers?

JULY 1954

C. Z. Covl.-Panama Canal Co. ( LasI 3-Year Av.)

Cofflmunily Services Bureau

Marine Bureau

Engineering and Conslruclion Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Supply Bureau

Health Bureau

C. Z.Govl.-Panama Canal Co. (This IVlonlh)

Transporlalion and Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries. 47

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

( Frequency Rale)

10 20 30 40 5

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Man-Hours Worked... ....2,339,319 LEGEND

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

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

Ij^^^jijgja Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hopr, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr. Public Information Officer

J. RuFUS Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Editorial Assistant

SUBSCRIPTION—$1.00 a year SINGLE COPIES -5 cents each

On sale at all Panama Canal Service Centers, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days

after publication date. SINGLECOPIESBY MAIL—10 cents each

B.\CK COPIES— 10 cents each

On sale when available, from the Vault

Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, Balboa Heights.

Postal money orders should be made payable to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Company, and mailed to Editor, The Panama

Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z. New Director

ONETIME BLUEPRINT BOY for the Isthmian Canal Cnmmission, Theodore H. Maenner. above, is now a director for the Panama Canal Company.

His father, Ludwig T. Maenner was chief draftsman

in the Engineering Department at Culebra and the son worked there in 1 907. Mr. Maenner is now a well-known Omaha busi- nessman, with wide interests in real estate, sales management, and insurance. A graduate architect, he is particularly interested in housing, both conventional and prefabricated. Recently he built a

large number of Gunnison Homes, one of the pre- fabricated models now being produced in the United

States. In addition to hi.s business interests, he has been

active in Omaha civic affairs and in state ami

national politics.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

TV Team At Work

A TOWING LOCOMOTIVE provided a mobile platform for the Columbia Broadcasting System

television team which spent two weeks here last month photographmg operations of the Panama Canal. The story of how a ship travels from ocean to ocean and some of the many operations involved in a transit was to be told in Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" program. The three-man television team transited the Canal, took several thousand feet of sound film from

various spots along the Canal banks, visited Contractors Hill, took close-up pictures of the Locks machinery, the control houses and the marine traffic board and, to tie it all together, interviewed Governor

Seybold on the overall picture. Members of the TV team were Ed Scott, former newspaperman and editor of the show; Leo Rossi, veteran cameraman; and Robert Huttenloch. sound teehniciTM- The responsibility for all field and

depot maintenance and repair of Maintenance Division heavy equipment and equipment of the Police Division was transferred last month to the Motor Transportation Division. In effect, all but field running repairs

will be handled by Motor Transportation Division repair shops.

This involved the transfer to the Motor Transportation Division of three mechanics and a third-year apprenticemechanic from the Maintenance Divi- sion and of two police motor vehicle inspectors from the Police Division.

School to Gorgona Road were completed during the past week. Completion date for the entire project, which

includes placing of top soil and sprigging, is October 2. The drainage culvert, which will divert drainage from the Ridge Road

area away from Balboa Flats, is being

constructed under contract by Bildon,

Inc.

-Applicants for the Canal Zone appoint- ment to the new Air Force .Academy will be go\erned by the same eligibility regulations which are in ett'ect for the I'uited States Military and Naval .Academies,

according to information received at Balboa

Heights last month from the Department

of the -\ir Force.

I he Governor of the Canal Zone will nominate 10 candidates to the -Air Force Academy this year, of which one will be

appointed b\' the President. The date when

applications are to be submitted will be annouirced later. .Applicants must be I'nited States citizens, sons of civilians residing in the Canal Zone,

or sons of civilian employees of the U. S. Government and Panama Canal CompanyCanal Zone Government residing in the Republic, of good moral character, between

17 and 24 years of age, and unmarried. In addition thev must be medically qualified

for flying. The first class, of 300 .\ir Force

Cadets, will be admitted to the .Vcadenn

at its temporary location next July. Canal Zone candidates will be tested for leadership potentialities and pilot aptitude, and gi\en a hnal medical e.xamination for

flyiiig training at .Albrook .Air Force Base.

1 he Panama Canal Company-Canal Zone Government has been invited to submit

nominations for the Rockefeller Public

Service .Aw-ards which was established at Princeton University two years ago. Employees may become candidates either by nomination by their agencies or by

individual application. Forms on which

the applications may be submitted arc available at the ofilice of Daniel J. Paolucci, Training Officer, iii the Personnel Bureau. The grants provide for awards to be made annually over a period of three years. They are sufficient to enable a recipient to spend from six to 12 months in residence at the institution of his individual choice or

in some comparable educative activity. The program is open to career employees

whose performance has been distinguished

by intellectual maturity, leadership, character, and competence and who wish to make public service their career. It is designed to provide outstanding employees

with opportunities for olf-the-job develop- ment.

The new Balboa Heights drainage

culvert, which runs from the Ridge

Road area to connect with the large

Curundu culvert, is scheduled for completion about mid-September, except

for conditioning of the ground surface where excavation was made during

the work.

The sections under Roosevelt Avenue

and from the Balboa Elementary

Capt. William J. Lober, Jr., assistant professor of military science and tactics at Cristobal High School for the past

vear, has been appointed to head the Canal Zone High School Junior ROTC

unit. He replaced Capt. Earl J. Wilson

who left for the United States last month.

A native of Pennsylvania, Captain

Lober is a graduate of Western Reserve

University. He served with the Army

in Europe from 1944 to 1948. His latest combat service was in Korea where he was commanding officer of Company C

of the 15th Infantry Regiment. He came to the Canal Zone last August

and was promoted to captain last December.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

Canal Purchases Exceed

$8,500,000 In 4 Years

From Sources In Panama

During the past four years dii-ect purchases amounting to more than eight

and a half million dollars have been made

liy the Panama Canal orga'iization from

su])pliers in the Republic of Panama.

The totals for the past four fiscal years

are:

Iflol _ $1,525,000

ll«2 _ 2,0(52,000

I'.OH ._ 2,585,000

l»54_ ,_ 2,451,000

TotaL $8 ,623 ,000

PAXA.MA-CROWX PINEAPPLE is am uf al)out 15 diffeiviit kinds of native fruit which are bought

regularly by Arthur S. Miller. Commissary buyer, at the public market. He is shown here making a selec- tion of the fruit at one of the many colorful fruit stalls at the market which he visits every morning.

.APPROXLMATELV $lti5.UU0 worth of Panama eemi-nt was purchased 1.;, tat- I'.iodiua i„i,ai Company during the past fiscal year. This is one of the principal items of locally-produced supplies bought for use in the Canal Zone. The amount of cement bought last year was somewhat below the previous year because of the drop in amount of quarters construction. Above is a view of the big plant

of Cemento Panama, S. A., on the Boyd-Roosevelt Highway.

This amount of money spent in direct purchases by the Canal organization is exclusive of similar purchases made by

other United States Government agencies

represented in the Canal Zone; purchases

by individuals; and purchases of building

and other materials made by contractors

for United States Government work in the Zone. The impressive total of over eight and

a half millijn dollars is derived from

many different sources- farm produce,

seafoods, forest products, building materials, machinery and parts, clothing,

beverages, reading material, office equipment, and services such as motion picture

film rentals.

112 Diiferent Items

During the last three months of the past fiscal year, which ended June 30, a total of 112 different items made up the

direct purchase list. Some items are small in value, amounting to a few dollars, while others such as Panama beef and

locally manufactured cement run well

into six figures over a year's period.

Many difi'erent sources are tapped and

buyers are constantly on the alert for new items which can be bought locally. While the purchase of native fruits and

vegetables makes up only about 10 per- cent of the total purchases, it is an

interesting facet of the overall local-pur- chase program and is of great importance

to manv farmers miles away from the

city. During the past few years the amount of fruits and vegetables purchased

THE CANAL ZONE is an important marl^et fur lnveragc nianufactui urs in the Republic of Panama.

These sales amount to over $10,0(10 monthly. The Commissaries and Service Cetiter.s are botli big outlets. Abovo, cases of soft drinks are being stacked m a Service Center storeroom.

NATIVE SQUASH which resemble baby pumpkins are bought fresh from the big public market in Panama City. During the last quarter of the past

fiscal year more than 20.000 pounds of squash were

bought. One of the "wholesalers" at the market is shown above picking out s(|uasli for the Commissary

Division while buyer Arthur S. Miller looks on.
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Panama's Public Market

Is Daily Supply Source

For Fruits, Vegetables

locally by the Commissary Division has been more than doubled as more and more

agricultural areas in the Republic are developed and marketing procedures are improved.

Perhaps little known to the average Commissary patron is the fact that much

of the fresh fruits and vegetables on sale come direct from the big, colorful public

market on Panama Bay in the heart of downtown Panama City. It is interest- ing to know that: Not long after sunup every weekday a

half-ton pickup truck is parked near the

bustling market and the driver begins

what looks like a leisurely round among

the busy stalls where almost every conceivable item of food is being offered for

sale. His trip, however, is by no means one

of bisure. He is intent on what is being

offered for sale, its quality, the quantity,

and the price.

Shrimp and Squash

Some two or more hours after entering

the market on any given day he probably

has bought .5,000 paunds of corbina and

750 pounds of shrimp just caught in Panama Bay, 2,000 pounds of squash, 200 stems of bananas, and 10,000 pounds

of Chiriqui-grown cabbage.

He pays spot cash for every purchase.

While most of the purchases are made

through "wholesalers" at the market, the money spent is a direct aid to some

farmer from Sona or Chepo, or some

fisherman from Otoque who brought his produce in that morning before daylight.

The buyer is Arthur S. Miller, who is assigned by the Panama Canal Company's

Commissary Division to the purchase of native-grown food products. His daily

visit to the public market is but one of

his many duties in his overall assignment.

The direct and spot-cash purchases he makes at the public market are not

impressively large—sometimes as high as $3,000 a week—but (See page 12)

PRACTICALLY .ALL of the sugar sold in the (.'anal Commissaries is now lieing supplied by Panama

producers. The sugar undergoes tests at the Commissary Division's Industrial Laboratory for purity and fineness. .Above, E. C. Orr, Chemitt, is examining a new shipment of Panama sugar supplied under

contract by "La Estrella" sugar mills of Rodolfo Chiari.

fajitfp^iii*-

.MILLIO.XS UF board feet of native lumber have been used during the big quarters construction program of the Panama Canal Company during the past four years. Both logs and milled lumber are bought direct from Panama suppliers. A supply of native lumber is shown above being stacked in the Balboa Storehoute.

.AX'.AVER AGE of about 20,000 pounds of .-eafood

is purchased monthly by the Commissary Division

in the Republic of Panama. Most of this is bought

directly at the public market. .Above, Commissary

buyer .Arthur S. Miller examines a catch of fresh fish .inrl* shrimp 'being otTered by Knrinue Cambra.

Turtli's and lolistei's in sizable (piantities are also bought in Panama.

SHIRTS M.ANUFACTURED in Panama are a comparatively recent item in the Commissaries. One of the Commissary salesmen is demonstrating one of the camisillas tipicas to a customer who is already wearing a Panama souvenir jacket. X'ew it<'ms from local suppliers are being constantly addeil as they become available in sufficient (juantities.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW Sepfember 3, 1954

Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Engineering and Construction Civil Affairs Bureau

.\kl\ ill K. Millard, Safety KMsjinccr. lias l)een appointed Facility Defense Coordinator, for the Eni;ineeriiig and Construction Bureau to implement the civil defense

responsibility assigned to the bureau. He

will have as stalT chiefs; Nelson K. Wise,

of the Maintenance Division; Ko-,;er M. Howe and B. J. Brown, of the Engineering

l)i\isioa. Appointed assistant staff chiefs are Nelson W. Magner, Maintenance Di\ision, and C. I^. Newhard, Electrical Division.

• • • Fred EiijicI, sliL-iiiiicial worker in the Maiii- Icnanrc Division in Balhini, is l>utling into

effect some neif technique in welding alloys. During his recent vacation trip to the States, Mr. Kngel spent about two weeks of his own

time in taking a course of instruction at the Electric Welding Alloys Corporation in Mew York City.

• • • Another Maintenance Division employee, Gale A. O'Conncll, .Architectural Engineer

(Estimator), on the .Atlantic side, also recently completed a training course. In a letter to the Personnel Director, the International Correspondence .Schools announced that he was a June graduate of the school's Building

Contractor's course. The school authorities

stated that he completed S16 study hours and

passed the course with high grades.

• • • Maintenance Division forces have

been engaged for the past month in correcting damage done by minor

landslides in the new Paraiso housing

areas. One of the slides dislocated a part of a 20-inch storm sewer, requiring

its realignment. And, about 1,500

feet of sheet piling was driven at a

slide on Espalaba Street.

• • • Residents of the Gatun Lake town of Lagnna and personnel of the Dredging

Division joined forces last month to clear the channel and dock area of water h\'a- cinths, grass islands, and other debris washed down from rivers by hea\y rains. One foreman and 10 local-rate employees

were assigned to assist the townspeople of Lagnna to reestablish their water communications with the outside world.

.\n unusualh' large amount of debris and

water hyacinths were remoxed from Canal

waters during the past few weeks. They

were brought in by Ireshets on the upper Chagres and Mandinga Rivers. The Dredging Di\ ision re[no\ed or destroyed an

estimated 1.574,000 plants in Jul\-.

• • • The big suction dredge "Mindi" was

working farther out into open water

last month than a non-sea-going

dredge has been used in Canal waters.

It was dredging in the anchorage just

insi 1" the breakwater at Cristobal harbor. This is a two-year project

which will be sandwiched in between

normal naintenanco work. The

"Mindi" is scheduled to do 120 work

days on this project during the present

fiscal year.

• • •

K. E. I.. Brown and .Allen K. .Miller, of

the Electrical Division's main office, have

been transferred to the Engineering Division on a loan basis for an indefinite period to assist in the 60-cycle conversion program.

Earl (). Dailey will also he temporarily "loaned" for the same purpose when he completes a temporary assignment at the Electrical Division's field office at Mount Hope.

• • • About 60 Electrical Division employees attended a "get-together" party at the Balboa Field Office on Friday,

August 13. Fried fish, fish salad, and

seviche were the main courses made up

from donations from catches by Don

Hutchison in the "Hula" and D. H. Spencer of the "Tin Goose." The

party was attended by Col. Hugh

Arnold, Engineering and Construction

Director, and .1. Hartley Smith, Electrical Engineer.

INSEPARABLE COMP.AX'IONS are Tina, toy

terrior who weighs in at 3K pounds and Gretchen, 55-pound boxer. Nobody, even veterinarians with

anti-rabies shots, had better interfere with Tina, Gretchen thinks. Gretchen's owner George Daniels, assured her that The Review photogi-apher was all right, hence her disinterested air.

Quick action prevented a possible

catastrophe during the recent dog vac- cinating and licensing program in Balboa. Gretchen, a 55-pound boxer, and

Tina, a three and one-half pound toy

terrier, both residents of San Juan

Place in Ancon, have become fast friends. Gretchen sprang to her young

friend's defense as the vaccinating

needle was about to bs wielded by the

veterinarian, but quick action by their owners prevented mayhem.

Gretchen is owned by Marjorie and

George Daniels, while Tina is the pride

of their neighbors, Marjorie and Eddie

Jones. Gretchen has become the self- appointed protector of her less husky

sister and even resents paper spankings

by her owners.

• • • .After five years as Dri\er Examiner on

the Pacific side for persons seeking chauffeur

licenses. Policeman John F. McDowell is being transferred to other duties at his request. He left the Isthmus early last month on emergency leTX'c because of the death of his father in I'arrxlown, \. ^". Upon his return, he will report for dut\' at Balboa with the dual rating of Policeman

and Motorcycle Officer. His place as Dri\er Examiner has been

filled 1)\- Policeman William .Adams who has

lieen on duty as Harbor Patrolman. The

latter job is now being filled bv Policeman

W. T. Nail.

• • • Harry E. Brown, Regvinal Administrator

of the Federal Civil Defasr Administration,

with headquarters at Thomasville,Ga., paid an

inspection visit to the Canal Zone on August

23 and 24. During his visit he conferred with William G. Dolan, Chief of Civil Defense, and many other Canal offi'!.:ls on civil d-fensr plans for the Canal Zone.

• • • Plans are already being formulated

for the annual observance of Fire Pre- vention Week on the Isthmus which

will be held this year during the week

beginning October i. Several meetings have already be n held by the Joint Fire Fighting Board to plan the

activities. Special movies and a visit to local

fire stations are among the many

activities planned during the week set aside by Presidential proclamation to

call attention to the tragic loss of life and damage to property by fires throughout the nation every year.

Governor's Office

Mrs. Irene .S. Walling, who was recently transferred from the Police Division to the

Office of General Counsel, has the honor of becoming the first woman member of the Canal Zone Police Association. She was voted an

honorary membership in the organization,

hitherto confined to the men, following h'-r transfer.

Mrs. Lydia Nadeau is now acting as Secretary to the Governor. She is taking the place of Miss Mary Maguire who sailed last month for vacation in Maine and New York.

George L. Crown, who recently joined the

•'tiff of the Office of the General Counsel, was

admitted to the bar of the United States

District Court for the Canal Zone last month.

Community Services Bureau

Walter R. Liiid.sa\ , Chief of the Grounds

Maintenance Di\ ision and for many years head of the Canal Zone P^xperiment Garliens. gave members of the Canal Zone

Police Force some pointers on the botanical

identification of marihuana. He spoke at the Police Training Center in Cristobal on

.\ugnst 17. He also gave a talk to the Natural History Society recently and is to gi\e a repeat talk to the College Chdi in Cristobal on September 14.

Newlyweds of the Grounds Maintenance

Division were guests at a party given by

division personnel in Cristobal last month. They were Gene Clinchard, the division superintendent on the Atlantic side, and his

bride, the former Miss Vanja Wessman, of Stockholm. Sweden. The bride was pre- sented with an electric toaster and iron.

• • • Alfred Houston, who is well known for

the good food served under his stipervision

at the Balboa .Service Center, will have an

opportunity to familiarize himself with some

of the latest developments in restaurant equip- ment and management. He is presently on

vacation in Missouri and will attend the Missouri Restaurant Association Convention

in St. Louis from September A' through 11 as

the Canal Zone representative. Mr. Houston

is the chief restaurant manager for the Service Center Division.

Balboa theater patrons had their first view of a cinemascope motion picture

there last month when "The Robe"

was presented, beginning .August 20. The latest wide-screen and Cinemascope pictures are being booked for presL'ntation at Balboa, Cristobal,

Diablo Heights, and Margarita. Special

lenses and wide screens for all these

theaters have been received or are on

order.

Mrs. Golden E. Brandom, clerk-typist in the Balboa Housing Office will enter the motel

business in Te.xas. She resigned and left early last month with her husband, Gordon H. Brandom, for Corpus Christi where they have bought a si.x-unit motel.

Col. Richardson Selee, fornierh' Ci\ il \ffairs Director, was brought up to date

late last month on man>- happenings in the Canal Zone since his departure nearly a \ear ago by Henry L. Donovan who suc- ceeded him as head of the Civil .Affairs Bureau. Mr. Donovan left at the end ol July for a visit in Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. He and Colonel

Selee met in New York City during his

\isit there. Colonel Selee, now with the

I'tah Construction Company, is temporarily on assignment in New York. During Mr. Donovan's absence, James

M.irsliall, Chief of the Postal, Customs, and

1 iiiniigi .Il inn Di\isiini, was acting as Ci\ il .\llairs 1 )irector.
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Office of the Comptroller

R. T. Vestal, of the Accounting Systetnx

Staff, toi;cther with a groufi of accountants from the Office of the Comptroller, is presently

engaged in selling up a revised accounting

system for Gorgas and Cnlnn Hospitals.

The Plant Inventory anil Appraisal

Staff is working on the evaluation of the Panama Railroad, Miraflores Bridge

and the floating equipment of the Aids to Navigation Section.

• • • Thomas H. Scott, of the Accounting Sys- tems Staff, has just completed a two week's

official business trip to the L'ntted Slates. During his visit he conferred with the staff of the New York Office, the Systems Division

of the General Accounting Office in Washington, and visited several machine accounting

installations in private industry and Government.

Marine Bureau

Supply Bureau

ANNIVERSARIES

Oven-fresh bread is now being delivered

to the Commissary stores when they open

every day. The new system was inaugurated .•\ugust 16. Deliveries are made

direct by truck-trailer, making it possible

to bake bread at night and deliver it to stores ready for sale when they open. A

minor drawback is that the change in baking schedules prevents visitors from

seeing the interesting machinery in operation unless they can arrange visits between

midnight and 4:30 o'clock in the morning.

• • • Two Commissary Division buyers are in the States now to inspect, select, and buy.

They are Edward E. Eder, Housewares

Buyer, and T. G. Relihan, Drygoods Buyer. Mr. Eder will return about September 20 and his selections will begin to make their appearance in the stores soon afterwards. Mr. Relihan will stay until about the middle

of October. He will make a selection of

ne.xl summer's dresses now being modelled

as well as review the market for men's, women's, and children's wear.

• • • With the fairly constant arrival of new grocery items, mostly selected as a

result of customers suggestions, "new

item" counters have been set up in the

various Commissary stores. Most of the items are bought first in small

quantities to test customer reaction,

and the division will welcome comments, favorable or adverse, in deter- mining need for re-orders. The "new

itent" space in the Balboa Commissary

is on top of the pre-packaged meat

cases.

• • • Reuben S. Fuller, local-rate deliveryman

and veteran employee in the Commissary

Division, retired from service at the end of August. He plans to make his home on the Isthmus for a time.

• • • Joseph Rankin has been selected for (ippoinlnieni as guard at the Mount Hope

enclosed area. He was formerly employed

in the Commissary Division's Battery Charging .Shop.

• • • The local-rate personnel of Cristobal

Storehouse will be hosts to their co- workers from Balboa at a "Grand

Storehouse Field Day" Saturday at the Rainbow City playground. The activities will open at 9 o'clock in the morning. Events will include Softball, volleyball, table tennis, swimming, track

events, dominoes and checkers tourna- ments, and probable dance music.

The management committee for tomorrow's field day includes Torrence

Burrows, Vivian Smith, Ervin Ottley,

\'incent Wong, Claude Bellamy, and

Dave White.

• • • One of the largest shipments of explosives handled in many years by the Storehouse

Division was 92,000 pounds of dynamite

for the Tecon Corporation for use in the Contractors Hill project which arrived last month. It is a sizable part of about

1.(100,000 pounds of explosives estimated

lor the entire job.

ROSCOE M. COLLINS

R. M. Collins, who has had more

than 25 years of experience in marine

work in the U. S. Navy and with the

Panama Canal, has been appointed

Harbormaster in Balboa to succeed

Arthur S. Wilson who retired last month.

A native of Orleans, Ind., Mr. Collins

entered the Navy when he was only

17 years old. He first came to the

Isthmus in 1930 and served three years with the 15th Naval District. He was employed Coxswain Engineer by the

Canal March 3, 1934 and has served continuously in the Marine Bureau

except for a year and a half with the Navy during World War II. He has

been employed as dock foreman in Balboa since the war. G. E. Riley, Jr., has been promoted

from Supervisory Signalman to Mr.

Collins' job as Dock Foreman.

Peter Bolton, who was employed on the Pilot force last month, was born in Oakland.

Calif., but has spent most of his life in .luslralia. He went to Australia when a

child and received his education in Melbourne. He returned to the United States

in 1140 and joined the Merchant Marine

Service. He was employed in that service until the end of the war when he Joined the Pacific Micronesian Line at Guam where he was master of one of the line's ships and

later became .Assistant Port Captain at Guam.

Transportation and Terminals

Bureau

The first whaling fleet to transit the Panama Canal since October 1951, began

arriving in Cristobal .August 20. The

entire fleet is en route from Hamburg and

Kiel, Germany, to whaling groimds in the

.-Xntarctic.

.Arrival of the whalers brought a family

reunion here. Captain-Gunner of the catcher Olympic Conqueror is Bjarne .A. -Andersen a first cousin of B. I. Everson,

Transportation and Terminals Director. They last met when Captain .Andersen's ship was returning to Europe from the whaling groimds over two years ago. Some of the whalers required voyage

repairs at the Industrial Division shops at Mount Hope before they began their Canal transits. Mother ship of the whaling fleet is the Olympic Challenger, which arrived in Cristcjbal .August 24 and transited the following

da\-. The whale catchers are the Olympic

Winner, Olympic Victor, Olympic Champion,

Olympic Lightning. Olympic Fighter, Olympic

Leader, Olympic Conqueror, Olympic Tracer, Olympic Cruiser II, Olympic Arrow, and

Olympic Explorer. The mother ship and some of the catchers went through the Canal northbound in March 1952. The crews are Germans but all catcher- gunners are Norwegian.

August w-as a big month for Robert Wayland White, top man In- two days on this month's list of anni\ersaries. Mr. White

not onl\- celebrated the completion of 30

years of go\ernnient ser\ice, but he also

retired from the Canal organization. He

, and Mrs. White will go first to Grand

Rapids, Mich., and then to Florida.

.A native of Ivy Depot, \'a.. he had come

here in 1925 to work with the Commissar>-

Divisioii, as a meat cutter. In 1942 he

transferred to the Motor Transportation

Division as a chaufienr and two \ears later moved to the Division of Storehouses as a Ganger and Cribtender Foreman. .At the time of his retirement he was a Steam

Engineer with the Marine Bunkering Section of the Mount Hope Oil Plant. Two other Canal emplo\ees. both lock- masters on the Pacific Locks, also completed

30 years of service in .August. Thev are Texas-born Frank O. Bryan, whose j(]b takes him the length of Pedro .Miguel Loc'ks sescral times a da\-, and Bronson B. Powell, whose father had also worked on

the locks. Mr. Bryan's ser\ice date is •August 24, Mr. Powell's one day later. Mr. Powell's service is continuous.

Quarter-century anniversaries were marked up by four employees in .August: Mark

Z. Brandon, Jr., Superintendent of Mails

at Balboa; Norbert A. Jones, a nati\e

Zonian now with the .Accounting l)i\ision as an .Accounting Clerk; Jerome E. Steiner, Cash .Accounting .Assistant with

the Fiscal Division; and Clarence H.

True, General Engineer with the Plant Inventory and .Appraisal Staff. Mr. Bran- don and i\Ir. Steiner have unbroken service Two pairs of this month's 20-year

emphnees ha\e identical service dates. Marcelino Figueroa, Floating Equipment

Oiler lor the Dredging Division, and John

H. Poole, Jr., Telephone Installer-Maintaintr lor the Electrical Di\ision, went to work for the Canal on the same day

August I. 1934. C. W. Chase, Jr., Chief of the Construction and Maintenance Branch of the

Electrical Division, and Francis J. Harrington, Pilot in the Naxigation I)i\ision, share the same service date: .August 14, 1934. -AH lour have continuous service. Others who completed 20 years of gov- ernment service in .August and whose Canal

service is unbroken are Mrs. Robin L. Comer, -Accounting Clerk with the Terminals Division; Capt. Benjamin \. Dar- den of the Canal Zone Police; James G.

Slice, Guard Supervisor at the Pacific Locks; and Edward N. Stokes, Superin- tendent of the Railroad Division.

.Also on the 20-year list in .August, but with broken Canal service, are: Eugene

White, Signalman in the Navigation

Division; and James C. Wood, Customs

Inspector with the .\a\igation T)i\-ision.

Fifteen-year emp!o\ees, with continuous Canal service, are: Ralph Curies, Towboat

Master, Navigation Division; Charles B. Douglas, Powerhouse Operator-Dispatcher,

Electrical Division; Monrad J. Gruentr,

also a Powerhouse Operator- Dispatcher;

Elmer Kanz, Hydraulic Engineer, Meteorolog\- and Hvdrographic Branch; Nathaniel Litvin, Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Division; Chester A. Luhr, Locks

Operator Blacksmith, Pacific LiK'ks; Edward W. Millspaugh, Lock Operator Pipefitter, Locks Division; and Louis Pierobon,

Sheetmetal Worker Leader, Maintenance

Division. 'Those who completed 15-years of Government service but whose Canal service has been broken are: George A. Black, Jr., Tabulation Planner, I)ivision of .Store- houses; Dick R. Brandom, Postal Clerk,

Postal, Customs and Immigration Division; Esther P. Currier, Cash .Accounting Clerk, Commissarv' f^ivision; Benjamin S. Favorite, Jr., Electric Welder, Industrial Division; Eugene E. Hamlin, Jr., .Admcasurer,

Navigation Division; Edward E. Kennerd,

Water Meter Inspector, Water and Laboratories Branch; William K. Marks, Electrician, Terminals Division; John A. Snodgrass, Plumber. Maintenance Divisioii; and Peter A. Warner, Public Works

ForemaTi, Maintenance Division.
12 THEfPANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

Panama's Public Market is Daily

Supply Source For Fruits, Vegetables

{Continued from page !t) over il period of a year thev amount up to somethin<; over $100,()()(). In most instances the purchases at the

public mari<et are made with arrange- ments for the seller to deliver the produce

to the Commissary Division cold storage

warehouse in Balboa or at Corozal. Oftentimes, however, Mr. Miller takes immediate delivery and hauls the produc?

to the warehouse in the pickup truck.

Direct to Commissary

The purchase of Panama-grown fruits and vegetables at the public market is but one of several methods employed.

Froducens are encouraged to bring their produce direct to the cold-storage platform at the Balboa Commissary, and on

the Atlantic side fruit and vegetable growers sell their produce at the Commissary Division warehouse at Mount Hope.

In all cases possible, Commissary Division officials prefer to arrange for large

purchases of fruits and vegetables in advance, and much of the buying is done

in this manner. Most of the bananas

and cabbage are bought in this manner.

In the case of bananas, a buyer in the Madden Lake area is notified that 500 stems of bananas can be used the following week. The buyer then makes the round of small farms bordering the lake and delivers the fruit on schedule. Purchases are similarly made for many other

fruit and vegetable products. Approximately 30,000 pounds of cabbage grown

around El Volcan and Cerro Punto,

Chiriqui Province, are bought weekly and

are delivered by truck. Boquete oranges and a variety of other produce raised in that area also are now delivered direct

to Commissary warehouses by truck. Comparative Purchases

The amount of purchases of fresh

fruits and vegetables from producers in the Republic increased materially during

the past few years. Last year, for e.xample, such purchases totaled approximately $120,000, considerably more than

the amount spent only a few years ago. The total amount of direct purchases

made in the Republic of Panama last year declined slightly over the previous

year. The decline was attributed largely to the decrease in the number of employees in the Canal organization and

partly to some slackening in the purchase

of building materials coincidental with

the close of the quarters construction program. The amount of beef bought dropped

from $694,000 in the fiscal year 1953 to $626,000 in the past fiscal year. The

figures directly reflect the decrease in the number of employees since practically

all beef, sold in the commissaries for the past few years has been native-grown.

The following table shows the comparative statistics on purchases in the

several classifications for the past two

fiscal years by the Canal organization:

1953 1954 Meat products- _ -__ $794,000 $705,0011

Fruits and vegetables 123 ,000 120 ,000 Other agricultural products _- 122,001 90,(KX1 Other food products 28,000 31,000

Beverages _. 149,000 141,000 Sugar 402,000 488,000

Forest products 52,000 50,000

Industrial products and miscellaneous- .. 916,000 826,000

Total.. . $2,585,000 $2,451,000

Just Ask The Staff Of The Canal Zone Library

)H

MOVING a library is somewhat more complicated than moving a household. Big crane? handled bookstacks when the library was moved to the Civil Affairs Building in 1949.

{Cimtlmnd from page a) are Constantly

being called on for answers which they

usually manage to supply. Of prime

importance are reference questions from

units of the organization but they also get others like: "How many pancakes did

Little Black Sambo eat and what are the

duties of a coroner?" At times of Congressional hearings letter-writers want

to know the names and addresses of their Representatives; inquiries on fishing and

the weight of record catches are a year- round proposition.

One questioner who tries the patience

of librarians is the one who wants an

article "I read in the Saturday Evening

Although Panama beef crinstitutes the

principal meat item bought, nearly

$90,000 worth of other meat products were also bought during the past year. This was principally fish, lobster, and

shrimp. During the last quarter of the past fiscal year, shrimp purchases alone amounted to over $8,500, and nearly

.$9,000 was spent for fish. New Items New items are constantly being added

to the list of products bought in the local markets by the Commissary Division, the Storehouse Division, and the Service Center Division, the three principal Canal

units making direct purchases in the

local market.

During the last quarter of the past

fiscal year the principal new item was

textbooks. A total of $11,841 was spent

during the last three months of the fiscal year for textbooks. These consisted

principally of Spani.sh language textbooks

for use in the Latin American schools this year. An additional supply has been

purchased since the close of the fiscal year and these figures ara not included. During recent months men's shirts have been bought in Panama for resale in the cjmmissary stores. These included both the "camisillas tipicas" and regular- wear shirts. Cigarettes are another new Panama product which made its appear- ance in the purchase column during

recent months.

Post about two months ago." It turns

out, usually, that the article in question

had appeared two years before, and in CollierK. One relic of the library's fusty days,

but one for which librarians and readers

give thanks, is the Panama collection. Both Governor Goethals and his Executive Secretary, C. A. Mcllvaine, insisted when the library was established that it include as much local material as possible.

Largest Collection

This was done so successfully that the Panama collection is now world-famous.

It comprises the largest collection of books

and periodicals in English about the history of the Isthmus and in particular

about the construction of the Panama

Canal outside of the Library of Congress

in Washington and includes many rare items in Spanish as well. The library also has a fine collection of old maps, both photostats and originals; the originals are so fragile that they are used for exhibit only. There are back

files of the New York Times to 1921 and

of local newspapers, some of them no

longer existent. The files of the Star

it Herald, are complete to January 1906 and are invaluable sources of information

for local researchers. Bookmarks

Library work has its headaches the

rising cost of books and other supplies

and the constant war against tropical

damage among them. But it has its funny side, too. Almost anything can

be left in books as the library staff has found ouf. They have discivered old

letters, recipes, and photographs which

have been used as bookmarks; someone

even left a pair of socks in a book he had borrowed.

But the high spot of them all was the money. An absent-minded reader had

cashed her husband's paycheck and

stuffed the bills between the pages of a book she was returning to the library.

A librarian was trying to reach her by

t?lephone when the distressed soul panted up to the desk to recover her loss.
Sepfember 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Back To School

POLICE SGT. JACK F. MORRIS

Sgt. Jack F. Morris, haHislics expert of the Canal Zone Police, began a 12-week course of training at the F. B. I. National Academy last Monday. The invitation to attend the 54th Session of the Academy was received from

J. Edgar Hoover. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by Maj. George

Herman, Chief of Police. Sergeant Morris, a native of Tennessee, has been a member of the Zone Police Force

for the past 19 years. In addition to his duties as ballistics expert, he is also instructor

in firearms training for the division and

training instructor of probationary policemen.

Zone Schools Expect Increase

Of 500 Pupils For New Record

{Continued from page 2) 6 to Pedro Miguel.

Clayton kindergarteners will also go to Pedro Miguel.

Spanish and Shorthand

For the first time this year Spanish will be taught in grades 1 through 3. Formerly

Spanish instruction did not begin until the fourth grade. The teachers will be

three teams of three teachers each,

specializing in the lower grades on spoken

Spanish and working with wire recorders and other modern equipment. All of the Spanish teachers are Panamanian and all have had advanc?d training in the United

States. A new course is being added this year

in the two senior high schools. This is advanced shorthand, being taught at this

level for the first time. Returning students will find a number

of physical changes, most of them exterior. Balboa elementary school students will have their first real playground; the Ancon playground has been completely

reconditioned, and the surface of the Fort Kobbe playground has been treated with rockdust. New playground equipment has been placed at the South

Margarita elementary school. Shelters Covered passageways, to protect the

school children from the rain while boarding busses or other transportation, are being installed at the Balboa ehmentary

school and at the Gamboa school. For the

first time, a covered passageway will link the Balboa high school and gymnasium.

Building 838, formerly used as men's

bachelor quarters, on Balboa Road is to be the dormitory for men students at the Canal Zone Junior College this year.

THERE'S NOTHING more discouraging to a woman than to get a new hair-do, bake a

special pie, or whip up a set of drapes and

have the man she promised to love and honor

ignore her, it, or them. That's the way Commissary buyers feel about the things they've gone to a lot of thought to get for you. They

don't know whether to get more of the same

or not unless the customer tells them. On a

nev/ item a sell-out isn't a true indication; customers might buy something just because

it's new and might have no intention of repeating the purchase.

Take groceries. The stores' food sections have been showing some special candies and cookies, and a new appetizer

Tell the or two. They will be reordered Manager if shoppers will let their commissary managers know they wont

them, otherwise, the whole business is a sort of crystal boil guess. All of which leads up

to; Have you tried the new Whitman s bonbons, in 6-ounce to 1 -pound boxes, at 49

cents to $1.29 a box? FORKS are In order for another new grocery

item preserves and jam made and bottled in Boquete, Panama's garden spot. These are

of a denser texture than similar U. S. products because Boquetefios like them that way.

Strawberry and blackberry preserves ore 48

cents a pound jar; pineapple-mango pre- serves sell for 42 cents a jar. Mango jelly is also 42 cents a jar. We have asked a number of Bay Staters and they can't help. Anyway, a new line of cookies made by the Megowan

New Educator Food Company—they Cookies make Crax—includes Cape Cod

cookies in a 10-ounce package,

and Bostonian cookies in a package on ounce smaller. In all, 16 new products by

this firm are due soon in the Commissaries at popular prices. If they're as good as Crax,

they re worth getting lo know. NOT FAR from the food line are things to prepare food. The Commissaries now have

long skewers, the 12-inch length, for cooking

"steak on a stick," fish, or shish [kabobs, that luscious and traditional specialty of the Middle East. The skewers are chrome-plated, come four to a set for 60 cents; at Balboa,

Ancon, and Cristobal. Therma-glasses, tumblers made of double plastic enclosing an air space, are available in 4 pieces, at $1.65,

and eight, at $3.45, which includes stirrers.

Another new household item is designed to remove the dreary musty smell which affects the best-kept mattress at this time

Fresh as of year. Called Mattress-Fresh, a Daisy it comes in a 6-ounce spray can,

for 65 cents and is non-allergic and non-toxic. The manufacturer claims it leaves mattresses "fresh as a daisy, ' and

with no more perfume than a daisy has.

SMOKERS will be pleased with the new line of Ronson lighters, from $2.50 to $8.25. There is "Whirlwind," in chrome; "Triumph,"

another all-chrome model; and "Windsor"

which combines gleoming chrome with black onyx, deep ruby, emerald green, and tur- quoise, so Ronson od-writers say. Now for clothes: For States-bound men

are hand-loomed, Harris tweed topcoats at $37.25, in sizes 36 lo 42, in All Wool brown, gray, or blue. Some of the coats were lost in transit so

all sizes are not available in all colors. At

Balboa and Cristobal. Chilly winter mornings will be more comfortable if he is wearing one of the new wool robes, 100 percent

from the sheep, at $13.25.

ISTHMIAN-LIVING men now have their choice of docron slacks, at $8.25, or the new

dacron-nylon combination, at $9.50 a pair. They come in ton, blue, and gray. (Why

doesn't someone think up some new names

for the colors of men's clothes?) The

dacron-nylon slacks are especially light- weight, wrinkle-resistant; both dacron alone and dacron in combination shed water like the usual duck.

For the girls, from 3 to 63, the Commissaries have new Cotalino swim-suits, just down

from California. Pre-schoolers rate

In the ginghams or loslex, $2.65 to $3.65.

Swim For the 6-14 year olds there are loton

taffeta or an acetate pinwole which

looks like pique, $4.25 to $5.50; 'teenagers' choices also include taffeta models, $9.75 to $10.95; the more mature woman will find a variety of choices from lostex knit at $6.35

to taffeta at $12.50. The taffeta colors are

lovely- -cruise or sapphire lilue, sunset led.

WELL-SHOD feet ore handsome; to help them be well-shod the Commissaries have

just received a few of the shoes put out by

Mademoiselle, a subsidiary of I. Miller. They hove the I. Miller styling and flair, at prices around $1 3.95. One shoe, adapted

from on Italian model, is o strap sandal with a halter back and a three-inch heel, and a

very "bare" effect. This comes in white and

gunmetal patent leather. Another open-toe, open-heel model has a strap of leather across

the vamp; white only. Then there are two

plain and tailored, than which there is nothing much better looking, white models, with closed toes and heels. All are as stunning

as anything seen here lately.

To end on a silly note. Due soon are some musical greeting cords which play

Happy Birthday " or "Rock-a- How Silly Bye Baby when you turn a

crank. That is, they do if you

listen carefully. They will sell for slightly under $1.

Coco Solo Hospital Transferred To Canal Zone;

Extensive Alterations To Take About 5 Weeks

{Continued from pagi I) be transferred

to the ground floor. On the upper floors will be located the

dental, eye and ear clinics, the X-ray,

and the physiotherapy departments. A

second delivery room is to be built on one of the upper floors, and one wing will be set aside for use as obstetrical wards.

Air-conditioning of the operating and

obstetrical delivery rooms will be continued, and the women's general ward will be divided into semi-private cubicles by

curtains. According to present plans, the first move will be the transfer of Colon Hospital in-patients to the Coco Solo build- ing and the activation of out-patient

service at Coco Solo Hospital.

Dispensary at Colon

A dispensary will be maintained, at

least temporarily at Colon Hospital and

the mortuary department will remain in

its present location at Colon Hospital

until other plans can be worked out. Present plans also call for the establish- ment of first-aid stations at Margarita

and Rainbow City, similar to those at Balboa and La Boca. The present Colon Hospital plant has been in operation since May 1916. Its original four buildings were constructed on the "pavilion" plan, connected by

arcades. This hospital had a 65-bed

capacity and cost approximately $177,000.

It was later enlarged and now has a 196- bed capacity.

It was the successor to a 1.5-ward, .550- bed hospital which had opened in 1904, using the combined facilities of the old French hospital and the smaller Panama

Railroad hospital. The former dated back to 1883 and the latter to the middle

part of the nineteenth century.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

July 15 through August 15

Kmplc)\ccs who were promoted or trans- ferred between July 15 and August 15 are

listed below. Regradings and within-grade

promotions are not listed.

CIVIL .\FFAIRS BUREAU

Russell S. Johns, from Position Classilier, Wage and Classilkation Division, to

IViiK-ipai, La Boca Occupational High

.School. Mrs. Doris C. Etchberger, troni Clerk- Stenographer to Statistical Clerk, Division

of Schools. Mrs. Gladys S. Lee, from Junior High

School Teacher to Sidistitnte Teacher.

Ellie F. Fanning, from Elementary

.School Teacher to Principal. Gamboa

l'.lementar\ School. George L. Cain, from Commissar)

Supervisor, Commissary Di\ision, to Cus- toms Guard. Postal, Customs, and Immigration Division. Mrs. Frances E. Hunnicutt, Clerk- Stenographer, from .Seiecti\o Service Section to Police Di\ ision. Wilmer L. Downing, from lime. Leave, and PavroU Clerk, Payroll Branch to

Clerical .\.ssistant (Typist), Fire Division. Thomas Taylor, from Towing Loco- motive Operator, .Atlantic Locks, to Fire- m.m, Fire Di\ision.

John F. McDowell, Russell T. Bill- ison, from Policeman to Policeman and

Motorc\(le Oftker, Police Division. Jacqulyn M. Schofield, from Substitute Teacher, Division of Schools, to Library

.Assistant, Library.

Donald W. Wilson, from Guard, l\Tminals Division, to Policeman, Police Division. OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER

Mrs. Myrtle P. Sparks, from .Accotmting Clerk, .\gents .Accounts Branch, to Cierk-T\ pist. Cost .Accounts Branch. Bruce W. Glaze, from .Accountant, In- ternal .\udit Staff, to Cost Examiner, Plant Inventory and .Appraisal Staff. Jose E. Corco, from .Accountant, Cost Accounts Branch, to Systems .Accountant, .Accounting Systems Staflf. George" T. Darnall, Jr., from Snper-

\isorv General Engineer, Engineering Division, to General Engineer, Plant Inventory and .\ppraisal Staff. Ernest A. Bishop, from Supervisory

Accomiting Clerk, Cost .Accounts Branch,

to .Accountant, Internal .Audit Staft. Richard O. Burgoon, from .Accounting

Clerk, (jorg.i- Hospital, to .Accountant,

Internal .\udil Staff. COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

Mrs. Frances R. Brassel, from Steward

to Supervisory Steward, Service Center

I )i\ ision. Emmett Zemer, from Safety Inspector

to Really .Assistant, Office of the Community Services Director. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Edward V. Koch, from Steam Engineer

(Floating Crane) to Engineer, Pipeline Suction Dredge, Dtedging Division. Rene P. Trembleau, from Maintenance Mechanic, Construction Equipment,

Maintenance Di\ision, to Pimiping Plant Operator, Water and Laboratories Branch. Curtis H. George, from Wireinan Leadingnian to Forenian. Electrical Di\-ision. Frederick A. Ebdon, from Wireman to Wireman Leadingman, Electrical Di\ision.

Milton Davis, from .\rmaturc Winder

Leader to .Armature Shot Foreman Electrical Division. Joseph W. Casey, from .\rnialure

\\ inder to .Armature Winder Leader, Electrical Division. Gilbert A. Reynolds, from Foreman to General Foreman, Electrical Division. Charles F. Magee, from Shoremining

Forenian, Dredging Division, tr^ Supervising Construction Inspector. Contractors

Hill I'roject. Donald W. Johnson, Hugh B. Smith,

from .\pprentice Wireman to Wireman,

Electric.d Di\isioTi. William J. Stevenson, from Operator,

H\(!ranlic Grader. Dredging Division, to Wireman, Electrical Division.

Ralph L. Sell, from Carpenter Leader to Quarters Maintenance Foreman. Mainte- nance Division. Kenneth E. Marcy, William G. Mummaw, from Quarters .Maintenance Leader

to Quarters Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Division. James J. Morris, from Property and

Supply Clerk, Division of Storehouses, to Construction Inspection Inspector (Boring), Contractors Hill Project. OFFICE OF GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

Nancy J. Gill, Student .Assistant, from

Fire Division to Contraband Control

Section. Thomas E. Burrow, from Budget

Examiner to Organization and Methods

Exami.ier, Executive Planning Stall. HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Mauricette M. Hudson, ClerkTypist, from Plnsical Education and

Recreation Branch, to Gorgas Hospital. Dr. Evganie P. Shirokov, from Medical

Officer to Chief, General Surgical Section,

Gorgas Hospital. Col. George G. McShatko, from Medical Officer to Chief, Orthopedic Section, Gorgas Hospital. Lt. Col. Avery P. King, from Medical

Officer to Chief, Urology Section, Gorgas

Hospital. Dr. Grace M. Stuart, from Medical

Officer to Chief, .Anesthesiology Section, Gorgas Hospital. Dr. Daniel Hirschl, from Medical

Officer to Chief, Pediatrics Section, Gorgas

Hospital. Lt. Col. Van R. Richmond, from

Medical Officer to Chief, Derinatology

Section, Gorgas Hospital. Col. Henry S. Murphey, from Medical

Officer to .Assistant Chief, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, Goigas Hospital. Dr. Rogelio E. Arias, from Medical

Officer to .Assistant Chief, Obstetrical and

Gvnecological Service, Gorgas Hospital. Dr. Roderick L. Esquivel, Intern to Resident, Gorgas Hospital.

Phra A. Ashby, from Maintenance

Mechanic to Maintenance Mechanic Leader, Corozal Hospital.

MARINE BUREAU

Mrs. Myrtle P. Hughes, from Clerk- Tvpist to 'Timekeeper, Navigation Division. Leo F. Donohue, from I'robationary to Qualified Pilot, Navigation Division. Joseph D. Foulkes, from Supervisory

Storekeeper, Terminals Division, to Towing

Locomotixe Operator, .Xtlantic Locks. Earl N. Belote, from Lock Operator

Machinist, .\tlantic Locks, to Machinist,

Industrial Division. Edward J. Michaelis, Guard, from

Contractors Hill to .Atlantic Locks Security Branch. Adrian W. Webb, from Lock Operator

Machinist Leader to Lockmaster, Pacific Locks. Charles A. Stewart, from Lock Operator

Machinist to Lock Operator Machinist

Leader, Pacific Locks. Raymond J. Dixon, Hubert A. Rotenberry, from Painter Leader, Maintenance

Di\ision, to Towing Locomotive Operator, Locks Division. John C. DeYoung, from Gas Plant Operator to Senior Gas Plant Operator,

Industrial Division. Mrs. Maxine A. Cawl, Irom Timekeeper

to Clerk-Tvpist, Navigation Division. E. Guy Huldtquist, Chief Towboat

Engineer, from Navigation Division to Ferrv Service.SUPPLY BUREAU

Division of Storehouses James O. Deslondes, from Storekeeper

(General) to Superv isor\ Supply .Assistant (General). Edith Moreno, Inmi Clerk- 1 ypisl to .\ccounting Clerk. Mrs. May H. Foster, from Cash .Ac- counting Clerk (General) to Property and

Suppiv Clerk. George H. Shoemaker, from Store- keeper (General) to Supply Cataloger

(General). Maria L. Lupi, from Property and SupSEPTEMBER SAILINGS

From Cristobal

Cristobal September ,3 Panama September 10 Ancon *September 18

Cristobal September 24 From New York

Aricnn * *Sept ember

Cristobal September 1

Panama September 2

Ancon September 28

*Leaves Cristobal Saturday; arrives New

York Friday. **Leaves New York Thursday because of Labor Day holiday.

(Northbound the ships are in Haiti from

7 a. m. to noon Sunday; southbound the

Haiti stop is Saturday from 7 a. m. to

4 p. m.)

RETIREMENTS IN AUGUST

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of .August to the following employees

who are listed alphabetically, together with

their birthplaces, titles, length of service,

aiifl future addresses: John E. Cantrell, Georgia; General Mechanic, Commissary Division; 11 years,

1 month, and Q days; Canal Zone for present. William H. Fisk, Kansas; Storekeeper

General, Division of .Storehouses; 27 years, 9 months, 7 davs; Panama.

Florence G.' Kelly, New Jersey; Payroll

Clerk, Pavroll Branch; id vears, 1 month,

16 days; \Vhite Plains, N. Y. John J. Molyneaux, New A'ork; Inventory Clerk, Plant Inventory and .Appraisal

Staff; 13 years, 10 months, 17 days; Canal

Zone. Clarendon Sealy, Barbados; Stockman,

Commissarv' Division; ,M years, 9 months,

8 davs; Panama. Robert W. White, X'irginia; Steam Engineer, Terminals Division; 28 years, 8 months, 12 davs; Pensacola, Fla. Arthur S. Wilson, .Australia; Harbormaster, Navigation Division; 12 years, 11 months, 4 davs; Mississippi.

piv Clerk to Clerk-Typist. Mrs. Catherine H. G. Jenkins, Irom

Clerk-Tv pist to Procurement Clerk (Typist).

John J. Medling, from Storekeeper

(General) to Supply Clerk (General). Mrs. Mercedes A. Borrell, from Card

Punch Operator to Clerk-Typist. Mrs. Muriel C. Black, from Clerk Tvpist to Propertv and Suppiv Clerk

(typist). Carl A. Wanke, from Supply Cataloger

to Suppiv Cataloging Supervisor (General). Mrs. Elizabeth Z. Beall, from Clerk- Tvpist to Clerk-Stenographer.

Hugh E. Turner, from Storekeeper

(General) to Supervisory Supply Officer

(Gener.il). Margaret L. Csighy, from Procurement

Clerk (Typist) to Supply Clerk (General)

(Tvpist).' Mrs. Margarita F. Preciado, from

Clerk-'Tvpist to Clerk-Stenographer.

Gordon A. Graham, from Storekeeper

(General) to Supply Re(|uirements Officer, Robert A. DuVall, from Supply Require- ments .\ssistant to Supervisory Supph'

.A.ssistanl (General). Oscar Kourany, from Timekeeper to Cash .\ccounting Clerk (Teller). William J. McKeown, from Laborer Foreman and Gas Cutter or Burner to Ganger.

Commissary Division Norbert W. Hammond, from Gas

Cutter or Burner, Division of Storehouses,

to Supervisorv Storekeeper.

John J. Sproul, from Storekeeper

(Shipping) to Supervisory Storekeeper. Mrs. Margaret M. Nash, from Junior High School Teacher, Division of Schools, to Clerk-Typist.

TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Fred E. Wells, from 'Transportation
September 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

LOCAL GIRL SETS

NEW RIFLE RECORD 200 Pacific Side Families Still To Move

As Housing Construction Draws To Close

XORINE DILLMAN

If you want any fine shooting done,

like picking off something at 100 paces

say, Norine Dillman's the girl to call on. Shooting at the Farfan range last month, Miss Dillman, second year stu- dent at the Canal Zone Junior College,

set a new open Canal Zone record by

firing a score of 400 with 35 X's, over the Dewar course with a .22 rifle. X's are made by exact, pinpoint shooting. An X is the exact center of the

bullseye; a bullseye, of course, scores 10 and the X's are 10 plus. They are counted in tie scores. Her score of 400 with 35 X's tops the U. S. National record by one X; but

since it was made in a National Rifle Association "approved" competition in- stead of a registered competition it cannot

be recognized as a new National record. Miss Dillman has been shooting since she was 12 years old, barely big enough

to handle a rifle. Her coach was her

father, N. E. Dillman, president of the Balboa Gun Club and former coach for the junior marksmen.

To make things even more difficult for her when she fired her record score last month, Miss Dillman was shooting

against her older brother, Richard, who

holds a Master's rating. She topped

his score by four X's. Ten Years Ago

In August

Blackout restrictions were lifted to permit street lights after 11 p. m., for the first time since shortly after Pearl Harbor. Other war measures, especially those having to do with gasoline rationing, were still in force. Applications were

being received during the month for new

gasoline ration books.

Assistant ti) Su[Xt\ isor\' Traiispdrtatidn

Officer, Steamship Ticket Office. Lloyd W. Peterson, from Transportation Clerk to Transportation Assistant. Steamsliip Ticket Office. Mrs. Louise K. Allen, from Stenographer to Clerk-Stenographer, Terminals

Division. Gerald D. Stroop, Gnard, from Locks

Security Branch to Terminals Division. Mrs. Isabel P. Reeves, from Property

antl Supply Clerk to Supervisory Property and Supply Clerk, Terminals Division.

With the quarters replacement program

drawing to a close, some 200 families in Pacific side communities are still living

in houses slated for early demolition and

will be seeking other quarters during the next few months. Most of thes? live in Pedro Miguel, Ancon, or Balboa Flats. This will be the last wholesale housetrading in the Canal Zone as a result of the quarters construction program which

started four years ago and which has

cost upwards of thirty-five million dollars. The evacuation schedule and the number of families residing in the various

areas t) be cleared is as follows: Balboa Flats, 44 families, by

Decembers!.

Ancon, 9 families in two-family

houses, between San Juan Place and

the Administration Building, by

March 1. Pedro Miguel, 96 families, by

March 31. Ancon, except for above, 50 families, by July 1, 1955. With this number of families to be

Panama Line Ships To Make Over-Night

Stop In Haiti During Winter Season

{Continued from page 1) Thursday and the days of arrival in Cristobal from the present Monday to Wednesday, the year

around. Sailing time from New York

will be 4 p. m. The northbound sailings, however, will vary according to the season. Durmg

the winter season, the ships will leave Cristobal at 3 p. m. on Monday, arrive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday,

leave Haiti the following day and dock

in New York on Monday, just a week

after departure from Cristobal. During the summer season, beginning

with the April 26 sailing out of Cristobal, the ships will sail from Cristobal at 11

a. m. Tuesday, arrive in Haiti on Thursday, sail from Port-au-Prince the same

day, and arrive in New York on Monday.

A sample winter season round trip is that of the Panama, first of the three

ships to operate under the new round-trip

schedule. The Panama will sail from New York

at 4 p. m., Thursday, November 4, and

arrive in Haiti on Monday, November S. The ship will sail from Haiti the same

day and arrive in Cristobal on Wednesday, November 10. On the return trip, the Panama will sail from Cristobal at 3 p. m., Monday, November 15, arrive in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, November 17, sail from Haiti on Thursday,

November 18, and arrive in New York

on Monday, November 22. A sample summer season round-trip schedule is that of the SS Cristobal which

will sail from New York at 4 p. m. on

Thursday, April 14. The ship will arrive

in Haiti on Monday, April 18, and sail for Cristobal the same day, arriving in the Canal Zone on Wednesday, April 20. On the northbound voyage, the Cristobal

will sail from Cristobal at 11 a. m. Tuesday, April 26, arrive in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, April 28, and sail for New

York the same day, arriving in New York

on Monday, May 2.

moved and only about 120 new sets of family quarters becoming available before next July, U. S.-rat? quarters of the

Pacific side will be in .short supply for more than another year. Because of this, employees li\'ing in houses now scheduled

for demolitian have been urged to apply

for other quarters well before the deadline

for moving.

A total of 98 new apartments will be

available during the next few months in the Balboa Flats where 63 houses are under construction by Fi-amorco, Inc. These consist of both masonry and composite buildings. It is presently expected

that 24 of these houses will be completed

and ready for assignment early in November.

Of these, four are on Morgan Avenue

and the remainder are on Carr Street near the Balboa Elementary School. The

completion date for the Balboa Flats contract is next January 3. The quarters construction program in Diablo Heights being done by Isthmian

Constructors, Inc., is presently nearing

completion. All but 10 of the houses were to be completed and ready for assigimient by the first of September.

In addition to these, there are 17 one- family houses being built in the Ridge

Road and Quarry Road area by Isthmian

Constructors but no completion date has been announced for the first of these.

The Budget: Here s How

A Typical Item Is Handled

{Continued from page 4) an approximate

timetable of the various actions to be

taken. The long and complicated process is not something which has been specially devised for the Panama Canal CompanyCanal Zone Government. It is substantially what is followed by every Govern- ment agency and the processes are

requii'ed by law or by regulations which

are designed to weed out those expenditures which are not warranted and to protect the Government's interest in the spending of any money from one cent to

a few billion dollars. While the Panama Canal Company

has more flexibility in its budget than the Canal Zone Government in that it operates on current revenues, it also is required to submit its operating budget program for approval to Congress before any funds are expended. And, once the

appro\'al for a given expenditure is made,

the Company's management does not have the authority to spend money

authorized for some other purpose. The imaginary budget timetable given

here is for a capital item project only.

The procedure is slightly different for operations, such as the schools' program,

but in the main the two follow the same

general course from the time it is decided

the money is needed and the time it is actually spent.

In fiscal year 1916, dui-ing which slides closed the Canal to large vessels for seven months of the twelve, only 787 commercial ships made the Canal transit.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW September 3, 1954

1,500 Zone Youngsters End

Summer Recreation Program

M(JST <if the yimiiKest youiifjsters at Balboa had ntver seen a circus but they made this fine thr^'e-rin;;; model, complete with grandstands and ticket-sellers, during the Summer Recreation Program.

If all the batsas which were painted

during the Summer Recreation Program

were laid end to end, someone would b?

surprised. Bateas, for the uninformed

who may not have had a Summer

Recreationer in their families, are the shallow wooden trays which the people

of Panama's Interior use for innumerable

household purposes. This year Mrs. G. 0. Parker, coordi- nator of th3 Summer Recrjation Program

in U. S.-rate con'munitias, practically cornered the batea market. She bought

about 600 of them and distributed them

to 13 communities where they were

shellacked or varnished or decorated

according to the individual artist's taste. The bateas ranged in size from the little ones which are fine for salted peanuts to the granddaddy size which holds salad

for 20. In all some 1,.500 children, from pre- kindergarteners to 'teenagers, signed up

this year for the Summer Recreation

Program, a Community Chest agency. They worked under the supervision of about 90 adult volunteers. The largest

LILLIE MAE GHIFFI.X concentrates on a basket. She is seated among some of the native materials which were used for the Summer Recreation Program

at Ancon.

unit was at Fort Clayton where about

2.30 children were registered; the small?st

unit was at Pedro Miguel.

Each Unit Individual

Although batea-painting was common

to all of the commu'iiti3s each had its own specialties depending on the interests

of the children and the inventiveness of the various chairmen.

Boys and girls at Fort Kobbe, for instance, wove belts and brac^l^ts from

plastic cord. Professional-looking stdes

of nylon net were turned out by the older

girls at Cocoli. A Margarita project

which attracted much interest was the manufacture of beach bags from toweling

which the youngsters stenciled, cut and

stitched. At Coco Solito, tooth picks,

match sticks, and the handle ends of paint brushes were used in a new method

of textile painting, and at Cristobal the

children designed and cross - stitched samplers.

In addition to their handicraft projects

children at Albrook had an extra special

activity: Etiquette for the young. They

learned how to greet their hostesses and

say "thanks for the lovely party," as

if they meant it; how to ask a girl for a danc? and what to do with her when the music stopped. The program at Fort Clayton included a lot of work with clay; another Clayton project was manufacturing planters for phi'odendrcn and such from coconut shells. At Pedro Miguel

tuna fish cans, wrapped in yarn, stuffed with cotton and the top co\'ered with

felt, became pincu.shions. Curundu

children painted on glass and made

scrap books. Handicraft And Sports

A thr.'e-ring circus, complete, was th" major project at Balboa and shelf aft?r

.shelf was filled with their other handi- work. The program at Ancon was bas^d

cntii-ely on Panamanian themes with a wide variety of native materials turning

into an amazing assortment of articles. Fort (tulick children made placemats

and coasters from sheets of cork and at Fort Davis, where the program opened

after most of the others had closed, emphasis was placed on the batea work, basket weaving, and the production of plaster-of-paris plaques.

In all units the children had some

outside activities, like picnics or trips to

local points of interest, and in some communities especially the military posts, sports activities were combined with the handicraft program. Most of the towns

limited the Summer Recreation program

to three days a week, although in more

than one the children were so interested that they persuaded the volunteers to extend both hours and days.

An Isthmian-wide exhibit of the work

done during the summer went on display

August 23 at the Canal Zone LibraryMuseum in the Civil Aff;^,irs Building.

Forty Years Ago

In August

The population uf the Canal Zone was

continuing to dwindle. The August force

report showed 28,883 employees, a reduction

of ahotii 1,000 from the previous month.

"By ths successful passage of vessels through the Canal, the dream of centuries has become a reality," Secretary of War

Lindley M. Garrison cabled Col. George

W. Goethals 40 years ago last month.

"Its stupendous undertaking has finally

been accomplished and a perpetual

memorial to the gsnius and entarprise of our people has been created."

Everything during that month was tied in with the opening of the Canal. When

August 1914 ended, 18 vessels had transited from Atlantic to Pacific and 23 had

gone from Pacific to Atlantic through the newly-opened waterway. Tolls amounted

to $88,401.80.

While the SS Ancon had the honor of making the first official trip on August 15, she had been preceded by other ships.

The SS Cristobal took llK hours to

travel from Dock 9 in Cristobal to Balboa

harbor on August 3; she encountered

minor difficulties with towing locomotives

at Gatun and Pedro Miguel. The SS

Advance went through the Canal on August 9, and the SS Panama on August

II. All of these ships carried men and women who had helped to build the Panama Canal.

There were of course, a numler of

"firsts" during the month. The first vessel of war to go through the Canal was the 460-ton Peruvian torpedo destroyer Teiiknte

Rodriguez, which transited on August 18. The first foreign ship was the Daldorch, on August 22, a cargo ship owned by J. and

M. Campbell of Glasgow. Loaded with 11,600 tons of wheat it was bound from

Tacoma to Limerick. The Daldorch's

master had intended to go around the Cape

hut was ordered, by radio, to use the Canal. This saved the ship about 40 days.

Meanwhile, war had come in Europe

and its effects were felt in the Canal Zore. Four German ships remained in Cristobal

harbor, rather than venture to sea. The

Hamburg American Line temporarily

suspended its services through the Carib- bean connecting with New 'i'ork.

Through the courtesy if a Panama paper, unnamed by The Canal Recoku which

carried the item, a news service was estal- lished to provide bulletins of the European

war. The bulletins were "procured by one

of the (clubhouse) secretaries and relayed

to the various clubhouses along the line."

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