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Vol. 5, No. 6 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JANUARY 7, 1955 5 cents CENTENNIAL OF PANAMA RAILROAD'S COMPLETION

WILL BE CELEBRATED WITH SPECIAL CEREMONIES

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OLD 299, the most ancient of the Panama Railroad's locomotives, will be dedicated as a monument during the celebration of the railroad's centennial Special ceremonies, which will include a commemorative ocean-to-ocean train crossing of the Isthmus and the dedication of Locomotive 299 as a permanent monument in the Canal Zone

are planned for January The ceremonies will celebrate th e hundredth anniversary of the

EXTENSIVE AGENDA SCHEDULED FOR MEETING completion of the Panama Railroad and

OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS HERE THIS MONTH

The most extensive agenda ever to be

faced by the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company at a single

quarterly session is taking shape for the January meeting which is expected to be

attended by the full membership, includ- ing the Company's only stockholder,

Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens. In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors approved in Washington on October 9, the January meeting

is to be held in the Canal Zone annually, the 1955 session being set for Balboa

Heights on January 12, 13, and 14. Presiding at the sessions will be Board

Chairman George H. Roderick, Assistant Secretary of the Army. Members of the Board include T. Coleman Andrews,

Ralph H. Cake, Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, John W. Martyn, Howard C.

Petersen, Charles S. Reed, Maj. Gen.

Julian L. Schley, Brig. Gen. John S. Seybold, and Theodore H. Maenner. The agenda for the meeting will include

a number of major considerations affect- ing future operations of the Company.

Significant among these are the assumptions upon which the 1957 operating

budget for the Company will be based. Such assumptions involve the forecasting

of future levels of operation in all activities of the organization, based upon such

factors as projected traffic, both short- and-long-range, projections of economic

levels and salary and wage variations,

changes in general Company-Government

programs, levels of employment in other Government agencies in the Canal Zone,

improvement of efficiency and general

cost reductions in every (.See page IB)

will tribute those who made a reality the

first railroad across the American conti- nent 14 years before the Golden Spike

joined the railroad crossing of the United

States. The occasion is already attracting wide

interest, particularly among stamp enthusiasts throughout the world, who welcome

the issue of a commemorative stamp.

The Canal Zone Postal Service at Balboa

Heights has already been deluged with

inquiries about the special 3-cent issue which will go on sale January 28 and the

"First Day of Issue" cancellations and

postmarks to be established for one trip on the Railway Mail Service. The Panama Canal Review will celebrate this historic occasion with a

special issue. While the Canal Zone is celebrating

the railroad centennial, Canal veterans

in Washington will attend a (.See page 12)

Canal Zone Mourns With Panama Over Assassination Of President Remon

Shocked and horrified over the news of the assassination last Sunday night of President Jose Antonio Remon, Zonians

of all nationalities grieved with their neighbors across the border.

In a radio address Sunday night and in letters to the late President's widow and

to Panama's new President, Jose Ramon

Guizado, Governor Seybold expressed the sentiments of the people of the Canal Zone when he said: "Panama has lost an

outstanding leader and we in the Canal Zone have lost a friend and illustrious contemporary. President Remon was

widely recognized for his staunch undeviating support of the principles of the

free democratic world. His achieve- ments will endure far into the future." In respect to the memory of Panama's

President, Canal Zone flags were half- masted.

The Canal Zone, however, did not

restrict its sympathies to words alone. In answer to a request from the Panama

bomberos, Sgt. R. W. Wheeler and one

fireman, John R. Olsen, of the Balboa

Central Fire Station took a resuscitator to Santo Tomas Hospital where it was used

in ar attempt to save the President's life. Blood supplies and the facilities of Gorgas Hospital were offered by Governor Seybold; a Panama radio car was at the Gorgas Blood Bank to take a supply

to Santo Tomas Hospital when word came that President Remon had died. Governor Seybold and members of his

staff attended the funeral services Monday. In addition he telephoned the White

House and was authorized to excuse, administratively, Panamanians employed

in the Canal Zone so they might attend

the funeral.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

Paraiso Civic Center

To Be First Of Sort

In Canal Townsites

Plans for the first "under-one-roof"

Civi constructed as such in

the Canal Zone have been completed by

of the Engineering Division. Bids for tin b - enter, which will be

built in Paraiso next to the existing

: r. were advertised this week

and will he opened January 31. The

center is to be completed before the end

of the tisral year. Although the Gatun Community Center houses the Service Center, theater,

post office, and commissary under one

roof, it was not originally designed for

this purpose; the commissary was a later

addition to the present building.

The Paraiso Civic Center is a new

concept in architectural planning for the Canal Zone. It will be a long, narrow,

one-story structure, facing on Paraiso

Road and backing onto a parking lot, which will be a level below the building

proper. The parking lot will be between

the building and the Canal. Sloping Location

Built of masonry, it will have a 131-foot frontage and will be 30 feet deep. A

roofed passageway, 10 feet wide, will extend across the entire front of the

building. The Civic Center will be at

street level in the front; at the back the ground drops sharply away toward the parking lot which will be connected with

the building proper by a ramp. The

under part of the building, facing the parking lot, will be semi-finished so that

it can be developed later into offices or storerooms if necessary. The Civic Center will be constructed

in three blocks, separated by patios.

The roofs of the patios will be pierced so

that trees planted in the patios will extend

through the open tops and grow above

the roof level of the building itself. To the left of the central patio, as one

enters the building from the street level,

will be the post office, which will have

office space and boxes for mail distribution. A meeting room which will be

large enough to accommodate the Civic Council and similar groups will be in this same block. Also in this block will be a medical clinic with waiting room and two

examining rooms. Commissary Later A barber shop, a beauty shop, and two

large public washrooms will lie provided

in the center block, which is the smallest

of the three. The third block, to the right of the main entrance, will be devoted to the luncheonette which will have an adjacent

kitchen and storerooms. The luncheonette will be so arranged that the wall

facing the ('anal will have wide windows. Customers will be seated so that they

have a view through the windows. The

luncheonette space will also include

inters where magazines, tobacco, and

small merchandise will be sold. The Civic Center, as now planned, does

not include a commissary. This is scheduled for fiscal year 1956 to replace the present Paraiso Commissary. It will be built alongside the Civic Center, con- nected to it, and will be on the left of the new Civic Center, as one faces the Canal.

Award Of $820,000 Contract

Made In Conversion Program

THREE SMALL generator units in the extreme background and the large unit in front of which the three men are standing at the r.atun hydro-eleetric statimi will be replaced as part of the (Ill-cycle conversion

project. The large unit in the immediate foreground will be rebuilt under another contract during the

conversion program. The men are. left to riaht, Ralph Graham, station chief, Fred Wuloughby and

Victor Young, both operate r-fi remen at the Oatun station.

BIDS TO REPLACE the generators and governor units at the Gatun hydro-electric station were opened

last month at Balboa Heights. Left to right, around the table, are E. L. Bromilow, representing General

Electric to which the contract was awarded; Horacio Alfaro, Jr., of Servicios Electricos; W. M. Sergeant

and Harold 11. Feeney, Assistant Chief and Chief, respectively, of the Contract and Inspection Division:

Col Hugh M. Arnold, Engineering and Construction Director and Contracting Officer for the I anama

Canal Company; E. M. Browder; Otis Kleinfelder; L. R. Sommer, electrical contractor; and L. B.

Sartain, Chief of the Electrical-Mechanical Branch. In the background are F. H. Irwin, Designing

Engineer' George C. Dunlap of the Electrical Division, ami .1. Hartley Smith. Electrical Engineer.

Bids for the construction of a new

electrical substation at Mount Hope, the second large project in the conversion of the Canal Zone's power system from 25-

to 60-cycle current, will be opened next Tuesday at Balboa Heights.

This contract calls for the construction

of the substation building, an outdoor

switch structure, the installation of large

transformers, switchgear, and the construction of distribution-system facilities

to connect the new substation to the

existing power system.

The new substation will be located near

the Industrial Bureau area entrance, not

far from the Mount Hope railroad station.

It will replace the present substation in the Old Cristobal area, and will require

approximately 14 months to build. The contract for the first large contract, furnishing three small and one large

generator and governor units for the

Gatun hydro-electric station, was awarded

late in December to the General Electric Company, on its bid of $820,000.

Bids for furnishing and installing a switchboard at the Gatun hydro station,

opened at the same time, were rejected.

Meanwhile the survey of frequencysensitive equipment on the Atlantic side

of the Canal Zone, where the changeover

to 60-cycle current will be made first, is continuing. Frequency-sensitive equipment in both company and domestic use

is being listed by teams from the Engineering Division.

All homes are being visited and household equipment listed, for later conversion. This survey has been completed

in Gatun and Margarita. A similar survey is being made of such Company

units'as the Industrial Division and the Terminals Bureau which have frequencysensitive equipment.
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

BLUE JEANS and spert shirts are the usual costume for the roller skating fans at Pedro Miguel'

Everybody—Well, Practically Everybody—

In The Zone Has Taken Up Roller Skating

"Look, Mom! Grandma's skating."

And sure enough, right in there with the teenagers and her grandchildren goes grandma, who, like hundreds of other Canal Zone residents these days, has taken up roller skating as a hobby and a

fine form of relaxation. Several evenings during the week,

enthusiastic fans, ranging in age from 6

to 60, gather at one of the Canal Zone

skating centers and blissfully whir 1 around

the floor, executing fancy figures or playing the traditional skating games to the rhythm of old-fashioned waltzes played on a record player.

One of the activities organized during

the war by the USO, roller skating has gained steadily in popularity and is now

attracting hundreds of enthusiastic skaters, who are as fussy about their equipment as any golfer is about his clubs.

Parties On Skates

Among the roller skating aficionados,

it is more fun to skate than dance, anytime. They organize any number of social gatherings during the year and there was

at least one group who ushered in the New

Year with a costume skating party. On the Pacific side, there are two active

clubs, both of which hold regular meetings each week. One is the Pacific Skating Club, which meets at the Pacific Service Center; the other is the Pedro

Miguel group, which meets regularly at the Pedro Miguel Gymnasium.

Roller skating was organized at Pedro

Miguel several years ago by Mrs. Ann

Marti, wife of Teddy Marti, an employee

of the Pedro Miguel Locks. Waltzes Are Best An ardent roller skating fan herself, Mrs. Marti started the activity on a small scale in the Pedro Miguel Gymnanasium with most of the youngsters skat- ing under supervision during the day and

the older folks gathering on regular nights

to skate to music. At first the skates were loaned by the Summer Recreation Program and the music came from an old record player

loaned to the group by the same unit. A number of difficulties developed.

Records were brought in by almost everyone and Mrs. Marti remembers that they

included some pretty modern versions of be-bop and boogie-woogie which didn't have the right rhythm for skating at all. The children and the parents, too, found that the skates which clamped on

their regular shoes tore the shoes apart

in no time so nearly all the members of the group bought skating shoes. Youngsters Learned Fast Then there was the question of learning

how to skate. Most of the members had

to start from scratch and although this was a little hard for the older folks, the youngsters took to skating as ducks to water. Other problems have gradually been

solved. The floor of the Pedro Miguel

Gymnasium, for instance, is concrete so

special fiber or rubber composition rollers are used on the skates. Funds for a new

record player were furnished by the Pedro Miguel Civic Council and members

of the skating group pitched in from time

to time to patch up any cracks that developed in the floor. Floor managers, many of them service men who are expert skaters and who have

learned a professional trick or two in the

GIRL SKATERS at the Pacific Service Center favcr short shorts for their recreation costumes

States, keep the fun from becoming too rough when exuberant adolescents begin

to feel their oats. Not For Novices

On the nights that the members gather

to skate (Saturday night is currently the

preferred time), games and races and

special dances are organized. Some of them, such as crack-the-whip, would cow

the uninitiated, but it is all in good clean fun to the hardy Pedro Miguel roller skating fans. The idea of skating the New Year in was first brought up several years ago and proved such a success that it has been

a regular event each year. The women

in the group bring the refreshments and

the men make the decorations for the

party. Special games and dances are organized and by midnight the members,

old and young alike, see to it that the New Year is given a fitting welcome.

Other skating events during the year have been Halloween masked parties and

special shows in which the more talented members don costumes and perform for their admiring friends. Mrs. Marti herself has organized some of these performances and has trained some of the

children for shows. She says that skating is no trick at all for most of the young

fry and that some of the high school youngsters have become almost professional.Pedro Miguel To Diablo

The lively teenagers are no problem, Mrs. Marti says, and can be kept under

control most of the time. On one occasion, however, the confines of the skating

rink in Pedro Miguel became a little galling and a number of the boys and

girls disappeared into the night and skated

all the wav to the Diablo Clubhouse. The

kids had lots of fun, but, she added, the

skates had to be dry-docked. Mrs. Marti began to skate soon after she was married in 1942. She and her husband attended the regular skating

sessions at the Tivoli USO, now the

Pacific Service Center, and took lessons. Mrs. Marti, who is from the deep south and has never seen a pair of ice skates,

let alone try them out, is now an expert

roller skater and has (Si page IS)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

CANAL ZONE CLERGY

itor's note: This is the first of a on clergymen of the Canal Zone.)

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BIBLE ^HOOL

6:30 PM TRAINING UNION 7:30 PM EVENING SERVICE

The Reverend WILLIAM H. BEEBY

When William H. Beeby, now Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Balboa

Heights, was a student in the Eastern

Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia, he had no idea that 10 years later he would be in the Canal Zone. Like many others, he found life altered by the war. A reserve chaplain in the Air Force, he served first in New Guinea,

then at Harrington, Tex., and finally at

I Inward Field in the Canal Zone. He liked it so well and saw such possibilities here that he had no hesitation in accepting the Canal Zone pulpit a month

after he was separated from the service. "Knowing that a mission - minded

church is a healthy church," he says, "I

led the church in a radio ministry with

the object of eventually seeing a Gospel

broadcasting station in operation."

Members of the church secured and

expanded Panama City Station HOXO,

later called in radio missionaries and two

mission boards to operate it. Since Mr. Beeby has been here the

First Baptist Church has established the Taboga Island Youth Camp, and built a Sunday School building and a church

house. Born in La Salle, 111., Mr. Beeby is a graduate of Wheaton College and the Baptist Seminary. He is married to the former Jean Hill of Washington, D. C;

they have three children, Judy, Paul, and

Mary Jean. SEEING THINGS?

Dockwatchers thought they were seeing

double, or something, one day List month

in Balboa. TheShau Savill & Albion Company's 12, 500-ton Mataroa bound lor New

Zealand with 366 pa-senders had tied up .11 I'ut 14overnighl and early in the afternoon

of Dei ember 16 put oul to sea The sidewalk shipping superintendents

ed her move out to the Balboa basin; then they turned back to work. A short time later they looked up to see the same

black hull and towering single yellow stack

tying up at Pier 14. They were somewhat relieved to find out

'lit their vision wasn't faulty. Thearrival was not the Mataroa, back again, but her

sister ship, Tamaroa, en route to England.

The two ships had met and passed at the Canal entrance.

Is There A Doctor In The House?

Calling The Barrazas Or Holdrens!

Finding a doctor in the house is no

problem at all if Dr. and Mrs. Jaime L. Barraza or Dr. and Mrs. Robeit F. Holdren are around. Both Mrs. Barraza and Mrs. Holdren, as well as their hus- bands, are physicians and all four of them

are presently practicing medicine at Gorgas Hospital.

Three of the four members of the husband and wife medical teams are residents at Gorgas Hospital while Mrs.

Barraza is a member of the staff of the Gorgas Hospital Ear, Nose, and Throat

Clinic. In addition to being successful house- wives and mothers, the two busy doctor wives of the two doctor husbands also have solved most of the problems involved

in being female members of a profession

which has traditionally belonged to the men.For one thing, Mrs. Barraza and Mrs. Holdren pointed out, they are more apt

to understand when their husbands plead

Dr. and Mrs. HOLDREN

fatigue after a hard day and want to turn down a dinner invitation. They also are highly sympathetic when their spouses

are called out at night.

In Different Fields So far there have been no knockdown, drag-out arguments over any

medical question, perhaps because each

is specializing in a different field. Mrs. Holdren, or Dr. Mary Hinson,

as she is known professionally, is taking

her third year residency in gynecology

and obstetrics. Her husband is in his third year residency in surgery. Mrs.

Barraza, Dr. Barraza to you, is an ear, nose, and throat specialist while her husband is taking his third year residency

in the Opthalmology Clinic. Of the four doctors, Dr. Hinson is possibly the only one who is called out

frequently in the middle of the night. For that she can blame only the field in which she has chosen to specialize. An

obstetrician can never predict with any

degree of certainty when a baby will arrive; babies have been arriving pretty

frequently, 24 hours a day, at Gorgas

Hospital recently.

Dr. Holdren, who has a few night calls himself, complains that he seldom sees

his wife and she, on the other hand, says

that it is a problem to plan a meal for any definite time when he is in surgery. Met At Tulane

The Holdrens met when they were

studying medicine in Tulane University

in New Orleans. They were married in June 1951, and took their honeymoon

driving from New Orleans to San Francisco where they had rotating internships, she at Childrens Hospital and he at the Southern Pacific General Hospital.

Dr. Holdren, a native of Philipsburg,

Pa., is a graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Iowa State College in Ames,

Iowa. Dr. Hinson was born in Amarillo, Tex. and was educated in the Texas State College for Women and the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. They have a young son, Glen, who is now two years old

.

Interned In David

The Barrazas also met at Tulane and

married while they were in medical school. Dr. Barraza was born in David, Panama,

and is a graduate of Tulane University

and the Tulane University Medical

School. Both he and his wife took their internships at the Jose Domingo Obaldia

Hospital in David and later spent one

year in the Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Municipal Hospital. They returned to David

for a year as members of the staff of the Jose Domingo Obaldia Hospital and then

both of them returned to New Orleans to take a two years' residency at the Eye,

Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital. Mrs. Barraza was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico. She and

Dr. Barraza have a young son, Jaime

Jose, who was born last January in New Orleans.

Dr. and Mrs. BARRAZA
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

"Do-It-Yourself" Gardeners Making Zone

Beautiful Despite Hungry Ants And Deer

also maintain his own flower beds and

plantings.

No General Calendar As far as the do's are concerned, there

is no general garden calendar for the Canal Zone. It isn't a question of planting window boxes by Decoration Day for summer blooming, as it is in many parts

of the United States.

If the gardener insists on a calendar,

it would go something like this, Mr.

Lindsay says: January, February, March,

and April: Water and fertilize. The

other eight months: Fertilize and weed. Of course there are certain times of year when certain things do best. Right now is the season for the annuals: The

zinnias, marigolds, portulaca and similar flowers which make a quick and rewarding

show for even the rankest amateur—in most localities. Order fresh seed, though, Mr. Lindsay advises, from a good

seed house.

Gladioli, contrary to the belief of many, do equally well in the dry or rainy

season. The bulbs should be taken up

after flowering has stopped and the

plants die down; if given a couple of months rest in the refrigerator (and not

confused, meanwhile, with onions) they

will be ready to blossom again.

Fertilizer is the subject on which a good many gardeners disagree. Mr.

Lindsay believes that the frequency

every two or three weeks - -and the thoroughness—dig it well into the bedshave more to do with the success of flowering than the type of fertilizer used.

"It's better to use a little fertilizer at

regular intervals than a lot infrequently," he says. In addition to the standard fertilizers which can be obtained locally, shrimp

shells and fish heads do a good job of

fertilizing. They should (See page vi)

CROTON, hibiscus, and other ornamental plants decorate the home of the W. W. Woods on Morgan

Avenue.

The "do-it-yourself" craze is sweeping

the Canal Zone. Amateur cabinet-makers are turning out furniture and some of them do a pretty professional job of it. Amateur upholsterers are transforming

foam rubber and drapery material into presentable cushions. A handful of dedi- cated souls are even assembling workable

hi-fi sets from their mysterious component

parts. But nowhere has the do-it-yourself bug

bitten more widely than in the gardening

field. And we're talking about the zinnia-and-marigold people; not those experts who can talk learnedly of the propagation of a Selenipedium chica or a

Sophronitis Cernua orchid. Walter R. Lindsay who, as Chief of the Grounds Maintenance Division, has an

avuncular interest in all flora in the Canal

Zone, attributes the interest in gardening

to two simple things: New houses and dirt. "People started gardening when they

moved into the new quarters and when we began to give away soil," he says. Topsoil On Request

The earth around so many of the Canal Zone quarters was so poor, so rocky and

so "clayey," that it defeated the efforts of all but a handful of people. One

would-be gardener even asked for an air- hammer to break up the rock in his yard. Plants and flowers which grew

around many houses were, in a good

many cases, those which needed little attention and which would have grown anyway. About three years ago, the Grounds

Maintenance Division began to deliver loads of topsoil to anyone who called up

and asked for it, the recipient guaranteeing to spread it around. Last year about

3,000 cubic yards of top soil were sent out

to people living on the Pacific side and

the same amount to Atlantic siders. Much of that delivered in Margarita was used for correction of eroded areas and the same thing will be true this year.

Pacific side soil, generally, Mr. Lindsay

says, is better than that on the Atlantic

side where the rainfall is heavier. On

the Atlantic side, for some reason, leaf mold burns up instead of dissolving into the ground as a fertilizer. For the amateur gardener Mr. Lindsay

has very few don'ts and very few do's. People are asked not to plant too close to the walls or foundations of their houses. That's because of termite control. The Grounds Maintenance people

also suggest that planting be confined to beds, and under the overhanging eaves. That's because a rose bush here and a croton there in someone's front lawn

make it difficult for the men who run

the power mowers. The gardsner must

('(.ILEA, elephant ears, and dumbcane respond handsomely to the urging cf Mrs. Carl Brown's trowel.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND

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GUIDANCE

LA

IDENT PREVENTION

A new year has begun and the slate will he wiiK'd clean to record new safety

statistics. Now is the time to think about striving for new safety records. During the past year, many top executives of the Federal Government, includ- ing the President of the United States, have c ime all-out for Safety with a

capital S. They have appealed to all Depart men ts and Agencies to make every

effort to reduce lost-time injuries resulting

from accidents of all kinds. This is not just a lot of political talk

in an election year. With every executive in the Federal Government, which

includes the Canal Zone GovernmentPanama Canal Company, alerted and

backing Safety whole-heartedly, it is up

to you, as supervisors and foremen, to go

in for accident prevention in a big and

constructive way.

Naturally, you will wonder what more

can be done than you are already doing.

Chances are that if you are conscientious about your job you can pick up ideas and

put into effect many things which will prevent accidents from happening. For

instance:

1

.

Management Leadership See that your supervisors are safetyminded. You may have to sell them on

putting into operation many of your

safety ideas. Do not give up at the first

rebuff, but come back again- with a new

approach or a new idea. Sell them on

accident prevention; don't let them have

to sell you.

2. Responsibility for Safety

Remember that you are the boss of HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

NOVEMBER

HEALTH BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 6

Civil Affairs - 3 Health... 3 Engineering and Construction 2 Supply 1 Marine

Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

NOVEMBER

HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 9 Motor Transportation 8 Sanitation 8 Service Center 7 Grounds Maintenance 6 Dredging 5

Electrical 5 Hospitalization and Clinics 4 Maintenance 4 Industrial 3 Railroad 3 Storehouses 3 Locks 1 Navigation 1 Commissary

Terminals .--

your unit or gang, and the responsibility

for preventing accidents is vours. You

cannot shift this responsibility to your

superior or your safety inspector. You

are the one to do something about

preventing accidents. However, there are ways to pass some

of your responsibility on to your sub- foremen and workers. After all, it is their safety you are thinking about. Cive them a chance to be responsible for that safety.

3. Safety Training

This calls for an effort on your part to see that your men are performing their job efficiently and safely. The new man

must be shown how to do the job right.

He may be bringing unsafe practices from

his last job, or he may have learned to do

it wrong in the first place.

Look over your hands from a new angle.

Maybe they have developed some unsafe ways in doing their jobs and maybe you

have been blind as to what has been

taking place. Encourage safety training

among your workers.

4. Maintaining Safe Working Conditions Good housekeeping is tops for safe working conditions. The job having

well-kept premises and a place for everything, including tools, is a far safer place

to work than one which is cluttered up. Put the responsibility on your workers

to keep their job free from excess materials and debris. Safe working conditions

also mean that safety lanes are well marked and kept open. All moving

parts of machinery are guarded and the guards are maintained and kept in place.

Good lighting and ventilation are provided. Toilets and locker rooms are kept

clean. Inspections are made regularly,

and often, to see that unsafe conditions

are discovered and corrected.

5. Employee Suggestions

Encourage your workers to make suggestions for better and safer ways of doing a job. Listen to their ideas on

how and what to improve. Do not

ridicule, or pigeon-hole, a safety suggestion. Talk the suggestion over; give it a try. If you cannot solve the problem

make out an "Unsafe report" on the forms provided. Send them to the people involved, with a follow-up to see that the worker receives a report on the

action taken.

6. Safety Conditions and Meetings

Have regular safety meetings. They

may be only five- or ten-minute weekly

safety talks, or they mav be one-hour monthly meetings or daily "tail-gate"

sessions. Make them a part of your

organization—whichever bests suits your

needs. Encourage your workers to select safety committeemen and hold meetings.

Soon they will have taken over all your

accident prevention worries. Give them

a chance, through visual aids and safety

talks to learn all about accident prevention.

7. Accident Reporting

Make accident reporting a part of your

job. See that every accident, no matter how small, is investigated and reported.

Safety personnel keep accident statistics

in order to help prevent accidents. Call on them so they can give you the benefit

of their knowledge and the experience

of others.

8. First Aid

Accidents can happen, in spite of the best safety programs. When an accident

occurs, the degree of injury may be only

a scratch; it may be more serious; it may

even be fatal. You and your workers need to know what to do in these emergencies.

A first aid training program has been

started for instructors who will be qualified to teach you and your workers first aid

for use in emergencies. Proper first aid can save a life or a limb if administered

promptly. It may be your life at stake. See that your people get a chanc? to

learn first aid.

NOVEMBER 1954

Health Bureau

Community Services Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

C. 1. Govt.-Panama Canal Co. ( This Month

)

C. Z. Govt. -Panama Canal Co ( Last 3-Year Av.)

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

Marine Bureau

Supply Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 27

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

( Frequency Rate)

1C 20 30 40 50

Man-Hours Worked 2,187.064 LEGEND

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

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

F^/SS&J Accumulative Frequency Rate This Y'ear
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

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Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr. Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Editorial Assistant

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Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

CHARLES P. MORGAN, whose Canal service antedated that of any employee on the Panama Canal

rolls, retired from the Canal service last month. He

was one of only eight employees still in service who

hold the construction-day Roosevelt Medal. Born in Pittsburgh he came to the Canal Zone in 1908 to work as a yard clerk with the railroad. A

short time later he became a locomotive engineer and

for several years ran out of the Pedro Miguel yard,

origin of most Pacific side "dirt trains." Mr. Morgan, whom practically everyone calls Charlie, is probably best known for his work as grounds maintenance foreman on the Pacific side, a

post he held for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan do not plan to leave the Canal Zone but will continue to live in their home

near Miraflores.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

Member Of The Family

THAT PROUD LOOK on the face of E. L. Farlcw, of the Civil Affairs Bureau, is all because of his brand new daughter, who has quite a story. Lets of people go to Gorgas Hospital to get their babies; the Farlow's new daughter came from Italy. Originally named Maria Luisa, she will I me Elda Louise Farlow

as soon as the formal adoption papers are put through. Little Elda was born March 2, 1952, in Asti, a town not far from Turin in northern Italy, She was in an orphanage in Asti when a friend found her for the Farlows. Mrs. Charles Nelson, whose husband is a Navy employee, brought F'lda to the Canal Zone

from Italy, along with her own little son. Both babies had whooping cough on the way. At first young

Elda, who didn't know anvthing about men, would have little to do with her new father; now she's "Daddy's girl," she says. Her father points cut wryly that she already knows whom to ask for pennies.

Four United States Senators, the Governor-elect of the State of Florida, a prominent west coast shipping executive, and a

large number of United States Congressmen

and their wives were among the prominent

persons who visited the Canal Zone briefly during the past month. The Senators

included Henry C. Dworshak, Republican from Idaho; Andrew J. Schoeppel, Republican from Kansas; Herman Welker,

Republican from Idaho, and George A. Smathers, Democrat from Florida. LeRoy Collins, Governor-elect of Florida, arrived early in the month after making a good-will trip to Columbia and Venezuela. He was accompanied by Mrs. Collins and

an official party which included Representative William C. Lantaff of Florida and

Francisco Aguirre, editor of Diario de las Americas, of Miami, Fla. Robert E. Mayer, President of the Pacific-American Steamship Association,

called on Canal officials during his brief

visit to the Isthmus early in December and

Kenneth J. Bousquet, staff member of the Appropriations Committee, also spent several days here on official business. Congressmen visiting the Canal Zone

during December included: Representatives

J. Arthur Younger of California; Paul A. Fina of New York; Lester Holtzman of New York; Humbert B. Scudder of California; Harold H. Yelde of Illinois; Francis

E. Dorn of New York; James G. Donovan

ol New York; Arthur Lewis Miller of Nebraska; Barrot O'Hara and Henry O.

Talle of Iowa.

A brief history of the Panama Railroad,

which will celebrate its iooth anniversary

January 28, has been sent out by the Association of American Railroads to approximately 65 railroad magazines through

out the United States. The resume mentions the fact that for almost 15 years 1855 to 1869, when the Union Pacific and

Central Pacific railroad line was completed

between Omaha and California -the Pana- ma Railroad was the only rail route by

which one could reach the Pacific, and

until the Panama Canal was opened in 1914, it was the only commercial transportation route across the Isthmus of Panama. It was invaluable during the construction of the Canal and until 1943 when a modern highway was completed,

it provided the only means of overland

travel and transport across the Isthmus.

A new addition to the Westfal-Larsen Company Line Fleet and a new customer

for the Panama Canal was announced

recently with the launching of the MS

Nordanger, the second of four vessels built especially for service between the Pacific Coast and the West and East Coasts of South America. The Nordanger is a sister ship of the MS Hardnnger, which passed

through the Panama Canal earlier this year

on her maiden voyage around South

America. A third unit, the MS Evanger, is to be launched in the spring of 1955. The new vessels are 441 feet in length with a breadth of 58 feet and a total ton- nage of 7,610 tons. They have accommodations for 12 first-class passengers. The ships run on a monthly service between the United States West Coast to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, through

the Straits of Magellan to Argentina and

Uruguay, returning to the Pacific Coast

vi.i Brazil and the Panama Canal.

Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government public buildings as well as more than 350 Panama Canal quarters

located on both sides of the Isthmus were

due for a face lifting during the coming dry season as paint contractors began their work on the annual job of exterior and

interior maintenance painting.

The Cristobal Terminal Building and the Administration Building are tv/o major

public buildings located in Old Cristobal which are due for a new coats of paint. Bids for the work, which includes some

of the most extensive maintenance paint

jobs ever offered for contract by the Pan- ama Canal Company, were opened during

December. Work is scheduled to start during January and will be completed before

the rainy season begins in May.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

The Review's Review Of The Year

SCORES OF oldtimers camp to the Isthmus to attend the ceremonies which dedicated a monument to their one-time chief, Gen. George W. Goethala

As it came to a close, the year 1954 could be seen in retrospect as a period ol stabiliza- tion and adjustment for the average employee of the Panama Canal organization.

The morale of Joe Zonian received a boost

as the year began when Governor Seybold

announced the results of the Booz, Allen, and Hamilton report. Legislation granting

additional benefits such as free transportation, group life insurance, and other fringe

benefits was passed later in the year. Two

important events were the beginning of work on Contractors Hill and the return of scores of construction day employees to attend the ceremonies dedicating the Goethals Memorial in Balboa. JANUARY

The announcement of the results of the Booz, Allen, and Hamilton report by

Governor Seybold was the big news of the month. Canal Zone residents learned that

the report had recommended, among other

things, the retention of the 25 percent

differential; a 50 percent reduction of house

rents, free transportation to the States for Canal employees and their families, and the

retention of other fringe benefits such as

leave, retirement, and free hospital and

medical care. Increased cash relief payment for retired

local-rate employees was passed by Congress.

The contract for the construction of 63 houses in Balboa, the largest single project

to be offered for contract by the Panama

Canal for the fiscal year of 1954 was awarded

to Framorco, Inc., of Panama.

Police stations in Margarita, Gamboa,

and Madden Dam were to be closed effec- tive February 1, it was announced, and

Pedro Miguel station was to be redesignated

as the Canal Zone prison for Women and

Juveniles. At the same time it was an- nounced that Pedro Miguel would be dis- continued as a I*. S.-rate community after March 31, 1955. Members of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company met here to

discuss Canal Zone Government policies and Company programs for the coming

fiscal year. Dr. John M. Wilkerson was named Superintendent of Colon Hospital; William C.

Arey, Jr., was appointed to the newlycreated position of Director of Public Information for the Panama Canal Company; Harold Perantie replaced Peter F. Shrapnel as Chief of the Administrative

Branch. FEBRUARY

The worst ship disaster in the history of the Panama Canal occurred February 6 when a flash explosion in the refrigeration room of the Norwegian ship "Lisholt"

.

'

I began cutting back Contractors Hill after a widening crack threatened a major slide

killed four Panama Canal employees and

injured 13 others seriously. Plans were announced this month of the impending change in the name of the Panama Canal Clubhouse Division to Service Center Division and the renaming of the individual Clubhouses to Service Centers; the abandonment of the 35-yearold Sosa Hill Signal Station; and the consolidation of the Panama Canal Commissary Cold Storage Plant at Mount Hope

with Army facilities located in Corozal. Four members of the United States Appropriations Committee arrived from

Washington for a short visit, the purpose

of which was to familiarize the members

of the Appropriations Committee with conditions in the Canal Zone. John J. Barton,

Chief Food Buyer from the New York

Procurement Division, was present at the second Commissary forum. The Schools Division announced plans

for increased emphasis on the teaching of Spanish in the Canal Zone public schools during the coming year. MARCH

The big event during March was the dedication of the Goethals Memorial in Balboa which brought scores of old-timers back to the Isthmus. Among the guests of honor for the dedication were President and Mrs. Remon; Maurice H. Thatcher,

only surviving member of the Isthmian Canal Commission; Senator Alexander

Wiley, Chairman of the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee; George H. Roderick.

Assistant Secretary of the Army; Paul Runnestrand, Assistant Secretary of the Panama Canal Company; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Rodman Goethals, younger son of the Colonel, and several members of the Panama Canal Board of Directors. Old

timers were taken on a trip through the Cut and attended several functions in their honor in addition to the actual dedication

of the memorial which took place in Balboa March 30. Isthmian Constructors Incorporated were awarded the contract for the construction

of the new houses in the Ridge Road section. The new vehicular crossing at the north end of Gatun Locks was opened to traffic by Lt. Gov. Harry O. Paxson. Governor

Seybold announced the organization of Latin America Schools in the Canal Zone

to replace the local-rate schools. APRIL

April was Contractors Hill month. A

crack which had been observed at the top and near the edge of Contractors Hill and

checked periodically since as far back as 1936 was fully examined by Panama Canal
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Company engineers with the assistance

of two Engineering Geology specialists from the office of the Chief of Engineers

in Washington. The investigation later led to the advertising of bids for work to correct the situation. The 1953-54 term for the Latin American

Schools in the Canal Zone was brought to

a close at the end of April to give additional time to prepare teachers for the conversion

of these schools to a Spanish language

curriculum. The first Commissary forum was held for the representatives of the local-rate communities by F. R. Johnson, Supply Director. Governor Seybold was presented with a Gold Medal for the cooperation of the Panama Canal Company-Canal Zone Government in the Colon International Exposition.An announcement was made at Balboa Heights that the U. S. Bureau of the Budget

would no longer authorize expenditure of Canal Zone Government funds in connection with Boy and Girl Scout activities on

the Canal Zone after June 30. Dr. Carl M. Johnson, Pathologist at the Board of Health Laboratory, was appointed

director of the Gorgas Memorial Laborat)ry in Panama replacing Dr. Herbert Clark. Ernie Payne of the Personnel Bureau,

retired after 33 years with the Canal

organization.

MAY

Contractors Hill still held the center of the stage in the minds of most Canal

employees.

The Tecon Corporation of Dallas, Tex. which entered a bid of $3,391,000, was awarded the negotiated contract for the removal of rock and earth at Contractors

Hill. The low proposal did not necessarily represent the total cost of removing the rock and earth involved, it was pointed out. Final costs would be decreased or increased

as the work progressed. Dr. Arthur Casagrande, one of the Board of Consultants

selected to study the problem of the crack, recommended that remedial measures be

taken as soon as possible although he did not think there was imminent danger of a rock

fall which would endanger shipping in the Canal. Governor Seybold announced the extensive changes in the Canal Zone postal service which would become effective July 1. This later resulted in the opening of a new- centralized service in the first floor of the

Civil Affairs Building on Gaillard Highway

and the curtailing in the services of several other post offices. The townsite at New Corozal area was named Los Rios after a poll was made of the residents of the area by the Pacific- Civic Council. Commencement exercises were held for 50 students being graduated from the La

Boca Branch of the Canal Zone Junior

College.

JUNE

Tecon officials began to arrive on the Isthmus in June to make advance arrange- ments for the work of removing some two

million cubic yards of earth and rock from

Contractors Hill. Lt. Col. Edward B.

THE CANAL was 40 years old in August; on August 15, 1914, the Ancon, above, had made the first transit

Jennings, U.S. Army Engineers, was named

Project Officer for the Panama Canal Company and Col. Hugh M. Arnold, who

was appointed Engineering and Construction Director to succeed Col. Craig S. Smyser, also arrived this month. More than 1,600 Canal Zone children reported at Canal Zone playgrounds and

gymnasiums to take part in the summer

sports and playground activities. A recovery ward, one of the latest innovations in modern hospital service was established

in Gorgas Hospital and was placed on a

full 24-hour operating basis.

All insurance firms were told that they would be required to move out of the Canal Zone by September 1 unless they had been

operating from the Canal Zone since March

2, 1936 or the type of their business had a

direct relation to the Canal and its operation.

The Canal Zone schools would continue

to take tuition-paying students on a space

available basis, school officials announced. The Governor announced to local-rate employees that there had been no change

in plans that key personnel of various Canal units will continue to be housed in the Canal Zone, although reductions were

to be made in the number of housing units

to be provided on the Zone.

Russell L. Klotz, Chief of the Housing

Division, retired. Wilson Crook was named

Director of the Community Services Bureau

and B. I. Everson Director of the Transportation and Terminals Bureau. The New

York office of the Panama Line moved to 21 West Street from 24 State Street. JULY

The new post office financial unit opened

in the Civil Affairs Building July 1 as the

AS THE year ended, the first families began to move into newly-completed quarters in Balboa Flats

activities of five other Pacific side post

offices were curtailed and hours changed for several others on both side.s of the Isthmus. Work on the Contractors Hill project was started with the digging of a tunnel

into the Canal side of the Hill. The first blast, consisting of 10 pounds of 40 percent dynamite, was set off July 9, after 3,500

cubic yards of material were moved from

the top of the hill in preparatory work.

Revision of the Canal Zone Government

Medical Tariff was announced by the Health Bureau but it meant no increase in the rates to be charged Company-Government employees or their dependents.

The National Safety Council Award of Merit was presented to the Panama Canal Company-Government for safety achieve- ment during 1953. President Paul Magloire of Haiti and Mrs. Magloire visited Miraflores Locks. The annual anti-rabies vaccination and

registration of all dogs on the Canal Zone was started. Heavy rains caused a bank slide of major

proportions on the East bank of the Canal

in the Cucaracha Reach. This was the

first serious slide since 1952. Daniel J. Paolucci was appointed Training Officer for the Panama Canal Company;

Maj. David H. Smith arrived to replace

Lt. Col. David S. Parker as Military

Assistant to the Governor; Gen. R. E. Wood, former Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck and one-time Chief Quarter- master of The Panama Canal, visited the Isthmus. AUGUST

Bills granting group life insurance for Federal employees and paid transportation

to the United Stites for Canal employees

on leave were passed by Congress. Governor Seybold explained at the regular

shirtsleeve conference that there were

several details still to be worked out. A

raise in the tuition charges for the Canal Zone Government's U. S. citizen schools was also announced. A Columbia Broadcasting System tele- vision team visited the Isthmus to film the story of the Panama Canal and its present day operations for showing over

the Edward R. Morrow television show "See It Now." A light hailstorm, the first to be reported

in the Canal Zone for several years, struck Pedro Miguel and Paraiso. Governor Seybold approved the application of the third phase of pay schedules for Canal Zone school teachers; this placed

their rates of pay on a par with those in Washington, D. C. On August 15 the Panama Canal Company quietly celebrated the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal. SEPTEMBER

The fact that the 60-cycle conversion

project was soon to affect the ordinary Canal Zone housewife (See. page IS)
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Governor-President's Office Engineering And Construction Personnel Bureau

Hugh Norris, l lie Executive Planning staff, ! turned from New York w hen ed with ) tsco Services, Inc., on i ojei ticm of Canal traffii I takes into i on

sideration trends in world i u reases

or decreases in thi mption of various commodities presentl) traded in world

markets, the de i ol new raw

material sources in \ ountries, the advancement of industrial and manufacturipabilities tl roughout the world, and

ill other economic and sociological factors

thai lend to affecl world trade.

• • •

,

, , <, ri Uistii ,; illustrator in the Executive Planning Stu . has resigned his Canal post to continue his education in the United States. He left by plum late lust month for the U. S. east coast where he plans

to enter collegi to complete his training in architecture. During his residence in the United States he also plans to establish United States

citizenship.

• • •

Col. Harry <). Paxson, the Canal's Lieutenant Governor, did some long-range

broadcasting during the Christmas holidays.

About mid-December he tape-recorded a Christmas greeting to friends and relatives

in Chicago, foi use over station WGN during

Christmas week. The recording was in the form of a brief inverview with Jules DuBois,

Chicago Tribune correspondent; Colonel Paxson described for the Chicago audience how he and his family planned to spend

Christmas in the tropics.

Health Bureau

A family of night monkeys, mother,

father, and two young ones, was found in a hollow tree last month near the Governor's House. The monkeys were dis- covered by Dick Williams of the Sanitation Division on a search for mosquito breeding

places in tree holes. One of the babies was so young it was still riding on its mother's back. Marmosets are fairly common in the Heights Road section, and night monkeys

frequently romp across the roofs of houses

further down the hill, especially in mango

season, but the family of night monkeys

found near the Governor's House was the

first to be discovered living so close to residences. The monkeys did not seem to resent the

intrusion on their privacy and were tame

enough so that the sanitary inspectors

thought they might once have been pets.

• • • Coco Solo Hospital doctors and other employees have organized a bowling league and bowl once a week at the Margarita

Service Center. No phenomenal scores have been reported but the exercise and

fun are a change from hospital routine.

• • • Homer M. Weeks, a Sanitation Division employee, won the chess tournament held

recently ut the Balboa Armed Service YMCA.

He scored an impressive victory with 26

-.cms and no defeats against 13 contestants. Carl G. Brown, also of the Sanitation

Division, finished third in the tournament.

• • • Can't lei a Health Bureau column miss a chance for a bit of advice, so: Drj -< < m

is tick season The annoyance of these

pests may be reduced l>\ the use, around

the ankles, legs, waistband, and wrists, of Commissary or Service Center insect repel- Imt. Bite-sites should be treated to avoid

ible infection.

• • • Colon Hospital, which had been in operation in the concrete buildings facing the Caribbean from May 1016, until last Octo- ber 26, and in wooden buildings on stilts for many years before 1016, is a hospital no

longer. It was transferred on December

8 by the Health Bureau to the Housing

Division for custodial care.

AN EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION award of $9(1 was presented last month to Ewald Wiberg. left. Electronic Mechanic for the Electrical Division, for

his redesign of the portable radio sets carried by

Canal pilots. The suggestion is expected to bring about a $2,500 saving. The presentation was made

by Col. H. M. Arnold, right, Engineering and

Construction Director. Also present were Bland

Smith, Mr. Wiberg's supervisor, and J. B. Smith.

Electrical Engineer.

The Civil Engineering and Surveys

Branches of the Engineering Division have

been engaged for the past several weeks in recording and studying the recent slide that appeared along Morgan Ave., Balboa.

Several tons of large rock have been en- trenched along the north side of the street and this retaining wall, along with the removal of approximately 2,500 cubic feet of dirt by the Maintenance Division has

served to check the movement of earth in the threatened area. Settlement and alignment checks are taken daily in the vicinity for new" houses

in the Balboa Flats. The Dredging Division has made several core borings to deter- mine soil profiles and data on sub-soil water movements in connection with drainage of the area.

• • • The Engineering Division is also working

on designs and specifications for a side entrance to the Balboa Commissary and

plans are being prepared for the new

Paraiso Civic Center. The Electrical- Mechanical Branch is engaged in taking an

inventory of domestic electrical appliances on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, in connection with the 60-cycle Conversion

Program. The survey has been completed

in Gatun and Margarita, and Rainbow City

is almost complete.

• • • Because of heavj seas and strong winds,

the dredge Mindi moved from the east Limon Bay anchorage to the old French

Canal area on December 1. On December 20, the Mindi began

dredging a trench tor sewage outfall near Rainbow City. This work was completed

by the end oi the monl h.

• • • Work on repairs to pilings at the Thatcher

ferry slips, both east and '.vest sides, was

storied December 11. Derrick barge Xo. 157

is being used in the repair '.cork. Approximately 97 piles will be replaced; 50 of these are on the cost landing and 47 on the '.vest side. The '.cork is scheduled for completion

by iinuary I -I a • • Emergency repair work on the Cristobal dock fenders at Dock 8 was necessary after

a ship accidentally rammed the dock in December. The repair work was started December 20 and was to be finished this week.

• • • Core borings were taken by the Dredging

Division forces at three separate locations

Mrs. Dorothy A. Andress, who spends

her working hours as Secretary to the

Personnel Director, displayed some unex- pected talent along other lines last month. She was responsible for the Christmas

decorations which ornamented the Personnel

Office in the Building and which brought

compliments from main callers. A saucy little snowman, in a black top

hat, anil a gay arrangement of evergreen,

greeted visitors to the Personnel Office. Down the glass partitions on t'e porte- cochere side of the office —Sadeye calls them stalls —were other snowmen, with a background of silver stars and cotton snow.

Silver wreaths and black top hats which

spelled out "Merry Xmas" completed tie

decorations.

• « e Frank Naughton wi.o held solely responsible last month ior rupturing the Petsonnel

Bureau's accident-free record. And, inci- dentally, doing his head no good.

On his way from Building 69 to the

Electrical Division Field Office, he banged

into an open window. There is an accident

report on file.

from November 18 to December 16. The

drillings were made on Morgan Avenue, at Quarry Heights and at the site of the proposed sewage disposal pump station

at Balboa.

• • •

First Aid Init. uctcr courses have been

started in the Engineering and Construction Bureau in line with the Civil Defense Pro- gram. John E. Winklosky has been assigned

to take this course and to follow through with

instruction to all personnel of the Maintenance Division in the basic elements of

first aid.

• • • While students and teachers in the Canal Zone schools enjoyed their Christmas vacations, Maintenance Division forces were busy doing a variety of repair and mainte- nance jobs in the school buildings.

Repairs to doors, locks, and Venetian

blinds, checking pluml ing fixtures, treating

against termite activity, repairing woodwork

and concrete, and patch painting include some of the items which were taken care of, in order to keep the schools up to an ade- quate standard of maintenance for the first half of the present calendar year.

• • • Beside its usual role of "Santa Claus Helper" in lighting outdoor Christmas

trees for other divisions, the Electrical Division's holiday contribution was the decoration of a large Norfolk pine in the yard just outside the children's ward at Gorgas Hospital.

• • • Ernesto A. Quintero ended eight years

service with the Canal organization and the U. S. Government December 1 when he

resigned from his job on the Contractors

Hill Project to accept the position of Field Engineer for the Union Oil Company of California. In his new post, he will be responsible

for all engineering work and studies for the Central and South American areas. This

division has its headquarters in Panama

City, but much of his time will be spent

traveling.

• • •

Sixtv employees ol the Maintenance Division met at the Corozo Street Yard recent 1\ to see movies of modern earthwork machinery.Through the courtesy of the Alfaro Company of Panama City, a film entitled "The

Man with a Thousand Hands" was shown,

along with other films. This picture

showed construction men at work damning

a river and reversing its flow, others at work

driving tunnels which ranged in size from

one 27 feet wide and i\ leet high to a huge

cavern 710 feet long and 118 feet high. The latter was equivalent in size to several

city blocks and lay one mile inside a mountain.
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Office Of The Comptroller Transportation And Terminals Community Services Bureau

Philip L. Steers, Jr.. Deputy Comptroller was on a short official business detail in Washington, D. C, last month on budget

matters.

J. Patrick Conley is Acting Chief of the Claims Branch, during the absence on leave

of James L. Fulton. Mr. Fulton will be back at his desk about January 15.

• • • The annual Christmas gathering of employees of the Comptroller's Office was held December 22 in the main lounge of the Albrook Officer's Club. A buffet supper was served.

Cash awards for employee suggestions were received recently by two employees

of the Office of the Comptroller. Mrs. Anna H. Ballou of the Treasury Branch received $25 for her suggestion

that the Treasurer's Office be authorized

to issue railroad passes and temporary

identification cards to departing terminated employees at the time they receive their

final pay. Mrs. Nellie K. Whitney, who recently

became a full-time employee of the Rates

Branch, received $10 for her suggestion

that student automobile drivers be issued

a special identifying tag. ( See Civil Affairs Bureau for further details.)

• • • E. Arnold Sundstrom, Special Assistant

to the Comptroller, resigned from the Canal

service as of December 31. He left by plane

January 2 for Knoxville, Venn, where he

will be associated with the firm of J. C. Bradford & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange.

Marine Bureau

Capt. R. H. Emerick, Chief of the Industrial Division, has accepted an invitation

to participate as an honorary member of the Central Labor Union's Educational Committee. At a meeting held December 19, the Chairman submitted for approval plans for work on the following projects during the coming year: A series of lectures and papers to remind

members how local labor unions should

function and to impress on them the need

for forming sound policies and supporting these policies consistently after they have been agreed on; A program to clarify the privileges and

duties of government employees and the employees' corresponding responsibilities

to both the Canal administration and their unions; A series of suggestions of ways in which

the individual crafts unions can carry on

craft and educational programs in order to keep up to date on new information of technical and craft nature.

Dock foremen put in a busy 4S hours on December 12 and 13 when they tied up or let go 41 ships. Balboa docks had not seen

so much activity since war days.

Civil Affairs Bureau

The hundredth anniversary of the completion of the Panama Railroad, which falls on January 28 of this year, will be observed throughout the Canal Zone schools during

that week.

Special units of study highlighting the

history and background of the Railroad are being prepared by Mrs. Cleone Treffinger

of the Balboa Elementary School; they will be used as a basis for study in most class- rooms. Music and art instruction will also be focused on the Railroad's history.

Some of the valuable material in the Canal Zone Library's Panama Collection

will be on display in the Civil Affairs Building during the week of January 23. This

will include artifacts and books concerning

the Railroad's colorful history. Collections

of photographs will also be displayed at the

Cristobal and Margarita libraries.

The Police Division aided in the delivery

('apt. FRANCIS GORMAN

An article on the organization ol a sea- going Naval Reserve merchant marine

unit aboard the Panama Line's SS Cristobal appeared recently in The New York Times. The company is the eighth of its sort to be formed aboard liners sailing from the Port

of New York. The unit is headed by Comdr. Francis DeS. Gorman, Master of the Cristobal. It will meet at sea twice a month and will train its seven members to serve in Navy

vessels, in merchant ships converted into naval auxiliaries, <>r in Navy posts in case

of national emergency, according to The

I lines story. Similar reserve companies are already in existence on such large liners as the lulled

States and the America; another such unit

is to be activated shortly aboard the SS Ancon tinder Capt. William Steffens. The Times' article was accompanied by

a photograph showing Captain Gorman

accepting activation orders for the new

unit from Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, commandant of the Third Naval

District. Admiral Hillenkoetter was sta- tioned in the Canal Zone about 1925 am'

has many friends here.

• • • Preparation for the centennial of the Panama Railroad is teaching some of the

railroad people bits of the early history of this first transcontinental railroad. B. I. Everson, Transportation and Terminals

Director, and E. A. Stokes, Chief of the Railroad Division, are working with Public Information Officer Will G. Arey, Jr, planning the celebration- and incidentally

answering a lot of questions or finding out where the answers can be found. Like

these: "What happened to the monument to Aspinwall, Chauncey, and Stephens for which the conerstone was laid on the rail- road's official inaugural trip in 1855?" "Where was the Barbacoas Bridge in relation to the present line of the railroad?" "Is the Cristobal-Gatun section still virtually identical with that laid in 1851?"

of CiOO CARE, packages early this month for families in the Gatun Lake region. Police- man If. P. 'arret! and an engineer in the Police Division's ' atun launch picked up a party of CARE representatives at Camboa

on January 2. They delivered packages to I.aguna, Mendoza, Largartera, Largarterita,

and Escobal.

• • • A one-man —or one-woman —show of watercolors and oils will be presented this month

by B. Sturteiant Gardner, Art .Supervisor,

in the lobby of the Civil Affairs Building.

Miss Gardner's paintings will show scenes of the Panama Canal and Panama Railroad.

A white placard, bearing a big black

letter "L" is now being issued by the License Section to each applicant receiving

a permit to learn to drive in the Canal Zone. The "L" of course, means learner. The use of the placard, which is attached

The Merchandise-Magazine section at the Diablo Service (enter was enlarged during

Ih, month of December. Self-service is encouraged and the patron now has plenty of elbow-room. Customer reaction has been

favorable, especially in connection with the new magazine racks on which many periodicals are now standi n" r h r-"ht.

The first five families have moved into the new quarters in the Balboa flats. The

five houses, all masonry single-family units were assigned December 21, and the first family moved in the next day. Two families were in, and more or less settled, before Christmas.

Additional quarters will be completed

each week until all of the 98 units are

finished the end of January.

Harry C. Egolf has been appointed Acting

Housing Manager in Balboa. Wendell

G. Cotton is Acting Housing Manager in

( ristobal.

to the rear of the car when a student driver

is at the wheel, was suggested by Mrs.

Nellie K. Whitney of the Comptroller's

Office. Mrs. Whitney received a Sio award for her suggestion of the "L" placards.

Three part-time employees were added

in the License Section stall last month to handle the annual rush of issuing new

license plates. They are Mrs. Beatrice Rhyne and Mrs. Ruth Reece, both former employees of the License Section, and Mrs. Ruth Munyon, who was formerly with the Executive Secretary's office. They will be

with the License Section until January 28.

Leslie R. /•'vans. Chief of the License

Section, suffered a heart attack in November and was hospitalized for several weeks. He

is now out of Gorgas and recuperating at home. He is expected to return to work

some time next month.

Training courses for all members of the

Fire Division were given last month by

Lts. Perc F. Graham, James Y. Bartlett

,

and John A. Taber, and Sgt. Ray \Y

Wheeler. Instruction was given in the use

of tog in combating oil fires, the use and

operation of different types ot masks under

fire conditions, and the use of asbestos suits.

Capt. A. J. Troup, Chief of the Fire Division, Capt. William H. Casm'ell, Commander of the Cristobal lire District, and

Ll. A. J. Mathon of the Balboa Tire Station, were the guests of the Ckitre Fire Department

December 18 and 11, during the anniversary

celebration of thai city and the dedication

of the new Chitre Fire Station.

Canal Zone firefighters last month made

their annual tests of the more than 13 miles of fire hose in service in the Canal

Zone. The tests are given each year at

this time when the dry season brings greater danger of fire. Hose at all stations was put under 150-pound pressure and

carefully inspected. Such repairs as resetting couplings were made to bring the hose

to the standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

With the Christmas spirit prevailing

everywhere last month, Civil Affairs Bureau

personnel found themselves bumping into Christmas festivities on every hand, except

in their own headquarters building.

There, employees working in the Civil Affairs Building gave up their annual Christmas party and in its place gave gifts of toys, food, and clothing to the Junior Red Cross. The gifts were sent to Panama's

needy children. Altogether, 400 children on the Republic

of Panama received guts and toys at Christmas time from individual members

of the Junior Red Cross of the Canal Zone.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

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"Do-It-Yourself" Gardeners Making Zone

Beautiful Despite Hungry Ants And Deer

(Continued from page 5) be buried at

least a foot deep, though, he warns, or the Health Bureau will be around to see who's breeding flies! Here's How

Now a few specific hints, from the

expert to the amateur:

If flower beds are going to be flush with

the lawn level, take out the old subsoil to an eight-inch depth and replace it with

good topsoil. If the bed is in swampy

soil, or where drainage is poor, raise it and block it in with rocks or bricks.

If compost is procurable, as it is from

the Atlantic side Grounds Maintenance

Office, dig it into the bed. Otherwise

dry leaves or grass clippings are good. For permanent plantings, use the big

elephant ears, caladium, croton, coleas, begonias or the striking "copper-leaf,"

technically acalypha, which makes such an effective display as background for the Goethals monument. Most of these

are available from the Summit garden

shop near the Balboa Commissary or the Grounds Maintenance store at Mount

Hope.

Plant in masses and don't be afraid to prune. Allow plenty of room between

flowering plants like hibiscus and ixora. Do the severest cutting back at the beginning of the rainy season so that growth is well advanced by December.

Don't trim after the first of September,

particularly poinsettias if Christmas bloom

is desired. Let gardenias dry out during the first part of the dry season. After the middle

of March give them plenty of fertilizer and lots of water, to force the sap into the buds so the plants will flower in April

and May. (Gardenias, by the way, need

little pruning.) Put a handful of rusty nails or scraps

of iron in rosebeds for better color and more lasting blooms; every time a bloom

is cut, cut the stem back to the first large leaf, which is usually the third to

fifth from the bottom.

This'll Kill Them

Now, for garden pests. A spray of chlorodane in water, obtainable at the Grounds Maintenance offices without

charge, but bring a container, will take

care of most of them. Chlorodane in

oil, however, is murder to plants.

Electric fences, which a number of people are installing, will keep out deer, provided the owner remembers to turn

the fence on. One gardener installed such a fence, very successfully. It worked beautifully until one night he

sleepily forgot to charge it. That night

the deer cleaned his garden out—and

plants trimmed by deer are stunted for weeks or longer.

Outside of deer, leaf-cutting ants are the biggest pests. Chlorodane sprayed

into their nests or around the plants helps

somewhat, but Mr. Lindsay admits that

there is no known and certain cure for

this particular malefactor. Pride of yard goes with pride in the new quarters the Canal has built, he feels, and cites all of the new areas, Ancon,

Diablo, Rainbow City, and Paraiso, as examples of what can be done, with

amateurs' gardens supplementing the Canal's plantings. He and his staff stand ready to advise the do-it-yourself fans on problems of planting and pests, fertilize) s and pruning, whenever help is needed.

Centennial Of Panama Railroad's Completion

(Continuedfrom page 1) dinner commemorating the anniversary. A former

governor, Glen E. Edgerton, and R. W.

Hebard are arranging this affair. The January 18 meeting of the Isth- mian Historical Society will be devoted to the railroad's anniversary; a repeat

session of the panel is scheduled for 7:30

p. m., Tuesday, February 1, at the Hotel Washington, for Atlantic siders. Governor Seybold has appointed a general committee to coordinate plans

and arrangements for an appropriate

observance of the railroad anniversary.

William G. Arey, Jr., Public Information

Officer, heads the committee which

includes B. I. Everson, Director of the Transportation and Terminals Bureau,

and E. N. Stokes, Superintendent of the Railroad Division. Possible sites for the location of the "Old 299" monument are being discussed with representatives of the Canal Zone

Civic Councils and each Bureau has been invited to make suggestions to the General Committee which is planning

the program. Wide publicity has been given by newspapers throughout the United States to the special stamp issue and the forth- coming anniversary of the railroad.

The Review's Review Of The Year

(Conti ii tied from page 9) was emphasized in September when a house-to-house survey

of frequency-sensitive equipment in Canal Zone homes was started on the Atlantic

side by a team of five electrical engineers.

Panama Canal employees who sailed on

the Panama liner Cristobal, the first to leave for New York since the passage of the new transportation legislation, had the option of accepting their travel expenses

paid at Government expense. Canal employees not planning a vacation were asked

to withhold any inquiries concerning free- travel provisions until the new regulations were issued. Seventeen new teachers from

the United States joined the Canal Zone

schools this year and arrived on the Isth- mus during the month. In addition to the teachers from the States, seven young Panamanian women were hired by the U. S. schools in the Canal Zone in connection with the extension of Spanish language

classes to all grades.

The Contractors Hill project was put on

a two-shift a day basis by the Tecon Corporation and floodlights were turned on the area for the first time. The new shift began at 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon. It was estimated that Tecon had already

removed 150.000 cubic yards from the area. Six thousand pounds of explosives, the

biggest blast yet set off, was exploded during September, breaking up an estimated

10,000 cubic yards of rock. Mrs. Seybold

dedicated the new Balboa Elementary

school playground. An agreement on a

joint plan for civil defense and disaster control was signed by Gov. John S. Seybold

and Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison. OCTOBER

October was a hurricane month on the Canal Zone although no hurricane has been known to hit the Isthmus. A storm

called Hazel, which swept up from Haiti through the eastern part of the United

States and Canada, held up two Panama

Line ships and caused the third to make a long detour. Oldtimers recalled that at no

other time had a tropical storm upset all three of the Panama Line ships. As an

indirect result of the storm, the Canal Zone

enjoyed io days of dry-season-like weather. The celebration of Fire Prevention Week

was marred by a blaze which destroyed one apartment in house 0433 Frangipani Street

in Ancon and badly damaged two others. Another slide considerably smaller than

the one early in July moved into the Canal from the West bank four miles north of Contractors Hill. It was cleared up by the dipper dredge "Cascadas" after several weeks.

Details concerning the new Panama Line

tariff rates were announced by Governor

Seybold, with reductions being continued

only for Canal Zone school teachers and

certain dependents of Company-Govern- ment employees and other groups in special situations. The transfer of patients {See page IS)
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

ANNIVERSARIES

ARTHUR MORGAN

IF YOU'RE going in for gardening —and

many people are - you should take a look at what the commissaries have to make your

lives brighter, not lo mention the garden's. But you probably know it's a perpetual- motion deal. First you water, with commissary hoses of course, and fertilize with some

such thing as Hyponex or Driconure, also from the commirscries. Then you whip out

the lawn mower, grass shearers, and weeders

to cut away the jungle you have managed to produce. Oh well, that's gardening.

Maybe we should have started off with

fertilizers, but at least one of them has an

intimate connection with a sprink- Tubes of ler. These are Reiger "Vitalizer"

Tablets tablets which go along with an

outfit of the Reiger name. The

tablets are dropped inio what appears lo be

a glass lube which screws onto a hose line. As the water runs through, the tablets dis- solve, and presto! Then you run for the lawn mower. The tablets, incidentally, are $1.85 a tube.

Arthur Morgan, who has worked on just about every type of floating equipment - except towboats —the Dredging Division

possesses, has the second longest continuous

service of any employee in the Canal organization. His 42 years of Canal service are exceeded only by the 43 years of George M.

Engelke of the Commissary Division.

In December 1912, Mr. Morgan came to the Canal Zone where his older brother

Robert, had been working for four years as a machinist. The senior Morgan, in 1°12

a general foreman, later became shop super- intendent for the Mechanical Division. He

helped his younger brother get a job as a water tender. Within a short time Mr. Morgan was working on old Dredge S5, out

of Balboa. Since then he has held various

positions on a variety of dredging equip- ment. He is now an operator on the dipper

dredge Cascadas.

World Almanac says the 35th anniversary

is jade or coral. By that standard, four employees of the Canal organization cele- brated their jade and/or coral anniversaries

last month. One of the four, Paul R. Furr, Chief of the

Electric Division's Agua Clara Diesel station, has unbroken Canal service, as well as the 35 years ol government service. On

his way to Little Rock to enlist in the Army

in 1919, he was talked by a friend into

enlisting for service in the Canal Zone. He

did, he liked it, and when his army service was finished he stayed here. The other three 35-year people in December are, alphabetically: John T. Clancy, one-time of Keosaugua, Iowa, later of the United States Navy in farflung parts, and

presently Chief of Customs at Cristobal; Robert P. O'Connor, familiarly known as Barney, whose birthplace is West Point, but West Point, Neb. and not West Point, N. V., he is a dock foreman with the Navigation

Division at Balboa; and Mrs. Marie Arias Smith, whose job on the admitting desk at Gorgas Hospital brings her into contact with thousands of Canal Zonians each year.

Only one employee had a 30-year anni- versary last month. He is Raymond B. Ward, once of Yoakum, Tex. He is a Lock

Operator Machinist Leader at the Gatun

Locks.

Electricity was the common denominator

for three of December's 25-year employees.

Elsie Z. Halliwell, who teaches sixth grade

at the Cristobal elementary school, is the

fourth Silver Anniversary employee for December.

The three others, all of whom have something to do with electricity, are: Robert

E. L. Brown, Construction Management

Engineer with the Electrical Division; Vernon L. Dahlhoff, an Electrical Division Foreman; and I. F. Mcllhenny, Supervising

Electrical Engineer in the Engineering

Division. Mr. Dahlhoff's service with the Canal is unbroken.

Five of December's 20-year employees have unbroken Canal service. They are: Margaret R. Conner, teacher at the Ancon

elementary school; Antonio (Seepage 1/,)

Hoses seem to be something the commissaries have in variety, so let's start with

them. Pop may be hefty enough

Plastic by to haul around a length of rub- the foot ber hose, and these are on hand

in several lengths and prices. But if Mama s going to help, she I! appreciate

the plastic versions. These come in a 25-

foot lenglh, at $1.85, or in 50 feet, al $2.95. Koroseal plastic hoses are more expensive,

but a good many people swear by them; they are $4.35 for 25 feet, or $7.60 for 50 feet.

SOME HOSES have storage reels, which are handy and are not simply gadgets. One

50-foot plastic hose with a storage reel is $5.35 for the entire works; $3.50 will buy a

25-foot length of flexible triple tube (whatever

that is) plastic hose, with a storage reel. A

real fancy reel (pun intended) is $9.50, but

this one has special faucet bushings and

connections.

FROM THE SMELL around this desk on

which fertilizer samples are laid out, the only

thing the chemists haven't done is deodorize

them. There is Hyponex in one-pound tins, 70 cents- from its ads it would appear that anyone who could follow directions for dissolving it could grow anything, piovided

he uses Hyponex. California liquid fertilizer, highly concentrated, is manufactured especially for Panama's acid soil: 20 cents a pint bottle or $1.25 for a gallon. Vigoro is an

old, familiar, and effective friend: 14 cents

for a pound package. Krilium is not a fertilizer but a soil conditioner. Worked into a bed in the making, it keeps the soil from be- coming a gooey mess when wet and a brick- bat when dry. Works fine in Diablo Heights, we can vouch.

A lazy man's way of watering, and a

mighty satisfactory one at ihat, is to stretch out the hose and altach a sprink- Plain and ler lo one end of it. The other Fancy end is attached to the faucet Lawn sprinklers, which do just as well for flower beds, come with fancy names and some are downright fancy themselves. They cost from $2.35 to $8.45,

depending on the tricks they can do. Of

course you can still get the old-fashioned

nozzles which you have to hold or prop up

on a forked stick.

By the time you have watered and ferti- lized (and followed the directions in the gardening story on page 5) Cutting you should really have things Things Fine going. Then's the time to get

out the lawn mower. The commissaries carry the "Pennette," which has a wooden handle and sells for $16.95. Rake

up the grass cuttings with a rake broom which

has 22 flat, steel teeth al $1.10, or lawn

rake, at $1.30, and use the cuttings to mulch your plants or start a compost heap. For edging beds and trimming along walks, there are Ezy Cut grass shears and clippers, at $1.15 and $1.85. Weeders, 11 inches in length, are 18 cents and easy on hand and

pocketbook, and cultivators which are half an inch longer but just as easy to handle are

also 18 cents.

LEAST FANCY of the sprinklers is the Yoder,

at 58 cents; it looks like a flat oval with a

raised center and has no moving parts to get out of order. Supplex is a perforated hose,- with the holes pointed up and the water

turned on gently, gently, it is fine around

seedlings; reversed so the holes point down,

the water soaks into the ground and doesn't wet foliage or flowers. By turning a dial, the Rain King, an extra fancy job, can be

adjusted to sprinkle an area anywhere from

5 to 50 feet.

OTHER HAND tools available in the commissary hardware sections are trowels, 12J4

inches long; 10-inch forks; and transplanters, both a bit longer. All are 18 cents. If you're really going into this green thumb

business in a big way, musts for a more

emerald touch are long-handled cultivators with four tines, $2; spading forks, $2.25;

hoes, with tapered handles, $1 .85; weedercultivators, with four-foot handles, $1 .60; and lightweight shovels, with 41 -inch handles,

$1 .60. You have to stand up to use these, though.

Everybody - Well, Praclically Everybody -

In The Zone Has Taken Up Roller Skating

(Con'imei from page 3) given a number of lessons to neophytes.

Skating Costumes

The Pacific Service Center, which was

original headquarters for all roller skating

fans on the Pacific side, has a wooden

floor and is batter suited for skating than

the Pedro Miguel Gym. The Pacific Skating Club meets here regularly twice each week and is a well organized group

of 35 members, all of whom are expert

skaters and take great pride improving

their form and technique. Most of the members wear the professional shoe-type

skates and regular skating costumes

which they store at the Service Center between sessions.

In addition to parties and roller skating

shows, the Pacific Skating Club organizes, once each year, a "night of fun" for which

the skaters prepare costumes and skits.

The affair never fails to attract a huge

audience of skaters and non-skaters

alike. Skating Centers

Roller skating has received the support

of the Canal Zone Civic Councils and the Canal organization. Efforts are being

made presently to find a new skating

center for the Pedro Miguel group which

will have to abandon its headquarters

when Pedro Miguel goes out of existence

as a Canal Zone town after March 31. On the Atlantic side, efforts are now

being made by the Civic Councils to have

a roller skating center in the town of Margarita. Several sites are being considered and it is expected that the problem

will be solved soon.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW January 7, 1955

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

November 15 Through December 15

Employees who were promoted or trans- ferred between November 15 and December

15 are listed below. Regradintjs and within- grade promotions are not listed CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Donald D. Austin, Martin L. Olsen, from Guard, Terminals Division, to Police- man, Police Division. James F. McGloin, from Fireman to Fireman, Driver-Operator, Fire Division. Mrs. Donna E. Andrews, Clerk-Typist, from License Section to Division of Schools. Mrs. Sarah W. Hamilton, from Elemen- tal School Teacher to Substitute Teacher,

l)i\ ision of Schools. Mrs. Shirley S. Makibbin, from Substitute Teacher to F^lementary School Teacher. Division of Schools. COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

Gene E. Clinchard, Jack W. Clarke,

John W. Purvis, Ralph L. Hanners, Roy A. Sharp, Burton J. Hackett, Jr., from Superintendent, Refuse Collection and Disposal,

to General Foreman, Grounds Maintenance. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Mrs. Helen T. Bradley, from Tabulating

Machine Operator to Clerk-Typist, Account

ing division. Oliver L. Riesch, from Accountant, Accounts Division, to Systems Accountant,

Accounting Systems Staff. Edward G. Coyle, from Systems Accountant, Accounting Systems Staff, to Construction Cost Analyst, Plant Inventory and

Appraisal Staff. William Goldfein, from Systems Accountant to Accountant, Accounting Division. James H. Selby, from Plant Accountant

to Supervisory Construction Cost Accountant, Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Harold W. Meyer, from Assistant Painting Supervisor to Foreman Painter, Maintenance Division. John A. Taylor, from Plumber to Quarters

Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Division.Mrs. Jeanne S. Garcia, Clerk-Typist, from Housing Division to Electrical Division. Clifton W. Ryter, from Senior Master, Craneboat Atlas, to Senior Towboat Master, Dredging Division. James F. Ahearn, from Construction

Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division, to Plumber, Maintenance Division. Mrs. Mary E. Specht, from Supervisory

Fiscal Accountant to Clerk, Maintenance

Division. James W. Riley, from Telephone Instal- ler-Maintainer to Automatic Telephone

Switchman, Electrical Division. James W. Shobe, from Apprentice to Telephone Installer-Maintainer, Electrical Division. Walter W. Carlson, from Blaster, Drill Barge, to Guard Supervisor, Dredging

Division. Claude M. Kreger, from Drill Runner t > Pump Operator, Pipeline Suction Dredge

Dredging Division. Charles J. Connor, from Drill Barge Master to Foreman, Pipeline Suctio-i Dredge, Dredging Division. Victor C. Melant, from Drill Runner.

Drill Barge, to Accounting Clerk, Dredging

Division. Harland V. Howard, Jr., from General

Supervisory Construction Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division, to Electrical Engineer, Engineering Division. HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Irene M. Will, from Casli Accounting Clerk, Service Center Division, to Clerk, Coco Solo Hospital. Mrs. Norma C. Belland, from Substitute Teacher, Division of Schools, to Clerk

Typist, Coco Solo Hospital.

Cecilia E. Wensing, from Staff Nnr^c to Head Nurse, Gorgas Hospital.

Wilbur C. Dunscombe, from Chemist to Supervisory Chemist, Board of Health

Laboratorv. MARINE BUREAI

John F. Campbell, from Probationary, to Qualified Pilot, Navigation Division.

Theodore F. Babich, from Combination

Welder, Maintenance Division to Towing

Locomotive Operator, Atlantic Locks. Leo A. Walsh, Senior Towboat Master, from Dredging Division to Ferry Service. Slaughter H. Sharpensteen, from Drill Runner, Dredging Division, to Towing

Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks. Francis J. Krause, from Lockmaster to Electrical Supervisor, Pacific Locks. 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. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Gordon M. Frick, from Position Classifier, Wage and Classification Division, to Assist- ant to Personnel Director. SUPPLY BUREAU

Frank E. Day, from Shipping Foreman to Commissary Supervisor, Commissary Division.John H. Stevens, from Procurement Offi- cer to Accountant, Commissary Division. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Robert W. Parker, from Gauger and

Cribtender Foreman to Cribtender Fore- man, Marine Bunkering Section. Maxwell S. Sanders, from Assistant

Relief Marine Bunkering Foreman, to Assistant Marine Bunkering Foreman.

Terminals Division. Walter G. Laurie, from Assistant Marine

Bunkering Foreman to Marine Bunkering

Foreman, Terminals Division. Walter R. Fender, from Cribtender Fore- man to Cribtender Foreman and Steam

Engineer, Terminals Division. Parker P. Hanna, from Steam Engineer

to Assistant Relief Marine Bunkering

Foreman, Terminals Division. Donald C. Parker, from Cribtender Fore- man and Steam Engineer, to Steam Engineer, Marine Bunkering Section. Vernon R. Seeley, from Heavy Special

Truck Driver and Combination Welder

to Combination Welder, Motor Transportation Division. James A. Brooks, from Claims Investigator to Supervisory Storekeeper (Checker),

Terminals Division. Reginald D. Armstrong, from Supervisory

Storekeeper (Checker) to Claims Investigator, Terminals Division.

ANNIVERSARIES

{Continued from page 13) Fernandez,

Lock Operator Machinist at the Pacific- Locks; Capt. William H. Munyon, Deputy

Warden at the Canal Zone Penitentiary,

Capt. Robert G. Rennie, Canal pilot; and

G. G. Thomas, Lock Operator Machinist Leader at Gatun Locks. Other 20-year employees are Harry F. Cranfield, Operator-Foreman Mechanic with

the Power Branch of the Electrical Division; Waldo B. Gilley, Public Works Foreman

with the Maintenance Division.

Fifteen Company-Government employees

completed 15 years of government service

in December. Those with continuous Canal

service are: Mirt Bender, Pumping Plant Operator, Water and Laboratory Branch,

Maintenance Division; Vernon L. Clontz, Gas Plant Operator, Industrial Division; William A. Gribbons, Special Combination

Welder, Maintenance Division; Casey J. Hall, Policeman, Police Division; William G. Huff, Supervisory Storekeeper, Terminals Division; James L. Phillips, Fireman,

Driver-Operator, Fire Division; John J. Prill, Wireman, Electrical Division; Helen

M. Rhodes, Time, Leave, and Payroll

Clerk, Payroll Branch; Woodrow G. Torbert, Accounting Clerk, Maintenance Division; and John F. Voss, Electrician, Power

Branch. Emplovees whose service is broken are: Charles H. Bath, Jr., Public Works Fore- man, Maintenance Division; George P. Bouneau, Jr., General Investigator, CortDECEMBER RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

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

together with their birthplaces, titles, length

of Canal service and future addresses: George R. Harris, Missouri; Yard and

Road Engineer, Railroad Division; 13 years,

1 month, 23 days; The Dalles, Oreg. Charles P. Morgan, Pennsylvania; General Inspector, Contract and Inspection

Division; 34 years, 4 months, 12 days; Canal Zone. Joseph T. Oliver, Azores; Marine Traffic Controller, Balboa Port Captain's Office; 27

vears, 9 months, 6 days; East Providence,

R. I. Hans P. Pedersen, Denmark; Barge

Repair Station Foreman, Dredging Division; 31 years, 7 months, 20 days; Canal Zone for present, then Florida. Anthony Tezanos, Spain; Senior Chief Towboat Fmgineer, Fern- Service; 27 years,

5 months, 23 davs; New York City.

JANUARY SAILINGS

From Cristobal A neon January 1 Cristobal January 8 Panama -January 15 Ancon --January 22

Cristobal^ ..January 20 From New York

Panama January 6 A neon January 13

Cristobal _ January 20 Panama^ ..January 27 (Southbound the Haiti stop is from 7

a. m. to 4 p. m. Monday; northbound ships are also in Port-au-Prince Monday, from

about 1 to 6 p. m.)

Marine Electricians Try

Craft Educational Plan

Over 91 man hours of advanced electrical craft educational work has been

accomplished by nine men working in the

Cristobal Marine Electric Shop under a new program which began about midOctober. The program, designed to meet the needs of the mechanics in the Marine

Electric Shop, was planned and organized

by Clinton N. Bohannon, shop foreman,

and Fred Ebdon, Chairman of the Educational Committee of Local 677 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Under this plan, the craftsman attend evening classes, organized by the Electrical Union, for one hour each Monday

night. A record of attendance is re- ported to the shop foreman, Mr. Bohannon, who then arranges that for each hour

a craftsman spends in evening classes he

is given an equivalent period during

working hours to try out the ideas dis- cussed during the class period.

This on-the-job-training work is scheduled during the lulls in shop work. The subjects taken up at night and

during the day are selected by the Union

Educational Committee and the shop

foreman. The work to date has been devoted to trouble shooting tests on DC machinery

and the analysis of complicated controller diagrams.

traband Control Section; Hugh W. Cassibry, Accountant, Payroll Branch; Thelma

C. Herrington, Time, Leave, and Payroll

Clerk, Payroll Branch; and Earl E. Mullins,

Dipper Dredge Mate, Dredging Division.
January 7, 1955 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW T5"

Gorgas Hospital Haven For Polio Patients

JOHN CHARLES TAYLOR, young British geologist from Suffolk, England, and Philip Snare, 31 , of New York, two polio victims who were brought out of Ecuador

in similar drama-packed merev missions bv U. S. Air Force planes, are shown here occupying the same ward at Gorgas Hospital. For a time they lay side by side, each in an iron lung, but at the time this picture was taken, Mr. Snare, left, had improved sufficiently to be transferred to a regular hospital bed although his arms

were supported in slings. Mr. Taylor, who could leave the lung for only short periods, is attended by Mrs. Sophie Evans, of Balboa, special nurse. Both men left the Isthmus late last month, Mr. Taylor by ship fcr England and Mr. Snare by plane for his home in New York.

Extensive Agenda Scheduled For Meeting

(Continued from page 1) possible area. Approval of formal assumptions at the January meeting of the Board is expected

to result in the establishment of a better coordinated budget program requiring fewer changes throughout the process of preparing the final 1957 budget to be submitted to the Bureau of the Budget

in September of this year. The agenda for next week's meeting

will include consideration by members of the Board of a report on the Panama

Steamship Line, a report on the financing

of recently enacted fringe benefits, a study of the Six-Year Capital Program,

a report on the Disability Cash Relief Program, and a draft of the Company's

annual report for fiscal year 1954. The Six-Year Capital Program includes the conversion of the power system from

25- to 60-cycle operation; completion of the first phase of the program for increas- ing the capacity of the Locks by approximately 25 percent; completion of the sewage disposal program, both Atlantic and Pacific; removal of old emergency

dams at the Locks; and completion of the deepening of Cristobal Harbor.

The Review's Review Of The Year

Community Chest Given Record

Support By Canal's Employees

Employees of the Company-Government gave the Canal Zone Community

Chest record support in the 1954-55

campaign for funds to finance the local

activities of 12 participating organizations In a preliminary summary this week,

Campaign Chairman Alton White said that although the $27,669.22 which had

been realized during the fund-raising

effort, is far short of the $50,000 goal, both the number of Company-Government employees participating and the average amount of contributions were

well above the previous year's figures.

The increased giving is particularly

gratifying when the extent of the force reduction over the past year is taken

into consideration, Mr. White said. Results show that 2,132 U. S.-rate employees contributed a total of $9,393.34

and 7,788 local-rate employees $5,508.05.

The approximately $2,000 increase in the

total employee contribution over 1953-54 came in part from the Maintenance

Division where 168 U. S.-rate employees

out of a possible 173 and 627 local-rate employees out of a possible 653 participated in the cause. Special gifts, contributions from retired employees, and funds from school banks

were about on a par with last year. A

total contribution of $8,247.92 received from the military services was some

$4,000 below the 1953-54 receipts.

Complete final results of the campaign

and the allocation of funds to the participation organizations are to be reported

at the annual membership meeting of the Community Chest which is scheduled

to be called by William Arey, Chairman

of the Chest's Board of Directors, during

the month of January.

(Continued from page 12) from Colon to Coco Solo Hospital was effected without

incident October 27, the day that Coco Solo Hospital began operation as a Canal Zone

unit. NOVEMBER

Gov. John S. Seybold wrote to Congress

this month defending his administration

policies from criticism voiced by the General Accounting Office and his answer to the GAO was published for the first time in history. In his comments on GAO recommendations, the Governor opposed the curtailment of present pay and leave

privileges; hinted that more local-rate employees would be hired in craft positions; but warned that there would be no universal replacement of U. S. -citizen employees;

promised that the Panama Canal Company

would utilize Panama products and services as much as possible and disclosed that $10,000,000 of Panama Canal funds had

been paid into the Treasury of the United

States. Several United States Congressmen and

their wives visited the Isthmus during the month, the first to arrive being Representative M. Mumma, member of the Merchant

Marine and Fisheries Committee.

Invitations for bids for the construction

of a new electrical substation at Mount

Hope, a major project in the current program of converting the Canal Zone power system to 60-cycle current, were

advertised. There were two rockfalls near Contractors Hill during the month. The first occurred when a natural fractured slab of rock broke off from the north end of the bank. Traffic through the Canal continued

to proceed normally, however. The second

occurred toward the end of the month

when 1,500 cubic yards of rock fell into the Canal channel following a small blast on

top of Contractors Hill. Eight local-rate employees were taken

to Gorgas Hospital for observation follow- ing a break in the ammonia gas line in the pre-packaging section of Balboa Cold

Storage distribution center where they worked. The annual public drawing tor low auto- mobile license plates for 1955 took place the last week in November.

DECEMBER

In addition to celebrating Christmas on

the Isthmus in the usual traditional form

the Canal Zone residents had something to offer their friends and relatives in the United States. This year greetings were

sent to the folks back home December 20

in the form of a musical Christmas Card

which was broadcast over a nation-wide hook-up over Columbia Broadcasting Company. A number of important visitors paid brief

calls during the month, among them being Le Roy Collins, Governor-elect of the

State of Florida, Robert E. Mayer, Presi- dent of the Pacific American Steamship

Association, and Kenneth J. Bousquet,

staff member of the Senate Appropriations

Committee, in addition to several Senators and Congressmen.

General Electric was announced as ap- parent low bidder on the contract to furnish generators at the Gatun hydro-electric

station. The contract was awarded late

in December.

Release of the fiscal year annual report

of the Panama Canal Company showed

that net income was tentatively recorded

as $4,160,010, a decline of more than one and a. half million dollars from the 1953

figure. A seven percent discount in rents for U. S.-rate housing for the last six months of

fiscal 1955 was announced by the Governor.
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Ancon Salesclerk Enjoys Her Job,

But Oh! Those Commissary Cards!

There are three things which make

Mary Ferguson's eyes shine: Her job, her children, and the Pacific Evergreen

Garden Club. As she talks about any of them her enthusiasm is infectious. Mary Ferguson is a commissary sales- clerk, working in the hardware section of the Ancon Commissary. She has been

MARY FERGUSON

She likes her job

with the Commissary Division for 14

years, at Ancon Commissary for nine. Except for having to ask her customers

for their commissary authority cards, she

thinks her job is just about the best that anyone could have.

Likes To Help

"I think it's nice to be able to treat people nice and to be willing to help

somebody some way," she told The

Panama Canal Review. And the en- thusiasm with which her customers greet her and she greets them, is a pretty good

indication that she puts her theory into

practice.

The other day, for instance, she had a request for a certain item. The only one left at Ancon had been damaged in shipping. She was happy to be able to

locate what her customer wanted in one

of the other retail stores. But as for those commissary authority

cards!

It's A Rule

"Some people feel that they have been around here so long that we shouldn't have to ask for their cards," she said. "And some of the new ones don't understand that it's a rule we have to follow. Then it makes some of them cross to be asked to show their cards again when

they have already made one purchase and

maybe they've forgotten something and

had to come back." But most of Mrs. Ferguson's customers calm down, she said, when she explains that "it's a rule to control contraband

and we must stick to it," and that, in the case of the repeat request she mentioned.

"we explain that maybe the person behind them isn't the same one who was

there before and they might think that we

are asking some people to show their cards and not others. And, of course, it makes a difference how we ask for the

card." Generally though, she finds that her customers are courteous and understanding about the cards as well as other things.

In her 14 years of service at Ancon sh

recalls only one th iroughly disagreeable customer and that incident'she charitably

attributes to: "Her problem was that she misunderstood me. When we understood

each other we became good friends."

Started At Mount H:p_> Mrs. Ferguson started her commissary

career at Mount Hope where she was in the marking room for general merchandise in the wholesale section. Later she moved into the women's ready-to-wear

section. She brought her dress experience with

her when she started to work at Ancon

Commissary in 1945. After several years

in the dress section at the retail store, she was moved to the "small hardware" section and then to the houseware and drygoeds area of the big self-service section. After commissary hours she divides her time between her three children and the Garden Club of which she is president.

Her 18-year-old son Maurice is a promising pianist. He attends the Pan

American Institute in the suburbs of Panama City where he plays regularly for the Wednesday morning services and is, in addition, a pupil at the Conservatory.

He is studying to enter the University

of Panama. The older of her two girls, Ida, 15, attends the Liceo de Sefioritas and is also a musician she studies violin at the Conservatory while the younger, Judy,

only 7, is in the first grade at the Josefina Tapia School in Panama City. The

Fergusons live in Barque Lefevre.

RENT DISCOUNT ANNOINCED S»

On January 24, U. S.-rate employees

of the Company-Government will re- ceive the first pay checks making allow- ance for a seven percent discount in rents which became effective this month. The across-the-board discount, an- nounced by Governor Seybold at the December Shirtsleeve Conference, applies to all U. S.-rate quarters beginning

with the January 2 15 pay period and

continuing until the end of the current

fiscal year in June. Emphasizing that the discount involves no changes in the established rental

rates, the Governor pointed out that the

action iollows the Company's announced

policy of developing savings wherever

possible and passing such savings on to reridents of the community.

Within the Housing Division operation better utilization of personnel,

pe:f jrmance of maintenance work by

contract and other more efficient methods, and careful programming of work

which can be deferred without a reduction in standards, account for the $70,000 in savings now being passed on

to occupants of the quarters.

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JUDO FOR THE POLICE

THEY REALLY aren't going to kill each other; it

just looks that way. For the past several weeks, a

former Canal Zone police officer, F. S. Rudesheim, who

appears in both the accompanying photographs, has been demonstrating jujitsu to members of the Canal Zone Police and the Colon National Guard. Mr. Rudesheim is Manager of Transportes Baxter in Panama.

In the larger picture he is demonstrating a hold tc a member cf the Colon force while law enforcement

officers from both Colon and Panama look on. Their

turns come later. The smaller photograph shows Mr.

Rudesheim with Sgt. Elmer Bierbaum of the Balboa

Central Station. The classes have been given by

Mr. Rudesheim as a courtesy to the Canal Zone force and their colleagues across the border.