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Vol. 5, No. 5 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, DECEMBER 3, 1954 5 cents

COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED

TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF CANAL ORGANIZATION

"&nb #lorj» ;£>fione Srounb"

( )NK of the most beautiful of the Christmas themes—the Shepherd and the Angel—appeared last Christ- mas at the end of Santa Claus Lane. It was arranged by Richard R. Potter of the Electrical Division.

Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone

To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20

Music, which has always played a prominent part in the celebration of Christmas in the Canal Zone, will be

shared this year with fellow citizens at home in the form of a musical Christmas

Card. The Christmas Card will be

broadcast at 11:15 p. m. EST on December 20 by the Columbia Broadcasting

Company over a nation-wide hook-up,

right after the late news broadcast. The special program of Christmas

music and carols was recorded here by

the combined band and chorus of the

Cristobal and Balboa High Schools under

the direction of Victor A. Herr, Director

of Music in Balboa, and Oswald E.

Jorstad, Director of Music in Cristobal. The traditional Christmas music sung and played by High School students, will be highlighted by Christmas messages to the folks back home from Gov. J. S. Seybold of the Canal Zone and Lt. Gen.

William K. Harrison, Jr., Commanderin-Chief of the Caribbean Command.

In a message commending the "meticulous manner in which the whole project was handled." James H. Fassett, Supervisor of Music for CBS Radio, wrote Lt. Gov. H. 0. Paxson, "it is a bit premature

to do so but I do extend to you and all who cooperated in the production of this program from the Panama Canal Zone

heartiest best wishes for a very Merry

Christmas." Local Broadcast Decembsr 23 The entire program will be broadcast

locally the evening of December 23, which is also the anniversary of the opening of the Balboa Theater. The local broadcast will be at 8 p. m. Community Service Bureau officials have made plans to have the broadcast

piped into the theater itself and, following the program on the air, (See pagi to)

"Operating results of the

Panama Canal Company for

the fiscal year ended June 30,

1954, further demonstrate the

loyal and* efficient service of

the men and women of the

Canal organization," Gov. John

S. Seybold declared this week.

The Governor's declaration was made

in connection with the release of con- densed financial statements "covering," he pointed out, "a period of internal changes and realignments during which

the Canal, with a considerably reduced

force, handled a record volume of commercial shipping." Total net income of the Company as

tentatively recorded for the year was

$4,160,010. On a comparable basis this figure represents a decline of $1,729,440

from 1953 when the corresponding amount

of net income (adjusted to reflect prior year adjustments recorded in fiscal year

1954) was $5,889,450. The continued

high volume of Canal traffic and reduction

of working forces served largely to offset the effect of increases in wage rates, cost

of materials, and interest costs that have

taken place concurrently and which

account principally for the current decline

in net income.

Commercial Tolls Increase Giving results of operations for the

third year of the Canal's administration

as an incorporated Federal agency, the condensed financial statements snowed

that although total Canal transits were

slightly under the overall 1953 fiscal year

figure, more ocean-going ships of commerce transited the waterway than in any

previous single year. Tolls derived from

commercial vessels amounted to $33,302,-

149, an increase of four percent over the previous year, while tolls credited from

U. S. Government vessels amounted to $3,888,957, a decline of 30 percent from

the previous year. The decline is attri- butable to the falling off of the abnormally large volume of traffic through the Canal that had resulted from the war

in Korea. The level of all other operations of the Company remained at a volume substantially consistent with that of the proceeding year. Gross income of allied maritime operations amounted to $9,407,-

270, which, added to $37,191,106 from

tolls, brought total gross income of the Canal itself to $46,598,376.

Net operating income of the Canal and

allied maritime operations totaled $25,- 781,861, after direct expenses and supporting services amounting (See page 16)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Mr. Fix-It Comes To Town

other mothers with cars full of youngsters,

people working in their yards and Diablo's younger generation all have a big "hello"

for him. Sometimes the housewives have a new

problem for him to work on, but more

often than not when someone hails him

down it is to tell him: "I can close the windows now," or, "Haven't seen a termite since you were here last." As residents of the various communities

become better acquainted with what pre- ventive maintenance can do for them,

they will undoubtedly use the team's

services even more than they are already

doing. And that will mean money saved

for everyone, when a series of little jobs

replace a big repair project. In the meantime, Diablo husbands are

finding life a lot more pleasant, as we said

before. It's a lot easier to say, "Call

Bill." than it is to unlimber the old wrench or hammer, any day.

Mrs. JACK SMITH (if Davis Street tells "Bill," more formally W. G. Mummaw, foreman of Diablo's Preventive Maintenance Team, that the outside of her quarters needs repainting.

Diablo Heights husbands have a new

attitude these days -and a new friend. When the little woman suggests that

the kitchen faucets need new washers or that somebody 'd better do something,

pretty mmn, about the automatic door

closer which has quit being automatic,

the Diablo husband just looks smug

and says: "Call Bill." And Bill doesn't mind being called at

all. It's his job and if he thinks that not enough people know that he and his men

are the local Mr. Fix-It, he is apt to drop

around to see if maybe there isn't a

little job or two that needs doing.

Bill, on Panama Canal records, is William G. Mummaw, foreman of the Diablo Heights preventive maintenance

team. Working on the theory than an ounce

of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the Canal Company, about a year ago, began its own preventive maintenance

program. The idea was that future major maintenance cost could be elimi- nated through advance inspection of quarters. This would allow corrective measures to be taken in the early stages

of deterioration or damage.

After slightly over a year's trial in Diablo Heights, the preventive mainte- nance program has proved so successful and so popular with residents of that

area, that the program has been extended

gradually to other Canal Zone communities. Preventive maintenance teams are now working in Margarita, Balboa, and

Gamboa.

Housing people and engineers knew,

from past experience, that most of the houses in the Canal Zone were given

maintenance attention only when a defect or problem was called to thi' alt 'ii- tion of the Housing Division by the people

living in the quarters. Generally, by this time, the damag i had gotten to a point where expensive

corrective measures were needed. This,

naturally meant increased maintenance

costs. And, in the long run, maintenance

costs affect rent. Of course, preventive maintenance is

limited, by its very name, to those corrective measures which prevent the need

for any major repair work. Occasionally, the preventive maintenance foreman

finds a situation which has developed

li-wmd his scope. In such cases the conditions are reported in detail to the Maintenance Division for correction. Accompanying the foreman of a pre- ventive maintenance crew through Diablo

Heights, for instance, is an experience in human relations. He is now an ace ot sd figure in daily living. As he makes his rounds, mothers wheeling baby carriages,

Special Stamp To Honor

Centennial Of Railroad

A special three-cent stamp, commemorating the iooth anniversary o/ the completion of the Panama Railroad on January 28, 1855, will be issued by the Canal Zone Postal Service early in the coming calendar year. The commemorative stamp, of the same purple as United States and Canal Zone stamps of the three-cent denomination, will picture one of the first loco- motives in use on the Panama Railroad. The stamp was designed by Leo C. Page,

Chief of the Architect .ral Branch. The iooth Anniversary Stamp, which

will be an event in philatelic circles, will be printed in the United States. It will be the first special Canal Zone issue

since the West Indian Commemorative

Stamp in August 1051. CARE In The Commissaries

CAREpackage eai Canal Zone's commissaries. F. R. Johnson, Supply Director, who has been sending | Norway for some time, makes a purchase from Mrs. Florence 1 lemers, Balboa Commissary cashier, while Manager J. F, Evans watches.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Quarters Construction Program Nears End;

111 Apartments Will Be Ready In 60 Days

The Panama Canal Company's quarters construction program is rapidly

drawing to a close. Within th" next (ill days, 111 U. S.-rate apartments will have

been made available to Company-Government families. Some of these families are living in the 120 buildings which ate to be vacated and demolished before the end of the present fiscal year. Wilson H. Crook, Community Services

Director, again pointed out that evacuation dates for the old quarters in Pedro

Miguel and Ancon will be observed and

urged that employees living in these areas apply for the newly-completed quarters

as they become available. Four quarters on Quarry Road, part

of the 17-building contract which includes Quarry Road and the Ridge Road area, were accepted by the Panama Canal Company from the contractor, Isthmian

Contractors, Inc., in November. They

are now occupied.

First Flats Houses

In the Balboa Flats area, where 98 apartments in 63 buildings are presently

under construction by Framorco, the

first five houses were—at the time this issue of The Review went to pressscheduled for completion the first week

in December. These quarters are on the end of Carr Street near the Balboa

Elementary School. Two are two-family,

two-story masonry quarters and the remaining three are one-family, on-the- ground masonry houses. The next group of Balboa Flats quarters scheduled for completion are on Morgan Avenue. According to the pres- ent schedule, the houses will be completed,

inspected, and accepted in groups of four

or five, about every two weeks until the contract is completed late in January.

The first of the Ridge Road quarters, which are all of the modified "motherin-law" type, will not be completed until shortly after the first of the calendar

year. They will be inspected and released by the contractor as they are finished. The contract will be completed about

February 15. Executive Type Quarters

The only other housing projected for

this fiscal year are three executive-type

RIDGE ROAD, where 13 masonry quarters are beins erected, will not be ready for its new residents until after the first of the year. All of the houses are to be completed by mid-February.

houses to be built at Balboa Heights.

They will replace three old "official houses" which had originally stood in Culebra or Empire and which were

brought to their present Balboa Heights

location about 1914. Two of the executive-type houses will be built on the sites of the quarters

formerly occupied by the Lieutenant Governor and the Marine Director. The

third is to be located approximately

where the former quarters of the Health

Director stood until that building was

demolished about 18 months ago. While the new quarters are going up,

old quarters are coming down and within

a few months only empty spaces will indicate where houses once stood. Evacuation Schedule At the present time, 75 Canal families are still living in 69 buildings in Pedro

Miguel. As a Canal town, Pedro Miguel

will go out of existence next March 31. Present plans are to close both commissary and service center on that date.

In the section of Ancon nearest the Administration Building, 24 families are

still living in 23 quarters which are slated

for early demolition. Six of these quarters are to be vacated not later than February 1 and the remainder by July 1. A total of 31 Canal families are still living in 28 old buildings in the section

of Ancon which includes Culebra Road,

the Tivoli Guest House section and the

area near the hospital These families have been notified that they must find other quarters by July 1. Seventeen other old buildings, in Balboa, which house 31 families are to be vacated by December 31. Local-Rate Housing

In La Boca, quarters which were

vacated with the transfer of 50 families to Santa Cruz in October, are being demolished as rapidly as possible. However

there are still, as of November 20, 49

family quarters housing 344 occupants

and seven bachelor barracks with 401 occupants, still standing in La Boca. The condition of these quarters requires that they be vacated not later than fiscal year 1957. On the Atlantic side the last six of the

old Silver City multiple-family quarters,

built in 1918, are ready for demolition. These quarters, which are now all vacant, had been occupied by 72 families. In Chagres, at Gatun, only one house

of those scheduled for demolition is still standing. The settlement at Chagres now consists of 58 family apartments, two bachelor buildings, a small school, and a small sen ice center.

The first unit of cavalry to be stationed

in the Canal Zone was the First Squadron

of the Twelfth Cavalry. The unit arrived

here in February, 1016.

Slides in Gaillard Cut closed the Pan- ama Canal to large, ocean-going traffic from September 15, 1915 to April 15, 1916.

FIRST of the Balboa Flats quarters were to be ready for occupancy early this month. All Flats houses

are to be completed by the end of January.

During the first fiscal year of operation, 1,088 commercial ships transited the Panama Canal.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Memorial Plaque At Paraiso

Honors Korean War Veterans

( IELIA GRANT, 4, of Paraiso, isn't quite sure she understands what the memorial at Paraiso is all about

but someday she'll know that it was dedieated to the young men of the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama who served with the United States forces in Korea.

A memorial plaque honoring three young Isthmians who died during the Korean War and commemorating all of those from the Canal Zone and Panama

who served with the United States Armed

Forces during the Korean conflict was

dedicated November 11 at Paraiso. The memorial, which is located at the upper entrance to the town of Paraiso,

close to the intersection of Gaillard High- was and Paraiso Roads, was erected through the joint efforts of the Pacific Army Mothers Club, of which Mrs. Daisy

Robinson is president, and of the Mutual

Aid Club, whose president is Frank B. Burke. The morning's dedicatory program

included an address bv E. J. Eglinton,

Past Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Canal Zone; the reading of a prize-winning essay—The

Danger of Communism -which was writ- ten by Violet Walters, a senior in the La Boca Occupational High School; an

address by Frank Wilder, of the Panama

Canal's Internal Security Branch; and

presentation of the plaque by A. E. Osborne, of the Division of Schools. The United States Army provided a guard of honor while the Guardia National Band represented Panama at the ceremonies.

The servicemen whose names appear on

the plaque are Sgt, Jose Molina Ceballos, Pvt. Ben A. Franklin, and Pvt. Gilbert D.

Francis.

EDITOR'S MAIL BOX

ED NOTE: Letters of exceptional interest from two Canal oldtimers reached the

editor's desk last month, referring to articles in recent REVIEWS. They are

too long to reproduce in full but the perti- nent parts of each are given.)

From Danby, Vt., Capt. Charles D.

Lillie, who signs himself, Class of 1906,

writes: "The picture, 'All Dressed Up' in the October 1, 1954 Review brought back mam fond memories. I have forgotten

who took 1 be picture, Ion whoevei ii was

asked the ladies to sit down. And Mrs

Lillie was the only one that did so. Yours

truly is 1 be fair-haired boj with the dark

blouse and white trousers. I am wondering bow man\ ol that crowd are still in the land hi the living . . (Captain Lillie's note, written on a Christmas card made from one of Mrs.

Lillie's lithographs, also enclosed a recent newspaper clipping showing the former Zone fireman with one of his wife's prizewinning lithographs. It was shown at the Vermont Craftsmen Show in Shelburne. The lithograph won first prize in the 38th annual exhibition of the Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and

Woodcutters in New York City.

And from Arlington, Va., Otto T. Marstrand, who retired in 1937 as Surveying

Officer, wrote regarding Colon Hospital.

"Pardon if an old mossback of the good

old days, December 1906. to April 3(1. 1937, comments on an article in The Review of November 5, 1954. ... On page 10 of this same issue, top picture, left, caption —

Colon Hospital admitted its first patients

in May 1916, its last in October 26, 1954. "Unless1 memory fails me my first-born, Robert Marstrand, was born in Colon Hospital in 1911; my second, Lillian, in 1913

. . . The ward in question was at the entrance

of the hospital grounds and was on stilts.

I milt over the water.

"1 do know that 1 be old maternity ward

on stilts over the water was subject to invasion by lui^e water rats, that some of tbem ran across the bed . . . "The boy, my first born, was the aviator

thai flew the first flight of the establishment

of I be Air Mail of the Republic of Panama

to the Interior and return. He crashed

with his passengers to the Interior cm

Friday, September 13, 1935; he was not

unite 24 years ol age and had a record of 3,000 flying hours and two trips from the

I'. S. to Panama, the last one solo . . . "The Zone honored him in final and his record is without a single blemish. I feel that 1 should so record his record."

I ED NOTE: Mr. Marstrand is right and

so is THE REVIEW. The Colon Hospital

which closed in October had opened in May 1916 and was the successor to the 15-ward, 550-bed hospital which had

opened in 1904, using the combined facili- ties of the old French hospital and the smaller Panama Railroad Hospital. The

former dated back to 1883 and the latter to the middle part of the 19th century. I

Architect-Artist

Shows Paintings

On Shipboard

It was no surprise to many Canal Zone

residents when Paul Colby, member of the design staff of the Panama Canal

Architectural Branch and well-known amateur painter, walked off with two of the prizes at the Fourteenth Annual Art Week Exhibition held last month at the

Tivoli Guest House. Mr. Colby's watei colors have been

seen and appreciated by hundreds of Zonians and quite a few tourists who

have traveled back and foith from New

York en the Panama Line ships. A number of Cana! residents have Mr. Colby's

pictures hanging in their homes.

His fame with the traveling public

grew out of the practice he started

several years ago of holding an exhibit of

his latest works aboard ship whenever he went on vacation. The collection, dis- played in the ship's lounge, always

included a number of watercolors of Panama scenes which were of interest to Canal employees as well as tourists. Art Is Avocation

Although Mr. Colby studied architec- ture in the University of Illinois and has

PAUL COLBY

worked on architectural design for the past 30 years, art has occupied a good

part of his spare time. He has used several mediums from pen

sketching and line drawings to oils and

water color. At present he is working

with water color and has painted hundreds of scenes both in Panama and the United States. Born in Onawa, Iowa, Mr. Colby

attended the University of Illinois for three years before he enlisted in the U. S. Army during World War I. Came Here In 1940 During the second World War, Mr.

Colby was called back to active duty with

the U. S. Army and, as a Lieutenant

Colonel, was Post Executive Officer at Fort Sherman until 1946. Since the end of the war, he has been with the architectural design staff and

has continued his work with water colors. He entered a number of pictures in local exhibits and duiing August of this year, had a one-man show in the JWB-USO

building in Balboa. Some of his best-known water colors have been of street scenes in Panama

City, seascapes of Panama, and scenes from the Interior.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Survey Of Buildings

Asked In Connection

With Long Range Plans

Bureau Directors of the CompanyGovernment organization were asked last month to make a list of the various struc- tures which their organizations occupy or which, while presently vacant, are still assigned to their individual organizations.

The request, from John D. Hollen,

Chief of the Executive Planning Staff, was made in connection with the Canal's long-range building program, which envis- ages as much as possible the move of per- manent units into permanent structures. Such transfers are considered advisable not only because of the need for safe- guarding valuable records and equipment

by placing them in fireproof structures, but also to permit demolition of certain temporary-type structures on which maintenance costs are excessive. One of the first of such moves will be

the transfer of the Payroll Branch from

Diablo Heights to the old Ancon Club- house building early next year. In his memorandum to Bureau Directors Mr. Hollen pointed out that in planning the Company - Government's

long-range building program it is neces- sary that an inventory and evaluation be made of present surplus buildings as well

as present building adequacies or needs. The Bureau Directors were asked to

list, not later than December 1, all buildings presently idle and not released

to the Housing Division for custody; all buildings only partially utilized; all build- ings inadequate for present use; all buildings which are adequate insofar as capacity and design are concerned but which are inadequate b?eause of excessive maintenance costs, bad location, or for other reasons; buildings to be replaced

by new construction included in the

capital program; and to propose any

change of building utilization which would

be beneficial from an economic or effi- ciency standpoint.

FIRST ALL-WOMAN SUPERVISORY GROUP

MIDWAY THROUGH CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MEMBERS of the first all-women supervisory training group meet weekly with their conference leader, Brodie Burnham. Left to right, standing: Mrs. Ethel K. Askew, Mrs. Muriel De Young, Mrs. Dorothy

McXall, Mrs. Dorothy Benny, Mrs. Lyla Essler, and Mrs. Ruth Campbell. Seated. Beverly Chan,

Mrs. Emily Price, Manuelita Oiler, Mrs. Kathyleen R. Miller, Mrs. Elsa Bailey, Mrs. Jean M. Wheeler, and Helen N. Minor. They meet at Building 69 on Roosevelt Avenue.

By number, the class is the 28th supervisory training group. The names of the

14 students and their records are tucked

into a folder marked, simply, S-28. Actually the group should be numbered

1, for, as far as Personnel officials can

recall, it is the first all-woman group of supervisors to meet in the Personnel Bureau's present training conference program. The 14 women supervisors, who repre- sent five different Company-Government

bureaus, were selected by their division heads to attend the course. Seven of them come from the Office of the Comptroller, three from the Personnel Bureau, two from the Canal's Library, and one

each from the Engineering Division and

the Internal Security Branch. They average 4.1 years as supervisors,

have worked for 11.8 years and have been

Canal employees for 10.5 years, a year

Little Leaguers Learn A Lesson

'»

Boys Brought up in Sunday

School are Seldqmbroughr

up in Court"." Hoover

'&>. fcSUNDA9 SCHOOL

CANAL ZONE Little Leaguers, who will soon be out on their playing fields in full force, gained nation- wide publicity recently with publication of this photograph. The sign above, which appears each year

along the outfield fence, is a quotation from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. The photograph appeared

first in the Christian Science Monitor and later in newspapers served by the Religious News Service.

less than the average time they have lived on the Isthmus. They have been meeting for two hours each Thursday morning

since October 14; they will finish their conference program on January 27. Brodie Burnham, Assistant Training

Officer, who is moderator for the conferences, admitted to The Panama Canal

Review, that at the start he had viewed

the idea of the all-woman class with mixed

feelings. Now that they are under way,

he not only enjoys being the only man

in such a bevy, but finds that he is the envy of all of the men in the Personnel Bureau.Conference Same As Men's

The conference outline for the women

supervisors' group is essentially the same

as that which is being followed by four all-men conference groups which are going on at the same time. Mr. Burnham said that he expects that at least one session

will be devoted to problems unique to women supervisors but, as the conference

subjects are raised by the conferees themselves, he declined to predict what

these "unique" problems might be. Before the five groups— the four mens'

groups and the one all-woman group

began their training program, they were

tested in what personnel experts call a supervisory opinion survey. The mean

score for the women was exactly that of the mean score of all five groups—the women's group plus the four mens' groups

although the men's average supervisory

experience was over twice as long as the women's. New Cliches

And they have varied the cliches which

training officers have come to expect

during the conference sessions. A part

of the conference time is spent in watching training films. When the movie

projector is brought out the men, almost

invariably, say: "Oh, Marilyn Monroe?"

The women don't. They say: "Oh

Gregory Peck?"

The attitude of Personnel officials toward the women supervisors was

expressed by E. A. Doolan, Personnel

Director, at the opening meeting when he

described them as "trail blazers."
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW nber 3, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE

i-A !£CCIDENT PREVENTION

GIVE US YOUR IDEAS

WORKING DAZE

NATIONAL sjfcrr COUNCI

HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

OCTOBER

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 6

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

Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

OCTOBER

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

DREDGING DIVISION

ELECTRICAL DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

STOREHOUSE DIVISION

RAILROAD DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

Last year you helped the Canal Zone Government-Panama Canal Company

win the National Safety Council's Award

of Merit for an outstanding safety record.

It was outstanding and we're all proud of

it. It might be of interest to you to know also that we won it at a cost of one man killed and another totally injured

permanently, while 355 employees were

injured seriously enough for them to lose time from work. Medical and compensation costs for these cases amounted to over $89,000 in 1953. Perhaps we've been bragging too much

about last year's good record. Perhaps we

are taking the attitude that we've finally reached what we've been striving for and

are starting to ease off a bit on safety matters. Maybe we're getting in a rut,

like the story of the farmer who parked

his broken down reaper right on the path

his wife took from the hen house to the kitchen when she gathered eggs. The first night it was there she fell over

the reaper, barked her shins, and dumped

her eggs, breaking them into an omelet

in the dirt. The next night she took

cartons to pack the eggs in. She didn't break any eggs that time but she barked

her shins again.

Then her husband "thoughtfully"

bought her a first aid kit to keep her skinned shins from becoming infected. Soon she became tired of barking her

shins and took to carrying a lantern. But

that left her with only one free hand to carry eggs, so she talked the farmer into mounting a floodlight on a pole, in order

to see where she was going and still have two hands free to carry eggs.

Just as the farmer and his wife were

congratulating each other on their solu- tion to the problem their 6-year-old son

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 8 Motor Transportation 7 Sanitation 7 Service Center 7 Dredging 5

Electrical 5 Grounds Maintenance 5 Hospitalization and Clinics 3 Industrial 3 Maintenance... 3 Railroad 3 Storehouses 3 Locks -- 1 Navigation. _ 1 Commissary

Terminals

said, "Pop, why didn't you just move the reaper out of the yard in the first place'.'" That's what we mean by getting in a

rut. We get so u-ed to doing things a

certain way even when it's dangerous, and

maybe we go to a lot of trouble working

out a way of avoiding danger when some

simple idea such as moving the reaper would have solved the whole problem.

Let's make an honest effort to "get out

of the rut." Take a look around your

job and come up with some constructive

ideas for preventing accidents. It's just common sense to reason that a lot of us working together can accomplish more

than any one of us can single-handed, and

that's certainly true where safety is concerned. No safety man can be expected

to know all there is to know about everything, unless you take the trouble to tell him. That's why he needs your help, your knowledge of your job, your experi- ence with close calls, and your ideas on

safety to help prevent accidents. Remember that no idea is DUMB.

Some ideas may be better than others, but if you have any ideas or suggestions

for making your job safer for yourself

and your fellow workers pass them along

to your boss. Discuss them with him

when he makes the rounds. Or, ask him

for an Unsafe Report Form and describe, your ideas on it. Your ideas, or suggestions, will be appreciated and every effort

will be made to institute corrective measures. We thank you for taking the time and

interest to read this. We hope you will give accident prevention lone thought,

and pass along some constructive ideas. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas

and a Happy Year, and let's all make

a New Year's resolution to start tin se ideas rolling in.

OCTOBER 1954

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Supply Bureju

Community Services Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

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

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

Marine Bureau

Health Bureau

Transportation anJ Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 24

Disabling Injuries per 1,000.000 Man-Hours WorkeJ

( Frequency Rate)

O 10 20 30 40

20 30 40 50

Man-Hours Worked 2,342,600 LEGEM)

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

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

to: o:o. ;.| Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

PANAMA nStn CANAL

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed hy the Printing Plant Mount Mope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr.

Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

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Editorial Assistant

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Electrical Field Offices

Accepting Cash Payments

Arrangements have been made for persons who are entitled to Canal Zone

privileges, but who are not employees of the Panama Canal Company-Government

to pay cash for private appliance work at the Electrical Division Field Offices at the same time that they pick up their appliances, it has been announced by the

Electrical Division. The new system becomes effective December 1 in the Electrical Division

Field Offices, both in Balboa and Cristobal. Work done for Company-Government employees will continue to be charged by payroll deduction. The changes were made by the Electrical Division following the receipt of a number of complaints that the old system was inconvenient and time consuming. Customers were required to obtain a

receipt from the Field Office, take it to the nearest collection agency for payment

and then return to the Field Office with

the receipt to collect the appliance.

ELLIS L. FAWCETT, President of the Paraiso Civic Council and Chairman of the Congress of Local Rate Councils, drew the numbers last month at the Civil Affairs Building for the annual allocation of low numbers. E. L. Farlow, at the right, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Civil Affairs Director, holds plate No. 21 which went to Air Force Sgt. Earl Snell of Albrook Air Force Base. Over 1,500 appli- cations were received from Zonians who wanted low license numbers.

Plans are now being made for the inauguration of a First Aid Training Prog- ram designed to provide Company-Govern- ment employees with the minimum first aid training necessary to assist accident

victims. The program which was approved recently

by the Governor, calls for the selection by Bureau heads of Safety Inspectors and

additional personnel totaling approximately

28 Company-Government employees who

will participate in the 45-hour Standard Red Cross Instruction First Aid Course.

After taking this course, these employees will be classified as instructors and will then teach a standard six-hour first aid course to the following: All supervisors

(leaders and above), 10 percent of the remaining employees and all new employees working on a 40-hour week basis. The training of instructors and the

instruction of employees in the six-hour course will be on Company-Government

time and during regular working hours, if possible.

The program will be coordinated within

the Bureau by the Safety inspectors with

over-all Company-Government coordination by the Chief of the Safety Branch,

who will be in charge of arrangements for putting the pioposed program into operation.

The two-decked Panama Canal ferryboat

Presidente Porras, which is scheduled to make at least 32 special trips with tourists either north or south through Gaillard Cut

this winter, is having her face lifted. In addition to a complete overhaul of the loudspeaker system, the Presidente Porras

is being painted spanking white. Work was

started in November shortly after she was

taken off the Canal ferry run. The Presidente Porras, which can carry

as many as 500 visitors on each trip, will take the majority of the tourists who are expected to visit the Isthmus this winter on

the tour through the Cut. With the exception of the Olympia, a new

cruise ship of the Greek Line, all of the 40

or more cruise vessels due here during the dry-season months have visited the Canal

previously. They will carry from 250

passengers, the number expected aboard

the Patricia, clue here December 28, to a possible 1,500 aboard the giant French Line

cruise vessel lie de France, due December

30. The Nieuiv Amsterdam, luxury liner of the Holland-American Line, will lead the parade of cruise ships due in December. She is scheduled to arrive in Cristobal the morning of December 26 on a Christmas

cruise, with approximately 750 passengers. The Caronia. the air-conditioned Cunard

liner, will bring the season to a close in May

when she arrives in Balboa May 2 and

makes the Canal transit northbound follow- ing a cruise to the Far East.

Arrangements have been made for local- rate employees who work in the Pacific Locks or Gatun areas to cash their pay

checks in the Paraiso and Chagres Commissaries to the extent that funds are

available beyond the normal operating

requirements, effective with the pay week

of December 6. Previously this check cashing service was rendered by the Treasurer of the Panama Canal Company at the Pacific Locks on Tuesdays of the local-rate pay week and at the Gatun Railroad Station on Wednesdays of the local-rate pay week

Employees who work in these areas but

live elsewhere may find it more convenient

to cash their checks at the Canal Zone

Branch banks or at various places of busi- ness in Panama or Colon, it was pointed out.

Eighteen I'nited States Representatives have been visiting or are about to visit the Canal Zone during the current recess of Congress.

First to arrive was Walter M. Mumma,

Republican from Pennsylvania, who came November 10 aboard the SS Panama of the Panama Line and spent 10 days on the Isthmus inspecting various Canal organization activities. He returned to New York

November 20 aboard the SS Ancon. Other Congressmen who visited the Canal Zone during November were Representative Frank J. Becker, Republican from New

York; Representative Frank T. Bow,

Republican from Ohio; Representative James A. Byrne, Democrat from Pennsylvania; Representative DeWitt S. Hyde.

Republican from Maryland; Representative Lawrence H. Smith. Republican from

Wisconsin; and Representative Thomas B. Curtis, Republican from Missouri, all of whom arrived November 18 on the SS .1 neon accompanied by their wives. The following Congressmen and their w ives arrived November 24 aboard the SS

Cristobal: Representative Oakley Hunter. Republican from California; Representative Clarence J. Brown. Republican from

Ohio; Representative William R. Williams,

Republican from New York; Representative Paul B. Dague, Republican from

Pennsylvania; Representative William G. Wampler, Republican from Yirginia; Representative D. Bailey Merrill, Republican from Indiana; Representative Ernest K.

Bramblett. Republican from California; Representative Edward A. Garmatz, Democrat from Maryland and Representative

John M. Robsion, Jr., Republican from Kentucky.

Representative Leo O'Brien, Democrat

from New York, and Mrs. O'Brien were due to arrive from New York December 2 aboard the SS Panama and Representative

Samuel H. Friedel. Democrat from Maryland, and Mrs. Friedel are booked for a round-trip on the SS Ancon arriving in Cristobal December 8.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

YOUR TOWN

MAKCiAI'ITA today is a far cry from the town it many of the attractive quarters in thewas a decade ago. Shrubs and flowers now surround

newly-developed sections of the townsite.

A little over 15 years ago Margarita was only an expanse of rolling hills; unlike most Canal Zone communities its locale had not occupied even the most minute

niche in Isthmian history.

Today Margarita is potentially the

Atlantic side's major town, which may

outpace, in population and importance,

history-laden Cristobal. A year ago Governor Seybold told Civic Council

representatives that he foresees Margarita

eventually as the Balboa of the Atlanticside, under the growing conception of the Canal Zone as two large urban communities. Gradually Margarita is being devel- oped to meet this conception. The

long-desired swimming pool is now an item in a future budget; a deposit library was opened last summer as a branch of the Canal Zone Library; Margarita is the only Canal Zone community with two

elementary schools; and other changes to make the town into a modern major

community are still in the long-range

planning stage. Named For Island

Indirectly Margarita derived its name

from the little island which is now Fort Randolph, but where that island, originally known as Margarita, got its name

is lost in history. In 1917 a concrete road was built from

Fort Randolph to Mount Hope. People

had not yet gotten used to the new name

of Fort Randolph and the highway was commonly known as the Margarita Road

rather than as the Randolph Road.

That same year the Commissary Division established a hog farm "in the Mount

Hope district on a point on the new

Margarita Road;" the farm, quite naturally, was known as the Margarita Hog

Farm and its location is where Margarita now stands. The road to the Hog Farm led off Diversion Road about where present 5th

Street runs; for years after the farm was

abandoned (after an outbreak of hog

cholera in the late 1920's) this general

.as one of the most popular Lovers' Lanes on the Atlantic side.

During the decade between 1930 and

1940 a Panama Railroad conductor,

(!. G. Boynton -whose hobby was hunting—used one of the farm's old buildings

as a kennel for his dogs. His lease was

canceled in January 1939 when the Canal's Third Locks began to emerge

from the planning stage into a more

imminent reality.

Agua Clara Too Hilly

Since the Third Lock's largest single

project was to be the triple flight at Gatun, it was obvious that there would

have to be a settlement reasonably close by to house the construction forces. Gatun itself was not suitable but if the

terrain around Agua Clara had been more

to the engineers' liking, Margarita might

never have been developed.

It was not until April 1940 that the "Mount Hope area" in brackets was

added: [Margarita Hog Farm] -was recommended for the Atlantic side's new

townsite. It was more suitable, the

planners felt, than Agua Clara because

it was "oriented for the breeze, better adapted for road grades and building

sites, with more space for garages and

recreational areas." Furthermore, it would cost less to develop and be "more

suitable for a permanent future town." Four months later Margarita's first buildings were authorized; by Christ- mastime there were five families living in Margarita. Margarita's first resident was C. E. Borgis, a locomotive crane

operator with the Municipal Engineering

Division. The apartment into which he and his family moved on Christmas Eve

1940, is now occupied by Miss Mary L. Mehl, a second grade teacher at South

Margarita School. Firemen And Policemen

Fire and police protection for the vast array of construction equipment and material which was stacked everywhere was

a "must," so into Margarita's first four- family house moved two policemen,

Gaddis Wall and Isaiah A. MacKenzie,

and two firemen, Lt. W. E. Jones and

E. L. Cotton. Captain Wall now is in charge of Cristobal's detective force, Sergeant MacKenzie is retired, and

Captain Jones heads Balboa's fire district to which Lieutenant Cotton is assigned.

They set out to make other Margarita

pioneers feel welcome. Until the club- house kitchen was ready, bachelor Margaritans "messed" at the fire station. Behind the police station, on a little hill, whitewashed stone letters bade newcomers: "Welcome to Margarita, C.Z. Police." As Lieutenant Cotton recalls it, the

first Margaritans were a "good-natured

bunch" who made the best of the mud

and the board-walks, construction noises, and long hour's. Everything but the

sandflies. They were the plague of Margarita and not to be taken lightly.

Those first residents bought pyrethrum

in 10-pound bags and burned it in their houses, in bachelor quarters, and in such

public buildings as Margarita had. Eventually, as the town grew and new

insecticides were developed, sandflies be- came less of a pest but Margaritans today,

somewhat immune, still see an occasional

PALM trees, which border Margarita's civic center, were only a few feet tall 111 years ago. The post

office is on the far side of the parking lot; the commissary and service center face tun other sides; and

12-fatni!y quarters, the first to !«• occupied in Margarita, are on the fourth side.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

MARGARITA

FRANCES MOOMAW, Principal of South

Margarita School

nutlander guest slapping surreptitiously at legs or ankles. Town's First Party

By March 1941, Margarita was ready

for its first community affair; the location was the newly completed fire station. Some 200 Margaritans and friends turned

out for the party; it was supposed to last from 7 to 9 p. m., but was still going

strong at 3 a. m.

Margarita, in its early days, was a town divided by employers- spiritually

and physically. In one section, around

the present community center, were the homes of Third Locks people and a handful of others like the policemen,

firemen, clubhouse, and commissary

employees.

A short distance away, where the Church of the Holy Family and the Knights of Columbus Hall now stand, were the homes of the contractors' employees. They lived, for the most part,

in tiny pre-fabricated houses which

everyone called "doll-houses."

"I never saw anything grow like that Contractor s' area," Captain Wall says now. "For a while the doll-houses were

popping up faster than one a day." Years later some of the doll-houses were

sold to the Panama Cement Company;

0. .1. MARCEAU, Manager of Margarita

Service Center

LEALAND LARRISON' is Postmaster

for Margarita

they are still standing in the company's

little town just off the Boyd-Roosevelt

Highway near the cement plant.

Fast-Growing Town

Margarita grew fast, once it started. From a half a dozen families in December 1940, the population increased to

1,032, a fifth of them children, in 1943. Margarita had its own hospital, only

recently demolished, quarters for the

hospital staff, a commissary, clubhouse,

post office, gymnasium, elementary school and kindergarten. For years all construction halted at Espave—named for one of Panama's largest forest trees which

abound in this area—and 3d Streets. The exception was Ghost Hill on the high ground not far from Fort Gulick

where Lychee Street was built later. It was a smallish clearing, surrounded by

jungle, with a dozen or so houses, and a

lonely place to be on foot patrol at night,

Captain Wall remembers.

Although Margarita was definitely a construction town, it was fairly well- behaved. There were incidents, to be

sure, and some funny and unprintable

ones, but by and large there was remarkably little of people poking other people

in the nose or bottle parties which went

on to all hours. At first Margaritans had to go "to town" Cristobal or Colon for their

fun. Some of them belonged to the Progressive Dance Club which met regularly at the Hotel Washington. Then

came the still-flourishing Margarita Recreation Association which was the subject

of a Review story in June 1953 and which

has sponsored everything from dances to

picnics to hobby groups to Scout Shacks.

It once even had its own weekly newspaper, whose slogan was: "All the news

that fits we print."

With the cessation of the Third Locks

project, old Margaritans say, the town

"practically died." The contractors people packed up and went away; the Third Locks force was cut to a clean-up

squad. But Margarita's population in 1944 was 854, which doesn't sound very moribund.

It wasn't long before Atlantic siders began to see the advantages of suburban

living; despite gasoline rationing a shift

HELEN' RUSHING, Principal of North

Margarita School

in population from Cristobal to Margarita

began during the last of the war years. This was spurred still further in 1945 when 11 new two-story, two-family, houses were built in the Casuarina and

Hevea Place neighborhood.

New Quarters

When Margarita got its first on-the- ground masonry houses, in 1948, close to a thousand people turned out to inspect

them. The Chief Quartermaster, then

the Grand Mogul of Housing, later wrote

their occupants asking what they thought

of the new houses. Their replies were

highly complimentary.

In 1950 Margarita began to boom.

Barracks which had housed Third Locks

bachelors were demolished to make room

for Margarita's le-development. The

townsite was extended and new houses began to appear. The first of these were

occupied in October 1951. Today, Margarita is bounded, more or

less, by a horseshoe made up of Espave

and Margarita Avenues, on the east and

west. Its numbered streets run, also more or less, north and south. Margarita, which has little past, is a town with a future. It has the most modern elementary school building in the Canal Zone. Two churches (See page li)

E. T. HARPER. Manager of the Margarita

i iommissary
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Transportation and Terminals Engineering And Construction Personnel Bureau

The Panama Railroad really hod its hands

full «r should it be its curs full, passenger- during the first purl of November when

trans- Isthmian travel was heavy because oj Panama's National holidays. q„ \ i Ion Day, the Railroad

ried 1,818 passengers. Of these 1,404 were first class passengers- they included 2d4

military personnel and dependents per the

transport Gibbins and 3,414 were secondclass passengers.

• • • Tourist season always brings busy times

for the railroad and this year it got under way exceptionally early. On November 9, the Railroad handled a tourist special of

six coaches for 372 tourists from the SS

"Ryndam." They made the trip through

the Cut by boat, were delayed at Pedro

Miguel because of heavy rain, and arrived back at shipside at the Cristobal Docks

just 20 minutes before the 7 p. m. sailing time. • • •

There .ire, already, five tourist specials

lined up for December, all lor the end ol

the month. On the day after Christmas, Panama

Tours has reserved a special for approximately 400 tourists from the SS Nieitie Amsterdam and another two days later, on December 28, for about 200 tourists from

the Queen of Bermuda.

Persons Travel Bureau has two tour

parties on December 28, one for the SS

Patricia and the other for the SS Maasdum.

On December 30, Persons Travel Bureau

has lined up a special for approximately 350

tour'sts from the SS lie de France.

• • •

Pier 18 at Balboa is getting its face—well, anyway, its midsection —relifted. 'The' door of the center longitudinal bay

of the pier's covered section is brick paving,

set in coral fill on original ground. Over the vears this center bay has settled as much as two feet in some places, probably because of

the lateral movement of the supporting dirt. The floor system of the other covered bays and

the deck areas on each side of the covered area

is of concrete-beam-and-girder construction supported on concrete caissons. Since 1925, when the settlement became

troublesome, there have been scleral studies on corrective measures to be taken and several m hemes have been proposed. It has now been

decided to install a floating slab over the sunken midsection and then repair the settled concrete in the entranceway. The 'work is now being accomplished.

J

JOHN F. HERN

Mrs. lulu R. Driscoll, Assistant to the Personnel Director, has been granted a year's

lea r of absence and is now in the frilled

Si, ties for medical treatment. During her absence, ' ordon M. Prick will take over her

duties.

• • • New members of the Personnel Bureau

Include Mr-. Doris F. Schirmer, of Laguna

Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Doris M. Busse\,

ol Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. Schirmer is a Clerk-Typist in the Wage and Classification Division and Mrs. Bussey a Clerk-Stenou- rapher in the Employment Branch.

• • •

.1 nd two other members of the Personnel Bureau are leaiing soon. Mrs. Betty J. Thomas. Clerk-Stenographer in the office of

the Chief of the Employment and Utilization Division, will lea e soon with her husband, who is being reassigned to Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Bex., and Mrs. Shirley I. Shiiiu. Clerk- Typist in the Placemen! and Records

Branch, is also departing with her husband.

The Shinns will go to Fort Monmouth. X. J.

Marine Bureau

The U. S. Navy's net-tender, USS Hazel. was delegated to the Industrial Division

1,1-1 month for general overhaul, drydocking

ami alterations. This is one of the sizable jobs undertaken by this division this

fiscal vear.

Oilier Industrial Division work was the overhaul and drydocking of the tug Arrail,ni. which wax started during the month,

anil the redecking, drydocking, and general overhaul of the ferry President Roosevelt

• • •

Capt. John Andrews, Cristobal Port

I aptain. had a surprise last month. He was

nisi about to call it quits for the day, on

November 1", when some 4(1 employees and

friends converged on his office. The subse- quent rendition of " Happy Birthday" may

have left something to be desired, melodically

speaking, hut it was done with enough vigor

In make up for any lock of musical qualities. Snacks, and similar refreshments, took the place of the traditional birthday cake

• • • Charles T. Jackson, Jr., Administrative

Assistant in the office of the Marine Director, and his daughter, Marilyn Priscilla, almost 2, are having their annual problem

what to ask for for Christmas and what to ask for for their joint birthday. Christmas

and birthday being identical for both, they

occasionally feel that they are being short- changed.

John F. Hern, of the Roofing and Sheet Metal Shop of the Maintenance Division in Balboa, was receiving congratulations from

his friends and associates last month. He

had completed a course in Radio, Television,

and Electronics. His two years of work and his successful passing of all required examinations in this technical and practical course of study was

acknowledged by the National Schools, Los Angeles, with a letter of praise for his work. A diploma, of course, was sent by

the school.

• • • The craneboat Atlas which was placed in

a standbv reserve status and tied up at Gamboa last month, ended its working days

in a blaze of business. Not long before the craneboat went nut

of active sen ice, it carried 157 students and

teachers from the Dr. Belisario Porras School and 155 pupils and teachers from the Justo Arosemena School—both in the Republic of Panama—on a trip through

Gaillard Cut from Pedro Miguel Locks to

1 '.amboa.

• • • The tug "Culebra" also got into the

sightseeing business. The tug was used

to transport ib teachers rom the town of Nata on a trip through the Cut.

• • • The drill barge Vulcan went into operation the night of November 8 to drill pieces

of a large slab of rock which broke from the

face of Contractors Hill and fell into the west side of the Canal channel. This was

finished in eight davs but late in the month

the Vulcan was called out again to drill pieces from the second bank break ol the month.

• • • During November a number of get- togethers were held after work by Maintenance Division employees to say "Good

Luck" and "Bon Voyage" to three fellow workmen who were returning to the United States. Joseph Smith and Antone Long, both plumbers, had worked in the Northern

District; H. E. Filgren had been employed

in the Roofing and Sheet Metal Shop in the Southern District.

Community Services Bureau

Within a few days now Christmas decorations will be going up in the Tivoli Cues! House, Hotel Washington, and oilier units of the Service Center Division.

• • • The former town of Red Tank has become

a teakwood plantation. Over half of the vacated Red Tank townsite has now been

planted in teak trees about 750 of them - according to Walter R. Lindsay, Chief of the Grounds Maintenance Division, under

whose supervision the Experiment Gardens

at Summit have conducted local propagations of teak trees for a number of years. The teak, or tectoria grandis, is a native

of Southeastern Asia or Malaya, and due

to its fast growth it is planted in the tropics

for foresting and timber purposes.

• • • A small unit of the Service Center Division was opened last month at the Coco

Solo Hospital. It is located in the hospital annex, across the patio and to the rear of the hospital.

Itemx available there are magazines and

such merchandise as toilet articles, cigarettes. Hot and cold sandwiches, desserts, and hot and cold beverages are also sold.

• • •

Special Christmas dinners will be served

at the Tivoli Guest House, the Hotel Washington, and the various Service Centers. The managers will be glad to give information as to time and price.

For those who prefer to stay at home for their holiday dinners but who dislike the

idea of "standing over a hot stove," the Guest House, Washington, and Service Centers effer a turkey-roasting service.

It includes stuffing the beast, too.

Supply Bureau

Mel, 111 Bierman, 'Traffic Engineer, returned

recently from Kansas City, Mo., where he attended the annual meeting of the Institute

of Traffic Engineers. Phi 450 people who

attended Hie Institute represented 35 stales,

the District of Columbia, Canada, ami

England.

He reported that technical sessions and

shop talk kept them busy during the daytime

hilt that in the eienings social activities eliminated all thoughts of speeds, volumes. and accidents.

Paul II. Friedman, Assistant Director of

the Supply Bureau, combined business and

pleasure on a recent trip to the States. For

the last week of his stay he was on duty

with the New York Office of the Panama

Canal Company.

• • • Thomas G. Retiltan, formerly manager of

the Wholesale Drygoods Department of the Commissary Division, has assumed the duties of Superintendent of the General

Products Branch, a position formerly held by

Furl C. Tare, who retired September 30. Mr. Relihan is being replaced by Vincent

I. 1 1 uber. who has assumed the duties of Acting Manager of the Wholesale Drygoods

Department.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Governor-President's Office

The story of the Panama Canal, with emphasis on the safety angle, was given a prominent play in the October issue of National Safety News, copies of which

reached the Canal Zone last month.

Unsafe practices were plentiful and

protective equipment scarce during the

construction days, the lengthy story re- ported. From 1904 to the end of the

construction period in 1914, accidental deaths totaled 1,219. This contrasts sharply with modern safety days, for in the

13-year period from 1940 through 1953, there was a total of 127 deatl'^. "The Safety Story of the Panama Canal. 'The Land Divided and the World United,"

"

is illustrated with seven pictures, including an aerial view of Miraflores locks, pictures taken during locks overhaul, and several construction-day photographs.

All matters dealing with military personnel attached to the Canal organization are now being handled by Maj. David Smith,

Military Assistant to the Governor.

Another step toward modernization and

efficiency was taken by the Administrative Branch last month when it abolished the

spittoons which for 35 years had cluttered the floor of its big office on the second floor of the Balboa Heights Administration

Building. This decision was reached only after a survey revealed that there has been a marked decline in the number of employees

who chew tobacco or use snuff.

• • • The French Ambassador to Panama,

Monsieur Lionel ]'asse, and Madame Vasse were conducted on a tour of Contractors Hill

last last month by the 1 overnor's Military

Assistant. The French Ambassador remarked that work was certainly progressing more

rapidly than in the days when the French were working in the same general location with pick and shovel.

Office Of The Comptroller

Russell E. George, Bennett J. Williams,

and Robert F. Roche, all of the Payroll

Branch, took part in the Panama Marlin Club Tournament at Pinas Bay last month. They boated a total of eight sailfish and

raised three marlin on the nine-day trip. Of course you should have seen the ones

that got away!

• • • Appraisal Staffers never do things by

halves; sometimes they do them by doubles,

so no one was too much surprised when Bruce

• laze reported in with news of twin boys, Allan and Keith, 5 pounds and 9 ounces and 5 pounds, respectively. ! nry, 12, and

Brenda, 8, thought the idea of two brothers

at once a fine one.

• • • One of the Canal Zone's Barbershop

Quartets has become a trio with the departure of Daniel Slater, of the Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff. He and

his family left recently to make their home

in Texas. ^

4%k» #'4^ *%*** <"^t*-^1^* &&**

Christmas Coming?

What about gift subscriptions

to The Panama Canal Review

as presents for friends and family

in the States?

Make out your lists and send

them, together with $1 Money

Order (payable to the Treasurer,

Panama Canal Company) for

each subscription to the Editor,

The Panama Canal Review,

Balboa Heights.

An attractive gift card bearing

your name will be sent to each

of those persons to whom your

subscriptions are to go.

Civil Affairs Bureau Health Bureau

JACK F. MORRIS, sergeant of the Canal Zone

Police, takes notes as a technician in the FBI national laboratory examines a suspected murder weapon for bloodstains. Sergeant Morris was a member of the 54th Session <>f the FBI National Academy from

which he was graduated November Id.

Two Canal Zone Fire Division officials, (apt. Arthur J. Troup and Capt. William

E. Jones, received high honors from the Republic of Panama on November 28, Panama's Bomberos' Day.

Captain Troup, Chief of the Fire Division, was presented with the Golden Medal of Panama, and Captain Jones, District Commander of the Balboa Fire District, with

the Silver Medal. The medals were pre- sented in recognition of assistance and aid rendered Panama's Fire Corps.

Captain Troup has just finished 30 years

service with the Canal organization and

Captain Jones is in his 26th year. The Panamanian awards were made during an official reception which was arranged under the direction of Comandante Raul Arango of the Cuerpo de Bomberos.

Ft. Ernest F. Cotton of the hire Division

attended a Civil Defense Fire Conference in Atlanta, Co., early last month. Later he made a quick trip to Rock Stream. Y. 1"., to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frnest C. Cotton, former Zonians. Mr. Cotton. Sr., who retired two years ago

after many years service with the Mount Hop?

Printing Plant, is well known also tinder the pen name of Doc Atmy, Jr., under which he wrote sport news for years.

The shops at the Canal Zone Penitentiary

are beginning to resemble Santa's workshop. Convicts, who have won the privi- lege through good behaviour, are sawing,

hammering, painting, and otherwise fashioning colorful toys for Christmas distribution to poor and needy children on the Isthmus. Under the supervision of Police- man Karl D. Glass, they are making dolls, wagons, toy animals, jigsaw puzzles, fire engines, and numerous other articles. The project is part of the penitentiary's

rehabilitation program; this is its third year. Materials for the toys are bought with money from the Convicts Welfare Fund or are received from donations from residents

of Panama and the Canal Zone.

For those Zonians who want to be sure that their mail is delivered in the United

States before Christmas Day, December 3

is the latest date for mailing cards and

packages by ship mail. Ship mail posted

by December 10 may reach its destination

in time, provided it does not get caught in a bottleneck in one of the large U. S. cities. Air-mail cards and packages should be

posted in the Canal Zone not later than December 17, to insure Christmas delivery.

Mrs. Marion 1 >. Wells, of Balboa, is presently serving as secretary in the office of the Chief, Postal, Customs, and Immigration Division, during the absence on leave of Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson.

Dr. John IF. Gayles, a former member of

the Colon Hospital medical staff, is expected

to return to the Isthmus this month to join

the staff of the Coco Solo Hospital. He was

employed by the Health Bureau in 1949 and

1950, and since that time has been practicing medicine in Texas. A native of Fort Worth, he is a graduate

of Southern Methodist University and of Baylor Medical College. He served in the Army during World War II, from 1944 to l»4o. Mrs. Gayles and their two young

daughters will accompany him to the Canal

Zone.

• • • Nurses are now on duty in the emergency room attached to the Receiving Desk at Gorgas Hospital, and in all the Gorgas

Hospital out-patient clinics. Within the near future nurses will also be assigned to the emergency room attached to the Receiving Desk at Coco Solo Hospital.

• • • Two new clerks, one of whom worked for the Canal organization previouslv, have

been employed in the Admitting Office at Gorgas Hospital. They are Reginald

Hayden, formerly a clerk with the Personnel Bureau and the Administrative Branch, and

Mrs. Maureen Picard-Ami, whose husband,

Dr. Luis Picard-Ami is an intern on the Gorgas Hospital staff.

• • • Dr. Amadeo Mastellari is back on the job as Chief of the Chest Service at Corgas Hospital after a trip to Europe. He attended two medical conferences on tuberculosis, held

in Spain. One of the conferences was in Madrid and the other in Barcelona.

The basketball season of the Canal Zone

schools got off to a fast start with the opening game on November 23 between Junior

College and Cristobal High School. Basketball will be the game until mid-January,

when it will be replaced with dry season's

baseball.

• • • The Canal Zone Museum recently received three very interesting historical

articles from Frank I. Clark, of Wabash,

Ind. Mr. Clark, who is a retired employee, gave the Museum a briquette of test concrete from Miraflores and Pedro Miguel

Locks; the commission, signed by President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, miking David

Marks a member of the Joint Land Commission; and a United States passport issued to Mr. Marks in 1913. The articles, whose presentation was made through

arrangement of Fred deV. Sill, are now

on display.

• • • Alumni '36 of the La Boca Alumni

Association are sponsoring a series of inter- esting lectures on cultural topics, presented

by different speakers each month. October's speaker was Dr. Rodolfo Y. Young of Gorgas Hospital, who addressed the group

on the subject of tuberculosis. On November 28 a special program of Thanksgiving music was given at the Pacific- Service Center for the benefit of the Chorrillo fire victims. The program was pre- sented by the La Boca Alumni Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Emily Butcher.

Alfred C. Bushell, secretary of Alumni

'36, and an employee of the Canal Zone

Library, has announced that because of the

holidays there will be no program in December. In January, at a date to be announced

later, Frank Wilder of the Internal Security

Branch, will talk on Communism.

Motion pictures on the subject of each month's talk, supplied by the United States Information Service, accompany each

program.

The Corozal elementary school, one of the first to be opened in the Canal Zone, was closed in November, 1915.

In December, 1904, the Canal force totaled 5,500 employees.

The United States District Court at Ancon moved into its present building

in February, 1916.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Forty Years Ago School Patrols Top Space Patrols

In November In Minds Of Canal Zone's Students

Although slides had halted Canal

traffic twice in a period of less than a month, the number of ships which transited and the amount they paid in tolls increased monthly. Tolls, since the Canal had been opened on August 15, passed the $1 million mark on November

is. in years ago. The total tonnage

since the Canal was opened was also over

the million mark.

[ccordinq to The Canal Record, (jrain from North Pacific ports of the United

States to Europe had so far made up the

largest single item of cargo carried through

thi' Canal. < >irr five million bushels of

barley and wheat had transited aboard 17

ships. The next most frequently carried cargo icas nitrates from the West Coast of South America.

The 250-ton crane Ajax, which had

been built in Germany, towed across the

Atlantic and assembled in the Canal

Zone, was placed in service in November

l')14. Its first job was removal from the Canal of the hull of the drill barge

Teredo, which had been sunk in an

explosion in July.

DENNIS HHADSHAW, Ancon School sixth grader, is on patrol duty when Ancon students make the

daily trip to the Tivoli Guest House for lunch.

Outside of being an engineer on the Panama Railroad or perhaps a pilot of a

jet plane, the position most coveted by

Canal Zone Elementary School children Your Town—Margarita

STARFORD I. CHURCHILL and Lt. JAMES BAKTLKTT head Margarita's fire-fighting force.

m Pagi 9) serve Margarita and land has been assigned for three others. The Elks and the Knights

of Columbus have their own buildings,

as do the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Atlantic Side Saddle Club, the Brazos Rrook Country Club, the Cristobal dun Club, and the Colon Humane

Society's kennels are practically next door.

Its Civic Council, consolidated with

that of Cristobal, is an ardent advocate of Margarita's progress. One of its latest

ts is a Teenage Club, in a building

recently assigned by the Governor. It

is being refurbished by the youngsters and some parents and will be run by the

teenagers, with a Civic Council committee standing ready to give advice,

when asked. Margarita's town Hallowe'en parties are famous and its Fourth of July cele^ bration serves the people of the Atlantic

side. Its town spirit has kept pace with

its growth. One old-time Margaritan

has a peculiar thermometer for both. "See those palm trees," he said the other day, "they were not over a couple

of feet high when I came here 14 years

ago. Now some of them are topping 30

feet. That's the way Margarita has grown, too."

these days is that of School Safety

Patrolman.

These young men -and young women—who wear Sam Browne belts and

safety patrol arm bands occupy a position

of trust and responsibility. They must come to school early. They have a short lunch hour and stay at school longer than

their classmates in the afternoon, but they

love it, and they take their duties

seriously.

Working as a group, sometimes under

the leadership of a captain and a lieu- tenant, the patrolmen must learn the

safety rules of the school and have a general knowledge of the Canal Zone

traffic regulations. At no time are they

supposed to leave the curb and step into the street. On busy corners, they assist the Canal Zone police officers who are on duty to direct traffic.

Special Duties

Special duties, such as the patrol of the

street corners to be crossed by the Ancon

Elementary School children who go to the Tivoli Guest House for lunch, have

been worked out by the various schools

as the need arises. Sometimes they are given jobs as ushers at school functions,

monitors during fire drills, or safety

guards at the playgrounds during recess. In most schools, the members of the Safety Patrol are chosen by the teachers and the principal from pupils in the

fourth, fifth, and sixth grades on the

basis of scholarship, behavior, and on

all-around good citizenship. In some of the schools, the patrol members are

selected by the students themselves. The number of patrolmen at each

school is governed by the size of the

school and the number of safety hazards which exist in the area. AAA Backs Patrols The Balboa Elementary School, for instance, has an enrollment of more than

1,000 children and is situated near busy

street corners. The school has 14 patrol- men, headed by a captain and a lieu- tenant, each of whom serve a one-month

tour of duty during the school year. The Cristobal Elementary School, on

the other hand, has hardly any traffic problems and uses only four patrolmen.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

ANNIVERSARIES

SENIORITY of one day puts Alton White, Chief of the Canal's Dredging Division, at the head of this month's list of anniversaries. His service date is November 1 1, 1924, a day ahead of that of James

B. Crane, who, in turn, is senior to Joseph

E. Moore by one day. Along with George

A. Wills, they completed 30 years of Government service in November.

Born in Pascagoula, Miss., Alton White

grew up in the Canal Zone and went through

elementary and high school here. His first Canal job was as a helper in the Mechanical

Division. He joined the Dredging Division

as ,i recorder in 1925 and moved up steadily

in thai organization, which he has headed

for four years. As Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Community Chest

he has been much in the public eye recently.

James B. Crane, another 30-year man in November, was a Bostonian and is now a Quarantine Inspector with the Navigation

Division. Most of his Government service was « iih the Navy; he was a Chief Pharmacist's Mate for 21 years. Later he worked

with Navy Public Works and joined the Canal organization in 1948. Joseph E. Moore, whose service with the Panama Canal is continuous, comes from

Dallas, Tex. He has worked at many of the Canal Clubhouses, now Service Centers, and is presently a relief manager. His

present assignment is Gamboa.

Like Mr. Crane, George A. Wills is a Massachusetts man; he comes from Revere. Now a supervisor in sheet metal work for the Maintenance Division, (Sei page 14) Ten Years Ago

In November

In the humorous side of the news, three high school boys stole the rope from the Administration Building's flagpole so that they could ring the school bell— considered a great feat in those days. It wasn't so funny when they icere fined $10 each.

Don 't go on States vacation unless you

are certain of transportation back, Governor J. C. Mehaffey told Zonians, in

effect. In more formal language in a general memorandum, he warned that transportation was still difficult to obtain and added; "There will be no priorities

(for Canal employees) and vacations will be extended only when the continued absence of the employee will not adversely

affect the operations in which he is engaged."

Zonians were also affected by other wartime measures, 10 y.-ars ago last month.

All air-mail packages had to be inspected

before mailing, to detect any explosive,

inflammable, or other unmailable matter;

a practice alert brought out all C. Z. civil defense workers and put the military on an

alert status; Air Force planes bombed Balboa, but their missiles were facsimile U. S. Savings Bonds advertising the start of the Sixth War Loan Drive.

Twenty-six local-rate families moved

into the newly reopened town of Paraiso during November 1944. Paraiso, which

dated back to construction days, had

been used by the Army as a post dining most of the World War II years; it had

been returned to the Canal, for use as a

civilian community, earlier in 1944.

IF YOU HAVEN'T, most of your Christmas shopping done by now, you're just like the rest of us. So here goes with the annual roundup of suggestions for gifls for him and her and them.

Bui before we start, let's talk about a few very special items. First, did you ever heat

of Advent calendars? Made abroad, they are slreel scenes, church exteriors, etc., on heavy cardboard. Windows and doors are numbered for ihe days between December 1 and Christmas Day. Each day you open one and see what's inside, with the Chrislmas Day

window having the besl display of all. If they delight your youngsters as much as they

delighted ihe commissary people who ordered them you should enioy this holiday season. The calendars will be in the stores any time now and will be 50 cenls or less. Anc thsr nostalgic item is what are known as 'filling toys." They are hollow cardboard

Sanlas or snow men or skiers, or what-have-you. Concealed in their bases is space to fill with gumdrops or somelhing cf the sort. They'll be 20 to 70 cenls each. And finally: How silly can you gel? The commissaries have ladies' pipes, but not ihe

kind Mammy Yokum smokes. Called Lady Medico, the pipes sell for $1.45 each, or $3.65

for a set which has a zippered pouch and fillers, along with the pipe.

And now down to business: FOR HIM

Under $5: Alligator billfolds, keycases, or belt;, made from Panama's own "caimanes," Hickok jewelry, like very modern-looking tie bars and cufflinks, and handsome diamondshaped pearl studs,- brush-kils, which are a good stiff clothesbrush wilh a zippered top which

holds a razor, nailfile, comb, toothbrush along with lillle tubes of shaving cream and tooth- paste, sleeveless orlon sweaters, in a variety of good looking colors like green heather,

for instance.

$5 to $10: Camisilla jackets, which some people call guayaberas, made in Panama,

about $5.95, new and striking Arrow shirts, like "Collectors' Items," handscreened prints inspired by famous architectural motifs, a Venetian Lion is one; or "Key West," which is a blend of silk and acetate in a nubbly weave and properly manly colors; travel alarm clocks; bar accessories,- Ronson cigarette lighters; golf bags, and smoking stands. $10 and up: Cashmere sweaters, long-sleeved pullovers for $19.75, or sleeveless,

but also pullovers, $15.25; fishing rods and reels,- Thermos ice pails,- Benrus watches,- Hamilton-Beach mixers —and if you ihink thal's a sissy present, just gel him one and see what he

whips up; Sunbeam electric razors, luggage, and, if you really wanl to go all out, combination radio-phonographs or record players.FOR HER

Under $5: Can-can petticoats, black, with ruffles edged in rose and pink, or white, wilh pink and blue-green edged flounces, $3.35; Seam-Prufe petlicoals of nylon tricot, in while with red ruffles, also $3.35; acetate pajamas, |usl the ihing for the teenage girl, in misses sizes—one of them has a mandarin collai, and is prinled all over with fan; and butterflies, $2.75; small clutch bags wi.h compact, comb, and mirror, some in satin, others in velvet or suede, $2.75 to $4.65, lace-lrimmed chiffon evening handkies, 80 cents to $1.50.

$5 to $10: All kinds of nylon tricot lingerie, like gowns, trimmed with lace or embroid- ered chiffon, in while and pink, $5.50 to $8.95,- dress-length nighties, made by Mo|ud of nylon tricot, in colors like Blue Heaven, Sea Spray, or Petal Pink, $4.75 to $7.25, "shorlie" gowns, lace trimmed on an all-over flower print, $5.45; dusters, which wouldn't shed a bit of dust but which would make a gal look mighty glamorous at the bieakfast table (they are

short housecoats without buttons), of nylon chiffon, wilh lace or ruffle trim, $7.95 to $8.95, mesh bags, $6.95 up, electric travel irons; Lady Buxlon wallets (some of these are under

$5, too) $10 and up: Radios, for use beside her bed, or anywhere else she wants; Benrus watches; electric frying pans,- Sunbeam toasters,- vacuum cleaners; silver services for coffee

or tea/ waffle irons, now known as "Waffle-Bakers/' automatic electric irons, plated and

sterling silverware. FOR THEM

Under $5: Simon & Schuster's Golden Bocks for children, like the "Book of Trains," the "Make-It Book, 75 cents to $3.75,- gift-boxed, Cannon and Dundee towel sets, some cf them with brilliants set in, and they aren't supposed to scratch a bit, Ronson and Zippo

lighters, flashlights, gadget bags, liquor sets,- cutlery sets; boudoir lamps,- piclure frames;

glass punch sets; open stock English lead crystal. $5 to $10: Cannon sheet and pillowcase sets—one set has a pastel green sheet, double-bed size, with a flowered border and matching, flower-sprinkled pillowcases,

$7.25,- smoking stands, triple-layer vanadium stainless steel cooking utensils, hassocks, steak

sets; table lamps with shades; Haeger pottery; Imperial candlewick glassware; copperbottom Revere-ware. $10 and up: All sorts of electric equipment for a kitchen, dinner sets, Heywood-Wakefield maple furniture, lawn chairs, wool-rayon rugs; pressure cookers; and, for a luxury present that really is one: Bates Heirloom bedspreads, in the Queen Elizabeth pattern which defies this column's power of description but which looks as if it were embossed, in white, aqua, soft yellow, and other muled colors, twin or double bed size, at about $25 each.

sworn into the Army,

rank of Colonel.

They received the

At a ceremony at Quarry Heights, Frank

H. Wang, the Canal's Executive Secretary, and L. W. Lewis, Chief Quartermaster, were

Another military item was the an- nouncement that former Gov. G. E. Edgerton had been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service

in a position of great responsibility from

July 11, 1940 to April 19, 1944." The

dates were those of his tour of duty as Governor of The Panama Canal.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

ANNIVERSARIES

October 15 Through November 15

Employees who were promoted or transferred between October 15 and November

IS are listed below. Regradings and within- grade promotions are not listed. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Sidney Temple, from Housing Management Aid, Housing Division, to File Clerk. Records Section.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Elvis H. Robsrtson, from Guard, Atlantic Locks, i" Fireman, Fire Division. Mrs. Frances E. Huber, Mrs. Elizabeth

B. Keigley, from Substitute Teacher to Kin- dergarten Assistant, Division of Schools. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Leo L. Presho, from Tabulating Machine

Operator to Tabulating Machine Operation

Supervisor, Payroll Branch.

Adelia J. Shacklett, from Clerk-Typist, Central Typing and Clerical Unit, to Accounting Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch.

Ira N. C. Reed, from Supervisory Accounting As-.isiant, Gorgas Hospital, to Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Accounting

1 )i\ ision. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Louis H. Charles, from Painter Foreman.

Maintenance Division, to Construction

Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division. William F. Bartholomew, from Chief

Senior Engineer, Craneboat Atlas, to Chief

Engineer, Pipeline Suction Dredge, Dredging Division. Mrs. Carol G. Rigby, from Clerk-Typist

to Clerk (Typist), Electrical Division. Glenn H. Burdeck, from Clerk (Typist)

to Clerical Assistant. Electrical Division. Frederick S. Baumbach, from Painting

Supervisor to Painter Foreman, Maintenance Division. Everette N. Clouse, Combination Welder, from Maintenance Division to Dredging

Division. Mrs. Lorine C. Meyer, from Clerk. Maintenance Division, to Accounting Clerk, Water and Laboratories Branch. Henry T. Carpenter, from Construction and Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance

Division, to Maintenance Foreman, Coco

Solo Hospital. Leon M. Warren, Architectural Engineer, from Maintenance Division to Engineering

Division. Daniel M. Eggleston, from Planning

Engineer, Office of Engineering and Construction Director, to Assistant to Designing Engineer, Engineering Division. Nelson E. Wise, from Assistant to Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Division,

to Planning Engineer, Office of Engineering

and Construction Director. Charles J. Connor, from Foreman, Pipeline Suction Dredge to Drill Barge Master, Dredging Division. Slaughter H. Sharpensteen, from Towing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks, to

Drill Runner, Dredging Division. Victor C. Melant, from Accounting Clerk

to Drill Runner, Dredging Division. Walter W. Carlson, from Guard Supervisor to Drill Barge Blaster. Dredging

Division. Claud M. Kreger, from Pump Operator,

Pipeline Suction Dredge, to Drill Runner,

I Iredging l)i\ ision. HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Ellen F. Husum, Clerk-Typist, from

Office of Health Director to Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Vivian E. Zimmerman, from Kindergarten Assistant, Division of Schools, to Medical X-ray Technician, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Rosamond T. Doran, from Commissary Checker, Commissary Division, to Clerk, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Mary C. Robertson, from Usher and

Ticket Seller, Service Center Division, to Clerk, Coco Solo Hospital. Mrs. Leah H. Blakeley, from Steward

(Trainee), Service Center Division, to Supervisory Steward, Coco Solo Hospital.

Richard O. Burgoon, from Accountant,

Internal Audit Staff, to Hospital Administrative Assistant, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Lynda Q. Bailey, from ClerkTypist, Atlantic Medical Clinics, to Clerk, Coco Solo Hospital. Mrs. Allene Cassell, Clerk, from Atlantic Medical Clinics to Coco Solo Hospital. Mrs. Anita B. Collins, from Clerk-Typist, Coco Solo Hospital, to Clerk, Atlantic Medical Clinics. MARINE BUREAU

Curtis L. Mullins, Elwood E. Compton,

Irom Tractor-Bulldozer Operator, Mainte- nance Division, to Towing Locomotive

Operator, Pacific Locks. Glenn E. Storm, from Plumber, Mainte- nance Division, to Towing Locomotive

Operator, Pacific Locks. Joseph D. Foulkes, from Towing Loco- motive Operator, Atlantic Locks, to Dock

Foreman, Navigation Division. Richard L. Pennington, from Lock Operator (Machinist), Atlantic Locks, to Tool- maker, Industrial Division. SUPPLY BUREAU

Norbert M. Shommer, from Accountant

to Supervisory Accountant, Commissary

Division. George H. Sanford, from Supervisor to General Foreman, Duplicating Unit. Mrs. Gladysteen D. Renfroe, from Card

Punch Supervisor to Tabulating Machine

Operator, Division of Storehouses. Mrs. Helen T. Bradley, from Clerk to Tabulating Machine Operator, Division of Storehouses. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

William R. Dixon, from Auto Repair Machinist to Motor Transportation Supervisor, Motor Transportation Division. William H. Gonzalez, from Combination

Welder. Dredging Division, to Guard,

Terminals Division.

DECEMBER SAILINGS

From Cristobal Panama.- ..December 4 Ancon December 11 Cristobal . December I 7 Panama.- .December 24 From New York

Ancon ..December 2 Cristobal - - December 9 Panama. December 16 Ancon ..December 23

Cristobal - . December 30

(Southbound the Haiti stop is from about

7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Monday; northbound,

the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Monday.)

NOVEMBER RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

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

together with their birthplaces, titles, length

of Canal service, and future addresses: Mrs. Mabel D. Andrews, Indiana; ClerkTypist, Gorgas Hospital; 26 years; 7 months

1 day; Yershire, N. 11. Edward W. Schnake, Illinois; Electrical Supervisor, Mirallores Locks; 33 years,' 7 months, 6 days; Houston, Tex.

(Continued from page 1,1) he was with Iiast Coast Navy yards before he came to the Canal Zone in 1948 to work for the Construction Quartermaster.

All but one of November's six 25-year

employees have continuous service with the Canal organization.

Alphabetically, they are: Frank A. Dorgan, a native of New Jersey, a Lock- master at Gatun ; Anna M. Jackson, once an Empire Stater, now a Cardpunch Operator

with the Payroll Branch; Helen E. King,

formerly of Greensburg, Pa., one of Gorgas

Hospital's Nurse Supervisors; Ella L. Pease, Iowa-born Library Assistant at the main Library; and Ralph E. Shuey, who

comes from Kansas and is now Clerk-in- Charge at the Balboa Post Office. November's other 25-year employee, is Francis W. Hickey, whose birthplace was

Scranton, Pa. and who is steam engineer on a locomotive crane at the Division of Storehouses.

Seven employees completed 20 years of Government service in November.

Four of them have unbroken Canal

service: Ralph E. Harvey, Fiscal Accountant,

Agents Accounts Branch; Robert S. Herr,

Principal Review Clerk, Postal Service; Lester L. Largent, Police Lieutenant on duty at Gamboa Penitentiary; and Mary J. Yaeger, Accounting Clerk, Fiscal Division. Mrs. Yaeger is a true Zonian; she was born

at Gorgona.

Also completing 20 years of service in November were: Leo Chester, Filtration Plant Operator with the Maintenance Division; James A. Mable, Lock Operator- Machinist at Miraliores; and Frank J. McLeod, who. like Mr. Chester, is one of the Maintenance Division's Filtration Plant Operators.

F"ive of November's 15-year employees

went to work for the Canal organization on

t he same day, November 2, 1939. They are: Clyde S. La Clair, Official Photographer; James D. MacLean, a wireman with the Dredging Division; Albert Saarinen, Construction Inspector with Contracts and

Inspection; Burman S. Spangler, a Planing Mill Foreman with the Industrial Division, and Daniel J. Sullivan, Operator Foreman Mechanic with the Power Branch

of the Electrical Division. Other 15-year employees whose Canal

service is continuous are: Charles P. Barton, a construction engineer on the Contractors Hill project; John R. Hammond, Jr., Supervisory Mechanical

Engineer in the Engineering Division; Samuel J. Garriel, Plumber. Maintenance

Division; Willie J. Hatchett, Machinist at Mirarlores Locks; Howard R. Johnson, one

of the Canal's pilots; Edward W. MacKenzie

Chief Towboat Engineer with the Navigation Division; Norbert H. McCauley,

Budget Analyst with the Executive Plan- ning Staff; John G. McKenna, Cribtender Foreman, Terminals Division; Harold W.

Meyer, Painter Foreman with the Maintenance Division; Clarence E. Priest, Police- man in the Balboa Distrkt; John F. Shannon, Principal Foreman, Maintenance Division; James E. Stearns, Cristobal High

School Teacher; Stuart Wallace, a Claims

Examiner with the Fiscal Division; and

Milton H. Wright, Motor Boat Mainte- nance Mechanic. Navigation Division. Employees who completed 15 years, but whose Canal service is not continuous are: Roger W. Adams, Superintendent, Motor

Transportation Division; Frank J. Brennan, Electric Welder. Industrial Division; Raymond G. Bush, Supervisory Sanitation

Inspector, Sanitation Division: Henry C. DeRaps, Police Sergeant. Cristobal District; Robnett B. Elliff, Steam Engineer,

Terminals Division; Dorcas W. Gregory,

Elementary School Teacher; Robert C. Herrington, Construction Equipment Operator, Maintenance Division; Fred W. Lawrence, Sanitary Engineer, Maintenance

Division; George H. Moore, Payroll Supervisor, Payroll Branch; Glenn D. Redmond,

Electric Welder, Industrial Division; John

H. Stevens, Procurement Officer, Commissary Division; and Delaplaine A. Waddell,

Jr., Policeman, Cristobal District.
December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

New York Leads List Of 48 States

As Residence For Canal Employees

WHERE do Zonians come from? This map shows, by areas, places of actual residence. The highest

percent, 22.14, come from the middle Atlantic States. New York State leads all 48 states with 396 Zonians.

If figures mean anything—and there

are those who think they do—one might

deduce that the people of Utah like to stay home and that the people of New

York State don't. Of course it could be

that there are considerably fewer people

in Utah to start with than there are in New York, which would be one reason why 396 Company-Government employees come from New York and only one from Utah.

Figures compiled by the Personnel Bureau as to the place of actual residence

at the time of their employment of 3,035

Canal employees show that New York

State heads the list of the 48 states, with Utah bringing up the rear. New York, together with the other North Atlantic States -- Connecticut,

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont,

New Hampshire, and Maine—accounts

for the home locations of 20.79 percent

of Canal employees.

The Middle Atlantic States, marked

together on the accompanying map, are the places of actual residence of 22.14 percent of employees. In descending

order, by percentages, are the East Central States, 15.19 percent; South and

Gulf States, 11.3 percent; Pacific Coast

States, 10.08 percent; South Atlantic

States, 9.42 percent; West Central

States, 7.48 percent; Rocky Mountain

States, 3.06 percent; and the territories, 0.53 percent. These last are Puerto

Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Virgin

Islands. The 48 States, and the number of employees for which they are the actual

place of residence, follow in alphabetical

order: Alabama, 52; Arizona, 15; Arkansas,

15; California, 238; Colorado, 28; Connecticut, 34; Delaware, 8; District of Columbia, 75; Florida, 134; Georgia, 68; Idaho, 9; Illinois, 117; Indiana, 48; Iowa,

46; Kansas, 13; Kentucky, 48; Louisiana,

71; Maine, 30; Maryland, 63; Massachusetts, 135; Michigan, 43; Minnesota, 43;

Mississippi, 53; Missouri, 53; Montana,

19; Nebraska, 16; Nevada, 3; New

Hampshire, 8; New Jersey, 183; New

Mexico, 12; New York, 396; North

Carolina, 61; North Dakota, 8; Ohio,

120; Oklahoma, 40; Oregon, 26; Pennsylvania, 227; Rhode Island, 22; South

Carolina, 23; South Dakota, 4; Tennessee,

49; Texas, 112; Utah, 1; Vermont, 6; Virginia, 116; Washington, 42; West Virginia, 36; Wisconsin, 44; and Wyoming, 6.

Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone

To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20

(Continued from page 1) the members

of the combined high school bands and

choruses who made the recording, will appear on the stage and present additional Christmas music selections. Meanwhile, students of all the Canal Zone schools are making plans to sing the

traditional Christmas carols and present

the traditional Christmas pageants in the various auditoriums and school grounds

during the week preceeding the holidays.

These programs will begin as early as December 16 when the Balboa Junior

High School Orchestra and Glee Club

will give a concert at 7 p. m. in the upper Balboa Gymnasium.

The Rainbow City Junior and Senior

High Schools will present their program

of Christmas music December 18 at

7 p. m. in the Rainbow City Gymnasium;

the La Boca High School program is planned for December 20 at 7:30 p. m., under the La Boca High School Building.

The Balboa High School will have its annual program of choral and instru- mental Christmas music on the steps of the High School building December 21 at

7 p. m. and on the Atlantic side, the Cristobal High School plans a two-part

program for 7:30 on the evening of December 22, to be held in the auditorium

and on the lawn of the school building.

The younger school children are planning their own program : of pageants and

songs to be given the week before Christ- mas in the classrooms of the elementary

grades of the Canal Zone schools. Parents and friends are invited to attend. Decorations Everywhere

A typical Christmas on the Isthmus

touch will be the annual holiday greetings

given by the employees of the Locks

Division to the ships passing through the Canal. As in other years, the personnel of both

the Atlantic and Pacific Locks are planning special decorations for the control

towers, Christmas trees on the lock walls, Christmas lights, and music. Locks Christmas Trees At the Gatun Locks there will be a

12-foot Christmas tree on the wall and

four smaller decorated trees on the control-house balcony with a Christmas

greeting banner in between. Christmas

music played over loudspeakers will greet

the crews of the ships in Gatun and a Christmas card carrying the season's

greetings will be placed aboard each

passing vessel. A special holiday decoration for the locks wall is being planned

at Gatun but it will be kept a secret until

it appears shortly before Christmas.

The Pacific Locks will feature the ornamentation of Miraflores bridge with

a lighted star on each end and colored

lights strung in between. There will be

lights around the balcony at Pedro Miguel

and a Christmas greeting banner. The commissaries, service centers,

libraries, and other public buildings in the Canal Zone will be decorated inside and

out and there will be recorded Christmas

music played from loudspeakers in the lobby and marquee of the Balboa

Theater Building.

Neighborhood Decorations As the holiday season approaches,

lights and decorations will blossom forth

in the Canal Zone in private homes and

on public buildings. Some of the most

colorful on the Pacific side are the decorations on the Central Police and Fire Stations in Balboa. The official Canal Zone Christmas tree, a South Pacific pandanus tree located near the Balboa

Railroad Station, will be decorated again

this year by the Electrical Division with

colored lights and a star. The most colorful and interesting mass

display of Christmas lights and decorations is provided annually by the 14 families living on Oleander Place in Balboa. About this time of the year, the street turns into Santa Claus Lane and is the

star attraction for the residents of the

Pacific side, children and adults alike. Balsam Firs Due Soon

Christmas trees will be set up in most

of the service centers and special decorations are planned for all of the commissaries. Balboa, for instance, plans to

feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

complete with flashing red nose. The Canal Zone will not have a short- age of Christmas trees for both private

and public use if the Commissary Division has anything to do with it. There is an ample supply of balsam firs from northern New York and a large number of small

table trees on order. The small trees probably will be on sale by the time The

Review goes to press. Canal Zone residents can also plan on

having a bright and sunny day for their Christmas celebration for usually the Christmas season is characterized by the

fine clear weather of the early part of the dry season.

If it rains, however, no one, least of all the weather man would be surprised.

There have been a few wet Christmas days on record and during the construction era

there was one so damp that it is known

on old reports as the Christmas flood of 1909. That year the rain started on

Christmas, increased the following day,

and continued well into January. The

floods in the Madden watershed area were so heavy that they interfered seri- ously with the Canal construction work.
16 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED

TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF ORGANIZATION

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(Continued from page 1) to $18,559,632

and depreciation on direct facilities amounting to $2,256,883.

Supporting Operations

Supporting operations of the Company

produced an operating margin over direct expenses totaling $2,549,197 resulting

from sales and services to governmental

agencies, employees, and others in the amount of $39,796,801 less $37,247,604

in cost of goods sold and other direct expenses.

Under General Corporate Expense the net cost of operations of the Canal Zone Government, for which the Company is required by law to reimburse the Treasury, was $10,366,079, only slightly more

than the preceding year after excluding a major abandoned construction project

(Cardenas townsite) written off in that

year. Administrative and other general expense totaled $4,957,714, and the

interest payable to the United States Treasury amounted to $8,847,255. The

Company's obligation for interest payable

to the Treasury, based on the Government's net direct investment subject to

interest, increased from $7,744,181 for

1953, reflecting the increase in the rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury from 2.05 percent for 1953 to 2.342 percent for 1954.

Capital expenditures by the Company

for the year amounted to $6,410,203, of which approximately $2 million related to improvements to the Canal and approximately $3.5 million for the housing

replacement project.

Detailed Statements Later

Detailed financial statements and statistical data will be published at a later date in the Company's annual report. The release of new income in tentative

figures is necessitated by the fact that the

final determination has yet to be made,

as required in the Company's Federal

charter, on valuation policies and capital value of property transferred to the Company at the time of the Canal's

incorporation. During the year the appraisal program for establishing these valuations progressed to the point that most of the more significant adjustments

have been reflected in the accounts. As

a result, the interest and depreciation

accruals shown in the present statement

are not considered as being subject to material adjustment when the final valuation is completed.

$56,541,000 To Treasury

Since the July 1, 1951 legislation

incorporating the Canal, the Company

has paid into the Treasury a return on the Government's investment (interest) total- ing $23,957,000, and in addition it has reimbursed the Treasury (or credited against charges for Government tolls) $31,294,000 for the cost of Canal Zone

Government, and $1,290,000 representing the annuity paid to the Republic of Panama. These fixed charges total, for the three-year period 1951 through 1954,

$5(5,541,000.

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"I'M OLDER than you are," Joseph Anthony Herring of Ancon, left, will he able to tell his first cousin, Brian Francis Herring of Diablo, when they get to the argument stage. The cousins met at Gorgas Hospital where Joseph Anthony was born November 15, and Brian Francis the following day. Joseph's

father is G. J. Herring, a conductor for the Panama Railroad. Brian's dad is Thomas Herring who is a towing locomotive operator at the Pacific Locks. Joseph is the seventh of his family; Brian is the Thomas

Herring's fourth child.

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