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Vol.2, No. 11 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JUNE 6. 1952 5 cents WELCOME PLANNED FOR GOV. JOHN S. SEYBOLD

ON ARRIVAL IN CANAL ZONE FOR NEW DUTIES

Executive And Wife

Resided At Corozal

In Early Army Life

Plans have been completed

for the welcome of Governor and Mrs. John S. Seybold on

their arrival in the Canal Zone Monday morning aboard the Panama liner Panama,.

Governor Seybold is the eleventh to hold office as Governor of the Canal Zone

since the Panama Canal was opened to world traffic in August 1915. He took the oath of office in Washington May 27 and

his arrival on the Isthmus will be as Governor and, concurrently, as President and

Director of the Panama Canal Company. The oath of office was administered by

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., in the office of the Secretary. A brief description of the ceremony and statements made by Secretary Pac and Governor

Seybold appear on page 2 of this issue of The Canal Review. The new Governor and Mrs. Seybold

will be welcomed at the pier in Cristobal on their arrival by a group of officials headed by Acting Governor and Mrs. Robert M. Peacher. After brief shipside

. DmrvT raw.-Dr f ^ j u o l u • l v. tl n j l- ceremonies the entire party {Ses i>agc s) A RECENT PIC Tl RE of Governor and Mrs. Seybold is shown above. The new Governor and his r

wife will arrive Monday morning aboard the Panama liner Panama. The Isthmus of Panama is not new =r=^^^^^=^==^=

to them. They lived at Corozal for three years, 1922 to 1925, not long after Governor Seybold was grad- n • • ri\ • uated from the United States Military Academy. LOntlllUBS AS LlMinTlfln New Canal Traffic Record Is Expected

This Year If June Transits Are Heavy

A new annual record will be set this

fiscal year in ocean-going commercial

traffic through the Panama Canal unless some unexpected trend develops in the normal shipping pattern during this month. The former monthly record for transits

set in January 1929 has been exceeded

in three months of this year. The all-time high in the number of

transits by ships of more than 300 net tons was set in the fiscal year 1929 when

there were 6,289 transits. The number of transits for the first 1 1 months this year

totaled 5,930, only 359 from a new record. This figure is expected to be exceeded

during June since transits by large commercial vessels have numbered above 500

every month this fiscal year except last

July and August. The following table gives a month-by- month comparison of commercial traffic through the Canal in the record year of 1929 and this fiscal year:

I 'i."I 196S

July 492 49:! Augusts. 510 490 September 482 516 October 543 :<U November 519 502 December 569 550 January 597 522 Februarv 510 507 March! 529 61.3 April 532 601 May 515 622

Total 5,795 5,930 For the first time in the Canal's his- tory, commercial traffic (.See page 2)

Till: PROMOTION of Karl R. Bendetsen from

Assistant Secretary of the Army to Undei i will not affect his connections with the Panama Canal

( 'ompany. He « ill continue as Chairman of the Board

of Directors and will continue to take an active role

in Canal affairs. The new Under Secretary was ap- pointed Chairman of the Board last September. He

visited the Isthmus early this year to preside at the

Directors meeting held here in January.
THE PANAMA CANAL?REVIEW June 6, 1952 Gov. Seybold Takes Oath Of Office

Administered By Secretary Of Army

In a brief and simple ceremony, un- precedented in many respects in the Canal's history, Brig. Gen. John S. Seybold took oath of office as the eleventh Governor of the Canal Zone on May 27

in the office of the Secretary of the Army

in the Pentagon Building in Washington, D. C. The oath of office was administered by

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., who is the designated representative of the President for the supervision of the administration of the Canal Zone Government, and is the Stockholder of the Pana- ma Canal Company. Attending the cere- mony were Karl R. Bendetsen, Under

Secretary of the Army and Chairman of the Board of the Panama Canal Company; Roberto Heurtematte, Ambassador

from Panama to the United States; and Edward Miller, Assistant Secretary of State.

It was the first time that the oath of

office for Governor has been administered

in the United States. The occasion was

also unprecedented by the attendance of

a Secretary or Assistant Secretary of State

or a Panama Ambassador. The importance of the mission of the new Governor was stressed by Secretary Pace in a brief statement after General Seybold took the oath. The statement of the Secretary follows: "Congratulations, Governor. This new

post that you now assume is one of trans- cendent importance not only to the Army

but to the United States of America.

"Building on the splendid accomplish- ments of those who have preceded you, in the days and years in which you will undertake this important service you will not only have the opportunity to maintain, protect and improve this great and

truly majestic enterprise, but you will also have the responsibility of maintaining and strengthening the close and cordial relationship that now exists between our country and the Republic of Panama. I know that you will not only undertake the important assignment of seeing that the manifold responsibilities incident to the

operation of the Panama Canal are well managed but that you will, in addition, assume and wisely fulfill the requirements

of our relationships in the international sphere that have such importance today.

I know that these view? are in accord with

those of the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Miller, who has worked so assiduously

in this direction; Ambassador Heurtematte, who has done such an unusual job

of placing the problems of the United

States and of Panama in a common per- spective; the Under Secretary of the Army, Mr. Bendetsen, who has, I think, rendered a truly significant contribution

in this field; and General Pick whose wise judgment and guidance in your selection have been most helpful. "You undertake at this particular period an office of great importance and

great responsibility in the discharge of which you will have the unqualified support of the Secretary of the Army. I am

sure that those who serve with you will serve well. And so in the great mission you are about to undertake, Governor

Seybold, I offer you my support and ex- tend my congratulations and good wishes

A NEW GOVERNOR takes office. Governor Seybold, right, takes oath of office administered by

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., in the latter's office in the Pentagon building in Washington. In

the center is Karl R. Bendetsen, Under Secretary of the Arm)', who is Chairman of the Board of the Panama Canal Company. to you, and through you to all of the

people who are engaged with you in this

vital enterprise." The following brief reply was made by

Governor Seybold in response to the

Secretary's statement: "Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I feel keenly the responsibilities of the position you have entrusted to me. I am in full accord with your comments in regard to the relationship that exists between the operation of the Canal and the advance- ment and maintenance of close and cordial

relations with our sister Republic of Panama. The very presence here today

of the Ambassador of the Republic of

Panama to the United States and of Assistant Secretary of State Miller is further evidence of the fine relationship

existing between our two countries and of the importance both nations attach to

this relationship. "I approach the performance of the

duties of this office in all humility but

with a determination to bring to the task

all the understanding and vigor at my

command. The expression of your confi- dence and support is most gratefully received and is a source of reassurance to me. I shall do everything in my power to measure up to the confidence you express."

New Canal Traffic Record Is Expected

This Year If June Transits Are Heavy

(.Continuedfrom page l) exceeded GOO

transits in one month last March when

new monthly records were established in the number of transits, net tonnage of

vessels, and tolls. The number of transits

in March was 613, or 16 above the pre- vious record set in January 1929. The

new tolls record was $2,512,008.72, as compared with the former record of $2,501,949.64, also set in January 1929. The Panama Canal net tonnage of commercial vessels in March was 2,872,628,

as compared with the 2,718,923 net-ton- nage record established in July 1950. The number of Canal transits again exceeded the 600 mark in April, and a new- high monthly record was set in May with 622 ocean-going commercial vessels. With

the new record last month in the number

of transits, it is probable that new highs were also established for tolls and net tonnage of the ships, although these fig- ures are not available until several days

after the close of business at the end of each calendar month.

It is believed unlikely that a new yearly

record will be set this year in the amount

of tolls collected. The existing record was made in the fiscal year 1929 with a total

of $27,1 11,000. The amount of tolls col- lected during the first 10 months of this

fiscal year is approximately $650,000 under the tolls for the first 10 months in 1929 and it is not believed the difference

will be overcome during May and June. There has been a general increase of

traffic within the past year over all of the

principal trade routes through the Canal

with the notable exception of the United

States intercoastal route. The net ton- nage loss on this route was reported at 41.6 percent during the first S months of

this fiscal year in comparison with the

1951 fiscal year figures. The heaviest gains in net tonnage over

the various routes have been recorded on

those from the east coast of the United

States and Canada to Australasia; from Europe to Australasia; east coast of the United States to the west coast of Central America; Europe to the west coast of the United States and Canada; and from the

east coast of the United States and Canada to the Far East.
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Welcome Planned For Gov. Seybold On Arrival For Duty In Canal Zone

(Continuedfrom page 1) will board a

special Panama Railroad motor car for return to the Pacific side Further wel- coming ceremonies by various officials will take place upon arrival of the party

at the Balboa Heights railroad station. The principal event of the Governor's

first day in the Canal Zone will l>e a

special program which will be held Monday night at the Balboa Stadium. Full

details of this program will be announced

in the daily press of the Isthmus. The new Governor is a native of Topeka, Kan. Neither he nor Mrs. Seybold are new to the Isthmus. They lived at Corozal for three years, from November 1922 until November 1925, when he

served as a Lieutenant with the 1 1 th Engineers. His assignments during that

period included the Military Survey and Mapping Program for Panama.

Governor Seybold is recognized as one

of the ablest general officers of the Corps

of the Engineers with wide experience in administration as well as in both civil and

military engineering. His entire career

since his graduation from the United

States Military Academy in 1920 except

for three months following his graduation when he served in the Coast Artillery Corps, has been as an officer of the Corps

of Engineers in which he has served with

distinction in assignments of increasing

responsibility. Conies Here From Washington He has been Assistant Chief of Engineers for Personnel and Administration

since May 1951, having been chosen for that exacting position while serving as Division Engineer for the South Pacific Division with headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. In addition to his bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Governor Seybold received a degree in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

in Troy, N. Y. in 1922, and has completed

Engineer School courses at Camp Humphreys, Va. He also served four years as Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. His tours of duty with troops have

included assignments at Camp Grant, 111; Fort Dupont, Del; and FortHancock, N.J. Served In European Theater When the United States entered World War II, Governor Seybold was on duty

in the office of the Chief of Engineers as Chief of the Procurement Branch, to which he had been assigned in 1938. He

continued in that office in charge of pur- chases of all engineer equipment for the Armed Services and for international aid

until transferred overseas in 1943. His overseas assignment in 1943 was

to the European Theater where he became

Executive Officer of the Engineer Section

for the Services of Supply. In May 1944 he was named Chief of the Supply Division of the Office of the Chief of Engineers

in the European Theater until his return

to the United States after the end of the war.Like other Army Engineer Officers, Governor Seybold has held many responsible peacetime civil works assignments

necessary to a well-rounded civil engineering experience. He was in charge of the Engineering Division of the Vicksburg,

Miss., Engineer District in 1937 and 1938,

VISITC { TO THE

PETER BEASLEY, Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Army, this month is making his third

visit to the Canal Zone. Mr. Beasley came to the Isthmus early this year to attend the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company and spent several weeks here at that time. He returned

in March for a two-week visit as the head of a committee appointed to investigate and select a site for new housing on the Pacific side. As a result of this study, additional land at Corozal was made available

for use by the Canal Company. Mr. Beasley arrived on his present visit, which is of indefinite duration,

early this week.

after two and one-half years as assistant engineer there. Supervised Largest Earth Dam

Following his return from overseas duty

in 1945, he served as District Engineer at Syracuse, N. Y., and later at Baltimore, Md. In 1947 he became District Engineer

of the Garrison District, with headquarters at Bismarck, N. D., with responsibility for the construction of the world's

largest rolled-earth-fill dam on the Missouri River at Garrison, N. D.

His assignment as Division Engineer of the South Pacific Division began in May

1950. In this position he was responsible

for the administration of flood control, river and harbor improvements, and several large military construction projects

for the Army and Air Force in California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and in Hawaii. Governor Seybold was awarded the Legion of Merit fo- exceptional meritorious services in the Procurement Branch

in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, and

wears the Bronze Star Medal for his out- standing service ir. the European Theater. His first prorrotion in the military ranks after his graduation from West

Point came while serving at Corozal when

he was promoted, June 17, 1925, from

Second to First Leutenant. His last pro- motion to Brigadier General came last July with the da;e of rank from June 30, 1951. Employees Conference

Brings Up Wide Range

Of OldJew Subjects

A wide range of subjects, many of them

discussed to some extent during previous

meetings, were brought up May 29 at the Governor-Employee Conference at Balboa Heights. Captain Robert M. Peacher, Acting Governor pending the arrival of President- Governor John S. Seybold, presided over

the meeting. As he opened the conference, Acting Governor Peacher explained that questions raised at the May meeting would be

investigated and the answers prepared so that Governor Seybold could be ready to continue with them. Two matters were raised by Charles W. Hammond, president of the General Committee of Civic Councils; Mr. Hammond

asked if something could not be done to obtain money for Civil Defense here, in view of the large amount being spent in the United States, and also asked for

clarification of designation of profits from

the recent dance recital at the Balboa

theater. The question of checks by locks guards

of employees entering and leaving the

locks areas was discussed at length. It was raised by Dajiel P. Kiley, representative of the Pacific Side Locks Employees. Other questions brought up during the May meeting ncluded: Unlabelled canned goods in the Commissaries; the qaality and price of gasoline sold in the Canal Zone; housing, es- pecially bachelor apartments and the

reservation of quarters for those being

required to move as the housing program

progresses; -losing of medical clinics on

holidays ant the general inconvenience of the out-patrat service at Gorgas Hospital. Following a discussion of tolls and the

overall fiscal program, Mr. Hammond

asked whether tve Canal Zone was not the only governmen agency where employees

themselves have to pay for schools and

police. Attending the conference were: Acting Governor Peachr; Forrest G. Dunsmoor,

Executive Assisant to the Governor and

Acting Executive Secretary, and Edward

A. Doolan, Personnel Director; Mr. Hammond, C. W. Chase, Rev P. H. Havener, Raymond Ralpl, and S. W. Sowa, Civic

Councils; Robert Daniels, Railw^ Conductors; Rufus Lovelady, AFGE; Mr.

Kiley; Jamt-s Ahwirn, Plumbers: William

S. McKee, Machinists; and Walter Wagner and C. W. Hoffmeyer, Central Labor

Union.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

Photos Show Progress

Of Quarters Program

Quarters for Company -Government

employees are springing up on both sides

of the Canal Zone to such an extent that summer vacationers will find a marked

change in the landscape when they return

in the Fall. In scope, the quarters construction program this year rivals that of any year

since the close of the Canal construction

period when housing was being provided

in the new townsites for the operating

force. Mos of the work is being dune by

contract although the Maintenance Division has charge of the construction of new

houses in the Pyle Street Morgan Avenue

area in Balboa and the municipal develop- ment in the new building site at Corozal. Not all of the construction sites are pictured on this page. Those not shown

in the five pictures at the right are: CARDENAS, where an entire new

townsite is being developed north of Corozal for local-rate employees on the

Pacific side. This work is being done

under contract by Macco-Panpacific, Inc. BALBOA, where construction of 11 composite houses with 15 apartments is nearing completion; COROZAL, wher? grading and other municipal work has been started; and PARAISO, where Tucker McClure is engaged in building 244 family units. Taking the pictures at the right, from

top to bottom, in order: At Rainbow City, 96 new apartments,

all in two-family masonry on the ground

houses, are due for completion September

28. Isthmian Constrictors holds the $645,730 contract for Rainbow City

houses. They will lie identical to those completed earlier this yar.

Margarita, 131 Houses

Macco-Panpacific ho'ds the $3,136,247

contract for the new quarters at Margarita (second from the top) in the northern

extension to the present town. A total of 131 houses are to be built, all masonry. They are due for compcthn on June 28, 1053. Twelve new masonry hoises are going up in Diablo Heights (c«nt>r picture) on

a bluff overlooking Alb'oot Field. The

Republic Construction aid Maintenance Company Ls the contractor inthe $273,(100

project. All of these houses are to lie masonry and work on the entire job is about 45 percent done. Completion date

is November 8. In ( latun, I fourth phot<gra»h from top) Isthmian Constructors re building 10 houses on Jadwin Road.bear those constructed earlier and nov occupied. This

contract is for $159,47' and is due for completion on Deeembc 15. All of the houses are masonry. Ancon, 48 Huses

Largest of the Pacificside projects, in the U. S.-rate communties, is that at Ancon where 4s new quarters, to house 71 families, are rapidly taking form. Like

all orK. quarters pictured here, the Ancon houses will be of masonry. Framorco, Inc. holds the $1,096,652

contract for Ancon bottom picture . with thi last of these houses to be completed by next March 3.
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE

/ WML i-l !£CCIDENT PREVENTION

Little Jack Horner

Stand on the corner Watching the traffic go by But when it patted

lie crossed orer at last And said, "What a good boy am I!" Starting in the first grade with jingles

like this, all the students in the Canal Zone schools receive frequent safety les- sons. They are taught from the time they

first enter kindergarten that safety is everybody's responsibility. Safety is a regular part of the school curriculum and the subject is taught in many different ways to fit the age-level and the current interests of children in their day-to-day activities. Some classes write stories and others

write slogans and others draw pictures and posters. In some schools there are dramatizations of the work of traffic offi- cers and illustrations of stop and go lights. Young students illustrate safety situa- tions in classroom sandtables and they

learn and sing little safety songs. Many

read safety stories, then draw up their own sets of safety rules. There are also motion pictures and

filmstrips and field trips to fire stations and classroom demonstrations of fire equipment.

Older students learn in the classroom

to identify dangerous plants, have bicycle HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

April COMMUNITY SERVICE

BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 3

I ndustrial 1 Civil Affairs 1 Engineering and Construction

Health Marine

Railroad and Terminals

Supply and Service

Division Awards For NO DISABLING INJURIES

April HOSPITALIZATION AND CLINICS DREDGING DIVISION CLUBHOUSE DIVISION ELECTRICAL DIVISION RAILROAD DIVISION GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Clubhouses 3

Electrical _ 3 Grounds Maintenance 3 Motor Transportation 2 Storehouses 2 Dredging 1 Hospitalization and Clinics 1 Navigation 1 Railroad 1 Sanitation I Commissary

Locks Maintenance

Terminals

riding lessons, and study other safety subjects geared to their own interests. Every year the police and fire divisions coordinate the safety lessons they have

for children with the programs and cur- riculum in the schools. Their assistance

in the safety program results in demonstrations of the use of fire equipment,

proper bicycle riding, and the annual

classroom emphasis on the observation of Fire Prevention Week.

Something new in safety lessons in the

past two years are the air-raid drills, which have been held periodically. In

"hit-the-deck" drills, for attacks without

warning, children learn to seek shelter under desks, or seats or any protection nearby. In the more formal drills, the

children are conducted to the best shelter available in or near the school, designated

for attacks preceded by warnings. The safety lessons are on many subjects but they fall into these general

classes: Lessons on safety at home and in school include instructions about falls, injuries from sharp objects, the medicine cabinet, matches, electrical appliances, stoves, safety on the playground, and asphyxiation. Street safety lessons teach children proper actions at crossings, on rainy days,

in automobiles, playing in or near streets, at traffic signals, bicycle riding, and

roller skating. Fire safety lessons teach children about

burns, fire-alarm boxes, use of fire extinguishers, fire drills, and fire hazards. Children also learn about water safety and wild plant and animal life as part of

their safety education.

First-aid lessons are taught first in grade school, in simple, easy-to-under- stand form. Then in high school, there is a required course in first aid as part of the physical education program. The school safety work is a continuous program but has been accentuated during

the past two months. The lessons being taught came to light in many children's

THIS POSTER, done by sixth grade students Marie Bleakley and Charles De Tore of Cristobal Elementary School, is one example of the safety work

done in Canal Zone schools. The poster is displayed

in this picture by Balboa kindergarten students Alpheus Sloan III of Fort Amador and Margaret Henson of Albrook Air Force Base.

papers on subjects ranging from safe Hallowe'en and Christmas celebrations

to warning against climbing on construction equipment and rules against paper wads and bean shooters. But even so, the Schools Division and

the Safety Branch recognize that there have been too many accidents involving

children. As much as they plan and as much as they teach to make the Canal Zone a safe place for children, they believe the most effective safety lessons are the ones youngsters learn in their own

homes. And as teachers they know that

the best teachers of all are foresighted and painstaking parents.

APRIL 1952

Community Services Bureau

Health Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

Industrial Bureau

Supply and Service Bureau Panama Canal Co. C. Z. Gov't (This month) Panama Canal Co.-C. Z.Gov'l (Best Year; Panama Canal Co.-C. Z. Gov't 1952 to Dale

Engineering and Construction Bureau Marine Bureau

Railroad and Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 41

Disabling Injuries per 1,060,000 Man-Hours Worked

(Frequency Rate)

Man-Hours Worked 2,941,843

LEGEND

3 Amount Better Than Panama Canal Company—Canal Zone Government Best Year 3 Amount Worse Than Panama Canal Company—Canal Zone Government Bert Year
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6/1952

Lock Operator and Wife Specialize

In Wild Animal Buying and Training

Charles E. Bradley has been catching, buying, selling, trading, stuffing, training, and talking wild animals and reptiles for something like 20 years and has learned to

like "cats" and snakes best. "Cats," he says, "are like womenmoody, jealous, smart, dangerous, and

interesting—with all due respect to my

beauteous wife." As for snakes, who helped him meet her, he likes them probably because he knows

them best and has for a long time back. Mr. Bradley is a machinist by trade and

a lock operator at Pedro Miguel. Animals and snakes are a sideline that have been

his big or small-time business all his grown-up life. He doesn't catch them himself these days but buys the animals, birds, and

snakes other hunters bring him. Then he

sells them, as he has for years, to zoos, pet

shops, museums, and snowmen in many

parts of the world. From 1945 to 1947, he was in the animal

collecting business with headquarters in Barranquilla, Colombia. At the height of

his activity there, he sent out a planeload

of animals, birds, and snakes every two weeks. For about a year, in 1947, he demonstrated to audiences in different parts of the United States the process of milking

a rattler. His lectures on poisonous snakes—demonstrated with the rattler for good showmanship sound effects—were

usually for Scout groups.

Bitten Five Times

His fondness for snakes has not been dimmed by five rattler and fer-de-lance

bites followed by five grave periods in the hospital. He doesn't like to live dangerously, he

says, but he does prefer peril nearby.

MRS. BRADLEY is a junior partner in the ani- mal business in charge of small birds and animals. Here she is shown with the current batch of baby

gato solos.

In 1948 and 1949 he was an animal

trainer for a West Coast dealer who

handled jungle-bred animals for the movies. There the animals came in wild but were all well trained before they appeared before movie cameras. His wife is newer to the animal business but is a junior working partner. He thinks

her business sense suffers from liking animals too much to sell them but she is good with "cats," and once handled one

panther no one else could manage to train. When Mr. Bradley first laid eyes on his future wife in Miami in 1946 he told her about his snake collection and invited her out to see them. He believes she took

little stock in the snake story approach

or that's what he thinks now—but she

did go out and she did see snakes—that day and from that time on. Then from "I do" day their choice of pets made them popular like the plague. Travelling Boa Constrictor

Junior, their boa, was a much-traveled

snake who lived in every hotel in Florida. But with hotel managers and other guests he was a snake very non-grata. So for check-ins and check-outs, traveling around and other public appearances, they

snuggled his six feet in a suitcase or bag or twined him around Mr. Bradley's middle. Cheeta, a puma, was their favorite pet, but she pushed one landlady almost to

suicide. After that they saw to it that Cheeta's charms were hidden so they

could keep a roof over their heads. The

honor system of explaining her first and

then asking for a place to live only made

landlords fearful and didn't help them a

bit with their constant housing headaches.

All went well for quite some time in an apartment in Chicago. Cheeta was walked by night, hidden from view in the shad- ows of nearby alleys. She slept with the Bradleys as she always had, protesting if they hogged the covers. She ate her raw meat and lolled around the house as if she were home in the Volcan. Landlady Discovers Pet Puma

Then one day when the Bradleys were

gone, the landlady heard a fan amiss in their apartment. She walked in the room

and went to the windows and opened the Venetian blinds. Then she turned around

to look and saw Cheeta, also just looking around. The landlady screamed and ran back

to the window, yelling for police, firemen, and her family. Everyone came and tried hard to calm her to keep her from jumping

six stories. When the Bradleys arrived, the suicide had been averted but, of course, they were homeless again. Then there was a jaguar of 350 pounds

Mr. Bradley took calling on a restaurant owner. The jaguar was trained but when

it came time to go home he just didn't want to go into his cage. The diners around began to thin out when all means

of coaxing proved futile, and it was four hours and two gallons of ice cream later before he was finally caged. Among three people left when the capture was made was a girl with a very

strict mother. When her daughter came home late, she just wouldn't believe those

wild stories about ice cream eating jagaurs. The biggest animals Mr. Bradley has handled were American buffaloes, water

CHARLES E. BRADLEY, lock operator at Pedro Miguel Locks, holds one of the many animals

he has owned and handled in his long-time animal

business.

buffaloes from Africa, and tapirs from

Central America. The smallest was the mouse oppossum, a three-inch animal

native to Panama.

Jaguar And Gorilla Dangerous The most dangerous animals in Bradley's experience are the jaguar and the

gorilla. The jaguar, which he considers the worse, is a big cat common in Panama,

which attacks unprovoked and is known

to be moody and a killer the natives won't hunt. Every animal and snake is a personality, he says, and they don't go by

family patterns. Some want to be

friendly if the approach is just right but

others would be killed before they are broken.Mr. Bradley Started Young

Mr. Bradley started catching snakes when he was about 14. Later, he covered

a large part of the South collecting rattlers, cotton-mouths, and copperheads and milking them for their venom. He first became acquainted with jungle animals when he came to the Canal Zone

in 1942. He had been a machinist for several years and came here to work in the Mechanical Division. After three years with the Canal, he went to Colombia and then to the United States, to follow the animal business. He came back to the Canal Zone in December 1950 as a machinist at Atlantic Locks. There are only a few things he does not buy in his sideline animal business. The

lesser anteater is on the list because his diet of termites cannot be assured in captivity. Animals with hoofs, and parrots, parakeets, and macaws are too much

trouble because of complications arising from control measures for the poultry

disease, psittacine, and hoof and mouth

disease. The Bradleys' home in Pedro Miguel

has only their household-size pets. Other

animals are housed in a jungle stockade

safely distant from unplanncd-for visitors. Asked if people are curious and bother him to tell them all kinds of things about

animals, Mr. Bradley said, yes, they all want to talk but they don't ask him, they

tell him the answers.
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

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Official Panama Canal Company Publication Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope. CanalZone John S. Seybold, Governor-President

E. C. Lombard, Executive Secretary

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Oleva Hastings

Editorial Assistants LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters containing inquiries, suggestions,

criticisms, or opinions of a general nature

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Promoted

CAPT. MARVIN J. WEST, Chief of the Navigation Division and Captain of the Port in Balboa, will succeed Capt. Robert A. Peacher as Marine Director when the latter leaves later this month for Xew York

and retirement from the United States Navy. This

will be the first time in the Canal's history that a Captain of the Port has been promoted to head the Marine Bureau (formerly Division) immediately after completing his assignment as Port Captain. Captain West is a native of Spartanburg, S. C, and was

graduated from the United States Naval Academy

with the class of 1925. He was on duty in the Office

of the Chief of Naval Operations as Chief of the Harbor Defense Unit in the Undersea Warfare Division before his assignment with the Canal in July

1949.

CAPT. ROBERT M. PEACHER, above, is the third United States Naval Officer in the Canal's

history to act as Governor cf the Canal Zone. He was appointed to that position, effective May 23, by Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr. He was also delegated to perform the duties of President

of the Panama Canal Company which relate to the Company's activities on the Isthmus. Acting Governor Peacher last month completed two years of duty with the Canal organization. He succeeded Capt. P. S. Nichols, now retired, as Marine Superintendent in May 1950 and became

Marine Director two months later in the reorganization which made both the Locks and Dredging

Divisions units of the Marine Bureau. The Acting Governor will serve until the arrival of Governor John S. Seybold next Monday. He and Mrs. Peacher plan to sail for the States next Friday and he will be on temporary duty in New York until the end of this month when he will retire from active service with the Navy. The two Naval officers who had served as Acting Governor prior to Captain Peacher were Rear

Admiral Clark H. Woodward and Commodore Stewart A. Manahan, both now retired. Both held the rank of Captain in the Navy at the time they served as Acting Governor. Admiral Woodward served briefly as Acting Governor in 1929 during the absence of Governor Harry Burgess and the illness of Maj. Gen. Julian L. Schley, the Engineer of Maintenance. Commodore Manahan served a short time as Acting Governor' in May 1942 when Governor Glen E. Edgerton was in the United States and Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Me'haffey, then Engineer of Maintenance, was ill in Gorgas Hospital. Captain Peacher is the first head of the Marine Bureau, or Division, to be appointed to head

the Canal organization. Both Admiral Woodward and Commodore Manahan became Acting Governors by an "order of succession" established in 1922 by an order issued by Secretary of War John W. Weeks. This procedure was abolished in January 1950, by a Presidential order providing for the Secretary of the Army to appoint an Acting Governor in the absence of both the Governor and

Lieutenant Governor from their duties. Most drugs and medical supplies used in the Canal organization will be purchased

through the Army starting July 1, effecting a considerable economy in the procurement

of these items. The supplies will be ordered from the Army Medical Supply Depot at the Madden

"Y" instead of requisitioning them through

the Canal organization for purchases in the United States as in the past. The bulk supplies now on hand at Section

J of the Balboa Storehouse, where they have

been kept in the past, will be transferred to the Army Medical Supply Depot sometime

before the first of July. The summer session of the Louisiana

State University's Caribbean program

for armed forces personnel again will be open to U. S. citizen employees of the Canal organization on a space

available basis. Summer courses will run from June

30 through August 21. Canal personnel should contact the LSU office at Ouarrv

Heights, telephone 2131, or C. L. Munden at Fort Amador, telephone

3116, for additional information. Employee elections for U. S.-rate repre- sentatives to serve on the Panama Canal Company-Canal Zone Government Perform- ance Rating Board of Review and the Grievance Advisory Committee will close June 11 after about two weeks of balloting. Three principals and two alternates will be named to serve on each of two bodies

elected, one for classified and related employees and the other for wage board group.

Recent moves among Canal offices included the transfer of the main office of the Housing Division from the Administration Building at Balboa

Heights to the second floor of the Balboa Housing Office; and the transfer of the Panama Line ticket office from the Housing Office to the former

Balboa Dispensary building.

Thirty young men will enter the Armv

from the Canal Zone in July, the largest number to be inducted in one month since Selective Service machinery was established

in the Canal Zone. All those to be inducted

will be alien volunteers, according to State

Selective Service Headquarters. The most inducted in one month up to

Julj were nine in January, March, and Mav.

1952. Three went into the Army from the Canal Zone in June.

Residents of Balboa "Flats" recently were polled to determine their ideas and preferences concerning traffic regulations which should be placed in effect in that section. The polling was conducted by the

Pacific Civic Council at the request of the Canal Zone Traffic Committee and

was the first ever conducted among

Canal residents to obtain their views on the traffic situation in their own

community.

Results of the survey will be turned

over to the Traffic Committee for further action.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952 Medical Treatment And Common Sense

Are Used To Aid Patients At Corozal

The long-time Canal institution now

called Corozal Hospital is a lot more than

a hospital and its atmosphere is not very

institutional. The medical, administrative, and insti- tutional practice of Col. George E. Hesner,

Superintendent, and his staff, leaves a lot of leeway for common-sense consideration

for patients as personalities. He believes his doctors, nurses, attendants, and helpers do more work and do it better than any comparable group he knows of, but the efficiency seems painless

to the staff, the patients, and the outsider looking on. Corozal Hospital houses a motley lot that falls into two main groups, the insane and the so-called "chronics." Chronics, Colonel Hesner explains, are homeless

people who helped make the Canal

possible. The insane are at Corozal because the court sends them there, according to the Superintendent. Thorough Examinations

Persons believed to be psychotic are sent first to a general hospital. There

they are X-rayed and given electro- cardiographic, chest, and spine examinations which determine, among other

things, whether or not they can be given

electric shock treatments. Then they are sent to Corozal where

they are under observation for 30 days

pending the issuance of a court order committing them to this institution. At

the end of that period, Corozal authorities ask the court for a commitment

order or, if they believe the derangement may be only temporary, an extension of the observation period. Colonel Hesner considers it better to

err on the side of prolonging the observation period rather than commit to Corozal anyone with only a temporary mental

upset and later, go through the involved

legal process of a release. Corozal Hospital was originally "Corozal Farm," or, as it was more generally

referred to in the correspondence leading

to its founding, "Corozal Cripple Farm." Refuge For Indigents

It was planned as a refuge where in- digents, crippled in Canal service, could

live and, if they wanted to, work. Today's "chronics" are the counterpart

of the cripples for whom the farm was

founded. They are former Canal employees and dependents, taken from the

outside where they are helpless and given

at Corozal a place to live, good food, medical attention, and a more-than-institutional amount of human kindness. They come from former ranks of both U. S.- and local-rate Canal forces and they

suffer all manner of diseases and infirmities, blindness, deafness, lameness, heart

conditions, arterial sclerosis, and just age. Panamanian insane were cared for at Corozal from 1915 to 1933 and 1934 when they were transferred to Retiro Matias Hernandez in Panama City. The large number of Spanish-speaking

patients now at Corozal prompted the remark by a former Chief Health Officer

after he made the rounds with Colonel Hesner, "George, these people would hair

to be crazy to understand your Spanish." Colonel Hesner Is Popular But fractured as the language may be, the Spanish-speaking patients seem to like

it just as well as those who speak English when Colonel Hesner takes them by the arm or shoulder, kids them about their

foibles or just greets them—from 8 to SO

with the usual "Hi there, young man" or "young lady." The present Corozal census— which re- mains fairly constant—includes 240 in- sane and 100 chronics. To take care of these patients, there

are in addition to the Superintendent, Dr. George B. Hudock, clinical director, Col. Leon Malock, and Maj. T. B. Hauschild,

all psychiatrists. Mrs. Marie McNeff, Chief Nurse, heads

the staff of 15 nurses. There are also Robert Cole, Chief jpyqp[4^^

THE SETUP for electric shock treatments, which have resulted in the recovery of about 80 percent

of the insane patients treated at Corozal Hospital, is demonstrated here by the doctors, nurses, and attend- ants who help administer the treatments. The doctors are (left to right) Leon Malock, T. B. Hauschild, and George B. Hudock, clinical director. Facing the camera is Chief Nurse Marie McNeff.

Clerk; Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Personnel

Clerk; Mrs. Ruth Lord, Stenographer; and 127 local-rate and 24 U. S.-rate attendants, cooks, and helpers. For the insane, Corozal Hospital has an enviable record among such institu- tions for the number of recoveries. "Shock" Treatment Given About 8,000 electric shock treatments have been given to about 400 Corozal

patients since this method was first used

there in September 1947. About SO per- cent of those treated "went back over the fence" recovered, Dr. Hudock says. He prefaced an explanation of treat- ments for the insane with the words of G. K. Chesterton which he says are as

true today as when they were spoken: "In the treatment of insanity the treat- ment must be drastic and the cure a

miracle." No one knows how the convulsions in- duced by electric shocks or other means

erase aberrations from the human mind, but they do—in some cases and in some

types of insanity, Dr. Hudock says. Metrazol, which is injected intra- venously over a considerable period of time to bring about the curative convulsion, was used at Corozal from 1935 to the time the electric shock treatments were started there. Insulin has been and is used at Corozal on rare occasions but with considerable reluctance as far as the staff is concerned. This treatment is prolonged and delicate compared to electric shock, and is given only if a patient's family insists and fur- nishes special nurses for the careful and

constant observation necessary. One Lobotomy Performed

Also by special arrangement made by

one patient's family, a lobotomy recently was performed on one woman at Corozal who was taken to Dr. Antonio GonzalezRevilla, a Panamanian brain surgeon, for the delicate operation which could not be done at Corozal. She came back a completely changed and vastly improved

personality.

Electric shock treatments for the in- sane, in most general use at Corozal and

elsewhere, were first tried on a human

patient in 1938 by Dr. T. Cerletti, an

Italian neuro-psychiatrist. Most of his previous experimentation

with electricity as a possible means of inducing convulsions safely and quickly was done on animals in Rome's slaughter- houses. He believed -and experimentation showed that the electric shock used to

"kill" animals did not actually kill them

but that they would recover from the convulsions and subsequent coma if butchering did not begin immediately.

After Cerletti's successful use of electric shock on a human patient his treat- ment spread rapidly throughout the medical world, being introduced in the United States in 1939. At Corozal, electric shock treatments

are given three times a week and the number for a particular patient may

range from 6 to 60. "Snake Pit" horrors to the contrary, the machine that furnishes the current is
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

small and innocuous in appearance and

the shock is so quick and certain that patients suffer little apprehension and

scarcely know what happened to them. Low Voltage Current Used The current is something like 130 volts

for .2 second for a small woman and 120

volts for the same period for a large man. Many special precautions worked out

for electric shock treatments at Corozal might make the staff seem over-cautious, Colonel Hesner says. However, there have been few accidents dislocated joints, fractured vertabrae- and no

fatalities. When the treatment first came into general use in the United States in the

early 1940's, the fatalities were as high as

16 to IS percent, Dr. Hudock says. The use of Metrazol, on the other hand, was a much more complicated and pro- longed process and the patient's reaction was far from pleasant. A patient came in under his own power for the first Metrazol shock, Dr. Hudock says. For the second treatment, it took two attendants

to bring him and after about the fourth

shock, several attendants had to carry him bodily to cope with his violence. Corozal s main obligation to the chronics, in the opinion of Colonel Hesner, is to make them as comfortable and happy as

possible. That means there are few rules regarding their activities. They sleep when and if and as long as they want to and work and do other things very much

the same way.

Their food, like that of all the patients, comes from the hospital kitchen presided over by the long-time stew-ard David H.

Hines, who will retire in November. And

Colonel Hesner, once exposed to a Cooks

and Bakers School in his long Army

career, is not averse to raising an authoritative eyebrow and question to let the cooks know he thinks he knows what made a pie taste like paste or bread slices that were too thick or too thin to make

the supply come out right. Many Special Diets

Besides the regular meals, which would

be the envy and despair of budget-minded

housewives, there are many special diets

for patients with different infirmities and

SET IN A SCENE < >f tropical beauty is this ward building of Corozal Hospital.

diseases.

If the world considers Corozal patients unfortunates, there is no indication that

the staff regards them as anything but

people. Ward rounds turn up all kinds of conversation, questions, and quips. One patient's bid for attention in the form of vague, indefinable pains got this answer: "Aren't you lucky to have those

pains. God gives you pains to make you

think about yourself—a good guy—in- stead of a bunch of no-good people." And another who wanted seeds and a

plot of ground to grow peanuts and white

roses was told, "Peanuts and roses! Whoever heard of a combination like that! You can't eat roses—but we'll see." Patients Have Gardens A few small plots of ground assigned to patients for their own gardening — mainly

as an occupational-therapy measure—is all that remains of the farming which

once made Corozal about SO percent self supporting. The farm, under the direction of a farm

manager, was started in February 1913 with 750 acres and 35 able-bodied laborers

to break the land and get the farm going

so that patients could carry on the work.

Congressional authorization for this insti- tution for disabled indigents came in the

COLOXEL GEORGE E. HESNER, right, who will retire at the end of June after many years

as Superintendent of Corozal Hospital, is shown with three favorite employees at Corozal who have

also served there the longest. Left to right, they are: Thomas Petrekin, grounds foreman who has been at Corozal since 1913; Beatrice Lewis, attendant, who says she "raised" Colonel Hesner in her 40 years of service; and Hubert Lovell, who has held the thankless job of gatekeeper for 32 years.

Sundry Civil Act of June 23, 1913. Canal Zone insane patients were first cared for in the old French quarters at Miraflores. In 1907 they were moved to the insane ward 7, Ancon Hospital, on the

location of the present San Juan Place. In March 1915, the insane asylum was

transferred to Corozal Farm when the farm and asylum were consolidated under

the name "Corozal Hospital." Early farming operations were plagued

with problems—and consequent revisions

of regulations—as to whether or not

patients had to work if they could; rates

of pay for different classes of workers;

provisions for housing, with as little fight- ing and friction as possible, patisnts and

dependents of different nationalities and

sometimes cantankerous character; thieving; plant and animal diseases; and, in later years, economic headaches arising from competition from other agricultural

interests employing able-bodied laborers, particularly Chinese gardeners. Even so the farm thrived and in the peak years of the early 1920's included a 120-head dairy, about 400 hogs in a "piggery," poultry yard, nursery, vegetable and flower gardens, a coconut grove, and many papaya, mango, citrus fruit, and alligator pear trees. Guinea pigs, rabbits, and pigeons also were raised on

the farm at different periods. Other Occupational Therapy

Many of the farming activities, in- cluding the dairy and hog farms, were abandoned for lack of sufficient workmen

when Panamanian patients were transferred to Matias Hernandez. Later, patients were provided employment in a broom factory, sewing room, the cemetery, which was a part of Corozal until July 1950, and the vegetable and flower gardens, some of which were retained

until the early 1940's. The present occupational-therapy work, under the direction of Mrs. Anna Cundliffe, consists of many types of sewing, rug-making, and making of straw baskets, mats, bags, and hats, which are sold pri- marily to individuals. Material for this work* is furnished by the hospital, with

the help of the Community Chest. The Corozal Small Animals Hospital and Quarantine Kennels were under the

direction of Corozal Hospital until 1950. Growing military establishments re- sulted in the transfer to the armed forces

of sizable chunks of land from Corozal Farm. Other parts went to form new or expanded Canal communities, and the once-spacious farm finally dwindled to its present 75 acres.
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

School Closing Opens

Zone Vacation Season

Vacation activities moved to the fore- front in the Canal Zone with the arrival

of June. By the time the last school bells rang

this week, a record number of 550 students had been graduated from the Cristo- bal and Balboa High Schools, the La

Boca and Rainbow City Vocational High

Schools, and the Canal Zone and La Boca

Junior Colleges. In addition to the graduates, some

4,500 other students put aside thoughts

of books and examination papers as the Canal Zone schools closed one of the most

successful years in their history. Many of the graduates and students

will find employment during the summer

vacation period as student assistants in various Panama Canal Company and

Canal Zone Government units. As a result of their training, some of the graduates employed during the sum- mer will be retained in permanent posi- tions similar to those they held during

their assistant training period. The closing of schools also meant, the usual exodus of many Canal employees and their families for the United States. Although there are fewer Canal vacationers bound for the States this summer than

in recent years, northbound sailings of the Panama Line for the past few weeks have

been taken with near-capacity passenger

lists. The rush of Canal employees toward

the States started early in May. This

year, it is expected that all Canal employees who have requested transportation on

the Panama Line will be accommodated

by the northbound sailing on June 20, thus disposing of the backlog of transportation requests. The thousands of Canal employees and

their families who will spend the summer

here will find vacation fun in the Summer

Recreation Program which has been

planned in most Canal Zone communities. The six-week program of arts and

crafts classes, as well as sports and other

recreational activities, will start June 9

in the local-rate communities where

schools close earlier, and July 7 in the U. S.-rate communities.

Instructors for the program, all volunteers, are attending special training

classes. The program is under the direction of the Canal Zone Summer Recreation Board. Mrs. Peggy Parker will again be

the coordinator for the program in the U. S.-rate communities, and E. Stanley Loney, who has had several summers' experience, will serve as coordinator in the

local-rate communities.

Asifle from fun and frolic during the coming three months, school work will continue at the Canal Zone Junior College where summer school courses will be

offered for students and adults who desire

special training. Most of the summer school work will be in night classes, although a few classes

will be held in the morning. The courses being offered include ele- mentary typing, elementary Spanish, Spanish for English-speaking students, business law, business English, shorthand, and a course in engineering drawing which

will be held on Saturday mornings.

Head Janitor Watches Pranks

Of Zone Students Since 1915

AUBREY ATHERLEY, head janit.ir at Balbos

Junior High School, scoots out one of many students dogs who want to go to school.

Several generations of students at Bal- boa Junior High School have learned that Aubrey Atherley is on their side but he

has no time for backtalk. As a long time janitor in Canal Zone

schools, he has had a lot of experience with students. He says he speaks to them when they're doing wrong but he's too busy to look for mischief. He plays no favorites and tattles no tales and they always get along

all right. Atherley has been head janitor at the Junior High School since September 1933, when the present building was constructed. For 12 years before that, he

held the same job at Balboa Elementary

School. From 1915 to 1917, he was also a school janitor at Cristobal School, which was then in the annex of the Hotel Washington.

In his present job, he cleans IS rooms

daily with the help of one assistant. He

picks up pens and pencils and sometimes

pocketbooks and delivers them to the High School office. He listens a little to classroom work if it's convenient and arouses his interest. He does many little chores for the teaching staff and whatever he does, he

does well. He says the teachers and

principal are always nice and he takes

well to the kidding they give him. He finds some notes but he doesn't read them, and he could sometimes report stu- dents, but he just never does. The only

trouble he ever finds are dogs who follow students to school. They're no real problem but Atherley

believes they just don't belong in the

classroom. And no matter how much

their masters beg, he's adamant and

chases them away. Has Job As Secretary

Outside the high school, Atherley has

a heavy job as secretary of the Barbadian

Progressive Society of Panama, a mutual

benefit insurance organization for persons

of Barbadian ancestry. His other main interests are his son, who lives with him in La Boca, and a

niece that he reared, who has been in Lcs

Angeles for seven years with the family

for whom she worked in the Canal Zone. Atherley came from Barbados in 1910 and went to work first in Culebra, as a member of a utility gang.

After his first two years as a school

janitor at Cristobal, he spent three years

cleaning bachelors' quarters at Cristobal and Balboa, and in September 1921, he

started to work at Balboa School where

he has been working ever since.

Clubhouse Opens Self-Service Section

BALBOA CLUBHOUSE has just instituted a new self-service merchandise section. Designed to facilitate and expedite customer purchases, and at the same time to permit an effective means of displaying merchandise, the new section is provided with island-type sectional displays. There

are wide, easy-to-move-in aisles, and an arrangement permitting adequate opportunity for browsing

through the section's wide assortment of magazines, phonographs records, home remedies and many other

readily available convenience items. Further improvements will complete the changes and will provide even greater customer convenience, at the same time adding to the section's generally attractive appearance.
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 1 Art Blossoms As Avocation Here

THESE ART LEAGUE members are shown deep in preparation for their Annual Beaux Arts Ball, which is not only fun but helps to finance the organization's art scholarship. Une of the biggest and most enthusiastic Canal Zone groups bound together by a common interest in after-work-hours is the large and growing number of people who comprise the local art colony. At the hub of the activities of many of these artists is the Canal Zone Art League

whose artistic interests have spread to a

large part of the Canal Zone community.

Among Art League members are many

prolific artists known to the public through

the League's exhibitions. Last year they outgrew one annual show of their work, which has been held since the organization was founded, and established a per- manent gallery at the Jewish Welfare Board in Balboa. At the Balboa gallery, exhibits of work by individual members are changed every two weeks, and the League also arranges

for exhibits of the work of guest artists from Panama. The Canal Zone Art League was

planned primarily as an outlet for members' talents but as the membership grew and their interests broadened there was

a resulting increase in activities. One of its main aims is to encourage

the work of young artists. The League

welcomes new members into their group

especially those new in the community

and through its activities provides them

an opportunity to improve and exhibit

their artistic productions. Now On Community Scale With study and sketch groups and

other activities, the League furthers the work of its members. And on a community scale, it has set itself to provide a high standard of art appreciation in the Canal Zone. As a special help to promising artists, the League has made provisions for an

art scholarship. To swell the funds and

make this aid possible, the organization has had three annual Beaux Arts Balls. One paralyzed teacher was provided a scholarship for correspondence work in art as a result of the League's efforts in his behalf. The membership of the present Art League includes engineers, teachers, electricians, and persons in various other vocations. Among the members are several husband and wife teams. Persons from

15 years of age or more may participate

in the club's activities. Besides those who paint, in watercolors

or oils, there are ceramists, woodcarvers, and print makers. In all fields of art, the League attempts to keep abreast of the major and current art movements. The organization is guided by the American Artists Professional League

which the members may join if they

choose. It was originally a part of, and

the local officers were members of the

national art organization. Art Week Is Institution American Art Week, which has become

a well-known community institution, was

originally a child of the American Artists Professional League.

It is now observed with a large exhibition with prizes for outstanding artists. Among the donors who have contributed

prizes are the Elks Club, the American

Legion and Auxiliary, various women's

clubs, and the YMCA which has always been generous in support of American Ait Week and the smaller exhibitions that grew out of it. The League came into being in the war

days of 1944 primarily for the benefit of persons in the armed services. It was

organized to arrange art activities and

exhibitions for armed forces artists who

visited or were stationed on the Isthmus.

Many of the group for whom it wai

formed were recent graduates of art schools or had had brief careers in art before they entered the armed services. The local tropical scenery and atmosphere

provided new and tempting subject matter for many of these young artists and

wartime conditions created the need for an outlet for their creative interests. The first art clubs and classes for service personnel were organized and directed by E. C. Stevens at the Balboa YMCA.

But the constant shifting of the armed

forces artists created a need for a civilian group to stabilize any such art groups, and the Art League was formed to create such a nucleus and to fill the need of that

time.Roger Morrow First President The first president of the newborn Art League was the Canal employee, Roger Morrow. As the organization grew, the

exhibits increased until they were too

large for the YMCA lobby. Then arrange- ments were made for the organization to use the YMCA basement area, w^hich was

also outgrown in 1951 as a space for the annual exhibition. At that time the Jewish Welfare Center provided space in its former music room for the present per- manent ballery. Much of the work in the early Art League days was done in pencil, pen and

ink, and watercolors because of the wartime difficulty in obtaining other art materials. The early interaction of art ideas be- tween the local artists and armed forces members new to the Isthmus influenced the style and approach of the group and

resulted in a new freshness of style. The

quality improved as it has since that time—and the amount of oil painting

increased.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952

Industrial Bureau Repairs

Craft Which Haul Ex-Kings

And King Tuna During May

Fishing boats are fishing boats to the Panama Canal Company's Industrial Bureau, whether the fishing craft be those which carry ex-kings or those which carry king tuna. Both types were under repair last month in the Industrial Bureau's yards at Mount Hope. The ex-king's fishing boat, Young Joe,

is not quite that, technically. Along the Canal waterfront, the 315-ton former minesweeper became known as the king's yacht almost from the minute she touched

port in April with former King Leopold

of Belgium aboard. But members of the Young Joe's crew insist that the vessel is on a scientific expedition and that the presence aboard of the former king was

coincidental. The Young Joe belongs to the Inter- national Society of Marine Biological Research, to translate its French name some- what literally, and has aboard a group of scientists who are primarily interested in plankton, small fish, and fish parasites. They are also somewhat interested in bats, as witnessed by two hour-glass shaped cages of the flying mammals,

some of them vampires, which hung on

the Young Joe's rear deck. The one-time minesweeper is equipped

with electrical fishing gear which stuns marine life so that it can be brought aboard without the damage caused by

either hook or net. Presence of the Young Joe in the Mount

Hope shipyard was for a general overhaul on its two engines. The Young Joe had

transited the Canal May 6 after a fishing

trip to the Pearl Islands. The former

king and his wife and several of the

scientists did not remain aboard but went

on to Venezuela.

In the meantime the overhaul was de- layed pending the arrival of several parts which had to be ordered from the States. Many could have been manufactured here but special tooling would have been re- quired and the cost for such work—here

or anywhere else—runs high. While the overhaul of the Young Joe's engines was going on, a fishing boat of another vintage was dry-docked on the marine railway not far away. This was

the 391-ton tuna fisher, Del Sur, which had ripped off most of her keel and bent

her rudder when she ran onto a reef off the Pearl Islands late in April. She was

towed here for repairs. Industrial Bureau craftsmen first had

to get her into the supporting cradle which raises the vessel a man's height from a wooden platform. This was ac- complished by running the prepared

cradle down a marine railway, part of whose tracks are submerged, until the damaged fisher could be maneuvered into the exact center and shored into place. Once on dry land, the damaged keel was completely torn off, a new keel made

from a piece of 24 x 24 inch lumber, 80

feet long, and the rudder straightened. The two fishers were only two of the

jobs which occupied the Industrial Bureau's marine experts. In addition there were small Navy craft for overhaul or repair and a whole drydock full of small, miscellaneous vessels of one sort or another.

New Civil Intelligence Branch Chief

ROBERT C. WALKER, left, assumed his duties early last month as Chief of the Civil Intelligence Branch. He succeeded Earl J. Williamson, right, who is leaving this month to accept another position with the Federal Government in Washington. D. C. Mr. Walker served six years as Deputv Director

of the Intelligence and Security Division for the Field Command of the Armed Forces Special Weapons

Project, with headquarters in Albuquerque, N. Mex., before joining the Canal organization. Mr. Williamson has several years of Canal service and since last March he has been Chief of the Civil Intelligence Branch. Panama Canal Theaters

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Tropical Treasure! Typhoon! and Temptation 1

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FLYNN ROMAN pla»>* N. RICHARD NASH v GORDON DOUGLAS
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

Student Leaders

CARL PINTO, elected at the end of the past

school year, will serve as the new president of the Student Association at Cristobal High School. He

has attended school at Cristobal since the fourth grade and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fabian Pinto

of Colon.

CHARLES A. SMITH has been elected President

of the Balboa High School Student Association for the 1952-1953 school year. He was vice president of

his junior class and has attended the Canal Zone

schools since he entered the first grade in 1943. He

is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John \V. Smith of Rousseau.

OUR OUT-OF-DOORS

PLANTING TIME

(Prepared by Canal Zone Experiment Gardens!

For those people interested in having a wet-season flower bed or a few choice shrubs and trees around their quarters,

this will act as a reminder that now is a good time to get started. The rains will apparently be with us for several months

and the earlier we get the plants in the ground the better. This will give them a good chance to get established before next dry season. Materials required are few and inex- pensive as compared with most hobbies

or sports one might become interested in, either for pleasure or the exercise involved. A spade or shovel, rake, hoe, and possibly a pick for heavy digging are about all that

is required in the way of tools. You will need fertilizers, sprays, and preferably good soil brought in if the present soil is poor. From there on, it is a matter of securing desired planting material and

giving it the proper care. Many of the flowers available such as

There's a baron in the Commissaries now

for almost every budget and every set "i tastebuds. Four new nationally advertised

I Hili'il St. ilcs brands base lieen added, each with its own heavy or lighl or other- wise distinctive run' thai marks the special and secret process ol its manufacturer. The current first quality bacons are Wilson's Certified, Armour's Star, and Brand- Cudahy's Puritan, all in one-hall Name pound packages. Swift's Oriole, Bacon the fourth addition, is a popular No. 2 bacon. These are in addition to the bacon sold under the Commissary label, also currently

sliced from a well-known nationally advertised brand; and bacon squares, the real penny-saver of the lot at 30 cents a pound. For a paint job that makes ladies' lips look good and stay that way all clay, there's

a liquid lacquer named Lip-Stae to wear on

top of lipstick to keep it on. A new lot of lamb, at a more comfortable

price, was bought by the Commissary Division in Ireland. If a steady supply can be

assured, there'll be more of this lamb to please Scotch budgeteers and all true sons

of Erin.

A weather-proof salt named Diamond

Crystal is new in the -ions these days. The

maker assures that in laboratory te I il linn ed lour t imes n i re istanl to damp

ness than ordinary sail.

Bigger frozen fowl are in the commissaries now. They weigh lour pounds and more,

in fit big families and big appetites. Frozen turkeys are now being sold in the commissary prepackaged meal ection

I he pliofilm-wrapped birds, weighed and

priced and ready to take- home, cost 82

cents a pound if they are eviscerated, and

68 if they are not.

For June wedding belles, the Baker; Sa

lion points out they make wedding cakes

for just such occasions, you tell And your store manager just what you June want and furnish the ornaments

Brides for decoration. Then the Bakery

Section works hard to fix what you

ask for . . . for 75 cents a pound.

Special bakery orders are also taken for individual ice cream squares and sheet cakes

iced in pastel shades, and cut to lit the number of guests at a party.

Would-be gift givers who are scratching

their heads over gifts for the head of the home, might consider this Father's Day

suggestion list from men in the Commissary

Division. Zippo cigarette lighters engraved with the Panama Canal Company and the Don't Canal Zone Government seals that Forget cost $4.25, and regular Zippos for Father $1.95 . . . Penfold golf balls made

in England cost 58 cents each and

could be bought by the box for a fancy

golf-bend gift . . . Kaywoodie pipes cost $2.75 . . . Benrus Sea Baron watches at $27.95 are waterproof and shockproof, and

the Barracuda by the same maker is a 17- jewel shockproof, waterproof, and self-wind- ing watch that costs $36.75 . . . there are

fishing reels from $3.85 for the snook fisher- men and on up to $56 for deep-sea fishing fathers . . . casting rods range from $6.55

to $20.75 ... to go with the rods and reels there are nylon, linen, and cuttyhunk lines

. . . sheathed hunting knives bv W. R. Case

for$3.30 . . . toilet sets, Old Spice, Yardley's, and John Hudson Moore for $1.20 to $4 . . . ties—many Wembleys and Arrows, among others . . . And good for all men who like to be

comfortable is a new Arrow Bi-way shirt with a disappearing neckband that makes

it comfortable and good looking either as a sport or dress shirt. It comes in colors or fancy stripes and costs either $3.60 or

$3.95.

A new and good gadget is a porcupine soap tray to keep your soap New high and dry. It has rubber Household bristles that stand up in the air Gadget that serve also as a rubber massage brush.

Pillsbury and Gold Medal flour can now

be bought in 2-pound packages as well as

in the 5-pound bags sold before.

There's a large lot of scissors in the stores right now, including pinking shears for potential home seamstresses.

This is the time of year when the sugar

in the commissaries comes from cane fields

in the Republic of Panama. From about March through August, after the crop in Panama is made into sugar, the largest put- chases by the Commissary Division are made. The native sugar is bought on the

basis of United States Federal Specifications and the money value amounted to $146,- 159.39 last fiscal year.

For dietetics and dieters who don't like to gain pounds, there's a new non-fat milk powder called Sanalac. And for salad fanciers who like to dress up their dressings, there are these vinegars you might not know about: Heinz white, malt, tarragon, and red wine.

gardenias, coffee roses, periwinkles, ixora, pentas, roses, and other similar plants hold up well as cut flowers allowing one

to enjoy their beauty indoors as well as

out. They grow readily and many of them flower throughout the year. A wide variety of handsome flower- and

shade-trees will be found to meet every

landscape need. Such trees as the numerous cassias, Iagerstroemia, jacaranda,

royal poinciana, to mention a few, give

a beautiful show of color when in flower. Choice budded fruit trees such as orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, and mango are available at the Gardens and

will give you shade as well as fruit. What

could be nicer than your own limes for your favorite drink? Those who wish to limit their gardening to indoors will also find a wide range

of plants suitable for this purpose at the Gardens. The lack of sunlight in most

of the Canal Zone quarters somewhat

limits the plants that can be grown indoors; however, this need not discourage one too much. Philodendrons, ferns, begonias, violets, peperomias, and many

others will do well under shaded conditions. Planting around Canal quarters is per- mitted in many areas and if there should be any doubt, permission can be secured through the Grounds Maintenance Division. In most of the quarters now being

constructed, only the front lawn areas

are landscaped, leaving the rear areas for the occupant to plant as he wishes. This

should allow room for that special flower bed or any flowering shrubs you might

desire. Any questions you might have in re- gards to plant material, planting methods,

plants best suited for your particular area, can be answered through the Gardens. To fulfill that desire to exercise out of doors, begin now on your planting and you will be more than satisfied with the

results.
14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952 THIS MONTH'S CALENDAR

JUNE

6th—American Legion Post No. 6, Gamboa, 7:30 p. in. 7th—Track Foremen, Balboa B & B Shops. 8th—Pipefitters, Margarita Clubhouse,

9:30 a. m. Sheetmetal Workers, No. 157, Balboa

Clubhouse, 9:30 a. m. Plumbers, No. 606, Balboa Lodge Hall, 9:30 a. m. 9th—Machinists, No. 699, Margarita K.

of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. American Legion, Post No. 1, Balboa,

7:30 p. m. 10th Electrical Workers, No. 397, Wirz

Memorial, 7:30 p. m. VFW Post No. 100, Old Boy Scout

Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Post No. 2, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Post No. 7, Fort

Clayton, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary No. 1, Balboa, 7:30 p. m.

11th—Carpenters, No. 913, Balboa Lodge

Hall, 7:30 p. m.

Pacific Civic Council, Board Room,

Administration Building, 7:30 p. m. 13th—Blacksmiths, No. 400, with Boiler- makers No. 463 and 471, Margarita

K. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. 15th—CLU-MTC, Balboa Lodge Hall. 8:30 a. m. 16th—Truckdrivers, Balboa Lodge 1 1, ill. 7:30 p. m.

Electrical Workers, No. 677, Gatun

Masonic Temple, 7:30 p. m. 17th—Machinists, No. 811, Balboa Lodge

Hall, 7:30 p. m. Operating Engineers, No. 595, Margarita K. of C. Hall, 7 p. m. 18th—AFGE No. 14, Balboa Clubhouse,

7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary No. 3, Gatun, 7:30 p. m. 19th—American Legion Auxiliary No. 6, Gamboa, 7:30 p. m.

23d—Machinists, No. 699, Margarita K.

of C. Hall, 7:30 p. m. VFW Auxiliary, Post 3822, Post Home,

7:30 p. m. 24th—Operating Engineers, No. 595, Balboa Lodge Hall, 7 p. m. VFW Post No. 100, Old Boy Scout

Building, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 25th—AFGE No. 88, Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary No. 2, Cristobal, 7:30 p. m. 26th Governor-Employee Conference,

Board Room, Administration Building,

2 p. m. JULY

1st—Gamboa Civic Council, Community

Center, 7:30 p. m. Gatun Civic Council, Gatun Clubhouse,

7:30 p. m. 2d—VFW Post No. 40, Wirz Memorial,

7:30 p. m. 3d—Carpenters, No. 667, Margarita Clubhouse, 7:30 p. m. 4th—Independence Day

June Sailings

From Cristobal Ancon-- June 6 Panama ___Junel3

Cristobal ... _ _ _ June 20 Ancon ...June 27 From New York

Panama -June 4

Cristobal . June 11 Ancon--- June 18 Panama June 25

ANNIVERSARIES

Employees who observed important anniversaries during the month of May are listed alphabetically below. The number of years

includes, all Government service with the Canal or other agencies. Those with con- tinuous service with the Canal are indicated with (*). 40 Years Maj. George Herman, Chief, Police

Division. Berney J. Robinson, Steam Engineer, Bunkering Section, Terminals Division. 35 Years

Francis J. Moumblow, Lockmaster, Gatun Locks. 25 Years Landen H. Gunn, Operator, Pipeline Suction Dredge, Dredging Division. George F. Herman, Construction and

Maintenance Foreman, Dredging Division. *Greta E. Mann, Nurse, Gorgas Hospital. 20 Years James O. Deslondes, General Store- keeper, Storehouses Division. Donald P. Hutchinson, Junior Control House Operator, Pacific Locks.

15 Years Frank A. Anderson, Jr., Plumber, Maintenance I )ivision. Robert M. Blakely, Machinist Leading- man, Industrial Bureau. Russell W. Elwell, Ironworker-Welder,

Industrial Bureau. Peter S. Legge, Steam Engineer, Dredging 1 livision. Mary F. Maguire, Secretary, Office of the Executive Secretary. John A. McNatt, General Investigator. Frank W. Van Home, Lock Operator,

Pacific Locks. Robert Van Wagner, Administrative

Assistant, Maintenance Division. F. C. Willoughby, Operator-Foreman

Mechanic, Electrical Division.

RETIREMENTS

IN MAY

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

Employees who retired at the end of May, their birthplace, titles, length of service at retirement, and their future addresses are: Kathleen T. Baxter, Maine; Teacher, Ancon Elementary School; 30 years, 7 months, and 23 days; Waterville, Me. Sue P. Core, Indiana; Teacher, Ancon

Elementary School; 33 years, 6 months, and

18 days; future address uncertain. William H. Dunlop, Illinois; Finance

Director; 26 years, 4 months, and 13 days;

plans uncertain. Gustaf R. Holmelin, New York; Senior

Chief Towboat Engineer, Navigation Division; 36 years, 6 months, and 24 days; East Meadows, N. Y. Harland V. Howard, Vermont; Electri cian Operator Foreman, Power Branch; 23

years, 11 months, and 14days;Wesl Wood-

-id, k, Vt. Gordon F. Kariger, Louisiana; Pilot, Navigation Division; 19 years, I month, and 4 days; Norfolk, Va. James G. Maguire, Maine; General Foreman, Electrical Division; 38 years, 4 months, and 11 days; Old Orchard Beach, Me.Solomon S. Shobe, Missouri; Dipper Dredge Operator; Dredging Division; 32

years, and 1 days; Birmingham, \l.i. Clarence Sibus, New York; Assistant Superintendent, Pacific Locks; 28 yeai , I month, and 20 days; Winter Park, Fla. Edna C. Whitver, Missouri; Governmental Accountant, Finance Bureau; 25

years, 3 months, and 1 day; Orlando, Fla.

April 15 Through May 15

The following list contains the names of those U. S.-rate employees who were transferred from one division to another (unless the change is administrative) or from one

type of work to another. It does not contain within-grade promotions and regradings. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Frank Koenig, from Guard, Locks Division, to Postal Clerk, Postal, Customs, and

Immigration I (ivision. Howard H. Alexander, from Guard, Locks Division, to Policeman, Police Division.Mrs. Emily J. Price, from Library

Assistant to Librarian, Library Branch. Beverly G. Y. Chan, from Library

Assistant to Museum Aid, Library Branch. William H. Stephens, Jr., from Cus- toms Guard, to Postal Clerk, Postal, Customs, and Immigration Division. Mrs. Marion M. Webb, from Substitute Teacher to High School Teacher, Schools

1 livision. Mrs. Nancy N. Cottrell, from High

School Teacher to Substitute Teacher, Schools I livision. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION BUREAU Roy J. Wilkey, from Lock Operator Win in. mi, Pacific Locks, to Wireman, Electrical I >i\ ision. James W. Riley, from Telephone Instal- ler-Maintainer to Automatic Switchman,

Electrical Division. Mrs. Mae B. Cross, from Clerk-Typist

to Clerk, Maintenance Division, Leon M. Warren, from Assist. ml Supei

intendent, Southern District, to Construction Management Engineer. Maintenance

1 )i\ ision.

Charles P. Morgan, from Superintendent, Refuse Collection and Disposal, Ground

Maintenance Division, to General Construction Inspector, Contract and Inspection

Division. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

William H. Gonzalez, from Electric Welder to Combination Welder, Industrial Bureau. MARINE BUREAU

William C. Keepers, from Control- House Operator to Lockmaster, Pacify Locks. Arthur J. O'Donnell, from Lock Operator Wireman Leader to Control House

( Iperator, Pacific Locks. Daniel P. Kiley, from Lock Operator Wireman lo Lock Operator Wireman Leader. I '.ii ific l.oi ks. Genova J. Gibbs, from Lock Operator

Machinist to Lock Operator Machinist

Leader, Pacific Locks. William J. Gilbert, from File Clerk, Administrative Branch, to Guard, Atlantic Locks. William E. Hof>kins, from Pilot-in- Training to Probationary Pilot, Navigation

Division. Victor C. Melant, from Drill Runner to Storekeeper, Dredging Division. Joaquin E. Cruz, from Supply Clerk, Housing Division, to Accounting Clerk,

I iircLing I livision. Rutberford B. H. Stroop, III, from Customs On, ml, Postal, Customs, and Immigration Division, to Marine Dispatcher

I i ainee, Xa\ igat ion I >i\ ision. Alfred Gloss, from 'Third Assistant Marine Engineer, Aid- t" Navigation Section,

to Chief Towboat Engineer, Navigation

Division. (See page 15)
June 6, 1952 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Supplies Valued At $1,380,000 Bought

This Fiscal Year From Panama Sources

General Rice Leaves

Panama Canal purchases of supplies in the Republic of Panama totaled $1,380,-

(ii)(l for the first nine months of this fiscal year, a gain of $205,000 over the comparable period in the fiscal year 1951. These figures are exclusive of purchases by other Government agencies and contractors in the local markets.

Local purchases by the Canal organization during the third quarter of this fiscal year, January through March, were re- ported at $475,000 as compared with

$521,000 during the third quarter of last

fiscal year. The $40,000 decrease was

attributed to the heavy purchases of sugar and building material from Jan- uary through March of last year. The purchase of all commodities, other than sugar and building materials, showed

a substantial gain this year over the 1951

figures. The sugar supply for the Commissary Division is bought on a contract

basis and no local suppliers entered bids during the early part of this fiscal year, although the stock for the present quarter

is being supplied locally. No Heavy Stockpiling Now

The drop of nearly $80,000 in the pur- chase of building materials was influenced by two factors. The Storehouse Division was stockpiling these materials early last year for the building program. No heavy

stockpiling is being done at present since two of the largest building contractors

this year elected to make their own pur- chases under an elective clause in the

construction contracts. While no figures on these purchases by contractors in the

local markets are available to the Canal,

it is believed probable that building materials are being bought in much heavier

quantities this year than last because of the greatly expanded building program. There was an increase of more than

$50,000 in the purchase of materials in

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

{Continued from page 14) Kenneth G. Taylor, from Policeman,

Police Division, to Guard, Locks Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Loron B. Burnham, from Employee

Relations Assistant to Employee Counsellor, Employment and Utilization Division. RAILROAD AND TERMINALS BUREAU

John F. Droste, from Auto Repair Machinist, Motor Transportation Division, to Auto Repair Machinist, Terminals Division. Richard H. Harper, from Policeman,

Police Division, to Auto Repair Machinist, Terminals Division. Marion E. Taake, from Policeman, Police Division, to Cribtender Gauger and

Foreman, Terminals Division. Robnett B. I Hill, from Gauger and Steam Engineer and Foreman, Cribtender,

to Steam Engineer, Terminals Division. Maxwell S. Sanders, from Steam Engineer to Relief Assistant Marine Bunkering Foreman, Terminals Division. Roy W. Perkins, from Assistant Relief Marine Bunkering Foreman, to Assistant Marine Bunkering Foreman, Terminals

Division. Fred W. O'Rourke, from Assistant Marine Bunkering Foreman to Marine Bunkering Foreman, Terminals Division.

Panama in the third quarter of this fiscal year over that of last year in the various

categories other than sugar and building

materials. The following figures, in round numbers, show the amount of purchases for the two third quarters:

January - March Meat products... - $180,000 Siss.niwi Fruit and vegetables l"»,oihi 37,000 Other agricultural products.. 10,000 12,000 Other food products 4,000 9,000 Beverages- ... 26,000 35,000 Sugar and alcohol 55,000 2,000

Forest products.... 13,000 30,000

Industrial products 115,000 63,000 Miscellaneous supplies.... 83,000 99,000

Totals... $521,000 $475,000 The following table shows total pur- chases for the first 9 months of the fiscal years 1951 and 1952:

July I950 - July 1951- Mar. /</<;! Mar. nj$2 Meat products $300,000 $532,000

Fruits and vegetables 75,000 99,000 Other agricultural products . 32,000 38,000 Other food products 13,000 22,000 Beverages 75,000 .104,0(10 Sugar and alcohol 85,000 0,000 Forest products 17,000 122,000

Industrial products 200,000 185,000 Miscellaneous supplies 250,000 209,000

Total ..$1,175,000 $1,380,000

It is believed that the total purchases

for this fiscal year will exceed by nearly

a half million dollars those in the fiscal year 1951. Buying in the Panama market

during the last quarter of the fiscal year

1951 was comparatively light, whereas

the local purchases during April and May

of this year are reported at about the same level as has prevailed throughout

this year. In addition, the purchase of

local sugar will be added to this year's

figures in the last quarter. Beef Purchases Heavy The purchase of Panama beef cattle during January, February, and March of

this year represented, by far, the greatest

MAJ. GEN. GEORGE W. RICE, Health Director,

will complete his assignment in the Canal Zone this month, lie plans to sail for the States late this month

and expects to be temporarily assigned to duty at Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex . where

he and Mrs. Rice plan to make their future home.

Oeneral Rice took office as Chief Health Officer of The Panama Canal in May 1949, the title being changed to Health Director when the reorganization

of the Canal took place in July 1950.

money value of any single product bought

locally. Beef purchases during these three months totaled nearly $lfj(),()()0. Other meat products bought in substantial quantities were seafood and fowl. Over

$18,000 was spent for fish, lobster, and

shrimp. An $8,000 gain was shown in the pur- chase of local fresh fruits and vegetables during the third quarter over the comparable period of last fiscal year. This

increase was attributed largely to the co- operative efforts which have been made

during the past two years by Panama and

Canal authorities as well as local producers to increase this trade. The most notable increases in the comparative figures for the two third-quarters were in the purchase of forest products and beverages. The purchase of forest products increased by $17,000 while ap- proximately $9,000 more was spent this year for beverages of various classifica- tions. Your Health

The malaria season, like Christmas, comes every year, but holds out longer. Malaria isn't fun like Christmas, either. It kills some people and it makes some

very sick—not just once, but sometimes

off and on for years. The malaria germs that make you sick always go around with mosquitoes. And

mosquitoes are thickest in the rainy season months from May right through December. The germs are choosey about their

friends; they stick with Anopheles mosquitoes. But you seldom can ask a mosquito his name before giving him permission to

bite you. So it's best not to play with mosquitoes

at all if you don't want to mix with

malaria. To miss the mosquitoes who carry the germs who carry the disease of malaria, there are time-tested rules that you too can try that have kept smart people healthy before you.

(1) Unless you have real business out- doors at night, stay indoors where there

are good screens around you. The hunting and fishing, forinstance, could wait until dry season when you

don't catch so many mosquitoes. And if you must go to the interior for your weekend fun, stay away from the

beaches and unscreened buildings after dark.

(2) If you have to be outdoors at night, keep moving—and use an insect repellant.

(3) Chills and fever are signs to be

watched. See a doctor when they develop.

On November 1, 1904, the police department of the Canal Zone consisted

of three officers, 85 men, a chief clerk, and one assistant.

The Isthmian Canal Commission in- herited from the French company 2,175

buildings.
16 THEJ>ANAMAr CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1952 New Apprentice Course Begins In July g

POTENTIAL APPP.EXTIC'ES in the Canal's apprentice training program are shown here taking the apprenticeship examination administered by 0. A. Dubbs,

Training Officer. Successful candidates will start in July four-year training courses in nine crafts in the Canal organization.

Sixteen apprentices in the Canal organization will start in July four-year train- ing programs leading to qualification as journeymen in 10 crafts. The apprenticeship examination, the

results of which form the register from

which the 16 apprentices will be chosen, was given to 41 applicants on May 10. The test, which is given annually in May, was administered by C. A. Dubbs,

Training Officer, and B. G. Mauzy,

Assistant Training Officer. The apprenticeships to be established

this year will be in the following crafts and Canal units: Industrial Bureau: Three machinists, two combination welders, and one boatbuilder. Electrical Division: Four wiremen, two

cablesplicers and one automatic-tele- phone switchman. Commissary Division: One refrigera- tion-service mechanic.

Printing Plant: One printer and one

offset pressman.

Results of the apprenticeship examination serve as an aid to the employing

officer in the units in which apprentices

are to be appointed. The pattern of tests is made up of: The

Otis Test of Mental Ability; the Bennett

Test of Mechanical Comprehension; the O'Rourke Test of Mechanical Aptitude;

the Purdue Industrial Classification Test; the Minnesota Test of Spatial Relations; a manipulative exercise; and a test of numerical ability. Last year 24 apprentices were appointed from among 71 applicants taking the test. Applicants must be high school graduates between the ages of 172 and 23. Five of the six who ranked highest on

this year's examination were under 18 years of age and the same five were all from the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. The results of the examination form

only one of the bases on which applicants

are chosen for the apprenticeships. The

applications which go to the employing

officers in the various units also include the standard Form 57 United States ( lov- ernment application, the applicant's high

school and college transcripts, and recom- mendations from school authorities.

The four-year training program in- cludes practical shop experience and class- room work, under the general direction

of Philip Green, Industrial Training Coordinator. The classes, taught by Mr. Green, are very much the same for all apprentices during the first year of training, with less time but more individualized instruction

as they become more specialized. The amount of classroom work varie3

for the different trades but amounts to something like 500 to 850 hours in the

four years of training. The times and

periods for classwork also vary consider- ably for different trades and at different periods of the training but are frequently given one day weekly.

Colon, Cristobal Police Praised For Joint Patrol

Resolutions of commendation for their part in maintaining the joint police patrol which has operated successfully in the New Cristobal area for the past year were made last month by the Cristobal-Margarita Civic Council to Maj. Pastor Ra- mos of the Colon Police and Capt. John

Fahnestock of the Cristobal Police. Colon and Canal Zone police share the motor patrol which operates in this area on a 24-hour a day basis.

Major Ramos' commendation was delivered to him by Edward D. White, Jr., President of the Cristobal - Margarita

Council, in the presence of Col. Richardson Selee, Civil Affairs Director, and Maj. George Herman, Chief of the Canal Zone

Police. The commendation for Captain Fahnestock was sent to the Governor who

forwarded it to Captain Fahnestock with an accompanying congratulatory note.

In November 1904, the Isthmian Canal Commission's employees on the Isthmus numbered 3,500. In November 1905, they totaled approximately 17,000.

New Military Assistant To Governor HH

I.T. ('« IL. W. W. SMITH. JR., (left) has arrived on the Isthmus to take up his duties as Military

Vssdstant to the Governor. He will suec I Lt. Qol. Marvin L. Jacobs, (right), who has been assigned as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Indiana. Colonel Smith, before coming to the Isthmus, had been on the Staff and faculty of the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir,

\ irginia He arrived on the Isthmus last month, accompanied by his wife and their three children.