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PANAMA

Vol. 1 3, No. 1

August 3, 1962

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LATIN AMEWC* (Jf/# for Posterity,
Robert J. Fleming. Jr., Governor-President W. P. Leber. Lieutenant Governor

Publications Editors: Joseph Connor and Guillermo Rodolfo Valdes

Will Arey

Panama Canal Information Officer

Editorial Assistants: Eunice Richard. Tobi Bittel, and Tomas A. CupasOfficii! Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly al Balboa Heights, C. Z. Printed at the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone On Kit at all Panama Canal Service Centen, Retail Stores, and the Tivoli Gueat House for 10 days after publication dau at 5 rail each Subscriptions, II a year; mall and back copies, 10 cents each.

PostaJ money orders made payable to the Panama Canal Company should be mailed to Box M. Balboa Heights. C. Z. Editorial Offices are located in the Administration Building. Balboa Heights. C. Z.

Canal Employees Support

Panama's Museum

IN THIS MONTH'S COVER PHOTOGRAPH, Mrs. Thelma Bull, a statistical assistant on the Executive

Planning staff at Balboa Heights, examines with Dr. Alejandro Mendez, Director of the National Museum of Panama, a piece of polychrome Indian pottery which she

discovered near Chame and presented to the Museum.

Other artifacts she has added to the Museum collection

include clay utensils, carved figurines, shell beads and a gold breastplate from the burial of a pre-Colombian

shaman, or medicine man, at Venado Beach, on the

Canal Zone.

Mrs. Bull is one of many Canal employees who has

long taken an intensive scientific interest in the pre- Colombian and colonial history of the saga-rich Isthmus.

Scientific articles of lasting value have been written by

members of the Archaeological Society of Panama, a group organized on the Canal Zone in 1949 which counts

Dr. Mendez among its members. All qualified persons of

allied interests on the Isthmus of Panama are eligible for membership.

Among other members of the group who have made

donations to the Museum collection are Gerald Doyle,

a Canal architect; Philip L. Dade, Chief of the Civil Defense Unit; and Mrs. Eva M. Harte, linen supply

supervisor at Gorgas Hospital.

Any archaeological work undertaken in the Republic of

Panama requires a permit from the national government.

Other Canal Zonians who are not necessarily archaeologists nevertheless share an interest in the ethnology,

natural science and contemporary art of the Isthmus.

Many of them have expressed this by joining the Friends

of the National Museum of Panama, a group organized

5 years ago to assist the work of the Museum by providing

extra funds and personal service. This group composed of Panamanians, members of the

foreign colonies in the Republic and residents of the

Canal Zone also welcomes people of similar interests to membership. Its headquarters are at the Museum on Cuba Avenue at 30th Street, in Panama City.

Index

Common Interests-Shared Experiences 3

In Boating, In Civic Organizations 4

As Generous Children, Good Neighbors 5

Professional Interests, Charitable Impulses 6

Horseback Riding, Bowling 7

Cooperative Training, Hobby Interests 8

Athletics, Joint Medical Effort 9

As School Children 10

Debutantes for Charity 11

12,000 Welcomed 12 New Dean for Junior College 14

Dean Hackett Retiring 15

Worth Knowing 16

Retirements 16

"Thar She Blows" 17

Safety 18

Promotions and Transfers 19

Canal History 20

Anniversaries 21

Shipping 22

Aucust 3, 1962
Brownies from Troop 79 of Balboa Union Church are among the many Zone residents who have visited the famous Presidential Palace in Panama.

Youngsters from Panama and the Canal Zone learn to swim at Balboa YMCA.

Common Interests - Shared Experiences

THE INTEREST of the men, women, and children associated with the

Panama Canal Company and die Canal Zone Government in Isthmian life, culture, art, history, archeology, language, and many other areas is demonstrated constantly by their extensive participation in various activities and

events in the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone.

In the area of culture, there are many occasions when Panamanians and

Zonians demonstrate their common interests and share opportunities to exchange ideas and knowledge. Zonians frequently attend cultural exhibits

and activities in Panama, sharing their enthusiasm for such events with other

Isthmian residents.

Socially, bodi as individuals and in groups, Canal personnel and citizens of the Republic mingle freely, visiting in each other's homes, attending functions to which both are invited, and meeting for casual conversation in both

formal and informal settings. In these activities, Panamanians and Canal personnel share their cultural heritage and enthusiasms from the cradle to the grave. Youngsters attend

school together to obtain an education, spare time activities such as Scouting

bring them together frequently, and adult pursuits continue to cement

understanding and appreciation developed through long years of association.

On the next several pages of the Review a few of the many activities which

lead to such associations in pursuits of common interest are presented. There

are many which are not mentioned, but which also contribute to Isthmian life, but those described and pictured are good examples of the hundreds of friendly daily contacts between Panamanians and Zonians on the Isthmus

of Panama.

The Panama Canal Review 3

Mrs. Pat Morgan, wife of a retired Canal

employee, is one of a number of Zonians

to be awarded the Vasco Nunez de Balboa by the Government of Panama for contributions to life on the Isthmus.
(Boating

HUNDREDS of amateur, leisure-time

sailors from both Panama and the Canal

Zone have become qualified small-boat

operators through participation in a 10-week course in piloting, seamanship

and small boat handling offered each

year by the Canal Zone Pacific Power

Squadron, local unit of the United

States Power Squadrons.

The course of instruction is free and

language is no problem, despite the fact that most of the lessons are given in English. One year in Cristobal the

lessons were translated on the spot by

bilingual students. Shown in the picture is Panama Canal

pilot Capt. S. F. Mason, right, explaining parts of a pelorus or dummy compass, to some of the students taking the course in Cristobal. Standing, left to

right, are Guillermo Gomez, Panamanian employee of the Italian Line; Dr. Willard French, of Coco Solo Hospital;

J. B. Coffey, superintendent of the Panama Canal Printing Plant; Arthur

Albright, electrical supervisor at Gatun

Locks; W. R. Byrd, assistant freight

agent, Terminals Division; seated left to

right, Hubert Kam, of the Goodyear

Rubber Co., Colon Free Zone, and Jose

Van Beverhoudt, Colon importer.

The popularity of boating on the Isthmus has made it one of the many

activities in which Zonians and Panamanians participate in their spare time.

There are frequent fishing trips by

boating friends from both the Republic

and the Zone, as well as skindiving, water skiing, swimming, and other aquatic sport events.

Civic Club ^MemberAnipTHE CRISTOBAL-COLON ROTARY

CLUB, founded by a group of Adantic- side businessmen in 1921, long has been

a constructive force in building an

excellent record of accomplishment and

cooperation between residents of the

Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama.

Approximately half of the 63 present

members of the club are Panamanian

citizens, while the other half includes

citizens of the United States, including Axton T. Jones, Director of the Transportation and Terminals Bureau of the Panama Canal Company, and several other Canal officials. Herman Henriquez, a partner in the Isthmian firm of Henriquez & Co., S. A., was speaker at a recent meeting of the

club. Although now a resident of Pan- ama City, Mr. Henriquez was one of the early members of the 41-year-old club and continues to maintain his membership in it. With Mr. Henriquez at the speaker's

table in the accompanying photo are Bernard Femminella, U.S. Vice Consul

in Colon; R. W. Owen, manager of C. Fernie & Co., and president of the club; Julio Dominguez and Lino

Sanfilippo C, Colon businessmen.

The Gold Coast club is only one of

a number of Isthmian civic organizations with bi-national membership, its sister club in Panama City also having

members from both the Canal organization and the Republic of Panama.

August 3, 1962
WHAT HAPPENS when the cook gives the king Purple People Eater Pie—when

the king's favorite is Pickled Bees Knees Pie? One answer (and not necessarily the only one) is that the Bella Vista Children's Home in Panama

receives a contribution of $7.40.

This, at least, was the answer that resulted from the recent production of King Cole and the Witch Doctor, a saga

written, directed, and presented by a group of Pacific-side children of Canal

QenerouA

Children

Qood jSeiyhbor*

personnel for their own amusement and

the financial benefit of the Children's Home.

Members of the cast are shown here

in their costumes, assembled from their own belongings—and anything else they

could find. From left to right, the youthful writers, actors, actresses, producers,

and stagehands are: David Steers, page;

John Arey, ambassador; Tommy Moyer,

second page; Steve Moyer, guard; Philip

Steers III, director; Vicki Harrison, the

king; Anne Harrison, guard; Bonnie

Leber, the witch doctor; and Yolan

Steers, the cook. The play was presented at the home

of Comptroller and Mrs. Philip L.

Steers, Jr., after nine rehearsals. After

the performance, refreshments were

served for both the participants and

the 26 enthusiastic members of the audience.

A second performance was given later

in the month at the Bella Vista Chil- dren's Home, thus giving the children there an opportunity to view the saga developed and presented on their behalf by the Canal youngsters.

PHILIP L. DADE, Chief of the Canal Zone Civil Defense

Unit, amateur archeologist, and weekend farmer, is one of

a number of Zone residents who own land and homes in the Republic of Panama.

Mr. Dade owns a small farm in Cocle which he visits nearlv every weekend. Since acquiring the farm some years ago, he

has planted a number of fruit trees on it, spent considerable

time and monev experimenting with various grain and vegetable crops, and has acquired numerous friends among per- manent residents of the area, many of whom he has assisted

in developing new planting methods. He also has assisted them

bv supplying various types of corn and vegetable seed for them to use. Cooperation with the local small farmers has not been

Mr. Dade's only contribution to the area, however. He has undertaken to improve the facilities of the two-classroom Cocle

school, which is located along the Inter-American Highway

about 6 miles west of Penonome. Mr. Dade bought enough

excess school desks from the Canal Zone to provide one for each of the approximately 90 children, had them trucked to the school, then hired a carpenter to rebuild the old desks

into seats for the new desks, all at his own expense. He is shown in one of the two refurnished classrooms. Why did he do it and why does he continue his aid to the school? ( He is now planning to supply some trees and shrubs

for the yard.) He says: "These people are my neighbors,

many of them are friends, and I treat them the same as

I would any neighbor anywhere. I like them, and, besides,

I feel like doing it."

The Panama Canal Review
-Profeteional Snteredt

TYPICAL of the many professional

organizations and individuals in Pan- ama and the Canal Zone which join forces to develop ideas, plan programs, and advance public knowledge of their special fields of interest are the librarians who formed the Association of Graduate Librarians of the Isthmus of Panama.

The Asociacion Bibliotecarias Gra- duadas del Istmo d» Panama, as the

bilingual organization is known in S BiBLtOTECA

ISTRACION

Spanish, was formed as a highlight of National Library Week in 1961, the

first year that libraries in Panama and

the Zone joined in observance of this event. Objectives of the organization, as set forth by the first president, Mrs. Carmen

de Herrera, Director of Libraries of the University of Panama, are to advance

the profession of librarianship and to work enthusiastically for the improvement of library service on the Isthmus

of Panama.

Mrs. Eleanor Bumham, Canal Zone

Librarian, served as vice-president of the new group and was one of the

leaders in its organization.

The regular meetings of the group

provide an excellent opportunity for the librarians to discuss problems of mutual concern and develop programs

of mutual interest. The organizing meetings were held

at the University of Panama Library, in front of which the accompanying pic- ture was taken. Those in the photo,

from left to right, are Mrs. Herrera; Mrs. Isaura de De las Casas, USIS

librarian; Miss Ana Maria Jaen, Director of the Panama National Library; Mrs. Burnham; Mrs. Evelyn Branstetter, Command Librarian, Albrook Air Force

Base; and Miss Shirley Welshinger,

formerly Staff Librarian, USABCARIB,

Fort Amador, now Librarian, La Biblio- teca de las Americas, Fort Gulick. Charitable StnpuUe*

THE NATIONAL RED CROSS of Panama benefitted in cash

recently when a group of women from the Panama community

of Las Cumbres and vicinity gathered at the Club Campestre

in Las Cumbres for a benefit tea during which they played

canasta and bingo. Those participating included a number of U.S. citizens whose husbands are employed by the Canal. A committee representing the entire group later presented

a check for $200 to Mrs. Roberto F. Chiari, wife of the Pres- ident of Panama, who is president of the Panama Red Cross. Residents of Las Cumbres, many of them North American

families associated with the Canal, often meet at social and

cultural affairs held in the community and women of the community frequently join forces to work for a number of welfare

projects and community activities.

August 3, 1962
HORSEBACK RIDING, like a number

of other outdoor activities, has a popular

following in both the Canal Zone and

among Panama Canal personnel. Groups

of Zone residents and Panamanian cit- izens join on weekends to ride along

beautiful bridal trails near Old Panama,

where the Club de Equitacion de

Panama Viejo has its headquarters.

Like all horse owners, members of the Club de Equitacion take consider- able pride in their mounts, which are

J4or£eback

laing.

both Panamanian bred and imported

from the United States and other countries. There are several riding clubs in the Canal Zone, members of which fre- quently join their fellow enthusiasts in the Republic to display their skill and

enjoy a ride. Zone riders have attended

a number of fairs in Panama, giving

demonstrations of horsemanship.

Riding thus has joined golf, tennis,

swimming, boating, and many other

activities which have brought residents

of the Canal Zone and Panama together

in the terminal city areas and the

interior for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Tulio Gerbaud of Panama are in charge of the Club de

Equitacion de Panama Viejo, several members of which are shown riding

past the famous ruins of the tower of the Old Panama Cathedral destroyed

in the raid by pirate Henry Morgan on

the city in 1617. Members of the club

include Mr. and Mrs. Gerbaud's daughters, Maria Eugenia and Annette, Yolanda de Urriola, Diane Boulger, Linda

Green, Mrs. Berta Lewis, and Devan

Powell.

cAthletic cActivity,

A GROUP of Canal Zone teenagers are learning the ABC's of judo these days

from Hector Sanchez, a University of Panama student who teaches the art of judo at the Balboa YMCA, Monday,

Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons. Mr. Sanchez learned much of his skill in judo from William O'Sullivan, official translator for the Panama Canal, who

coaches an adult class in judo.

This Japanese art of weaponless self- defense has been a hobby of numerous

U.S. citizens and Panamanians on the Isthmus for many years and for the past

several years has been a job requirement for members of the Panama

National Guard and the Canal Zone

Police. The Canal Zone Judo Club was

formally organized and affiliated with

the Panama Judo Association in 1956. Each participant in the judo training

classes or performances wears a belt signifying the degrees of skill in the

art. The belts are worn with the Judo-gi,

or practice costumes, such as Mr. Sanchez is wearing here.

The Panama Canal Review
-ytledical

Cooperation

THE PROBLEMS involved in creating

and maintaining a healthy environment

on the swampy, pestilence-ridden Isth- mus of Panama were some of the first to be tackled by technicians of the United States after it assumed the role of Isthmian Canal builder. Cooperation and joint effort between

health authorities in the Republic of Panama and those in the Canal Zone

has marked this effort from the earliest days of the construction effort. Under

the guidance and leadership of Col. William Crawford Gorgas and Isthmian

medical officials, malaria was reduced

to a minor health menace, dysentary was virtually banished, and yellow fever

all but disappeared.

The dread yellow fever, first beaten

into submission to medical technology

in Cuba by U.S. doctors and later so successfully attacked on the Isthmus, was a recurring problem in Panama

until after World War II, however,

when a joint effort by the United States and Panama health experts eliminated

the last vestiges of it. In a determined onslaught, the co- operating health experts conducted an Isthmian-wide campaign, tracing the yellow fever-bearing mosquito Aedes

Aegypti to its breeding habitat and

destroying it. Not a single case of yellow

fever has been reported on the Isthmus

since 1949 and not one of the diseasecarrying mosquitos has been found since

that time. In the accompanying photo, Dr. Pedro Galindo, well-known Panamanian

entomologist, is shown with Dr. K. O. Courtney, former member of the Canal

Zone Health Bureau, taking a blood

specimen from a resident of Bocas del Toro province during the anti-yellow

fever drive. Joint efforts of Panama and Zone

authorities to improve health conditions on the Isthmus continue today. Disease

outbreaks in either jurisdiction are

reported promptly to officials of the other jurisdiction. This cooperation and

mutual effort, on both an official and

unofficial level, brings together many

United States and Panamanian citizens with mutual professional interests and

results in frequent contact between

them. At present, authorities in Panama

and the Zone are studying the problem

of malaria on the Isthmus and hope to develop plans which will eradicate it,

just as yellow fever was eradicated more than a dozen years ago.

J4obbie3

STAMPS provide a common interest for a group of Canal employees and citizens of Panama who gather twice each

month at the JWB-USO to discuss the

fine points of stamp collecting, trade stamps, and exchange ideas. The Caribbean Stamp Club has

approximately 50 members, with more

than half of them being citizens of Pan- ama and most of the others from the Canal organization. A similar group, the

Cristobal Stamp Club, operates on the

Atlantic side of the Isthmus, also with

bi-national membership.

Hobbies such as stamp collecting are a constant incentive for association between citizens of the United States and Panama who live on the Isthmus. The pursuit of such common interests frequently result in lifelong social and

cultural friendships.

August 3, 1962
BOWLING, like many other sports, attracts citizens of both Panama and

the Canal Zone to its ranks as participants. The members of the teams affi- liated with the Pan Canal Bowling Association League meet at regular intervals

in the Bowling Centers on both sides of the Isthmus, for both practice and

regular competition.

Men and women both take part in

this popular sport, with some mixed

teams participating and others made

up of men only or women only. The

appeal of the challenging pins knows no

language or cultural barriers. Bowling has been going on for a long

time in the Canal Zone, the first set of bowling lanes having been installed in the Balboa Clubhouse in the 1920s. There are a number of clubs in operation today, with most of them being

organized along lines similar to that of the Balboa Men's League, members of which are shown in action here. This

league has 12, 5-man teams and meets

throughout the year in the Balboa

Bowling Center. More than half of the 60 team members are Panamanian

citizens and most of the remainder are U.S. citizens employed by the Canal

organization.

joint Vraining, —

COOPERATIVE training and instruction of personnel from the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone long has been an established practice with the Panama Canal Company and Canal

Zone Government.

(Bowlimy

Canal Zone firefighters and bomberos

from the Republic of Panama have fre- quent contacts with each other and once

each year join in sponsoring a Fire Pre- vention Week aimed at reducing fire hazards in the Republic and the Zone.

Police officers also have frequent contact through cooperative efforts to pre- vent and reduce crime on the Isthmus. There also are occasional pistol matches

between members of the two groups at the Canal Zone Police Firing Range.

In this age of atomic and hydrogen

bombs, Civil Defense also has become

a cooperative endeavor, with Zone

authorities cooperating with Panamanian agencies to provide training in radiological defense measures necessarv

to protection of the public in any attack with such weapons.

In this training class for Panamanian

bomberos, sponsored by the Canal Zone

Civil Defense unit and presented at Fort Clayton, the Panama firefighters learned how to operate and read the

delicate instruments which measure the amount of radioactivity in a given area. Luis Carlos Endara, Second Commandant of the Bomberos and Chief of

Civil Defense in Panama, is having his watch checked for radioactivity in the accompanying photograph, taken during

the training class. Philip L. Dade, Chief

of the Canal Zone Civil Defense unit is standing to the left of Mr. Endara.

More than 40 radiological monitoring

points now are maintained on the Isth- mus, including a number operated bv

the bomberos.

The Panama Canal Review
As School

Children

READIN', writin' and 'rithmetic are a cinch in both English and Spanish for scores of North American youngsters

from both the Canal Zone and Panama

who are enrolled in schools in the Republic of Panama.

When teachers and classmates speak

only Spanish, Junior from Ancon or Miss Boo from Balboa learn the lan- guage "rapidamente" or they are left out of the fun. As a result, the children who go to school in Panama are growing up with a fluent command of Spanish and even better—a host of

friends from all parts of the Republic.

To the many North American chil- dren who attend school in Panama, the Republic and its people long will be a second home and a foster family. They

never will be strangers in the land. The Colegio La Salle in Panama

has the greatest number of young

North Americans registered as students. Twenty-five youngsters whose parents

are U.S. citizens living in the Canal

Zone and Panama attend classes there during the regular school year. In Colegio Javier there are 10 U.S. citizen- students and in Colegio San Agustin,

7 are enrolled. The Liceo de Senoritas, a school for

girls, has two young ladies who are students from the United States enrolled

for regular classes. The Kindergarten Mercedes, on Avenida Mexico, has 19 children of U.S.

citizens who are learning pre-school manners and discipline along with boys

and girls whose parents are Panamanian

citizens. The Canal Zone children in- clude Sue Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Alexander, Assistant to the Panama Canal Information Officer and Richard Lester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lester, both of whom are employed by the Canal organization, and

David Steers, son of Comptroller and

Mrs. Phillip L. Steers, Jr. The University of Panama also has

a number of North American students attending regular classes and several others have enrolled recently in regular

classes in order to learn Spanish.

Thus, from kindergarten through col- lege age, children of Canal employees

develop the knowledge and understanding of Panamanian social, cultural, and

educational life which contributes so much to common understanding and

respect between peoples the world over.

10 August 3, 1962
Zaidee Sucre Camarano

J

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Marcela Chambonett

Sandy Schmidt Hutchins Julie Lynn Floyd

Maria del C. Miro Quezada A.

One of the Isthmus'

social events of the year

is the formal introduction of young ladies to Society. This year 20 young women from

Panama and the Canal Zone made their debuts through Las Damas

Guadalupanas. Active

in many social and

charity fields, Las Da- mas Guadalupanas are perhaps best known for feeding breakfasts every day to needy pre-school

Georgeann Kimsey Virginia Endara

Carol Kimsey Mary Duran

Maria Esperanza Lavergne

^bebutanted

jor

Cltarity,

children in the Mara- non district of Panama. The pre-debut activi- ties of the young women were climaxed

the night of July 20

when they made their formal debuts at the Debutante's Ball at the Union Club. Included among the 20 were Miss Carmen Sogandares,

Debutante of the Year, and Miss Eleanor Fleming, daughter of Governor Fleming.

Eleanor Fleming

Irma Suescum

[Ifi < '

I

Ivonne Gelabert Gretchen Howe

\

Dalys Bremer Escoffery Virginia Stokes Sheila Endara

A.-

Lee Ann Petroaky Carmen Sogandares

The Panama Canal Review 11

Guides Edward Michaelis and Sandra Wallace discuss Canal with two

passengers on the tourist ship Himalaya.

12,000 WELCOMED

MORE THAN 12,000 visitors were welcomed to the Isthmus and the Canal Zone last month by the new Canal Zone Guide Service, as members of it assumed responsibility for greeting and

serving Zone sightseers, whether local residents or travelers from afar. During the first 2 weeks of the Guide

Service operation, the seven guides then on duty provided individual service to

Guide Supervisor Robert Byrne explains operation of locks to visiting Peruvian Army officers.

Guide Fred Berest discusses history of murals in Adailistration Building with visitors from the United States.

6,273 Isthmian visitors. They provided

information, advice, descriptive litera- ture, and talks about the Canal, the Zone, and the Republic of Panama. The

pace set during the first 2 weeks continued during the remainder of July, with an average of more than 400

visitors a day being served by the guides

in a 7-day-a-week operation.

Visitors included several thousand

ships' passengers arriving in Balboa and

Cristobal aboard tourist vessels, includ- ing the Himalaya, Reina del Mar, Willem Ruys, and Oriana. School children and teachers from the Republic of Pan- ama, including a group of 150 teachers from Colon schools, also were among

the visitors served by the guides. There

also were Panamanian newsmen, busi- nessmen, and other touring groups from the United States, high-ranking

guests invited by Governor Fleming,

military personnel from the United

States, Peru, and other countries of the Western Hemisphere, and numerous

others from all walks of life.

During rest period from guide duties at Locks and ctr. ir points of interest, Guide Fanny Hernandez takes turn at Informatior^tf^k at Balboa Heights.

u a

Guide Alice Fulleton points out some Isthmian geographic features on relief map in Civil Affairs Building during tour by students and teachers from the

Republic:! de China School of Panama City.

Panama school children hear Spanish-language explanation of locks

operaTons by Guide Edward Michaelis during visit to M.raflores Locks.

Employees of the Balboa Retail Store and Panamanian guests board Las Cm- ceXr partial transit of Canal with Guides Michaelis and Wallace escorhng.

August 3, 1962 The Panama Canal Review 13
Coming

Dr. Charles L. Latimer

DR. CHARLES L. LATIMER, who

will succeed Dean Hackett as head of the Canal Zone Junior College this month, claims to have been a teacher

since the age of 8 years. He also claims

to have been an honest-to-goodness

cottonpicker—bagging 200 pounds of the fluffy fiber in a 12-hour, 60-cent day

of work at the age of 9 in his native South Carolina. His claim to an early start in the teaching profession is based on the role he plaved as a barefoot boy in a 2-room

South Carolina school. Having just been

placed in the fourth grade from the second—skipping the third—he was sent

for an hour each day to teach the

school's fifth grade pupils to read.

Preparing to observe his 38th birth- day on September 13—exactly 1 month

from the day he becomes Dean of the Canal Zone Junior College— Dr. Latimer

can look back at a career in which he was graduated from high school at 15 and the College of Charleston, S.C., at

18, followed by 4 years on active duty

with the U.S. Naval Reserve, in which

he now holds the rank of Commander.

(The new dean and his wife also will observe their 15th wedding anniversary

during September.)

After visiting the Canal Zone last February in connection with his pro- posed employment as Dean of the Junior College, Dr. Latimer said he was "favorably impressed by the Canal

Zone operation, by the school system,

and by the personnel in the schools."

"It was obvious," he said, "that here was a going concern and one with which

NEW JUNIOR

COLLEGE DEAN

a professional person could be asso- ciated with pride. I saw that the teachers were enthusiastic and enjoying their teaching, and that the students were

working industriously and happily."

Having met Governor Fleming during the 5-year stay in Europe which he now is ending, Dr. Latimer said he

remembers the Governor "had a tre- mendous interest in the schools, and in young people, and also a great interest

in host-nation relations, building up

good rapport between the Americans

and the French in the Verdun area," where the Governor then was serving.

The new |unior College Dean savs he expects no great changes in operational procedures at the college. "What

I saw of the operation was good, and

I just expect to attempt to make it even

better if I can. I am pleased to see

faculty members with such good training, experience, and real teaching

ability."

Praising Dean Hackett for "the careful manner in which he has prepared

for his successor," Dr. Latimer said of the retiring Junior College Dean: "His

21 vears of successful leadership will continue to show in the things we do

in the years to come. I will attempt to show the interest in each student that he has demonstrated, but his personal

knowledge of the entire history of the

college and of all its graduates and

former students will be impossible to match and hard to approximate."

The new Junior College Dean has

taught at the elementary, high school,

and college level, as well as serving

as an educational administrator. The

academic training which led to his bachelor's degree at an age when most

boys and girls are just getting ready to enter college did not end with that degree. In 1948 he received a master

of arts degree in social sciences from

Harvard University and 2 years later was awarded a master of education

degree from the same institution. He

received his doctor of education degree

from Columbia University Teachers

College in 1951. Married and the father of a 10-yearold son and 5-year-old daughter, Dr. Latimer is looking forward to adding

Spanish to the German, French, Dutch,

and English he already speaks. Both

he and his wife expect to master the language with relative ease, however,

inasmuch as they already read it. Dr. John L. Steele, Director of the U.S. Army Dependents' Education

Group, whom Dr. Latimer has served

as Chief of the Instructional Services Branch in France, Germany, Italy, and

Ethiopia, has written of the new Junior

College Dean's work in Europe:

"He has done brilliant work here,

taking a strong lead in pushing every

facet of his work to new ranges of comprehensive scope and new levels

of high professional competence. . . . Many of the most valuable programs

recently introduced in our schools stem from his energetic and competent

activity." Dr. Latimer, his wife Alice Louise, son James, and daughter Mary Louise

are scheduled to arrive in the Canal

Zone August 13.

14 August 3, 1962
. . . and Going

DEAN HACKETT

Mr. Junior College

A MAN WHOSE NAME has become

virtually synonymous with the Canal

Zone Junior College during the 26 years he has been associated with it as

instructor and dean will leave the school

this month, rightfully proud of his long

career with Canal Zone schools. Dean Roger C. Hackett has been more than an administrator and educator at the Junior College. He was

instrumental in the organization of the

Junior College Student Association,

which has played an important role in

life at the college. He also assisted in establishment of the Tropical Collegian, the college publication, and the Conquistador, the College yearbook.

Not content with the two college

publications, the energetic dean long

has written and edited The Spotlight,

a mimeographed newsletter loaded to the end of each page with the minutae

of accomplishments and successes of former Junior College students and fre- quently including personal observations

and comments by Dean Hackett. Always vigorous, intent on his pursuit of the moment, and deeply inter- ested in the training, education, and

activities of the young people with

whom he came in such constant contact. Dean Hackett came to the Canal Zone

as a teacher in 1930, joined the faculty

of the new Junior College in 1935, was named chairman of the college faculty

in 1941, and became the first fulltime dean in 1943.

Officially retired last March, Dean

Hackett was asked to stay through the remainder of the regular school year and the summer session of the college before terminating his long service with the school system. He and Mrs. Hackett will leave the Isthmus this month and plan to make their home in Raleigh, N.C.

Few, if any, of the 3,750 full-time day

students and 10,000 part-time extension

division and summer session students who have attended the college during

Dean Hackett's tenure there ever would

have suspected that this graying, scholarly man once served as a seaman on an

oil tanker and as an attendant on a

cattle boat. He did both, however, and

to hear him relate the resulting experi- ences today is to live them with him

again, so vivid are his comments.

His first tour at sea, as servant to 600 hungry, bawling steers bound for the English market, ended when he

"jumped ship" in Liverpool as a prelude

to visiting Paris to see the Olympic

games. He later wangled half-fare pas- sage back to the United States as a "professional cattleman." He abandoned the sea for the class- room for a number of years after that, but in the summer of 1933, while employed as a history teacher in Cristobal High School, he joined a tanker as an

ordinary seaman. The future college

dean made no attempt to match the performance of the crew member he

replaced, however, that worthy having

been removed from the vessel at Cris- tobal to be returned to Chicago to face

a murder charge.

In addition to his interests and activities on behalf of the Junior College,

Dean Hackett has taken a lively interest

in the Isthmian Historical Society and

this year is serving as president, after several years of service in other offices. A current pet project of the retiring

dean—but one he regretfully admits has

not been completed or even very far advanced thus far—is to trace the history

of famous Isthmian place names. Rut just as his major interest has been

the Junior College and the students who

have obtained part of their educations

there, so, too, does his conversation

inevitably turn to the school's activities and the careers of graduates. In 1941,

when he became chairman of the

faculty, day class enrollment stood at 168; last year, as he rounded out his

last full year as dean, day class enroll- ment was 391 and 359 night students were enrolled in the extension division, for a total of 750. Dean Hackett also looks back with

sincere interest and rightful pride at the many students who have attended

the college as a prelude to more

advanced education and high scholastic achievements. Approximately 35 former

students have earned doctors' degrees,

either in medicine or the more general

field of philosophy. A number also have

been elected to such highly regarded

college honor societies as Phi Reta Kappa and Sigma Psi, while others have

achieved marked success in business

or Government service. Many former

Junior College students now are employed by the Canal organization.

With Dean Hackett's departure from

the Isthmus, the Canal Zone will lose one of its most respected and useful

citizens; a man of whom his successor

says; "Dean Hackett has been pro- viding me with copies of reports, forms,

and statements of policy and procedure," acknowledging that this is giving

him extensive and continuous preparation for the duties he will assume this month.

All who have known Dean Hackett

through the years would fully expect

such attention to detail from this man, whose passion for hard work and continuous effort has been exceeded only

by his delight and enchantment with

the educational process—the sure sign

of a real teacher.

The Panama Canal Review 15
Worth knowing . . .

THE STOCKHOLDER of the Panama

Canal Company, Cyrus Roberts Vance,

who assumed office as Secretary of the Army on July 5, visited the Panama Canal

2 weeks after assuming his new duties. During a brief trip to the Isthmus, Stock- holder Vance, in dark suit in photo at right, toured Miraflores Locks and made a partial

transit of the Canal aboard the sightseeing launch Las Cruces. Shown with him in the

locks control house are Gov. and Mrs. Robert J. Fleming, Jr., on the extreme right

and left; Gen. George H. Decker, retiring U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and Mrs. Decker; Frank Dolan, control house operator, and

members of the Canal Zone Guide Service.

FRAMED AGAINST the Isthmian sky,

employees of Bildon, Inc., are shown

below hard at work on the "reconductoring" of the 44,000-volt transmission line between Miraflores Electric Substation

and the Balboa Substation. The line, which carries electrical current from Madden Power Station and Cocoli into the Pacific terminal area,

is being revamped to improve voltage

regulation in the Balboa area. When work on the project is completed about the middle of this month,

the entire line from Madden Power

Station to the Balboa Substation will have been reconductored. The work

on the line is part of the continuing

60-cycle conversion program.

RETIREMENTS

RETIREMENT certificates were pre- sented at the end of June to the employees listed below, with their positions

at time of retirement and years of Canal service.

Carlos Antioco, Laborer, Schools Division; 14 years, 7 months, 24 days.

Philip A. Clarke, Clerk, Railroad Division; 31 years, 10 months, 8 days.

Ruth C. Crozier, Elementary and Sec- ondary School Teacher, Schools Division; 33 years, 5 months, 19 days. Robert A. Engelke, Supervisory Administrative Services Assistant, Dredging

Division; 38 years, 7 months, 22 days. Reatrice Greenway, Laborer Cleaner, Schools Division; 20 years, 5 months,

28 days.

George M. Hall, Window Clerk, Postal Division; 18 years, 7 months, 3 days. Rernardine U. Hanna, Elementary and

Secondary School Teacher, Schools Division; 30 years, 5 months, 8 days. Leon S. Headley, Oiler, Dredging Division; 35 years, 3 months, 18 days. Walter H. Hebert, Supervisory Admeasurer,

Navigation Division; 33 years, 8 months, 6 days. Richard J. Koperski, Retail Store Supervisor, Supply Division; 24 years, 9 months, 24 days. Florence A. Lamson, Elementary and Sec- ondary School Teacher, Schools Division; 30 years, 8 months, 7 days.

Admiral E. Maitland, Brakeman, Railroad

Division; 26 years, 7 months. Salomon S. Martinez, Stevedore, Terminals

Division; 12 years, 4 months, 1 day. Gertrude M. Milloy, Voucher Examiner,

Accounting Division; 42 years, 3 months,

21 days.

Domingo Mojica, Laborer, Maintenance

Division; 14 years, 9 months, 17 days. Gerald M. Morgan, Helper, Lock Operator, Locks Division; 33 years, 9 months,

16 days. Selucus Myles, Stevedore, Terminals Division; 20 years, 3 months, 28 days.

Carl R. Newhard, Communications Management Officer, Electrical Division; 38 years, 8 months, 23 days.

Eduardo Pacheco, Garbage Collector, Community Services Division; 20 years, 25 days.

Sepferino Palacio, Maintenanceman, Electrical Division; 34 years, 1 month, 9

days.

Julio Pazmino G., Winchman, Terminals

Division; 23 years, 22 days. Pablo Pertuz C, Laborer, Supply Division; 15 years, 7 months, 21 days. Bernard F. Pohren, Boilermaker, Industrial Division; 21 years, 6 months, 8 days.

Clifton W. Ryter, Towboat or Ferry Master, Dredging Division; 35 years, 11 months, 28 days.

Rhanga Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division; 16 years, 7 months, 28 days.

Cyril A. Warren, Motor Launch Captain,

Dredging Division; 47 years, 10 months,

15 days.

Benigno A. Zorita, Oiler, Dredging Division; 36 years, 8 months, 27 days.

RETIREMENT certificates were pre- sented at the end of May to the employees listed below whose names were

omitted from the list printed in the July

issue of The Panama Canal Review.

Fitz H. Brathwaite, Painter, Maintenance

Division; 43 years, 10 months, 16 days. Herbert Newhouse, Policeman, Police Division; 21 years, 4 months, 22 days.

Manuel Olivares, Cement Worker, Locks

Division; 17 years, 2 months, 28 days.

Fulgencio Portillo, Boatman, Locks Division; 26 years, 8 months, 23 days. James B. Rigby, Guard, Locks Division; 22 years, 2 months, 25 days. Batan Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division; 32 years, 2 months, 24 days. Bir Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division; 30 years, 4 months, 26 days .

16 August 3, 1962
Cristobal Harbor -- 1921

"Thar

She

Blows"

ONE EARLY MORNING in November

1921, the master of the steamship Cedar

Branch radioed Panama Canal authorities that his ship had passed an obstruction to navigation 28 miles north and

5 miles true east from the Cristobal breakwater.

The obstruction, the shipmaster said, appeared to be about 120 feet long and

3 feet above water. There was not enough light to determine the nature

of the obstacle, but he guessed it was

a derelict with the poop deck raised. The news was duly reported by

Gov. Jay J. Morrow in a warning notice

to mariners. Several hours after the first report was received, two terrified San Bias Island coconut farmers found themselves swimming for dear life when their small "cayuco," loaded to the brim with

coconuts, was overturned at the entrance

of Cristobal breakwater by the backwash of a huge object which looked

suspiciously like a whale.

The Indians climbed the breakwater

to safety and, although the whale did

not try to molest them, it seemed to be

moving toward them, they said, when

thev tried to retrieve their boat. Thev

stayed on the breakwater until he was

well out of sight—inside the breakwater. Thus, the obstacle to navigation on

the high seas had become an obstacle to navigation inside the Cristobal harbor. Probably no one was more sur- prised that the master of the Eastern

Prince, who spotted the big mammal

from the bridge of his ship on the evening of November 17. The Eastern

Prince was coming down the Canal

channel to Cristobal, after making the northbound transit, when the whale was

sighted. For a time, it was a toss-up as to which would hit the channel bank, the whale or the ship. Luckily the whale

swerved just as collision was imminent

and the Eastern Prince continued down

the channel under the command of

a master who probably never again

touched anything stronger than tea. Whales, as this one soon learned, are

not built for shallow water, and shortly

after its near-collision with the Eastern

Prince, it grounded in the water to the

east of the Canal prism, about )* mile

south of the former Cristobal Coaling

Plant. There the big mammal remained,

with the top of its head and most of its

back showing above water.

It wasn't long before the news that a whale had arrived in Cristobal harbor

became generally known on both sides

of the Isthmus. Spectators arrived in droves and while every available launch was being pressed into service, the

situation received the official attention

of the late Chief Admeasurer F. E. Williams, who measured the visitor at 104.97 by 15.63 by 8.67 feet and

weighed 87.66 gross tons. With a whale nearly as big as Moby

Dick interfering with shipping operations in Cristobal, the Canal organization made plans for its immediate

removal. The idea was furthered by

Capt. Stirling Miller and Capt. John

Wieshofer, two Panama Canal pilots,

who volunteered to undertake salvage

operations if they were permitted to take the whale to the Mount Hope

abattoir for rendering.

The idea sounded perfectly reasonable to Port Captain F. V. McNair, who

authorized an attempt to land the whale from the harbor flats by means

of a 75-ton floating crane and two

locomotives.

(See p. 18)

The Panama Canal Review 17
(Continued from p. 17)

Captain McNair stipulated, however,

that if the whale was not in cold storage

by noon on November 20, "the Captain

of the Port would tow the whale to sea with the understanding that the cost of returning said whale to the water would be borne by Captain Wieshofer

and Captain Miller." The whale was killed by machinegun

fire, and towed by a tug to Pier 6 at Cris- tobal where three Panama Railroad flat cars waited to take it to Mount Hope.

Thousands of people from all over

the Isthmus jammed Pier 6 to witness

the salvage operations. At one point,

excitement rose so high that a smartly dressed lady lost her footing and tumbled—hat and all—into the water. She

subsequently was rescued by two members of the U.S. Armv Quartermaster

Corps stationed at Fort DeLesseps and

taken ashore aboard a launch. Attempts to lift the whale from the water to the three flat cars were con- tinued without success all day and

finally abandoned shortly before the deadline set by Captain McNair. With

failure of the operation went hopes of salvage and profit on sperm oil and

whalebone by Captains Miller and

Weishofer.

Removal of the whale from Cristobal harbor was simple and easy, compared

to the complexity of the salvage operations which had preceded it. The Pan- ama Canal Tug Portobelo nosed into Pier 6, a stout tow line was made fast to the big mammal's tail, and out through

the breakwater went the first whale ever known to menace navigation at the Panama Canal. Hoping this would be the last that

local marine authorities would have to do with the whale situation, Captain

McNair ordered Capt. A. B. Forstrom, master of the tug, to take the carcass well beyond the 12-mile limit. In the meantime, two hydroplanes from the naval base at Coco Solo were ordered

out to bomb and sink the remains.

It was harder to dispose of a whale than originally thought, however.

Several days later, Governor Morrow

ordered the tug Portobelo to remove the

carcass from the beach off Maria Chiquita, 10 miles north of Cristobal. It was done under supervision of Dr. Jesse Byrd, Panama Canal Health Officer, who provided the crew with gas masks

against the stench. The whole anti-whale operation was

estimated to have cost $1,000, which

was high finance in 1921. Officials expressed the hope that despite the

tourist publicity, no other whale would

ever visit Cristobal again.

And none has.

-SAFETY

Don't Mix This

Poisonous Brew

Reprinted by special permission from Consumer's Bulletin, May 1962; published by Consumers' Research, Inc., Washington, N. J.

RECENTLY a government medical news letter reported that 20 people were overcome from a gas or gases

released from a cleaning mixture which was being used in a government

establishment.

Investigation revealed that a mixture

of cleaning agents had been employed

for a "sanitizing" operation. The mixture

included a well-known liquid household

cleaner, chlorine bleach, and ammonia.

This brings to mind other similar accidents and particularly the tragedv

and near tragedy of a few years back

reported by the National Safety Council,

in which two housewives, on separate

occasions, were using a well-known

cleaner in toilets. Not satisfied with the way the cleaner was working on stains, both women

made the mistake of adding chlorine household bleach and mixing the two chemicals with a brush. One woman died; the other underwent long

hospitalization.

A poisonous gas was liberated when

the women decided to employ a mixture

of two or more common household

cleaning agents. When the widely used

household chlorine bleach, which is a solution of sodium hvpochlorite, is combined with an acid or acid-producing

substance, such as a toilet-bowl cleaner (sodium acid sulfate) or vinegar, there

is a sudden release of a quantity of chlorine gas. Likewise, when a chlorine bleach is mixed with ammonia, lye, or other alkaline substance, the action will liberate a highly irritating gas. —ACCIDENTSFOR

THIS MONTH

AND

THIS YEAR

JUNE

ALL UNITS

YEAR TO DATE

If the gas is inhaled, in either case, particularly in a poorly ventilated room,

it can cause serious injury and possibly

death. Accidents of this type have

occurred not only in the kitchen and

bathroom but also in cleaning and

treating the water of swimming pools.

Don't make the mistake of thinking

that because certain household products

are good and useful, the combination of two or more of them will do a better job than one alone. Very often mixing them

is useless and unnecessary, since combined they will not make the job of cleaning easier or give better results; and sometimes combining them may

be disastrous.

Follow the safe rule—use chemical

cleaners as the manufacturers direct on

the labels. If in doubt, never combine

a scouring powder and a toilet-bowl cleaner ( since several scouring powders now contain chlorine bleach), or a

toilet-bowl cleaner and a bleach, or a bleach with any other chemical material

or cleanser since the composition of many cleaning compounds will com- monly be unknown. Keep bleaches and

cleaning materials stored in separate

places, and keep all household chemicals out of the reach of children at all times.

It is best, anyway, not to use a hypochlorite (chlorine) bleach in toilet bowls, sinks, or bathtubs, or on electri- cal appliances, as it can in time in- jure, dull, or roughen a fine, smooth,

porcelain surface.

FIRST AID

CASES

•62 '61 305 284

1536 2095(699)

DISABLING

INJURIES

'62 '61 8 13

58 76(4) 17546 14126(95

( ) Locks Overhaul Injuries Included in total.

18 Aucust 3, 1962
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

June 5 through July 5

EMPLOYEES who were promoted or transferred between June 5 and July 5

are listed below. Within-grade promotions and job reclassifications are not

listed. OFFICE OF THE

GOVERNOR-PRESIDENT

Walter M. Mikulich, from Elementary and

Secondary School Teacher, Schools Division, to Special Services Officer. Panama Canal Information Office Joseph Connor, from Writer-Editor to Public Information Specialist. Louisa J. Rowland, from Clerk-Typist,

Electrical Division, to Clerk-Translator. Sami E. Far, from Guard, Terminals Division, to Canal Zone Guide. Edward J. Michaelis, from Tour Leader

(Interpreter), Locks Division, to Canal Zone Guide (Interpreter). George H. Scoggin, from Tour Leader (In- terpreter), Locks Division, to Canal Zone

Guide (Interpreter). Robert J. Byrne, from Tour Leader Interpreter, Locks Division, to Supervisory Canal Zone Guide (Interpreter). Robert L. Austin, from Tour Leader (In- terpreter), Locks Division, to Canal Zone

Guide (Interpreter). ADMINISTRATTVE BRANCH

Tevia P. De Vasquez, from Clerk-Typist,

Engineering Division, to File Clerk. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Fire Division Richard D. Duncan, from Fire Protection

Inspector, to Fire Sergeant. James E. Bryant, from Fire Sergeant to Fire Lieutenant. Schools Division Constantine Downs, from Clerk-Typist to Procurement Clerk. John S. Pettingill, from Coordinator of Education Studies and Curriculum, to Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Dredging Division

Earl E. Mullins, from Operator, Dipper

Dredge, to Master, Dipper Dredge.

Andrew H. Page, from 1st Assistant Engineer, Pipeline Dredge, to Chief Engineer, Towboat or Ferry. Charles L. Miller, from Mate, Dipper

Dredge, to Operator, Dipper Dredge.

Nazario Gondola, from Laborer to Seaman.

Isiah A. Gordon, from Launch Operator to Launch Captain.

Jose Arias, from Helper Core Drill Operator, to Leader (Core Drilling). Algis D. Herrera, from Assistant Light- house Keeper, to Maintenanceman.

Ricardo R. Reefer, from Heavy Laborer,

to Seaman.

Eustorgio Garcia S., from Lighthouse

Keeper, to Leader Maintenanceman.

Alberto Velasquez, Wigoberto Guerrero, Olmedo D. Moscoso, from Assistant Lighthouse Keeper, to Maintenanceman.

Maintenance Division

Phillip Joseph, from Toolroom Mechanic

(Limited) to Toolroom Mechanic.

Marco T. Molinares S., from Laborer, to Leader Laborer (Heavy).

Frank A. Hall, from Plumber to Leader

Plumber. Manuel D. Jimenez C, from Heavy

Laborer to Helper.

Rudolph V. Myrie, from Laborer to Heavy

Laborer. MARINE BUREAU

Locks Division Randolph C. Hunt, from Heavy Laborer,

to Line Handler. Hugh G. Davis, Jose Cerda, Norman Blandford, from Line Handler to Helper Lock

Operator.

Industrial Division Herbert K. Peterson, from Supervisory Planner and Estimator, to Supervisory Production Controller. Henry J. Wallace, from Helper Machinist,

Electrical Division, to Helper Machinist,

Industrial Division. William Powell, from Helper Machinist

Electrical Division, to Helper Machinist

Industrial Division. Navigation Division Mary G. Urey, Dorothy A. Stevens, from

Clerk to Clerical Assistant. Richard J. Holder, from Launch Dispatcher

to Clerk. Ramon Benjamin, from Clerk-Typist to Clerk. Gilbert Detouche, from Heavy Laborer to Seaman. HEALTH BUREAU

Division of Sanitation Joseph M. Corrigan. from Sanitation In- spector, to Supervisory Sanitation In- spector.

Silve9tre Labastida C, from Exterminator

to Launch Operator.

Augustin A. Rodriguez, from Asphalt or Cement Worker, to Exterminator. Leonardo Subera, from Heavy Laborer, to Exterminator. Tomas Rodriguez, from Heavy Laborer, to Boatman.

Gorgas Hospital Roberto M. Afere, from Laborer, to Ward

Service Aid. Catalino Quiroz M., from Heavy Laborer,

tr> Laborer (Hospital).

Henry W. Francisco, from Housekeeping

Aid to Nursing Assistant. SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

BUREAU

Community Services Division George W. Squires, from Leader Laborer

(Cleaner) to Lead Foreman Laborer

(Cleaner). Supply Division

Valtosal Hudson, from Utility Worker to Pantryman.

Irvin V. DeSousa, from Utility Worker, to Counter Attendant . Guillermo Archibaldo, from Utility

Worker, to Helper (General). Maximino Carraco, from Counter Attendant, to Pantryman.

Carl E. Dunn-Moodie, from Counter

Attendant, to Sales Checker (Food

Service). Roy L. Jones, from Utility Worker, to Sales Clerk.

Maria A. Valladares, from Car Hop, to Utility Worker.

Ethel L. Hanssell, from Counter Attendant

to Sales Clerk. George Menzies, from Warehouseman, to Sales Clerk. George Brathwaite, from Accounting Clerk,

to Stock Control Clerk. William M. Boyce, from Warehouseman,

to Sales Clerk. Guillermo G. Blandford from Leader Maintenanceman, to Leader Carpenter.

Elaine K. Herring, from Usher (Theater),

to Ticket Seller. Roy A. Cox, from Pinsetter, to Utility Worker and Pinsetter. Cyril E. Hewitt, from Pinsetter, to Utility Worker and Pinsetter. Josephine L. Beecher, from Sales Clerk, to Sales Clerk, to Sales Section Head.

Domingo B. Quintana, from Utility Worker,

to Produce Worker.

Amilia J. Pinder, from Counter Attendant,

to Sales Checker.

Frederick W. Williams, Carlos A. Uriarte, from Warehouseman, to Gas Cylinder

Checker and Serviceman. Ruth B. Hawkins, from Car Hop, to Utility Worker.

Olivia R. de Chiari, from Presser (Flat- work), to Presser (Shirts). Frank N. Green, from Package Boy to Laborer (Heavy). Clarence A. Glean, from Utility Worker,

to Counter Attendant. Roy E. E. Ellis, from Pinsetter, to Utility Worker and Pinsetter. Sherman R. Brown, Jr., from Waiter to Messenger.

Clarence E. James, from Utility Worker to Counter Attendant. Donald C. Escalona, Roderic L. Blades,

from Package Boy to Utility Worker.

Oscar Edmund, Jr., Daisy L. Cole, Edith

S. Fitzroy, from Utility Worker to Counter Attendant. Eugenio E. Madeam, from Bus Boy to Utility Worker. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

General Audit Division Robert N. Bowen, from Auditor to Supervisory Auditor. Accounting Division Benjamin S. Chisholm, from Construction Cost Accountant, to Cost Accountant. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Railroad Division

Julian Agrazal, from Railroad Trackman,

to Leader Railroad Trackman.

Remigio Mendez, from Leader Railroad Trackman, to Leader Maintenanceman.

Terminals Division

Percival F. Soso, Edgar A. Hodgson,

Edward Davis, from Leader, Heavy

Laborer, to Leader Line Handler

Dazel G. Watson, from Lead Foreman Heavy Laborer, to Lead Foreman Line

Handler.

Stanley A. Bartley, Aubrey Judge, James McDonald, Alexander A. Lewis, James

N. Burgess, Noel P. Major, from Leader

Heavy Laborer to Leader Line Handler. Edwin G. Roy, from Painter (Maintenance)

to Maintenanceman (Dock). (See p. 20)

The Panama Canal Review 19
Promotions and Transfers

(Continued from p. 19)

Hugh H. Harrison, from Carpenter (Maintenance) to Carpenter. Cornelio Raven, from Lead Foreman Carpenter (Limited), to Lead Foreman Carpenter. Arthur E. Critchlow, from Leader Carpenter (Maintenance) to Leader Carpenter. Rupert Funis, from Carpenter, to Leader

Carpenter.

John I. Matthews, from Cement Finisher (Maintenance) to Painter (Maintenance).

Angel Salazar, from Dock Worker, to Stevedore.

Julio Valverde G., from Laborer (Cleaner)

to Dock Worker. Tomas Delgado, from Heavy Laborer, to Helper Liquid Fuels and Wharfman.

OTHER PROMOTIONS

PROMOTIONS which did not involve changes of title follow: Paul R. Walker, Fire Sergeant, Fire Division. Erell C. Alexis, Detention Guard, Police

Division. Carlos E. Bech, Engineering Draftsman,

Engineering Division. Frances L. Audia, Clerk-Typist, Contract and Inspection Division. Raymond G. Bush, Supervisory Sanitation

Inspector, Division of Sanitation. Cecelia S. Lelaidier, Clerk-Typist, Community Services Division. Earl R. Russell, Alfonso T. Shaw, Utility

Worker, Supply Division. Leslie M. Spencer, Albert B. Hendricks,

Systems Accountant, Accounting Policies and Procedures Staff. Ruth H. Elich, Accounting Technician,

Accounting Division. Benjamin Thorpe, Clerk-Typist, Terminals

Division . Irl R. Sanders, General Foreman (Dock

Maintenance), Terminals Division. Walter T. Williams, General Attorney, Office of the General Counsel.

Clifford B. Ocheltree, Master, Towboat or Ferry, Dredging Division. Maintenance Division

Victor De Leon, Leonard A. Jackson, Jos6 D. Rodriguez, Rock Crushing Plant Operator.

Gilberto Simancas, James Morgan, Stephen

R. Gordon, Asphalt or Concrete Mixing

Plant Operator.

Navigation Division John E. Erikson, Herbert S. Driscoll, George E. Riley, Jr., William K. Price, William T. O'Connor, Russell A. Weade,

James H. Hagan, Robert K. Adams,

Charles M. Swisher, John B. Spivey,

John D. Lowe, to General Foreman. John F. Stephenson, Raybum L. Brians,

Eugene I. Askew, to Admeasurer. George L. Holder, Bernardo E. Howard,

to Clerk-Typist. Schools Division Vilma V. Burke, Library Assistant. Ruby G. Smart, Rhoda C. Palmer, Carlton

A. Taft, Clementina D. White, Joyce

E. Jordan, June L. Greaves, Ligia E. Richardson, Clerk-Typist.

Maria C. Kidd, Library Assistant. Hilda W. Butcher, Library Assistant. James L. Harding, Library Assistant. Geneth H. Squires, Clerk Stenographer. Marcella G. Green, Clerical Assistant.

CANAL

HISTORY

50 yearJ c4ao

PLANS for permanent buildings to be

erected for the maintenance and operation force of the Canal, were being pre- pared 50 years ago this month by

Austin W. Lord, a New York architect employed by the Isthmian Canal

Commission.

According to The Canal Record,

"Mr. Lord made a careful study of the topography and local conditions and

was expected to devise a scheme in which all of the permanent buildings

from Toro Point to Taboga Island would

be of prevailing style, probably a modification of the Spanish renaissance, with

appropriate adaptation of adjacent

landscape."

More than 91 percent of the concrete

for the locks was in place by August 31,

1912, with 95 percent of the concrete

for the system of three twin locks at Gatun in place. The upper guard gates

in the east chamber of Gatun Locks were closed July 31 by the contractor and were ready to keep the waters of Gatun Lake from flowing into the lower

level of the locks. The same gate in the west chamber was closed August 6. 25 years cAao

A BILL eliminating the former dual

system of determining tolls for vessels using the Panama Canal was approved

by the U.S. Senate 25 years ago this month. The bill which later became a law, provided for the measurement of ships by Panama Canal rules and made

that the sole basis for determining the net tonnage upon which tolls would

be charged. The rules, which are still in effect, became effective March 1, 1938. As the Panama Canal celebrated its 23d birthday in August 1937, transit figures revealed that traffic through the waterway from the beginning of the calendar year up to the August 15

"birthday" mark showed a decrease of 2.9 percent in ocean-going commercial

transits and a decrease of 2.6 percent

in tolls, compared with the same period

of calendar year 1936. Authorization was received by the former Municipal Engineering Division

to prepare sites for quarters which

would eventually house the Gorgas

Hospital staff on the southeast slope of Ancon Hill. The work was to be done

at a cost of $62,000. Preparations also were made by the Construction Quarter- master for building what was to be

known as the Balboa School Shops, a structure which would contain facili- ties for student participation in woodworking, automobile repair, and

machine shop practices.

10 years c4g.o

THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

was about to retire from coal bunkering

operations 10 years ago this month.

Practically all of the coal in stock at the Cristobal Coaling Plant had been

sold and when the supply was ex- hausted, this once important phase of Canal operations was to be closed. The sale of coal was one of the most

important phases of the Canal's operations soon after the opening of the waterway in 1914. At that time, coal- burning ships were still predominant.

The business declined rapidly after the

close of World War II. The contract for construction of the Goethals Memorial in Balboa was

awarded in August 1952 to the Panama

firm of Constructora Martinz, S. A., which made a low bid of $78,533 on

the project. The contract did not in- clude the cost of the marble, which was

to be obtained from the United States.

One year cAgo

NEW DIRECTORS for two bureaus of the Canal organization were named by

former Governor Carter on August 21

last year as the result of a vacancy

created by the retirement of Henry L. Donovan as Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Bernhard I. Everson, former Director of Transportation and Terminals

Bureau, was appointed Civil Affairs Director. Capt. Axton T. Jones, U.S.N.,

Ret., former Cristobal Port Captain, was appointed to succeed Mr. Everson

as head of the Transportation and

Terminals Bureau.

20 August 3, 1962
ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Rodway R. Phillips

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Leon V. Heim

Customs Inspector Allan F. Woodruff

Laborer Cleaner ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Douglas A H—-'*' Maintenjnceman

Carlos Hei Helper Core HEALTH

Caroline Hunt

Nurse Supervisor,

Room

Gladys Hunter

Nursing As: and Surgery

Fitz J. Taylor

File Clerk

MARINE BUREAU

Donald H. Spencer

Lead Foreman Painter Vemandez O. Taylor

Painter Kenneth L. Jamieson

Truck Driver SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

JCE BUREAU

Vid*' fc!>4yare*am

Sales Seo\jon\Head

TION AND

BUREAU

quipment

an

JoTTl I R. "Szima

Electrician Theophilus Carter Clerk Checker

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

William G. Dolan

Chief, Fire Division Capt. Donald V. Howerth

Commander, Cristobal

District Police Station Joseph F. Dolan

Customs Guard

R. B. Mcllvaine, Jr. Customs Guard

Melmoth L. Morris Clerk

E. W. de Pringle Senior High Teacher,

Latin American Schools

Jessie O. Lindsay Procurement Clerk George J. Roth

Police Sergeant

Joel L. Cook

Police Private John F. McDowell

Police Private

Cyril D. DeLapp

Police Private ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Herbert F. Taake

Electrician Alfred Leacock

Helper Cable Splicer

Joseph Mathurin

Floating Plant Oiler Juan Haynes

Carpenter

HEALTH BUREAU

Dr. Willard F. French

Chief, Dental Service,

Coco Solo Hospital

Lloyd E. Bamett

ClerkMARINE BUREAU

William S. Acheson

Towboat or Ferry Master John B. Spivey General Foreman Docking

and Undocking

McNair C. Lane Towing Locomotive Operator

Arthur L. Smith

Lock Operator Machinist Michael J. Burza Marine Machinist Laureano Torres Helper Lock Operator

Joseph Baker

Helper Lock Operator

George A. Jeffers Helper Lock Operator

Julio Cedeno

Helper Lock Operator

Marcelino Iglesias

Maintenance Painter Arnold F. Small Maintenance Painter Joseph E. Evans Launch Seaman

Oswald Newball

Seaman

Felipe Robles Deckhand

Employment Suitability Assistant SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Fred N. Dahl

Employee Development

Officer Gene E. Clinchard General Grounds Foreman

Wilfred R. Waldrip

Commissary Store Manager

Joseph J. Pustis Service Center Manager

Adica Moore

Sales Clerk

Irene Henry

Sales Clerk

Fidel Toribio Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

Percival Warburton

Baker Nemesio Wood

Grocery Worker

James Melvin

Truck Driver

Luis Pleitez Guard

Allan P. Noel

Paint and Varnish Maker

Roberto Martinez

Utility Worker

Tomas Molinar

Heavy Laborer Domingo Torres

Painter

F. W. Griffiths Sales Section Head

Jasper N. Williams Leader Gardener

Levi King

Laborer

Juan Cabeza

Garbage Collector Eugene I. Dudley

Clerk

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Horace J. Orgeron, Jr. Chauffeur, Car of President Edwin G. Roy

Maintenance Painter Fermin L. Ibanez Timekeeper

Vernal A. Harper

Helper Electrician

St. Clair V. Gill Stevedore Raul H. Pinedo

Heavy Truck Driver Pedro Flores Heavy Laborer

Norris Wheatley

Laborer Cleaner

The Panama Canal Review 21
TRAFFIC MOVEMENT OVER MAIN TRADE ROUTES

The following table shows the number of transits of large, commercial vessels (300 net

tons or over) segregated into eight main trade routes:

United States intercoastal East coast of United States and South America.

East coast of United States and Central America

East coast of United States and Far East United States/Canada east coast and Australasia Europe and west coast of United States/Canada

Europe and South America

Europe and Australasia

All other routes

Total traffic

Fourth Quarter, Fiscal Year 1962

1962

118 617

104 576

75

231 299

110 760

2,890

1961

115 582

118 634

63

211 287

113 730

2,853

Avg. No.

Transits 1951-55

170 458

123

27152

182

12483 372

1,835

MONTHLY COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC AND TOLLS

Vessels of 300 tons net or over

(Fiscal Years)

Month

July 1961 August

September _ . . October

November _ _ . December

January 1962. February

March

April

May

June

Totals for

fiscal year. _
On her maiden voyage from Japan,

the Nini picked up a cargo of 40,392

tons of iron ore in Chile and made her

first transit July 7 en route to Norfolk. She then loaded 45,000 tons of coal and returned through the Canal en

route to Japan.

The Nini is to be followed by 5

similar vessels carrying coal on this route. All of the vessels will make

regular trips through the Panama Canal. The Nini is 746.1 feet in length, 100.6 feet in beam, has a displacement

of 62,551 tons and an estimated Pan- ama Canal net tonnage of 21,800 tons. Despite her size, she has an operating

speed of 16% knots. Panama Agencies

will represent the vessel and her five

sister ships at the Canal. New Cruise Ship

THE CANAL ZONE will be a port

of call next year for the Home Line's ultra-modern passenger liner Oceanic,

which is now under construction at Monfalcone, Italy. According to C. B. Fenton & Co., agents for the line, the

vessel will visit the Isthmus at least once during the 1963 winter cruise season. Called the "Ship of Tomorrow" by

her builder, the Oceanic has been de- signed to meet all the needs of presentday transatlantic and cruise travel. The

27-knot, 33,000-gross-ton vessel will have 18 public rooms, 2 swimming

pools, a Lido deck area, a 770-foot

chapel, a 1,200-foot gymnasium, special areas for children and teenagers, and

a 2-level theater with seating capacity

for 450 persons. Two P & O-Orient Liners

MORE THAN 3,000 passengers travel- ing aboard the two P & O-Orient liners Himalaya and Oriana visited the Isth- mus briefly during the month of July.

The Himalaya, making her first transit of the Canal, arrived July 6 with

1,149 passengers. She docked in Balboa

and Cristobal in order to give the

visitors time to make a tour of all points

of interest, then sailed from Cristobal

for Southampton. The Himalaya is scheduled to return to Panama in September on her way to Australia. The Oriana, one of the newest and

largest ships of the P & O-Orient Line,

arrived in Balboa at midnight, July 21,

from U.S. west coast ports, with 2,184

passengers aboard. She transited July

22 and sailed the morning of July 23 for Southampton, via Jamaica, Bermuda,

and Le Havre. This was the Oriana's

second visit to the Canal since she was

put in service 2 years ago. Agent for both ships is Norton, Lilly & Co.

CANAL TRANSITS — COMMERCIAL AND U. S. GOVERNMENT
SHIPPING

Norway Second In

Canal Transits

SHIPS FLYING the Norwegian flag took second place among the commercial ships using the Panama Canal

during the fiscal year 1962. It was

the second consecutive year that Norway outdistanced Germany and

Great Britain. With a total of 1,491 vessels transit- ing during the 12-month period,

Norway was second only to the United

States in the amount of commercial

traffic using the waterway. British shipping took third place and German ships

ranked fourth. Norway first took second place during

fiscal year 1961 and continued to maintain this position during the past fiscal

year, with an average of almost 373

vessels each month.

A total of 1,783 commercial ships

flying the U.S. flag made the transit during fiscal year 1962. British flag ships

numbered 1,276, while German vessels made 1,094 transits. Other nations ranking as the Canal's

best customers during the past fiscal

year, according to official figures, were

Japan in fifth place, with 844 ships;

Greece, sixth, with 771; Liberia, seventh, with 648; the Netherlands, eighth,

with 558; and Panama, ninth, with 393. During the fiscal year, U.S. -flag

traffic remained almost at a par with

that of fiscal year 1961; Norwegian

ships increased slightly, the Germans

dropped back slightly, the Japanese de- creased about 40 vessels, the Greeks

added about 100 transits, and Panama

remained stable. Liberia, which had

1,044 vessels transiting the Canal during

fiscal year 1961, dropped to 648 ships

in 1962. Many new supercarriers were added

to the list of vessels passing through the Canal. A number of them were of

British and United States registry, many

of them built in Japan and equipped

to carry both oil and bulk cargo.

In addition, the Canal witnessed

maiden arrivals of a number of large passenger ships such as the Canberra

and Oriana, which have been built by

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN JUNE

1961 1961 Commercial 947 964

U.S. Government 10 13

Free 10 7

Total 967 984

TOLLS"

Commercial . . . $4,740,748 $4,978,326

U.S. Government. 49,898 97,739

Total . . . $4,790,646 $5,076,065

CARGO00

Commercial . . . 5,757,868 5,684,416

U.S. Government. 47,071 110,938

Total . . . 5,804,939 5,795,354

•Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. ••Cargo figures are in long tons.

the British for round-the-world and

cruise travel. The Canberra paid the Panama Canal $26,226 in tolls, the

largest amount ever paid by a passenger

ship.

Commodities moving through the Canal during the year included the

usual large shipments of petroleum and

petroleum products moving from the Adantic to the Pacific and the ship- ments of ore going through the Canal

from South America to the United

States and Europe.

Scrap iron reached a record level in the third quarter of the fiscal year but

dropped sharply during the final 3

months, largely because of Japanese

exchange controls imposed several months ago. Up to that time, scrap iron

to Japan was one of the major cargoes moving southbound through the Canal. During the last part of the fiscal year, shipments of bauxite took a more pro- minent position in the Adantic to

Pacific movement of commodities. Much

of this aluminum ore is being produced

in Jamaica and is being carried to the U.S. west coast and the Far East.




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