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Vol.4, No. 12 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, JULY 2, 1954 5 cents

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL AWARD OF MERIT WON

BY CANAL ORGANIZATION FOR NOTEWORTHY RECORD

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JULY 4 wouldn't be Independence Day without fireworks. This picture of what the Gay '90's used

to call a "pyrotechnic display" was taken in Balboa last July 4. Independence Day Is July Fifth

This Year Throughout Canal Zone

July Fourth will be July Fifth this year

in the Canal Zone. Because the Independence Day holiday

falls on Sunday the patriotic exercises and other activities with which the day

is celebrated will be held on Monday on

both Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Canal Zone. The Pacific side celebration gets under- way the night of July 3 with a Community Dance at the American Legion Club. Proceeds from this dancj will cover such

July 4 expenses as fireworks, medals and

trophies, children's favors, etc. The actual Independence Day activities will start Monday at 8 a. m. with a

flag raising at the circle facing the Balboa

Service Center. Imimdiately after this ciremony, favors will be distributed to the children and the youngst?rs will then form for the traditi jnal Childrens' Parade. At the same time the Army will have

tanks on display.

Children will be busy with rides on

jeeps and fire engines and kiddy trains from 8:45 a. m. u itil noon. Early in the afternoon there will be a swimming meet

at the Balboa pool and basketball games

at the Balboa gymnasium and the Bal- boa YMCA gym.

Patriotic exercises will be held at 3:30

o'clock at the Balboa stadium, followed by a massed band concert. Fireworks

from the top of Sosa Hill at 7 o'clock will conclude the day's events.

Pacific Side Committee

Emmett Zemer is Pacific side chair- man, his second year in this position.

He is being assisted by: Maj. Arthur

Dreyer, Maj. John A. Reeves, Lt. Cmdr.

W. S. Ralston, Maj. James E. Shellyrepresenting various branches of the Armed services; Judge Guthrie F. Crowe,

Mrs. Berenice Connor, and Robert Ashbaugh, of the Scout organizations; Sgt. Walter H. Alves, G. C. Lockridge, Roger

Michel, John Hey, and Thomas R. Murphy.

On the Atlantic side, the July 4 cele- bration is in charge of a committee of the Cristobal-Margarita Civic Council, of which Fred L. Workman is president.

The Atlantic side festivities will be aimed

at the children of the community, he said. Atlantic Side Program

Patriotic exercises will be held at 8

a. m. near the North Margarita school, followed by athletic events such as a

tug-of-war, sack and potato {See page is)

The National Safety Council's Award of Merit^has been

won by the Canal organization for its noteworthy safety

achievement for the calendar

year 1953. The Merit Award

is equivalent to a second place,

being exceeded only by the

Award of Honor, which is given

for an outstanding safety rec- ord. The Company-Government was only a few points

short of this top award.

The Award of Merit is accompanied by

an embossed certificate, under glass and

mounted on a wood plaque, and by a green-and-white safety flag. Both will be presented to Gov. J. S. Seybold this month during a visit to the Canal Zone

of a sub-committee of the Panama Canal

Company Board of Directors. A ceremony is being arranged for the

presentation of the award and for the

flag raising which will follow. The letter to G. 0. Kellar, Chief of the Safety Branch, from the National Safety

Council announcing the award and congratulating the Canal organization on its achievement, said: "Under the provisions of the Plan For

Recognizing Good Industrial Safety Records, adopted by the Industrial Confer- ence of the National Safety Council on January 14, 1952, your entire company

has qualified for the following National

Safety Council recognition—Award of Merit—by establishing injury rates sig- nificantly lower than its par rates." During the 1950 - 52 period, the weighted average for industry showed an

accident frequency of 14.4, and a severity

of 1.10. The Panama Canal rates for the same period were 15.3 and 1.03. Percentage Improvement

Par rates, for 1953 were 14.9 and 1.07; The Panama Canal rates were 11.4 and

.79—which are 23 percent better than par

in the first place and 26 {See page is)

A revised Pledge of Allegiance to the

I'nited States flag was adopted by Congress on June 14. The new wording is: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Inited States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The Congressional Resolution adds: "Such pledge should be rendered by

standing with the right hand over the

heart. However, civilians will always

show full respect to the flag when the pledge is given by merely standing at attention, men removing the headdress. Persons in uniform shall render the military salute."
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

Gorgas Technician

Gets Canal's First

Outstanding Rating

PAUL W. MORGAN

The first "outstanding" performance

rating to be awarded to any employee of the Canal organization since the present

rating system was adopted in January

1951, was given last month to Paul W.

Morgan, Supervisory Medical X-Ray

Technician at Gorgas Hospital.

Several employees have been nominated for the outstanding rating but none had been approved by the Efficiency

Awards Committee until that given to Mr. Morgan. Along with the rating goes a one-step, in-grade promotion.

In order to receive an outstanding

rating, an employee must not only exc 'I'd the normal requirements of his posi- tion but perform in a manner which is outstanding and deserving of special

commendation.

The three-page summary prepared

when Mr. Morgan was recommended for the outstanding rating concludes: "He has demonstrated characteristics which would assure an outstanding per- formance by him in any other field in which he was given adequate opportunity

for training."

The summary is divided into three

parts and concerns the quality of his performance, his productiveness, and his qualifications as shown on the job.

It reported that Mr. Morgan keeps

current with advances in his technical

field, shows considerable initiative and

resourcefulness in all phases of his work,

that his cooperativeness is of a high order and that he is highly effective in developing and training those employees who

work under him.

"His technical skill is of the highest

order," the summary says. "He has a thorough knowledge of the operation of

all phases of the Radialogy Department

including highly technical equipment.

His knowledge encompasses a greater

field than the job specifications require,

and application of this has resulted in ulerable monetary savings to the Panama Canal Company."

A native of Florida, Mr. Morgan holds

college degrees in business administration and as a medical technician. He came to the Canal Zone as an X-ray

CANAL REVIEW Introduces New Feature

Of Personalized News In The Next Issue

Plans have been made to introduce a brand new feature in the August issue of The Panama Canal Review.

Two, or sometimes more, pages will be devoted to the more personal news of the Canal organization as well as to events or work of the various units often overlooked in general news coverage. The feature is not intended as a s >cial column and strictly society items will not

be used. We hope to bring you a lot of news

and chitchat about the lesser events of interest which occur every month. It

will be a feature we think will be of much

interest to you as well as one in which

you can take part. Correspondents have been appointed

throughout the organization to work on

a voluntary basis. These will report

through chief correspondents who have

been appointed from each bureau by the Bureau Directors. A list of the correspondents of the various units are published below. Keep

this list or remember the correspondent

for the unit in which you are employed.

You can help him or her by supplying

information about any special events or any special jobs or by suggesting any

special items of general interest to the employees in your bureau or division. The list of chief correspondents follows:

Office of the Governor- President: Mrs.

Patricia Robinson.

Office of the Comptroller: Miss Kathleen

McGuigan.

Marine Bureau: Charles T. Jackson.

Health Bureau: J. P. Smith, Jr. Engineering and Construction Bureau:

Mrs. Faye Minton.

Personnel Bureau: Otto Helmerichs.

Transportation and Terminals Bureau:

Wallace F. Russon. Supply Bureau: Bart J. Elich. Community Services Bureau: Miss Jessie M. Gill. Civil Affairs Bureau: Mrs. Virginia Roberts. Correspondents for the units who will work with the chief correspondents will be:

Office of the Governor- President: Jerry

Detamore, Records Section; Mrs. Fanny

M. Sosa, Correspondence Section; Mrs.

Clara Neville, General Counsel's Office; Mrs. Beatrice Lucas, Safety Branch; and

Mrs. Mazie Schwarzrock, Internal Security Branch.

Office of the Comptroller: Robert Lessiack, Budget Branch; Elmer J. Nordstrom, Rates Branch; Accounting Systems

Staff, Howard H. Sprague; Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff, Daniel J. Slater; Accounting Division, Maenner B. Huff

and Mrs. Elsie N. Smith; and in the Fiscal Division, James L. Fulton of the Claims Branch; Joseph C. Turner of the Treasury Branch; and Howard E. Turner

of the Payroll Branch. Marine Bureau: Mrs. V. D. Zeese, Bal- boa Port Captain's Office; B. G. Tipton,

Cristobal Port Captain's Office; George

M. Lowe, Locks Division; Thomas H.

Kelley, Industrial Division; and H. B.

and laboratory technician. He was employed at Gorgas Hospital where he has worked ever since, in 1938.

Friedland, Aids to Navigation.

Health Bureau: Robert L. Thompson,

Gorgas Hospital; Robert Cole, Colon

Hospital; Clifford V. Russell, Corozal

Hospital; John R. Thompson, Palo Seco Leprosarium; Mrs. Marione J. Campbell,

Panama Health Office; Roy F. Burr, Colon Health Office; and Carl G. Brown,

Division of Sanitation. Engineering and Construction Bureau: Robert A. Engelke, Dredging Division; John E. Winklosky, Maintenance Division; M. F. Millard, Electrical Division; N. B. Stephenson, Engineering Division; Mrs. Gwen Seate, Contract and Inspection Division; W. H. Esslinger, Meteorological and Hydrographic Branch; and

C. McG. Brandl, Contractors Hill. Personnel Bureau: Miss Jessie Pugh,

Director's Office; and for the Central Labor Office Division, Charles H. Crawford, Employment Branch; and Mrs. Lois

Johnson, Records Branch.

Transportation and Terminals Bureau:

Mrs. Ethel J. Roof, Railroad Division; Mrs. Wilma D. Crump, Terminals Division; and Fred D. Hunsicker, Motor

Transportation Division. Supply Bureau: Richard E. Cox, Commissary Division; J. A. Wright, Division

of Storehouses; and Mrs. May Stokes,

Printing Plant. Community Services Bureau: C. W. Kil- bey, Service Center Division; P. Byrne

Hutchings, Housing Division; and Arthur

C. Payne, Grounds Maintenance Division.

Civil Affairs Bureau: Lt. E. L. Cotton,

Fire Division; Michael Zombory, Police Division; Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson, Postal,

Customs, and Immigration Division; Mrs

Jean Karch, Division of Schools; Joseph

V. Dignam, Atlantic side.

Six Residents, 11 Interns

Begin Their Training

Six new resident physicians and 11 new interns began their training at Gorgas Hospital July 1. Among the new resident physicians

is Dr. Gabriel Kourany, the son of Mrs. Margaret Kourany, an employee of the

Panama Canal organization. He completed his rotating internship at Pres- byterian Hospital in Chicago and will take his first year of residency at Gorgas

in medicine.

Another Isthmian is included among

the new interns. He is Dr. Luis A. Picard-Ami, of Colon, who came to Gorgas after graduation from the

Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Neb.

The other five resident physicians

are: Dr. Robert H. Boon of Marianna,

Ark., medicine;Dr. William R. Shaw of Hackettstown, N. J., surgery; Dr. Carlos G. Santoro of Mayaguez, Puerto

Rico, surgery; Dr. George R. Zimmer- man of Amana, Iowa, pathology; and

Dr. Donald E. Harrison of Ontario,

Canada, pathology.

In addition to Dr. Picard-Ami, other new interns are Dr. Robert E. Braswell

of Shreveport, La. ; Dr. W illie J. Greene,

Logansport, La.; Dr. Kenneth V. Hodges, Albert Lea, Minn.; Dr. Allan Jackson, Alexandria, La.; Dr. Richard S. Ostenso, Montevideo, Minn.; Dr. John

W. Reeder, Jr., Amarillo, Tex.; Dr. Charles E. Simmons, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Dr. Wallace M. Snyder, San Antonio, Tex. ; Dr. Roy B. Stewart, EI Paso, Tex.; and Dr. Robert B. White, Detroit,

Mich.
July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

THE TENS of thousands who get this majestic view of the Panama Canal will see a big change when the Tecon Corporation finishs its work of stabilizing the slope of Contractors Hill. The white

lines indicate the new slope of the hill, which will be in broad berms. The first berm shown at elevation

150' will be only 65 feet above the water level in the Cut. The berm or ledge will be over 100 feet wide. The protruding mass of rock to the right of the white lines will all be removed.

Blasting Of Two Million Yards Of Rock

From Contractors Hill Will Start Soon

The first charge of dynamite to be used

in blasting away a sizable part of Contractors Hill overlooking Gaillard Cut

will probably be detonated within the next two weeks. While the first shot will be but a few pounds, it is estimated that

a total of 1,000,000 pounds of dynamite

may be required to complete the project

of removing approximately 2,000,000 cubic yards of rock. The initial blast will be the culmination

of about four months of planning and

preparatory steps for alleviating a potentially hazardous condition resulting from

a deep fracture of the rock along the top

of the hill and roughly paralleling the Canal.

$1,000,000 Equipment

Activity in connection with the project

is expected to be greatly accelerated during the coming week following the arrival of a large shipment of equipment from

New Orleans. Tecon executives have an- nounced that $1,000,000 will be spent for equipment for the job, most of it brand new from the factory. As this issue of The Canal Review

went to press, work was also scheduled

to begin early in July on two interesting

and important lesser projects directly

connected with the overall operation.

These are the driving of a large tunnel from the Canal side into Contractors Hill to the crack and the removal and storage

of the Gaillard plaque from the face of the hill. Negotiations were concluded with the Tecon Corporation to do these two jobs.

The big plaque will be removed and stored

until a new location for its placement is selected. The tunnel into the side of the hill will be made to relieve hydrostatic pressure

in the fissure. This problem has been

given serious study by the Canal engineers and the consultants on the Contractors Hill project. 125-Foot Shaft

The shaft will be sunk at right angles

to the Canal axis about five feet above

water level and near the center point of the hill. It will be five by seven feet and

approximately 125feetlong. At the inter- section of the crack a room, 10 x 10 x 20

feet, will be excavated for the installation of well-pumps. The shaft will provide a

drain for water in the fissure about the water level of the Canal and pumps will be used to lower the water and relieve hydrostatic pressure below that depth. Also to be installed in the artificial cavern will be instruments to measure any movement of the crack. This step

wiil be necessary since surface instru- ments for measuring any movement will be removed when excavation begins.

The diagram on the picture of Contractors Hill which accompanies this article indicates the extent of excavation

required and how the hill will look when

the work is completed.

The rock will be removed in layers,

leaving wide berms or ledges in a stairway

formation up the Canal side of the hill. The lowest of these berms will be over

100 feet wide and will be 65 feet above

the Canal level. The second berm will be approximately 105 feet above the Canal channel level and will intersect the

THREE ENGINEERS study a relief map of the Contractors Hill area. Lt. Col. Edward B. Jennings, Project Engineer for the work on the hill, is at the far right; E. C. McKoy, Project Manager for Tecon, in the center; and Charles McG. Brandl, Assistant Project Engineer for* the Canal at the left.

crack. The ledges above that level will be 40 and 20 feet wide, leaving an aver- age slope of about one on one-and-a-half. Heavy Equipment

The bulk of the machinery and equipment to be used for the project is ex- pected to arrive in the first shipload. It

will consist of some of the 15 Euclid 25- ton rock hauling units which have been

ordered; two and one-half cubic yard

diesel shovels; bulldozers, drilling equipment, field lights, and generators, and

blasting equipment.

The vessel bringing this material will transit the Canal to Gamboa where the heavy equipment will be unloaded on

barges by the 250-ton floating cranes of the Dredging Division. It will then be

lightered through the Cut to Pedro Miguel Locks to be unloaded by the 75-ton

stiff-leg crane on the west wingwall where

it will be assembled and moved to the

site.E. C. McKoy, Tecon Corporation's

project manager for the job, has been on

the Isthmus since early last month to

initiate and coordinate plans for the work. He has had more than 20 years

experience in heavy construction and

rock work, including two years as an

assistant superintendent in the Madden

Dam construction.

L. F. Ramer will be superintendent of the project for the contracting firm. He

is an expert in quarry operations with

about 20 years of experience in this type

of work, the past four of which have been

with Tecon.Technicians Expected

The arrival of heavy equipment operators, blasters, and other technicians re- quired is expected during (See page 15)
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

Weil-Travelled Zonian Finishes

Work Toward College Degree

JESSIE S. PUGH

When Jessie Pugh was growing up

back in North Carolina, there were two

things she wanted: She wanted a college

degree and she wanted to travel. The second of her two wishes she ac- complished first. Totaled up, the time

she has spent traveling in the Americas,

Europe, and around the world, amounts

by now to over two years. The first wish was a bit harder come by.

What with one thing and another a secretarial course at the University of North

Carolina had to take the place of her much-desired college education and it was

not until last month that she achieved her

first desire. Early last month Miss Pugh, who

works in the Personnel Bureau, stood before her fellow members of the Class of 1954 of the Canal Zone Junior College

and received the diploma which certified

that she had been granted the degree of

Associate in Arts with honors. Began In 1938

She began her work toward that degree

about 1938 when she first enrolled in the Junior College. The war interfered with

her plans for a higher education although

she acquired two certificates of a different

sort, one from the Navy for her volunteer work and another from the USO for over

2,000 hours of volunteer service, mostly

as a tour conductor for servicemens' trips

to Panama City and Old Panama.

After the end of the war she went back

to her classes, most of them in night ex- tension courses, but some, during this past year, in the daytime. She has specialized in history and English but has

also taken courses in Spanish, psychology,

economics, business administration, and

business law. In addition to her work at the Junior

College, Miss Pugh has accumulated some

credits for extension courses from Louisi- ana State University and has already

enrolled for other LSU courses. She

hopes, eventually, to have a Bachelor of Arts degree for four years of college work. Two Years Of Travel Then she'd like to try to write, using her travels as material. She has plenty

of first-hand experience to write about. Two or three years after she came to the Isthmus, and during her vacation, she

visited a friend in Paris, and then went

to England, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. She

later made trips to Costa Rica and other Central American countries, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Another year

she went to Alaska and down the Yukon

on a stern-wheeler, with a week spent in McKinley National Park on a camping

trip. Around World

In 1935 she took the old Dollar Line

around the world, stopping in Japan,

Peiping, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Canton in China, the Philippine Islands, Singapore, and the Straits Settlements, and

4,000 miles through India with visits to Bombay, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares,

Agra, Delhi, etc., and back through the Suez Canal with a stop in Egypt.

During 1940 she managed to get to Mexico and Guatemala, and in 1949 she

again went to Europe, this time including such widely separated points as Turkey,

Greece, and northermost Norway and its southern fjords. Three years later she made another trip to Europe, and she may

take off again, but just where she doesn't know. After all, there are not too many interesting places where she hasn't been. A Book, Maybe

She has seen the brief sun of the Arctic summer, the Himalayas around Darjeeling, and the marble city of Udaipur, India. She has seen Inca ruins near Quito

and has sat behind the Iron Curtain—in Finland in 1949.

If college degrees and travel combine

to make a book, Jessie Pugh may have a

best seller one of these days.

Canal Resumes Its Armoring—

Breakwater, Not Coats Of Mail

THE TOWERING CRANE Hercules unloaded big concrete blocks from dockside to the barges on which they were carried through the Canal to Cristobal. The blocks were used to armor Cristobal breakwater.

Three units of the Panama Canal

worked together last month to carry out

a recurrent but little known operation - armoring the Cristobal breakwater. The armoring is done with great concrete blocks, from four to 16 tons in weight. Some of the blocks are cubes,

measuring six feet on one side, and others have irregular, serrated edges like the

teeth of a saw. The blocks are cast by

the Dredging Division in a big, cleared area near the gravel plant where they are kept until they are needed. This year 550 of the big blocks were moved from Gamboa to the breakwater

which was built not only to protect the canal channel from the northers and other storms which would shoal it, but also to

shield the pier area and the Limon Bay

anchorage.

The concrete blocks, which have been

used for many years, supplement the rock which is the major armoring for the breakwater. Crews from the Maintenance Division,

working with cranes, loaded the blocks onto railroad flat cars. The Railroad Division hauled the cars from the gravel

plant to the Dredging Division yard.

There the Dredging Division's big crane,

Hercules, fittingly took over such a her- culean job, and removed the blocks from

the flat cars to two sand barges and

two flat-topped barges which were towed

through the Canal to Cristobal. At the end of the run, Derrick Barge

157 removed the blocks from the barges

and placed them on the breakwater to replace others which had been worn by

the action of waves and weather.
July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Annual Dog Registration,

Vaccination Start Soon

Dog days will soon be with us again.

Dog days have something to do with

the rising of the Dog Star; here in the Canal Zone there are other dog days too. They are the days when the canine population receives its annual anti-rabies vaccination and is registered. Between last July, when vaccinationregistration started in the Canal Zone,

and June 15 of this year, a total of 2,527

dogs were vaccinated and registered; the

figure this year is expected to be about

the same. Between July 13 and July 23, a vacci- nation and registration team will make

one-day visits in eight Canal Zone towns.

All registration must be completed by

August 1, when the licenses issued last summer expire. The dates on which the team will visit the various towns appear

in a condensed table on this page for the convenience of dog owners. In each town

the hours will be from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 3 to 5 p. m. A fee of $2 is charged for the registration; vaccination

is done without charge.

Rabies Control

The vaccination-registration program,

established last year, is designed to control rabies, also commonly known as hydrophobia. It is one of the more than

80 animal diseases which may be trans- mitted to man. An acute, specific, paralytic infection, due to a particular virus and invariably

fatal, it is usually transmitted by the bite of an infected dog. It has been known

since the dawn of civilization; murals

from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt

depict mad dogs and even Greek mythology refers to the disease. Dr. Robert

G. Matheney, Chief of the Veterinary

Medicine Division, told The Panama

Canal Review:

"Rabies has been so generally disseminated throughout the world that only a few geographically isolated areas now re- main free. The Isthmus of Panama

which, of course, includes the Canal Zone

is fortunately one of these," Dr. Matheney said. Although the Canal Zone has been free from rabies since 1908, when the deaths

of animals and humans were reported at Ancon (now Gorgas) Hospital, health

authorities consider it a serious menace

to the Isthmian community. There was

one rabies death in Gorgas Hospital during World War II, but the infection had

been contracted in Central America.

Vulnerable Location

The Canal Zone's geographic location and its transient population make it particularly prone to introduction of the

DIM I VACCINATION-REGISTRATION

SCHKDULi:

Date Town Location

July Atlantic Side

13

14

15

Margarita Elementary School Rainbow City Elementary School Gatun Fire Station

Pacific Side

1920

2122

23

Gamboa Police Station Paraiso Gymnasium

Pedro Miguel Fire Station La Boca Hivrh Schoi.l Balboa Stadium

(10 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 3 to 5 p. m.)

VACCINATION against rabies takes only a few

minutes.

disease through imported infected ani- mals from countries where rabies is constantly present or where it occurs in epidemic form from time to time. That

is the reason why a rigid quarantine has been imposed on dogs and cats entering

the Canal Zone from off the Isthmus. The vaccination and registration pro- gram, Dr. Matheney explained, serves to buttress the Canal Zone quarantine.

Through the program, owned animals are immunized against rabies and the numbers of unowned, susceptible dogs are re- duced. During the past year -up to June 15—173 dogs were impounded in the Canal Zone. Even if the quarantine barrier should

fail to prevent rabies from entering the Canal Zone, the fact that the dog population is composed predominately of im- munized, licensed animals should prevent

rabies from becoming epidemic here, he

added, until even stricter measures could

be taken. Procedures Endorsed

Considerable thought and planning have

gone into the Canal Zone's rabies vacci- nation program and the animal quarantine, and these procedures are endorsed

by such agencies as the World Health

Organization and the U. S. Public Health

Service. The success of any such program, however, Dr. Matheney stressed, depends

ultimately on the understanding and support of the community.

"Apathy, opposition, and compromise

by officials, citizens or civic groups, have

been primarily responsible for the inroads made by rabies in other parts of the world

in recent years," he said. "The character of this disease and the ravages left in its wake demand a spirited,

positive response from everyone, but

particularly concerned should be our dog

owners who owe a responsibility to their neighbors as well as to their animals." Not Harmful

Contrary to the belief of some people,

anti-rabies vaccination is not harmful to dogs. There were no (Set page 12)

New York Office Moves

From 24 State Street

Ever since American families began to come to the Canal Zone during the early

part of this century, Canal Zone youngsters have known that if they ever became

separated from their parents in New York

they could always go to the office of the Panama Line — in those days the Panama

Railroad -and their parents would eventually find them.

A good many Zone families drilled the

address, 24 State Street, into their child- ren's minds just as they did the youngster's own names and addresses.

If this practice is still being followed, Zone children have to learn a new address. Last month the offices of the Panama

Line, and the New York office of the Panama Canal Company, moved from

the 24 State Street address to a new location, 21 West Street, about three blocks from State Street and next door to the Downtown Athletic Club. According to information in the New

York Office, the building at 24 State

Street was opened in 1902 and the Pan- ama Railroad Company was its first tenant. E. H. Harms, Acting General Superin- tendent of the Panama Line, wrote The

Panama Canal Review:

"We will still be located in the Battery

Park area and our offices will still be

easily accessible for our many freight forwarders and other shippers. Our space

in the new building consists of the entire 21st floor, totaling approximately 10,000 square feet, and on this floor will be lo- cated our Executive Offices as well as our Freight Department, Procurement,

and Finance Divisions. In addition to the above, we have rented approximately

1,000 square feet on the 24th floor which

will be occupied by our Passenger Depart- ment. The building at 21 West Street is the most modern structure in the Battery

district and was completed in 1932. "Our reason for moving to our new

location was to provide us badly needed

additional space as well as to secure

better lighting, ventilation, and more

modern necessary conveniences."

NEW YORK OFFICES of the Panama Canal Company have just moved to this building, 21 West

Street.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

LJML : ' ' <$? . SELECTIVE MYOPIA

The dictionary says that myopia is a

condition of the eye in which the rays from objects are brought to a focus before they form a distinct image on the

retina. Selective myopia is a degenerate

condition which prohibits a person from

focusing his eyes on things he does not

wish to see. It appears this disease

affects people at all ages. In most cases

it is a failure of the mind rather than the

eyes. For the eyes see but the brain doesn't register.

A child, running into the street after a

ball, has eyes only for the ball, none on

the speeding car. A group of young

people on their way to a beach, waiting

impatiently for a slow freight to clear the crossing, does not look for the fast ex- press high-balling on the other track. An

elderly woman, in dark clothes on a rainy

night, scurrying through heavy traffic, has her eyes only on the safety of the far curb. Such accidents are typically selective myopia cases in our everyday traffic.

Selective myopia is more critical when

found among those who are responsible

for the prevention of accidents. A fore- man or supervisor who walks around day

after day without seeing the unsafe conditions and practices on his job needs more than a pair of glasses to correct his

vision. He needs some sort of shock

treatment to wake up his brain to register

what his eyes see. Among higher management personnel,

the old saw of calculated risk (which is just another form of selective myopia) is HONOR ROLL

Bureau Award For BEST RECORD

MAY

COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Community Services 3

Civil Affairs — 1 Health 1 Supply 1 Engineering and Construction

Marine

Transportation and Terminals

Division Award For NO DISABLING INJURIES

MAY

NAVIGATION DIVISION

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

SERVICE CENTER DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

SANITATION DIVISION AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEAR

Aids to Navigation 4 Sanitation 4 Service Center 4 Motor Transportation 3

Electrical 2 Grounds Maintenance 2 Hospitalization and Clinics 1 Maintenance 1 Navigation 1 Railroad - 1 Storehouses 1 Commissary

Dredging

Industrial Locks

Terminals

often quoted when they are asked to cor- rect an unsafe condition or practice. The

disease becomes even more critical when

they find a little money will be needed. Usually they want to know how many

accidents have been caused by this unsafe

condition or practice. If, by chance,

there has never been an accident, then

this type of person may really show how

critically ill he is, and become violent by

flatly refusing to do anything for such

accident prevention. It does not take a

specialist to see how critically ill he is,

if it must take an accident, a workman

injured, or maybe somebody killed before he will do something to correct the unsafe

condition or practice.

Selective myopia is common among

workmen who have been depending on speed and timing of their muscles to pre- vent an accident. It is common for the more experienced hands to brag about

their skill in avoiding getting hurt. Many

contend that they have been doing work

in such a manner for years and haven't had an accident (yet). It is plainly evi- dent that they have rationalized their unsafe practices to such a degree of selective myopia they can no longer see that only one accident may be their last. Even among safety personnel selective myopia takes its toll. Such an employee

does not want to disturb the status quo when his division seems to be satisfied with the safety record it is now ex- periencing. His usual reply is: "Why dis- turb everybody with safety programs just to bring our frequency rate down a few more points?" The final stages of selective myopia have really got him, with the stage all set for the final act. Will he be rudely awakened by one grand accident, or a whole series of lesser ones? It won't

be long!

You will not find the disease selective myopia in any medical dictionary, for the word seems to have been coined by a National Safety Council editor in order

to explain a condition where many of us

close our eyes, our minds, our pocketbooks, and relax our muscles toward doing anything about accident prevention.

Do not let this new-found disease work

on you until an accident has to occur

before you will do anything about acci- dent prevention, or you become so satis- fied with your safety record that you

cannot see how, or where, you can show

further improvement.eliminating needless

accidents. Go out now and walk around your office, shop, or field job. If you can

find unsafe conditions and practices which

you can correct now and see others you

can correct on a long-range plan, then you are recovering from selective myopia.

"Are you gonna leave those banana

peels where anybody can step on

'em?" NAHONAl SAftrr COUNCIL

MAY 1954

Community Services Bureau

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Health Bureau

Supply Bureau

Marine Bureau

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

Civil Affairs Bureau

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

Transportation and Terminals Bureau

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

( Frequency Rale)

10 20 30 40 mxm

^mmmmmmssmka

Number of Disabling Injuries .27

I

Man-Hours Worked 2,333,071 LEGEND

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

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

E&ffiffiffl Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year
July 2,1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Official Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed by the Printing Plant Mount Hope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr. Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Editorial Assistant

SUBSCRIPTION—$1.00 a year SINGLE COPIES -5 cents each On sale at all Panama Canal Service Centers, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days

after publication date.

SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL—10 cents each BACK COPIES— 10 cents each On sale when available, from the Vauit

Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building, Balboa Heights.

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

Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. 7.. Leaving Isthmus

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LT. COL. DAVID S. PARKER, military

assistant to the Governor for the past two

years, will leave the Canal Zone about August 1 for his new post in the Portland,

Oreg., Engineer District. Maj. David H. Smith, who will succeed

Colonel Parker, will arrive here about July

15 with Mrs. Smith and their two small daughters. He comes here from the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology.

A graduate of West Point, Colonel Parker

served overseas during World War II on

the staffs of Adm. Chester Nimitz and Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. After the war he was

in Japan for three years. He came here from an assignment at West Point.

OF CURRENT INTEREST

Going Up

. ,- tj*T^**J^*^*t^^^y^ NEW HOUSES in the Balboa Flats are fast taking shape. The construction project in this section, where 98 apartments are being built, is now well advanced. The first of the houses, near the Balboa ele- mentary school, will be ready about the first of October. Both masonry and composite type houses are under construction.

The new Canal townsite on the east side

of Gaillard Highway in the Corozal area was officially designated "Los Rios" last month. Announcement of the official name

for the town was made in a memorandum

from Governor J. S. Seybold. The name

comes from the fact that all the streets in the town are named for Isthmian rivers.

A new three-minute sterilizer has

been added to the equipment at Gorgas

Hospital. Installed in the main oper- ating room it will be used when a quick

sterilization must be done when some

instrument in use becomes contaminated, for instance. The older type

sterilizer takes \2 to 15 minutes to ren- der an instrument ready for use. The

new sterilizer will decrease the time

the surgeon must wait for the sterilized instrument and lessens patient time on

the operating table under anesthesia.

in the Chagres River above Gamboa Bridge,

and in Agua Clara reservoir, at the instiga- tion of the Tarpon Club. Eleven years

earlier fish, later thought to have been rain- bow trout, were planted in Gatun Lake.

Neither these nor the fish brought later, thrived.

In 1950, 5(1,000 trout eggs were brought from the United States to stock the Cal- dera and Chiriqui Yiejo rivers in Chiriqui

Province.

Three Canal Zone school teachers will teach next year in the elementary school "I a U. S. Naval installation at Port Lyautry, French Morocco. The adventurous trio is made up of Frances P. Winderweedle, who

taught last year at Cocoli, Marjorie Howell

.iiid Myrtle Swartz. The latter two taught

at Fort Kobbe school. Miss Swartz is on

a year's leave of absence; the other two

h.i\ c resigned.

The Pacific Civic Council, which rep- resents Ancon, Balboa, and Diablo

Heights, is advocating some measures

for the Canal Zone to prevent such

tragedies as have occured in the United

States when children have suffocated

after being locked into discarded refrig- erators. Doors should be removed from

refrigerators not in use or those which

have been thrown away, a Council

spokesman says. An extra refrigerator

in a carport or basement where it is easily accessible to small children

should be padlocked, if possible, if the owner goes on vacation.

A number of changes have been made

in the location of Museum items as a

result of the consolidation of the post

office-banking activities in the lobbv

of the Civil Affairs Building.

Several ship models and the French

hospital model have been moved to the

second floor outside the Library's main

reading room, while two paintings of the Isthmus during the 19th Century

are now located in the Library itself. Other items, such as the flat lighted case reserved for displays which are changed monthly, the large lighted cases in the well of the lobby, the rubber relief map of the Canal, and the

case containing models of construction

day machinery, remain where they

have been since the Museum was established in the Civil Affairs Building. Also unchanged is the oval room at the Albrook Field side of the building, the nucleus of the Museum.

A Museum directory will be placed

at the entrance of the lobby. The

Museum will continue to be lighted

and open to the public from 9 a. m.

to 8 p. m.

Ten thousand black l>a-<> fingerlings were

put into Madden Lake last month. The

fingerlings, which were supplied by the Bureau of Fisheries through the efforts of Lt. Gen. H. L. McBride. were shipped to the Canal Zone from Mobile. Ala. They

should provide excellent fishing in the Lake

within a few years. Fish planting is done infrequently but it has been done before in Canal Zone waters. In 1924, 60 cans of live black bass, brim,

and crappie were placed in Stilson's Pond,

A general all-around shift took place at the Civil Affairs Building late in June when

a number of offices were rearranged to make

r n for the Postal-Banking service on the ground floor of the building.

The headquarters of the Fire Division were moved to the third floor, to the tower

formerly occupied by a unit of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. The Civil Defense

Section has also moved into the tower. A

few days later the Safety Branch moved

from the Civil Affairs Building to Room .1M

in the Administration Building.

Maj. George Herman, Chief of the Police Division, has moved across the rotunda into the space formerly occupied by the clerical

staff of Police Headquarters and the clerical

stall has moved into the office formerly oc- cupied by the Postal Inspector. The office of the Librarian is now in the space where Major Herman had his office.
THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

Canal Zone Post Offices

Celebrate 50th Anniversary

CONTRAST between the old and the new is shown

here. Above is the Balboa Post Office; at the left, the La Boca Post Office, one of those established June 24, 1904.

Fifty years ago last week the first post

offices were opened in the Canal Zone. Snow has never proved a problem, but

rain and storms and dark of night can be

as troublesome here as anywhere else; Canal Zone postal officials are proud that

their couriers —the trucks and mail cars continue to make their appointed rounds. The Canal Zone postal system is unique. It is not connected with th" United States system; local postal officials believe it to be the only completely inde- pendent postal service under the United

States flag. During the fiscal year which closed June 30, 1953—1954 figures are not yet

available—the Canal Zone postal system

operated 19 post offices, 10 of them in military posts or stations; sold $445,616

worth of air mail stamps and $239,340 of other stamps, had $6,847,990 on deposit

in postal savings accounts; and handled

_'7,i>:;7 dispatches of air mail and 5,696

dispatches of surface mail a dispatch

being just what it says: one shipment,

whether that is a packet of letters or a dozen mail sacks, to any one point.

Those figures are a far cry from that

ear when stamp sales in one month

1 only $655.54; there was no registry or money order service; a postal savings system was still seven years in the

future; and the Wrighl brothers had

piloted a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty

Hawk only a few months before. "Must Handle Mail"

Establishment of post offices in the new

Canal Zone was only one of a myriad of problems which faced the first Canal administration in 1904. On June 20 that

year, Gov. George W. Davis wrote the Chairman -of the Isthmian Canal Commission: "The necessity of putting our postal

service on its feet is, of course, pressing

. . . For sometime past I have had the baggage agents on the trains deliver official mail to our several stations but now

I must handle the mail of the people who

inhabit the Zone. As a matter of immediate and pressing necessity, that mail

will be carried if it is simply franked so that the name of the sender can be identified as we have no postage stamps for present use." The letter was confirmation of a cable

in which Governor Davis had asked that nine post offices be designated and urged

that postal equipment, instructions and

above all, a supply of stamps be provided

immediately.

He said he had tentatively appointed

acting postmasters at Cristobal, Gatun,

Bohio, Gorgona, Bas Obispo (he changed

this the same day to Matachin), Empire,

Culebra, La Boca, and Ancon. Washington approved and these towns were officially designated as post offices, although

the official document spelled Cristobal "Crystobal," and Bohio "Boheo," an

error which took several weeks to correct. Panama Stamp

Stamps were a major problem; two

days after Governor Davis had written and cabled the Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama agreed to furnish the Canal Zone with Panamanian stamps, sur- charged "Canal Zone," at a cost of 20

percent of their face value. A summary

of postal operations in The Canal Record five years later, said that these first stamps were Colombian, surcharged "Pan- ama" and with the words "Canal Zone"

overprinted with a rubber stamp.

There were no postmasters in those days as we now know them, and in 1905

the Isthmian Canal Commission report

said: "The business of the service has be- come so important and its volume has so extended (stamp sales for the first year were $11,537.23!) that the station agents

who formerly acted as postmasters can no longer give it their proper attention ... As rapidly as experienced post office men can be secured, the assignment of

railroad station agents to post offices are being canceled and the offices are being

placed in charge of persons not only

thoroughly reliable and responsible but

who also have had previous experience

with the duties involved." Meantime, the question of stamps had

become involved. On June 29 the Post- master General wrote the Isthmian Canal

Commission that he had designated two

inspectors to "assist the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone in organizing a postal

service for that district." They wen' to

sail from New York July 6, taking with

them ten million United States stamps of various values, overprinted "Canal Zone,

Panama."

The files are blank as to whether the two inspectors arrived, but the stamps

did and their number caused Governor

Davis to write a lengthy, somewhat

plaintive letter to the Commission chair- man which asked when had he ever

ordered ten million or any other specified

number of U. S. stamps surcharged.

Taft Agreement

Panama protested the use of the United

States stamps in the Canal Zone; in De- cember 1904, under what became known

as the Taft Agreement, the Canal Zone

agreed to buy its stamps from Panama

at 40 percant of their face value. This

arrangement brought recurrent protests

from Canal Zone officials, who held that

the payment to Panama put the postal

system hopelessly in the red, and the

protests continued until the Taft Agreement was finally abrogated on May 1, 1924. Surcharged U. S. stamps were fhen used until the Canal Zone had its own

stamps.

Crede H. Calhoun, who came to the Canal Zone in 1907 and who headed the Division of Civil Affairs from 1916 until

CHARLES V. HINZ is the senior postmaster. He is :it Balboa Heights.
July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

his retirement in 1947, says that after the Taft Agreement was abrogated the Canal Zone postal system did make a profit until the early' 1940's. In August 1905, the Canal Zone Bureau

of Posts added a registry system and 10 months later began to issue money orders. The latter were highly important for they

provided not only the means for Canal Zone workers to send money to their

families at home but also gave them

some facilities for savings. By November 1907, over $200,000 was on deposit

in the 14 post offices which made up the

service. This repressnted money which

Canal employees had paid for money

orders made out to themselves. Mr. Calhoun recalls that on pay days

as much as $60,000 was paid in at one

post office. Since payment was in coin, the money reached such physical proportions that it had to be stored in big mail

sacks. These were then sent by mail to the Treasurer of the Canal Zone. There

were no mail robberies. Business Increased

Postal revenues increased steadily. By

1909 stamp sales were almost triple what

they had been in the first year and, as The Record pointed out, this did not

indicate the total amount of mail handled

as at least 70 percent was carried under

government frank. The West Indians who made up the bulk of the Canal labor force were great

letter writers, Mr. Calhoun says, and the volume of their mail increased tremendously when mail order catalogues began

to reach the Canal Zone. He remembers

one letter addressed: "Montgomery Ward,

attention Mr. Ward hisself." Advocates of women's rights, a burning issue of those days, undoubtedly

hailed one of the regulations of the Canal Zone postal savings system when it was

authorized in September 1911. A married woman could open a savings deposit in her own name "free from any control or

interference by her husband." The ori- ginal rules provided that no interest would be paid and that the system would

be operated by a board of trustees: the

Collector of Revenue, the Auditor, and

the Treasurer. There was a delay in getting postal

savings started. The first deposits were

not made until February 1, 1911. By

June 30 of that year, 2,402 accounts had

been opened. Depositors, The Canal

Record reported, represented 30 differ- ent nations or dependencies.

In 1914 the Executive Order which had

established the postal savings system was

revoked and all outstanding accounts

transferred to the office of the Canal's

Auditor. Somstime later the present

postal savings system was adopted.

In the early Canal days the post offices were part of the ICC Department of Revenues which included not only the

postal system but also the customs, in- ternal revenue, lands and buildings, and

the administration of estates. They later became part of the Executive Department. When the permanent organization was formed in 1914 the Division of Posts was abolished and its work was transfer- red to the Division of Civil Affairs, the

chief of which was, ex officio, Director of Posts. Censorship

World War I brought censorship to the Canal Zone for the first time. Panama

and the Canal Zone named a joint censorship board. Censorship for both jurisdicCANAL POST OFFICES AND THEIR DATES

Nam Opened Closed Ktestah- Redosed Reestab- Recloted

lished lished Ancon !

.

6-24-04

Cristobal 6-24-04 Gatun 6-24-04 Empire.- 6-24-04 7-31-19 8-16-19 3-31-21 La Bcca ' 6-24-04

Culebra 6-25-04 9-30-27

Matachin. 6-25-04 8-23-13 Gorgona 6-25-04 8-16 13 Bohio 2 6-25-04 12-31 II San Pablo . .

.

7- 7-04 11-29-11 Ancon Station A 3 1905 4-30-08

Pedro Miguel 8- 9-05 Bas Obispo 12-28-05 2-5-14

Corozal 4 .. 1-1-06 5-15-43 2-15-40 7-31-52

Paraiso 4 .. 1-1-06 7-31-19 8-16-19 4-15-21 ll-S-39 6-8-43

Tavernilla 4 _ _ 1-1-06 12-11-11 Las Cascadas 1-20-06 2-28-10

Miraflores 10-1-08 9-16-15

Balboa _ .

.

5- 5-09

Station B Cristobal, (Toro

Point) 5 1-9 -11

Station A Cristobal, (Porto

Bello) 7- 1-11 4-50-14 Monte Lirio 5-25-12 1-51-14 12-15-15 11-30-20 Gamboa 3-20- 1

4

Frijoles 4-16-14 9-30-14

Balboa Heights 7-15-14

Fort Randolphs 4- 1-16 4-31-19 8-16-19 4-30-21 7-1-38 6-21-45

Fort Sherman 5-1-16 5-31-27 5-4-36 6-23-43 2-26-46 1-31-50

Fort Grant 6 7- 1-16 Fort Amador.. 10-20-17 7-31-19 8-16-19 4-50-21 2-11-46 Coco Solo.. 3- 1-19 7-31-19 8-16-10 11- 1-42 1-16-46

Fort Clayton 7-1-22 4-15-43 2-20-46

France Field.. 7-1-23 4-15-43 2-18-46 10-21-49

Fort Davis 7-1-29 6-18-43 2-18-46 Madden Dam 1-2-32 6-25-37 Albrook Field 12-1-39 4-19-43 2-28-46

Upham... 12-1-39 9-15-42 1-22-46 11 -16-46

Diablo 6- 1-40 Howard Field 6-1-41 6-14-43 2-16-46

Cocoli 7- 1-41 7- 1-54 Margarita 8-15-41 Chagres 4- 6-42 6-30-44 FortGulick ... 6-21-42 2-8-43 2-25-46 7-1-54

Curundu 9- 1-43 Rodman 2- 1-46 Quarry Heights 2-23-46 9-30-49

1 La Boca was changed to Balboa May 5, 1909. these offices were actually established but they were

2 There is no record to show the date this office was included in a list dated January 20, 1906, as being in closed. The post office building was removed prior operation at that time although all files show Januto September 8, 1911, and work was performed by the ary 1, 1906. railroad station agent. It is believed that the post s Cristobal Station B, Toro Point was changed to

office was abolished on or about December 31, 1911. Fort Sherman. May 1, 1916.

3 Ancon Station A was in operation in Panama 6 This station was changed to Fort Amador October

City in the old French Canal headquarters building 20. 1917. used by the ICC from 1904-08. No records are The word "field" was changed in France Field, available to show the date the office opened hut it Albrook Field and Howard Field to "Air Force was closed April 30, 1908, and all records transferred Base" October 1, 1948.

to Ancon. Army Post Offices (APO's) were established in the

4 There are no records available to show when Canal Zone July 1, 1942. and closed in 1946.

tions was handled at the Cristobal Post

Office. Army mail was censored by the

military but the Canal Zone Director of Posts was Chief Censor for civilian mail. During the second world war, Canal Zone

censorship was under the Chief of Censorship in Washington. Local mail and mail

passing through the Canal Zone was cen- sored in a large building, not long ago

torn down, behind the Balboa post office. Between the two wars, Canal Zone

postal operations were largely routine. Boat Day was Mail Day. Post offices were crowded with Zonians waiting for

letters or packages and usually the postal

force worked straight through until all of the first class mail had been distributed. For many years The Canal Record,

in every issue, carried a list of "nixie"

letters without complete address; later the same information was posted on bulletin boards. All post offices also used to

have an up-to-date posting of arrivals and

departures of mail boats.

Postal People

Postal people have always been clanish and even they themselves admit it. The first postal picnic was held on Taboga

Island on Labor Day 1911, and Zonians were publicly advised to expect no mail

service that day. The picnics have been

annual affairs ever since; this year's was

held at Diablo Heights during the dry

season. A roster of postal employees is studded

with the names of well-known Zonians.

F. H. Wang, former Executive Secretary, was once a postal clerk. Gerald Bliss, one of the Canal Zone's best-known fig- ures, was a postmaster for years. Stacey

Russell, long-time postal inspector, deliv- ered mail for President Franklin I). Roosevelt to the Galapagos islands and
10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

offices are in financial difficulties. Here,

as in the United States, postal rates are not sufficient to carry the load. Here, as

in the United States, a solution will have

to be worked out. Just what it will be, no one knows—here, as in the United

States.

B >.M E ( IF thi' "Id post office people are shown in this photograph, taken about 1912. All are named,

left to right. Front row: Gerald D. Bliss, Tom M. Cooke, Richard L. Metcalfe; second row: Anselm M.

Warner, William G. Taylor; third row: George E. LeMire, Abel A. Hunter, Hal B. Cooper; back row: John W. rannehill, Fred L. Gorham, Cullen D. Thaxton, and Garfield 0. Gilbert.

to the open waters of the Pacific where

the President was resting and fishing. A. M. Warner, first postmaster at Balboa

Heights, believed in postal regulations by

the book. On one occasion he intended

to require Governor Goethals to come to the post office to get a registered letter

in person; he thought better of it and

took the letter and the registry book to the Governor. Once every few years, when it sells by

bid unclaimed or undeliverable parcels, the Canal Zone postal service discovers what strange things it may have been

handling. At the last sale, in 1952, there were such varied items as lampshades,

suitcases, clocks, radios, wedding rings,

baby rattles, wrenches, and cooking pots. Eggs And Cat

They didn't wait for such a sale to dis- cover the eggs or the cat. The eggs were,

or had been, handsome, hand-decorated

hard-boiled eggs which had been sent from the States—by boat mail! The

postmaster sent out a hurry call to the addressee of that package. The cat was

one of a collection which belonged to, or was attached bo, a postal employee at

Cristobal. It disappeared one day, to turn up, thoroughly annoyed but none the worse for wear, in a mail sack at Balboa.

It could In 1 that the cat had just happened

to crawl in, but it could be that it was

helped. R igular air mail service to the Canal

Zone was inaugurated in 1929 but an air mail 1 tter cosf so much more—25 cents

for a half-ounce as compared to three

cents for a ship letter—that air mail did not become a major means of communication until World War II made surface shipments irregular and until the air mail

rate was considerably reduced. Today

the hulk of first class mail to and from

the Canal Zone is handled by air. 45 Post Offices A history of the Canal Zone post offices

is a history of the Canal Zone. As work

advanced, or was campleted, post offices opened or closed—and they are still doing

so. A table accompanying this story

gives the dates, listed chronologically, on which the 45 post offices which have

functioned here were opened; the other

dates are those on which they closed, were reestablished or reclosed, if that happened to be the case. When excavation began at Mirarlores,

for instance, a post office was established

there. Likewise, when the main headquarters of the Canal's civil administration were moved from Panama City to Ancon, so was the handling of the mail. As Gatun lake began to rise, settlements and post offices were abolished. In modern time post offices were put into operation as the Third Locks towns and new Army posts were built. APO's Here By the end of the 1942 fiscal year, 23 Canal Zone post offices were operating.

On July 1, 1942, the Army Postal Service was extended to the Canal Zone and during the course of the year took over all post offices in Army posts. The Navy

assumed operation of two post offices at Naval stations during that same year so that by the end of fiscal year 1943 there were onlv 12 Canal Zone post offices. The APO's were discontinued and the

military post offices returned to the Canal Zone postal service in 1946. Today there are 16 Canal Zone post

offices. Two, Gulick and Cocoli, have

just been closed. A number of others have been placed on a four-hour service day and some reduced to a mail delivery

status only. The money order and postal

savings services at Ancon, Balboa, Bal- boa Heights, Curundu, Diablo Heights,

Amador, and Albrook have been consoli- dated at a new unit in the Civil Affairs Building. Here, as in the United States, the post

Here in a handy, compact form is the information you will need about your

post office with the changes which took

effect at the first of this month. It gives

you the type of service and the hours of operation of each. Information for the

post offices in the various civilian communities is listed below.

Civil Affairs Building: Issue and pay

postal monej order and postal savings certificates; stamps, registration, insurance, and parcel mailing. One service window.

Hours: 9 a. in. ti> 5:30 p. m. daily, except

Stuidav s and holidays.

Ancon: Mail delivery only. No change

in hour-- of service and general delivery,

Monday through Friday.

Balboa: All regular service except banking-type operations. No change in hours, Monday through Friday.

Balboa Heights: All regular services ex- cept banking-type operations. Hours: 11:30

a. m. to 2 p. in., and 3 to 4:30 p. m., Monday through Friday. Cristobal: No change in service or hours.

f Diablo Heights: All regular service ex- cept banking-type operations. Hours: 8:30

to 10:30, and 2 to 4 p. m., Monday through

Friday.

Gamboa: No change in service. Hours:

0:30 a. in. to 12 noon, and 3:30 to 5 p. m., Monday through Friday.

Gatun: No change in service or hours of operation.

Margarita: No change in service or- hours ol operation.

Pedro Miguel: No change in service. Hours: 9 to 1 1 a. in., and 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Monday through Friday.

Former Zonian Will Join

Staff Of Gorgas Hospital

Dr. William Edward Prier, son of Dr. and Mrs. Vern Prier of Cristobal, is now

finishing a two-year residency at the George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital

in Danville, Pa., and will join the staff of Gorgas Hospital in July as orthopedic surgeon assisting Col. G. G. McSchatko,

chief of that service. Young Doctor Prier was born in Colon

and attended elementary school in Cristobal. He went to the States in 1936 to attend the Kent Preparatory School in Kent, Conn., and entered Harvard University for his premedical training in 1941

.

His education was interrupted by

World War II when he joined the V-12

Navy program at Harvard and was

ordered to active duty in 1944. After

receiving his commission at Cornell University, he spent 18 months with the Navy in the Pacific. He was graduated

from Harvard in 1947 and for a few

months previous to entering Tufts Medical School in Boston, he did research in endocrinology at the Worchester Foundation Hospital in Worchester, Mass. He was graduated from Tufts in 1951 and took his internship at the Geisinger

Memorial Hospital, followed by two

years residency in orthopedic surgery under Dr. Leonard Franklin Bush.

Accompanied by his wife and three small children, Dr. Prier is expected to arrive on the Isthmus on July 15.
July 2,1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

ANNIVERSARIES

Ellis D. Carey, master of the ferryboat

President Roosevelt and top man on this month's list "I anI niversaries, figures

I that he has crossed

I the Panama Canal

| close to 50,000

I times. At a tenth

I of a mile to a crossI ing, that amounts

I to a good main

I miles, even if it

I is just between ferry- slip and ferry slip. He came to the Canal Zone as a

serviceman, back in the days of World War I. and, except for a nine-month absence in 1921 when he went

to the States to play baseball, has been here ever since. Last month he completed 40

years of Government service, over .'4 of them with the Canal organization.

30 YEARS

Six men hold second place honors in June

anniversaries. All of them have had 30

years of Government service and two, Julius M. Culpepper and Thomas J. Libonati, have unbroken Canal service. Two others, Claude B. Strobridge and

George A. Jones, Jr., came here as boys

and worked in summer jobs while they were

still in their teens. Mr. Culpepper is foreman of the Air Mail Field of the Post Offices at the Civil Affairs Building. Mr. Libonati is a Lock

Operator Machinist at Pedro Miguel Locks; Mr. Strobridge is Distribution Foreman for the Electrical Division in Cristobal; and Mr. Jones is Supervisory Business Accountant for the Terminals Division. The other two 30-year men are: William

H. Fisk, Kansas-born, a General Store- keeper in the Division of Storehouses, and

Ralph N. Stewart, a Supervisory Accounting Clerk, with the Commissary Division.

25 YEARS

Three employees celebrated their Silver Anniversaries in June. They are: Ernest Angermuller, Riveter and Tank. Tester

for the Industrial Division; James M.

Hunter, who has spent most of his life here and who is a small tug operator, with

the Dredging Division; and Archibald L. Wright, Chtef of the Central Labor Office Division.

20 YEARS

Two of the June 20-year employees

Kathleen McGuigan, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Comptroller, and

Clinton Baverstock, Pilot and small-boat

enthusiast, have continuous service with

the Canal. Others who celebrated their 20th anniversaries last month are: John J. Crawford, Plumber with the Maintenance

Division; Eugene F. Kleasner, Lock

Operator Machinist Leader at Pedro Miguel Locks; and Manuel Lopez, a Heavy Special Truck Driver with the Motor Transportation Division.

15 YEARS

Fifteen employees completed 15 years

of Government service in June. The fol- lowing seven have continuous service: Bennet G. Tipton, Supervisory Administrative Assistant, Cristobal Port Captain's

Office; William J. Cronan, Police Officer

in the Cristobal District; Carl W. Cetti,

all of whose service has been as Pilot-in- training and Pilot; Coral A. Strickler, General Staff Xurse at Gorgas Hospital;

Percy A. Lawrance, Lock Operator Wire- man Leader at Gatun Locks; Richard I*. Potter, Electrical Engineer in the Electrical Division; and Mrs. Eleanor P. Home,

Accounting Clerk, Accounting Division. Other 15-year employees are: Thomas

E. Burrow, Budget Examiner on the Executive Planning Staff; Bob N. Maynard,

Foreman Plumber, Maintenance Division; Lt. Col. R. F. Mulholland, Corozal

Hospital Superintendent; Richard J. Mahoney, Supervisory Construction Inspector. Contract and Inspection Division; Edward

G. Coyle, Systems Accountant with the Accounting System Staff; Douglas S. Smith, Lock Operator Machinist at Gatun; Mrs. Clara M. Chambers, Clerk-Stenographer in the Navigation Division; and

Robert H. Rathgeber, Steam Engineer,

for the Terminals Division.

IF ALL goes well there shojld be fresh Calif- ornia fruit and green vegetables in the commissary this week-end. A large shipment of apricots, plums, nectarines, cantaloupes, oranges, lemons, lettuce, celery, and other mouth-watering fruit and salad material

left Los Angeles June 23 on the reefer ship "Mormacgulf" which was due here, when

this column went to press, on June 30. It is the first direct shipment of this kind from Calif- ornia the Commissary Division has been able

to line up since the end of World War II.

In addition to the direct shipment from California there will be fresh vegetables

and fruit coming from other ports. Other These will include corn-on-the- Shipments cob, a traditional July 4 delicacy

if you live in the right part of the

country, watermelons, and other appetizing

fresh things for Canal Zone tables. After

the recent lettuce fiasco when a hot box on

a railroad car delayed a shipment in the

Stales so that less than a third of it was fit for use when it got here, the Commissary

people have their fingers crossed. But every- one is hoping.

A TOUR of the Commissary Division's Mount Hope warehouses the other day

turned up a number of items which should

interest local buyers. Perfect gifts for late summer weddings are two Sunbeam products an automatic percolator and an automatic

frying pan. The eight-cup percolator will make as little as two cups, has a dial control which can be set for "milder" or "stronger" and in case of a party can be refilled and

reused immediately without first having to cool; cost: $23.50. The frying pan is square,

stands on its own legs, has a glass cover and

a handle dial which can be set to jusl the

right temperature, 360 for instance, for french toast, or 300 for fried eggs. Of heavy

cast aluminum, it is good-looking enough to be used at the table, and costs $23.75.

Extra covers are $1.95 each and a booklet

of recipes is tossed in as an extra.

The growing number of skin-diving aficion- ados will be interested in knowing that the

commissaries have their special Skin equipment. Plain masks are $5.25

Diving and mask hoods, $12.50. Under- water flashlights will sell for about

$2.95 and a depth gauge, which is import- ant if you're going to take your diving seriously, for $3.50. There are "duck feet'' for grownups, $8.95 to $12.95, and adjustable

web feet for children, $4.95.

'BABY DEER" is the coy name for some attractive new christening boots which the commissaries have for new arrivals. Of soft white

satin, they come in two styles. One veision has an ankle-strap with a small pearl burton. The others are tied with colored ribbon ar.d bordered with val-type lace. Both come in white, with white, blue, cink, or maize trim. A detachable tab may be sent to the manufacturer and will come back with baby's name

or monogram embroidered on it. There is no

charge fo. this service: The boots are $2.50.

Zoologists never saw any of the animals which are on the sock pins, a new teenage

fad which the Commissaries have

Sock |ust received, but it's a safe bet

Pins that the younger generation will go

wilder than usual over them. The

animals are made of a fluffy, plush fabric, are

fastened to pins which have a safety clasp. There is a purple cat, or reasonable facsimile thereof, with orange feet and ears and pearl

button eyes. A two-tailed creature is yel- low, with blue ears and feet. They are 50

cents and a well-dressed high schooler will want several. REMEMBER THE men's tailored seersucker robes and matching house slippers the Commissaries had last year? A new shipment

has just arrived for sale in the larger stores at about $4.95 a set. The tailored robes come in checks, stripes, or plaids, are made

by Dunmar, and come in small, medium, and

large sizes. New dresses at budget prices for grownup girls will be appearing in all of the Commissaries from time to time. One

New attractive celanese acetate print, Dresses sleeveless and with a plastic belt, has a slim matching rayon petticoat under its full skirt, $5.25. The bodice of a glazed cotton, in a luscious pink, has rows

of material held together by net which gives a fagotted effect. The dress has a matching

jacket; $7.95. Another attractive dress is of shantung with perky, standout pockets and a

big collar which is decorated with a completely useless but most attractive big button, $5.25.

NEW ITEMS in the grocery sections this month are Frescavena, a Ouaker Oats prcduct, and IMT, an instant, saltfree liquid meat

tenderizer. Frescavena is an up-to-data mix

for the oatmeal beverage which has long been popular in Centrcl and South America.

In vacuum-packed tins, it will sell for 57 cents

for 20 ounces. A bottle of IMT, made with a papaya base, holds eight fluid ounces and

sells for 51 cents.

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN WRITER

RECALLS EARLY CANAL DAYS

An incident of Canal Zone history,

almost forgotten except by oldtimers or students of local history, was recalled last month by news of the death in Saugerties, X. V., of Poultney Bigelow, whom Neivs- week described as "newspaperman, author, lecturer, gentleman adventurer, and

the oldest alumnus of Yale University."

One of his articles—Our Mismanagement in Panama —written in 1005 after a 28-hour stay in the Canal Zone, created a national sensation and led to a Senate Committee investigation on "all matters"

relating to the Panama Canal. It also

led, indirectly, to President Theodore

Roosevelt's visit to the Canal Zone in November 1906. Our Mismanagement in Panama criti- cized the sanitary condition of Colon, the working force, a projected reservoir—in

brief, almost everything on the Isthmus. Zone pranksters later named a boat used

at the Mount Hope reservoir -which he had said would never hold water—the Poultney Bigelow.

Colonel Cteve Will Head

Gorgas Medical Service

Col. Edward A. Cleve, of the Army

Medical Corps, arrived here late last month to take over the post of Chief of Gorgas Hospital's Medical Service. He

replaces Col. Men ill C. Davenport who

has been assigned to Valley Forge Army

Hospital at Phoenixville, Pa. Colonel Cleve comes to the Canal Zone

from Letterman Army Hospital in San

Francisco. His wife and two daughters

will accompany him to the Isthmus. He received his medical degree from

Tulane and s?rved his internship in Fairfield, Ala., Alabama being his home state. He has been in the Army Medical Corps

since 1936 and is a graduate of the Army

Medical School and the Medical Field Service School. His overseas service in- cludes duty as Chief of the Medical Service in the Army Hospital in Tokyo.

He is a diplomate of the American

Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and

a member of the American Medical Association.
12 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

Summer Recreation Program Forty Years Ago

Entertains 771 Boys and Girls In June

Opsning of the Panama Canal to world traffic was not long off and Canal

and shipping interests were busy making

plans for it, 40 years ago last month.

President Woodrow Wilson named a committee of Canal officials, headed by

Gov. George W. Goethals, to "arrange

and provide suitable ceremonies for the

official and formal opening of the Panama

Canal."

No date had been set, however, and this caused some difficulty to shipping companies which were rearranging their mutes

in order to be able to use the Canal as soon

as possible.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company

established a round South America serv- ice—from Liverpool to the east coast of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, up the west coast and homewardbound via the Canal. The first vessel in

this run icas due in Balboa July 3. The Luckenbach line was ready to merge

its two coastal services into one inter- coastal run between San Francisco and

New York, and the Grace Line, operating

four of its Santa ships through the Straits

of Magellan, was planning to divert them

through the Canal as soon as possible. This would cut the intercoastal run from 60 to 20 days.

Meanwhile the Canal collected its first

tolls earnings. In June Canal officials reported that $7,356.12, representing a

total of 6,1230.1 tons handled, had been

collected the previous month.

The income came from tolls on barges

which were transferring a cargo of sugar from an American-Hawaiian line vessel at Balboa to Cristobal for forwarding.

The Canal Record reported that the

traffic began May 18; "since that time

barges have been going through the Canal more or less regularly and will probably

continue to do so as long as the car shortage exists or until the Canal is permanently opened for the passage of ocean-going vessels."

BOYS learn wood finishing the painless way in Summer Recreation sessions at La Boca.

GIRLS at La Bnca make skirts, bags, blouses, and do other handicraft

as their Summer Recreation projects.

The Summer Recreation program, a Community Chest activity, was in full swing last month in local-rate communities. A similar program for children of the U. S.-rate communities begins next week in most towns, although the Fort Kobbe program will not start until the week following. For the local-rate children Summer

Recreation events began May 11 and will continue through July 23. According to Mrs. Inez McKenzie of Paraiso, program

coordinator, 771 children have registered

for the program. Under the direction of 67 volunteers,

activities arc carried out each weekday

morning except Saturday, at the schools

in La Boca, Paraiso, Santa Cruz, and

Rainbow City. Mrs. Mildred White is La Boca chairman; Mrs. Daisy Robinson

heads the program for Paraiso; James

Rogers is chairman at Santa Cruz, and

Mrs. Doris Alexis at Rainbow City.

While the program varies in the various towns it is divided generally into handicraft and athletic events. Handicraft includes such work but

the children make it seem like play—as sewing, crocheting, felt craft, rickrack

jewelry, cord and shell craft, raffia work,

basketry, textile and china painting. The

little ones, especially, have a fine time

when turned loose to finger paint, In one handicraft class the other day

the girls were making bags out of a fine burlap or embroidering skirts and had

just finished some attractive sleeveless blouses. A close examination was needed

to tell that an attractive lot of barrettes had been made from shell macaroni.

The same day, at La Boca, a group of boys aged 7 to 14, were finishing bateas and working on mop handles, which is what might be called learning wood fin- ishing painlessly. In addition to the handicraft program,

the children have some athletics. Bus

loads of children have been taken to the

Pacific Service Cent3r for roller skating

sessions and children from both sides of the Isthmus have spent happy hours in the Rainbow City pool.

Other recreation events include square

dancing, round games, and such table games as dominoes.

On June 8 the S. S. Allianca of the Pana- ma Railroad Line was locked through Gatun Locks to lake level and back again.

The first oceangoing passenger vessel to enter or pass the locks, it carried a number

of passengers in addition to its crew. During its passage through the locks the Allianca was entirely under the control of

the lock operating force.

Annual Dog Registration, Vaccination Start

(Continued from jmge 5) unfavorable physical

effects reported among the dogs vaccinat- ed last year.

All dogs four months of age and older

are eligible for vaccination this year and

must be vaccinated before they may be

registered. Owners of cats are encouraged

but not required, to have their animals

immunized against rabies. "While the vaccination and registration team is visiting your community you may

have your animal vaccinated and regis- tered at the same time, precluding the

necessity of making more than one trip to accomplish this task at a later date,"

Dr. Mathenev concluded.
July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

CZ Communities Are In A Fog

When Spray Truck Makes Rounds

A FOG of DDT blankets the ground when the spray truck goes by.

Twice a week these days when the

nastily-biting Aedes taeniorhynchus mosquitoes and the pestiferous sandflies are

at their meanest, the Canal's fog machines

roll through local communities. Fish

fanciers hurry to cover their aquariums

and persons suffering from asthma take

to their dry closets. But for a while, at

least, after the truck has passed the biting

insect pests are no nuisance.

Experts disagree as to the effectiveness

of this type of machine for the use to which

it is put, but Canal Health officials report that the fog does afford at least temporary

relief. It may be because it is effective as an ins act repellent rather than a killing

agent since when DDT is dispersed in fog it has no residual effect. The material used by the spray truck, or fog machine, is a solution of DDT in diesel oil. It is atomized mechanically,

the experts explain, by compressed air

into a fine mist or spray which is turned

into fog by a blast of high velocity hot air as it leaves the nozzle. The DDT is the

killing or repellent agent; the oil is merely

its solvent. Evening hours have been chosen for use of the spray truck because day-time

rising air currents keep the fog from

remaining in contact with the ground

long enough to be effective.

Health Bureau officials have worked

out a schedule for the machine in an

attempt to minimize its hazard to

traffic which, naturally, is impeded by the

fog. In the towns where traffic is heaviest, such as Balboa and Diablo Heights,

the truck makes its rounds as early in the evening as possible, preferably before dark. In towns such as Gamboa, where

street traffic is lighter, the spraying is done at later hours when the DDT fog

is believed to be more effective.

Ten Years Ago

In June

The Canal Zone, 10 years ago last month, was out to raise a million dollars. The occasion was the Fifth War Loan

Drive At Balboa and Mount Hope

Stadiums the local military set up dis- plays of mortars, jungle equipment,

rocket launchers, and other such equipment, some of it price-tagged so that th" bond-buying public could see what their money was purchasing.

Thousands of Zonians turned out to see the displays and to buy bonds. At

the end of the month the campaign was

reported to be progressing well.

Other war repercussion*, locally: The

Canal Zone ration board okayed the recap- ping of spare tires; up until the end of June motorists had been driving mi four

recaps, and the hope that they would not have to use their worn-out spares. A 30-milc-an-hour speed limit, reduced

to 20 miles at night ichen car keailights were painted, was restored fur open road

driving in the Canal Zone. A new addition to Margarita Hospital,

to briny it to a 400-bed capacity, was

nearing completion. It was to be ready

about August 1. The Red Cross announced that a mobile

canteen, made from an old commissary

truck, was ready for use. From it soft drinks and doughnuts were to be served

to transports stopping in Balboa.

Margarita Gasoline Station

Hours Will Be Changed July 12

Atlantic Siders will have an additional two and a half hours daily tD buy gasoline after July 12. Effective on that date, for a trial period, the schedule of selling hours at

the Margarita gasoline service station will be: 6:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. continuous,

daily except for Wednesdays, Sundays,

and holidays. On Wednesdays the station

will be open from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.

It will be closed on Sundays and holidays. At present the service station does not open until 9 a. m., five days a week.

Independence Day Is July Fifth

This Year Throughout Canal Zone

(Continued /mm page i) races, and by

the traditional kiddy train and fire engine

rides. Army and Navy teams will compete in a tug-of-war demonstration.

During the afternoon, there will be

free movies at the Margarita Service Center, outboard motorboat races at the Cristobal Yacht Club, and baseball games

at the Margarita gymnasium.

The fireworks display, at 7:30 p. m.,

will be set off by Harvey Sauter, and will be fired from a hilltop near Margarita.

Assisting Mr. Workman in planning for the Independence Day program are Mr.

Sauter, Harry Egolf, Henry Carpenter,

Virgil Reed, Vincent Ridge, Max Weich,

Mrs. R. L. Brians, Mrs. J. E. Erikson, and

Miss Nancy Ramsey.

The Gatun Civic Council is also arranging a July 4th program.

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14 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2,1954

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

May 15 through June 15

Employees who were promoted or trans-

\1 i> 15 and June IS are Regradings and within-grade

promotions are not listed. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Mrs. Mabelle B. Walker, from Voucher

Examiner, Claims Branch, to File Clerk,

ds Section. Reed R. Mcllvaine, from Accountant,

Internal Audit Staff, to File Clerk, Records

Sec lion. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

George F. Gercich, from Elementary

School Teacher toGatun Elementary School

Principal, Division of Schools. John S. Pashales, from Guard, Atlantic

Locks, to Fireman, Fire Division. Charles H. Peavley, from Motorcycle

Officer to Detective and Policeman, Police

I >i\ ision. Robert W. Lawyer, from Policeman to Policeman and Motorcycle Officer, Police

Division. Mrs. Marjorie V. Jones, from Substitute' Teacher to Elementary School Teacher,

I >i\ ision of Schools. COMMUNITY SERVICES BUREAU

Kerner E. Frauenheim, from Service Center Manager, Ancon, to Service Center Manager, Cristobal, Service Center Division.Mrs. Edna M. Wertz, from Ticket Seller to Teller, Service Center Division. OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER

Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff Morris Waxman, from Construction

Cost Accountant to Supervisory Accountant. John R. White, from Valuation Engineer to General Engineer.

Duane E. Hunter, from Construction

Cost Analyst to General Engineer.

Jack A. Muller, from Valuation Engineer (General) to Electrical Engineer.

Frank R. Molther, from Valuation Engineer (General) to General Engineer.

Daniel J. Slater, from Engineer (Esti- mates) to General Engineer. Carl W. Hoffmeyer, from Construction

Cost Analyst to Cost Examiner.

John D. Collins, Francis J. Reilly,

Theodore D. Melanson, from Construction Cost Analyst to Cost Examiner.

Noel C. Farnsworth, from Valuation

Engineer to General Engineer.

Charles M. Middleton, from Assistant Chief to Chief, Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff.

Mrs. Wilhemina K. Galloway, from

Accountant, Cost Accounts Branch, to Accounting Clerk. Ralph K. Skinner, from Voucher Examining and Cash Supervisor, Claims Branch,

to Voucher Examiner, Agents Accounts

Branch. Jack A. Campbell, Frank W. Hohman, from Cash Accounting Clerk, Treasurv Branch, to Accountant, Internal Audit

Staff. Warren Pitman, from Business Analyst

to Supervisory RatesAnalyst, RatesBranch.

Albert S. Hendricks, from Accountant,

\ccounts Branch, to Rates Analyst, Rates Branch. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Henry Ehrman, from Cartographic

I ompilation Aid to Hydrographic Engineer,

eei in' i >h ision. Carlos M. Badiola, from Construction

Engineer, Maintenance Division, to Surveyid Cartographic Engineer, Engineering I livision, Adrian M. Bouche, Jr., from Fireman,

Fire Division, to Engineering Aid (Hydraulic) Meteorology and Hydrographic

nch. Jose G. Hughes, Azael J. Benavides,

'"in I ineering Draftsman, General, to Engineering Draftsman, Civil, Engineering

1 >i\ ision. Mrs. Dorothy H. Benny, from Clerk

(Typist) to Clerk-Stenographer, Engineering ! Robert C. Connor, from Life Guard,

il Education and Recreation Branch,

to Student Assistant, Engineering Division.

Charles McG. Brandl, from Assistant

Chief, Southern District, Maintenance Division, to Assistant Project Engineer, Project 13-A. John H. Foster, from Electronics Mechanic to Electronics Mechanic Leader, Electrical Division. Marvin J. Banton, from Hydrographic

Engineer to Supervisory General Engineer,

Engineering Division. Paul H. Shacklette, from Surveyingand

Cartographic Engineer to General Engineer,

Engineering Division. Julio M. Lapeira, from Engineering Aid

to Supervisory Cartographic Survey Aid,

Engineering Division. Mrs. Elizabeth I. Brown, Clerk-Typist, from Corozal Hospital to Engineering Division. OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL

Mrs. Irene S. Walling, from Clerk- Stenographer, Police Division, to Stenographer, Office of General Counsel. HEALTH BUREAU

Marie V. Brauer, from Staff Nurse to Head Nurse, Gorgas Hospital.

Richard O. Burgoon, from Accountant,

Internal Audit Staff, to Accounting Clerk, Gorgas Hospital. Mrs. Roberta J. Wickstrom, from

Special Duty Nurse to Staff Nurse, Gorgas

Hospital. Dr. Albert Blanshaft, from District Physician, Gamboa, to Medical Officer, Pacific Medical Clinics. Dr. Jack I. Smith, from Medical Offi- cer, Pacific Medical Clinics, to District Physician, Gamboa.

Dr. Walter G. Nelson, from Chief, Division of Quarantine, to Chief, Division

of Quarantine and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Julian R. Hunt, from District Physician, Gamboa, to Medical Officer, Communicable Disease Clinic. Mrs. Maxine K. Hitchcock, Clerk- Typist, from Division of Quarantine to Corozal Hospital. Mrs. Genevieve K. Field, from Recreation Assistant, Physical Education and Recreation Branch, to Clerk-Typist, Division

of Quarantine.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

John A. Michaelis, Rex E. Beck, Sher- man C. Brooks, from Translator (Constable) to Constable. MARINE BUREAU

Thomas Taylor, from Policeman, Police Division, to Towing Locomotive Operator,

Atlantic Locks. Jack B. Tippett, from Property and

Supply Clerk, Commissary Division, to Boilermaker, Industrial Division. John E. Sholung, Jr., from Lock Operator Machinist, Atlantic Locks, to Machinist, Industrial Division. Andrew Metzgar, from Lock Operator

Wireman, to Lock Operator Wireman Leader, Atlantic Locks. Gerald J. Kelley, from Typewriter Re- pairman to Senior Typewriter Repairman,

Industrial Division. Howard J. Schwartzman, from Probationary to Qualified Pilot, Navigation Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Mrs. Eula R. Driscoll, from Personnel

Assistant to Personnel Officer. Archibald L. Wright, from Administrative Assistant to Chief, Central Labor

Office Division. George V. Daniels, from Personnel

Assistant to Supervisory Personnel Assist- ant.TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

John H. Joyner, from Repair Shop

Foreman, Ancon, to Shop Foreman, Ancon,

to Shop Superintendent, Assistant to the Superintendent, Northern District, Motor

Transportation Division. Dwight M. Van Evera, from Auto Repair Machinist to Repair Shop Foreman, Motor Transportation Division. Hobart V. Butler, from Train Dispatcher and Agent Operator to Train Dispatcher, Railroad Division. P. Margaret diBella, from Usherette,

Service Center Division, to Student Assist- ant, Motor Transportation Division.

Cliff Sanders, from Wood and Steel Car- man to Car Inspector, Railroad Division. SUPPLY BUREAU

(For Commissary Division, see separate

story)

John M. Purvis, from Monotype Operator to Foreman, Printing Press Section,

Printing Plant. Russell E. Pierson, Property and Supply

Clerk, from Pacific Locks to Division of Storehouses.

Continuing Job Study

Begun In Commissary

A comprehensive, continuing classifica- tion study of positions in the Commissary

Division is now under way. The study

has resulted to date, in the following per- sonnel actions, some of which are designated reassignments and others changes

in title. In some cases the position has been changed from the old CPC rating

to the GS schedule. WHOLESALE UNITS

General Products Storage Branch: R. C.

Seivers, Jr., Supply Assistant (Bakery), R. H. Brubaker, E. J. Cochrane, and J. H. Payne, Bakers, all to Supervisory Baker

Specialist.

J. F. Manning, Assistant Supply Officer (Groceries) to Supply Officer (Groceries); L. J. Pillot, Property and Supply Clerk to Coffee Specialist; J. M. Brown, Assistant Supply Officer to Supply Officer (Shoes);

E. E. Eder, Assistant Supply Officer(Housewares) to Supply Officer (Housewares); L. W. Mcllvaine, Assistant Supply Officer (Housewares-Toys) to Assistant Supply

Officer (Housewares); T. G. Relihan Assist ant Supply Officer (Drygoods) to Supply

Officer (Drygoods).

Refrigerated Products Storage Branch: G. D. Cockle, Supply Assistant (General)

to Assistant Supply Officer (Cold Storage);

L. B. Hunnicutt, Storekeeper (Shipping)

to Property and Supply Clerk; Mrs. M. M.

Bougan, Property and Supply Clerk to Accounting Clerk; L. S. Willa, P. A. Linvill. Ice Cream Maker to Supervisory Milk

Products Specialist; W. G. Peterson, Sausage Maker and M. T. Pappendick, Meat

Cutter (Abattoir) to Supervisory Meat Processing Specialist. Promotions resulting from other classifi- cation changes, not involving changes in

title, are those of V. J. Huber and Mrs.

F. M. Griggel.

RETAIL UNITS

In the Retail Stores Branch, the study

concerned positions which would remain

in the individual retail stores in the ca- pacity of Commissary Supervisor, Commissary Assistant, and Commissary Checker. Previously these positions had been

titled Commissary Assistant, Commissary

Manager, Meat-Cutter-in-Charge, and

Cash Accounting Clerk. RETAIL MEATS

Rated as Commissary Supervisors are:

J. F. Evans, O. W. Ryan, C. L. Latham,

Jr., W. D. Marquard, J. C. Wallace, D.

E. Bruce, R. D. Melanson, W. F. Robinson, R. O. Simon, R. J. Byrne, E. T. Harper, H. F. Jenner, W. R. Waldrip,

J. G. Raymond, C. J. O'Sullivan, R. L. Rankin, J. L. Fischer, W. D. McGowin,

J. C. Cross, C. M. Nelson, J. L. Sugar,

E. M. Stone, M. A. Fynan, L. C. Paulson, G. L. Cain, E. B. Verner, E. L. Roades, R. G. Rowe, V. F. Kepford, Jr., C. T. Hedman, L. D. Goulet, E. E.
July 2, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 15

Stoakley, J. L. Snyder, L. H. Schmidt,

Jr., J. J. Ryan, H. E. Fuller, R. T. Nelson, I. L. Jenkins, H. C. Seaman, G. E. Lowery, Mrs. T. G. Lowe, Mrs. L. F. Farr, J. L. Rhinehart, C. E. Meyer.

Commissary Assistant: J. N. Smith,

Mrs. J. Price, Mrs. L. Abernathy, Mrs.

R. J. Bain, Mrs. M. D. Austin, Mrs. E. A. Bullock, Mrs. R. J. McGowin, M. P. Trim, Mrs. M. A. Griffith, and Mrs. S. A. Salter. Commissary Checker: Mrs. M. Harper,

R. C. Pere, Mrs. R. G. Jones, Mrs. L. M.

Stoakley, R. VanVliet, Mrs. W. C. Brome, D. M. Howell, Mrs. E. L. Trower

Mrs. G. J. Connard, H. E. Bates, Mrs. M. P. Sparks, Mrs. M. M. Heintz, F. W.

Gurney, and M. M. Ashton.

JULY SAILINGS

From Cristobal

Cristobal July 2 Panama July 9 Ancon *July 17

Cristobal July 23 Panama July 30 From New York

Ancon **July 8

Cristobal July 13 Panama July 20 Ancon July 27 'Leaves Cristobal Saturday; arrives New

York Friday. **Leaves New York Thursday because

of holiday, New York. (Northbound, the ships are in Haiti from

7 a. m. to noon Sunday; southbound, the

Haiti stop is Saturday from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.)

RETIREMENTS IN JUNE

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of June to the following employees

who are listed alphabetically, together with

their birthplaces, titles, length of service, and future addresses: Mrs. Ann W. DeLaMater, North

Carolina; Statistical Clerk, Division of Schools; 26 years, 10 months, 23 days;

Greenville, N. C. John D. Logsdon, Maryland; Supervisory Administrative Assistant, Electrical Division; 33 years, 8 months, 22 days; Barton, Md.

Nicolas E. Palat, Italy; Clerk-in-charge, Postal Service; 19 years, 10 months, 3 days; Address undecided. Charles Q- Peters, Jr., Massachusetts; Towing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks;

13 years, 4 months, 13 days; Oakland,

Calif. George J. Wickens, Virginia; Lockmaster, Pacific Locks, 34 years, 3 months, 21 days; Plans uncertain.

Blasting Of Two Million Yards Of Rock From Contractors Hill Will Start Soon

(Continued fwm page 3) July. The

personnel brought from the States will be housed at Pedro Miguel. Mr. McKoy

has announced that all employment of personnel on the Isthmus will be done

through the Central Labor Office Division and no employment office will be established by Tecon Corporation.

Some of the technical personnel were

expected to arrive before the arrival of the first shipment of equipment. No

exact schedule has been set for the first blasting and removal of earth and rock

from Contractors Hill, but Mr. McKoy

has announced that field operations are scheduled to begin by the middle of this month.

Meanwhile, personnel for the Panama

Canal Company unit for the Contractors

Hill work has been selected. The unit

will be headed by Lt. Col. Edward B. Jennings as Project Engineer. He was

assigned to duty with the Canal by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Employees Transferred

The principal personnel of his unit has been transferred from other Canal units. He will have as Assistant Project Engineer, Charles McG. Brandl, who has been

Assistant Superintendent of the Maintenance Division's southern district. Others transferred include Harry E.

Pearl, of the Engineering Division, to be

Office Engineer; Charles Barton, of the Maintenance Division, to be Field Engineer; and Ray B. Wells, of the Fire Division, to be clerk in the office. Other U. S.- rate personnel to be employed in the unit

include four blasting inspectors, two engineering aids, and one clerk. Nine local- rate employees will be used in various types of jobs.

National Safely Council Award Of Merit Won

By Canal Organization For Noteworthy Record

(Continuedfrom page l) percent better than par in the second. The National Safety Council's Award

of Merit is presented only in recognition

of noteworthy safety achievements. Of

the 8,843 industries surveyed for their 1952 safety records, Awards of Merit went to only 600, slightly over six percent.

Not all records have been evaluated for the 1953 awards and overall figures will not be available before next September.

Competes Statistically

The Canal organization, like other govCOL. HUGH M. ARXOLD, new Engineering and

Construction Director, right, looks over some plans with F. H. Irwin, Designing Engineer.

ernment agencies, cannot be a member of the National Safety Council but it can, and does, compete statistically with the

safety records of industry at large. Canal

safety statistics have been supplied to the safety council since 1941. All units compete against their own safety records

to indicate the percentage of improvement. To evaluate its records, statistical tests of reliability are used very similar to quality control methods used by industry, which place record evaluation on a measurable basis. These tests tell how

big a reduction must be so that the possibility of its being a chance fluctuation is largely ruled out. The plan evaluates performance in terms of both accident frequency and

accident severity. A unit is required to attain meritorious achievement in terms

of all disabling injuries and in terms of serious injuries.

NEW DIRECTORS

PROMOTION OF Wilson H. Crook, left, and Bernhard I. Everson as Directors of the Community

Services and the Transportation and Terminals Bureaus, respectively, was announced this week at Bal- boa Heights. Mr. Crook has been Acting Director of his bureau since last November, and Mr. Everson Deputy Director since November 1. A real deep southerner, Mr. Crook still talks in the drawl of his native Misisssippi. He has been employed by the Canal organization for 25 years. He was with the Commissary Division from 1929

until 1945 and was Assistant Supervisor of Retail Stores when he was transferred to the Clubhouses as Assistant Director in July 1945. He was promoted to the position of Director of Clubhouses January

1949 and became General Manager of the then Clubouse Division when that unit was incorporated with the Community Services Bureau July 1950. Mr. Everson has been a Canal Zonian since he was two years old. He worked for the Canal during summer vacations when he was in school. After he graduated, in 1934, from Carnegie Institute of Technology he returned to the Canal Zone as a student engineer with the Municipal Engineering Division, but left that position a year later to serve an apprenticeship as a machinist with the Mechanical Division. On the completion of his apprenticeship he became Assistant to the Superintendent of the Motor Transportation Division, and was promoted to Superintendent in 1948. In October 1952, he was appointed

Assistant Director of the Railroad and Terminals Bureau—now Transportation and Terminals—and became Acting Bureau Director when A. C. Medinger left the Canal service last August.
16 THE'PANAMA CANAL REVIEW July 2, 1954

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SUMMER TIME

IS

PLAYGROUND TIME

Summer time is a busy time for some

1,600 Canal Zone youngsters, enrolled in

the Playground program sponsored by

the Schools Division. Last week these are a few of the things

which were going on at Balboa

In the upper gym some of the girls were working on mats. Charlotte Schultz,

Catherine Watson, Sharon Booth, Ceci

Eggleston, Betty Bingham, Virginia Perra, Irene Michaelis, Kathleen McConnaghy, Jeanette Read, Mary Watson,

Lacey Hinkle, Joanne Baines, Barbara

Clipper, and Susi Magee made a pyramid,

(aliove) while others stood on their

hi -ids fright).

In the lower gym, William Dolan, Louis

and George Barbier, Robert Schultz, Edward Dolan, and Edward Cunningham

were playing basketball (upper right).

Upstairs, the photographer interrupted

Joyce Collinge's Story Hour to ask how

many of the youngsters wanted their pic- tures taken. The hands in the air indicate how many did (below).