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6Al/oA HEIGHTS, CANAL- ZONE, JUNE 6, 1958
Oh! Those Eyes!

It's a bit hard to tell whether Harry

Jones is shying away from matrimony

or whether he is just being coy.

Either way, it's hardly chivalrous to

his charming bride. Harry, however, is only a first- grader as is his bride, Patsy O'Neill. And it was all in fun. Harry was

playing the part of Johnny-Jump-Up, and Patsy was Lily-of-the-Valley in an

operetta, "Wedding of the Flowers," given as part of May's Music Week

observance at South Margarita School Allen Cotton, a second-grader, is Jack-in-the-Pulpit, a minister. All of South Margarita's first, sec- ond, and third graders, 195 in all, took part in the operetta, costumes for which were done by the sixth grade

students. An audience of several hun- dred attended the performance.

Five-Year Overhaul Of Pacific Locks

Will Be Completed Early Next Month

The five-year overhaul of the Pacific Locks enters its final phase this month

with the unwatering and overhaul of the centerwall culvert at Pedro Miguel being

the last big job. This work is now scheduled for completion early in July. The overhaul of Pacific Locks was ac- complished this year during a peak of Canal traffic. During the first four months of this year there were 3,069

transits by ocean-going vessels, many of

which required clear-Cut handling. This number was considerably in excess of the predicted traffic volume. The monthly

average of 767 from January through

April was about 50 transits above the volume of ocean-going traffic during the 1953 Pacific Locks overhaul. Despite the heavy traffic, which was

continuing through last month, there have been no delays of consequence to shipping during the overhaul period. Although there is still another month

of work in the actual overhaul, and many

weeks for clean-up jobs, the Locks Overhaul force has established a fine safety record both in accident frequency and

severity. The Pacific Locks did not equal

the exceptional safety record set during

the Gatun Locks Overhaul two years ago. One of the final phases of the Pacific Locks work, the overhaul of the west chamber at Pedro Miguel, was being completed this week. The remaining work is the overhaul of the center wall culvert

there. This will require about four weeks

and under the present schedule all Locks

will return to normal operations during

the first week in July. A large number of personnel engaged

for this year's overhaul will be discharged

after the work in the west chamber is completed. All of the personnel from Gatun Locks will return next week to

their usual assignments and the force there will return to a five-day work week. The Pacific Locks force will continue on a

six-day work week until the completion

of work in the Pedro Miguel center wall

culvert. More work was involved in the Pacific Locks overhaul this year than ever before. Ten of the miter gates were removed for overhaul and 18 of the

rising-stem valves were replaced. The

replacement of the rising-stem valves, each of which weighs 15 tons, is a long- range program which was begun at Gatun during the 1956 overhaul. Four of the lock gates removed were

those at the lower end of Miraflores Locks

the tallest and heaviest of any in the Panama Canal. Each of these gate-leaves weighs 790 tons and stands 82 feet high. This was the first time they were removed

from their pintles in 28 years. While preparatory work for the Pacific Locks overhaul was begun many weeks

in advance, actual work at Miraflores Locks was begun during the first week

in January. After completion of work in the lock chambers at Miraflores part of the force was moved to Pedro Miguel and overhaul of the east chamber there was begun while other workers were still engaged in the overhaul of the center- wall culvert at Miraflores. The overhaul project has been under

the direct supervision of Truman H.

Hoenke, Superintendent of the Pacific Branch of the Locks Division. OUR COVER

The Panama Canal's official photographer, C. S. l.aClair, took to a

helicopter to get tbis striking picture

of Miraflores Locks during overhaul. The big ship is a snug fit in the West chamber, while the empty East

flight gapes black and bare. Miraflores Bridge, at the top of the pic- ture, is partly obscured by "The

Review" title head.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1958
NEW LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DESIGNATE WILL SPEND

BUSY THREE WEEKS GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH JOB

AWARD

WINNERS

Awards for "Special Acts of Public Service" were pre- sented last month to three Panama Canal employees while

four others were given certificates for Superior Service in their jobs. The awards, each of which was accompanied

by a check for $100, were presented by Governor Potter May 16. Above are the Special Awards winners with the Governor: Teddy

Marti, Locks Operator at Pedro Miguel; Archibald L. King, Gibman in the Marine Bunkering Section,- and Alexander West, Balboa Firefighter. Below,

with John D. Hollen, Chairman of the Incentive Awards Committee, left, are

the Superior Service winners: Christopher Greaves and Hilton Goodridge,

Housing Branch; Frederic J. Berest, Tour Leader Interpreter, Miraflores Locks,- and Philip T. Green, Industrial Training Coordinator. r^ : ^

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June 6, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

A capsule preview of his new

job will keep the Panama Canal's Lieutenant Governor-desig- nate a busy man for the next

three weeks.

Col. John D. McElheny, who will suc- ceed Col. Hugh M. Arnold in the next-to- the-top spot in the Canal's administration next month, will start Monday on a whirlwind tour which will give him an

idea of the multiple operations of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government. He arrives here Sunday and will be on

the Isthmus until June 28. After a brief stay in the United States he will be back

in the Canal Zone on July 9 to take over

the Lieutenant Governor's duties. Every minute of the 15 working days

in the next three weeks has been planned to give him an opportunity to meet the people he will be working

with, see what they do and how they do it, and learn some of the problems

of the complex works in the Canal Zone. He starts his orientation tour Monday

with a preliminary discussion in the Governor's office, followed by a general dis- cussion and briefing by the man he will succeed. At noon Monday he will meet

the Company-Government's Bureau Directors and the heads of independent units at a luncheon at the Tivoli Guest House. Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning will be spent with the Executive Plan- ning Staff, and in calls on various offices, such as those of the Executive Secretary, General Counsel, etc., in the Administration Building. Tuesday afternoon he will visit the Balboa Port Captain's office, the

Industrial Division at Balboa, and Miraflores Locks. Next Wednesday, Colonel McElheny

will transit the Canal, leaving his ship

at Gatun Locks where he will spend some time before making a quick tour through the Industrial Division and the

Cristobal Port Captain's Office. His return trip to the Pacific side that day

will be by train. On Thursday, June 12, he will be

briefed on the operations of the Supply and Community Service Bureau and will accompany members of the Board of Directors' Budget and Finance Committee

on a tour of quarters. The afternoon

schedule is flexible, planned for either the Budget Committee review or a visit to the Health Bureau.

Friday morning, June 13, will be de- voted to the Civil Affairs Bureau includ- ing a tour of such Pacific side facilities as

schools, police and fire stations, and cus- toms. In the afternoon he will go to Pedro Miguel Locks to see the last phases

of the overhaul work. The first three days June 16-18, of the

following week, will be devoted to Engineering and Construction Bureau activities. He will visit Paraiso Curve, see the

construction now under way in the Pacific terminal area, visit shops and electrical substations, see some of the work

of the Mount Hope Filtration Plant and

the Agua Clara Diesel Plant, visit the dredge Mindi in Cristobal Harbor, make

a trip through the Cut with the Dredging

Division, and inspect the (See page is)
GORGAS

HOSPITAL

Patients and even the staff of Gorgas

Hospital will need an illustrated Who's Who within the next few weeks to keep up with the goings and comings scheduled for the hospital's professional staff. From the Hospital Director's office down to the list of interns, there will be old faces missing and new faces ap- pearing until almost the end of the summer.

As this issue of The Review appears,

Col. Norman H. Wiley, who has headed Gorgas Hospital since April 1956, is aboard the Military Transport Goethals en route to the United States. He is retiring voluntarily from the Army Medical Service after 30 years' active service and will join the Pennsylvania State Department of Health. Colonel Wiley will be succeeded by

Col. Thomas G. Faison, who is due about

the middle of July from Fort Jackson,

S. C, where he has been post surgeon and hospital commander. A native of Winston, N. C, Colonel Faison is married and has two children. He is a graduate of the North Carolina

State University and took his medical

training at the Medical College of the University of Virginia and a degree in Public Health work at Johns Hopkins. During World War II, he served in Europe, and during the Korean War he was with headquarters of the Eighth Army in Japan.

Also en route to the United States is Maj. E. R. Hartmann, orthopedic sur- geon. Major Hartmann has been at

Col. Thomas G. Faison Gorgas Hospital since August 1955. His new assignment is at the U. S. Air Force

Hospital, Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. He will be succeeded by Dr. Ben L. Hull, a one-time hospital intern here. Dr. Hull served his internship in 1925 and! 1926, when Gorgas Hospital was

still known as Ancon Hospital. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and has taken

postgraduate work at Jefferson Temple

Medical School, Massachusetts General and New York Postgraduate hospitals. Dr. Hull is one of the country's out- standing orthopedic surgeons and is a diplomate of the American Board of OrNEEDS NEW

WHO'S WHO

thopedics. He comes here from Altoona,

Pa., where he has been in private practice. He has been a frequent visitor to the Isthmus. Due the end of next month to succeed

Lt. Col. R. L. Spann as Chief of the Ear. Nose, and Throat Service at Gorgas Hospital, is Lt. Col. Carl M. Lineback, who

is a diplomate of the American Board of Otorhinolaryngology. Colonel Spann left May 17 for his new post at Brooke Army

Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex.

Colonel Lineback, a native of Atlanta,

Ga., is a graduate of Emory University. He has been in the Army Medical Service

since 1942 and comes to the Canal Zone

from Fort Chaffee, Ark. Another shift due a little later in the summer is that in the post of Assistant Chief of the Surgical Service and Urologist, now held by Lt. Col. Clarence B. Hewitt. He will be succeeded by Lt. Col. Samuel Rodriguez who is coming

here from Fort Knox, Ky. A native of Puerto Rico, he is a graduate of the

University of Puerto Rico and Louisville University in Kentucky. He is a diplo- mate in Urology. Another new face to be seen before the end of the summer at Gorgas Hospital

will be that of Capt. Archibald W. McFadden who has been assigned to the Gorgas Hospital staff as Dermatologist, succeeding the late Dr. Victor R. Hirsch- mann. Captain McFadden was born in San Diego, holds his medical degree from

the University of Maryland and is coming

here from Walter Reed Hospital.

, Returning this summer (See page is)

J. J. Barton Succeeds R. L. Sullivan As Supply ChiefA change in the top management of the Supply Division and a review of the

retail operations of the division by a

leading firm of consultants on merchandising are on this month's calendar. Richard L. Sullivan, who has headed

the Commissary (now Supply) Division

for the past 10 years is leaving the Isth- mus Saturday for retirement in Colorado. He has almost 24 years of consecutive service with the Canal organization. Since the reorganization of the Supply and Community Service units

in July 1957 he has held the title of Acting General Manager of the Supply

Division. John J. Barton, Chief of the Procure- ment Division with headquarters in New York, has been appointed General Manager of the Supply Division. He is scheduled to arrive here today. With his transfer to the Isthmus several changes in personnel assignments

will be made in the Procurement Division. Mr. Barton will be succeeded in his position by Joseph Mr-Hugh, now Chief of the Housewares and Dry Goods Branch. Joseph Raylson, Mr. Barton's Assistant,

will be appointed Chief of the Housewares and Drygoods Branch. The study of Supply Division operations will begin early this month with the

arrival of several representatives of A. T. Kearny & Co. of Chicago. The consulting firm was employed

about a year ago on a preliminary study

of commissary operations. The consult- ants will devote their special attention to the Supply Division organization, stock

control, and procurement system. According to Lester A. Ferguson. Supply

Richard L. Sullivan and Community Service Director, the objectives of the study are to simplify operations and to provide for an improved

stock control system. The retirement of Mr. Sullivan takes one of the most popular executives from

the Canal organization. Mr. Sullivan began his career with the Canal as a

teacher in Cristobal High School. A

native of Ridgeley, Mo., Mr. Sullivan

is a graduate of Denver University with

a bachelor and master's degree. He had

worked on the editorial staff of the Denver

Post and taught school in Colorado before coming to the Isthmus in 1935. Two years later he transferred to the Commissary Division as Director of Training to institute a comprehensive

training of sales personnel. He was ap- pointed Chief Clerk of the Division in 194_' and later served as Administrative

Assistant, Executive Assistant, and Assistant General Manager. He became

General Manager in March 1951. His

service with the Commissary Division covered a period of several major changes. Mr. Sullivan is being succeeded by a man who has had many years of experience in big-scale merchandising. Mr.

Barton, a native of Punxsutawney, Pa., owned and operated a food store for several years before joining the F. G. Shat- tuck & Co. as buyer of foorl products in 1928. He was with that company for 14 years before entering the U. S. Army in 1942, serving four years as an officer with

the Quartermaster Corps. After leaving

the Army after the close of the war, he

served three years as President of the Westland Food Products firm in New

York before joining the Canal organization in 1951 as Chief Food Buyer. THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1958
Here's the man

Who fits "pieces together so they match"

The Chief of the Panama Canal Company's Executive Planning Staff is, in

effect, a jigsaw puzzle player. He takes

a number of pieces of assorted sizes and

shapes and puts them together to form

a picture. Suppose the Division of Schools, for instance, believes that a new elementary

school will be needed in Town X in five years to accommodate the ever-growing number of youngsters in that community.

Another division, however, is planning to move one of its units from Town X to Town Y, five years from now. This would reduce Town X's population, at

least temporarily, just about the time the new school would be ready. Will the new school, therefore, be necessary or should the second division not make its proposed move?

As Chief of the Executive Planning

Staff, John Davisson Hollen takes these two seemingly disconnected pieces, puts them together with other bits which he has tucked away in his "futures file," and makes up a picture of what Town X will be like five years in the future. His completed picture and his suggestions then go to the Governor for a final decision. "We do not do the long-range planning

for the Company," Mr. Hollen says, using the first person plural with which he

invariably discusses the work of his office. "The operating bureaus do that. What

we do here is to fit the pieces together

so that they match. "We get into both the present and the

future picture," he says, "especially in connection with Governor Potter's goal

of having the Company-Government, as a whole, think not only in terms of the immediate future and the budget year, but five to ten years from now." A staff officer, as differentiated from

the head of an operating unit, Mr. Hollen

does not direct anyone's activities except

those of his own staff of about 20 men

and women. From the boss down, they

are all specialists in economic, statistical, and planning work. One of the paradoxes of their job is that to arrive at their picture of operations five or ten years in the future, to make recommendations for the capital program six years ahead, to "project

traffic" for future years, the Executive Planning Staff works with things which

are both past and present. Putting it more simply, they have to know what

has gone on and what is going on to know

what will go on. They frequently have to look backward in order to see forward. Aside from the planning end of things, Mr. Hollen's office is also en- gaged in the reporting side of Canal

affairs and in management. They pre- pare regular reports which go to the Panama Canal Company's Stockholder and Board of Directors. They also plan

the annual capital budget, working

several years ahead for each one. As Chief of the Executive Planning

Staff, Mr. Hollen is also the Panama

Canal Company's Management Engineer. Most of this part of his work is done on

the basis of plans or studies already made

by the various bureaus -the jigsaw puzzle type of operation. But occasionally the

staff works independently, at the request

of the Governor or of a particular Bureau

Director, to make a study of specific operations. Sometimes these management

studies lead to reorganizations or consolidation of functions. When they are working on a manage- ment job, John Hollen and his trained

assistants study the unit's operating methods and procedures, see how it schedules its work, check the effectiveness of

its job, and decide how well the unit under

study is organized and staffed. It is this part of the Executive Planning Staff's job which has given rise to the misconception

that they are the official "hatchet men."

Actually, Mr. Hollen explains, he has nothing to do with hiring and firing, ex- cept within his own small organization.

Awards Committee and of the Canal Zone Joint Facilities Review Board, an

inter-organization body. He is a member of the Working Panel for Canal Improvement Planning, of the Management Committee, and of the Building Sites Committee.

( hitside of office hours, he serves as Chairman of the Boy Scout Troop 2 Committee, is a member of the Balboa Union Church Board of Christian Education, and is secretary of the local chapter of the American Society of Military Engineers. Each Tuesday night he spends

several hours at a reserve officers meeting

as a Lieutenant Commander in the Corps

of Engineers in the Naval Reserve. Although he was born on a farm near

Greenfield, Iowa, John Hollen had a

John D. Hollen, Chief of the Executive Planning Staff The sole exception to this is that, as Chief of the Executive Planning Staff, he

is assigned the responsibility of seeing that the Company-Government follows regulations on manpower control which have been set up for it, and he screens

all requests for new positions. One of John Hollen's recent mornings was typical of his busy days. On the way into his office, he stopped to discuss with other members of his staff a program

which was being prepared for members

of the Board of Directors' Budget and

Finance Committee. Once at his desk, he and his indispensable secretary, Miss Annie McDade, tackled a stack of papers which kept them busy for three hours. This paper work was followed by a budget conference with the Governor and

the Comptroller which lasted for over

half an hour. Then, by telephone, during

the noon hour, he arranged for some MSTS cargo to be carried on Panama

Line ships. As part of his official duties, Mr.

Hollen serves on a number of committees. He is Chairman of the Incentive

June 6, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

much greater interest in engineering than he ever did in farming. He started out

to be an electrical engineer but after a year at Iowa State decided that industrial engineering was more to his liking. Between his graduation from college and the time he was called to active duty with the Navy during World War

II, he spent nine years in construction

cost, plant accounting, and engineering valuation work, first for the United States Treasury and later with the TVA at Wil- son Dam and Chattanooga. During the war he was stationed in the Pacific area

he was one of seven officers sent to Pearl Harbor to establish a supply base there. After the war he returned to TVA but on the outbreak of Korean hostilities found himself back in Navy uniform, this time as assistant to the director of the Engineering and Technical Services Division which prepared designs and specifications for construction at naval shore establishments. Mr. Hollen joined the Canal organi- zation late in 1952 as Chief of the Plant Inventory and Appraisal Staff, a post he held until he was promoted to

his present position in December, 1953.
Potential litterbearers and rescue workers check in at a casualty station during Operation Alert 1958. Otto W. Helmerichs, writing, is the station administrator.

Some of the 478 Canal employees who were lodged and fed last Monday at the old Tivoli Commissary registering with the Civil Defense Welfare Service.

Portable cots provided comfortable, if not luxurious, sleeping accommodations

for the "refugees." They were also used for seats for the movies that evening.

Practice and

A practical demonstration of what a unit of the Canal Zone's Civil Defense

organization can do in an emergency was demonstrated late last month when

nearly 700 Canal employees engaged in essential operations were temporarily housed and fed on a few hour's notice. The operation, required because of widespread disorder in Panama City, was conducted by the recently-organized Welfare Service of Civil Defense. The Service, headed by J. C. Randall, Chief of the Community Services Division, has a staff of approximately 1,250 and has plans which could be quickly implemented to care for several thous- ands if the need arose. The emergency operation on the night

of May 22 was conducted after only one

full-scale mobilization of the Welfare

Service, held two weeks earlier when the Canal Zone participated in the national

Civil Defense exercise Operation Alert

1958. In most respects this year's Civil Defense exercise was the most extensive and

successful yet held. The objective of Operation Alert 1958 was to test the mobilization of the Civil Defense forces and damage control forces of the military. The problem was to recoup from an

atomic missile blest from a simulated 100- kiloton weapon exploded near Miraflores Locks. This was the first exercise to be

held since the adoption earlier this year

of the new Civil Defense and Disaster

Relief Plan, under which the normal operating units of the Canal organization

are integrated for civil defense and dis- aster relief functions. Both the Main Control Center in the Administration Building at Balboa

Heights and the Alternate Control Center in Cristobal were activated at the

close of the alert period. Also fully mobilized were all Civil Defense teams for emergency duties who reported to their assigned stations and were dismissed after

briefing on problems involved. The Main Control Center was kept in operation throughout the morning as plans were developed by Bureau and

Division heads to meet such emergency

situations as the feeding and care of several thousand refugees, extensive

fires, radioactive fallout, rescue and

treatment of injured, and damages to municipal services on the Pacific side. An observation tour of Pacific side areas by Governor Potter during the alert was followed by visits to the control point

centers in the Maintenance Division yard and the Welfare Service headquraters at

the Housing Branch office, and to schools. Operations in the Main Control Center were directed by Lieutenant Governor

Arnold, assisted by John D. Hollen, Operations Officer, and P. L. Dade, Chief

of the Civil Defense Unit. The training received by personnel of the Welfare Service and plans for mass

relief and welfare work proved a solid foundation for the actual operation on May 22 when it became apparent that

several hundred Canal employees living

in Panama City would be unable to re- turn to their homes because of disruption

of public transportation. After an assessment of the situation early that morning, all units of the Wel6 June 6, 1958
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fare Service of the Civil Defense organi- zation were alerted for duty and headquarters were established in the office of the Chief of the Community Services Division who also heads the Welfare Service

Unit. Since it was not then known how many

employees would be involved, an inventory was taken of available supplies re- quired for several hundred. Plans for the operation were made under Mr. Randall's

direction, assisted by C. W. Kilbey, Assistant Director of Welfare Service, and

the following Chiefs of the various activities and their assistants: Harry C. Egolf and P. B. Hutchings, Lodging; Philip S. Thornton and A. Houston, Feeding; T. G. Relihan, Emergency Supply; A. I. Bauman, Chief of the Welfare Center; and W. B. Mallory and Ellis Fawcett, Welfare Center Managers.

It was decided to transform the old Tivoli Commissary into a temporary

dormitory and arrange to feed the men

there. After an inspection of the building, the necessary plumbing and electrical work was ordered. During the course of the day the Welfare Service was informed that ap- proximately 500 employees would be housed and fed at the building and an

additional 130 would require lodging and food later that night. Arrange- ments were then made to house 130 at the Quarantine Station at Corozal. Later information was received that an

additional 60 employees from the Service Centers would require lodging, and

it was decided to set up cots for them

in the individual Service Centers and

have those employees fed there. This preliminary phase of the operation closely resembled, both in the receipt

of information and emergency planning, what might be expected in event of a major emergency. ©

CIVIL DEFENSE

NEWS

JUNE VOLUNTEER CORPS MEETINGS

Date Town Place Hour

Rainbow City Santa Cruz

Paraiso

School 6:30 p. Serv. Center 8:00 p. i School 7:30 P- :

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Printed by the Printing Plant, Mount Hope, Canal Zone W. E. Potter, Governor-President Hugh M. Arnold, Lieutenant-Governor William G. Arey, Jr. Panama Canal Information Officer

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June 6, 1958

Worth Knowing

The Balboa Teen Club is formally open. It was officially inaug- urated May 16 when the Canal Zone's First Lady (see picture) snipped a red-and-white ribbon (Balboa High School colors) across

the entrance of the new Teen Center on Roosevelt Avenue in Balboa. To Mrs. Potter's right is Ralph Blevins, a Balboa High

School sophomore and president of the Teen Club, and behind the Governor's wife is Ann Haskell, a BHS junior and vice president

of the Club. Following the dedication ceremony, at which short speches were made by the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and community and school officials who have been interested in the

project, there was a short reception. James Dunn served as Master

of Ceremonies. Later, between 200 and 250 young people held

their first official dance in their new recreation center. During the summer the club is open daily, except Monday and Thursday, from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. On Friday and Saturday nights, closing time will be midnight.

Pacific Side dentists are moving. As part of a regular round robin Dr. W. H. Grant and Dr. Horace Foster will move within a few weeks from their present offices in a frame building opposite the former Ancon Post Office building to a frame building directly be- hind the one-time Balboa dispensary. The new dental clinic, Building 721X, has been used for some time as a First Aid Station. The First Aid Station has moved into the old Dispensary building, into space formerly used by the Girl Scout Office. The Scout

office in turn has been transferred to the old Special Engineering

Division building in Diablo Heights. Bids are to be opened about

the middle of this month for the ncessary changes to be made for the new dental clinic and the round robin of moves will not be completed until later this summer. The present dental clinic which

Dr. Grant and Dr. Foster now occupy will be demolished when

they move to their new location. How does the Canal work? New arrivals at the United States Embassy and in the Canal Zone's Armed Forces learned this and

other facts about the Panama Canal in an orientation lecture and

tour of Miraflores Locks Wednesday morning. A group of about

40 was on hand for a briefing by the Lieutenant Governor in the Model Room at Diablo Heights. Later they were taken by the Marine Director on a tour of the Locks. Another oldtimer has retired. Over 41 years of service ended re- cently for Edward W. Higgins, Supervisory Accountant of the New York Accounting Office. Except for a brief period in the Armed Forces during World War I, Mr. Higgins' entire career was

spent with the Panama Canal Company.
BOLIVIA

AND THE

PANAMA

CANAL

Land-locked nation depends on sea transportation for foreign trade

Bolivia's mineral resources are its principal source of outside income. Much of its output moves north through the Canal. No land-locked nation on the globe is more dependent than Bolivia upon sea transportation for its economic well-being. Although Bolivia does a lively business with its immediate neighbors, the trade

is in foodstuffs and light goods and is inconsequential in the overall picture. Most of its neighbors are rich in mineral

resources, Bolivia's principal source of outside income. There are no nearby

manufacturing centers which demand tin, the country's great source of wealth, and

this commodity must be shipped overseas

to the United States or Europe, where it

is smelted. Figuratively located within a stone's throw of the Pacific, Bolivia's import and export trade reaches world markets

largely through the ports of Chile and

Peru. Thus, practically all of its for- eign trade passes through the Panama

Canal, as does that of its neighbors

along the Pacific seaboard.

Bolivian exports include tin, copper,

lead, zinc, silver, antimony, tungsten, petroleum, and petroleum products. Of

these, during 1956 Bolivia sent to the

United States by way of the Panama

Canal 17,177 tons of lead, 7,293 tons of

zinc, 4,500 tons of copper, and 5,500,000 troy ounces of silver. In addition to these

metals, 10,523 tons of tin ore went to the United States and 52,777 tons were ship- ped to Europe through the Panama Canal

in the fiscal year ending last June. The balance of the country's mineral

production, in the main, found its way

to European markets principally through

the Canal. Imports of Bolivia include foodstuffs, drugs, chemicals, automotive equipment,

tractors and other heavy farm equip- ment, machinery, and manufactured pro- ducts of a varied nature. Almost all of

this was shipped through the Canal. Exact statistics on the amount of Bolivian commerce which passes through

the Canal are unavailable. Its products and its imports are shipped in foreign bottoms through ports of neighboring

countries and such shipments are not

separately identified on manifests of transiting vessels. Although a small percentage of Bolivian products reaches markets outside of South America over the meager trans- portation links with the Atlantic sea- board, practically all of its foreign commerce is with the United States or Europe and is routed through the Canal. Except

for Paraguay, the only other land-locked nation of the Western Hemisphere, Bolivia has the lowest volume of foreign trade of any American Republic on the two continents. However, the savings

effected in transportation costs by use of the Canal are proportionally as great as those for Chile and Peru. One of the biggest single economic

factors in Bolivia's national life in recent years has been the Point Four program. Through this, the country is receiving both technical and financial aid in its longe-range development plans. Bolivia is a potentially wealthy nation but its financial plight today is one of great concern to its own government and

to the government of the United States which has given $SS million since 1953 to help support Bolivia's economy which has been all but wrecked by inflation. Bolivia

is the only South American country which

receives direct grants from the United

States; this year the stabilization program

is being underwritten to the extent of about $15 million by the United States. Surprising to many people unacquainted with the vast reaches of the South American continent, Bolivia is a

big country and covers an area of 419,- 470 square miles. It is the fifth in size

in South America and is slightly larger than the conbined area of the four (Julf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Nature fashioned this big area a ter- rain of most formidable character for the development of an overland transportation system. As a result, fertile valleys east of the Andes and large areas of arable land are isolated and uncultivated,

necessitating the importation of foodstuffs. Although about 85 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, the

per capita production is low and it is only

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ANTOFAGASTA
Modern farm machinery is beginning to replace oxen in Bolivia. About 85 per- cent of its people work in agriculture.

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in recent years that oxen have been giving way to tractors and other farm im- plements to increase productivity. Lack of transportation has also been

a serious bar to the development of mining, the country's greatest natural re- source. It has hampered the petroleum

industry which geologists and oilmen believe has great potentialities. The re- strictions on these basic sources of wealth have virtually obviated successful manufacturing. Bolivian industry is now

slowly emerging from the handicraft

stage to machine manufacture, but it is still in its infancy. Generally, Bolivia is divided into three distinct regions: The altiplano or plateau region; the yungas or inter- mediary region on the eastern mountain slopes and valleys; and the llanos or Amazon-Chaco lowlands. Each is different in climate and vegetation, and each is distinctive in the character

of its people and the density of its population. As expressed by one writer, one of the

great problems of Bolivia's economy is that the mass of its population of nearly 4 million lives in the wrong place- -on the

fruitless altiplano and not in the fertile Oriente east of the Andes. This deprives

the nation of essential agricultural pro- ductivity on which to build a self-sus- taining economy.

While topography in Bolivia has been

a deterrent to the entrepeneur since the Spanish conquered the country four centuries ago, it provides the visitor with some of the most magnificent scenery in the New World and helps to fill encyclo- pedias and tourist literature with many

interesting and odd facts. For example: La Paz is the highest capital in the world and with its altitude of over 12,000

feet the city needs no fire depart- ment as the rarefied atmosphere contains such a small proportion of oxygen; Lake Titicaca, an inland sea of 3,220 square miles lying partly in Bolivia and

partly in Peru, is the highest body of water on earth on which steamships ply; Bolivia has the longest continuous snow range on earth even though it lies not too far from the equator. This makes

for a highly varied climate and a tropical climate is not many miles from bitter winter weather.

La Paz, political capital of Bolivia, was founded by the Spaniards in 1 548.

It lies at an altitude of 12,130 feet.

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Archeologists are still trying to pie ce together the history of Bolivia before the advent of the Spaniards. Along the shores of Lake Titicaca are monuments

of a pre-Incan civilization which probably

paralleled or antedated that of the Nile

River. It is presumed that the Aymara

Indians were subjected to influences of people from Peru about 600 A.D. and

from this emerged a civilization characterized by massive stone buildings, fine

textiles, pottery, and metalwork. This phase evidently ended about three centuries later and when the area was con- quered by the Incas about 1200 A.D.,

the Aymaras were living among ruins which they were unable to explain. Bolivia remained under Incan rule until the arrival of the Spanish under

Francisco Pizarro. Six years after he

landed in Peru in 1532, his forces con- quered Bolivia and the following year founded the city of Sucre, which is still the legal capital although La Paz has come to be regarded as the actual capital and is the seat of the national gov- ernment.

Bolivia was noted throughout the col- onial period for its production of silver, the mines of Potosi being among the

richest ever discovered. The city of Potosi had a population of 150,000 during

the 17th century and was once the largest

city of the New World. Between 1630 and 1803 Bolivia exported $4 billion dollars worth of silver, of which $3 billion came from the Potosi mines. The city became almost a ghost town

during the past century after the silver lodes were depleted but today it has a

population of over 45,000, most of its prosperity in the past few decades coming from tin, a metal ignored by the Spanish. Revolutionary movements against Spanish rule began earlier in Bolivia than else- where in Latin America and as early as 1661 there was an unsuccessful revolt in La Paz. National independence was not

finallv gained until 1825 when the army

of General Jose Miguel Lanza entered La Paz and issued the formal declaration

of independence by authority of Simon

Bolivar. The new Republic was named in honor

of the great South American Liberator who served for a brief time as Chief Executive. A few months after the birth of the nation he transferred his authority to General Sucre who was elected Chief Executive by the first Bolivian National Assembly. The next 100 years was a turbulent century in the nation's history, and it was during this period that Bolivia lost much of her original territory. In the War of the Pacific in 1884, with Peru

as an ally, Bolivia lost to Chile her Pacific sea coast and the valuable nitrate

fields. Additional territory east of the Andes was lost in border disputes with

Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

Bolivia's constitution, signed November 23, 1945, was adopted after more

than a decade of political turmoil which

followed the settlement of the Chaco War

with Paraguay in 1938. It provides for a central form of republic with popular

representation and three independent but

coordinated branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Bolivia's present financial plight, vividly pictured to Vice President Richard M. Nixon on his visit there last month,

stems from a runaway inflation and a

general deterioration of prices and world demand for metals. President Hernan

Siles Zuazo made a direct plea to the

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Medal-of-Honor

Holder Attends

Unknown Soldier

Ceremonies

An honor guard of some 200 brave men, one of them a Zonian, stood stiffly at attention last Friday as the last taps were sounded over the crypts of two Unknown American Servicemen in Arlington Cemetery near Washington. They

were there as honorary pallbearers for two other brave, if unknown, men. Around the neck of each hung a pale blue ribbon, starred in white, supporting a five-pointed bronze star hanging from

a crosspiece bearing the word, Valor, and surmounted by an eagle. The 200 were the servicemen and forIt was this invitation ....

mer servicemen who hold the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award their country can give. The

Zonian was William G. Badders, Sal- vage Master and Master Diver for the

Industrial Division. The medal they wore with pride brings any military man instantly to a salute, whether he be officer or in the ranks. Medal of Honor holders also have the

privilege of riding in military aircraft in

. which took Mr. and Mrs. William Badders to Washington.

the United States and are entitled to a

small pension when they reach a certain

age. Many of them are members of a

recently-formed Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States. The part they played in the Memorial Day ceremonies was only one of the events planned for them in Washington. The morning of Memorial Day the medal

holders had been received by the Presi- dent and the following day their wives were invited to meet Mrs. Eisenhower at the White House. Mr. Badders, who is the sole Congressional Medal of Honor man in the Canal organization, was surprised to re- ceive his invitation to the Memorial Day

ceremonies, although he has had other

official invitations from Washington and

elsewhere in the past few years. The interment ceremonies last Friday, however, were as impressive as anything he ever expects to see. Nothing could be more fitting than

the selection of Medal-of-Honor men

as honorary pallbearers for such an oc- casion. Each of them received his award for "some voluntary act of valor, beyond the bounds of mere obedience

to orders." Mr. Badders' citation is typical. He

was honored for the part he played in salvage operations on the submarine

Squalus which went down in 240 feet of water off Portsmouth, N. H., in May

1939, with 59 men aboard. His citation reads: "For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the rescue and

salvage operations following the sinking

of the USS Squalus on May 23, 1939. During the rescue operations Badders,

as Senior Member of the rescue-chamber

crew, made the last extremely hazardous

trip of the rescue chamber to attempt to rescue any possible survivors in tha

flooded after portion of the Squalus. He

was fully aware of the great danger in- volved in that if he and his assistant became incapacitated there was no way

in which either could be rescued. During the salvage operations Badders made

important and difficult dives under the most hazardous conditions. His outstand- performance of duty contributed much to the success of the operations and characterizes conduct far above and beyond the ordinary call of duty."

Vice President for additional aid to pre- vent the government's stabilization pro- gram from collapsing. As reported by

The New York Times: "The Vice President has heard hints and requests in all the republics he has

visited thus far, Uruguay, Argentina, and

Paraguay, but nowhere have they been

so direct and couched in such urgent and

dramatic terms as in Bolivia. "President Siles indicated that unless new aid were received from the United States—not only to make up for the loss of revenue caused by the plummeting

prices of tin, which contributes the major

part of Bolivia's foreign exchange earnings, but also to develop additional sources of income—the Government's

economic stabilization program would

'risk final collapse within eight months'."

Bolivia has fared far worse than other American countries from inflation in the postwar years. In a recent survey on inflation in Latin America, the Chase Manhattan Bank reported that the cost of living in Bolivia rose 1 19 times the 1946 level by the middle of

last year, more than twice the increase

in the cost-of-living index for any other

country. While reports have indicated that the

inflationary trend has been checked, economists agree that the country is still far from stable, economically. There have been many encouraging

signs that Bolivia will attain economic

stability by the simple and most desir- able expedient of increasing its national productivity if it can weather the pres- ent storm. During the past year a number of foreign companies, particularly American

petroleum companies, obtained concessions in Bolivia for the development of natural resources and for mining and

manufacturing activities. It is estimated

that these companies will have invested approximately $40 million in Bolivia by

the end of this year. This development

is having a highly salutary effect on the economy of the country. A number of oil wells are being drilled and a program of further exploration for

oil has been mapped by the companies. A key factor in this program is the contraction of a pipeline for the transportation of oil to Arica. One of the most encouraging signs in Bolivia's economic outlook is the concerted effort being made to improve

farming. A considerable part of Bolivia's purchases abroad in recent years has been modern farm implements. Several United Nations agencies are cooperating

with the Government in a broad plan to improve farm and livestock techniques and in the important "Andean Indian

Project"—to integrate some fj million Indians of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador into the national economy of those countries. These programs take time to develop but Bolivians hope that the Govern- ment's program of austerity can counterbalance the present economic ills until the volume of trade increases.

Bolivia's great natural wealth provides

a sound footing for its economic future and an invitation for the continued growth in private investment which

will create new industries, higher pro- ductivity in mines and on farms, and new exports to world markets.

10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1958
Geologist finds real old Zonian

The dotted line marks the outline of the 1 5- geologist Robert Stewart at Contractors Hil

illion-year-old turtle uncovered by

A misplaced piece is at the right.

Proof positive that the voice of a turtle could be heard through this land some

15 million years ago has just been un- covered by Panama Canal geologist Robert H. Stewart. His recent discovery of the fossilized remains of a 21-inch wide fresh-water

turtle on the side of Contractors Hill adds another fascinating chapter to the ge- ological history of the Isthmus of Panama.

Although the turtle is not the oldest Isthmian ever found—a giant sloth dis- covered several years ago near the Pan- amanian interior town of Pese antedates the turtle by several million

years its discovery has helped Mr.

Stewart and other geologists to know

even more than they did before what

the Isthmus of Panama was like in those remote times. The turtle dates back to the middle of the Miocene—which means "less recent"—

Period, as geologists figure time. By that period North and South America, which had been separated by a wide body of water several million years before, were

once more connected by a land bridge

that was considerably wider than the Is- thmus of Panama is today. The Contractors Hill turtle had lived

in a fresh-water lake in the middle of this wide isthmus. Its fossil lay in a soft car- bonaceous silty sandstone layer about six inches thick, containing a number of small

fossil shells of the fresh water variety. Immediately below the turtle, Mr. Stewart found fossilized leaves of a fern so

similar to ferns growing around the edges

of Miraflores Lake today that, he says,

"it makes you wonder." The combination of fern leaves and

shellfish fossils indicates, to those who

know about such things, that the cli- mate of the Isthmus 15 million years ago was much like that of today. There

were, however, in those days, active volcanoes in the neighborhood; this is evident from the fact that the material

of the rock in which the fossils were embedded was derived from volcanic tuff. Immediately below the turtle and the

shells was an ash flow which had been

the result, Mr. Stewart says, of a tre- mendous volcanic eruption. This eruption buried a forest of palm

trees which was uncovered millions of years later by Tecon during the work on

Contractors Hill. It is now possible to see the charred stumps of the multimillion-year-old trees and their rootlets going into the ground, and to walk for a thousand feet or so on the floor of a Miocene jungle. The turtle and its shellfish companions

were not the only inhabitants of this part

of the world 15 million years ago. Three

years ago, Mr. Stewart found what was

identified as the fossilized bone of a Miocene rhinoceros, and he has also un- covered the fossils of clams which measured six inches across. But with the reluctance of the scientific man, he hesitates to predict what

else can come to light around here. New stamp in the making

Sometime in the next few weeks Canal

Zonians will be able to buy a new four- cent postage stamp. It will be the first four-center to be included in what postal people call the "ordinary series" (as against air-mail stamps) and the first new

stamp to be issued since the Gorgas Hospital commemorative stamp last November. No issue date has been selected because Canal Zone postal authorities have not

yet learned how long it will take the United States Bureau of Engraving and

Printing to produce the new Zone issue. The new stamp will have another dis- tinction. It will be the first multicolored stamp ever issued by the Canal Zone and, as far as oldtimers can re- member, the first to have a Panama

Line ship as its subject. What goes into producing a new issue? Much planning and preparation, postal

officials say.

It usually starts off when Earl F. Unruh, Director of Posts, sends word to the Stamp Committee, a standing group

appointed by the Governor, that the Canal Zone needs a new stamp for some

reason or other. Sometimes the new

stamp is to commemorate some local event or anniversary; sometimes it is

needed for other reasons. The new four- cent stamp is necessary because of the hike in first-class postal rates from three

to four cents. When the Stamp Committee—James

Marshall, Assistant to the Director of the

Civil Affairs Bureau; Paul M. Runnestrand, Executive Secretary; Wells D.

Wright, Assistant Designing Engineer; and Judge E. I. P. Tatelman—received Mr. Unruh's request, Mr. Marshall, as chairman, called a meeting of the committee and included with the group Hugh

W. Cassibry, Rates Analyst in the Budget and Rates Division, who will succeed Judge Tatelman on the committee when

the latter retires. The Committee agreed that the Canal Zone did need a new four-cent stamp and

then set to work to decide on a central

subject. After some discussion, they

settled on the idea of a Panama Line

ship, to be done in its natural colors. They asked G. A. Doyle, Jr., Chief of the Engineering Division's Architectural Branch, to submit some rough sketches. At their next meeting the committee

looked over two rough drawings and

chose one to be developed. Mr. Doyle and Franklin Ben, Engineering Division

June 6, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

draftsman, put the design into its final sketch form -a blue background against which the ship's gray hull and buff stack stand out sharply. The next stop for the stamp-in-the- making was the Governor's Office. Sometimes changes and revisions are made

here and in the case of the new four-cent stamp, Governor Potter suggested a few minor changes. Mr. Unruh then bundled up the design, which measured 4x6 inches, along with

several black and white photographs and

several color transparencies of the Pan- ama Line ships and sent them to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington where the final model will be made. As a next-to-the-last step, the Bureau

will return to Mr. Unruh a "model" in stamp size and one somewhat larger, both

of which will be revisions by the Bureau's

designers of the sketch submitted from

the Canal Zone.

It will not be until all of these steps have been taken that the Canal Zone

post offices will know just when they

are going to be able to put the new

stamp on sale. Philatelic societies will be advised in advance and arrange- ments will be made for the sale of "date

of issue" stamps for collectors.
School Nurse

Keeping an eye on the health of

Pacific side school children from now

on will be Mrs. Henri Skeie, above. She has been on the staff at Gorgas.

Industrial Division's

Gas Plant To Be Closed

The Gas Manufacturing Plant will be

closed at the end of this month and Company-Government units will purchase

their supplies of oxygen, acetylene, and

hydrogen gases in cylinders from a plant

in Panama. These are the three most commonly used manufactured gases. The Gas Plant, a unit of the Industrial

Division, is one of the oldest operations

of the Canal operations and was one of the few which was kept in operation when

the Industrial Division operations were moved to Cristobal several years ago.

All of the personnel now employed at the plant will be offered other jobs. There are 11 employees, seven of whom

are in locality-rate positions. The amount of gas manufactured at the plant has declined considerably during the past few years and for sometime

past other Government agencies have

been buying their supplies in Panama.

Operations were also curtailed by the re- cent change to the use of propane gas by

the Storehouse Branch for cutting metal

in its scrap operations. Although Gas Plant operations will be

stopped, it is planned to maintain the plant on a stand-by basis. Accordingly,

the power conversion plans for the plant

will be carried out as scheduled.

BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING

A review of the Canal Company's i960 budget will be made next week by the Board's Budget and Finance Committee,

two members of which were here last month for a preliminary review of esti- mates. Directors who are members of the committee are Ralph H. Cake, Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, and Robert P. Burroughs. General Edgerton did not make the trip last month. The committee members and W. M.

Whitman, Secretary of the Company,

are scheduled to arrive next Thursday

for the series of meetings which will continue through Sunday, if necessary. A review of the budget estimates is made annually by the committee a short time before the presentation to the Board of Directors at the July meeting.

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCE IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION

For

PFomen

Only

More boys than girls are born each

year in the United States, but a recent

reliable estimate has about one-and-ahalf million more women than men in adult life—86,371,000 females to 84,858,- 000 males. Just why are there more women than men later on in life? Why are there less men for women to choose from when it comes time for them to marry? "One reason," says the National Safety

Council, "is because males, between the ages of 15 to 24 years—the marrying ageare being killed in accidents almost five times as fast as females." The Council says they are not trying

to provide more males so women will not

be left as "old maids," but rather they

are concerned with keeping people alive

in general, and especially men. "Men" they say, "have always died

faster than women." Perhaps largely be- cause of the fact they are more willing to gamble their lives to undertake more

hazardous tasks, to fight for a cause, or

just to satisfy the type of curiosity that

killed the "proverbial cat." Their records show that men between the ages of 15 and 24 are dying far, far too rapidly and

the statistics show the following facts about this age group:

1. Accidents of all types kill five males

for every female lost.

2. Eight out of ten persons killed in motor vehicle accidents are males.

3. Almost 7 out of 8 persons killed in non-motor vehicle accidents are males.

4. Young people are seven times more

likely to die in an accident than from

cancer, which is the number 2 killer in this group.

5. Both sexes are living longer today

than their grandparents did, but the socalled weaker sex is widening the gap

faster.

6. Thirty years ago the average female

lived three years longer than the average

male. Today, she can expect to outlive him by six years.

7. One reason women outlive men is that they have benefited more from new- medical discoveries and innovations made

by some hard-working males.

8. Women appear to be more careful than men when working and playing.

9. Social and technological changes have made women's work easier, more

pleasant, and safer. The National Safety Council's advice

to you women, in all walks of life, is

"It's smart to keep your men alive. Don't let, or push, your boy-friend (or hubby) to overdo, whether it is to pro- vide a life to which you have never been

accustomed, or a long vacation drive." Make sure when you are on vacation

this summer that he keeps a light foot on the accelerator; that you put your

foot down on heavy drinking; that he is not distracted by "back seat" annoyances

into a collision; or that you do not let a

family spat raise his blood pressure into an accident. "Keep them alive, girls—because the supply isn't keeping up with the demand."

APRIL 1958 BUREAU

New York Operations

Supply & Community Service ( H. Roll) Engineerings Construction Health

Transportation Jr. Terminals

Civil Affairs (Honor Roll).. Marine

C. Z. Govt. -Panama Canal Company

( ) Locks Overhaul Injuries included in total.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1958
Gorgas Hospital Needs New Who's Who

(Continuedfrom page 4) to rejoin the Ciorgas Hospital staff will be Dr. Erik W. Michelsen, who was at Gorgas in 1955-57 as a resident in Pathology. He

is joining the hospital staff as a pathologist. Born in New York City, he is a graduate of the University of Copenhagen.

In addition to 15 medical interns, Gorgas Hospital this year will again have a resident in hospital administration. He is Ronald H. Wilson, born in Takoma Park, Md. and a graduate of the University of Miami. He succeeds John E. Bertone, Gorgas Hospital's first Administrative Resident. The new medical interns, their birth- places and their medical schools are: Dr. Harold Paul Adolph, Laun, China

(his parents were medical missionaries), University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Robert

Clinton Hall, Evanston, 111., University

of Michigan; Dr. Hale L. Haws, Anaheim, Calif., University of California at Los Angeles; Dr. Mike Hayes, Fort Smith

Ark., University of Missouri; Dr. Joyce N. Herrold (the only woman in the

group), Lancaster, Ohio, University of Cincinnati; Dr. Thomas Varien Hinkle, Houston, Tex., University of Texas at Galveston; Dr. Kenneth W. Hjortsvang,

Chicago, 111., University of Oregon; Dr. Kenneth G. Korver, Marshall, Mich., University of Colorado; Dr. Robert L. Nichols, Pittsburgh, Pa., University of Chicago (he already has his Ph.D and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine); Dr. Patrick Louis Pierce, Fayetteville, Ark., University of Tennessee; Dr. Mason Walter Robison, Mullan,

Idaho, University of Oregon; Dr. Daniel Jacob Schneider, Madison, Wis., University of California at Los Angeles; Dr. Angus B. Stewart, Klamath Falls, Oreg., University of Oregon; Dr. John Reed

Ware, Muncie, Ind., Indiana University; and Dr. L. Dennis Weldon, Sacramento,

Calif., University of Iowa.

PAGES FROM THE

mgSSnU&B HIST

THIS MONTH

50 Years Ago

Dirt was flying 50 years ago this month

in the Canal Zone. During June 1908, Canal forces excavated 3,060,307 cubic yards of earth and rock, all but 165,310

of these from the Canal prism. This set a new record for work during the rainy

season, although it fell 419,964 cubic yards short of the dry-season record set the previous March.

Totting up the figures in the years of American work, "The Canal Record" found

that "between May 4 1904, when the Americans took possession of the effects of the French Company, to June S0~, 1908," Excavation had totaled 1,0, 938,575 cubic

yards. Just about two-thirds of it had been done during fiscal year 1908. The Record also took stock of personnel. As June 1908 began, there were

25,881 employees on the rolls of the Isthmian Canal Commission and another

7,052 working for the Panama Railroad. Of the ICC force, 20,584 employees were working in the Department of Construction and Engineering. To meet pressing needs, 21 additional

quarters were to be built for ICC employees;

these would accommodate 75 families, as most of the buildings were to be four-family

houses. A concrete reservoir, 122 feet in diameter and 1 l-and-a-half feet deep, was to be built as reserve fire protection for Ancon, La Boca, and Panama. A ten- inch water main would run from the

million-gallon reservoir along the Canal Zone line and La Boca Road. Old Friend Returns

Canal Zonians welcomed an old friend late last month when Col. David S. Parker revisited the Isthmus as a consultant on Canal improvement projects. He served two years as Military Assistant to the Governor, 1952-54. Colonel

Parker is now on duty as Chief of the Planning Studies Division in the Office

of the Chief of Engineers. He was accompanied by John J. Taylor, at right with Colonel Parker, who is Project Officer of the Special Weapons Branch.

June 6, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

25 Years Ago

With a million-dollar cut expected in Panama Canal appropriations for fiscal year 1934, department heads were asked

to reduce their expenditures by some 15 percent. An appropriation of $11,106,- 404 had already been passed by Congress and the cut would be made in this. This meant that some Zonians were going

to lose their jobs. Late in the month, Gov.

J. L. Schley issued regulations on reduction in force procedure. Working married

couples would be the first to feel the effects of the slash; one of them would be out of work. Next to go would be employees with 30 or more years of service. There were

tentative estimates that more than 1,400 Canal employees would lose their jobs on July 1, a majority from the Municipal

Engineering Division. Meanwhile the Canal received a ray

of hope in word from Washington that through the efforts of the Central Labor

Union and Senator Robert M. LaFollette,

Jr., the Canal Zone had been included in the agencies to receive funds from a $3

billion National Recovery Bill. In the worse flare-up of malaria in many

years, 114 cases were reported in one week. Of these, 23 were among Canal employees and the remainder in the Armed Forces. When the Balboa High School grad- uated a record class of 98 on June 15, 1933, attorney John O. Collins, the com- mencement speaker, made a remark

which was to be repeated for many years. He told the students to go back to the

States and "not become stall-fed cattle on the Canal Zone." 10 Years Ago

Gov. F. K. Newcomer appointed a six- man committee to study what effects a proposed five-day work week would have on the Canal's operations and its dealings with such outside activities as shipping

agencies. At that time, 10 years ago this month, the Canal's work week was five and a half days. A Selective Service Bill passed by the Senate in June, 1948, would extend the draft to the Canal Zone and require estab- lishment of a local board and a draft quota. The bill still had to pass the House of

Representatives. In Washington, Defense Secretary James Forrestal announced that Canal Zone medical services would be streamlined. Gulick and Margarita hospitals were to be closed, Coco Solo Hospital would serve all the armed forces on the

Atlantic side, and Clayton Hospital on

the Pacific side. Colon and Gorgas hospitals would continue to care for civilian patients. About 3,000 Zonians were slated for av- erage pay raises of $500 each as Congress

passed the Classified Pay Increase Bill. One Year Ago

The Budget and Finance Committee

of the Panama Canal Company's Board

of Directors met here to review budget

estimates for fiscal year 1959. Wilson H. Crook, Director of the Supply and Employee Service Bureau, died after a brief illness.
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS JUNE SAILINGS

April 75 through May 15

Employees who were promoted or transferred between April 15 and May 15 are

listed below. Within-grade promotions are not reported. ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Robert G. Hammetter, from Lithographic Pressman to Assistant Head, Press Section, Printing Plant. Frank A. Chollar, from Photolithographer

II to Head. I.itho-Photographic Section, Printing Plant. Mrs. Katherine A. Lessiack, from Substitute Clerk-Stenographer, Postal Division,

to Clerk-Stenographer, General Services

Section. CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

James S. Kraemer, James W. Morris, from Substitute Window Clerk to Window

Clerk, Postal Division. Mrs. Cornelia A. Banks, from Substitute Teacher to Kindergarten Assistant, Division of Schools. William E. Affeltranger, from Policeman

to Policeman and Detective, Police Division. Charles N. Little, from Motorcycle Officer and Policeman to Motorcycle Officer and

Policeman and Detective, Police Division. Donald V. Howerth, from Police Lieu- tenant to Police Inspector, Police Division. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Daugherty, from Substitute Teacher to Elementary School Teacher, Division of Schools. Michael F. Greene, from Customs In- spector to Senior Inspector, Cristobal, Cus- toms Division. James A. Marchuck, from Policeman to Police Sergeant, Police Division. Mrs. Frances T. Palumbo, from Substitute Teacher to Recreation Assistant, Division of Schools. Mrs. Alberta J. Geis, from Substitute Teacher, Division of Schools, to Library' Assistant, Library. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Nancy L. Jorstad, from Recreation Leader

Division of Schools, to Clerk-Typist, General Audit Division.

Leslie M. Spencer, from Senior Customs

Inspector (Cristobal), Customs Division, to Accountant, General Audit Division. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Dean L. Kelly, from Machinist, Locks

Overhaul, to Marine Machinist, Dredging

Division. Arnold J. Landreth, from Electrician Foreman I to Electrician Foreman, Dredging Division. William Hannigan, Jr., Julius Cheney,

from Navigation Aids Electrician I to Electrician, Dredging Division. James D. MacLean, from Dredging Electrician I to Electrician, Dredging Division. Roy R. Shuey, from Gas Navigation Aids Foreman to Machinist Foreman, Dredging

Division. John C. Thompson, from Lead Foreman,

General Maintenance Navigations Aids, to General Maintenance Lead Foreman, Dredging I )i\ ision. Walter J. Wilkinson, from Pumping Plant Operator II to Filtration Plant Operator III, Maintenance Division. Rene P. Trembleau, from Pumping Plant Operator, Water and Laboratories Branch,

to Maintenance Machinist, Maintenance

Division. Ernest C. Divine, Jr., from Heavy I abor Lead Foreman, Locks Overhaul, to Pumping Plant Operator II, Maintenance Di-

\ ision. HEALTH BUREAU

\- i result hi a i lassifii ation stud) made

by the Personnel Bureau, simultaneously

with a reorganizat ion oi t he nursing services,

raises were received last month by approx- imately 115 nurses at Gorgas Hospital. Space does not permit publication of their names. MARINE BUREAU

Leonard Aguirre, from Checker, Locks

Overhaul, to Clerk, Office of the Chief, Locks Division. Robert L. Rankin, from Commissary

Supervisor, Sales and Sen-ice Branch, to

Marine Traffic Controller, Navigation Division. Robert V. Dean, from Wireman to Wire- man Foreman, Locks Division. PERSONNEL BUREAU

Charles A. Garcia, from Magistrate to Personnel Assistant, Employment and L'til- ization Division. William D. Young, from Position Classifier. Wage and Classification Division, to Personnel Assistant, Office of the Director. Otto W. Helmerichs, from Supervisory Placement Officer to Employee Utilization Representative, Employment and LUiliza- tion Division.

Mrs. Florence M. Burns, from Clerk- Typist to Accounting Clerk, Office of the General Manager, Supply Division. Mrs. Carmela A. Reccia, from Accounting Clerk to Procurement Assistant. Office

of General Manager, Supply Division. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS BUREAU

Robert C. Daniel, from Road and Yard

Conductor to Yardmaster, Railroad Division. OTHER PROMOTIONS

Promotions which did not involve a change of title were: Joseph H. Orr, Jr., George E. Shoe- maker, Joseph H. White, General Supply

Assistant, Storehouse Branch. Robert N. Bowen, Auditor, General Audit

Division. John F. Stephenson, Admeasurer, Navigation Division. Hugh C. Durrett, Ralph K. Skinner, Systems Accountant, Accounting Policies and Procedures Staff. Helen C. Burns, Secretary (Stenography), Executive Office, New York Operations. Ralph Roskelly, Supervisory Transportation Officer, Passenger Department, Steamship Division. Michael Portantiere, Transportation Operations Clerk, Passenger Department, Steamship Division. John Bruno, Miscellaneous Duplicating Equipment Operator, Procurement Division.Wilmer L. Downing, Thelma C. Herrington, Supervisory Accounting Assistant, Payroll Branch. Mrs. Evelyn R. Reynolds, Time, Leave, and Payroll Clerk, Payroll Branch.

Louis H. Charles, Painting Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division. RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of May to the following employees who are listed alphabetically, together with

their birthplaces, positions, years of Canal

service, and future addresses: Fred J. Blohm, Illinois, Lead Foreman

Painter, Maintenance Division; 13 years, 2 months, 8 days; Fort Smith, Ark. Raymond E. Forbes, Nebraska; Supervisory Sanitation Inspector, Sanitation Division; 34 years, 5 months, 20 days: future address undecided. Mrs. Dorothy E. Hamlin, Ohio; Accounting Clerk, Accounting Division; 17 years.

4 months, 2 days; Pasadena, Calif. Capt. Albert

J. Mathon, Connecticut;

Fire Captain, Fire Division; 31 years, 1 month, 14 days; Panama, R. de P. Ernest P. Muzzio, New York; Plumbing

Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division: 18 years, 7 months, 25 days; Belleville, N.J.

Capt. Charles S. Townshend, Pennsylvania; Pilot, Navigation Division; .^^ years, 4 months, 7 days; future address undecided. Walter A. Wieman, New York; Assistant Housing Manager, Balboa; 29 years, o months, 25 days; Florida.

FROM CRISTOBAL

Cristobal __ . June 7 Ancon . . ..June 14

Cristobal June 25 FROM NEW YORK

Ancon June 6

Cristobal . , June 17 Ancon June 24

Southbound ships which leave New York Friday

are in Haiti the following Tuesday. Those which sail from New York Tuesday spend Saturday in Haiti. Northbound, the ships stop in Haiti two days after clearing Cristobal: Monday for those whirh sail from

Cristobal Saturday, and Friday for those which clear Cristobal Wednesday. ANNIVERSARIES

Two well-known Zonians, one from either

side of the Isthmus, share honors this month

as top men on the anniversary list. Both

completed 35 years of government service

in May, although the Atlantic sider, Earl

A. Dyer, has a week's edge on the Pacific

siiler, Blanchard V. Hutchings. Mr. Dyer's

service, however, has been split between

the Canal Zone and Washington, D. C,

while that of Mr. Hutchings has been entirely in the Canal Zone. Mr. Dyer, Superintendent of the Panama

Canal Company's Printing Plant at Mount

Hope, was born in Washington, D. C. He

learned the printing trade there and worked

for three years in the Government Printing

Office in Washington before he came to the Canal Zone in 1926. The Printing Plant, known in those days as the Panama Canal

Press, had a continuous job then it no longer does—printing the commissary coupons

which were used instead of cash until 1952

to buy bread and beans or anything else the commissary had for sale —and a good

part of Mr. Dyer's work was connected

with this job. In 1928 he returned to the Government

Printing Office in Washington for 12 years but in 1940 was back on the Isthmus and up to his elbows in commissary coupon

books again. In 1954, he was made foreman

of the monotype section of the press, and

two years later succeeded Gilbert Furey as Superintendent of the Printing Plant. Although he was born in Columbus, Miss., the Canal Zone has been home to Mr.

Hutchings since he was eight years old. As

most young Zonians did in those days, he

held a number of summer jobs during school

vacations. After he was grown he worked

at the Hotel Washington and with the Store- houses and Oil Handling Plants until he

left the Canal Zone to spend a short time

in the 1'nited States. Since he returned to the Isthmus in 1929 he has been with Customs, as a guard, Cus- toms inspector, boarding officer, antl deputy

shipping commissioner He is now on duty

in the Balboa office. 30 YEARS

While only one of May's 30-year employees is a native of the Canal Zone, three of the four are the second generation of their families to work for the Canal organization. Alphabetically, this quartet is: Robert L. Blaney, Supervisory Cargo Operations Assistant in the Terminals Division. He was born in Rochester, N. Y., but came

to the Isthmus when he was five years old. He started an apprenticeship as a shipfitter but in 1928 decided that he was more in- terested in stevedoring than he was in a

craft. He has been with what is now the Terminals Division ever since. John A. Everson, Wireman, Electrical Division. Born in Cristobal, he attended

the Canal Zone schools and took his apprenticeship here. All of his service has been

with the Electrical Division. Mrs. Jeanne C. Magnuson, Accounting

Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch. She was

born in New York City and came here in 1925. She has worked with the old Quartermaster's office and with the Oil Handling

Plants but Has been in financial work since

1942. Roger T. Williams, Steam FZngineer in

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the Marine Bunkering Section of the Balboa

Oil Handling Plant. Born in Philadelphia,

lie lias lived liere since he was 1 1 years old. He worked in a number of summer jobs and. after he was grown up, at the old Ancon corral. He has been with the Oil Handling Plant since 1934. A (rack baseball player in the old Twilight League, he now owns the trophy once won by a Supply Department team.

25 YEARS

Six States are represented by that many

employees, here and in New York, for whom

May was Silver Anniversary Month for their Government service. They are: Robert H. Adams, who comes from Astoria, X. V.. and who has been with the Storehouses since 1948. He is now Supervisory Storage Officer. Mrs. Eleanor A. Connor, a native of Duluth. Minn., who has been in accounting work since 1939. She is an Accounting Clerk

in the Agents Accounts Branch. Edward E. Lane, whose birthplace was

Revere, Mass.. Night Officer on the Panama

Line's Pier 64 in New York. All of Mr.

Lane's career, both civilian and military,

•has had to do with shipping, ashore and

afloat. George H. Sanford, whose hometown is Smyrna. Tenn., and who began his Canal

career in the Special Engineering Division. He is head of the Duplicating Unit, where

all multiliths, mimeographs, and other such

reproductions are made.

Robert L. Snyder, who was born in Crestline, Ohio, and whose Canal service has all been with the post offices. His pres- ent title is Services Assistant to the Director of Posts. Howard E. Turner, through whose hands

passes every Canal paycheck, a native of Dade City, Fla. He lias been in payroll work since 1937 and is now Chief of the

Payroll Branch.

20 YEARS

Five of the nine men and women who

had twentieth anniversaries in Government

service last month have unbroken service with the Panama Canal although several others have Canal service interrupted only by military duty in World War II. Those with unbroken Canal service are: Elmer H. Gardner, YVireman with the Electrical Division —all of his service has been

with that Division; Walter H. Hobby, Fore- man I in Transportation Equipment Operations for the Motor Transportation Division: Daile D. Keigley, Accountant on the Reports and Special Analysis Staff of the Accounting Division —his service has all been in some form of accounting work;

Ethel C. Myers, Head Xurse, Gorgas Hospital where she has seen all her Canal service; and Capt. Ernest B. Rainier, Assistant Port Captain at Cristobal, one-time officer on Panama Line ships and a Canal pilot for over 15 years. Other 20-year employees are: Mrs. Lavinia R. Dahlhoff, Telephone Operator, Communications Branch; Glenn H. Burdick, Supervisory Office Services Clerk,

Electrical Division; George F. Welsh, Chief

of the Employment and L

: tilization Division

of the Personnel Bureau, with which he be- gan as a Junior Interviewer; and Fred L. Wertz, Jr., who has been a Locomotive

Engineer with the Panama Railroad since 1938.

15 YEARS

Six of the 1 1 employees who completed

15 years of Government service in May

have worked continuously for the Panama

Canal. They are: Alfred R. Graham, Staff Xurse, Gorgas Hospital; Mrs. Lilybel Kariger, Recreation Assistant. Division of Schools; Gilbert F. Lee, Towing Locomotive

Operator, Gatun Locks; Howard E. Munro,

Power Dispatcher, Electrical Division; Er- win F. Ramsey, Heavy Equipment Operator, Grounds Maintenance Branch; and

Joe Stabler, Sergeant, Fire Division. Other 15-year employees are: George W.

Coleman, Fire Sergeant, Fire Division; Mack B. Hicks, Motorcycle Officer and

Policeman, Balboa Police District; Woodrow W. Richardson, Ironworker-Welder, Gatun Locks; Frederick J. Wainio, Supervisory Accountant, Terminals Division; and

Leslie D. Wood, Lead Marine Electrical Foreman, Electrical Division.

Personnel Bureau Move

Transfer of the Central Labor Office Branch of the Personnel Bureau from

Building 69 in Balboa completed the move of Personnel Bureau units to their new headquarters in Ancon about the middle of last month.

While only about 60 men and women

were involved in the move, George V.

Daniels, of the Employment and Utilization Division, who coordinated the transfer, had to figure ways of dealing not only

with the office furniture and files, but also with the staplers and punches and desk- gear assigned to everyone of them. He

supplied big boxes which each employee

packed. When the employee reported for work the next day, he or she found them

on their new: desks in Ancon.

According to Mr. Daniels' figures, the Personnel Bureau move involved 175 four-drawer file cases, and between 30 and 40 sections full of index cards, in addition to desks and bookcases, and all other necessary office equipment. The first Unit to move was the Wage

and Classification Division, on April 30. The same day all personnel records were

transferred from the Administration

Building. Two days later, Employment

and Utilization Division employeesmoved

from Building 69 to Ancon. The transfer

of the Central Labor Office Branch began May 14 and was completed May 16. Each unit was in at least partial operation in the afternoon of its particular moving day. ^Moved Moving^

New Lieutenant Governor Designate

(Continued from page s) dredge Cascadas and the Division's shops and floating equipment. Wherever possible the new- Lieutenant Governor will talk informally

to the employees and will lunch each day

with the group he is visiting. On June 19 and June 20 he will be

with the Comptroller, sitting in on a general briefing of the Canal's financial and

accounting policies and procedures and

learning the organization of the Comptroller's Office. The last week of Colonel McElheny's

orientation assignment will be divided among several Bureaus. On June 23 he

will see Health Bureau facilities on the

Atlantic side during the morning and

spend the afternoon at the Transportation and Terminals Bureau Atlantic

June 6, 1958 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

side operations. The following day he

will spend the morning at operations on the Pacific side and the afternoon

inspecting Pacific side facilities of the Health Bureau. The entire da.v Wednesday, June 25,

will be devoted to the Personnel Bureau. The following day will be another trip to the Atlantic side, the morning to be de- voted to the Supply and Community

Service Bureau and the afternoon to the

Civil Affairs Bureau. On his last day, June 27, Colonel McElheny will be back on the Pacific side. He will tour offices, warehouses, the scrap yard and the Balboa Commissary with

the Supply and Community Service Director, and spend the remainder of the day with the Executive Planning Staff and the Lieutenant Governor, listening to a briefing on the Panama Canal's master

plan and a general critique and review.
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SHIPPING

3 1262 08544 4684

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN APRIL

1957 1958 Commercial 767 734 Government 13 22

Total.. 7X0 756 TOLLS'

Commercial $3,436,371 $3,367,300 Government.. 68,737 83,359

Total $3,505,108 $3,450,659

•Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small. CARGO (Long tons) Commercial 4,399,219 3,864,624 Government... 91,230 81,779

Total 4,490,449 3,946,403

New Customer

The SS Cartagena de Indias, the newest

addition to the Colombian Steamship

Line (Flota Grancolombiana), made her

first southbound and northbound transits

of the Canal last month. The vessel will operate on a regular run between New

York and U. S. East Coast ports, then through the Panama Canal to Buenaventura, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecuador; and

Callao and Mollendo in Peru. The 475-foot freighter, which has a

cruising speed of 19 knots, is one of the

five new ships to be added to the Grancolombiana fleet this year. The others

are the Ciudad de Tunja and the Manuel

Mejia, both of which have already been

placed in service; the Ciudad de Barranquilla, due here the middle of June; and

the Ciudad de Pasto, due in Cristobal the end of this month. All of the new vessels were built in Hamburg, with the ex- ception of the Ciudad de Pasto, which is being built in Seville. Now in its twelfth year, the Grancol- ombiana is one of the Canal's best cus- tomers. It operates 36 ships of its own

over nine routes calling at 88 ports in 20

countries. In addition to the new ships

listed above, the line has five more vessels under construction. They will go into service next year. Wilford & McKay

handle Flota Grancolombiana vessels at

the Canal. Last Cruise Ship Two weeks behind schedule because of a shipping accident in Yokohama harbor,

the luxury cruise liner Caronia arrived in Balboa May 16 and made the Canal

transit the following day en route to New York. The Caronia, the last big

cruise ship of this year's season, was on

the last lap of a round-the-world millionaires' cruise. She had 334 passengers and

a crew of 672 aboard. The ship docked

in Balboa for several hours. The accident which delayed the cruise

liner occurred early in April when the Caronia struck and demolished a light- house at the entrance of Yokohama harbor, causing damages estimated at $35,- 000. The ship sailed from Yokohama May 2. Meanwhile her annual spring

cruise to the Mediterranean, which had

Charles T. Jackson, Jr., of the Marine Bureau, right, and Capt. T. W. McGraw

look over the concrete decking on the ferryboat "Presidente Porras," which won a cash award last month for Mr. Jackson who had suggested the change

from wood decking. The award, one of the largest ever given by the Canal

administration, will be put to good use Mr. Jackson has five children!

been scheduled to start May 13, was

postponed until May 24. Record Breakers

Records are being broken right and left these days by the fleet new Japanese- owned freighters which ply between Far

East ports, the East and West coasts of the United States, and Europe.

Recently, the Havana Maru, of the OSK Line, set a new trans-Pacific speed

record on its maiden voyage which

brought it into Los Angeles just 10 days,

14 hours, and 35 minutes after departing from Yokohama. This is reported to be

the fastest crossing for a Japanese vessel on this run. The Havana Maru passed through the Panama Canal northbound

on April 27 and returned from New York May 20 on her way back to Yokohama.

Earlier, the Mitsui Line motor vessel Manjusan Maru broke all records on the Los Angeles-Liverpool run when she made the trip in less than 19 days. The

ship transited the Canal on that trip early in April and was on its way back from Europe early last month. Boyd Brothers handle the first ship, and the United Fruit Company is agent

for the Mitsui Line. New Supertanker

Another supertanker made the Canal

transit on her maiden voyage out from Japan for Aruba during May. She was

the huge Esso Uruguay, fifth in a series

of new supertankers being built in Japan

for the Esso service. The new ship measured 690 feet in length, only four feet shorter than the Crinis, the largest tanker

ever to use the Panama Canal. She has

a deadweight of 35,515 tons and capacity

for 309,000 barrels of fuel. Flying the Panamanian flag, the tanker is owned by

the Panama Transport Company and was

handled locally by the Esso Shipping Company. On her first trip through the Canal, the tanker was traveling in ballast and was scheduled to go to Aruba for a cargo of oil for New York. Another of the

big ships is now being built in the Nagasaki Shipyards for the same company. More New Customers Two new Hamburg America Line

freighters, Saarland and Havdland, made

their initial voyages through the Canal

during May to join the fast-growing

fleet of German-owned ships now using

the Panama Canal. Both the Havelland, which made the northbound transit May

29 en route to Hamburg from the U. S. West Coast, and the Saarland, which made her first trip to the west coast in May, are on the Hamburg-Pacific Coast

service. Both were built in Germany,

carry general cargo, and have accommodations for 12 passengers. The Continental Shipping Company, local agents

for the line, report that they now handle approximately 25 vessels of the Hamburg

America and North German Lloyd Line each month.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW June 6, 1958