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Robert J. Fleming, Jr., Governor-President David S. Parker, Lieutenant Governor A^i^L

Frank A. Baldwin Panama Canal Information Officer

Official Panama Canal Publication Published monthly at Balboa Heights, C.Z. Printed at the Printing Plant, La Boca, C.Z.

Distributed free of charge to all Panama Canal Employees

Robert D. Kerr, Press Officer

Publications Editors

.-.-l-M»k richabd d Peacock and Julio E. Briceno

Editorial Assistants Eunice Richard, Tobi Bittel, and

Tomas A. Cupas

ytiajol Canal (Project*

-Making, Ptogie**

WIDENING OF GAILLARD CUT: The dry excavation begun in January

1963 on the largest phase of the $43.7 million widening of the Canal was

76 percent complete by mid-February 1964. The Zone I work, excavation of

overburden material above elevation 95 feet, involves 5 million cubic yards

of excavation. Bids will be asked in May for the Zone II excavation below

elevation 95 feet. The total excavation in this final portion in Las Cascadas-Bas

Obispo Reaches will approximate 17 million cubic yards. The project, started

in 1959, is scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1967. NEW LOCKS MAINTENANCE METHOD: Work has been completed at Miraflores Locks, is scheduled for Gatun Locks in 1966, and is tentatively

scheduled for Pedro Miguel Locks in 1972 to permit a system of miter gate

overhaul whereby the miter gates will be unhinged by means of a floating crane, floated to a remote drydock for overhaul, and rehinged with the

floating crane. Instead of unwatering the chamber to overhaul the wall quoins

and pintles, a portable cofferdam will be used so that ship traffic will be

interrupted only during the removal and rehinging of the gate leaves, approximately 24 hours being required for each operation. A trial overhaul at Miraflores Locks to test this system is scheduled to start in September 1964.

MARINE TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM: The voice radio part of the

system is being installed. This consists of VHF radio systems for harbor

dispatching, centralized transit dispatching and pilot-to-towing locomotive

communications. The equipment for these systems is being purchased under

contract, at a total cost of $259,676. The central dispatching office is being

constructed on the third floor of the Terminal Building, Balboa. It is expected

that the new harbor and transit systems will be completed and in operation

by April 1964 and the pilot-to-locomotive system by May 1964. About the Cover

THE INSTALLATIONS once maintained by the Pacific Steam

Navigation ( o. at Mono Island off the Island ofTaboga, are shown

in this 100-year-old lithograph by George Sibell reprinted as the cover oi tin's month's P\\ \\i \ Canal Review.

littli island, joined to Taboga by a sand spit, was purchased

by the PSNC before the Panama Railroad was completed and used

as the center ol operations for the company's Pacific-based ships.

Passengers and freight were brought across the Isthmus from the

Vtlantii side b) railroad, river boat and mule hack to join the

ships at Panama. The company established workshops, houses,

a hospital and the famous "gridiron" where ships were dry-docked

and repaired. Water was furnished from the main island.

Index

Figureheads 3

Malaria Dips 4

Major Port 6

A Pioneer 7

Where Are You? 8

Library Honor 10

Retirements 11

Canal History 12

Anniversaries 13

Promotions, Transfers 14

Shipping 15

February 1964
Leading Figures Rate a Bow

A FIGUREHEAD-like a mermaid-is

out of date. And it's a shame.

Once upon a time no ship worth its

salt was sent to sea without one. Just as a car as a status symbol was equipped

with a running board and a radiator cap. Although the art of carving figureheads is practically extinct these days, waterfront sources report that there still are ships plying the high seas and going

through the Panama Canal, too, that are

fitted out with figureheads as well as radar and remote-control engines.

One of the shipping companies to keep up the tradition of the old sailing

ships is a Norwegian company called

the Fred Olsen Line. It is no Johnnycome-lately in the shipping world, nor

is it a midget.

The Fred Olsen Line, founded nearly

100 years ago by an astute Norwegian

seafaring man bearing that name, is a company known from Zanzibar to Singapore and is the owner of 60 to 70

cargo vessels—trim, smart craft carrying passengers as well as freight. Some of them are regular customers of the Canal

as they go from Europe to the U.S. west

coast and the Far East and others ply the Mediterranean and South American

trade routes. No matter where they go, the Fred

The "Leading Lady" of the Bolinas

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Olsen Line ships—although modern

from stem to stem—have figureheads on

their graceful bows just as their daddies

and granddaddies used to. The custom was started by the

original owner of the line, whose grandson Fred Olsen is still head of the company. Some of the figureheads are beautiful women, such as the one seen on the bow of the Bolinas. Others are symbols representing the ship's name. The SS Bonanza, another Olsen Line

ship and also a regular Canal customer,

has an American Indian chief on its bow. The SS Buffalo has a figure repre- senting Buffallo Bill, the old Indian

fighter, and the SS Bataan has a South

Sea island beauty as its figurehead.

According to Capt. Lars Nygaard, a husky Norwegian salt who is in com- mand of the Bolinas, the shipping line has the figureheads carved by ambitious

Norwegian artists who practice this ancient form of sculpture with as much

zeal and enthusiasm as the artists who

furnished figureheads for the early

American clipper ships running out of Marblehead, Mass. The model for the beautiful figurehead on the bow of the Bolinas, for

instance, was the wife of the young

Norwegian artist. The figurehead was

attached to the bow shortly before the

ship sailed on its maiden voyage in 1956. Like an Irish playwright, the

artist arrived for the ceremony in a

festive mood.

The figurehead on the Bolinas may

run into a bit of rough weather in the North Atlantic now and then and often

arrives at the Canal a little worse for wear. She returns from the U.S. west

coast in fine shape. A new coat of paint

usually is applied in California by U.S. workmen, who reportedly take on the

job with enthusiasm.

The Bolinas and her sistership, the Burrard, pass through the Canal on a

regular schedule and their life-sized figureheads depicting the female form

divine have attracted the attention of many other members of the shipping

trade and passengers. Captain Nygaard sees nothing unusual about the lovely young lady who

adorns the bow of this otherwise hard

working Norwegian freighter. She is

just the model of any normal healthy

young Norwegian girl, he says. "Now if you would like to know what

kind of cargo we are carrying. . . ."
Alert Control, Constant Fight

Drive Malaria to New Low

MALARIA, which cut a great swath of death through the ranks of the men who

built the Panama Canal, has all but

disappeared in the Canal Zone. The number of cases reported in 1963 hit a new low. Authorities in the Health Bureau attribute this to constant

vigilance and rigid mosquito control measures.

Statistics issued by the Division of Sanitation of the Health Bureau show

that the case rate of .4 per 1,000 employees reported at the end of 1963 was a new record for malaria eradication in the Canal Zone and the lowest

case rate since statistics were started in 1906. In that year, the rate was 821

cases per 1,000.

The previous low for malaria inci- dence in the Canal Zone was .6 recorded

in 1956. The fight against malaria has been

constant since work began on the Pan- ama Canal. Yellow fever and malaria were the two diseases which necessitated the intensive mosquito eradication campaign started under Colonel

Gorgas in 1904. Sanitary measures which made possible the construction and maintenance of the Panama Canal

resulted in the eradication of yellow

fever within a few years and reduced

mosquito-borne diseases. The complete control of malaria still remains

a problem.

The late Dr. Tames S. Simmons, for- merly of the U.S. Army Medical

Research Board in Ancon. wrote in 1939

that yellow fever and malaria probablv

existed in Panama at least since the time

of early European settlements. For

several centuries prior to the discovery

of the manner of its transmission, yellow

fever and malaria exerted a powerful

influence on the destiny of the Isthmus

of Panama, destroying the health of the people and contributing to the failure of the plans of various foreign nations who wanted to build a trans-isthmian

canal. Elimination of vellow fever and

"reduction of the incidence of malaria

which immediately followed the energetic use of anti-mosquito measures in the Canal Zone is now recognized as one

of the triumphs of preventive medicine.

"By expenditure of large amounts of money, certain parts of the narrow

mosquito-infested strip of land which

traverses the Isthmus on either side of the Panama Canal, have been rendered

comparatively .free from malaria and

have been converted into fairlv safe places in which to live. Malaria inci- dence rates for Canal employees are no

longer a cause for serious concern and

RATE

YEAR PER 1000

HALF A CENTURY OF MALARIA in the CANAL ZONE

PATE 4MCWG £MPlOr££S PAA/AMJ CMAl

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

191 I 1912

1913 1914

1913

1916

1917

1918

19 19 1920

192 I 1922

192 3 1924 1925

1926 1927

1928

1929 1930

1931

19 32 1933

621

4 24 282

215 187 184

I I O

76 82

5 l 16

I 4

18

3i

19

IS

I 7 191827

14

1 I 14

2 I 26

19

14 27

RATE

YEAR PER IOOO

1934
At right is a model of the Anopheles mosquito, which transmits malaria. It's a mockup made by the Health Bureau for a display. No doubt it gave a start to anyone who saw it sitting under a tree, poised for action. Because even in the most

exaggerated mosquito stories, they don't grow this big. Below, help comes in the form of a Health Bureau fogging unit. Canal Zone children call this health guardian "the stinky man." They dance

about when he comes down the street, the

fog motor chattering amid a cloud of spray. But his "foggy notions" about mosquitoes have contributed in a large measure to the continuing tight control over mosquito- borne diseases in the Canal Zone.

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World Ports

ANTWERP

The 1,200-foot quay, equipped with transporter bridges for unloading coal and ore. TWO HUNDRED years before Columbus set out upon his great adventure of

discovery, the port of Antwerp in Bel- gium was a going business. And the city

of Antwerp began to develop a thousand

years before that. Today the port is important not only

to Europe; it has worldwide signifi- cance. This position is evidenced by the 16,945 ships that arrived at the port in 1961. The port handled a total of 46

million tons in shipping that year, the

last for which full figures were made

available. Ships of 50 nations arrived and

departed Antwerp during 1961 to load and unload cargo at this European

"crossroads" port on the Scheldt River. The port is used by more than 300

shipping lines, with more than 90 per- cent of the total traffic carried through

the port under foreign flags. And of all the business done at Belgian ports, Antwerp takes the lion's share—87

percent.

Antwerp owes its attraction to a favorable geographical position in rela- tion to the industries of Western

Europe. Heavy industry in Belgium and

the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in

Industrial settlements in the Antwerp

port area.

A Crossroads

Of European

Shipping

northern and eastern France, and along

the Saar and the Ruhr spreads out behind the port city like a fan, 60 to 250 miles away. A prime reason for the busy port is

its link between inland and sea traffic. The "national hinterland" of the port

is the BLEU ( Belgian-Luxemburgian

Economic Union). This large area is dependent upon overseas trade, if a high standard of living is to be maintained there. Great quantities of raw

material—principally oil, ores, coal and

cereals—must be imported. Principal

exports through the port are iron and

steel (nearlv half the volume), fertilizers, chemicals, cement and glass. Another economic asset is the fact that Antwerp is an inland port with

large and important rail connections.

It is a loading port for finished and

semifinished products of Western Euro- pean industry.

February 1964
He Fought

Yellowjack

With Gorgas

Dr. Eno at his office in Colon.

A PIONEER . . .

Dr. Harry Eno, a name well known

on both sides of the Isthmus, is exactly

that.He came to the Isthmus from

Hoboken, N.J. in 1905, shortly after completing his training as an intern, and

found himself in the middle of the fight

against "yellow jack."

He has been here ever since and at present is one of the few U.S. citizens possessing a license to practice medicine

in the Republic of Panama.

He came to Panama when health conditions were deplorable. But during the years he has seen the Isthmus become

one of the health spots in the world. He worked with Col. W. C. Gorgas

and other medical greats of the construction davs and remained here to

establish, with Dr. Surse Taylor, the Samaritan Hospital in Colon. This was

the only hospital in Colon for many

years. He has been decorated by both the United States and Panama Governments, has received recognition for his extensive welfare work and has been

honored by the Rotary Club, the American Red Cross, and the Salvation Army.

"Everyone asks me why I came here

in the first place," Dr. Eno said.

"Well there I was in Hoboken and

here was the Panama Canal needing

doctors and sanitation men to fight the

fever that was killing off the Canal

workers faster than they could dig the big ditch. I also had a desire to study

tropical medicine," he said. One of his first memories was going

to work at Gorgas, then known as Ancon

Hospital, with orders to have the laboratory reports up by the time that Dr. Gorgas made his rounds in the morning.

The laboratory reports were the only means they had to determine quickly if a patient had the dread and nearly

always fatal yellow fever. Colonel Gorgas appeared precisely on

time each morning at 7:00 a.m. and woe to the voung doctor who hadn't completed his tests. "But he was a charming man," Dr. Eno recalls. "The theory that yellow

fever and malaria was caused by the

bite of a mosquito had been proven in Cuba but it had not been generally

accepted in medical circles and Colonel

Gorgas had a tough time convincing the U.S. Congress that he needed more monev for his clean-up campaign. At

one time he had screening put on Ancon Hospital himself, using makeshift

materials."

Dr. Eno spent his first years here

training at Ancon and then was trans- ferred to the Atlantic side where the Isthmian Canal Commission operated

Colon Hospital. Later he was district physician at Portobelo, a historic town

where hundreds of construction workers were engaged in digging gravel for the construction of the locks. He remembers

this as one of the most pleasant periods

of his life. After 10 years with the Canal organization, he left the Isthmus to study

surgery in the United States, Stockholm,

and Vienna. At that time, he also married a charming young lady from his hometown in up-State New York and

brought her back to Panama as a bride.

Dr. Eno has had a hand in or has

given support to nearly every civic or public welfare movement on the

Atlantic side. Recently he gave funds

and turned over property for the construction of welfare centers and low cost housing near Colon. He has held the Panama Order of Vasco Nunez de Balboa for a number

of years and is an honorary member of the Colon Fire Department.

He and Mrs. Eno live in Colon where

Dr. Eno, now 83 years old, has a small

clinic.

The Panama Canal Review

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LOOKING WEST—The Cristobal Mole is the long, cigar-shaped piece of land flanked by

the row of palm trees. Jutting from it, at left, are Piers 6, 7, and 8. Toro Point and Fort Sherman are in the background at right.

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are even some Iong-timi

that they still remain in a> in the Zone. It's difficul:

if you don't work at it p

a non-directional state. These pictures were

Cristobal tower of the graphic Branch of the Bureau. Each one views

point on the compass,

read the descriptions, direction is Canal Zone

February 1964

the Panama Canal

and, in these parts, the west of the Pacific."

o the Canal Zone newreal puzzler. And there

sidents who will admit

^ht haze about directions

o become oriented, and

an easily slip back into

<1tei Erf leerin

en from the top of the

orological and Hydrog and Construction

landscape from an exact -look at the pictures, ad see if your sense of

pi sited.

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LOOKING NORTH-Area at right is sometimes called the De Lesseps area. The two lines form a breakwater and just beyond, in the distance, a ship approaches Limon Bay. The

tower at right is a microwave tower. €a*t

LOOKING EAST-Buildings in front form what is popularly called "Steamship Row." The

view beyond is looking across Colon Coco Solo is in distant background.

The Panama Canal Review
"A view of Panama" is the title of one of the rare lithograph prints

in the Library's collection. The drawing made from the side of Ancon Hill looking toward the peninsula on which Panama City was built following the destruction of Old Panama, is believed to

be more than 100 years old. The spires of the cathedral are shown

in the center with the islands of Taboga and Taboguilla in the background. The lithograph was made by C. Hutchins of Liverpool.

3or the Panama Collection:

cA Scholarly Jrallmarlc

THE CAXAL ZONE LIBRARY'S collection of documents,

photographs and books, dealing with the interoceanic trans- portation aspect of the history of the Isthmus of Panama, is getting international recognition this vear. The subject catalog of the collection of 10,000 or more

items will be published in the late spring or early summer

by G. K. Hall & Co., a distinguished publishing company of Boston, Mass., which has put into print the catalogs of a number of other noted collections. For librarians, this really is hitting the big time. The Canal Zone catalog, with a foreword by Governor

Fleming is being published at no cost to the Library and will be sold at $25 a copy, pre-publication price, and at $35 a copy

after October 31. The Canal Zone Library will receive 10

copies free of charge.

Although the catalog will never hit the best seller list, it will

join a large and distinguished group of catalogs used by

scholars and other persons working in special fields. It is being

advertised in professional library journals, in shipping, engineering and historical magazines. Leaflets announcing its

publication will be distributed to universities and other

scholarly outlets. Known popularly as the Panama Collection, the items have

been assembled over the years by the Canal Zone Library

under the guidance of Mrs. Eleanor Burnham, Librarian- Curator, who is an ardent collector of old maps on the Isthmus

of Panama. The maps, some of them originals, make up an

important part of the Librarv's collection. The books and documents cover the earlv history of the Isthmus, surveys leading to the building of the Panama Rail- road, the French effort to build the canal, surveys for an

interocean canal, construction of the Panama Canal and

projects for enlarging it. In addition to books, maps, and bound periodicals, there

are clippings and articles on local history and life on the Isthmus, manuscripts, diaries, photographs and drawings.

Well known is the collection of lithographs made by Joseph

Pennell, an artist who came to the Isthmus in 1912 from New

York to make drawings of the final phases of the canal construction. His original lithographs of construction scenes now

10 February 1964
Mrs. Eleanor Bumham, whose efforts resulted in the publication of a reference work on the Panama Collection.

hang in the upstairs hallway of the Library-Museum.

Copies may be obtained from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Canal Zone Library collection has been of service to a number of distinguished scholars, both from the United

States and abroad, who were working in special fields relating

to the interocean transportation angle of the history of Panama.

They included Dr. S. K. Lothrop of the Peabody Museum

at Harvard, the French writer Andre Siegfried, Capt. Miles

P. DuVal, author of two books on the Panama Canal; and

Dr. Alexander P. Wetmore, formerly Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. One of the most recent was Duncan Cameron of New York

who found much of the material in the collection unique and

invaluable in his research for his doctorate in the Department

of Public Law and Government at Columbia University.

The catalog will consist mostly of subject cards, arranged

in alphabetical order. These are laid out flat, so many to a page, and photographed to prepare them for publication.

It will contain about 7,000 entries, providing a subject index

to the 10,000 items of the collection. The catalog also will carry photographs or reproductions of a number of maps in the

collection.

Mrs. Burnham, searching for new material for the collection

as usual, interested a representative of the G. K. Hall & Co.

in the project while she was attending the American Library

Association Conference in Chicago last summer.

Request for permission to publish the Panama catalog was made by the company after her return to the Isthmus.

RETIREMENTS

RETIREMENT certificates were pre- sented at the end of December to the employees listed below, with their positions at time of retirement and years

of Canal service:

Mrs. Regina T. Bannister, Cartographic

Draftsman, Engineering Division, Pacific Side; 20 years, 24 days.

Lewis W. Barker, Police Sergeant, Police

Division, Pacific Side; 21 years, 1 month,

9 days. Alfred J. Benton, Police Private, Police

Division, Atlantic Side; 15 years, 7 days.

Herman Birkley, Railroad Division, Pacific Side; 29 years, 4 months, 21 days. Nolan A. Bissell, Finance Branch Superintendent, Postal Division, Pacific Side; 22 years, 10 months, 6 days.

William T. Bleakley, Police Private, Police

Division, Pacific Side; 24 years, 9 months,

17 days.

Ignacio L. Caballero, Linehandler, Locks

Division, Pacific Side; 43 years, 8 months,

14 days. John R. Campbell, Chief Engineer, Towboat, Dredging Division, Pacific Side; 25 years, 2 months, 27 days.

George S. Dufau, Truck Driver, Motor

Transportation Division, Pacific Side; 35 years, 11 months, 7 days.

Benjamin S. Favorite, Welder, Industrial Division, Atlantic Side; 24 years, 3 months, 18 days. Luis A. Gonzalez, Cook, Palo Seco Leprosarium; 29 years, 5 months, 19 days. Calvin D. Greenidge, Stevedore, Terminals

Division, Atlantic Side; 32 years, 7 months, 27 days.

Donald R. Jones, Window Clerk, Postal

Division, Pacific Side; 27 years, 1 month,

4 days.

Uriah C. Martinez, Deckhand, Navigation

Division, Atlantic Side; 38 years, 10 months, 10 days. Cecil G. Meyers, Deckhand (Boatswain),

Navigation Division, Atlantic Side; 35

years, 11 months, 6 days.

Finletter R. Pottinger, Truck Driver, Motor

Transportation Division, Pacific Side; 25 years, 7 months, 11 days.

Santiago Quesada, Laborer (Heavy Pest

Control), Sanitation Division, Pacific Side; 38 years, 1 month, 16 days. Jesus Ramos, Stevedore, Terminals Division, Atlantic Side; 33 years, 3 months,

5 days.

Hezekiah Richards, Hookman, Rigger

Helper, Industrial Division, Atlantic

Side; 30 years, 10 months, 22 days. Andres Rios, Clerk, Gorgas Hospital; 37

years, 2 months, 5 days.

George Robinson, Painter, Maintenance,

Industrial Division, Atlantic Side; 19

years, 2 months, 26 days.

George D. Rowe, Toolmaker, Industrial Division, Atlantic Side; 21 years, 5 months, 26 days. Joshua Samuels, Stevedore, Terminals Division, Atlantic Side; 23 years, 11 months, 21 days. Indar Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division, Atlantic Side; 25 years, 10 months, 18

days.

Rude Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division, Atlantic Side; 34 years, 9 months,

2 days. Lowell E. Skeete, Laborer Heavy, Community Services Division, Pacific Side; 19 years, 7 months, 11 days. Percival F. Soso, Leader Linehandler, Terminals Division, Pacific Side; 19 years, 5 months, 9 days.

Roy C. Stockham, Supervisory General Engineer (Chief, Locks Division), Locks

Division, Pacific Side; 28 years, 26 days.

David Torres, Linehandler, Locks Division,

Pacific Side; 23 years, 1 month, 1 day.

Fernando Torres, Stevedore, Terminals

Division, Atlantic Side, 23 years, 3

months, 5 days.

Leocadio Torres, Helper Plumber, Maintenance Division, Pacific Side; 22 years, 3 days. Bonifacio Valleios, Winchman, Terminals

Division, Atlantic Side, 14 years, 1 month, 4 days.

The Panama Canal Review 11
CANAL HISTORY

50 IfearJ cAao

AS THE CANAL was nearing completion 50 years ago this month, President

Woodrow Wilson signed an executive

order, effective April 1, 1914, providing

conditions of employment for the per- manent Panama Canal, Canal Zone and

Panama Railroad employees on the Isthmus. Bv the first of February, the surface

of Gatun Lake had reached an elevation of 85 feet above sea level and the

spillway gates at Gatun were opened for

a test. The tug Reliance, which in 1912

sailed from Colon to Balboa via the

Straits of Magallan, completing the 10,500-mile journey in 126 days, passed

through Gatun Locks to the Atlantic entrance. The tug had started its journey

through the Canal in December 1912. The master of the tug thus became the

first officer to sail a vessel around the continent of South America via the Panama Canal. The new permanent Administration

Building at Balboa Heights was being

completed in February 1912 and it was

estimated that it would be ready for use in June. Work also was progressing on the construction of 20 concrete four- family quarters located on Balboa Prado

and the east slope of Sosa Hill. 25 IJearJ cAao

THE GERMAN PASSENGER liner Bremen, then the fifth largest ship in the world, passed through the Panama

Canal 25 years ago this month en route

to South America on a winter cruise. The trip through the Canal was made

without incident although her 915-foot

length nearly filled the locks chambers

and she had less than 4 feet clearance on each side. The bridge of the big

ship, 75 feet above water level, cleared

the lock control towers by 1 foot. She

took five pilots, two tugs in the locks and 11 (owing locomotives at each of the locks. Despite her size, she paid onlv 115,000 in tolls. Sea trials for the new Panama Rail- road liner Panama were made off Quincy, Mass., following her departure

hciin (In Bethlehem Steel Shipyard. Her

maiden voyage to the Canal Zone was

planned for March 30. Two other new

ships were to follow within a few

months.

The new Ancon Post Office was

opened formally February 15. The

$] 10,000 building was built on the site of the old post office, which had served Ancon since construction days.

10 yiearJ c4ao

ONE OF THE WORST marine disasters in the history of the Panama Canal

occured 10 years ago this month in Balboa when an explosion wrecked the Norwegian freighter Lisholt at pier 14. The explosion, following a fire on the

ship, caused the deaths of John P. Cole, stevedore foreman; Walter C. Fedde,

Panama Canal chemist and three stevedores. Twelve others, including a Balboa firemean, were seriously burned.

Modern communications rendered

unnecessary a famous Panama Canal

landmark in 1954. The Sosa Hill signal

station was abandoned becaused of in- creased use of radio ship-to-shore communications. The station had been in existence 35 years. Increased payments of more than

$50,000 were made in February 1954

to approximately 3,900 former employees of the Canal who were cashrelief annuitants. Increase was a reflec- tion of legislation enacted in February

increasing cash-relief payments.

The Panama Canal Clubhouse Division changed its name to Service Center Branch and clubhouses came to be

known as service centers.

One year cAao

COL. DAVID S. PARKER, who for- merly served in the Canal Zone from

1952 to 1954 as Military Assistant to the Governor, was appointed Lieutenant

Governor of the Canal Zone and Vice

President of the Panama Canal 1 year

ago. He was assigned to the Canal Zone

to succeed Col. Walter P. Leber. The construction of 83 apartments in the townsite of Pedro Miguel was

started last February by the Panama

firm of Diaz & Guardia which made a low bid of $1,064,593 on the project.

This was the second group of quarters

included in a long-range plan for replacement housing.

The Canal Zone National Security

Seminar started its sessions in Balboa

Theater last year with approximately

1,200 employees attending.

ACCIDENTSFOR

THIS MONTH

AND

THIS YEAR

JANUARY

ALL UNITS

YEAR TO DATE

CASES

•64 '63 247 268(12)

247 268(12)

CASES

•64

21

21

'63

15(1)

15(1)

DAYS

ABSENT

•64 89

89

'63

73(7)

73(7)

( ) Locks Overhaul Injuries included In total.

Speaking of Safety . .

AT DESKS ARMED with tabulating machines, slide rules, and IBM computers, thousands of mathematicians have added nearly endless columns of numbers to determine some startling statistics. To wit: In 1960-there were

45 million accidental injuries; the Red Cross taught 59,300 classes in first aid;

the Nation smoked a million cigarettes a minute, causing a cigarette-triggered

fire once every 2 minutes; every day, 12M million children were transported in

school buses; every 24 hours, 1,000 people died on the world's highways;

1,198,838 students completed a course in hunter safety; and accidents cost the

United States $13.6 billion.

12 February 1964
ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SEjrtlCE

Lcostl

Luis A. Martinez

Supervisory Clerk (Checker)

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Samuel O. A If uiuiki Lead Fore: (Tree Trimmer

Henry J. Chase

Service Center A: Superintendent

MARK

Burton A. Da

Supervisory Ue' Engineer (Plant) Joseph McKenzie

Fumaceman

Clifford L. Stewart

Painter

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

ATION AND

BUREAU

VIL>KFAIRS BUREAU

Dalvin S. Heilman

Police Private HEALTH BUREAU

Walter Stirling Medical Technician (General)

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

PRESIDENT

Dwight A. McKabney

General Attorney

COMPTROLLERS OFFICE

Anna L. Beckley

Accounting Technician

Jessie W. Degenaar

Accounting Technician

Edmond F. Johnson Bookkeeping Machine

Operator

Cecil Kovel Accounting Technician PERSONNEL BUREAU

Carmen G. de Romero

Clerk-Typist

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Ralph Brooks Messenger (Motor

Vehicle Operator) Williams S. Case

Presser (Dry Cleaning)

Dorothy E. Evans

Clerk-Typist

Amos Garth

Carpenter (Maintenance) Juan A. Hernandez

Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

(Small) Angela E. Iturrado

. Marker and Sorter

Iris M. Mitchell

Sales Clerk Hermin V. Modestin

Sales Clerk George C. Rooke

Baker

James L. Snyder

Merchandise Management

Officer (Drygoods)

MARINE BUREAU

Clifford S. Asbury

General Foreman

(Lock Operations)

Miguel Baires Linehandler M. A. Ballesteros Maintenanceman (Boats)

Lester H. Barrows Lock Operator (Carpenter) Santo Biscaino Deckhand

Gerald Burkett Linehandler Thomas Can- Deckhand

Antonio Flores Linehandler

Seaman

Favio Rodriguez G., Oiler Manuel M. Rodriguez Boatman

Moises Rodriguez

Painter (Maintenance)

Benito Torres Asphalt or Cement Worker

Antonio Vallejo

Helper Lock Operator

Russell A. Weade

Lead Foreman (Harbor)

Edwin G. Whyte

Deckhand

Waldemar R. Zirkman

Control House Operator

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Constantine A. Allen Helper Electrician Benjamin P. Alvarez

Meteorological Technician

(General) Meliton Avila Ch. Seaman

Andres De Gracia A. Helper Refrigeration and

Air Conditioning Mechanic

Oscar R. Hall

Senior Operator (Generating

Station) Alexander Joseph E. Quarryman

Ernesto Pomare

Boiler Tender

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

James Bent

Carpenter (Maintenance)

Ezekiah Bradiel Stevedore

Peter Dailey

Maintenanceman (Dock)

Charles Muir

Stevedore Melvin V. Smith

Automotive Machinist CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Alfredo Cragwell

Senior High Principal, Latin American Schools

Icilyn S. Morrison

Elementary Teacher

Latin American Schools Donald H. Secrest

Relief Supervisor, Balboa HEALTH BUREAU

Violet Bermiidez

Nursing Assistant (Medicine and Surgery) Vincent E. Forbes Truck Driver

Ivy L. Green

Nursing Assistant

(Psychiatry)

The Panama Canal Review 13
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

EMPLOYEES promoted or transferred between December 5 and Januar) 5

| w ithin-grade promotions and job reclassifications are not listed):

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

DIVISION

Rov Gorcng. Automatic Platen Pressman to Cylinder Pressman (small), Printing

Plant.CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Police Division

Hollis Griffon, Police Private to Detective. Bernard A Kelleher, Walter E. Trout, Jack

E. Smith, Police Private to Police Sergeant.

Postal Division Arthur L. Endicott, Foreman, Mailing Division, to Assistant Postmaster, First- Class Office. Edwin S. Gayle, Clerk-Typist to Distribution Clerk, Substitute.

Division of Schools

Elizabeth E. Cruze, Substitute teacher to Teacher (Elementary-U.S. Schools). Mica] Johnson, Grounds Keeper (Sports) to Dressing Room Attendant. Hamilton E. Atherly, Laborer (Heavy) to Grounds Keeper (Sports). Rodolfo E. Alvaro, Laborer (Cleaner) to Laborer (Heavy).

Margaret K. Carwell, Recreation Assistant

(Sports) to Recreation Specialist (Sports). ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Julieta Arosemena, Clerk-Typist to Clerk,

Office of Director. Kenneth Biddy, Navigation Aid Worker to Maintenanceman (Distribution Systems).

Electrical Division

Mildred N. Morrill, Clerical Assistant (Stenographer) to Administrative Assist- ant (Stenography). John K. Daily. Electronics Mechanic to Leader Electronics Mechanic.

Maintenance Division

Bienvenido Salas, Linehandler to helper

n-ral). Robert J. Risberg, Sanitary Engineer,

(Assistant Chief, Water and Laboratory

Branch) to Supervisory Sanitary Engineer (Chief, Water, and Laboratory Bran Ha A. Crowell, Clerk-Stenographer to v ounting Clerk (Water and Laboratory

Branch).

Prospero Rosas, Leader Quarryman to Leader Mobile Equipment Nlechanic

(Organizational). Pastor Marcelino, Helper Refrigeration and

Air Conditioning Mechanic to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Plant Operator.

Everist A. Williams, Storekeeping Clerk to Rock Crushing Plant Operator.

George Allen, Oiler and Usher to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Plant Operator and Usher (Theaters). John Williams, Helper, Plumber to Maintenanceman. HEALTH BUREAU

Ramona MacKinnon, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse (Leprosy), Palo Seco. Gorgas Hospital

Mary R. Smith, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse

(Medicine and SurgervV

William C. Allen, Truck Driver to Medical

Aid (Ambulance).

Salvador Alfaro, Hospital Attendant to Laboratory Helper.

Karl L. Harris, Guest House Clerk, Service Center Branch, to Voucher Examiner. Coco Solo Hospital

Jennie S. Brenner, Clerk-Typist to Clerk. Nadine E. Robinson, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse (Medicine and Surgery). Louise M. Wenzel, Staff Nurse to Staff Xurse (Obstetrics). MARINE BUREAU

Navigation Division Donald P. Garrido, Pilot, Probationary, to

Pilot, Cristobal. Leslie G. Anderson, Pilot-in-Training to

Pilot, Probationary, Balboa. Genevieve K. Field, Timekeeper to Supervisor Timekeeper.

Myrtle P. Hughes, Clerk-Typist, Coco Solo

Hospital to Timekeeper, Navigation Division.

Industrial Division Thomas P. Belford, Construction Inspector

to Purchasing Agent, Cristobal. William Lawrence, Stockman, Supply Division, to Storekeeping Clerk. Robert E. Holland, Shift Engineer (Mechanical) Electrical Division to Machinist

(Marine).

John L. Irwin, Shift Engineer (Mechanical)

to Machinist (Marine).

MARINE BUREAU

Locks Division William Van Sielen, Supervisory General Engineer (Superintendent Atlantic Branch) to Supervisory General Engineer (Chief Locks Division) Pedro

Miguel.

Elbert T. Chappell, Welder to Lock Operator (Ironworker-Welder).

Darell K. Seymour, Machinist to Lock

Operator (Machinist).

Norman Blandford, Messenger to Time

keeper.

OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

William G. Bingham, Marine Traffic Controller Navigation Division (o Management Analyst, Balboa Heights.

Carroll E. Kocher, Voucher Examiner,

Gorgas Hospital, to Accounting Clerk. Robert Hanna, Accountant to Accounting

Assistant.

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICES BUREAU

Henry H. Lee, Jr., Supervisory Storekeeping Clerk to Accounting Assistant. George N. Ateek, Commissary Store Manager to Retail Store Manager.

Belen D. Guerrero, Grocery Attendant to Stock Control Clerk. Junior Cumberbatch, Service Station Attendant to Guard.

Frederico A. James, Laborer (Heavy) to High Lift Truck Operator.

Reniel Smith, Laborer (Cleaner) to Utility Worker. TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Terminals Division

Jose A. Lopez, Laborer, Community Service Division to Helper, Liquid Fuels Wharfman.

William Geer, Liquid Fuels Gager to Leader Liquid Fuels Wharfman.

Thomas F. Hunt, Liquid Fuels Gager to Leader Liquid Fuels Wharfman.

George Williams, Stevedore to Automotive Crane Operator.

Fred B. Leslie, Cargo Marker to Guard. George M. Ottey, Cargo Marker to Clerk

(Checker). Motor Transportation Division Luis E. Ferreira, Jr., Apprentice (Electri- cian) 2d year), Dredging Division to Helper Tire Rebuilder. Rufus A. Graves, Donald O. Zobel, Truck

Driver to Truck Driver (Heavy).

OTHER PROMOTIONS which did not

involve changes of title: James G. Murray, Training Instructor, Electrical Division. John H. Simson, General Supply Officer, Supply Division. Charles T. Hedman, Service Center Supervisor, Supply Division. Gerald Schear, Administrative Services

Assistant. Willamae T. Laird, John Martino, EAM

Project Planner. Teonilda I. de Peiia, Time, Leave, and

Payroll Clerk. Robert B. Samuels, Lloyd B. Joseph,

Bookkeeping Machine Operator.

Nick M. Elich, General Foreman (Quarry

Operations).

Marguerite S. Tribe, Teller, Railroad Division. Alfred Williams, Clerk, Maintenance Divi14 February 1964
SHIPPING

Largest Cable Ship

ONE OF THE most unsual ships to transit the Canal during the month of January was the American-flag cable

ship Long Lines, the largest cable laying

and repair ship in the world. It is owned

by the Transoceanic Cable Ship Co.,

Inc., a subsidiary of the American Tele- graph & Telephone Co., operated by

the Isthmian Lines, Inc. of New York

and is the first commercially owned

and operated cable laying ship sailing

under the U.S. flag. The Long Lines has been designed

for maximum efficiency during all kinds

of cable working operations. The cable deck and the greater part of the picking

up and laving in gear is under cover. The hull is strengthened for ice, and fire resisting non-combustible materials are used throughout the interior. The three main cable tanks extend through three

decks. The ship's cable machinery comprises two bow drum tvpe cable engines

and a new machine called a linear cable engine which is designed to lay cable

fitted with rigid repeaters at a uniform

rate while the ship makes speeds up

to 8 knots. A repeater, each worth

$50,000, is put down every 20 miles.

TRANSITS BY OCEANGOING

VESSELS IN DECEMBER

1963 1962 Commercial 958 947

U.S. Government 22 40

Free 6 9

Total 986 996 TOLLS"

Commercial $4,901,955 $4,984,677

U.S. Government. 94,138 194,245

Total.... $4,996,093 $5,178,922

CARGO00

Commercial 5,692,710 5,422,371

U.S. Government. 59,841 78.760 Free 35,208 39,354

Total 5,787,759 5,540,485

° Includes tolls on all vessels, oceangoing and

small. °°Cargo figures are in long tons.

Not only the largest cable laving and

repair ship in the world, the Long Lines

probablv is the most expensive as well.

It was designed by the New York firm

of Gibbs & Cox, Inc. and was built in Germany. Her fitting out took 2 years. She cost more than $19 million. The ship is scheduled to return through the Canal to the U.S. east coast within 6 months.

Automation, Marine Style

SOME OF THE first cargo ships to be

built in the United States with highly

automated enginerooms will be Pan- ama Canal customers in the not too

distant future. They are the eight new

freighters being built for the Lykes

Brothers Steamship Co. by the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans at a

cost of approximately $82 million. Westinghouse Electric Corp. was

awarded a systems contract for more

than $6 million to furnish central en- gineroom control systems, the main

steam propulsion machinery and other

electrical equipment for the clipper

class cargo ships of 14,000 deadweight

cargo capacity and 20 knots speed.

According to an article in the Shipping Digest, S. B. Turman, Chairman

of Lvkes, announced that an agreement

had been reached with the National

Maritime Union and Marine Engineers

Beneficial Association permitting the reduction of the size of the crew from

the normal complement of 46 men to 32 on each ship—a reduction of 30 percent. The agreement makes the ships

economically feasible.

TALKING IT OVER—President of the French Line Pierre Renaud, left, had an interesting conversation with Gov. Robert J. Fleming, Jr. on a recent visit to the Panama Canal Zone. The two officials talked of shipping, a mutual interest, and of the company represented by

President Renaud, at the office of the governor.
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