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EMBER 1963
Robert J. Fleming. Jr., Governor-President

Dwid S. Parker, Lieutenant Governor

Frank A. Baldwin Panama Canal Information Officer

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Official Panama Canal Publication

Published monthly at Balboa Heights, C.Z.

Printed at the Printing Plant, La Boca, C.Z. Distributed free of charfte to all Panama Canal Employees.

Robert D. Kerr, Press Officer

Publications Editors Robert D. Kerr and Julio E. BricenO

Editorial Assistants Eunice Richard, ToBiBnrEL.and TomasA. Cupas

proclamation

Whereas mutual understanding, respect and friendship

have existed between the peoples of the Republic

of Panama and the Canal Zone since the Republic

proclaimed her independence 60 years ago; and

Whereas the people of Panama are playing an increasingly important role in the operation and maintenance of

the Panama Canal; and

Whereas the people of the Canal Zone desire to give

due recognition to their neighbors in the Republic and

are in harmony with their aspirations for a way of life which dignifies the individual and promises political,

economic and spiritual well being;

Now, Therefore, I, ROBERT J. FLEMING, Jr., Governor of the Canal Zone, do hereby invite all the people

of the Canal Zone to take part in celebrating with

Panama the 60th anniversary of her Independence on November 3, 1963.

/ request all agencies of the Panama Canal to encourage, foster, and participate in the observance. I especially

encourage our schools, libraries, churches and religious

bodies, civic, service and patriotic organizations, and our

learned and professional societies to participate in the

observance as appropriate, all to the end of enriching

our knowledge and appreciation of the history of the

neighboring Republic.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Canal Zone

to be affixed at Balboa Heights, Canal Zone this

1st day of November, 1963.

Governor.

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Executive Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA will dedicate 4 days to observance of the 60th anniversary of its independence,

honoring the fathers of the country, and reaffirming the

nation's faith in democracy and love of liberty.

November 2 is Memorial Day, for remembrance of the dead.

November 3 is greeted by a "reveille" of bugles from

one end of the capital city to the other. Immediately

afterward, a traditional parade is held, centering around

Independence Plaza. November 4 is set aside to honor the national banner

of Panama. U.S. Armed Forces stationed in the Canal

Zone join in these celebrations.

November 5 is Colon Day, with that city holding the

national attention with celebrations gaining yearly in fervor and solemnity.

Index

Open Spaces Gone 3

Big, Big Diggers 4

Isthmus Commerce 6

Presidents on Parade 8 Telephoning by Cable 10 Promotions and Transfers 12 Canal History 13

Anniversaries 14 Shipping 15

ON OUR COVER: First, open The Review so that both

front and back covers show. The imposing towers of the

Cathedral in Panama City flank the majestic Thatcher

Ferry Bridge, linking the Americas,

which was dedicated last October. The

Cathedral, completed in 1730, pre- dated by nearly 2% centuries the independence of Panama, which seceded

from Colombia November 3, 1903, and

thus marks its birthday Sunday. The

picture was taken by Luis C. Salazar

of San Francisco de la Caleta, Aptdo.

3062, Panama City, where he has

resided 25 vears. Mr. Salazar has been

Mr. Salazar interested in photography, and has

been taking pictures, for about 20 years. If you try to find out where he took the picture from, he declares it is a

"military secret." Mr. Salazar was born and educated in Colon and labels himself as semi-retired.

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PANAMA

CITY

44 More Years

280,000 More People

LESS THAN HALF a century ago

thousands of acres around Panama City were mere wasteland. The city's population was less than 98,000 in 1919. It's now estimated in excess of 380,000 and

the former "wasteland" is filled with

residences and commercial, industrial,

and public buildings.

The striking change in Panama City

would be unbelievable to many de- parted "old timers." In the 1919 picture

above, the outer rim of houses then

clustered around the Panama Railroad

tracks and on Via Espafia is clearly

visible, with open fields and patches

of jungle beyond.

In the picture below, the only open

land or jungle visible are in the foreground, with trees obscuring the old Ancon Hospital area. But Panama City

has leapfrogged suburbs into the dim

distance. The pictures are graphic evi- dence of the transformation of the area from small city status, dependent almost

solely on activities related to Panama

Canal shipping, into a metropolitan area with increasingly diversified industrial,

commercial, and tourism enterprises. Millions of dollars a year still are contributed to Panama and Panama

City's economy by Canal Zone employment, contracts, purchases, and Zone

residents' shopping trips, but the lure of the city and independent industrial and commercial growth are playing an

ever-increasing role.

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Comfortably standing in a 15-cubic yard

dipper dredge bucket, 28 Dredging Division employees on a platform hung halfway

down inside the dipper afford a graphic

idea of the bucket's size. Actually they are reenacting a scene recorded in a photograph taken nearly 50 years ago when the dipper dredges Paraiso and Gamboa were

new, exceeding in size and power any

other dredge in the world. The Paraiso is in inactive reserve at the Dredging Division,

Gamboa. The dredge Gamboa was sold some years ago and left the Isthmus. The

Cascadas, which arrived in the Canal Zone

in 1915, is still at work.

Mountainous slides plagued Canal Construction, delayed opening of the Canal,

and even closed it for many months after

it was officially opened. Such sights as this were all too common, with steam shovels upended or virtually buried, and railroad

tracks twisted like rubber bands when

millions of yards of earth and rock started

to move without warning.

Big Big Diggers

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THE GREAT PERIOD when world

dredging records were toppled month

after month are part of early Panama

Canal history, but two of the mighty

dredges that made and broke records

are still in Panama Canal Dredging

Division sen ice. The oldest 15-yard dipper dredge on

the Isthmus is the Paraiso, ordered by

the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1914, when the problem of keeping the Canal open to traffic loomed the biggest,

and the task of clearing away the slides appeared in its most formidable light. The Paraiso was preceded to the Isthmus by the Gamboa, which was

sold some time ago. The two were the

largest machines of the type ever built up to that time. They were ordered from

the Bucyrus Co., were built and partially erected on the Hudson River at Newburg, N.Y., and towed to Colon,

re-erected and put into service. Such

satisfactory results were achieved that

a third dredge, the Cascadas, was contracted for in January 1915. It, too, still

is in service. Each dredge has a displacement of about 1,500 tons; boom with machinery

weighs about 113,000 pounds; and the dipper handle weighs 81,000 pounds.

The big 15-yard dipper dredges were used in battling the slides during

that strenuous period between 1914

and 1916. Much remained to be done

in widening, deepening, and keeping

open the Canal, particularly at points

immediately north and south of Gold

Hill and Contractor's Hill areas, points

directly opposite each other and comprising the Cucaracha, East and West

Culebra Slides, an area as treacherous then as during the construction period.

The Canal was opened to commerce

on August 15, 1914. The year 1915 was

notable for the big slide. The Canal was

closed a total of 216 days and the dredges were in constant danger of grounding due to the ever changing

depths of water as a result of the upward action of the slides from the bottom.

They finished removal of the slide material near Contractor's Hill, however, and the waterway was reopened

April 15, 1916.

It never has been closed since.

Partially framed by its own pontoon pipeline, the big suction dredge Mindi is shown as it was at work on dredging operations recently in Balboa Harbor. Except for brief periods, the Mindi has been in continuous service since it joined the Dredging Division fleet in 1943!

It was used on dredging operations in connection with the Third Locks project, but since then has been engaged principally on removing accumulated silt from the Canal channel and outer harbors.

The record-breaking Cascadas shown at work at the mouth of Mandinga River taking off Mandinga Flare, which has been a navigational hazard for years, was placed in commission

in October 1915. In February 1916 the Cascadas made her great record output, which still stands as the Panama and probably the world's record for a dipper dredge, excavating

23,305 cubic yards of hard material in 24 hours. The Cascadas' average output for 13 days was 13,054 cubic yards, which broke the Paraiso's record of October 1915. In setting the dipper dredge record, the Cascadas averaged over 1,002 cubic yards an hour, or 25 tons per minute.

The dredge Paraiso, now in the Dredging

Division's inactive reserve fleet, was one of the largest of its type built in 1914 and

was one of the first 15-yard dipper dredges

to go into Panama Canal service. On Octo- ber 4, 1915 the Paraiso smashed all previous dredge records— 17,186 cubic

yards in' 24 hours. Records also show the

Paraiso had averaged 10,445 cubic yards per day for 13 working days. This record was broken the following year by the Cascadas.

The Panama Canal Review 5
A Chase customer has a roundup on the occasion of a visit to the Isthmus by George

Champion, chairman of the Board of Directors of Chase Manhattan Bank.

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Flaza Cinco de Mayo branch of Chase,

which opened in 1952, succeeded the Cathedral Plaza branch.

Via Espana branch at 120

Via Espana, Panama City.

ISTHMUS

COMMERCE

Chase

Manhattan

IN 1915, THE YEAR after the Panama

Canal was opened to commercial traffic, an American bank opened its doors in Cristobal, C.Z. It was the Commercial

National Bank of Washington, D.C.

In those davs the economic life of Panama was almost entirely dependent

on the activities resulting from the operation and maintenance of the Canal

and the geographical position of Pan- ama as an international transit center. Since then, many things have happened. The bank has had several name

changes: first to the American Foreign

Banking Corp. in 1917, then to the Chase National Bank in 1925, and in 1955 to the Chase Manhattan Bank

as it is known todav. The original office in Cristobal was followed by new

branches in Panama City, Colon,

Balboa, David, and Chitre. Establishment of these branches over

the years and the evolution of local banking came as a direct consequence

of the growth and increase in economic

activity throughout the Republic. At the outset this was an organization for financing ships' transit through

the Canal and for servicing of shipping

and such international trade as accrued

to Panama from these activities. It developed with the vears and with the changes in the structure of the economy

of the Republic into a financial institu- tion engaged in the broadest and most

diversified types of banking transactions—all aimed at the development of commerce, industry, and agriculture.

Growth and expansion of the bank

throughout the Republic reflects the changes in the economic life of Pan- ama. First an organization engaged in financing of shipping and of imports

for the merchants on Central Avenue

and Front Street, Chase Manhattan

now, in the wide and varied scope of

its activities, is truly representative of

all phases of the economy of the Isthmus.

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With its network of local branches,

it covers all nine Provinces of the Republic and the Canal Zone, with a range from the big industry, the merchant and the shipping agent in the

terminal cities to the modest business

in the rural centers; from the cattle rancher in the valleys and plains to the

coffee grower in the highlands.

The Chase Manhattan Bank has contributed and is continuing to contribute

to the growth and diversification of

local commerce and production. Here

one of the largest banks in the world

is giving a practical demonstration of what private enterprise can do for the economic development of a country

and of its honest, hard working, and

enterprising people.

Louis A. Gomez, vice president of Chase

Manhattan Bank in charge of Isthmian

operations.

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In the fields of animal husbandry

and agriculture, especially, Chase Manhattan extends not merely a banking

service, but an educational service. With a staff of eight technicians, agronomists, and animal husbandry men,

the bank has been a major factor in improvement of the cattle industry and

of farming operations on the Isthmus

by laying down planned programs for

its customers throughout the interior. This program has attracted such

attention that Chase's technicians have

been invited to assist and advise similar

institutions in planning comparable

programs in Venezuela, Santo Domingo,

and Trinidad.

Visitors also have come from neighboring countries to study the supervised

credit program prepared for cattle ranchers in Panama.

Chase Manhattan also is, at its Balboa branch, a depository of public

moneys of the United States, playing

a part in attending to the banking needs

of the Canal organization, of units of the Armed Forces of the United States, and of their individual employees and

members.

Louis A. Gomez, vice president of Chase in charge of Isthmian operations,

says: "We are a United States bank which

has identified itself with the country

and with its economic needs. It is as true in Panama as it is in New York

that you have a friend at Chase

Manhattan. And on the Isthmus the bank has shown that constructive and

imaginative banking aimed at the development of the local economy is sound business."

The Chase Manhattan branch at David.

Above, a busy day, at month's end, at Plaza Cinco de Mayo branch. Below, an

interior view at the Chirre branch, with

R. D. Carles, Jr., of Chase Panama talking

to customers and prospective customers.

Above, Panama's President Dr. Juan Dem6stenes Arosemena visits U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt aboard the Navy ship which brought President Roosevelt to the Isthmus for a visit.

Below, U.S. President and Mrs. Dwight D.

Eisenhower welcome the then President

of Panama and Mrs. Jose" Antonio Remon

on the steps of the White House during

a visit to Washington, D.C., by the Panama President.

During the historic meeting of the Presidents 1956, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was ai shown being greeted by Panama President Ric; de la Guardia, Jr., also w PARADE OF

CORDIAL RELATIONS between the Chief t Executives of the Republic of Panama and the United States have been highlighted by meetings dating back to the time the 26th U.S.% President conferred with the first President

of the Republic during a visit to the Isthmus. Use of the designation "president" is something of a mistwmcr, as those holding the highest office rarely preside. Thus, chief executive is a more properly descriptive title. In this capacity, the duties are multitudi- nous and complex, in many instances being

On November 15, 190G, when the Republic of Roosevelt made his historic visit to the Isthmus, Amador Guerrero, with whom he appears on tli time a U.S. chief executive had left the Unite'

American Republics held in Panama City in

ig those who came to the Isthmus. Here he is Arias Espinosa, with President-Elect Ernesto

to extend a welcome. PRESIDENTS

supervision of—and responsibility for—administrative appointees to whom authority has

been delegated. The mission of presidents: To do the right

us (hey see the right; to chart and steer a course

of progressive leadership without domination; and to safeguard personal rights, ever mindful

that just powers are derived only through

consent of the governed. Some of the historic meetings of the Presidents of the United States and the Republic

of Panama are pictured on these pages.

I n.i was but 3 years old, U.S. President Theodore

ing with Panama's first President, Dr. Manuel

of Panama City's Cathedral. It was the first ates to visit another country while in office.

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Above, President Roberto F. Chiari of Panama with U.S. President John F. Kennedy during a visit to Washington by

the Panama President.

Below, during a visit to Panama, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt rides in the

presidential open car with Panama President Dr. Harmonio Arias and Mrs. Arias.
This is a bank of echo suppressors at the I.T.T.-C.A.C.&R.

Coaxial Terminal building in Balboa. Vice President and General Manager Harry J. Sinnott, left, watches

Engineering Supervisors Rodolfo E. Salas and Felix G.

Martinez, right, check wires to assure that telephone users

in Panama and the Zone have as clear connections to the United States and Europe as to a neighbor next door.

After each individual wire is joined to its mate, the splice is covered with

a protective lead sleeve. The cable makes most of its journey in the Panama

Canal cable duct which follows the Panama Railroad right-of-way. Each

time the tracks change direction there is a manhole for access to the duct, and at each manhole, a splice. Even on straightaways there are splices about every 300 yards.

Communications Saga: Cable Talk

THROUGH cooperative arrangements

concluded last month between private

Panamanian and United States enterprise, the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone, Isthmian telephone users now can telephone the United States,

( an. ula. Western Europe, Hawaii.

Puerto Rico, and Bermuda by cable. Opening of the new coaxial cable

s\ stem, first of its kind in Latin America,

marks nearly a century of electrical communication on the Isthmus, and

once again makes Panama a "cross- roads," this time in electronics; a bridge

for hemisphere communications as well

as for world commerce.

I lie electric telegraph first came to the Isthmus as a service of the Panama

Railroad, which, while under construction, depended on the semaphore but

Switched to the new invention shortly

after it had been proved. A picture in Harper's Magazine of San Pablo station

i'i 1855 shows two wires strung above

the ti.H ks. The first submarine cable between

tin United States and Cuba was completed in December 1866 by the Inter- national Ocean Telegraph Co., founded

by James A. Scrymser, who was later

to organize the All America Cables and

Radio svstem. Five months earlier, Cyrus \V. Field's Atlantic Cable Co. had opened a 2, 000-mile cable between

England and Newfoundland. By linking the services of the two cables, Panama

was separated from Europe only by the time of a ship's passage from Cuba.

Pushing ahead under powers of attorney from the International Ocean

Tel graph Co., William G. Fargo and

Gen. E. S. Stanford brought a cable from the West Indies to Panama in L870— just a few months after completion of the Union Pacific Railroad across the United States. Opening of the trans- continental railroad brought an eco- nomic slump to Panama, which was then no longer the quickest route between

the United States and the gold fields of the west. Amid great fanfare at Aspinwall

(Colon), inauguration of the new cable shared honors with the unpacking and

unveiling of the bronze statue of Columbus and the indian girl which

has since become a landmark of the

Atlantic side. But, despite the purple

prose of the ceremonies, no words

flowed over the wire. The cable ship on its return passage lost its cargo in 500 fathoms. The Atlantic cable, under

repair for the seventh time since its inception 4 years before, also was silent. Meanwhile. Scrymser was embarking

mi ventures which were to form the nucleus of All America Cables and

Radio. In 1878 he incorporated the Mexican Cable Co. with a line across the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston to Vera Cruz. A year later, with the Central and South American Cable Co., he extended services across the Isthmus

of Tehuantepec and down the Pacific- Coast to South America via Panama

City.

The direct service provided by the 4,637 miles of submarine cables and

land lines was an instant success. With

increasing Latin American trade, stimulated in part by the new cable system,

10 November 1963
A month's special training of already

expert technicians was required to learn complexities of the new type coaxial cable

laid across the Isthmus. Here Julio Petrich, Mateo Klein, and Adam Preisach are shown practicing before starting on the 360 splices completed in September

between Fort Sherman and Balboa.

the companies' business and coverage

steadilv expanded. Between 1890 and

1893, 5,298 miles of land and sea cables were added, linking most important

points in Central and South America, including undersea lines laid in 1882, 1913, and 1926 from Panama

to Valparaiso.

Increasing traffic congestion led to

initiation of an all-cable route from New

York to Guantanamo, Cuba, and then

to Colon. This "via Colon" route was

completed in August 1907, as U.S.

construction effort on the Canal moved

toward its peak.

Opening of the Canal in August 1914

marked an epoch in the development

of Latin American trade that soon was reflected in the cable companies'

volume. This and the increased traffic burden resulting from the outbreak of war in Europe made a second New

York-Colon cable necessary. Opened in August 1915, the new cable insured the

"via Colon" route against interruption

and increased the efficiency of the

service. In 1927 International Tele- phone and Telegraph Corp. acquired

a controlling interest in A.A.C. & R., adding its worldwide lines to the

system.

Occasional difficulties still occurred on the cables, but at least one usually

remained in operation. Certain interruptions added to scientific knowledge of sperm whales.

In 1933 the crew of the repair ship

All America, sent to fix a break nearly

3.000 feet down, found the trouble too strong for noses or stomachs. The cause came up with the cable—a 47-foot sperm whale had entangled himself and was snared by his lower jaw, flippers,

and flukes. The crew reported that the monster descended to scrape the bar- nacles off its belly, and, unable to back, was trapped.

Sperm whale had long been known

to feed on giant squid which hunt in the darkness of the ocean depths, but until then scientists had questioned that an

air-breathing mammal such as a whale

could dive so deep for his dinner.

But the All America dangled the

proof, and later fished up additional evidence from over 4,500 feet. Despite all the cables encircling the

globe, there were major inadequacies. Transmission over long distances beneath the oceans was limited to an improved form of the dot-dash system

developed by Samuel F. B. Morse;

direct voice communication could not be transmitted over submarine cables. Development of radio communications partially solved the problem with

radio-telephone service substituting for cable telephone service. But the naked

human voice, bounced around the curve

of the earth's enveloping ionosphere,

often must compete with such awe- some sounds as solar eruptions, the exploding of stars, and the collision of galaxies. These interruptions are what has made transoceanic telephoning, until recently, an uncertain and

frequently frustrating experience.

Finally, however, came the scientific and technological breakthrough which

produced reliable submerged repeaters

capable of providing dependable voice

transmission. In 1948 I.T.T. and American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

laid cables with submerged repeaters

between Key West, Fla., and Cuba. In 1956 Europe and America were linked by voice beneath the Atlantic. Since then, improvements have been

made which made the telephone cables even more dependable. The! new coaxial system now provides the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone with elec- tronic telephone service as up-to-date

as anywhere in the world. It climaxes

nearly a century of cooperation among

governments and private companies.

The submarine cable completed in April was laid by A.T. & T. from Florida

City, Fla., to Kingston, Jamaica, and

the section from there to Fort Sherman

on the Atlantic side is jointly owned by

A.T. & T. and I.T.T. This was linked in September to the trans-Isthmian coaxial cable of I.T.T. -Central America Cables

& Radio, which was laid partially in Panama Canal Company ducts and with

the cooperation of the Panama Railroad

which provided equipment and re- scheduled its freight trains so as not

to interfere with installation. In October

the system was extended to the offices of Tropical Radio in Panama City.

Connecting with this network is the

different but equally modern micro- wave system of Comunicaciones, S.A.,

to the interior of Panama.

Thus, the Republic of Panama

becomes the first South or Central American country to be joined by

direct submarine telephone cable to the United States and Europe. From here, other lines, already in the planning

stage, will reach out into the Pacific and

the Caribbean.

Thus, the same narrow strip of land which heard the hoofbeats of the burros and the pad of barefooted indians laden with the gold of the New World; the hum of rails carrying the Argonauts of

'49; the rumble of steam engines and

the blasting of dvnamite as the Big

Ditch was constructed; the hiss of water

rising in the locks to lift the world's

ships through the funnel for world commerce, now hears—through a slender cable buried in the jungle and under

the sea—voices from across that sea—

without cosmic interference.

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PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS

EMPLOYEES promoted or transferred between September 5 and October 5

(within-grade promotions and job reclassifications are not listed):

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

DIVISION

Joseph J. Wood, Jr., Graduate Intern (Administrative Services), to Administrative

Services Assistant. Shirley L. Harned, Clerk-Typist, Division

of Schools, to Illustrator. CIVIL AFFAIRS HUREAU

Mary A. Williford, Clerk-Typist, from Industrial Division to Customs Division.

Division of Schools

Inez L. Craigen, Evelyn B. Fondren, Marilyn W. Huldquist, Substitute Teacher

to Teacher (Elementary', U.S. Schools). Mary S. Anderson, Esther V. Flores, Ann

Foster, Chrystle S. Marcus, Substitute Teacher to Teacher (Junior High, U.S.

Schools). Norma S. Barkman, Dorothy M. Darcy, Leona J. Knight, Mayme J. Prevost, Substitute Teacher to Teacher (Senior

High, U.S. Schools). Ross E. Anderson, Supervisor (Physical

Education and Athletics), to Supervising Director (Physical Education and

Athletics). Stewart J. Brown, Teacher (Senior High,

U.S. Schools) to Supervisor (Physical

Education and Athletics). Janet A. Marshall, Wilfred E. Layne,

Substitute Teacher to Elementary

Teacher, Latin American Schools. Exley N. Reid, Substitute Teacher to Teacher (Junior High, Latin American

Schools). Dorothy E. Brooks, Clerk-Typist, from

Gorgas Hospital.

Edwin H. Roach, Motion Picture Projectionist to Leader Laborer (Cleaner).

Ifil R. Francis, Laborer (Cleaner) to Laborer (Heavy). Ross T. Barrett, Guard, Locks Division,

to Recreation Specalist (Sports). PANAMA CANAL INFORMATION

OFFICE

Alba M. Coffey, Clerk-Typist, Office of General Manager, Supply Division, to Clerk-Translator (Typing).

INTERNAL SECURITY OFFICE

Robert C. Walker, Chief of Internal

Security, to Chief of Internal Security;

Special Assistant to the Governor. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

Cirilo Murillo, Dock Worker, Terminals

Division, to Surveying Aid, Engineering

Division.

Electrical Division James W. Riley, Central Office Repairman,

tn Lead Foreman Central Oace Repair- man. Myma E. Orr, Timekeeper, Dredging Division, to Accounting Clerk.

Dredging Division Robert E. Daisey, Machinist (Marine) to Engineer, Floating Crane.

Carole V. Martin, Clerk-Typist, License

Section, to Clerk-Stenographer.

Maintenance Division

Charles W. Brown, Contract Assistant, Construction Division, to Administrative

Services Assistant. James A. Hoverson, Lead Foreman (Refrig- eration and Air Conditioning) to General Foreman Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Mechanic.

Bertie Gittens, Leader Painter to Lead Foreman Painter. Ricardo J. Romero, Laborer (Cleaner),

Electrical Division, to Laborer. Alfonso D. Gittens, Leader Laborer

(Cleaner) to Leader Laborer. Edith W. Cotton, Freight Rate Assistant, Accounting Division, to Accounting

Clerk (Typing), Maintenance Division Water and Laboratories Branch.

Rafael A. Del Cid, Laborer (Cleaner), to Laborer (Heavy). Luis De Gracia, Railroad Trackman, Rail- road Division, to Laborer (Cleaner). Reginaldo Urriola, Laborer (Heavy) to Helper (General). HEALTH BUREAU

Evelyn G. Faulkner, Accounting Clerk,

Electrical Division, to Supervisory Clerk

(Medical Records), Corozal Hospital.

Gorgas Hospital

Cynthia E. Schloss, Staff Nurse to Staff Nurse (Medicine and Surgery).

Ruty P. DeCodling, Dental Assistant (Restorative) to Dental Assistant (Surgery).

MARINE BUREAU

Navigation Division

G. Leroy Koontz, Administrative Services

Assistant, Police Division, to Supervisory

Administrative Services Assistant. John L. Hughes, Jr., First Assistant Engineer, Pipeline Dredge, Dredging Division, to Chief Engineer, Towboat.

Gilberto Guevara, Painter (Maintenance) to Painter. Nathan Gayle, Linehandler (Deckhand) to Launch Dispatcher.

Edward B. Callomn, Hubert A. Weeks,

Launch Dispatcher to Clerk.

Industrial Division Kenneth L. Bailey, Lead Foreman Boatbuilder, to General Foreman Boatbuilder. Joshua E. Lowe, Francisco Martinez,

Maintenanceman (Boats) to Carpenter

(Marine).

George Howell, Helper Machinist (Marine)

to Machine Operator.

Martin E. White, Crane Hookman, to Leader Crane Hookman.

Juan B. Olmedo, Helper Welder, to Preservation Mechanic.

Thomas B. Murray, Preservation Mechanic,

to Leader Toolroom Attendant. Leopold O. Marshall, Desmond Willams,

Toolroom Attendant to Preservation Mechanic. James Francis, Helper (General) to Tool- room Attendant

James H. Johnston, Helper Machinist

(Marine) to Oiler. John A. Bowen, Clerk to Timekeeper.

John Jackman, Stockman to Storekeeping

Clerk.

Locks Divsion Robert V. Dean, Leader Lock Operator

(Electrician) to Control House Operator.

William V. Butler, Lock Operator (Electrician) to Leader Lock Operator (Electrician). James A. Schofield, Lock Operator (Machinist) to Leader Lock Operator

(Machinist).

OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Elena Cham, Accounting Clerk, Industrial Division, to Accounting Technician,

Accounting Division. Dora W. Ung, Accounting Technician to Voucher Examiner, Accounting Division. SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

DIVISION

Orlan H. Betcher, Supervisory Baker Specialist, to Service Center Supervisor.

Wilford R. Dixon, Jr., Guard, Locks Division, to Retail Store Management

Assistant. Ruben N. Padmore, Leader Laundry

Checker to Lead Foreman (Laundry

Operatons). Francisco Brto, Leader High Lift Truck

Operator to Leader High Lift Truck

Operator (Cold Storage). Juan A. V. Platero, Assistant Meat Cutter,

to Meat Cutter. Fitzgerald Burnham, Clerk to Storekeeping

Clerk. John Hull, Accounting Clerk to Guest House Clerk. Wilmoth L. Davis, Assistant Cook to Cook. Theodore M. Griffiths, Pantryman to Cook.

Froilan Lopez, Warehouseman to Stock- man.

Lela S. Cadogan, Counterwoman to Sales Checker. Harry A. Smith, Laborer (Heavy) to Truck

Driver. Halden Thomas, Laborer (Heavy) to Stock- man.

Ivy M. Gillespe, Warehouseman, to Clerk. Adrana Dawkins, Weynell Inniss, Counter- woman to Sales Clerk. Oliver O. Bowen, High Lift Truck Operator to High Lift Truck Operator (Cold

Storage). Pedro J. Cordova, Laborer (Heavy) to Warehouseman.

Antonio Valiente, Laborer (Heavy, Pest Control) Division of Sanitation, to Laborer (Heavy).

Gilbert A. Brown, Claude L. Goodridge, Laborer (Cold Storage) to Laborer

(Heavy, Cold Storage).

Fernando A. Ponce, Juan Rodriguez, Laborer (Heavy) to Laborer (Heavy,

Cold Storage).

Agustin Caballero, Dairy Worker to Milker. Asia L. Bennett, Julio C. Bethancourt,

Utility Worker to Grocery Attendant. Leroy Davidson, Utility Worker to Assist- ant Cook.

12 November 1963
Beaulah L. Kennedy, Utility Worker, to Sales Clerk. Kenneth G. Clement, Laborer to Milk

Plant Worker.

Ramiro Vargas, Laborer, Maintenance

Division, to Laborer (Heavy). Federico A. James, James Wharton, Utility Worker to Laborer (Heavy).

Manuel G. Garces, Alejandro J. Perez,

Utility Worker to Counterman.

Vincent J. Carter, Laborer (Cleaner) to Laundry Worker (Heavy).

Randolph V. Perkins, Sales Checker to Sales Section Head.

Luis W. Anglin, Laborer to Meat Wrapper.

David J. Failey, Assistant Meat Cutter to Meat Cutter.

Felix A. Ifill, Stevedore, Terminals Division, to Laborer (Heavy).

Community Services Division

Carlton A. Mason, Timekeeper to Clerk. Abraham W. Forcheney, Charles P. Ro- man, Grounds Maintenance Equipment

Operator to Field Tractor Operator.

Gregorio Bonilla, Jose O. Castillo, James

E. Corbin, Sergio Martinez, Laborer to Grounds Maintenance Equipment Operator. Antonio Acuria, Florentino De Pauda, Laborer to Grounds Maintenance Equip- ment Operator (Small). Narciso Medina, Laborer to Garbage Collector. Luis Menchaca, Laborer (Cleaner) to Laborer (Pest Control). TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALS

BUREAU

Julian Lasso, Laborer (Heavy) to High Lift Truck Operator.

Terminals Division Sidney Smithson, Supervisory Cargo Checking Assistant to General Foremen

Stevedore (Ship). Roger S. Pierrelas, Leader Stevedore

(Dock) to Lead Foreman Stevedore

(Dock). Carlos S. Batchelor, Reuben Panton, Line- handler to Stevedore. Juan Arancibia, Jorge Cedeno, Jose I. Macias, Jose Mejia, Pedro Nereira, Pascual Ortega, Manuel T. Pena, Dario E. Perez, Dock Worker to Stevedore. Ernesto Cole, Delay Clerk to Stevedore. Roy R. Paddy, Truck Driver, Motor Transportation Division, to Guard.

Jose Del C. Fores, Linehandler to Water

Service Man.

Eugenio E. Madeam, Utility Worker,

Supply Division, to Cargo Marker.

Motor Transportation Division Ruben E. Douglas, Chauffeur to School Bus Driver. Maritza E. De Oranges, Voucher Examiner,

Gorgas Hospital to Accounting Clerk

(Typing).

George L. Lowe, Truck Driver, from Supply Division. Victor A. Watson, Helper Locomotive Engineer, Railroad Division, to Truck

Driver.

CANAL HISTORY

50 y[earJ cAgo

FORMATION of MiraHores Lake

began October 1. It was estimated by

the hydrographic office that the normal

run-off, calculated from 22 years' rainfall measurements, would raise the lake surface to normal operating level of 55 feet above the sea, by December 4. A section of the Gamboa dike was

dynamited October 10, water from

Gatun Lake completing the filling of Culebra Cut from the dike to Cucara- cha slide in about 2 hours. 25 yearJ <dgo

THE 100,000th oceangoing vessel of more than 300 net tons to transit the Canal since it was opened to traffic was

locked through October 10. It was the American cargo ship Steel Exporter,

operated by Isthmian Steamship Lines.

10 yearJ c4go

HOUSING items were highlights of the news with: Completion at Margarita of the

largest single contract in the then

current long-range quarters replacement program, 148 family units in a

64-acre area of hills and jungles cleared and graded south of the Third Locks town

;

A new system for assignment of quarters providing for the posting of vacancies weekly in each housing

district. Hours Changed

EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1 the hours of service of the Cashier in the Treasury Branch, Building 287, Ancon,

are changed, Conrptroller Philip L.

Steers, Jr., has announced.

The hours for cashing payroll or other

checks, and for accepting over the counter payments of invoices, customer

deposits, and other cash transactions

will be as follows: Daily, except Wednesday of pay

week: 9:30 to 11:45 a.m., and 12:45

to 3 p.m. Wednesday of pay week: 7:30 to 11:45 a.m., and 12:45 to 3 p.m. The Treasury Branch office hours,

except for the change in the hours of

service for the cashier, will continue as heretofore: 7:15 to 11:45 a.m., and

12:45 to 4:15 p.m.

RETIREMENTS

EMPLOYEES who retired in September, with their positions at time of retirement and years of Canal service:

Joseph Anderson, Helper, Locomotive Engineer, Railroad Division (Atlantic Side); 23 years. 4 months, 8 days.

William Badders, General Foreman, Sal- vage and Diving, Industrial Division

(Atlantic Side); 23 years, 6 months,

i7 days.

John A. Barbour, Lead Foreman, Central

Office Repairman, Electrical Division

(Pacific Side); 37 years, 11 months, 20

days. Marcus S. Clarke, Laborer, Supply Division (Atlantic Side); 44 years, 27 days. Mrs. Eldica Cumberbatch, Assistant Baker,

Supply Division (Atlantic Side); 20 years, 2 months. Linton G. Ferro, Pressman, Cylinder

(Small), Printing Plant (Atlantic Side); 37 years, 3 months, 21 days. Mrs. Lucille M. Ford, Clerk, Gorgas Hospital; 12 years, 4 months, 24 days. Herschel Gandy, Administrative Services

Assistant, Maintenance Division (Pacific Side); 23 years, 9 months, 19 days.

Marion S. Herring, Chief Engineer, Towboat, Dredging Division; 23 years, 1 day. Mrs. Armella R. Hutchings, Teacher (Ele- mentary-U.S. Schools, Division of

Schools (Atlantic Side); 20 years, 5 months, 8 days.

Oswald E. Jorstad, Teacher (Senior HighU.S. Schools), Division of Schools

(Atlantic Side); 24 years, 10 months, 29 days.

Harold W. Meyer, Lead Foreman, Painter, Maintenance Division (Atlantic Side); 23 years, 10 months, 15 days.

Bondal Moss, Winchman, Terminals Division (Atlantic Side); 13 years, 7 months,

8 days. Hilton D. Perkins, Clerk, Supply Division

(Pacific Side); 49 years, 6 months, 19

days.

Rodway R. Phillips, Cylinder Pressman

(Large), Printing Plant (Atlantic Side); 4l years, 1 month, 29 days. Gabriel A. Riemers, Chief Engineer, Towboat, Navigation Division (Pacific Side); 23 years, 6 months.

Emilio A. Rivera, High Lift Truck Operator, Railroad Division (Pacific Side); 38 years, 11 months, 6 days.

Fernando Rodriguez, Laborer, Community

Services Division (Pacific Side); 46 years, 9 months, 7 days.

John E. Schmidt, Control House Operator, Locks Division (Pacific Side); 27 years,

1 month.

Tolo Singh, Stevedore, Terminals Division

(Atlantic Side); 22 years, 1 month, 6

days.

Rogelio Tunon, Helper, Core Drill Operator, Dredging Division (Pacific Side); 36 years, 21 days. Mrs. Ruby L. Willa, Retail Store Depart- ment Manager (General), Supply Division (Atlantic Side); 16 years, 21 days.

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ANNIVERSARIES

(On the basis of total Federal Service)

PTROLL

B. Magofuso,

Offijfcr

Clerk

EALTHl BUREAU

Gawe

eping .Rios

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Thelma R. Godwin

Teacher (Elementary

U.S. Schools)

compthulllks u

Preston G. Accounting Teclftiic Malcolm R. Whee

Auditor ENGINEERING

CONST

Hubert Ham

Oiler Frank H. Lerchen

Supervisory General Engineer

Cecil G. McLeod

Oiler

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Simona Luisa Jarvis Sales Checker

ordruck Operator

MARIN* BUREAU

andler Boatswain)

orer (Highway

Maintenance)

Frank J. Stewart Towing Locomotive Operator

Semon Theriot Towing Locomotive Operator

SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

SERVICE BUREAU

Bienvenido Abadia

Tree Trimmer

Lucille Abernathy

Commissary Store Department Manager

(Women's Wear)

Mintra Babb

Counterwoman

Pamelia J. Brown

Sales Checker

G. E. Gittens

Sales Checker

Eric S. Goburn

Laborer (Cleaner)

Jacinto Jaramillo Laborer (Cleaner)

Lileane Jones Clerk

Erna E. Layne

Sales Clerk Alwyn Manuel

Laborer (Cleaner)

Hamilton Meade

Clerk-Typist

Selvyn L. Moody- Crane Hookman

RitO Murillo M.

Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

(Small!

Fidelino Rodriguez

Grounds Maintenance

Equipment Operator

Bertram Wilson

Cook

MARINE BUREAU

Joseph A. Bialkowski Admeasurer

Gregorio Borbua

Line Handler

Rubin A. Britton Leader Line Handler

(Deckhand Boatswain)

Teodoro Cruz

Helper Lock Operator

Woodrow L. Gordon

Toolroom Attendant

Helper Lock Operator

Karl T. Nehring

Pilot Samuel F. Smith

Launch Operator

Owen Vaughn

Helper Lock Operator

Lester A. Vendreys

Line Handler (Deckhand)

Luis A. Vivar Leader Line Handler

(Deckhand Boatswain)

Robert E. Walker

Master Towboat

Henry Watson

Line Handler (Deckhand)

ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Erasmo F. Abrego

Laborer (Heavy)

Patrick A. Alexis Helper Central Office Repairman

E. G. Braithwaite Telephone Instrument Repairman

Joshua B. Burnett Laborer (Heavy)

Jose D. De Leon

Oiler (Floating Plant) Ashton M. Russell Roofer

Luis A. Perez S. Seaman

Egbert F. R. Watson

Surveying Aid

TRANSPORTATION AND

TERMINALS BUREAU

Jose Dolores Amaya

Helper Carman (Wood

and Steel) Benjamin F. Bovd

Delay Clerk

Albert W. Degen

General Foreman Stevedore

(Ships) Leon D. McNally

Helper Liquid Fuels Wharfman

Cecil C. Wilson

Stevedore CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Thelma L. de McLean

Teacher (Elementary

L.A. Schools)

HEALTH BUREAU

Jose P. Gonzalez

Nursing-Assistant

(Operating Room)

14 November 1963
SHIPPING

Former Pacific Queen

A FIRST AND LAST transit was made

through the Canal in September by

the 18,564-ton Ellinis, better known to shipping circles as the Matson Navigation Co.'s luxury liner Lurline. Since she was commissioned in 1932 until recently, the Lurline has carried thous- ands of vacationing passengers between

San Francisco and Hawaii. She was

well known as one of the glamour

queens of the Pacific. The ship was sold a few months ago

by the Matson Co. to the Marfuerza

Compania Maritima, S.A., and her name

changed to Ellinis. When she passed

through the Canal in September, she

caried an operating crew and was on

her way to England, where she will be

modified to increase passenger capacity

to 1,300 from 929. The ship will be

placed in service between Southampton,

France, and Australia sometime early

in 1964.

First Cruise Liner

THE FIRST cruise ship of the 1963-64

season arrived in Balboa October 1 and

made the Canal transit southbound on

her way to the West Coast of the United States and for a voyage around

the world. She was the Norwegian

America Line Oslofjord, a luxury vessel well known to Canal waters, having

made frequent visits here during the winter season when the Canal is a popular port of call for cruise ships.

The Oslofjord did not stop in Cris- tobal but came directly through the Canal to Balboa where she was tied up

until midnight. Her round-the-world

cruise is taking her to the Far East,

India, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Italy, and

Morocco. The ship will return to New

York on December 18.

C. B. Fenton & Co., agents for the Norwegian American Line at the Canal,

announced that the Oslofjord also will make a Caribbean cruise from New

York in January, arriving in Cristobal on January 17.

Quarterly shipping tables, usually

published in the November editions of The Panama Canal Review, will appear instead in the December

editions.

TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING

VESSELS IN SEPTEMBER

196S 1962 Commercial 923 909

U.S. Government 14 21 Free 9 9

Total 946 939

TOLLS"

Commercial.... $4,839,776 $4,618,152

U.S. Government. 82,773 109,284

Total $4,922,549 $4,727,436

CARGO00

Commercial 5,702,970 4,932,450

U.S. Government. 107,178 138,709 Free 44,337 42,580

Total 5,854,485 5,113,739

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

Speed Demon

ONE OF THE FASTEST ships operating through the Panama Canal between

New York and, the Far East is the United States Lines Pioneer Moon, a new challenger type ship which can and does average 23 knots. The ship

broke all speed records in May on the voyage from Yokohama to New York

when it steamed the 9,726 nautical miles from Yokohama in 17 davs, 14

hours and 48 minutes. This included

a 12-hour stay in Canal waters. So far as Panama Agencies, local representatives of the line know, this record still stands.

New Santa Welcomed

A GALA WELCOME was given the Grace Line's newest passenger cargo

ship Santa Maria which arrived at the Canal on her maiden voyage October 10 and spent 2 days berthed in Balboa.

In addition to the fact that the ship

is the latest of the Grace Line's sleek new Santas, the Santa Maria was

dedicated to Panama when she was

launched.

Present for the welcoming cere- monies on the ship's maiden voyage were Wilfred J. McNeil, president of the Grace Line and Ernest Senn, vice president and director of the line. While the Santa Maria was docked

in Balboa, Grace Line and Panama

Agency officials entertained on board

in honor of President Roberto F. Chiari of Panama. Governor Robert J. Fleming, Jr., of the Canal Zone and

many other high officials from Panama

and the Canal Zone attended. Special

exhibits of Panama arts and crafts were

set up in the public rooms and hundreds

of visitors admired the luxurious accommodations, the smart modern settings,

and the Panama-inspired decor brought

out through murals, maps, metal

designs and other art forms. The Santa Maria is the third new

Santa to be placed in service by the Grace Line between New York, the Canal Zone and the west coast of South America.

Dedicated to Panama: Given Gala Greeting.

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