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Vol. 5, No. 5 BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE, DECEMBER 3, 1954 5 cents

COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED

TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF CANAL ORGANIZATION

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( )NK of the most beautiful of the Christmas themes—the Shepherd and the Angel—appeared last Christ-

mas at the end of Santa Claus Lane. It was arranged by Richard R. Potter of the Electrical Division.

Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone

To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20

Music, which has always played a

prominent part in the celebration of

Christmas in the Canal Zone, will be

shared this year with fellow citizens at

home in the form of a musical Christmas

Card. The Christmas Card will be

broadcast at 11:15 p. m. EST on Decem-ber 20 by the Columbia Broadcasting

Company over a nation-wide hook-up,

right after the late news broadcast.

The special program of Christmas

music and carols was recorded here bythe combined band and chorus of the

Cristobal and Balboa High Schools under

the direction of Victor A. Herr, Director

of Music in Balboa, and Oswald E.

Jorstad, Director of Music in Cristobal.

The traditional Christmas music sung

and played by High School students, will

be highlighted by Christmas messages to

the folks back home from Gov. J. S.

Seybold of the Canal Zone and Lt. Gen.

William K. Harrison, Jr., Commander-in-Chief of the Caribbean Command.

In a message commending the "meticu-

lous manner in which the whole project

was handled." James H. Fassett, Super-

visor of Music for CBS Radio, wrote Lt.

Gov. H. 0. Paxson, "it is a bit premature

to do so but I do extend to you and all

who cooperated in the production of this

program from the Panama Canal Zoneheartiest best wishes for a very MerryChristmas."

Local Broadcast Decembsr 23

The entire program will be broadcast

locally the evening of December 23,

which is also the anniversary of the open-

ing of the Balboa Theater. The local

broadcast will be at 8 p. m.

Community Service Bureau officials

have made plans to have the broadcast

piped into the theater itself and, follow-

ing the program on the air, (See pagi to)

"Operating results of thePanama Canal Company for

the fiscal year ended June 30,

1954, further demonstrate theloyal and* efficient service of

the men and women of theCanal organization," Gov. JohnS. Seybold declared this week.The Governor's declaration was made

in connection with the release of con-

densed financial statements "covering,"

he pointed out, "a period of internal

changes and realignments during whichthe Canal, with a considerably reduced

force, handled a record volume of com-mercial shipping."

Total net income of the Company as

tentatively recorded for the year was$4,160,010. On a comparable basis this

figure represents a decline of $1,729,440

from 1953 when the corresponding amountof net income (adjusted to reflect prior

year adjustments recorded in fiscal year

1954) was $5,889,450. The continuedhigh volume of Canal traffic and reduction

of working forces served largely to offset

the effect of increases in wage rates, cost

of materials, and interest costs that havetaken place concurrently and whichaccount principally for the current decline

in net income.

Commercial Tolls Increase

Giving results of operations for the

third year of the Canal's administration

as an incorporated Federal agency, the

condensed financial statements snowedthat although total Canal transits wereslightly under the overall 1953 fiscal year

figure, more ocean-going ships of com-merce transited the waterway than in anyprevious single year. Tolls derived fromcommercial vessels amounted to $33,302,-

149, an increase of four percent over the

previous year, while tolls credited fromU. S. Government vessels amounted to

$3,888,957, a decline of 30 percent fromthe previous year. The decline is attri-

butable to the falling off of the abnorm-ally large volume of traffic through the

Canal that had resulted from the warin Korea.

The level of all other operations of the

Company remained at a volume sub-

stantially consistent with that of the

proceeding year. Gross income of allied

maritime operations amounted to $9,407,-

270, which, added to $37,191,106 fromtolls, brought total gross income of the

Canal itself to $46,598,376.

Net operating income of the Canal andallied maritime operations totaled $25,-

781,861, after direct expenses and sup-

porting services amounting (See page 16)

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Mr. Fix-It Comes To Townother mothers with cars full of youngsters,

people working in their yards and Diablo's

younger generation all have a big "hello"

for him.

Sometimes the housewives have a newproblem for him to work on, but moreoften than not when someone hails himdown it is to tell him: "I can close the

windows now," or, "Haven't seen a

termite since you were here last."

As residents of the various communitiesbecome better acquainted with what pre-

ventive maintenance can do for them,

they will undoubtedly use the team's

services even more than they are already

doing. And that will mean money saved

for everyone, when a series of little jobs

replace a big repair project.

In the meantime, Diablo husbands are

finding life a lot more pleasant, as we said

before. It's a lot easier to say, "Call

Bill." than it is to unlimber the old

wrench or hammer, any day.

Mrs. JACK SMITH (if Davis Street tells "Bill," more formally W. G. Mummaw, foreman of Diablo's

Preventive Maintenance Team, that the outside of her quarters needs repainting.

Diablo Heights husbands have a newattitude these days -and a new friend.

When the little woman suggests that

the kitchen faucets need new washers or

that somebody 'd better do something,

pretty mmn, about the automatic door

closer which has quit being automatic,

the Diablo husband just looks smugand says: "Call Bill."

And Bill doesn't mind being called at

all. It's his job and if he thinks that not

enough people know that he and his menare the local Mr. Fix-It, he is apt to drop

around to see if maybe there isn't a

little job or two that needs doing.

Bill, on Panama Canal records, is

William G. Mummaw, foreman of the

Diablo Heights preventive maintenance

team.

Working on the theory than an ounce

of prevention is worth a pound of cure,

the Canal Company, about a year ago,

began its own preventive maintenance

program. The idea was that future

major maintenance cost could be elimi-

nated through advance inspection of

quarters. This would allow corrective

measures to be taken in the early stages

of deterioration or damage.After slightly over a year's trial in

Diablo Heights, the preventive mainte-

nance program has proved so successful

and so popular with residents of that

area, that the program has been extended

gradually to other Canal Zone communi-ties. Preventive maintenance teams are

now working in Margarita, Balboa, andGamboa.

Housing people and engineers knew,from past experience, that most of the

houses in the Canal Zone were given

maintenance attention only when a

defect or problem was called to thi' alt 'ii-

tion of the Housing Division by the people

living in the quarters.

Generally, by this time, the damag i

had gotten to a point where expensive

corrective measures were needed. This,

naturally meant increased maintenance

costs. And, in the long run, maintenancecosts affect rent.

Of course, preventive maintenance is

limited, by its very name, to those cor-

rective measures which prevent the need

for any major repair work. Occasion-

ally, the preventive maintenance foreman

finds a situation which has developed

li-wmd his scope. In such cases the

conditions are reported in detail to the

Maintenance Division for correction.

Accompanying the foreman of a pre-

ventive maintenance crew through Diablo

Heights, for instance, is an experience in

human relations. He is now an ace ot sd

figure in daily living. As he makes his

rounds, mothers wheeling baby carriages,

Special Stamp To Honor

Centennial Of Railroad

A special three-cent stamp, commem-orating the iooth anniversary o/ thecompletion of the Panama Railroad onJanuary 28, 1855, will be issued by theCanal Zone Postal Service early in thecoming calendar year.

The commemorative stamp, of thesame purple as United States and CanalZone stamps of the three-cent denom-ination, will picture one of the first loco-

motives in use on the Panama Railroad.The stamp was designed by Leo C. Page,Chief of the Architect .ral Branch.The iooth Anniversary Stamp, which

will be an event in philatelic circles, will

be printed in the United States. It will

be the first special Canal Zone issuesince the West Indian CommemorativeStamp in August 1051.

CARE In The Commissaries

CAREpackage eai Canal Zone's commissaries. F. R. Johnson, Supply Director,

who has been sending|

Norway for some time, makes a purchase from Mrs. Florence 1 lemers,

Balboa Commissary cashier, while Manager J. F, Evans watches.

December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW

Quarters Construction Program Nears End;

111 Apartments Will Be Ready In 60 DaysThe Panama Canal Company's quar-

ters construction program is rapidly

drawing to a close. Within th" next (ill

days, 111 U. S.-rate apartments will have

been made available to Company-Govern-ment families. Some of these families

are living in the 120 buildings which ate

to be vacated and demolished before the

end of the present fiscal year.

Wilson H. Crook, Community Services

Director, again pointed out that evacua-

tion dates for the old quarters in Pedro

Miguel and Ancon will be observed and

urged that employees living in these areas

apply for the newly-completed quarters

as they become available.

Four quarters on Quarry Road, part

of the 17-building contract which includes

Quarry Road and the Ridge Road area,

were accepted by the Panama Canal Com-pany from the contractor, Isthmian

Contractors, Inc., in November. They

are now occupied.

First Flats Houses

In the Balboa Flats area, where 98

apartments in 63 buildings are presently

under construction by Framorco, the

first five houses were—at the time this

issue of The Review went to press-

scheduled for completion the first week

in December. These quarters are on the

end of Carr Street near the Balboa

Elementary School. Two are two-family,

two-story masonry quarters and the

remaining three are one-family, on-the-

ground masonry houses.

The next group of Balboa Flats quar-

ters scheduled for completion are on

Morgan Avenue. According to the pres-

ent schedule, the houses will be completed,

inspected, and accepted in groups of four

or five, about every two weeks until the

contract is completed late in January.

The first of the Ridge Road quarters,

which are all of the modified "mother-

in-law" type, will not be completed until

shortly after the first of the calendar

year. They will be inspected and released

by the contractor as they are finished.

The contract will be completed about

February 15.

Executive Type Quarters

The only other housing projected for

this fiscal year are three executive-type

RIDGE ROAD, where 13 masonry quarters are beins erected, will not be ready for its new residents until

after the first of the year. All of the houses are to be completed by mid-February.

houses to be built at Balboa Heights.

They will replace three old "official

houses" which had originally stood in

Culebra or Empire and which were

brought to their present Balboa Heights

location about 1914.

Two of the executive-type houses will

be built on the sites of the quarters

formerly occupied by the Lieutenant

Governor and the Marine Director. Thethird is to be located approximately

where the former quarters of the Health

Director stood until that building wasdemolished about 18 months ago.

While the new quarters are going up,

old quarters are coming down and within

a few months only empty spaces will

indicate where houses once stood.

Evacuation Schedule

At the present time, 75 Canal families

are still living in 69 buildings in Pedro

Miguel. As a Canal town, Pedro Miguel

will go out of existence next March 31.

Present plans are to close both commis-

sary and service center on that date.

In the section of Ancon nearest the

Administration Building, 24 families are

still living in 23 quarters which are slated

for early demolition. Six of these quar-

ters are to be vacated not later than

February 1 and the remainder by July 1.

A total of 31 Canal families are still

living in 28 old buildings in the section

of Ancon which includes Culebra Road,

the Tivoli Guest House section and the

area near the hospital These families

have been notified that they must find

other quarters by July 1.

Seventeen other old buildings, in

Balboa, which house 31 families are to be

vacated by December 31.

Local-Rate Housing

In La Boca, quarters which were

vacated with the transfer of 50 families to

Santa Cruz in October, are being demol-

ished as rapidly as possible. Howeverthere are still, as of November 20, 49

family quarters housing 344 occupants

and seven bachelor barracks with 401

occupants, still standing in La Boca.

The condition of these quarters requires

that they be vacated not later than fiscal

year 1957.

On the Atlantic side the last six of the

old Silver City multiple-family quarters,

built in 1918, are ready for demolition.

These quarters, which are now all vacant,

had been occupied by 72 families.

In Chagres, at Gatun, only one house

of those scheduled for demolition is still

standing. The settlement at Chagres

now consists of 58 family apartments,

two bachelor buildings, a small school,

and a small sen ice center.

The first unit of cavalry to be stationed

in the Canal Zone was the First Squadronof the Twelfth Cavalry. The unit arrived

here in February, 1016.

Slides in Gaillard Cut closed the Pan-

ama Canal to large, ocean-going traffic

from September 15, 1915 to April 15,

1916.

FIRST of the Balboa Flats quarters were to be ready for occupancy early this month. All Flats houses

are to be completed by the end of January.

During the first fiscal year of opera-

tion, 1,088 commercial ships transited

the Panama Canal.


Memorial Plaque At ParaisoHonors Korean War Veterans

( IELIA GRANT, 4, of Paraiso, isn't quite sure she understands what the memorial at Paraiso is all about

but someday she'll know that it was dedieated to the young men of the Canal Zone and the Republic of

Panama who served with the United States forces in Korea.

A memorial plaque honoring three

young Isthmians who died during the

Korean War and commemorating all of

those from the Canal Zone and Panamawho served with the United States ArmedForces during the Korean conflict was

dedicated November 11 at Paraiso.

The memorial, which is located at the

upper entrance to the town of Paraiso,

close to the intersection of Gaillard High-

was and Paraiso Roads, was erected

through the joint efforts of the Pacific

Army Mothers Club, of which Mrs. Daisy

Robinson is president, and of the Mutual

Aid Club, whose president is Frank B.

Burke.

The morning's dedicatory program

included an address bv E. J. Eglinton,

Past Commander of the Veterans of

Foreign Wars in the Canal Zone; the

reading of a prize-winning essay—TheDanger of Communism -which was writ-

ten by Violet Walters, a senior in the

La Boca Occupational High School; an

address by Frank Wilder, of the PanamaCanal's Internal Security Branch; and

presentation of the plaque by A. E.

Osborne, of the Division of Schools.

The United States Army provided a

guard of honor while the Guardia Na-

tional Band represented Panama at the

ceremonies.

The servicemen whose names appear on

the plaque are Sgt, Jose Molina Ceballos,

Pvt. Ben A. Franklin, and Pvt. Gilbert D.

Francis.

EDITOR'S MAIL BOX

ED NOTE: Letters of exceptional inter-

est from two Canal oldtimers reached the

editor's desk last month, referring to

articles in recent REVIEWS. They are

too long to reproduce in full but the perti-

nent parts of each are given.)

From Danby, Vt., Capt. Charles D.Lillie, who signs himself, Class of 1906,writes:

"The picture, 'All Dressed Up' in the

October 1, 1954 Review brought backmam fond memories. I have forgotten

who took 1 be picture, Ion whoevei ii wasasked the ladies to sit down. And MrsLillie was the only one that did so. Yourstruly is 1 be fair-haired boj with the darkblouse and white trousers. I am wonderingbow man\ ol that crowd are still in theland hi the living . .

(Captain Lillie's note, written on a

Christmas card made from one of Mrs.Lillie's lithographs, also enclosed a recentnewspaper clipping showing the formerZone fireman with one of his wife's prize-

winning lithographs. It was shown at theVermont Craftsmen Show in Shelburne.The lithograph won first prize in the 38thannual exhibition of the Society of Amer-ican Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, andWoodcutters in New York City.

I

And from Arlington, Va., Otto T. Mar-strand, who retired in 1937 as Surveying

Officer, wrote regarding Colon Hospital.

"Pardon if an old mossback of the goodold days, December 1906. to April 3(1. 1937,

comments on an article in The Review of

November 5, 1954. ... On page 10 of this

same issue, top picture, left, caption—Colon Hospital admitted its first patients

in May 1916, its last in October 26, 1954.

"Unless1 memory fails me my first-born,

Robert Marstrand, was born in Colon Hos-pital in 1911; my second, Lillian, in 1913

. . . The ward in question was at the entrance

of the hospital grounds and was on stilts.

I milt over the water."1 do know that 1 be old maternity ward

on stilts over the water was subject to

invasion by lui^e water rats, that some of

tbem ran across the bed . . .

"The boy, my first born, was the aviator

thai flew the first flight of the establishmentof I be Air Mail of the Republic of Panamato the Interior and return. He crashed

with his passengers to the Interior cm

Friday, September 13, 1935; he was not

unite 24 years ol age and had a record of

3,000 flying hours and two trips from the

I'. S. to Panama, the last one solo . . .

"The Zone honored him in final and his

record is without a single blemish. I feel

that 1 should so record his record."

I ED NOTE: Mr. Marstrand is right andso is THE REVIEW. The Colon Hospital

which closed in October had opened in

May 1916 and was the successor to the

15-ward, 550-bed hospital which hadopened in 1904, using the combined facili-

ties of the old French hospital and the

smaller Panama Railroad Hospital. Theformer dated back to 1883 and the latter to

the middle part of the 19th century. I

Architect-ArtistShows Paintings

On ShipboardIt was no surprise to many Canal Zone

residents when Paul Colby, member of

the design staff of the Panama Canal

Architectural Branch and well-known

amateur painter, walked off with two of

the prizes at the Fourteenth Annual Art

Week Exhibition held last month at the

Tivoli Guest House.

Mr. Colby's watei colors have been

seen and appreciated by hundreds of

Zonians and quite a few tourists whohave traveled back and foith from NewYork en the Panama Line ships. A num-ber of Cana! residents have Mr. Colby's

pictures hanging in their homes.

His fame with the traveling public

grew out of the practice he started

several years ago of holding an exhibit of

his latest works aboard ship whenever he

went on vacation. The collection, dis-

played in the ship's lounge, always

included a number of watercolors of

Panama scenes which were of interest to

Canal employees as well as tourists.

Art Is Avocation

Although Mr. Colby studied architec-

ture in the University of Illinois and has

PAUL COLBY

worked on architectural design for the

past 30 years, art has occupied a good

part of his spare time.

He has used several mediums from pen

sketching and line drawings to oils and

water color. At present he is working

with water color and has painted hun-

dreds of scenes both in Panama and the

United States.

Born in Onawa, Iowa, Mr. Colbyattended the University of Illinois for

three years before he enlisted in the

U. S. Army during World War I.

Came Here In 1940

During the second World War, Mr.Colby was called back to active duty with

the U. S. Army and, as a Lieutenant

Colonel, was Post Executive Officer at

Fort Sherman until 1946.

Since the end of the war, he has been

with the architectural design staff andhas continued his work with water colors.

He entered a number of pictures in local

exhibits and duiing August of this year,

had a one-man show in the JWB-USObuilding in Balboa.

Some of his best-known water colors

have been of street scenes in PanamaCity, seascapes of Panama, and scenes

from the Interior.


Survey Of Buildings

Asked In Connection

With Long Range Plans

Bureau Directors of the Company-Government organization were asked last

month to make a list of the various struc-

tures which their organizations occupy or

which, while presently vacant, are still

assigned to their individual organizations.

The request, from John D. Hollen,

Chief of the Executive Planning Staff,

was made in connection with the Canal's

long-range building program, which envis-

ages as much as possible the move of per-

manent units into permanent structures.

Such transfers are considered advisable

not only because of the need for safe-

guarding valuable records and equipmentby placing them in fireproof structures,

but also to permit demolition of certain

temporary-type structures on which main-

tenance costs are excessive.

One of the first of such moves will be

the transfer of the Payroll Branch from

Diablo Heights to the old Ancon Club-

house building early next year.

In his memorandum to Bureau Direc-

tors Mr. Hollen pointed out that in

planning the Company - Government's

long-range building program it is neces-

sary that an inventory and evaluation be

made of present surplus buildings as well

as present building adequacies or needs.

The Bureau Directors were asked to

list, not later than December 1, all

buildings presently idle and not released

to the Housing Division for custody; all

buildings only partially utilized; all build-

ings inadequate for present use; all

buildings which are adequate insofar as

capacity and design are concerned but

which are inadequate b?eause of exces-

sive maintenance costs, bad location, or

for other reasons; buildings to be replaced

by new construction included in the

capital program; and to propose anychange of building utilization which would

be beneficial from an economic or effi-

ciency standpoint.

FIRST ALL-WOMAN SUPERVISORY GROUP

MIDWAY THROUGH CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MEMBERS of the first all-women supervisory training group meet weekly with their conference leader,

Brodie Burnham. Left to right, standing: Mrs. Ethel K. Askew, Mrs. Muriel De Young, Mrs. DorothyMcXall, Mrs. Dorothy Benny, Mrs. Lyla Essler, and Mrs. Ruth Campbell. Seated. Beverly Chan,Mrs. Emily Price, Manuelita Oiler, Mrs. Kathyleen R. Miller, Mrs. Elsa Bailey, Mrs. Jean M. Wheeler,

and Helen N. Minor. They meet at Building 69 on Roosevelt Avenue.

By number, the class is the 28th super-

visory training group. The names of the

14 students and their records are tucked

into a folder marked, simply, S-28.

Actually the group should be numbered1, for, as far as Personnel officials can

recall, it is the first all-woman group of

supervisors to meet in the Personnel

Bureau's present training conference

program.

The 14 women supervisors, who repre-

sent five different Company-Governmentbureaus, were selected by their division

heads to attend the course. Seven of

them come from the Office of the Comp-troller, three from the Personnel Bureau,

two from the Canal's Library, and oneeach from the Engineering Division andthe Internal Security Branch.

They average 4.1 years as supervisors,

have worked for 11.8 years and have beenCanal employees for 10.5 years, a year

Little Leaguers Learn A Lesson

'»

Boys Brought up in Sunday

School are Seldqmbroughr

up in Court"." Hoover

'&>. fcSUNDA9 SCHOOL

CANAL ZONE Little Leaguers, who will soon be out on their playing fields in full force, gained nation-

wide publicity recently with publication of this photograph. The sign above, which appears each year

along the outfield fence, is a quotation from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. The photograph appeared

first in the Christian Science Monitor and later in newspapers served by the Religious News Service.

less than the average time they have lived

on the Isthmus. They have been meet-ing for two hours each Thursday morningsince October 14; they will finish their

conference program on January 27.

Brodie Burnham, Assistant Training

Officer, who is moderator for the confer-

ences, admitted to The Panama CanalReview, that at the start he had viewedthe idea of the all-woman class with mixedfeelings. Now that they are under way,he not only enjoys being the only manin such a bevy, but finds that he is the

envy of all of the men in the Personnel

Bureau.Conference Same As Men's

The conference outline for the womensupervisors' group is essentially the sameas that which is being followed by four

all-men conference groups which are going

on at the same time. Mr. Burnham said

that he expects that at least one session

will be devoted to problems unique to

women supervisors but, as the conference

subjects are raised by the conferees

themselves, he declined to predict whatthese "unique" problems might be.

Before the five groups— the four mens'groups and the one all-woman group

—

began their training program, they weretested in what personnel experts call a

supervisory opinion survey. The meanscore for the women was exactly that of

the mean score of all five groups—the

women's group plus the four mens' groups

although the men's average supervisory

experience was over twice as long as the

women's.New Cliches

And they have varied the cliches whichtraining officers have come to expect

during the conference sessions. A part

of the conference time is spent in watch-

ing training films. When the movieprojector is brought out the men, almost

invariably, say: "Oh, Marilyn Monroe?"The women don't. They say: "OhGregory Peck?"

The attitude of Personnel officials

toward the women supervisors wasexpressed by E. A. Doolan, Personnel

Director, at the opening meeting when he

described them as "trail blazers."

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW nber 3, 1954

FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GUIDANCEi-A !£

CCIDENT PREVENTION

GIVE US YOUR IDEASWORKING DAZE

NATIONAL sjfcrr COUNCI

HONOR ROLLBureau Award For

BEST RECORDOCTOBER

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

BUREAU

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEARCommunity Services 6

Civil Affairs 3

Engineering and Construction 2

Health 2

Supply 1

MarineTransportation and Terminals

Division Award For

NO DISABLING INJURIES

OCTOBER

MAINTENANCE DIVISION

DREDGING DIVISION

ELECTRICAL DIVISION

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION

STOREHOUSE DIVISION

RAILROAD DIVISION

AIDS TO NAVIGATION

Last year you helped the Canal Zone

Government-Panama Canal Companywin the National Safety Council's Awardof Merit for an outstanding safety record.

It was outstanding and we're all proud of

it. It might be of interest to you to

know also that we won it at a cost of one

man killed and another totally injured

permanently, while 355 employees were

injured seriously enough for them to lose

time from work. Medical and compen-

sation costs for these cases amounted to

over $89,000 in 1953.

Perhaps we've been bragging too muchabout last year's good record. Perhaps we

are taking the attitude that we've finally

reached what we've been striving for and

are starting to ease off a bit on safety

matters. Maybe we're getting in a rut,

like the story of the farmer who parked

his broken down reaper right on the path

his wife took from the hen house to the

kitchen when she gathered eggs.

The first night it was there she fell over

the reaper, barked her shins, and dumpedher eggs, breaking them into an omelet

in the dirt. The next night she took

cartons to pack the eggs in. She didn't

break any eggs that time but she barked

her shins again.

Then her husband "thoughtfully"

bought her a first aid kit to keep her

skinned shins from becoming infected.

Soon she became tired of barking her

shins and took to carrying a lantern. But

that left her with only one free hand to

carry eggs, so she talked the farmer into

mounting a floodlight on a pole, in order

to see where she was going and still have

two hands free to carry eggs.

Just as the farmer and his wife were

congratulating each other on their solu-

tion to the problem their 6-year-old son

AWARDS THIS CALENDAR YEARAids to Navigation 8

Motor Transportation 7

Sanitation 7

Service Center 7

Dredging 5

Electrical 5

Grounds Maintenance 5

Hospitalization and Clinics 3

Industrial 3

Maintenance... 3

Railroad 3

Storehouses 3

Locks -- 1

Navigation. _ 1

CommissaryTerminals

said, "Pop, why didn't you just move the

reaper out of the yard in the first place'.'"

That's what we mean by getting in a

rut. We get so u-ed to doing things a

certain way even when it's dangerous, and

maybe we go to a lot of trouble working

out a way of avoiding danger when some

simple idea such as moving the reaper

would have solved the whole problem.

Let's make an honest effort to "get out

of the rut." Take a look around your

job and come up with some constructive

ideas for preventing accidents. It's just

common sense to reason that a lot of us

working together can accomplish more

than any one of us can single-handed, and

that's certainly true where safety is con-

cerned. No safety man can be expected

to know all there is to know about every-

thing, unless you take the trouble to tell

him. That's why he needs your help,

your knowledge of your job, your experi-

ence with close calls, and your ideas on

safety to help prevent accidents.

Remember that no idea is DUMB.Some ideas may be better than others,

but if you have any ideas or suggestions

for making your job safer for yourself

and your fellow workers pass them along

to your boss. Discuss them with him

when he makes the rounds. Or, ask him

for an Unsafe Report Form and describe,

your ideas on it. Your ideas, or sugges-

tions, will be appreciated and every effort

will be made to institute corrective

measures.

We thank you for taking the time and

interest to read this. We hope you will

give accident prevention lone thought,

and pass along some constructive ideas.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas

and a Happy Year, and let's all makea New Year's resolution to start tin se

ideas rolling in.

OCTOBER 1954

Engineering and Construction Bureau

Supply Bureju

Community Services Bureau

Civil Affairs Bureau

C.Z.Govt.-Panama Canal Co. (This Month I

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

Marine Bureau

Health Bureau

Transportation anJ Terminals Bureau

Number of Disabling Injuries 24

Disabling Injuries per 1,000.000 Man-Hours WorkeJ

( Frequency Rate)

O 10 20 30 40

20 30 40 50

Man-Hours Worked 2,342,600

LEGEM)

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

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

to: o:o. ;.| Accumulative Frequency Rate This Year


PANAMAnStn CANAL

Official

Panama Canal Company Publication

Published Monthly at

BALBOA HEIGHTS, CANAL ZONE

Printed hy the Printing Plant

Mount Mope, Canal Zone

John S. Seybold, Governor-President

H. 0. Paxson, Lieutenant Governor

William G. Arey, Jr.

Public Information Officer

J. Rufus Hardy, Editor

Eleanor H. McIlhenny

Editorial Assistant

SUBSCRIPTION—$1.00 a year

SINGLE COPIES—5 cents each

On sale at all Panama Canal Service Cen-

ters, Commissaries, and Hotels for 10 days

after publication date.

SINGLE COPIES BY MAIL— 10 cents each

BACK COPIES— 10 cents each

On sale when available, from the Vault

Clerk, Third Floor, Administration Building.

Balboa Heights.

Postal money orders should be made pay-

able to the Treasurer, Panama Canal Com-

pany, and mailed to Editor, The Panama

Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

Electrical Field Offices

Accepting Cash Payments

Arrangements have been made for

persons who are entitled to Canal Zone

privileges, but who are not employees of

the Panama Canal Company-Government

to pay cash for private appliance work at

the Electrical Division Field Offices at

the same time that they pick up their

appliances, it has been announced by the

Electrical Division.

The new system becomes effective

December 1 in the Electrical Division

Field Offices, both in Balboa and Cris-

tobal. Work done for Company-Gov-ernment employees will continue to be

charged by payroll deduction.

The changes were made by the Elec-

trical Division following the receipt of a

number of complaints that the old system

was inconvenient and time consuming.

Customers were required to obtain a

receipt from the Field Office, take it to

the nearest collection agency for payment

and then return to the Field Office with

the receipt to collect the appliance.

ELLIS L. FAWCETT, President of the Paraiso Civic Council and Chairman of the Congress of Local

Rate Councils, drew the numbers last month at the Civil Affairs Building for the annual allocation of low

numbers. E. L. Farlow, at the right, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Civil Affairs Director,

holds plate No. 21 which went to Air Force Sgt. Earl Snell of Albrook Air Force Base. Over 1,500 appli-

cations were received from Zonians who wanted low license numbers.

Plans are now being made for the

inauguration of a First Aid Training Prog-ram designed to provide Company-Govern-ment employees with the minimum first

aid training necessary to assist accident

victims.

The program which was approved recently

by the Governor, calls for the selection by

Bureau heads of Safety Inspectors andadditional personnel totaling approximately

28 Company-Government employees whowill participate in the 45-hour Standard

Red Cross Instruction First Aid Course.

After taking this course, these employ-

ees will be classified as instructors and will

then teach a standard six-hour first aid

course to the following: All supervisors

(leaders and above), 10 percent of the

remaining employees and all new employ-

ees working on a 40-hour week basis.

The training of instructors and theinstruction of employees in the six-hour

course will be on Company-Governmenttime and during regular working hours, if

possible.

The program will be coordinated within

the Bureau by the Safety inspectors withover-all Company-Government coordina-tion by the Chief of the Safety Branch,who will be in charge of arrangements for

putting the pioposed program into operation.

The two-decked Panama Canal ferryboatPresidente Porras, which is scheduled to

make at least 32 special trips with tourists

either north or south through Gaillard Cutthis winter, is having her face lifted. In

addition to a complete overhaul of theloudspeaker system, the Presidente Porrasis being painted spanking white. Work wasstarted in November shortly after she wastaken off the Canal ferry run.

The Presidente Porras, which can carryas many as 500 visitors on each trip, will

take the majority of the tourists who areexpected to visit the Isthmus this winter onthe tour through the Cut.

With the exception of the Olympia, a newcruise ship of the Greek Line, all of the 40or more cruise vessels due here during the

dry-season months have visited the Canalpreviously. They will carry from 250passengers, the number expected aboardthe Patricia, clue here December 28, to a

possible 1,500 aboard the giant French Linecruise vessel lie de France, due December30. The Nieuiv Amsterdam, luxury liner

of the Holland-American Line, will lead theparade of cruise ships due in December.She is scheduled to arrive in Cristobal themorning of December 26 on a Christmascruise, with approximately 750 passengers.

The Caronia. the air-conditioned Cunardliner, will bring the season to a close in Maywhen she arrives in Balboa May 2 andmakes the Canal transit northbound follow-

ing a cruise to the Far East.

Arrangements have been made for local-

rate employees who work in the Pacific

Locks or Gatun areas to cash their paychecks in the Paraiso and Chagres Com-missaries to the extent that funds areavailable beyond the normal operatingrequirements, effective with the pay weekof December 6.

Previously this check cashing servicewas rendered by the Treasurer of thePanama Canal Company at the PacificLocks on Tuesdays of the local-rate payweek and at the Gatun Railroad Station onWednesdays of the local-rate pay weekEmployees who work in these areas but

live elsewhere may find it more convenientto cash their checks at the Canal ZoneBranch banks or at various places of busi-ness in Panama or Colon, it was pointed out.

Eighteen I'nited States Representativeshave been visiting or are about to visit theCanal Zone during the current recess of

Congress.First to arrive was Walter M. Mumma,

Republican from Pennsylvania, who cameNovember 10 aboard the SS Panama of thePanama Line and spent 10 days on theIsthmus inspecting various Canal organi-zation activities. He returned to New YorkNovember 20 aboard the SS Ancon.Other Congressmen who visited the Canal

Zone during November were Representa-tive Frank J. Becker, Republican from NewYork; Representative Frank T. Bow,Republican from Ohio; RepresentativeJames A. Byrne, Democrat from Pennsyl-vania; Representative DeWitt S. Hyde.Republican from Maryland; RepresentativeLawrence H. Smith. Republican fromWisconsin; and Representative Thomas B.

Curtis, Republican from Missouri, all of

whom arrived November 18 on the SS .1 neonaccompanied by their wives.

The following Congressmen and their

w ives arrived November 24 aboard the SSCristobal: Representative Oakley Hunter.Republican from California; Representa-tive Clarence J. Brown. Republican fromOhio; Representative William R. Williams,Republican from New York; Representa-tive Paul B. Dague, Republican fromPennsylvania; Representative William G.Wampler, Republican from Yirginia; Repre-sentative D. Bailey Merrill, Republicanfrom Indiana; Representative Ernest K.Bramblett. Republican from California;Representative Edward A. Garmatz, Demo-crat from Maryland and RepresentativeJohn M. Robsion, Jr., Republican fromKentucky.

Representative Leo O'Brien, Democratfrom New York, and Mrs. O'Brien weredue to arrive from New York December 2

aboard the SS Panama and RepresentativeSamuel H. Friedel. Democrat from Mary-land, and Mrs. Friedel are booked for around-trip on the SS Ancon arriving in

Cristobal December 8.


YOUR TOWN

MAKCiAI'ITA today is a far cry from the town it

many of the attractive quarters in the

was a decade ago. Shrubs and flowers now surround

newly-developed sections of the townsite.

A little over 15 years ago Margarita

was only an expanse of rolling hills; unlike

most Canal Zone communities its locale

had not occupied even the most minute

niche in Isthmian history.

Today Margarita is potentially the

Atlantic side's major town, which mayoutpace, in population and importance,

history-laden Cristobal. A year ago

Governor Seybold told Civic Council

representatives that he foresees Margarita

eventually as the Balboa of the Atlantic-

side, under the growing conception of the

Canal Zone as two large urban com-

munities.

Gradually Margarita is being devel-

oped to meet this conception. Thelong-desired swimming pool is now an

item in a future budget; a deposit library

was opened last summer as a branch of

the Canal Zone Library; Margarita is the

only Canal Zone community with two

elementary schools; and other changes to

make the town into a modern major

community are still in the long-range

planning stage.

Named For Island

Indirectly Margarita derived its namefrom the little island which is now Fort

Randolph, but where that island, origin-

ally known as Margarita, got its nameis lost in history.

In 1917 a concrete road was built from

Fort Randolph to Mount Hope. People

had not yet gotten used to the new nameof Fort Randolph and the highway wascommonly known as the Margarita Roadrather than as the Randolph Road.

That same year the Commissary Divi-

sion established a hog farm "in the MountHope district on a point on the newMargarita Road;" the farm, quite natur-

ally, was known as the Margarita HogFarm and its location is where Margarita

now stands.

The road to the Hog Farm led off

Diversion Road about where present 5th

Street runs; for years after the farm was

abandoned (after an outbreak of hogcholera in the late 1920's) this general

.as one of the most popular Lovers'

Lanes on the Atlantic side.

During the decade between 1930 and1940 a Panama Railroad conductor,

(!. G. Boynton -whose hobby was hunt-

ing—used one of the farm's old buildings

as a kennel for his dogs. His lease wascanceled in January 1939 when the

Canal's Third Locks began to emergefrom the planning stage into a moreimminent reality.

Agua Clara Too Hilly

Since the Third Lock's largest single

project was to be the triple flight at

Gatun, it was obvious that there wouldhave to be a settlement reasonably close

by to house the construction forces.

Gatun itself was not suitable but if the

terrain around Agua Clara had been moreto the engineers' liking, Margarita might

never have been developed.

It was not until April 1940 that the

"Mount Hope area" in brackets wasadded: [Margarita Hog Farm] -was

recommended for the Atlantic side's newtownsite. It was more suitable, the

planners felt, than Agua Clara because

it was "oriented for the breeze, better

adapted for road grades and building

sites, with more space for garages and

recreational areas." Furthermore, it

would cost less to develop and be "more

suitable for a permanent future town."

Four months later Margarita's first

buildings were authorized; by Christ-

mastime there were five families living in

Margarita. Margarita's first resident

was C. E. Borgis, a locomotive crane

operator with the Municipal Engineering

Division. The apartment into which he

and his family moved on Christmas Eve

1940, is now occupied by Miss Mary L.

Mehl, a second grade teacher at South

Margarita School.

Firemen And Policemen

Fire and police protection for the vast

array of construction equipment and ma-

terial which was stacked everywhere was

a "must," so into Margarita's first four-

family house moved two policemen,

Gaddis Wall and Isaiah A. MacKenzie,

and two firemen, Lt. W. E. Jones and

E. L. Cotton. Captain Wall now is in

charge of Cristobal's detective force,

Sergeant MacKenzie is retired, and

Captain Jones heads Balboa's fire district

to which Lieutenant Cotton is assigned.

They set out to make other Margarita

pioneers feel welcome. Until the club-

house kitchen was ready, bachelor Mar-garitans "messed" at the fire station.

Behind the police station, on a little hill,

whitewashed stone letters bade newcom-ers: "Welcome to Margarita, C.Z. Police."

As Lieutenant Cotton recalls it, the

first Margaritans were a "good-natured

bunch" who made the best of the mudand the board-walks, construction noises,

and long hour's. Everything but the

sandflies. They were the plague of

Margarita and not to be taken lightly.

Those first residents bought pyrethrum

in 10-pound bags and burned it in their

houses, in bachelor quarters, and in such

public buildings as Margarita had.

Eventually, as the town grew and newinsecticides were developed, sandflies be-

came less of a pest but Margaritans today,

somewhat immune, still see an occasional

PALM trees, which border Margarita's civic center, were only a few feet tall 111 years ago. The post

office is on the far side of the parking lot; the commissary and service center face tun other sides; and

12-fatni!y quarters, the first to !«• occupied in Margarita, are on the fourth side.


MARGARITA

FRANCES MOOMAW, Principal of South

Margarita School

nutlander guest slapping surreptitiously

at legs or ankles.

Town's First Party

By March 1941, Margarita was ready

for its first community affair; the location

was the newly completed fire station.

Some 200 Margaritans and friends turned

out for the party; it was supposed to last

from 7 to 9 p. m., but was still going

strong at 3 a. m.

Margarita, in its early days, was a

town divided by employers- spiritually

and physically. In one section, around

the present community center, were the

homes of Third Locks people and a

handful of others like the policemen,

firemen, clubhouse, and commissary

employees.

A short distance away, where the

Church of the Holy Family and the

Knights of Columbus Hall now stand,

were the homes of the contractors' em-ployees. They lived, for the most part,

in tiny pre-fabricated houses which

everyone called "doll-houses."

"I never saw anything grow like that

Contractor s' area," Captain Wall says

now. "For a while the doll-houses were

popping up faster than one a day."

Years later some of the doll-houses were

sold to the Panama Cement Company;

0. .1. MARCEAU, Manager of Margarita

Service Center

LEALAND LARRISON' is Postmaster

for Margarita

they are still standing in the company's

little town just off the Boyd-Roosevelt

Highway near the cement plant.

Fast-Growing Town

Margarita grew fast, once it started.

From a half a dozen families in Decem-ber 1940, the population increased to

1,032, a fifth of them children, in 1943.

Margarita had its own hospital, only

recently demolished, quarters for the

hospital staff, a commissary, clubhouse,

post office, gymnasium, elementary school

and kindergarten. For years all con-

struction halted at Espave—named for

one of Panama's largest forest trees which

abound in this area—and 3d Streets.

The exception was Ghost Hill on the

high ground not far from Fort Gulick

where Lychee Street was built later. It

was a smallish clearing, surrounded byjungle, with a dozen or so houses, and a

lonely place to be on foot patrol at night,

Captain Wall remembers.

Although Margarita was definitely a

construction town, it was fairly well-

behaved. There were incidents, to be

sure, and some funny and unprintable

ones, but by and large there was remark-

ably little of people poking other people

in the nose or bottle parties which wenton to all hours.

At first Margaritans had to go "to

town" Cristobal or Colon for their

fun. Some of them belonged to the

Progressive Dance Club which met regu-

larly at the Hotel Washington. Thencame the still-flourishing Margarita Recre-

ation Association which was the subject

of a Review story in June 1953 and which

has sponsored everything from dances to

picnics to hobby groups to Scout Shacks.

It once even had its own weekly news-

paper, whose slogan was: "All the news

that fits we print."

With the cessation of the Third Locks

project, old Margaritans say, the town"practically died." The contractors

people packed up and went away; the

Third Locks force was cut to a clean-up

squad. But Margarita's population in

1944 was 854, which doesn't sound very

moribund.

It wasn't long before Atlantic siders

began to see the advantages of suburban

living; despite gasoline rationing a shift

HELEN' RUSHING, Principal of North

Margarita School

in population from Cristobal to Margarita

began during the last of the war years.

This was spurred still further in 1945

when 11 new two-story, two-family,

houses were built in the Casuarina and

Hevea Place neighborhood.

New Quarters

When Margarita got its first on-the-

ground masonry houses, in 1948, close to

a thousand people turned out to inspect

them. The Chief Quartermaster, then

the Grand Mogul of Housing, later wrote

their occupants asking what they thought

of the new houses. Their replies were

highly complimentary.

In 1950 Margarita began to boom.Barracks which had housed Third Locks

bachelors were demolished to make roomfor Margarita's le-development. Thetownsite was extended and new houses

began to appear. The first of these were

occupied in October 1951.

Today, Margarita is bounded, more or

less, by a horseshoe made up of Espave

and Margarita Avenues, on the east and

west. Its numbered streets run, also

more or less, north and south.

Margarita, which has little past, is a

town with a future. It has the most

modern elementary school building in the

Canal Zone. Two churches (See page li)

E. T. HARPER. Manager of the Margaritai iommissary

10 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW December 3, 1954

Up And Down The Banks Of The Canal

Transportation and Terminals Engineering And Construction Personnel Bureau

The Panama Railroad really hod its hands

full «r should it be its curs full, passenger-

during the first purl of November when

trans-Isthmian travel was heavy because oj

Panama's National holidays.

q„ \ iIon Day, the Railroad

ried 1,818 passengers. Of these 1,404

were first class passengers- they included 2d4

military personnel and dependents per the

transport Gibbins and 3,414 were second-

class passengers.• • •

Tourist season always brings busy times

for the railroad and this year it got under

way exceptionally early. On November 9,

the Railroad handled a tourist special of

six coaches for 372 tourists from the SS

"Ryndam." They made the trip through

the Cut by boat, were delayed at Pedro

Miguel because of heavy rain, and arrived

back at shipside at the Cristobal Docks

just 20 minutes before the 7 p. m. sailing

time.

• • •There .ire, already, five tourist specials

lined up for December, all lor the end ol

the month.On the day after Christmas, Panama

Tours has reserved a special for approxi-

mately 400 tourists from the SS Nieitie

Amsterdam and another two days later, on

December 28, for about 200 tourists from

the Queen of Bermuda.Persons Travel Bureau has two tour

parties on December 28, one for the SS

Patricia and the other for the SS Maasdum.

On December 30, Persons Travel Bureau

has lined up a special for approximately 350

tour'sts from the SS lie de France.

• • •

Pier 18 at Balboa is getting its face—well,

anyway, its midsection—relifted.

'The' door of the center longitudinal bay

of the pier's covered section is brick paving,

set in coral fill on original ground. Over the

vears this center bay has settled as much as

two feet in some places, probably because of

the lateral movement of the supporting dirt.

The floor system of the other covered bays and

the deck areas on each side of the covered area

is of concrete-beam-and-girder construction

supported on concrete caissons.

Since 1925, when the settlement became

troublesome, there have been scleral studies

on corrective measures to be taken and several

m hemes have been proposed. It has now been

decided to install a floating slab over the

sunken midsection and then repair the settled

concrete in the entranceway. The 'work is

now being accomplished.

J

JOHN F. HERN

Mrs. lulu R. Driscoll, Assistant to the

Personnel Director, has been granted a year's

lea r of absence and is now in the frilled

Si, ties for medical treatment. During her

absence, ' ordon M. Prick will take over her

duties.

• • •

New members of the Personnel Bureau

Include Mr-. Doris F. Schirmer, of LagunaBeach, Calif., and Mrs. Doris M. Busse\,

ol Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. Schirmer is a

Clerk-Typist in the Wage and Classification

Division and Mrs. Bussey a Clerk-Stenou-

rapher in the Employment Branch.

• • •

.1 nd two other members of the Personnel

Bureau are leaiing soon. Mrs. Betty J.

Thomas. Clerk-Stenographer in the office of

the Chief of the Employment and Utilization

Division, will lea e soon with her husband,

who is being reassigned to Fort Bliss, in

El Paso, Bex., and Mrs. Shirley I. Shiiiu.

Clerk- Typist in the Placemen! and Records

Branch, is also departing with her husband.

The Shinns will go to Fort Monmouth. X. J.

Marine Bureau

The U. S. Navy's net-tender, USS Hazel.

was delegated to the Industrial Division

1,1-1 month for general overhaul, drydocking

ami alterations. This is one of the sizable

jobs undertaken by this division this

fiscal vear.

Oilier Industrial Division work was the

overhaul and drydocking of the tug Arrai-

l,ni. which wax started during the month,

anil the redecking, drydocking, and general

overhaul of the ferry President Roosevelt

• • •

Capt. John Andrews, Cristobal Port

I aptain. had a surprise last month. He was

nisi about to call it quits for the day, on

November 1", when some 4(1 employees andfriends converged on his office. The subse-

quent rendition of " Happy Birthday" mayhave left something to be desired, melodically

speaking, hut it was done with enough vigor

In make up for any lock of musical qualities.

Snacks, and similar refreshments, took the

place of the traditional birthday cake

• • •

Charles T. Jackson, Jr., Administrative

Assistant in the office of the Marine Direc-

tor, and his daughter, Marilyn Priscilla,

almost 2, are having their annual problemwhat to ask for for Christmas and what to

ask for for their joint birthday. Christmas

and birthday being identical for both, they

occasionally feel that they are being short-

changed.

John F. Hern, of the Roofing and Sheet

Metal Shop of the Maintenance Division in

Balboa, was receiving congratulations from

his friends and associates last month. Hehad completed a course in Radio, Television,

and Electronics.

His two years of work and his successful

passing of all required examinations in this

technical and practical course of study was

acknowledged by the National Schools,

Los Angeles, with a letter of praise for his

work. A diploma, of course, was sent by

the school.

• • •

The craneboat Atlas which was placed in

a standbv reserve status and tied up at

Gamboa last month, ended its working days

in a blaze of business.

Not long before the craneboat went nut

of active sen ice, it carried 157 students and

teachers from the Dr. Belisario Porras

School and 155 pupils and teachers from the

Justo Arosemena School—both in the

Republic of Panama—on a trip through

Gaillard Cut from Pedro Miguel Locks to

1 '.amboa.

• • •

The tug "Culebra" also got into the

sightseeing business. The tug was used

to transport ib teachers rom the town of

Nata on a trip through the Cut.

• • •

The drill barge Vulcan went into oper-

ation the night of November 8 to drill pieces

of a large slab of rock which broke from the

face of Contractors Hill and fell into the

west side of the Canal channel. This was

finished in eight davs but late in the month

the Vulcan was called out again to drill

pieces from the second bank break ol the

month.• • •

During November a number of get-

togethers were held after work by Mainte-

nance Division employees to say "GoodLuck" and "Bon Voyage" to three fellow

workmen who were returning to the

United States.

Joseph Smith and Antone Long, both

plumbers, had worked in the Northern

District; H. E. Filgren had been employed

in the Roofing and Sheet Metal Shop in

the Southern District.

Community Services Bureau

Within a few days now Christmas decora-

tions will be going up in the Tivoli Cues!

House, Hotel Washington, and oilier units

of the Service Center Division.

• • •

The former town of Red Tank has becomea teakwood plantation. Over half of the

vacated Red Tank townsite has now beenplanted in teak trees about 750 of them -

according to Walter R. Lindsay, Chief of

the Grounds Maintenance Division, underwhose supervision the Experiment Gardensat Summit have conducted local propaga-

tions of teak trees for a number of years.

The teak, or tectoria grandis, is a native

of Southeastern Asia or Malaya, and dueto its fast growth it is planted in the tropics

for foresting and timber purposes.

• • •

A small unit of the Service Center Divi-

sion was opened last month at the CocoSolo Hospital. It is located in the hospital

annex, across the patio and to the rear of

the hospital.

Itemx available there are magazines andsuch merchandise as toilet articles, cigar-

ettes. Hot and cold sandwiches, desserts,

and hot and cold beverages are also sold.

• • •

Special Christmas dinners will be served

at the Tivoli Guest House, the Hotel

Washington, and the various Service

Centers. The managers will be glad to

give information as to time and price.

For those who prefer to stay at home for

their holiday dinners but who dislike the

idea of "standing over a hot stove," the

Guest House, Washington, and Service

Centers effer a turkey-roasting service.

It includes stuffing the beast, too.

Supply Bureau

Mel, 111 Bierman, 'Traffic Engineer, returned

recently from Kansas City, Mo., where he

attended the annual meeting of the Institute

of Traffic Engineers. Phi 450 people who

attended Hie Institute represented 35 stales,

the District of Columbia, Canada, ami

England.

He reported that technical sessions and

shop talk kept them busy during the daytime

hilt that in the eienings social activities

eliminated all thoughts of speeds, volumes.

and accidents.

Paul II. Friedman, Assistant Director of

the Supply Bureau, combined business andpleasure on a recent trip to the States. For

the last week of his stay he was on dutywith the New York Office of the PanamaCanal Company.

• • •

Thomas G. Retiltan, formerly manager of

the Wholesale Drygoods Department of the

Commissary Division, has assumed the

duties of Superintendent of the General

Products Branch, a position formerly held by

Furl C. Tare, who retired September 30.

Mr. Relihan is being replaced by VincentI. 1 1 uber. who has assumed the duties of

Acting Manager of the Wholesale Drygoods

Department.

December 3, 1954 THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 11

Governor-President's Office

The story of the Panama Canal, withemphasis on the safety angle, was given aprominent play in the October issue ofNational Safety News, copies of whichreached the Canal Zone last month.

Unsafe practices were plentiful andprotective equipment scarce during theconstruction days, the lengthy story re-

ported. From 1904 to the end of theconstruction period in 1914, accidental

deaths totaled 1,219. This contrastssharply with modern safety days, for in the

13-year period from 1940 through 1953,

there was a total of 127 deatl'^.

"The Safety Story of the Panama Canal.

'The Land Divided and the World United,""

is illustrated with seven pictures, including

an aerial view of Miraflores locks, pictures

taken during locks overhaul, and several

construction-day photographs.

All matters dealing with military person-

nel attached to the Canal organization are

now being handled by Maj. David Smith,

Military Assistant to the Governor.

Another step toward modernization andefficiency was taken by the AdministrativeBranch last month when it abolished the

spittoons which for 35 years had cluttered

the floor of its big office on the second floor

of the Balboa Heights AdministrationBuilding.

This decision was reached only after a

survey revealed that there has been a

marked decline in the number of employeeswho chew tobacco or use snuff.

• • •

The French Ambassador to Panama,Monsieur Lionel ]'asse, and Madame Vasse

were conducted on a tour of Contractors Hill

last last month by the 1 overnor's Military

Assistant. The French Ambassador remark-

ed that work was certainly progressing morerapidly than in the days when the French were

working in the same general location with

pick and shovel.

Office Of The Comptroller

Russell E. George, Bennett J. Williams,

and Robert F. Roche, all of the Payroll

Branch, took part in the Panama MarlinClub Tournament at Pinas Bay last month.They boated a total of eight sailfish andraised three marlin on the nine-day trip.

Of course you should have seen the ones

that got away!• • •

Appraisal Staffers never do things by

halves; sometimes they do them by doubles,

so no one was too much surprised when Bruce• laze reported in with news of twin boys,

Allan and Keith, 5 pounds and 9 ounces

and 5 pounds, respectively. ! nry, 12, andBrenda, 8, thought the idea of two brothers

at once a fine one.• • •

One of the Canal Zone's BarbershopQuartets has become a trio with the

departure of Daniel Slater, of the Plant

Inventory and Appraisal Staff. He andhis family left recently to make their homein Texas.

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Christmas Coming?

What about gift subscriptionsto The Panama Canal Reviewas presents for friends and familyin the States?

Make out your lists and sendthem, together with $1 MoneyOrder (payable to the Treasurer,Panama Canal Company) for

each subscription to the Editor,

The Panama Canal Review,Balboa Heights.

An attractive gift card bearingyour name will be sent to eachof those persons to whom yoursubscriptions are to go.

Civil Affairs Bureau Health Bureau

JACK F. MORRIS, sergeant of the Canal ZonePolice, takes notes as a technician in the FBI national

laboratory examines a suspected murder weapon for

bloodstains. Sergeant Morris was a member of the

54th Session <>f the FBI National Academy fromwhich he was graduated November Id.

Two Canal Zone Fire Division officials,

(apt. Arthur J. Troup and Capt. WilliamE. Jones, received high honors from theRepublic of Panama on November 28,

Panama's Bomberos' Day.Captain Troup, Chief of the Fire Division,

was presented with the Golden Medal of

Panama, and Captain Jones, District Com-mander of the Balboa Fire District, withthe Silver Medal. The medals were pre-sented in recognition of assistance and aidrendered Panama's Fire Corps.

Captain Troup has just finished 30 yearsservice with the Canal organization andCaptain Jones is in his 26th year.

The Panamanian awards were made dur-ing an official reception which was arrangedunder the direction of Comandante RaulArango of the Cuerpo de Bomberos.

Ft. Ernest F. Cotton of the hire Divisionattended a Civil Defense Fire Conference in

Atlanta, Co., early last month. Later hemade a quick trip to Rock Stream. Y. 1"., to

visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frnest C.

Cotton, former Zonians.Mr. Cotton. Sr., who retired two years ago

after many years service with the Mount Hop?Printing Plant, is well known also tinder the

pen name of Doc Atmy, Jr., under which he

wrote sport news for years.

The shops at the Canal Zone Penitentiaryare beginning to resemble Santa's work-shop. Convicts, who have won the privi-

lege through good behaviour, are sawing,hammering, painting, and otherwise fash-

ioning colorful toys for Christmas distribu-

tion to poor and needy children on theIsthmus. Under the supervision of Police-

man Karl D. Glass, they are making dolls,

wagons, toy animals, jigsaw puzzles, fire

engines, and numerous other articles.

The project is part of the penitentiary's

rehabilitation program; this is its third year.

Materials for the toys are bought withmoney from the Convicts Welfare Fund or

are received from donations from residents

of Panama and the Canal Zone.

For those Zonians who want to be sure

that their mail is delivered in the UnitedStates before Christmas Day, December 3

is the latest date for mailing cards andpackages by ship mail. Ship mail posted

by December 10 may reach its destination

in time, provided it does not get caught in

a bottleneck in one of the large U. S. cities.

Air-mail cards and packages should beposted in the Canal Zone not later thanDecember 17, to insure Christmas delivery.

Mrs. Marion 1 >. Wells, of Balboa, is

presently serving as secretary in the office

of the Chief, Postal, Customs, and Immigra-tion Division, during the absence on leave of

Mrs. Joyce C. Hudson.

Dr. John IF. Gayles, a former member ofthe Colon Hospital medical staff, is expectedto return to the Isthmus this month to jointhe staff of the Coco Solo Hospital. He wasemployed by the Health Bureau in 1949 and1950, and since that time has been practicingmedicine in Texas.

A native of Fort Worth, he is a graduateof Southern Methodist University and ofBaylor Medical College. He served in theArmy during World War II, from 1944 to

l»4o. Mrs. Gayles and their two youngdaughters will accompany him to the CanalZone.

• • •

Nurses are now on duty in the emergencyroom attached to the Receiving Desk atGorgas Hospital, and in all the GorgasHospital out-patient clinics. Within thenear future nurses will also be assigned tothe emergency room attached to the Receiv-ing Desk at Coco Solo Hospital.

• • •

Two new clerks, one of whom worked forthe Canal organization previouslv, havebeen employed in the Admitting Office atGorgas Hospital. They are ReginaldHayden, formerly a clerk with the PersonnelBureau and the Administrative Branch, andMrs. Maureen Picard-Ami, whose husband,Dr. Luis Picard-Ami is an intern on theGorgas Hospital staff.

• • •

Dr. Amadeo Mastellari is back on the jobas Chief of the Chest Service at Corgas Hos-pital after a trip to Europe. He attendedtwo medical conferences on tuberculosis, heldin Spain. One of the conferences was inMadrid and the other in Barcelona.

The basketball season of the Canal Zoneschools got off to a fast start with the open-ing game on November 23 between JuniorCollege and Cristobal High School. Basket-ball will be the game until mid-January,when it will be replaced with dry season'sbaseball.

• • •

The Canal Zone Museum recentlyreceived three very interesting historicalarticles from Frank I. Clark, of Wabash,Ind. Mr. Clark, who is a retired employee,gave the Museum a briquette of test con-crete from Miraflores and Pedro MiguelLocks; the commission, signed by PresidentWoodrow Wilson and Secretary of StateWilliam Jennings Bryan, miking DavidMarks a member of the Joint Land Com-mission; and a United States passportissued to Mr. Marks in 1913. The articles,whose presentation was made througharrangement of Fred deV. Sill, are nowon display.

• • •

Alumni '36 of the La Boca AlumniAssociation are sponsoring a series of inter-esting lectures on cultural topics, presentedby different speakers each month. October'sspeaker was Dr. Rodolfo Y. Young ofGorgas Hospital, who addressed the groupon the subject of tuberculosis.

On November 28 a special program ofThanksgiving music was given at the Pacific-

Service Center for the benefit of the Chor-rillo fire victims. The program was pre-sented by the La Boca Alumni Glee Club,under the direction of Miss Emily Butcher.

Alfred C. Bushell, secretary of Alumni'36, and an employee of the Canal ZoneLibrary, has announced that because of theholidays there will be no program in Decem-ber. In January, at a date to be announcedlater, Frank Wilder of the Internal SecurityBranch, will talk on Communism.

Motion pictures on the subject of eachmonth's talk, supplied by the United StatesInformation Service, accompany eachprogram.

The Corozal elementary school, one of

the first to be opened in the Canal Zone,

was closed in November, 1915.

In December, 1904, the Canal force

totaled 5,500 employees.

The United States District Court at

Ancon moved into its present building

in February, 1916.


Forty Years Ago School Patrols Top Space Patrols

In November In Minds Of Canal Zone's Students

Although slides had halted Canaltraffic twice in a period of less than a

month, the number of ships which tran-

sited and the amount they paid in tolls

increased monthly. Tolls, since the

Canal had been opened on August 15,

passed the $1 million mark on Novemberis. in years ago. The total tonnagesince the Canal was opened was also over

the million mark.

[ccordinq to The Canal Record, (jrain

from North Pacific ports of the United

States to Europe had so far made up the

largest single item of cargo carried through

thi' Canal. < >irr five million bushels of

barley and wheat had transited aboard 17

ships. The next most frequently carried

cargo icas nitrates from the West Coast of

South America.

The 250-ton crane Ajax, which hadbeen built in Germany, towed across the

Atlantic and assembled in the CanalZone, was placed in service in Novemberl')14. Its first job was removal from the

Canal of the hull of the drill barge

Teredo, which had been sunk in anexplosion in July.

DENNIS HHADSHAW, Ancon School sixth grader, is on patrol duty when Ancon students make the

daily trip to the Tivoli Guest House for lunch.

Outside of being an engineer on the

Panama Railroad or perhaps a pilot of a

jet plane, the position most coveted byCanal Zone Elementary School children

Your Town—Margarita

STARFORD I. CHURCHILL and Lt. JAMES BAKTLKTT head Margarita's fire-fighting force.

m Pagi 9) serve Mar-garita and land has been assigned for

three others. The Elks and the Knights

of Columbus have their own buildings,

as do the Veterans of Foreign Wars.The Atlantic Side Saddle Club, the

Brazos Rrook Country Club, the Cris-

tobal dun Club, and the Colon HumaneSociety's kennels are practically next door.

Its Civic Council, consolidated with

that of Cristobal, is an ardent advocate of

Margarita's progress. One of its latest

ts is a Teenage Club, in a building

recently assigned by the Governor. It

is being refurbished by the youngsters andsome parents and will be run by the

teenagers, with a Civic Council com-

mittee standing ready to give advice,

when asked.

Margarita's town Hallowe'en parties

are famous and its Fourth of July cele^

bration serves the people of the Atlantic

side. Its town spirit has kept pace with

its growth. One old-time Margaritan

has a peculiar thermometer for both.

"See those palm trees," he said the

other day, "they were not over a couple

of feet high when I came here 14 years

ago. Now some of them are topping 30

feet. That's the way Margarita has

grown, too."

these days is that of School Safety

Patrolman.

These young men -and young wom-en—who wear Sam Browne belts and

safety patrol arm bands occupy a position

of trust and responsibility. They must

come to school early. They have a short

lunch hour and stay at school longer than

their classmates in the afternoon, but they

love it, and they take their duties

seriously.

Working as a group, sometimes under

the leadership of a captain and a lieu-

tenant, the patrolmen must learn the

safety rules of the school and have a

general knowledge of the Canal Zone

traffic regulations. At no time are they

supposed to leave the curb and step into

the street. On busy corners, they assist

the Canal Zone police officers who are on

duty to direct traffic.

Special Duties

Special duties, such as the patrol of the

street corners to be crossed by the AnconElementary School children who go to

the Tivoli Guest House for lunch, have

been worked out by the various schools

as the need arises. Sometimes they are

given jobs as ushers at school functions,

monitors during fire drills, or safety

guards at the playgrounds during recess.

In most schools, the members of the

Safety Patrol are chosen by the teachers

and the principal from pupils in the

fourth, fifth, and sixth grades on the

basis of scholarship, behavior, and on

all-around good citizenship. In some of

the schools, the patrol members are

selected by the students themselves.

The number of patrolmen at each

school is governed by the size of the

school and the number of safety hazards

which exist in the area.

AAA Backs Patrols

The Balboa Elementary School, for

instance, has an enrollment of more than

1,000 children and is situated near busy

street corners. The school has 14 patrol-

men, headed by a captain and a lieu-

tenant, each of whom serve a one-month

tour of duty during the school year.

The Cristobal Elementary School, on

the other hand, has hardly any traffic

problems and uses only four patrolmen.


ANNIVERSARIES

SENIORITY of one day puts AltonWhite, Chief of the Canal's Dredging Divi-sion, at the head of this month's list ofanniversaries. His service date is Novem-ber 1 1, 1924, a day ahead of that of JamesB. Crane, who, in turn, is senior to JosephE. Moore by one day. Along with GeorgeA. Wills, they completed 30 years ofGovernment service in November.

Born in Pascagoula, Miss., Alton Whitegrew up in the Canal Zone and went throughelementary and high school here. His first

Canal job was as a helper in the MechanicalDivision. He joined the Dredging Divisionas ,i recorder in 1925 and moved up steadilyin thai organization, which he has headedfor four years. As Chairman of the Cam-paign Committee of the Community Chesthe has been much in the public eye recently.

James B. Crane, another 30-year man in

November, was a Bostonian and is now aQuarantine Inspector with the NavigationDivision. Most of his Government servicewas « iih the Navy; he was a Chief Pharma-cist's Mate for 21 years. Later he workedwith Navy Public Works and joined theCanal organization in 1948.

Joseph E. Moore, whose service with thePanama Canal is continuous, comes fromDallas, Tex. He has worked at many of

the Canal Clubhouses, now Service Centers,and is presently a relief manager. Hispresent assignment is Gamboa.

Like Mr. Crane, George A. Wills is aMassachusetts man; he comes from Revere.Now a supervisor in sheet metal work for theMaintenance Division, (Sei page 14)

Ten Years AgoIn November

In the humorous side of the news, three

high school boys stole the rope from the

Administration Building's flagpole so that

they could ring the school bell— considered

a great feat in those days. It wasn't so

funny when they icere fined $10 each.

Don 't go on States vacation unless you

are certain of transportation back, Gov-ernor J. C. Mehaffey told Zonians, in

effect. In more formal language in a

general memorandum, he warned that

transportation was still difficult to obtain

and added; "There will be no priorities

(for Canal employees) and vacations will

be extended only when the continued

absence of the employee will not adversely

affect the operations in which he is

engaged."

Zonians were also affected by other

wartime measures, 10 y.-ars ago last month.

All air-mail packages had to be inspected

before mailing, to detect any explosive,

inflammable, or other unmailable matter;

a practice alert brought out all C. Z. civil

defense workers and put the military on an

alert status; Air Force planes bombed Bal-

boa, but their missiles were facsimile U. S.

Savings Bonds advertising the start of the

Sixth War Loan Drive.

Twenty-six local-rate families movedinto the newly reopened town of Paraiso

during November 1944. Paraiso, which

dated back to construction days, had

been used by the Army as a post dining

most of the World War II years; it had

been returned to the Canal, for use as a

civilian community, earlier in 1944.

IF YOU HAVEN'T, most of your Christmas shopping done by now, you're just like the rest

of us. So here goes with the annual roundup of suggestions for gifls for him and her and them.Bui before we start, let's talk about a few very special items. First, did you ever heat

of Advent calendars? Made abroad, they are slreel scenes, church exteriors, etc., onheavy cardboard. Windows and doors are numbered for ihe days between December 1

and Christmas Day. Each day you open one and see what's inside, with the Chrislmas Daywindow having the besl display of all. If they delight your youngsters as much as theydelighted ihe commissary people who ordered them you should enioy this holiday season.The calendars will be in the stores any time now and will be 50 cenls or less.

Anc thsr nostalgic item is what are known as 'filling toys." They are hollow cardboardSanlas or snow men or skiers, or what-have-you. Concealed in their bases is space to fill

with gumdrops or somelhing cf the sort. They'll be 20 to 70 cenls each.And finally: How silly can you gel? The commissaries have ladies' pipes, but not ihe

kind Mammy Yokum smokes. Called Lady Medico, the pipes sell for $1.45 each, or $3.65for a set which has a zippered pouch and fillers, along with the pipe.

And now down to business:

FOR HIMUnder $5: Alligator billfolds, keycases, or belt;, made from Panama's own "caimanes,"

Hickok jewelry, like very modern-looking tie bars and cufflinks, and handsome diamond-shaped pearl studs,- brush-kils, which are a good stiff clothesbrush wilh a zippered top whichholds a razor, nailfile, comb, toothbrush along with lillle tubes of shaving cream and tooth-

paste, sleeveless orlon sweaters, in a variety of good looking colors like green heather,for instance.

$5 to $10: Camisilla jackets, which some people call guayaberas, made in Panama,about $5.95, new and striking Arrow shirts, like "Collectors' Items," handscreened prints

inspired by famous architectural motifs, a Venetian Lion is one ; or "Key West," which is

a blend of silk and acetate in a nubbly weave and properly manly colors; travel alarm clocks;

bar accessories,- Ronson cigarette lighters; golf bags, and smoking stands.

$10 and up: Cashmere sweaters, long-sleeved pullovers for $19.75, or sleeveless,

but also pullovers, $15.25; fishing rods and reels,- Thermos ice pails,- Benrus watches,- Ham-ilton-Beach mixers—and if you ihink thal's a sissy present, just gel him one and see what hewhips up; Sunbeam electric razors, luggage, and, if you really wanl to go all out, combina-tion radio-phonographs or record players.

FOR HERUnder $5: Can-can petticoats, black, with ruffles edged in rose and pink, or white,

wilh pink and blue-green edged flounces, $3.35; Seam-Prufe petlicoals of nylon tricot, in

while with red ruffles, also $3.35; acetate pajamas, |usl the ihing for the teenage girl, in

misses sizes—one of them has a mandarin collai, and is prinled all over with fan; and butterflies,

$2.75; small clutch bags wi.h compact, comb, and mirror, some in satin, others in velvet or

suede, $2.75 to $4.65, lace-lrimmed chiffon evening handkies, 80 cents to $1.50.

$5 to $10: All kinds of nylon tricot lingerie, like gowns, trimmed with lace or embroid-ered chiffon, in while and pink, $5.50 to $8.95,- dress-length nighties, made by Mo|ud of

nylon tricot, in colors like Blue Heaven, Sea Spray, or Petal Pink, $4.75 to $7.25, "shorlie"

gowns, lace trimmed on an all-over flower print, $5.45; dusters, which wouldn't shed a bit

of dust but which would make a gal look mighty glamorous at the bieakfast table (they areshort housecoats without buttons), of nylon chiffon, wilh lace or ruffle trim, $7.95 to $8.95,

mesh bags, $6.95 up, electric travel irons; Lady Buxlon wallets (some of these are under

$5, too)

$10 and up: Radios, for use beside her bed, or anywhere else she wants; Benruswatches; electric frying pans,- Sunbeam toasters,- vacuum cleaners; silver services for coffee

or tea/ waffle irons, now known as "Waffle-Bakers/' automatic electric irons, plated andsterling silverware.

FOR THEMUnder $5: Simon & Schuster's Golden Bocks for children, like the "Book of Trains,"

the "Make-It Book, 75 cents to $3.75,- gift-boxed, Cannon and Dundee towel sets, some cf

them with brilliants set in, and they aren't supposed to scratch a bit, Ronson and Zippolighters, flashlights, gadget bags, liquor sets,- cutlery sets; boudoir lamps,- piclure frames;

glass punch sets; open stock English lead crystal.

$5 to $10: Cannon sheet and pillowcase sets—one set has a pastel green sheet,

double-bed size, with a flowered border and matching, flower-sprinkled pillowcases,

$7.25,- smoking stands, triple-layer vanadium stainless steel cooking utensils, hassocks, steak

sets; table lamps with shades; Haeger pottery; Imperial candlewick glassware; copper-

bottom Revere-ware.

$10 and up: All sorts of electric equipment for a kitchen, dinner sets, Heywood-Wake-field maple furniture, lawn chairs, wool-rayon rugs; pressure cookers; and, for a luxury

present that really is one: Bates Heirloom bedspreads, in the Queen Elizabeth pattern

which defies this column's power of description but which looks as if it were embossed, in

white, aqua, soft yellow, and other muled colors, twin or double bed size, at about $25 each.

sworn into the Army,

rank of Colonel.

They received the

At a ceremony at Quarry Heights, Frank

H. Wang, the Canal's Executive Secretary,

and L. W. Lewis, Chief Quartermaster, were

Another military item was the an-

nouncement that former Gov. G. E.

Edgerton had been awarded the Dis-

tinguished Service Medal for "exception-

ally meritorious and distinguished service

in a position of great responsibility fromJuly 11, 1940 to April 19, 1944." Thedates were those of his tour of duty as

Governor of The Panama Canal.


PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERSANNIVERSARIES

October 15 Through November 15

Employees who were promoted or trans-

ferred between October 15 and NovemberIS are listed below. Regradings and within-

grade promotions are not listed.

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH

Sidney Temple, from Housing Manage-ment Aid, Housing Division, to File Clerk.

Records Section.

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU

Elvis H. Robsrtson, from Guard, Atlantic

Locks, i" Fireman, Fire Division.

Mrs. Frances E. Huber, Mrs. Elizabeth

B. Keigley, from Substitute Teacher to Kin-

dergarten Assistant, Division of Schools.

OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER

Leo L. Presho, from Tabulating MachineOperator to Tabulating Machine Operation

Supervisor, Payroll Branch.

Adelia J. Shacklett, from Clerk-Typist,

Central Typing and Clerical Unit, to

Accounting Clerk, Agents Accounts Branch.

Ira N. C. Reed, from Supervisory Ac-

counting As-.isiant, Gorgas Hospital, to

Supervisory Accounting Clerk, Accounting1 )i\ ision.

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTIONBUREAU

Louis H. Charles, from Painter Foreman.Maintenance Division, to Construction

Inspector, Contract and Inspection Division.

William F. Bartholomew, from Chief

Senior Engineer, Craneboat Atlas, to Chief

Engineer, Pipeline Suction Dredge, Dredg-ing Division.

Mrs. Carol G. Rigby, from Clerk-Typist

to Clerk (Typist), Electrical Division.

Glenn H. Burdeck, from Clerk (Typist)

to Clerical Assistant. Electrical Division.

Frederick S. Baumbach, from Painting

Supervisor to Painter Foreman, Mainte-nance Division.

Everette N. Clouse, Combination Welder,

from Maintenance Division to DredgingDivision.

Mrs. Lorine C. Meyer, from Clerk. Main-tenance Division, to Accounting Clerk,

Water and Laboratories Branch.

Henry T. Carpenter, from Constructionand Maintenance Supervisor, MaintenanceDivision, to Maintenance Foreman, CocoSolo Hospital.

Leon M. Warren, Architectural Engineer,

from Maintenance Division to EngineeringDivision.

Daniel M. Eggleston, from PlanningEngineer, Office of Engineering and Con-struction Director, to Assistant to Design-ing Engineer, Engineering Division.

Nelson E. Wise, from Assistant to Main-tenance Engineer, Maintenance Division,

to Planning Engineer, Office of Engineeringand Construction Director.

Charles J. Connor, from Foreman, Pipe-

line Suction Dredge to Drill Barge Master,Dredging Division.

Slaughter H. Sharpensteen, from Tow-ing Locomotive Operator, Pacific Locks, to

Drill Runner, Dredging Division.

Victor C. Melant, from Accounting Clerkto Drill Runner, Dredging Division.

Walter W. Carlson, from Guard Super-visor to Drill Barge Blaster. DredgingDivision.

Claud M. Kreger, from Pump Operator,Pipeline Suction Dredge, to Drill Runner,I Iredging l)i\ ision.

HEALTH BUREAU

Mrs. Ellen F. Husum, Clerk-Typist, fromOffice of Health Director to Gorgas Hos-pital.

Mrs. Vivian E. Zimmerman, from Kinder-garten Assistant, Division of Schools, to

Medical X-ray Technician, Gorgas Hos-pital.

Mrs. Rosamond T. Doran, from Com-missary Checker, Commissary Division, to

Clerk, Gorgas Hospital.

Mrs. Mary C. Robertson, from Usher and

Ticket Seller, Service Center Division, to

Clerk, Coco Solo Hospital.

Mrs. Leah H. Blakeley, from Steward(Trainee), Service Center Division, to

Supervisory Steward, Coco Solo Hospital.

Richard O. Burgoon, from Accountant,Internal Audit Staff, to Hospital Admin-istrative Assistant, Gorgas Hospital.

Mrs. Lynda Q. Bailey, from Clerk-Typist, Atlantic Medical Clinics, to Clerk,

Coco Solo Hospital.

Mrs. Allene Cassell, Clerk, from Atlantic

Medical Clinics to Coco Solo Hospital.

Mrs. Anita B. Collins, from Clerk-Typist,Coco Solo Hospital, to Clerk, AtlanticMedical Clinics.

MARINE BUREAU

Curtis L. Mullins, Elwood E. Compton,Irom Tractor-Bulldozer Operator, Mainte-nance Division, to Towing LocomotiveOperator, Pacific Locks.

Glenn E. Storm, from Plumber, Mainte-nance Division, to Towing LocomotiveOperator, Pacific Locks.

Joseph D. Foulkes, from Towing Loco-motive Operator, Atlantic Locks, to DockForeman, Navigation Division.

Richard L. Pennington, from Lock Oper-ator (Machinist), Atlantic Locks, to Tool-maker, Industrial Division.

SUPPLY BUREAU

Norbert M. Shommer, from Accountantto Supervisory Accountant, CommissaryDivision.

George H. Sanford, from Supervisor to

General Foreman, Duplicating Unit.

Mrs. Gladysteen D. Renfroe, from CardPunch Supervisor to Tabulating MachineOperator, Division of Storehouses.

Mrs. Helen T. Bradley, from Clerk to

Tabulating Machine Operator, Division of

Storehouses.

TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALSBUREAU

William R. Dixon, from Auto RepairMachinist to Motor Transportation Super-visor, Motor Transportation Division.

William H. Gonzalez, from CombinationWelder. Dredging Division, to Guard,Terminals Division.

DECEMBER SAILINGS

From Cristobal

Panama.- ..December 4

Ancon December 11

Cristobal . December I 7

Panama.- .December 24

From New York

Ancon ..December 2

Cristobal - - December 9

Panama. December 16

Ancon ..December 23

Cristobal - . December 30

(Southbound the Haiti stop is from about7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Monday; northbound,the ships are also in Port-au-Prince Mon-day.)

NOVEMBER RETIREMENTS

Retirement certificates were presented

the end of November to the following em-ployees who are listed alphabetically,

together with their birthplaces, titles, length

of Canal service, and future addresses:

Mrs. Mabel D. Andrews, Indiana; Clerk-

Typist, Gorgas Hospital; 26 years; 7 months1 day; Yershire, N. 11.

Edward W. Schnake, Illinois; Electrical

Supervisor, Mirallores Locks; 33 years,' 7

months, 6 days; Houston, Tex.

(Continuedfrom page 1,1) he was with Iiast

Coast Navy yards before he came to theCanal Zone in 1948 to work for the Con-struction Quartermaster.

All but one of November's six 25-yearemployees have continuous service with theCanal organization.

Alphabetically, they are: Frank A.Dorgan, a native of New Jersey, a Lock-master at Gatun ; Anna M. Jackson, once anEmpire Stater, now a Cardpunch Operatorwith the Payroll Branch; Helen E. King,formerly of Greensburg, Pa., one of GorgasHospital's Nurse Supervisors; Ella L.Pease, Iowa-born Library Assistant at themain Library; and Ralph E. Shuey, whocomes from Kansas and is now Clerk-in-Charge at the Balboa Post Office.

November's other 25-year employee, is

Francis W. Hickey, whose birthplace wasScranton, Pa. and who is steam engineeron a locomotive crane at the Division of

Storehouses.

Seven employees completed 20 years of

Government service in November.

Four of them have unbroken Canalservice:

Ralph E. Harvey, Fiscal Accountant,Agents Accounts Branch; Robert S. Herr,Principal Review Clerk, Postal Service;

Lester L. Largent, Police Lieutenant onduty at Gamboa Penitentiary; and Mary J.

Yaeger, Accounting Clerk, Fiscal Division.

Mrs. Yaeger is a true Zonian; she was bornat Gorgona.

Also completing 20 years of service in

November were: Leo Chester, Filtration

Plant Operator with the Maintenance Divi-sion; James A. Mable, Lock Operator-Machinist at Miraliores; and Frank J.McLeod, who. like Mr. Chester, is one of

the Maintenance Division's Filtration PlantOperators.

F"ive of November's 15-year employeeswent to work for the Canal organization ont he same day, November 2, 1939. They are:

Clyde S. La Clair, Official Photographer;James D. MacLean, a wireman with theDredging Division; Albert Saarinen, Con-struction Inspector with Contracts andInspection; Burman S. Spangler, a Plan-ing Mill Foreman with the Industrial

Division, and Daniel J. Sullivan, OperatorForeman Mechanic with the Power Branchof the Electrical Division.

Other 15-year employees whose Canalservice is continuous are:

Charles P. Barton, a construction engineeron the Contractors Hill project; John R.Hammond, Jr., Supervisory MechanicalEngineer in the Engineering Division;

Samuel J. Garriel, Plumber. MaintenanceDivision; Willie J. Hatchett, Machinist at

Mirarlores Locks; Howard R. Johnson, oneof the Canal's pilots; Edward W. MacKenzieChief Towboat Engineer with the Naviga-tion Division; Norbert H. McCauley,Budget Analyst with the Executive Plan-ning Staff; John G. McKenna, CribtenderForeman, Terminals Division; Harold W.Meyer, Painter Foreman with the Main-tenance Division; Clarence E. Priest, Police-

man in the Balboa Distrkt; John F. Shan-non, Principal Foreman, Maintenance Divi-

sion; James E. Stearns, Cristobal HighSchool Teacher; Stuart Wallace, a ClaimsExaminer with the Fiscal Division; andMilton H. Wright, Motor Boat Mainte-nance Mechanic. Navigation Division.

Employees who completed 15 years, butwhose Canal service is not continuous are:

Roger W. Adams, Superintendent, MotorTransportation Division; Frank J. Bren-nan, Electric Welder. Industrial Division;

Raymond G. Bush, Supervisory SanitationInspector, Sanitation Division: Henry C.

DeRaps, Police Sergeant. Cristobal Dis-

trict; Robnett B. Elliff, Steam Engineer,Terminals Division; Dorcas W. Gregory,Elementary School Teacher; Robert C.

Herrington, Construction Equipment Oper-ator, Maintenance Division; Fred W. Law-rence, Sanitary Engineer, MaintenanceDivision; George H. Moore, Payroll Super-visor, Payroll Branch; Glenn D. Redmond,Electric Welder, Industrial Division; JohnH. Stevens, Procurement Officer, Commis-sary Division; and Delaplaine A. Waddell,

Jr., Policeman, Cristobal District.


New York Leads List Of 48 States

As Residence For Canal Employees

WHERE do Zonians come from? This map shows, by areas, places of actual residence. The highest

percent, 22.14, come from the middle Atlantic States. New York State leads all 48 states with 396 Zonians.

If figures mean anything—and there

are those who think they do—one might

deduce that the people of Utah like to

stay home and that the people of NewYork State don't. Of course it could be

that there are considerably fewer people

in Utah to start with than there are in

New York, which would be one reason

why 396 Company-Government employ-

ees come from New York and only one

from Utah.

Figures compiled by the Personnel

Bureau as to the place of actual residence

at the time of their employment of 3,035

Canal employees show that New YorkState heads the list of the 48 states, with

Utah bringing up the rear.

New York, together with the other

North Atlantic States -- Connecticut,

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont,

New Hampshire, and Maine—accounts

for the home locations of 20.79 percent

of Canal employees.

The Middle Atlantic States, markedtogether on the accompanying map, are

the places of actual residence of 22.14

percent of employees. In descending

order, by percentages, are the East Cen-

tral States, 15.19 percent; South andGulf States, 11.3 percent; Pacific Coast

States, 10.08 percent; South Atlantic

States, 9.42 percent; West Central

States, 7.48 percent; Rocky MountainStates, 3.06 percent; and the territories,

0.53 percent. These last are Puerto

Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Virgin

Islands.

The 48 States, and the number of

employees for which they are the actual

place of residence, follow in alphabetical

order:

Alabama, 52; Arizona, 15; Arkansas,

15; California, 238; Colorado, 28; Con-necticut, 34; Delaware, 8; District of

Columbia, 75; Florida, 134; Georgia, 68;

Idaho, 9; Illinois, 117; Indiana, 48; Iowa,

46; Kansas, 13; Kentucky, 48; Louisiana,

71; Maine, 30; Maryland, 63; Massachu-setts, 135; Michigan, 43; Minnesota, 43;

Mississippi, 53; Missouri, 53; Montana,

19; Nebraska, 16; Nevada, 3; NewHampshire, 8; New Jersey, 183; NewMexico, 12; New York, 396; NorthCarolina, 61; North Dakota, 8; Ohio,

120; Oklahoma, 40; Oregon, 26; Pennsyl-

vania, 227; Rhode Island, 22; South

Carolina, 23; South Dakota, 4; Tennessee,

49; Texas, 112; Utah, 1; Vermont, 6;

Virginia, 116; Washington, 42; West Vir-

ginia, 36; Wisconsin, 44; and Wyoming, 6.

Musical Christmas Card From Canal Zone

To Be Broadcast Over CBS On December 20

(Continuedfrom page 1) the membersof the combined high school bands andchoruses who made the recording, will

appear on the stage and present additional

Christmas music selections.

Meanwhile, students of all the Canal

Zone schools are making plans to sing the

traditional Christmas carols and present

the traditional Christmas pageants in the

various auditoriums and school grounds

during the week preceeding the holidays.

These programs will begin as early as

December 16 when the Balboa Junior

High School Orchestra and Glee Clubwill give a concert at 7 p. m. in the upper

Balboa Gymnasium.The Rainbow City Junior and Senior

High Schools will present their program

of Christmas music December 18 at

7 p. m. in the Rainbow City Gymnasium;the La Boca High School program is

planned for December 20 at 7:30 p. m.,

under the La Boca High School Building.

The Balboa High School will have its

annual program of choral and instru-

mental Christmas music on the steps of

the High School building December 21 at

7 p. m. and on the Atlantic side, the

Cristobal High School plans a two-part

program for 7:30 on the evening of

December 22, to be held in the auditorium

and on the lawn of the school building.

The younger school children are plan-

ning their own program : of pageants andsongs to be given the week before Christ-

mas in the classrooms of the elementary

grades of the Canal Zone schools. Parents

and friends are invited to attend.

Decorations Everywhere

A typical Christmas on the Isthmus

touch will be the annual holiday greetings

given by the employees of the Locks

Division to the ships passing through the

Canal.

As in other years, the personnel of both

the Atlantic and Pacific Locks are plan-

ning special decorations for the control

towers, Christmas trees on the lock walls,

Christmas lights, and music.

Locks Christmas Trees

At the Gatun Locks there will be a

12-foot Christmas tree on the wall andfour smaller decorated trees on the con-

trol-house balcony with a Christmasgreeting banner in between. Christmasmusic played over loudspeakers will greet

the crews of the ships in Gatun and a

Christmas card carrying the season's

greetings will be placed aboard each

passing vessel. A special holiday decor-

ation for the locks wall is being planned

at Gatun but it will be kept a secret until

it appears shortly before Christmas.

The Pacific Locks will feature the

ornamentation of Miraflores bridge with

a lighted star on each end and colored

lights strung in between. There will be

lights around the balcony at Pedro Migueland a Christmas greeting banner.

The commissaries, service centers,

libraries, and other public buildings in the

Canal Zone will be decorated inside andout and there will be recorded Christmasmusic played from loudspeakers in the

lobby and marquee of the BalboaTheater Building.

Neighborhood Decorations

As the holiday season approaches,

lights and decorations will blossom forth

in the Canal Zone in private homes andon public buildings. Some of the mostcolorful on the Pacific side are the decor-

ations on the Central Police and Fire

Stations in Balboa. The official Canal

Zone Christmas tree, a South Pacific

pandanus tree located near the Balboa

Railroad Station, will be decorated again

this year by the Electrical Division with

colored lights and a star.

The most colorful and interesting massdisplay of Christmas lights and decora-

tions is provided annually by the 14 fam-

ilies living on Oleander Place in Balboa.

About this time of the year, the street

turns into Santa Claus Lane and is the

star attraction for the residents of the

Pacific side, children and adults alike.

Balsam Firs Due Soon

Christmas trees will be set up in mostof the service centers and special decora-

tions are planned for all of the commis-saries. Balboa, for instance, plans to

feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

complete with flashing red nose.

The Canal Zone will not have a short-

age of Christmas trees for both private

and public use if the Commissary Division

has anything to do with it. There is anample supply of balsam firs from northern

New York and a large number of small

table trees on order. The small trees

probably will be on sale by the time TheReview goes to press.

Canal Zone residents can also plan on

having a bright and sunny day for their

Christmas celebration for usually the

Christmas season is characterized by the

fine clear weather of the early part of the

dry season.

If it rains, however, no one, least of all

the weather man would be surprised.

There have been a few wet Christmas dayson record and during the construction era

there was one so damp that it is knownon old reports as the Christmas flood of

1909. That year the rain started onChristmas, increased the following day,

and continued well into January. Thefloods in the Madden watershed area

were so heavy that they interfered seri-

ously with the Canal construction work.


COMPANY'S OPERATING RESULTS FOR 1954 TERMED

TRIBUTE TO MEN, WOMEN OF ORGANIZATION

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"We'll have to go aroundthe Horn. They won't take a cheek."

(Reproduced from The New Yorker, with permission!

(Continued from page 1) to $18,559,632

and depreciation on direct facilities

amounting to $2,256,883.

Supporting Operations

Supporting operations of the Companyproduced an operating margin over direct

expenses totaling $2,549,197 resulting

from sales and services to governmental

agencies, employees, and others in the

amount of $39,796,801 less $37,247,604

in cost of goods sold and other direct

expenses.

Under General Corporate Expense the

net cost of operations of the Canal Zone

Government, for which the Company is

required by law to reimburse the Treas-

ury, was $10,366,079, only slightly more

than the preceding year after excluding a

major abandoned construction project

(Cardenas townsite) written off in that

year. Administrative and other general

expense totaled $4,957,714, and the

interest payable to the United States

Treasury amounted to $8,847,255. The

Company's obligation for interest payable

to the Treasury, based on the Govern-

ment's net direct investment subject to

interest, increased from $7,744,181 for

1953, reflecting the increase in the rate

established by the Secretary of the

Treasury from 2.05 percent for 1953 to

2.342 percent for 1954.

Capital expenditures by the Company

for the year amounted to $6,410,203, of

which approximately $2 million related to

improvements to the Canal and approxi-

mately $3.5 million for the housing

replacement project.

Detailed Statements Later

Detailed financial statements and sta-

tistical data will be published at a later

date in the Company's annual report.

The release of new income in tentative

figures is necessitated by the fact that the

final determination has yet to be made,

as required in the Company's Federal

charter, on valuation policies and capital

value of property transferred to the

Company at the time of the Canal's

incorporation. During the year the ap-

praisal program for establishing these

valuations progressed to the point that

most of the more significant adjustments

have been reflected in the accounts. As

a result, the interest and depreciation

accruals shown in the present statement

are not considered as being subject to

material adjustment when the final

valuation is completed.

$56,541,000 To Treasury

Since the July 1, 1951 legislation

incorporating the Canal, the Companyhas paid into the Treasury a return on the

Government's investment (interest) total-

ing $23,957,000, and in addition it has

reimbursed the Treasury (or credited

against charges for Government tolls)

$31,294,000 for the cost of Canal Zone

Government, and $1,290,000 represent-

ing the annuity paid to the Republic of

Panama. These fixed charges total, for

the three-year period 1951 through 1954,

$5(5,541,000.

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"I'M OLDER than you are," Joseph Anthony Herring of Ancon, left, will he able to tell his first cousin,

Brian Francis Herring of Diablo, when they get to the argument stage. The cousins met at Gorgas Hos-pital where Joseph Anthony was born November 15, and Brian Francis the following day. Joseph'sfather is G. J. Herring, a conductor for the Panama Railroad. Brian's dad is Thomas Herring who is atowing locomotive operator at the Pacific Locks. Joseph is the seventh of his family; Brian is the Thomas

Herring's fourth child.

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