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In This Issue

Anniversaries 18

LATEST THlING afloat in local waters these days is not the little rigabove-Melvin had to get into the act some way-but the beautiful Canal History 21catamarans on the cover.

The "Wildcat," No. 59, belongs to Lynn Stratford and C. B. Douglas, Catamarans 2bcth power dispatchers at Miraflores. The other boat, somewhat un-poetically named the "Pole Cat," is the joint property of J. E. McKinney Do-it-yourself lounge 2:3of the Abright Electric Construction Company, and C. B. Robertson, asenior operator at the Madden power plant. Health Bureau 9-16

Catamarans, originally, were rafts or floats, of two or more logs orpieces of wood, lashed together and moved by paddles or sails. For Health Insurance 8hundreds of years they have been common on the coasts of SouthAmerica and in the Caribbean.

Today's catamarans, however, are far different from the original Housing .model. They are twin-hulled sailboats, the two hulls connected by adeck where the cockpit is located. Weighing only 238 pounds each, People . 5they are 14 feet 6 inches long and 5 feet 10 inches wide and havea draft of only a few inches. They carry 128 square feet of sail, in a Praise for Panama Line 17sloop rig, on their masts.

Because of their shallow draft they are one of the most easily handled Promotions and Transfers . 1sailing craft ever seen, their owners declare. They transport withoutdifficulty on trailers and are easily launched and beached. Furthermore Purchases in Panama . 17they are exceedingly fast in the water.

The two catamarans shown on the cover were built by their owners Safety 21from kits shipped from England. The maker says that putting theboats together takes about 100 manhours and the local builders foundthis about right. The hulls are molded plywood and the other parts are Scholarship Students .'sheet plywood. The spars arrived ready for painting. The sails, ofdacron, are rot-proof. Shipping 21

Two more catamarans are now in the process of construction. Jointowners of these craft are Wally Pierson and Pepe Ehrman, for one, Worth Knowing .and Jack Carlson and Charles Bowen, for the other.

W. E. POTTER, Governor-President ELEANOR MCILHENN, EditorJOHN D. MCELHIENXY, Lieutenant Governor EUNICE RICHARD and ToI BITTER

WILLIAM G. AREY, JR. Official Panama Canal Company Publication Editorial AssistantsPanama Canal Information Officer Published Monthly At Balboa Heights, C. Z.

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Subscriptions, $1 a year; mail and back copies, 10 cents each.Postal money orders made payable to the Panama Canal Company should be mailed to Editor, The Panama Canal Review, Balboa Heights, C. Z.

2 APEIL 1, 1960

Construction programmay be accelerated

HOUSINGPLANS TrO speed op the $9 million housing program for tion at La Boca, scheduled for completion by September,its permannent United States citizen employees are now aithoogh it is possible that some of the apartments mayunder cJOnsideration by the Company-Government. be finished b~efo)re then. In soch cases, it is customary to

This acceleration is the major proposal to alleviate the assign new housing as the units become available.

present tih osng situation in which a number of The originaI schedule for the coming fiscal year, 1961,families are living in unsatisfactory units or outside the called for 81 apartments. The Company-Government isdistricts where they' arc employed. now trying to increase this figure to 110 apartments.

It would involve increasing the total number of apart- These~ would be located in Balboa Heights, the Anconments to be provided and concentrating as much of the Hospital area, the Balboa Flats, and La Boca. Many ofconstruction as possible in 1961 and 1962. At the same the quarters scheduled for this year are to be three- andtime, an examination is being made of the necessity of four-bedroom apartments, suitable for large families.utilizing some of the quarterss now occupied by non-em- A similar acceleration is planned for fiscal year 1962,ployees of the Company-Government. although the details have not been as completely develop-

At the present time. 45 apartments are under construe- ed as those for fiscal year 1961. Fiscal year 1962 will be the

THlE PANAMA CANAL REVIEw 3

Bigger families, more employeescause housing shortage

first year that the construction of bach- housing within the present towns and Navigation Division, four to units con-elor units will be included in the pro- because the Company-Goverment plans cerned with vessel repairs, and twograin. no new comnmunitirs that is, no com- others to terminal operations.

Also scheduled for fiscal year 1962 plete new towns-old and obsolete quar- On the other hand, there are moreare four units in the Gamboa Peniten- ters have had to be torn down to make married employees, especially marriedtiary area, to house officers assigned to room for the new housing. This was employees with families, on the list ofduty at the penitentiary. predicted at the time the housing plan prospective employees than in the past.

Unfortunately, housing construction was approved. This is particularly true of the personnelin La Boca must be coordinated with Two additional factors, increased for the Canal Zone's hospitals, and forthe construction of the new $20-million employment and the marital status of the Division of Schools.bridge over the Canal. The final housing the new employees, have made the Several years ago, the married internunits to be built in this area cannot be housing situation even less satisfactory was the exception rather than the rule.completed until fiscal year 1963. than had been expected when the over- This year, 70 percent interns being

A need for improvement in the hous- all program was planned. considered for appointment beginninging situation for United States citizen The United States citizen force has in July are married, and several of theseemployees of the Company-Govern- been increased slightly over that which have children. A number of teachersment organization-but not the acute was planned when the housing require- who have applied for expected vacanciessituation which has developed-was ments were laid out. Additional em- in the Canal Zone schools have four orforeseen over 18 months ago when the ployees have had to be hired to handle more dependents.Panama Canal Company's Board of Di- the rapidly-increasing number of tran- This was an upset to plans made somtrectors approved a "Master Housing sits. years ago. At the time the master planPlan" for the replacement of all sub- In February, for instance, force re- was worked out, estimates were mad(standard housing by the end of fiscal ports show a personnel increase of on a greater number of bachelors and oryear 1965. 19 employees for maritime operations a lesser number of families, especially.

Because there is little suitable land alone. Ten of these new employees were those with two or more children, thaiavailable for the construction of the new assigned to the Locks, three to the now appear likely.

Supply and Community Service Bureaulatest winner of the

ANNUAL SAFETY TROPHY

THE SUPPLY AND Community Service oi figures for the previous calendar a total of 76 disabling injuries. This isBureau, whose activities include such year. just as the award which was made a marked contrast to the eight disablinghigh risk operations as warehousing, in 1954 is based on figures for 1953, injuries reported during the past cal-materials handling, and scrap opera- this year's award is based on achieve- endar year.tions, is the latest winner of the Gov- ment for calendar year 1959. Using the 1953 rate as a base the twoernor-President Annual Safety Trophy. Competition by each Bureau with it- Bureaus now combined into the Supply

Although this is the first year that this self provides a fair competitive basis and Community Service Bureau haveBureau, as now organized, has earned and avoids any handicap for a Bureau saved the Panama Canal Company,the award, the former Community Serv- having more hazardous operations than during the succeeding six years, no lessices Bureau which is now part of Supply another. than 323 disabling injuries and overand Community Service won the annual Winning of the safety trophy by the $48,000.safety trophy in 1955. Supply and Community Service Bureau Previous winners of the Governor-

The award has been made annually was considered particularly significant President Safety Trophy, and the yearssince 1954 to the Company-Government in view of the Bureau's high-risk opera- for which the awards were made, are:Bureau achieving the highest percentage tions. It climaxes a steady climb in im- Health Bureau, 1953; Community Serv-improvement in the disabling accident provemnent in accident prevention since ices Bureau, 1954; Health Bureau, 1955frequency rate over its own previous 1953 when the two major units which and 1956; and Transportation and Ter-three-year average. The award is based now make up the present Bureau had finals Bureau, 1957 and 1958.

4 APRIL 1, 1960

PEOPLE

PAUL A. BENTZ, top legal man in the Panama Canal organization for the past 20 years,will sail this month for New York, en route to Asheville, N.C. There he and Mrs. Bentzwill set up housekeeping as soon as they can find a house which will hold Mr. Bentz'swide and varied collection of books and his reife's easels and other art equipment.

Yesterday e joined the ranks of the retired after n association ith Canal affairswhich dates back to 1928 when he was appointed to codify the Canal Zone's laws, ajob never before undertaken. In 1934 he became a member of the General Counsel'sstaff and two years later was appointed Assistant General Counsel. He had held thetop legal post since 1940, when he succeeded Frank H. Wang.

LT. COL. ROBERT DUNCAN BROwN, JR., Engineering and Construction Director forthe Panama Canal Company since July, 1957, has been granted a one-year extensionto his tour of duty which would have expired in July of this year. The extension wasapproved recently by the Secretary of the Army.

As Engineering and Construction Director, he is also the Contract Officer for thePanama Canal Company. In these joint positions, he keeps an eye on the Company-Government construction program, the largest since the Third-Locks project wasstarted in 1939. The authorization for an extension of Colonel Brown's tour took noteof the fact that more diversified construction is under way or about to be started inconnection with the Canal's modernization than has been undertaken in all of theyears since the Panama Canal was opened in 1914.

ROWLAND K. HAZARD, United States District Attorney for the Canal Zone for the pasteight years, was confirmed by the Senate last month for another eight-vear tour ofduty. The Senate confirmation was made in open session a month ago today.

Mr. Hazard, who comes from Rhode Island, is a graduate of Holy Cross andGeorgetown Universities. He has been a Zonian since 1948 when he came to theIsthmus as Assistant District Attorney. In February, 1952, be was appointed DistrictAttorney, succeeding Daniel E. McGrath, who had held the District Attorney's officefor the previous 12 years. Mr. Hazard, who is a bachelor, lives in Balboa. Most of hisspare time, when he is not deep in law books, is spent on the golf course.

TIUE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 5

Worth knowing .ToE ANNUAL budget review, made each year by a com-inittee from the Panama Canal Company's Board of Di-rectors, is scheduled this year for April 30 and May 1, 2,and 3 in the Canal Zone. The committee will examineboth operations and capital budget for Fiscal Year 1962and, as in the past, will probably make a field inspectionof most of the capital additions and replacements. Mem-bers of the committee are: Robert P. Burroughs, Ralph H. I - -f

Cake, Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, and Howard C.Petersen.

CLOSE TO 2,000 pupils in the first through sixth grades ofthe Canal Zone's Latin American schools are foreseen bySchools officials, looking forward to opening day on May2. The actual predictions are: 1,943, in first through sixthgrades; 1,061 in seventh through ninth grades; 914 forthe high schools; and 63 for kindergarten, for a total of3,981. This would be 129 more than the enrollment of3,852 at the end of the preceding school year.

EVERYwHERE one turned last month there seemed to bevisitors. There were Congressmen, servicemen, newsmen,engineering consultants, contractors' representatives anddozens of others. At the right are a few of the thousands Sharks, and how to get along with or without them, are th,who dropped in on the Canal Zone in March. MO subject of a deep-sea research made in Isthmian waters las.

month by Art Linkletter of radio-TV fame. Accompanied 1)- --- his wife, who always travels with him, the famed artist of thb

D Aairwaves boarded a specially-equipped tuna fisher for Panam.os AlE TO be opened today on a project which will Bay where sharks abound. le expects to use the materi

involve the transfer of the Margarita Post Office from a gathered here for a 30-minute program he is preparing on Dnow over-size buiding constructed during the Third Wheeler North of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, oniLocks days to a central location in the Margarita Service of whose projects has to do with the use of shark repellanCenter. The new Margarita Post Office will be similar insize, shape, and design to that recently opened at CocoSolo. It will have between 500 and 600 boxes, in sevensections.

THE ISTHMIAN Historical Society will honor its founderand first president next Tuesday when the group sponsorsan autographing party" for Mrs. C. S. McCormack, latestCanal Zone author. Mrs. McCormack's new book, "Southto Panama," which is a novel of the early constructionperiod, carries a foreword by Governor Potter. It wasplaced on sale last month in the Canal Zone's retail out-lets. The "autographing party" w7ilI follow a short meetingat the Tivoli.

UNITED STATES citizens who are qualified to vote by ab-sentee ballot in the 1960 elections may obtain just aboutany information they need on voting qualifications, regis-tration requirements, and ways of applying for an ab-sentee ballot from special pamphlets and charts whichwere received last month. The voting information is avail-able in the office of all Bureau Directors, Division heads,and chiefs of independent units in the Canal organization Two members of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries

vwel as in the Canal Zone thebranalry r, Committee, Representative Herbert C. Bonner, left and Repre-ts waLibrary. sentative Thor Tollefson, were Zone visitors during March.

6 APnIL 1, 10A

Operation Banvan Tree II, an international

military maneuver, brought thousands of

visitors to the Isthmus last month. There

were not only the troops, from several

nations, but also the military and civilian

observers, the latter including newspaper,

radio, and TV representatives from the

United States and Latin America. At right,

members of the Latin American Defense

Board during a visit to the Miraflores Locks.

Above, some of the nevsmen who witnessed Banvan Tree II sur- The dry season breeze whipped up the dust as the big planes landedround Governor Potter after he briefed them on Canal operations. at Rio Hato during one phase of Operation Banyan Tree 11.

Plans for deepening and widening the Pan-

amna Canal so that it can handle more and

bigger ships were discussed last month by

Dr. S. C. Hollister, internationally-known

civil engineer and chairman of a Consul-

tants Committee for Congress. From left,

Dr. Hollister; Lt. Gov. John D. McElheny;

John D. Hollen, Chief of the Executive

Planning Staff, and Lt. Col. R. 1). Brown,Jr., Engineering and Construction Director.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 7

A Message to Employeeson Health Insurance

Second of a Series

Robert Van Wagner, who provided the in-formation below, has been appointed tothe newly-created post of Employees Serv-ices Officer for the Personnel Bureau.

TiE Uxuri STATES Civil Service Com- each of the approved plans and the two Or

mission has found that the Employee Government-wide plans will be accom- b. All your service be-

Croup Health Insurance Board of the polished sometime in May. tween the time you

Company-Government organiza- At this writing, information on the first had the opportu-

tion qualifies as an "employee organiza- two Government-wide Health plans is nity to enroll and the

tion" and can participate in the benefits still incomplete. These are the Indem- time you retire.

provided by Public Law 86-382 (The nity Benefit Plan and the Service Benefit 4. You must have at least 12Federal Employees Health Benefits Act). Plan. Only a tentative submission has rears of service or retireFormal notification was received from been made to the Commission of these because of disability. (TheAndrew E. Ruddock, Director of the plans and it would be confusing to make 12 years service can in-

Bureau of Retirement and Insurance, any announcement on them at this time. lude military service, butin February-. Subsequently, the detailsof TebrPana Caenaly the ta were QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS must include at least Yof The Panama Canal Health Plan were CNears of civilian service.)submitted to the Commission and on CONTINUED

March 4, verbal approval of the plan Q. Will I be able to continue my 5. You must retire on an im-

was given to the President of the Group Health Benefits coverage after I mediate annuity--that is

Health Insurance Board when be was retire? the beginning date of yout

in Washington. A. Yes, if you meet certain require- than one month after vo :

This means that those employees who ments. These requirements are: swish to continue their present Health 1. You must retire under the separation from service.

Plans, as approved by the Civil Service Civil Service Retirement Q. I-low can I prepare myself to make

Commission, may do so. For those em- System. "an informed choice" of a plan

ployces who have not enrolled in any that will be best for me?pl1 nolmn i pnt hmi 2. You must retire after the date

plan, enrollment is open to them in the Health Benefits pro- A. Your Bureau will have a Healtheither the Panama Canal Health Plan or gram became effective- Benefits representative and coun-the American Federation of Govern- that is after the first day of selors who will see that all litera-ment Employees Health Plan. The your first pay period which ture is made available to youAFGE has, of course, been qualified as began on o'r after July 1, and through whom arrangementsan employee organization and its Health 1960. This is July 10, 1960 will be made for you to attendPlans have been submitted to the Com- for the Company-Govern- orientation meetings where themission for approval. . . ment. 'plans will be explained.

It was mentioned in a previous issue

of THE REVIEW that each employee will 3. When you retire, you must Q. If I do not enroll in a plan by July

have free choice to select the plan that have been enrolled in an 1, 1960, may I enroll at a later

best meets the needs of himself and his approved plan for at least date?

family. The law is quite specific on this the shorter of the following A. Yes, but the next "open season" for

point. The employee will receive the two periods of time: enrollment will be October 1961.

particulars of all plans available to him, a. The five years of serv- It therefore behooves you to get

so that he can make an informed choice. ice immediately before this protection for yourself and

The distribution of brochures describing your retirement. your family before July 1, 1960.

8 APRIL 1, 1960

HEALTH BUREAU

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Ihese people direct the activities of the Health Bureau. For identification, see key on page 15.

RESPONSIBILITY for the health of all the residents of the them healthy. Its Division of Sanitation keeps the areaCanal Zone rests in the hands of some 1,241 full-time and clean and free from insects which carry disease. The Di-45 part-time employees of the Health Bureau, the second vision of Veterinary Medicine inspects food and food

largest of the eight ureaus which comprise the Co-reventive Medicine and Quarantinepany-Govcrnment. It is one of the two Bureaus operated . .by Congressional appropriations which are repaid to the prevents disease from encroaching into the Canal Zone.

United States Treasury by the Panama Canal Company. And Vital Statistics provides much needed data.With its four major hospitals and its first aid stations, Some of the Bureau's people and the jobs they do are

the Bureau sees that the employees stay well, or makes reported on the following pages.

VITALSTATISTICS

BITnuS AT SEA and deaths at sea, regis-tered at the first port of call, becomnNpart of the thousands anid thousands ofnames and data on the records filed alphabetically and by years by the CanalZone Registirar of Vital Statistics. Until1950, records were also kept for Pan-ama and Colon. Since that year, the vitalstatistics pertain to the Canal Zonealone, with an average of 130 birthsand some 30 deaths added each monthto the miles of square feet of files. There are tens of thousands of names in Doris Kintigh's files

ThE PANAMA CANAL REvIEw 9

Division of Preventive

Medicine and Quarantine

HEALTH PROBLEMS OF the community are the primaryconcern of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Quar-antine. Its responsibilities range from the operation of six

flistoplasmin-tuberculin tests were given to thousands of boys community health centers, plus a first aid station for in-and girls in the Canal Zone's schools during the past 12 months. dustrial medical emergencies, to school health physical

examination and disease control programs, administra-tion of maritime and aircraft quarantine laws, and tech-nical supervision of the consolidated boarding parties inmaritime matters.

The Division also maintains international liaison withpreventive medicine authorities, with a direct interchangeof disease information between the various health admin-istrations.

The community health centers, to which 19,994 patientvisits were made over the past five months, relieve thebusy hospitals of well-baby care, immunizations, andminor medical treatment. Tiiese centers are operated atCoco Solo, Gatun, Margarita, Balboa, Rainbow City, andParaiso. Another station, providing first aid for industrialmedical emergencies, is in the industrial area of MountHope, under the professional direction and supervisionof this Division.

Because of the distance of the town of Gamboa fromthe nearest hospital, the only district medical clinic in theCanal Zone is operated there, under Gorgas Hospital.

Her young patient doesn't seem at all disturbed as Nurse Jackie The chest X-ray survey of all employees and residentMitchusson makes an ear inspection at the Balboa First Aid Station. members of their families is conducted by the Divisioi

on a continuing basis.The School Health Program includes a dental survey of

2,793 children in the Second, Fourth and Eighth Gradesand was augmented the past year by an extensive histo-plasmin-tuberculin skin testing program, done jointly withthe staff at the Middle America Research Unit, for allCanal Zone children. This program involved 9,248 skin

d tests.Under the poliomyelitis vaccination campaign, vaccine

is available free of charge at the various community healthcenters. During the past year 9,434 poliomyelitis inocula-tions were administered.

The Quarantine Section guards against the introduc-tion of disease into the Zone from ships using the water-way and from aircraft on international flights. Althoughquarantine inspections are conducted by members of theconsolidated boarding party who are employees of theMarine Bureau, the Division of Preventive Medicine andQuarantine is responsible for the administration of alllaws, rules, and regulations governing maritime and air-

On Cristobal docks, Raymond G. Bush, Sanitation Inspector, and craft quarantine, with the exception of matters pertainingFlorencio del Valle, patrolman, finish the check on a berthed vessel. to animal quarantine.

10 APRIL 1, 1960

Stall members of Coco Solo Hospital, left to right: Dr. J. W. Hlearn, Chief of OB-CYN Service; Dr. Jacob Finkelstein, outpatient service;Dr. L. M. Rettinger, OB-GYN Service; IDr. Oren C. Irion, Chief of Medical Service; D)r. Ronald Moore, OB-GYN Service; Dr. P. Hlartwell,IDental Service; Dr. F. E. Riefkohl, Medical Service; Miss Florence Edbrooke, director of Nursing Service; Dr. Willard French, Chief ofIDental Service; Dr. John G. Maxwell; Dr. Charles A. Abildgaard, Chief of Pedriatics; Dr. Evelyn Barraza, Chief, Ear, Nose and ThroatService; and Dr. William Jackson, Medical Service. Staff members absent at the time the picture was taken include Lt. CuI. Ralph E.Conant, Superintendent; Dr. Wilbur Whitsell, Jr., Surgical Service; Dr. Harry Westerberg, Chief, Surgical Service; IDr. Jaime Barraza,Chief, EENT Service; Dr. Henry De La Garza, acting chief, outpatient service; Dr. William Ileidenreich, radiologist; and lDr. WilliamWynne, of the Dental Service. Miss Edbrooke retired at the end of March after 23 years' service with the Canal Zone G;overnmencxt.

MEN wHO FOLLOW the sea still consti- Originally constructed for the care of time in the Canal Zone, dliedl in 195(3

to 0

tote a good cross-section of the patients male patients, whose numbers included while on his way home to England. Inf Coco Solo Hospital. Now staffed r b many victims whose ships bad been tor- this ward, too, is a Tu set, a gift that

731 persons, it was lBuilt during World pedoed during the war years, Coco Solo came all the way from Aruba-from te

W ear II for the care of Navy personal, Hospital underwent some improvements American Legion A Fxiiary there.ad was formally transferred by the at the time of the transfer in 19.54, and Of Coco Solo Huspital's specialized

2'oied tats Nvy t th Caal one much-needed remodeling will soon be clinics, the busiest the past year was theomtd Seintes n etbr t 1, 19n . under way. dental climc, which treated ,27 pa-cher, N Seiembr.ery D a, aIts children's ward is particularly at- tints, and the prenatal clinic was see-Significant of its importance to the tractive; the walls are decorated in ond, wiith 3,433 patients.

-MEport of Cristobal is one entry in the hand-painted murals which carry out Ome of the most unusual jobs at thishospitals annual report, wof stheos a an theme. The murals were Hospital is Fred Workman's, for he Isad ship calls are combined to show a painted in 19.55 by Victor Clarke, fa- funeral director as well as executivetal of f5.50 for the past fiscal year. ther-in-law of David C. Mlenny, ad- housekeeper. The housekeeping staffsides these, about 60,850 out-patients ministrative offtcer at the hospital, and of 15, which includes chauffeurs, tai-d an average of 85 in-patients daily father of Mrs. Dora Melenny, assistant lois and line t handlers, has charge ofore treated at the hospital during the librarian at the Cristobal Branch Libra- the hospital from the operating ruomar. ry. Mr. Clarke, who had spent some through the entire plant itself.

t the Records Section of the Atlantic side's hospital, from left: Ambulances from Coco Solo hospital frequently make trips to theavid C. Mclhenny, administrative officer: Mrs. Norma C. Belland, Cristobal docks, carrying doctors to patients or, as in the case below,pervisor; Mrs. Elaine E. Heyd, clerk; and Von R. Hunt, file clerk, removing a bedridden merchant seaman to the hospital for treatment.

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AFTER SOME 78 YEARS, Gorgas Hospital, the major healthinstitution in the Canal Zone, is still going strong but isdue for a complete revamping in the near future. This will

GO GA L be the fourth major reorganization of the hospital whichwas built by the French in 1882, rebuilt by the Americansin 1904, and rebuilt again after the end of the construe-tion period.

Like Rome on its seven hills, Gorgas Hospital is builton seven levels on Ancon Hill. The physical plant consistsof 366,234 square feet of floor space, and there are ap-proximately 9 miles of total corridor space, about 2miles of which are used as thoroughfare corridor.

\77 Besides the staff men, residents, interns, nurses andnursing assistants usually synonymous with a hospital,there are 509 employees at Gorgas who work behind thescenes, generally unseen by the patients, 291,117 of whomwent through the hospital's portals the past year. Of thesepatients, 103,460 were admitted as in-patients.

Last year 1,758,178 items of linen were used by theDENTAL CLINIC LINEN ROOM hospital's 103,460 patients. The linens, which come under

the jurisdiction of the housekeeping department, number57,390 pieces and include a stock of about 4,500 diapers.Each item is marked Corgas Hospital, together with thedate, so that the durability car be calculated. The house-

i keeping staff includes seamstresses who make, or mend,many of the items stocked. Last year they made over5,000 new items and mended almost 30,000.

The Central Supply Section at Gorgas Hospital servesas a medical supply depot and requisition center, not only

\I Cfor Gorgas but for all the Health Bureau. Except food, allU I CA purchases from a common pin to an operating table are

made by this Section, which has about 3,000 items ininventory stock.VdAll the drugs for Corozal and Palo Seco are requisition--d from this Section. Coco Solo Hospital does its own

Below' ar the chiefs of Gorgas Hospital's various service Fran ordering of medical supplies from the medical depot atgery Dr. Frark P. Smith, Medirire; Dr. Eganir F. Shiroko, osr- Madden Wye, but when supplies are required from the

ndsa tr Dr.n HrodBr odrOn Pathrnt Drb kels Fc NP CENTRAL SUPPLY States, the order is processed through Gorgas CentralPediatrics; Dr. 1. Robert Berger, Out-patient; Dr. Lewis E. Fon- PHYSICAL THERAPY Supply Section.taine, Dentistry; Dr. Quentin H. Lrhann, Radiology; Dr. Jnlsrn Gorgas has a brace shop as complete as many found inC. Kennedy, Psychiatry; Miss Beatrice H. Simons, Nursing; andDr. Irving J. Strmpf, of the Obstetrics and Gynecology service cities of 100,000 or more. This shop and the physical

therapy section often work together, with braces some-times providing the outside aids in physical therapy, asS. in cases when braces are used to replace or aid in replace-ment of mobility of limbs affected by disease or injury.

The physical therapy section itself is becoming familiarto increasing numbers of patients, who are treated therefor many types of injuries and illnesses.

Preparation of food is another one of the specializedtasks at Corgas. In addition to the regular kitchen, whichprepares the meals for most of the in-patients, there is adiet kitchen. Patients are given a menu for the next day'smeal and may select from this list the food which isdelivered in pushcarts which have refrigerated and heat-ed sections.

ON THIS FAGE Nursin service: Miss Irene A. Ladrach on nirhtdnty Dental Cline: A. M. McCormack, laboratory technician, Dr.William Baird. Mrs. Billye Henry, dental technician; PhysicalTherapy, William Lovell, a patient, Mrs. Mildred Kopf, registeredphysical theranis, Fred A. Dube. orthopedic technician; LinenBoom Zoila del Castillo, Daisy Drakes, Maric Toupin, seamstresses,Mrs. Eva Harte. assisrant housekeener; Central SuOply: Mrs. BettyMorris, stores irng clerk. Mrs, Helen Plamer, drug clerk; Food

FOOD SERVICE Service: Mrs. Addir Colclasure, dietitian, John P. Sinmmrs and

FOO AERV ,EA CACecil G. WilEA L, bakers12 AcRIL 1,9160 Tue PrAAM CArA LREvsrw 13

AFTER SOME 78 YEARs, Gorgas Hospital, the major healthinstitution in the Canal Zone, is still going strong but isdue for a complete revamping in the near future. This willbe the fourth major reorganization of the hospital whichwas built by the French in 1882, rebuilt by the Americansin 1904, and rebuilt again after the end of the construe-tion period.

Like Rome on its seven hills, Gorgas Hospital is builton seven levels on Ancon Hill. The physical plant consistsof 366,234 square feet of floor space, and there are ap-proximately 9 miles of total corridor space, about 2%miles of which are used as thoroughfare corridor.

Besides the staff men, residents, interns, nurses andnursing assistants usually synonymous with a hospital,there are 509 employees at Gorgas who work behind thescenes, generally unseen by the patients, 291,117 of whomwent through the hospital's portals the past year. Of thesepatients, 103,460 were admitted as in-patients.

Last year 1,758,178 items of linen were used by theLINEN ROOM hospital's 103,460 patients. The linens, which come under

the jurisdiction of the housekeeping department, number57,390 pieces and include a stock of about 4,500 diapers.Each item is marked Gorgas Hospital, together with thedate, so that the durability can be calculated. The house-keeping staff includes seamstresses who make, or mend,many of the items stocked. Last year they made over5,000 new items and mended almost 30,000.

The Central Supply Section at Gorgas Hospital servesas a medical supply depot and requisition center, not onlyfor Gorgas but for all the Health Bureau. Except food, allpurchases from a common pin to an operating table aremade by this Section, which has about 3,000 items ininventory stock.

All the drugs for Corozal and Palo Seco are requisition-ed from this Section. Coco Solo Hospital does its ownordering of medical supplies from the medical depot atMadden Wye, but when supplies are required from the

CENTRAL SUPPLY States, the order is processed through Gorgas CentralSupply Section.

Gorgas has a brace shop as complete as many found incities of 100,000 or more. This shop and the physicaltherapy section often work together, with braces some-times providing the outside aids in physical therapy, asin cases when braces are used to replace or aid in replace-ment of mobility of limbs affected by disease or injury.

The physical therapy section itself is becoming familiarto increasing numbers of patients, who are treated therefor many types of injuries and illnesses.

Preparation of food is another one of the specializedtasks at Corgas. In addition to the regular kitchen, whichprepares the meals for most of the in-patients, there is adiet kitchen. Patients are given a menu for the next day'smeal and may select from this list the food which isdelivered in pushcarts which have refrigerated and heat-ed sections.

ON THIS PAGE; Nursine service: Miss Irene A. Ladrach on niehtduty: Dental Clinic: A. M. McCormack, laboratory technician, Dr.William Baird. Mrs. Billye Henry, dental technician: PhysicalTherapy, William Lovell, a patient, Mrs. Mildred Kopf. registeredphysical thera-ist, Fred A. Dube. orthopedic technician; LinenRoom: Zoila del Castillo. Daisy Drakes, Marie Toopin. seamstresses,Mrs. Eva Harte. assistant housekeener; Central Simply: Mrs. BettyMorris, storekeeni-g clerk. Mrs. Helen Plumer, drug clerk; FoodService: Mrs. Addie Colclasure, dietitian, John P. Simmons and

FOOD SERVICE Cecil G. Wilmot, bakers.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 13

MEDICAL TREATMENT and common sense are used to aidpatients at Corozal Hospital, the sole psychiatric hospitalin the Canal Zone for the institutional care and treatmentof mental illness. The patients are in two groups, thementally ill and the so-called "chronics," homeless oldex-employces of the Panama Canal who, for one reasonor another, require institutional care.

The present-day patients at Corozal, no longer shut inby barred windows, hold dances to music of their ownorchestra, have their own beauty shop, a kitchenettewhere one-time cooks and potential cooks are encouragedto try their hands at the culinary art, participate in anexpanded recreational program, and have a good recordfor recoveries. Graphically they illustrate the great stridestaken in the care of mentally ill since the day when suchpatients were first cared for in the old French quartersat Miraflores.

On one wall in the office of Lt. Col. Arthur L. Hessin,superintendent at Corozal Hospital, hangs a chart whichshows the status of the patients, two-thirds of whom aremen. In January 1959 there were 246 patients, three orfour of whom had become well enough adjusted to go onextended visits to their families. In January 1960, out of226 patients, 15 were able to go on trial visits home.

About six months ago a program was initiated wherebycertain patients are able to go out on daily passes. These

patients through the years had lost all contact with familyor relatives, in whose custody normally they would havebeen released. With the passes, they are able to takepart-time jobs such as painting, cleaning up yards, o

New ideas in mental health bring greater freedom to patients. working in gardens.

ITS SCENIC CHARIM probably influenced Col. William C.Gorgas when he chose the site in 1907 for the Palo Seco .Leprosarium. The colony, which cares for all the leprosy -cases discovered in Panama and the Canal Zone, sits on

a promontory overlooking the entrance to the PanamaCanal.

Dr. Ezra Hurwitz is Palo Seco's mayor, mentor, doctor,and friend to the patients. He was the first resident doctorat the colony and has been there some 33 years. Mrs.Hurwitz, who was a bride when she came to Palo Secofrom her home in Panama, has been described as "ministerwithout portfolio in charge of social service.

During the past fiscal year only one new patient wasadmitted, a native of Colombia who had resided in Pan-ama seven years. One hundred and twenty-two patientswere at the Leprosarium at the end of the year, 111 of Vthem beneficiaries of the Republic of Panama, and 11 ofthe Canal Zone Government. These latter were formerCanal employees, or members of employees' families. k

The youngest patient is seven years old. The oldest is80 and retains a remarkably youthful look.

The colony has single rooms for bachelors and apart-ments for married couples. The patients eat either in thecentral dining hall, or prepare their own food, if they 'choose.

About 45 patients work for Palo Seco as orderlies,waiters, carpenters, or general maintenance men, andreceive a regular wage. Some 18 others occupy them-selves with farming and fishing. Mrs. Hurwitz always finds time to pause for a chat.

14 AinIL 1, 1960

DIVISION OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

the first case. Even the Canal Zone chil-dren were alerted to notify the Divisionwshenever a hat was found in the Zonecommunities. The span of participationin the survey program ranges from theZone school children to the WorldHealth Organization. And in betweenthere are health and agricultural agen-cies in the Zone and the Republic ofPanama, the Armed Services, the Mid-(le America Research Unit, and Gorgas

morial Laboratory.The Division of Veterinary Medicine

lists as its objectives: Prevention or con-trol of animal diseases transmissable toman; the development and supervisionof food hygiene practices within theZone, and inspection of approved foodsources outside the Zone; medical andsurgical treatment of disease in animalsbelonging to employees; and mainten-ance of liaison with other agencies.

Inspections of approved food proces-sing establishments of Panama and the

Samuel Hart, one of the Veterinary Medical Canal Zone totalled 1,277 the past year Jes6s Figueroa, Medical Technician, makesAids, shows his bat-catching technique. and included fish and shrimp packing a microscope examination for bat survey.

plants, abattoirs, butter packaging units, ment davs of animal quarantine andFon NEARLY iIALiF a century no case of ice cream and cheese manufacturing reflect an increase of 8 and 10 percent.animal or human rabies was reported on establishments, beverage bottling plants,the Isthmus. Then, last June, two cases confectionaries, wholesale markets,of bat rabies were found and a far-reach- farms, cold storage depots, milk pas-ing survey was begun immediately to teurizing plants and many others.determine the prevalence of the disease The Animal Quarantine Station-Hos-among indigenous bats of the area. pital at Corozal reported 7,003 animal

The bat-survey program, which con- patient days and 7,662 visits to the out-tinues through this year, was initiated patient clinic during the past year. Thesewithin one month after the diagnosis of figures are in addition to 13,399 confine-

Dr. Louis Fink checks sanitation procedures at the Panama abattoir, just as is done inthe case of all food-processing plants which supply produce for Canal Zone consumption.

Keyed in by numbers to the pictureon page 9: 1. Lt. Col. Harvey E. Meagh-er, Assistant to Director; 2. Dr. Ken-neth C. Zimmerman, Acting Chief, Di-vision of Veterinary Medicine; 3. R. A.Sylvestre, Administrative Assistant; 4.Lt. Col. Arthur L. Hessin, Superinten-dent, Corozal Hospital; 5. Col. ClarkB. Meador, Director, Gorgas Hospital;6. Col. Thomas G. Faison, Health Bu-reau Director; 7. Miss Martha R. Pod-bielski, Secretary; 8. John P. Smith, Jr.,Chief, Division of Sanitation; 9. Dr.Ezra Hurwitz, Palo Seco LeprosariumSuperintendent; 10. Mrs. Marcia VanHorne, Administrative Assistant; 11. Dr.Bernard K. Levin, Acting Chief, Divi-sion of Preventive Medicine and Quar-antine; 12. Alvis B. Carr, Administra-tive Assistant; 13. William Brown, As-sistant to Health Director; 14. Lt. Col.Ralph E. Conant, Superintendent, CocoSolo Hospital. Dr. Sidnev B. Clark, new-ly appointed Chief of the Division ofPreventive Medicine and Quarantine,had not arrived in the Canal Zone at thetime the picture was taken. Dr. RobertG. Matheney, Chief of the Division of

V+ Veterinary Medicine, was in the UnitedStates on leave.

DIVISION OF SANITATION

To hge sure this is an exaggeration, but At- and now the Monday chores can be donelactic siers declare that once they almost in utmost comfort in shorts and shirts,took to suits like this '''an outfit which they couldn't wear before.

A CONSTANT BATTLE is waged by the study of these troublesome pests isDivision of Sanitation, because the mos- ndry inasalabrtywhhquitoes and sandflmes won t qi.-was established the past year in a build-

Yellow fever was eradicated in cities ;iga ooSl optlby te ed of190, bu maariaandThe Division of Sanitation is constant-

rnosqutito control require constant and - ly on the alert for fly breeding and triesintensive efforts to keep the malaria rate to locate and eradicate such sourceslow in the tropics. All weapons in the whenever possible.eradication arsenal are employed against The prsare the baterudfor athe 150 species of mosquitoes on the war baras ad theftlgondensIsthmus, whose breeding places vary against an invasion of rat-horne diseases,from stagnant water to tree holes and Quarantine activities supported by thisdie decorative elephant ear plants. Division include inspection of ships for

Playing important roles in mosquito rodents, dockside surveillance of shipscontrol are: insect vector control byunadg rg frm e-setdrainage; the use of insecticides which But then along came the plane whsch unodn ,crofo plaguesspc

killlarae ad aults moquit suvey sprayed pelletized dieldrin to kill the pes- ports and intensive rodent control onkillra n dlt;msut uvy tiferous sandifies .piers and surrounding areas.stations; spraying of land license dwel- Monthly saiayinspections arclhogs and other buildings semi-annually made in all rsntauryns retail stores,with dildrin; and continuing blood clubs, and whrestarfoan vraesurveys for locating and treating in- batted through aerial applications of are served to the public. Periodic train-cipient positive cases before malaria can pelletized dieldrin over the breeding ing courses for foodhandlers are con-develop and be spread by mosquitoes. areas, in a joint operation of the Canal ducted. Schools, gymnasiums, swim-

Substantial progress inrmalaria reduc- Zone Government's Health Bureau, the ming pools, public buildings and town-tion is illustrated best in figures; 26 Medical and Engineer Section of USAR- sites also come in for inspections.malaria cases were contracted in the CARIB, and the Air Section of the 20th From mosquito problems, to care ofCanal Zone during the last fiscal year, Infantry. However, resistance to insecti- Chinese rugs, the Division of Sanitationas against 10o the previous year. cides by sandflies has already develop- advises and assists, if possible, in the

Cmmlcoidles (sandfhies) are being com- ed. The first serious basic, scientific control of insect pests.

16 APBIL 1, 1960

To Panama: $1.9 Million in February

TEN CONTRACTS, totaling over half a million dollars, let to local Valuefirms during February, helped to boost the month's direct i. Food Products:benefits to Panama from the Company-Government to a. Meats: Native Beef, Sausage Prod 41ts $49,983$1,916,500.18. The contracts ranged in value from $2,000 to b. Seafood: Fish, Lobster, Shrimp . 4,461$110,100. c. Agricultural:

Included among the February contracts were three for air Coffee. . 82conditioning public buildings in the Canal Zone. Aire Frio, Vegetables and Fruit . 7,381Inc., holds a contract for air conditioning the Cristobal Ter- d. Dairy: Eggs, Milk Products. . . 8,452minals Buildings; Hojalateria Panami, S. A., the contract for c. Bakery: Bread, Rolls . . 1,612air conditioning the Coco Solo Retail Store; and Isthmian f. Others: Brewers Grain, BlackstrapConstructors, that for a similar job at the main offices of the Molasses. .1,650Supply Division. 2. Beverages: Beers, Soda Water . 10,303

Other February contracts included some for painting, tile 3. Tobacco Products. . 188work, and similar maintenance or improvement projects. 4. Toilet Articles: Mouthwashes, Lotions, Co-

As is always true, the largest chunk of the direct benefits lognes, Ointments and Pomades . 1,784to Panama in February came in the gross payrolls for the 5. Batteries "Tasco. . 1,539non-U.S. rolls during the month. The payroll for this group, 6. Gases, Acetylene, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Cook-most of whom live in the Republic and (1o the bulk of their ing. 3,665buying there, was $1,341,995.18. 7. Building Materials:

The remainder of the $1,916,500.18 which flowed into a. Forest Products . 11,208Panama in February from the Company-Government came b. Cement . .17,243in the $119,957 spent for consumer goods-almost $35,000 c. Sand. 1,888higher than for the previous month-and $16,898 spent for d. Paints, etc . .462"services." An example of these "services" is photo-engraving. e. Miscellaneous. . 951The pictures which illustrate this and other copies of TiHE 8. Miscellaneous Goods for Re-Sale: PlaintainREVIEW are all processed in Panama before they go to the Chips, Sport Shirts, Post Cards, Brooms. 3,073Mount Hope Printing Plant. 9. Miscellaneous Use Items: Visqueen Bags, Plas-

Seasonal buying was a major factor in the increased amount tic Bags, Uniforms, Dry ce. . .3,032of consumer goods bought in Panama in February. Purchasesof meats, seafood, fresh fruits and vegetables, and beverages Total Consumer Goods. .$119,957all showed marked rises.

This table shows purchases in Panama by the Supply Divi- . Services.16,898sion during February of this year: Grand Total. .$136,855

And for the Panama Line's Ancon -

A pat on the back"SOME FANCIER Ships than the Ancon, tonr of the bridge one day and on the which tells the history of the PanamaPanama Line, may be plying the Carib- next day all of the passengers had an Liner's wartime career.bean, but none has a better crew," says opportunity to inspect the kitchen. During the trip to the Canal Zone lieLeonard H. Prince, editor of the Mas- "We liked the bridge inspection and became acquainted with various mem-sena, N.Y. Obscrver, who made a recent we liked to see the radar working," he bers of the ship's crew, including thetrip to the Canal Zone aboard the Pan- wrote. But when passengers asked how purser, David Segara who, Mr. Princeama Liner. far they were from land and were told wrote, "has apparently been on the

Mr. Prince came here to secure ma- 'three miles," only to learn that the Ancon for some time and eating its ex-terial for a series of articles comparing three miles meant straight down, they cellent food . . . When he sits downthe Panama Canal and the St. Lawrence found it "comforting to know that the in an armchair, he fills it."Seaway, some of whose main offices are people running that ship knew their While he singled out a number of thelocated at Massena. He was impressed business." Ancon's crew for special mention, heby the Panama Canal but he was equal- One of the most interesting things summed it all up this way:ly impressed by the Ancon, to such an Mr. Prince discovered on his trip aboard "From Captain Nielsen down to Jos6extent that he told the New York pas- was the proud war history of the Ancon, A. Torres who took care of the state-senger traffic manager "nothing could which had taken an important part, in room, the people on the Ancon go farequal" his trip aboard. both hemispheres, during World War out of the way to make the cruise an

During the voyage, Mr. Prince wrote, I. He even asked Captain Nielsen to outstanding event in the life of everyCapt. Niles A. Nielsen conducted a autograph a copy of "Tour of Duty," passenger.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 17

ANNIVERSARIESENGINEERING AND CON- SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY

STIUCTION BUREAU SERVICE BUREAUPedro A. Aguilar

I (per Electrician el MartinezAndres Ortiz er

General Helper uan M6ndez

MARINE BUREAU Laborer Cleaner

Ignacio L. CaballeroLaborer TRANSPORTATION AND TER-

Alexander >rbes MINALS BUREAUHelper L I Manuel Corts

Ren6 J. IsidloreMaulCrsPainter Upholsterer

Jes6s Rodriguez Isafas HereiraHelper Lock Operator Machine Operator

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU ENGINEERING AND CON- MARINE BUREAU TRANSPORTATION AND TER-

Mercedes Castro STRUCTION BUREAU Herbert G. Forbes MINALS BUREAUElementary and Secondary Julian S. Hearne Guard Juan Carvajal

School ~Juia Leoci RoriueaJanCavaaSchool Teacher Supervisory C-C 1 K7nner Leoncio Rodriguez Clerk CheckerVc NS al rer Joseph Conklin, Jr.

VnetN.St on - aeYard ConductorOFFICE OF THE COMP- Engineerin g urve A* r k Domingo Lasso

TROLLER Vincent C. McFarl e S AND C IMUNITY Railroad Station Watchman

Jack B. DeVore Leader Seaman SERVICE EAU Leopold C. GrossettSupervisory Accountant Hamul C. Harper Laborer

Launch Operator A -. Francois Edward P. JosephJLu' L Rodr o >les Secti ad Truck Driver

HEALTH BUREAU os6 L Rodrig illa - ort Albert W. McKinnonErnest A. Welch Jeremiah A. ryE undry cker Messenger

Medical Attendant Wire Cable Worker Leader Laborer ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCHUriab Duffls Jos6 Gonzsilez Della J. Noonan Malcolm E. Smith

Hospital Attendant Pipelaver Mail and File Supervisor Clerk

MAGISTRATE COURTS James H. Holder HEALTH BUREAU Martin CAceres

Cleveland E. Stevens Helper Electrician Roberto A. Torres Q. Seaman

Clerk Frederick Burns Pest Control Laborer Charles W. RagerLaunch Seaman Granville Brown Lock Operator Pipefitter

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH Caleb Williams Hospital Attendant Manuel MoralesADMNt B N Hammetter Boatman Stanford W. Campbell Helper Lock Operator

Robert G. Prammetter c Gilbert C. Foster Steward Alfred E. ThompsonAssistant iHead, Press Section, Crushing and Screening Carlos Menchaca Oiler

Printing Plant Plant Leader Pest Control Laborer Servio T. RuedaFred E. vells Harvey W. Sauter Lorenzo Ribas Helper Lock Operator

Supervisory Transportation Lead Foreman Carpenter Laborer George L. CurtisOfficer Arthur A. Morgan Helper Lock Operator

Telegraphic-Typewriter Toolroom Attendant MARINE BUREAU Lionel A. AshbyTeraty r Natalio Rivas F. Earle H. Holder ClerkOperator Laborer Cleane tor Theophilus Belgrave

CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Jorge A. Shuff AHe>er I ekC torLeaderSc na Lawrence V. Chambers

John Eulalio Len o Ir ancroft iig t Safety InspectorFire Sergeant Leadsman Julio Rodriguez

John R. Bovell Charlesn A.ma Bot aneGuard Pedro A. Gordon dward H. Sad r Batman

'oaglai A. Maynard Boatman Helper Rigge Cle kLeader Laborer Cleaner Jos Del CidM. ston E. Cric o Clarence S. Spence

Charles F. Schonert Laborer Al Helper Lock Operator

Distribution Clerk Aurelio Poz T. r e lr o OLaborer Leader Lahorer

OFFICE OF THE COMP- Nicolis Estr ."a Lloyd G. ThorneillTROLLER Boatman Helper 'Machinist LodG hrhl

L nGerald J. Fox Andrew S. Liebermann Laborer

James E. Lawson Leader Heavy Duty Towboat or Ferry Chief PERSONNEL BUREAUAuditor Equipment Mechanic Engineer Robert A. Stevens

John W UreyPosition ClassifierENGINEERING AND CON- Charles E. Pretz John WV. UreyPoionCasfe

Lead Foreman Refrigeration Lead Foreman Pipefitter CENTRAL EMPLOYMENTSTRUCTION BUREAU and Air Conditioning Joseph N. GillE

JO6G il ieN etGuard OFFICEJos6 G. Tiela Mike N. Bent Percival I. Johnson Margaret M. Kourany

Helper Core Drill Operator Leadsman Leader Seaman File ClerkArden N. Greaves Eric T. Smoll William N. Arthur

General Helper Crater and Packer Signalman SUPPLY AND COMMUNITYRupert C. Fennell Jos6 Z. Moreno Clemente Castaneda SERVICE BUREAU

Oiler Boatman Carpenter G. ApplewhiteEpifanio Salazar Euribiades Ramos Carmelo Z6niga Counter Attendant

Boatman Painter Laborer (See page 20)

18 APRIL 1, 1960

PROMOTIONSAND

TRANSFERSFebruary 15 through March 15

EMPLOYEES vho were promoted or Gorgas Hospital, to Coco Solo Hospital. Clifton 11. L6pez, to Teller, Supply Divi-transferred between February 15 and Von R. Hunt, from Library Assistant, Civil sion.March 15 are listed below Within- Affairs Bureau, to File Clerk, Coco Solo AdAn Rodriguez, to Gardener, Community

Hospital. Services Division.grade promotions and job reclassifica- MARINE BUREAU James C. Haynes, to Stock Control Clerk,tions are not reported. Supply Division.

Thomas B. McAndrews, to Probationary Patna L. Brown, to Retail Store Supervisor,CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU Pilot. Supply Division.Postal Division Mrs. Bertha B. Brown, Clerk Typist, from Bruce G. Perry, from Substitute Distribu-

Industrial Division to Navigation Divi- tion Clerk, Postal Division, to TheaterArthur W. Farrell, Harold A. Blackwell, to sion. Usher, Supply Division.Substitute Window Clerk. John Frederick, Ernesto S. Smith, from Richard A. Johnson, from SubstituteGerald H. Halsall, from Recreation Assis- Laborer, Maintenance Division to Deck- Window Clerk, Postal Division, totant, Division of Schools, to Substitute hand. Theater Usher, Supply Division.Distribution Clerk. Juan F. Rodriguez G., from High Lift Miss A. Janet Read, to Chief Usher, BalboaOFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER Truck Operator, Terminals Division, to Theater.

Accounting Division Deckhand. Marcelino Rios, to Laborer, Supply Divi-Samuel A. Grant, from Laborer, Com- sion.Mrs. Edith W. Cotton, to Accounting Tech- munity Services Division, to Deckhand.

nician. TRANSPORTATION AND TERMINALSAlbert G. Mootoo, from Stock Clerk, Sup- Industrial Division BUREAU

ply Division, to Office Machine Operator. Daniel R. Klotz, from Police Private, Police .U.EADivision, to Welder. Motor Transportation Division

ENGINEERING AN1) CONSTRUCTION Horace Reid, from Watchman, Community Enrique I. Marshall, Severino HernindezBUREAU Services Division, to Clerk Typist. T., Small Engine Mechanic, fromn Com-

Benjamin Suisman, to Supervisory Con- Lionel M. Smith, from Kitchen Attendant, munity Services Division.struction Inspector. Supply Division, to Laborer Cleaner. Eduardo V. Lindsey, from Laborer Clean-

Dredging Division Robert S. Gill, to Helper Machinist. er, Supply Division, to AutomotiveAlphonso Gooding, to Toolroom Mechanic. Equipment Serviceman.

Cleveland A. Heath, F6lix Tabarin, Luther Locks Division Augustus C. Bennett, Helper GasolineB. Ward, to Launch Seaman. . . Engine Mechanic, from Community

Miguel Mendieta, from Laborer, Com- Burton J. Deveau, from Machinist, Rail- Services Division.munity Services Division, to Launch road Division, to Lock Operator Na- Juan Sinchez, Laborer, from CommunitySeaman. chinist. Services Division.

Adolfo Calder6n, from Laborer, Terminals Conrado Tique, Laborer, from Mainten- Terminals DivisionDivision, to Launch Seaman. aece Division.

Allen A. Welsh, from Deckhand, Naviga- Howard L. McKenzie, Jimmy Taylor, from Philip C. Neblett, from Laborer, Nainten-tion Division, to Launch Seaman. Waiter, Supply Division, to Laborer. dance Division, to Dock Worker.

Cliff Beaty, to Dipper Dredge Operator. Luis A. Guill6n, Antonio Ramirez, Julio Manuel M. Pitre, Manuel Salazar, to La-Electrical Division C. Valverde, Laborer, from Community borer.

Services Division. Stafford A. Gouldborne, Arnulfo Reyes M.,John H. Foster, to Lead Foreman Elec- Evaristo E. Rodriguez, from Ship Worker, Ernest Stephenson, to High Lift Trucktronics Mechanic. Terminals Division, to Laborer. Operator.

Federico A. C~rdenas, to Electrical Equip- Roy Feurtado, Walter Hyde, from Dock Marco T. Durin, to Carpenter.ment Repairman. Worker, Terminals Division, to Laborer. Salazar Arias, Fred Linares, Enrique L6-

Maintenance Division Philip R. Sanders, from Armature Winder, pez, to Ship Worker.Rupert S. Beckford, to Lead Foreman Electrical Division, to Lock Operator Mrs. Bertha E. Hayes, from Accounting

Public Works Road Repairs. Electrician. Technician, Office of the Comptroller,Anderson Gaillard, to Pipelayer. Harrell Y. B. Parsons, from Pumping Plant to Accounting Clerk.Fidel TerAn, Camilo Martinez, Beresford Operator, Maintenance Division, to Tow- Mrs. Gloria M. DeRaps, to Secretary.

Phillips, Joseph A. Campbell, John A. ing Locomotive Operator. OTHER PROMOTIONSSterling, Victor M. Royes, Anastacio Ricardo Henry, from Laborer Cleaner, PROMOTIONSBatista, Misael Rivera, Efrain Bosquez, Electrical Division, to Laborer. PioMoTIoNS which did not involveAndr6s Medina, to Cement Finisher. Billy D. Bell, from Locks Guard, to Tow- changes of title follow:

Harold A. Walker, to Oiler. ing Locomotive Operator. Hugh W. Cassibry, John R. Gough, Busi-Stanley Holder, Philip Joseph, Filos H. PERSONNEL BUREAU ness Analyst, Budget and Rates Division.

Ward, to Toolroon Mechanic. . William E. Hall, Systems Accountant, Ac-Wallace H. Charles, Alsibades Escobar, to Robert Van Wagner, from Administrative counting Division.

General Helper. Assistant, Maintenance Division, to Em- Ralph H. Otten, General Architect, En-Joseph Francis, to Helper Machinist. plovee Services Officer, Employment gineering Division.Wallace Cameron, Ralph C. Thorne, Cleve- and Utilization Division. Miss Mary L. Azcarraga, Staff Nurse,

land J. Trowers, David Bowen, to Car- SUPPLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Gorgas Hospital.penter. Mrs. Juanita F. Chen, Electrocardiograph

Gilberto Semancas, to Laborer. BUREAU Technician, Gorgas Hospital.Thomas G. Relihan, to General Manager, Julio A. Best, Bookkeeping Machine Op-HEALTH BUREAU Supply Division. erator, Accounting Division.

Mrs. Jeanne C. Bay, from Staff Nurse, Vernon F. Kepford, Jr., to Supervisory James J. Boughner, Apprentice Locks Elec-Gorgas Hospital, to Public Health Nurse, General Supply Assistant. trician, Electrical Division.Division of Preventive Medicine and Horace F. Jenner, John C. Wallace, from Harold Harding, Meat Cutter, Supply Di-Quarantine. Retail Store Supervisor, to Store Man- vision.

Mrs. Kathleen 1. NI. Nelson, to Nurse Sn- ager, Supply Division. Miss Florence A. Springer, Laborer, Cocopervisor (Psychiatry), Corozal Hosoital. Sylvester D. Callender, from Retail Store Solo Hospital.Miss Nelmira Landers, from Hospital At- Supervisor, to Assistant Store Manager, Cyril C. Gordon, Painter, Maintenance Di-tendant, Coco Solo Hospital, to Nursing Supply Division. vision.

Assistant, Gorgas Hosoital. James R. Shirley, to Housing Project Assis- Bernab6 Pedrosa, Laborer, CommunityMiss Marjorie F. Manley, Staff Nurse, tant, Community Services Division. Services Division.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEw 19

New employees see the Canal

"Ire"

Fred deV. Sill, Panama Canal tour lecturer, was the commentator A close look was taken at the Cut-widening project when theas new employees made the transit of two of the Canal's locks. Presicdente Porras passed the scene of rapidly changing topography.

RETIREMENTS ANNIVERSARIESRETIBEMENT certificates were presented at the end of March (Continued from page 18)to the following employees who are listed alphabeticallybelow, together with their birthplaces, positions, years of Canal 20 earsservice, and their future addresses:Paul A. Bentz, Salem, Nehr.; General Counsel, Panama Canal Coin- Napoleon Forbes Lucille 1. Bell

pany; 30 years, 5 months, 20 days; Asheville, N.C. Warehouseman CookMortimer J. Brennan, Cleveland, Ohio; Power Plant Electrician, Luisa 0. de Sinchez Abelardo Reluz

Electrical Division; 15 years, 8 months, 20 days; Pittsburgh, Pa. Laundry Checker LaborerAlva 1L. Cooke, Hampton, Va.; Safety Inspector, Supply and Coin- Lyle M. Daniel Luter A. Pottinger

munity Service Bureau; 29 years, 7 months, 12 days; Hampton. Meat Cutter ClerkMiss Florence H. Edbrooke, Chicago, Ill.; Director of Nurses, Coco Newton E. Skeet

Solo Hospital: 23 years, 5 months, 11 days; undecided. Sales Section Head TRANSPORTATION AND TER-Albert H. Evans, New York City, N.Y.; Supervisory Administrative Pedro Beleno MINALS BUREAU

Assistant, Administrative Branch; 36 years, 2 months, 24 days; LaborerWashington, D.C. Luis A. Rivera D. Vicent Steele

Desiderio Gonzalez, Panama, R.P.; Laborer, Locks Division; 29 Tree Trimmer Clerkyears, 11 months, 16 days; Chorrera, R.P. Robert Davidson Rufus Wallace

Isaias Gonzilez, Chorrera, R.P.; Helper Lock Operator, Locks Di. Laborer Helper Locomotive Engineervision; 42 years, 9 months, 19 days; Chorrera, R.P. Adolphus L. Osborne Ismael Monroy

Isaias Herreira, Gorgona, R.P.; Machine Operator, Railroad Divi- Truck Driver Truck Driversiou; 44 years, 5 months, 22 days; Panama, R.P. Benjamin Ennis N. Julio F. Justimian

Gladstone Kirton, Barbados, B.W.I.; General Helper, Maintenance Exterminator WatchmanDivision; 44 years, 10 months, 4 lays; Colon, R.P. Pearlinea Deniston Joseph E. Frederick

Antonio LaFaux 0., Tumaco, Colombia; High Lift Truck Operator, Clerk LaborerTerminals Division; 18 years, 6 months, 29 days; Colon, R.P. Harry C. Seaman Nicolas I. Caput

Jessie B. Nedrick, St. Catherine, Jamaica, B.W.I.; Utility Worker, Supervisory Milk Production Truck DriverSupply Division; 14 years, 4 months, 26 days; Colon, R.P. Assistant Samuel Barrios

Tomis Nino, Salud, R.P.; Helper, Liquid Fuels, Terminals Divi- James N. Miller Chauffeursion; 19 years, 10 months, 27 days; Colon, R.P. Clerk Francis H. O'Connell

Joseph N. Prescott, St. Michael, Barbados, B.W.I.; Gardener, Coin- Arcadio Escudero Automotive Machinistmunity Services Division; 33 years, 3 clays; Rio Abajo, R.P. Gardener John Stephens

Ralph 1). Robinson, Marion, Va.; Restaurant Manager, Suoply Di- Juan D. Esturain Guardvision; 18 years, 9 months, 5 days; Arlington, Va. Laborer Martin L. Grenald

John J. Ryan, Boston, Mass.; Guard, Terminals Division; 18 years, H. G. Davidson Railroad Station Watchman8 months, 3 days; undecided. Laborer Gil R. Sinchez

Victor L. Thompson, Kingston, Jamaica, B.W.I.; Laborer, Naviga- James Jesse Truck Drivertion Division; 31 years, 1 month, 27 days; undecided. Laborer Cleaner James U. Williams

Cleveland L. Watler, Tela, Honduras; Guard, Supply Division; 29 Remi 0. Grimaux Guardyears, 8 months, 29 days; Brooklyn, N.Y. Packer Lloyd P. Perkins

Howard Linwood Wentworth, Clinton, Maine; Pilot, Navigation Booker T. Alleyne Truck DriverDivision; 18 years, 9 months, 20 days; East Coast. Exterminator Basil E. Curtis

Reginald L. Worrell, Barbados, B.W.I.; Cement Finisher, Locks Ethel May Brammer Automotive EquipmentDivision; 40 years, 2 months, 24 days; undecided. Counter Attendant Serviceman

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ABOUT SAFETY"A PLACE for everything and everything them then, had something in this clean-in its place." Sound familiar? It should. up gimmick.It was an often repeated adage in our A sloppy, cluttered shop-like a sim-youth. ilarly kept house or kitchen-tells a

When we were youngsters it was a whole story about the housekeeper andpain in the neck to have some adult the kind of work turned out.

pit quote that saying to us with a smug The careless worker is always in alook. Most of us, however, with the state of exasperation. He can't find thepassing of the years and perhaps a few things he needs-he isn't even sure hehard knocks as a result of leaving things has them half the time. A good part oflying around have become convinced his effort is spent in cleaning awaythat the old timers, as we thought of things to get at what he needs and then

more often than not it isn't there afterall. The end result is shortened tempers,

ACCIDENTS constant emergencies, and the expendi-ture of much more effort and time to

FOR get any job done and it is usually only

THE MONTH with barely satisfactory results.You are probably wondering at this

AND point-What's all this got to do withsafety? Need we explain? People don't

T HE YEAR fall and break their necks in well-keptaisles nor do they smash their fingersmanhandling a lot of materials or tools

FEBRUARY FIRST Al D DISABLI NG DAYS getting at what they need when it isCASES I NJU RI ES LOS T kept in orderly well-kept storerooms or'60 '59 '60 '59 '60 s9 stock piles, just to recall a few things.

ALL UNITS 227 189 7 9 101 534 Yes, good housekeeping pays divi-YEAR TO DATE 477 403 18 22 168 967 dends-in more ways than one.

CANAL HISTORY50 Years Ago 25 Years Ago 10 Years Ago

GATUN LAKE began to become a reality WITH THE Canal administration, the THE OLD QUESTION of Canal tolls was50 years ago this month. On April 22, Secretary of War, and the Panama gov- under discussion again 10 years ago this1910, workmen began a three-day job ernment protesting a measure which month in the U.S. Congress. Shippingof closing the channel through which would prohibit the employment of aliens representatives told a Senate Commercethe Chagres River flowed past Gatun. in the Canal Zone, it was announced 25 Subcommittee that Canal tolls shouldThe river had been turned into this west years ago this month that a special Sen- be fair and equitable.diversion in 1908 when the original bed ate committee would come to the Isth- The Panama Government invoked itsand the French channel were closed. mits to make an ont-the-spot investiga- joint responsibility with the United

The nomination of Maurice H. That- tion. The question was whether or not States for the defense of the Panama

cher as a member of the Isthmian Canal alien employees would constitute a Canal by outlawing communism. The

Commission was confirmed by the Sen- danger to the defuse of the Canal. executive resolution was signed by Pres-

ate on April 7, 1910. He replaced J. C. Secretary of State Cordell Hull an- ident Arnifo Arias and his eight cabinetS. Blackburn who had resigned a few nounced in Washington that progress Theislsweeks earlier. tcas being made in negotiations to reach The closing of the Balboa shops was

A sprk roman IthiianCana (i a~reenentwit Panma n anew postponed for a short time after AlbertA spark from an Isthmian Canal (0 agreettett wtth Panama (O 0 neI L. Phelan, President of the Canal Zone

Commission locomotive used in cotnec- treaty. Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, Panamas Metal Trades Council, asked Congresstion with sand-dredging operations at Diplomatic Represenlative in Washing- to make an investigation.Nombre de Dios set off a fire on April ton, conferred with President Roosevelt Local Rate employees in the Canal8, 1910, which destroyed 73 of the more and Sumner Wells. Zone began the organization of a localthan 200 houses which comprised the The U.S. Senate approved a bill chapter of the CIO.native settlement. Tents and provisions authorizing more than two and a halfwere sent from Cristobal for the home- million dollars in Naval construction One Year A goless. here, most of it to be spent at the Sub- DURING A hot and busy month- the

Late in the month "The Canal Re- marine Base at Coco Solo. temperature hit 97.7 degrees one day-cord" announced plans for a ship basin, In Washington, the Good Roads As- Prince Philip of Edinburgh made hisnorth of Pedro Miguel Locks, where sociation urged action on the construe- second official visit to the Canal Zone.ships coudd wait for lockages. The basin tion of a road between Colon and Pan- A large group of Zonians welcomd himwas to be 600 feet wide by about 3,000 ama, pointing out that such a road would at a reception at the Coco Solo Breakersfeet long, be of benefit to the Canal's defense. Club.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 21

ZONIANS ALL: Left, James Brooks, at Duquesne, rehearses for a college show. Above,left, at Taylor University: Cecilia L. Parchment, at piano, Eric Atherly, jacinta Griffiths, andClarence Stuart. Above, right: Judy Engelke, in the Dickinson College physics laboratory.

SCHOLARSHIP

STUDENTSare scholarships from the Canal Zone's James Anthony Brooks, Jr., of Mar-two college clubs and other scholarships arita, a graduate of Cristobal Highavailable through the National Science School, is a good example. A sopho-Foundation and similar organizations. more at Duquesne University in Pitts-And, for the men only, there is an burgh, le is studying music under aNROTC scholarship for many colleges. four-year scholarship from the FrankThere are also appointments in the Ullrich Foundation. His music major isWITH THE END of the school year only various military academies. piano and his minor, cornet. He is also

two nionths away, two questions are Few scholarships pay a student's doing a minor in psychology.foremost in the minds of a good many entire way through college. Many par- He belongs to the University Chorus.of the 320 young men and women who ents do not realize this and are disap- which has appeared with the Pittsburghare cue to graduate from the Canal pointed when a son or daughter with a Symphony, and has had parts in threeZone's two largest high schools and from straight "A" record in high school re- University Opera Workshop produc-the Canal Zone Junior College. These ceives no more than a token scholarship. tions-The Gondoliers, last spring, andquestions, which have already confront- These token scholarships can be $100 The Maid as Mistress and The Nighted the graduates of the Latin American or less or merely a piece of paper which Bell this year. He is a member of thehigh schools who ended their school says "entered with honors." The recent- Uni-ersity's drill team and assistantyear in February, are: Am I going on to ly'formed College Scholarship Service drill sergeant.college, and can I get a scholarship to now provides information to 228 par- Judith Evelyn Engelke, daughter ofhelp myself along? ticipating colleges on student applicants. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Engelke, ofSome of them already know that they Parents are required to "bare their fi- Balboa, is majoring in physics at Dickin-have been accepted by the colleges of nancial structure," up to listing the face son College in Pennsylvania, where shetheir choice and some are still waiting value of the insurance carried by the is a junior. Physics demands a lot ofto hear. But, for most of them, the head of the family and the make and laboratory work but she still finds timescholarship question is still unanswered. year of the family automobile. to engage in intramural snorts, herMany scholarships, in varying At the present time, there are close to favorite campus activity. By faculty ap-amounts, are open to graduates of the half a hundred young people from the pointment, she serves as chief studentCanal Zone schools. Some are offered Canal Zone now in colleges in the moviior at chapels and assemblies, andby the colleges these students hope to United States on scholarships of one sort is also actis itics chairman of the Pi Betaenter. Various fraternal or community or another. And they are doing very Phi sorority.groups, such as the Elks, the Order of well indeed, not only' scholastically but Three of the five local students atthe Eastern Star, and the Lions Club, also in the way they have become part Taylor University, a 114-year-old pri-help finance college educations. There of the life of their college. vate interdenominational college in

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Indiana, are on scholarships at the Other Canal Zone young people whoschool. Cecilia L. Parchment, a senior, are attending colleges in the Unitedplans to become a teacher. She is a States on scholarships are:number of the Spanish Science Club From Cristobal High School: Robertand the Student Education Association, MacSparran and Alfred Chan, Whittier;and takes part in the intramural sports Jeanette Swicegood, Medical College

program and Christian service activi- of Virginia; Marie Bleakiey, Coloradoties. Clarence Stuart, a junior, is a grad- State; Wendy Cotton, San lose State;uate of Rainbow City High School. He Carol Lew, San Diego State; and Estherplans to become a Guidance Counselor. Miller, Southern Methodist.He is a member of the Social Science Ririjow it, Hgthoo LneClub, the Language Club, and the Rambow City High School: Linel

college's dramatic group, The Troj an King and Lionel Fergus, Brandeis.

Players. The other scholarship student -Balboa High School: Joe Pustis, Mas-is Annette Josephs, a graduate of Rain- sachusetts Institute of Technology; Ro-bow City High School with the class of land Chanis, John Hopkins; Carlos1956. She was out of school for the Kiamco, Iowa State; Sollv Toussich,first semester but returned at ruid-year. Bowdoin; Vena Bennett, Northeast Mis-

Claire R. rehit, daughter of Mr and souri State Teachers College; JoanMrs. Tracy P. White of Gatun, turned Degenaar and Sue Mable, Universityan outstanding record at Cristobal High of North Carolina; Joan Dimpfl, Duke;School into two scholarships which - Dianne Hannigan, Colorado State; Mar-she is using at Hollins College in Claire White, of Gatun, is a freshman at cia Lewis, College cf Notre Dame in

Claire Wite, ofGBaltimsorefrDimanealacotbs, RadcliffeVirginia. She won competitive scholar- Hollins, under two scholarships won on an more; iane Jaco>s, R e;ships from the Caribbean College Club outstanding record in her high school years. Sandra Nelson, Florida State; Caroland from the Elks National Foundation. Perantie, Pembroke; Mfirna Pierce, In-

She is majoring in Spanish, which schools are at Fresno State College in carnate Word; and Sally Reinhart,she plans to teach. This year she is California on scholarships. Agnes Louise Swedish Convent Hospital.taking Spanish literature and linguistics, Blades, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Paraiso High School: Phillip Malcolmin addition to humanities, biology and Blades of Gamboa, and Luis Taylor Cox, and Jasmes Glen, Florida A&M; Samuelmathematics. At Cristobal High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luis Cox of Paraiso, Blenman, Wichita State; Newton Buch-she was voted the most talented senior are majoring in accounting. Both are ner and Clifford Lindsay, Wisconsinand won the annual award as the out- members of the college's International State; Theresa Malcohn and Charlottestanding girl in the 1959 graduating Club. Mr. Cox worked as a machine Gooden, Tuskegee Institute; Hiltonclass. She also w\,on the John Philip Sousa operator w\ith the Office of the Conip- Warren, Talladega; Hilma Powell, St.Band Award for her saxophone work. troller before he entered college. Also John's University; Cedric Bailey, Xavier;While her studies have kept her too busy at Fresno City College is Oscar Town- Celestina Bryce, St. Catherine Schoolthis first Year for much outside activity, send, Jr., whose parents live in Gamnboa. of Nursing; Violet Tait, Patton's Me-she hopes to join student music and He is a business major and plans to morial Hospital; Violet Waters, Okla-language groups soon. enter the military service after gradua- hoina Baptist; and Claudette Soley,

Three graduates of the Canal Zone tion. Ohio University.

DO-IT-YOURSELF-STOREHOUSE STYLE

ONE OF THE MOST attractive do-it-yourself projects in the CanalZone-the lunchroom and lounge sin Building 5 of the Store-houses'Section B --has rapidly become a drawing card not onlyfor the 70 or so men who work there but also for their col-leagues from the Maintenance and other Divisions. The idea,moreover, has met with such favor that it has been copied byStorehouse workers on the Atlantic side.

Space for the lunchroom and lounge became available notlong ago when stock was reorganized and relocated. Withfunds obtained from the sale of soft drinks, the employees

procured tables, chairs, and a ping-pong table, and on theirown time put them into shape and painted them.

During any lunch hour now, there are ping-pong gamesshuffleboard contests. domino and checker tournaments hotlyunder way. And if you think dominoes cant be exciting, it's

because you haven't watched a Storehouse gang playing them.

THE PANAMA CANAL REVIEW 23

The Reina del Mar, shown above docked at Balboa, transits regularly between England and the west coast of South America.

Potential Customers German Lloyd between European ports the command of a new skipper. He waand the West Coast of South America. Capt. S. A. Jones, a veteran Cunar

A SHIPBUILDING prOgram started recent- The motorship Worns made her maiden Line employee, who succeeded Captly by the Lykes Brothers Steamship voyage southbound through the Canal Donald M. MacLean. The change iiCompany and the American President March 22 on this run, joining her sister- command took place in New York folLines will add several new ships to the ship Weisbaden. The Continental Ship- lowing the March 14 cruise of th.Pani aa Canal list Of regular transitswithin the comparatively near future. ping Company represents both lines. Mauretania when Captain MacLea,wthof theseis parte ne ar linr. Yacwas appointed commodore of the CurOne of these is the new cargo liner Yacht Visits Canal ard Line and transferred to the transZoella Lykes, launched in January at THE MINNIE LEE, a 73-foot motor yacht atlantic liner Queen Elizabeth.the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation inPaseagoula, Miss. The construction of owned by Charles A. Steen, Utah State Captain MacLean has been with thPosraoher Miss Tag linstrvtegno Senator and uranium millionaire, visit- Cunard Line since 1917 and holds tithere nt forg Lykes a theeth ed the Canal during March en route Distinguished Service Cross for ant

e sme moh fo L satthe Beth- from Miami to California. The trim submarine work with the Royal Navlehemi Shipbuildiog Corporation yard in cabin cruiser, with Mr. and Mrs. Steen inl World War II.Sparrows Point, Md. with the first to be abd srver, wets Mr.ard Mrs. itedelivered in early 1961. Several of these and several guests aboard, wvent into Schedule Changeships will be placed on regular runs drydock min Cristobal for minor repairswhich will take them through the Canal. before making the Canal transit south- THE NEDERLAND LINE 1 aS1eaer yesSI

Meanwhile tie keel of the new Amer- bound. She sailed from Balboa March Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt, which mak

ican President Line's cargo ship Pres- 6 for the U.S. West Coast via Mexico. four Panama Canal transits each yeSthe on its round-the-world run, will call

idlent Roosevelt was laid at teBeth- Chnei kpesNew York instead of lBermudla aftLlehem Shipyards in San Francisco where . n Skippersew Pana os Berd bftdwork already has begun on her sister THE CUNARD cruise liner Mauretania leaving Panama on its homeward bouidship President Lincoln. Both vessels will arrived in Cristobal March 28 on her voyage in July, according to C. B.have a tonnage of 22,450 displacement last cruise of this winter season under Fenton & Company, agents for the shi1

tons and have acco modations for 12 at the Panama Canal. The one-class,20,000 gross ton vessel makes the globe-

passengers. Panama Agencies represent girdling voyages from Amsterdam andboth companies here. TRANSITS BY OCEAN-GOING Southampton out via Suez and home

New German Freighter VESSELS IN FEBRUARY via Panama.1959 1960 eet rni

THE H AMBURG AMERICAN Line's new Commercial . 791 926 Repeat Transitmotorship Rheinland passed through U.S. Government. 19 20 WHEN John M. Taylor was 9 years old,the Canal March 15 homeward bound T 9 he had one of the biggest thrills of hisafter her maiden voyage from Hamburg life. The son of an Army officer station-to the West Coast of the United States. TOLLS ed in Las Cascadas, he and his familyA sister ship to the Vogtiand, another Commercial.$3,658,024 $4,420,247 were invited to make the first officialswift new addition to the Hamburg U.S. Government. 76,532 99,088 transit of the Panama Canal aboard theAmerican line west coast service, the Total. $3,734,556 $4,519,335 SS Ancon on August 15, 1914.Rheinland carries general cargo between CARGO (long tons) Last month, John Taylor repeated histhe U.S. and European ports. She can Commercial. 4,232,835 5,161,461 southbound transit of the Canal. Butmake the voyage from Balboa to Los U.S. Government. 72,258 92,257 this time he was Rear Admiral Taylor,Angeles in eight days. Commander Cruiser Force Atlantic

The Hamburg American Line also Total. 4,305,093 5,253,718 Fleet, aboard his flagship, the missileoperates a joint service with the North *Includes tolls on all vessels, ocean-going and small cruiser Canberra.

24 APRIL 1, 1960