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Jan. 5, 1949
CONVAIRIETY
Page 3
IN THE FINAL STAGES—In these three pictures a B-36 reaches the end of
the assembly line, enter field operations and then start on way across field to
Carswell Air Force base. Above, a B-36, its four-story red tail almost touching
roof, moves outside. At right, below, a plane is readied for field operation
testing and at left below, Maj. Stephen P. Dillon taxis plane across to Carswell.
Outboard propeller is still because plane taxis on only four engines.
FW Man Who Kept Mind on Business Instead
Of His Feet, Throws Away Crutches and Cane
King George VI of England
and G. W. Dickey, Convair FW
Better Say Sir From Now On! There's
A Knight of Netherlands at SD
R. E. Dewey of Convair SD
drill press operator, have some-
thing in common.
FAITH PAYS OFF — Four
years ago G. W. Dickey, Con-
vair FW drill press operator, was
doomed to a life on crutches,
as the result of a leg circulatory
disease he contracted while in
the Army. Because of his dis-
ability, Convair gave Dickey a
iob at which he could sit down.
Now, minus the crutches, he
stands most of the day. "I owe it
to Convair, where I learned to
keep my mind on my job, not
my feet."
Recent newspaper accounts
have reported the King is suf-
fering from a leg circulatory ail-
ment, which has confined him
to his bed. Dickey has almost re-
covered from the same disease,
against medical predictions.
Dickey, who was first stricken
while in the Army Medical Corps,
believes he owes his improve-
ment and rehabilitation to his
job at Convair. After a year of
heeding doctors’ advice to remain
quiet at home, Dickey started
looking for a job. “But no one
would hire me because I couldn’t
walk,” he said. “Convair gave me
a job sitting down.”
When he first came to the
nlant in 1944, Dickey could walk
only with crutches. He started
to work on the burr bench in the
machine shop, and gradually his
condition improved. Two and one-
half years later, he threw away
his crutches, and relied on a cane.
“I just kept my mind on my busi-
ness and not my feet,” he says.
One warm day last spring, he
no longer needed his cane. Now,
Dickey has a job which keeps
him on his feet most of the day,
“and I expect to stay in the air-
craft business until I’m at least
75,” he says. “Going to bed just
doesn’t help.”
CLAYTON WILL HEAD
ENGINEERING SOCIETY
F. C. Clayton, FW Plant Engi-
neering (25-0), has been elected
oresident of the Ft. Worth chap-
ter of the Texas Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers. S. A. (Al)
Grose, safety engineer (3-6), has
been appointed newsletter editor
of the Aircraft Manufacturing
section of the National Safety
Council.
SPEAKS FOR ACCOUNTANTS
Carl Dannenfelser, Convair FW
Material (4-3), was guest speaker
at the December meeting of the
Ft. Worth chapter of the Na-
tional Association of Cost Ac-
countants. Dannenfelser is a
past president of the N.A.C.A.
Letters to Editor:
CONVAIRIETY recently re-
ceived the following letter signed
by Al Rhoades, assistant to the
Public Information Officer, Stew-
art Air Force Base, Newburgh,
N.Y.:
“Our office has been receiving
copies of CONVAIRIETY for
quite some time and we’d like
you to know that we think it just
about the most interesting, clean-
est and best done paper of its
kind we have seen in many a day.
Congratulations on your fine pa-
per and please keep them com-
ing. We look forward to seeing
them.”
“My father’s not in, but if it’s
about insurance, I’m his benefi-
ciary.”
Experimental became a Dutch
knight last week and is now
known around the plant as “Sir
Dewey.”
The simple but impressive
ceremony took place Dec. 30 be-
fore a KLM Royal Dutch Airline
C o n v a i r-L i n e r, “The Flying
Dutchman,” soon to be delivered
by Convair.
Dewey won his award, the
highest honor that can be be-
stowed upon a citizen of another
country by the Netherlands gov-
ernment, while he was a lieuten-
ant (j.g.) serving aboard the USS
Renville, for his services to the
Netherlands in conjunction with
communications work at Batavia,
Java, from Dec. 2, 1947 to Feb.
10, 1948.
A beautiful medal, which made
him a Knight of Orange-Nassau
with Swords, was presented to
Dewey by Mrs. Alfred Van
Eeghen, wife of the acting consul
of the Netherlands, in the name
of the Queen.
pants and guests, including offi-
cials of Convair, the U. S. Navy
and the Air Force, viewed a
sound and color movie, “The Two
Queens,” produced in the Nether-
lands.
Dewey enlisted in the U. S.
Navy in November, 1927 as an
apprentice seaman and came up
through the ranks, retiring as a
full lieutenant before coming to
Convair in September, 1948.
“Well, if you insist on reading
that trashy book, Leroy—see that
After the ceremony, partici- you don’t lose my place.”
NEW FOREMEN'S CLUB OFFICERS—New I 949 Convair FW Foremen's Club officers get to-
gether for their first organization meeting after December election. Front row, left to right: J. J.
Minton, corresponding secretary; C. Houp Jr., vice president; Sam E. Keith Jr., president; F. G. Bram-
lett, vice president; H. Counts, board of control; B. C. Simmons, treasurer. Back row, left to right:
Bob Vollmer, recording secretary; L. H. Allen, retiring president; J. F. Ringo, board of control; J. R.
Lock, N.A.F. vice president; C. M. McCulloh, board of control and R. D. Knowles, board of control.
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