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Wednesday, April I, 1959
CONVAIRIETY
Page 3
RUGGED TERRIER—Marines found plenty of cold, plenty of snow for weather-
testing Terrier missiles in High Sierras recently. Center above is missile assembly
area. Crane is used to handle ton-and-a-half Terrier. Storage containers are in
snow at right. In upper right photo, twin missile carrier delivers missile to loading
position on launcher. Lower left: Convair Pomona representatives A. M. Grandfield
and H. C. Stowers discuss tests with Maj. G. S. Mansfield, USMC, at rear of mobile
test station, built at Convair Pomona. Lower right, Capt. J. K. Smola, Capt. R. M.
Burke, 1st Lt. P. C. Flattery, Warrant Officer R. W. Green, all USMC.
NAUTILUS—Lt. Col. John E. Hall, USAF (Ret.), who now works
as an engineering security representative at Convair Fort Worth,
shows picture he received from his son, Lt. Donald P. Hall, attached
to submarine Nautilus.
Gunnery Officer Aboard Nautilus
Is Son of Convair FW'sJohn Hall
Lt. Col. John E. Hall, USAF
(Ret.) of Convair Fort Worth’s
Dept. 6-6 brought a nautilus to
work the other day. But it wasn’t
an eight-armed cephalopod re-
lated to the octopus.
It was a picture of the USS
Nautilus nuclear powered sub-
marine in which he has a special
interest because his son, Lt.
Donald P. Hall, is gunnery offi-
cer aboard the ship.
Colonel Hall recalls that only
last summer his son was “sittin’
on top of the world” when he and
other crew members made the
historic Arctic underwater cross-
ing. He was among the 116 men
who received the Presidential
Unit Citation.
The colonel has a collection of
souvenirs and clippings about the
crossing, but the thing that he
considers his most prized posses-
sion is an envelope mailed to him
from the world’s first nuclear
powered submersible.
Following in his father’s foot-
steps with a military career,
Lieutenant Hall is a 1950 gradu-
ate of the U. S. Naval Academy.
Convair Fort Worth’s Colonel
Hall retired from the Air Force
in 1951 after 30 years’ military
service. He was adjutant gen-
eral at Carswell Air Force Base
from 1946 until his retirement.
SCREENING—Left, J. B. Ellis, industrial relations engineering
administrator, and B. R. Hooper, industrial relations analyst, screen
applications of Convair Fort Worth sons who applied for two col-
lege scholarships to be awarded by company in May.
Sick Pay Can Be Fix on B-58 Steel Panels
Tax Deductible Achieved With New Tool
A reminder that some Convair
employees may exclude a part of
their 1958 Convair pay from
their taxable income was issued
this week by Wallace Jay, man-
ager of general accounting.
“Convair is not attempting to
advise employees how to prepare
their U. S. income tax return,”
Jay emphasized, “but we’re mere-
ly calling attention to an item
which may save employees some
tax dollars.”
Jay referred to line 6 on the
first page of Form 1040. It states
“less excludable sick pay.”
This means that hourly em-
ployees in some cases may enter
on this line certain amounts of
Convair sick leave payments
made after a doctor’s certificate
has been submitted. (Pay in lieu
of sick leave does not qualify.)
Salaried employees may in
some cases enter on this line cer-
tain amounts of their regular
Convair salaries if they were
paid while absent due to illness
or injury, and if they meet other
conditions set forth below.
Employees thus may qualify to
subtract these amounts from the
gross income figure shown on
the W-2 form supplied them by
Convair. This, in turn, results in
a lower adjusted gross income
figure—and a lower tax.
The most which can be ex-
cluded, however, is $100 for each
full week—or $20 a day.
If the absence was due to ill-
ness, the first seven days of such
pay cannot be excluded, however,
unless the employee was a pa-
tient in a hospital at some time
during the period.
If the absence was due to an
injury, however, the employee
may exclude pay from the first
pay, even though he did not en-
ter a hospital.
Official directions can be found
on page 7 of the instruction book-
let issued by the Internal Reve-
nue Service.
Club Aids Delegation
On Trip to Capitol
Convair Fort Worth’s Manage-
ment Club helped make it pos-
sible for some 70 Fort Worth
high school boys to journey to
the state capitol in Austin re-
cently to tell the Senate juris-
prudence committee what they’ve
done to halt hoodlumism in the
East Side of the city.
The young Fort Worth delega-
tion was at the capitol to back
three bills they think would help
in law enforcement.
Fixes which make damaged
B-58 stainless steel panels vir-
tually as good as new are now
possible with a new tool and new
processes developed at Convair
Fort Worth.
What’s more, the new process
is saving the taxpayer, the Air
Force and Convair thousands of
dollars—and will save many more
thousands as more and more
B-58s go into operation.
J. W. McCown, structures en-
gineer, estimates that the new
tool saved some $35,000 in the
first four months after it went
into use at Convair Fort Worth.
It is relatively small so that it
has a potential for use in the
Air Force as large numbers of
B-58s go into the field.
Stainless steel panels consist
of a “sandwich” of honeycomb
core covered on each side by very
thin stainless steel skins.
“The panels give us a highly
efficient structure that holds up
under the high temperatures pro-
duced by the plane’s power
Convair FW Club
Biggest in U.S.
Convair Fort Worth Manage-
ment Club is now the largest in
the nation, S. A. Seibert told
board of control members re-
cently.
Seibert, zone manager for Na-
tional Management Association,
commended the board and the
club’s officers for their showing
in a campaign that raised mem-
bership to 3,038.
Seibert, who recently moved
NMA zone headquarters from St.
Louis to Fort Worth, said only
time will tell whether another
club tops the Fort Worth record.
San Diego management club in
February reported a membership
of 2,415.
At the same board meeting,
Seibert also presented an award
from NMA to R. P. Curry for
outstanding service as Convair
FW Management Club president
in 1958.
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Call Convairiety
plants and air friction at double-
sonic speeds,” said McCown.
The skins, however, are so thin
that they are easily damaged.
An inadvertent poke with a
screwdriver can damage them be-
yond use.
Before the new fix was de-
veloped, a panel damaged in such
fashion was a total loss.
Three engineering groups—
structures development, control
surfaces, and engineering test
lab—joined with manufacturing
research engineers to come up
with an answer.
It proved to be a brazing pro-
cess which can be performed with
the aid of a tool on which Con-
vair is seeking a patent.
The damaged skin and honey-
comb is carefully cut away from
the panel. A new piece of honey-
comb is spliced into the core, af-
ter which a new piece of stain-
less steel skin large enough to
cover the opening is put into
place.
The new tool is then brought in-
to play. It fits over the spot
getting the fix to apply heat
which brazes the new stainless
steel to the panel.
FIX—J. L. Jackson in Convair
Fort Worth's pilot shop inserts
piece of stainless steel honey-
comb to make fix on B-58 stain-
less steel panel by new process.
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