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CONVAIRIETY
Wednesday, April I, 1959
Convair Fort Worth Wins Nod
First New ES
In Atomic Airplane Project
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Convair proposes would give this
nation the most powerful strik-
ing force in history—and would
make the world’s most powerful
force for peace.”
Pleasure at the announcement
was also expressed by Capt. S. R.
Ragar, who serves at Convair
Fort Worth as liaison between
Convair and the Air Force on the
nuclear powered aircraft pro-
gram.
Kalitinsky, who has been asso-
ciated with the Air Force’s nu-
clear aircraft program for more
than a decade, coordinated the
Convair Fort Worth team’s ef-
forts which developed Convair’s
winning presentation.
As many Convair FW em-
ployees know, the competition
earlier had narrowed down to
Convair FW and Lockheed Air-
craft Corp.
Top ranking Air Force officials
and consultants some months ago
visited the Convair FW plant and
Lockheed’s plant at Marietta, Ga.
They studied nuclear bomber pro-
posals of both companies — and
eventually gave the nod to Con-
vair FW.
Teamed with Convair on the
project is General Electric Co.,
which has the job of building
the atomic power plant.
Kalitinsky said he feels the
choice is a logical one since Con-
vair Fort Worth was the first
aircraft plant in the nation to go
into nuclear research and develop-
ment work.
“Our work in this field began
in 1951, and included the design,
building and testing of the
world’s first flying nuclear re-
actor,” he added.
Kalitinsky also pointed out
that Convair is a division of
DEADLINES SET
ON SMU EXAMS
Deadlines for applying for en-
trance exams into the Convair-
SMU graduate engineering pro-
gram have been set for April 4
and April 18.
Prospective students applying
for the first entrance exam on
April 11 have been asked to sign
up by April 4. Those taking the
second exam on April 25 are re-
quired to register by April 18.
Exams will be held at 8:30
a.m. on each date on the SMU
campus in Dallas, and successful
completion is required for admis-
sion into the program.
Additional information is avail-
able 'at the educational services
office at ext. 3541 or 3442.
General Dynamics Corporation,
and that a sister division—Elec-
tric Boat at Groton, Conn.—is
builder of the first nuclear pow-
ered submarines in the world, and
General Atomic Division is now
developing an atomic power plant
for merchant ships.
The Air Force’s nuclear air-
craft program actually dates back
to 1946—and Kalitinsky has been
associated with the program since
that time.
The new AF announcement
does not mean, officials ex-
plained, that Convair will go on
a hiring spree. Rather, person-
nel will be added only if and
when the need arises.
If and when a full-fledged pro-
duction program is authorized, a
substantial build-up in employ-
ment may be in prospect.
NEW PINS—Left to right, Nona Poston of Dept. 19-2 and Robert
M. Brackney of Dept. 22-9 receive first of new Employee Suggestion
pins and certificates now being awarded at Convair Fort Worth.
B. G. Reed, assistant division manager, made presentation.
Quality Work Advocated
As Way to Reduce Costs
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In factory operations, scrap
and rework are the biggest items
to fight to cut costs—and quality
work will keep them to a mini-
mum.
A reworked part—one that
wasn’t made right the first time
around—results in increased un-
necessary costs because it must
be processed a second time to cor-
rect defects.
Scrap—produced when a part
QUALITY MAKES
DOLLARS AND SENSE!
IT PAYS OFF FOR YOU
IN MORE JOB SECURITY
LE55 NEEDLESS WORK,
AND MORE SELF-
SATISFACTION.
of material is beyond correction
by rework—is even more costly.
It results in increased unneces-
sary costs because both the ma-
terial and the work that went in-
to it go down the drain—and
produces nothing.
“We made a big improvement
in reducing scrap and rework in
1958,” said McClure. “We show
a whopping 48.7 per cent im-
provement during last year—but
we still counted up almost $114
million in scrap and rework. This
Convair and Technical Societies Donate
To Science Fair To Be Held This Weekend
Convair Fort Worth, along | nations.
with several technical societies, is
backing the Fifth Annual Fort
Worth Science Fair which gets
under way April 3-5 at the Child-
ren’s Museum.
In addition to Convair Fort
Worth’s check, presented by Mar-
ion L. Hicks, assistant division
manager, representatives from
such societies as the Aeronauti-
cal Weight Engineers, the Society
of Texas Professional Engineers,
and the Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences were on hand with do-
Co-chairman for this year’s
fair is M. F. Towsley of Dept.
6-6.
The fair is open to any Fort
Worth student from grades 7-12.
Entry blanks are available from
school science teachers or prin-
cipal. Students may enter one
exhibit in two categories—physi-
cal and biological.
Awards will include trophies,
pins, a trip to the national sci-
ence fair at Hartford, Conn., a
Navy cruise and two TCU schol-
arships.
is an average of more than $120,-
000 a month.
“So there’s still a lot of room
for improvement.”
Ways employees can help re-
duce costs through quality work
include these:
1. Help keep yourself and
everyone else quality-conscious.
2. Maintain good housekeeping
in your area.
3. Take steps required to pre-
vent damage to material and
equipment.
4. Work to the latest blue-
prints, planning and other in-
structions.
5. Work with the proper tools.
6. Use correct materials.
7. Be especially careful on
work that is more difficult to
control and where chance of error
is greater.
8. Keep aware that your work
—whether manufacturing, assem-
bling or providing some service
—is reflected in the final cost
and quality of the airplane.
9. Do everything possible to
make the end product something
YOU would buy if YOU were the
customer.
Tickets on Sale For
'Creativity Program'
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pose into their personal, business
and professional lives.
Internationally known, the
former Notre Dame professor and
author of several advertising
books has long been a drawing
card.
“We need individualists today,”
he declared. “A committee could
never have painted the Mona
Lisa. The greatness of individu-
als is in being different and
creative.”
Tickets are $3.50 and include
both the creativity show and the
luncheon. Officers, members of
the board of control and the
usual ticket agents are in charge
of a limited 500-ticket sale.
Neighboring NMA clubs
througout the Dallas-Fort Worth
area have been invited.
RAKING IT IN—M. F. Towsley (right) receives check from
Marion Hicks (left), Convair Fort Worth assistant division manager,
to help support annual Science Fair. Also contributing are Bob
Thompson, A. T. Clemen and Jack Voider, representing different
technical societies.
Convair Men Among
Council Candidates
Three Convair Fort Worth
people are among the 27 candi-
dates running for places on the
Fort Worth City Council in the
April 7 election.
Those in the race are Ted R.
Yarbrough, Leslie H. Baker Jr.
and R. Kent Jones.
Yarbrough, 43, has been a Fort
Worth resident 17 years. He
joined the company in 1951 as a
development project man and is
presently assigned to the B-58
flight test program.
Baker, who has 10 years serv-
ice with Convair, works as a de-
velopment liaison man. A 35-
year-old resident of Fort Worth,
he holds a bachelor’s degree from
TCU.
Jones works as a design engi-
neer in Dept. 6-5 (GSE). He is
a civil engineering graduate of
Marquette University.
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1,700 Hear
Frank Davis
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better our program. We’ve got
the best equipment of any plant
in the country,” he said.
In answer to his question of
where we are today, Davis said
that we exist in only one instant
in time-—now. He said that with
the present international situa-
tion, the country is faced with
the question of how much it can
spend on military preparedness.
“Our customer must seek the
most economical means of main-
taining military preparedness,
and for this reason we have got
to do a good job but at the same
time keep costs at the very mini-
mum,” he concluded.
“In the B-58, Convair reversed
the trend toward larger and
larger airplanes. It is smaller—
and therefore cheaper—than it
might otherwise be.”
Davis said that General Dy-
namics Corporation divisions are
now “the champion—and can ex-
pect no quarter from any com-
petition nor any preferred treat-
ment by a customer.”
T. F. Paniszczyn of Dept. 6
was recognized as winner of the
1958 President’s Award. He will
receive his official award from
top management at a meeting set
for October. The other eight
nominees for President’s Award
were recognized and presented
with gold cuff links, a tie clasp
and a lapel pin.
Pins Awarded
The first new Convair Fort
Worth people to wear the new
Employee Suggestion pins are
Nona Poston of labor accounting
and Robert M. Brackney of Dept.
22-9.
The two were presented with
the new pins and also new ES
certificates in a brief ceremony
at which B. G. Reed, assistant
division manager, presided.
Both Mrs. Poston and Brack-
ney were chosen to receive the
first awards because they now
lead in the amount of savings on
installed Employee Suggestions
thus far this year. Mrs. Poston
saved the company $3,275, and
Brackney has saved the division
$2,530. Their suggestion awards
were ten per cent of these
amounts.
Presentation of the awards is
a part of the newly revised ES
and CIP program at Convair Fort
Worth.
Every eligible suggestor will
receive a sterling lapel pin for
his or her first ES or CIP in-
stalled after Jan. 1 of this year,
M. J. Scott of the suggestion
section said.
Backlog Set
At $2 Billion
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in 1958. It is expected that they
will exceed this figure in 1959.
“As is true in every new ven-
ture,” Pace said, “serious prob-
lems and financial risks face us
at the beginning, but the long-
term potential is so great that
the directors and I look forward
with confidence . . .”
He listed as examples of the
corporation’s “unique capability”:
orbiting the Atlas earth satellite;
Atlas full-range flights; voyages
of USS Nautilus and USS Skate
under North Pole; 60-day sub-
mergence of USS Seawolf; suc-
cessful builder’s trials of world’s
fastest submarine, the Skipjack;
invention, design and production
of nuclear research reactor
“Triga”; performance of B-58
Mach 2 bomber; roll-out and
early test flights of 880.
Grads Choose
Convair Jobs
Ninety per cent of the spring
graduates who have been taking
part in a cooperative study-work
program with Convair FW, in-
volving some 16 colleges and
universities, have chosen to go to
work for Convair.
The students have been alter-
nating semesters of classroom
study with periods of actual work
at Convair FW.
Currently there are 85 students
in the program, with 29 actually
at the FW plant.
Participating schools include SMU,
University of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas
Tech, Weatherford Junior College, Ar-
lington State College, the University of
Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Louisiana State
University, Louisiana Polytechnical In-
stitute, Virginia Polytechnical Institute,
Northwestern University, University of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University,
Baylor University and Illinois Institute
of Technology.
COOPERATORS—Supervisor L. E. Heizer explains operations in
Convair Fort Worth computer labs to engineering co-op students.
Left to right, J. W. Brooks, Chattanooga, Tenn.; H. O. Van Zandt,
Fort Worth; P. T. Vogel, Henderson, Ky.; and Heizer.
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