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CONVAIRIETY
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1948
Published every other Wednesday by Convair’s Employee Activities
department, Eldon Frye, director; Logan Jenkins, editor Convairiety
has three objectives:
1. To help make Convair the best aircraft manufacturing company
in the business.
2. To help make Convair the best place to work in the 'business.
3. To help make Convair personnel the best informed in the
business.
Editorial offices, San Diego, room 604, building 19, Ext. 1071, 1072,
Grayce Fath, women’s editor. Ft. Worth editorial offices, Industrial
Relations department, Ext. 5269, 5290, Bob Vollmer, editor.
Staff photographers: Otto Menge, Warren Kemmer and T. W. Fitch,
San Diego; Fred Carlile, C. P. Connally, Harold F. Dry, R. E. Slawson,
Ft. Worth.
Reprint of contents permissible with credit.
VETERAN 'TEMPORARY'—When Leta Davis, SD Division Ac-
counting (dept. 9), joined the company she was a temporary. That
was 15 years ago! Recently she was presented with a 15-year
service pin by Gen. L. W. Miller, vice president.
Log Book Entries
Awards
SAN DIEGO
For the weeks ending Sept. 9 and 16,
Employee Suggestion Awards totaling
$188 were earmarked for the following:
W. H. Ross, material (Dept. 4) ; H.
K. Stahl, inspection (Dept. 27) ; J. L.
Presley, inspection (Dept. 27) ; R. H.
Feeley, sheet metal (Dept. 101) ; C. R.
Jackman, bench sub-assembly (Dept.
130); F. C. Holland, seat sub-assembly
& cable (Dept. 140); J. C. Furtado,
transport control surface (Dept. 210) ; _E.
H. Horstman, transport interior trim
(Dept. 340) ; L. H. Herbstreit, fabric &
seat assembly (Dept. 310).
C. R. Jackman, bench sub-assembly
(Dept. 130) ; D. S. Knutson and L. F.
Dennis, fuselage sub-assembly (Dept.
200) ; M. V. Cooper, transport control
surface (Dept. 210) ; R. G. Metz, trans-
port fuselage primary (Dept. 235) ; G.
A. Dewey, transport - final assembly
(Dept. 240) ; J. L. Lorentz and H. E.
Deyle, fabric & seat assembly (Dept.
310).
Promotions
Effective Sept. 15 the following were
promoted to or within supervision:
FT. WORTH
Ray O. Ryan to Division Manager.
Dept. 4, Material: Richard H. Owen
to purchasing agent, William F. Sides to
assistant foreman.
Dept. 27, Inspection: H. L. Wendorf,
Jr. to inspection assistant supervisor.
Dept. 46, Mating & Wing 'Components:
Woodrow B. McQuien to assistant fore-
man, Clyde S. Woods to assistant fore-
man.
Dept. 61, Field Operations: Richard
W. Dodd to general foreman, Grady
Henry to assistant superintendent (Dept.
7), Robert W. McGuffee to assistant
general foreman.
SAN DIEGO
Dept. 4, Material: T. E. Becht to as-
sistant material control supervisor.
Dept. 27, Inspection: H. W. Balke, E.
L. Brown, L. B. Tilley to inspection as-
sistant supervisors.
Service Pins
SAN DIEGO
During the period Sept. 16 to Sept. 27,
the following were awarded service pins:
10-year pins: David S. Knutson (Dept.
200), Robert Buss (Dept. 340), Henry C.
Robert (Dept. 401), Jack F. Treat (Dept.
6), Harry H. Ulmen (Dept. 31).
5-year pins: Glenn A. Brotherton
(Dept. 27), Arthur E. Cox (Dept. 31),,
Elzia Y. Duke (Dept. 240), James Fred-
rick V. Dunn (Dept. 240), Frederick S.
Fillhart (Dept. 6), Roy Bernard Fossan
(Dept. 403), Geraldine 'C. Lynn (Dept.
26), William H. Paine (Dept. 6), Hugh
R. Robb (Dept. 136), Albert L. Sanders
(Dept. 235), Lyle W. Scott (Dept. 403),
Mary M. Sears (Dept. 22), Ada M. Ship-
man (Dept. 4), Robert T. Bernal (Dept.
31), D. Frederick Carnes (Dept. 8),
Frances B. Crawford (Dept. 310), Valen-
tine R. Gonzales, Jr. (Dept. 200), Johi
P. Lemon (Dept. 22), James E. Ma'
(Dept. 11), Francis H. Skilton (Dept. 6)
Donald C. Traxler. (Dept. 221), Thoma
L. Williams (Dept. 240), Stanislau
Zaworski (Dept. 115).
Births
FORT WORTH
ALLRED—Son, Herbert Wayne, bon
Sept. 11, 7 lbs. 3 ozs., to Mr. and Mrs
Herbert B. Allred, Dept. 50.
EIVENS—Son, Billy Lynn, born Sept
9, to Mr. and Mrs. 'L. W. Eivens, Dept
31.
REDWINE—Son, born Sept. 18, 7 lbs
2 ozs., to Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Redwine
Dept. 6.
WELBORN—Son, Dennis Reagan
born Sept. 18, 9 lbs. 8 ozs., to Mr. ant
Mrs. T. Welborn, Dept. 6.
SAN DIEGO
ALLISON—Son, Douglas Albert,’ bori
September 5, 7 lbs. % oz., to Mr. anc
Mrs. Jud Allison, Dept. 240.
CARLTON—Son, Robert Gene, bori
September 10, 7 lbs. 13 ozs., to Mr, ant
Mrs. Robert L. Carlton, Dept. 136.
GAY—iSon, Patrick Alan, born Sep
tember 12, 6 lbs. 4 ozs., to Mr. anc
Mrs. Joseph P. Gay, Dept. 350.
LAWSON—Son, Richard Wayne, bori
September 2, 9 lbs. 4% ozs., to Mr. ant
Mrs. D. V. Lawson, Dept. 222.
MARICICH — Daughter, Mary Ann
born September 9, 8 lbs. 5 ozs., to Mr
and Mrs. G. J. Maricich, Dept. 300.
ROMO—Daughter, Maria Cecelia, borr
August 21, 6 lbs. 6% ozs., to Mr. ant
Mrs. Raymond Romo, Dept. 240.
Deaths
SAN DIEGO
CHAVEZ—Charles L., Dept. 235, SD,
killed Sept. 11 in motorcycle accident.
Survivors: wife and mother.
DAVIDSON—G. M., Dept. 270, SD,
died Sept. 18 in Stites, Ida., while on va-
cation. With Convair over five years.
Survivors: his wife, son, daughter, moth-
er, sister, two brothers.
SD '27' Club Dance
Members of Convair SD’s “27
club will sponsor a dance Oct.
at the Sweetwater Women’s Clul
Bonita, for all members of th
Inspection department.
Tickets are available from d(
partment clerks. Dancing will l
from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The “27” club was organized i
1944 by supervisory members c
departments 27 and 527, the ii
spection departments of planl
one and two respectively. Ain
were to foster closer cooperatioi
PROTECTED — Robert Areta,
Bench Sub-Assembly, SD (dept.
130), shown with shattered safety
glasses but unhurt. Inset shows
small bit of drill that otherwise
would have injured an eye. Pre-
scription ground safety glasses
may be obtained at a nominal
fee through foremen or the Safe-
ty Office.
Sail Plane
Pilot Iced
Two weeks ago William S.
Ivans, Radio and Electrical Lab-
oratory, SD, (Dept. 6), climbed
into a rented sail plane at El
Mirage Dry Lake, near San Ber-
nardino.
An auto towed the glider across
the desert until he had reached
about 1000 feet and then Ivans
cast off the towing cable. He
was attempting to qualify for the
Silver C award, a valued achieve-
ment among sail plane pilots.
One of the requirements is to
ACHING DIGITS
Somebody with a weakness for
figures gave us this report:
’The Sept. 15 issue of Convairi-
ety carried 30 photos, picturing
about 150 persons; 51 separate
stories consuming 11,600 words.
Allowing six letters to. a word
and counting false starts this
means about 100,000 pecks on the
typewriter.
. . ready to “sail”
WRESTLING RACKET
Rep. Carl Hinshaw, a recent
Convair SD visitor, is responsible
for this anecdote concerning La-
Motte T. Cohu, our president and
general manager.
It seems that some years ago
when Cohu was general manager
of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., a man
from the plant who had a griev-
ance came to see him. It also
seems that the man was a profes-
sional wrestler and Cohu had
been an amateur enthusiast.
Soon the office girls heard vio-
lent noises from behind the
closed doors. Chairs and desks
were crashing and the girls,
frightened, called plant police.
When the policemen beat on . the
door, Cohu appeared. He was an-
noyed and sent the officers away.
The racket continued for a
spell. Then Cohu and his visitor,
both disheveled, but the best of
friends, reappeared. They had
been practicing wrestling holds!
CRUSTY CUSS
The following letter came from
Loyal S. Baker, Engineering
(Dept. 6) SD: “One evening last
week a lad who works in the
photo lab fell into step with me
on the way to the bus and re-
marked that he might get from
the paper an extra copy of the
shot of my mug that appeared in
the first issue of Convairiety.
“Even though I’m supposed to
ordinary, I confess that when the
lad stopped by to deliver the
print I got a bang out of it . . .
“Why not . . . send a print of
any spot picture used in the pa-
per to the individuals con-
cerned ?”
We agree and will see can do.
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD
The mail bag produced this,
unsigned:
“The clean surface of a desk in
the Contract and Spares Dept.
(SD) repeatedly produced little
scatters of sawdust until my curi-
osity was aroused.
“A little subsurface work with
a penknife and hairpin revealed
a large and very active termite
family.
“It is rumored that an em-
ployee named Woodhead has
threatened to leave the depart-
ment if the desk is not removed.”
be a crusty old cuss who finds it
an effort to get a thrill out of the the San Diego section
Frank Fink
Heads I. A. S.
Frank Fink, Convair SD chief
engineer, was installed last week
as new chair-
5 man of the San
Diego sectron,
Institute of
A e r onautical
Sciences.
Other officers
include Dwight
H. Bennett,
vice - chairman,
Ralph H. Bay-
less, treasurer,
and Ralph H.
Schick, secre-
tary, all of Con-
FRANK FINK SD Engi-
neering. Jack Mason, also of this
department, installed the new of-
ficers in his capacity as I.A.S.
councilman.
LaMotte T. Cohu, Convair pres-
ident and general manager, is a
member of the incoming Ad-
visory Management committee of
CLOSE INSPECTION—Rep. Carl Hinshaw looks over Convair-
Liner engine during Sept. 15 tour of plant. Left to right: H. B.
Knapp and Jimmy Davis (dept. 340), Hinshaw, and W. S. Cockrell,
chief inspector.
Mechanical Skills Vital—Hinshaw
climb at least 1000 meters (3280
feet) .aided only by wind currents
or updrafts*, known as thermals.
“It was my first thermal
solo flight and I wasn’t too
hopeful,” Ivans recalled. “How-
ever, conditions were perfect.
When I came down again over
three hours later I had been
up to 16,050 feet above sea
level—high enough to have ice
on the wings and wonder about
oxygen.”
The temperature was 110 de-
grees in the shade when he started
and Ivans was dressed in a sports
shirt!
Ivans, whose prior experience
was gained at Torrey Pines near
San Diego riding the upward cur-
rents caused by wind against the
ridges, flew his own plane to El
Mirage which is a center for sail
plane enthusiasts. During a half
dozen flights he apparently
passed all the requirements for
the award; making a cross-coun-
try hop of 48 miles and an en-
durance flight of five and a half
hours. His ship carried a sealed
barograph which must be checked
before the award is authorized.
James Spurgeon, Engineer-
ing Liaison, a director of the
Soaring Society of America,
stated that only two others in
the San Diego area have earned
the Silver C.
Ivans is one of a number of
Convair SD enthusiasts who in-
clude: Wiley House, Steve Kee-
skes, Max Breitebach and Ernie
Stout.
Rep. Carl Hinshaw, one of the
leading Congressional proponents
of civil and military aviation, was
a guest of the San Diego Cham-
ber of Commerce Aviation Com-
mittee Sept. 15 following an in-
spection tour of Convair SD.
At a chamber dinner meeting,
Hinshaw was introduced by La-
Motte T. Cohu, Convair president
and general manager. They were
classmates at Princeton.
“I am happy to see the parking
lots around the aircraft plants in
San Diego filled again with cars
. . .” Hinshaw said. “It means
that new military and transport
aircraft are coming off the pro-
duction lines to modernize our air
fleets and strengthen the wings
of America.
“And it means that the tech-
nical and mechanical skills so
necessary to defense of our coun-
try will be maintained in force,”
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