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Wednesday, January 8, 1958
CONVAIRIETY
Page 5
League Needs
Players, Teams
For Volleyball
CRA’s volleyball activity has
issued a call for more players
and teams to participate in sec-
ond-half play of the volleyball
league beginning Jan. 20.
Andy J. D’Ascenzo, commis-
sioner, said beginners are wel-
come to join in the activity each
Monday night at the Southside
Recreation Building, 215 W. Vick-
ery.
Tom McClary’s “Scrubs” won
first half league play. The team
now must play winners of the
second half for the championship
and a trophy. New teams now
are being formed for second half
play. Individuals or organized
teams are welcome to participate.
Each team must contain at
least two women. Minimum age
of any player is 16. Deadline
for registration is Jan. 13. Play
begins Jan. 20. Anyone interested
should contact D’Ascenzo, Ext.
8131, or attend the Jan. 13 prac-
tice session.
Convair CRA
Host-for-Day
To NIRA Event
Convair Recreation Association
will be host-for-a-day to some
500 delegates to the National In-
dustrial Recreation Association
conference meeting in Fort Worth
May 18-21.
“This will be the first time
the national conference has been
held outside the northeast,” said
Tom Croft of employee services.
“We feel it is a great honor to
have the association choose Fort
Worth.”
Croft is a vice president of
the national organization. Fort
Worth was selected over eight
other cities bidding for the con-
ference at the association’s 1956
conference in New York City.
Representing Convair Fort
Worth at the meeting were Croft,
C. J. Hall, Jimmy Shackelford,
Bill Parrish and F. E. Chambers.
Conference headquarters in Fort
Worth will be at Hotel Texas.
On May 20, the conference will
adjourn to Convair Recreation
Area. Delegates will be trans-
ported to the area in a western
parade, including horses, wagons,
coaches, etc. A tour of the area’s
facilities will be on tap, followed
by a chuck wagon dinner.
Each of CRA’s activities will
be invited to give demonstrations
or set up exhibits for the nation’s
top recreation leaders. That night,
a full-scale rodeo will be held
in the ranch area for the visitors,
followed by a frontier party in
the CRA clubhouse.
Women Ready For Basketball;
Four Teams to Play in League
Some 30 Convair women were
due to meet this week to organize
a four-team CRA women’s
basketball league, according to
commissioner D. R. Cooper.
It will mark the first time in
recent years that women have
participated in the sport at Con-
vair. Cooper said women have
shown a “tremendous' interest” in
forming a league this year.
At the organizational meeting,
individuals were assigned to
teams and team captains were
wm
Roy E. Davis
Riding, Roping
Gaining Fast
In Ranch Area
CRA’s riding and roping en-
thusiasts may soon have a three-
mile riding trail and facilities for
day - and - night
enjoyment of
the recreation
in the CRA
ranch area.
Roy E. Davis
is riding and
roping commis-
sioner of the
new area, and
n e g o t iations
now are under
way to con-
struct a trail
that will join with one used by
the Fort Worth Horseshoe Club.
The combined trails would have
a total length of about three
miles, including stretches along
the Trinity River.
Meanwhile, ranch officials plan
to start a riding school for
children in the near future. Peo-
ple interested in such a school
should contact the CRA office
or see Speedy Cockerell, ranch
foreman, at the stables.
Cockerell said roping calves now
are available in the area for the
first time. Ropers may try their
skill in the new rodeo arena at
25 cents a loop. The fee—which
goes to feed the calves—will be
reduced if enough ropers begin
using the CRA facilities.
In addition, pens for cattle to
be used in cutting horse events
will be completed this spring,
and steers for team roping events
will be available. Rent horses
are available in the area at $1
per hour.
A limited number of stalls for
personal horses can be rented in
the CRA stables. Only five are
now vacant and will be rented
on a first-come-first-served basis.
The new rodeo arena, com-
pleted just last year, will be
available for various rodeo con-
tests during the year. The arena
is one of the finest lighted out-
door facilities in the area.
Boaters Try for More Members
Before Fun Begins This Spring
The CRA boating activity be-
gan its second year of operation
this month with a membership
drive and plans for a full and
varied season of water sports.
Lake Commander Jack Powell
heads a committee that is in-
vestigating possibility of the
boating activity acquiring a
permanent site on Benbrook Lake.
Powell and committee members
W. L. Bierwirth, W. M. Combs
and C. C. Hertzler are negotiating
with the Benbrook Lake engineer
on such a site and have selected
a location on the southwest shore
of the lake, south of a park to
be built by the city of Benbrook.
The site at present can only
be reached by water, but roads
are expected to be constructed
in the area in the future.
Boat club members voted to
accept the area selected by the
committee if it can be obtained.
Facilities the club would be
expected to provide include
launching facilities, docks and a
permanent shelter house.
Meanwhile, boat activity mem-
bers plan a dance in the CRA
area March 15 to kick off the
1958 boating season. An orches-
tra will play for dancing.
G. C. Whipple heads up a mem-
bership committee that wants to
push boating participation to a
new high. Some 100 members
already are signed for the 1958
season.
“We have a potential of 300
members,” Whipple said. “We
are going to try to sign every
one of them.”
Dues are $1 per year, which
includes an automatic member-
ship in the Outboard Boating
Club of America. Each member
receives the national magazine at
no additional cost.
Prospective members should
contact Whipple, Ext. 3290 or
5189; Wally Wuest, Ext. 3290;
or, second shift, Bill Combs, Ext.
6196.
Planned outings in 1958 include
two-day cruises on Possum King-
dom and Whitney Lakes, three
trips to Benbrook Lake and two
voyages to Eagle Mountain.
Catering service will be provided
on most of the outings.
selected. Women who want to
participate are invited to contact
the CRA office.
Meanwhile, Flight Test leads
in CRA league play and Cal
Postoak’s Engineers and Robert
Snow’s Snowbirds are tied in
Convair league play.
Jack Everitt’s Flight Test team
is favored to take the CRA
league championship. The team
has three wins and is undefeated.
Pete Marrero’s Props is in sec-
ond place with two wins and one
loss.
Engineers and Snowbirds are
both undefeated. Engineers have
won three and Snowbirds, two.
The Snowbirds will play the
Rockets at 8:30 p.m. today at
R. D. Evans Recreation Center.
A game at 7 p.m. features two
winless teams, Hustlers and Gen-
erals.
Bombers—facing strong com-
petition in Major City League
play—have won one game while
dropping two. Nuclides is in sec-
ond spot in Industrial League
with two wins and one loss.
WOMEN WINNERS—Patti Williams, left, and Mamie Shaw are
mighty happy after taking doubles championship in 1957 CRA
Bowling Tournament held last month.
Adele Fox Wins Women s Singles
In CRA Tournament Bowling Event
Adele Fox took two trophies
at the Annual CRA bowling tour-
nament last month, winning the
women’s singles and rolling on
the tournament’s top team.
Other members of the top
team were Verna Lee Dixon, Lola
Peacock, Ruth Williams and
Helen Mitchella.
Oleta Campbell took the all
events trophy, and Mamie Shaw
teamed with Patti Williams to
form the top doubles combina-
tion. Eleven women teams par-
ticipated in the event, which saw
72 men’s teams in competition.
“It was two weekends of hard
work,” said commissioner Harvey
Pumping Is Subject
Of Next AIEE Meet
Dick Potts of Allis-Chalmers
will speak on “Application of
Motors for Pipeline Pumping”
at the next meeting of the local
chapter, American Institute of
Electrical Engineers.
The meeting will be at 8 p.m.
Jan. 14 in the construction of-
fice, Texas Electric Service Com-
pany, 2401 Montgomery Street.
Visitors will be welcome.
Starkey, “but we had one of the
nicest tournaments ever.”
George Price got a CRA tour-
nament record with his 1988 all
events total. Price also won class
A men’s singles. D. S. Smith
and Joe Verbryke teamed to take
the class A doubles championship.
ALL EVENTS—George Price
set new CRA tournament bowl-
ing record with all events total
of 1988 pins.
TCU Offers Course
In Data Processing
A course in electronic data
processing for business and in-
dustry will be taught by TCU
in the Convair Fort Worth plant
this spring semester beginning
Feb. 5.
Goodrich F. Cleaver, instructor,
said the course will include lec-
tures, discussions, motion pictures
and field trips. Digital computers
of all sizes and makes will be
compared with particular em-
phasis on electronic data process-
ing equipment used at Convair
Fort Worth (IBM 650 and 705).
The IBM 650 computer is used
extensively in industrial account-
ing and material departments.
The IBM 705 will be used by in-
dustrial accounting, material,
manufacturing control, personnel,
general accounting and manufac-
turing departments.
Eligible people may register
with the training section prior
to Feb. 1. Cleaver is a certified
public accountant and is staff
auditor of General Dynamics
Corporation and is assigned to
Convair Fort Worth.
DOUBLES CHAMPS—C. E. Smith, right, and Joe Verbryke re-
ceive doubles trophies after winning event with 1300 pins during
annual CRA tournament at Tavener's Playdium.
Goolsby Earns Right to Challenge
Plant Washer Pitching Champion
M. E. Goolsby owns the right
to challenge the plant washer
pitching champion, but he will
have to wait in line.
Goolsby, commissioner of the
activity, shot into the challeng-
ing position after winning a
washer-pitching singles tourna-
Structures Team
Wins at Soccer
W. Pugh’s Structures team
won both its games to take top
honors in first half play of the
three-team CRA soccer league.
High point men in first half
play were Pugh, 7; R. E. De-
wames and M. Fischer, 4 each;
and K. Koether and E. Kemah-
lioglu, 2 each. League games are
played at 9 a.m. each Saturday at
Forest Park. Practice and ex-
hibition games are played at the
park at 2 p.m. each Sunday.
ment at CRA area last month.
Champion Wesley Gowins was
to have played D. W. Dickey,
challenger, for the championship
at the tournament, but the meet-
ing had to be postponed. The
match will be played off in the
plant this week,
A man may challenge the plant
champion only after he wins a
singles tournament. Goolsby will
get a shot at the new champion
at the next singles meet in about
six months.
Gowins, by past performance,
seems firmly planted in the
championship spot. With one ex-
ception, he has been plant champ-
ion continuously since the activi-
ty was organized.
In the recent singles touirna-
ment, 25 turkeys were given top
pitchers. Top winners were,
Goolsby, first; W. B. Felts, sec-
ond; Oliver Cornelsen, third; and
B. R. Reed, fourth.
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