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Vol. 12, No. 19 Wednesday, September 16, 1959
Wednesday, September 16, 1959
Fort Worth and
Daingerfield
EDITION
Fort Worth news office:
ext. 2961; Daingerfield news
office: ext. 424
SAN DIEGO, POMONA, ANTELOPE VALLEY, VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF.
AFMTC, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., FORT WORTH, TEX.
Blue Fix-a-Toy
Boxes in Place
For '59 Drive
(Photo on page 6)
Fifteen toy collection boxes
were distributed at Convair Fort
Worth this month as the annual
“Operation: Fix-a-Toy” Christ-
mas project got into full swing.
The boxes were placed at all
gate entrances and at the Rowan
building, according to B. R. Main
of traffic.
“This year’s collection boxes
are painted blue and have the
regular Fix-a-Toy posters at-
tached,” Main said.
Kick-off date for actual toy
collection was Monday. Accord-
ing to R. C. Higgins, who is
handling collections and deliv-
eries, in-plant collections will end
around Nov. 15.
Toy repair will begin as early
as Sept. 20. Convair people will
start putting used playthings in-
to shape at the sheep barn behind
Will Rogers Coliseum.
W. B. Long is in charge of
manpower and will work with
various departments that will
furnish volunteer toy craftsmen.
Toys, after repair, will be dis-
tributed at Christmas season.
TARGET DATE—Ronnie Brown, left, and Jean DeManche of
illustrations pause while putting up posters to remind Convair Fort
Worth people of target date for delivery of first production Hustler
—No. 31.
Larger Merry-Go-Round
Added to Attractions
Chairman for this year’s opera-
tion is B. S. DeBusk. Permanent
Fix-a-Toy coordinator is G. N.
Nesbitt.
Committeemen other than Long
and Higgins include K. W. Bates,
administration; H. H. Fox, distri-
bution; N. G. Jones, materials;
E. A. Black, shop operations; B.
J. Merrill, accounting; D. E. Ses-
sions, refreshments; and L. van
Zanten, tooling and facilities.
M. J. Scott on Panel
At Suggestion Meet
Convair Fort Worth’s Marion
J. Scott of the suggestion section
will be a panelist at the National
Association of
Suggestion Sys-
tems Conference
Oct. 11-13 in St.
Louis.
Scott, a 17-
year Convair
veteran, will
serve on a
“Tricks of the
Trade” panel at
this year’s 17th
annual conven-
ed. J. Scott tion. He will dis-
cuss Convair Fort Worth’s recent
“Ideas to Esenwein” campaign, a
program to increase cost con-
sciousness among employees.
A gigantic ferris wheel and a
larger merry-go-round, along with
a top notch rodeo will usher in
Convair Fort Worth’s third an-
nual CRA Con-Fair festivities
next month.
“We hope Convair people will
circle Oct. 9, 10 and 11 on their
calendars,” commented Jimmy
Shackelford, chairman of the
plantwide recreation committee.
“We’d like to top last year’s 17,-
000 attendance record if we can.”
A Convair Recreation Associa-
tion project, Con-Fair will have
all the markings of a mammoth
county fair including cotton can-
dy and strawberry flavored snow-
cones.
Others working with Shackel-
ford on the committee include L.
R. Wilson, stamp and coin club
commissioner, and H. F. Carl-
berg, CRA bowling commissioner.
Wilson is in charge of CRA build-
ing, and Carlberg is outside ac-
tivities chairman.
Shackelford, who is riding
herd on the rodeo, will be assisted
by A. D. “Buck” Kernodle, CRA
checker and domino commis-
sioner.
“This year’s rodeo will be pro-
duced by T-Bar M. rodeo people,”
Shackelford said. “All contest-
ants must be Convair employees
or members of immediate fami-
lies.”
He said Convair cowboys and
cowgirls may pick up entry
blanks at the CRA office.
Although the rodeo will be lim-
ited to Convair people, Shackel-
ford said outside clubs will par-
ticipate in the grand entry to
help add color.
Special guests at this year’s
rodeo will be girls from the
Texas Bareback Racers Associa-
tion. Naray McHood, secretary-
treasurer, will be in charge. The
girls will give exhibitions but
not compete.
Convair families, Air Force
and vendor people on duty at
Convair will pick up tickets and
a program at the gate.
Two free bingo tickets will be
given each adult. Five special
tickets will be handed each child.
Youngsters’ tickets may be used
for rides, drinks, popcorn, pea-
nuts, snowcones or ice cream.
More can be purchased for five
cents.
In addition to the midway, ro-
deo, and concessions, CRA activi-
ties will sponsor special booths.
There’ll also be square dancing
and ballroom dancing at the
clubhouse.
Another highlight of Con-Fair
activities will be Commissioner
Lou Lyte’s Go-Kart demonstra-
tions. CRA’s new Go-Kart Club
just got into full swing this
month with a new race track at
the CRA area.
Gate and door prizes this year
will be similar to those last year.
To be eligible, people must regis-
ter at a ticket booth in the mid-
way area, and only those with
ID cards will be allowed to par-
ticipate.
CON-FAIRING—Charlene (Kelly) Brown of CRA office confers,
left to right, with Convair Fort Worth plantwide recreation commit-
teemen Harry Carlberg, Jim Shackelford and L. R. Wilson about
1959 Con-Fair slated Oct. 9, 10 and II.
Round-the-Clock
Push Speeds 31
Toward Delivery
Round-the-clock operations to
speed B-58 Hustler No. 31 through
a brief pre-delivery flight demon-
stration continued at Convair
Fort Worth at mid-month.
Supt. R. G. Bryden said Dept.
63 and Dept. 75 crews, as well
as engineering and other depart-
ments supporting the effort, are
going all out to assure delivery
of No. 31 in October.
Supporting the effort are
bright posters scattered through-
out B-58 production field opera-
tions areas. They were produced
by artists in the graphic repro-
duction group and point out that
Convair employees in the B-58
program have “two down and one
to go.” First down was first
flight of the first B-58. Second
down was the first Mach 2 flight.
“And delivery of No. 31 air-
plane will be our third down,”
said Bryden.
As a special effort to assure
proper operation of B-58 systems
in flight, No. 31 was put through
an extra series of systems tests
using the various test trailers.
It was then put back on the
flight line to continue engine
runs.
Handling the finishing phases
of work on No. 31 are electronic
and field operations crews num-
bering from seven to ten men
on each of three shifts. This is
in addition to engineers and oth-
er support people.
The Dept. 63 (field operations)
effort headed by general fore-
RELIABILITY DEPT.
CREATED AT FW
A new and permanent reliabil-
ity department at Convair Fort
Worth was effective Aug. 31, it
was announced by Frank W.
Davis, division manager.
Dr. Norm H. Simpson, who had
been assigned to the reliability
program on an acting basis, was
appointed manager of reliability.
He reports to Davis.
Reliability department people
number about 12 at this time.
Their job is to monitor and
coordinate Convair Fort Worth’s
overall reliability efforts, and to
provide technical assistance.
man W. L. Daniel Jr. on first
shift, assistant general foreman
M. W. Holley on second shift, and
foreman Glen Nelson on third.
The Dept. 75 (electronics) op-
erations are performed by crews
headed by Charles Cates, general
foreman, on first shift; Harvey
Page, assistant general foreman,
on second; and W. Keith, assist-
ant foreman, third shift.
Upon completion of Convair
flights and Air Force acceptance
flights, No. 31 is scheduled to
be delivered to Carswell AFB to
become the AF’s first operation-
al Mach 2 bomber.
FW Management
Club Changes
Its Fiscal Year
Nominees for Convair Fort
Worth Management Club 1960
offices will be voted upon in a
Nov. 2 election and take office
Jan. 1, due to a constitutional
change voted at last month’s
meeting.
The constitutional amendment
changed beginning of the fiscal
year from Jan. 1 to July 1. New-
ly-elected officers will serve an
additional six months beyond the
normal term in order for 1961
officers to take office in July of
1961.
C. W. “Smokey” Doyle of Dept.
22-2 and C. C. Utley of Dept. 4-1
are new presidential nominees.
Nominees for vice president-
days are J. O. Muncy of Dept.
53 and P. H. Billman of Dept. 6-6.
For the same office on nights,
M. E. Miller of Dept. 27-1 and
W. M. Berry of Dept. 7-4 will
com 'npf'p
W. R.'“Dub” Childress of Dept.
19-2 and J. M. Langendoen of
Dept. 8 have been nominated for
recording secretary.
Corresponding secretary nomi-
nees are E. L. Clerc of Dept. 3
and J. L. Coburn of Dept. 2-3.
Five members for the board of
control, a two-and-one-half-year
term, will be picked from B. R.
(Continued on Page 8)
Students, Professors Leave FW
After Summer Tours of Duty
Forty-one students and faculty
members from all over the U.S.
left Convair Fort Worth Aug. 28
as the engineering department’s
annual summer employment pro-
gram ended.
The 31 college students (many
of them already owners of BS
or MS degrees) and the ten pro-
fessors represent 21 schools.
Convair’s program for faculty
members is distinctive, since a
specific problem or assignment is
defined before the individuals are
hired.
“We have a job to be done, and
then we hire the man with the
particular background necessary
to get that job done,” said F. F.
Gignilliat, chief of employment
in personnel department.
Extensive research and thought
also goes into selection of the
college students. For example,
the 31 who worked this summer
were chosen from a field of sev-
eral hundred applicants.
This three-month summer pro-
ject has been an official Convair
operation for about five years.
Albert H. Repscha of Lafay-
ette, La., is an example of the
impressive backgrounds repre-
sented among the summer faculty
employees. This Latvia-born pro-
fessor at Southwestern Louisi-
ana Institute is a graduate of the
University of Maine, where he
supplemented his studies in me-
chanical engineering with an ac-
tive interest in sports. So active,
in fact, that he was named All-
Maine and All-New England full-
back in 1924.
After college he continued his
combination of science and sports.
While teaching mechanical engi-
neering courses at Drexel Insti-
tute of Technology from 1926-54,
he coached football, basketball
and baseball.
No stranger to Convair, Rep-
scha has worked as a senior de-
sign engineer on the summer pro-
grams since 1957.
During other summers Rep-
scha, who holds an MS from
Iowa State College, served as a
research specialist for Lockheed
Aircraft.
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