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THE EAGLE
April 29, 1943
THE EAGLE
Published weekly by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Corporation, Fort Worth Division, as a source of
information for employes. Address communications
to Public Relations Department, Fort Worth, Texas.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS • • APRIL 29, 1943
BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH
Advent of point rationing of food caused some fam-
ilies to be cautious in the use of purchased edibles during
the first several weeks, thus throwing a heavy burden on
public eating establishments.
Consair workers, as well as people throughout the
country, now know that the government has been liberal
with food allowances and that the ordinary housewife,
with reasonable care, will have more than enough points
to supply her family with healthful and nourishing food.
Facilities for serving food at the Fort Worth plant,
too, have been overburdened because of excessively large
numbers of workers patronizing the cafeteria and lunch
stations each day. It appears likely, in view of constant-
ly mounting employment figures here, that the situation
is due to get worse before it gets better.
These facilities, it must be said in justice to the
catering company, were not installed with the idea of
serving the entire personnel of the Fort Worth Division.
Obviously, the remedy for this situation is for more em-
ployes to bring lunches from home each day.
Advantages to bringing lunch boxes are manifold.
In the first place, a greater part of the lunch period may
be spent in relaxation rather than waiting in line to be
served. If supplementary food is desired, the 15 lunch
wagons can supply candy, milk, ice cream, pie and even
soups and sandwiches with a minimum of delay. And
most important, the cafeteria and lunch stations will be
available to workers who cannot bring their lunches be-
cause of living conditions, lack of help and other valid
reasons.
Cooperation among thousands of people is feasible
only through individual effort. Help your fellow employe,
make eating at the plant more enjoyable—bring your
own lunch.
TEXAS ACHIEVEMENT
The record of the Fort Worth plant of Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Corporation for the last seven months
has exemplified patriotism in action on the home front
during a period marked by dissension, futility and inade-
quate accomplishment in many other production centers.
Despite serious handicaps, notably failure to receive
parts as promised by another industry, the Fort Worth
plant met its production schedules for the seven months.
Resourcefulness and foresight enabled Consolidated to
eliminate the parts bottleneck through building its own
plant for the manufacture of parts. Despite inexperi-
ence of some of its labor force, the output of bombers
and cargo planes continued as planned.
The Fort Worth plant has been free of labor troubles,
even of friction between the workers and management,
since its opening. The low rate of absenteeism is an
added testimonial to the patriotism of Consolidated work-
ers, many of whom are long-time residents of the Fort
Worth district. That record likewise shows that civic
leaders had eliminated many factors causing enforced
absences of workers.
The management and personnel of the Fort Worth
plant are to be congratulated for translating war effort
into accomplishment.—Reprinted from Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
* AN EXTRA BOND
Remember, “They Give Their Lives, You Lend Your
Money/’ Today and tomorrow are the last two days of
the Second War Loan Drive. Did you buy an extra bond
this month?
^BOMBSIGHT
April was a month of weddings
at Consair, rivaling traditional June:
Easter Sunday, Eugene Crosier, Wel-
fare manager, married two popular
couples in Wing Department in a
double ceremony—Emmett Wil-
liams, General Foreman in Wing,
to Pat Henley; and A1 Combs, Wing
Foreman, to Freddie Jenkins. Nup-
tials took place at Connell Memorial
Church.
Wedding Bells also were busy in
the Mail Room this week: Margie
Weiss is now Mrs. Pete Scheilling;
Linell Shivers is now Mrs. Frank
Scott, and Gloria McIntyre married
her Lieutenant . . . More marriages
reported this week in the shop in-
cluded: Norma Mathews (Tool Es-
timating), daughter of Fred Math-
ews, General Foreman in Finish
married Bill Patton of Fuselage
Nose. . . .
Picture of a satisfied worker is
Loren Eustace, Tabulating, who is
one person
who prefers
the night shift
to any other.
Eustace, who
works on the
hourly payroll,
has lived in
Fort Worth for
12 years and
has been doing
this type of
work for 15
years. He’s been at Consair for
over a year and looks forward to
that big vacation he gets as soon as
he finishes his leadman classes.
When that’s over he plans to hie
away to West Texas with his wife
and two youngsters and spend his
well-deserved rest at his favorite
sport—fishing .. .
Fuselage Nose Wound up with
a howling success for its first an-
nual easter dance at the Casino Sat-
urday night . . . More than 1,200
Consair employes and guests attend-
ed, and George Landy announced
that proceeds would be used to pur-
chase uniforms for the department’s
softball teams. . . .
R. A. Wilson, who reports
for Yard and Flight, cele-
brated his birthday Easter. It
was the first time Easter ever
came on his birthday. . . .
Ironic story of the near-tragic ac-
cident to Lt. Henry Sparger, heroic
bombardier on
the famous
B-24, "The
Witch,” who
escaped injury
on many raids
over Africa and
Italy, only to be
struck down by
a truck while
repairing a tire
on a lonely Af-
rican road, was
told in letters received this week by
Margaret O’Neal, Timekeeping
partner of Sparger’s wife, Annie
Sparger. The letters were sent by
her husband, Lt. J. B. O’Neal, who
pilots another famous B-24, "North-
ern Star,” and is in the same unit
with Sparger. He reports Sparger
is slowly recovering but can’t yet be
moved. Lt. O’Neal recently received
the DFC, the air medal and other
decorations for valor....
Party Notes: Billye Gilbert, Ac-
counting, was given a handkerchief
shower and birthday cake during sec-
ond shift lunch hour, celebrating
her birthday, April 23 . . . Winona
Reid and Betty Townsend staged a
birthday party during Friday lunch
period for Dorothy Prior, clerk in
Engineering Files. . .
Margaret O'Neal
Loren Eustace
CLIPPED—Plant Protection Offi-
cer James Campbell has a double
idea in having that streak of short
hair down the center of his head;
he says it's cool in the summer and
makes it easy for him to wash his
remaining locks each day.
Stork Notes: Mel Saari, Tooling;
Leadman Dixon in Yard and Flight,
and R. D. Knowles, Fuselage Nose,
all became the proud fathers of sons
this week. . . .
To the Service: Larry Elliott, Ac-
counting, to U. S. Navy Reserves;
Jess Turner, Methods and Controls,
to Army; W. R. Kimbler, Loft,
Army; Jimmie Naash, Final Assem-
bly, Army, and Cleotus Wilde, Fi-
nal Assembly, joins the Navy. . . .
Jo Moore, Tool Planning, spends
lunch periods studying the Morse
code aloud so she can pass that
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force exam
... Shop Order’s Elmer Hale
trekked away to the army . . . The
"spitting image” of her sister, Freida
Prater, is Ernestine Bedford, new
recruit in Tooling . . . New cutie
in Work Control is Vickie Chase,
French and with an accent, hailing
from San Diego. . . .
Joe Morris, Assembly Planning,
was host to his sister-in-law and her
two young sons at his home during
the last two weeks . . . All three
went to bed with the mumps, then
Joe’s wife and youngster succumbed
with swollen jaws, but apparently
he was safe ... Joe Morris is at home
with the mumps. . . .
Production is glad to have Doro-
thy Matthews and Dorothy Langston
back after illnesses . .. Mrs. Carmen
Lang is happy because her husband
passed his Army Air Corps exam-
ination . . . Pattern Shops J. C.
McCurdy is now Private McCurdy
of the Marines . .. Rubenell Heath-
erwick is the new Second shift of-
fice manager in Accounting . . .
Edward Ross, of the A. J.
Brandt section near Loft, new-
comer from San Diego, would
like to know if there are any
other members of the “20-30”
Club in the plant besides him-
self? He’s interested in form-
ing a Consair chapter.
LaRita Minter, Production, re-
sumes where she left off in San
Diego by working under same boss,
Jerry Potter ... Joe (Tooling) Mc-
Guire made a business trip to San
Diego . . . C. L. Wilde, Final As-
sembly, goes to army after year at
Consair ... So does Wayne Guthrie
of the same department . . . Tom
Jaynes, Yard and Flight, plans to
teach his new son, who just checked
in at six pounds, four ounces, to be
a pilot . . . J. A. Lehman, Controls,
back from Cleveland business trip.
. . . Yard and Flight’s A. L. Pinson
and Asst. Foreman Gene Cole, back
on job after suffering throat ail-
ments. Pinson lost his tonsils, Cole
tussled with an infected throat. . . .
Betty Jean Dodson writes
friends in Modification from
Fort Benning where she’s
serving with WAACS—says
army life suits her fine! . . .
Velda Tindall, Draw Bench, has
been a trick rider for 17 years, and
has ridden in New York’s Madison
Square Garden, Boston, Chicago and
elsewhere. Her 11-year-old daugh-
ter holds World Championship in
Juvenile trick riding. . . .
When pretty newcomer Ruth
Orr’s brother, J. Roy Orr, joined
the navy and
went across,
she came to
Consolidated
Vultee to help
him win the
war. Ruth, just
J8, and a grad-
uate from Will
Rogers War
Training
School, recent-
ly came to work
in Contract Administration. She
attended both the University of New
Mexico and the Teacher’s College
at Denton where she majored in art.
Keeping military secrets is no job
for Ruth—she’s been keeping them
all her life; her father is a veteran
FBI man. . . .
Orren Mixer, Jr., Uphol-
stery Layout department, a
former artist before coming to
the plant, has sold one of his
pictures to western film star
Gene Autrey . . .
A fine citizen is A. C. Shope, 56-
year-old leadman in the Boiler Shop,
who already
has given four
sons into the
service of his
country. A son-
in-law, B. F.
Eichelberger,
Jr., was recent-
ly reported lost
at sea when his
ship went
down after be-
ing torpedoed
in the Atlantic as he was sailing on
his first trip with the Merchant Ma-
rines. He has two sons in the Navy,
one son in Iceland with the Signal
Corps, and another in the Air
Corps. A fifth son, William F.
Shope also works at Consair. His
daughter, Geraldine, widow of Eich-
elberger, soon comes to work at the
plant. Mr. Shope commutes back
and forth from Arlington each day
and has yet to be tardy or late. His
wife, Annie Mae, works his farm
for him while he does his war job.
He spends all his spare time helping
her on his acreage.
Tommy Shaw is Modification’s
newest father—it’s a girl . . . Gene
Ryan, Finished Parts, was rushed to
the hospital for an appendectomy
while on her honeymoon . . . Those
Accounting stag parties have proven
so popular that a committee com-
posed of D. A. Gilmore, J. F. Cris-
ler, R. L. Ivey, Paul Trippett and
Bruce Greer has been appointed to
make it a monthly affair . . . Tabu-
lating’s Swing shift girls are trying
to find ways to diplomatically ex-
tinguish Kenneth Gatewood’s ever-
present cigar . . .
Welding is wondering why Lead-
man Luther Milburn only rode his
new bike to work one day? Having
to push it up several hills must have
proved too discouraging . . . Eddie
Van Winkle got the kinks out of his
Modification Line baseball players
the other day. . . .
A. C. Shope
Ruth Orr
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