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Three-Quarters of Goa-$21,600-AIready Reached in Con vair FW Chest Drive
With two days left to go, Con- assurance that the plant as a Hicks expressed particular
ir FW employees already had whole would go well over its satisfaction that for the first
ven $21,615.48-more than 75 quota when returns are complete. time in several years, first de-
"Right now," he said, "we
r cent of their goal-to the know of many departments which partment in the plant to reach
50 Community Chest campaign. have raised substantial amounts. and exceed its quota was one of
M. L. Hicks, plant campaign But they haven't turned them in, the larger factory departments,
airman, expressed his thanks and those amounts can't be in- 44, Nose and Tail, of which Sam
employees for their quick and eluded in the figure until they E. Keith Jr. is general foreman.
nerous response, and gave his are turned into the cashier." Nose and Tail turned in 111.5per cent of quota before end of These were: Division Man-
the first day. Other departments ager's Office, Public Relations,
which went over the first day Works Department, Industrial
were Bomb Bay (43), 102.7 per
cent, Contracts (11), 180.9 per Engineering, Accounting, Con-
cent, and Public Relations (5), tracts, Traffic, Tooling, Machine
537.0 per cent. Shop, Bomb Bay, Nose and Tail,
At end of the third day, 13 of Wing Sub-assembly and Struc-
the 33 departments had made tures, and Tool Room and Fix-
more than 100 per cent of quota. tures.Published every other Wednesday by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
For the benefit of Convair people everywhere.
onvairw-e
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. DAINGERFIELD, TEX. FORT WORTH, TEX.
Vol. 3, No. 2152 Wednesday, October 11, 1950Tooling, Flight
Acquire New
Superintendents
Appointments of new su-
perintendents in Tooling and
Flight departments, and an
assistant department head
in Inspection, headed lists of
promotions at Convair FW
last week.
R. W. Dodd was appointed
superintendent in charge of the
Flight department's shop opera-
tions group.
T. E. Hoffman took over duties
as assistant chief of Inspection.
D. B. Kelty was named super-
intendent in charge of all Tooling
operations on second shift.
Dodd, who reports to Flight
Manager B. A. Erickson, former-
ly was general foreman. As
superintendent of 12-4, Dodd has
two sections reporting to him:
flight test operations supervised
by C. J. Keith, and instrumenta-
tion, supervised by R. G. Bryden.
Dodd originally went to work
at Convair in San Diego in 1941,
transferred to FW in 1942. He
was assigned to the XB-36 proj-
ect throughout most of its history
until it was completed, after
which he served as foreman and
general foreman in field opera-
tions until going to Flight de-
partment. He is a native of San
Antonio, and obtained his school-
ing at Austin, Tex.
Hoffman, who is now assistant
to J. Y. McClure, chief of Inspec-
tion, was promoted from Inspec-
tion department general super-
visor. He worked at SD division
from 1940 to 1943, when he trans-
ferred to the New Orleans divi-
sion operated by Convair during
World War II.
He transferred to FW division
in 1945, and has served continu-
ously since that time. His experi-
ence before coming to Convair
included five years as a first
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Scroll Carried to
Patient in Hospital
Roxy Kuswara doesn't like to
be left out when things are
going on in the upholstery
group of Dept. 73, Sub-Assem-
bly, FW.
But she was confined to bed
in St. Joseph's Hospital when
she read in CONVAIRIETY
that Convair employees were
signing the Crusade for Free-
dom scroll and contributing
funds to support Radio Free
Europe.
A woman of action, Roxy got
on the phone, called CON-
VAIRIETY. "I want to put
my name on that list and make
my contribution," said Roxy,
"but I can't get out of this
bed."
CONVAIRIETY got busy. A
call to the Employee Services
section and E. G. Crosier vol-
unteered to take one of the
Freedom scrolls to the hospital.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
heard about it-and Roxy also
had her picture in the paper
next day. Roxy was at SD
division before coming to FW.4 4
; IFREEDOM SCROLL-First to sign Freedom Scroll in his
at Convair FW was J. T. Potts Jr., Dept. 44. Scroll is held by
Atnip, Dept. 44 assistant foreman.
Convair Folk Flock toSign Freedom
The pledge of 15,503 Convair
FW employees to work for demo-
cratic freedom throughout the
world will be forever enshrined
Oct. 24-United Nations Day-
when the Crusade for Freedom
Bell is dedicated in Berlin, Ger-
many.
That was the number of Con-
vair FW employees who volun-
tarily signed Crusade for Free-
dom scrolls circulated throughout
the plant at lunch and rest pe-
riods.
It was an impressive figure-
more than one-fifth of the 60,000-
signature goal for the entire Fort
Worth campaign.
In addition, they voluntarily
contributed a total of $3,045.16.
This is about one-fifth of the
amount contributed by the entire
city of Fort Worth.
The money will be used to sup-'
port Radio Free Europe, broad-
casting station in Germany which
is beaming anti-communist and
pro-democratic programs to en-
slaved peoples behind the Russian
iron curtain.
Fred Korth, Fort Worth chair-
man of the campaign, lauded the
response of Convair employees in
a letter of thanks to Ray O. Ryan,Phillips Will Head
Public Relations
Hudson Phillips late last month
was named director of Public Re-
lations for Convair. He has been
acting director since mid-June
and will continue as an associate
with H. A. Bruno and associates
of New York City, Convair's
public relations counsel.
Before joining Bruno in 1946,
Phillips was with the Associated
Press in New York for more than
nine years.Pledge
Convair vice-president and
sion manager. Said Korth
part:
"The thousands upon thous
of signatures on the Fre
scrolls, and the generous co
butions to Radio Free Europ
exceeded our expectations.
"The several hundred fore
assistant foremen and superv
who circulated the scrolls
formed an outstanding servic
the Crusade and for their f
workers by giving them th
portunity of participating.
Loyd L. Turner, manage
Public Relations, served as
sade for Freedom chairman
the plant-wide drive.'Population' Passes
21,000 Mark at FW,
2100Mr tSteady Climb Ahead
Getting ready in event Convair is called upon for all-
out B-36 bomber production, Fort Worth division is now
well into an expanded program under which about 25 per
cent of the basic airplane will be built by sub-contractors.Expansion of the program was
signaled when Ray O. Ryan, Con-
vair vice-president and division
manager, announced creation of
the new sub-contracts department
reporting to V. C. Gillon, Produc-
tion manager, and headed by C.
L. Glover.
While sub-contractors will be
doing additional B-36 work which
otherwise would be done at FW
or SD, new sub-contracts will
have no effect on employment
rolls at either division because
present employees in virtually all
classifications will still be needed
to meet current B-36 production
area schedules.
R. E. "In fact," said Ryan, "unless
the picture changes, we will be
hiring at the rate of several hun-
dred a week for many weeks to
come."
Convair FW employment pass-
ed the 21,000 mark in September,
and was still rising.
divi- Farming out B-36 work to
, in other firms is being done for sev-
eral reasons. One is to lay pre-
liminary groundwork for all-out
ands mobilization if Convair were toedom
ntri-
e, far
men,
isors
per-
e for
ellow
e op-
r of
Cru-
forbe called upon for a maximum
B-36 effort. This is in line with
the government's nation-wide
plan to build up our defenses
against possible aggression.
Another is to avoid additional
expenditure of capital funds for
tooling and facilities at Convair
FW, as otherwise would be re-
quired.
Production Manager Gillon ex-
plained that Convair's aim is to
award new sub-contracts only
when the work can be performed
by the sub-contractor at a cost
comparable to the cost of doing
the work in the plant; only to
manufacturers who have neces-
sary machinery, facilities and fi-
nances ready at hand; and only
to manufacturers located close
enough to Fort Worth to make
shipping of parts and components
practical.
"A sub-contract in Maine for
large B-36 components would be
obviously ridiculous," said Gillon.
"If a national emergency were
declared, transportation is one of
(Continued on Page 2)Plan Developed to Protect Plant
Regardless of Type of EmergencyConvair folk won't be caught
napping, nor unprepared in case
of emergency of any kind at the
Fort Worth division.
Under a master emergency
plan now being developed, an or-
ganization will be set up and
ready to take over in a matter
of moments should anything inthe nature of trouble strike at
Convair FW.
At the policy level, emergency
planning is being done with the
counsel of Lt. Col. A. E. Stuart,
resident officer-in-charge for the
Air Firce at Convair FW; Ray
0. Ryan, Convair vice-president
and division manager; R. J. Don-
nelly, manager of Industrial Rela-
tions; Don J. Clow, chief indus-
trial engineer; Carswell AF Base
officers; Fourth Army headquar-
ters; civilian defense officials of
the city of Fort Worth; the Air
Force's Office of Special Inves-
tigation; and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
Directly responsible for carry-
ing out the plan is C. E. Doering,
newly appointed Convair FW de-
fense co-ordinater, who is spend-
ing full time on the job, and who
works closely with Capt. William
L. Stevenson, administrative as-
sistant to Col. Stuart, and Max
Clarke, Convair FW security offi-
cer.Purpose of the plan is to set
up a skeleton organization into
which, in event of any emergency,
all necessary personnel may be
organized immediately to take ac-
tion to "minimize loss of life,
~AAA= property damage and delay in
production of B-36 bombers.
CONTRAST-B-36 tails protruding from building 3 at SD offer D o e r i n g points out that
a study in contrasting size. Note relative size of automobile parked trouble might arise from various
alongside building! (Continued on Page 2)va
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