Convairiety, Volume 9, Number 2, January 25, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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Fort Worth and
Daingerfield
EDITION
Fort Worth news office:
ext. 5290; Daingerfield news
office: ext. 424
SAN DIEGO AND POMONA, CALIFORNIA
DAINGERFIELD AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS
STEP FORWARD—B-58 production got another boost last week
as more B-58 work stands were completed near 50-foot aisle. Get-
ting ready to weld are J. R. Hammond (left) and J. W. Webb of
plant engineering.
Applications Sought For
Convair Scholarships
Convair sons may apply for Convair Fort Worth schol-
arships starting- Feb. 1, H. C. Anderson, assistant training
supervisor, announced this week.____
Work Stations
Increased For
B-58 Program
The latest in the series of B-58 forward fuselage work
stations—involving a cost of around $25,000—was com-
pleted at Convair Fort Worth this week.
At the same time, work neared completion on cradles
and tooling fixtures to permit B-58 work to proceed at
each of the stations simultaneously.
22 Convair Men
In Running for
'55 CIP Award
Twenty-two Convair Fort
Worth men were official
contenders this month for
the second annual “Presi-
dent's Award.” The award
will be presented this year
at the top management
meeting of the Convair Fort
Worth Management Club.
To be considered for the
award, employees must have
saved at least $25,000 by Cost
Improvement Proposals.
Award is based on ingenuity,
originality, practicability and
completeness of each CIP, as well
as dollar savings.
Winner receives an engraved
plaque and a gift of his own
choice.
The record of the 22 eligible
for 1955 shows 58 cases approved
for a savings of $1,094,409.
Those eligible are: Sam Wit-
koff, Dept. 28; A. F. Drysdale,
Dept. 24; K. Simmons, Dept. 15;
Lawrence Armstrong, Dept. 20;
C H. Jones, Dept. 15; J. R.
Rhoades, Dept. 74; J. O. Sauer-
mann, Dept. 22; A. R. Carson,
Dept. 29; J. O. Hood, Dept. 91.
G. H. Thompson, Dept. 20; C.
F. Eubanks, Dept. 24; W. Olsen.
Dept. 27; R. D. Cantrell, Dept.
24; W. L. Johnson, Dept. 74; E.
A. Black, Dept. 76; O. H. Hill,
Dept'. 81; H. I. Lawler, Dept. 81;
I M. Pemberton, Dept. 30; J. W.
Bishop, Dept. 22; W. E. Franz,
Dept. 22; L. J. M. Gottlob, Dept.
75; and Luther Parvin, Dept. 63.
winner of 1954 award.
Deckard, McGuffee
And Holley Shift to
New Assignments
New assignments at Convair
Fort Worth this week included
these:
H. C. Deckard, former night
manager, to executive staff as-
sistant to August C. Esenwein,
manager;
R. W. McGuffee, former field
operations superintendent to
night manager;
M. W. Holley, former Dept. 63
R. W. McGuffee H. C. Deckard
assistant general foreman, to
field operations superintendent.
Deckard, ^formerly a consultant
to the Air Force at Wright-Pat-
terson AF Base, had been night
manager since January, 1951. In
his new job he will act in a staff
capacity to Esenwein.
McGuffee had
been successive-
ly assistant su-
perint e n d e n t
and superinten-
dent since 1950.
He has been
with Convair
since 1941. As
night manager,
he heads opera-
tions on the sec-
ond and third
M. W. Holley shifts.
Holley’s service with Convair
goes back to 1942. Both McGuf-
fee and Holley are natives of
Texas. McGuffee was born in
Sherman, Holley in Plano.
Application blanks and book-
lets explaining the scholarships
are now available in the training
section, Col. 48-C on the mezz., or
in the engineering training office
in engineering personnel.
Applications and high school
transcripts must be returned to
the training section by March 31.
Two college scholarships will
be awarded to sons or stepsons
of Convair employees with at
least five years of service with
Convair.
Scholarships are awarded to
further the study of engineering
or an allied science toward a
Bachelor of Science or engineer-
“The exact figure is $303,537,”
said M. A. Stewart, blood bank
chairman. “And the amount of
money doesn’t begin to measure
the value of the simple good that
Convair employees are doing for
others.”
The figures came to light this
week as Convair Recreation Asso-
ciation employee council voted
another $2,000 for the blood
bank. That makes a total of
$5,200 CRA has set up for the
blood program in the 12-month
period.
When the blood bank accepts a
blood donation that requires an
employee to be off his job, CRA
ing degree at any fully accred-
ited college or university.
Winners of the scholarships
will receive $250 a year paid in
equal installments at the begin-
ning of each semester. In addi~
tion, tuition and laboratory fees
will be paid.
Applicants will be interviewed
by Convair personnel.
Final selection will be made by
the Convair Fort Worth scholar-
ship committee on the basis of
both scholastic work and charac-
ter.
Winners of the scholarships
will be notified in May and must
enroll in school in September.
pays him the cost of wages he
loses for that purpose. That’s the
blood bank’s only expense to
CRA.
Figures show that in the nine
months the bank operated in
1950, employees donated 291
pints.
In the past nine months,
they’ve upped that by more
than four times: 1,306 pints.
“This is not only an indication
of the increase in the demand,”
said Stewart. “It is also a trib-
ute to the spirit of Convair em-
ployees who volunteer to give
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The two-level work docks are
designed to provide convenient,
safe and efficient working condi-
tions for employees assembling
forward fuselage sections of the
new supersonic bomber.
Docks are lined up in a row
beside C-aisle. They extend from
the 50-foot aisle of assembly
building to the north.
The workstands are made of
structural steel and three-quar-
ter-inch plywood. They’re tailor-
made to fit the forward section
of the plane. This, according to
S. W. Driggers, in charge of the
project, makes it impossible for
tools or other objects to fall
through from the top level—and
protects heads below.
Without revealing progress of
the B-58 program, it can be said
that the manufacturing plan calls
for this sequence: forward fuse-
lage sections, when complete,
move by overhead monorail to
the major mating area. There
they join with aft tail sections,
and the fuselages subsequently
join with wing sections.
Work docks are the responsi-
bility of plant engineering crews,
while cradles, fixtures and the
like are the work of Dept. 81
employees.
CLUB COMMITTEE
TO BOOST B-58
A “Boost the B-58” committee
was beginning to operate this
month in the ranks of the Man-
agement Club at Convair Fort
Worth.
Purpose of the committee is
simply to increase interest in the
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'Best' B-52 Wing
Panel Built at
'Bargain' Cost
On Jan. 6, Foreman R. E.
Walkington took one last close
look around the B-52 outer wing
panel standing upright in the fix-
ture in Dept. 42 at Convair Fort
Worth.
This one was due to be the best
job yet in the entire, B-52 sub-
contract program.
Walkington motioned for
Claude White of inspection.
White had a close look and, in
turn, invited Jack Weare, of Boe-
ing Airplane Co., to take a look.
The inspection finished, Walk-
ington handed the final opera-
tions card to White. White
stamped inspection’s approval.
Weare signed it. Walkington
nodded to L. J. McMurry of traf-
fic. McMurry signaled to F. W.
Blakeley in the monorail waiting
in the rafters. Blakeley juggled
his controls.
Then the latest B-52 outer wing
panel went up over the heads of
watching Dept. 42 employees and
started on its way to the Boeing
assembly line in Wichita, Kan.
Moving a B-52 wing panel is
never routine. Neither is it a
world-shaking event. But this
particular B-52 panel held more
than average interest to a lot of
people because—
It moved out five days ahead
of schedule—and it went out
costing about one-third less
than the one before it!
Further, it was the best job
of quality workmanship Gen-
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TAKE IT AWAY—Newest B-52 outer wing panel is pulled up by
traffic department crews using overhead monorail crane. Monorail
carried it to shipping to start on its way to assembly line of Boeing
Airplane Co. at Wichita, Kan.
Blood Bank Volunteers
Up Fourfold Since 1950
For every blood donation Convair employees made at
the start of the CRA blood bank at Convair Fort Worth—
they now make four.
And the amount of money they’ve saved other Convair
employees is now nearing a third of a million dollars.
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General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division. Convairiety, Volume 9, Number 2, January 25, 1956, periodical, January 25, 1956; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1117958/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth.