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CONVAIRIETY
Feb. 2, 1949
Page 7
WINNING BOUT—Wilbur French, right, Convair featherweight,
evades James Taylor's left and counters with a right to the chin
in the fight at Denton which French won for the district champion-
ship.—Star-Telegram photo.
DISTRICT CHAMPIONS—Bob Lopez (left) examines trophy won
by Wilbur French (center) and Pete Gomez in Denton, Tex., district
Golden Gloves competition. All three are members of Convair
FW boxing team and entered district bouts at Denton to gain
experience for regional matches in Ft. Worth later this month.
Dept. 24-1 at FW Ousts Dept. 47 to Take
Over First Place in League Standings
Dept.
An undefeated record for the
leading contender in the Convair
FW inter-plant basketball tour-
nament was broken Jan. 20 when
Dept. 24-1 defeated Dept. 47 in
a close 36-to-33 game. Dept. 24-1,
now No. 1 in the standings, had
previously defeated Dept. 6 the
same week, to ring up five wins
and no losses.
Dept. 47 now holds down a
close second, with four wins and
one loss. The games to be played
Jan. 25, matching Dept. 73 with
Dept. 30, and Dept. 50 with Dept.
24-1, were postponed due to the
Feb. 10, 7 p.m.—Dept. 47 vs.
Dept. 6. 8:15 p.m.—Dept. 24-1
vs. Dept. 30, William James jun-
ior high school.
Following are standings as of
Jan. 26:
TEAM
Dept. 24-1 ....................
w.
.................... 5
L.
O
Dept. 47 .....................
.................... 4
l
Dept. 43 ....................
.................... 3
2
Dept. 4-5 ....................
.................... 3
2
Dept. 50 ......................
.................... 2
3
Dept. 30 ......................
.................... 1
4
Dept. 6 ........................
.................... 1
4
Dept. 73 ......................
.................... 1
4
FW Bowling
weather.
Dept. 43 added another win to
its victory column on Jan. 20 in
defeating Dept. 30 by 54 to 43.
Dept. 73 was leading Dept. 50 by
a narrow 38 to 34, when the last
whistle blew on Jan. 18. The
same evening, Dept. 4-5 made
the winning basket to edge out
Dept. 6 by a 30-to-29 score.
The first place Tooling Ter-
mites won a match with Dept. 6
on Jan. 13 in a 25-to-19 game.
In the first game of the night,
Dept. 50 outshot Dept. 30 by a
48-to-25 score.
Upcoming games include—Feb.
3, 7 p.m.—Dept. 30 vs. Dept. 6.
8:15 p.m.—Dept. 50 vs. Dept.
4-5, William James junior high
school. Feb. 8, 7 p.m.—Dept. 50
vs. Dept. 43. 8:15 p.m.—Dept.
4-5 vs. Dept. 73, City Recreation
Hall. The second half of the bas-
ketball tournament will start on
Convair FW bowling standings as
Jan. 26, 1949:
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
TEAM w.
Acme Beer ...................................... 54
Scarborough Used Cars ......... 43
F. I. T. U..................................... 41
Atomics ........... 41
Liberator Drug ........r................... 39
Convair ............ 39
Big State Coin Machine ............ 37
Banner Used Cars ........................ 37
Levonia Bellah .............................. 37
Louie’s Laundry ............................ 36
Tallant Service ............................ 36
Rockets ....................................... 32
Lilly’s Cleaners ............................ 30
Park’s Paint & Body ................ 30
ENGINEERING LEAGUE
TEAM W.
♦Hedgehoppers ................................ 39
Wing Dings .................................... 37
Z-ions ........... 36
Howeth’s Texaco .......................... 35
Atomizers ........................................ 34
Digger O’Dells ................................ 33
♦Stinco Cinco ........... 32
♦Hardheads .................................... 30
Gourd Tossers ................................ 29
* Saucer Tossers ............................ 27
Trouble Shooters .......................... 27
Trojans ........... 26
Drag Counts .................................. 25
Snail Pacers .................................. 24
Brewmasters .................................. 20
Mis-Guided Missiles .................... 18
♦Designates postponed games.
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FW Basketball Squad Captures Second
In First Half of Industrial League
The Convair FW basketball
squad copped second place in the
first half of the Industrial
League series after losing a tie-
off game with Carswell Air
Force base last Tuesday night
(Jan. 26), 58 to 48.
“If bad weather hadn’t kept
some of our boys from playing,
we might have been champions,”
Ed Tucknies, team manager, said.
Before the Carswell play-off,
the Convair team had only one
loss in 22 games. In a league
game Jan. 20, Convair outplayed
Acme Brick 46 to 16, with Dept.
44’s Harold Thompson scoring 19
of the winning points.
Jack’s Drive-In went down to
the Bombers on Jan. 14, by a
56-to-33 score, with Convair’s A1
Close, Dept. 45, chalking up 29
points.
Campaign af FW
Nets 753 Members
To Foremen's Club
A record - breaking campaign
which netted 753 members; a
week-long March of Dimes col-
lection on ice-covered downtown
Ft. Worth streets; and installa-
tion of new officers at a meet-
ing attended by 403 members,
made for a busy Convair FW
Foremen’s Club month in Jan-
uary.
“We’re off to a bang-up
start this year,” commented
Sam E. Keith, Jr., newly in-
stalled president, “And we’re
going to keep things popping
one right after the other.”
The 753 membership not only
is the largest in history of the
club, but also is the greatest
percentage of members to per-
sons eligible. The campaign was
directed by C. C. Kelley, com-
mittee chairman.
As CONVAIRIETY went to
press, 150 club members working
with C. B. Llewellyn’s Civic
Service committee pounded down-
town Ft. Worth streets in the
winter’s worst weather soliciting
funds for the March of Dimes
fund to combat polio. At the
same time, other members were
campaigning all the thousands
of employees at the plant. One
group of employees, Field Oper-
ations (61), had garnered more
than $300 even before the cam-
paign officially opened.
The first monthly club meeting
arranged by the new administra-
tion was held in the Convair FW
cafeteria Jan. 22, with 403 mem-
bers present for the dinner and
program.
Status of work at the Ft.
Worth division and prospects for
the future were discussed briefly
by Ray O. Ryan, division man-
ager.
Installation of new officers
was under the direction of J. R.
Lock, Convair FW club member
who is also regional vice presi-
dent of the National Association
of Foremen.
Officers installed were—Keith,
president; C. Houp and F. G.
Bramlett, vice presidents; Bob
Vollmer, recording secretary; J.
J. Minton, corresponding secre-
tary; B. C. Simmons, treasurer,
and the following board of con-
trol members: C. M. McCulloh,
R. D. Knowles, H. Counts, J. F.
Ringo and M. E. Caraway.
Convair kept up its winning
record by defeating Burleson
Jan. 21 in a non-league game by
a 57-to-31 score.
Tomorrow night (Feb. 3), the
Bombers will meet the Adams
Mattress team in the first game
of the second half of the Indus-
trial League tournament. The
game starts at 9:30 p.m., in the
north side recreation hall.
THEATRICAL POSE—Hunter
E. Gardner, Convair FW former
actor, producer and director,
shown in a dramatic pose for a
stage portrait made during his
last road show, "Ten Little In-
dians," in 1947.
Convair FW Training
Schedule to Begin
The spring session of the Con-
vair FW Training School will
open next week with a class
scheduled to begin Monday, Feb.
7, in “Advanced Aerodynamics.”
Others, including “Blueprint
Reading Fundamentals,” “Ad-
vanced Blueprint Reading,” “B-
36 Familiarization,” “Aircraft
Electricity,” and “Aircraft Hy-
draulics,” will start the following
week.
With the exception of “Ad-
vanced Aerodynamics,” all the
classes will be held in the Con-
vair FW Personnel bldg., for the
convenience of employees. “Ad-
vanced Aerodynamics” will hold
meetings in room 14 of the Edu-
cation section.
Duration of the classes will be
I2V2 weeks, with two meetings
a week. An enrollment fee of $5
will be made for each course
with textbooks furnished free.
Instructors will be qualified Con-
vair supervisors and engineers,
and all material used will be di-
rectly applicable to work as car-
ried on in the plant.
For times and schedules of
classes, see page 2, log book
entries. Any additional informa-
tion may be secured from the
Education section, Ext. 5245.
Two Perfect Shots
Two Convair FW golfers, Law-
rence Armstrong, Traffic (20-2),
and Marvin Messersmith, Plant
Engineering (25-2), both made
holes-in-one at Meadowbrook golf
course in January.
Armstrong scored his shot on
the 135-yard eighth hole while
playing with J. T. Tyler, Joe
Doggett, Raymond Hart and Bill
Eastland. Messersmith made his
hole-in-one on the 142 - yard
fourth hole. He was playing with
his brother Larry, Aaron Colvin
and Jack Baldridge.
Former Actor Turns
From Footlights to
Production of B-36
How does B-36 production
stack up in the eyes of a Con-
vair FW man intimately familiar
for many years with another
type of production—the legiti-
mate theater, in which he has
been associated with such famous
personages as Ethel Barrymore,
Gloria Swanson, Fay Wray, Jane
Cowl, Nazimova and others?
“Tops!” says Hunter Gardner,
Convair FW Material (4-1).
Gardner, a former actor, pro-
ducer and director, has played
in productions starring all these
famous stage actresses during a
long career in the theater. And
behind the footlights he has
played with such actors as Jim-
my Stewart, Van Heflin, and
Cesar Romero.
And what does he think of
the production of the B-36?
“What we’re doing out here
so far surpasses anything,
even those super-dupers of
Cecil de Mille, that the word
‘dramatic’ takes on an entirely
new meaning.”
Gardner, who is a native of
Ft. Worth, was educated at
Western Military Academy, and
Texas A. & M., after attending
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. He and his sister organ-
ized the first Little Theater in
Texas, staging their productions
in a barn converted into a thea-
ter by their mother, Mrs. Lotta
Carter Gardner. Gardner gained
experience working in the Little
Theater until 1929. During that
time he also taught dramatics at
Texas Christian University.
Then he “took to the road.”
The road included New York
City, with many Theater Guild,
Shubert and George Abbott suc-
cesses. Later he was director
and leading man of one of Amer-
ica’s most famous stock com-
panies — the Jessie Bonstelle
Company of Detroit — when it
gave command performances be-
fore King George V of England
and the late Franklin D. Roose-
velt.
But that’s all over now.
“I reached that conclusion
in the last war. They wouldn’t
let me ‘tote a gun,’ so I volun-
teered for a USO show to tour
Alaska and the Aleutians —
and there I had the best time
of my life.
“In that 50-below storm-bound
country, we played to the best
audiences in the world and flew
with the best pilots. When I got
back home, grease paint didn’t
seem so important to me any
more and I was tired of the
nerve-wracking theatrical life. I
found a more meaningful produc-
tion at the Convair plant, and
that’s where I want to be. Where
the greatest production—in real
life—is taking place.”
Lunchtime Movies
Under Way at FW
Lunch-time movies under the
joint sponsorship of the Educa-
tion and Safety sections were in-
augurated for Convair FW folks
Jan. 11.
The new entertainment, if suc-
cessful, will be a regular Tues-
dany and Thursday lunch-time
event.
NEITHER RAIN NOR SLEET . . . —Despite freezing rain, these members of Convair FW
Foremen's Club hit downtown streets Jan. 24 in opening round of week-long collection on behalf
of March of Dimes campaign. Group of 150 members participated under direction of C. B,
Llewellyn (extreme right), club's civic service committee chairman.
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