Convairiety, Volume 12, Number 14, July 8, 1959 Page: 4 of 8
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CONVAIRIETY
Wednesday, July 8, 1959
LOVELY—Holley Susens, 17, daughter of Fort Worth's William
Susens, was crowned "Miss CRA Health Club" recently. She is
senior at Amon Carter Riverside High and top English student and
drum majorette.
Convair Nomenclature Changed
For Internal Communications
A number of changes in nomen-
clature to be used in Convair
internal communication were an-
nounced last month in Convair
Notice No. 81.
These changes will be incor-
porated into all practices, notices
and manuals, as revisions are be-
ing made. However, for the pres-
ent the titles themselves of Di-
vision Standard Practices and
other presently named existing
manuals will not be changed. An
exception will be the Convair
Management Manual, which will
now be called the “Convair Super-
visory Manual.”
Changes listed are:
“Corporation” or “Corporate”
will be used to refer to General
Dynamics Corporation. The term
“company” will not be used in
referring to either Convair or
General Dynamics Corporation.
“General Offices” (or “Convair-
General Offices”) will be used to
refer to Convair’s top manage-
ment offices.
“Operating division” will be
used to refer to any one of the
Crash Rescue
Talks Popular
J. A. Hitch, Convair SD tech-
nical representative at George
AFB, Calif., is responsible for in-
troduction of a program on crash
rescue which is proving popular
with civic and military groups
in the area.
So far he has given the talks
to 16 organizations, including
fire departments, local and state
police, California and U.S. For-
estry Service, George AFB, Nel-
lis AFB, March AFB, and Marine
Corps Base at Barstow. Other
groups are asking for similar
programs.
Points covered are normal en-
try into the F-102A cockpit,
emergency entry, release of pilot
from seat belt, removal of pilot
to prevent personal injury, gen-
eral layout of the F-102A with
emphasis on fuel location and
armament, chemicals for use in
aircraft fires, best approach to
aircraft for fire trucks and per-
sonnel.
Accompanying Hitch on his
presentations have been person-
nel of the 329th Fighter-Inter-
ceptor Squadron.
five major operating facilities of
Convair.
Position titles in internal com-
munications will refer to titles
of Convair positions, unless other-
wise specified.
“Convair (or General Offices)
Executive” and “Convair (or
General Offices) Staff Execu-
tive” will be used to identify
personnel having titles as defined
in CSP 10-2.
“Manager” will be used to re-
fer to the manager or Convair
Executive in charge of an op-
erating division, e.g., “Vice Presi-
dent and Manager Convair-Po-
mona,” etc.
As mentioned above, “Convair
Supervisory Manual” will refer
to the booklet formerly known as
the “Convair Management Man-
ual.”
“Convair Notice” will refer to
Convair’s system of announce-
ments at the General Offices
level.
At the operating division level,
Convair’s system of announce-
ments (formerly “Division No-
tices”) will be titled as follows:
“Convair-Pomona Notice,” etc.
“Division Standard Practice”
will continue to be used to refer to
Convair’s standard practice sys-
tem at the operating division
level. At a time at each operat-
ing division when it is practical
to convert the titles of DSPs to
operating division Standard Prac-
tices, the titles to be used will
be: “Convair-Pomona Standard
Practices,” etc.
Other Convair manuals con-
taining the words “Corporate” or
“Division” in the title will be
converted by using “Convair” at
the General Offices level and
“Convair-Pomona,” etc., respec-
tively, at the operating division
level. This conversion will be
made as these manuals are re-
vised under normal procedures.
“The phrase “among (or be-
tween) operating divisions” will
be used instead of “inter-divi-
sion.”
The phrase “within Convair”
will be used instead of “intra-
company.”
The phrase “within Convair-
Pomona,” etc., will be used in-
stead of “intra-division.”
Instructions concerning nomen-
clature to be used in external
communications will be issued at
a later date, the Convair Notice
stated.
Cataloging of Divisions' Resources
Seen as Step in Overall Reliability
Reliability requirements for
weapon systems will have a far-
reaching effect throughout Gen-
eral Dynamics Corporation, Dr.
A. M. Small of Convair San Diego
told representatives at a recent
corporate reliability panel at
Stromberg-Carlson in Rochester.
Dr. Small, staff specialist in
engineering, gave a synopsis on
reliability specification contents,
then led an open discussion of
what must be done.
Convair Fort Worth’s J. Y. Mc-
Clure, manager of quality con-
trol and chairman of the panel,
discussed the reliability resources
manual.
He pointed out that cata-
loging all corporation resources
by division will help in handling
overall reliability programs. This
will show special capabilities of
Subcontractors
Get 880 Data
Latest material on the Convair
San Diego 880 jet transport com-
piled and developed for custom-
ers by SD transport service per-
sonnel is being incorporated in
training courses given by subcon-
tractors in other parts of the
country.
To give 880 customers the same
material with the same approach,
said Don Maxion, regional field
representative (Dept. 15-4), in-
terchange of information has
been effected between Convair SD
and manufacturers of 880 com-
ponents. For instance, text and
diagrams compiled by Harry Ed-
dis, Ed Buckman, and Bob Fitz-
gerald of Convair SD are being
used intact in courses on the
880’s electrical systems given by
General Electric Co. at Waynes-
boro, Va.
Several instructor personnel of
the G. E. engine school at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, headed by E. J.
Goetz Jr., supervisor of publica-
tions and training, were at Con-
vair SD in June for the second
80-hr. course to be given a G. E.
group. Information covered in-
stallation of the CJ-805-3 engine,
engine build-up and systems
which receive operating power
from the G. E. engine.
Nuclear Plane
Parley Held
Members of the Scientific Ad-
visory Committee to the Chief of
Staff of the U. S. Air Force
conferred at Convair Fort Worth
June 26 on the nuclear powered
aircraft program.
Convair Fort Worth was chosen
by the Air Force in March to de-
sign the nation’s first atomic
powered airplane.
The committee of 13 members
is headed by Courtland D. Per-
kins, chairman, and Colonel Clyde
D. Gasser, USAF, secretary. Ro-
bert A. Widmer, Convair Fort
Worth’s chief engineer, is a con-
sultant to the committee.
The group came to Fort Worth
from Cincinnati, Ohio, headquar-
ters of General Electric’s nuclear
engine project. G. E. is teamed
with Convair on the project and
has the job of building the atomic
powerplant.
each division and make it possible
for one division to call upon an-
other for help.
Progress in Convair Fort
RELIABILITY—Studying agen-
da for reliability panel meeting
recently in Rochester are: left to
right, J. Y. McClure, Convair
FW, panel chairman; John J.
Riordan, of Office of Assistant
Secretary of Defense; L. B. Rich-
ardson, senior vice president of
General Dynamics.
Only two of the 20 nurses who
watch over Convair San Diego
people are entitled to sport the
same type of perky headgear.
Nineteen different styles of
caps, ranging from fluffy or-
gandy to tailored stiffly-starched
linen, some with large points,
small points, black velvet stripes,
are worn by Convair SD’s effi-
cient corps of nurses.
Designating the school from
which each girl has been gradu-
ated, the only two who finished
from the same hospital—and
thereby wear the same kind of
caps—are Jeanette George at
Plant 1 and Ida Hunt at Plant
2. They both took their training
from Ancker Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing at St. Paul,
Minn.
“Our nurses have come to us
from 14 different states, from
Washington to Florida and from
California to New York,” said
Frances Collier, head nurse who
is a graduate of St. Mary’s Hos-
pital School of Nursing, Kansas
City, Mo.
“And, though they have been
trained by as many different
schools as there are nurses, every
one of ours is extremely well
qualified for the specialized in-
dustrial work. The same high
standards of nursing are main-
tained at Convair as at any hos-
pital with the same code of ethics
observed,” she continued.
In fact, as Mrs. Collier pointed
out, nurses at Convair SD must
have a diversified training to be
able to handle the different types
of work required including X-ray,
laboratory work, physiotherapy,
Worth’s reliability program was
reported by Dr. N. H. Simpson,
chief of reliability programming.
He told of the B-58 program, the
approach to the problem and gave
results with illustrative charts.
Qualification testing was dis-
cussed by Convair Pomona’s T.
A. Vogel who emphasized that
Convair’s work in this field is
advanced.
An “interchange of data” plan
was proposed by Vogel. He
pointed out that test results could
be exchanged among divisions.
Others on the program included
Canadair’s A. B. Oxley, G. R.
Hauser of Convair Fort Worth, H.
F. Eppenstein of Convair Astro-
nautics, L. B. Richardson, senior
vice president of engineering for
General Dynamics Corporation,
and R. G. Schimpf, chief engi-
neer, Micronics Division, Elgin
Watch Co.
Also, D. R. Archibald of Con-
vair Astronautics, S. M. Truex,
office of maintenance engineer-
ing and Assistant Secretary of
Defense, and J. J. Riordan, staff
director for inspection and qual-
ity control, office of the Assist-
ant Secretary of Defense.
Other Convair Fort Worth peo-
ple attending were J. M. Murphy
of the electronics design group
and J. L. Coburn, chief of relia-
bility vendor coordination.
Next panel meeting will be in
September at Astronautics.
physical exams for hazardous
work, in addition to first aid in
emergency cases.
Besides Mrs. Collier, nine
nurses are assigned to SD Plant
1 while seven are at Plant 2, and
two stationed at Rose Conyon.
One, Georgette Horton, divides
her time between Plant 1 and
Plant 2 on the third shift.
Dorothy Chesler, assistant head
nurse, has been at Convair SD
the longest consecutive period of
time, having joined the company
in July, 1942. Mrs. Collier also
has been with Convair SD since
1942 but has not been here the
entire time.
Atlas Missile
Goes to Paris
A 52-ton Atlas missile recently
crossed the Atlantic for the first
time to make its European debut
at an air show June 12-21 in
Paris.
Dismantled into major sections,
the Atlas was flown to Europe
aboard a giant C-133 cargo plane,
departing from Westover AFB,
Mass, and arriving at Le Bourget
Airport in Paris.
The huge intercontinental bal-
listic missile was part of a U. S.
Air Force display at the 23rd an-
nual International Air Show in
Paris. Thirteen nations, including
the Soviet Union, had exhibits.
The same Atlas has also ap-
peared in exhibitions in Dallas
and Las Vegas. It has been modi-
fied to allow visitors to walk in-
side the base.
All Different
'Old School' Caps Are Various
Among Nurses at Convair SD
CAPPED CIRCLE—Clockwise, Convair SD nurses, Jeanette George, Evelyn Carson, Dorothy Scriv-
ener, Helen Werdelman, Olga Fort, and (in center) Frances Collier, show different styles of nurse's
caps, each representing a different school for universal identification. Nineteen schools are repre-
sented by Convair SD nurses.
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