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CONVAIRIETY
December 17, 1952
CONTACT!—One of first sets donated by Con-Trib-Club at
San Diego to Vauclain Home is tried out for patient Le Nore
Connett, left, by committee members Gladys Story and William
Ebei.
Donation From Con-Trib-Club at San Diego
Buys Television Sets for Vauclain Home
Thanks to a contribution from
San Diego’s Con-Trib-Club, every
ward at the Vauclain Home in
San Diego now has a television
set.
Six sets were presented to the
institution recently, completing
TV coverage for tuberculosis pa-
tients there. The presentation
was made by Mrs. Gladys Story
and William Ebel. Mrs. Story is
one of the I.A.M. representatives
on Con - Trib - Club’s governing
committee and Ebel is one of the
E.A.A. representatives. The sets,
each one of which carries a
plaque reading “Presented by
Convair Employees Through Con-
Trib-Club,” represent an outlay
of approximately $1,200.
Con - Trib - Club committee ex-
plained that regulations of the
National Tuberculosis Association
prevent a direct donation of funds
and so the committee resorted to
the gift as a means of achieving
the club’s purpose and still com-
plying with association policy.
Other charitable organizations,
such as the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis and the
Crippled Children’s Society, also
cannot accept funds directly from
Con-Trib-Club, and therefore the
committee indicated it is explor-
ing means by which gifts of
equipment or services can be
made to them.
The gift to Vauclain Home is
the latest disbursement of funds
by the San Diego club which will
be six months old Jan. 2. Others
include a pledge of approximately
$50,000 to Community Chest
funds in the San Diego area.
SPOT MAP-^-Mrs, Irene McCall of Tarrant County Tuberculosis
Medical Society checks spot map showing incidence of‘illness and
deaths from tuberculosis. County has more than 800 known cases.
Con-Trib-Club funds aid this work.
Funds from Fort Worth's Con-Trib-Club Add
New Member to Tuberculosis Society Staff
Con-Trib-C 1 u b b e r s at Fort
Worth who have been curious
about the way their donations
are used by recipient agencies
will be gratified by a recent re-
port from the Fort-Worth-Tar-
rant County Tuberculosis Society.
This agency, one of the 38
local groups partially supported
by Convair employees’ Con-Trib-
Club funds, has been able to em-
ploy a much-needed trained staff
member — thanks to Con-Trib-
Club.
She is Miss Inger C. Claney, a
medical social worker, .whose of-
fice is in City-County Hospital.
Her services are available to tu-
burculosis patients and members
of their families, physicians and
agencies which deal with tuber-
culosis patients. A graduate of
the University of Chicago School
of Social Service, Miss Claney has
had 10 years’ experience in her
field. She also holds a degree
from Beloit College, Wis.
Unlike others who are primar-
ily concerned with locating and
treating the illness, Miss Claney
deals with the emotional and
psychological aspects of the ill-
ness.
“Even today, some people feel
it’s a shame and disgrace to have
tuberculosis,” she explains. “Then
we must convince them that such
ideas are absurd and that the
intelligent thing to do is to get
proper care to cure the illness.”
Once treatment is begun, Miss
Claney keeps in constant touch
with these patients to offer re-
assurance. Her work does not end
there, however. After a patient
has recovered sufficiently to re-
turn home, she helps to rehabili-
tate him, even assisting in find-
ing work.
With more than 800 known
cases of tuberculosis in the coun-
ty, Miss Claney doesn’t worry
from lack of work.
Many Convair FW employees
have benefited directly from an-
other undertaking — the mass
chest X-ray program. Early this
year 2,620 employees were X-
rayed when the mobile unit was
stationed here at the plant.
High School Peeking Into Forbidden'
Book Wins $600 Prizes for SD Wife
believe that I had actually won
the contest until the range was
delivered,” Mrs. Nipper says.
“I’ve been saving money peri-
odically for years to buy a new
stove, but I always spent it on
something else!
“The night I entered the con-
test — even before I knew the
right answer — I announced to
my husband that I was through
saving for a lange and that I
was going to win one. No one
was more surprised than I when
I actually did.”
Gift Exchange at FW
Will Open on Dec. 22
A high school hobby of reading
“forbidden” literature plus an ac-
curate memory and a midnight
ride to the post office shared
credit for earning Mrs. Frances
Nipper (wife of F. H. Nipper,
Dept. 225 at Convair SD) $600
in prizes last month.
Mrs. Nipper, a former Convair
employee herself, won the prizes
by correctly identifying the “mys-
tery lady” in a Los Angeles tele-
vision contest. The gifts included
an automatic gas kitchen range,
a sewing machine, a wrist watch,
an electric clock, a table lamp,
and several other smaller items.
“After listening to ‘clues’ on
the program for six weeks, I
suddenly realized that I knew
the answer. It was Lily Mars,
main character in Booth Tarking-
ton’s book, ‘Presenting Lily
JACKPOT—Fred Nipper family of Convair SD look over loot
Mrs. Nipper's sharpness won in television wits contest. Daughter
Janet and son John are inspecting new stove.
Convair Man's Milifary Fight Song
Considered for Adoption by SAC
A stirring military fight song
written by Convair FW’s Jack
Morrow has caused considerable
comment at Carswell Air Force
Base, Tex., where it was pre-
viewed recently.
Air Force officials were so im-
pressed with the song that they
plan to have the Carswell AFB
Band cut a special recording of
the tune and submit it to Strate-
gic Air Command as a possible
SAC battle song.
The Carswell band presented
the song with a chorus at a fly-
ing safety meeting during No-
vember and immediately asked
Morrow for permission to submit
the song to SAC.
Morrow, who admits he just
dabbles in music as a hobby, has
given the song to the Air Force
“for whatever use they can make
of it.”
Written back in 1945 when
Morrow was a tech sergeant in
the Air Force, the original ver-
sion of the tune was presented
several times over the National
Broadcasting Company network
on the Army Hour.
The original title was “Fight-
ing Men Who Fly.”
“A few weeks ago I thought
about the tune and dug it out
of my files and rewrote the
lyrics,” Morrow says. “We sent
it along to the band at Carswell
for their comment.”
The band liked the tune and
arranged for the special presen-
tation at the flying safety meet-
ing. Morrow was a guest.
The words of the song are ap-
propriate for SAC since they are
about the Convair-built B-36,
backbone of the Strategic Air
Command’s power.
Morrow attended Central High
School in Tulsa and wrote a
school song that is still used
there.
He later studied music and
business management at Tulsa
University.
The song writer is quick to
add that his interest in music now
is confined to some choral club
directions, solos and church choir
work.
Morrow has been with Convair
for two years.
Convair FW employees inter-
ested in exchanging gifts with
fellow employees were reminded
this week by I. B. Hale, manager
of Industrial Security, of the gift
exchange service which opens
Dec. 22.
The exchange, located in the
north end of the Industrial Secur-
ity building, gate 6, will remain
open during the holiday week.
Employees may present their
gifts at the exchange and receive
numbered stubs. These stubs
may then be presented to the re-
cipient, who may pick up his gift
after work hours.
Vagaries of Travel
Balk Double Rites
Although a double wedding
failed to materialize recently for
two Convair SD Dept. 22
couples, they accomplished double
matrimony, anyhow.
Jan Cope and Les Craig and
Gloria Routh and Lee Russo,
traveling in different autos, had
intended to rendezvous for rites
at Yuma, Ariz., Nov. 30. Sepa-
rated en route, they were married
an hour apart by the same min-
ister.
Dept. 22 associates helped them
celebrate afterwards with gifts
and a three-tiered wedding cake.
All four newlyweds are members
of the CRA Swing Shift bowling
league.
Mars,’ ” Mrs. Nipper says.
“The program ended at 11 p.m.,
and we were on the way to the
post office with my answer with-
in 30 minutes. It’s a good thing,
too, because nine other people
also mailed in the correct answer,
and mine had the earliest post
mark—the deciding factor in the
contest.”
Mrs. Nipper said she was able
to recall “Presenting Lily Mars”
because the book was on the “not
to be issued to students” shelf
in her high school library.
“I was working part-time in
the library, and I couldn’t resist
peeking into those ‘forbidden’
books now and then,” Mrs. Nipper
recalls.
Mr. and Mrs. Nipper and their
children, John and Janet, ap-
peared on the television program
(“Ladies Always Win”) Nov. 28
to collect the prizes—all of them
except the range, which was de-
livered and installed last week.
“Even after I had collected the
other prizes, I found it hard to
Supt. F. II. McLaughlin (T-
29B Major Assembly) was doz-
ing near his television set
around 10:30 p.m. Nov. 28 when
he heard someone say “Consol-
idated Vultee Aircraft Corp.”
He awoke with a start, thought
he was having a realistic dream
when he saw Fred H. Nipper,
second shift foreman in one of
his departments, on the TY
screen.
Nipper, who ordinarily would
have been at work at that hour,
had taken the night off to drive
his wife to Los Angeles to col-
lect prizes she won in a TY
contest, and appeared on the
program with her.
AIEE Sub-Section
Considered at FW
Convair FW engineers who are
affiliated with the American In-
stitute of Electrical Engineers
were informed this month that a
plan is under way to form an
AIEE sub-section solely for mem-
bers of the aircraft industry in
the Fort Worth area.
Felix Quirino is serving as
acting chairman. Others from
the FW Division taking part are
Wayne Donovan and Jack Woods,
both of Dept. 6-4.
More than 130 engineers from
the Dallas-Fort Worth area at-
tended the recent AIEE meeting
which featured a talk by K. H.
Sueker of Westinghouse.
B-36 MUSIC—Brig. Gen. T. P. Gerrity, acting commanding
general of 19th Air Division, J. O. Morrow (Dept. 4 FW) and
T/Sgt. C. H. Erwin, assistant band director at Carswell AFB, look
over song about B-36 written by Morrow that will be considered
as possible Strategic Air Command song.
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