Convairiety, Volume 2, Number 12, June 8, 1949 Page: 2 of 8
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CONVAIRIETY
June 8, 1949
Published every other Wednesday by Convair’s Industrial Relations Department,
Employee Activities Section, Eldon Frye, manager; Logan Jenkins, editor. Con-
vairiety has three objectives:
Quicker Way To
Test Bomb Drop
Nets $345 at FW
Because he thought there
ought to be a quicker, easier
and cheaper way to test the
1. To help make Convair the best aircraft manufacturing company in the business.
2. To help make Convair the best place to work in the business.
3. To help make Convair personnel the best informed in the business.
Editorial offices, San Diego, building No. 7, Ext. 1071, 1072, Jeanne Dodds,
women’s editor. Ft. Worth editorial offices, Industrial Relations department, Ext.
5269, Bob Yollmer, editor, Jean Goggans, women’s editor.
Staff photographers: Otto Menge, Warren Kemmer and T. W. Fitch, San Diego;
Fred Carlile, C. P. Connally, Harold F. Dry, R. E. Slawson, Ft. Worth.
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SD Store Hours
Transfers
Following are store hours at Convair
SD:
SAFETY SUPPLY CRIB (north end
of building 7) open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
week days. Saf-ty shoes and prescrip-
tion glasses sold only from 8 :30 to 10 :30
and 3 to 5.
TOOL STORE (north end of building
7), open Mondays and Wednesdays 9
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, Thurs-
days and Fridays 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
EMPLOYEES’ SALVAGE STORE
(near gate 5 at north end of plant), 3
p.m. to 4:30 every Tuesday and 3 p.m.
to 5:30 every Thursday.
DOUBLE SURPRISE—One
day recently at SD Elaine Reid,
department clerk for Supt. John
Hopman, laid secret plans for a
surprise party to observe the
birthday of J. B. Torrance, L-13
and Version Proofing general
foreman. As it was her birthday,
too, Elaine was just a bit hurt
that no one even said “Happy
Birthday” to her. No one did
until the whistle blew and then
they did, plenty. For, while
Elaine was planning a surprise
party for Torrance, Torrance and
the rest of the gang had been
doing the same for her!
BOSS TURNS TABLES—On
her last day at work at Convair
FW, Mildred Wilmoth, (7-1), is
waited on by her boss, W. E.
Magnuson, superintendent of
Fabrication departments (30 and
31), who serves her a fried
chicken lunch. The luncheon,
given by Mildred’s friends, was
in appreciation of her long ser-
vice at Convair FW—almost
$even years,
SAN DIEGO
The following were transferred from
San Diego to Ft. Worth effective June 6 :
Earl E. James, Jr., Edward D. P.ohn,
Dept. 6.
Promotions
FT. WORTH
The following were promoted to or
within supervision and professional and
administrative:
Dept. 6, Enginering: Joseph I. Concha
to aerodynamicist B; Richard Scott
Padgham to engineer designer B ; Will
A. Ransom to engineer designer B ;
James Reid Vaughan to engineer de-
signer B; Orville A. Hall to field ser-
vice representative C.
Dept. 7, Works Manager’s Office: Wil-
liam H. Govett to superintendent.
Dept. 9, Accounting: Donald Earl
Ransom to general supervisor ; James E.
Dering to general supervisor; A. C.
Martinson to general supervisor; W. D.
Strong to supervisor.
Dept. 12, Flight: B. A. Erickson to
manager of flight.
Dept. 43, Bomb Bay: L. M. Mayfield
to general foreman.
SAN DIEGO
Dept. 6, N. H. Dorn to aerodynamicist
A effective May 16.
Service Pins
SAN DIEGO
The following received service pins
during the period May 24 to June 6 :
Fifteen-year pins: F. J. O’Connor,
Dept. 4; L. O. Cederwall, Dept. 6 ; Leo
Budzynski, Dept. 24.
Ten-year pins: E. R. Wiles, Dept. 5;
C. E. Edenfield, Sr., L. A. Pfankuch,
R. H. Robbins, E. J. Saville, H. D.
Vander Putten, Dept. 6 ; J. V. Bodien,
Dept. 124; F. C. Buzzalli, Dept. 330.
Five-year pins: Kathryn J. Scoggins,
Dept. 1-11 ; E. W. Sutton. Dept. 3 ; O. G.
Downs, Dept. 9 ; Lois I. Gillies, Dept. 22 ;
•T. A. Blessing, Dept. 23 ; LaVon O.
Rainer, Dept. 31 ; W. H. Roe, Dept. 245 ;
J. J. McFarland, Dept. 270 ; H. F. Blake-
ly, June W. Fennell, Dept. 335.
FT. WORTH
The following received five-year ser-
vice pins during the period May 13
through May 26 :
E. M. Brown, P. D. Chilton, Dept. 6 :
J. B. Nesmith, Dept. 11 ; E. D. Dearson,
Dept. 14; E. F. Smitherman, A. C
Stiles, Dept. 20 ; W. O. McCollum, M. F.
Giersch, W. N. Salyer, Dept. 22 ; E. B.
Gregg, L. Jones, S. Baxter, Dept. 25.
•J. M. Nichols, Dept. 27 ; F. E. Hutto,
Dept. 31 ; D. W. Broom, J. D. Bradley,
Dept. 43 ; T. O. Jennings, E. P. Mason,
A. Dale. Wilton White, P. N. Cohen,
C. A. Potter, L. M. Melton, W. C.
Blevins, Dept. 44 ; A. E. Nix, J. L. Rich-
ardson, J. L. Hughes, C. R. Cantrell,
Dept. 45 ; E D.. Mullennix, Dept. 46 ;
W. A. Pearson, W. P. Wiethorn, W. E.
Peacock, J. L. Weddle, Dept. 50.
P. V. Kelley, C. E. Elliott, E. D.
Black, E. T. Westmoreland, J. D. Mc-
Mahan Jr., W. K. Andress, Dept. 61 ;
L. R. Kerns, Dept. 73 ; E. R. Muncy,
Dept. 81 : F. Morris, Dept. 82.
Awards
SAN DIEGO
The following received employee sug-
gestion awards totaling $48 for the
period ending May 26 :
R. K. Munn, Dept. 22 ; J. R. Brown,
Dept. 26; R. J. Roy, Dept. 115; J. A.
O'Conner, Jr., Dept., 232 ; G. Tahan.
Dept. 235 ; C. E. Birch, Dept. 270.
Births
SAN DIEGO
CONNOR—Daughter, Judy, 8 lbs.,
born May 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry C.
Connor, Dept. 24.
HONG—Daughter, Marilee Kim, 7 lbs.
6 oz., born May 9. to Mr. and Mrs. Y.
Kim Hong, Dept. 130.
SWEET—Daughter, Mary Teresa, 6
lbs. 7 oz., born May 16, to Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas E. Sweet, Dept. 24.
FT. WORTH
CLANTON—Son, Bobby Ray, 8 lbs. 2
oz., born May 23 to Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Clanton, Dept. 61.
ROBERTS—Daughter, Robin Lynn, 8
lbs. 15 oz., born May 14 to Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Roberts, Dept. 30.
SISK—Son, Arvil Ernest, 8 lbs. 12 oz.,
born May 12 to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sisk,
Dept. 27-5.
Hitchhikers
FT. WORTH
H. J. Borgeld desires ride or car pool
to and from 3805 Fitzhugh, 7:30 a.m.,
4:15 p.m. Ext. 2153.
E. S. Box, Dept. 47, needs ride to and
from work, from 3318 Avenue E, 7 a.m.,
3:45 p.m. Ext. 5216.
INSPECTION MAN WEDS
M. A. Halstead, Convair FW
Inspection (27-0), was married
May 7 to Miss Elsie King of San
Angelo. The double-ring cere-
mony was performed at the home
of the bridegroom’s mother, Mrs.
Dorothy Halstead. The couple
is now at home at 201 Galveston.
complex and intricate elec-
trical wiring on the Convair
B-36’s bomb-dropping system,
and because he took the trouble
to figure it out, one Convair FW
employee is going to have $345
he hadn’t counted on.
He is Willis D. McClure, of
Field Operations (61), who was
one of a crew of men who had
been spending days on each B-36
produced to learn if one particu-
lar bomb-dropping system was
properly installed.
To accomplish this, they had to
install the bomb-racks, turn on
the ship’s electrical power sys-
tem, then operate the bomb re-
leases as they would be operated
in actual bomb-dropping, after
which the bomb racks had to be
removed again.
McClure had an idea there
ought to be a better way. He
reasoned that since they needed
only to know if the circuits were
properly hooked up, he could
eliminate installation of the bomb
racks and slings if he had a test
box on which lights would flash
to indicate proper circuit connec-
tions when bomb-dropping
switches were thrown.
He wrote his idea on an Em-
ployee Suggestion form such as
are found in the familiar red,
white and blue boxes throughout
the plant.
Under direction of Walter
Bradley, of Industrial Engineer-
ing (8-1), engineers made a study
of the operation as it was set up ;
then, and compared it to Mc-
Clure’s proposal.
They found that the test took
an average of 210 hours—or the
equivalent of one man working
26 days. They figured that under
McClure’s plan, that time could
be reduced considerably. So they
arranged to build such a test box
as McClure had suggested.
Soundness of the aircraft
mechanic’s idea was proven when
tests showed that the same test
could be accomplished with the
test box in only one and one-half
hours.
That not only reduces produc-
tion time, but also results in sav-
ings of several thousand dollars
each year.
After study of the results ob-
tained from McClure’s proposal,
the Employee Suggestion com-
mittee recommended that he be
awarded $172.50 now, and an ad-
ditional $172.50 in six months if
the testing system is still in use,
a total of $345.
McClure’s award is the largest
thus far in 1949 at FW, and is
his first effort in making an
employee suggestion. Thus far,
186 such awards have been made
in 1949 for a total of almost
$3,500.
Two of the most substantial
awards recently went to C. W.
Fowler, of Production Control
(22-1), who received $160 for a
new method of preparing and re-
leasing the manufacturing parts
list, and L. F. Perkins, of Mater-
ial (4-1), who devised a new and
less expensive method of
handling the material code book.
FW Engineers Hold
'Eagle Nest' Picnic
Convair FW Industrial Engi-
neering Personnel (Dept. 8), were
scheduled to picnic at the “Eagle
Nest,” on Eagle Mountain Lake,
Saturday, June 4.
Industrial Engineering super-
vision were hosts at the party.
Entertainment planned included
speed boating, swimming, danc-
ing, fishing and tennis.
TIME AND MONEY SAVER—Willis D. McClure, of Convair FW
Field Operations (61), demonstrates electrical test box which he
suggested and which won him $345 due to time and money saved
in testing B-36 bomb-dropping system.
SCENES AT DANCE—Nylon hose, no less! Young ladies in
lower photo try on hose won as door prizes at dance last month
given by supervision for all Major Assembly departments at FW
(43, 44, 45, 46) at Lake Worth Casino. Upper picture shows dance
floor.
WISE MEN—Pictured outside the safety office at Convair SD
is E. R. Nielsen (Dept. 245), who recently joined the ranks of the
wise who protected their eyes with safety glasses. Nielsen’s glasses
were broken (but he was unhurt) when a bit fragment from an
electric drill struck the lens.
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Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation. Convairiety, Volume 2, Number 12, June 8, 1949, periodical, June 8, 1949; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118038/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth.