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Wednesday, February 19, 1958
CONVAIRIETY
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KEEPING FIT—Lee Schneider uses inclined board in well-equip-
ped CRA weight lifting room to strengthen stomach muscles. At
left is Lee's father, G. D. Schneider of Dept. 7-2.
More Than 480 Members Make
Weight Lifting Biggest Activity
An ever-increasing number of
Convair Fort Worth people are
finding that the way to keep
Activities
Calendar. . .
Fort Worth
ART—E. D. Weimer, commissioner, ext.
5205. Class each Thursday, 7:30 p.m.,
Art Center.
ASTRONOMY—A. E. Gilligan, com-
missioner, ext. 2177. Lecture meeting Feb-
ruary 19, 8:30 p.m.; descriptive astronomy,
Wednesdays, 7 p.m., CRA Building.
BADMINTON—H. R. Harrison, com-
missioner, Annex 1, ext. 32. Play Thurs-
days, 7:30 p.m., Stripling Jr. High.
BASEBALL—L. L. Jarl, commissioner,
ext. 4250. Departmental tournament begins
in April. Registration through March 14;
entry deadline, March 19, CRA office.
BOATING—B. T. Frost, commissioner,
ext. 3160. Business meeting February 19,
CRA Building.
BRIDGE—G. P. Anderson, commissioner,
ext. 3226. Duplicate sessions: Fridays,
7:45 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.; CRA
Building.
CAMERA—Miles Rogers, commissioner,
ext. 2294. Bi-monthly color contest, Feb-
ruary 26, 7:30 p.m., CRA Building.
CHESS—R. W. Wooten, commissioner,
Annex 2, ext. 302. Monthly meetings: first
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; third Sunday, 1
p.m., CRA Building.
DRAMA—E. S. Brown, commissioner,
ext. 5242. February 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7
and 8, “Reclining Figure,” CRA Play-
house.
MODEL AIRPLANE—E. E. Scott, com-
missioner, ext. 5141. Special meeting Feb-
ruary 25, 7:30 p.m., CRA Building.
MOVIES—Feb. 24-28, “Go, Man Go”
with the Harlem Globetrotters; Mar. 3-7,
“Paratrooper” (color) with Alan Ladd.
Shown lunch period, 50-foot aisle.
RADIO—Max Schelper, commissioner,
ext. 2186. Business meeting February 25;
operating night, February 27 and March 6,
7:30 p.m., CRA Building.
RIDING—Rent horses available at CRA
ranch area.
SQUARE DANCING — Ross Carney,
commissioner, ext. 5115. Classes each
Thursday: beginners 7-8:15 p.m.; advanced
8:15-9:45 p.m., CRA Building.
STAMP AND COIN—J. M. Frost, act-
ing commissioner, ext. 7190, 7198. Mixture
picking, March 4, 8 p.m., CRA Building.
TABLE TENNIS—C. G. Barton, com-
missioner, ext. 2294. Tournament Feb-
ruary 22, Sycamore Rec. Building.
VOLLEYBALL—A. J. D’Ascenzo, com-
missioner, ext. 4127. Play Mondays, 7-10
p.m., Southside Rec. Building.
WOMEN’S CLUB — Winnie Leonard,
commissioner, ext. 5201, first shift: meeting
book review, March 5, 8 p.m. Mary Smith,
commissioner, ext. 4221, second shift: lec-
ture meeting, February 26, 10 a.m., CRA
Building.
Daingerfield
BRIDGE—J. R. Nazzal, commissioner,
ext. 481. Party bridge second and fourth
Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. See bulletin board
for locations.
TENNIS—J. R. Nazzal, commissioner,
ext. 481. Practice for spring tournament
begins Sunday, March 1, 2 p.m., Dainger-
field High School courts. Club practice
each Sunday in March 2 p.m. For details
of daily work-outs see commissioner.
healthy is through regular parti-
cipation in CRA’s booming weight
lifting activity.
More than 480 people are sign-
ed members in the activity, CRA’s
largest membership group. Mem-
bers have access to the well-
equipped club room in the CRA
area.
The club plans a spring lifting
contest as one of its big events
in April. Entertainment will be
featured at the event, with other
details to be announced.
Meanwhile, Commissioner I. B.
Hale reminds members that
weight lifting eligibility cards
will be due for renewal not later
than March 31. Renewal cards
will be available at the CRA of-
fice after March 3.
Renewal fee is $1. All receipts
from membership cards is used
for purchase of new equipment.
Three Big Projects
Under Way at CRA
Crews at Convair Recreation
Area are at work on three major
projects — grading for tennis
courts, lights for softball-football-
soccer playing field, and the mini-
ature railroad ride.
Construction on two concrete
tennis courts just south of the
clubhouse is scheduled to begin
about mid-March, according to
Milt Stewart, CRA president. The
courts are due to be completed
by May 1.
The courts will be lighted
eventually, but will not get lights
for play this summer.
Fourteen 50-foot standards for
powerful lights are in place a-
round the huge playing field. The
lights are due to be operable by
the end of March, enabling CRA
softball leagues to play games
there.
Two softball fields and a com-
bination football-soccer area are
lighted by the system.
CRA’s miniature railroad is
taking shape as crews work on
the roadbed and reinforce em-
bankments with real crossties.
The train is due to operate on a
regular schedule this spring.
C. J. Hall, CRA manager, said
more than 1,500 crossties have
been used in construction in the
area. Most of the crossties are
donated by railroads.
GETTING IT READY—A crew at CRA area works on embank-
ments of miniature railroad below clubhouse. Ride for kiddies will
open on regular schedule this spring.
Model Group Calls
Control Line Session
People interested in control
line operations of the model air-
plane activity are invited to at-
tend a special meeting at 7:30
p.m. Feb. 25 at the CRA club-
house.
E. E. Scott, commissioner,
said the group will make plans
for summer contests, flying ses-
sions and special meets.
“We also invite anyone who
wants to learn control line oper-
ations,” Scott said.
Already planned for March is
a “rat race” contest. “In this
event ” Scott said, “you can
enter anything you have that
will fly. It gets pretty interest-
ing.
Baseball Entries
Due by March 19
Plant departments planning to
enter teams in CRA’s depart-
mental baseball tournament are
reminded to get entries to the
CRA office by March 19.
First game in the tournament
will be played on the new diamond
at the CRA area April 6. Sub-
sequent games will be on Satur-
day and Sunday afternoons,
“Employees have shown a lot of
interest in the tournament with
several teams already signed,”
said Roy Jarl, commissioner.
“People on the second shift also
should organize teams since
games are on weekends.”
Jarl said anyone within a de-
partment may organize a team,
providing at least nine members
of the maximum team roster are
employees of that department.
Entry blanks will be available at
the CRA office through next
week.
The tournament, sponsored pri-
marily for people who otherwise
might never get to play baseball,
is a departmental competition to
emphasize recreational values of
baseball rather than determina-
tion of a winner.”
Umpires and equipment will be
furnished for scheduled games,
but no practice equipment will be
available. Team and individual
trophies will go to the tournament
winner.
CRA Bowling Team
Wins City Honors
A CRA bowling team rolled a
team series of 2951 to take third
place in the Fort Worth Bowling
Association annual tournament
March 8.
High man was Tommy Pierce
with 597 pins. H. G. Starkey got
532; Tony Hren and Frank Gil-
feather, 511; and Jim Hren, 494.
Commissioner Starkey said
Convair will be represented by
five teams at the Southwestern
Bowling Tournament at Oklahoma
City March 8. The Convair teams
all will bowl on the 6 p.m. squad,
a memorial squad honoring Cliff
Galloway, late city association
secretary.
Hustlers Leading in
Women's Basketball
Hustlers appeared to be in as
champions of CRA Women’s bas-
ketball action after a five-game
record of four wins and a single
loss.
The championship was due to
be settled Feb. 17 when the Hust-
lers went against the Red Tops.
The game could send the two
teams into a playoff if Red Tops
win. Red Tops have won three,
lost two.
Tied with the Red Tops for
second place after five games are
the Globe Trippers. Trippers
probably will get a firm grip on
the second place spot should Hust-
lers win their next game. The
Trippers need only to win over
the winless Hot Shots.
In action Feb. 10, Trippers won
over Tops, 33-29, and Hustlers
downed the Hot Shots, 33-25.
Commissioner D. R. Cooper
complimented the women for their
great interest in the women’s bas-
ketball league.
PROPPED UP, NO JOKE—Everyone goes for ball as Props and
Jokers tangle in CRA league basketball action. Props won.
Props, Engineers Are Champs;
Now Try for City Basketball Title
Props and Engineers are
champs of the CRA and Convair
basketball leagues, and each of
the teams is now playing for
the city championship in Fort
Worth’s annual city tournament.
Nuclides and Bombers also are
seeing action in the city event,
which can lead to the city cham-
pionship and representation in
the state tournament to be held in
Fort Worth March 7-8.
Basketball action was cut short
because of complications arising
over the city being host to the
state event.
Engineers breezed through Con-
vair league play without a loss,
defeating second-place Snowbirds,
41-26, to leave no doubt. Engi-
neers then won their first contest
in city tournament play, 65-26,
over Texas Electric Service Com-
pany construction.
“I believe the Engineers have
the skill to win the city class B
championship,” said D. R. Cooper,
commissioner. The team plays
The Plumbers at 8:30 p.m. today
(Feb. 19) at Sycamore Recrea-
tion. Plumbers won their first
game over Vandervoorts, 26-23.
Props came out on top in CRA
league play by downing Flight
Test in a playoff. The teams had
lost one game each — to each
other.
Props lost their first tourna-
ment encounter, 36-34, to Texas
Electric Accounting. The loss
sent Props to the losers bracket in
the double elimination city tour-
nament. They play T&P recrea-
tion at 8:30 p.m. today (Feb. 19)
at Riverside Recreation.
Nuclides, second-place team in
Industrial League play, lost to
Sampley’s Cleaners 71-54, in
their first tournament action. Nu-
clides now goes to the loser’s
bracket.
Bombers, third-place team in
Major City League, won over
Burleson Feed, 82-48, in their
first tournament outing.
“With a little luck, we can win
the tournament,” said Cooper.
“All our losses in Major City
play were by very few points.”
Cooper also manages the Bomb-
ers.
Should Nuclides or Bombers
win the tournament, they will re-
present Fort Worth in the state
tournament.
EVERYTHING THAT GOES UP—Globe Trippers and Hot Shots
make like ballerinas as they wait for ball to come down during
women's league basketball action.
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