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Official Publication of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Fort Worth, Texas, Division
Vol. 2, No. 42
Thursday, February 17, 1944
Fcr? Worth, Texas
80 CVACWorkers Share $8,000
In First Work-to-Win Drawing
Manly, Shipley, and Moreland . . . happy winners
Convair Red Cross Quota
For 1944 Set at $100,000
Quota of the Fort Worth Division**'
of Consolidated Vultee for the 1944
Red Cross War Fund has been set
at $100,000, W. H. Wright, assist-
ant to the division manager, an-
nounced today.
Pledge cards will be distributed
to all employes Feb. 25 and 26, and
the official drive for contributions
in the plant will begin Feb. 28, con-
tinuing through March 3.
Departmental clerks and time-
keepers will act as the chief agents
°f the American Red Cross in the
’ant during the drive, and a meet-
; for representatives of these
v.rkers will be held ih the main
conference room in the Administra-
m building on Feb. 28. First shift
employes will meet at 9 a. m., while
Second shift workers will meet at
4:30 p. rn.
Contributions may be made either
in cash or by authorizing the com-
pany to deduct the desired amount
from the employe’s salary in one or
two installments. The contributions
will be deducted from wages on or
about Mar. 9.
Production Here
Praised by Harris
Brig. Gen. Ray G. Harris, super-
visor of the AAF Materiel Com-
mand’s Midwest Procurement Dis-
trict, today praised the recent pro-
duction accomplishments of the
Fort Worth Division in a message
to Convair Vice. President C. W.
Perelle.
General Harris wrote:
“Your organization has respond-
ed splendidly in meeting the crit-
ical needs of our fighting forces.
The total production goals for De-
cember and January were met in
your plant, an accomplishment that
brings credit to every worker in
the plant.
“Such an achievement can be ac-
complished only by close coopera-
tion of all concerned. This has
meant improved teamwork through-
out your organization. On behalf
of the Army Air Forces, I wish to
express our appreciation for a job
well done, and one that is an ex-
ample of how effectively the pro-
duction front can support the com-
bat front.
“With every wish for continued
successful production.”
Plant Protection Hits
Jackpot Three Times
As if to prove their supremacy in
the January War Bond ratings was
not just a fluke, Plant Protection
employes also ranked first in the
Fort Worth division in percentage
of employes eligible to participate
in Work-to-Win—75.7 per cent of
the department’s employes qualify-
ing.
Then, just to show that it all
wasn’t a coincidence, the first name
pulled last week in the Work-to-
Win drawing was that of E. K.
Plunkett, patrolman in Plant Pro-
tection, who snagged a $25 War
Bond._
Zimmer Here
V. C. Zimmer, Convair director
of Salvage, is a visitor here.
Wilson Named
Traffic Head
Appointment of William G. Wil-
son as superintendent of Traffic
for the Fort Worth Division was
announced this week by Works
Manager C. A. Sharpe coincident
with the revelation that all activ-
ities and personnel of the depart-
ment have been transferred from
Material department to the Works
Manager’s office.
Wilson, who first entered the
aircraft industry in 1917 and has
been stationed at Vultee Field,
Calif., since June 10, 1936, already
has assumed his new duties.
Ke has oeen chairman of Con-
solidated Vultee Aircraft Corpora-
tion’s Traffic Managers Conference
since its inception; chairman of the
Western Regional Traffic Section
of the Aeronautical Chamber of
Commerce, which he is regarded as
having brought into being to assist
in the over-all traffic matters of
the aircraft industry; chairman of
the Aeronautics Committee of the
Los Angeles Traffic Managers’
Conference, as well as committee-
man of the Aeronautics Committee
of the National Industrial Traffic
League of America.
A native of Arkansas City, Kan.,
Wilson joined Curtis-Wright at
Buffalo prior to the start of World
War I, but left to enter the traffic
and transportation field overseas
for 13 months. After the war, he
completed his education at the Uni-
versity of Southern California
where he majored in transportation
and commerce. From 1924 until
1931 he was assistant manager of
the Harbor and Foreign Commerce
department of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce, leaving to
establish his own business—the Ex-
port Service Bureau and the World
Trading Corporation, both of Los
Angeles.
He was placed in charge of ex-
port shipping for Vultee Aircraft,
Inc., when it was a division of
Aviation Manufacturing Corpora-
tion, a position which later evolved
into that of traffic manager and
making Wilson the senior traffic
man in the Convair organization.
★ ★ ★
William G. Wilson
Full List of
Winners Given
Here is the complete list of the
80 winners in the first Work-to-
Win drawing:
$1,000 Award
D. G. Moreland, B-32 Fuselage.
$750 Awards
Lenora Lea Shipley, Fuselage
Nose, and M. F. Manly, Final As-
sembly.
$500 Awards
R. A. Brady, Intra-Plant Trans-
portation; J. T. Russell, Wing Ver-
ticals; and Elsworth Baird O’Toole,
Shipping.
$250 Awards
H. H. Beene, Final Assembly—
B-24; J. B. Braziel, General Ac-
counting; W. H. Perkins, Wing
Sub-Assembly; and Geneva Wilson
Fulfs, Final Assembly—B-24.
$100 Awards
R. F. Lay, Final Assembly—
B-24; T. L. Morrow, Final Assem-
bly—B-24; E. L. Weir, Jr., Final
Assembly—B-24; F. D. Holland,
Wing Sub-Assembly; Aurelia Wall
Blankenship, Fuselage Nose; G.
W. Chandler, Wing Sub-Assembly;
M. L. Barrow, Fuselage Nose; J.
Cislaghi, Wing Sub-Assembly; W.
P. Howard, Final Assembly—B-24;
and Tressie McElroy Perkins, Fuse-
lage Sub-Assembly.
$50 Awards
H. A. Harris, Engine & Props—
Final Assembly; F. E. Everett,
Final Assembly—Quality Control;
V. E. Matney, Fuselage Nose; Mrs.
Willie Oliver White, Miscellaneous
Parts; Eunice Roe Sanders, C-87—
Final Assembly; W. T. Chambers,
G. F. E. Stores; M. E. Seely, Ex-
perimental; Alma Helen Goolsby,
Electric & Radio Sub-Assembly; J.
M. U. Jenkin, Fuselage Nose; W. C.
Cavender, B-32 Wing; D. W.
Barnes, Raw Stores.
G. W. Bradshaw, C-87 Final As-
sembly; L. W. Kemp, C-87 Final
Assembly; J. D. Boyd, C-87 Final
Assembly; Mary Hunt Fox, Fabri-
cation—Production Control; Vivian
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Moreland Doubts Friends
When Told He Wins $1,000
Eighty Convair employes today were enjoying their
share of $8,000, the fruits of perfect attendance given out in
the form of War Bonds and Stamps at the first Work-to-Win
drawing Saturday at the Fort Worth division.
Top prize of $1,000 went to
D. G. Moreland, B-32 Fuselage,
Employes Exceed
Cash Bond Quota
Convair employes smashed over
their Fourth War Loan cash quota
three days before the end of the
drive, W. H. Wright, War Bond
committee chairman revealed to-
day.
Tabulations of cash sales through
Monday by War Bonds section
showed workers had purchased
$520,744.50 in cash bonds—a total
of 102.38 per cent of their $508,619
quota.
This cash total, plus employes’
deductions and the $4,000,000 Con-
solidated Vultee donation for the
Fort Worth division, will bring the
total contribution of the local plant
to well past the $5,700,000 mark
during the Fourth War Loan.
New Telephone Provided
For Plant Employes' Use
A pay telephone booth has been
placed in the Administration build-
ing, next to the Employe Transpor-
tation office, for the convenience of
Convair Factory workers, Employe
Services Manager E. G. Crosier re-
vealed today.
Smeltzer Returns
Assistant Tool Engineer Roy
Smeltzer returned Wednesday from
a tooling conference in Indianapo-
lis.
In Washington
J. M. Hassler, Division director
of Industrial Relations, is in Wash-
ington on business.
Hargrove Here
For New Post
Works Manager C. A. Sharpe
Monday announced the appointment
of H. F. Hargrove, formerly Fac-
tory superintendent at Vultee Field,
to his staff to handle special as-
signments.
Hargrove, whose experience in-
cludes fabrication, sheet metal, ex-
perimental and final assembly
work, first entered aircraft in 1935
with Consolidated Aircraft Corpor-
ation at San Diego.
After two years in the fabrication
section, he joined Vultee Aircraft,
Inc., June 11, 1937, to work in the
same section. He became succes-
sively assistant foreman in charge
of Sheet Metal, assistant foreman
in Experimental, assistant foreman
in Final Assembly, foreman in
Sheet Metal, and general foreman
of the Factory.
Four years ago he was moved
into the Factory superintendent’s
office as assistant superintendent,
and later became Factory superin-
tendent.
Prior to his aircraft affiliations,
Hargrove operated a garage busi-
ness in San Diego, competed in
numerous automobile race meets,
and at one time worked for the
Richfield Oil Company.
He is a native of Wichita Falls
and attended school at Altus, Okla.
His wife and eight-year-old daugh-
ter already have joined him at the
Blackstone Hotel from Southgate,
Calif.
Conservation Department
Now Under Works Manager
Activities and personnel of the
Conservation department Monday
were transferred from the Material
department to the Works Manager’s
office by order of Assistant Divi-
sion Manager Roland G. Mayer.
who received news he had won the
grand award as he closed his lunch
box and prepared to return to work.
Moreland, 40, and the father of
a 15-year-old son, said he “thought
they were kidding me” when he was
told his name had been called.
“I’d never won anything before,”
he explained, “and I was sure I
hadn’t won this.”
Moreland, sharing the benefits of
perfect attendance over the first
four-week period of the drive with
79 other Convair employes, has
been a Consolidated Vultee employe
18 months.
The money, tucked away at the
present time for the use of Uncle
Sam, will go some day, he said, for
the purchase of a home.
Winners in the $750 bracket of
the drawing were Lenora L. Ship-
ley, Fuselage Nose, and Mack F.
Manly, Final Assembly.
Miss Shipley, employed at Con-
solidated Vultee for the last nine
months, said her winnings will re-
main in War Bonds and Stamps to
help her two brothers, one of whom
is fighting in Italy, and the other
who is stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Manly, a. lo-month-Convair em-
ploye, happily volunteered that his
$750 will stay in War Bonds and
Stamps, a nest egg, he explained,
to be used some day for the edu-
cation of his two-year-old daugh-
ter, Julia.
Major awards of $500 each went
to three Convair employes. They
were J. T. Russell, Wing Verticals;
Mrs. Nadine O’Toole, Shipping, and
Ross A Brady, Intra-Plant Trans-
portation.
Russell, the only Second shift
employe among the major money-
winners, is the father of four chil-
dren, two boys and two girls. He
has been at Consolidated Vultee
seven months. The money will stay
in War Bonds and Stamps, and
when it is used it will go, he said,
“for a start toward a new home.”
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HARRY WOODHEAD, Convair president, presents the Goddess of
Achievement trophy to E. E. Barbe, director of Plant Protection. Barbe's
department led the plant in percentage of War Bond purchases in Janu-
ary, when Fort Worth led all CVAC divisions.
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