Convairiety, Volume 11, Number 26, December 23, 1958 Page: 1 of 6
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| Best Wishes of Season j
To members of the General Dynamics family every-
where, I extend my sincere good wishes for a Joyful
Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
That not only we and our fellow citizens but others in
the free world, are able to observe this holiday season in
peace and security is due in great part to the products of
your minds and hands. A Merry Christmas to you and all
those dear to you.
Frank Pace Jr.
President, General Dynamics Corporation.
To each and every man and woman of Convair I extend
my personal wishes for a very Merry Christmas.
As for the year ahead, there always are many unknown
factors at this point. However, with your continued loyal
support, together I am sure we can make it a Prosperous
New Year.
J. V. Naish,
President, Convair Division
Fort Worth and
Daingerfield
EDITION
Fort Worth news office:
ext. 2961; Daingerfield news
office: ext. 424
SAN DIEGO, POMONA AND ANTELOPE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
DAINGERFIELD AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS
UNVEILED—First Convair 880 jet transport was seen last week at San Diego in ceremonies dedi-
cating it to future of commercial air travel. It is shown rolling out of final assembly on its way to
field operations.
Use of Office Supplies
At Million-a-Year Clip
Flow of Ideas
Doubled at FW
Keep ’em coming!
That-—in short—is the request
of Division Manager August C.
Esenwein that employees send
any good cost-cutting ideas di-
rectly to his office.
“I will continue to review these
ideas personally,” he said. “I’ll
see that they get expedited top
level handling—and that those
which are judged advisable be in-
stalled as quickly as possible.”
Esenwein had high praise for
the quality level of suggestions
which have come into his office
since his first invitation (Con-
vairiety, Nov. 12).
Most of the ideas submitted, he
said, reflect genuine concern for
costs and considered study of
ways costs can be reduced.
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TCU vs. AF Academy
Tickets Are on Sale
Tickets for the Texas Chris-
tian University-Air Force Aca-
demy New Year’s football game
in the Cotton Bowl were on
sale last week for Convair Fort
Worth employees at the CRA
office on the 50-foot aisle.
A limited number of ducats
—TCU priority tickets for seats
not in the end zone—were
available at $5.00 each. They
were being purchased during
first shift lunch periods.
The AF Falcons are unbeaten
in their first season of “big
time” competition. TCU is
Southwest Conference cham-
pion.
Even so much as a paper clip
thrown away goes to increase
likelihood that office supplies' at
Convair Fort Worth again this
year will top the $1 million mark.
“For it’s the thousands upon
thousands of little things as com-
mon as paper clips that eventu-
ally add up to more than a mil-
lion dollars we use in office sup-
plies every year,” said Erie G.
Hill this week.
Hill is acutely conscious of
office supplies and stationery
costs. He’s the division “bird
dog” this year, appointed by Di-
vision Manager August C. Esen-
wein to ride herd on usage and
costs of such items.
A reduction in usage of these
items is the purpose of the post-
ers and displays which went up
throughout the plant today in the
division’s continuing campaign to
drive down costs.
Just about every Convair em-
ployee who uses so much as a
pencil or a piece of paper in his
work can help bring down sta-
tionery and office supply costs,
Hill pointed out.
“And this is especially true of
the approximately 7,000 Convair
people whose work is at desks or
drawing boards,” he added.
An estimated 5,000 employees
work at desks, and approximately
1,700 to 1,800 at drafting tables.
“A plantwide purge of those
desks and drafting tables—re-
turning to stock everything which
is being hoarded when it’s not
needed for the job right now—
would probably keep Convair Fort
Worth in supplies for weeks with-
out spending another cent,” he
pointed out.
That would add up to a sub-
stantial amount of money—for in
the period from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1,
special printed forms, stationery
and office supplies cost an aver-
age of $4,063 each and every
working day.
Despite the $869,491 cost figure
for the first 10 months of the
year, it nevertheless represents a
healthy improvement over the
same period of 1957. In that 10-
month period, total costs were
$1,143,703.
Despite the seemingly insigni-
ficant cost of many items, the
totals will add up to more than
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Reception Awaits
B-58 on Arrival
At Alaska Base
Two-hundred Air Force, vendor and Convair Fort
Worth representatives in Alaska were working feverishly
—despite 17-below-zero temperatures—last week to pre-
pare for the start of B-58 cold weather tests in “Operation:
While awaiting arrival of the
B-58 from Convair Fort Worth,
crews at Eielson AF Base in
Alaska were getting set for the
tests, and for the worst of the
winter when the mercury is due
to go as low as 60 below zero.
Last week, however, weather
was “mild”—only down to minus
17, according to Harry Dunlavy,
Convair Fort Worth customer
service representative in charge
of Convair operations.
Direct radio communication be-
tween Convair men at the base
and their families in Fort Worth
began on Dec. 16. Max Schelper,
CRA radio commissioner in Fort
Worth, said first contact between
CRA radio station and the Alas-
kan base enabled four families to
communicate.
After radio contact is estab-
lished, the CRA hams in Fort
Worth telephone the family. Up-
on getting a member of the fami-
ly on the phone, they plug the
phone line into the radio trans-
mitter and receiver—thus en-
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First 880 Jet
Rolled Out
First Convair 880 jet transport
rolled out of final assembly at
Convair San Diego last Monday
(Dec. 15) in ceremonies dedicat-
ing the giant 615 mph craft to
the future of commercial air
travel.
J. V. Naish, president of Con-
vair, said that Convair’s latest
product will carry on the great
tradition established by Convair’s
240, 340 and 440 line of trans-
ports.
The first 880, completed two
weeks ahead of schedule, now
is undergoing a rigid ground test
program in field operations with
first flight test scheduled for late
January.
Firm orders have been placed
for 78 of the medium-range trans-
ports with Trans World Airlines
and Delta Air Lines to receive
the first 880s in the spring of
1960.
Two Officers of Air Training Command
Qualify to Teach B-58 Bomber Navigation
The first two Air Training
Command officers to qualify as
B-58 bomber navigation instruct-
ors left Convair Fort Worth
Monday for Mather Air Force
Base in California to start train-
ing other officers.
Mather AFB representatives
participating in the special B-58
navigation training were Capt.
Clarence C. Jacobi and Capt.
Robert L. Mitchell.
The six students in the special
class were Captain Jacobi, Cap-
tain Mitchell, T/Sgt. H. D. Jones
of Mather AFB and three Air
Force B-58 crewmen from nearby
Carswell AFB. Only Captain Ja-
cobi and Captain Mitchell, how-
ever, will instruct others for the
Air Training Command at Ma-
ther.
“The course Captain Mitchell
and I are writing will probably
be a six-weeks presentation rath-
er than 10 weeks of training such
as we had,” Captain Jacobi com-
mented.
The special B-58 navigation
school has been in session in
Bldg. 119 at Convair Fort Worth
since the latter part of October.
B-58 NAVIGATORS — Capt.
Robert L. Mitchell, left, and
Capt. Clarence C. Jacobi ex-
amine B-58 navigator's cabin.
They have just completed a 10-
week course at Convair FW.
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General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division. Convairiety, Volume 11, Number 26, December 23, 1958, periodical, December 23, 1958; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118034/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth.