Georgia forestry, Vol. 2, no. 7 (July 13, 1949)

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Georgia forest r y

Expanding Plans for Forest Protection

In order to stimulate the establishment of fire protection units in five counties adjoining Bibb, the Macon Chamber of Commerce entertained some 25 representatives from Houston, Peach, Twiggs, Baldwin, and Bleckley at a luncheon here last week.
It is a highly gratifying fact that ~ecent legislation has reduced the cost of the counties' participation in fire protection. The state pays two-thirds of the cost and it is hoped that this will be the means of inducing other counties to build up their fire protection.
Guyton DeLoach, acting director of the State Forestry Commission, pointed out that 66 per cent of Georgia's farm area is devoted to trees and therefore the timber should be regarded as a farm crop.
I. E. Phillips, District Forester, said the five counties represented at the meeting here should count their forests as an asset of $20,000,000. The lumber
'II. g. dJ.tUede/1.
V1.ui~ CWUJpe
J. Herbert Stone, Southern Re-
gional Forester of the U. S. Forest Service, left Atlanta June 27 for Helsinki, Finland , to attend the Third World Forestry Congress. He will be part of the American deleg& tion of foresters representing government, industry and education.
The Forestry Congress is sponso~ e d by the United Nations Food and Agricultur e Organization. It is intended to provide a means of exchanging the latest ideas on forestry among the nations of the W<?._-}d.
The Fi rst ?.brld r orestry Con; ress was held in Rome, Ita ly, in 192Q.

crop in those counties in 1946 brought an income of $1,000,000 for the raw material alone.
Where fire protection units exist in the state, less than 1 per cent of the woodland has been burned, Mr. Phillips said. He outlined the probable budgets which would be needed in the counties. Baldwin, for example, would provide $3,204 while the state would provide $11,448 for the unit's operation for twelve months.
Twenty-one counties have already set up their fire protection system since the state passed legislation under which the individual county would be
required to bear only one-third of the cost. But protecting Georgia forests is big business and it is hoped that every county in the state will soon come into this system.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce is to be congratulated upon its efforts to encourage this conservation pro-
gram.
(From the Macon Telegraph)

The second took place in Pudapest, Hungary. The third was originally scheduled for Finland in 1940, but European war conditions caused its postponement until now.
Mr. Stone is also pl-anning to spend a short time in Sweden, Germany and France studying forest co~ di tions in these countries. Fe will return to Atlanta in August.
Georgia Forestry

Vol. 2

JULY 13, 1949

No. 7

A monthly bulletin puclished by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 43: State Capitol, Atlanta. Entered as second-class matter at the Post
Office, AtlantaA Ga. , under the act
of August 24 , 1~12. Member, Ceorgia Press Association.

July, 191J9

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eLoach Appointed

OlllllllSSlOn Director

Guyton DeLoach took over the duties of director of the Georgia Forestry COmmission June 27,climaxing a career he began as a county ranger in 1941.
Thirty-three years old, and a native of Claxton, Mr. DeLoach is a graduate of the School of Forestry at the University of Georgia. His entire forestry experience has been with the Ceorgia Forestry COmmission.
Prior to becoming director of the Commission, Mr. DeLoach served for four weeks in the capacity of acting director, following the resignation of A. R. Shirley who accepted a position with the American

JHE COYER PHOJO
One of the most attractive Lookout Points in Georgia is claimed by Ranger Ti. J. Jackson of the Hurray County Protection Unit. Jn the cover photo, Hr. Jackson is looking over the wod lands of his county from his headquarters on fort Mountain near Chatswrth.
Turpentine Farmers Association. For the past year, the new state forester filled the position of assistant director in charge of fire control.
In December 1942, Mr. DeLoach advanced from county ranger to assistant district forester. He be-
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Jlie new director of the Georgia Forestry Commiss~on, o;tyton DeLoach, l~ft,. is congratulated by Philip Morgan, of Savannah, who ts chatrman of the Commtsston.

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Georgia forestry

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Seventy-six Georgia youths will gather at Laura S. Walker State Park on July lP for a week's training in practical forestry.The delegates, each representing a south or middle Georgia county, are offered this training free at a camp sponsored by the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association and conducted by the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Last year a similiar training camp was held for boys from north Georgia counties. Next yeat the Commission hopes to conduct two camps with all sections of the state represented.
Funds for the camp are provided by four Georgia members of the Southern Pulpwood Cbnserva~ion Association. They are Prunsw1ck Pulp and Paper Company, Brunswick; Macon Kraft Company, Macon; Southern Paperboard Corporation, Savann~h, and Union Fag and Paper Corporat1on, Savannah.
Other industries are also supporting the Poys Camp through the donation of prizes to be presented campers making outstanding records. Prizes include an Indian Pack Pump donated by the D.P. Sni th Company ; a pruning axe donated by the Georgia Forestry Equipment Company, and a bow saw by the Sandvik Saw and Tool COmpany.
The delegates, chosen for their interest and achievement in forestry, will receive training in ~he growing, harvesting and ma.rket1ng of forest products.Forest f1r.e frevention and control also w1l be stressed. Practical field work and field demonstrations are scheduled, in addition to lectures.
In addition to Commission personnel, the camp staff will include Jim Spiers, of the Central of Georgia Railroad; Howard Doyle, of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, and Ralph D. Helmke~, of
t he Union Fag &Paper Corporat1on.
As a special entertainment feature, Harry Rossoll , an illustra-

tor with the U. S. Forest Service, will present a chalk talk on forestry.

General surervision of the camp wili be hald ed by Ed Stout, the Commission's Information and Educa-
tion Chief. He will be assisted by the following Commission personnel A. H. Antonie, Managemen~ and Ma~ keting Assistant; and Ass1stant Dlstrict Foresters Lesler L. Lundy, George W. Lavinder, Charlie P.Jones, and John Corbin.

Delegates to the Camp and their respective counties are: D. L. Griffin, Jeff Davis County; Alex Hopkins, Wayne; Aubrey C.Lee, Ware;
General N:. Wright, Echols; Harold
Allen, Lowndes; ~odney Harrison, Glynn; George Barnhill, Clinch.

Jesse Crews, Charlton; Gary E.

PGroawnteln~y;CaJmacdkenS; eaOrss,waPladcoPn;r

octor, Vernon

Griffis, Atkinson; J, W. Nail, ~

piing; Henry Grady Thomas, Telfa1r;

Edd Garrette, Cook; James Williams,

Berrien; Fobby Lee Poykin, Irwin.

Walter Wilson, Taylor; Bobby Miller, Schley; Buddy Cook, Lee; Clark Mathis, Stewart; Charley Johnson, Macon; Gene Kennedy, Terrell; Charles Kimbrough, Dooly; Filly Ray Strickland, Webster;
Bartow Johnson, Sumter; Herbert Robertson, Jr., Pulaski.

Claxton,Jones, Dodge; C. J . Miller, Wilcox; Harry Seabrook, Pen Hill Donald Irvin, Turner; Ray Griffin, Quitman; Billy ac Shivers, Clay William Greene, Randolph; George Washington, Marion; James Fortson, ~scogee; Filly Joe Dunn, Harris James Morgan, Chattahoochee; Bobby'Hunt, Crisp; Frank Murray, Peach.

William Jordan, Eaker; Eilly Gar-

hboeutnt ~

Brooks; Harold Hilton, CalTed Prannon, Colquitt; Hix

Murphy, Decatur; 'WI&yne Payes, Dough-

erty; Thurman Jenkins, Early; Wen-

dell L. Bryant, Grady; Grady Martin,

Mitchell; Ihuglas Harvey, Seminole;

July,
Donnie Ellis , Thomas; Jack Jones, Tift; Wingate Deariso, Worth; Pilly Floyd, Miller.
Pilly Stewart, Fryan; Burnie White, Eulloch; Emerson Proctor, Fulloch; C~rdon Long, Purke; Lewis Fraddy, Jr., randier; Foy Smith Chatham; Pay Prown, Emanuel; Cecil Griffin, Evans; Charles Bragg, Jenkins; W. L. Salter, Jr., Liberty.
Leon Treadwell, Long; LeRoy Ryals, Mcintosh; Maxwell Thigpen, \'ontgomery; Sam McO.tlough, Toombs; Talmadge Jones, Tattnall; Alva Cauley, Treutlen; Adrain Pogers, ~beeler; Franklin night, Pulloch.

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New Personnel
Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director, announces three recent a~ pointments to state forestr~ pos1tions. They are: Ralph A.Dav1s,Jr., farm forester at Rome; Walter N. Stone, Emanuel County Ranger, and Paul Dixon, Wheeler Cbunty Ranger.
Davis and Stone, both Army veterans, received technical forestry training at the University of Ceor~ia. Dixon, a native of Mt. Vernon, 1s a Navy veteran.

Boys who attended the 19~8 forestry camp received instruction in mechanical tree planting. District forester Jim Turner aperates the planter in the photo below.

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Georgia forestry

~ ~ BUILDERS The families of Macedonia Com-

munity fonnerly were city folks who

tired of 'seeing everyone and know-

ing no one. ' Together they have ac-

~ired a tract of .Habersham County

Making building blocks for chil~ land and have pooled their talents

ren is the chief industry of the and labor.

Macedonia Cooperative Community

located in northeast Georgia near

The block making business is the

Clarkesville.

chief source of income for the fam-

ilies. They turned to building

This unique wood-using Georgia blocks after unsuccessfully trying

business began only t~ years ago, chair manufacturing and other high-

but after the expected initial set- ly competitive fields.

backs success is now within reach

of the firm as orders flow in from

Dave Newton is secretary of the

many points of the U. S. and as far Co-Op. Arthur Wiser is shop manager

away as Hawaii. The block shop is and Delf Fransharn is coordinator.

located in what once was the com-

munity's broiler house. Five to

The blocks are made of popl ar

eight persons are emplo;,e d.

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Georgia-ade bui~ding b~ocks fascin~ te Patsy Newton and Annie fransha, ~eft photo. Be~ow Dave Newton sands a group of b~ocks in the workshop at Macedonia Cooperative Comunity near C~arkesvi~~e.

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Geor g i a fo re s try

GBI WILL HELP INVESTIGATE FIRES

Moving to halt unlawful woods burning, the State Forestry Commission announces the Georgia Pureau of Investigation will aid in the enforcement of the state's forest fire laws.
The cooperative agreement between the two agencies was disclosed by Guyton DeLoach, director of the Forestry Commission. He praised Col. George W. Wilson, director of the Department of Public Safety, for making the law enforcement assistance available.
Mr. DeLoach emphasized state laws permit landowners to burn their own property, if they desire. Put it id illegal, he said, for such fires to be allowed to damage timber properties of others due to

carelessness or neglect.
Investigation of forest fires by the GPI began July 1.
The State Patrol also will cooperate with the Forestry Commission by reporting fires spo~ted along highways. Fire control vehicles use two-way radio , similiar to patrol cars and Mr . DeLoach said technical details for a cooperative comT munication system would be worked out at an early date.
''More fires were attributed to incendiarism than any other cause last year,' 'Mr. DeLoach reported. ''We expect the increased law enforcement program to drastically reduce the number of unlawful fires in the future. ' '

The Chatham County Protection Unit has been praised by a committee of the Chatham County Grand J ury. The Timber Conservation Committee of the C.rand Jury reported:
''This Committee visited the Chatham County Timber Unit near Pooler on April 7th. Ranger Ern~st Edwards is in charge of the Unit. Your Committee was very favorably i mp r essed with the splendid job R a nger Edwards and his st~ff a~e d oing i n sugpre ssion of fires In our county. The Unit is well equipped, having two power wagons, two three-quarter ton trucks, one crawler tractor and plow, one two-t~n truckand trailer and complete radio faci lities . The new fire tower near Meinhard is now in operation and is equipped with radio.
''Since July of 194~ . we have had ninety forest fires in the county, b u r n ing an area o f 2, 3 2 1 acres . This is .961 per cent of the timber land in the. county. It was estimated by the State Forestry De-

partment that if these ninety fires had not been suppressed they would have burned an area of 73,258
acres. We believe this is a good record for our Unit, since only twoyears ago a Grand Jury report
shiwed that 60,000 acres were burned during that fire season.

''The tractor and plow are ava.il-

able to any landowner for plowing

fire lines . The price is $~ . 00 per

mile ber

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large use

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service.

''It has come to our attention
in some parts of the county the nofence law is not enforced and cattle are allowed to roam t~e woods. In these areas where this practice is allowed are ~here we are having most of our fires. We
recommend that this law be en-
f orced.

''Your committee is pleased that
our Governor has ap~ointed Mr. G. Philip ~4organ, pro?linent Savannah businessman, as chainnan of ~he,rew
Forestry Commission of Georgia.

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Concurrent with putting the Commission's newly expanded forest fire protection program into operation has been the appointment of individual forestry boards for counties joining the system this !IXlnth.
The duties of these boards are to assist the Commission in the efficient and economical operation of the protection unit.
Poard members are appointed on the recommendation of county commi& sioners and include five local lan~ owners.
Board members which have been named to date and their respective counties follow:
CANILER M. E. Trapnell, J. N. Lanier, and A. D. Clifton, all of ~.'etter; L. H.Edinfield, Stillrrore ; S. L. Williams, Pulaski.
CRISP James L. Hardy, R. R. Rogers, H.C. Whelchel, Holt Walton, and C. C. Chappell, all of Cordele.
DODGE- ~rs. E. M. Harrington, 0. W. Cox, Grasston; Monroe Jones, Milan; L. M. Coffee, Eastman; Een O'Connor, Chauncey.
JXUGEER1Y - John Reynolds, C. M. Pippin, Hollis Lanier, Leland Ferrell, and E. E. Weatherbee, Jr., all of Albany.
GREENE - E. H. Askew, Greensboro; D. E. Moore, 'laxey; C. L. Rhodes, Siloam; C. G. Durham, Woodville; R. C. Corry, Union Point.
LAMAR- Elijah Martin, Philip Weldon, and Thomas Darden, all of Milner; J, W. Stocks, and Lewis Crowder, Doth of barnesville.
LIBERTY - 0. C. Martin, Flemington; Russell Smiley, Ludowici; J.F. Gill, Fleming; J. P. Stevens, Dorchester; J. F. Browning, Riceboro.
LONG- J. A. Simmons, A. G. Parkston, T. L. Howard, Sr., M. 0. Garrason, all of Ludowici.
MCDUFFIE - Allen Pannell, R. L. Howell, Joe A. Usry, and W. A. Knox

all of Thomson; Marcus A. Ollpepper, Dearing.
MACON -Sam Grice, Marshallville; C. ]. Harp, Jr., Reynolds; D. M. Riddle, Oglethorpe; Harvey McCarty, Ideal; William Easterlin, Montezuma.
MI1T1IEU. - C. L. Joiner, Camilla. L. H. Taylor, Pelham; J, H. Pinson, Jr., Paconton; A B. Garrard, Pel~am; Frank Tyson, Camilla.
POLK - T. A. Willingham, E. W. Barber, and CUrry Porter, all of Cedartown; and Fred Barron, Paul McKelvey, both of Rockmart.
SCHLEY - George Snider; George Williams, J. T. Guy, Scott Hart, J. M. Hart, and J. M. McLendc:rr.
STEWART - C. H. Cannington, Tom Kemp, L. M. Moye, all of Lumpkin; C. L. Davis, Olsseta; W. M. 1\-\Jrrah, Richland.
TALFAIR -Walter Dyal, J. ,1, Cook, E. F. Smith, Jr., W. F. McEachin, all of McRae; Cecil Brown, Lumber City.
11DMAS -Harry Tomlinson, Boston; F. H. Seracy, Thomasville; J. Lee White, Ochlochnee; R. C. Palfour, Thomasville; A. W. Harrison, Coolidge.
1RClJP - Eugene A.Hall, LaGrange;
J. H. Hines, Hogansvill~: J. R.
~ewman, LaGrange; W. Henry Turner, Jr., LaGrange; W. H. Huguley, 111, West Point.
BAlDWIN -Dr. Edwin Allen, George Powers, Roy Nelson, M. R. Hodges, and W. E. Wilson, all of Milledge ville.
JASPER - Herman Tyler, J. B. Ell1s, W. L. Clay, J. N. Walker, all of Monticello, and M. L. Perry, Shady Dale.
JOBNSON - Roy Powell, Bartow; Talmadge Harrison, Kiti; W.R. Jackson, Donovan; Fred Archer, Jr.,
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Georgia fares try and caring for trees and how to identify leading forest trees. The artioles are designed to be ptactical, down-_to-earth, non-technical sources of information

The first copies of the 1949 Yearbook of Agriculture, a 960~page volume about trees and forests, will be ready for distribution this month.
There are 128 articles by 161 contributors, a 16-page section of color photographs, ana many othet illustrations, whose primary purpose is to show ways of planting
(Continued from Page 8) Wrightsville~ MorrisT. Riner, .Jr., Meeks.
JONES - J. A. Pitts, Haddock; Raymond ~udson, Gray; George Stallings, Haddock; R. L. Wheeler, Gray; Carl Williams, Round Oak.
LAURENS - Prantley New, Dublin; C.E. Carroll, Dublin; L.O. Peacham, Jr., Rockledge; Leon Keen, Cadwell; P.. L. Hogan, Dudley.
M:NROE - Wi 11 Etlr idge, Forsyth; Carlisle Morgan, Bolingbroke; W. E. Jackson, Forsfth; Alfred A. Abercrombie, Cul oden; J. T. Panks, Forsyth.
TWIGGS- A.V. White, Dry Franch; Homer L. Chance, Danville; W. C. Humphries, Jeffersonville; E. G. Dallmas, Dry Pranch; E. J. "Zeke' Wimberly, Jeffersonville.
DeLoach Named
(Continued from Page 2} came a district forester in July, 1943, and held that position until a Yer ago when he was appointed assistant director. He filled the above positions in Jenkins COunty, at Faxley, Camilla and at Waycross.
~r. DeLoach is married and resides at Avondale Estates, near Atlanta, with Mrs.DeLoach and their two daughters. Ae is the son of Mr. and ~irs. Pourbon DeLoach, of Claxton.

Pulpwood Program
Will Be Held
In Laurens
A pulpwood marking and cutting demonstration is scheduled for July 26 on Glenwood Road five mtles southeast of Dublin. Fire control equipment also will be demonstrated.
Cooperating in the program will be E. G. McLendon, owner of the demonstration tract; W. E. Gibbons, representing the International Paper Conpany; Lamar Hogan, of the C. & S. Pank, Dublin; J.E. Phillips, district forester, Georgia Forestry Commission; Howard Doyle, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; and representatives of the Ceorgia Agricultural Extension Service and American Turpentine Farmers Association.
V. D. Vickery, Laurens county agent, will serve as master of ceremonies. A barbecue also is planned for thise attending.
(Continued from Page 5) and are thoroughly sanded. Each piece is a multiple or fraction of of the basic unit. Such blocks help children develop coordination, imagination, creative satisfaction and a feeling for materials, explains Mr. Newton.
Three size sets of blocks are made, including a 'Little Squirt' set of 35 btocks and six shapes and a 'Four to Middlin'' set of 60 blocks and nine shapes. During two months before Christmas, 21,200 feet of lumber was processed.
Every effort is made to carry out good forestry practices on the Co-Op's forest land. Last year the community sponsored a timber stand improvement demonstration.

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The services of four foresters are available throu_gh the So~th~rn Pulpwood Conservation Assoc1at1on which engages in activities promoting wise use of forest land in the South.
Such service has been available in parts of the South for the past several years, but the association has recently completed its organization with the employment of a fourth area forester. 1\~ost of Geor-
gia is covered by Howard J. Doyle,
of 1030 Carlisle Avenue, Macon. A
"JOE BEAVER"

small part of Georgia also is cov-
ered by Francis J. Cook, of 627
North Sixth St., AI bemarle, N.C.
This program is administered ty
T!. J. Mal sberger, general manager
of the Association, with offices in the First !'1ational Fank Fldg., at Atlanta.
The Association's area foresters serve as liason contacts between pulnwood industry and the timber grower .Producers 0 f pulpwood, the public forestry agencies, and the general pub! i c.
By Ed Nofziger

Forest Servlc, U . S. Depe.rtmcnt ol Agrirulture
"You're supposed to be doing selective cutting, not selective cussing!"

Georgia Forestry
JULY 19.C9

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