Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 1957)

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GEORGIA FORESTRY
Editorial

Plant For TomorrowWildfires Burn Big Hole

In State's Forest Wealth (From theDawsonNews)
Right now in Georgia the importance of planting pine

seedlings for future gain is being realized as a record

(From the Waycross Journal-He r ald)

number of orders flood the nurseries in our state.

We are again reminded by the Georgia Forestry Commis-

The Georgia Forestry Commission reports that these sion that wildfires burn a big hole in the state's forest orders have reached an all-time high, whkh of course indi- wealth each year.

cates that more and more farm land, much of it heretofore unusud, is being converted toward pine tree farming.

We are also told that 95 per cent of the fires which ravage Georgia forests are man caused and preventable.

This crop, which in our opinion is one of Georgia's

finest, is the answer for the use of land which, bes:ause of One fourth of the fires that burned 798,459 acres in

barrenness or for other reasons, has not been converted to Georgia last year were deliberately set.

gainful uses, not only gives expectancy for the future, but

its ranges of income makes it highly desirable.

The Forestry Commission gives various reasons for this

The paper mills over the nation use vast amounts of pine, and so many other products are the result of the trees that it is not to be wondered that the smart farmer is planting more and more seedlings.

needless destruction of valuable property. Some fires were set out of revenge, some were set just so some misguided person could enjoy the spectacle and some woods were burned to clear away the undergrowth.

The importance of forestry in Georgia is increasing, and Director Guyton DeLoach says that he has been assured

Then, of course, many fires were set by careless campers and <Xhers who were simply indifferent or unthinking .

that the state will be able to furnish 200 million seedlings by next year.

Whatever the reason, the fact remains that each wildfire

seriously damages an important industry of our state.

The activation of the soil bank, he says, will no doubt create an even greater demand for the seedlings next year.
Terrell County landowners are becoming increasingly

Georgia forests today are supplying the raw material s for a widespread industrial empire that is still growing.

pine tree minded and there is scarcely a farm which does Here in Southeast Georgia there is a growing awarenes!

nof boast of planted forests.

of the importance of the forest industry. In post-war years

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the paper and paper products indus

GEORGIA FORESTRY

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Vol. 10

January, 1957
Published Monthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, Box 1183
Macon, Georgia

No.1

Our forests are the key to our economic growth. It behooves us to giv( them every pr<Xection.

Gu.11ton DeLoach, Director

Members, Board of Commissioners:

John M. McElrath, Chairman ____________________________Macon

Sam H. Morgan____Savannah

C. M. Jordan, Jr.

Alamo

Oscar S. Garrison_____Homer

H. 0. Cummings____Donalsonville

Our Cover
The advent of every new year calls for making idealistic re solutions and vowing to fulfill

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post

Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia .

EDITPOreRs_s__A__s_s_o__c_i_a_ti_o_n_.________________________________J ames C. Turner, Jr.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS_______.Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach, Jeanette Jackson

STAFF ARTIST---------------------------------------Dan Voss

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT !-Route 2

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505,

Statesboro

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Milledgeville

DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26,

DISTRICT VII-Route 1,

Camilla

Rome

DISTRICT 111-P. 0. Box 169,

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 1160,

Americus

Waycross

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416,

Newnan

Gainesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328,

DISTRICT X-Route 3,

McRae

Washington

plans which somehow went astray during the past twelve momhs. Milch of the conscientious head wracking usually turns out to be idle wistfulness, but there al ways are a few special events which manage to repeat themselves year after year. And, there're a few others that seem to squeeze themselves ill too. This month's cover is concerned with the events and resolutions which the Georgia Forestry Commission pledges for itself. The artist was careful to depict only the repeaters, or those which promise to be good enough to merit remembering.

GROUP DISCUSSION ON WOOD PANELING

PAST AND PRESENT OFFICERS

Southern Research Foresters Convene

Over sixty scientists, teachers and manufacturers attended the annual meeting of the Florida-GeorgiaAlabama Section of the Forest Products Research Society in Athens last month.
A visit by national Society president Ralph H. Bescher d Pittsburgh, Pa., highlighted the meeting. Bescher described the objectiv:es of the young society,_ wh<;>se nation-wide growth nvals that of the Georg1a pme.
The Society, with headquarters in Madison, Wis., and a membership of thousands, has personnel in every state in the nation and in Canada. Bescher called on the Southeastern members to increase their ranks, which now total 108.

Section officers decided, incidentally, to hold the spring meeting at Talladega in May.
A group discussion on wood paneling at which large samples of paneling were shown followed. Dr. R.B. Richards of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn was moderator. Carl Wheeler, general manager of the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co., Savannah, mixed fact and humor in discussing the utilization of local hardwoods for plywood panels. Fred Bowlin, Atlanta Oak Flooring Co., spoke on uses of solid wood for interior paneling. Ralph Peter discussed treatment of low grade hardwoods for interior paneling.
Bruce Heebink, technologist of the Forest Products

Rufus Page of the Georgia Forestry Commission and

Laboratory, Madison, Wis., reported on developments in

U.S. Forest Service, Macon, was elected chairman for

the use of low grade boards in the manufacture of paper

1957. Other new officers are Windell Vickery, Alabama,

overlay 1umber and parquet flooring.

vice chairman and Ralph Peter, Athens, U.S. Forest Service, secretary.

Ernst Brender, a project leader of forest management research at Macon, spoke at the banquet on forestry in



Attending the meeting were persons from seven states, including Kolomon Lehotsky, head of the Clemson Col-

Germany. He showed color slides taken of his home town, of scenic s fOts and of forestry practices in the

lege, S.C. Forestry Department, and from two foreign

Black Forest.

countries-Falah A. Gharaibeh of Jordan and Albe Urban-



ovski of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Speakers were William Belvin, director of the Herty Foundation, Savannah, who discussed the increased use of hardwoods through improved ptlping techniques and processes. He said that bamboo is under study at the

Prof. Roy Carter of N.C. State College, Raleigh, de-
livered the final paper--on merchandizing of chipcore and veneer. Dr. W.A. Campbell, Athens research center leader, explained his activities and led a tour of Athens f a:estry facilities.

Foundation for use as a pulpwood source.

Delegates saw a small building sided with .J?aper over-



Mike Taras of Asheville, N.C., Forest Utilization Service, discussed the weight/volume relationshif of wood and wood residue. Gus Jacobson, president o the Soderham Machine Mfg. Co., Talladega, Ala., showed

lay lumber, wood paneling and other rrojects 1n the For estry School lab. At Whitehall Forest, they inspected the charcoal kiln and paper overlay lumber and fence posts on which weathering tests are being conducted.

colored slides of his plant and reported on developments

Chairman Page said the papers ~resented at the meet-



in debarking and chipping in pulpwood and particle board production.

ing will be submitted to the Society s national magazine, which is published at_ adison

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INSPECTION TOUR

MEMBERSHIP DISCUSSION

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Organization of the Southeastern States Forest Fire Compact Commission was virtually completed recently at the organization's second annual meeting in Atlanta.

The group cleared away the only remaining barriers in its path and inaugurated an extensive training program designed to utilize its full potential. All 10 member states agreed up>n a uniform communications system and petitioned the Federal Communications System to allow member states to use their radio equipment in other participating states. They also voted to request the U.S. Forest Service to appoint a co-ordinator to help expedite operations.

Officers Elected
Guyton DeLoach, director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, was unanimously re-elected chairman of the compact for the coming year. Fred H. Claridge, North Carolina State Forester, was re-elected vice chairman and J.H. Stauffer, Alabama State Forester, was elected secretary.
In other action, the compact administrators approved a fire-fighting manual designed to unify fire-fighting operations thr rughout the Southeast. The manual was drawn up in Macon by a committee headed by Claridge.

WATCH CLOSEL YLeft to right, Charles Baker, Rome, Fred Place, Newnan and Reuben Martin, Jr., Macon, take a boring of the trunk of the tree to de termine its age.
Management Men Attend
Three-Day Training School
Georgia Forestry Commission forest management _fersonnel from throughout the state attended a three-day training school in Macon last month.

Member states of the compact are West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia.

Management Chief W.H. McComb said the orientation course was held to acquaint management assistants and di~trict rangers with the latest developments in forestry scrence.

Commission headquarters personnel taught the school, which included classroom and field work.

"This is the first in a series of schools for management personnel," McComb said, "Future schools, which will be more detailed than this one, will be taught by specialists in the different phases of fcxest management."

This is the first management school to be held at the new state headquarters in Macon. Classes were held in the shop building at the Forestry Center.

Subjects studied included cutting methods, tree estimating, undesirable tree control and utilization.

1957 SSFFCC OFFICERS--Guyton DeLoach, right, was re-elected chairman of the Southeastern States Forest Fire Compact Commission recently in At lanta at the organization's annual meeting. Fred H. Claridge, N.C. state forester, left, was ree lected
vice chairman and J .H. Stauffer, Ala. state forester, was elected secretarytreas urer.

Management fcxesters who attended include Stuart Moore, Statesboro; Wallace Binns, Camilla; Wayne Manning and Druid Preston, Newnan; W.R. Barnes, Milledgeville; F .W. Hubbard, Jr., and Charles Place, Rome; Henry Williams, Waycr.oss; Sam Martin, Flowery Branch and John Harrison, Washington.
Management rangers at tending were Elza Clifton, Statesboro; Fred Baker, Newnan; A.L. Jacobs, McRae; George Bower, Winder and W.D. Palmer, Washington.

JANUARY, 1957

--Hardwood Control Boolc Released----.

The Ge agia Forest Research Council's third annual report made its debut recently and is rapidly attracting widespread attention.
Entitled "Controlling Undesirable Hardwoods," ~t wa:> written DY. Laurence C. Walker of the Umvers lty of Georgia School of Forestr~ and College Experiment Stat ion. It is directed primarily towa~d tech~ical foresters, ~ut contains mformatlOn which could benefit many landowners.

The report is _trefaced by D.J. Weddell, late dean of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. In coocise words, Dean Weddell spells out the reasons and needs for a hardwood con-
trol program in Georgia. "The question of con-
trollin2 undesirable hardwoods," he wrote1 ''bee omes more important as we increase the intensity of our forest management. Inferior or undesrrable hardwoods have -been removed from our woods for many years; but in Georgia, little experimentation lias been carried on to see how best to do the job."

Walker explains that his report ~sn't th~ final answer to die problem of controllmg the mv:asion of undesirable hardwoods. He emphasizes it is merely a survey of the best known me~~ods to date for hardwood control under conditiOns in Georgia.

Walker opens his rerrt with a i ucid explana-
tion ci the historica and geographical stay behind the undesirable har dwooa mvasion. He points out the major reasons for using control measures and distinguishes what should be controlled.

Lovely Miss Kathryn Ruark of Bostwick, Miss National REA of 1956 and a relative of Georgia Forestry Commission Fire ControlChief H.E . Ruark, led the bevy of beauties who decorated the Tenth District entry in the Monroe Christmas parade.
Miss Ruark was joined by a classmate at Morgan County High School and four Monroe High beauties on two floats--one self- propelled and one tractor-towed. Fire suppression units, Smokey Bear himself, and two bloodhounds, who rode in style in a trailer pulled by Tenth District Investigator Tom Shelton, completed the elaborate entry.
Personnel from the district office and the Walton County Forestry Unit piloted the floats and vehicles.
Miss Ruark, who highlighted the floats from her lofty throne, numbers among her many other beauty t itles Miss Walton EMC 1956, Miss Georgia REA, Miss Jekyll Island 1956 and Miss Morgan County High 1956. She won the national REA pulchritude crown in St. Louis last summer.

QUEEN KATHRYN AND HER COURT
In her beauty court on the Monroe float were Misses Peggy Chandler and Ina Thompson of Monroe High and Bebe Malcom of Bostwick.
Adorning the other float, which stressed fire prevention with a miniature forest, were a trio of Monroe High students--Misses Judy Burke, Ann Queen and Carole Howard.
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CROWD WATCHES BEAUTIES

FIRE PREVENTION FLOAT

THE LINE UP-G uyton DeLoach thanks instructor Harry Kenning for teaching first aid course. Le~t to right are Turner Barber, Jr. , Joe Ferguson, Ameucan Red Cross, H.E. Ruark, DeLoach, Kenning and Curtis Barnes.
Foresters Attend
First Aid Course
Twenty-three foresters and three men from industry graduated from the Georgia Forestry Commission first aid instructors' course held in the Commission warehouse at Maeon last m ooth.
Director Guyton DeLoach, awarding diplomas on the final day of the week-long session, praised the men for their fine work and offered the services of the Commission to Red Cross Instructor Harry A. Kenning in case of any major disaster or emergency in the state.
Kenning, from Jacksonville, Fla., was obtained to teach the free course through the co-operation of the Macon Red Cross chapter. Kenning is Red Cross ai"ea representative in charge of first aid and water safety.
"This is the first class in a long time to graduate 100 per cent of its members," Kenning told DeLoach. "The fine record of the class certainly reflects the quality o f selection of the students.
"I will consider the course a success if one life is saved or one injury is prevented," Kenning added.
Personnel from the Maeon headquarters and each of the districts studied the standard Red Cross first aid instructors' course with emphasis on phases which apPly to the work of the Commission.
Countless broken limbs were splinted, cuts, animal and reptile bites were treated and heat exhaustion victims were revived under Kenning's watchful eye. The men studied assignments at night and then took a final examination, which proved no obstacle.
Curtis Barnes, Commission safety officer and assistant fire control chief, planned the school. He said the graduates will teach first aid to Commission personnel in their districts and also to the public in cooperation with the local Red Cross chapters.
Graduates included Martin Stone of Graham and A.W. Pettis and Dennis Lassister of Macon, from industry.

GETTING THE TREATMENT--Harry Kenning de monstrates artificial respiration tee hnique to relieve smoke prostration. Pendley Holmes is the 'victim.' Left to right are John Harcrow, Kenning, John Stokes andJ .D. Beauchamp. Commission personnel registered include Barnes, James Wynens and Turner Barber, Jr., Macoo; AI Smith, Statesboro; Lamon Williams, Pulaski; Donald Stewart, Ochlochnee; Wallace Binns, Camilla; and William Watson, Tifton. Also James Bowen, Dawson; John Osbolt, Zebulon; John Harcrow, Franklin; Alvin Wallace, Jonesboro; J.D. Beauchamp, Eastman; Hubert Billue, Milledgeville; Pendley Holmes, Rome; Eugene Dobson, Canton; Herman Scoggins, Cedartown; John Stokes, Waycross; 0 . J ._Dean, Toccoa; James McElhannon, Jefferson; W.H. Kierbow, Gainesville, William Schultz, Washington and Leo Lorenzo, Martinez.
THAT HURTS!--Columbia County Ranger Leo Lorenzo, left, gives Asst. Dist. Ten Forester Bill Schultz the cure for snake bite.

JANUARY, 1957

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The Notification of Intention to Burn Law under Georgia's Forest Fire Regulations received widespread approval to the local option measure less than six months after it was passed by the General Assembly.

Grand juries in many other countries have given ini~ial approval, but final passage has been delayed pend10g cons.ideration by the successive panels, which will meet early this year.

The law provides that two successive 1ocal grand juries must give full approval before the law is effective: in their counties. According to Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook, it was passed primarily to allow persons who plan controlled burning a chance to gain information on fire danger and weather conditions. It also helps local forestry units keep a record of outdoor fires in their area.

Under the new law, persons who plan to burn off woods, lands, marshes or ether combustible materials must first notify their local forestry unit as to time and place of burning. Violators are liable to rcosecution for a misdemeanor.

Maps Play Vital Role
In Checking Wildfires
Maps play a vital role in the activities of the Georgia Forestry Commission. They serve to pinpoint and crosscheck wildfires and give a concise picture of local firefighting installations.
According to Herbert Darley, assistant forest engineer in charge of map-making, the job of supplying individual maps for the 145 protected counties is similar to a woman trying to keep up with the latest Paris fashions.
"A fire c mtrol map can change quicker than a woman's mind," Dar ley said. 1 have to supply the counties with more than 145 basic maps, and each must be kept up to date. Any one of the state's 318 fire lookout towers can be relocated and render as many as eight county maps obsolete."
Darley lays out each map as accurately as a Christian Dior hemline ...If a fire breaks out in the woods," he said, "its position must be spotted quickly and exactly in order to speed up suppression. That's why tower locations and compass p:>ints can't be a eat's whisker off." He p:>inted out that the slightest error may result in time loss that could allow a willfire to get the upper hand.
Just like the controversial Paris designer, Darley's maps come in several varieties and sizes. The basic

H.E. Ruark, fire control chief for the Commission, commended those counties who already have given full a wroval to the measure. He said the law will enable local forestry units to give Georgia 1 andowners better forest fire protection.
Counties in which the notification to burn law now is in effect are Crisp, Bull o:h, Effingham, Emanuel, Ben Hill, Dooley, Montgomery, Lincoln, Dade, Chatham, Jen kins, Burke, Pulaski, Wilcox, Marion, Camden, Ware and Mcintosh.
models are the hal f-inch to one mile or one-inch to a mile scale truck map, the one-inch scale dis pitch chart and the one-inch scale fire occurrence map. As their names imply, each model serves a specific purpose-either they are used at the county headquarters for dispatching men and equipnent, in trucks to help the driver locate the fire or as a gauge showing county forest fire records.
Dar ley is the first to admit his wares are popular. Tve been snowed under with a backl cg of orders for years," he said.. "At the first of the year a majority of the counties under protection were screaming for my latest model. But I've stepped up production, and now, there are only a few scattered counties whose orders haven't been filled." He was quick to point out, however, that many units which have new map; already are tressing for revisions.
The commission engineer attributes the great est por~ tion of his success to the remarkable growth of the Georgia Forestry Commission. He said new counties are going under protection and new towers are rising at such a rate that his maps are almost out of date before they are finished.

1. Inventors John, Otis and Tom Gooch look over their brainchild.

2. Otis Gooch and Jefferson County Agent Spud Wellborn look at Gooch's sawmill where he got the idea of constructing the shaving machine.

3. Close-up of shaving wheel showing alternate rows of shaving

teeth and round depth gauges.

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Jefferson Man Invents

Wood Shaving Machine

Doubters chuckled at Samuel Morse and scoffers hoot ed at Thomas Edison. And Jackson Countians laughed, too, at Otis Gooch of Jeffers m, a mechanical-minded chicken farmer with a flair for the inventive.
Why all the mirth?
The Jackson County cynics didn't believe that Otis could construct the only wood shaving machine in the county, probably the only one in the state and maybe the only me 10 the world.
"It'll never run," neighbors laughingly told Otis and his sonsJ chn, 17, and Tom, 12--who built the fabulous machine from odds and ends and about $25 worth of new materials.
"I'll give you a dollar a shaving for every one you get from that machine," one cynic said while the machine was still a little shaver.
"You' 11 get more shavings if you use a paring knife," John's schoolmates at Jefferson High teased.
But the doubters ended eating their words and Geor gians are eating more delicious Gooch-grown chicken-thanks to the luxuriant layer of fresh wo Crl shavings which covers the floor of Gooch's 250-foot-lmg chicken house. And Otis, incidentally, has almost completed another chicken barn of similar size.
Otis, or "Ott," as his wife and friends call him, be 1itdes his " 'vention," as six-year-old Janice calls it.

"There's nothing to it," he protested. "Anybody could build one."
But no one else has and me man, interested, in possible further development of the machine, recently journeyed up from Mobile, Ala., to inspect it.
The heart of the shaver is a four-foot- diameter wheel . salvaged fran an old saw mill steam engine. It has 145 tlu:ee-inch shaving teeth. Logs are fed across the shaving wheel on a small truck on a track.
The truck, controlled by the transmissioo of a 1934 Ford can go backward or faward, so the logs are shaved coming and going.
"Ah, you'll never make it cut both ways," the doubters said. But Gooch ingenuity Jievailed, and the wheel. shaves both ways. "I know it will cut coming back," Ott said. "I've seen it do it." John tested the idea on a joiner, which will cut a board drawn back across it if pressure is applied down on the board. The teeth are also set at an angle which make the backward and forward cut JX>ssible.
Heavy rollers press the logs against the wheel. The wheel is turned by a belt c mnected either to Ott's tract or or to his saw mill engine. Pulleys gear down the speed of the feed truck from that of the fast-turning mill and tract a engines.
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FIRE PATROLDISCUSSION

1HE FINAL CHECKUP

Fire Patrol Pilots Attend Meeting

More than 30 fire patrol pilots and Georgia Forestry Commission personnel attended an all-clay pilots' meeting
in late November.
The meeting was called by Fire Control Chief H.E. Ruark to improve pilot-ranger co-ordination during the 1956-57 fire season and to standardize the air patrol program so it might operate more efficiently.
Pilots from all over Southern and Central Georgia flew to McRae, setting their bright monoplanes down on the grass landing strip behind the District Five office. Lined up on both sides of the taxi strip, the multi-colored planes made a bright picture against the greenery of the surrounding forest and air field.
Ruark presided over the meeting and spoke on general fire patrol and safety policies. He emphasized that he wanted the 500-foot minimum altitude observed this season to prevent accidents. Assistant Fire Control Chief Turner Barber, Jr. discussed radio procedure, and Communications Engineer Henr{ Cannon explained the operations and efficient use o the plalfes' radios and public address systems.

Commission Pilot Hank Slentz explained CAA regulations and im JX>rtance of observing them. Chief Investigator Bob Gore gave tips on air-ground law enforcement co-ocdination. He also explained f crest fire penal laws.
The filling out of various flight report forms and billing
procedures was also _...,...rw
thoroughly discussed.

Pilots and foresters asked the speaker many questions from the floor.

Attending the meeting were ten pilots, Commission headquar ters personnel, person nel from offices in
districts one, five and eight and rangers and their assistants from many counties which will have au pitrol.

SIGNAL INSTRUCTIONS

JOHN W. COOPER

John W. Cooper Sees Georgia

Forestry Grow Into Maturity

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of nine articles which will appear in the GEXJRGIA FORESTRY during the George Foster Peabody Forestry School Golden Anniversary Celebration. Each installment will be a brief biography of a Forestry School graduate. Purpose of the series is to give a cross section of the alwnni and to renew old acquaintances.
. John W. Cooper, program super vtsor forthe U.S. Forest Service Naval Stores Conservation Program at Val dosta,. has seen Georgia forestry grow mto maturity during his 23-year career.
Born Jan. 9, 1911, in Athens, Cooper received his preliminary education there, graduating from Athens High

School in 1928. He graduated from the George Peabody School of Forestry in 1932.
A year later, he joined the Georgia Forestry Commission where he helped to organize Timber Protective Organizations in Hart and Stephens counties.
From 1935 to 1943, he was district ranger and supervisor of the Civilian Conservation Corps for the U.S. ForestService in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945.
Following his discharge from the service, Cooper was in the wholesale lumber business in Jacksonville, Fla. A year later he rejomed the U.S. Forest Service at the Southern Forest
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Round-Up Of Ranger News
Arthur W. Hartman, Assistant Regional Forester in charge of Fire Control in the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service since 1943, retired in December, after a 1ong and varied career.
Leon R. Thomas, Forest Supervisor of the Sierra National Forest, Fresno, Cal., was transferred to Atlanta to replace Hartman early this mooth.
Hartman, a native of Peckville, Pa., ceceived his B.S. degree in Forestry in 1913 at Penn State, and accepted a job with the Forest Service that same year on the Natural Bridge Natiooal Forest in Virginia.
His next assignment was on the White Mwntai n National Forest in N.H. In 1924, he served as a forester at West Point Military Academy, and in 1917 became a Captain.
In 1926, Hartman re-entered the Forest Service in Arkansas on the Ouachita National Forest where he served as ranger, assistant forest supervisor and forest supervisor.
In 1935, he was sent to Alexandria, La., where he served as Forest Supervisor of the Kisat chie National Forest until 1936, when he became Chief of the Division of Civilian Conservat 1on Corps in the Atlanta Regional Office. When the CCC was terminated, Hartman was appointed Chief of the Division of Fire Control, where he has served until now.
Forest Rangers from 14 counties in the Tenth District gathered at the Nixon Me!Jlorial Forest 4-H Camp recently
for a meeting followed by a suwer.
T.M. Strickland, president of the .Richmond Chapter and County Forest Ranger, said the idea of the gathering was to give the rangers a chance to exchange ideas on how to better their individual forestry units.
The meeting was a family affair, and approximately 50 people, including adults and children, attended.
FIRE FIGHTING VEHICLE--Greene Counry Ranger Busrer Moore, lefr, and Patrolman Walrer Smirh admire their new fire suppression unit, which was purchased wirh funds provided by rhe Greene Counry Keep Green Council, the County Commission and rhe Georgia Foresrry Commission.

GET THE MESSAGE ?--Whar Lincoln Countian would not heed rhe "Keep Lincoln Counry Green" message when ir's racked onto a float bedecked with a bevy of beaudes?
A group of U.S. Forest Service officials recently Visited the Georgia Forestry Commission headquarters, after a previous visit to the Dav.isboro pine seedling nursery.
E.G. Frest of Washington, D.C., led the group making the t we. The pupose of the tour was to determine whether tree seedlings' needs are expected to increase greatly under the new federal soil bank program.
Other members of the group included Floyd Coss.it, nursery technician; Arthur B. Collins, in charge of the soil bank in Forest Service Reg!on Eight and Frank Albert, assistant regional forester.
Some 20 county agents and assistants from 12 Middle Georgia counties met with forestry specialists in Eastman recently for an all-day demonstration on how to estimate pulpwood and saw timber.
The program was mostly devoted to the subject of measuring timber before selling. Also discussed was the subject of timber scales and the Scribner scale was demonstrated and recommended.
In charge of the program was G.Y. Dukes, Athens, extension district agent for the South-Central district. Instruction was given by Dorsey Dyer, extension forester of the University of Georgia. Assisting Dyer was Nelson Brightwell and William Murray, both of Tifton, and both assistant extension foresters.
Agents attending were Jim Collier, Ben Hill; Newton Hudson, Wilcox; P.N. Nix, Crisp; M.F. Alligood, Pulaski; Williard Coley, Bleckley; DeWitt Harrell, Twiggs; Frank Shurling, Laurens; M.K. Jackson, Montgomery; Cecil Spooner, Telfair; James Stewart, Jeff Davis; and Larry Torrance, Coffee.

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Rain threatened to disrupt the parade and several floats were faded and bedraggled from the downpour which fell for almost half an hour just before the procession started. The well-constructed Commission floats came through in fine condition, however.
The forestry girls ducked into automobiles to keep their beautiful gowns and costumes dry. When the mist stopped, the beauties quickly mounted their floats and were off.
So, the thousands of Georgians from miles around Monroe who thronged the streets of the Walton County seat welcomed Santa with an enthusiasm which neither the gloomy sky nor chilled wet air could dampen.
Wood Machine.
(Con t' d from Page 7)
Ott conceived the idea of the shaver by watching logs hang in his saw mill. Occasionally lo~s would not quite reach the saw, which would cut shav10gs cif the ends. Why not build. a machine which would shave 0e logs instead of cutung them, Ott thought? So he and h1s sons set tow ak. Gooch needed the shavings, for sawdust is scarce and he feels that shavings are more satisfactory foe chicken house flooring.
The toughest pact of the job was drilling the 201 holes
in the shaving wheel--145 for the teeth and S6 for the
de~h gauges, which keep the logs the correct distance from the teeth. The teeth, made from bolts, had to be bent, placed in their holes and shar rened. Each tooth and depth gauge, also made from bolts, had to be measured exactly so the shaver would cut evenly.

. ANOTHER FOREST PRODUCTThis impress



tve wooden sign recently erected on the lawn of the University of Georgia School of Forestry

KAOLIN FEST IV ALSmokey Bear waves to the large crowd which jammed Sandersville for the Kaolin Festival.
Homecoming Parade Held
In Washington County
Kaolin and its contributions to the prospe.dty of Washington County were the theme of the week-long First Annual Washington County Kaolin Festival and Sanders ville Homecoming Parade in November. But Ranger Calvin Rhodes of Tennille and his county unit personnel saw to it that forestry wasn't forgotten amid the eulogies to clay.
With assistance of Georgia Forestry Commission In formation and Education personnel, Rhodes erected an elaborate display in the high school gym exhibit hall which was viewed by 3,500 persons.
The theme of the exhibit was "Forestry and Science Work Hand in Hand." It demonstrated the uses of wood, insect control and fire Jrevention and used an automatic slide projector, which was a great attraction, Ranger "Rhodes said.
Assisted by Smokey Bear (Patrolman Bob Watts, who braved SO-degree temperature to don the hot costume), Rhodes and his other assistants jo.ined the climactic week-end parade, which featured numerous .floats, Sand ersville High graduates, high school bands, National Guard tanks and an address by U.S. Rep. Carl Vinson of Milledgeville.
"Smokey" Watts rode in a trailer towed by the unit jeep. Both vehicles were decorated with posters and pine boughs. Smokey threw chewing gum to the many youngsters who lined the lengthy parade route to the center of town.

(Con t' d from Page 8) Experiment Station in New Orleans where he conducted a lumber manufacturing conversion survey. For the next two years he served as assistant chief of fire control of the USFS Regional Headquarters in Atlanta.
He was assistant forest supervisor of Mississippi National Forests from 1948 to 1955, where he was made program supervisor of the U.S. Forest Service Naval Stores Conservation Program at Valdosta, the position he now holds.

Georgia Forestry
January, 1957
TILTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
For the first time in 1his ce ntury , America is growing more wood than it is using. We can maintain this avorablc balance by good forest management - that's Tree Farming.
WE SALUTE 1'HE 1'REE FARMERS OF 1'HIS COMMUNITY

Entered as second class matter. at the Post Office, Macon, Georg1a