Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 12 (Dec. 1957)

Cruising the News
Forest Fire Season
(from the Griffin Daily News)
Fire season is here! A thick blanket of fallen leaves will soon cover the floor of forests. Fields are rapidly changing from green to brown. Fanned by dry autumn wind, this accumulation of dead vegetation will become a vast tinder box, ready to burst into flames at any moment. Cooperation between landowners, plus an assortment of simple fire fighting tools on every farm, could mean the difference between blackened ruin and healthy, income-producing forests. All farms have tools which can be used in fighting woods fires. Other tools can be purchased for little expense or made from discarded matt:~trials. The primary hand tools are rakes, axes, brush hooks, flaps, shovels, and portable water tanks, One of the most effective weapons for fighting fire is an ordinary farm tractor fitted with a heavy disc harrow. Adequate fire breaks can be easily plowed with this equipment. All tools should be kept in good repair and stored in an accessible place. Neighbors may cooperate with one another in controlling woods fires. Properly organized, a few landowners can become an effective fire control unit.
Forestry Is A Profession
(from the Atlanta Constitution) There ' s a lot more to forestry these days than tower
-climbing and smoke-watching. New research techniques being used to improve the
nation's woodland resources include use of radioactive isotopes, studies of tree genetics, development of disease-resistant strains and seed orchards, and modern methods of drying lumber.
Dean Allyn M. Herrick of the University of Georgia School of Forestry, writing in the November issue of the Georgia Alumni Record, points out that forestry is a profession with its own professional organization, journal and code of ethics.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY
December, 1957

Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 1183

Macon, Georgia

Guyton DeLoach, Director

No. 12

Members, Board of Commissioners:

C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman _

________ Alamo

Sam H. Morgan _______ ----------------------------------------------- Savannah

Oscar S. Garrison ----- --------------------------------------------- ------Homer

H. 0. Cummings _____ ---- ---------------------------Donalsonville

John M. McElrath, ---------------------- --------- - Macon

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association.
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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT !-Route 2, Statesboro
DISTRICT li-P. 0 . Box 26,
Camilla DISTRIOT Ill-P. 0. Box 169,
Americus DISTRICT IV-P. 0 . Box 333,
Newnan DISTRICT V-P. 0 .. Box 328,
McRae

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 506, Milledgeville
DISTRICT VII-Route 1,
Rome DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box
1160, Waycross DISTRICT IX-P. 0 . Box 416,
Gainesville DISTRICT X-Route 3,
Washington

"It is both a sc1ence and an ;;trt.'' he says, "for the

courses of study are heavy with fundamental and ap-

plied science and yet the graduate forester does not

attain full stature until he has practiced the art for sev-

eral years. "

Employment opportunities for professionally trained

foresters are plentiful, Dean Herrick reports. Some are

self-employed. Others work for public agencies or pri-

vate enterprises.

T,he Georgia school also trains students from other

Southern states without accredited forestry schools.

The university supplies 94 per cent of Georgia's state

-employed foresters, one of every three industrial for-

esters, and more than half of all the foresters in Geor-

gla.

The school, named in honor of philanthropist George

Foster Peabody, this year begins its second half-cen-

tury of service. Current entollment totals nearly 300

and there are about 900 graduates of the school.

The nine-man teaching staff has the use of a modern

three-story building, more than 2,000 acres of forest

properties , and modern equipment. The school is the

South's oldest forestry school and one of the nation's

oldest.

Graduates of the forestry school are responsible for

protecting forests from fire, insects and disease; for

harvesting and marketing forest products; for the wel-

fare of forest wildlife, and for recreational use of forest

areas by the public.

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The forestry school's radioisotope laboratory uses

atomic particles to trace effectiveness of growth regu-

lators used to control growth of undesirable hardwoods.

Fire Compact Meets, Views

Millett, Claridge, DeLoach, Ewing Lead Group

Southern states banded together this month at the Georgia Forestry Center, but under the banner of fire protection instead of the ''Stars and Bars.''
State foresters, fire chiefs, legislators and representatives of forest industry attended the annual meeting of the 10-state Southeastern States Forest Fire Compact Commission.
They decided to hold a compact manual training session next year, heard reports on compact activities and
elected new officers, who are r.c. State Forester Fred
Claridge, Raleigh, chairman; T.M. Millett, Louisville, Ky., vice chairman; and Alabama State Forester Jake Stauffer, Montgomery, re-e leered secretary. Retiring Chairman Guyton DeLoach was named to the executive committee along with Hubert Wheeler of Ewing, Va.
Carl McNasser, chief of Fire Research at the SE Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, N.C., reported on Southern fire research. He pointed out that the Macon
Forest Fire Research Center is the only one of its type in the nation. The Center conducted its .first test of a water drop on a simulated forest fire and the delegates viewed the event with interest.

"Papa" Checks Children in Nursery
NURSERY "DEAN" ENDS 24 YEARS AT HERTY

An era ended this . month in Georgia Forestry Com-



mission tree seedling production with the retirement

after 24 years service of Herty Nursery Supt. M. E. Mur-

phy.

The "Dean" of Georgia Reforestation and his wife

were honored at a banquet at Albany earlier this month.

Murphy was presented with a plaque commemorating his

long and faithful service. He received several gifts from

his devoted associates.

Commission Director Guyton DeLoach and Reforesta-

tion Chief Sanford Darby paid tribute to Murphy's many

achievements.

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"In my 16 years service with the Commission,'' De-

Loach said, " Mr. Murphy has been an excellent friend at

all times. He has played an invaluable role in the devel-

opment of large-scale seedling production and in training

Commission nursery personnel. It won't seem the same

without him."

Murphy has seen seedling production rocket from the

mule and shovel to the tractor and mechanical seedling

lifter stage in his nearly quarter century of service . He

recalled that his first seedling crop at Herty, which was

planted completely by hand, totalled only 480,000 seed-

lings. The 1957 crop was over 20 million.

In 1933, Herty personnel hoisted the bales of seedlings

onto their shoulders and walked them to the railroad sta-

tion for shipment. Now big trailer trucks range the coun-

ties about the nurseries delivering thousands of seed-

lings in each load.

Murphy's achievements include the construction of the

first seedling grading table in the South and pioneer work

in the application of soil fumigants, sterilizers, fertili-

zers and soil management. He helped develop a suc-

cessful method of storing pine seed. He was leader in the study of the genetic variations of pines



Not only has Murphy produced over 300 million seed-

lings at Herty, but he has been instrumental in training

many outstanding nurserymen, including Reforestation

Assist. Fred Atchison, Page Supt. Mack Neal, Herty

Supt. J.K. Jones, H1ghtower Supt. Buster Harris, Horse-

shoe Supt. Donald Jones and many others.

Retirement from the state has not meant retirement from work, for Murphy is now working with the Louis Taylor



Farms at Tifton-you guessed it-growing pines.





"Nursery Dean" Admires Gift

DeLoach Presents Plaque to Murphys



PARADE, DEDICATION
WELCOME TALIAFERRO
Forest fire control entered Taliaferro County with a flourish recently, despite a cold snap which hit the county the night before. A three-city parade, a barbecue, an equipment display and speeches highlighted the dedication of the county's first fire tower.
Parades through Greensboro, Union Point and Crawfordville of floats , Georgia Forestry Commission and industrial fire fight!ng equipment and bands from the Greene and Taliaferro County High Schools opened the day's festivities.
The motorcade wound up at the tower site a few miles north of Crawfordville. There GFC Director Guyton DeLoach spoke to 500 persons on the importance of forestry to Taliaferro County and explained the services of the Commission to the newcomers to the GFC family.
Miss Sara Ann Nelms, Crawford County's 1958 Keep Green Queen, then christened the tower with a bottle of turpentine. The barbecue followed.
On display at the tower were the GFC emergency fire fighting headquarters trailer a nd kitchen and tents containing management, reforestation, fire control and information and educa tion displays.
Bill Tohnson of Greensboro was chairman of the tower dedication committee, while District Forester George:
Collier and Assistant Bill Schultz ramrodded the Commission's part of the program. H.E. "Buster" Moore of Greensboro is ranger of the combined unit, whose headquarters remain at Greensboro. A fire suppression unit is now stationed in Taliaferro County, however.

Equipment Exh ibit Was Bi_g Hit Smokey Welcomes Spectators

DeLoach extends Commission greetings

Queen Nelms Christens Tower

Governor holds as Jody shovels; Swingler, you know who, DeLoach, Janice, Linda, Lindh look on
'-'ODV PLANTS BILLIONTH TREE AS U.S.F.S. SALUTES GEORGIA

'Copter lays hose where no man goes

America's billionth pine seedling of 1957 was planted at the Georgia Forestry Center earlier this month by Gov. Marvim Griffin, marking Georgia's premier postion in U.S. reforestation.
The celebration was sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service to honor Georgia for leading the nation in 1957 in seedling production and in acreage planted in seedlings.
Gov . Griffin and three beauty queens not only planted the seedling, which symbolized the honor, with a gold -plated shovel, but the Governor dedicated the Page and Morgan seedling nurseries, the pine cone curing and seed extraction plant at the Forestry Center and the new Second District headquarters at Camilla.
Assist. U.S. Forest Service Chief W.S. Swingler extended Federal greetings to the Commission and hailed Georgia's reforestation achievements. He w~ warmly

Macon Mayer Merritt welcomes visitors ro Center
welcomed by Commission Director Guyton DeLoach, who emceed the program, as the "man who got us the money for the new nurseries."
Gov. Griffin said the honor was symbolic of Georgia's rapidly expanding forestry program. He added that the growth is no accident, though. It has been made possible through increased state appropriations.
Fog, flaming brush piles, exploding water bombs and
'chuteless firemen bailing out of helicopters added to the
color, which was heightened even more by the glamorous assistance lent the Governor by Miss Georgia--J ody Shattuck, Miss Keep Georgia Green--Janice Threadgill and Miss Pine Seedling--Linda Brown.
The fog slowed the Governor's arrival and forced his detour to Cochran, but he and his party were 'rescued' from there by the Air Force helicopter sent to the Center to stage a rescue demonstration.
The flaming brush piles were part of tests of sodium borate fire retardant and drops of H-2-0 water 'bombs' on forest fires by a modified torpedo bomber.

H2 0 bomber makes big splash

Sodium borate scops flames again

Collier &
Co. Take Message
To
Tenth

Radioman AI Young and Schul[z s[and by

"Wha[ can Idedica[e nex[?" George asks able aide, ~s. Jordan

F ire! Sg[. Alvin Y. Collier [ells Harrison , Palmer

''Zero one zero to zero two. I have an empty main

street in Madison County. Go get 'em . Zero one zero out.''

"Zero two to zero one zero. Roger. Zero two out."

And a.way goes another lOth District forestry parade

- convoy, led by Investigator Tom Shelton and hard riding ( Wild Bill Schultz, the forester wh-o gi ts thar fustes' and

fastes' with the mostes' floats. Scarcely a hamlet big

enough to boast a main street in the 15-county district

has escaped the forestry message this season.

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I&E is a booming business in North Central Georgia. parades, talks, demonstrations, Yule decorations, tv shows staged by T.M. Strickland, the Cracker's Arthur

Godfrey, forestry camps--it's all in a year's work.

But it's not all showmanship at Washington. Collier

keeps . things runnin,g smoothly in the field, or forest,

aided by an expert crew of fire control and management foresters and rangers.

There are weekly paint gun marksmanship sessions for

Management Men John Harrison and W.D. Palmer.

Inspections are a vital part of the district office rou-

tine. When they're not parading, Collier, Schultz a nd

District Ranger Hollis Winn make life miserable for their

hard working rangers by poking around the units' equip~ - ment and property.

But it can't be too rough, for the lOth has one of the most active rangers' clubs in the Commission and the

I monthly meetings are always a treat. You can't hardly get up from the supper table afterwards.

Where's [he $%&fi? carbure[Qr, Bullard?

PARADING

THRU GEORGIA ...

Cra wfordville: [hey wish [hey hadn'[ burned Macon: Smokey arrives via 'johndeer'

Gray: back where [hey s[aned a[ Hi[chid

Washing[on: Smokey brings '57 model SaO[a

Ellaville : arson doesn'[ pay here ei[her Camilla: Smokey plan[s refores[a[ion idea

Ringgold: [his man's for forestry

FPRS Meeting

Paul Bryant shows ash tray base to Page, Jacobson,
Hill during tour of famed furniture workshop
Freezing temperatures and exploding Vanguard rockets could not deter the Georgia-Florida-Alabama Section of the Forest Products Research Society at their recent fall meeting in Daytona Beach, Florida.
For there were plenty of combustible forest products to beat unseasonable cold and a spacious ground level meeting room at the Casa Linda Hotel to provide shelter from missles from near by Cape Carnaveral which missed their orbits.
Some 50 state and Federal foresters, manufacturers and pedagogues, plus 15 wives, attended the FPRS affair. Almost 20 men attended the Southern Wood Seasoning Meeting on the preceding day.
FPRS officers elected are Chairman Gus Jacobson, Soderhamn Mfg. Co . , Talladega, Ala.; Vice Chairman Dr. John Hill, Alabama Poly, Auburn, Ala.; and Secretary-Treasurer Ralph Peter, USFS, Athens, Ga. who was re-elected.
New SWSA officers are Chairman Dr. Jacob Huffman, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville; Vice Chairman Alex Sessoms, Cogdell, Ga.; and Secretary-Treasurer Lou Gaby, Athens, Ga., USFS.
Speakers from North Carolina to Florida reported on research projects underway and new ones on the way and on new developments in the manufacturing field.
They included Leroy Rand and Fountain Rion, Florida Furniture Industries, Palatka, Fla.; P .S. Knox, Knox Corp., Thomson, Ga . ; W.R. Smith, USFS, Asheville, N.C. J .A. Vaughn , Southern Wood Preserving Co., Atlanta; R.L. Osborne, American Wood Preservers Institute, At lanta; Don Post, Univ. of Florida; and Harold Colee of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

Smith begins Vanguard countdown Old SWSA chief wrings in the new Tourists discover secret compartment

RANGER ROUNDUP

RESEARCH NOTES--Eight major pulp and paper companies have formed the Georgia Pulp and Paper Assn. to push research and education. The group will report on the industry' s economic and social importance in Georgia and will co-ordinate the drive on air and water pollution abateme~t. Headquarters are at Brunswick.
W.T. McDaniel, manager of industrial relations for Ray-
onier at 1e~up, is president of the new group. John A.
May , president of Georgia Kraft Co. at Macon, is vice president ; Malcolm B. P ineo, technical director of the Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co., is secretary, and J.P. Schenck, plant engineer of Certain-Teed Products Corp., Savannah, is treasurer.
Other members include Owens-Illinois, Valdosta; National Paper Co. , Atlanta; Southern Paperboard Corp., Savannah ; Mary's Kraft Corp.; Rubberoid Co., Savannah; Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., Savannah.

GFC-USFS F orest Products Technologist Rufus Page paused Ion~ enough during lumber yard tours to co-author a study on 'Heavy Losses in Air Seasoning Georgia Pine and How to Reduce Them." F orestr y P rof. Roy Carter of N.C. State C ollege worked with Page on the paper, which was sponsored by the Sourheastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, N.C. Rufus looks over his baby in his Macon office.
TENTH DISTRICT SOCIETY NOTES...Assist. Dist. Forester Bill Schultz got spruced up recently to present Cedar Deodara seedlings to Washington Woman's Club members . Sweet William got the rare seeds for the seedlings from a tree belonging to Norman Adams of Tignal_l. A quick look in a reference book reveals that Deodara 1s a Far Western native.
NEW HEADQUARTERS. . .Marion County Ranger John O'Donnell, Patrolman Lindsey Barwick and Assist. Patrolman Bobby Welch are busy building a new headquarters in South Buena Vista. The framing is almost completed on the three-room $tructure. O'Donnell said he expected to have his palace completed in the spring.
Wheeler County Ranger Alston Cherry turned lecturer recently to present a fire control demonstration to members of the Glenwood High School FFA classes.

Se nator Herman Talmadge, long-time friend of Georgia forestry, plants a "super tree" at the recent dedication of International Paper Company's Experiment Forest at Bainbridge. Forest Direct or Dr. Charles Driver hangs on to the muscular tree to keep it from jumping out of the ground, while various International executives look on.
ELECTION NOTES...Georgia foresters are winning new national honors. U. Ga. Forestry Dean A.M. Herrick was named vice-chairman and secretary of the National Council of Forestry School Executives. SPCA GM Henry Malsberger of Atlanta was elected vice president of the Society of American Foresters. He was installed at the recent national convention in Syracuse, I&E Chief Frank Craven represented the GFC.
SOUTHEASTERN SAF MEETING .. .The Southeastern Section of the Society of American Foresters will hold
its annual meeting Jan. 30-31 in Panama City, Fla., at the Dixie Sherman Hotel.
SEE HERE, PRIVATE JONES...The Forestry Commission 's loss was the Army's gain (or vice versa, Atlanta's young lovers say) when Fulton County Ranger Terrel Jones was called by Uncle Sam. Terrell, irked by lovers' lane fires started by smoking lovers, last summer asked Fulton and Atlanta police to block off the sparking places. Hurry back, Pvt. Jones.

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