Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Feb. 1957)

FOREST RESEARCH
For a
GREATER GEORGIA

GEORGIA FORESTRY
Editorial

Georgia's Golden Pines
(Fran the Rane News-Tribune)
Our most plentiful tree is usually referred to as "yellow pine," an obvious reference to the color of the wood.
Actually, it is a yellowish gold, and from the economic standpoint, gold is the Jroper word.
So observes the Southern Pine Association, an organization of .industry and conservation agencie~ devoted to expanding and protecting our forests.
Already, the worth of Southern pne reaches billions of ddlars per year .in sales of lumber, paper, naval stores, fertilizer and other Jroducts.
Forest prcxiucts are the biggest crop in Georgia. Our state leads in rroduction of naval stores and pulp-wood and is at the top o the list .in lumber traduction.
Despite the increase in use ci forest Jreducts, the number of SoUthern pine trees is increasing because of the planned ref aestation pr cwams.
At p-esent there are abour 30 billion Southern pine trees in the Southern states.
And the worth of our golden pines should bee ane greater.
According to the Southern Pine Association, a single pine tree 16 inches in diameter will yield the following:
Mor~ than 200 board feet of lumber; 12 bushels of pulp chi~; about l/20th cord of J:Ulpwood ;ten bushels of barlc, which makes fertilizer, and 16 bushels of saw.:lust, which has various commercial uses.
Maybe pne trees aren't as beautiful in the fall as other trees whose leaves turn ablaze with color.
But we'll still go along with the proposal to call them ~!den pines.

Naval Stores Can Help
Farmer In Acreage Cut
(Fran the Atkinson Ccxmty Citizen)
Reduced crop allotment p-os _IEcts for next year are causing many farmers to once again think of their woodlot as a place to provide the necessities of life.
Some will consider cutting their round timber during the ooming year, but those concerned with obtaining the greatest return and those interested in seeing a steady income over a period of many years will first investigate the possibilities of working the-ir timber for Naval Stores with the newest methods which no longer result in lost jump-hurts when the timber has been worked out and finally harvested.
According to John W. Cooper, Supervisor of the Naval Stores Conservation Program with headquarters at Valdcsta, the timberland owner should be able to net at least 40 to 80 percent more, depettding on the method of waking, by salvaging the Nbal Stores value in the tree bef ae cutting it. The new bark hack and acid do not destrcy- any wood. The spiral gutt er or Yam apron tacked to the outside d the tree withdcubleheaded nails, which are easily removed and used oo ether faces, leave the face clear of all hardware and the entire length of the tree merchantable for any type of timber product. The landowner who manages his timber in this way can really think of it as another crq> because it will mean annual income from year to year. In addition to this, when the final timber cut is made, he should be able to obtain even more for his stumpage than he would if he cut it roond because the trees c mtinue to grow while being wccked even though ~ a slightly reduced rate foe the wccking per.lod.

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Vol. 10

February, 1957

No . 2

Published Monthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, Box 1183
Macon, Georgia
Gu71ton DeLoach, Director

Members, Board of Commissioners: JSoahmn MH.. MMcoErglraanth___, _C__h_a__irSmaavnan--n--a--h------------C--.--M---.--J--o--r--d--a--n---,--J--r--.-_-_-_-_-_-_--_-_---_--_---_---AMlaacmono Oscar S. Garrison________________Homer H. 0. Cummings________Donalsonville

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia

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EDITOR___________------------------------------------------------------------------James C. Turner, Jr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS__ __________Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach, Jeanette Jackson

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

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT !-Route 2, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville

DISTRICT li-P. 0 . Box 26, Camilla

DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome

DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0 . Box 1160, Waycross

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-Route 3, Washington

If a reputable farmer really needs a large amount of money for next year, it will pay him to make a necessary loan, pay interest on the money and still be money ahead by wccking his timber for Naval Stores before cutting.
Our Cover
"Research for a Better Georgia" is the by-word foe this month'!> cover. Through research Georgia continues to compound the value of her rapidly increasing forest area by producing better trees and by better usage of her timber and woods products.
The Georgia Forest Research Coun cil has several major duties which include conducting research that will benefit Georgia forestry, co ordinating all forest research in the state and co-operating with oth~ private and public agencies in forest research.
The cover features several Research Council books symbolizing extensive wack accomplished from long term
~ojects.


Tree llllprovelllent
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Conference Held

.Almost 150 representatives of forest research and industry christened the $3 million Georgia Center for Continuing Education recently with the fourth Southern Forest Tree lti>rovement Conference.
Dr. L.A. Hargreaves, Jr., assistant Forestry Commission director, was general chairman of the conference, which featured addresses by Dr. V.L. Harper of Washington, D.C., chief of forest research for the U.S. Forest Service, and other distinguished retresentatives cf education, research and industry.
Sanford Darby, Commission reforestation chief, presented 1o one of the many technical papers at the two-day meeting. His
subject was ..The Georgia Tree Seed Certification Prtgram."

E.G. Wieseshuegel of Norris, Tenn., chief of Forestry Investigating Branch, Div. of Forest Relations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was elected chairman for 1957-58; Dr. George Garin of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Aubutn, vice chairman and Gordon Condit of the Crossett Co., Crossett, Ark., was named secretary.
Delegates Attending
Delegates from 19 states, including every Southern state from North Carolina to Texas, California, Minnesota and New Ycxk, jammed one of the large conference rooms in the luxurious new building on the University of Georgia c~us. Dr. Keith Dorman of the U.S. Forest Service at the Macon Forestry Center headed the program committee.
Harper traised the meeting, telling the opening session that "ten years ago it would have been hard to get together a dozen men for a meeting like this.''
He traced the trogress of forest research, reporting that almost a million dollars is spent annually on it. But he said this is a small figure coti>ared to ex_Ienditures in other fields.

GENERAL DISCUSSION-Pictured (L to R) are Dr. V .L. Harper, Washington, D.C.; Dr. George Garin, Auburn, Ala. and E.G. Wiesehuegel, Norris, Tenn.
James Spires of Statesboro, speaking for the Swtbern Pulpwood Conservation Assn., said the southern pulpwood industry is undergoing unprecedented expansion.
Plants in Operation
Fifteen plants are in operation and 11 more are planned. The Swth produced 19 million cords of plipwood in 1955-60 per cent of national production, COti>ated to only 20 per cent of U.S. outp.tt in 1931, Spires said.
Spires warned that prcxiuction costs must be kept low through improved ~<Xiuction methods so fcxest products may c aq>ete with other products. Continued research makes this possible, he added.
V.W. Cothren d New Ckleans, a forester of the Southern Pine Assn., said southern pine is the premier wood in home c msttuction. Enough lumber to build a million homes was troduced in the South .in 1956, he said. The demand for soothem lumber continues, he said, despite the nationwide housing construction slump.

FEATURED SPEAKER-<:hi Wu Wang, University of Fla. (L) is shown talking with Oscar G. Traczewitz of the Inter national Paper Co.
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WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA?-Looking over the program are (L to R) Dr. L.A. Hargreaves, Jr., Macon; Dr. Berch Henry, Gulfport, Miss. and Keith Dorman, Macon.

Rain Ceases Fi
"No Burn Ban"
A long rrayed-for half .inch of rain Jan. 15 ended the year's first ''No Burn Ban"-in the First and Eighth Congressional Districts. The ban was im-
posed on the bone-dry area Jan. 3 by Georgia For-
estry Coimnission Director Guyton DeLoach after a rash of fires the previous week-end emphasized the dangerous fire conditions in the drought1'lagued area.
Mcintosh County in District One suffered the heaviest damage-a number of incendiary fires burned some 2,000 acres of timberland. To stop this epidemic of blazes, Ollef Criminal Investigator Bob Gore led a team of investigators and bloodhounds into the area.
Bloodhounds Used
~erating from the Mcintosh Unit at Townsend, the investigators ranged over the area, txobing the past week-end's fires, working with the 'hounds, whose presence arrused a great deal of interest. and erecting "no bum" posters in prominent places throughout the district.
First District Forester Bill Harper called a meeting of rangers and air patrol pilots at his States boro headquarters the same week to discuss the situation. Harper and Fire Control Forester Al Smith discussed the pilots' duties with the seven fliers who patrol the district's 14 counties. Eighth District Forester George Lavinder took the same precaution in his district, which, fortunately, suffered less damage.
Investteative Policy
The Mcintosh County fires gave the Commission lawmen their first large-scale otpottunity to put their new investigative policy into action. Gore had announced a shcrt time before that all incendiary fires should be investigated to see if Georgia Forest Penal laws had been violated.
This policy was carried out so promptly and thoroughly in Mcintosh that the next week-end saw no fires at all of any consequence in that area.
Ollef of Fire Control H,E. Ruark said credit was due largely to the ~esc:nce of law enforcement per soonel in the area. A constant inquiry into causes of the widely scattered blazes heightened the fire prevention concern and gained co-operation of residents in the area.
A little more than a half inch of rain fell over the area, and DeLoach felt the lifting of the ban was warranted.

TURNOVER IN COMMISSION PERSONNELTalking over their new positions are (L toR) Frank Craven, H.E. Ruark and J.C. Turner, Jr. Not pictured is Julian Reeves,
new SeveothDistrict Forester.

Turner Succeeds Ruark; Craven To Head I&E

James C. Turner, Jr., former Otief of Information and Education for the Georgia Forestry Commission, has replaced H.E. Ruark as Chief of Fire Control. The change was effected Feb. 1.
Ruark resigned to accq>t a position with the National Container Division of Owens, lll., Glass Company at Jacksonville, Fla. He will be in charge of the company's forest land in Florida.
Rq>lacing Turner as Chief of Information and Education is Frank Craven, who was District Forester of the Seventh District at Rome. He will be reJiaced there by Julian Reeves, former Forest Management Field Assistant .in charge of timber stand improvement.
Ruark joined the Commission in 1950 as Assistant Director in charge of Fire Control. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. After his graduation in 1941, he entered the U.S. Army and served for four years. He was discharged with the rank of major and did forest consultant work before accepting a position with the Commission.
During Ruark's tenure as fire control chief, the Commission

made rapid strides in the field of fire suppression. Facilities were expanded in protection from 80 counties to 145 counties under organized fire control programs. A statewide emergency fire-fighting Jian was initiated. An annual training school for forest rangers was established. Fire danger stations were ex_l:ailded throughout the state from 18 to 101. Some 90 additional fire lookout towers were emerged. The Commission's fire-fighting equipment was increased greatly, including heavy and light tractors, emergency equipment and air ratrol.
In replacing Ruark, Turner holds ample qualifications. During his nine years with the Commission he has been Assistant District Forester at Washington, Chief of Forest Management, Assistant Chief of Fire Control and Chief of Infa:mation and Education.
Craven's five-year tenure with the Commission includes positions as r.anger in Butts County, Assistant District Forester at McRae, Assistant District Forester at Rome and District Forester at Rome.
During the two years Reeves has been with the Commission, he has served as Fulton County Ranger, Assistant District Forester at Newnan and Forest Management Fidd Assistant in charge of timber stand 1IDprovement.

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GFC Sends Problems To General Services
If a really tough problem arises within the Georgia Focestry

Commission, it usually winds up in Lester L. Lundy's lap.

Lundy is chief of the commission's trouble-shooting depart ment, which aJXly is entitled "General Services." And, acccxding to him, the services his department has been called to rerrler certainly are general indeed. "Don't let the high-ranking title fool you," the versatile Lundy emfhasized, "some of the jobs we've done wruldn't even be considered by a private."

Scratching his shock of dark .brown hair, which is salted with a "general-service-chief's g;ay," Lundy recalled some d the problems his department has handled. "I'll never fcxget
the time ooe of wr rangers brought a truck to the warehouse and asked us to fix it up,'' he smiled. ''When we went out to hok at it, all we f amd was a motor and a chassis. The rest of it had been burned up in a fire.

"You know what?" he asked seriously, "fixing that truck took some doing-but the boys down at the shop did it. They've had plenty d experience converting trucks and other vehicles for forestry work and rerairing and rennovating equipment now in use."
Constroction of Dikes

Lundy said he never will forget when the Hightower Nursery was built. "We had to build dikes along the banks of the Hightower River," he mentioned casually. "We'd never done anything like that before, but we must have done a good job because they're still holding back the floodwaters."

Credit for the outstanding service really should go to the men he works with, Lundy declares. "They do all the work," he said. "All I do is handle the '\Wtrying. When we get an assignment, I figure out how it ought to be done, but they're the ones who actually do the job."
Lundy's right-hand man is Frank Bagwell, shop foreman. "He's an easy-going guy,., the service chief said, "and nobody's been able to come up with a prqblem that's stun:ped him yet. It seems like they'vebeen trying hard enough..though."

Bagwell once was called on to climb to the top of the 250 foot radio antenna at the forestry headquarters, Lundy said, to replace a burned out aircrlift warning signal. "He stayed up there fighting off a hoard of wasps that were nested between the struts," he added.

GENERAL SERVICES PERSONNEL-Shown &om top to bottom are Lester L. Lundy, chief; (L to R) J.W. "Doc" Lasseter, Charles Amerson, C.D. Betts, Faye Cantrell, Bob Wynens, shop; Frank Bagwell, shop foreman; Hubert Kitchens, warehouseman and secretary Carolyn Tanner; Gene Crummey, asst. warehouseman, le&, and General Services secretary Loretta Dixon, ri&ht; G.K. Brinson, driver and Bill Stewart,
driver.

"He's a tall slim man, but when he came down, it looked like he'd gained 20 pounds q> there. The wasps had stung his hands and face and they were all swollen, but he got the job done.'
Stnp Staff Menilers
Other members of the shop staff are welders "Doc" Lasseter and Olarles Amersoo, mechanics Faye Cantrell and C.D. Betts, drivers Bill Stewart and G.K. Brinson, carpenter H.P. Varnadore and secretary Mrs. Loretta Dixon.
In addition to its trCllble-shooting duties , Lundy's depart ment also is in charge of furnishing supplies to the entire commission. The Macon warehouse maintains a constant supply of some $100,000 'iWrth of materials ranging from paper
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Feb. IS Proclaill\ed Georgia Arbor Day

Tree plantings and conservation ceremonies were held this month as thousands of Georgia youngsters observed the sixtysixth anniversary of Arbor Day.
Arbor Day has been a traditional observance in Georgia since 1890, when the General Assembly decreed such an observance by all the state's schools. In 1941, the General
Assembly set the third Friday in February as Arbor Day
Gov. Marvin Griffin, who proclaims this day every year, urged every citizen of Georgia to give attention to Arbor Day by taking part in the protection, devel~ment and perpetuation of forestry.

Various schools throughout Georgia held Arbor Day celelrations Friday, Feb. 15, according to a suggested _Irogram canposed by the Georgia Forestry Commission. Copies of the program were available to schools and various ci v.ic organizations through district foresters, county foresters and county rangers.
Many of the state's county forest rangers worked with school teac;hers, principals and superintendents in setting up special programs. Forestry motion pictures also were available for use in schools, and srecial forestry demoostrations .in such phases as reforestation, forest fire prevention and forest management were featured.

PINE PLANTING--Arbor Day was observed recently at Union Grammar School by the planting of a loblolly pine tree. Students, along with Principal Mamie Carter, look on as Bibb Ranger H.P. Stapleton breaks ground for the occasion.
Guytoo DeLoach, Commission director, compimented school and civic organization leaders at the job they have done in conveying to the youth of Georgia the value of woodland areas and the part they can play in helping keep Georgia green.
He added that each Arbor Day project sponsored by a school or organization was definite evidence of the co-operation of Georgians in carrying out an effective reforestation plan.

500 Attend SPCA Conference

It is impossible to guage the full impact of pulp and paper industries on the ecroomy of the South, Lucian Whittle, director of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn.,. said recently.
Addressing some 500 association members at their annual meeting in Atlanta, Whittle estimated upwards of 600,000

L.W. WHITTLE Featured Speaker

persons .in the 12 Southern states profit either directly or indirectly from the two major forest products industries. He judged that the 73 pulp mills which draw wood from the South are directly responsible for padding the overall economy with more than one and a half billioo dollars annually.
"These mills are largely responsible for the increasing value of Southern timberland," he added, "but just bow broad and far-reaching are their effect on the overall economy is irrpossible to determine accurately when you consider related industries." He was quick to add, however, that the un_Irecedented .influx of rdated industries int~ ~e area .is a strong indication of the unlimited possibilities in the foreseeable future .
dimaxing the three-day meeting, the director, also a vice _Iresi.dent of Brunswick Pulp and Paper Co., followed a long list of distinguished speakers who discussed various J:hases of pulpwood industries.
Conservation was the keynote of the meeting, with special emphasis placed on wildlife and the small landowner. Frank Heyward, Jr. oi Gaylord Container Corp. and K.A. Swenning of Hollingsworth& Whitney Division of Scott Paper Co. pointed out that the small, Jiivate forest landowner .is the crux of the entire .industry. H.A. Miller of the 'U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pointed up the role .industry plays .in encouraging and helping to protect and perpetuate the nation's wildlife.
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11 Awards Presented

To As Extension Worlcers

Twenty-one outstanding Agricultural Extension Service employees were recently presented awards totaling $10,500.

Georgia Citizens & Southern Bank President Mills B. Lane
gave awards of $500 each to three state staff members and
18 county workers at a special luncheon at the Capital City Oub in Atlanta.

THE FffiiNG SQUAD--Investigators make dry run with pistols at Macon training session. Pictured (L to R) are Charlie Tillman, McRae; W.H. Kierbow, Gainesville; Clyde A. Bowden, Americus; Herman Scoggin, Rome; W.E. Lee, Newnan; R.M. McCrimmon, Statesboro and Thomas E. Shelton, Washington.
Investigators Hold
Training Session
Criminal investigators of the Georgia Forestry Commission
will investigate all forest fires of incendiary origin in 1957,
Olief Investigator Bob Gore said after a recent training session at Macon.
With the Macon meeting, the Commission's 10 lawmen wound up an intensive training JXogram which has prepared them for the increased work. Gore estimated the new investigations will increase their work load 25 per cent.
'Citizens throughout the state have demanded increased protection of their valuable woodlands," Gore said, "so we are taking this step to safeguard the forest pr aiucts industry."
"I feel the intensified investigations will be a decided deterrent on fire setting. Persons who set the fires with malicious intent will probably think twice before they strike the first match, for local law enforcement officers as well as our investigators will make every effon to awrehend them. Persons who cause fires by their carelessness will be p:osecuted just as vigorously as malicious arsonists.

The winners were nominated by their fellow workers and selected by a final committee appointed by W.A. Sutton, director of Agricultural Extension Service. They were honored
for their achievements during the 1956 Extension year ending
Nov. 30.
Receiving the awards were Miss Avola Whitesell, clothing srecialist; Dorsey Dyer, forester; J.R. Johnson, agronomist; Johnny P. Stowe, Polk County; Mrs. Frances McKay, Fulton; Forrest B. Salter, Harris; J.A. Mauldin, Mitchell; W.R. Carswell, Decatur; Mrs. Marie H. Stewan, Grady.
Mrs. Sara Allen Van Hom, Hall; J.P. Baker, Walker; A.C. Holland, Banow; Allmon Carter, Wilkes; Mrs. Betty Dooley, Putnam; Miss Dorothy Bond, Richmond; Mrs. Lula B. Wommack, Truetlen; Byron Dyer, Bulloch; L.O. Parker, Candler; Mis s Esther Godbee Cook; W.L. Whittle, Thomas and Harold Brown, Colquitt.
Sutton explained that each county and home demonstration agent was eligible to nominate five fellow workers for the awards, and that each state staff member named five coworkers whom he thought worthy of the recognition.
Dyer, along with Miss Whitesell and Johnson, were cited for efficiency in interpreting research results from College of Agriculture Experiment Stations and other sources, and developing programs for speeding information to county workers and co farm families.

At the Macon meeting, Gore introduced new investigator Louis Bradley, Jr. of Statesboro, to his fellow investigators. Bradley, Army veteran, is training with R.M. McCrimmon of Statesboro. He will eventually be assigned a district, Gore said, giving the Commission a full complement of 10 investigators.

In the past 18 months, training classes have been conducted in the field and classroom in the science of fingerprinting, both latent and rolled, collection and preservation of evidence, criminal interrogation, testifying in court, techniques of photographing, diagramming and charting crime scenes; investigation techniques and Georgia Forest Penal laws.

Other subjects have included political science, accident investigation, safety investigation, air patrol as related to forest fires, marksmanship, tracing of abandoned autos which have been stripped and burned and arson detection and investigation. Several investigators attended an arson seminar at the University of Florida last summer.

GRAB THAT GUN!--chief lnvestigatoc Bob Gore takes gun
gun from Investigator Herman Scoggin of Rome as the other s observe the situation.



Meadows Succeeds

In Private Business

Ecfi tor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of nine articles which will appear in the GBJRGIA R.JRES11(Y 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 alumni and to renew old acquaintances.



Ben Meadows took 18 years of forestry ex~rience and parlayed it into a successful forestry tools and equipnent

company.

Meadows was born at Cant> Hill, Ala., in January of 1917.
He graduated from Camp Hill High School and entered Auburn University in 1934. In order to get a fcrestry degree, he later transferred to the University of Georgia School of Forestry. He was a member of the 1938 graduating class.



Completing his education, Meadows returned to Alabama where he was em poyed by the Alabama Department of Conservaticn in the Forestry Div.ision. His tenure there was interrq>ted in 1945, when he was inducted into the Army. Mter a one-year tour with a guard company at Camp Gordon Disciplinary Barracks, he returned to the Alabama Division of
Forestry.
A shon time later, he resigned his positim with the state forestry agency and joined the Masonite Corpaation at Laurel, Miss. There he was in charge ci propeny management until 1951.
. Mter leaving the Mississippi firm, he entered the consulting f1eld, and in 1952, he was appointed president and general manager of Forestry Suwliers, Inc., at Jackson, Miss. His duties included selling all types d forestry tools and equipment and serving as COJll'any ccnsultant.
Four years later, Meadows resigned to establish his own ~iness, the Ben Meadows Co., at 315 Pharr Rd., Atlanta. Since then, he has continued to sell forestry eq!.Upmerw: and serve as c msultant specializing in management and marketing.

TRACTOR DEMONSTRATIONHibb County Ranger Preston Stapleton di:scusse.s the use of a tractor in forestry wack
Bibb Boy Scouts Attend Christmas Forestry Camp
Sixth District personnel, headed by Forester Frank Eadie, gave 50 Boy Scours from Bibb County an on-the-sJX>t sample of Georgia Forestry Commission fire control technique at the Scour Christmas Forestry Camp at Guq> Benjamin Hawkins near Byron.
The two-day camp is an annual conservation project sJX>n sored by the Central Georgia Scout Council and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. It was directed this year by Scout Executive Howard Allison and Soil Conservationist W.E. Forney, both of Macon.
Eadie, Assistant District Forester Herbert Billue, Bibb County Ranger Preston Stapleton and Crawford Ranger J .H. Rigdon staged the demonstration. Eadie and Billue plowed fire breaks with the big Oliver tractor which is stationed at the Milledgeville district office.
Rigdon plowed with his jeep; Stapleton chewed up the terrain with his John Deere and then explained to the boys the uses of the vehicles and radios in fire fighting. The Scours. enjoyed Stapleton's colorful description of a ranger's duties and clambered over the units, investigating them thoroughly.
Allison said the boys also ranicipated in tree planting, harvesting, undesirable hardwood control, insect and disease control and land usage. They spent one night at the camp and prepared all their meals. Camp Hawkins, near Byron, Ga., is located .in both Peach and Gawford Counties. Forney is a member of Central Georgia Scour Council.
JEEP PLOWING-crawford County Ranger J.H. Rigdon sho~s a group of boy scouts how to plow with a jeep.

Round-Up Of Ranger News
James L. Lasseter, son of J.W. "Doc" Lasseter, is the only son of a Georgia Forestry Commission employee presently attending the George Foster Peabody School of Forestry. He entered the University of Georgia as a freshman in September.
Young Lasseter, who graduated from Perry High School last year, was an outstanding athlete, lettering in football and baseball. After much hesitation concerning a major in physical education or forestry, he gave up his sports aspirations for the latter.

The latest techniques in forestry work were demonstrared recently ar a Forestry Field Day held ar Murray County High School farm.
Edgar Kreis, Jr., fores.tor for the stare vocational agriculture department, led the discussions and directed the demonstrations.
Participaring in the all-day wcrkshop were representatives from Rome Kraft Paper Co., Rome; Bowaters Southern Corp., Calhoun, Tenn., local forest rangers, district foresters and members of several local agencies.
James Bowen, Terrell County fcrest ranger, has been transferred to Sumter County as ranger. Bowen served in Terrell for awroximately three years.
Bob Holland, a native of Columbus, who has been assistant forest ranger in DeKalb County, succeeds Bowen.

LARGE SEEDLING SHIPMENT-Forest Ranger Albert Mooney, left, and Fred Holloman of the state nutsery at Dawsonville, look over part of a shipment of 100,000 loblolly and slash pine seedlings which Elbert County re ceived recently. It was the largest number of seedlings ever sent to the county in one shipment.
Lamar Teate, formerly a resident cf Ccrdele, is the first chairman of the newly-formed South Florida Forestry Con servarion Assn.
At the time of his appointment, Teate was information and education forester for the Florida Forest Service with headquarters in Lakeland, a position he had held since receiving his master's degree in forestry fran the University of Georgia last year.
Gilmer County FFA Chapter is convinced there is no better place to study forestry chan right ~the woods. In co-oreration with the Trust Company of Georgia, the future farmers started a school forest program this year.
A tract ci timber surrounding the county high school recently was designated for chis purpose by the County Board of Educarion. Under the direction of Vocational Agricultutal in structors Calvin Jackson and Paul Davis and Ed Kreis, state Vo-Ag forester, the youths manage the tract of timber on a commercial scale.
The boys ace learning first hand the best methods of planting, chinning, harvesting, fire control, marking, marketing and other forestry activities. Exrenses such as plantin~ and fire fighting equipment will be borne by the fcrestry project. The remaining profit will be used by the Vocational Agricultural department. for ptrchasing tools and ocher equipment.

SOMETHING NEW ADDED-The white fence shown above is only a part of District Forester W.C. "Cash" Harper's landscaping project to beautify the First District Office in Statesboro.

A>~- Only Y.!!Y can
PREVENT WOODS FIRES!



Did You Know
That---
The only reason any wood floats is because of the vacant sptces it cootains?
The heaviest wood native to the united States is INKWOOD whose density is 1.04 and which weighs almost 65 pounds per cubic foot?
The density of LFfTERWOOD from Dutch Guiana is 1.363 when oven dry, and it weighs more than 85 pounds per cubic foot?
The density of Alstonia spatulata, a tropical wood, ranges from 0.0394 to 0.0~ and the lightest wood of this species weighs only about 2~ pounds per cubic foot?
The moisture content of green wood can and often does ex ceed 100 percent?
SPCA Conf. (Continued from Page 6) Highlighting the activities were a television workshop IIX)derated by Jay Durham, program director of WSB-TV in Atlanta, and a radio workshcp conducted by Mike MaciX>ugald,
farm director for WSB radio. Sarq>le radio and televi~ion forestry programs were presented by experienced members. A live television program of association activities also was televised over WSB-1V, and the delegates watched it on telev.ision sets installed in the convention hall.
N.W. Sentell, p.-esident of the association, and Robert C. Barienlxock, vice president, presided over p.-ogram activities. The meeting culminated with a board of directors' meeting.
SPCA PRESIDENT-Presiding over the annual Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association is R.C. Barienbrock of The Mead Corp., Chillicothe, Ohio.

Women's Clubs Sponsor Forestry Essay Contest
The Georgia Federation ci Women's Clubs is s JX>nsor
ing a statewide forestry contest to help focus attention on the importance of Georgia's forests, Mrs. Chester E. Martin, State Conservation Chairman, announced this month.
'If we are to grow the timber needed to insure the future prosperity of Georgia, our school children must learn the importance of using our natural resources wisely," stated Mrs. Mar tin.
The title of the essay contest is "Trees Are Import ant to Georgia Because .. ". It is limited to 2~ wcxds and is open to all sixth and seventh grade children in the stat e. Judging will be based oo cr:iginal ity and know ledge ci the subject, and essays should be in the hands of the district conservation chairmen by February 15. Five from each district then will be sent to Mrs. Martin ncx later than March 1 for final judging.
There will be three prizes-$25 for first place S15 for
second and $10 fcx third, with an original drawing of Smokey the Bear going to the top winner. Prizes will be presented at t he state convention of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs in Atlanta during April.
Two additional awards will be given in the Conser vation Department," Mrs. Mar tin further stated, cne to the district having the greatest participation in the essay contest and the tther to the club giving the best interpretation of the Conservat.ion Department's oojectives."
General Services.
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clips to plow points. Hubert Kitchens, warehouseman , is
keeper ci the keys and he sees that even the remotest county
unit has enough supplies to operate efficiently.
Kitchens is ably abetted by his two assistants Gene Crummey and Bob Wynens, who also is a pirttime commission pilot. Warehouse secretary is Carolyn Tanner.
Of course, there are other "routine" activities, Lundy said. Hauling commission equipment from one part of the state to another is one. Items such as fire towers, tractcrs and hand tools make up the bulk of the hauling chores.
General services also is charged with moving in emergency field equipment and supplies during large fires, manning and caring for commission aircraft and maintaining the forestry headquarters building and gr(llflds at the Georgia Forestry Center.
"Oh yes," Lundy added, "everybody in the department also is subject to be called in to help fight forest fires."

Georgia Forestry
February, 1957
SOME TO HARVEST NOW
SOME TO GROW MORE
The logger harvests trees for houses, furniture, paper bags. newspapers and many other items.
Because he harvests them wisely. there will be timber for your children and your grandchildren.
CONSERVATION MEANS WISE USE

Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, .\lacon, Georgia.