Georgia forestry, Vol. 3, no. 7 (July 1950)

Georgia Forestry

JULY

1950

GeorgiG foru try

Progress in

The Forest Fire

Record

Forest Fire Fighting (FROM THE MOULTRIE OBSERVER)

(FROM THE CORDELE DISPATCH)
Although progress is being made in fighting forest fires throughout Georgia - since 79 of the State's 159 counties now have organized protection, the seven-month's period between October and May 1 was the worst fire season for Georgia in ten years.
Over 9, 000 separate fires swept over more than 281,000 acres of Georgia forests in the protected counties alone.
Despite this period being one of the worst in the State's history, timber losses were held to a fairly low minimum in Crisp County during the same period, due to the establishment of a fire fighting program here last/ear by the Cris:;> County Forestry Boar -with the loss being held to 1,955 acres being burnt over. It is estimated that 6,135 acres would have been destroyed if an organized program had not been in operation.

Georgia's forests are still going up in smoke, showing that there is a hi~ job to do if we are to conserve milhons of dollars worth of our natural resources.
The Georgia ForestryConmission reports that durinf the seven months between OctobeT of last year and A~ril 1 of this year, 9,000 separate w1ldfires swept over more than281, 000 acres of forest land in yrotected counties alone. Only 79 o the 159 counties in the state now have organized protection.
Drought conditions made fire a serious hazard during the seven months, but the ForestryCoamission's records show that carelessness and incendiarism still were the principal cusses of the destruction by fire.
There was better cooperation and more concerted fire fighting action in Georgia last winter than ever before, but the efforts of all must be redoubled if the state's valuable timber lands are to be converted into future clfsh.

Carelessness and incendiarism are the two principal causes of destructive forest fires. Many fires are started from burning and clearing operations in fields, pastures and new-ground, and from so-called 'control burning'' operations in wooded areas.
Other fires ere started by campfires built by hunters; fishermen and campers, arid by motorists who throw cigarettes and matches out of their cars.

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Georgia forestry

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Approximately 70 boys representing counties throughout north Georgia will attend the annual boys forestry camp set for Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park July 31-August 5. The campers have been selected on the basis of past achievements in forestry and demonstrated interest and desire to learn mGre about forest vrotection and management.
The camp is financed by four member mills of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association. Contributina mills are Macon Kraft Company, Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company, Southern Paperboard Conpany and Union Bag and Paper Corporation. The Georgia Forestry Cbmmdssion conducts the camp.
The weeks' forestry instruction and field e~rience for the campers will include fire control instruction and demonstrations, thinning, reforestation, mensuration, marketing and harvesting. Field trips are planned for instruction and recreation.
Instructors at the camp will include
Howard J. Doyle, Area Forester,
Southern Pulpwood Conservation An-
ociation; J. F. Spiers, Forester,
Central of Georgia Railroad; Ralph Helmken,Conservation Forester, Union
Bag and Paper Corporation; J. C.
Turner, District Forester, Georgia
Forestry Commission; W. E. Roberts,
Sandvick Saw and Tool Conpany; ":eorae W. Lavinder, District For iter, Georgia Forestry Conmission anct L. L. Lundy, Assistant District Forester, Georaia Forestry Conmission. R. E. Davis, Georgia Forestry Commission, willserve as Camp Director. Speakers will includeGuyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry CotQDission; Harry Rossoll, Illustrator,SouthernRegion, U. S. Forest Service, and others.
'nlose already nominated to attend camp are as follaws: Steve Shurlin~ Washington; Geo~~e Lamar Wilcher, Glascock; Weob Davis,

Jones; Benny Tanner, Johnson; Herbert White, Jasper; JiDIIIY Bracewell, Laurens; Ro1er Ryles, Baldwin; Inman Clotfelter, Monroe; and f!. L. Reece,

'fr., Wilkinson County.

. J. w. Garrison, Cherokee; Archie

wHaebeekrs~bamG; i

lmer Frarik

Earnest DeFoor,

Nations, Stephens;

Goldman Mabrey, Banks; and 'tbDmas

DeLonR:, Hall County.

Hubert Burke and Doy Forehand, Jen-

Lkeinwis~

Benjamin S. Miller, Burke; Braddy, Jr., and Jack Cannady,

Candler CQuAty.

Howard Alford, Morgan; Land Nioholson, Clarke! Talmadge Duvall, Green; David Randa 1, Wilkes; ClaudeConnell, Columbia; Stafford Garrett, Oconee; James H. Adair, McDuffie; and John Owens, Elbert County.

Bradford Lipscomb, Bartow; Sidney Cooper, Chattooga; Hershall Worley, Catoosa; Dewey Bishop, Cobb; Bobb,Y Lee Forester, Dade; Fred &ard, Floyd; I shmal Pat Baker, Gordon: ]tfi 1ton Bes_! t Murray; J. M. Brooks, Pau.fciing_; M Lindsey, Polk;. James Ramey, Walker; Henry Burch, Whitfield; Kenneth L. Griffith, Haralson; and Donald Brown, Fulton County.

a. L. Campbell, Jr., Carroll; Jinmy
Pike, CCJINeta; Jaci Martin, Spe,laing; Lanny Ross Heath, Talbot; Yarcellus Copeland, TroUP.; Merrill Greathouse, Upson; Robin Fletcher, Butts; Hudon Thames, Clayton; Roger Knight, Heard;
Kelly White, Henry; Dlckef Gill,
Meriwetner; and Ronnie Story, Pike County.

Hu~h W. Dobbs, left, of Atlanta, n.ewlyelected president of the Geor~ia Forestry Association, con-
fers wi til B. . Lufburrow, GFA Executive Secretary, a1 the pro~ress of the Associatim' s expanded ICEEP GlDRGIA GREEN pro~ram. Dobbs is land manaAer for the Geor~ia Power Company.

July, 1 950

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The appointment of .Georg_e W. Lavin' der as Acting District Forester of
the FourthDistrict has been announced by Ourton DeLoach, Director of the Georg1a Forestry Commission. Lavinder succeeds W. L. Crisp who resigned to accept a position with the J. C. Wilkinson Coq>any of Newnan.
For the past year and a half Lavinder has served as Assistant District Forester of the Fourth District. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Forestry and a member of the Society of American Foresters. During the recent war he served three years in the Army Air Corps.
Dobbs Heads

GEORGE W. LAVINDER
Lavinder is married and is the father of one son. He and his family will continue residence at Newnan where the Fourth District OM ice will be maintained.

Association

Hugh W. Dobbs, Atlanta, was elected president of the Georgia Forestry Association at a meeting of the Association's board of directors held June 2 at the Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta. Dobbs is land manager for the Georgia Power Company and a longtime director and active supporter of
the Association.
The board of directors mapped plans for acceleration of the' 'KeepGeorgia Green'' and the Georgia Tree Farms pro1rams, decided to set up a hardwood management project on the Franklin Roosevelt Warm Springs Memorial area et Warm Springs, and agreed to donate fore1try badge for 4-H clubs at the
county leve 1.
New officers elected to serve, in eddition to Dobb1, included R. H.
Ru1h HawkiniVille, fiut vice presiden~, and Harley Langdale, Jr., 'Valdo1ta, 1econd vice-prelident.

New appointments and re-appoint-

ments of County Forestry Board mem-

bers have been announced by Guyton

DeLoach, Director( Georgia Forestry

CO!IIllisaion. 'n\e ive members of the

County Forestry Board have varying

terml of office of from one to five

years, and the current appointments

are to fill vacancies crested by the

expiration of the one-year terms of

merrbers of existing Boards and to

create Forestry Boards in counties

beginning organized protection

July 1, 1950, Those Forestry Board

members re-appointed to succeed them-

selves TAimr

are, -Cecil

ww.itCh oxt,hJeuinr

c

counties: tion City.

JAS~ - Herman Tyler, Monticello.

HABERSHAM -Tom Born, Clarkesville.

PI<::Kfl\5- Will Tea1ue, Jasper. RAaN

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Geo~gia fo~est~y

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The third week of June brought to southeast Georgia ''one of the most threatening arid potentially dis estrous forest fire situations ever encountered'' in that section of the state.
Weary fire fighters battled for two days and nights in some sections along a 75-mile fire-front to bring under control the series of destructive blazes that raged through valuable timt>eriancJ from Eastman in Dodge County to Jesup in Wayne County.
The fires started early in the afternoon of Sunday, June 18, in hundreds of places along railroad rights-of-ways in Bleckleyi Dodge, Telfair, Jeff Davis, App ing and Wayne counties. All counties were under organized forest fire protection except Jeff Davis andBleckley. After fighting the fires for two days the Protection Units brought them under control and mop up work began in protected counties.
State Forester Guyton Deloach arrived on the scene a few hours after the first outbreaks were reported and directed the fire fighting operations. He stated that ntbe series of blazes made up one of the most threatening and potentially disastrous forest fire situations encountered in southeast Georgia, because of the great number of separate fires, the largP

area over which the different fires were started, and the dry, windy weather.''
Deloach stressed the facJ that ''the rapid and efficient mobi ization of all Commission personnel and equipment, the help of landowners and other volunteers, and the cooperation and assistance of industry forces made it possible to cope with the highly-explosive situation and pre~ vented the destruction of many: thousands of acres of valuable timber.'' He praised'' the efficiency, tenacity and endurance of the fire fighting forces in preventing losses amy times greater than actually suffer
e.d .. A radio-equipped airplane was en-
8'!-ie<! by the Georgia Forestry_ Commus1on and brought in to hel_p in reconnaissance and directing of the fire fighting operations. The Forestry Commission also mobilized equipment and personnel from the Waycross District Office and surrounding counties of Brantley and Wayne.

Appling County, the main trouble

l~t. reported approximately 40 fires

and about 1,300 acres burned during

the 48hours that the wildfires raged.

Four buildinrs were also reporteddes-

troyed in Appling and Jeff Davis

counties.



More New Georgia Forest Industries

The increase in Georgia's forest industries goes ahead, opening new markets for the state's valuable timber crops.
Washington County wi 11 soon ht!ve ano~er veneer mill to process pine and hardwood logs. The Sandersville Veneer Compan)', to be located between -rennille and Sandersville will emJ?loy. about 30 people and wilt special1Ze 1n veneer board and veneer rruit containers. Present plans call for the plant to be in production by July.
The American Wood Pres~rving Company has begun operation at its location on the Flains Highway near

Americus. The plant occupies an 8-

acre tract and includes a complete

creosote pressure treating plant,

creosote storage capacity of 15 000

gallons and office buildinc. 'The

plant, which is equipped for pressure

creosote treatment of fence posts

poles and piling and timbers, is owned

and operated by Edgar Shipp Jr and

JohnE. Shipp, III.

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Statesboro is the location of the

new, up-to-date concentration yard

and plan mill being constructed by

Southern Augusta.

Pine The new

Produ plant

cts repr

eCsOeInIIpts&nay:S

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AT4-HFORESTRY CAMP. ]. F. Spiers, (left foreground) Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad, inst111cts group in hBild pianting of pine seedlings.

Ninety-eight boys, representing 55 counties, attended the sixth annual 4-H Club forestry camp, held June 5-10 at Laura Walker State Park. Waycross. The boys received instruction in fire control, hand and machine planting of aeedlings' thinning, narvesting, marketin,, naval stores production, mensurat1on, and disease and insect control.
Included on the camp program was a tour of the Savannah plant of the UnionBag and Paper Corporation, which furnished financial support for the camp.
The camp was directed by C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service and R. J. Richardson, Assistant State.4 -H
Club Leader, M. E. Nixon, District
Forester. Georgia Forestry Commission, assisted with the overall conducting of the program.

Instructors included Jim SP.iers, Forester Central of Georgia Rulroad; Ralph Helmken, M. S. Aycock, and C. E. Lavely, Ution Bag and Paper
Corporation; John E. Herndon and
James C. Turner{ Georgia Forestry Commission; Char es T. Shay, Field Inspector, Naval Stores Conservation Pro~ram, and Walter L. Chapman, Ass1stantExtension Forester.
Coupetitive examinations were given to all the campera and those making outstanding grades were awarded prizes. Winners included Barrett Sanders, Terrell County, Wa~e Webb, Lowndes County, Billy Middleton, Talbot County, Edward Johnston, Chatham County...z Sonny Harus, Wayne County, and xoger Dean, Atkinson County. Dean led the entire group of campers on the examination.

BOYS LEARN 70 MEA.!!IJRE FIREST PR:JDU:TS AT 4-H CAJIP. C. E. Lavely,
extreme right, of Union Bag and Paper Corporation. does the instructing.

171E LADIES HElP 100. LoJIIl1des County's lady diapatcher-secretary, Mrs. Joy Beth Wright, radios the location of asmoke to the fire li#Jtin~ crews 1n patrolling vehicles.

July, 1950



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Ranger N. A. Medford and the Cobb

County Forest Protection Unit have

received ringing prahes from the

C~o~brbeeC~onun

ty Adv board

iaory sa1d

Board. The officially,

We COIIIDend the Unit and their

outstanding work.'' The Advisory

Board simultaneously approved the

1951 budget which provides for the

purchase of a new 300-gallon capacity

pump truck for the Unit.



R~ger Ollie L .Knott, TroUp Coun tr,

ia the

JUst .reco hosp1 tal.

vOevnenrg-~xfhroamuatal. osniedguer

1n ing

the fire season plus threatened

appendici tia has accounted for his

illness. All join in wishingKnott a

fast and conplete recovery.

J. B. White has been promoted to
County Forest Ranger ?f Chattooga County. He succeeds Burl Gaylord who resigned. White has served as Assistant Ranger since January 104~. He is a Navy veteran and belongs to the Cha ttooga County Wildlife Conservation Club. He and his wife will reside in Surnnerville.

Ranger Randolph Roddenberry, Colquitt Cot nty, has set up an interest~ ing exhibit in the large Farmers' market there and he reports plenty of patronage. The~xhibit is built around some large photographs showing each and eveTy step in fire detecti~. locaticn, attack a nd s~ pression.

AT HABERSHAM ax.JN1Y FORESIRY DEMONsmATION. Howard Doyle, center,
Area Forester, Southern Pulpwood Cknservation Associatian, awards bow saw to Tom Barrett, Jeft, of Cornelia, winner of the timber thinning competi ti an. W. E. Roberts, ri 1#1 t. Sandvik Saw snd Tool Carpany, looks
en approvingly. Photo courtesy Bill Miller, Gainesville Daily Times

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Georgia forestry

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The Georgia Agricultural Handbook, just published by the Agricultural Extension Service, University System of Georgia, includes a complete Forestry chapter and affords
forest owners valuable guides in
the production and marketing of timher crops. easily understand~ble form. The forestry chapter and the entire
. handbook represents an endeavor to provide practical answers to many of the practical qt.esti ms which confront the small woodland owner in Georgia. Subjects included are

Many different phases of protec-

mt ei oasn~rermeefnotar e smt aatrikoent i,n

harvesting, g andutiliza-

tion are co~ered in the material

which is presented in simplified,

the extent and value of Georgia's

forests, methods of reproduction of timber stands, methods of hand and machine planting with diagrama~ic illus~rations, recommended.cutt1ng practtces, f~damentals of .hre prevention and ftre suppresston, measuring and marketing of wood .pro-

ducts, wise naval stores pract1ces,

treating fence posts, and methods

of combatting insect and disease

attacks in forest stands.

"JOE BEAVER"

By Ed Nofziger

:Forest Service, U. 8. Department of Agriculture
"Always be careful-the woods you save are your own."

July, 1950

NEW FOREST INDUSTRIES
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investment of more than $100,00~ and covers a 47-acre tract two miles south of Statesboro. When completed
the plant will employ more than tno
persons, and will process lumber supplied from fifteen portable mills place<;~ throughout that section of Georg1a.
The Atlas Plywood Corporation has leased the Brunswick plant of the Tidewater Plywood Company and has begun production of gum pane 1s for the manufacture of doo~s and stock s be door pane 1s. More than 125 persons are employed at present and this number wlll be gradually in creased.
Ole of Georgia's newest \\OOCI uing industries will be located in l'occoa, Stephens Colnty. Tile new finn, Plastic I.aninators Co. , will manufacture wood veneer arrlplastic prOducts tobe sUpplied to furniture manufacturers all over the U. S. Tile annual payroll will be approximately $400,000 and the CO!lJ8flY will enploy 250 men.
Construction work began during the latter part of April on the first of two buildings to be used. When the s~ building is completed, employment w1ll be increased accordingly.

Oscar K. Battle, Ninth District Forester, has moved his headquarters to the Administration Ik.tilding, Gainesville airport. The District off ice was formerly located in the City HalL E. H. Terry, Chief Forest Fire Warden for the state, also has his headquarters at the new location. Battle and Terry can be contacted by telephoning No. 1140, Gainesville.

FORESTRY BOARD APPOINTMENTS

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-John V. Arrendale, Tiger. OIEROKEE -- William Green, Canton. WILKES J. H. Higginbotham, Washington, McilJFFIE - Allen Pannell, Thomson. M<RGAN - W. N. Huff, Buckhead.
Forestry Boards already named in counties starting organized protection are: GRADY, R. E. Strin~er, Thomasville, Aulden Hawthorne, Ca1ro, E. F. Dollar, Cairo, Carlos Cone, Cairo and J. T. Mayfield, Cairo.
MUSCOGEE-M. W. Jenkins, Columbus, Fred H. Schomburg, Columbus, Jake Taff, Columbus George M. Adams, Columbus and John Rigdon, Columbus.
MERIWETHER - Tom Knight, Woodbury, Crowder Mitcham, Durand, Martin Gibson, Woodbury, Sam Bulloch, Manchester and Claude Harman, Greenville.

STEPHENS -William Jones, Toccoa, Horace Crump, Toccoa, Otis Steele, Toccoa, Richard Dean, Martin and Jones YON, Eastanollee.
TOOMBS - Tom Gay, Lyons, Edgar Fowler, Uvalda, H. H. Thompson. Lyons, R. E. Ledford, Vidalia and L. J. Usher, Lyons.

DeKALB - E. Ernest Smith,

P. Atl

McGee, Deca anta, W. Sam

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S. th,

Atlanta, Coy Elliott, Lithonia, and

Scott Candler, Decatur.

GREENE-R. L. Boswell, Greensboro. LOWNDES- Harley Langdale, Jr.Valdosta, PIERCE - J. E. Stnckland, Mershan. CHARL'I'CJIJ- J. M. Wade, Folk s ton. crnsoLIDA'IED "T. P. 0. -A. V. Kennedy, Waycross.

Georgia Forestry

JULY

1950

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