Georgia forestry, Vol. 4, no. 5 (May 1951)

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Georgia Forestry

MAY

1951

GENERAL LIBRARY
JUL 5 19fa
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

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Forestry Units Need Your Help

(from the Toccoa Record)

Volunteer fire-fighters today are doing an outstanding job of aiding the Stephens Cbunty Forestry Unit in its never-ending battle against woods fires. Aid on the fire line, however, is not the only volunteer help which the unit has been receiving. Many other citizens of Stephens County have been acting, in effect, as volunteer forest fire fighters.
True, all have not had the opportunity to be present when forest fires are being extinguished by the Unit. Many, however, have helped the head of the Unit try to accomplish his goal - that of cutting down on the acreage lost annually in Stephens County woods fires.
Citizens who make sure their cigarettes and matches are ''Dead Out''
Public Opinion
Begins To Turn

whenever they are in or near woodlands, those who make certain campfires are ''Dead Out'' before they leave their campsite, those who plow a good firebreak around fields and pastures before burning off, those who pick up the telephone and call the Unit headquarters at 760- all those citizens are doing their part as volunteer forest fire fighters.
Landowners and farmers can aid the Forestry Unit in another way - by standing by on the road after the fire-fighting vehicles have been dispatched to a blaze. When the fires are off the main highways, those persons actions in directing the vehicles along the quickest route to get at the fire often can save valuable minutes - and valuable acres.

(from the Jesup Sentinel)
A fine of $250, plus court cost and 12-months sentence was imposed for setting fires to woodlands in Brantley County. The 12-months sentence was suspended.
The Brantley Cbunj:y Superior Court began the case against Waudell Crews of Winokur at 9:30 a. m., with the Solicitor and two lawyers for the state and three lawyers for the plaintiff. The Jury gave its verdict at 6 p.m. after deliberating two hours and 20 minutes.
The sianificance of this case as well as other similar cases throughout the state is that public opinion has turned, and the destructive burning of our most inportant natural resource for no reason will not be tolerated.

Even the stumps go to market. Destructive distillation processes result in wood rosin, wood turpentine, charcoal, pitch, wood tar, and pine oil. This long string of cars was photographed on a siding in Nahunta, Brantley County.

Georgia Forestry

Vol. lJ

March. 1951

No. ~5'

A monthly bulletin published by the Georgia Forestry Commission, State Capitol, Atlanta. Entered as second-class matter at tne Post Office, Atlant11, Georgia, under the
act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association.

Sixteen of the state's County Forestry Units have received official commendations from the Georgia Forestry Commission for keeping their fire loss this season to less than one-half of one percent of the connty's total forestland acreage.
Individual letters of corrmendation have been sent by Guyton 'DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, to Foresters and Rangers heading each of the 16 Units.
''I wishtotake this opportunity," the letters declared, to commend you and your personnel for keeping the fire loss to less t han one-half of one percent of t he fo r est acreage in your County during the period July 1, 1950 through March 31, 1951.
''This is indeed a fine accomplishment on your part and one of which you can be justly proud.
''Agai n let me congratulate you on the splendid record you are making for the citizens of your County and the ~orgia Forestry Corrrnission. ''
Units which thus become eligible for the ''Less Than <ne-ijal f of O'le Per cent Club,'' their Foresters or Rangers , and the percentage of loss include the following:

Stephens, C. N. Brightwell. . 313%

Wilkes , T. H. Bullard

150%

Baldwin , T . M. Str i ckl and 272%

Wi lkinson , Hube r t D. Billue .406%

Bacon, John D. Bennett

.459%

Brantley, Ave ry Strickland .285%

Camden, H. E. Williams

.386%

Cha r l ton. L. J. Stokes

~ 212%

Glynn, Oles te r Betts

.480%

Wayne, R. W. Ander son

.295%

Gi l me r, J. L. Dover

.061%

Bryan, C. C. Cowart

.254%

Bulloch, J. W. Roberts

.366%

Olatham, Ernest Edwards

456~

Effingham, G. C. Exley, Jr. .366%

Wheeler, Paul Dixon

.154%

Letters to the Foresters and Rangers were sent to District Foresters and relayed by them to the Unit heads.
DeLoach reported that special concentration will be laid during c~ming comths in all 86 county forestry units, plus t "he new units which will be started July 1, on an intensive program to acquaint citizens with the value of wellmanaged forestlands.
~No matter how good a record was made in the different Units during the recently ended danger ous winter fire season," he said, ''we still must not relax our fight to bring about a better fo restry program throughout Georgia.
"This f i ght,'' the Director added, "ca ll s for more than mass appeals for forest fire prevention. It calls also for a realization on the part of urban and rural citizens a like
on modern forestry 's importance . "

Woods burning is not the answer to

controlling screw worm infection ad-

vises Dr. W. G. Bruce, in charge of

the Savannah Laboratory, Oivision of

Insects Affecting Man and Ani ma l,

Bureau of Fntomology and Pl ant Quar-

antine.



Numerous fi r es are r epor ted eve ry

year as having been caused by persons

attempting to control insect pests,

and fire outbreaks have followed the

periodic upswing of screw worm infes-

tations. ' 'Woods burning, however,''

says Dr. Bruce, 'has absolutely no

effect on killing screw worms or in

any way controlling or reducing screw

worm infestation in wildlife or do-

mestic animals.

''I have never recommended woods

burnin~ as ever being an aid in com-

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Georg i a f or estr y

Georgia First In Sawmills

Georgia has more sawmil ls than any other of the 11 states reviewed in a survey made recently under sponsorship of the Southern Pine Industry Committee.
The survey showed Georgia with 704 sawmills, including 693 pine mills and 11 hardwood mills. Runner -up was North Carolina, with 1529 sawmills, including 615 pine mills and 14 hardwood mills.
Neighboring Alabama was in third place with 607 sawmills, 593 of them listed as pine mills and 14 as hardwood mills.
Figures for this state were co~il ed by the GeorgiaForestryComnission through its nine district foresters, W. H. McComb, H. P. Allen, Olin Wi~he~ington, Ge~rge Lavinder, J.E. Phillips, M.E. Nixon, Ollie Purtz Lester Lundy, and F.J. Pullen. '
District foresters in many of the Georgia districts received aid of

their county Foresters and Rangers in gathering the figures. The survey was conducted in the last half of 1950, and personnel of the Southern Pine Industry for the past few months have been gathering and putting together data from the 11 states.
The total of sa'WI'Dills in the 11 Southern states follows:
Georgia 704, North Carolina 629, Alabama 607, Texes 344, South C~rolina 302, Mississippi 295, Louisiana 228, Arkansas 213, Florida 203, Virginia 162, <ltlahoma 41.
The survey divided the groups into mills with planers and mills with both planers and dry kilns. Of Georgia's 693 pine sa'WI'Dills, 559 had planers only, while 134 had planers and dry kilns. Of the 11 hardwood sawmills in the state, six were mills with planers, and five were mills with planers and dry kilns.

GEORGIA SAWMILL- TypicaL of many of the 70~ Georgia sawmiLLs recorded in the recent sawmiLL survey undertaken here by the Southern Pine Association and the Georgia forestry Commission is this North Georgia miLL. Georgia ranked first in the number of sawmiLLs among 11 Southern states in the survey.

May, 1951

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''Best they've had yet,'' was the enthusiastic concensus of the more than 10,000 persons who gathered at Swainsboro for the recent Emanuel County Sixth Annual Pine Tree Festival.

Colorful floats, a band concert, the traditional and beautiful Pine Tree Pageant, speeches, dances, and awards were among outstanding festival events.
The pine tree festival was the picturesque Portrayal of how the slash, the longleaf, and the loblolly have brought a new way of 1i fe to the Georgia land. Best depicting that portrayal, in the opinion of those judging school floats in the morning parade, was the Emanuel County Institute float, whichwas realistically constructed to represent a fire tower.
The 4-H Club won the organizational float competition, while the Mathis Company won the comnercial float cornpeti tion. Swainsboro Hardware Company won the window display contest.
Bands representing the U. S. Army
and Dublin High School, Statesboro High School, Georgia Military Coll-
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PIKE 'fREE QUEEN - Hiss fayette Bell, astudent atEmanueLCounty Institute, was named "Queen of the Pine 'free festivaL for 1951" at the Sixth AnnuaL Pine 'free festivaL held recentLy in E111anue l County. Her crowning came at the Pine Tree Pageant.

'!HEY LOVE A PARADE- SmartLy stepping bands gave the crow a thrilL at the S~xth Annual Emanuel County Pine 'free festival. Bands rePresented were those fro
the 0. s. Army, Georgia MiLitary College, Dublin High School, Statesboro High
School, Emanuel County Bif!h SchooL, and EmanueL Count'Y Institute.

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Gcor~ia Forestrv

Cannaughton Heads Region 8 , US FS

J . HERBERf SfOHE CHARLES A. CAHHAUGRfOH

J. HerBert Stone , for the pas t fou r
years Regi ona l Forester of the Sou t hern Region, with headquarters in Atlan t a, has been transferred to Portland, Oregon, to serve as Region a l Fo r es te r of t he Pacifi c Northwes t Region, acco rd ing t o the U. S. Forest Se rvice.
He has been succeededby Cha rles A. Connaughton , who, prior to his newest assignment, was Director of the Southern Forest Experiment Station in New Orleans.
A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Stone was graduated from the Yale University School of Forestry. He entered the Forest Service as a Ranger i n the Alleghany National Forest in
1927.
Other positions he held included t hat of Supervisor of the Nantahala National Forest in South Carolina, Direc t o r of the Ohio Val l ey Expe ri ment Station. aad head of Fa~ Forestry for Region 9 out of St. Paul, Minnesota.
He has contributed materially to r efo r esta t ion programs in this Re~ion, working in close cooperation with Erle Cocke Sr., the Georgia Forestry Commission, and the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service in their joint over-all tree planting program.
Connaughton, a native of Placer ville, Idaho, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho in 1928 and was employed by the Forest Service in a variety of positions 1n research and as a Forest Ranger in national forest administration.-
During aperiod at Fort Collins, he betame known as an authority on watershed practices in the Rocky Mountain area. Research foresters, under his supervision, have evolved special management practices which have enabled some landowners to double or triple their annual timber production.

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MISS GUM SPIRITS Of 1951 -Miss No,-a Jean It'imbedy, of Quincy, flo,-ida.

Lovely Miss Nora Jean W.i:mbe r ly , a Quincy, Florida, beauty, won the title of Miss Gurn Spirits of Turpentine at the fifteenth ann~al meeting of the American Turpentine Farmers Association, held in Valdosta, home of the general offices of the Association and the naval stores center of the world.
Miss Wimberlywon out over a field of nine other contestants. Each Association director sponsors a candidate and Miss Wimberley was entered by Judge Harley Langdale, Association president, who was re-elected for the fifteenth consecutive year to head the turpentiners. Outgoing queen was Miss Betty Sue Stoutamire, of Tallahassee.
One new director was elected to the 10-member board. He is Judge Osborne Rhodes, of Walterboro. South Carolina, who replaces his uncle, W.L. Rhodes, of Walterboro, South Carolina. The senior Rhodes did not offer for re-election.
Other directors in addition to Judge Langdale and Judge Rhodes are A. V. Kennedy,J~m Gillis Jr., John M. COok, and R. M. Reynolds, all of Georgia; Will Knabb, and R. H. Gibson, of Florida; M. C. Stallworth Jr., Alabama; and R. M. Newton, Missisuppi.
Besides Judge Langdale, officers include ~ewton, vice president; Ray Shirley, secretary; Mrs. Ora B. Hem mingway, assistant secretary and treasurer; and J. Lundie Smith, general counsel.
Dr. T. Faron Gibson, pastor of the Fi r s t B a o t i s t Church, delivered the inovcation and Valdosta Mayor J. E. Mathis welcomed the turpentiners. The response was delivered by Valenem Bennett, turpentine producer and RFA official of Alma. Judge Langdale initiated the business session by giving his yearly report to the membership. He also presided during the meeting.
Principal speaker was G. P. Donald son, president of the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton. His topic was ''Take Time''.

DEALER COOPERATION

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GEORGIA LUMBERMEN IN NEW ORLEANS - fhese Georgia lumbermen were among those attending the Southern Pine Association's thirty-sixth annual meeting in New Orleans April 16-18. fhe group includes, left to right, John N. McElrath, of Jeffreys-McElrath Manufacturing Company, Macon, and a member of the Board of Commissioners, Georgia Forestry Commission; Ed Doug lass Augusta Hardwood Lumber Company, Augusta; Robert H. Rush, Rush Lumber Company, Hawkinsville; W. H. furner, Jr., Chattahoochee Valley Lumber Company, LaGrange; FL. R. Garrett, Bancock Lumber C0111pany, Quitman, and C. R. Nason, Nason Lumber Company, Madison. Sessions were devoted to meeting the needs of national defense, mechanical efficiency, and forestry. President E. 0. Lightsey, who was re-elected, called attention to the seriousness of the times, but recalled that Southern Pine Association members "always have met and successfully overcome problems since the Association's founding 36 years ago.''

Independence Hall, America's noted historical landmark in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is in need of Georgia Pine.
The building, according to Curator Warren MCCullough, is going without badly needed repairs because the government can not get the right kind of lurroer.
Issuing an appeal to the public, he
declared, ''To maintain our greatest historical shrine in all its dignity and glory, we must replace the stair
treads on the main staircase and repair the tower rail. This could be done with ordinary fumber, but we think the shrine is important enough to use exactly the type and size wood now in use.
We need for the stairs,'' he said, a good, seasoned, long leaf, Geor-

gia yellow pine, 13 inches wide, one and one fourth inches thick, and about six feet long - total 300 feet.''
He said he had searched everywhere but was unable to obtain the wood. I know, however, '' he added, that if this need is brought to the attention of the American people- and if it's humanly possible - we' 11 get what we want.''
Meanwhile, indications that the desired wood may be found in Georgia came from Savannah, where Randolph Spalding, authority on building materials, said he believed the Independence Hall needs could be supplied from some of the old houses which have been razed in that Southeastern Georgia city.

May, 1951

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Foresters And Rangers In The News

Milton Pierce, of Dodge County, is a Forester who realized the value of the public's being acquainted with how to reach Unit personnel by telephone. A recent news article he wrote for the Eatman Times Journal informed readers that telephones had been installed in the homes of two of his patrolmen, J. D. Sapp and James Player. Pierce gave their telephone numbers in the article as well as the telephone number of the Eastman tower, which serves as Unit headquarters. ''This,'' he reminded the public,
''gives landowners three phone numbers to call when they need help on ni&ht fires.''

Jack Sykes, C8lhoun COunty Forester, reports that the manner in which his county has come out in support of the Unit's forestry program is certainly something wonderful. ' ' A few months ago,'' he added, the people had not given much thought to foreatry, but now aLmost everyone I see or talk to is interested in some particular part of our program. The job is just beginning and it is going to take a lot of work and thought by everyone to makeCalhounCOunty a very productive center for forest products. We here have the room to expand in every way in the f.ield of
forestry.''

NEW HYDRAULIC PLOW--Ranger Avery Strickland, of the Brantley County f~restry Unit, takes the
Unit's new 28 inch. two disc hy-
draulic Plow for a workout in

Advising landowners on t~e future, he said, 'Make some plans about the land you are not using and the land you won't use for crops. Plan on starting some trees so you will have some future income on those idle acres.''

South Georgia's palmetto-studded woods. The Plow is the first of its kind to be used by the Georgia forestry Commission and was purchased afte~ having under-
gone several fie Zd tests in the woods near Ocala, florida. Use of the hydraulic
Plow eliminates lowering or raising the Plow blades by hand. Hydraulic attachments lift and lower the wheels, thus allowing the discs toenter the ground or
to be raised above the ground. fhe entire operation is controlled from the opera to-r's seat.

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Georgia forestry

Pulpwood Group Slates Meetings

Four meetings scheduled during May i n as many areas of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association are expected to attract more than 1,000 members and guests and other persons interested in forestry and the forest
indust~ies.
The Area Four meeting, a joint meetini of the SPCA and the Appalachian Section of the Society of American Foresters, will be held May 22-23 at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia. Tuesday will be devoted to registration of members and guests, the Area Delegates' meeting, a social hour, and evening banquet. The group will make a field trip Wednesday to the Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia where they will inspect bulldozing hardwood eradication work, watch operation of the largest bulldozer in existence, and be guests of the Chesapeake Corporation at a
luncheon. Topics on Tuesday will include
' 'Virginia's Seed Tree Law'', by George Dean, Virginia State Forester; 'Management Practices for Eastern Virginia,'' by R. D. McCulley, South-

eastern Forest Experiment Stat i on; ''Conservation and Wood Procurement,'' E. K. Ach, North Caro l ina Pulp Company; 'Dealers; Ideas on Conservation''; and 'Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association Program,'' by H. J. Malsber1er, Forester and General Manager of the Association.
The sunmer SPCA meeting in the Majestic Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas was held May 1 and 2. The group assembled for a banquet Tuesday night followed by a speaking program Wednesday morning.
Area Two met May 8 and 9 at the San Carlos Hotel, Pensacola, Flqrida. The dinner meeting Tuesday evening preceeded a speaking program Wednesday morning and a tour of the St. Regis Paper Conpany nursery.
Area Three delegates assembled at theFlorida Forest Service nursery at Olustee, Florida on May 3 for a field trip, and moved to the George Washington Hotel in Jacksonville that evening for a buffet dinner and entertainment.

Georgia ranks second in the Southern states in forest products income, according to at study made by the SouthernForest Experiment Station in New Or leans. The survey showed Georgia was outranked only by North Carolina.
Figures compiled by the experiment s tation researchers showed an annual i ncome of 2. 3 billion dollars goes to t he South from its forests and forest p roducts . Tha t i ncome is seven perc ent of the total i ncome for the 12state aretl.
'Although not the principa l source of income in any of the states, timber products comprise a substantial part of the basic economy throughout most of the South,'' Lee M. James, station economist, said.
He pointed out that not all of the value of forest products can be included in incoming figures . Some

p~oducts, including fence posts and fuel wood, are not sold for cash.
Georgia's woodlands provide the raw materials for manufacturing operations which return to landowners and industry almost $300 million annually. More than 120,000 Georgians are directly employed in forest activities, and many thousands more are indirectly dependent upon the forest for' a liYelihood.
DON'T BQRN FOR SCREW WORM ...
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bating the screw worm,'' he declar es. 'In the fir s t place, sc r ew worm pupae would be buried so deep that no fire c ould re a ch them. In the s econd place, the adult f lies would never get caught - they would simply fly away. In the third place, woods fire s obviously could not effect infestation in the animal without killing the animal.''

PINE TREE FESTIVAL.

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ege, and Emanuel County HighSchool presented lively martial airs as they marched along the parade route.
H. L. Wingate, president of the Georgia Farm Bureau, spoke following the parade and outlined problems to be met in following directives of the Office of Price Stabilization.

Mrs. Dudley Hughes announced Pine Tree Festival essay contest winners. First place winners in each class were Bunny Bailey, Carroll Patton, Sara Phillips, and Gordon Gravin, who NBS decided unanimous winner of the county-wide contest.
Billy Holland, of Sumnertown, wo11 first place in the pine tree poster contest, while second p lace went to Ray Brown , Swainsboro . Third Place went to Irving Williamson. Oak Park.
Wingate p l aced the crown of County Farm Bureau Queen o f 1951 on the head of comely Mary Jo Hutche nson, who represented the Adrian Farm Bureau. Unette Lamb, of Sumnertown, was last year's queen.
A Georgia Tree Farms award went to Kenneth Hall for his work in keeping his pine acres up to the standards asked by the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Georgia Forestry A"sociation.
One of the too Festival highlights was presentatiou of the Pine Tree

PRIZE-WINNING SCHOOL FLOAf- EmanueL County Institute won first Prize in the schooL float contest with this decorative fire tower.
Pageant at the Swainsboro ballpark. The Pageant was presented by 200 Emanuel County School children under direction of Miss Edith Russell, of Atlanta. Presenting the story of 'Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel, the .story showed how forestry contributed to their livelihood.
Pageant clirnalt was crowning of Miss . Fayette Bell, of Summitt, a student at Emanuel County Institute, as 'Pine Tree Queen''. A square dance concluded the festival. J. D. McLeod was festival chairman.

fREE fARMS CERfi!ICAfE AWARDED--Kenneth Hall receives a Certified Georgia fre farMs Certificate during sPecial ceremonies at Emanuel County's Sixth Annual Pine
Tree Festival. J.D. McLeod, General Otairman of the Fmanuel County annual ~la event, is at left.

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Georgia Forestry

MAY

1951

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. John M. Bradley, Jr. Southern Timber Management Service 9ID Second Avenue. North Birmingham 4, Alabama
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