Georgia forestry, Vol. 5, no. 10 (Oct. 1952)

GEORGIA FORESTRY

CJitorial

Forest Blazes "Burning Shame'
(From the Atlanta Constitution} Between 1950 and 1951, there was

Action-Filled Decade In Pulp Field

a 21 r:er cent decrease in the number of forest fires in the

(From the Savannah Morning News}

Georgia's recent establishment of a new all-time record in pulpwood production is one more sign of the growing importance of an industry which virtually didn't exist a few decades ago.
We are proud that Cllatham County could play an important part in the establishment of this record production of almost ~million standard cords during 1951. While Chatham's production of 32, 508 cords is dwarfed by production over the state, it still is greater than ever before and represents a fast- growing agricultural industry here.
Other counties throughout the Coastal Empire of Georgia also made very substantial contributions to this record. In fact two nearby counties, Camden and Otarlton, with records of almost 80,000 and 75,000 cord production, respectively, were first and second in the state.

Georgia production accounted for some nine percent of the output of the entire Nation and 17 per cent of the pulpwood produced in the South. Most important perhaps is that this production represents a gain of 6. 7 per cent over last year.
There is every reason to believe that even this amazing record will be shortlived. New plants which will utilize Georgia pulpwood as a raw material are being built.
The growing importance of this pulpwood operation should serve also to make us more cognizant of the growing need for conservation of our wood resources and for the careful planning that will insure a future supply adequate to our needs.
Ours is a record of which to be proud and every possible safeguard
should be taken that in future years we shall continue to produce as we did in 1951.

United States while the acreage burned over dropped more than that, from 15,518,540 to 10,781, 039.
That is fine. But the favorable report does not mean it is time to take off the back-pack pump drop the fire rake and go fishing.
Not in Georgia, at least. Our state had a shameful record even in 1951 - well over a million acres burned, second only to Florida in destructive forest fires.
How can we account for the loss?
Is it that we don' t know how to protect our timber resources? Or is it that we don't value our woods and .hence are careless with fire?
Let's say ,that the cause is largely the latter. States largely dependent on lumber as a crop learned long ago that everybody loses ,yhen timber burns.

Vol. 5

GEORGIA FORESTRY
October, 1952
Published Monthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY CO.l\11\IISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Dtrector

No. 10

Oregon, for example, almost twice the area. of Georgia, lost only one-tenth as much forest acreage by fire last year.
No, we can't lay away the firefighting equipment in Georgia on the basis that the nation over the number of fires has dropped.

Members, Board of Commissioners: G. Philip Morgan, Chairman.............................................................................................Savannah John M. McElrath.....................Macon K. S. Varn....................................Waycross C. M. Jordan, Jr.....--- Alamo 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 Press Association.
EDITOR..............................................................*.........*.........*........*......................................................R. E. Davis
ASSOCIATE EDITORS._____________________________________________________Robert Rutherford

Instead, we are only now on the way to adequate forest pr ctection in our state. We have made only the beginning.

Patricia McKemie

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY CO.l\11\IISSION:

DISTRICT I-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 404, Mill edgeville

DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla

DISTRICT VII-West Building, Rome

DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gamesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 96, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

The dreaded cry of the outdoors, ''Forest Fire!'', means such scenes as that portrayed on our October cover. With Georgia well into the dangerous fall forest fire season, citizens of the state have been asked to be especially careful with fire in or near the woods. (Photo by Kenneth Rogers, Journal-Constitution Sunday Magazine}.

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County Forestry Poards for t~e 14 crunties joining the Georpa Forestry Commis sian's forest rrotection forces since July 1, 1952, have been announced by Guyton DeLoach, Director of the
Corrrnission. ''The addition of these 14
counties," stated DeLoach, ''leaves only 40 counties and about 4. 5 mill ion acres without the benefits of organized forest protection. Our pro~rarn now includes 119 counties with more than 20. 5 million acres.' '

The Director praised County Forestry Boards for their ''wise leadership of our Foresters and Rangers.'' The County Forestry Board acts in an advisory capacity to the County Unit.

''Through the Poards' efforts, advice and support, DeLoach continued, "our county Units are constantly improving their services. Without the Boards' belief in the work they are undertaking, many County Units would not have reached so quickly the point of high efficiency that now prevails over the state. County Foresters and Rangers, with their Protection Units, are saving Georgians thousands of dollars yearly because of their forest fire prevention, detection and suppres-
s<i.on efforts.''

Counties entering the state's fares try program since July, the

District in which they are located, and the County Forestry

Poard, are as follows:

DCISLTARYI-CJT.

II: E. King,

Fort Gaines;

Jack Henson, Fort Gaines; Joe

Harrrnack, Edison; Carl Crozier, Fort Gaines, and Alton H. Fendley,

Bluffton. SEMINa..E- -John I. Spooner, Jr. ,

Donalsonville; C. A. Lane, Iron
City; A. L Thursdy, Donalsonville

J. B. Gibson, Donalsonville, and G:>rdon Spooner, Iron City.

L'ISTBICT IV: PIKE: - Lanier Johnson, Wil-
l iarns on; J. H. P ankston, Meansville; Ro~er Strickland, Jr.,

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OCTOBER, 1952
,, Shameful Waste

Autumn Wildfire Season

Brings Urgent Appeal

''Today's fall forest fire situation rnukes it imperative that we do everything in our power to prevent fires and to keep close control on all forest fires during the next few months, not only because of the dollars in trees that may be needlessly burned by carelessness, but because our forests contribute vital rnateri al s to our country' s defense and prosperity.''
Guyton DeLoach, State Forester and Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, made that declaration this month as he appealed to each Georgian to take every measure possible to stamp out the shameful waste that yearly results from careless and malicious forest fires.
DeLoach r-eported that during July alone in protected counties, the state had more than three times as many fires as were reported in June More than seven times as many acres were burned and the average size
ofeach fire rose from 7.39 acres in June to 12.99 acres in July.

''We cannot hope to maintain an even forest economy,'' the Cornmission Director warned, ''if the state continues to suffer disastrous forest fires year after year because people are not careful when they approach the woods. Unless we can instill in each citizen a healthy respect for the forests and what they represent in dollars, employment, chemicals, and the thousands of other benefits derived from our woodlands, we will never be able to conquer the trees' greatest enemy- fire.''
In surrrning up fire damage last year, Director DeLoach disclosed that .633 percent of the 17,263, 087 protected acres in the state were burned. He added that ''our county rangers and foresters fought fire constant! y during the entire year, but careless and malicious woods burners were responsible for destroying more than 109,209 of the acres under forest protection. This shameful record must stay. But it can not
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AERIAL PROTECTION- This high-powered four passenger airplane, recently purchased by the Georgia Forestry commission, is one of the Commission's newest weapons in its constant fight against wildfire. The plane will be used over the state during critical forest fire danger periods to detect tell-tale smokes, and the pilot will inform ground crews of the location of fores :t fire heads and flanks and of roads and paths leading to fire areas. The plane also will be used in the preventi m of wildfires and in the enforcement of forest fire laws. (More plane phota; on Page 10).

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Timber dollars will constitute the major portion of funds to be used in the development of one of the South's finest Boy Scout Camps, the Chase S. Osborn Memorial Reservation, located 1n Worth County.
The Watkins Lumber Company, Albany, purchased timber rights on the camp site this summer with the high bid of $43,500. Two years have been allowed for removal of the marked trees, mostly pine, but cutting is expected to begin almost immediately. Approximately 275 cords of pulpwood and 1, 372,000 board feet of timber are included in the sale. Timber in the immediate carr.p area will be cut duringthe off-campingseason.
The Chehaw Scout Council has announced that money received from the sale of timber will be reinvested in camp construction and development. The site was marked for selective cutting CE part of plans formulated more than a year ago by the Georgia Forestry

Commis; ion and the U. S. Forest Service.
The forestry program on the RlO
acre reservation is designed to conserve timber and develop it for more rroductivity over a long period cf time. Plans call for the construction of fire breaks, 20 miles of which have been completed, removal of mature trees and trees abandoned as turpentine producers, and thinning of areas where trees grow too thick to allow a productive growth. A 1arge quantity of new growth, which now will have an owortunity to develop, is located on the property. In me area alone there are some 50 acres of shoulder high Longleaf Pine.
The forestry income will help build a pond site to cover between six and seven acres, which will be stacked with fish and used by the boys for boating, canoeing, and fishing; construction of a modern dining hall to accomodate 20 campers; and other

MORE THAN MILLION PER ACRE- Workers at the Georgia Forestry commission's nurseries at Davisboro, Flowery Branch, Albany, and Hightower are hoping for a 1952-' 53 seedling crop of 56,000,000. Their hopes are based on such plots as this Davisboro tract, where 10 million seedlings are growing on eight acres. With more and more Georgia farmers and landowners coming to r{'al ize the increasing value of tree crops, seed ling demand is at a record high. Such seedling production wi 11 play a vital role in the future in giving Georgia an extensive coating of forest green.
facilities, which will be constructed after consultation with the Engineering Service of the Boys Scouts of America.
The Chehaw Council hopes to make the reservation a wildlife sanctuary and to develop it into a future memorial to the generosity of the late Olase S. (};born and Mrs. Osborn.
The Committee in charge of development includes Dr. G. C. Me Kenzie, Chairman, Ashburn; I. H. Mann and B. S. Hudsm, Sylvester; W. R. Turner, Cordele; M. W. Tift and K. B. Hodges, Albany; with the Council President John T. Phillips, Sr., as ex-officio member. Walter H. Burt is the legal advisor of the Committee.

OCTOBER, 1952

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Pamphlets
Advocate Forestry
Impressive facts and figures relating to the enormous value of SouthernPines and the vast losses suffered yearly from forest fires are the themes of two new booklets recently released by the Southern Pine Association and the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association.
.' 'Forest Fires YOUR Loss, ' ' recently released by the SPCA, is a summary of the effects of forest fires on the southern woodlands, rointing out the fallacies of the woodsburning custom, the reasons behind forest fires, the amount of damage suffered each year from southern woods fires, present and future fire control activities, and expenditures for forest fire prevention. Comparative charts vividly depict the wasteful effects of fire and the increasing measures taken toward fire prevent ion.
' 'The Southern Pine Story''
began more than 300 years ago with
Captain John Smith and the Virginia Company from Jamestown. Today the Southern Pine Associa-
tion tells that story in its 32-
rage booklet and brings the reader up-to-date in happenings of the forest industry.
Unfolding history is only one phase of the story that tells of the rapid expansion of one of the south's most important industries. Efforts to protect and preserve the woodland wealth through fire prevention and proper man~gement methods enter into the tale as do uses and the advantages of using our Southern fines over other materials.
Henry J. w'alsberger, Forester and General Manager of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, and William C. Hammerle, Forester in charge of the Forest Conservation Cepartment, Southern Pine Association, have announced that free copies of the booklets are being circulated by their organizations to those interested in forestry and related fields.

Sights On Cash Prizes
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As the fall forest fire season
gets underway, 119 Georgia coun-
ties are preparing for a stuborn defense of more than two and a half million acres of woodlands in protected counties.
Participants in the Georgia Forestry Association's second Annual Forest Fire Prevention Contest, which offers prizes of
$2,000 to winners, are organized
and ready to fight the state's greatest forest enemy - fires.
County Rangers and Foresters are leading the drive and each county has a County Contest Council responsible for organizing, initiating and conducting the woods fire prevention campaign. The councils are bearing down on all groups - farmers, motorists, hunters, campers, tourists, incendiarists, and all other individuals who might careless!y or malicious!y burn the woods - and have appointed
Committees to lead specific drives to promote fire prevention.

Cash prizes will be awarded to counties showing the greatest progress in forest fire prevention
as follows: First prize, $1,000; second prize, $500; third prize, $300; and fourth prize, $200.
Winning counties must use the prize money for a charitable or civic project of county-wide benefit to be determined by the County Council.
Camcils are composed of representatives of civic and service clubs, the county ranger or forester, chairman of the county forestry board, county a9ent, farm bureau representat1ves, editors and radio stat ion representatives, chairman of county commissioners, county school superintendents, mayors, soil conservation technicians, teachers of vocational agriculture,
bankers, businessmen, youth organizations, landowners and others.
Association President Hugh W. Dobbs, in outlining duties of
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BEFORE COMPLETION- This view of the Fifth District's new headquarters building during construction shows District Forester Miles Koger (left),
and Investigator w. E. Lee looking over plans as workmen lay down r rofing
on the building at Ocmulgee. A similar headquarters building was com-
pleted recently for the seventh District at Rome.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

19531tSeP Used Exclusively

P~t4 Georgia WhiteOak Aids
;'/pp'Wed In Building Barrel Industry

The 1Y53 Naval StQres Conservation Program, as recently approved by Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, will include a new conservation payment designed to give fuller utilization of turpentine t.imber.
Last year's basic practices and payment rates are retained in the 1953 program.
For the fir.st time, the program will include a payment for barkchipping. The two cents per fa/::.e payment will be limited to 1953 virgin working faces. Trees on which the faces are installed fo~ the first working during the 1953 season must, in order to qualify for the bark-chipping payment, be chipped in a manner that will result in removing only the bark down to the wood. The payment is conditioned on the continuation of the bark~chipping method throughout life of the face.
This method, only two or three years old, is being applied on less than a third of the naval stores timber now in operation. Its inclusion in tbe 1953 program, made in a effort to produce more turpentine and save more trees for other utilization, follows recent timber surveys which indicate that one of the major forestry problems in the southeastern section is to increase the volume and size of saw-timber trees.
Working timber for naval stores by using a special bark hack to remove the bark so that the wood is not penetrated and applying sulfuric acid solution to the cut to stimulate the flow of gum will conserve face height, materially decrease the waste resulting from the use of the old wood hack, and preserve the tree for use in other forest practices. Simutaneously, according to turpentine industry leaders, the process prolongs the average flow
from a cut from one week to two weeks, thereby saving labor.
Approximate!y 5, 000 small naval stores producers still out-
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A little known, but thriving and important, industry in Georgia is typified by the E. L. We~s singer stav.e and barrel head mdl near Shady Dale in Jasper County.
The mill supplies staves and barrel heads to the beverage 1ndustries.
Originally the mill operated in Tennessee, where it was owned by the Blue Grass Continental Stave Company. At present it is owned by Weissinger, and operated and managed by James Norman, who moved to Georgia with the mill.
Highest quality White Oak is used exclusively because of the presence in the vascular system of tylosis, a growth which constricts the interior of the vessels, thus making the wood impregnable to water and other liquids. Other species of oak cannot be used because the wood's structure is porous and is not waterproof for tight cooperage.
Approximately half of all White

Oak bought as stumpage cannot be utilized due to defects. This huge loss creates a large demand for that species in the stave industry. An open market is available for good White Oak timber. The mill buys stumpage within a 75 mile radius, and Norman estimates the price of stave timbers to be approximately $40 per thousand board feet.
Stave and barrel heads are manufactured from stave timber purchased either as stumpage or in
the form of quarter bolts. \\'hen the log is cut into quarters, 3R inches in length and 12 inches across the back of the quarter, four staves are obtained from each quarter bolt.
Sawed into rough staves and barrel heads, the wood is air dried on the mill yard for 90 days. Af~er the rough staves and heads have been seasoned, they are sent to the manufact u r-in g p 1 an t in Te n n e s s e e .
There they are'assembled into barrels for storing beverages.

:1) Workers feed head saw
!re rough bolts of White are formed into staves.
:2) Staves stacked under ~d awaiting transfer to ~d for drying.
(3) Barrel headers air ing on yard.
:4) James Norman, right, tager and operator of mill, :ches staves being cut.
5) Staves are air-dried 90 days on yard.
6) Overall viewof mill.

MUSCOGEE COUNTY FORESTER FLOYD COOK PRESENTS CERTIFICATE AT SPECIAL CEREMONY, (LEFT PHOTO)
(L. toR. Right Photo) District Forester Olin Witherington, Jackie Hartley, Shirley Blackwood, Cook, Jane Hartley.
VRC'ers Rewarded
Certificates Presented
For Forestry Reading

Farmers, housewives, teen-agers and businessmen are finding that money grows on trees if they cooperate in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Nursery Department cone collection drive.
James H. Hill, Assistant Director of the Corrmission in charge of Nurseries and Management, disclosed this month that County Rangers and Forester~ from all over the state are reporting that they have been ''swamped'' with requests from all groups to participate in the collection of the various species of cones needed.
''Results are gratifying,'' Hill stated, ''especially since this is the first, and experimental, year of the collection program. We expected to encounter some difficulties in interesting enough persons to participate and cooperate in increasing our supply of seed for nursery planting. Put thus far, almost without exception, reports have indicated that we will reach our goal of amassing enough seed to help with this year's planting, and possibly we will have some surplus for our 'stock pile' of seed for planting in future years when seed production might drop below normal.''
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Thousands of youngsters today are receiving commendations for spending summertime vacation hours studying the colorful story of Georgia's forestlands.
The c~orgia Forestry Corrmission and the c~orgia State Education Department, through its Pegional Library Service, are presenting certificates of merit to more than 25,000 of the 60,000 children who participated in the 1952 Vacation Beading Club project, ''Keep Georgia Forests Green.'' Certificates are awarded to participants reading 10 books, and gold seal awards are made to those reading 25 or more books.
Presentation ceremonies are of widely varied natures and many will be coordinated with National Book Week observed in November. Each Regional Library and County Forester or Ranger, or District Forester, plans publicity to recognize efforts of the children to learn forest conservation during their school vacations.
One such presentation ceremony was held for 81 boys and girls who read 10 or more books bv the Meriwether-Talbot-Upson Regional
Library and Meriwether Ranger Arthur Thornton. A forestry quiz program with prizes for most correct answers, demonstration of fire fighting equipment used by the County Forestry Unit,

games and a watermelon cutting were included in the program.
Zack Seymour, Assistant District Forester in Charge of Fire Protection, District 4, assisted Ranger Thornton in giving the demonstration, which showed the use and operation of fire fighting equipment, the two-way radio, water pumps, fire break construction, and hand fire fighting equipment such as the back pump, rakes and flaps.
Those belonging to this Beading Club advanced in rank as foresters as they read books. Ranks were as follows: Junior Foresters, 10-14 books read; District Forest Fangers, 15-19 books read; Forest Supervisors, 20-24 books read; Fegional Forester, 25-29 books read; and Chief Forester, 30 and more books read.
The Muscogee Regional Library and County Forester Floyd Cook
rrepared a party for VBC youngsters at Pradley ~~morial Library in Columbus. Present at the ceremonies were District Forester Olin Witherington and Area Forester Ed Hamby.
The children were entertained with games emphasizing fire protection, and refreshments. The program was climaxed by the award presentations to more than SO children completing required reading.

8 OCTOBER , 1952

Foresters And Rangers In The News

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estry Unit follow1ng Holmes' an- give landowners, and the value of nouncement that the Unit has a forestlands to the county.

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new weather station. The station will classify days

Berrien entered the state's forest protection program July 1.

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according to fire danger by mea-

suring humidity and wind velocity,

thus alerting the Unit of any

change in fire weather. Holmes explained that on Class
1, 2, and 3 days there is little
danger of fire, ' and on those days the Unit can do some of its outside work. But on days classified as 4 or 5, forest fire conditions are very dangerous, and forestry personnel will be on the lookout for fires.''

The ''Good Neighbor Policy'' is just as important between counties as between nations, especially in forest protection, believes Howard R. Hartmann, Me Duffie County Forester.
In a recent ''Rangers Remarks'' column of the McDuffie Progress, Hartmann welcomes a Tenth District neighbor, Columbia County,

into the state's forest protection

program, and he points out that

the two counties can work toget-

HIGHWAY REMINDER - J. C. Bowen, Ranger, Ben Hill County Forestry Unit, points to one of the Georgia
Forestry conmiss i m' s many high-
way reminders.
Don't look for DeKalb County Ranger Robert F. Dulaney and his Forestry Unit in the Agricultural Building, Decatur, any more. They' ve moved.
New, expanded headquarters were completed in August and the Unit is now located on Highway 7R. The fire-fighters' remodeled, two-building home is on county property and consists of and office, a store house and living quarters for the Assistant Ranger. A garage will be built to

A two-day display on the Courthouse Square showing Berrien County's new forestry truck and tractor was the first step in forestry education arranged by the county's first Ranger, W. V. Strickland.
Strickland states that this is only the start of his program to acquaint Berrien Countians w.ith the equipment and operation of the County Forestry Unit. He talked with dozens of interested viewers, advising them of the advantages of fire prevention, the assistance the Unit is able to

her for mutual forestry benefits.
Hartmann especially notes the usefulness of having more fire towers located in the area, stating, ''These towers will be a help because fires can be crossed out from two towers and located much easier and quicker than by one towerman. With this cooperation the Unit will be more effective in locating and suppressing fires. But if the citizens of McDuffie County would get behind the Forestry Unit and HELP PREVENT FOREST FIRES, then the loss from such fires would be small.''

CROSSING OUT A FIRE- Robert 0. Clyatt, Ranger, Thomas County FOrestry Unit, shows how a forest fire is 'crossed out'' on a dispatcher's map. Georgia' s County Foresters and County Rangers depend heavily upon rapid detection of forest fires and the important part played by the lookout towers in spotting smokes.

house a large truck, tractor,

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An expanded budget this year

will allow six extra men to be

employed for the coming fire

season, and will enable the Unit

to operate three full time firefighting crews during the entire season.

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''Cobb Coonty s Forest Rangers soon will be ready to get to fires almost before they start,'' the Marietta Daily Journal states of Ranger T. L. Holmes and his For-

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PEACH COUNTY CAMPERS - BQY Sc ruts attending the recent forestry session at Camp Ben Hawkins in Peach county get a first-hand look, (above and right), at mechanized forest fire suppression equipment. The McElarth Lumber Company and the Georgia FOrestry commission sponsored the camp. Equipment of Crawford and Bibb County Forestry Units was demonstrated.

New. Bo.~ ...
(Continued From Page 2) Concord; Charlie Harden, Zebulon, and C. R. Gwyn, Jr., Zebulon.
HENRY - J. W. . Clark, Stockbridge; W. C. Dailey, Flippen; J. G. Moseley, McDonough; M. M. Brown, Locust Grove, and Joe Rowan, Hampton.
FULTON- John C. Lee, Red Oak; Napoleon Rucker, Roswell; C. C. Nix, Alpharetta; Mrs. HelenDouglas Mankin, Atlanta, and Hershal Miller, Fairburn.
DISTRICT V: IRWIN: - Don L. McMillan,
Osierfield; Henry F. Tucker, Omla; Marion Green, Ocilla; W. C'. ' Wingate, Jr., Ocilla, and Bailey Hend~r~~m. Ocilla.
TURNER - J. M. Hardy, Sycamore; Fred Raines, Ashburn; A. W. Green Sr., Sycamore; Jim Vinson, Rebecca, and Bennett Pate, Amboy.
DI,STRICT VI: JEFFERSON: - J. E. Parrow,
Keysville; R. L. Beathea, Jr.,
Louisville; John Sheppard, Stapleton; Wylie Fv.ans, Bartow, and Craig Carswell, Wadley.
DISTRICT VI I:
CATOOSA: - Rual Williams, Ringgold ; Dewey Pi rd, Ringgold; Tom Horton, Ringgold; Jim Maples, Varnell, and Sibley Christian, Highland Park, Tennessee.
DISTRICT VI II:
Bf.HUEN--Wilb1;1r Gaskins, Alapa-

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and wiil not stop until we have complete cooperation from every man, woman and child in Georgia.''
The Director warned thaL this year, because of the sustained drought, the state could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in timber , homes, farm crops, and other personal property ''simply because we have not been able to convince all of the people of the advantages of keeping our forests green and growin8". ' '
The State Forester stated that even if all 25 million woodland acres in the state were protected,

''our job would not be finished. Our Forest protection program does not end with the aim to organize a County Forestry trnit in each county. Our objective is to stamp our forest fires with the assistance of every citizen, and through any and all means that will achieve our goal.
''Forest fires cannot be blamed on lightning, ''DeLoach said, because nature causes less than one percent of all forest fires. People - careless and malicious people - are responsible for 99 percent of these fires.''

ha; Frank Clements, Enigma; A. D. Osborne, Nashville; Ralph Rowan, and Bill Perry, Nashvill~.
DISTRICT IX:
JACKSON: - Britt Elrod, Jeffers on; R. H. McEver, Talmo; Mose Gordon, Corrrnerce; Joe Harris, Jefferson, and E. S. Morgan, Jefferson.
HALL - B. H. Kinney, Gainesville; Dr. Rafe Banks Jr. , Gainesville; Jim Jones, Braselton; A. L. Pirkle, Buford, and P. E. Alford, Ga ine_svi ll e.
DISTRICT X:
COLUMBIA: - Steiner Branch, Jr., Grovetown; E. D. Clary, Jr., Harlem; J. G. Blanchard, Evans; W. H. Verdery, Harlem, and John D. Eubank, Applin~.

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side the conservation program are being urged to participate.
Conservationists are st-rongly recorrmending to producers already participating that greater precautions be taken in harvesting their naval stores crop, not only to perpetuate the supply of gum, but also to leave trees in better condition for further utilization after turpent1n1ng is completed. One such recorrrnendation stresses the importance of removing metal gutters, nails and a prow-; 11!:-' Pil j P the working operation.

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NEW AIRPLANE- A view inside the cockpit, (left), of the Georgia Forestn Commission's new fire detection plane reveals modern control panel with most recent innovations. Plane also carries a loudspeaker, (right), which will be used to communicate with fire fighting crews, aid in fire law enforcement, and carry on fire prevention education.

Six forestry training schools for Georgia county agents have been planned for this fall and
winter, according to J. J. hom-
strong, General Manager, Woodlands Division of Union Bag and Paper Company and C. Dorsey Dyer, Forester, Georgia Agricultrrnl Extension Service. Union Bag and Paper is sponsoring the schools.
The first school for the Southeast Georgia Extension Service
District was held October 7-9.
Three other district schools already scheduled are: Southcentral,
October 21-23; Southwest, November
4-6; and Northeast, November H~20. Schools for the North and Northwest Georgia districts will be scheduled for early 1953. Purpose is to give the county agents advanced training in a 11 phases of forestry to better enable them to render greater service to woodland owners in the state, particularly

farm woodlot owners. They pointed out that this training will also help the agents with their 4-H Club forestry pr9gram in Georgia.
Each group will assemble at the Savannah plant of Union Bag and Paper Company where they will be
welcomed by T. T. Dunn, Union Bag Vice-President and Resident Manager, and will make a special plant tour.
Second and third days of each forestry school will be held at PalmettoBluff, S.C. Here in-the woods trainingwill include forest management, reforestation, timber cruising, utilization andmarketing, selection mar king methods an d fire control.
B. E. Allen and H. C. Carruth of Union Bag's Woodlands Division will be in charge of the field acti vities. Instructors will include foresters from the staff of Union
Bag and the Extension Service.

Cone Collectors ...

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Hill stressed that this" good report" does not mean that those now participating should stop collect-

duly authorized cone collection supervisor, check with him be fore ending your gathering operations.

ingcones. "We simplywant to rec- Many species of cones are still

ognize publicly those citizens who are willing to pitch in and help with programs of this type. If you have registered with your County Rangeror Forester, Soil Conservationist, County Agent, or any other

needed to make the program a success. One of the above agents will have full information on progress of the program and can advise you when, and if, your county has reached its quota of cones.

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the Council and its committees, urged that ''these groups have periodic meetings, and plan county-wide rallies, barbecues and picnics to help stimulate more widespread interest and cooperation. The more citizens alerted to the importance of keeping Georgia green, the better the chance for, a county to win," said Dobbs.

The County Contest Council . directs operations of all conrnittees.

The contest will close April 1, 1953, and winners will be announced at the May, 1953, meeting of the Georgia Forestry Associ ation.

TheAssociation's 1951-52 $1,000

Forest Fire Prevent ion Contest ,

to determine the county showing

the greatest effort in reducing

forest fires through conmunity

effort, attracted entries from

more than 70 C..eorgia counties.

Guyton Delo ach , Director of the

Georgia Forestry Commission ,

emphas ized that thi s past contest

''helped immeasureab ly to draw

private citizens, civic, fr a-

ternal, agricul t ur al and e duca-

t ional clubs together i n the fight

against wildfires.''

County

Rangers and Foresters intensified

t heir I nf or mation and Education

c amraigns during the contest per-

iod to lend a 11 the impetus possi-

ble to the County's fire preven-

tion campaign.

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