.-. JUNE 1953 GEORGIA FORESTRY Editorial Spring Winds Present Danger (From the Cobb County Times) The pungent odor of burning grass, rubbish and brus h drifts through nearly every corrrnuni ty in Cobb County during the spring months. Many of these fires get beyond c ontrol, endanger lives and property. Burning over grass and brush areas and trash which has been stacking up in the attic and piled up during winter may be a beneficial spring clean-up of your property, but all citizens should kno.v how to do the job properly and safely before starting . The following pointers will help you to remain on friendly terms with your neighbors and may save you money in the long run. Collect the proper tools for effective grass fire control. These include a heavy shovel, wet brooms, and a portable pump tank extinguisher if possible. Lay out lengths of garden hose equipped with a nozzle and connected to a good water supply if the area to be burned is near buildings . Barrels or tanks of water should be handy if running water is not avaiJ abl e . Be sure that sufficient help is standing by to lend assistance if needed . Stay in attendance until fire is extinguished . Never allow children near the burning area. Always choose a day when there is no breeze, but be prepared for one to spring up any time. Keep in mind that wind and weather conditions, as well as con ditions of grass or brush makes this type of burning tricky and unpredictable. The job should be tackled seriously and with full observance of all safety rules. H there is any doubt as to burn- ing the trash and grass persons should contact the local fire departrrent or the CobbCounty Ranger. They are always more than glad to assist and cooperate in controlled burnings. This Is Season For Fire Caution And Cooperation (Fran The Carroll County Georgian ) Carelessness causes most fires. Nearly every person or concern that experiences a fire can trace it to some carelessness. Someone allowed trash to accumulate in an unsafe location, someone overfired a stove or furnace to drive away the chill hurriedly,someone knew the stove - pipe had a leakbut they hadn't got around to fixing it, someone knew the electric wiring was over loaded and exposed and someone knew their neighbors woods would be endangered but they went ahead and burned off their o.vn timberland without taking precautions, or being courteous enough to sound a warning. Were it not for people being careless, lazy and indifferent the fire insurance rates would not be so high and the nation would be better off each year by millions of dollars lost to fire. Vol. 6 GEORGIA FORESTRY June, 1953 Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMM ISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeL oach, Di1-ecto1 No. 6 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 _ ---- ..... ------------------------------------- ..... ___ Richard E. Davis ASSOCIATE EDITOR....... -----------------.------------------------ Patricia McKemie DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTHY COMMISSION: DISTRICT !- Route 2, Statesboro DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville DISTRICT II-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla DISTRICT VII-Route 1, 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, Gainesville DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington Named Keep Green Grand ChlllJI)ions in Georgia's second annual contest was Schley County. In the main cover photo Roney Jurdon, Schley Keep Green Chairman, accepts the $1, 000 first prize from A. E. Patterson. Looking on are, at left, T. o. Gresham, center, B.C. Pel- ham, and, at far right, Laurence Tondee, Schley Forest Ranger. Presentations were made at the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Forestry Association. Ben Hill County, runner-up in the competition was represented by Keep Green Councilman W. R. Snowden and J. C. Bowen, Forest Ranger. Accepting the third prize for Greene County was H. E. ~ore, Fbrest Ranger, shown being congratulated by Carl Floyd, one of the contest judges. Red Ramsey, prominent Toccoa Keep Green Committeeman accepted the fourth prize for Stephens County. JUNE, 1953 2 Schley Named Keep Green Winner Highlighting Tri -Group Meetings Georgia's 1953 Keep Green champion is Schley County, with other front-running prizewinners being Ben Hill, Greene and Stephens counties. For the top spot in the second annual Keep Georgia Forests Green Contest, the Schley Keep Green Council was awarded the grand prize of $1,000. The Ben Hill Council received $500, the Greene County Council$300 and the Stephens County group $200. Naming of the winners and formal presentation of the awards elimaxed the joint annual meetings of the Georgia Forestry Association, the Georgia Chapter, Society of American Foresters, and the Georgia School of Forestry Alumni Association held May 13 and 14 at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon. More than 250 foresters, industrialists, financiers, landowners, and conservationists were in attendance at the sessions. Accepting the first place award, a crisp $1,000 bill, on behalf of Schley County, were Roney Jurdon and B. C, Pelham, Keep Green Committee members, and Lawrence Tondee, Schley County Forest Ranger. Ben Hill Forest Ranger J. C. Bowen and Keep Green Committeeman W.R. Snowden represented the secondplace winners. W. R. Johnson, Chairman of the Greene County ColTITiittee and Herbert E. Moore, County Forest Ranger, accepted the third place award with Red Ramsey, Stephens County Keep Green leader, and County Ranger Joe Dean, receiving the fourth place prize. A. E. Patterson, University of Georgia School of Forestry made the awards on behalf of the Georgia Forestry Association. A business session of the Geargia Chapter opened the combined meeting of the three groups on the morning of the 13th. C. Dorsey Dyer, Chapter Chairman, presided over the session. Evolving from the meeting discussions was the creation of a Georgia Forestry Council, for the ''purpose of giving the various groups and agencies an opportunity to discuss with others programs and practices that the individual groups and organizations will follow, and not as a decisionmaking body.'' Named to the Council were Guyton Deloach, Director, Georgia Forestry Conmiss ion; W.D. Weddell, Dean of the School of Forestry, University of Georgia; C. Dorsey Dyer, Forester, Georgia Agriculture Extension Service; W. R. Hine, U. S. Forest Service; H. J. Malsberger, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; J. H. Pond, Southern Pine Association; Jim Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad, and T.A.Liefeld,Consultant Forester. The Alumni \ssociation held its annual meeting on the afternoon of (Con t inu ed o n Pa f!e 10) 19530FFICERS (F THE GEORGIA CHAPTER, SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORES1ERS-Chairman C. Dorsey Dyer, center, is flanked by Vice Chairman J. C. Turner, Jr., right, and Secretary-Treasurer E. T. Newsom, Jr., left. I ASSOCIATION GUEST SPEAKER-E. T. Hawes, Vice President, West Lumber Oompany, Atlanta, points rut "Problems of the Small Timberland OwnEr" at the Georgia Forestry Associationannual meeting. * * * * ALUMNI LEADERS--H. E. Ruark, right, newly-e~ected President of the Georgia School of Forestry Alumni Association is congratu- lated by John R. Hamilton , out- going President. . - ~.: -- ~ ... ,_\ I~ \_ t \ ;;:;...-'+i' ,..~ ' +'+ +"~ .+'+ ~; +"+"t'-1 \ ;-++''++'+-+.. ~+'+'+~ ,..., t-'4'4-'+'+' r- ~~- 3 GEORGIA FORESTRY Tree Planting In Georgia Leads Nation The 1952 report on total acres planted established another Forestry first for Georgia as the state led the entire nation in total acres planted to trees dur- Ginegorgtihaatplapnetreidoda. lmFoustrthtewrimceorea~ much privately owned land as did 36 other states combined accord- ing to a report by the U. 's. Forest Service. During the period of the sur- vey, a total of 50,338 acres were ref ores ted in the state byprivate landowners, and federal, state an~ l~cal governments, The large maJority of all planting in the state, 49,504 acres, was accom- plished with the by priva Federal tGeovlearnnmdoewntnerres~ stocking 545 acres and other public agencies 289 acres. In total acres reforested since the start of the state's nursery and reforestation programs, Geor- gia ranks fifth in the nation with a tot a 1 of 35 7, 258 acres planted in trees. Reforestation efforts in the South are the most vigorous in the nation in plantings on private lands, according to the For- est Service report. The three southern States of Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi planted more than one fourth of all of the private acres in the nation. Planting figures for Louisiana were 35, 224 privately owned acres, and for Mississippi were 31,205. The survey emphasized the rise of planting by private owners on their own lands during recent years, as compared with the de- cline of planting by governmental agencies. During the three years, 1950-'52, on a nationwide basis, 79 fercent of the land plante d was privately owned and 21 pe r- cent was government owned. In the three years _pre ceeding War ld War TT, 1?39-'41, the proportion of planting was 49 rercent private and 51 percent government owned land. etet ~eH, ~atn~e~~ '?OIUH4 '?Vte 'P~te~Uue It takes initiative to make any program success ful. And in Ben Hill County Emory Wilcox, a Negro farmer, demonstrated just what rersonal iniative can do to make a Keep Green Program an active, integral part in the 1i ves of farmers and their families. After hearing plans of the Ben Hill Keep Green program announced on the radio and in local newspapers, and having been interested in forest protection for many years, Wilcox with his sons, c irculated among their fellow farmers, talking of the need for fire prevention and fcrest protection, and explaining what the families in their community could do to better their farm woods, and help the County's Keep Green program. With no outside help, Wilcox cr- ganized a group of 25 friends and neighb crs in the Dominy Mill community, located nine miles northeast of Fitzgerald. The group formulated practical rules and regulations for any and all burning on farms. The name of each family was listed with the f cllowing coding beside the name: '' 0' ', ownership by one person; ''F.O.'' Familyownership; ''X'' Cooperation very good; '' E '', Nothing against Him or Herand ''V.L. , '' Regu1ati.ons have 'been broken. The fall woing is there rort made by Wilcox: ''We the colored Farmers of the Dominy Mill Community have been educated to the fact that forest fires are one of our worst enemies. "Now we have come together and we work together to prevent forest fires by control burning. We cut firebreaks and burn in the afternoon when the wind is very calm. ''For the past five years we have had a fine young growth of yamg trees grcwing on idle and woodless land. Why? It is because we can now see that forest fires don't pay off. ''And again we have learned that burning the forests burns up dollars and cents, hundreds of feet of lumber and thousands of barrels of gum. ''We keep a lertby reading newspapers and by radio programs. ''Now in the winter of 1952 we were issued by the County Agent poster signs. They were tacked up at our churches and on the Highways and in the woods." OUTSTANDING SCRAPBOOKS ENTERED IN KEEP GEORGIA GREEN CONTEST-Admiring scrapbooks entered in the Keep Georgia Forests Green Contest are Professor L. W. R. Jackson, School of Forestry, University of Georgia, right, and Turner County Forester J. Walter Huntemann, Inlaid cover designs, color photographs, hand painted pages, and many other elaborate and unique ideas were used by Counties to pres~nt reports of progress made in forest protection and fire preventiOn programs during the tontest. IN TilE KEEp' GEORGlA}OPEf]S flRE,;' ( r- " ,,,.~s,. ~/ ~~--~~~ .9 JUNE, 1953 q~ df04ed.t--B~ .e~ Contest Winners Give Formulas For Success Take one Vigorous Keep Green Council. Add Complete Citizens' Cooperation. Mix well with an Energetic, Imaginative Forest Ranger. Let simmer for one year. And the result is an outstanding and profitable program designed to Keep Schley County Green. That is the Schley County formula for Greener Forests and Better Liviny;.And the formula paid off in a crisp, new $1,000 bill for the County as first place winner, and an additiona 1$100 for Forest Ranger L. S. Tondee, chosen ''the most outstanding Forest Ranger,'' in the Georgia Forestry Association's ''Keep Georgia Forests Green'' county contest. Eight council members of the Schley County Keep Green Committee, which met semi-monthly during the contest, formed groups whicq saturated the county with fire prevention and forest protection projects of varied and unique natures. One of the most, outstanding features of the Schley program was the organization of volunteer fire units formed in communities over the county. Unofficial fire headquarters were set up in the communitiesand far- mers pooled equipment for combatting forest fires. Ranger Tondee smilingly declared that ''only 10 fires occurred in our county during the past year and Schley citizens phoned l 1nit Headquarters to report the fires before the blazes became large enough for our towermen to spot.'' ''Volunteer farm equipment was in use suppressing every fire,'' Tondee continued, ''even before the County Forestry Unit's equip- ment could arrive. We investigated the cause 01 each fire, and follow-ups were made to prevent future occurrence.'' The Scrapbook presented to the Association as a summary of the progress made in Schley County during the contest, outlined numerous projects, including; a sportsman's pledge issued with hunting and fishing licenses; a special Keep Green edition of the Ellaville Sun printed on wrapping paper and distributed throughout the county; an essay contest, one for white and one for col cred schools, offering two $25 defense bonds as prizes; and all forest industries and their personnel in the county were contacted. KEEP GREEN IDNTEST JUDGES AND PRIZE WINNING SOlLEY REPRESENTATIVES-Left to right, Elmo Hester, Farm Editor, Atlanta Journal; Roney Jurden, Schley Keep Green Council; C. F. Evans, Forester; L. S. Tondee, Schley Forest Ranger; and Carl Floyd, Vice President, Fulton Nationa I Bank. ," I \. I \ FORESTERS ADDRESS GFA MEETING-'11ow To Get The Results Of Research In Practic~ is explained at the Georgia Forestry Association's annual meeting by John c. Barber, Research Forester, U. S. Forest Service, above. Albert C. Worrell, AssistantProfessor, University of Georgia School of Forestry, speaks on "Costs of Producing Forestry in the South," below. Profitable and productive Keep Green formulas were also brewedup by Ben Hill, Greene andStephens counties, the Second, Third and Fourth place contest winners, respectively. The counties profited n ct only from the $500, $300, and $200 prizes awarded by the Association, but through greener, more productive and Letter protected forestlands. Ben Hill County carried out numerous forestry educational projects, with the county's activities centered around Keep Georgia Green Week. Miss Gum Turpentine reigned over the week's activities which included: Fitzgerald decorated with pine trees, window displays and banners; a Keep Green parade with white and color- ed bands and 30 commercial and school floats; an address by Lieutenant Governor Marvin Griffin; a forestr y pr cgram in the green decorated football stadium; a special Keep Green edition of t he FiLZgera ld Herald; sermons by ministers delivered during the (Continued Qn Page 10) I ;... f I I . ,. ~ j I 5 ;: I SPCA H oldsr- Area T hree Pulp Meet .. ! The Area Three summer rreeting of the Sout hern Pulpw ood Conservation Association brought toget her more than 125 pulpwood producers and dealers, Association Conservati on Foresters, a 1~ representatives of the Association's rrember mills, for a one day session held June 3 at the General Oglethorpe Hate 1 in Savannah, Georgia. During the morning session, the Conservation Foresters and Area De legates reviewed the sampling activities of. the Association . In the afternoon two talks a nd a panel discussion were presided over by AreaChairman S.K. Hudson, Container Corporation of Arrerica. ''Forest Insects, Their Cost and Control'' was the subject of an illustrated slide lecture by Joe Kowal, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, u.s. repartrrentof Agriculture, and ''The Program of Tree Improverrent and Its Potentialities,'' was outlined by Ken Porreroy, Lake City Research Center, Southeastern Forest Experirrent Station. The afternoon's pane 1 discussion, ''The Landowner--Are We Reaching Him?'' , was moderated by Jim Fisher, Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company, with panel members Sam Lyles, Jr., Union Bag and Paper Corporation, Joe Hogan, InternationalPaper Company, and Rex Nance , Rayonier, Inc., participating. In the late afternoon theArea Delegates convened, followed by a social hour and banquet. G. P. LeMoyne, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, served as Ma ster of Ceremonies at the Banquet. Other Area ~~etings of the Association were held as foklows: Area One, May 6, P laza Hotel, Huntsville, Texas; Area Two, June 9-10, Buena Vista Hotel, BjJoxi, Mississippi; and Area Four, May 20, Carolinian Hotel, Nags Head, NorthCarolina. \ "-~~ ;._~ $ ) NEW HEADQUARTERS OF atAniAM COUNTY FORESTRY UNIT OFFICIAlLY OPENEDthe Chatham County Forestry Unit officially opened the doors of its new Headquarters building on May 1 and marked the occasion with a dedication ceremony and Barbecue luncheon for the many Chatham countians in attendance. The one story, brick and shingle building is of modernistic design, picturesquely and aptly situated in a level wooded area. In photo above, Chatham Forest Ranger Ernest Edwards, right , and First District Forester Walter N. Stone, Georgia Forestry Commission, "break- in" the pine paneled conference room. The Headquarters building also includes ample office space for the Ranger, Dispatcher and other assistants, shower facilities for fire crews, and storage space. Garage facilities for Unit fire fighting vehicles are located to the rear of the headquarters. In photo below, Ranger Edwards points out a few of the construction features to District Forester Stone. JUNE, 1953 To re cognize Ge crgia' s first-- and the nation' s second ''Tree Farm Family,'' more than 375 foresters, business leaders and woodland owners gathered May 26 at the Doraville Plant of the West Lumber Company to witness the official presentation of Tree Farm Certificates and Signs to 24 Lando.vners from Fulton, Butts, Cobb, DeKalb, White and Gwinnett Counties. Governor Talmadge and Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, commended the new Tree Farrrers and the West Lumber Company for instituting the ''Tree Farm Family'' program, which brought together the 24 lando.vners through their mutual interest in taking advantage of a plan offered by West to provide small wood lot owners professional supervision and managerrent of non-company owned forestlands without cost or obligation. ' 'Your best inves trrent in Georgia today is putting submarginal lands into pines,'' Governor Talmadge stated as he cited the importance of the state's forests which yearly bring a $600million incorre to the state, and provide employment for 166,000 workers. Explaining the operation of the ''Tree Farm Familv'' plan Director DeLoach pointed out that although the Georgia Tree Farm System originated in 194P, the idea of a ''Tree Farm Family," composed of i nd i v id ua 11 and o.vne rs in the area served by a fares t industry ''had its Georgia origin with theWest Tree Farm Family which we honor today." Preceding the Tree Farm presentations by Governor Talmadge and Director DeLoach, E. T. Hawes and L. C. Hart, Jr., West's Industrial Foresters, conducted a forestry demonstration of proper and improper harvesting practices. FIRST GEORGIA TREE FARM FAMILY--Photo 1, Governor Herman Talmadge , left, ~resents the Tree Farm Certificate awarded West Lumber Company to George C. West, President of the Company. Looking on is Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission. Photo 2, Govern~ Talmadge and West discuss the merits of the Tree Farm Program in Georgia. Photo 3, the 24 new Georgia Tree Farmers officially recognized at the ceremoni es, pose for a family photograph. Photo 4, preceding the Tree Farm ceremonies, E. T. Hawes, Vice President and Forester for the Company, conducts a forestry demonstration stressing pro rer cutting methods. 7 GEORGIA FORESTRY When Johnny Mize slammed a homerun to win the 1952 World Series for the New York Yankees, the bat he used to atply the coupe de Grace' was a product of a Georgia forest industry the Hanna Manufacturing Company of Athens . Producing more than a million bats a year for use t hr oughout the world, the Hanna Company plant has been located in Athens for the las t twenty eight years. These pioneers of the bat industry moved into Georgia as early as 1917. Here they began buying and cutting high-quality eveng r