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Fire Guards Learn "Protection Of Forests From Enp Training School Conducted By Umpqua National Forest At Wolf Creek Ranger Camp By LKROY B. INMAN Shpin? a group of young, inexperienced men into hardned fire fighters, capablt of taking car of themselves and putting out fires in rugged mountain areas is not an easy tak. But it must be done, annually, by forest super visors ard rangers, whose task it is to protect our forests to the bot of their ability. The umpqua national forest head quarters at Roseburg bas just com pleted conducting a special train ing course for forest guards at the Wolf creek guard station up Little j river, about 35 miles from Rose- burg. The week previous, the Douglas Forest Protective associa tion held Its guard training school, and already the men trained, aug mented by seasoned foresters, are being tested in action on the huge Calapooia creek fire east of Suth erlin. To get an idea what goes on at these training schools, this reporter accompanied Umpqua National Forest Supervisor Robert Aufder heide on the Wolf Creek camp. We drove almost to Glide, detouring around new highway construction and turned south on the Little river road, where the county has just completed glass-smooth asphalt macadam paving for a mile and a half, and have oiled another dozen miles. Legs Stock Piled We passed on our right the vast log pond of Associated Plywood where logs are held for winter deck of Roseburg Lumber Com pany, stacked with logs cut from national forest lands designated for cutting and sold on a per thou sand board-foot basis. Ray Hampton, fire supervisor from the Roseburg office, and in charge of the training program at Wolf Creek guard station, greeted us and explained that 44 young men were being trained in five separate classes communications, compass and map reading, fire tupression, tmoke chasing and fire finding instrumentation. Some of these men will be used I" ."'"".u .ookouts. others will be on fire, occur, wh, still She" will'do trail work. The Umpqua National mresrs compliment ol 50 year around employes it increased to about ISO regulars for the fire season. About 40 of these are em ployed as lookouts. Class Instruction Felix Campbell, communications technician, was conducting a school on communications. Campbell's job during the winter is to repair and keep communications equip ment in first class condition during the winter. He explained that radio now plays a very important part in forest service communication, but was quick to point out that tele phones are still indispensible. FM high frequency, battery-operated radios are used on the look outs. Batteries operated eight hours daily on a standby basis last about two months, said Cam bell. They have a wide range and can be heard from one end of the forest area to the other. Tuned to these sets at 35,000 kilo- MST'FILE TOOTH. fwr im ptfn Tpintux haws ftxumj M H fUit rW ky eMIajtristf) Oeooe) OtepMr Cm wit Pwf-hi To, tb nMn, lat(NN)l fH H Hwl. Af nr it MX m ft feet-Fit ToM MtT and ejwHklr the be, ft nmopy fiaJ. ejat tM OtOtJM C C ). Al fT factory 4ft. w JOTK rot THff o 0REG0S Saw Chain Corp. H HELP WANTED W! HAVI EMPLOYMENT AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CLASSIFICATIONS Bookkeepers Bridge Cront Operator $200.00 Mo. and Up $1.85 Hr. Stenographers Resow Ope rotor $175.00 Mo. aeid Up $1,825 Hr. Woifresset Ratchet Setter 75c Hr. and 2 Meals $1,875 Hr. Female Fry Cooks Lea Dispatcher $1.25 Hr. and Up $2.25 Hr. Janitor Donkey Punchers $180.00 Mo. and Up $2.25 Hr. to $2.35 Hr. Machinist Head Rigger $1.95 Hr. and Up $2,075 Hr. Sheet Metal Man Head Leader $2.20 Hr. and Up Open Mechanic! Second Leader . 50 Comm. to $2.08 Hr. $1,925 Hr. Great Monkey Parts Clerk $50.00 to $75.00 Week $50.00 Wk. Tire Changer Grocery Clerk $250.00 M. $55.00 Wk. Rough Lumber Greder Farm Couple $1.80 Hr. Up to $200.00 Me. Apply Oregon State Employment Service 437 North cycles are hand? talkies, which may be carried around by the men in the field. These have i range of from eieht to 10 miles and are used chiefly in communicating with lookouts. Ihey have also been used successfully by by low flying air planes, communicating with the lookouts. Lower frequency radios are also used by work crews, but these are not tuned to the lookouts' band. Important Phases While map and compass reading, smoke chasing and fire finding in strumentation, are all important steps in preparing the young men in the work and In finding their way about in the mountains, their fundamental work it that of fight ing fires. To accomplish this, ac tual fire suppression training is conducted. The area near Wolf Creek camp was dry, the humidity low and the temperature hot, but there is no way to learn how to fight fire bet ter than actually fighting it. So a spot fire nearby lor each class was set and it was up to the train ees to get to the fire as quickly at possible and put it out. Wright Mallery, assistant ran?er at Tiller on the South Umpqua, was in charge of this phase, as sisted by Earl Karlinger, assistant ranger on Diamond Lake district, and Frank Wilson, assistant on the Bohemia district, east of Cottage Grove. Trained to Keep Calm An important step, explained Mallery, is keeping the young re cruit calm when he goes on a fire. He told of one young husky fellow, who became panicky and began to tremble when a section of the fire seemed to be getting away. He I'l'J 'ST. Oft his hand and watched the fire burn a few minutes, then showed him what to do. There are four steps in fire su pression, he explained: first, tell the men what to do and why; sec ond demonstrate how; third let them do the job. The fourth test comes when they actually go out on the job to fight fire. From Many States From where, the question was asked, are these men recruited? The answer was, "just about ev erywhere in the United States." In the group of 44, two are from West Virginia, one from Maine, one from New Jersey, one from Missouri, and one each from Penn sylvania, Ohio and Arkansas. Sev eral are from California and the remainder from Oregon. Some are high school students or graduates. Some are college rraduates. Alan Sturdivant, a husky youth from Clarksburg. W. Va., said, ''I studied forestry and graduated from the University of West Vir ginia this year. I decided the best way to learn forestry wat to get out where there are some trees." With him came Bert Toller of Williamson. W. Va., and also a graduate of the state university there. Both agreed they liked Ore gon very much. Sturdivant spent a summer in Wyoming and did tome fire fighting. Jack Tygert of New Jersey, bill a student at the University of Maine and studying forestry, said. "This is what I really want. I like Oregon, what I've seen of it, and 1 like the big trees." Forest fire fighting isn't altogether new to him either, as he did tome in New Jersey. Good Psychology Setting spot fires and sending the men out on the job is important psychology. They learn how 1 0 meet the situation, and how to put the fire out, said Mallery. They learn that fire can be put out com pletely with dirt and without the At Jackie ErtablnM 1173 FIRE GUARD SCHOOL Wolf Creek ranger station was the scene of last week's fire guard training school, conducted by the Umpqua National forest staff. Pictured, upper left, ere supervisor Robert Aufderheide and Ray Hampton, fire super visor, in front of the cook house. Upper right, Felix Campbell, in charge of communications, con ducts e class on use of radios, Handy Talkies and telephones. Lower left, Hampton illustrates how a mule Is packed to carry supplies into the mountains. Lower right, how to put out fires is the most important phase of the training, and actual experi ence is provided. (Staff photos) use of water. The men are also given a ahort lecture on safety. The first two days of the guard training school was largely on tim ber management for timber man agement personnel and engineers. Rangers of the four districts, George Churchill of the North Umpqua district; Milton Andrews of the South Umpqua, Don Allen of the Diamond Lake district and Dick Tubman of Bohemia were all present, Churchill remained to assist with the training and conducted a class in fire finding on Mt. Shivigny, four miles away and accessable by car. He was assisted by Ira Poole, assistant warden on the South Umpqua. District Assistants Each ranger district has a ranker and assistant. The assistant han dles most of the fire fighting super vision and improvement work. Clair Hogate is assistant on the Bohemia district, and Melvin Mc Cord on the North Umpqua district, in addition to the others listed. , But not all the camp training was given over to work and class room study. A competive ached ule to create interest was a r ranged. Each district competed against each other and 'individuals also competed in forest tests, com pass and course pacing, log buck ing, mule packing for amateurs and for professionals, and district team Softball play in the evenings. Score cards were set up on the bul letin board giving 25 points for first and 15 points for second for both district and individual super iority. The winning district re ceved a plaque and the wnning individual, a cruisers ax. Food, always an important item to a working man, is served in plentiful amounts and t well pre pared. Manufactured gat contain er! and gas stoves are now used in preparation of food on fire calls. Two extra stoves were set up at Wolf Creek for the camp. Paper plates, paper spoons and forks and plastic knives, all of which are dis posable, are used. This saves man power that would be used for kit chen police. Forests in the United Statet yeilded 37 .000.000.000 feet of lum - ber in 1950, a 20 year record. S " 1 Attention Taxpayers: e The Annual maatiaf el the Donflet Cevaty Taieer"' Leeaa will he ktla at 10:00 A. M., Friday, Jaae 2th, Circuit Caart Keen. Ceurt Haata, Reieeara, Orate, tar Hie ceaiiaVatia at tKa 111 luetat, (tie electiaa. at effieen, a a1 tack etker kuiiaau e shad area erly eerne kafare the maatlaf . o Yaa era vitally interested la the tas aic9ura at Dauajea Ceeaty, e4)it it aaly ay year atteae'eace at tin? luatat Meatiaf al ike C aary, that tke Ceaety Officials can It new yaur attitwae aa tax mtten. Make It a paint to attaad tktt aeatiaa AN Teinarr ere eerdielly htvitee1 to attaad. Douglot County Taxpayer' League O. N. Riddle, Pres. z Forest Products Market Report (Willamette Valley Area) Second growth tawlog pricet showed further tigns of weakness in the Willamette Valley during the week ending June 23. Demand continued good however. Dry rascara prices dropped 40 percent. Other forest products cotninued steady according to the weekly farm forest products market re- I port, prepared by the OSC Lxten- sion Service from data supplied by State Farm Foresters and other information, DOUGLAS FIR LOGS: Second growth Dmiglaa fir tawlogs at Wil lamette Valley mills were slightly weaker at $30 to $40 a thousand board feet, mostly $.15 to $.18. De mand remained good during the week, but buyers were more par ticular about quality. Eight foot logs down to six inch diameter continued in good demand with minor price declines at the upper limits. Pricet ranged from $15 to $18 a cord or $35 to $38 a thousand. Old growth Douglas fir tawlogs were steady at $32 to $60, depend ing on grade. Peelers were $70 to $110. PULPWOOD: The pulpwood market was unchanged during the week. Pulp mills in the central and northern valley offered $20 a cord for peeled spruce and $19 for peeled Douglas fir, white fir, noble fir, and hemlock 4 and 8 foot lengths down to 4 inch diameter. Unpeeled, these species brought $2 less. There was a lim ited offer of $15 a cord for peeled Douglas fir, white fir, hemlock and pine in S foot lengths in the southern vsl ev. POLES AND PILING: Prices of Douglas fir poles and piling were generally unchanged and demand I was good at valley pole yards. Peeled poles ranged from 1 cents ' In 1 inli linai fnftt HnnH- ing on length. For example 30 1 foot peeled poles were 11 to 12 1 cents, while 80 foot peeled poles KOSEIURO, ONECON Hit- . were 32 to 40 cents. Barkiet ranged from cents to 43 cents 1 foot, and were only 2 cents under peeled pricet at one central valley yard. Piling prices were 15 cents to 42 cents a foot for length! from 20 to 100 feet. HARDWOOD LOGS: Hardwood mills were paying $30 to $40 a thousand for alder and ash. Maple ranged from $30 to $45. Cotton wood was $24 to $28 a thousand. Oak and chinquapin were in lim ited demand it $37.50 in the Eu gene area. OTHER FOREST PRODUCTS: Dry cascara bark tumbled to IS cents a pound, 10 cents lest than last week. Fern was unchanged at It) centa a bunch. Dillard Grange Holds Meeting The Evergreen Grange had visi tors from the State Grange at a meeting Friday. State Master El mer McClure and past State Mas ter Ray W. Gill of Portland visited the Grange enroute to California. McClure gave a brief report on the recent State Grange convention held in Portland. Paul Krueger county deputy who wat also a guest, requested that grangers pay their yearly duet in the irst quar ter in order to win the pennant of fered by the State Grange for 100 percent payment of duet. Emery Baker, chairman of the local executive board, reported on clean-up day at the Grange Satur day, June 16. Helpers were Mr. and Mrs. Ross Jenkins, Mr. John Hess, Verne Hixon, Mr. and Mrs. John Lander Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Folmsbee and Mr. Baker. Charles McCord reported he hsd received a reply from Congress- DITCH is (7 Te'njf Mlllll 1 SEPTIC TANKS SEWERS WATER LINES FOOTING OUR DITCH DIGGkft WILL GO 0 TO A DEPTH OF I FEET JR. McALLISTER0 11 Mile West en Happy Valley Road Rt. 4, Box 20S Phone 3 8647 THURSDAY, JUNE 2t. IH1 5 ll man Ellsworth concerning the meat price control. It wat decided to sponsor the campfire group again thia year. Refreshments were served at the close of the evening. The committee appointed to serve at the next grange meeting July 13 were: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Forrest. Mr. and Mrs. DeKnath and Mrs. Evon Wheeland. Members present were: Emery Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Staf ford, Mr. and Mrs. Charles MCord, Mr. and Mn. Charles Slabaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krueger, Mrs. Evon Wheeland. Mrs. Gladys Skel ton, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Tipton, Mr. and Mn. John Hess, Mr. and Mrs. John Lander Sr., Mrs. Susie Winston, Mr. and Mrs. George McDowell. Mr. and Mrs. Noel Conklin, Mr. and Mr. Boss Jenkins, Mrs. Margaret Burt, Mn. Myrtle Glenn, Mrt. Mabel Lange. Mr. and Mrt. George Thomas, Dirk and Paul; E. O. Nickerson, Mrs. Ethel Forrest, Mrs. Rosa M. Heinhach, Mrs. Mar ian Harry man and Mrt. Robert Jackson. A wind velocity of around 100 miles per hour, blowing from the side, would be enough to tip over an automobile. If the cjr wat fac ing into the wind it w.iuld require a wind velocity of 700 miles per hour to lip it over. DIGGING ' : Edwards Predicts Cost Of Academy WASHINGTON M" Assist ant Secretary of Defense Daniel K. Edwards estimates that the fi nal cost of a proposed air force academy would be around $148 000,000. The estimate wat contained in 1 letter to Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house armed tervicet com mittee. Vinson made it public in introducing an administration bill to establish an air force school at 1 tite yet to be selected. Edwards said an accurate es timate of construction costs would I AUTOAD'VICX?T?: WHILE LOCKWOOD'S $20.80 SPECIAL IS STILL GOOD THIS GOOD NEWS FOR SAD MAKES O ENDS JULY 1, SO HURRY DOWN TO LOGWOOD MOTORS ROSI and OAK SECOND SECTION ISM .... '"V, be made "only after full Investi gation of the actual lite selected for development and a determina tion of the type architecture and materials to be used." Ha esti mated that the cost of operating the academy for the first year "it limited tfrength " would be ibout $5,000,000. Vinson's bill provided only $20,. 000,000 for the initial outlay. French Guiana became a prison colony in 1852. Sentences to the notorious colony were abolished by French law in 1938. The lite of the former prison colony today it profitably occupied by DP'i re cruited by the International Ref ugee Organization. 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