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
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.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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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ing on length. For example 30
1 foot peeled poles were 11 to 12
1 cents, while 80 foot peeled poles
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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-
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WATER LINES FOOTING
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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.
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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
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SPECIAL IS STILL GOOD
THIS GOOD NEWS FOR SAD MAKES
O ENDS JULY 1, SO HURRY DOWN TO
LOGWOOD MOTORS
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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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