The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
Forest Fire Prevention A Drive
Mapped BY Is Southeastern States
By AYcOcK BROWN
By AYCOCK BROWN

forest fires" the telegram read.
"This is service to all our PEG.
pie and to generations yet tt
COME" the President said.
While the President was playing
golf in Atlanta, two of his special
assistants, James.M Lambie Jr. Of
the White House Office with 8
solution subject titled "Our Public
Opinion Tools" and the banquet
speaker Howard Pyle, a deputy
assistant of Eisenhower addressed
the Conference group which mum
bered some 200 persons more thar
the thousand expected by those
planning the meeting. Deputy
Assistant Pyle emphasized that
forest fires because of the eco.
nomic losses they create, are now
"everybody's business"
Governors Hodges of North
Carolina and Stanley of Virginia
due to other commitments were
unable to attend the Conference
which they had helped initially
plan several months ago, but each
of these States where forest prod
ucts industries are SO important
were represented by the forestry
divisions, forestry associations OF
forest industries of the two States.
Forestry leaders having roles in
the Conference from North Caro-
lima included Don P. Johnston of
Wake Forest, president of The
American Forestry Association
and Roger Wolcott, head of the
North Carolina Forestry Associa-
ton. Chairman of the opening ses-
sions was Warren T. White, Nor
folk, Va, assistant vice president
of the Seaboard Airline Railroad.
From other walks of life were
such enforcement officers as Sher-
iff Frank Cahoon of Manteo and
Sheriff Clair Morris of Columbia in
Tyrrell County, special delegates
at the request of Governor Hodges
for the N. C. Forestry Associa-
ton, along with forestry industry
personnel, and other county, state
or federal representatives.
Governors Robert F. Kennon of
Louisiana and Orval E. Faubus of
Arkansas lent their support to the
conferences plans and urged dele
gates to take further steps in pro-
tecting their forests.
South Backward Said Georgian
A Georgia financier, John A.
Sibley of Atlanta, the conferences
first speaker said the South is
backward is several respects in
the care and management of her
forests"
He called on owners of forest
lands to improve the management
of their forest resources with less
waste after trees are cut, better
cutting practices, the replacement
of Gull trees with better quality
trees and the control of losses
from fire, disease and insects.
Cali classes of our people need
to be educated as to the value of
our forests, what they mean to us
economically, and what they mean
in the future of our prosperity and
happiness" he said.
Sibley, chairman of the board
of the Trust Company of Georgia,
suggested practical courses in
forestry for both workers and land
owners to be, run by companies
operating large forest domains.
What he did not say was that
some of the larger companies
through their public relations pro-
grams are in way beginning to
do that very thing.
Newspaperman's Suggestion
In efforts to curb the forest fire
menace, Frank Ahlgren, editor of
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal,
called for sitter law enforcement
against persons who set fires de-
liberately.
1--WE all know" he said, "that
law enforcement is just as affec-
tive as the community, county or
state wishes it to be-"
"If the arsonist, the crank or
orankster could be made to realize
that the offense he commits in
setting forest fires will call for
unrelenting prosecution and stiff
prison sentences commensurate
With the enormity of the crime, I
believe there will he a noticeohla