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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1944
Page
7
County Agent Hall announced a campaign to produce six million feet of lumber and six hundred cords of extract wood in Morgan county during layby season to support armed forces. Farmers are urged to cut and sell logs, contract sawmills, haul logs and lumber, or work for wages at woods or mills.
A cautionary article discusses uncontrolled fires in forests as destructive forces, noting both wartime incendiary bombings in Germany and careless American woodlands use. It urges careful handling of fire to prevent blazes and damage.
Timber and sawmill crews are called to stay on the job and increase lumber and extract wood production for the war effort. The message emphasizes timber as a top critical material and urges workers to continue cutting and processing wood to support national needs.
County Agent Hall advises Morgan county farmers to use layby season to harvest forest products. Benefit includes using idle time and equipment, improving woodlands, earning extra income at home, protecting crops and livestock, aiding the War Effort with timber, and purchasing War Bonds with the gains.
A wartime appeal stresses nonstop effort in the Pacific and at home to supply lumber and pulpwood for the fighting men. The text calls on timber producers to stay on the job to ensure hospitals ammunition boxes food cases and supplies reach the front lines.
Propaganda urges more wood for war production. It states pulpwood and sawlogs are vital for planes tanks guns ships and crates. It calls for producing 34 billion board feet of lumber and 14 million cords of pulpwood this year and warns to cut timber wisely while preserving future timber crops.
The project required about 300 000 board feet of lumber for deck planking and around 30 000 pounds of paper to draft the battle wagon plans.
National timber requirements for 1944 estimate 36 billion board feet of lumber and 14 million cords of pulpwood.
Washington July 12. The scramble to break the news of President Roosevelt’s hint at a fourth term shows AP White House correspondent Howard Flieger racing through the press area and dictating a rapid running story. Colleagues William Peacock John Hightower Flora Lewis rush to relay the statement to wire editors as bells ring in AP bureaus nationwide.
Mr and Mrs G C Yancey and children spent July 4 with Mrs Ethel Glasgow. Buster Long works at the shipyard in Decatur. A concert at the church Friday night July 17 features the Osborne quartet and the Courtland air base boys to raise funds for the church. Mrs Trudie Osborne of Pratt City is this week’s guest of her father J M Glasgow.
Farmers and wood workers are urged to increase sawlogs and pulpwood by cutting mature trees and thinning crowded stands to prevent shortages of crates baskets and paper containers for armed forces. Seek help from Farm Forester Timber Project Forester or county agent.
Explosives from wood base dominate, with over half of cellulose used for propellants. Rifle and machine gun size shells, as well as larger calibres, are packed in carloads of wood pulp containers.
Report by B G Hall notes David P Anders a farm security tenant on Mt Zion route 3 Hartselle supplied 30000 board feet from his wood lot to the War Production Board. Anders cut timber in spare time earning $2.50 per thousand and used tops as fuel wood. TVA cruising service valued at $375 for protecting and improving the stand.
The message urges continued timber production as essential for modern warfare, listing sawlogs, pulpwood, veneer and plywood logs, chemical woods, charcoal and other forest products. It emphasizes workers staying on the job through critical months and notes Lake Baikal as the world’s deepest lake.
The piece notes that the equivalent of 2 000 freight carloads of lumber was required to repair Naples docks after its capture by the United Nations. It urges careful forest fire prevention and mentions Australia as the world’s smallest continent yet largest island.
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