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Prisoners
may fight
beetle
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia Forestry Commission
is awaiting approval of a plan to
use state prisoners to fight the
Southern pine beetle epidemic,
what one official said is a
greater crisis than the threat of
forest fires.
Gov. Jimmy Carter declared
seven northeastern counties
disaster areas this summer
because of the pine beetle
epidemic which has already
destroyed an estimated 200,000
cords of wood.
To combat the disease, infest
ed trees must be cut down and
removedanda buffer area clear-
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ed, according to John Mixon of
the Forestry Commission. Priv
ate lumber companies haven’t
been able to remove the timber
quickly enough to prevent the
beetles from spreading.
Not only must live trees on
the fringe of the epidemic area
be removed, the dead timber
must be harvested within two to
three months after infection if
it is to be processed into any
kind of wood products.
Minimum security inmates
would be used to cut down the
live trees and clear buffer zones
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commission’s Forest Dister
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would have to harvest the dead
timber for market.
A state law prohibits inmates
from working on private land,
and most of the infested areas
are privately owned. Mixon said
he is confident the attorney gen
eral can circumvent the law.
Inmates from the Georgia In
dustrial Institute at Alto have
already been put to work at
Victoria Bryant State Park in
Franklin County near Royston.
Druid Preston, commission
chief of forest management,
said officials are waiting on
approval from the attorney
general and Department of
Offender Relations before
prisoners will be used on
private land.
“The agreement has not been
signed by all the parties con
cerned. We do have some agree
ments worked out,” Preston
said.
“We’ll start as soon as the
agreement is signed,” he said.
“We’re geared up and ready to
start any time.”
The counties hit worse by the
Southern Pine beetle are Frank
lin, Clarke, Madison, Hart, El
bert, Hall and Oconee.
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Campus integration slow go
, ATLANTA(UPI)-Although
white enrollment has increased
at predominantly black Georgia
colleges, over-all integration is
moving more slowly than ex
pected, according to a new Uni
versity System survey released
Wednesday.
The survey, covering only the
31 schools in the Georgia Uni
versity system, showed that
white enrollment at predomi
nantly black schools increased,
including Savannah State, where
the white enrollment rose from
75 last year to 275 this quarter.
A spokesman for the system
said part of the attraction at
Savannah State was a joint de
gree program with Armstrong
State, a nearby school with
largely white enrollment.
Fort Valley State, waging an
intensive campaign to attract
more white students through
special scholarships, reported a
rise in white enrollment from
26 last year to 44 this quarter.
The number of black students
in the over-all system rose 808
from last year. Total enrollment
is 108,907, including 12,734
blacks.
Among the major colleges
showing noticeable increases in
blacks were Georgia State, with
an increase from 1,686 to 2,052;
Georgia Tech, from 124 to 168;
and the Medical College of
Georgia at Augusta, from 111 to
212.
The University of Georgia
showed a slight decline in black
students.
The survey showed that Uni
versity Systems officials were
slightly off in projections of col
lege integration made earlier to
the U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
In a report to HEW, the state’s
projections for black enrollment
at Georgia State were too low,
but too high for most other ma
jor schools.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Novembers, 1973
HEW is studying the state’s
collegeintegrationpicturein con-
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ing for greater desegregation.