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FOR NEWS WANT ADS Dial Late News ojf Interest From Northern and Eastern Maitie ii Signing Presque Isle Fair Contract I Mapping Aroostook Farms Aerial Cameras Map Maine's Great Potato Empire iff ''JV A a i i i -4 Vv St V- 4 Huge Job of Photographing Aroostook County From the Air and Making Individual Maps of 7000 Farms Finally Completed if 1 4 sv Vv I 7 Vt A THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS BANGOR MAINE SATURDAY JANUARY 21 1939 1 C'4 vl I I yfp qj Xw Northern Maine fair officials and a vaudeville agency representative are shown signing contracts for vandeviile acts to be given at the Northern Maine Fair in September They are left to right Kitchen president of the fair Joseph Hughes representative of the George A Amed company and Clayton Steele secretary of thtf fair (By Staff Photographer) I tl '1 t' fv dfX (Special to Th Bangor Daily Nawa) PRESQUE ISLE Jan Aroostook county posed unawares during the past two years while photographers nearly three miles aloft in a soaring airplane snapped Its picture Today as a result of arduous hours of aerial work during wnicn 2700 square miles of land were photographed an individual map ot every one of the 7000 farms in the big county showing crop lines fence boundaries and every intricate detail is available to each farmer whe wishes one The great task was accomplished by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration which is air mapping the whole nation some 3oooouu square miles and will eventually draw the threads of the many mapping jobs Into Its offices at Washington and untold a shot of the United States Aerial mapping is not really new It has been used tor the past 20 years by governmental and private agencies for making many kinds of maps in which a large amount ot Information is wanted from the earth's surface Aerial protography got Its first extensive use during the world war picking up details of fortifications ahich the naked eye could not find Since then it haa grown by leaps and bounds and the current nation wide program calls for aero-photographing all the arable land in the Union by 1940 STARTED IN 1937 As1 one of the richest agricultural counties in the country because ot its immense potato production Aroostook was a natural selection tor air mapping in connection with the agricultural conservation program During the summer of 1938 and for a few weeks In the fall of 1937 a crew from Standard Aearial Surveys Inc of New Jersey flew over Aroostook and literally took a picture of tne countji 1 Operating at a height of 14000 feet the droning plane carried an expert photographer who with a specially designed camera anapped precision photos each of which covered six square miles of area Many times during the hottest part of the summer the pilot and photographer were working in subzero weather nearly three miles up The powerful engine required 40 minutes of steady climbing to put them at the right height and they were speeding at 160 miles per hour when the photographer after carefully checking wind direction ground speed drift and altitude started operation of the camera Exposure intervals were timed for a 60 per cent overlap north and south and a 20 percent side lap east and west It left not the slightest chance of any ground not being covered and also made the pictures available for stereoscopic mapping Landing after a work in the sky the airmen forwarded their undeveloped pictures to their company headquarters In New Jersey which was operating under a contract with the Department of Agriculture The company made contact prints and sent them to Washington where an inspection office of the AAA examined each photo carefully for coverage distortion tilt and other factors If the government accepted the prints enlargements were immediately made and forwarded to the field office which in this case was in Presque Isle Here the big Job was conversion of the hundreds of prints into perfectly precise maps showing every detail correctly for six square miles per picture BIG FIELD JOB The field office work was another major step in the production of the photo-maps Operating from Presque Isle during the summer crews of engineers with photographs in hand went into the field to measure base lines on the ground determine elevation of the ends of those lines and check the information with the photos In the field office meanwhile top speed and between the and the Using maps height of the A ten a hill tor Instance to the camera size in the were then which had and the ground two thirds used because free from The next taken over by photo to each 7000 farms checked last the ground with on his boundaries crop subdivisions a permanenet property What not be shown supplemented measurements the edge of the TRIPLE Then the the aero-mapping Here each little device the needle of the boundaries map and in square Inches repeated three ensure accuracy simple matter inches into photograph was Under the Landen ot experience with Geological an' expert in the Aroostook the Greenlaw turned out of 2700 square from July to was extended December and after a- conservation making every one farms The and the Presque office will close AID TO Today mapped and accurate precision every field can be located Major use of checking who are agricultural In the 1939 will have not individual maps each crop lines so the farmer can Every farmer the program charge a map Aferlal mapping in years chiefly the AAA But maps are in companies builders' and scores of with the of new machines with mapping The now has lenses Which miles In a Plans for 1939 call for square miles counties with coopertlng be mapped In Piscataquis Kennebec photographers 30 men worked at making 'use of the information brought In by the engineers coordinating the factors actual ground measurements aerial pictures standard topographical change In scale due to ground was determined acre field on top ot would look larger than a field the same bottom of a valley Scales applied to the photo been corrected for tut relief Only the central of the pictures were they were relatively distortion step In the process was the agricultural conservation supervisors They took the farm approximately were Individually summer and went over the farmer identifying picture the farm field boundaries and as well as assigning number tA tne information could on the photo was by a sketch wltn and deductions on photo CHECKED photo was brought into field office again draftsman took up a called a planlmeter ran the instrument around of the fields on the automatically got Its area The process was times in order to It then became a to convert square acres and the farm complete supervision of David Presque Isle who througn the Army and Survey mapping is aero-photo mapping aero-photo office block at Presque Isle accurately detailed maps miles of the county November The project through November part of January conference of agricultural officials to include individual farm maps or of 7000 Job is now completed Isle aero-mapping shortly FARM PROGRAM Aroostook has been photographed in such and detail that hous road or stream on the aero-maps the maps will be in performance of the farmers participating in tne conservation program program supervisors only area map but of the farms showing woodland and fence participation of the be determined easily who participates in will receive free ot of his farm has expanded tremendously the past four or five through its use by Its finely-drawn pnoto great demand by power railroads foresters highway flood control agencies others Keeping pace demand is the development techniques and new which to carry on the Coast Geodetic survey a camera with nine can snap 200 square single exposure mapping in Maine In photographing 2300 in parts of five Maine the state of Maine About 4000 farms will portions of Penobscot Somerset Waldo and counties by the flying nX I Ai a result of many hours of aerial work and mapping the Agricultural Adjustment administration te prepared Individual map of every one of the 7000 farm's In Aroostook county The above pkturn wrreuln In the aero-mapping office at Presque Isle whero draftsmen prepared the maps The top picture ihon Dim Landen Presque Isle who supervised the mapping In the middle picture Reid Russell of Fort FairffU draftsman uses a planlmeter on an aerial photograph This Instrument automatically messure the ares a the particular farm In square Inches The draftsmen are at work In the bottom picture (By Staff Phot rapher) I Bumper Comes To Their Rescue PEMAQUID Me Jan Four Boothbay Harbor men had the front bumper of their automobile to thank today for saving them from an ley immersion or worse in Pema-quld Lake As Edward Sproul Edward Lewis Lewis Perkins and Irvine' Emerson left the frozen lake-surface after a day of pickerel fishing yesterday their car dropped through the ice But the front bumper caught on the lcej long enough to permit them to escape safely jl Ashland Church Elects Officers I a Congregational Parish Has Annual Meeting Mrs Rafford Clerk (Special to Tbo Baryor Dolly Neva) ASHLAND Jan The annual meeting of the Congregational church was held tonight with approximately 60 parishioners attending A supper preceded the meeting and the Bev Robert Haldaine conducted the business session Reports were read from the church organizations the ladles society the I chib the Sunday school club and board of trustees All reports showed that the church was in a satisfactory condition Church officers were elected as follows: clerk Mrs Ray Rafford treasurer Mrs Ira Coffin trustee for three years Mrs Boardman Stone deacons Tilley Edgar Hughes superintendent of Sunday schools the Rev Robert Haldaine assistant superintendent Mrs Miles Daggett delegates at large Mrs Boardman Stone and Mrs Ray Rafford alternates Mrs Orcutt Mrs Carl Hughes Social committee Mrs El win Goodman Mrs Harold Wees Mrs Miles Daggett- music committee Mrs Cheney Mrs Ray Rafford flower committee Mrs Orcutt: ushers Clyde Graham Louis McQuarrie ASNJS Class Presents Plays and Presented at Presque Isle (Special to The Banjor Dally Neva) PRESQUE ISLE Jan The junior oral expression class of Aroostook State Normal school presented three one-act platgs tonight in the school assembly hall before a large audience Theo first play was directed by Thelma Brown of Mil-linocket the second i was In charge of Eileen Peacock of Island Falls and the final play Anne's was directed by Gerald Beyea of Easton Casts for the productions were as follows: State's Attorney Owen Joseph Choate Presque Iale: Dorothy Owen hi wife Thelma Brown Milllnocket Eitello D-rnd a witness Louise Balt Caribou William an old (anally aervant Warn Hoy Bhrrman Hattie a maid Audrey Keen Ashland -OTHm PEOPLT8 HUSBANDS' Sally Westbourne Marlon Roberta Sherman Hannah her servant house keeping Marta Smith Caribou Jack Orcutt Jim Douglas Harrison Ward Brewxter other husbands Gordon Harmon Caribou Wayne Hoy Sherman John Norell Caribou Alice Orcutt Mary Annette Brewater their wive Helen Hoyt Mapleton Ruth Buarell Caribou Helen Flllott Patten Dick Underwood Deleston Young Port Fairfield Polly Olirer XUeen Peacock Island Pali ANNSS LACr Betty Astor Dick Laca candidate (or matrimony Juna Hacktr Port Palrflcld Oarald Beyea Easton Aunt Emily a patient sufferer Laura Turner Mapleton Uncle Jed an unconscious controller ot destiny Wendell Peary Parham Mr Willard a rare spirit Mildred Smith Oak-field In 1930 262507 trailers registered in th- United States At the end of 1937fc there were 1091983 registered trailers these figures including those attached to passenger cars Wade Relief Corps Presque Isle Has Annual Installation President is Mrs Pearl McBurnic Mrs Annie Graqt Officiates 2 (Special to Ths Bangor Dally Neva) PRESQUE ISLE Jan Mrs Pearl McBurnie was installed president of Wade Relief corps today at I hall More than 100 members and guests attended Past President Annie Grant was the installing officer assisted by Winona Wheeler conductor Other efficers Installed were: Bessie Ryder senior vice president Clara Blanchard Junior vice president Flora Southard treasurer Eliza- Johnson chaplain Elizabeth Theriault conductor Carrie Dubay guard Mable Tompkins secretary Winona Wheeler patriotic instructor Nellie Junkins press correspondent Grace Wight musician Maude Dudley director of Junior clubs Ola Doherty assistant conductor Julia Drake assistant guard Cecelia Melville Mina Good Sadie Curtis Rachael Southard color bearers Assisting Mrs Grant In the installation ceremonies were Maude Skilllns Florence Ritchie Flora Downing and Eva Blanchard color bearers and Alice Gartley musician The retiring president Eva Blanchard presided during the opening of the meeting Mrs Grant presented gifts to her conductor and color bearers The incoming president presented gifts to the installing officer Mrs Orant and to Mrs Gartley Mrs Tompkins and Mrs Flora Southard on behalf of the corps At the dose of the meeting refreshments were served by a committee composed of Rose Davis chairman Carrie Allen Blanche Fitzgerald Oeorgla Porter and Julia Drake Dad-Son Banquet At Fort Fairfield Bethel Baptist Church Class Holds Affair Fifty Attend (Special to Tbo Dally Neva) FORT FAIRFIELD Jan 20-The class of Bethel Baptist church held a father and son banquet In the church vestry tonight with an attendance of approximately 50 The program follows: singing the group musical trio Mrs Jacqulllne Pearce piano Mrs Ruby Stone violin George Chase trumpet vocal solos Stewart Duncan two French dialect readings Henry Perry A tala McDougal oldest member of the church who was 83 Sunday guest speaker Griffin of Green Ridge The toastmaster was the Rev Eugene Cram Dinner Meeting of Maine Garden 1 Club Federation PORTLAND Me Jan Elisabeth Herllhv chairman of the Massachusetts State Planning Board tonight urged the Garden club Federation of Maine to Interest itself In community planning Miss Herhhy praised the activities in connection wltn roadside Improvement then defended the Massachusetts program of planning better housing rational regional and municipal planning and zoning At the dinner meeting of the federation William Sim of North Berwick announced he had developed a new variety of carnation which he had named the Abba Coe carnation In honor of Mrs Harrie Coe president of the Maine Garden Ciuo Federation He said he had spent 23 years in developing the variety The annual revenue from the special fees paid by owners of motor trucks would provide enough money to build more than 10000 miles of first class reads in the United States The President May Be Lighted Up At Campobello Plan to Take Lubec Power Across Channel to Island Resort (Speelsl to The Bangor Dally News) LUBEC Jan 20 The municipal lighting plant of Lubec regarded by many aa model is going ahead if a bill now in the Legislature has a passage This bill will ask for permission to sell power in the neighboring island of Campobello where there are some 350 potential customers who can look across and see the lights on Deer Island 'and who know that Grand Manan also has its own light system Campobello however without water power and unable to finance a lighting system has made overtures to the Lubec company with the result that in a short time it Is probable that thfc 400-yard stretch of water between the island and mainland will be connected by a cable capable -of taking care of the island demand forever The plan is to take the cable to low water mark on the Maine side and let the Island people working through their Dominion Power Administration hook on and carry the poles and wires down the island a distance of about six miles to Head Harbor as the demand exists for light and power service lighting system began with a 9 kilowatt plant at Whiting but the demand for current so exceeded the expectations of the town that a hookup was made with the Bangor Hydro-Electric company which is now providing a large portion of the current used In Lubec and its environs blowing the huge fog siren at WeskQuoddy Head and operating the radio beacon there When completed the proposed new Island line w'lll be a great convenience and in due time the treasurer expects to get a check for services rendered to President Roosevelt and many" other notables as the line will run directly put the doors of their summer residences It may also be used eventually In operating the lonely light on Head Harbor now run by kerosene lights There will also be some call for power from such business establishments as the canning factory and fish stands at Wilson's Beach and probably some street lights as well as a floodlight at the landing place of the International scow ferry opposite Lubec Guilford Man Is Seriously Burned In Auto Accident Donald Taylor 23 Is in Critical Condition 4 Others Injured (Special to Th Bangor Dally News) GUILFORD Jan 20 DOnald Taylor 23 Guilford was seriously burned and four companions Injured early this morning when the automobile In which they were riding skidded on the Ice on Weymouth hill caught fire and was destroyed Taylor Is In a critical condition at a Guilford hospital Injured were Malcolm Littlefield superficial bums about the face and legs Kenneth Clark bums about face and legs Gerald Littlefield bums about face legs and wrist: and Kenreth Ferris cash" on the head All are from Guilford Littlefield and Ferris were able to leave the hospital following treatment Two other Guy Priest the driver and Harold Bennett were unin lured The partv returning to Guilford from a boxing match in Hartland had to break glass and crawl through windows in order to escaoe from the burning car Tavlor the most Jnlured crawled 100 fee before bis frl-nds rescue- him sr tore off his bumlnr clothes The men were taken a peerbv farmer to the home of Dr Sturat Bangerville i I i I i I iii 1 i c'JV V' Senior Hop Held At Caribou High Seventy-five Couples Attend Annual Dance in School Gym 1 i (Special to Ths Bangor Dally Neva) CARIBOU Jan 20 Seventy-five couples attended the annual senior hop at Caribou High school tonight The gymnasium was decorated with boughs and pictures ot skiers and skaters in silver Music was by Lewie Boy and his orchestra! Patrons and patronesses were Supt and Mrs George Carter Principal and Mrs John A Partridge Mrs Clara Piper Miss Blanche Miss Lucinda Ripley and Miss Inez Howe I Committees were: program and tickets Lloyd Ewer Bernard Air hair and Jeanice Grant refreshments Christine Bouchard 'Natalie Lockheart and Warren Anderson invitations Carolla Anderson Pauline Snow Ruth Thibodeau: decorations Patricia Gregory Evelyn Hatch Emerson Pendleton Oeorge Peterson Milton Knox music Robert Buchanan Sydney Tibbetts Aylene Thibodeau Nothing New In Extortion Case Sheriff States (Special Tha Bangor Dally New) ELLSWORTH Jan said Sheriff Hodgkins of Hancock county lata Friday night when Questioned concerning the case of Byron of Bucksport recipient of four extortion notes O'Brien a taxicab driver was told In the first note to leave (200 In a tin can and leave it in a deserted cabin near Orland village This note was left in his taxi which he had left parked In the business section Of the three subsequent missives one Was thrown through a window of his home and two were sent through the mails Nothing for publication had developed at a late hour Friday night the sheriff stated css Auto Collision Case Tried In Somerset Good (Special to Th Bangor SKOWHEG AN Jan erset Superior court opcn morning with the cair Laweryson of Bingham Nadeau of The Forki kri Stuart of Bingham deau tried Jointly befne a t-Jury Laweryson and hts wr Maynard Stuait voe cover damages in an collision on the ronl: r' last at Caratunk Allegations veie that accompanied bv hi' In his car which idh' when It was atru' bv a r'jrvl by the defendant nark and driven by John Kcic abouts unknown Witnesses called for fie by James Thori were State Trooper mora ture of Bingham who line1 Police Officer Cah Maurice i whom ham and man from whom had been purcha UJ Dr George Sulii'an testified to the ire- a given Stuart laceration on the said The defeme ri 1 hoff of Watrruie fendant and 1 Moscow Judge 1 1 Harold Wing and of Bingham The defendant had been in h1' last Saturday vh and has not jet The case went to r(u and ft 1 lx U1' 4:30 for the -eryson and $170 f' On the secret i's-: John Head of hunting In town 1938 negligently "1 Anderson the cc Arena of Lew of not guilty tinued to the rr 6500 bonds fair! rd I B--rJ tv 1' t1 re" "I XC vr rC Th? minimum -transport oik l'J yal'ed 13 mum age fixed at be compelled a 500 hours In the Newport-Corinna Kiwanis to Hear Gov Barrows Group to Observe Charter Members Iight Next Thursday i (Special to Tha Bangor Daily Neva) NEWPORT Jan 20 Governor Lewis Barrows wily be a speaker Thursday at the Charter night of the Newport-Corinna Kiwanis club Other guests will include George A Harrison Portland past district governor Leroy Cook Orange Mass district governor 1 James Gallsgher Newton Mass and George Moran Boston representative of Kiwanis International Raymond Adams of the Bangor will be toastmaster at the banquet which starts at 6:30 Presque Isle Now Receives Official Weather Reports (Special to Ths Bangor Dally News) PRESQUE ISLE Jan Hanson superintendent at Aroostook state farm said today tha his office is now receiving telegraphic a father reports from the government bureau at Boston and that the releases are posted in the Presque Isle post office dally The weather forecast is up to the minute as- it is made up in Washington between 8 and 9 a daily from reports of conditions received all over the country and la received in Presque Isle at 9 The forecasts will be posted at the post office Immediately after receipt here Presque Isle will be the third point in Maine to receive the telegraphic weather reports the others being Portland and Eastport The typical American operator of a motor vehicle travels a little less than 10000 miles a year in the fajnily car using about 655 gallons of gasoline annually Big Cut Is Given State in Stocks On Hand Report 4000000 Bushel Decrease Heartens Aroostook Spud Growers PRESQUE ISLE Jan Pctato growers Aroostook county were heartened today by the 4000000 bushel cut which Maine received in the annual stocks on hand report issued by the United States department of agriculture at Washington The repert customarily has a definite effect or the price of tubers as it indicates the holdings as of Januarv 1 The Maine estimates of stocks on hand was 22300000 bushels as compared to 26179000 last year New York state holdings were also cut drepping to 7378090 as compared to 1938 and Pennsylvania was reduced to 700000 bushels The total cut for 18 late states was but 9000-000 bushels The major late producing states stocks on hands were: Maine 22-300000 New York 7978000 Pennsylvania 6017000 Michigan 11684-000 Idaho 12500000 Minnesota 6304000 Wisconsin 5121000 Ncrtn Dakota 28530000 Nebraska 2300-000 Colorado 4028000 Springfield Church Circle Celebrates Golden Anniversary i (Special to Tbt Bateor Dally News) SPRINGFIELD Jan 20 The Congregational church circle celebrated Its fiftieth anniversary Monday at the home of Miss A Trask I Dinner was served after which tne fbllowing program was presented: scripture reading and prayer the Rev Hugh A Glllis reading the 37th psalm which was read at the first meeting of the organization 50 years ago history of the circle Mrs Elva Butterfield messages from Miss Emeda Sage a former pastor Miss Nellie Reed Mrs Minnie Stone Mrs Nellie Jones Mrs Myra Ryder Mrs Helen Reed Mrs Minnie Scribner and Mrs Amanda Lombard absent members poems and quotations by several members Two beautiful bouquets were sent by Mrs Stone to be used for the anniversary meeting and then given to Mrs Minnie Scribner and Mrs Amanda Lombard who were unable to attend 1 The oldest member present was Mrs Abble Lyons who Joined the circle only a few years after its organization The Congregational church circle of which Mrs Henrietta Johnson was the first president has sponsored hundreds of projects during the past half century to raise money for carrying on the work of the church.