Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939 Page: 6 of 8
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College Statical. — Aerial
photographs of approsimately
seven-tenths the area of Tex-
as, including 370,000 farms on
file at the AAA'a state of-
fice here will be used this year
in 176 counties to determine
how well farmers complied
with terms of the national crop
acreage adjustment program.
This huge, candid map con-
sists of detached groups of pic-
tures photographed from a 13,-
'760-foot altitude and enlarged
to a scale of 660 feet to the
inch.
Aerial photographs are
found to be the most practical
and economical means of
checking performance of farm-
ers cooperating under the
AAA, except in areas where
farms are widely scattered, ac-
cording to George Slaughter,
Chairman of the Texas Agricul-
tural Conservation Committee
of the AAA. The pictures en-
able an accurate measurement
of any field, no matter how
rugged its boundaries. '
C. R. Moseley, who handles
the aerial mapping project,
said from six to ten farms a
day may be checked by the
photographs, where by other
means two farms checked
would represent a good- day’s
work.
Almost daily when the
weather permits, planes swing
back and forth over one of 42
counties included in last year's
flying program, completing the
aerial mapping.
As the ship follows its bee-
line, a camera dicks at regu-
lar intervals so that pictures
will overlap each other by
about 60 per cent. Then, like
a team plowing a field on the
ground, the plane, as it com-
pletes a strip, swaps ends and
comes right back parallel to
the original path, and takes a
new tape of pictures overlap-
ping the adjacent trip.
When a segment of a coun-
ty is thus portrayed the con-
tact prints are sent to head-
quarters, where they are en-
larged to scale, checked by
ground measurements, cut up
and fitted like a jig-saw puzzle
into finished maps.
A square inch of the map
represents ten acres of land,
and a pianimeter assists in
measuring the fields. This
magical little instrument will
calculate automatically the
acreage of a field, regardless
of shape, as its sensitive point
is drawn along the boundary
lines.
GERMANY SUFFERS
COFFEE SHORTAGE
Berlin. UP)—Coffee joined
blitter and eggs as a bootleg
commodity in Germany Satur-
day.
A severe shortage resulted
in exhaustion of supplies in
many Berlin grocery stores. A
few favored customers some-
times can get one-eighth of a
pound of coffee slipped over
the counter to them.
Some stores told customers
they could have only enough
to make three eups of coffee.
Card of Thanks
WMITH
UFEOFSH
MULIM
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 16.
(UP)—Today was an impor-
tant day in tha life of J. E.
Stamps, whose name is not fa-
miliar to a great many people
but is an important one to
many famous musicians.
Today marked Stamps' re-
tirement from his job as a rail-
way mail clerk, which means
that from now on he can de-
vote his time to mending
lins. For 35 years he has been Germany
working on the instruments,
waiting for today, when he
could give his full time to
them. Because, he says, there
is drama in the job, and some-
times excitement frequently
joy, and occasionally heart-
break.
Once, he recalls with laugh-
ter, he had the pleasure of
serving a talented artist whose
talent was mixed with temper-
ament of the kind that makes
certain golfers throw their
golf elube away when they
dub a shot. The artist came to
Stamps with a 350,000 violin
which had been smashed to
pieces. He got mad, the artist
explained ruefully, and in his
anger tried to tear op his fid-
dle. Fortunately, Stamps was
invariably they were disap-
pointed.”
He says people should not
be worried, however, when
they find cut that the violins
they have are comparatively
new. He argues that instru-
ments 200 years old are not
necessarily sweeter’ in tone
than newer and cheaper ones.
“Fifty years of seasoning is
enough to give a violin a per-
fect tone,” he says, “and many
radio artists and symphony
violinists that I have made for
them.”
Stamps has sold some of his
violins for as much as $500, of
which $450 was his profit fof
knowing how to make them.
vlO" i He gets seasoned maple from
or Czechoslovakia
for his instruments, at a cost of
about $50.
While Stradivarius violins
are perhaps the best known,
Stamps says his favorite model
is the Guamerius.
“But I seldom play,” he 3ald.
“It is more fun to make violins
—and besides, I do that bet-
ter.”
Semi-Wad Deg
PUswe Section*
Dallas Coonty
We wish to express our ap-
preciation for the many acts of
kindness and sympathy ex-
tended us during the illness
and death of our precious Nicholas Longworth
darling baby, Else Grace.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bishop
and little daughter, Dortha taken.
Gene; Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
•Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
.Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Bishop.
Dallas, Tex. (UP)—Thick-
ly,populated Dsllas county has
been plagued recently by a
; pack of semi-wild dogs.
These animals, customarily
associated with the wide open
spaces instead of suburban
able to repair it and the artist' areas around a big city, have
is’stil! using it j made numerous forays into
Stamps also worked on a j farms to kill sheep. M. H.
$100,000 Stradivarius owned! Seais, who has a farm near
by Francis McMillan. He also | Resehill. said that the animals
handled another famous in-j had killed seven of his sheep
strument belonging to the late j and injured four others.
But most j Sheriff Smoot Schmid has
of the peonle whe believe they sent special patrols of deputies
have fame is violins are mis- j into the northeastern part of
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; the county to run down the
“Hundreos of persons have t dogs.
come to me with violins which, --
they hoped I would identify as, Ribbons far
Stradivarii," he said. “Also typewriters.
all makes of
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939, newspaper, January 27, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth811911/m1/6/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.