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Medford united freo full Learned mire Tribune united Press Full Leased Wire SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1955 Pagesl-6 Yellowed Label Doesn't Necessarily Mean Stradivarius Is the Real McCoy New York U.R) Could that old violin up in the attic be a long lost Stradivarius? Look in side. There in faded ink on yel lowed label. "Stradivarius.1 County 4-H Leaders Training School Set The annual Jackson county 4-H club leaders training school will be held Friday, March 25, starting at 8 p.m., at the Eagle Point Grange hall, it was an nounced today by Jean Brooks and Glenn Klein, county agents ior 4-H club work. Featured speaker for the school will be Jim Dunlevy, manager of radio station KYJC, who will discuss leadership Responsibility. The school will be for all of ficers of Jackson county 4-H clubs. Members of the executive committee of the 4-H Leaders association, and members of the 4-H Teenage council will be in charge. Refreshments will be served, and entertainment is planned. HOW yoo cor I i inenne 2 w u K X STANDING TIMBER AT REASONABLE RATES !BrownIow& ersereai INIIAl INSVKANCI LOGGING AND KMIII INSURANCE SPECIALISTS Portland 4. OrtM : Moariway 1431 Wow! But whoa! Before you go out and spend the $5000 to $75,000 a genuine Stradivarius is worth, consider this: There is only the remotest of remote, chances that your violin, label and all, is the real McCoy. Giving this sad news to thou sands of excited violin owners is a regular and painful job to Rembert Wurlitzer, one of the few experts in the United States whose experience qualifies him to say "yes" or "no" about the authenticity of an old instru ment and have his word ac cepted. "It's pathetic sometimes," he said in his shop in Manhattan. "People often bring violins here at great personal expense and expect to walk out rich. Then I Phoenix Honor Group Slates Initiation Phoenix Initiation cere monies for nine new members of the Phoenix High school chapter of National Honor society will be held Friday at 8 p.m. at the high school. Students who will be initiated include Dona Glasscock, Shirley Keplinger, Barbara Hendrick son, Sandra Owens, Jim Korth, Sheyla Thompson, Barbara Law son, Sharon Janes, and Dorothy Good. The initiation ceremonies will be conducted entirely by stu dent members of the organiza tion. They will include Kay Fisher, Darlene Bradshaw, David Kelsoe, Janice Stevens, Marie Mitchell, Audrey Hite, Baydene Chisum, Nancy Hammers, Doris Macy, Tom Griffiths, Betty Har ris, and Brison Stovall, who will present the certificates and pins. Following the ceremonies, re freshments will be served for parents and other guests. have to tell them the instrument might bring S5 at a second-hand store, if they're lucky." Six Inquiries a Day Wurlitzer gets as many as six inquiries a day from people who want to convert a "Strad" into quick cash. He is able to deflate most of these bubbles by mail after examining a photograph of the violin. What misleads many owners is the "Stradivarius" label. Antonio Stradivari, the master violin maker, with, the help of his two sons, Francisco and Omo bono, pasted a printed label bearing his Latinized name and monogram and date inside each instrument they produced at their famous shop in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. But since then, hundreds of thousands of violins have been manufactured and a reproduc tion of the Stradivarius, label pasted in as a trademark. Label Meaningless "The label just doesn't mean anything. It is no different than believing every car with the word "Ford" on the hood was put together personally ' by Henry Ford." There are about 600 authenti cated Stradivari instruments, in cluding violas and violoncellos, known to exist. Wurlitzer has a file on more than 300 of them in his office. "The Stradivaris kept no rec ord of their production. From what we know of their rate of output it's estimated they turned out about 1200 instruments alto gether. - Now, the problem is whether any of the 600 unac counted for have survived. I doubt it. A violin is a fragile thing, you know." Depends on Condition ; A Stradivari instrument us ually brings from $5000 to $75, 000 on the market, depending on its condition and whether it represents the best work of the Talent Schools' Teachers Rehired Talent The entire staff of teachers for both the Talent grade school and high school has been rehired for the coming year, it was announced yester day. The action was taken at the last meeting of the Talent school board. The high school faculty in cludes Roy B. Parr, superintend ent; Ralph Carroll, Miss Ina Freeman, Mrs. Mildred. Briggs, Mrs. Ruby Messenger, Mrs. Irma Parr, George Bray, Gordon Hart, Glen Lamb, John W. Loughary and Irving S. Thomas. Grade school teachers are Bruce Hitt, principal; Mrs. Vir ginia Schopf, Francis Farthing, Richard Reum, Ronald Pink ham, Charles Jones, Mrs. Doris Corry, Mrs. Ruth Dews, Mrs. Nellie Young, Mrs. Alfleda Wheeler, Mrs. K. Yvonne Mearns, Mrs. Genevieve Hold ridge, Merle Atkinson, and Mrs. Delora J. Waqe. One more elementary teacher remains to be hired, according to Superintendent Parr. Pasadena Calif. (U.R) Seismographs at California In stitute of Technology recorded a "large and distant" earthquake today believed in the Indian Ocean area. Italian masters. The Spanish gov ernment paid a London dealer $35,000 in 1951 for a Stradivari violin which had disappeared from Madrid in 1813 and turned up in England more than 100 years later. Another was believed to have gone out 'of circulation in 1948. Madame Patricia Du Bois, a re tired violin virtuoso, had her Stradivarius interred beside her in a mausoleum at Compton, Calif., where she died at the age of 78. Wurlitzer checked an expert who had repaired her violin and found that hers was not a gen uine Stradivarius, either. BOYS' CLUB OF AMERICA award for "outstanding citizenship by former Boys Club member" is presented to comedian George Burns by Gary Kilarr, 15, of San Francisco, the West Coast's boy of the year. Presentation is made in Los Angeles. (International) Industrial Payroll Benefits Listed in Chamber Survey Some 200 or more people are expected to be brought to this area this year as employees of the two new plywood mills which, will be completed and in operation within the next few months. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce this week forecast what this will mean to the econ omy of the area. It based its esti mate on a survey completed re cently by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as to what happens when new industrial jobs are created in a community. Figures Listed This survey indicated that for each 200 new factory workers there are: 590 more people 224 more households 102 more school children (three or four school rooms) $1,180,000 more personal in come per year $540,000 more bank deposits 214 more passenger cars 348 more workers employed 8 new retail establishments .$720,000 more retail sales per year, including increases of $70, 000 for grocery stores, $60,000 for eating and drinking estab lishments, $90,000. for depart ment and variety stores, $50,000 for clothing and shoe stores, OVER iPmE CARS BY J0ST4 TO 1- XfW St. ' - r ' . 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