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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1955
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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.
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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-
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THOUSANDS PREFER PLYMOUTH'S , v, ' j " "' SXT
STYLING IN NATION-WIDE SURVEYI M J j
A well-known independent research I j' ' jfnL V' - I
organization asked thousands of people A M tffT ' ' ' '-: 'Jr3
in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, J fT . f J'
Dallas, Los Angeles to compare M JPS. ftT Ilmmmmmmmmmmmm
the appearance of '55 models y yr , - rrj"' "rr wjwua
of the three low-price cars. jil ' f lil ' v UW
Opinions were received from f" ' f Jl yj y : jl i
men and women from people f A I f Iim-- fS iW
of all ages from owners of all ' I it j ll
the different makes of cars. ft'" I f - f'-lff'r' " ' 'wi
The results of this survey T i I J I I
have been summarized below. j
' i Best buy new; better trade-in, too!
HERE'S WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT OF PLYMOUTH I
Compared with low-price ear "A"
Plymouth Is better looking 62
Car "A" Is better looking j 16
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Almost 4 to 1 1n Plymouth's favor!
(22 liked "both about the same")
Compared with low-price ear "B"
Plymouth Is better looking ; 66
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Car "B" Is better looking ; 17
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Again, almost 4 to 1 for Plymouth
(17 liked "both about the same")
HERE'S WHY YOU'LL PREFER PLYMOUTH, TOO I
Plymouth '55 -with THE FORWARD
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cars (longer than car "A" by 8.4 inches!).
It's lower and sleeker, with a host of styling
advances that wins the most applause in the
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k dealer M
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$40,000 for gasoline service sta
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000 for all pthers.
THE TELL-TALE EYE
Boston '(U.R) A police trial
board imposed 210 hours of pun
ishment duty on two officers
charged with brawling. The
board members were not entire
ly satisfied with the explanation
of the patrolmen that they had I
only been "jostling." One of
them showed up at the hearing
with a black eye.
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