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Grafex Strobo Purchases FUsh Firm, ROCHESTER, N. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1954 HENRY W. CLUNE'S- 13 em and Jfeaid Will Produce Here By E. DONALD RECORD Democrat and Chronicle Business Editor Graflex Rochester manufacturer of press cameras and other professional and amateur photographic equipment, yesterday purchased the capital stock of Strobo Research of Milwaukee. INTERNATIONAL DISC JOCKEY A POTENTIAL audience of 320 million Europeans is being exposed this week to the gentle efforts of a stock clerk in the Bausch Lomb Optical Co.

to bind the nations of the world more closely together through the msdium of music. As i sort of international disc jockey, Fred Lodwig, known as Fred Wig on the Thursday evening musical hour of Station WSAY and to millions of listeners in Europe, this week has an Strobo, which began opera when additional lighting is needed. President Farber yesterday displayed two new model- Strob lights, including a handmade tions about 14 years ago, pioneered in development of electronic flash units now widely used by press photographers and others in the photographic field. Gaylord C. W'hitaker.

presi Moriey 1, which is priced under $100, and Model 3 for more ad dent of Graflex. hailed the ac quisition, saying the two com-panies will compliment each other, since Graflex can provide wider distribution of Strobo important part in the International Musical Festival of the Air that is being broadcast over the greatest European network. Tape recordings of Wig's voice will be heard and the Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, with Dr. Howard Hanson conducting, will play one of Morton Gould's compositions; and Wig, as he "always does in his European broadcasts, will plug Rochester as products in addition to larger manufacturing and research facilities. "America's Friendliest City." Strobo Research, he said, becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Graflex, and will continue its research, service and sales activities in Milwaukee.

Production facilities, however, will be moved to Rochester as soon as possible. Edward R. Farber, president and founder of Strobo Research, But behind these simple facts is Wig's own story and I wish vanced and commercial use. Farber is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and studied electronics at Northwestern University, A former news cameraman, he adapted the electronic flash for use in news photography and discovered he had a "hot" item for the commercial and industrial licld. His company was incorporated in 1945 to manumaclure and distribute the product, and to continue research development.

In recent months he has been unable to meet the demand. The purchase by Graflex is in line with the Rochester company's policy of broadening its base in the photographic field and to add new products matching Graflex high standards of quality, Whitaker said. Three years ago, Graflex acquired the C'iro Camera Co. of Delaware, Ohio, and moved man-' will continue to head the sub WSKMWWfMSrf viSSSfci S. mutt JBixSi sidiary firm.

Other officers are Vice president, C. II. Harper; treasurer, E. P. Hall; secretary, GOP CAMPAIGNERS J.

Raymond McGovern, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, on upstate campaign swing, is pictured second from left at luncheon yesterday shortly after his arrival. Others from left are Fred Parrish, county GOP chairman; Hy Mandell, president of Lincoln Republican League; Mayor Dicker. K. R. Mokros.

Whitaker is chair man of the board and other di rectors are Farber, Harper, Hall and Howard A. Schumacher, all 2 City Workers M'Govern Urges Big Upstate Vote of whom except Farber are of ficers of Graflex. Tiimnn Strobo products include the ufacturing operations to this city. jiaifiiiiau, a nil unman aa ufi i i i By JAKE t'NDERIIILL State Comptroller J. Raymond Hurt as Car Hits Train at Mendon tne object of the comptroller's anu icic- aincr men nas redesigned me djg units, the latter designed Ciroflex camera and added it to I to flash in response to the main its line of cameras as the Graflex Following the luncheon, Mc- unit by means of a photo whicn sells undor $100 Govern paid a 20-minute call on! it might, be presented to a reading audience far beyond the limited one that may see these words.

It is the story of a man who came with his wife to this country from Germany nearly five years ago to find in the United States freedoms and liberties that both believed had vanished from the earth. It is the story of a couple who became so deeply imbued with the ideal of the American way of life that they have given not only time and effort but part of their modest and hard-won earnings in a valiant attempt to make people In less fortunate lands understand the true meanings of democracy. Fred Lodwig, or Wig, landed with his wife at the Port of New York in a shroud of tragic despond. He was born and reared in Berlin, and he and his wife had been educated in one of the finest universities in Germany. Wig's mother had died at the hands of the Russians, and his father, well known as a liberal who opposed the Hitler rule, at the -age of 58 had been commandeered as a soldier and put in the front line to oppose the Russians in East Prussia.

He had fallen and died in battle. Eighty of Wig's relatives had died during the war. He had other relatives in this country, and he had made his way out of his war-ravaged homeland to bring the report of their deaths to other members of the family who had become naturalized citizens of the United States. Educated in Germany as a journalist, but desperately in need of funds when he arrived in this country, Wig worked for a time as a farmhand outside of Dundee. His wife became seriously ill during this period, and was brought back to health by Dr.

Fritz Landsberg, a Jewish refugee from Germany, of Watkins Two Rochester Health Bureau officials, on a routine inspection tour of farms which produce milk for consumers here, were critically injured about noon McGovern laid state election issues on the line yesterday the line that divides New York City from "upstate" New York. The GOP lieutenant governor candidate urged Republicans at a luncheon in the Powers Hotel to get out' the upstate vote, particularly in Monroe County, to offset the predicted plurality New York City will give Democratic gubernatorial candidate W. Averell Harriman. McGovern's luncheon speech to about 200 members and guests of the Lincoln Republican League opened the Republican candidate's tightly scheduled, one-day swing into metropolitan yesterday when the city-owned car" in which they were riding crashed into the side of the Le Kodak Beauty Tours London On Eve of Miss World Test "Win? Why, I haven't, givenjon. Monday.

Competitors range it a thought. I'm sightseeing and. in age from 17 to 24. Miss Hult-having a wonderful time." That's man was runncrup in the Miss what Miss Karin Hultman, East- United States contest conducted man Kodak Co. model from in Long Beach, in July.

Brighton, told an Associated. The 5 foot, 6-inch blonde beauty Press interviewer yesterday in also won the Miss New York London. State crown at a competition in more taxes for New Yorkers to meet New York City's demands for more state aid funds. "If the Tammany-dominated ticket is elected it will mean a doubling or tripling of taxes both income and business. Personal income taxes probably would be tripled.

"Last session of the Legislature, Democrats introduced legislation calling for expenditures of $1,300,000,000. If any part of that program of expenditures called for in the Democratic platform were approved, it would necessarily mean added taxes." The GOP leader, whose opponent for the lieutenant governor's post, Charles B. DeLuca, also came to Rochester yesterday, brought laughs from the GOP gathering by wryly observing that a rich Republican is called "bad" by Democrats while a rich Democrat becomes a candidate. high Valley Railroad's express train, the Black Diamond, at a grade crossing near Mendon an old friend, Attorney Edward I. Crlsty, a Republican leader in Brighton, who is recuperating in Strong Memorial Hospital after a fall.

Then the state comptroller, a resident of New Rochelle, Westchester County, was ferried to Fairport where he met with members of Fairport Women's Republican Club in Fairport Town Hall. From Fairport, McGovern went to a meeting of Webster Women's Republican Club at the home of Mrs. Louis Pierce, 566 Bay Webster. Before attending an 18th Ward rally at Hall, Merchants Road, and a 19th Ward rally at School 37, 353 Congress McGovern dined with county Republican chiefs at the Sheraton Hotel. He planned to spend the night there, returning to New York City this morning.

The injured men, both of whom were reported on the "danger lost" last night at Strong, Rochester. Utica July 7. She's the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ragnar Hultman of 212 Memorial nospiiai, are: thp nnp llnta(o vnt, faik Edgar Dobbertin, 41, of 126 fn Spn Iupe flC Amsterdam an employe of the Health Bureau for 13 years, McGovern, Ives running mate, predicted that a Democratic victory would mean and Arthur Oliver, 59, of 181 Miss Hultman, 22, who lives at 28 "Sylvan was one of 16 girls from as far east at Ceylon and as far west as the United States, who yesterday displayed their charms in a warmup preview of a competition to decide who's going to be Miss World.

Judging in the Miss World contest will take place in London Irvington a veteran of 34 Winstead and a 1950 graduate of East High School. Prior to going to work at Eastman Kodak Co. she worked in New York City eight months as a Powers model. Last March she was in the finals of a TV contest in New York City. years with the bureau.

Public Service Board Held 'Arm of Utilities' According to Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Spurr and Deputies James Carroll and John Howlett, Dobbertin was the more seriously hurt. He suffered a fractured skull, fractured left are and possible Tuptured spleen, deputies Shop McFarlin's Today 9:30 lo 5:30 said. They described Oliver's injuries as a fractured left wrist By PAT BRASLEY i i and head lacerations. Carroll quoted members of the train crew Engineer John Vought of Phillipsburg, N.J., and George B.

DeLuca, carrying his Democratic campaign for lieutenant governor to Rochester, last night told two party rallies that the Republicans had made the Public Service Commission "an arm of the utilities a sort of Conductors J. A. Horton of Nichols and Frank Coleman of, state-created yes-man for their constantly increasing Fashion-keyed for Ihe new Dark Fabrics Sayre, Pa. as saying that the rates. City and the rest of the state and The Bronx district attorney snoke at an East Side rally at nation.

School 27, 127 First then ad-1 DeLuca "rived by car from HroccoH Wost sihp mPPtins York at 7 p. m. He was automobile ploughed into the side of the second car of the speeding train. The automobile was going south, the train east. The train dragged the automobile about 36 feet from the crossing, which is on Mile Square Road, about a mile east of Mendon.

The automobile then was thrown clear and the occupants hurled from it. The motor of the automobile was tossed 40 feet be St. George's Hall, 367 Smith St.met at county Democratic head-He said the PSC was intended garters in the Hotel Seneca by to act as a watchdog against un-Francis J- D'Amanda, county fair action of utilities, but was cnairman- and local Democratic not fulfilling that function candidates, then rushed to the "The voters of the state," he East Side rallv-said, "have finally realized that! Alphonse Papalia, Democratic the Requblican Party has no ior Me senator, 52nd terest in the things that concern! Dlstrict-introduced DeLuca at the most of us housing, full em-East Slde At the West side nlnvmont ft II a tl snz-ial' rallv tn6 Candidate Was intrO- yond by the force of the impact. Hi Immediately after the collision, Vought cut loose all the cars behind his diesel-powered locomotive. The locomotive rolled on for two miles after leaving the i Jt''Lt rest of the train, deputies said.

duced by James Michael Leary, Democratic candidate for state security and old age benefits. Sgt. Spurr said it could not be The party," he charged, "is in- senator from the 51st District, determined immediately who was terested in big business, public ni 4 I niliHAl ft 4 1-1 A Ann I wheel of the at the car. utilities, give-aways and other special interests. Social-Medical Work Discussed Glen.

"I had been forced against my will into the German army before the end of the war," Wig said. "I served as a clerk in a war office, and never pulled the trigger of a gun. Nevertheless, I might have been called a Nazi soldier. When a Jewish-German refugee came to my wife's assistance, I decided right then that I wanted to do everything that I could do to destroy the kind of racial intolerance that I had known in Germany." With Mrs. Lodwig's recovery, the couple moved to Rochester.

Wig worked night and ay at various jobs. A man of wide learning, a classical education and artistic tastes, he accepted the most menial kind of employment One of his odd jobs was tending a parking station at Sea Breeze. There one night he fell into conversation with Jack Turner, from station WSAY, told him that he thought the station's music might be improved, and was invited by Turner to call at the station. The upshot of this was that Wig was put in charge of a program of German music that was broadcast from that station one night each week. Wig changed the character of the German musical program, giving it a more classical tone.

It caught on instantly. He had once been director of a dance band, had always been a lover of music, and the program that he devised for WSAY brought him a considerable amount of mail. He had friends in Germany who were associated with a radio network that originated in Cologne, and it was not long before he was exchanging tape recordings of American music for popular German music that was being broadcast from the German station. Wig's musical recordings were interspersed with stories and ancedotes that he told in German about American life. His recordings were widely broadcast throughout Europe.

They were at once popular. Wig headed each of them with the declaration, "There are no boundaries to music." The slogan was adopted in Europe. The interchange of recordings between Germany and America continued, and all the recordings that were made by Wig were paid for out of the earnings of his wife and himself. "I never talk politics on the radio," Wig said. "To do that would make me an out-and-out propagandist, and I should not want to known in Europe as that.

I talk in a simple, conversational manner, telling merely of the little things I observe and experience about life in this country. I sometimes ask questions in German, and the answers are given by the German broadcasters in English. "My musical program for Europe includes all sorts of music, from the latest juke box hits to the very best American compositions. Some people in Europe who were under the impression that all American music was jazz have been surprised to learn that fine music is being written here. I explain the music and tell about the composers.

My European mail takes all of my spare time to answer. "A great variety of questions about the United States are asked in these letters, and I answer them to the best of my capacities. My wife is as devoted to this work as I am, and part of her own earnings for she, too, works is contributed for the expense of my European programs." A year ago Wig obtained a job as a stock clerk at the Bausch Lomb plant and Mrs. Wig is employed by another local industry. It often requires all of Wig's weekly earnings, with additional money contributed by Mrs.

Wig, to pay for the European recordings arid the postal charges. This is a considerable strain on their domestic economy, but both are determined to continue the immensely useful work they are doing as long as they possibly can. They have asked for no aid; yet what they are doing, to a degree, is supplementing the "Voice of America," largely through the medium of music. The Wig program will reach every country outside of the Iron Curtain in Europe during this week's Musical Festival, and probably his talk and music also will penetrate into Russia nd the slave nations now under Russian rule. "The letters my programs have brought me from Germany particularly," Wig said, "convince me that the young people in Germany are tired of the spiritual prison in which they are living and are eager to find a freer way of life.

They are encouraging letters. And they encourage me to believe that some real good is coming out of these programs, which appear to bring this country closer to my old homeland largely through the influence of music. I can never repay my debt to the United States. I should like to think I might pay off aOittle of it." Set ISlnck English Grain DeLuca, who also has the Liberal Party nomination, added that GOP congressmen from New York State voted overwhelmingly for what he called the "infamous McCarran-W alter Immigration Law." New York's Democrats, with Man, 58, Trying to Avoid Rain, Killed by Train A city man yesterday was run over and killed by a train minutes after he had sought cover from' rain beneath a car in the freight yard behind the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. Police identified the victim as William J.

Stafford, 58. His last local address was listed by the Morgue as 138 Main St. W. Stafford's companion, Daniel New methods in social-medical work were discussed here yesterday at opening sessions of the annual meeting of the Eastern' one exception, voted against the bill which said "represents Republican thinking at its most Central District of the American Assn. of Medical Social Workers.

The sessions, held in Helen vicious, DeLuca said. The bill "discriminates on the basis of race, creed and color," Wood Hall at Strong Memorial Hospital, drew 85 delegates from Donnelly, 54, of Springwater, Western New York, Pennsyl he said, and it "discriminates especially against immigration from countries such as Italy, Spain and Poland." DeLuca branded as "wholesale vania, Ohio and Eastern Canada. Miss Catherine Meisenzahl of Rochester, chairman of the told Patrolman Edward Krolak this story: Stafford and he found protection from the rain beneath a gondola car in the Pennsylvania group, presided. One of the speakers, Miss untruths Republican claims of yard at 357 Main St. W.

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The meeting will close following sessions this morning at Helen Wood Hall and a luncheon at the Town Country Restaurant. severaj cars. When it passed the gondola under which the men He accused the GOP of ferment were sitting, one of the train's cars struck Stafford and grazed Donnelly's head. ing friction between New York A General Hospital doctor, Canal Street Plant Sold summoned about 2:45 p.m., pronounced Stafford dead and or dered Donnelly taken to the hospital. He was reported in vertising specialties and point of sale displays.

It plans to use the building for die-cutting, mount satisfactory condition last night. He also was arrested by Krolak on a charge of public ing and assembly of these pro Sale of the 48,000 square foot, four-story building nearest Main Street West of the plant group formerly owned by James Cunningham Son Co. in Canal Street was announced yesterday by Irving S. Norry, president of LeRoy Plow owner. ducts.

All printi ngactivities will continue in the Great Lakes Press Central Avenue plant. Edgerton Black Grain Oxfords s12.95 GETS CERTIFICATE Edward Davies, senior boys' supervisor at the State Agricul The Cunningham company sold Buyer is the Great Lakes Press, of which Clifford N. retVJ tw. Roy Plow last May and moved plans to mov tural and Industrial School at industry, has received a graduate ortificate in social work from he University of Buffalo. He has ieen a part time student at the Jniversity for the past four Cars while continuing his duties Industry where he has served subsidiary, Rosco of Hochostor ((KtSIH I to the new location about u.

still nas some zuu.uuu square ieei of floor space in the Canal Street property which will be sold or Nov. 1. The later firm manufactures 195 EAST MAIN STREET for 18 years. jigsaw puzzles, toys, die-cut ad-l leased..