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Recession's Impact Claimed Being Felt Bv Public Schools Washington W In addi tion to all their other troubles, public schools are feeling the pinch of the recession. That is the conclusion of Dr. Walter W. Heller, pro fessor of, economics at the University of Minnesota. Hel ler recently made a study for the National Education Asso ciation of the recession's im pact on schools. He found that the business slump , has had a definite effect on the willingness of American voters to approve school bond issues. About 80 per cent of all new school construction is financed by this method. Rejection Rat Varies , During the last half of 1956, voters throughout the nation rejected only 9 per cent of the school bonds sub mitted for their approval During the last half of 1957, with business off and unem ployment rising, the rejec tion rate jumped to Jl per cent. School authorities, sensing the change in sentiment, held back some bond issues that they had planned to put be fore the voters. The total value of school bonds sub mitted to local referendums in the last half of 1957 was one-third less than the com- TiarnKlA fitfura fnr the lac half of 1956. The combination of fewer askings and more rejections, Heller calculated, resulted in "a 50 per cent reduction, in the value of school bonds ap proved by the American peo ple in one year's time." Since school bond issues are a reliable index to future school construction, Heller's figures indicate a sharp cut back in the number of new classrooms to be built over the next year or two. This would aggravate the existing space shortage in over crowded schools and would mean a loss of business for the recession-hit building in dustry. New Argument Officials of the National Education Association are calling Heller's findings to the attention of congressmen, as a new argument for includ ing school construction funds in the federal government's anti-recession program. They are pointing out that building schools is just as good a way to create jobs as building' highways, dams and post offices.. In fact, accord ing to one NEA - sponsored study, each $100,000,000 spent on school construction creates approximately 15,000 m a n years of employment, com pared to 11,000 man-years for a comparable outlay on high ways. Pleven Completes French Cabinet Paris (tPt Rene Pleven completed a center-right coali tion cabinet today. Political experts said it probably would be approved by the Na tional Assembly but they doubted it would stay in of fice long. ' Pleven, who will go before the National Assembly Friday in an attempt to end the three- week-old government crisis, proposed that he assume the dual role of premier and for eign minister. The Assembly would be likely to accept this but he faced a battle over his choice of Andre Morice, a' dissident Radical who votes with the right-wingers, as minister of national defense. Morice, who held the same job in the Bourges-Manoury government, is an advocate of an iron-fisted North African policy. Annual meat consumption in Australia and New Zealand amounts to about 245 pounds per person per year. New Owners Hold Grand Opening at City Appliance Norblad Plans Five Days of Campaigning Portland (IP) Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) was due to arrive here tonight for five days of campaigning for the Republican nomination for Congress from the first dis trict. Norblad is opposed in next week's primary by former State Sen. Phil Hitchcock, Os wego. Norblad said he had to be back in Washington, D.C. May 14 when the Alaska state hood bill was due to come up. Clarence L. Weaver-, new owner of City Appliance, Inc., Medford, and Henry (Zack) Zacharisen, sales manager, and a former owner of the store, will officially , join forces with the grand opening today. The appliance store at 127 North Central st. was pur chased from -Mrs. Ann Rice, Medford. Weaver said his wife will assume a semi-active part in the business when she arrives from Seattle the first part of June with their two sons, ages 14 and 18. The new owner said the store will arry Hotpoint ap pliances exclusively. He add ed that he plans to enlarge the service department and will stress service to past Hot point users. Since taking the business over 30 days ago the payroll has been increased by adding four more people to the staff, he said. Complete Display The store will carry the largest and most ' complete display of major electrical ap- pliances south of Portland. The store will also carry a complete stock of contractor and built-in equipment. Weaver said he has always liked the southern Oregon area from the standpoint of business associations and the steelhead fishing. 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