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.
Before coming to Medford,
Weaver said he was sales de
velopment manager, north
west area, appliance division
of the Westinghouse corpora-
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More than 800 U.S. coal
mines have been opened and
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