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Home Ownership Increases
Through Eight-Year Period
SHELLS IN MUSEUI
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Art, Decor Combine with Zool
-Daily-Richard Bloss
PANESE EXHIBITION-Native clothes and accessories are currently on display in the University
High School Showcase
Announces
twaii Groupr
ee staff members of the
rsity's Institute for Social
rch will head the second an-
management conference of
[awaiian chapter, American
y for Public Administration,
University of Hawaii Aug-
to 16.
ff members are Ian Ross, as-
t to the director of the insti-
Jay M. Jackson, assistant
am director, Research Cen-
or Group Dynamics; and
es N. Seashore, research as-
t for the eearch Center for
Dynamics.
sic Lecture
at Rackham
ard Waterman, Wayne State
rsity, will lecture on "A
Glance at Non-Western
" at 4:15 p.m., today, in
iam Assembly Hall.
JAPANESE EXHIBIT:
Kimonos, Zoris displayed
By CARL JORDAN
An exhibition of Japanese na-
tive clothes and accessories is cur-
rently on display in the University
High School showcases.
A complete bridal outfit includ-
ing a purse-like brocaded box and
slippers ialled Zori, and a picture
of how they are worn are part of
the exhibit. Also included are a
boy's and a gir's formal kimono,
and samples of merchants cloth.
A series of pictures of Japanese
dress starting with the third cen-
tury through indern day -- dis-
played in the front hallway of the
University Elementary School is
part of the same exhibit.
The models for the costumes are
going about activities typical for
the time, such as pouring tea, or
working in rice fields.
There is a pictore of Nara Court
ladies wearing clothes many of
which are still in style today.
During the 10th century, it wfs
fashionable rt wear 12 kir a at
once accoiding to the informa-
tion cards below the pictures.
There are several pictures of
contemporary formal dress.
'The display says many Japanese
today wear western clothes to
work, but change to kimonos when
they come home to relax. The
fishermen and farmers still dress
traditionally, and a working man
will wear the name of the com-
pany he works for on his lapel
and back.
A series of pictures demon-
strates the complicated five-step
process of putting on the bridal
kimono and tying the obi or sash.
INursigClass
Sets Record
-Dean Reddig
Dean Rhoda Reddig, of the
School-of Nursing announced re-
cently that the University 1957
School of Nursing class was the
largest.ever to be graduatedfrom
a college or 'university in the
United States.
1,25 nurses graduated from the
University with degrees of Bach-
elor of Science in Nursing follow-
ing the June commencement.
Total enrollment in the school
last year was 668.
Dean Reddig estimated that the
fall of 1957 class will exceed any
number yet enrolled at the Uni-
versity Nursing School.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: First of two ar-y
ticles based on the. findings of an an-
nual consumer finances survey made
by Survey ResearchdCenter for the
Federal Reserve Board.)
"The large number of houses
constructed and sold during re-
cent years has brought about a
marked change in the housing ar-
rangements of customers," con-
cluded Alfred P. Johnson in an
article in the Federal Reserve
Bulletin.
"The proportion of all non-farm
spending units owning homes in-
creased from 44 per cent in early
1949 to 54 per cent in early 1957,"
he reported, "and the number of
homes owned increased from 20
to 28 million."
Cites Findings
He cited these broad findings:
1) The number of home owners
increased about two-fifths in the
eight-year period of the study,
making half of America's families
home owners at the present.
2) Reflecting higher prices and
more liberal purchase terms, av-
erage mortgage debt in ownsr-
occupied homes has increased
from $3,700 to $6,100.'
3) In the same period (1949-57),
the number of owner-occupied
homes has increased from about
9 million to almost 16 million.
Five per cent of all non-farm
spending units purchased homes
for their own ocupancy during
1956. Two-thirds of these were ex-
isting homes, and one-third of
the buyers sold another house at
the same time.
Age Determines
Consumers who traded, bought
homes priced higher than those
bought by other purchasers. The
proportion of those trading in-
creased with the age and income
of the head of the spending unit.
(A spending unit, as defined by
the survey, consists of all related
persons living together and who
pool their incomes.)
"Prices (in current dollars) of
new and existing homes have in-
creased markedly since the early
postwar period," Johnson said.
"Only one-fourth of those who
purchased homes in 1947-49 paid
$10,000 or more, compared with
about three-fifths .. . that pur-
chased houses during 1954-56."
In the new house market, high-
er prices have reflected steady in-
creases in 1) construction costs,
which totaled about one-fourth
between 1948 and 1956; and 2) the
building of larger and better
equipped homes. 1
For existing houses, most of the
price rise occurred between 1947
and 1952. Since then, .existing-
house prices have shown little
change.
"The recent growth in home
ownership was c o n c e n t r a t e d
largely among spending units with
incomes of $5,000 or more in 1956
dollars," Johnson found. "In early
1957, 79 per cent of all non-farm
spending units with incomes of
$7,500 or more and 64 per cent of
those with incomes of $5,000 to
$7,500 were home owners."
Mortgages have increased in
size more rapidly than house val-
ues, the survey showed. In early
1957, almost five in ten mortgages
equaled half or more of owners'
estimates of home value, in con-
trast with less than four in ten
in 1949.
Debt Ratio
The length of ownership is, in
turn, related to owner age.
"In early 1957 more than four-
fifths of the home owners unde
35 years of age had a mortgage,
and seven-tenths of those with a
mortgage had debt-value ratios of
over 50 per cent," Johnson noted.
"The frequency of mortgage
debt and the ratio of debt-to-
value declined as the age of the
owner increased. Only one-sixth
of the owners 65 or more years of
age had mortgage debt, and most
of these had debt-value ratios of
50 per cent or less."
Dr. Curtis Sets
Tbalk in Swed en
Dr. Arthur C. Curtis, chairman
of the University's Department of
Dermatology and Syphilology, is
attending the International Con-
gress of Dermatology in Stock-
holm, Sweden, which meets today'
through August 6.
He plans to present a paper to
the Congress entitled "Aspects of
Biologic False Positive Serologicj
Tests for Syphilis."
By LEWIS OOBURN
Art and decorativeness blend
with zoology in the "Shells of the
Sea, Land and Fresh Water" ex-
hibit now in the Rotunda of the
Museum of Zoology.
One feature of the exhibit is
a large Cassis cameo or "helmet
shell" decorated in Italian style
with finely worked figures of men
raised against a mother-of-pearl
backdrop.
According to Prof. Henry van
der Schalie, curator of mollusks
men in the region of Pompeii,
Italy spend much time on each de-
tail of the figures lest they mar
the surface.
Another feature of the exhibit
demonstrates the fact that auto-
mation has hit the mollusks, in
recent years also. A necklace of
cultured pearls hangs in one of
the display cases.
Before the turn of the century,
pearls were obtained only by pain-
in the Museum of Zoology, crafts- staking search of
sters. Now, thanks to Miki
Japan, pearls can be cult
artificially stimulated.
According to Prof. van d
lie, pearl culturing may so
an easy get-rich-quick id
it is actually harder than
appearances might indica
For one thing, he cow
the Japanese originators h
given out all of their te(
indiscriminately.
From a less artistic ar
zoological point of view,
Schalie noted that the
purpose of the exhibit is I
mussel distribution to
confluence..
He said that zoologists
termine drainage boundar
noting mussel distributic
observing which mussels a
mon to certain streams.
Prof. van der Schalie sa
one phase of research in n
involves the snail in an in
role.
The snail acts as an i
diary host for the bloc
parasites which attack
and other mammals.
One phase of a certai
fluke causes the "swrmer
commonly found in Michig
other northern lakes.
. . . FIRST . ..
in Modern Comfort
. . . FIRST . .
In Air-Conditioning
. . FIRST . .
In New Hair Styling
715 North Universit
-Daily-Richard Blass
SEA SHELLS -- Prof. Henry van der Schalie holds a decorative
"helmet shell." Figures are worked by Italian craftsmen.
Restaurants
You Will Enj
This Weekend
an Olson Notes Increase
New Education Students
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The Home ofr
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120 East Liberty
Kitchen open from 11 A.M. to 11:45 P.M.
Make Your Summer
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Dine at WEBER'S
an Willard, C. Olson, of the
Ao of Education announced
e current issue of the "Uni-
ty School of Education Bul-
" that recent trends in the
iration of teachers a, the
ersity look encouraging from
>oint of view of the shortage
achers,
an Olson noted an increase
per cent in elementary pro-
nal certificates and an in-
e of 32 per cent in secondary
sional certificates between
and 1957.
rtificates in mathematics and
ce have doubled recently.
rmanent certificates have in-
;d 25 per cent in 1955-1956.
other trend is additional op-
nity to step up students' pro-
s so they can qualify as
ers sooner through making
required courses and stu-
teaching available during the
ner Session.
>p o r t un i ti e s for student
ing have Increased to other
Is besides the University
Prospective secondary teachers
were placed in 25 high schools
with the. largest numbers in the
Ann Arbor public school. Twelve;
schools within the district and 24
schools outside of Ann Arbor- were
used in the elementary program.
Students receiving advanced de-
grees have been steadily growing
in number. In the last .11 years
the degrees aw a r d e d have
doubled, with a total of 6,058 re-
ceiving master's degrees. and 288,
doctorates.
Registration of 4,450 students in
graduate residence centers and in
extension was 'increased 19 per
cent over the preceding year.
The current semester the un-
dergraduate enrollment is up 13
per cent over a year ago.
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