Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1940 — Page 26
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“TO HEAD REALTORS
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MAEHLING SLATED
Terre Haute Vice President Expected to Be Chosen as
Indiana Association -
Holds Final Session
At Ft. Wayne Today.
By DAVID Times Sta
MARSHALL ff Writer
FT. WAYNE, Oct. 11.—The Indiana Real Estate Asso-
ciation in its final business se
ssion today probably will elect| {&
Walter Maehling president and his home city of Terre Haute
as the 1941 convention city. Mr. Maehling, a vice pre
sident, would succeed retiring
Benjamin F. Shirk of Ft. Wayne.
4248 DWELLING UNITS VACANT
Represents 3.7 Per Cent of Those Rentable in City, U. S. Reports.
Times Special . WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Indianapolis has 4248 vacant dwelling] units, or 3.7 per cent of the total of | 115,564, the Census Bureau reported
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Following the selection of officers the two-day realty session was to close with a talk on selling in today’s market by Ernest J. Gallmeyer.
With a few added registrations coming in today, nearly 200 brokers, and. property managers (and some 60 of their wives) will have attended this 27th annual convention.
Eleven From Indianapolis
Among them are 11 Indianapolis delegates: Guy H. Williams, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board; Urban K. Wilde, the board’s executive secretary; Robert Allison, past president of the state associa-
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SHOOK DESIGNS UNIQUE HOUSE
Modern, Ranch-House and Colonial Effects Used For Residence.
Architect Wilbur B. Shook (McGuire & Shook) has combined some
of the best features of modern, ranch house and Conlanial styles in
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Hagedon Home Purely American in Style
° |total of 8886 applications for FHA
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The back of Charles H. Hagedon’s new home . . . combines three motifs.
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|this year in the Indianapolis area
1939. This is an increase of about
A BUILDING
Applications for Insurance In Nine Months of 1940 Exceed Total for 1939.
There was more home building unger FHA-insured mortgage financing in the first nine months of
than in the entire year of 1939. For the nine months of 1940, a
insurance on home mortgages (valued at $37,337,750) were received
from the Indianapolis territory, accerding to R. Earl Peters, FHA director for Indiana. : This compares to 8390 applications totaling $32,999,469 in all of 1939, an increase of 496 applications involving $4,338,281. Of this year’s nine-month volume, 5797 applications involving $26,434,350 were for new small homes as against 2964 applications valued at $13,822,300 in the same period of
50 per cent. These figures bear out predictions made at the first of the year that the summer and fall building seasons here would be among the best in 11 years, Mr. Peters said. “There is nothing on the horizon at present to indicate any appreciable letdown in the volume of home building and financing in the | Indianapolis area,” he said. “As we] have pointed out before, the con-|
LUMINOUS BRICKS MAY LIGHT HOMES
An entirely new angle for architects on illumination may result from glass bricks patented this week in Washington. The structural glass blocks are hollow, admitting daylight during those hours, and glow at night when electricity is passed through them. The bricks, invented by Edward B. Baker of Detroit, are filled with gas that glows from the 2lectric current. No other lights than the bricks would be needed in a room that was walled with the luminious bricks.
NEW BOOKS ON HOME AND GARDEN LISTED
New books and pamphlets for persons interested in better homes and gardens which may be borrowed from Central Library or through the neighborhood branches include: “HOUSE PLANNING,” by Wooster Bard Field (McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc., New York). With family needs well in mind, Mr, Field provides a logical treatment of the problems encountered in house planning, He discusses cost, size, interrelation of rooms, orientation and fitting the house to the site.
New Pamphlets
“FLOWER. GARDENING” (Mandeville and King Co. Rochester, N. Y.). Flower seed specialists give the reader the advantage of their years’ experience experimenting with flowers and gardens. ' Among the topics are: Rock gardening, children’s gardens, and the culture of perennials. “BETTER HOME GROUNDS by Albert D. Nutting (University of
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tion; Fay C. Cash; William A. Hackemeyer, vice president of the state group; J. T. Moynahan; Joseph J. Schmid, state organization sec-retary-treasurer; Frank J. Viehmann, R‘ate- Insurance Commis-
Maine, College of ‘Agriculture Ex- i tension Service, Orono, Me.). Al} forestry specialist advises the farm|i owner how to establish and main-|}: tain tidy, well-proportioned grounds. || Though directed particularly to the;
designing the low, rambling painted brick home for Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hagedon. Walter C. Kelly built the home at 1107 W. 58th St. It will not be open for inspection. The house sits
today. Total occupied units is 111,316. : The Bureau report lists the occupied and vacant dwelling units in all cities over 25,000. East Chicago with .6 per cent, Ko-
trary is the case.” “Accelerated business coupled with the improved merchandising methods in the home field are most
likely to help the construction vol- "A Dollar spent in time’
1244 S. Emerson Ave. . . . meets FHA specifications.
komo with .7 per cent, and Marion with 9 per cent vacancies, are among the lowest in the country. Figures for other Indiana cities are as follows: ’ Anderson, 12,500 dwelling units, 12,093 occupied, 407 vacant, or 3.3 per cent; East Chicago 12,681 total 12,605 occupied, 76. vacant or .6 per cent; Elkhart, 10,063 total, 9883 occupied, 180 vacant or 1.8 per cent; Evansville, 28,429 total, 27,882 occupied. 547 vacant or 1.9 per cent; Ft. Wayne 33,907 total 33,070 occupied, 837 vacant or 2.5 per cent; Gary 30,336 total, 29,824 occupied, 512 vacant or 1.7 per cent; Hammond, 18,379 total, 18,182 occupied, 197 ‘vacant or 1.1 per cent; Kokomo, 9758 total, 9685 occupied, 73 vacant or .7 per cent; Lafayette, 8367 total, 8169 occupied, 198 vacant or 2.4 per cent; Marion, 7706 total, 7639 occupied, 67 vacant or .9 per cent; Michigan City, 6536 total, 6448 occupied, 88 vacant or 13 per cent; Mishawaka, 8115 total, 7970 occupied, 145 vacant or 18 per cent; Muncie, 14,978 total, 14,677 occupied, 301 vacant, or 2 per cent; Richmond, 10,316 total, 10,175 occupied, 141 vag¢ant or 1.4 per cent; South Bend, 28686 total, 28,076 occupied., 610 vacant or 2.1 per cent; Terre Haute, 20,295 total 19,605 occupied, 690 vacant or 3.4 per cent.
CHRIS J. GREINER
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sioner; Earl B. Teckemeyer, past president of the state association; Albert E. Thompson, and Frank L. Moore, executive secretary of the state body. : In surveying the outlook for real estate, John W. Galbreath- of Columbus, O., Great Lakes regional vice president of .the National Association of Real Estate Boards, yesterday predicted that production in 1941 would reach an all-time high “war or no war, regardless of which party is in office.” Real estate's future, he. said, looked very good because of three factors: (1) a shortage of materials, (2) an excess of dormant funds in ‘banks and loan associations, and (3) a real-estate-minded Federal Government.
‘We Must Provide Leaders’
“Business is bound to pick up because ‘of the defense program,” Mr. Galbreath said, “which means we must equip ourselves to meet it and must provide needed leaders in the field of housing.” : He warned that “unless realtors grasp the opportunity to meet the housing needs caused by the defense program, the Government itself will take over, and I doubt then if housing ever will get back into private hands.” William B. F. Hall, who has made quite a name for himself by devising the Ft. Wayne low-cost housing
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[same family in a new home, in the same location, at the same rent, (without additional cost to the taxpayer, had this to say about public housing: “The cause of public housing is hurt by the use of statistics which tend to show that.the problem is larger than it really is.
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“Indicate Bigger Problem”
“By this exaggeration they (crit{ics) indicate a problem which would bankrupt the Urfted States and thereby supply the opposition with the best reason for not tackling a part of that problem at the present time. “If instead of this exaggeration they would concentrate their attention on a bottom of 2 or 3 per cent of the people and attempt to approach that problem realistically, all intelligent opposition to, the program would vanish immediately.”
OPENS NEW OFFICES
Ford V. Woods, realtor, will open new offices next week in the Union Title Building specializing in North and West Side properties. The new firm will be known as Ford Woods &-Co. Mr. Woods is a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board.
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high on a terrace above a large vblong lot. The rooms are of unusual size and each has large paned windows which fill most of the walis. The front door has diamondshaped panels in blue and white with a square window at one of its corners. On either side of the door are vertical panels. set with varicolored rondelles. An inclosed fulllength light is set above the door. The entrance hall walls are finished in gum plywood. So that closet doors will not interfere wich the opened front door, the closet has sliding doors. The floor is covered with linoleum.
Has Three Bedrooms
The studio-living room (with a beamed peaked ceiling) has a dining alcove jutting between the kitchen\ and a large screened-in porch. One wall of the living room and one in the alcove have built-in shelves for books and for china and art objects.” A large picture window at the other end of the living room overlooks the yard where Mr. Hagedon plans to have a formal garden. Walls and the ceiling of the living room are white. A large window runs the length of the dining alcove, the floors of which are hardwood stained brown. The living room has a limestoneframed fireplace, backed and sided with vari-colored bricks. The bedroom section is so arranged that it can be shut off from the rest of the house. A hallway, in which there is a spacious (4x11x8) storage closet, leads to three bedrooms and baths. ’ Like all walls throughout, except those done in wood, those in Mr. Hagedon’s son’s room are sand-fin-ished plaster.
Walls Dutch Blue
The adjoining bath is in white tile with black trim. Shower and window curtains are black, white and yellow. All baths have towel closets. Blue draperies with a white and rose floral pattern harmonize with the deep coral rose walls in Mr. Hégedon’s daughter's room. Here, §s in all the bedrooms, is a closet with center shelves running from ceiling to floor, flanked by hanging space. One wall of the master bedroom is finished in birch. In this wall is the closet and:the entrance to the bath. Other walls are dutch blue under a white ceiling. The bath walls are in gray tile. The flooring is eggplant linoleum striped in two tones of gray. The dressing table has a three-sided mirror and is illuminated by a fluorescent light in the ceiling. Draperles are 'dubonnet with a flowered dutch blue pattern. The basement stairway. too, has a fluorescent light. The “bum” room beneath the living room has a beamed ceiling. Along one wall is a long fireplace with a fir beam manHe Cinder block walls are painted white.
Cabinets Full Length
Off the “bum” room is a storage room, laundry room (with built-in tubs), lavatory and dressing room, and-a furnace room. The house has a vapor heating system. Coke falls directly into a huge stoker through a manhole in the two-car garage. From the furnace room is a stairway going to the kitchen. The built-in white cabinets there run from the ceiling to the floor. Their tops and the sink drainboard and splash are in deep blue linoleum contrasting with the canary ceiling and walls. The linoleum has a star and geometric pattern of the same color warmed by touches of red. The garage, equipped with overhead doors, has an alcove for Mr. Hagedon'’s tools and his power lawn mower, : Throughout are roll copper screens and concealed .radiators. All bedrooms have cross ventilation. The house, carrying out Hr. Hagedon’s belief that many homes are built with the front on the wrong side, really has two fronts: A public one facing the road, a private one overlooking his garden area.
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Paul I. Cripe has built a modified Colonial five-room bungalow at 1244 S. Emerson Ave. ior Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hutson. It will not be open for inspection, The home has twd bedrooms, living room, dinette, kitchen and bath. Off the kitchen is an alcove which can be used for a breakfast nook. The living room, directly off the entrance, is hung in ivory-striped paper and has an arching opening into the dining room. The latter has Colonial designed paper with a chair rail” which divides two patterns—a picture design above and a striped motif below. The front bedroom with its cross ventilation has peach wall paper and a light blue ceiling. The back bedroom is done in green and white and has double windows. The paper has a light green background with cream and white flower sprays, under a white ceiling. An enameled bath in cream and
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blue is off the hall between the two bedrooms. The bath has a large linen closet, has an inlaid linoleum floor covering and a combination tub and shower. The kitchen is equipped with white baked enamel factory-made cabinets trimmed in red. The venetian blinds over the sink have harmonizing red trim. The floor is inlaid black marbelized linoleum and the wall has three coats of peach-colored enamel. The full basement has a complete sewerage disposal system with a pump and drilled well, and an allsteel furnace. The dark solid blue roofing on the house and garage is of composition asphalt. Blue shutters match the roofs. The hardwood flooring throughout is one inch thick. All wood trim is finished in white enamel. ~ Although the home is outside the city limits it has been approved by the Works Board, the State Health Board and the FHA.
Gardening—
Creeping bent lawns may be grown hy planting tufts of the grass about 6 inches apart, by seed or by means of stolon planting. The stolon planting is done by spreading the cut-up sections of the stolon over the prepared bed, lightly covering with fine soil and then rolling. (Stolons are shoots which grow near the base of the parent plant which develop a bud at the tip or at both the node and tip.) An advantage of using stolons is that complete coverage is obtained in from six to 10 weeks of favorable weather. Seeded lawns make a showing in a comparatively short time, but do not form sod until the second year. In contrast, a stolon lawn reaches maturity during the first season.
Acid Soil Not Needed
Because qf © this thickness of growth, weeds are more easily controlled as the lawn pegins to grow. After a creeping bent lawn is once formed there will be little further trouble with weeds because the thick, close turf prevents their development. The gardener who wants a bent lawn faces many problems that differ from those met with a mixed grass lawn. The area to be planted should be as well prepared as would be done for seeding a new lawn. You should consider the physical nature of the soil as well as supplying the needed nutrient elements in. the form of balanced, complete fertilizer. Experimental tests have shown that a strongly acid soil is not necessary for a bent lawn. as many gardeners believe. Soils that are either neutral, slightly acid or slightly alkaline produce bent that is satisfactory.
Humus Is Real Need
The important thing, as in the growing of any grass, is to have a sufficient amount of humus and plant food in the soil. The surface to a depth of five
soil. It should be well firmed and compacted. Thoroughly rotted barnyard manure is excellent for enriching and improving the mechanical condition of otherwise indifferent soil. A 4-12-4 commercial fertilizer should be raked into the top two inches at the rate of 20 pounds per 1000 square feet. Following the fertilizer application, the stolon bed should be given a light sprinkling before the stolons are spread.
Enough topsoil should be re-
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Creeping Bent Lawns Grown
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tained and screened to provide a light covering for the stolons after they have been planted. About one cubic yard of soil is needed | for every 1000 square feet of plant-| ing’ area. Stolons may be planted | from about Aug. 1 to about Oct. 15. Scatter the chopped stolons evenly over the ground. Next cover with not more than 14 inch of screened
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“Any advance in materials. cost
has not been sufficient to deter the swelling building volume.”
APARTMENT, 4 LOTS AND 8 HOUSES SOLD
The North Side Realtors this week reported the sale of one apartment, eight houses, four lots and two tracts of land with a total value of $72,350, bringing the year’s transactions to $3,822,881. Ford V. Woods sold an apartment on Central Ave, Houses sold were: 1329 N. New Jersey St. by William G. Albershardt and the Security Trust Co.; 439 Berkley Road and 6111 Evanston Ave. by Col. C. B. Durham; 986 N. Audubon Road by | Charles C. Binkley; 2439 Broadway |
by William A. Hackmeyer, 6003 Crit- | tenden Ave. 1469 N. Bosart Ave. and 2112 Park Ave. by Jack C. Carr. Col. Durham sold a 10-acre and al 20-acre tract in Washington Town- |
lots in Valley View Park. Harry Robbins sold a lot on the southwest corner of Park Ave. and 84th St.
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