Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1948 — Page 54

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| : Local Builders Skeptical Over | Prefab Homes

Doubt ‘Price Figure © $6000 Can Stand

| The local building industry is Jooking critically at the massbuilt prefabricated house: This week the FHA came up with the idea that prefbricated two-bedroom houses could be built and sold for $300 down and paid for at $35 a month. A Ft. Wayne building firm pre-

‘sented the plan for mass produc-| .

tion of small homes and the city {8 being searched for suitable sites of which there are reported to be all too few for a major project, The production of a prefabricated home for $6000 is doubted in building circles. The best price, allowing $700 for the lot on utility lines, in the opinion of) Elmer Meadley, executive-secre-| tary of the Marion County Resi-| dential Builders, Inc, would be| about $6300, - ¢ Marshall Abrams of the Construction League said the builders have nothing. against the prefab. | Ficated homes but experience bas shown that the byilder can Put up a house on the “job about fis cheap as it can be prefabrigated whether in the factory or on the site, |

; ‘Daveasoct «labile Biatistics., The. Mal . L QuArs ris 4 ha Id. be Me..moyemant. interrupted. by. fhe En. a AMO “could x Re RA gon )¢ sur- war, showed up last yéar when cause a shoftage. oo mp oyment Pay

Tin Ants TORMEREIV ELE tarm| .. Stocks ered re Shout $10 n-squure- foots Ties, Awe urls an. TRIE DECANE Bil GorpwiIve" report. Hy OF

cand ‘that is true .all over the Gountry, If anything, we're a tle lower here than elsewhere.” : Be Teutionsa one mass-pro-n prefab housin, ro Which had overshot {ts Satimated

ice per house by about $2000. Ew pointed out’ that higher

; ight rates, cost of imstalling started outside - incorpora “| : » rporated ers report. That is only a paral-\vision, show an. 11 per cent infisond Sidings or trucking, places, : : lel to the rising cost of living. crease in employment, and a 13] b ines, water, streets, curb-| fromm ie {they add. |per cent increase in wages paid nd “other. essentials to a PARKING METER STOLEN

development easily consume

atever saving there is in on-

fte or in-the-factory machine ported

Sembiy \ i © & The prefabricated ho A Abrams said, has. a or “Itand "often dbes not lend to expansion as the family

ws. i Meanwhile prefabricated homes

. Are built’ ang: builders are putting them up" Gomwrction Is _ faster, but’ the 1 bullder fs’ Tequired to finish them inside, so,

Mr. Abrams said, he has little or no objection to the - cation idea. vretav | Mr. Abrams added that the -building industry is going through the severe shortage pains of : $18-a-keg nalls and practically no “reement aMHOURN, Wt the price: there are ample ether materials to keep building at its current

high pace in the Indianapolis!

area. A OS

In Building Trades

Mid-year union wage scales in

crease in Indianapolis over last year, the Federal Buran of Labor

Statistics reported Yesterday. Union wage scales increased 20

cents for 16 of the 53 jobs in the building trades, 16 others reported 30 to 45 cents, |

wage increases of and 17 showed 12% to 17% cents

flect increases in hourly rate but

represent earnings as a whole 4n

the building trades.

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A. H. M. Graves, Inc. Opens Realty Office

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specializing in north side homebuilding, yesterday announced the opening of its offices in 821 Broad Ripple Ave,

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aT aures Are -Clted 0. is definitely back In busi- Who Wants to redo his home. = | <4. If small homes ‘with buths: and, ngs; according an the . Federal!

the building trades showed an in- |

an hour increase during the year. bureau pointed out that the increases do not necessarily re-

Mr. Graves, who lives if 64914"

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FRENCH PROVINCIAL SOLD—This attractive practical builder's French provincial home at 6921 Warwick Road has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Drake by Bruce Savage Co., Circle Tower. The home formerly belonged to Mr. and Mrs, Rollo D. Falardeau, wlio designed and builtit, = =

Home Builders Go Paint Should Be Ava

Rural Once More Next Spring for Homes War-Halted Movemen

Supply Adequate Unless Unusual Demand Gets Underway Again

Occurs, Most Dealers in City Report There should be paint next spring American - cities will have to reach out over their present

up their homes inside and out. mY boundaries if they hope to catch up with city home builders who have gone rural, . The little-place-in-the-country

ages, but the consensus is that f paint,

Jt the government should de-

[nearly 44 per cent ‘of all new ]

nesA., Adequate

urban areas, as compared with 40 per cent the previous year and {with 33 per cent In the war year h o anceled lof 1044. cetrain types have been c “A st to 75. The garden-and-chickéns home Buying on interior paints is going Lug 13.078 in Septembe {site has been tempting the Ameri- along smoothly, although sales on tq {can home builder since the fu- spring paints are still low. | rious twenties when the upturn

have adequate stocks for the pres-|

$4.2 million last month,

“It Jually happenéd. Police re- foresee none. } someone stole a parking| One dealer said, “It's just about per cent increase in wages.

meter {impossible to predict anything ———

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The immediate supply is abundant and the quality is high, dealers reported. But while dealers were optimistic about the spring painting season, they tempered their optimism with some uncer tainty. If the demand is too high, there is some possibility of short 1

there will be enough for anyone 2Pout next spring's supply or price Politics, ‘international . affairs and.,a multitude of ‘other

: 3s a a Cea " o «coming. events could. change. the sBhabiation. The TANG OTe, pRitt ingredients. « es Shang. the.

. . Fisms Up. Here. Indianapolis manufacturers inent demand, although orders for creased their employment and pay jrolls from 67,407 employed in

from $3.7 million in August

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