Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1950 — Page 26

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Home Builder & Realtor 5 C. A. WACKER

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CONGRATULATE ry Hy Extremely

Past Year. ..

| THANKS To EACH OF Yo!

The Crew -(. Featherstone - M. Green- A, Birge Equitable Securities (o.—Morigages

Carfer-Lee Lumber (Co. Potter Coal & Material Co. Bea & Bea—Shee! Melal Carl Johnson—Hardwood Floors Indiana Distributing Co.—Heating Overbey Electric Co.—Wiring Overbey-Freas—Elecirical Fixtures Paul Miller & Sons—Cabinels Askren (o.—Cabine! Tops George Roesinger—Plumbing Bedford Moore—Paper Hanging Acme Wall Paper (o.—Paper Arthur Poole—Excavaling LC. Cassidy & Sons—Insulation Ferrell Hardware (o.—Hardware

Collins Linoleum Service—Linoleum

“fof the bulk. of Ho es. EOE 8 IP.

“1 The figure revealed that 75 per

ost of New ous foes Priced ~~ Below $10,000

Majority Built, Sold By Realtors in $6000 To* $9000 Bracket

The average pay 11 is picking

oe ¥ FEE ma ullding boom IO). | That's what statistics from the| | Federal Housing Administration] | disclosed today on the eve of the {Parade of Homes here in Marion (County.

{cent of homes in the shovel-and-stud stage this past year are | priced in the $6000 to. $10,000 That's the national |average and Marion County is right along with the U. 8. The National Association of Home Builders using government | statistics as a source said 18.1

| per cent of all houses built were | {tagged from $6000 to $6999; 18.4 | per . cent, $7000 to $7999; 19.6, [$8000 to $8999, and 16.3, $9000 to| $9999.

When realty sales are included, {the most “sold” houses are those

| category throughout the country.| | Only 13 per cent.of all the| g~= houses - erected are $11,000, the - Association said. pr The $16,000 and up range is in a class all alone, accounting |for only 1.5 per cent of the miltom houses-a- OUses-a-year p production.

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In colonial Virginia, about 200 years ago, it was {llegal to take

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Today America has 90 per cent of all the bathtubs in the world, and the new ones help spark the home with brilliant colors. More and more the bathroom is becoming such an important room| pine among them. in the house that one eastern

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Home owners can have all sorts of rooms today, pickled

The wood ranges in color from builder is reserving space in the} je . green - gray to driftwood gray. Retail lumber dealers or paint stores can supply home M famil ting| Owners with the prepared finish. 3uy_lamilies ale converting For vitality-filled home owners baths. With home building now|here is a home-made method: Bleach the surface with comcrisis, home renovating may meet| mercial bleach. Antique the surthe needs of expanding families,| face with paste white tinted with If the trend in American de-|raw lumber and drop black. Wipe mand for bath facilities continues, | the surface to leave a dust-like builders may find more families| coating, then shellac and finish

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