Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1952 — Page 52

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: PAGE 52 EE ARSE Northsiders Pl | Report Best g Week of Year

The Associated North Side Realtors had their best week of { sales: of the year last week as

| their report) listed a total of 510% transactions worth $1,130,200, | chairman Guy Boyd announced. | The sales as listed by secretary Wayne Whiffing were: Knight Realty Co.—1933 Med-

ford Ave. 3612 Ralston Ave, 103 8. Walnut St, Westfield.

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Ford Woods & Co. — 5507 Broadway. Robert. EK. Walker 801 Berkley Rd.

Harry L. Robbins Realty Co.— 3 Lots 4 and 5 Bronx Addition.

Driscoll Realty Co.—80 acres) at Gray and Smokey Rds, Hamlilton County.

Haynes Realty Service — 622 Weghorst St, 304 W, Hanna Ave. Jack C. Carr, Inc.—237 acres ™ in White County, 6059 University| Ave.. 3517 N. Colorado St., 2356] N.. New Jersey St, 12 N. Bur-| bank Rd. 705 N. Luett St, 4501

and economical materials avail- Maple Rd. | able today. Prefinished wallpanels, F. C. Tucker Co.- 2507-9 N.! provide colorful and durable sur- Dearborn St. | faces for walls and ceiling. Fred T, Hill—3320 Park Ave. combination treatment of Bruce Savage Co.—3967 N, New tile-patterned paneling for wains-| yergey St., 4034 Guilford Ave., cocot (lower walls) and plain color|gnerating broker Fieber & Reilly, for thd upper wall and celling| pAgcher property on 111th St. 525 gives the new room an attractive porest Blvd, Williams Creek, decorative scheme which can bel3102 Park Ave. co-gperating maintained permanently. Wiping proker Norman Hamm 4902 the smooth surface of the panels myanston Ave. 3660 Carole! with a damp cloth or an occa-| Aye, 6001 Compton St., 4904 E.! sional washing with soap andi3gth St, 5639 Kingsley Dr, water is the only attention pre-|co.operating broker American finished ‘wallpanels need. | Estates. This modern material is avail-| wy, 1, Bridges & Son—lot 138 able from lumber and building Sylvan Estates.

supply dealers everywhere in more | Spann Co.—3315 Kenwood Mortgages |

than sixty different colors and! , oo "1916 N. Goodlet Ave. patterns, | American Estates—7201 N. Tili-

Many growing families today have an urgent need for a second bathroom but lack of space prevents them from having it, so they believe. A

Yet there is available, well within the financial reach of most home craftsmen and family handymen, a simple but effective way to get around this obstacle and ‘end once and for all the snarling traffic jams that block off the family bathroom. : Here, for example, is a good answer to this “second bathroom” problem. The secret was the conversion of unused attic space into a bathroom by utilizing the convenient were applied directly to sheeting - nailed to the open studding to

owner was Mrs. Verna Caldwell:

vania St., 644 W, 77th | operating broker -F, C. Co., 2924 E. Kessler Blvd, 262 N, nounced this week. - |Tremont St. 6767 N. Meridian, However, the total | St.. 6060 Millersville Rd., 601 E, these mortgages was

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.Con-| The home building industry it: We ‘ indi- self is showing increasing concern oni Sr 7915 Barlum DT, 25 E.|topped the

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By ROBERT F. LOFTUS 1951.

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essional investigators . ied today they have barely over the complaints now being 4 gages worth a total of $619,309. ¢ 1 heard around the.country from Geegory & Appel, Inc, 318, 321, . Other institutions making a

cratched the . surface in their ¢ inquiry into defective housing ex-servicemen and other buyers 327 8. Biitmore Ave.

sold to veterans under the GI who think they have beem cheated Hall-Hottel Co. — 6505 Bill of Rights. lon their homes. {Fayette Rd. Rep. Albert Rains (D. Alad,! The builders have set up com- 6218 Parker Ave.

chairman of a House Banking |mittees of their own in various

{ttee which is diggin cities - to look into these comae field of Signe plaints and help get fast cor-ment-financed housing, said com- |rective action. Some of the major) plaints are flooding into his complaints have stemmed from office by the thousands from ex- Door sites chosen by the builders,

servicemen who claim to have | resulting in bad drainage and

| Fletcher Ave, 44, Prudential Insurance

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{in feature of a new house through iy gan 25, Wie use of metal lath and plaster ciples of walls and ceilings. This construc-| been cheated on homes bought | 1¢4KY basements, . {tion will not ge. a Wr rue Trust 21. \ e National Association of Hal with loans guaranteed by the Build t th ¢|barrier to the spread of flames. Veterans Administration, | ome uilders staged another of its Operation’ Trade Secrets” The Rains subcommittee, fresh. erences here last week for from four days of on-the-3potithe benefit of members of the hearings on faulty VA and FHA gengte and House Banking Com-| guaranteed housing in northern |mittees. : New Jersey and New York, is| Anout a dozen builders from all heading next for Oklahoma City, parts of the country outlined Okla., and Corpus Christi, TeX. |jahor and material saving devices The two Southwestern cities they use to erect satisfactory were singled out as a result of housing without overstepping the | direct complaints from these government's material restric-| areas and from Texas and OKka-|tions. i homa members of Congress; One novel idea already used; whose. constituents are crying by one of the builders is a T“fraud.” __ |shaped bathroom that can be used Rep. Rains said that the sub-| simultaneously by three members committee may extend its inves-iof the family with compiete pritigation later to Detroit and Chl-/vacy for each. cago, where conditions have been —

bad as, if not worse| ey | Teported a2 had as, 3f 11 SNA Word Said | dN Jersey. { Naw York A er ered at In Behalf of 2 Bathrooms

the New York-New ‘Jersey hearRevision of the new housing

ings indicated blame for the situation rests largely on the VA and FHA appraisers who must inspect controls to permit home builders each house before the government {4 construct two-bathroom houses, ' will: guarantes a mortgage on it.\where they can do so without | He added that so far the bulk of ging more copper and steel than! the bad housing turned up in hiss currently allowed, was urged| inquiry is VA.insured construction. this week by A. Naughton Lane,| Rep. Rains acknowledged that president of the Producers’ Coun-| to date only a small percentage of cil © national organization of] the more than 12 million VA building products manufacturers. | homes sold to ex-servicemen since “If through the exercise of con-| World War II have proven defec-'servation and ingenuity, builders | tive—perhaps 2 per cent. can install two complete bath “But” he said, “there still is a/rooms without exceeding the| ‘vast amount of the shoddlest and quantities of critical materials | poorest construction I have ever allowed per unit, or if builders] seen in my life, [and future owners prefer to have, Fly-by-Night Builders the second set of fixtures installed] “lots of veterans are being but not put into service until steel, sorely cheated because of latk of and copper are more plentiful, | inspection and because of fly-by- they should be permitted to do so.| night builders.” | Where new homes are to be | VA officials insisted their sys- occupied by large families or by|

i two families, there is a real need tem of hiring outside appraisers , P on a fee basis, subject to super- for the second bathroom,” he said.

vision by salaried VA experts, is working out ®attsfactory despite the subcommittee findings. But some officials of the agency acknowledged privately that wholesale cleanup of the system ‘is now in progress. They said

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In Eastern U. S. Il NEW YORK, Feb. 23 — Con-| struction contracts awarded in, the 37 states east bf the Rockies “many” appraisers have been were off 14 per cent in January, dropped aptly from the list [compared with January, 1951, it! which VA uses in each locality|"VAS reported today by F, w.

to advise veterans whether they 9dge Corp. ge - ’ '! “The January, 1952, figure was are tting their money's worth $902 million as against $1.04 bilwhen they ay > Hoyos. dv h lion in January, 1951 | minal charges already have y * been filed against the loan guar: , Non-residential awards for the

. antes VA’ rst month of the new year ee Ce In er Srna Tg totaled ‘$357.67 million or 22 per

conspiring ‘with aw phpraiser. a cent less than the total for-Janu- | . ary- a year ago. Dulles, BEE SualncO COMPANY to! Residential contracts of $337.72 “Even ‘When a veteran gets a million were down 20 per cent VA appraisal,” one official ad- from January last, year. vised, “it's a good idea to remem- : ber that old saw: ‘Let the buyer beware’. : He added that whenever a prospective home buyer isn't sure whether he is getting a good buy he should call in an independent

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LANDSCAPED BRICK—New owners of this two-bedroom brick modern bungalow are Mr. and Mrs, Charles Holdaway. The home, located at 1931 N. Leland St., was sold for James F. Matlock and wife by Wilbur Bassett of the Allison Realty Co., Inc.

CHRIST THE KING PARISH—This four-bedroom conventional bungalow at 6026 Norwaldo Ave. was sold recently to John face openings to make easier Haramy and wife by Frank Ranger of the Paul Partlow Co. Former cleaning possible.

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{least 20 mortgages during Janu-La-'ary include: Indiana National 56, 6212 Parlier Ave, First Federal and Union Federal 49, Arsenal Building and Loan 45, Savings and Loan A 31, the industry's supply of such im- co-operate. | Fletcher Trust 30, Indiana Trust X 28, Shelby St. Federal and Celtic and aluminum for the first 1952 specific housing problems.

i Fire protection can be a built- gpederal 26, Colonial Savings and pee——— Pension Fund of Dis- duce construction of private dwel-| “that the government will not be;

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NO MATTER WHAT you have ing substitute {The safety features of metal lath for sale, a Times Want Ad tells will be and plaster are especially valuable many hundreds of prospects estimated number of new homes will Phone PL aza and apartment houses.

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ple before with some of “their|In times past a man would cover » Inotions and ‘have subsequently his roof with birch bark, then 100 been proved right by them. cover that with sod and in no

‘home builders and ‘representa-| Now comes New England's time at all a flourishing lawn was tives from allied fields attended|Architect Royal Barry Wills, growing on top of his house,” he {the fifth.annual residential con-| Whose book of reminiscences said.

Purdue “Houses Have Funny Bones,” has! All architect Wills fails to exe |just been published by the Bond plain is how to cut the grass. | The university announced at Wheelright Co, mee—— m—e [the meetings that it Had estab-| Talking to a group of women 0g lished a $5000 fund for further in Boston recently he suggested Writing on the Wal housing research, The builders sod roofs for houses—Ilawns, in' Neanderthal children probably Iwill contribute a similar amount. other works, instead of roofs. Imarked the walls of their caves | A new state association of “People don't think about roofs and "today's children still thrill home . builders was tentatively when they build houses,” sald to the same “game.” Thought« organized at the conference and Wills, “but they should. Present ful parents can save themselves will include contractors from day roofs are lacking in individu- much gnashing of teeth if they Marion County, South Bend, Ft. alities. The average home builder will paint a section of their plas Wayne, Muncie, and Evansville, hasn't the money for the heavy ter wall in the playroom or kitche as well as independent builders. [slate and tile roofs which were en so it will resemble a black« These five active groups repre- used some years ago. board. It can be cleaned easily, lsent about 300 members, although “Roofs ‘are important in the Metal lath and plaster walls will there are some 1200 contractors appearance of a house. Particular- withstand much artistic endeavor within the state. ly these new houses with the roof from little hands without any | Elect New Chairman close to the ground. An attrac-.damage to its ‘strength or basic : Gale C. Corley of Valparaiso tive, utilitarian and inexpensive heauty. Manufacturers offer was elected temporary chairman roof is sod. paints which serve as chalkboard of the organization. Mr, Corley, “This is used in many countries or éravon bases.

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