Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 54

Page 14 (Section 4) Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. Sunday, April 4, 1954 Builders Urge Bill ration i-'J' 'i Couaty Hou Project To Be Completed This Month vate. owner. Last year tne, county treasurer ei $62,771.69 on pie other federal housing projects in the county. These included housing in Alzona Park, Avondale Circle, Gila Bend, Scottsdale, Buckeye and Luke Air Force Base.

This sum, paid in April 1953, was for the 1952 ilieu taxes. How this would compare with what private owners would have been assessed depends upon what value is placed on-these properties, v. The sketch abqve is the proposed drive-in restau- CSUtUlctUL icimicu rant and coffee shop which the Robert Wian Enterprises, will erect on the northeast corner of Thomas and Central. The California firm acquired the site last week. Its investment in land and building will be at least 5450,000.

Eben Lane, realtor, handled sale of the site for the Central Investment Co. central offices, formerly lo- cated in the Alzona Park emergency housing project Ultimately, if the past pattern is followed, the authority will pay the county a sum set by itself, in lieu of taxes that would have been paid by a pri-. Spiff 4 Him recently there are today 7 mil-lion units In the United States "unfit for habitation, dilapidated or lacking private bath or toilet." He estimated this figure would rise to 9 million by 1960. The official flower of the state of Michigan is the apple blossom. fffi, Need Of Homes Described By AssoctaUon President fijjrj "4 J- 7 six FENCING YOUR OWN WE INSTALL I1? J'( 1 "i- jva iijbi' I 1 The bill now before congress to aid home building in the nation could be of much greater help if amendments urged by the National Association of -Home Builders were adopted, according to Ralph Burgbacher.

Burgbacher, president of the Arizona Home Builders. Asso- ciation, pointed out these amendments are not so much for the benefit of his industry 1 as they are for purchasers of homes. Last week association officers sent telegrams to all members of Arizona's congressional delegation, urging support of cer-tain provisions in the proposed bill. These are: 1 MAXIMUM 2 per cent investment requirement of Federal National Mortgage Association to prevent excessive discount for use of this new fa- -cility. 2 Continuation of the one-for-one plan on the present portfolio of FNMA.

This plan has provided Arizona its first, large-scale veterans and FH A financing for outlying communities. 3 Purchase by FNMA of any type of FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed mortgages. 4 Provision for 95 per cent FHA financing for mortgages up to $10,000. The association also feels definitely that imposition of administrative discretion over down payments, mortgage amounts, and amortization terms seriously interferes with sound long-term planning by the home building industry and should be stricken from the new housing bill," the telegram stated. "WE ALSO sincerely request that you vote against public bousing and in its place urge expansion of Sec.

221 to include minorities and other low-income families on controlled program basis as a private enterprise alternative. "We request your active support so that we may have sound home construction in Arizona." W.U. Firm Plans Move Of Headquarters Grace and Grace Realty has leased a portion of the building on the east side of Central opposite Polk to Western Union, Telegraph for a long term. The telegraph headquarters will be moved from its location in the Goodrich Building, 20 N. Central, next fall after a complete alteration of both exterior and interior of the structure has been completed.

1 Bergstrom Opens Realty Office George Bergstrom last week opened his own. real estate using his residence, 115 Arroyo Vista temporarily as his headquarters. He has been engaged in the real estate business here seven years, moving from Chicago, where he was similarly engaged. Bergstrom is a member of the Phoenix Real Estate Board. ARMORED CARS DETROIT (AP) Your next new car may have a built-in pistol, rifle, or knife.

It will be truly a concealed weapon. Detroit police dispose of confiscated weapons every six months by shoveling them into the foundry furnaces at nearby factories. The latest batch included 705 pistols, 200 rifles, and 5,000 knives. SPLIT PALING hrA TYPE SPLIT RAIL tj OR PICKET Maintenance VJ uJh Convenient Financing JJf llllf Hughes, president of the National Association of Home Builders, last week predicted 7 million new families will need homes by 1960, and after that the demand will be at least 2 million more houses each year. Despite these figures, Hughes told a congressional committee mm FHA FINANCING PLUMBING ROOFING 1402 South Central 1 fTr I It I I 1 1 I III i ivi iiii i Xf RUSTIC RANCH ilbJ BOARD VY if No fan9 1 ALpinc rilp BUILD OR A t't-rantiiTA TTntTannc Shown above are entrances to the two new Ari-LLldULlVC XjllLldllCCb zona state Hospital buildings, recently dedicated, which prove an institutional structure need not be unattractive.

It takes little imagination to see how pleasant these doorways will appear when plantings and shrubbery have been put in. The upper entrance is to the continued treatment building, designed by Robert Blakey, architect. The lower one is the Tuberculosis Sanitarium, designed by Weaver and Drover, architects. (Republic Photo, Al Ciro) 4 -all-expense fishing vacation at Acapulco, Mexico, as a grand prize in the nationwide competition. The booklet describes his $12,500 Feminair home and tells how he used advertising, promotional literature, publicity, familiar trade names, and other merchandising ideas to attract 6,000 visitors to his houses during home week last September.

Special mention is made of his use of the cartoon character Qually Tee, to point out special features of his homes. The booklets are designed to stimulate and guide other build ers tnroughout the country In preparation of their own merchandising and promotional programs. BUY TRAILER COURT The Sunland Trailer 3031 W. Van Buren, recently was purchased by Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Osborn, formerly of Wickenburg, from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Telzeron. The deal was handled by Mrs. Jeanne Miller of the Kelley Rogers Realty office.

tormt 36 110. TO PAY FENCING INSULATION Phone AL 4-9243 1 1 John C. Hall's Advertising Ideas Given Recognition By HENRY FULLER Real Estate Editor The huge 300-unit family rental project of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County at 19th Avenue and Buckeye is due to be completely finished by May 1 and possibly all space will be ready by April 15. This is the largest federally-subsidized low-rental project developed in the Phoenix area since such housing developments were authorized by congress. The land cost the authority $86,411 for 38, acres.

Farmer and Godfrey, contractors, erected the buildings at. a cost of $1,664,000. Bricklayer and painter strikes have held up completion of the work, which was undertaken 15 months ago. DESIGX OF the 150 duplexes and the general layout of the property was made by Lescher and Mahoney, architects. Each apartment has cost approximately $6,000.

These apartments will rent on an $18 a month basis for a. couple with no children, and an Income not exceeding $2,400 a year. For each child in the family an additional allowance of $100 upward in income is allowed. Thus a family with four children would be eligible to rent an apartment if its income was up to $2,800 a year. A casual inspection of the 101 apartments already occupied disclosed yesterday that the vast majority of tenants have two or more children.

SINCE of the apartments have only two bedrooms, none too large, the question arises immediately to anyone looking over the project as to what these families will do for space within the next few years. 5 Fred Norton, commission chairman, says his office is screening all applicants with greatest care to make sure that none are accepted who can afford a higher rent. So far the apartments have been filled as rapidly as they were completed. The buildings are masonry construction with rigid asbestos shingle roofs. Interior walls are not plastered, but are painted in attractive pastel shades.

Stoves and refrigerators are included as part of the equipment There are ducts, for air-cooling and gas heating. Only the living room has a door for the clothes closet. The bedrooms have recesses before which curtains can be hung. The windows have steel sash and are screened. There are small concrete slabs for the front and back porches, both roofed over.

ALL LAWNS are being put in at present and landscaping set out. Each apartment has its steel clothes poles and lines in' the back yard. Streets are paved and curbed. Sidewalks are in. City sewers serve the area, A central recreation hall has been erected with the county housing authority occupying a portion of the building for its Th'CcxJ Raal Ettata assures your to deal with on'f IN The builc be careless pledged Code of The ability had at no be Thoughtful REALTOR that his helping at the Building Rate Holds The first quarter of the local building year does not show any decided downward trend in construction, examination of building permit records at the city hall and the Maricopa County Zoning Commission offices discloses.

For. the city, the quarter racked up a total of $6,366,929 in permits granted, slightly better than the same quarter in 1953. However, the total would have been below last year's mark, had it not been aided by the $2,740,000 permit issued for the new First National Bank of Arizona building job. County permits totaled for the first three months, well above the total for the first quarter of 1953. March started out as though there were little county construction in prospect Total permits dropped to less than $1 million, a week.

But the last half of the month showed a remarkable pickup in permits issued for new houses. More than 300 permits for houses were issued during the last two weeks of the showing that builders are continuing to enjoy a brisk demand for new homes. Hover To Speak On Conservation Lee Hover, classified advertising manager of The Arizona Republic and. The Phoenix zette and head of the Arizona Game Protection Association, will address members of the Phoenix Real Estate Board during their bimonthly luncheon meeting Tuesday. Hover's subject will be "Wildlife Conservation in Arizona." The luncheon will be served in the Macayo Restaurant, 4001 N.

Central, Charles S. Ratchelor, president, said. ij Cmn mh a And Firm Plans More Home Units and Construction owned and operated by Sam Hoffman and son, recently took out permits for 65 houses in two of its subdivisions, amounting to $554,000. The firm is erecting 40 three-bedroom masonry structures in its Alta Vista subdivision at 27th Avenue and Northern, listed at $7,600 each. In its Bethany Villa subdivision, 19th Avenue and Missouri, it took out permits for 25 homes at $10,000 each.

How John C. Hall, local home builder, successfully promoted his model house during the 1953 National Home Week is described in a booklet now being distributed to builders throughout the United States. The booklet was prepared by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. It outlines merchandising techniques used by winners in a unique home production contest sponsored by the company and the National Association of Home Builders. HaD.

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