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REAL' ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 28, 1&46. RADIO AND COMICS
D. C. Building Permits
Show $511,981 Rise
Over Previous Week
Building permits issued during the
last week totaled $907,857, a jump
of $511,981 over the previous week,
according to records in the office
of Robert H. Davis, District building
inspections director.
Permits of $5,000 and over were
as follows:
Jerry Maiatico. Woodward Build
ing, owner; Harvey Warwick, 4000
Cathedral avenue N.W., architect; to
erect on 12-story reinforced concrete,
brick, stone offices and stores, 806
Connecticut avenue; to cost $650,000.
The J. and B. Cooperative Co.,
Inc., Munsey Building, owner;
Standard Construction Co., Denrike
Building, builder; George T. Sant
myers, 2209 L street N.W., architect;
to erect 10 two-story brick and cin
der block flats, two units each; 911
to 925 and 916 to 924 47th street N.E.;
to cost $70,000.
Real Properties, Inc., 4461 Connec
ticut avenue, owner; Kass Realty
Co., 4461 Connecticut avenue, build
er; James F. Hogan. 4461 Connecti
cut avenue, architect; to erect one
2-story and basement, brick con
'crete, cinder block stores, offices;
3400 Connecticut avenue; to cost
$56,800.
M. M. Clark, 205 Colorado Build
ing. owner; R. Robinson, Inc., 2301
Pennsylvania avenue S.E., builder;
Ross & Watson. Hyattsville, Md.,
architect, to erect one 2-story con
crete. steel, brick warehouse, 1105 V
Street S.E., to cost $35,000.
Benjamin F. Friedman, 1801 New
York avenue N.E., owner and build
er; William St. Cyr Barrington, 1916
L street N.W., architect, to erect!
one 1-story concrete and brick ad
dition to auto service and sales
building, 1401 Rhode Island avenue i
N.E., to cost $32,207.
Ralph Sibley, 2108 North Capitol
street, owner; Metropolitan Con
tractors, 1218 Good Hope road S. E„
builder: C. L. Harding, Shoreham
Building, architect, to erect one 2
story cinder block, stucco dwelling,
1705 Thirty-eighth street S.E., to
cost $9,000.
Arthur E. Lusby, 2548 Thirty
fourth street S.E., owner; W. A.
Lusby, 2548 Thirty-fourth street S.E.,
builder; L. W. Giles, 4428 Hunt place
N.E., architect; to erect one 2-story
(See PERMITS. Page B-2.)
First Aid
For Houses
By Roger C. Whitman
Trouble With Garage Roof Boards.
During the winter the roof boards
in my brick garage, which has a
flat roof, frosted up very much on
the ends. Consequently, these
boards are deteriorating. I have
two air ventilators, one on each
side. Do you think the trouble
could be checked if I were to put
up a ceiling of insulating board?
It is possible that the ventilators
are not large enough to move the air
effectively. I assume the vent
lators are of the louvre variety in
stalled in the walls. The installa
tion of a roof ventilator should help.
A ceiling of insulating wallboard
may also help correct the condi
tion, but to prevent the possible
penetration of vapor through it
into space above the board, coat the
back of it with asphalt paint. Be
fore closing the area give the boards
and joists a soaking coat of creo
sote or a chemical wood preserva
tive.
Finish for Roof Shingles.
Please inform me as to the best
paint to use on wood roofing shin
gles.
Paint is not suitable for roof
shingles, although, of course, it is
entirely suitable for side walls. Shin
gle stain should be used for a roof,
either a commercial type or a home
made product. This can consist of
the following: Four gallons raw lin
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BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS MOVE AHEAD—Photos
show progress on construction of two large commercial projects
In the Washington business area. Concrete and steel frame
work of mill ion-dollar, 12-story office building at Eighteenth
and M streets N.W. (left) being constructed by Ring Investment
Co., has been completed to sixth floor. Transcontinental and
Western Air, Inc., has leased this limestone-faced building,
which was started last March and on which another year’s
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work is expected to be needed for completion. Photo at right
shows progress on nine-story, $445,000 addition to Julius Gar
finckel & Co. Building, Fourteenth and F streets N.W., which
will be completed early next year. —Star Staff Photos.
D. C. Building Aide
To Attend Parley
On Standard Code
A standard building code designed
to cut down the confusion inherent
in the multitude of different con
struction rules and regulations main
tained by American cities will be
discussed at a convention of the
Building Officials Conference of
America starting next Monday at
Memphis, Tenn., at which Robert
H. Davis. District building inspec
tions director, will attend.
Drafting of such a code is expected
to require about eight* months.
Walker S. Lee, Rochester, N. Y., said
today. If a basic code is .adopted by
the majority of American cities, Mr.
Lee said, home and building con
struction would be speeded at a
great saving in man hours would be
possible.
Optimistic Over Adoption.
In an Associated Press interview,
Mr. Lee said he was optimistic over
prospects that the conference's pro
posed code would be generally ac
cepted.
Describing the construction indus
try and building administrators as
“hot for unification,’’ Mr. Lee said,
“I believe that local legislators will
be -willing and anxious to co-oper
ate wuth industry, and thus lower
costs and expedite construction by
speeding up building which now may
be delayed by the need of investi
gations, and so forth.”
Standard performance tests would
effect great savings to material and
equipment manufacturers, the con
ference head pointed out, because
"when a new- material or a new
mode of construction is approved
according to the method set up in
the basic code it will, in effect, be
approved by all cities adopting the
basic code.”
In addition, Mr. Lee said, a stand
ard code would “relieve architects,
engineers, estimators and contrac
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CPA Adds D. C. Veteran
To 'Screening' Committee
By Robert J. Lewis
Veterans have been given repre
sentation on the Civilian Production
Administration’s District Construc
tion Advisory Committee which
screens applications for construction
of non-residential projects in this
area, Edward M. Synan, director of
the Office revealed today.
Appointed to the committee was
Harold W. De Hart, junior vice com
mander of the District Department,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, a former
captain who was discharged from
the Army in October, 1945, after
service in the South Pacific.
Mr. De Hart is assistant manager
and construction engineer of the j
Bender Termite Control Co. He lives !
at 4542 Third street S.E.
At the same time, Mr. Synan an
nounced that, in the last two weeks,
CPA approved 30 construction proj
ects with a dollar value of $319,406
and that 11 projects valued at $497,
001 were denied.
Projects Approved.
Projects approved during the week
ending September 27 were as follows:
Five projects, valued at $83,900. ap
Sroved on the basis of rare and unusual
ardship and with the use of a minimum
amount of critically short materials:
First Federal Savings As Loan Associa
tion of Arlington, construction of bank,
2048 North Sixteenth street, Arlington.
Va . $15,000.
Frederick Nessen and Ida Nessen. con
struction of store, 417-419 Eighth street
S.E . $33,000.
Georgetown Preparatory School, erection
of quonset hut for storage garage at a
school, Garrett Park, Montgomery, Md..
$3,900.
H & K. Chester, erection of branch
postoffice building, 3703 Nichols avenue
S.E.. $6,000.
William Demain Ac Son. remodeling of
funeral home. 620 South Washington
street, Alexandria, Va . $27,000.
One protect approved because It was
considered vitally necessary to public wel
fare. health and safety:
Dupont Laundry, addition to laundry,
(See“ VETERANS, Page B-3.)
Real Estate Shop Talk
Leland Barrows has been appoint
ed special assistant to Dillon S.
Myer, commissioner of the Federal
Public Housing Authority, to handle
veterans’ temporary emergency hous
ing problems. He succeeds Norman
R. Miller, who recently became as
sistant to the director of NHA field
operations.
Mr. Barrows formerly was with
the OPA. where he served as director
of the office of budget and planning.
He Is 40. a World War II veteran and
a former newspaper reporter.
Housing Administrator Wilson W.
Wyatt, who was due to arrive in
Los Angeles today, is on a swing
through the Far West that will take
him to Portland, Ore., and Seattle.
Radio speeches, staff conferences
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crowd his prepared schedule. He is
due to return to Washington
October 9.
Harry H. Steidle, manager of the’
Prefabricated Home Manufacturers
Institute, yesterday addressed a
meeting of the National Association1
of Rural Housing at Biloxi, Miss.
Eugene H. Ruark has been named
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The Week's
Housing Picture
Fifteen hundred applications for
rental housing were filed at the
District Housing Center, 1500 Penn
sylvania avenue N.W., during the
week ended September 25, of which
1,314 were from veterans.
To fill the need, 105 houses and
apartments, plus 275 rooms, were
listed.
In the week ended September 20,
the District FHA office approved
construction of 760 new units, of
which 3.7 were to sell for less than
$7,500 or rent for less than $60 a
month.
Since January 15, construction of
18,743 new units was approved, of
which 26.3 per cent were to sell for
$7,500 or less or rent for $60 a
month or less, plus 158 converted
units.
Nationally, 738,711 units have
been approved to go ahead, 51 per
cent of which were to sell for $7,
500 or less or rent for $60 a month
or less, plus 88.215 conversion units.
Conditions facing applicants for
rental housing were indicated as
follows:
Veterans and
servicemen Total.
- , , Nonveterans.
Just arr.ved - 445 54 490
Separated from
families — 283 17 300
Unreasonable dis
tance commute-- 2fi 1 27
Evictions - 181 49 230
Present housing
Inadequate _ 379 05 444
Total —-—1.314 180 1.500
Building Materials
Output Phenomenal,
CPA Head Declares
Production of building materials
has expanded at a “phenomenal”
rate since V-J Day, Civilian Produc
tion Administrator John D. Small
said yesterday in a report which
pointed out the increase achieved
“has probably never been surpassed
in the history of building materials
production over a comparable period
of time."
The rate of increase. Mr. Small
said, “compares favorably with the
rates of increase in military produc
tion programs of high urgency
achieved during the war period.”
Sounds Warning Note.
Striking a warning note, however,
Mr. Small said builders should not
expect to have all their needs met
without more delays.
“In spite of the highly encourag
ing over-all picture,” the CPA chief
said, “it should be realized that it
will be some time before the pipe
lines are adequately filled and sup
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Good Caulking Job
On House Is Held
Important as Paint
By W. Wadsworth Wood
The average person knows that
ships and boats are caulked to make
them water-tight, but probably not
one in a thousand knows that all
houses wnich are properly built are
likewise caulked to make them
weather-tight.
Caulking is so important to the
house that in a pamphlet published
by the United States Bureau of
Standards it is stated that a solid
job of caulking is practically as im
portant as painting.
Every house has thousands of
joints where board meets board,
where window frames are set in the
walls, where doorways are installed
and chimneys or pipes come through
the roof. In many cases these
joints will be filled by the painting,
but around the window and door
frames and other large openingi
caulking is essential.
Putty and Lead Useless.
Caulking compound should be of
the nondrying variety. Putty and
lead are useless because they dry
out and become brittle and eventu
J ally fall out of place or shrink so
that their efficiency is lost. There
are several splendid compounds on
the market which retain their elas
ticity for years and it is this type
that the homeowner should use.
The compound may be applied in
two ways, either with a putty knife
or with a caulking gun which has
a fine nozzle and which will squirt
the material into the crack to be
filled. The compound comes in both
light and dark colors so that the line
it shows will not mar the appear
ance of the painting.
Even the inexperienced house
owner will understand that although
a house may have three good coats
: of paint applied to it, rain and mois
j ture will get through any fissure
i which the paint cannot completely
close, and in so doing will start de
tSee WOOD, Page B-9J ”
71 Home Loans in Area
For Veterans Approved
Seventv-one home loans were ap
i proved or confirmed by the Wash
ington Loan Guarantee Office of the
Veterans’ Administration during the
week ending September 20, the
regional office reported today.
In addition, 12 GI business loan*
were approved.
Value of all GI loans during the
week was $813,042, raising the total
loans to 3.900, involving $27,565,093,
of which 3,363, or $26,044,120 worth
. were for homes.
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