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80 District Area
Non-Residential
Jobs Approved
a Housing Expediter,
However, Denies 35
Building Pleas
Eighty nonresidential projects in
the District area valued at *1,188,292
were approved in the last month by
the District branch of the Housing
Expediter's Office.
Thirty-five applications for con
struction valued at *808,380 were
denied.
Approvals, by categories under
which nonhousing authorizations
were granted, follow:
Twenty-four projects valued at $411.
200, approved on the basis of rare and
unusual hardship and with the use of a
minimum amount of critically short ma
terials: •
Morris Heckman, retail store, 6104 Mac
Arthur boulevard. $20,000.
Joseph L. Bateman, addition. 2004
Rhode Island avenue N.E., $7,000.
The Jack Stone Co.. Inc., addition, 1252
Jefferson Davis highway, Arlington, $00,
OOO.
■John J. Widmayer. warehouse, Railroad
avenue and Thirty-eighth street. Mount
Rainier. $.11,000.
A. G. Watkins, addition to store and
apartments, 400 East Montgomery avenue,
CIA GfUl
Whittington h Brown Co., Inc., «tor»ge
thcd. 680 T street N.E.: *3,500.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, partial
construction of church. Sixteenth and
Inglewood streets, *66.000.
United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Are
damage repairs. Washington boulevard and
King street, Alexandria, *46,000.
Louis Goodman, front to store, 943
Pennsylvania avenue N.W., *6,000.
Joseph Tucci, addition, 315 H street
N.E., *3,700.
B. L. Frishman, fire repair*, 1790 Co
lumbia road N.W., *4.000.
Wilhelmlna Adams, repairs, 3218 F
street N.W., *2.450.
Franklin P. Backus, addition, 106-108
North Fairfax street, Alexandria. *40,000.
Isadore M. Engel, store, 309-311 H
street N.E., *31,000.
Anna Marie Olson, completion of hotel,
Hushesville. Md.. *9,000.
Hawkins Motor Co., completion of build
ing. 2501 Columbia pike, Arlington. *1.246
Basilike Investment Co., garage 1410
L street B E., *24.000.
Joseph F. Belfolre, alterations, 1811 L
Street N.W.. *6.750.
Lillie KabakofT, alterations. 3701 New
Hampshire avenue N.W., *5.000.
Pyles Motor Co . addition, 3000 Branch
avenue B E.. *12,000.
John J. Doyle, bakery. 7401 Wisconsin
avenue. Bethesda. Md., *2.939.
Murray Starbecker, repairs. 3218 M
•treet N.W.. *010.
Peoples Building & Loan Association,
constructlcm of a building association of
fice building. 108 North Patrick street,
Alexandria. *7,005.
Southern States Chantilly Co-operative,
Inc., supply warehouse, Herndon, Va.,
*9.000.
Seven projects valued at *130.500 ap
VAfT arl fnr allminnlinn nf n eaviAiir rkiAft
age ot an essential activity or service
vitally necessary to public health and
safety:
Dr. Edwin P. Hall, alterations, 2025 I
street N.W.. *1,000.
District government, repairs to munici
pal fire station, 1842 K street N.W..
$5,000.
National Education Association, altera
tions. 1620 M street N.W., *7.000.
Mrs. Regina I. McKeever. fireproofing.
#18-918 G street N.W., *15,000.
District government, chlorinator Mu
nicipal Building. Eighteenth street and
Minnesota avenue S.E.. $7,000.
District government, alterations to
Western High School, Thirty-fifth and R
streets N.W., *82.500.
Potomac Electric Power Co., addition,
Old Bethesda. *13.000.
Five projects valued at $31,459 ap- I
froved because of essential and nonde
errable maintenance and repairs:
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church,
repairs. Maple avenue and Tulip avenue.
Md.. *11.500.
Irving Honlkman. remodeling. 2409 Ben
Blng road N.E., *3.500.
Howard W. Vesey, alterations. 2010
•nd 2012 K street. N.W.. *11.269.
Park Transfer Co., repairs, 2117 Fifth
street N.E.. *2,800.
Edwin Weihe. repairs. 27 H street N.E..
#2.800.
Twenty-five projects valued at *348.798 ;
approved because of negligible Impact on
the VteraTls’ housing program:
Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. addition
to film-processing plant, 1350 Okie street
N.E . $22,000. I
The Evening Star Broadcasting Co.,
television transmitter station, American
University campus. *80.250.
Walter L Green, addition. 5303 Balti
more avenue. Hyattsville, *1800.
Wallace A- Herring. Inc. office and
warehouse. 1000-1002-1004 North Henry
street. Alexandria. *41.000.
Cohn Picture >Pramc Co- inclosure of
(See NONHOPSING, Page B-2.>
Housing Homeless Families With Children Is Called 'No. 1 Problem' in Capital
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kasmala, the former an Army veteran, give information to Mrs. Mary
E. Mahoney, District Veterans’ Housing Center supervisor, in effort to find a home, as daughter
Carol, 3, watches. The Kasmalas have tried fo r three months to And a place to live.
Col. Waldron E. Leonard, housing center director, interviews Mrs. C. L. Osborn, with daugh
ter Kathie, 2. Mrs. Osborn said she has found that landlords do not wish to rent to families
with children. Mrs. Osborn is a veteran and her husband is an Army technical sergeant.
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Gadgets
Gasket for Windows
Seals Out Weather,
Cuts Fuel Bill
By Hilson Munsey
Metal window frames are rather
difficult to weather strip. To over
come this, a reinforced rubber gas
ket Is used to make a tight, weather
proof seal without distorting the
frame or putting any extra strain
on the window hardware. It acts
as a self-adjusting cushion and is
designed for any type of metal case
ment.
This strip has a weather-resist
ing core that is reinforced on both
sides with fabric. One side has ce
ment built in for bonding the strip
to the metal. This cemented side
is covered with fabric to protect
it until it is installed. It is re
moved at the time the strip is cut
and ready to place in position.
It will make a perfect seal around
the window to eliminate drafts,
keep out water, dust and noise and
add considerably to the comfort of
the room. It also helps to keep
down fuel bills.
Installation of this strip requires
no alterations in the window frame
nor are screws or clips necessary.
The surface to which the strip is
applied must be clean. Included
with the strip is a can of cement
which is applied to the bonding
side.
Fisher Named Sales Chief
Arthur M. Fisher has been elected
vice president and sales manager of
Tabler, Inc.. 1713 M street N.W., it
w-as announced today.
D. C. Veterans' Housing Center Director Says
Rental Ban on Children Causes Great Hardship
By Robert J. Lewis
R«al Estate Editor of The Star
Dianne Gee, 3 years old, is living
with her grandparents in Lewistown
Mont. Her father and mother are
! in Washington, but they can’t bring
i her here becau^ they don’t have a
| place to live.
Dianne's father is Maj. Gee, 29
who came back from overseas March
4. He had never seen his daughter
j until last month..
“We were warned it is hard to rent
I a place in Washington if you have
j children. Maj. Gee said. “So we left
Dianne back in Montana until we
:can find something.
Maj. and Mrs. Gee are among
| hundreds of parents who visit the
District Veterans Housing Center
| every week to try to find a home or
apartment. Officials said many
complain that landlords refuse to
rent to families with children.
Calls It Problem No. 1.
Col. Waldron E. Leonard, housing
center director, said the predicament
i of homeless families with children
. is “Washington's No. 1 housing
problem."
“If we could convince landlords
to open apartments and houses to
children, we would be able to make
some progress,” he said. “It would
be one of the grandest things in the
world if all landlords would rent to
families with children. It is a great
tragedy that so many refuse to admit
children.”
Mrs. Mary E. Mahoney, supervisor
of the center, said only 10 per cent
of landlords will accept families
with children, while 95 per cent ol
the families needing homes have al
least one child.
"It is really serious,” she said
“Nobody wants children, it seems
We beg them to take children, but
usually without success.
Tells of Phone Pleas.
"The lady that does the telephon
; ing sometimes says to people: ‘If yoi
! would come down here and see these
people with children, I'm sure yoi
would take pity on them.’
"As a result, landlords sometime;
agree to accept children. Several
times, after saying ‘No,’ they have
called back and said: ‘I’ve beer
thinking it over and I believe I will
Irent to parents, after all.’ *’
Mrs. Gee, who said the war haei
separted her and her husband foi
all but 10 months of their foui
years of marriage, said she thought
it was "a shame” some owners haei
banned' renting to families with
children.
“It is not fair that families should
have to be separated because people
won’t take children,” she said. “Ir
our own case, my husband nevei
saw our daughter until a few week;
ago, and had to leave her aftei
only 30 days. We are anxious te
find a pl^ce here so that we al
can be together.”
Mrs. C. L. Osborn, a former WAV!
i pharmacist's mate, second class, wh<
is married to an Army technica
sergeant stationed at Arlingtoi
Annex, said she and her husbam
have been trying for three weeks
to find a place to live.
Living In Hotel Room.
They are the parents of one child
Kathie, 2, and are expecting a. second
child in May. They are now living
in a hotel room which costs $18
a week and meals cost them $5 a
day, she said.
Mrs. dsborn, who has frequently'
visited the housing center to check
on vacancies, said that several
times opportunities to rent a home
had been lost when the owner
learned there was a child in the
family.
“We can pay up to $100 a month,
but we just can’t find any place
that will take children,” she said.
“I think it’^s terrible.”
Walter Kasmala was in the Army
four and one-half years. After his
discharge, he went to work for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Three
months ago he was assigned to
Washington. He is still looking for
a place to live for his family of
three, including a daughter, Carol, 3.
Nine in Two Bedrooms.
"We’ve been turned down by quite
a few landlords because we have a
child,” Mrs. Kasmala said at the
housing center the other day. At
• the moment, they are living with
a relative in a two-bedroom apart
ment which now houses nine per
sons.
i “I don’t understand why people
won’t rent if you have children,”
I (See LEWIS, Page B-2.)
The D. C. Rental
Housing Picture
A total of 851 persons this week
filed applications for houses, apart
ments and rooms at tt^e District
Veterans Housing Center, 1400
Pennsylvania avenue N.W. Of the
applicants, 34 wanted rooms and 817
sought dwellings.
In the same period, 69 dwellings
and 139 rooms were listed for rent.
Applicants were calssified as fol
lows:
Veterans and Nonservice Ttl
servicemen, persons.
Just Arrived _123 12 135
Separated from
Families _ 123 12 135
Unreasonable Distance
to Commute _ 12 3 14
Evictions 108 33 145
Desire to Move from
Public Housing_ 2 13
Present Housing
Inadequate _358 63 413
Total _722 123 861
AFL Union Aide Urges
Housing Rental Boost
William H. Cooper, Milwaukee, sec
retary-treasurer of the AFL Build
ing Service Employes International
Union, this week advocated an in
crease in housing rentals “to provide
relief to property owners in meeting
additional operating costs.”
Mr. Cooper’s position was made
known in a statement he issued in
Chicago in which he said he had
been called to Washington several
times recently “to confer with Sena
tors and Congressmen on the rent
control controversy.”
Creedon Sees Danger
Of Building Slump
In Spiraling Costs
Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree
don, reporting on the progress of
home building throughout the Na-1
tion, 'warned this week there is!
danger of a slump in the home build
ing industry owing to high costs.
"All through the past year build
ing costs have been rising,” he sa'id.
“The prices of new homes are high
today in relation to what the vet
erans can afford.
"A continuance of present high
cost trends may well result in pric
ing housing construction out of the
market.”
Mr. Creedon said, however, it was
possible that costs “may have already
reached their peak and that a level
ing off may occur.” Sharply rising
costs shortly after World War I
resulted in pricing construction out
of the rparket,” he recalled.
“There was a sharp break in vol
ume of construction in 1920 and 1921,
and then a recovery in 1922, with
activity sustained at a high level for
years.”
Mr. Creedon said, however, that
construction costs “cannot be ex
pected for many months, if not years,
to return to the level that prevailed
in the decade before World War II.
“If restraint and sound judgment
prevail, and rising cost trends are
reversed,” he said, "it should be pos
sible to avoid a repetition ,of the
1920-21 break”
Permit Issued
For 16th Street
Apartment
$1,000,000 Project
Lifts Week's Totol
To $1,491,355
Building permits rose to $1,491,355
during the last week, a jump of $825.
960 over the previous week, accord
ing to records of Robert H. Davis,
District building inspections director.
Mainly responsible for the large
total was a $1,000,000 permit for con
struction of the long-projected six
story Park Plaza apartment project
at 3900 Sixteenth street N.W., at the
intersection of Shepherd street.
Owner and builder will be Pollin
and Poretsky, 1518 K street N.W.
Architect is Berla & Abel, 1636 Con
necticut avenue N.W.
To Use Radiant Heat.
The building will be of brick and
concrete construction, and will be
fireproof, the owners said.
It will occupy a two-acre site. The
owners say the project will be the
first in the country of its type to
have radiant heat.
Other permits of $5,000 or more
lonow:
Bros- Seventeenth
?]£??* N.W., owners, builders and archi
tects. to erect 10 two-story brick and
N w1® 5445 Thirtieth ,t?eet
!«!• \is5i?®*. to 34 Newland street N W„
?ondcos-t9^,oo0ooo K‘n,wha ,treet N W-:
SSEM™" owner's, £„M
tects; to erect nine 2-story brick and
N W1® SUT: 545ft Thirtieth street
Twenty-ninth street N.W..
cost l?0 000. 85 KanaWh® ,treet N W” *•
T vy“P,5. s‘*r Broadcasting Co., Trans
Building. Fourteenth and New York
rn on- ^i'*own.lr; Ch»rles H. Tompkins
Snw.?0' .Sixt?enai •tr»«t N.W.. builder;
S?.VSr_„“5 Jfckie, Metropolitan Bank
Building, architect; to erect one brick
?[jp..'1i'dtr bl0cl[ television transmitter
building, American University Campus.
Jf'braska avenue and Massachusetts ave
nue; to cost $60,000
c. Rogers. Alexandria. Va
°'*n" „lnd builder: Marion L. Bagley,
Chevy Chase. Md., architect: to erect four
5n*tsr3»Ab^nk •s’?? clnder block dwellings,
$36000 30 Fulton stre*t N.W.: to cost
Quarkenbos Street Dwellings.
Frederick Landwehr, 2125 Rhode Island
avenue NTS., owner: Francis Deremer.
-1-6 Rhode Island avenue N.E., builder
and architect; to erect four 2-story brick
and frame dwellings, 318-20-22-24
Quackenbos street N.E.: to cost $30,000.
J. H. Harding. 80 Allison street N.E.,
owner; James W. Taylor. Jr.. 1110 Thir
teenth street N.W.. builder: Earl Von
Relchenbach, 1210 Good Hope road S.E.,
architect: to erect two 2-storv brick and
cinder block dwellings. 572o-20 North
Capitol street: to cost $18,000.
Errol P. Flood. 400 Eighth street 8.E.,
owner; Milton E. Scarborough. 903 Allison
street N.W.. builder; Harry W. Dorst,
5031 First street N.W.. architect: to erect
one 2.story brick dwelling. 2916 Fort
Baker drive S.E.: to cost $16,000.
E. W. Beck. 1732 Thirtieth street S.E..
owner and builder; L. W. Oilea, 4428
Hunt place N.E.. architect: to erect two
2-story brick and cinder block dwellings,
4113-15 Stanley st. s.e.: to cost $14,000.
Other Dwellings.
Gertrude J. Young. 2125 Rhode Island
avenue N.E., owner; Francis Deremer,
212o Rhode Island avenue N.E.. builder
and architect: to erect one 2-story brick
(See PERMITS, Page B-2.)
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