George Schmitz lives at Deale, Md., in the summer and in boat ride on Chesapeake Bay.
Silver Spring in winter. Here he and a friend prepare for a —Star Staff Photos by Randolph Routt.
Week's Construction
Permits in District
Jump to $1,529,095
Building permits issued during the
last week totaled $1,529,095, a jump
of $896,545 over the previous week's
total.
Among the permits issued:
Inwood Corp. 1200 Eighteenth street
K.W., owner: Jonathan Woodner Co . build
er. W. F Holladay. architect, to erect, one
3-storv brick and cinder block apartment.
38 units: 3255 Twenty-third street S E :
2230-34 Savannah terrace S E ; to cost
#204.000.
Inwood Corp.. owner; Jonathan Wood
ner Co., builder; W. F Holladay. archi
tect: to erect one 3-stor.v brick and cinder
block apartment. :*S units: 2220-24 Sa
vannah terrace SE. to cost 8182.000.
Inwood Corp.. owner: Jonathan Wood
ner Co., builder; W. F. Holladay. archi
tect; to erect one 3-story brick and cinder
(Sec PERMITS. Page B-2.)
Margaret Dunkley Reopens
Real Estate Ottice Here
Margaret J. Dunkley, chief of the
Navy Housing Service for five years
and before that, a real estate
broker from 1936 to 1941 in the
District and
Maryland, has
re-estab
lished her own
real estate brok
erage business at
7347 Wisconsin
avenue, Bethes
da.
Mrs. Dunkley
joined Potomac
Properties. Inc.,
immediately on
leaving the Navy
housing o fll c e
last May. As
head of her own
fl r rn , Mrs. Mrs. Dunkley.
Dunkley is licensed as a broker in
the District, Virginia and Mary
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1,524 Area Dwelling Units
Approved in Week by RHA
All records were broken during the last week by the District office
of the Federal Housing Administration, which approved construction of
1,524 new dwelling units in 26 large-scale housing projects.
This is the largest volume of rental housing for which FHA mort
gage insurance commitments were issued in any one week by the District
! office, FHA Director James A.'
j Hewitt said.
The large volume was the result
I of an accumulation of applications
which had been held until a recent
I addition to the mortgage insurance
! authorization was made available
by Congress.
Projects Approved.
Projects approved are as follows:
j Jefferson Village Apartments, Sextions
I 2 to 7, with 266 units, to be built on Lee
boulevard. Falls Church, by Charles Rose
Arthur Hamburger. Samuel Rosoff. and
Marshall Soyne, and financed by Frederick
W. Berens. Inc., with mortgages amounting
{to $2,546,700.
Congress Apartments. Sections 1. 6. 4
and 6. with 654 units, to be built on Con
gress and Savannah streets S.E., by the
i O’Driscoll Construction Corp. of New York.
*and financed by the Irving Trust Co. of
S New York with mortgages amounting to
$2,674,800.
The Twenty-fifth and Southern avenue
Apartments, with 24*1 units, to be * built
at Twenty-fifth street and Southern ave
nue SE, by Ian Woodner and financed bv
i the Irving Trust Co. of New York with a
mortgage of $2,610,600.
Garfield Apartments, with 104 units, to
be built at Second place and Hartford
i street S E., by the Earl W. Corby Con
struction Co., and financed by Weaver
Bros., Inc., with a mortgage of $760,800.
Duval Manor, with 40 units, will be
built at Twenty-eighth and O streets S.E.,
by Clyde Duval, and financed by the Met
ropolitan Mortgage Co., with a mortgage
of $646,800.
Columbia Heights Anartments. Section 2.
with 50 units, to be built on Columbia pike.
Arlington, by W. S. Hoge. N. C. Hines and
H S. Harwood, and financed by the Union
Central Life Insurance Co., with a mort
gage of $504,000.
Potomac View Apartments, with 20
units, will be built on Fort Myec drive.
Arlington, bv Nathan Goodman and fi
nanced bv the Union Central Life Insurance
Co., with a mortgage of $168,800.
Lord Culpeper Apartments, with 18
units, to be built at Fairfax. Va., by the
Fairfax Courthouse Development. Corp.
and financed by A. E Landvoight, Inc.,
with a mortgage of $147,700.
Sligo Park Hill Apartments. Sections 4
and ft. with 48 units, to be built on Sligo
Pai’kway■ Silver Spring. Md., by Vincent
(See FHA. Page B-2.)
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ciean Silverware
Regularly to
Make Job Easy
By Betty Trexler
Many women class silver cleaning
among the more unpleasant house
hold chores. It’s one of those things
we keep putting off until the pieces
are tarnished so badly we really
have a tiresome task on our hands.
The secret, of course, is to “keep
after” silver regularly—for the
deeper the tarnish, the harder the
job.
Silver Is one of the things we
don’t need to be afraid of using reg
ularly. The more often and the
longer sterling silver is used, the
more beautiful it becomes.
A simple way of cleaning flat
silverware is to immerse it in a
solution of one quart boiling water
to 1 teaspoon each of salt and bak
ing soda, always used in an alumi
num pan.
This method is especially good
for the more ornate silver patterns
—such as the “rose" pattern—which
is more difficult to clean than the
plainer styles.
Flat silverware should be kept in
a chest lined with a tarnish-resist
(See TREXLERTPage B-2.)
Depressions in Lawns
Or Roadways Found
Easy to Remedy
By Wadsworth Wood
The average house is apt to have
depressions in the lawn and road
after a heavy winter. If these are
not attended tot they will grow1
in size. The low-spot in the lawn
will produce weeds and rank grass,
and the low spot in the road or
path will increase in size as the
edges break down under use.
Lawn depressions are cured by
scalping off the turf, laying it to
one side and then filling the de
pression with loose earth to the
exact' level of the surrounding sur
face. The turf is then placed on
top of the new fill and pounded
down with the back of the spade
or shovel. At first it will be about
an inch or so above lawn level, but
will gradually sink to exact level
witfy the rest of the lawn. The use
(See WOOD. Page B-2.)
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• Mr. Schmitz built this bungalow.
'It's Like a Different World
Along the Bay', Says Commuter
Winter Resident of Silver Spring Tells
How He Built Summer Home for $1,657
By Robert^J. Le*«
Rool Estoto Editor of Th# Star
George Schmitz has Just made
come true his own private Ameri
can dream of owning** summer
home.
And he made it come true at
a cost of only $1,657.09, including
the lot, plus his own effort and
ingenuity and the help of a
friend. The two worked only
on Saturdays.
Now Mr. Schmitz owns two
homes. One is at 305 Lexington
drive, Silver Spring, for winter
use. The other is at Deale, Md.
to take advantage of cool sum
mer breezes along the bay.
This summer Mr. Schmitz—
47 and a grandfather three times
over—plans to commute by car
every day between his summer
place at Deale and his work at
Silver Spring.
“It’s like a different world
down here along the bay”, Mr.
Schmitz says.
Mr. Schmitz, a printing plant
foreman, likes boats—of which
he has two—and likes fishing.
(His summer place is less than
250 feet from the harbor.) Be
sides, there’s good, crabbing,
swimming and plenty of chance
to relax at Deale.
This kind of thing sounds
almost like Utopia. Yet Mr.
Schmitz says you don't have to be
born with a sliver spoon in your
mouth to afford it.
What it takes, he says, is lots
of planning, some luck, hard
work and a definite goal.
From the time George Schmitz
went to work at 16 for $7.50 a
week, he liked to tinker. He liked'
to repair things. He liked to
paint. He liked to putter around
with all kinds of household re
modeling jobs. *
Not long ago, George's next
door neighbor did him a little
favor. In repayment, George
papered the neighbor’s house
from top to bottom—free.
That’s the kind of chap George
is. So when he dreamed of a
summer bungalow, he decided he
would build it himself.
As it turned out, Harry Hart,
a friend, also wanted to build a
summer place. So Mr. Schmitz
and Mr. Hart teamed up. They
agreed to help each other in
the good old neighborly tradition.
Mr. Hart, who lives in Green
belt, Md., is planning to build
his summer home at West River,
Md., next year with Mr. Schmitz’
help.
As for actual construction ex
perience, neither Mr. Schmitz
nor Mr. Hart had a great deal.
Principally, Mr. Schmitz’ ex
perience came from finishing two
rooms in the attic of the Silver
Spring home he bought seven
years ago.
Yet despite having to leam
things as they went along, Mr.
Schmitz and Mr. Hart said the
job wasn’t too much of a problem.
What they built is a good solid
frame bungalow. Dimensions
are 34 by 20 feet, Including an
8-by-20-foot screened-in porch
across the front of the house.
Right now the place has a 14
by 20-foot living room, 10 by 12
foot bedroom and 10^>y 12-foot
kitchen. But there is space in
the attic to finish two good-sized
bedrooms in addition. And a
third bedroom could be parti
tioned off the large living room.
“It’s not fancy”, Mr. Schmitz
says. "But it’s plenty roomy and
suits the purpose”.
At present, the bungalow has
an outside toilet. Later this
may be replaced by a bathroom
inside the house.
Before going ahead with con
struction, Mr. and Mrs. Schmitz
had rented cottages along the
bay shore for a number of years.
They searched around over a
wide area for a suitable site at
reasonable cost.
* Finally, in July. 1946, they
(See LEWIS, Page B-4.)
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At top, Mr. Schmitz takes it easy at his summer piact. ...
bottom the Schmitz house in Silver Spring.
Building Congress Report Hits
Vocational School Crowding
Bell Vocational School, where most construction trade and other
apprentices take their school training, is so overcrowded that “store
rooms, corridors and even the lavatories” are being used for classroom
purposes, the Washington Building Congress has informed the Board
of Education.
In a statement today, the building congress pointed out that
facilities of vocational schools are'
"entirely insufficient” here.
Plans are being made to move
apprentice classes to Central High
School early in 1949, the organiza
tion recalled, but declared "facili
ties there will be inadequate to meet
even present, needs, and the move is
almost a year away.”
Additional space for classes in
plastering, metal lathing, steam
fitting, bricklaying. caBle splicing
and riveting will be needed, the
group said.
A. W. Lee, chairman of the
organization's apprenticeship com
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quirements for construction indus
try apprentices now being com
pleted shows that facilities for more
than 900 boys will be needed be
ginning in September.
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