The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 1, 1952, Page 9

Frank Russo Buys Corner Caroline St. And William Largest real estate transaction of the past week was the $7,500 pur- ehase by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rus- 80, 725 Caroline street, of the cor- oe of William and Caroline streets im Mr. and Mrs, Charley Top- pino. A deed for the sale was filed with Cireuit Court Clerk Earl Adams today. The corner lot is 120 by 156.5 feet. It includes the Toppino home- stead and the apartment building on the corner. The sale does not include the water front property in back of the house and building owned by Toppino. Toppino, found- er of the contracting firm is build- ing a $20,000 house for himself and his wife on Flagler avenue, accord- af to a building permit issued this week. Jean K. Greenspan, as trustee, of Miami has bought out the one- third of three families for a total of $20,100 on four lots of Block three Matecumbe Ocean-Bay sub- division, Sellers to Miss Greenspan of one- third interests are Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Johnson Mr. and Mrs. G. Kenneth Kemper and Mr. and Mrs. Cafl T. Hoffman, Mrs. Mary V. Cale, widow and Miss Annie Burnes Cale, a single woman have sold to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Garner DeLones, 1011 South street for $8,500, Lot 7 at the cor- net of South and Grinnell street. This lot runs 92 feet from the cor- ner along South street in a north- easterly direction 43 feet then at wight angles in a northwesterly direction 92 feet and six inches then at right angles in a south- easterly direction 43 feet, and finally at right angles in a south- easterly direction 92 feet and six inches to the place of the begin- ning. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Egan have sold for $5,000 Lot 2 of Block 2, amended and extended plat of Matecumbe Ocean-Bay subdivision. Buyer ie Arthur Gasser, Long Is- land, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Baker have sold to Maurice Haupert of De- troit for $2,500. Lots three, five, and six of Section 18, Township 63 recorded in plat book One. Mr, and Mrs. William T. Hen- nessey have sold to Dr. R. H. Hahn for $1,500 Lot one and Lot two of Block three in Grover Park, a sub- division on Upper Matecumbe. For the second week the war- ranty deed of the new Retsel Real- ty Company formed by Dr. J. Lancelot Lester and his wife was hot photostated for record. Adams explained that it cannot be, until it is affixed with state stamps which show the value of the pro- ey 8 concerned. The deed was jéd in the Court house on October bt A WHEN IT’S TIME FOR AN ADDITION OF FOR THAT NEW HOME M. E. BENNETT CONSTRUCTION CO. RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION . .. REPAIRS FREE ESTIMATES ARCHITECTURAL SERVICE AVAILABLE 214 DUVAL VENETIAN BLINDS §| EXCLUSIVELY WITH MAXWELL COMPANY The New Beauty ROLLAHEAD For Huge Filling Permit To Army Engineers Corps BLVD. SITE OF DRIVE-IN YACHTEL, MARINA TO BE FILLED Huge filling operations at Roose- velt Boulevard and Dredgers Key road are being undertaken by bay bottom owners Claude Gandolfo and Howard Wilson, it was learned today. The partners recently leased five acres with an option to buy 15 more to Charles Rosen, restaurant tycoon, better known as “Chuck.” At that time an area only 100 feet by 400 was filled in the 20 acre tract of bay bottom. The area to be filled amounts to 1,253,500 feet. Today the Army Corps of Engi- neers announced that Gandolfo and Wilson have applied for permits to maintain their existing fill and to place additional fill in the’ fol- lowing areas: At the northwest intersection of Roosevelt boulevard and Dredgers Key road, to extend fill northward about 545 feet along Dredgers Key road and about 400 feet westward along Roosevelt boulevard. It is also proposed to fill two additional areas one immediately westward of the above mentioned area, about 1,230 feet long and 545 feet wide, parallel to and about 125 feet northward from Roosevelt boule- vard. The other area to be filled will be about 700 feet long and 545 feet wide and will be parallel to and about 125 feet northward from Roosevelt boulevard. This latter area will be about 2,000 feet west- ward from the intersection of Roosevelt boulevard and Dredgers Key Road and will be connected to the boulevard with a causeway about 50 feet wide. Fill material, the application states, will be obtained elsewhere than from the navigable waters. According to custom it is not proposed to hold a public hearing on this application. Anyone, how- ever, desiring to submit a protest based on the proposition that the work would unreasonably interfere with public navigation, or would unfavorably affect the navigable capacity of the said water way, should submit such protest in writ- ing in sufficient detail to permit 4 clear understanding of the rea- sons, the Engineers Corp states. Plans of this work may be seen at the office of the District Engi- neers, Corps of Engineers, 575 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Fia., and at the office of the Resi- dent Engineer, Corps of Engineers, Vv WANT * foot of Collins avenue, Miami Beach, Fla. Other applications to the Army Engineers are as follows: NAVY APPLICATION The Navy has asked for a per- mit to place a sewer outfall in the straits of Florida, near the south- westerly point of the city. The Navy seeks to place a 24 inch cast | iron sewer which would extend into the waterway about 6,000 feet in a southwesterly direction from the shore line. The proposed pipe would be place in a trench with the upperinost part of the pipe generally about three feet below the natural bottom. The trench would be backfilled. The seaward end of the sewer would be located on the easterly edge of the main chip channel, at Channel Marker No. 8. : TOM’S HARBOR APPLICATION Finally an application has been made by Newkirk Reality Corpora- tion, care of Jack N. Blinkoff, 565 Fifth avenue, for modification of a permit issued last Apri. Appli- cant wants to construct a fixed bridge and causeway across the strait connecting Tom’s Harbor and Conch Key Channel. : The proposed bridge would have a timber deck of 20 feet clear width between rails, and would be supported on a central timber bent and timber abutments. The hori- zontal clearance would be about 24 feet and the vertical clearance under the girders would be about eight feet above mean low water, and about seven feet above mean high water. Formerly Newkirk company had proposed to build a solid-fill cause- way on each side of the above described bridge, to connect the overseas highway with Duck Key. The company has now changed its Plans and wants to construct a timber bridge beginning at the southerly edge of the highway and extending southward for 240 feet, The bridge would have 16 spans. each span would have a horizonta! clearance of about 15 feet and a vertical clearance of about eight feet above mean low water. It is Proposed to construct a solid fill causeway about 1350 feet long, ex- tending from the southerly end of the said bridge to the northerly shore of Duck Key. Plans for this permit and the Navy permit can be seen at the Engineers’ officers in Jacksonville and Miami. HAWK CHANNEL PERMIT G. A. Crawshaw, engineer of Homestead, has made an applica- tion for Iroquois Builders to dredge a channel and construct a break- water in Hawk channel, lying be- tween the Overseas Highway and the Ocean, just north of the Toll House on the southwesterly end of Lower Matecumbe Key, Iroquois builders propose to dredge a channel about 60 feet wide and four feet deep, extend- ing into the waterway approximate- ly 1,000 feet from the shore. The inner end of the channel would connect with an existing borrow pit extending into the upland. The dredged material would be deposit- ed on the northeasterly side of | the proposed channel to form a breakwater extending channelward from an existing groin about 50 feet, Drop Is Seen In PHONE 2187 | | | } ‘Federal Workers WASHINGTON (# — The federal government's civilian decreased in September for the second successive month, a Senate- Toeday’s Business Rurrer By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—Two out of ev- ery three corporations are making | less money so far this year than last. On average they are running about 10 per cent behind a year | ago. That is, for every dollar of | net profit after taxes they were making last year, they are clear- ing 90 cents this year. But most of the set back came | in the first half of the year. For a majority of companies the July, | August and September quarter | shows gains over a year ago. And many predict even brighter results in the final months of 1952. The first 319 corporations to re- port net earnings for the first nine months of 1952 showed a combined profit of $2,665,820,572, a drop of | 9.6 per cent from the $2,949,072,524 net income the same companies had in the same period of 1951, Blamed are higher taxes, crip- pling strikes, material shortages, price ceilings, rising operation | costs, including higher wages— and, for a number of companies, | declining sales totals. Many more hundreds of corpora- | tions have yet to report, and the | final results ¢ould be changed. But of the 319 early ones, 217 | show earnings running behind. | Forty-eight show sharp drops from the year ago profit figures. And | eight companies operated in the | red so far this year. But 102 companies are making more money this year than last. And a number of them are doing strikingly better. How the profit pattern is chang- \ing as the year progresses is siown by this: In the first three months of the year net profits ‘av- eraged around 9 per cent below the previous year. In the second quarter profits were trailing by abcut 14 per cent. But early re- turns for the third period—July, | August and September—show earn- | ings running ahead of the previ- ous year by 10 per cent or better. Dividend payments, too, have kept ahead of last year so far— about 5 per cent ahead in the first nine months. Tax payments, however, are trailing for many large corpora- tions. Strikes, declining sales, ris- ing costs have reduced the gross income on which they pay a tax to the U. S. Treasury. The profit pattern varies wide- ily among industries. Some linked | with the defense program—such as aircraft, utilities, appliances, mo- tors and farm machinery compa- nies making military hardgoods— are ahead of last year. The hot summer sent the profit of brewers higher, Some of the industries which as a group have the largest drop from a year ago have only lately | been pulling out of their own pri- vate depressions—textiles (down 70 per cent and furniture makers (down 34 per cent)—are examples. Coal companies, as a group, show a 52 per cent drop in profits. They blame slow sales, huge in- ventories, rising costs, and labor troubles, Liquor companies, as a group, are 46 per cent behind this year. | They blame the high tax on their product for depressing their sales. The oil group, which in former periods led the higher profit pa- rade, slipped this time and is trail- ing a year ago by 2 per cent. Strikes, higher taxes, rising costs cut into earnings, The iron and steel companies show the effect of the two-months strike. For the year so far the iron and employes | House committee reported today, | ‘The 73 government agencies had | | 2,571,527 workers in September, a | drop of 18,566 as compared with August. Prior to August, federal employment had been climbi rapidly since the sta: rean War in Although the total fell off from month it still represented an in- erease of 76,008 as compared with September a year ago, when the federal payroll totaled 2,495,519 persons. The Joint Congressional Commit- i tee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures said military defense jobs brought about the September decrease this year. ason- | | al factors as well as cutbacks in | | the previous | Saturday, Mevember 1, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CHARLES TOPPINO,SR. SELLS HOME, APARTMENTS FOR $ 67,500 Gandolfo And Wilson Apply —$—$—_—. Social Security} ABOUT YOUR HOME Benefits Upped Social Security -benefits have been increased in amount. Checks for the higher payments went into the mail early in October for the month of September 1952. It is more important than ever for everyone to understand how so- | cial security works. Take off a few minutes and visit the Florida State Employment office at 314 Simon- ton St., Key West, where a Field Representative from the Miami So- cial Security office will be on Tuesday, November 4th. Some day, some member of your family may need a bit of advice about what to do. If you have a good idea of how the social securi- ty program operates, you may be able to help your family obtain benefits due them under the law. How many of you know, for exa: ple, that a claim for lump-sum benefits (payable at the death of an insured worker) must be made within two years after the date of death? If further information is desired, it may be obtained from the Social; Security Field Office at 34 8. W. First St., Miami, Fla. The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON ® — Gen. Eisen- hower or Gov. Stevenson will be at the mercy of the next Congress. Fulfillment of their campaign promises depends in large measure on the kind of Congress elected. But, as usual every four years, main interest is in the presidential and vice presidential races. Candi- dates for Senate and House of Rep- resentatives get attention but are overshadowed by the big show. ‘The Congress that takes over in 1953 can suit itself about voting money or passing laws for the pro- grams the new President recom- mends, no matter what he has promised in the campaign, If the new President wins in a landslide, he’ll probably carry with him a good working majority of his own party in both houses, More likely, if the election is close, he’ll find himself dealing with a Congress where the margin of difference between the two par+ ties is narrow. Unless there is a landslide which would upset all predictions, the Democrats are expected to keep majority control of the Senate even if Eisenhower wins the presidency. Truman had a continuing prob- lem in working with a Congress where his own Democrats held con- trol by a narrow majority. If some of his own party turned their backs on his proposal in the Senate, for instance, he was sunk unless some Republicans switched over. Stevenson would have the same problem with a slim congressional majority of Democrats. So would Eisenhower if the Republicans took over both houses by only a narrow margin, AFRICAN KING HURT IN TRAFFIC CRASH LONDON (#—Seventeen-year-old King Hussein of Jordan escaped ‘injury today when the automobile he was driving skidded and crashed into an advertising bill- board. The car was badly dam- aged. steel group is 40 per cent behind 1951. Many, however, expect to do much better the rest of the year and to cut the percentage of de- cline for the year still further. S. H. DRUDGE GENERAL CONTRACTOR Key West's oldest, continyous contractor. Established 2 years. By FRANCES DELL Are you to do some painting in your home? If so, make it easier for yourself by knowing how to choose a good paintbrush. First, look at the bristles—they are the most important part of a brush, It is the bristles, also, which account for the fact that one four-inch brush may cost less than one dollar and another cost over twenty dollars. Know what kind of bristles you are buying. For house’ painting, hog bristles are usually best, They have the desirable flexibility and carry paint well. When a brush is cheapened, horse hairs or grass- es may be mixed with the hog RENT FORUM These questions were selected from ae <* asked of the local rent office. If you have a question about the rent stabilization pro- gram, address it to Area Rent Of- fice, 216 Federal Building, Key West, Florida. QUESTION: Is a landlord en- titled to an increase in the maxi- mum rent if taxes go up, or if he furnishes utilities and the rates are increased, or if the city be- gins charging more for such ser- vices as garbage collection, etc., which he furnishes? ANSWER: In all normal cases, yes. The landlord should petition the area rent office for an increase in maximum rent based on the increased costs of the services. QUESTION: For several I have been trying to sell a I own but have been unable. because the tenant refuses to let all prospective buyers examine the Property at reasonable hours, al- though he agreed to when I let him rent the place. What can I do about it? ANSWER: If your tenant has unreasonably refused you access is celle date upon which quired to vacate. to surrender possession on fore such date, you may with eviction cal law. You notify office in writing upon the suit, givi the case, name address tenant and the suit. QUESTION: When new tenant must I file [ : E 5 F i EF Fag pe office changing the maximum When eaten, about of edible fats can be bristles, These fillers do not wear well, but they are hard to detect. An all-nylon brush will.do a good Job for the amateur house-painter. However these brushes should be kept ‘away from phenolic sol- vents at all times. Make sure you get all the bristles. In top quality brushes, 4 plug is apt to be one-tenth the si of the whole brush base. In pook brushes, the plug is apt to be one half the size of the brush base. ‘The length of the bristles is int portant. The longer the brit the more pliable the brush. A longer bristle means longer life for the brush, as well as better paint-holding capacities. For smooth painting, bristle¢” ‘ » |should be tapered and short bri tles mixed with long ones. Fo fine work buy a brush with rounded “chisel” tip. For larg@ outside walls, choose a large bruslt. with a square end, Key West Floor Covering Co. 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