The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1953, Page 6

RECORD BUILDING MONTH ON THE $222,050 In April Will Be Bettered By May Figures, Slone Declares No. 3 In Key West Home Series “* THE COBALT BLUE TWO-STORY HOME of Mrs, Ruth Cantwell Bowen at 1300 First Street, Key West, is.a good example of modern architecture. It was designed by Montgomery Atwater, Miami. Builder : «wag Ed Ambler. The house is divided into two separate apartments, first,and second floor. On: the "first floor Mrs. Bowen has exercised her discriminating taste with a high cathedral beamed ceiling, Drawing by Enns. ge) THE KEY WEST CITIZEN I TREES FOR THE KEYS AND COAST Tipu... Jaca ja ‘end Date Palms ; Always Open. ... Stock List On Request Bt, NEWCOMB NURSERY ‘onneturas FRUE eh Phone 262, Rt. 2, Box 519, Homestead, Flaws. « sdiand Ra. Se. ot Bise. Dr. e e a The MAXWELL COMPANY ee PHONE US FOR FREE ESTIMATE The Maxwell Company 909 Fleming $t. - DIAL 2-6031 APARTMENTS Accepting Applications Now Furvished and Unfurnished 2 Bedroom Apartments FIRST STREET and PATTERSON AVENUE Saturday, June 6, 1953 2 came | WOrk and four bays of the west fireplace, and cool ‘jalousied porch opening on to her enclosed garden.— Navy Calls For a| Gymnasium Bids Sealed Bids, endorsed “Bids for | 8: rehabilitation and addition to gym- nasium, building No. 231, Specifi- caton No. 37842” will b ereceived until 2:30 p. m. EST, Tuesday, 23 June 1953, at the District Pulic Works Office, Building No. 12, U. S. Naval B Charleston, South Carlona, and then and there pub- licly opened for removing from the gymfasium building, roll roofing and gypsum board siding, existing built-up roofing, cnsound , wood wall; constructing a lean-to, appro- ximately 13-feet by 64 feet-4 inches complete doors, ventilators, and lighting; providing new siding of diagonal’ wood sheathing, -felt, and cement-asbestos shingles on all ex- terior walls; providing a new built up. type roofing for all roof sur- faces; and painting interior and exterior metal work at the U. S. Naval Station, Key West, Florida. Specification No. 37842 and other information may be ob- tained on application to the Dis- trict Public Works Officer, U. S. Naval Base, Charleston, South Ca- Tolina. Deposit of check for $10.00, payable to the Treasurer of the United States is required for safe return of each set of bidding data, J. F. Jelley, Rear Admiral, (CEC) U. S. N., Chief of the Burea uof Yards and Docks. B-47s Smash Speed Record FAIRFORD AIR BASE, Eng- land, @—Three American B - 47 Stratojet bombers smashed the U. S. to England speed record Friday by flashing across the At- lantic in slightly over five and a half hours. Two of the swept-wing, six-jet B-47s_ streaked from Limestone Air Base in Maine to Fairford in central England--a distance of 3,120 miles — in 5 hours 36 minutes. Another made it in 5 hours, 37 minutes. The previous record was 5 hours 38 minutes set last April 7 by two other B-47s. | The flight averaged 566 miles an hour. The planes form part of the | 30th Medium Bombardment Wing} ~45 Stratojets in all - which are} making mass flights from their |U. S. base at MacDill Field,} | Tampa, Fla., to their new base in, Fifteen planes of the wing made the flight Thursday. There are more than 360,000 | miles of oil pipeline in operation jim the United States. | ROBERTS OFFICE | | SUPPLIES & | EQUIPMENT }126 Duval Street Phone 2.5634) Royal Typewriters Portables and Standards SALES - SERVICE RENTALS with bleachers, double Rhod County . Building Inspec- tor Jesse Slone issued $222,- 050 in building permits on the Keys during the month of April, he announced to- day. : This is the highest figure since the office opened last fall, Slone said. Some of the permits were issued for work already in progress that had not been inspected before the establishment of the building. inspector’s office. May’s figure will jump to $400,000 Slone predicted. One of th elarger permits was Issue for $17,000 to McKee’s Mus- eum, on Plantation Key. Princeton Farms, building two CBS residenc @ cost of $30,000 on Pla Key. Two residences are being built on Summerland Beach. The first by Col. J.B. Kavanaugh is a frame beach house costing about $2,500. The second is a $3,000 frame house being built by Lo- renzo Tevejo. S. J. Papes, is completing a $9,000 CBS house at Key Largo. W. P. Brett, is building a $4,000 CBS house at Gulfview, Big Cop- pit Key. John L. Sullivan is building a $4,800 CBS house at Holiday Home- sites, Kye Largo. B. L. Pippin, Miller and Rhodes, contractor, are building two $6,000 CBS houses at Bay Ridge, Planta- tion Key, and a $5,000 swimming Pool, S. A. Armour, is building a house for $4,760 at Holiday Homesited, Key Largo as is Charles R, Whit- G. E. Tracey is building a $5,760 CBS house at Pirates Cove, Key Largo. Lewis Gray is adding apart- ments to two existing buildings at Casa Manana, Marathon at a cost of $15,000, John La Guardia, Sr. is put- ting up a $5,000 frame house at Paima‘ isla, Big Pine Key. Mrs. Ethel G. Wasserman, Bay- wood Key Largo is completing an apartment building at a cost of $6,000. M. N. McGee and Miller and les, contracto~-. are adding to an existing build..z at a cost of $1,500, Charles Glinton, Marathon Beach is building an $8,000 CBS house. R. D. Flippo is enlarging a CBS house at a cost of $5,000 at Lower Matecumbe Harbor. Ken Pangborn is adding a frame shelter to a filling station at $500, Sombrero, Marathon. Gil Spence is adding to a frame building in Marathon at a cost of $500. M. Bertram Strattons’ subdivi- sion, Marathon, is building an ado- be brick residence at a cost of $6,000. Albert Thompson is building a $6,000 CBS house on Plantation Key. ‘ George D. Rodgers is adding a second story apartment at a cost of $5,000 to the Sinclair, Filling Station, Rock Harbor. Adolphus Braun, Mandalay, Key Largo is building a $7,000 CBS re- sidence, R. J. Williamson, is building a $2500 CBS garage at Plantation ~| Key. - Fred H. Schwartz is building an 000 frame residence on Planta- tion Key. Harry Harris is repairing frame building at a cost of $1,200 in Tavernier. C. F. Carrell, is repairing a frame house at a cost of $1,000, Seaside subdivision, Key Largo. Susan Christensen, is adding a garage apartment for $2,000 at Tarpon Acres, Key Largo. C. C, Lincoln is putting up a $20,000 CBS house atNorth Ma- thon. C. Olivea Anderson, is building &@ $6,000 CBS house at Seaside, Key Largo. Eddie Maloney, is building a $4,470 CBS house at Islamorada. Paul Parales, is building a $1,000 garage, CBS, at Crains sub- division of Grassy Key. Charles L. Cray, is making an $800 shed for a trailer, at Mara- thon. Lewis Gray, is. building two $4000 each frame house ‘at Casa Manana, Marathon. F. C, Sanford is building a shop building for $1,000 at Marathon. Harold Clark is building a $2,000 garage at Marathon. Towns called New York, Boston, | Hingham, Dedham, Norwich, Dart- mouth and Braintree can be found in England. Tulips were ‘first developed by the Turks, M. E. BENNETT CONSTRUCTION CO. GENERAL CONTRACTING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRS ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES AVAILABLE ... FREE ESTIMATES OUR NEW ADDRESS — 217 DUVAL DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM OLD ADDRESS Phone 2-2333 See Us CB. S. Construction Co. 517‘ Duval Street (Upstairs) General Contractors PHONE 2.2713 There Is A Reason Why We Built More Than Double the Number of Houses This Year, As Against Last Year.,. IT PATS YOU TO INVESTIGATE BEFORE BUILDING! BRING YOUR BUILDING PROBLEMS TO US—WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THEM! SEE OUR SUB-DIVISION NEAR THE OCEAN WE BUILD TO SUIT OUR CLIENTS VA & FHA Financed Homes Our Specialty a) | $90,000 House Being Built At Broad Key Dr. Haggard To Build $34,000 Mansion On Plantation Key One of the show places of the Keys is being built by Arthur V.} Davis, Aluminum Corporation of America executive at Broad Key, Monroe County near the Dade county line, County Building Ins- pector Jesse Slone said today. The $90,000 mansien and care- takers’ quarters are going up on the 70 acre Key which is owned by the corporation leader, The house will be combination CBS and frame and glass jalous- ies. Running under the house will be its own cistern and storage space. Living quarters will occupy first and second stories. Davis is owner of Naranja. Oil| Company. Another mansion is being built on Plantation Key by Dr. H. We Haggard, Fort Lauderdale. The doctor is putting up a $34,000 CBS | and frame hoyse. Alonzo Cothron is contractor on the job. The Orange State Oil company is putting up a $19,400 gas station at Islamorada, according to per- mits issued by the County Build- ing Inspector. Navy Asks Bids On NS. Work The Navy is asking for two seal- ed bids for work at the U. S. Nav- al Station, Key*West. One bid is for the rehabilitation and addition to the gymnasium at the Naval Station. This bid will be accepted until June 23, 1952, The other bid is for air condition- ing of a building at the Air Station there. This bid will be accepted until June 25, 1953. | Both bids will be accepted by the | District Publie Works Officer, U.S. Naval Base, Charleston, S. C., un- til 2:30 p. m. on the aays specified. antennas, Most oil wells bemg drilled in} the United States today are from 5,000 to 12,000 feet in depth al- though some are niuch deeper, R. H. WRIGHT & SON, Inc. CONTRACTORS @Channel Excavating @Land Clearing-Filling @ Road Building IN THE FLORIDA KEYS Key West 2-2830 Ft. Lauderdale 3-4361 ume (M4 HURRICANES KEYS jenn ee Dredging Permit Sought On Keys Application has. been made to the Department of the Army by Mr. F. C. Allen, Summerland Key, Florida, for a permit to dredge a channel and to construct a mole, in Pine Channel, at applicant’s Property, cx the easterly shore of Little Torch Key, about 1800 feet ‘IT'S’HERE! northward from the bridge over the said waterway, Monroe County Florida. It is proposed to dredge a channel 20 feet wide and 8 feet deep below the plane of mean low water, and about 150 feet long, ap- proximately at a right angle to the high water shore line. The dredged material would be Placed alongside the northerly side of the Proposed channel, to form a mole. Subscribe to The Citizen IT'S NEW! KENFLEX VINYL TILE “TODAY'S MOST EXCITING DECORATING NEWS EASIER TO INSTALL Light to han- down easily, quickly... cuts with kitchen shears, EASIER TO KEEP CLEAN waxing ex- cept to add to its bril- liant lustre. FOR absolute |