The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1953, Page 16

LAND TITLE COMPANY of KEY WEST The Services of Key West's Only Title and Abstract Company En- able You to Complete All Real Estate Transactions by Protect- ing Your Property with a Clear | Valid Title. Abstract Insurance Applications Are Accepted By This Office THE LAND TITLE COMPANY Of Key West J. M. BLOW, Vice-President and Manager 517 Whitehead Street TELEPHONE 2-3545 a PRESENT LOCAL BUILDING BOOM UNPARALLELED The City Building Inspec-,amounted to om ee bell 0 aan @S im permits were issu 9909 194. No motels tion, $507,514. They dipped to t edditions ond ve tor’s office contains one of gs in 1943. and down to $280,070in | seigue oo the best measures of the the all-out war year -d - - 145 a two year rive ean growth of construction in g:39.3:3 in permits and in 1946, the Key West in the last decade. amount was $480,896. Despite fiuctuet: Came 16 and building went i the WEF down to its lowest with only $151 ap ay asta veore tn —— 15 in dollar volume of permits is danciato-neahnes of do Islend. hen Building inspector Ralph ~~ in the posk year of 195! $10 656,267 in permits were issued. OF the amount the largest volume was for apartment buildings, in cluding Sigsbee Park and Peary Court, the huge projects which othe house Navel personnel. This fig. © su 1948 was three times more pros perous as far as building was con cerned, with $444,415 in permits is the $1,263,243 in commercial per mits; private residences came to ing permits were issued, the years when only $155,135 in permits were since Peart Harbor have presented taken out by builders in the city & trend that should please all seg- 1950, however, began the most in ments of the building industry tensive construction boom in the In 1942 building permits issued Island's history. In that year $960. Moorish... CONSTRUCTION CO. 517% Duval Street (Upstairs) Phone 2-2713 GENERAL CONTRACTORS BUILDERS OF FINE HOMES @ Bring Your Building Problems to Us . . . We Will Solve Them to YOUR COMPLETE Satisfaction! WE HAVE ALREADY BUILT MORE THAN ONE- HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF KEY WEST HOMES @ You Are Invited to See Some of These C.B.S. Homes In Our SUBDIVISION .. . Which is Bounded By LAIRD, ASHBY, ROSE and THOMPSON STREETS. STYLED AFTER the Moorish type architecture the home above located at the corner of South and Reynolds Streets, holds the distinction of havipg been built from the rock native to Key West. —Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. e. 'Sirugo, president Sunshine Con- Membershi Of struction company; Henry Hudgins. leading Lower Keys development e engineer and contrac‘or; J. J. Tre vor, president F » National Bank; Charles Pierce, manager, Pierce Brothers; Charles Lowe, manager, Maxwell Furniture Com pany; Sam Silberman, owner Key West Venetian Blind Co.; James B. Anderson, Key West superinten. ident, Porter. Wagor-Russell; Fred |Dion, president, First Federal Sav lings and Loan Association; Kent Mack, manager, Griffen Industries. Elijah Sands, owner Overseas Ra- dio and Appliance; Maurice E. Stutz, owner Key West Floor Cov- ering; and Mrs. Joe Russell, Ade- TOPPINO MEANS TOPS BUILD WITH CONCRETE AND CONCRETE PRODUCTS Charley Toppino & Sons GENERAL CONTRACTORS TELEPHONE 2-5606 Key West, Florida Financial and Architectural Counselling Without Charge Is ONE OF THE MANY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO C.B.S. HOME PURCHASERS Sree Retesey FILA. and V.A. FINANCING OUR SPECIALTY ‘The National Home Week Com- again today by E. A. Strunk, Jr., chairman. “These men and women,” he said, “are just a cross - section of the building and supplying industry ‘est. are many oth- Floyd Davis of Marathon, F. P Sadowski of Marathon, Stanley Switlik, and W. A. Parrish, Mara- thon pioneer, Strunk listed the National Home Week committee as follows: Co-chairmen, M. E. Bennett and Joe Pearlman: Committee members: @ IN AGGREGATES @ IN CONCRETE @ IN BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES 5 Brazil’s Indians e IN SERVICE RIO DE JANEIRO (®—How many Indians are there in Brazil’? One million? Five hundred thou- sand? Two hundred thousand? The nation's Service for the Pro- tection of Indians (SPI) admits frankly that it doesn’t know exact- ly. The above are guesses made by some of its experts. Such a variance, naturally, makes the planning of assistance programs a little difficult. So the Service is taking a census of In- dia ns. ‘The job, SPI director Gama Me!- cher says, is especially difficult because even some of the known tribes live in regions that are diffi- cult of access. There also are tribes still unknown. A majority of the Indians in Bra- wil, the director says, live in the Amazon region. The coastal tribes and those living in the south al ready have been absorbed into the Brazilian population. Tt is estimaged that since the white men first settled in the Uni ted States about twice as much wood has been cut as existed in the original forests of the country. Stock Island