The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 22, 1954, Page 8

Norman Giller Designs Houses For Key West Construction Plans Approved By VA And FHA; CBS Will Build Homes Here Two new homes designed by the well known Miami Beach and Key West architect, Norman Giller, are now | | available here. e : The two-bedroom model, called the Catalina, sells | | ‘| for $9,550. The three-bedroom job is priced at $11,250.] _ | It is called the Rancher. These prices do not include a lot.| __|_ The CBS Construction Co., / _|Inec., the contractors, will build the homes anywhere you have the land. However, the CBS company has lots _|available in the 1500, 1600, _|and 1700 blocks of Laird, “| Rose and Patricia Streets. _|_ A feature of the homes is the _| fact that a carport or a large en- + | closed porch can be added at any time. Both plans are approved by the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Authority, Color Selection | A feature of the houses that holds great appeal for women is the complete selection of colors both inside and out. The colors of the exterior walls, Beokm. \ise"y Bot the interior walls and floors as well as the accessories can be de-| | signed by the purchaser. ' fn the kitchen, Southern Maid cabinets are used. These cabinets | | have a baked enamel finish — like | © a refrigerator — and they are a-| _ vailable in a variety of colors, Electric Facilities The homes are wired for all-| —~ electric kitchens and a 30-gallon electric water heater is included. All windows are aluminum and glass jalousies and the roof is tar and gravel. One of the unusual features of the new homes is the living room which runs completely thrugh the house, assuring complete cross ventilation at all times. i ‘The landscaping is included with | | each home. News From Zoos Tells Latest BepRot2 © VWC-axitio ‘ ke -RANCHER—This three-bedroom home, being offered by the CBS Construction Co., was designed by Norman Giller, Key West and Miami Beach architect. The home is priced at $11,250. It has an all-electric kitchen, including a 30-gallon electric water heater ,and Cuban tile floors through- CATALINA—This two-bedroom home, designed by Norman Giller, is being built by the CBS Construction Co. and is priced at $9,550. The CBS company has land available on Laird, Rose The landscaping is included with the h 7 Md : P Streets but will build the home anywhere the . . out the house. e ping is inclu i louse. V. Of V Of Anim Is and Patricia Stree! wi anyw! _—_—_—__ 1ews: ariety a. buyer desires. A feature of the home is the living room that Three fifths of the children: bora aa runs all the way through the house, assuring complete cross in the United States have.mothers Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, May 22, 1954 | the Riviera Heights Corp, for $6, By ROY KOHN : A swentilations between 20 and 30 years old. ., Employment Gain In U.S. Is Seen WASHINGTON (#—Fresh Labor Department figures point to an im- provement in the unemployment situation. The department’s Bureau of It turned out she just liked goodies. said, she guessed she’d stick to NEW YORK #® — Here’s the|Plain old pythons. latest on animals in the news:} Now back to New York City and Soft-hearted zoo-men go for hard-|up to the Bronx Zoo. The “who's shelled armadillos; sore-armed | W00” of the zoo, for several years, dancer picks python over puma; |has featured Cecil and Penelope, duck-billed Cecil re-woos Penelope | the duck-billed platypuses. the platypus. The zoo has been trying to get At Riverhead N. Y., Sidney|the egg-laying, Australian - born Schwartz complained Thursday he} @nimals together so they could was up to his ears in armadillos, |Taise a family. Two lady armadillos, which he| Last summer, Penelope retired bought in order to write a thesis/| to her tunnel early, a sign of moth- on their birth habits for a New/erhood. Keepers plied her with York University doctorate, pro-| goodies and felt “this was it.” duced seven armor-plated babies.| But Penelope was only fooling. Armadillos habitually sleep dur- ing. daylight hours and whomp it up at night. And they eat like hogs, not armadillos. Schwartz said local zoos and dealers wouldn’t take the mothers and sighed hopefully: “There must be somebody who likes armadillos.” Well, there is. Yesterday in Tor- onto, Can., the Riverdale Zoo said they’d adopt an armadillo, And Ar- thur Watson, director of Balti- more’s 200, said he'll be glad to take the entire batch—and even pay the express charges. Schwartz feels much better now, although he says, “‘there’s nothing final about it yet.” Prancing about in Putnam Val- ley, N. Y., yesterday was a puma, a dancer, some a press agent. The dancer, Lonnie Young, 26, apparently keeps the puma—a pint-sized panther—in her hotel 500 the following land: parts of three lots in Section 14, Township 61 South, Range 39 East. Spencer H. Logan sold Lot E-1 of Sombrero Subdivision to the Cen- tral States Building and Realty Corps for $35,000. Real Estate Activity Is Slow In Week The following warranty deeds| Seven warranty deeds marked were on file this week in the citice | the sale of Key Largo land by Earl of Earl Adams, county clerk: J. Page to William T. McClain, John D. Day sold one half of Lot | A. E. LeCiair, Julius J, Busch, V. 5, Bleck 2, Day’s Subdivision to|H. Ramey, A. S. Fox, G. C Trip- Mary E. Kieffer for $1,000. lett, R, E. Seymour, and J A. Ma- Al Logun paid $48 to the Trustees | laney, Jr. The prices of the lots of the Internal Improvement Fund | ranged from $300 to $1,300. / for .24 acres of bay bottom land! Fourteen Grassy Key lots were adjoining his restaurant at the foot | sold by D. H. Reynolds to Jennie of Simonton Street. The deed was | Applerouth for $1,400. dated Jam, 15, 1954. Chauncey R. Hatch, Jr., sold to Employment Security said yester- day unemployment among workers covered by state jobless insurance declined by 56,800 during the week ended May 8 to a new level of 2,124,000 — the lowest in three But this is another spring, and| ™onths, but still well above the Cecil is chummy with Penelope—| 899,100 total a year ago. who doesn’t seem to mind at all. The bureau traced the improve- In Louisiana, the treating of stored sweetpotatoes with DDT saves two million dollars a year. _ Tiny Chihuahua dogs were be- lieved by the Aztecs to guide hu- man souls through the underworld. Citizen Want Ads Bring Results C. B. $. Construction Co. 517% DUVAL ST. TEL, 2-2713 NOW BUILDING 6 DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOMES Various Elevations You can install this 6x9 floor in durable KENFLEX PLASTIC TILE for only $14.58 Cleans Easier . . . Even grease, ink, bleaches, cleaning fluids or fruit acids won’t harm KenFlex. 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