The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 16, 1954, Page 7

9,000 Keys’ Building Permits Now Total $2,551,073 For Year The construction spree along the Keys is continuing with a total of $103,700 in building permits being record- ed in the first 14 days of October. These figures cover only.the unincorporated areas of the county. They do not include permits issued in Key West. + The $103,700 is almost a half of the September total of $254,024 and brings the Keys’ total for the year to $2,51,073 in building permits. The largest of the permits issued 80 far this month {s for a $19,000 concrete block and stucco home on Grassy Key. The owner is J. S. Y. Ivins, Lee D. Jones, who owns an auto- body repair shop at Marathon took out an $18,000 permit for a new shop building with apartments on the second floor, The new CBS building will be near the Marathon Community Church. Ernest Leder is building a two- unit, $8,800 CBS motel on Grassy Key. George J. Murray is adding four units to his CBS Key Largo Colo- nial Motel at a cost of $10,600. *Eugene Glownaik is building a $5,200 CBS residence at Islamora- da James L. Brown hs a $3,300 per- mit to build a frame garage and apartment at Matathon. ohn E) Wolter, Jr., is building @ $10,000 CBS residence at Mara- thon. On Stock Island, Ernest Lopez, of 914 Packer Street, is building a $9,600 CBS warehouse and apart- ment building. Mrs. Lottie S. Downing is build- ing a frame home on Key Largo. The permit is for $3,800, Also on Key Largo, Delorea and Adolph Kays have a $7,800 permit for a concrete block residence. Key Largo also is getting a 200- seat open air theater, J. L. Hud- Saturday, October 16, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Timothy Takes Grandpa For A Wild Ride LONG BEACH, Calif. (#—Grand- pa James K. Green got the ride of his life with 2-year-old Timothy Davis, Green’s daughter, Mrs. Helen Davis, left her son Timothy in the front seat of her auto with her father, whose injured foot was in a cast, Timmy sat down on the accelerator and turned on the ig- nition, The car roared away in low gear, leaped a curb, tore out the front porch of a house, ca- reened next door where Mrs. Ma- rion Copeland fainted as it whizzed by her, Green finally slamméd on thé brake with his hand. Mrs. Copeland was the only cas- ualty, but grandpa Green says: “Next time the kid stays in the back seat.” dieston and Jeff Gautier have a $3,000 permit for the theater, con- cession stand and movie screen. Paul Baer has a $2,400 permit on a frame store building on Stock Page 7 JAMES B. ANDERSON GENERAL CONTRACTOR... ‘CIVIL ENGINEER (Formerly Gen. Superintendent of Porter - Wagor - Russell, Inc.) 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The house as pictured was built and sold for less than’ $23,000 on a plot 80 by 100.at Bar Harbor, Massapequa, N.Y. NEW YORK #—The pickup in steél output is welcomed today by those who are looking for better times ahead. But it has yet ‘o set off any rush of forward order- ing in the metals industry. Manufacturers continue to take it slow and easy. Lead and zinc producers haye been helped by the government’s policy of buying metal for the defense stockpile, which has hiked the price. But the higher price may be one of the reasons’that the makers of civilian goods are ordering these metals skimpily. Steel ordering has picked up enough to send output pleasantly above last summer's slow-motion pace. But the mills still aren’t turning out anywhere near the amount of steel they were this time last year. Many steelmen are looking for the pace to gain a little more speed shortly. They think the auto makers have used up most of their ‘steel inventories and will be order- ing in quantity when the 1955 models start rolling off the produc- tion lines. ‘ And the pickup in steel produc- tion has already sent the price of steel scrap higher. Another factor in the steel scrap price rise has been an increase in export, with the relaxation of some of the government’s grip on any mater- ials that might in time find their way into enemy armament fac- tories. Some even look for a boost in steel scrap demand when and if They yeason that the demand for scrap will in time work through ROBERTS Office Equipment 126 Dyval Street Phone 2.5634 Royal Typewriters Portables and Standards SALES - SERVICE Business Mirror By Sam Dawson the whole metals industry. Copper scrap prices, on the other hand, have broken this week after their recent climb. Scrap was in demand because a series of strikes in the mines and refineries in this country and in Chile had cut off supplies of virgin copper. Strike settlements have fore- shadowed an end to the shortage and dampened the demand for scrap. Fabricators, however, say the demand for virgin copper ‘is still high, since it will be some time before the copper ore now being mined again will show up 2s refined copper. And they are re- newing their plea to Washington to relax - the stockpiling program temporarily. The Office of Defense Mobilization indicates that shortly it will have an answer to these requests, So, copper earmarked for the defense stockpile may flow into civilian channels until the shortage is over. [Make Do | NON-SKID TREADS for stairs prevent home accidents. It is easy to make such treads by nailing on panels of tempered hardboard with the textured side up. ELECTRIC TOOL DOs -DON’Ts by Andrew C. Lang | “<—move spray ew irom right angles to your work. 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Don’t. . . smoke while working or immediately thereafter, as some of the spray may still be in the surrounding air. jor current income by Treasury $5 Million In Savings Bonds Sold In Florida The month of September again saw Savings Bond sales of nearly $5 million credited to Florida buy- ers, it was reported today by Mon- roe County Savings Bond Com- mittee Chairman Trevor. “E Bond sales were $3,553,335, H Bonds for the month totaled $1,- 010,000 and Florida Federal agen- cies’ credit added $337,027 to ac- hieve a $4,900,362 figure, 20.5 per cent ahead of September 1953,” Trevor added. “Monroe County sa- les were $36,837 and for the year- to-date now show $558,959.” “As we approach the closing months of the year it appears how- ever that Florida will have to step up its tempo of bond purchases if our state is to reach the full at-| tainment of its $71.6 million quota | assigned by the Treasury Depart- ment as a part of its program of | a billion more in ’54, the minimum ! which Treasury officials caiculat- ed must be bought to protect its sound mnoey program,” Mr. Tre- | vor stated. “The present levels of bond pur- chases carried throughout the re- maining weeks will leave our state somewhat more than $6 million short,” he reported. “Savings Bonds provide the in- dividual investor with a choice of either deferred interest income which adds to the growing guar- anteed cash values in the E Bond check every six months in the case of the Series H,” Chairman Trevor explained. “Both are free of market fluc- tuation, pays 3 per cent compound interest when held for the nine years and eight months till first maturity. The E may be retained for an additional 10 years and will then return 80 per cent more than the original investment. $20,000 of each may be purchased by any in- dividual within one calendar year,” he concluded. Duplex Heads City Building Permits A duplex and two concrete block | and stucco homes headed this} week’s city building permits. The permit for the duplex was issued to B. N. Hamilton at 1713 Laird. The permit was for $12,000, A $10,000 CBS home is to be built by the Noble Construction Co. at 2424 Linda. Weyman Russel: was issued an $8,000 permit for a CBS home at 1804 Venetia. Other permits were: Clara Johnson, 309 Amelia, addi- tion, $300. Jose Ramirez, 1906 Harris, addi- tion $200. Anton Brischnik, 1438 Virginia, repairs, $700. Edward Sweeting, 318 Truman, addition, $4,000. Poinciana Apartment, paint roofs $2,300. Steven Motel, South and Simon- ton, repairs, $2,000. Paul Sher, 1127 Johnson, fence, $500. J. W. Blanding 809 Truman, re- pairs, $200. + Hearing Aid Threw Him Off CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, @ — Patrolman H.J, Ekert Jr. was drinking coffee at an all-night di- ner Thursday night when David Ballard rushed in and said he had heard a ‘muffled explosion.” Detectives and additional patrol- men were dispatched. But Ballard, a nightwatchman at a nearby shop- Ping center, discovered the source of the explosion. He had bought new batteries for his hearing aid Thursday and for- got to adjust the volume. A slam- ming door sounded to him like a safecracker’s blast. Subscribe To The Citizen Home Tops County Bldg. Permits Regularly $4.58 White. Paint $2.99 Monroe Specialty Co. 1990 FLAGLER AVE. To Buy, Trade, Rent, Sell, or Exchange—Use the Classified Ads The Maxwell Co., Inc. 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