The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1954, Page 6

rt 4 me et Poe TT BIT Tree | ‘Building Boom ¢ ontinues All Along Keys ~ County Building Permits _ Ave $2,733,523 This Year Building permits for the unincorporated areas in Monroe County totalled $161,750 during November. This is a slight increase over the $155,400 in per- mits recorded in October... : County building permits — exclusive of Key West — add up to $2,733,523 for the first 11 months of this year, “This figure is well ahead of the Key West building permits for the first 11 months of 1954. Those permits totalled $2,442,817. The county permits issued from November 17 to December 1, included a $13,000 permit to Herbert J. Shaw for a CBS addition to his home on Key Largo. Louis §. Newman is building a block residence on Stock Island. 000 CBS home on Grassy Key. -T, L, Baker is building a concrete ‘The permit was for $2,400. . *$. A. Armour has a permit for - -a $1,500 addition to his CBS home “{W. W, Matthews is building » CBS residence on Lower Ma- The Rimersburg Coal Co. took} out permits for three frame resi- dences with asbestos siding in Plea- sant View Shores on Saddle Bunch Key. One permit was for $5,700. The other two were for $4,900 each. Lloyd Hickok is building a $6,500 home at Marathon. Also at Marathon, Earl E. Pfei- fer is building a $500 bath house and Paul Hungate is adding a $400 frame addition to the Reef Res- taurant. Harry L. Cavanah is putting up a $1,200 bath house at Marathon. At the Seven Mile Trailer Park, Marthon, H, M. Prtichard is build- ing a $1,700 frame tackle shop. ~ Stephen E. Pyle is building a one- room frame house on Big Coppitt Key for $600. A total of 451 building permits have been issued in the county’s unincorporated areas from Jan. 1 through Dec. 2, 1954. The Maxwell Co., Inc. South’s Largest Furniture Dealers COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS Custom Made Venetian Blinds (FAST DELIVERY) Outdoor Aluminum and Patio Furniture. (TO PLEASE YOUR EYE AND POCKETBOOK) Apartment - Motel - Hotel Supplies (DECORATOR SERVICE) Bar and Restaurant Equipment (COMPLETE LINE) 901 - 909 Fleming Street Telephone 2.6031 BUILDS OWN HOME—Joseph Bringman, electronics engineer with the Navy here, is completing The Monroe County Health De- partment today called the attention to contractors and real estate de- velopers to new health regulations concerning realty subdivisons. The new regulations are tied in with rules of.the Federal Housing Authority and the Veterans Admin- istration. The text of the Monroe County Health Department’s release fol- lows: 1, County Health Departments are authorized to issue septic tank permits up to five (5) in number in any platted area or subdivision for residential use, provided soil conditions are satisfactory for sub- surace sewage disposal. 2. County Health Departments should issue septic tank permits in areas containing more than five houses for residential use only after the following appropriate forms have been completed, for- warded to the Florida State Board of Health and returned to you pro- ly certified. ae FHA Form 2084-C; B. VA Form 4-1888; C. FSBH Form SAN. the home shown above on, the corner of Florida and Johnson Streets.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don 432. TODAY'S Pinder. Engineer Builds 3-Bedroom, 3-Bath Home For Himself BUILDING PERMITS Lewinsky’s Men Shop, 421 Smith Lane, repairs, $200. T. M. Vargas, 1125 Grinnell, car- Port, $100. Maurice Jabour, 712 Toppino Court, two - story apartment build- ing, $5442. Mrs. L. Goldsmith and Mrs. G. A. Warren, 1940 Staples, remodel, $3,000. Wheeler Gandolfo, 615 Whitehead, repairs, $500. First National Bank of Leesburg, Va,, Building No. 500, West Poin- ciana, repairs, $500. Emory Pratt, 1714 Washington, CBS home, $8,000. P. Curry, Sr., 321 Peacon Lane, paint, $100. B. St. John, 623 Southard, repairs $1,000. Mrs. E. Crum, 1514 Von Phister, paint,’ $200. J. T. Esquinaldo, 419 Vriginia, carport and repairs, $1,000. T. Rodriguez, 1025 Whitehad, re- pairs, $100. A. A. Allen, 818 Elizabeth, CBS Duplex, $8,500. I, F. Nole, 4115 Eagle, addition, $2,000. Poinciana Apartments, paint, $2,- 000. Joe Pearlman, 707 Simonton, re- taining wall, $300. Jack Jaycocks, 1923 Harris, CBS home, $12,000. ° _ E. S. Gomez, 936 United, roof, $600. ~ M. W. Gates, 1610 South, carport, ‘Anne Maraquin, 806 Truman, re- pairs, $400. BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 20% OFF ON ALL PAINTS Monroe Specialty Co. 1930 FLAGLER AVE. - ROBERTS Office Equipment 126 Duval Street Phone 2-5624 Royal Typewriters Porrables and Standards SALES - SERVICE WILL BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME WITH REALOGK REALOCK — WIRE — 283 N.E. 71 St. (Showroom) Sine! time tags © GUARANTEED wetertel & coast For FREE Estimate 2-2545 Fl on'watan 8 8 — wn tet FENCE C0.; Ph. 84-0651 Antther electronics engineer built his own home in Key Wst at a considerable saving. Joseph M. Bringman, Field sta- tion manager for Pennsylvania State University, is in the process of completing a 1,600 square foot home on the corner of.Florida and Johnson ‘Streets. This is the third home Bringman has built for himself in recent years, The present building is six con- ditioned and has three bedrooms bathrooms has a sunken bath tub, Bringman designed the house himself and has constructed all phases of the home including the laying of the 18 inch-square type tile floor. He stated thathe ‘origi laid out the house so that it could be, if desired, a two family dwelling, The original plans ‘called for his mother to have a portion of the home. She has since decided not to come to Key West. é The building permit was for $13,- 500 which is the minimum pricesis- sued by the city on their present policy of average square foot coast of construction. However, the cost to Bringman is less than the per- mit price including the cost of the land, because he did not count his labor. Bringman said that the building inspectors were most cooperative during the construction. The home is built in a lot 64 feet by 88. Construction was de- layed somewhat when Bringman’s job took him on an expedition to Greenland. He works in conjunc- tion with the Navy’s anti-subma- tine development program. The home contains two living Tooms, three \ bedrooms, three baths, a dining room, a kitchen, a carport, and a utility room. ‘It is constructed of cement block, Indirect lighting is used through- out the home andjall the doors are of the sliding type. By closing one door the home can be separated into two complete units. Because the house is built on a corner, each portion has an en- trance on a different street. Bringman has purchased bricks that were from the old city hall towern. He intends to use them to make a patio in the rear of his new home where he hopes to con- struct a barbecue pit. : The ceiling of the home is of jun- iper wood with the rafters open. The inside walls are plastered. Bringman made all the cabinets. in the kitchen he even has a vent above the stove to take cooking .|doors from the room to the out- side, The front porch has a cement poured cantilevered type roof. Bringman said that he purchased all his lumber from the Cheeley Lumber company.’ The home is presently about nine- ty per cent complete. Bringman said that he will finish the home as he gets around to it. All the weather doors and win- dows are jalousie type. After completing the work on the home, Bringman now finds that he has been promoted to district field manager in charge of several uni- versity developmental stations that will take him from Key West. BUSINESS By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (P—It’s a bigger Christmas in traffic jams too. More traffic in store aisles means more tieups on the streets — and there are more cars than ever this year to get stuck at intersections. Electronic engineers are busily tackling the traffic officer’s prob-! lems. First they thought up use of radar to clock speedsters on the open stretches of streets and high- ‘ways. Next, in spots where traffic sometimes only crawls, if that, electronics thought up a scheme of using radar #, report changes in volume of approaching traffic and to time the red lights accordingly, Now the engineers are coming up with ‘still another idea — using those mechanical brains to clock and map changing traffic condi- tions and then more or less auto- matically change traffic signals over whole sections of the cities to 3. In old built-up areas or sub- divisions, which contain more than five vacant lots, the procedure mentioned in Item No. 2 above should be followed. These forms can be completed for only one lot if need be. Additonal lots can be added to the initial 2084-C, 4-1888 or San. 432 as they are applied for by submission of FSBH San. 432 as a supplementary document. 4. It is recommended that a six month to one year time limit be placed on all septic tank permits issued. Too often the lot character- istics are changed after the per- mits has been given by faulty road accommodate sudden and unpre- dictable shifts in the flow of traf- fic, or such jams as occur at shift- changing time at factories. — The automatic signal division of Eastern Industries at Norwalk, Conn., is offering what it calls an electro-matie master cycle and off- set selector system. This is an elec- tronic computing gadget only 19 inches long, 7 inches high and 12 inches deep. The gadget receives a steady stream of traffic information, me- chanically reported from many intersections, which it files in its! electric brain, The company engi- neers: say the device then automat- ically determines the most efficient operating pattern for the traffic signals to which it is connected. When the volume of traffic from the east suddenly swells, traffic signals are turned to let it through the intersection. As northbound traffic volume builds up, the sig- nals are changed to clear it and | speed it on its way. Engineers say the computer is set to disregard sharp swings, how- ever, but rather to determine con- stantly the average volumes and compute the most efficient signal changes. HOMES FOR AMERICANS Orrice Seonoom VERSATILE, this design can be used for a doctor or dentist, construction, drainage, grading or sewage installations. ‘The Veterans Administration has agreed not to issue commitments of reasonable value on five or more houses unless. their VA form 4-189 has been complted, documented and certified to by the Florida| State Board of Health. The Veterans Administration also wants to make clear that no VA commitment is valid until certified to by the County Health Depart- ment and processed and certified to by the Florida State Board of Heal- th as to the method of sewage dis- posal, Cooperation with the subdivision program is earnestly solicited. The Veterans’s Administration al- so issued instruction letter No. 9- 54 to all lenders, builders and de- velopers: Where five or more dwellings are proposed in a subdivision, it is re- quired that VA Form 4-1889, or FHA Form 2084-C, be complted by the county and state health authori- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN [Health Dept. Rules Issued For Builders ties prior to submission of Re- quests for Determination of Rea- Sonable Value. In order that this office may know this has been done, |the builder or sponsor will secure jone copy of the approval of the | subdivision and attach it to the Ree quests for Determination of Rea- sonable Value. In the future, when the Requests Requests for Deter- mination of REasonable Value are received without the proper form, the entite request will have to be returned to the sender without ac- tion. This applies in all cases where five or more houses are to be built in a given subdivision, whether: submitted in single shots or committee appraisals. The pro- cedure for securing these appro- vals is out-lined in Florida State Board of Health No. 4 (1935) which can be secured from your local county health authorities. If you will follow these proce- dures, the SBH and this office can give you better and more prompt service, Saturday, December.11, 1954 Just In Time For Christmas Famous ALUMINUM a FURNITURE REDUCED! ADJUSTABLE CHAISE LOUNGES Was $29.50 ___ DOUBLE GLIDER CHAIR, 2 Passenger Was $30.75 SINGLE GLIDER Was $21.25 eae . NOW $24.95 NOW $18.95 CHAIR CLUB CHAIR, Double Arms Was $16.25 ___ _._... NOW $14.95 CONTOUR CHAISE Was $27.50 ..___... NOW $22.95 SPRING CHAIR Was $11.50 ___ TWO. PASSENGER Was $23.75 ___ STACK CHAIR _ _.. NOW $ 9.95 SETTEE ___. NOW $19.95. NOW $ 6.95" FOLDING CHAIR. _ NOW §$ 7.95. Key West Venetian Blind Co. 716 Duval Street Phone 2-5531 Awnings - Jalousies - Windows - Doors - Tropical Furniture No accidents for 24 hours in our community! Can we do it? S-D Day is a challenge’ to every or anyone needing an office in the home, or a four-bedroom house. The vestibule can be opened as part of the living room by means of folding doors. Sliding or folding doors also can be used for several closets, as well as for toilet compartment, which visualizes a wall of glass block separating it from the bathroom. This house covers 1,384 square feet. It is plan C-326 by the Small House Planning Bureau, St. Cloud, Mino. NowAvailable ... NEON SIGNS On Easy Payment Plan ee city and town to do its part in keeping this day as accident-free as humanly possible—to show accidents can be avoided. It’s a challenge to every driver and ‘ian, too. Let’s show President kisenhower we can do our part. Remember, let’s help each other avoid accidents, Be alert. . . cour- teous .,. smart ...calm. Safe-Driving Day DECEMBER 15, 1954 Contributed In The Interest Public Safety By 2 Key West Floor ing Co. 92 jAL.ST. 22512