The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 27

Real Estate News 1 gttiiifei ffejes Classified Advertising 4 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1950. ZT Zl. Research Center Being Built by Johnson Johnson Aid to Housing By U.

S. Seen By New Bills Administration Is likely To Secure Aid for 'Middle Income SteplienvUle Homes Reported a Sell-out Before Completion RARITAtf TOWNSHIP, Feb. 25 The first section of Ste-phenville on Park avenue, consisting of 35 ranch-type dwellings, each of five rooms and each located on a lot 100 by 200 feet, has been sold out in advance of completion, reports R. H. Leichner, sales manager for Bohlen-Synden Agency, exclusive agent The builder is Terranova Construction Company.

The dwellings, of which the first occupants will take possession over this week-end, sold for approximately $10,500 apiece, with no down payment for veterans, and F.HA and VA-mortgage guaranty. The second section will be started" i 5 -v 1 v. it. itm, JLhson research center on Route 25, North Brunswick township, will consolidate the experimental nrolrl of the Industrial Tape Corporation and Ethicon Suture Laboratories, two J. J.

subsidiaries i The strnnrl completion this summer, will adjoin the Industrial Tape and Ethicon Suture plante. sioiarles. me structure, scheduled far Real Estate About By THOMAS More than 6,000 builders from the country over attended the sixth annual convention of the National Association of Home Builders last week in Chicago. The building game must be easy money nowadays, If all those fellows could take a week off, leaving straw bosses on the jobs. Also, there is evidently not much competition; Sign Contract Pits In Woodbridse Nierity-two Acres Sold With Machinery hy F.

G. Helbifr WOODBRIDGE, Feb. 25. wosepn iteming and Charles Burk- snos nave contracted to purchase from Mr. and Mrs.

FrMritr Helblg S2 acres with frontages on King George's Post road and the liemgn vauey Railroad. The property, which has been used for clay mining, hat hn idle for more than two yeans last vast, xne ciay mining machinery is luuuuea in uie saie. Redlinz and Burkshof ing business as Sayreville Clay uinpdiiy, win iaice possession this week and proceed to operate the clay pits. Attorneys for sellers and buyers, respectively, were George J. Kauper of Union Citv and Josnh J.

Takacs of New Brunswick. Raritan Township House, Five Lots Have Been Sold RARITAN TOWNSHIP. Feh Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thomas have oougni from Mr.

and Mrs. Beno Bakos the four-room residence of the sellers on Avenue 143 feet off Main street, and located on a lot approximately 75 by 100 feet. Included in the sale was an adjacent vacant tract of five lots fronting on Main street. The buyers have taken possession, the sellers moving to Chicago. is an employe of National Biscuit Company, New York.

The broker in the sale was George E. 'Alleair of the Metuchen office of the Fullerton Real Estate Agency. All parties to the transfer were represented bv Arthur Reich, New Brunswick attorney. CLEANING LAMP SHADES SParohmerbt larrro shades can be cleaned with a oloth which has been dampened in soapy water or to milk. Jacob Clay Attorney Trustees Buy Two Houses For Rutgers rIo-s at 185 and 189 College Avenue Are Purchased The Trustees of Rutgers Col lege have bought from Mme.

Si mone Hauvette Michelin of Pars! France, two buildings on Col lege avenue of which the college was tenant at time of purchase and sale, The buildine at 185 Collets avp nue is a three-story structure of concrete and hollow tile, with tile roof. It is the former of Rutgers University presidents ana is now occupied as classrooms by the elementary branch of Rut gers Preparatory School. It is on an irregular tract of 30.ftnn armor feet. The building at 189 College avenue, corner of Huntington street, is a two and one-half stnrv frame structure now occupied by iwu Kumues as suo-tenants, and is xocaiea on a lot 40 by 125 feet The total sales price wa 000. The college is continuing the yicseiu use oi uie properties, and plans no immediate change.

R. E. and A. D. Watson represented the couege at attorneys.

Ten Dwellings Are Conveyed By Hy-Grade Houses on Chestnut Kantan Township, Sold by Firm RARITAN TOWNSHIP. TVK 2S. Hy-Grade Construction Com pany xnc. nas transferred title to 10 of the dwellings, each at four nH one-half rooms and each located on a lot approximately 60 by 100 feet, built by the seller on Chest nut street The purchasers were Mr. and Mrs.

Aneelo J. Carmela. Louis G. Nagy, and Mrs. Norman W.

Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Beach, Mr. and Mrs.

William Artnur Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. TVuim.n E. Woodard, Mr.

and Mrs. George uueKer. Mr. and Mrs. James H.

Bird, and Henry Masters and Sylvia Peters. Masters and Miss Peters are an engaged couple. The others have taken- possession. Also recorded last week was a deed from Hy-Grade to Mr. and Mrs.

George Williams who purchased a five-room dwelling on Central avenue, located on a lot 60 by 150 feet, and have taken possession. Williams is an employe of Ross Industries Corporation, Highland Park. The broker in all 11 sales was Samuel Scott of Scott Scott, ex clusive agents. All parties to the transfers were represented by Lawyers Clinton Title 8c Mortgage Company of Newark. The seller built 77 dwellings In this development all of which are sold or under contract of sale.

H. Bernstein former secrtary of the Middlesex County Bar Association. Bruno promises the usual Interesting session with Frank Bren-nan and his committee. Brerman is chairman of the committee which selects panel discussion at each meeting a subject of great interest to realtors. Bruno requests the members who have not yet done so to notify him at once as to whether or not they will attend, and the number of guests and i off ice associates they, will bring with them.

ill Money Saved By Insulating New Houses Costs of Fuel Will, Take Prohibitive Slice of Owners' Income living costs, Including cost fuel, necessitate the complete insulation of new homes at the time they are built, both to save moiiev and to maintain mavlmnm comfort, it was declared today by spoxesman i or me construction Kesearch Bureau, national clearing siouse ior Duuaing lmormauon. Unless everv oossible fuel omy is practiced, many buyers of new homes mar exDeriene hard. hip in meeting their payments on mortgage principal and interest because high fuel costs take a heavy bite out of the monthly inmy income. Full-thick insulation of all fcomes is ureed bv fhi IT Bureau of Mines which considers insulation "an essential element ef dwellin? construction TM based on findings that about 35 per ceni in iuei savings will be ejected, if four inches of mineral wool insulation is placed between top-floor ceiling and roof and ex- posea wau are uiiea with this insulation. "Not all prospective homeown ers, nor even building contractors, fully realize lh i eomplete insulation, it was said.

save is rer Cent least 10 per cent more fuel Is saved by full-thick insulation than if only one inch is applied. The labor cost is virtually the same for installing hatt blankets of mineral wood whether aey be one inch thick or a full 2 38 inches thick and there is only a small difference in cost -of the material for the two thicknesses. This slight difference is more than offset bv th act ni saving. Whether building his own ox ouying irom a builder, the home-buyer should insist that complete and proper insulation be included in the specifications. Insulation should be applied at we ume a House is being built be cause it is more economical to in Stall then, accordintr tn th fnn, struction Research Bureau.

Whm installed during construction. complete, luu-tnick mineral wool insulation rarely exceeds 3 per cent oz xne cost of the house. Yets Bavin Homo Fuel savings and the resulting dollar sa vises which pom fmm insulation are especially impor- Hoi war veserans with u. I. insurance money, who have bought homes with very smal down pay ments or none at all, and hence lace hlzh monthly Many of these veterans, ewiy mamea, cave nad no experience with home operating costs and therefore fail to roaH? that heating costs take a large proportion oz meir monthly in come.

fee first eagerness of home- wuying tnese families often are ied tO believ that mnrtnira amortization payments represent their only liability, the bureau engineer continued. They over-Jock the fact that th am aside for shelter also must cover taxes, insurance, repairs and ther items of exnense nMwnrv to living in one's own home. Therefore, it is imperative that these costs be reduced wherever possiDie. conomy in fuel use can represent the largest saving." Since repeated tests show that 15 per cent' of the fuel can be ayed by complete, full-thick insulation, this means an annual saving of approximately $94.50 in the average home burning 1,800 gallons of 15 cent fuel oil a season. This is equivalent to more than erae month's payment on a $10,000 JM year, 4 per cent mortgage.

Peter P. 7arn Buys North Brunswick Home xoarn Brunswick. Feb. 23. Mr.

and Mrs. Peter P. Warn have bought from Mr. and Mrs. Helmut von Erffa the four and one-half room dwelling at 51 Garemont avenue, corner of Eoseland place, located on a lot tO by 100 feet.

The buyers will take possession when redecora-tien is completed. The sellers have moved to their newly built home ca Hoe's lane, Piscataway town-'. ahip. Co-brokers In the sale were Walter and Charles VogeL Attorneys for sellers and buyers, respectively, were Joseph H. Edgar and William D.

Danberry. F. S. Wolf Buys House In Monroe Township MONROE TOWNSHIP, Feb. 25 Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick S. Wolf have bought from Dorothea B. Maynard a six-room dwelling on Half Acre-Gravel road, located on approximately two acres. The buyers have taken possession.

Wolf is employed by General Motors Corporation, Trenton. The broker in the sale was Walter Hutchinson. Attorneys for seller and purchasers, respectively, were Albert Barclay and Morris Both. W. Snow Purchases In Piscataway Township PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP, Feb.

25 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Snow have bought from Mr. and Mrs.

Sol Vinik a four-room dwelling built by Vinik on Metlars lane on a lot 62.15 by 350 feet. The buyers have taken possession. Attorneys for sellers and buyers, respectively. were Jacob Cohen and Lewis D. Busch, both I of Jew Brunswick.

I Lincoln Village Houses Bought By II Couples Raritan Homes, Has Sold Units of Four And Half Rooms RARITAN TOWNSHIP. Feb. 23 Raritan Homes represent ing sommer Brothers, builders, has transferred title to 11 more of the dwellings, each of four and one-half rooms and each located on a lot approximately 65 by 100 feet, built by the seller In Lin coln village, Its development. Dwellings oh Idlewild road. Lincoln Village, were bought by Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Poole You- mans, Mr. and Mrs. William Gar-ruto, Joseph O'Neill, Mr. and Carl L.

Mix, Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Thomas, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Louis Kephart Purchasers of dwellines on Crescent road In the development were Mr.

and Mrs. Albert J. Boardman, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J.

De Meo, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frank Heller, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert J.

D'Aloisio. A dwelling on Old Post road was bought by William Jackson. The purchasers have all taken possession. Tlie seller has completed or under construction 303 similar dwellings in this development- of which 165 are sold or under con tract of sale, and 59 purchasers nave moved into possession. Werksman.

Saffron Clifton attorneys, represented all parties to the transfers. Contractor Sells Five-Room Home, To Erect Another RARITAN TOWNSHIP. Feb. 25 Mr. and Mrs.

Christopher Mon- tanino have bought from George Hennig the five-room dwelling built by the seller on the corner of Old Post road and Chestnut street, located on lot 75 by 100 feet The buyers have taken possession. Attorneys for seller and buyers. respectively, were Acuer fit Mezey of New Brunswick and Christian J. Jorgensen of Perth Amboy. Hennig plans to proceed at once, 'weather permitting, with the erection of a four-room dwelling on Chestnut street adjoining the property sold.

Indications are that the Administration is going to get a -middle income" housing bill through Congress, despite strong opposition. The alleged lack of adequate housing for families with incomes of $4,000 to $3,000 per year is going De supplied at federal expense, immediate, or postponed until federally-insured mortgages become delinquent The feature of the House and Senate bills arousing most controversy is the provision for ail to cooperative housing ventures. The bill approved last Wednesday by the House Banking Commit-, tee would have the government guarantee $2,000,000,000 in mortgages on the co-ops, while the bUl reported out by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee oa Thursday limits the federal guaranty to $1,000,000,000. Among the opposition are per sons who believe the government should remain solvent able to pay its debts as they accrue persons who think the -so-called "middle-income" group doesn't need subsidized housing speculative builders with whom the proposed cooperative projects would compete, and persona who thmk the whole cooperative idea is bad business and essentially false. See Overspending The first group see over-epend-Ing, deficit financing and mounting national debt, as administration policy, vnanouncer and occasionally denied, but obvious.

Ta "tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect" has been Democratic procedure since the beginning of Roosevelt's second term and it has been good politics. It has elected and elected. It has kept prices moving up and up, cheapening money. The ctim is the old-style American who laid by for a rainy day, took out insurance, and otherwise prepared to take care of himself when his working years were past His bank account, insurance policy and gilt-edge bonds, are worth today only one-half of what they were in 1938 in exchange for goods, wares and merchandise. That thrifty type Is evidently an inconsiderable minority.

The balance of power at the voting booth, on the evidence, is held by the Come-day-go-day-God-send-Sunday American who hae to borrow every week aeainst nav- day, who doesn't-fret about the buying power of money because he hasn't any, except on pay-day. sseg ior Tenants The second group of obtectora can't see how persons with incomes of $3,000 per year or even considerably less can be rated as the middle income, and "unable to pay free market rents. They point out that per capita income for New Jersey, resorted by U. S. Department of Commerce for- 1943 the latest available was $1,605.

Also that one quarter of the individual's income is re- -garded as a reasonable allowance for rent, and where in the Rari tan. Valley is $2,000. or anything like it, being asked for an apartment, even in new houses? The would-be tenant willing to spend $166.66 per month for rent is master of all he surveys. Fine four- room apartments in new build ings are begging for tenants at $100 per month, and less. (As for the builders, they sound- ed off in Chicago last week, at the convention of the National Association of Home Builders.

The N. A. H. B. was pleading its own case, of course, when It warned that federal backing for cooperative housing would interfere with private enterprise.

and might halt speculative building; but it had a pretty good case, on the figures. Still Can Choose There are dozens of builders in this area running up dwellings by the hundreds, if not by the thou sands, and the monthly carrying charges on all and any are a lot less than $166.66. Cut that figure in half, making purchase financially possible for the $4,000 a year man. and he can- still pick and choose. Those who oppose large federal aid for cooperative housing ventures because they think the co operative idea is basically tin- sound are usually in a position to cite sad examples of cooperative allure.

We've had several in thia area, one of them in housing. Farm cooperatives seem to get along, but those requiring techni cal knowledge and executive abil ity are less successful. Special skill earns a special reward, but not in cooperative theory. However, this federal aid to "middle income" housing is poli- tically motivated, and, on present Indications, is going to get Con- -gressional approval. Hecld Organize Bureau The Administration plan Is to' set up a new government bureau to finance housing co-ops.

The bureau, or corporation, would raise the one or two billion dollars by selling federally guaran- teed bonds to banks and other in- vestors, and then the corporation will lend the money to the co- ops at low interest for terms up 63 years. The co-ops would be required to put up 2tt per cent of the amount of: th requested loan when applying for it and an other 2Vi per cent when the building is 'completed: and then 5 per cent more spread over 23 years. The Administration would also have the corporation make loans to co-ops for the expense ef McMORROW- that give a home individuality," aeciarea Mrs. Mollgaard. like flower-boxes, built-in book niches, closets, good liehtins.

pieasmg color s.7 Right and not expensive. An pearance is everything with women, and-a jerry-built house can be dolled up to please. Also, a really good job will not win ap proval, ii it fails to charm the wifely eye. Reminds me of when I bought my summer place on Fire Island, years ago. My wife and I went to look at the home, taking with us the lady next door.

The house had everything we wanted. I thoueht. I wai snM nn it, but the ladies turned thumbs aown, said it wouldn't do at all. And why? They finally told me. "The kitchen is too dark." Now, I had liked that kitchen precisely because it was so light, with two huge windows to the north, and glass-pannelled doors to east and west; but it had never been painted, and there were dark recesses here and If th women had gone to look at the house by themselves, the owner would have lost a sale, for want of a gallon of white paint Mrs.

Mollgaard was right. The owner who wants to sell will naint up and dress up, have the place apic ana span. First impressions are lasting, particularly with women. Attention. ownri nH builders.

Social Club 4 To Address County Realtors Perth Amhoy Lawyer XTffliSpeak on 'Contracts' At Meeting of Middlesex County Board of Realtors in Packer House on Wednesday Company Hopes Building Can Be Occupied Aug. 1 Johnson Johnson hopes to to occupy Its new research center in North Brunswick townshin on August l. Tn modern building. adjacent to J. J.s Industrial Tape and Ethicon Suture plants, Will bring together the research activities Of those Johnson Johnson compaines.

More than 35,000 feet of floor space will be provided to consolidate Industrial Tape and Ethicon Suture projects. The build ing will stand on a 90-acre tract Ground was broken in Novem ber for the call for a buff colored tile building shaped like an with an at tached two-story office building. The office will be made of sandstone and blue glass and will include 12,000 square feet of floor space. i To Be Attractive A hlgb-celinged reception room with two-story windows will carry out Robert W. Johnson's theory that factories, like homes, should be visually attractive.

Present specifications take care only of immediate needs, accord ing to research authorities. Future expansion, however, has been considered and additions can be built without impairing the ar chitecture or causing a stoppage of work. A staff of 173 persons will be housed' in the building. More than 100 will be scientific work ers. Besides, the laboratories, the new center will provide directors' offices, an expanded library and a large cafeteria.

Has Many Advantages With coordinated research activ ities, "it will be possible to have and use equipment in common Continued on page 28. Buys House employes of Johnson Johnson. Stanley Kopec is the president The purchased property will be used by the local for offices and meeting rooms and as a recreation center. The broker in the was Lawrence J. Casey of the office of J.

Joseph Connor. John A. Lynch was attorney for all parties to the transfer. i 4 7. i i me builders are comradely, like to get together.

It was not like that in, the olden days, when the business was highly cut-price, cut-throat Rival biiild ers chancing to meet back in the '20's, would walk around each other like strange dogs. The evident answer is that gov ernment is financing building 100 per cent; and that it's easy to sell for "nothing down." Every Sunday Fra reporting another development all sold out, sometimes before the cellars are. dug. Nice business if you can tret It. Property owners who paid real American dollars for their hold ings will ibe the sufferers.

In fact, they're suffering already: try to sell an older house for cash money, and youll cut and cut Municipalities dependent on real estate taxes are due to suffer, too, ana uiose wno nave to pay the taxes when real estate runs dry. Are liood Buys Just the same. those "nothlnc down" homes are good buys. What aoes me price matter, if you're given tick for it for 25 or 30 at an interest rate that savings banks used to pay on deposits? And can you see the government getting tough with those millions of veteran-owners, when the slump hits and they can't keep up payments? The building boom is going on and on, getting bigger and better, according to Raymond M. Foley, administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, who learned what he knows about building and real estate while working as a newspaperman and public relations councillor.

Talking to the builders. Foley told them not to shake hands with themselves for starting more than 1,000,000 homes in 1949. "The country will need more than 1,000,000 new dwelling units an nually ior many years." said Fo ley, and "We need more rental housing, at much lower rents." Isn't Investment If that's the. official govern ment view and what Foley said was endorsed by the commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration and by the director of the loan guaranty service of the Veterans Administration, who also spoke residential real estate is no investment. AH residential reality is trending toward "nothing down." The builders were more constructive when they talked among themselves.

There are several women in the building business. Mrs. Henry Mollgaard, a Milwaukee builder, discoursed on building homes to suit women, which is wise. The husband who buys a home without his wife seeing it first, is asking for trouble. Women want the little things John M.

Toth Obtains Raritan Township Home RARITAN TOWNSHIP. Feb. 25 Mr. and Mrs. John M.

Toth have bought from Mr. and Mrs. G. Wei don Smith a five-room dwelline on mgniana avenue, located on a lot 3U oy 107 feet The buyers will take possession this summer when the sellers move to their new home now under construction near Edeebrook. Toth is an employe of American Railway Express.

Attorneys for sellers and buy ers, respectively, were Joseph Halpern of Somervllle and Simon A. Bahr of New Brunswick. TO MEET IN APRIL NEW YORK. Feb. 25 The next meeting of the Regional Plan Association.

will be held in April. Jacob H. Bernstein of Perth Amboy an attorney, will the speaker the meeting of the Middlesex County Board of Real tors, Charles S. Bruno, secretarv. has announced.

The meeting will do neia at uie packer House. Perth Amboy, on Wednesday at 6:30 p. m. Bernstein's subject will be "Contracts." A graduate of the New Jersey Law School in 1926, aamittea to uie state bar in 1927, he is a past president of the Perth Amboy Bar Association, and 'EngineeredrI Codwise ven been purchased by the 630 Social Club, composed of members of Local 639. Textile Workers Union of America, CXO.

"630" Social Club, a corporation representing local 630, Textile Workers Unico of America, C. O. has bought from Mrs. Wini fred C. Queenan and Miss Kath-erine E.

Queenan the 10 -room dwelling at 16 odwise avenue, lo- wwea on a 101 23 oy 100 feet. The buyer has taken possession, the sellers moving- to 265 Handy street Local 630 is composed of union 3 four-room house with breezeway and attached garage was erected by Brunswick Inc. 46 Bayard street for Mr. and Mrs. J.

A. Behrens on their property on Ainsworth avenue. East Brunswick township. The Behrens formerly were Florida residents. VTh.e one-alf tor dwelling can be.

delivered and erected in three days, according to Earl Martin, executive manager of the company, which claims to be the oldest "engineered" home manufacturer in New Jersey. Continued oa page X3. i..