The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 40

10 TEN" COMMERCIAL fflo'mzg Sxmhmi Commerce and Real Estate News Review of Des Moines Business NOVEMBER 1, 1942. TO ORDNANCE PLANT John K. Valentine Ranch Type Home at Centerville Plan Highway Opening for Nov. 15 EEK TO BEAT BAD WEATHER 'I I 5- To Relieve Traffic on Highway 60, 69. I ii.ua--' -xwivrf-oi' "iWr j.wm'ihh) With good weather the new Second ave.

ordnance plant highway, will be opened to traffic by Nov. 15, according to W. W. Winslow, resident engineer for the highway random width plank floors, heavy pole ceiling beams, with adobe type plaster. There is a large game room in the basement and the living room measures 28 by 17 feet.

A stoker provides heat. The Valentines have furnished the home in Indian style with furniture and furnishings purchased in New Mexico. The house was designed by Amos B. Emery of Des Moines and built by Tommy Jones of Albia. The decorator was Lynn J.

Weatherington, Des Moines. This is a rear view of the ranch style home built by John K. Democratic candidate for governor in the 1940 election, and now in naval service, in Lane Heights at Centerville, at approximate cost of $12,000. A two-bedroom home, it has commission. Much work on shoulders, sodding, seeding and laying sidewalks along the highway inside the city remains, but work is being speeded to make the highway usable by winter.

A 22-foot concrete slab has been laid the 6.6 miles from Euclid avenue north to connect with highway 0 and crews are now placing an 11 i foot slab along one side of the new paving north Overpass on new Second ave. highway from Des Moines to the ordnance plant where Second, ave. crosses the Niylorille road leading to AVoodsido golf course and E. Fourteenth hi. Highway Is not jet open to traffic, workmen completing grading operations for second two-lane paved roadway.

One two-lane roadway is paved hut soinn work remains to he done on hridges and shoulders. Iowa Plants Maize SCHULTZ NOW AT CRESTON Cargo Vessel Parts DETROIT, MICH. W) The of from Euclid ave. A similar slab PAY $561,395 BACK WAGES Back wages totaling $561,395 fice of war information reported Robert Schultz, former agency OLSON TO D. M.

PHONE OFFICES goes on the other side to provide a 45-foot roadway for the four-lane section. Small-Need Ordersl No need to waif until ycu have a large order, to learn how better wo can serva yoj. Phono yours today! manager for I he Register ana Tribune at Indlanola, has Contractor Calls Alaska a Fairyland moved to Cres ere he Four Ianes. As now planned the highway will be four lanes from Euclid avenue north to about 700 feet outside Friday that the Fisher Governor Co. of Marshalltown, and the McDonald Manufacturing Co.

of Dubuque are producing parts for cargo vessels. Parts produced by these plants may be sent to 68 different shipyards, the OWI said. were paid to 11,979 Iowa workers pw-f; ton under the wage-hour law during 3 will be a gency the first nine months of this year, manager for the alter W. King, regional director, 1 1 the city. From there on the 22-foot slab is all that is now con same newspapers Schultz will reported Saturday.

This was an increase of 'it tracted for, although right-of-way Alaska is a magic fairyland of untapped wealth and opportunity for business, agriculture and homesteading, according to Ralph Green, Des Moines contractor, just re have exclusive su has been purchased and grading Succeeds Ostberg As Manager. E. T. Olson, Mason City, has been appointed manager of the 2nd, 4th and 5th offices for the "itrn Hell Tele- pervision of all Register and completed for a second 22-foot 895 over the $174,500 in restitutions made to 3,008 workers under the minimum wage and overtime turned from there. i bune circula- anywhere.

Some cabbage heads provisions of the law during the Fly Your Flag Armistice HDatiuj same period or last year, he said. were 16 to 18 inches in diameter. Alaska is rich in mining possibilities, he reported, and you can slab the entire distance. The work now under contract will cost approximately the government providing the money from a congressional appropriation for access roads to vital military installations. Right-of-way also has been pur i a ti vities i hin Creston, i 1 a ting through an estab-1 i carrier, dealer and corner pan some gold out of almost any 1 phone Co.

at Des Monies, accord-fing to C. T. iTfes JZfZ'A Young, district stream. He said, however, it might not be in sufficient quantities to StHlLTZ. 'A manager.

Olson sales organization. chased for the cast end of the pay working regularly. Many May Stay. I succeeds H. F.

It alsohas unlimited possibilities as an after-the-war vacation land for Iowans and others in the Uni ted States, Green said, in discussing his 10-months work there in building roads and airports. Most of the 1,400 Iowans who have spent GET Your Flag Out NOW! Look It Over and Make Sure Its Ready to Put Up Wednesday, November 11th And of Course If -You Haven't a Flag or Need a New One There Is Still Time to Order But You'd Better Do It NOW! at the north end which will "This money went in the main to the worker at the bottom of our economic ladder the $12 to $16 a week employe," King declared, "and much of it was spent to meet the advance of living costs." The law sets a general minimum of 30 cents an hour with other minimums ranging up to 40 cents an hour in certain industries. It also requires payment of time and one-half the regular rate Gordon Addington, formerly with Peterson Baking Company of Cedar Rapids, has succeeded Schultz at Indianola. connect the roadway with high lOstberg who be-1 comes manager Green said many workmen and way 69 or E. Fourteenth st, Purpose.

for the company vjat Sioux City, la. The highway has been built for the purpose of carrying the ord Olson has been manager for the N'orthwe stern nance plant traffic to and lrpm Des Moines to relieve congestion about 25 per cent of the United States troops he contacted in Alaska, have hopes of settling there after the war. Prices, he related, appear to be the only stumbling block to living or vacationing there, but he thinks development of the country and lower transportation costs over the new highway will bring them GREKN. TIGER BUNTING FLAGS of Extra-Heavy Douhle Warp moth-proof cotton Sewed Star and Stripes Canvas crommeterl heaillnc Particularly recommended for outdoor u.e. (Sixth Ave.) and of pay for all hours over 40 per Boll company at since May 1, 1940.

OI.SOX. Mason City on highways 60 69. week. the last five months building the Alaska end of the highway through Canada are en route home for the winter. 4x6 Foot $4.20 3x5 Foot $2.90 2x3 Foot $1.90 Iowa contractors completed 350 DESK FLAG OUTFIT A Fin Quality 4x6-tnch Cela-nese Taffeta Flag with Gold Rayon Cord and Tassels, on Enameled Staff with Gilt Spear Top Stands 11 Inches hlish on Walnut Finish Wood Paper-WelKhl embossed with "The Pledce of Mleuiance." miles on the Alaskan end of the highway and Secretary of War Henry L.

Stimson announced COTTON SHEETING FLAGS of Good-Quality Heavy Cotton Kheellni; Sewed Stripes Printed Stnrs Cronimeted Canvas HendinK -Kxrel-lent fur Home Uso AN UNUSUAL. VAL.UK. Established roadhouses, he said, now charge $1.50 for a regular meal, an Increase from formerly charged. Beer is 40 cents a bottle, coca cola 25 cents. The long shipping route up the Thursday that the new highway Right-of-way for the six miles' of paving in the country varies from 200 to 240 feet wide but in some places it is more, and where permanent improvements are lo- i cated, it is somewhat less.

The highway as planned calls, for a 90-foot width from shoulder! to shoulder, with two 22-foot concrete slabs and a 30-foot separation strip between slabs for reasons of safety. The road undoubtedly will be a popular drive as much of it trav- ANYTIME ANYWHERE Rates: 10c per mile, single passenger. 18c per mile two passengers. For cargo freight equivalent rates. All rat-s based on round trip mileage.

Anytime during daylight hours on one hour notice. Fast, Convenient, Comfortable Heated Cabin Planes DODGE AIRWAYS, IXC. SOUTH OK HYI'KRION CI.UB MERCHANTS ATTENTION! flan Your Christmas Display Now Your order wilt filled from mir nwn Htorr In li Mliir. 'mnplrte tmk of YMnilow and interior 1I- 1'lny Miitrriul. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED Kesl Displays 1C BELONGS OS EVERY DESK 4xR I'oot $1.85 3x5 Foot $1.20 is now open for military use over the entire route.

Iowa Contracts. Green's company, the -(2 r'e Construction and the Lytle Construction Sioux City, have the management contract for building the Alaskan end of Pacific has been largely responsible for the high prices, and they should go down somewhat when Shortly after being graduated from the State University of Iowa during June, 1931, he began work with the telephone company here as a clerk in the business office. He also has been a service engineer here and at Davenport arid Dubuque. He was sales supervisor at Cedar Rapids and district sales supervisor at Davenport before becoming xuonager at Mason City. Ostberg has been one of the two managers here during the past year.

He came to Des Moines from Waterloo where he was district commercial supervisor during the previous eight years. Ostberg started work with the telephone company as a telephone installer and repairman at Waterloo in June, 1929, shortly after being graduated from the State University of Iowa. (Mail Orders Please Add 10c Sales Tax and Postage) military needs lessen, thus allow TAFFETA FLAGS Rich. Lustrous Flac Taffeta Beautifully Tailored with Sewed Stripes and Embroidered Stars. Ideal Flag for Indoor dipplay in Church.

Lodge. School and Office. ing regular commercial traffic to erscs new territory, largely roll-use the new highways. I ing and heavily wooded. the highway.

The two firms also rite Us About Your FIr Needs Service Flats Church Flag Outfits Allied Nation Flags Flag Staffs, Bases, Accessories. 4x6 Foot $14.50 3x5 Foot $9 SECURITY Foi Them Before All Else! (Mail Orders Add Sales Tax Plus 12c Postage and Packing) 7tt have built a number of airports there. Seventeen Iowa contracting firms participated in the Alaska project. They arc E. M.

Dusen-bcrg, the Frank Eblen Construction William Horrabin Contracting V. Y. Lundeen, Gus Ostermann Sons, J. W. Scothorn Construction Sears Construction Ira Van Buskirk Son, Ben Cole Son, Duvall McKinney, Clyde Elliott, Graves Brothers Construction Hughes Easton, L.

Peterson, Wcldon Brothers, West a on 6vn ri ovf 1 wmki I 5Bh-PMONC HNMM I li--t 2ZM A PROMOTION FOR SWARZMAN With Insurance Firm For 15 Years. ern Engineering Co. and J. Leo Hoak. Yes, those stories you hear about swell fishing and hunting are not exaggerated, according to Green, but the Iowa men who built Roy L.

Swarzman, 4119 manager of the Des i i the highway worked 11 hours a day, seven days a week, so had little time for such sport. Contractors operated two 11-hour shifts, feasible because of the largely all daylight hours during the Alaska summers. Workmen were paid from $70 to $135 a week, depending on skill, which he said was not exorbitant consider- "We're Putting Funds Aside To Enlarge Our Home" Moines district of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, has been promoted to assistant agency manager. Swarzman has been with the conpany 15 years, serving as group insurance supervisor, Des Moines city man 0hi ing hardshiPs- Miiiifnil -aW" 1 Ml ill 1 TOY tzt 1 Like Iowa Summer. Men paid $1.50 a day for board and room (rooms in tents or old CCC barracks shipped in and assembled) which was about half the actual cost, the government paying the difference.

He said food costs are high because of shipping and transportation charees. ager and district swarzman. manager in northwest Iowa before becoming district manager in 1938. In the new position, Swarzman Accordine to Green, summers in vmu continue to nave supervision the interior where the highway is and this at our house a we'll have funds to solarium pay for NEED more room bedroom and ever production ior tne company jocatcdi are much llke an Iowa 11 central Iowa counties, tne lonj; daylight hours another I 9 ins to state agency vegetables of unheard of manager. siZ(, and quality.

Nelson reported Swarzman's per-j He saw cabbage, cauliflower, Fonal production has exceeded potatoes and other root vegetables 5250.000 yearly since 1938 and in the Matanuska valley district has shown gains over 1941 which excelled vegetables raised in seven months so far this year Have you taken the all-important step providing a guaranteed income for your wife and family in the event of your premature death? The Family Income Policy will provide a monthly income for your wife until the children are self-sup FOR VICTORY: Iluy V. War Bonds, Stamps TODAY. addition when critical materials are available again after the War. "The plan we're following is simple one any family can adopt to provide a new basement playroom, a finished attic, or any other improvement desired. We're buying War Bonds every month to help the Government in financing the War today to provide funds tomorrow for the improvements we want." For whatever purpose you buy War Bonds today, protect them and your other valuables from theft, loss or fire by keeping them in a Safe Deposit Box in the vaults of this Bank.

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