The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 32

REAL ESTATE BUILDING NEWS NEW DWELLINGS HOME NEEDS CLASSIFIED DISPLAY, he Atnerttantafestttan REALTY TRENDS IMPROVEMENTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1958 PAGE 1 2 Courthouse Renovation Ncars End wmv- mnu.ii.mi Mmmifism m. i The more than $1 million county courthouse expansion and renovation job is in the final stages. 1 M. A. Weed, job superintendent for the Archie Fitzgerald Con Builders Will Open City Office The Jim Walter Corporation, world's largest builder of shell homes with general headquarters in Tampa, Saturday announced the opening of an office in Austin and the appointment of Norman Bumpers as its local manager.

This home building corporation is now located in 10 Southern states. Officials of the corporation define a shell home as one that is completely finished on the outside, including the foundation with the interior being finished by the home buyer at substantial savings. The Jim Walter Corporation has announced its homes range in price from $1,095 for a one bedroom home to $2,695 for a three bedroom unit. The sole business of the Jim struction Company Austin, said Saturday that May 1 is the com pletion date and at present the work is on schedule. Weed said most offices and courts now in temporary quarters will be able to move back into the courthouse as early as April I.

1 Additions are taking shape on all but the east side ot the old building and the entire interior of the original courthouse has been extensively remode'od and modernized. The new structure will provide more sorely needed courtrooms and more space for all offices. It will also be completely air con Norman Bumpers will be local manager of the Jim Walter Corporation which is opening an office in Austin. Jim Walter Corporation is the world's largest builder of shell homes. Home office is in Tampa, Fla.

4. a Jm I is' l--7 IT jjgV im urir in tm-iit- irfTZir- dition. While some agencies remained in the old building, the courts and related offices moved last April to the Steck Building; the "courthouse annex" for which the county is paying 52,900 per month rent. A second "annex" is in the Bolm Building on West 15th 9 Walter Corporation is the building and selling of "shell homes" on a cash or time basis. The corporation has enjoyed a steady constant rate of growth few others could ever hope to equal, It was announced.

In the first five years from 1946, it expanded at the rate of about 58 per cent per year and at 90 per cent from the next five years, with the greatest Increase of well over 200 per cent in the past two years. The Jim Walter Corporation home office is located in Tampa. Fla. with 52 branch offices throughout the South including, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Offices located in Texas are where the offices of Justices of tlie Peace J.

H. Watson and HOME LOANS Conventional FHA VA Travis Blakeslee and Constable Paul Blair have been located for several months. Cultivation Onlcr KARACHI (AP) Pakistan's President-Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan has ordered his governors at Waco, Houston, Corpus Christi, Austin Amtrican-tTI pany. The Ratchfords were winners of a contest held as part of the grand opening of the Castle Homes develop--ment, a new NPC subdivision.

Their big weekend began Saturday with "breakfast in bed." Freeport, and Dallas. of the East and West to put all available land under cultivation WEEKEND WINNERS Mr. and Mrs. R. W.

Ratchford of 3002 Washington Square hear the good news of their "Weekend at' the Sheraton-Terrace" from Ozzie Hardin (center), sales manager for Nash Phillips-Copus Corn- Keystone Kops within three months. Pakistan once was self-sufficient in foods and he hopes to make it so again. CALL US TO BUY BUILD REFINANCE tOR BUTTERKRUST begins to feel the squeeze of right-of-way widening on Lamar for the underpass to be built there at the Missouri-Pacific crossing. Another new project authorized by the building inspector is a two-story masonry apartment Bakery Construction Permit Told For a While NEW YORK (UPD-Neighbors called police when they saw four men breaking into a nearby building with crowbars and axes. Ten policemen answered the call, arriving with revolvers drawn.

One group confronted the other. Then somebody recognized some-else, and it turned out the "robbers" were detectives bent on smashing a bookie Joint. One arrest was made. Austin Baking Company turned hotel to be built at 1322 East 12th Street by the J. C.

Evans Ml I1I1 UIW Austin American-UPI tion Company have been granted street space during the razing of the structure to clear the site for the new drive-in banking facility to be built by the City National Bank. uuVLl-vn inc. A building permit issued by the city building Inspector Friday authorized construction of the big North Austin plant with construction cost of the foot building estimated at $154,000. Austin Baking Company, its formal ground-breaking ceremonies already attended to, is ready now for full-scale construction activity on its new Butterkrust Bakery at 5S00 Airport Boulevard. Construction Company.

With 5,200 square-feet of space, the apart BANK WORK Another downtown landmark a two-story red brick business at 109 East Ninth Street is giving way to progress during the coming Franks and Hobbs Construc- out its Butterkrust products for years at its present location in the 300 block of North Lamar. Construction of the new plant comes just as the old location 104 W. 10th GR 7-4469 ment hotel job carries a $30,000 cost estimate. Forever GSt Central Texas Winters are Notably short and mild, and before long, it will be summer again. How would you like to spend this summer cool and comfortable? The builders of Greenwood Forest now make available, for the first time, a completely air-conditioned home At a Price YOU Can Afford! SllilWJFTK built 1 with in rprpp famous 3 AIR CONDITIONING IS NO LONGER FOR THE "FEW" EVERYONE CAN RECEIVE THE BENEFITS TO HEALTH, HAPPI-NESS, AND FAMILY HARMONY THAT AIR CONDITIONING OFFERS.

THIS IS A FULLY-DUCTED GENERAL ELECTRIC "WHOLE HOUSE" UNIT THAT IS INEXPENSIVE TO SERVICE AND OPERATE, USES NO WATER, AND IS OF STURDY, LONG LASTING CONSTRUCTION. GREENWOOD FOREST AIR CONDI-TIONED HOMES ARE FULLY INSULATED WITH LIBBY-OWENS FIBERGLAS FOR IMPROVED LOW COST OPERATION. ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS AT A PRICE THAT COMPARES WITH 3 BEDROOM HOMES THAT ARE NOT AIR CONDITIONED. FULLY AIR CONDITIONED HERE'S HOW YOU GET THERE: Drive south on South First to tho 4400 block, just post St. Elmo Road.

DOWNTOWN AUSTIN PRICED FROM gSCj fc nnr i et, i. If frtuvio P.QT 100 G.I. LOANS NOTHING DOWN FHA AND CONVENTIONAL LOANS AVAILABLE 3 BIG BEDROOMS MANY CLOSETS FULL-TILE STARLITE BATH BRONZEGLO BIRCH KITCHEN CABINETS FAMILY ACTIVITY AREA BIG LOTS WITH TREES AND A VIEW THE FINEST OF MATERIALS FORCST 4529 SOUTH FIRST STREET Greenwood Forest HI 2-671 EE! AND WORKMANSHIP THREE BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOMES ARE AVAILABLE AT A SLIGHTLY HIGHER COST. BLOPMBHT MJ.