Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 16

PAGE SIXTEEN NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, RENO, NEVADA' SUNDAY. AUGUST 25. 1940 STEADY VALUE RESTS IN LAND Pointing to the desirability of leveing real estate cycles and creating sound long-term values, Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald recently declared that on these two needs rested the question of price stability in real estate. Neighborhood blight with its devastating repercussions on values and tax income is one of the glaring weaknesses of American cities, he continued, and its correction and future prevention must be sought as a basis for strengthening the value structure of real estate. Officials See Control Need "There is a growing realization today or, the part of municipal officials," Mr.

McDonald asserted, "that haphazard growth always leads to declining tax revenues and fiscal troubles. Towns everywhere are placing far more emphasis than ever before on planning, zoning, and subdivision control measures. They no longer proceed on the theory that control measures are not needed, nor do they accept neighborhood blight as part of the life cycle of properties and a symptom of growth." Public officials are now looking for means of restoring old neighborhoods and preventing Blight, he continued, and they no longer expect commercial expansion in itself to overcome decay. Value Destroyed by Decay "Premature decay of neighborhoods, due to failure to provide for orderly town development," Mr. McDonald pointed out, "has cut short the economic life of thousands of properties, and millions in property values have been destroyed through wasteful methods." The land planning division of the Federal Housing Administration, he said, cooperates with local communities and outlines the benefits of city planning and proper land-control programs.

"The shrinkage of tax receipts," he declared, "is gradually convincing town officials and showing them the way. Here the FHA can exert a powerful influence, for it is entirely within our function to withhold insurance of mortgage loans on homes in neighborhoods not properly developed or on homes not desirably located with respect to public conveniences. "It is also a part of our business to aid builders and others in planning neighborhoods and to encourage real estate interests to seek home buyers in areas of the proper kind." NEW HOME COMPLETED HERE Forethought Demands Close Attention to the Selection of the Heating: Plant in Your New Home HOLLAND FURNACE CO. 1 FACTORY BRANCH 440 Valley Road Phone 4210 BUILDING SOARS TO HIGH LEVEL This home In the 400 block of East Taylor was recently completed by H. S.

Marshall, contractor, for W. B. Shaw. It features modern designing both Inside and out and has an automatic heating plant, tile In the kitchen and a half basement. Suggested designs for homes like the above are being featured each week in this building section by the Western Homes Foundation.

(Journal Photo) FHA STANDARDS BOOSTLEVELS Accomplishments and results of the Federal Housing Administration's efforts to encourage better residential construction standards are clearly evident to any observer of the newly developing districts in a city where home building has been active during post-depression period, according to FHA officials. In place of the typical urban development of homes crowded closely together along main highways, once a characteristic feature of home building, one now finds the typical small-house development located near the maw highway but with quiet local streets that afford no attraction to through traffic, they explain. Streets Better Adaped Streets are now better adapted topography, trees are preserved wherever possible, and care is taken to preserve the topsoil, FHA officials say. The excessively long and narrow lot has given vay to the shallower but wider lot that is better adapted for living requirements, architectural appearance has been vastly improved, and the quality of construction generally has been raised. FHA Credited Unsolicited testimonials indicate that observers have been almost unanimous in giving the FHA great credit for these trends.

They recognize, say FHA officials, that its influence extends far beyond the houses on which it actually insures mortgages. Babson Discusses By ROGER BABSON SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. poker game is on in earnest between Japan and the U. S. We "opened" last summer with the cancellation of the trade treaty we signed in 1911.

Then we "raised" the Japanese with the license restrictions on arms and ammunition in May. Now we arc raising the bid again by ex- fending these restrictions to scrap iron and petroleum. Japan is boiling mad, but she is staying right in the game by threatening to grab the Dutch East Indies, source of our vital rubber supplies. Freer Hand for Nippon We never worried much about Japan as long as the British could keep a weather eye peeled on the ambitious little fellows. It was, of course, hard for American missionaries to explain to wounded Chinese why Japan should be raping China with American genius, arms and materials! But now with the Axis twisting the British Lion's tail, it's a different story.

The British Asiatic fleet still commands the vital Straits of Malacca, but can this fleet keep watch over the mighty Japanese navy while the British home fleet is battling for its-life in the North Sea? This is the question which thinking people asking here on the Pacific THE READY-MADE KITCHEN EVERY WOMAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH If you are Building or just thinking of Building, be sure to see the Peerless Kitchen Display. You can see your Kitchen before it is installed and you can save up to because they are ready made $57 up. A. T. Eveleth Lumber Co.

802 East Fourth at Underpass Phone 4156 The PACKAGE WINDOW A New Way to Save Money Yet Maintain the Highest Quality! FLANAGAN WAREHOUSE --DISTRIBUTORS-'Ask Your Lumber Dealer" I I coast. If the British should be licked (and I don't believe they will be), of our fleet would have to rush from the Pacific into the Atlantic. It is a cinch that the Japs would move quickly in such contingency. If the British are not licked, even so the pressure on them will be terrific. Tkey will find it hard to protect the Dutch East Indies even if they want to.

The Japs know we then be the only obstacle. Will they gamble on the chance that we won't act? Will they grab the Indies before we can move and hope that U. S. citizens will shrug their shoulders and mutter, "Why should American boys defend Dutch possessions in the far-off Orient?" It seems a good question. Why should they? I will give you the reason.

Can you imagine a U. motorized army of scout cars tnicks, airplanes, without rubber tires? Could the U. S. or Canadian industrial system function with tireless automobiles, trucks and buses? I doubt it. We and our Canadian brothers must have rubber! Our new synthetic rub- ber--Ameripol--will not be ready in sufficient amount for severa years.

The Dutch East Indies are our principal source of nat ural rubber although we ge some from Africa and some from Brazil. So Japan is hiking our bid of an embargo on scrap iron and oil by getting set to pounce on the Dutch East Indies. Of course, President Roosevel says it isn't an embargo. It ony a licensing system--but a exporters here in San Francisco say, "Try to get a license!" The license order does not say who it is aimed at, but exporters wil tell you how quicky your ap Good Roof Ploys Important Part In Construction of Livable Home red tape if it is for permission ship to Japan. This is a serious jlow to Japan because she de- oends on our scrap and oil to wild her growing war machine We supply her with 70 and 90 er cent respectively of these materials.

Chemists Belter Than Soldiers Moreover, she depends on us .0 pay for her imports of scrap ind oil through our gigantic purchases of silk. This end of the -lusiness does not look so good for the Japanese either. Japan really fears American chemistry than American diplomacy. is beginning to take the olace of silk in women's hosiery. it already has taken over 10 per cent of the market! Cutting off our silk purchases can be a mortal wound to Japan because, license system or no license system, the foreign exchange necessary to purchase American scrap and oil would put a tremendous load on her already over-strained financial system.

To Shoot the Works? It is evident, therefore, that the Japanese may, sooner or later, be forced to "shoot the is to risk war with Britain and the United States. Many a foreign observer believes we should beat her to the punch by starting now while she is em- oroiled in China, while Britain ran help us, while Russia is still a menace to the Nipponese. At any rate, the fuel for a first class U. embroglio is all there. Only thing lacking is the coast to set it off and many a resident is fearful that Boosted by two large permits for additions to El Cortez Hotel, construction in Reno for the month of August has already skyrocketed to one of the highest monthly totals ever recorded by the city engineer's office, and another full week remains before the month is ended.

A total of 5265,574 in building permits have been issued to date this month. The highest construction figure for any month in 1939 was in September when permits, to- talled $233,133. Building permits for additions for El Cortez hotel totalled 5128,000. Ninety thousand will be used for an addition for additional hotel space, while 538,000 is to be used for an addition to house a new cocktail lounge. Permits issued during the past week and a half at the city engineer's office follow: T.

Vaughn, addition at 1201 South Virginia street, 5200; Nick Ginocchio, remodeling at 409 Cheney Street, 5222; William Caddigan, re modeling at 306 North Virginia Street, 550; I. Christensen, remodeling at Second and Gardner streets, 5250; R. C. Rather, remodeling at 344 Mill Street, S1000; Orville Nov- elly, garage at 420 Wonder Street 5250. Abe Zetooney, addition to El Cortez Hotel, Abe Zetooney addition to El Cortez Hotel, White Pine Lumber Distributors remodeling at 235 Ralston Street, 5500; C.

Chase, addition at 121 Gardner Street, 51000; J. A. Armstrong, residence at 833 Humboldt Street, 57500; Mrs. Mary Franzman, residence at 140 Chism Street 53000; Harry Linnecke, garage at 416 Mill Street, 51600. L.

C. Berkey, remodeling at 921 Gordon avenue, 5145; E. A. Smith remodeling at 214 Stewart Street 5153; Edna P. Flagg, remodeling at 743 South Center Street, 5270 Mrs.

J. Dariiels, remodeling at 61! South Center Street, 5170; C. Rich, remodeling at 664 Ryland Street, 5100; C. W. Gudley, re modeling at 588 Forest Street, 580 A.

McKenzie, remodeling at 31( Roberts Street, 5150; Nick Lim berys, garage at 223 Cheney Street 5400. Lamb, remodeling at 533 Cheney Street, 5152; M. D. Han cock, residence at 1331 Plumas Street, 56000; M. Karl, residence a 851 Joaquin Miller Drive, 59000 Edd Lee, residence at 418 Burn Street, 54000; William H.

Savage residence at 1340 Lander Street 54500; C. W. Strand, remodeling at 845 West Seventh Street, S1SO Parmigiani, residence at 94: West Sixth Street, 54000; Loui Bassanelli, remodeling at 711 Humboldt Street, 5280. Trophies Are Presented TAHOE CITY, Aug. 24.

BUILDING--18--GOOD ROOF A roof is one of the less showy parts of the house, but about the nost important. In years past, was often neglected by the iome owner because putting on a new roof was an expensive item. Today, however, a new roof can be placed right on top of the old one with very little expense. The condition of the roofing material may make its removal desirable, but there are numerous advantages in modern re-roofing -nethods. Chief among these is extra insulation provided, jabor costs of removing the old covering and cleaning up the premises after the work is com- Dlcted are considerably reduced, and the scattering of dirt and debris over the house and surroundings is eliminated.

Aso, in case of rain during the period re-roofing, the interior of the hou-e is protected. Before applying new roofing all loose shingles should be nailed securely, protruding nails driven in, In nailing the new roofing, care should be rracks between neath. In case taken to avoid Youths Face Theft Charges TAHOE CITY, Aug. 24. (Special)--Six Lake Valley youths face grand theft charges at Placer- for the alleged theft of an boards under- estimated S1000 worth of articles nail is driven from parked cars in the Lake Val- through a crack, do not attempt an Fallen Leaf res ns TM accused are Benjamin Olenslager.

to remove it, but drive -another Bjjou Park william Birney, Al into the solid surface close by. Sufficiently long nails should be uced to fasten curely. the covering sa- In re-roofing with wood shingles over old wood shingles, it is possible to obtain a neat job and to retain good roof lines. It maybe done by cutting away a few inches of the old shingles at the and the surface made as uniform as possible. These precautions are necessary to insure a smooth finish on the roof and to avoid punching holes in the new.

material. SMALL HOUSE OFFERS MART The market for homes for families of moderate income is great enough to assure the building and related industries of an almost perpetual normal volume of small home gonstruction, Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald declared recently. Citing figures which indicate that the broad channel of the housing market runs through the 53 per cent of the families whose annual incomes range between 51,000 and 52,500, Mr. McDonald said that i these families had largely been ig- nored because of the lack of proper planning and organization. "The Federal Housing Administration has attempted to correct this condition," he-continued.

"We saw a need for providing a means by which these families of limited income could obtain homes. The FHA was also interested in seeing to it that these families obtained a square deal in their transaction, thus achieving the longer range objective of improving the housing standards of the country. Because of the FHA's activities the confidence of the public is slowly returning, and we are today witnessing a growing volume of small home building activity." Bijou Park; William Birney, Al Tahoe; Frank Molinari, Carl Hendershot, Ray Uierman and George Polaski. The last three are former members of the CCC and their ages range from 19 to 23 years. Sheriff George Smith said.

Arrest of the young men occurred in San Francisco last week end, when an attempt was made to awn or sel1 an expensive saxo- pyves and gables and laying in llon Po 'ce said. Preliminary a furring strip or batten to hide probably will be held next the sides and butts of the old shingles. The deterioration of nails used for roofing purposes is the principal -cause 'of roof failures. Nails often rust out and break off, allowing the covering to become loose long before the material it- shows signs of wear. Ordinarily, the use of rust-proof roofing nails is the most important factor in preserving roof surfaces.

For wood shingles, cut shingle nails are said to be best; and for composition shingles and roll roofing, large headed roofing are preferred. Never use ordinary wire nails. Roofing nails come in different lengths and should be selected according to the thickness to be penetrated. For two layers of wood shingles, 5d (fivepenny) nails are best and for one layer 3d (threepenny) nails are sufficient. FIGHT OX FROST The installation of storm sash, under the FHA's modernization credit plan, will aid immeasurably in combating the formation of winter frost if the installation is tight enough to prevent cold air from striking the inner windows.

ONYXITE The Stone Beautiful Baths, Showers, Dzainboatds No Joints or Seams, Waterproof and Sanitary EUGENE E. RAICHE 937 South Virginia Ph. 3370 MADE IN NEVADA For Nevada Climatic Conditions Proven Dependability! Ready-Mix Concrete South End of Sutro Street Phone 7106 (Special)--Johnny Vance of Glenbrook and Joe Richardson of Nevada won the season's gold trophies for calf roping and steer riding at the last rodeo of the season at the Nevada side lake shore resort, last week end. Thirty odd cowboys and a score of guests competed at the nine event program. Other results musical chairs.

Walt Stevenson; water Hatherly Bliss; bare back class, Hatherly Bliss; steer riding, Archie Mackintosh; calf roping Johnny Vance; steer roping, Joe Richardson; team roping, Levi Frazier and Johnny Mariani. A a a a. plication will get all snarled up things. Why not do it now? spontaneous combustion may start it. i Meanwhile, the oil and scrap restrictions have hit U.

S. business here on the coast harder than anywhere ese. Japan has been taking over 60,000 barrels of oil per day most of which is cleared through Los Angeles. While, small as compared with national race, Hatherly Bliss; stake race, crude oil output, it bulked big in '1 relation to California's already severely prorated output of 560,000 barrels daily. Shippers are not hurt by the oil restrictions because most of it sailed in Nipponese tankers.

Scrap -restrictions just so much more into the bustle and hustle here on San Francisco's docks freighters, already held down by the war and other fetters. License Policy Okay I am, however, all for the embargo license system or whatever you call it. I believe that tht Japanese are as big a menace to us as the Nazis, and I am 100 per cent in favor of doing everything we can, short of war, to prevent them from going too far. If, however, war is inevitable, perhaps it had better come now than when the -entire Axis group of nations are ready to put the screws on us. On the other hand, it seems as if, with all these nations worshipping the same God, there should be some way to settle these great problems without resort to war.

Sometime Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States MUST sit around a conference table and settle GARBAGE CONTAINER An underground a properly drained and having a pedal-operated cover is a good arrangement for concealment of garbage containers. Containers above ground can be included in a small lattice-screened or hedge-screened service yard-on the same side of the house as the garage driveway, kitchen, and service entrance. BE BITTEN AND BE HAPPY by the BUILDING BUG No Bewii Ptymmt No No Cndontn At Long 3 MPiy! Ut el Building Bug and our FHA-Budget Building retmi bring you mod- homo. Ntw roof, print, floort, gi- rigi, roomi, yotira for few i month. HOME LUMBER CO.

Ted Drennon, Manager 275 RALSTON STREET PHONE 6144 Rangers Fight at Lake TAHOE CITY, Aug. 24. (Special)--Forest rangers extinguished two small fires in the south Tahoe district this week near the Luther Pass road into Hope Valley, and another blaze near the storehouse of Young's Bijou resort. Several yards of brush were burned near Kings Beach Sunday morning, when a bonfire was left unattended, officers said. Fire fighting crews led by John Cox, lookout at Stateline at the north- end of the lake extinguished the blaze before serious -damage occurred.

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