Newspapers / The enterprise. / Oct. 8, 1940, edition 1 / Page 3
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laslJIIILI&HRHCS' jfl II IE IP'A\ II in. IIM 45' ^mERflO>aQ 1EILIIKI4& Fall Construction Off To A Good Start In Williamston Appeal Has Much To Do With Home Appeal in a home is an element sought by all builders and home buyers, but what constitutes appeal and how it is measured are questions which most builders find hard to answer. Because appeal is purely relative, it must be measured by the attitude of the income group or social class which makes up the market for prop erties near the location under con sideration, in the belief of Federal Housing Administration officials. By this reasoning it is possible for a neighborhood in a low-price range to possess as high an appeal for a prospective market as a high-price neighborhood. Appeal, it is said, is measured by a comparison between competing areas of the same price range where the market is made up of the same income groups. Some of the factors affecting ap peal in a home are known to be natural physical charm and beaut/ of surroundings, geographical posi tion of location, appearance of the street layout, harmonious character of the buildings, social attractive ness of the environment, and free dom from nuisances The market for high-priced prop Improvement* Are A Ureal Help To Plumbing Recent improvements in pipe threading machinery enable plumb ing and heating contractors to speed up the installation of plumbing and heating equipment. A new pipe threader enables a workman to thread four sizes of pipe without changing dies, the Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau reports. Inasmuch as labor cost is an im portant factor in all plumbing and heating work, time saving innova tions effect a proportionate economy in costs and thus enable more fam ilies to enjoy the convenience of modern and adequate plumbing and heating. erties may prefer certain distinctive characteristics such as rolling topog raphy, good landscaping, wooded lots, and the presence of brooks, most of which are attributes lower priced locations cannot claim. Inex pensive homes in inexpensive neigh Home Ownership What in more tuiliafying lliun lit own the honir where you live? The AHHoeiation haw aideil no little in building a community of home owner*, and Mich community, of courne, maker* for the he?t citizenship. We huve ample fund* uml arc ready al ways to continue with help to those in tereated in providing for themselve* u home. You ure invited to cull anil con null with iih at your convenience. You Still Have Time To Take Stock In Our New Series! Martin County Building & Loan Association LAST CALL FOR CHEAP CHANNELDRAIN ROOFING Two Solid Carloads Just Arrived - And Must Be Moved PRICE $4.10 Per Square at Warehouse Door STRICTLY CASH WILLIAMSTON Supply Company PHONE 109 Mine New Homes Are! Started In September! Busiest Building Season Here In Number Of Years Three IN?ii-Ke*i<leiiliul Build-! iiip* Are Placed Under (loiiHlriietion Here S After coming to an almost abrupt stop during the month of August, building construction here entered the fall season with a bang, Build ing Inspector G. P. Hall stating yes terday that twelve permits for new buildings and seven permits for ex tensive repairs were issued by him in September. Not a single permit was issued in the month of August. However, construction work was in progress on several new buildings for which permits had been issued in July or a month or two earlier. Six of the permits called for the construction of six duplex tenant houses for colored occupancy. The permits were issued to Messrs. D. V. Clayton and J. D. Woolard and called fur an estimated expenditure of $5,400. The three other permits were issued to J. C. Cooke for a home on Academy Street, to Easter^f Bond and Mortgage Company for a duplex home on Smithwick Street and Simmons Avenue and to Joe Godard for a small tenant house on Watts Street. The September home construction program will cost ap proximately $20,425, according to the building inspector. Non-residential projects, including a $4,000' doctor's office building on Haughton Street, an addition to the G riffm"tffld--Bttrrison Bu ilders* Sup ply Company building on the James ville Road and a packbarn for Dr. John Thigpen, totaled $0,500. An extensive repair program was launched during the month. The Martin estate is making three fam ily apartments out of the home on East Main Street, the seven permits for repairs amounting to $5,900. Contracts for the construction of several new homes are said to be pending, including one and possi bly two in the Martin Heights area. A big remodeling contract is being tackled in connection with valuable commercial property on Main Street, but no definite plans have been made public. borhoods may possess physical charm, nevertheless deriving such appeal from well-kept homes, at tractive and neat grounds, and har monious streets. Broad vistas, pleasing views, and climatic advantages resulting from geographical position are factors which tend to attract people to a lo cation regardless of what its price range may be. This appeal will be lessened, however, if the approach is through an unsightly area. Attractive street layouts which are suitable to the character of the homes and which preserve the nat ural charm of the land are elements of appeal. Federal Housing Admin istration officials declare that areas so laid out have a tendency to re main desirable to present owners and to command the continued in terest of prospective purchasers. The appeal of a location is said to be strengthened if the buildings in the neighborhood are attractive as a group and harmonize with each oth er. ' BEFORK THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED, SPECIFY BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS Thit [taint it tuperior in quality, yet it cottt no more WILLIAMSTON Hdw. Company Now Is Time To Do Your Building Late Full ami Karlv Winter Ideal Time For Repair* And Improvement* Late fall and early winter are the ideal seasons for home moderniza tion. Not only is the weather usual ly perfect for this type of work, but by completing the job before the start of winter the home owner can begin immediately to receive a sub stantial return on his investment in comfort and economy. The installation of insulation, for example, may easily effect sufficient fuel saving in a single heating sea son to pay for 25 per cent of its cost. The most important return, howev er, is in the added comfort and health protection to be enjoyed by the en tire family. Remodeling, even the building of new rooms, need not be an expensive or mussy job. Walls and ceilings can be installed by using pro-decorated materials, such as insulating board. The latter can be quickly applied to any framing or over any continuous smooth surface. Insulating board is available un der a number of trade names. It comes in many sizes, tints and sur face textures. Through its use a wide range of interior designs may be ob tained. It not only provides attract ive interiors, adapted to practically any decorative scheme or motif, but also serves as heat and cold insula tion and has noise-quieting value. For ordinary walls plain insulat ing building board can be used, ei ther in neutral pr pastel colors. At tractive designs Van be obtained eas ily by grooving, beveling or carving the boards. Greater variety of treatment can be worked out by us ing insulating planks?long, narrow units produced in various widths and lengths. Small square and rectangu Menaced Germany's potato crop, by far the world's largest, is now being men iced seriously by tin- potato beetle, ind the fight against this insect has taken on the aspect of a national cru sade. lar units of insulating board, known eis tile, make possible an almost end less variety of ceiling patterns. In planning home modernization, the owner should consider the con version of waste space into usable rooms. Unfinished attics and base ments can be made into extra bed rooms, recreation room and dms quite inexpensively by the use of prepared materials. Il<>t n vcn SUNRISE Anil SIJNSET iiiiiv r Hint' you from llir poor Iioiimo. J. E. Pope INSURANCE ifiroiioiiii.il Tolls ff hen To llarrest Tesftedesa Sootl The Common. Tennessee 76. and Kobe varieties of lespedeza ripen for seed about November 1 or at the first killing frost. They should then be harvested as soon as possible to pre vent losses from shattering says E C. Bhrirr Extension agFbnbm ist. Kor ean seed will remain on the stalk five or six weeks after they mature. In faet. they do not loosen enough to permit the us?- of a s?vd pan un til three or four weeks after ripen ing. Korean usually matures early in October. Building Material Don't forget to fall lis hIicii iiiakinu your plan* to liuilil. rcnosale or remodel. If il's Ituihliu^ Material you Hunt, hi have it. We carry only the best anil our price* are reasonable. . FULL LINK PAINT AND IU M DKKS HARDWARE G. & H. Builders Supply Company Y\ II I lAYISIOIV IY,C. W.H.Basnight&Co.,Inc. 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