6 £ 4 gr i W V §40f4s5f4iMktfr'fi aiineSisgsPfeSi j&etm1 ij)jp!MMibJMam " 1 J 4 2 G D Fumlay Mornlng- - -- Sljc Salt £ak Tribune- - -- August 13 1939 Construction of New Telephone Exchange Buildings Progresses New Buildings Provide Jobs lor Many Worhmen Conlraclors Speed Work as Date For Finish Nears wix Many Large Homes Sold by Brokers I30R Uif I Lj - 1 M h Cfli ihi J ' It j: r f J S’ j- m 5 a a 56-fo- ot I Lr L A iyl ft r ceiling So heavily is the 1 t -- V' X Ml r 3 five-roo- six-roo- m six-roo- m six-roo- m five-roo- t For average home— 26x35 feet Woikmen shown completing the brick work on the largest unit of Murray school district’s $147000 building program In the background is the old Arlington school which i This Wont Will Reduce Vtmr Fuel Bill for ItMlf will EASY TtKWS t— lv - L v A Kitchen and dining rooms now the old building will be transferred to the first floor of the new annex The second floor will be devoted to rooms for patients An Work Guaranteed — Free FttmAto Beware of Imitation O Bnt 2 34 ttaa 4(110 P 7Jt!3 iibirnm jn&Krn REPAINT $5000 and have up years to pay $100 1 to Finn Launches Increased Use of Stokers Work on Cuts Smoke Volume in City Nov Chapel Blair Richardson One clear the winter when skiers 5 fall is the time to niak tl ose needed repans and alterations in jour home for added convenience Our fine Quality Acme Taints w ill the life and beauty of j our home Let our years of ie experience guide you Construction of a $15 000 addition to the Neil O Donnell mor- tuary at 372 Fast First South street was under way Satuidny Moasuimg approximately 30x85 feet the structure will be of brick and will house a new chapel and now uoikrooms 1 he t hnpel will be equipped With daik onk pews seating 3(x) persons It will be Fnghsh in dtslgn with a single Gothic window as the dominant feature Walls will be paneled with pastel acoustic plaster Indirect lighting for the chapel will be thrown from coves onto a semldomed ceiling Blue Rugs Pugs and di aperies will be furTouring of reinforced concrete nished in blue and silver combinafloors for the new three story tions Other rooms In the addition will $180 (X 0 veterans facility building be a music room n special family adjoining the veterans hospital room adjolntng the nmm chapel a was brgun Inst week by J S new duqilnv loom and a tile em& 'son of Los Angeles Mdgtr balming room W lit n the addition Is finished gimial contractors it was Saturday the bin k of the nt w and old strucWith excavation and foundation tures will be painted with white aliendv completed the projei t is enamel V 1 W are dt signed the wt II ahead of schedule and should building and the Cannon b be computed bv about behruarv companv has the gtneial 1 art oiding to b A Littlefield contrail Coinjletion date Is Oc- faiilitv mating r toht i ’I As soon as Hoots ate computed hi iik masons will begin facing the building with a rtd bruk similar to that used fot the hospital building- - to the east lonniiltd to the hospital by an offsit uuridot on tiiih floor the new tru tuie will house all veterbr CLOKCE— Marking another ans administration offices for this forward sltp by a southern I tah ana freeing space now occupied community the new two story bv them in the hospital With a I’m e block at Main sin et and U K ftw alterations the hospital buildhighway 9t was in nriv completed ing will then be large enough fo at St George last week 2 new beds giently ai i oininodate Situated on a site occupied for relieving prtstnt crowded condimany years bv one of the tllys tions teal licet business houses the new building will he oitupnd soon bv the St George brant h of I he J C he Sprnue-I’eil- z Tennty roini nn company ret ent lv moved Into the building fiorn thur forqief location In the I iberty Hotel buildModern plumhlnf Ukot a lot of ing 1 riruUrrry out of housrwork —————— —A a rUto kltihon flturoi with sink and fameii at Just tha rittl a modern bathroom Tnniilca Prove Costly hiKht wlih plumbing a hindsome a It Termlles destroy some jxinoo-(XX- ) U tffifienf on liberal worth of property annual ) In tour old future the Lnited Ktatea according to fsHmate Although there are almost jnoo different ape lea of these Insei ta approximately 85 per cent of this TING HIMBIVO A damage ta caused bv one type 2n is smith 11th Hy lost ceded ’subterranean termites” cold day In vver£ holding a meet at Ecker’s Hill several thousand people decided as mdivld uals and small parties to see the meet Hundreds of automobile loads of young and old started up Parley's canyon A wind came V up drifting snow on the highway in a few spots and soon dozens and dozens of cars were stalled in the snow banks When this happened the group in each car except the driver got spiring and fatigued occupants who out and started pushing their car were taking a rest after pushing and pushing He looked down the That was happening as far down canyon and saw riders from car the canyon as one could see after car struggling with their own Below the snowdrifts were hun- autos He yelled out "Whoa' Stop! dreds of autos not stalled in snow What vou need is a little cooperad but held up until the All of you fellows from the tion cars moved on From one o( those first five tars come up here to this cars fully half a mile down the car and help me ” canyon came a young fellow He They came and one by one each walked up the canvon to the first car was moved Cooperation was stalled car He looked at the per (Continued on Following Pape) TH X Virn'raffi O W1 ASHTON prp Hyland isi ir nrirma tfn RORACF ins Hit HSR US Fist 3i t a mi Hi R Mr g rt 'K lit A r ' y f I 1 f ViVCi ! ’!’I -- v I’m 1 A V0vr - 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SEE IT! found in larger only usually 30-lb- s MT(iOMi:V 1 S 1 Main SALT LAKE CITY WAIIII W 2711 of f building will enable that service you to build the home of your Choose from 50 dreams beautiful homes designed by leading Salt Lake architects for construction in this city We can show you the actual cost per month on a FHA loan then build and arrange to finance the home for you trouble-proo- 20-ye- PMjMIHNG EC & tSf KCu' llT' ( 5 LOWEST PRICE EVER llon TTTr’ vx snow-boun- to rsar one-four- th Vs By si( eorge Building Nears Completion Do It now on small monthly payments arrttiged to suit jourto income Borrow vx c ' Of the 8 000 000 dwelling units surveyed In a federal government query In 203 urban areas over one-ha- lf were built before 1915 and before 1895 The largest proportion built before 1915 was found in the northeastern cities (60 per cent) and the smallest proportion (31 per cent) in the southwestern cities M Office Building In -- COMPANY- will be dismantled after the new building is completed Improvements are also under way at Murray high school and at Bonneville and Liberty elementary schools 7 Age of Homes Shown r Army Begins Construction Of Hospital Annex brick BQKD INSULATION i '1 Work Advances On Veterans’ 2 Inrhea thhk m six-roo- tn Foundations for a new $75000 annex to the Fort Douglas hos pital were begun last week after W PA woikmen completed excava tion for the two story structure it was reported by Major J M Rhodes construe tion quartermaster The project will be completed bv will be Installed in the WP A under direction of army of- elevator north end of the building ficials Private contractors bids In addition tha Interior of the for the building were rejected by old building will be renovated for the government as too roxtly Ma- better arrangement and convenience jor Rhodes reported Of the $75 (XX) approximate $ 9 000 worth of materials will be furnished bv the armv hospital fund while the remainder will be furnished by WPA labor The new building will be situated north and east of the present It will be built brick structure of reinforced concrete fated with Your Own Home frame residence at 902 Everett avenue and Wesley Waters purchased a brick bungalow at 564 Hollywood avenue from Romney Lumber company Frank Allred bought a three-rooframe cottage at 523 West First North street from H E Thomas New Grand Realty company sold a stucco residence at 1394 Fourth East street to T L Irvine for Home Owners Loan corpora five-roo- iA 4 m sold to Dean M Solt a company Sr Wallboard for K'tohen Imitation tile wallboards helps to modernize old kitchens Easy to install and clean the wallboard brings bright cheerful colors into the kitchen m two-stor- m five-roo- three-stor- y building reinforced an additional five stories may be added If needed At Eighth East and Twenty-firs- t South streets the smaller exchange building which will serve subscribers In the southeastern section of the city is more noprly completed Tan Brick Of a light tan firebrick trimmed with a harmonizing terra cotta the building will be only one story m six-roo- m 5 f m two-stor- h Conceal Flpes Air conditioning durts pipes and wires will all be concealed by When the confalse” ceilings crete floors were poured wires were left exposed to which long steel rods were tied Metal lath Is then attached to the rods and plaster applied forming a smooth Unusually large homes predominated in Salt Lake real estate sales reported by brokers last week E B Wicks company sold six homes four of which had seven or more rooms Largest of these was a 10 room two story brick residence at 155 East Twenty-fourt- h South street purchased by Mrs Agnes Clements from Victor D Cram Orman W Ewing of Washington D C sold an eight room two storq brick residence at 333 Douglas street to Grant Bowen and a similar residence owned by Emma P Grover at 1480 Tenth East street was purchased by Flint Leverson tion For the Glazier Investment Other sales included a frame bungalow at 11 West Strat- company they also sold a four-roobrick cottage at 825 Windsor ford avenue bought by B C Haney to Alger G Allen street new a and Gerwein William from four-rooframe Cape Cod home Cottage Sold at 1643 Indiana avenue sold by Fletcher-Luca- s company sold & C E Perkins to Fltzhugh L Lyday new three-rooframe cottage at Miller & Viele reported sale of a 267 Wasatch avenue In Midvale to nine-rooy residence of brick construction at 164 North Elton L Jenkins for Eva S Duder Second West street Ralph S Mills and a lot in the 400 block bought it from Enos Sheer They on East Ninth South street on also sold for A Lorenzo Swenson a which the Realty Company of Utah three-acr- e farm and a four-roopurchasers will build a new home brick home at 459 West Fifty-thir- d South street to Glen N Barton They obtained it from M L Lewis Eight homes were sold through Amundsen & Romney Realty the Woodbury corporation Walter sold for the Wasatch company S to H sold a Hensen W Steed a story and a half large suburban property at 2490-9- 4 frame residence at 155 LinSouth street InEast Twenty-firs- t coln street to Oscar Schroeder cluding a seven room brick resiAtabout 1725 South Main street stucco home dence and a F V Owen sold to G B Piet a fruit trees and farm land large building site through Rideout Six Rooms Realty company Hope Realty company sold for To Anna L Woods L Y RobinReliance Building company a four-rooy son sold a frame Cape Cod cottage at frame home at 1192 Roosevelt ave- 928 Blair street to Theodore E nue At 1806 Seventh East street and Bettilyon Home Demars Wesley Waters sold Albert Morten-se- n Builders company sold a four-roostucco residence a cottage at 438 Hazel street and at 1042 Ramona avenue Wa- brick satch Lawn Memorial Park asso- to Joseph B Shay for E M Bateciation sold Ernest E Niederhauser man Keyser Realty company sold a a brick bungalow brick and stucco home at N Lorenzo Mitchell bought from Elmer C Strong a brick 2655 Highland drive to Joseph U Peterson for Nancy A Leather-woo- d bungalow at 943 Ninth East street Zions Savings Bank and Trust five-roo- ! H I ' b During Past Week Constiuctlon activities continued at a swift pace last week at two Salt Lake City building sites as woi kmeo and skilled laborers moved toward completion of the Mountatn States Telephone and Telegraph company’s new exchange buildings At the main building at First South and State streets forms were removed from reinfoifed concrete floors air conditioning ducts were installed and plastering of the first floor interior walls begun It measures 75 by 90 feet On the exterior bruk and stone high fend has a full basement masons laid terra cotta facing up Brickwork has been to the second floor and set huge and forms placed to holdcompleted the terra slabs of highly polished Tlatt can- cotta trim in place until mortar has set According to the Jacobsen yon (Colorado) granite around the Construction company who are base of the building building the structure at a cost of Meanwhile shipments of steel about $79000 It will be ready for upon which huge bronze windows occupancy about September 15 Both buildings are part of a will be hung continued to arrive $1 000000 improvement program In Salt Lake City which will modernize present teleAccording to present estimates phone service In this area The by J R Howell Denver contracpiogiam including Installation of tor who was awarded the $145000 dial telephones for all subscribers Job the company will be able to will be completed by August 1940 move Into the first floor of the main building by October 1 Upper two floors will be completed about Right: Mew of the main buildNovember 1 at the present rate of ing of the Mountain States construction Telephone and Telegraph company showing heavily reMany Men inforced constrmUon lerra cotta facing can be seen partBetween 65 and 100 men have been employed daily on the larger ly installed on the lower floor Below: Construction picture project since March of the smaller telephone exIn the basement where all cables feeding subscribers In the Snlt change building at Eighth Lake area will enter hollow tile bast and Twenty-firs- t South streets Wood supports hold The walls were being plastered terra cotta cornices In place entire basement is honeycombed until mortar has set with long coiridors for cable racks rooms for emergency generators and special channels for other telephone equipment A large tunnel about 15 feet deep is being dug between the new and the old exchange buildings Near bv a well has been dug from which water will be taken for use In the air conditioning system J