FHA Demands Tempered Glass for Sliding Doors and Showers
The FHA tightens standards for FHA insured homes starting January 1 requiring exterior doors with large glass areas and shower walls to use tempered laminated or wire glass. Tempered glass offers about four times the strength and reduces dangerous breakage, though at higher cost. Manufacturers must label each glass pane at installation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FHA
Milwaukee
UPI
Federal Housing Administration
August Building Off 16 Per Cent
New England August construction contracts totaled $179.8 million, a 17 percent drop from August 1961, per F. W. Dodge Corp. District manager James W. Robertson cites heavy engineering declines as the main cause. Nonresidential work fell 7 percent to $59.0 million while residential contracts rose 1 percent to $83.0 million with dormitories two family houses and motels up, but hotels apartment buildings and one family houses down.
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Boston
New England
F. W. Dodge Corp
James W. Robertson
Dodge
Real Estate Transfers in Bennington The week reports transfers
Town Clerk Miss Mary Hodeck lists transfers in Bennington including J L Harbour Inc to Victor and Leona Damour on Beech Street and Ruth Dawson and son taking 917 Gage Street. Other transfers involve Maxfield to Mot Singer on Crescent Boulevard, Daimant to Silvernail on Adams Street, Coffin and Wright to Whitney, Woodward to Gage, Adams estate to Edward Sweet Jr, Leigh estate to Bennington College, Herrick lands to Coburn, Capella to Perrotta, and Trotter estate to the Zagatas.
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Mary Hodeck
J. L. Harbour, Inc
Bennington
Beech St
Victor J
Leona S. Damour
Russell B
Inez E. Cotton
Gage St
Ruth L. Dawson
William Dawson Jr
Clyde A
Anna K. Maxfield
Cresent Blvd
Fuller T
Barbara G. Motsinger
Alfred J
Blanche L. Daimant
Adams St
Frank G
Ruth D. Silvernail
New York
N.Y
Mae S. Coffin
Robert C. Wright
Brattleboro
North St
Willard C
Evelyn P. Whitney
Francis B
Helen R. Woodward
Woodward Ave
Arthur N
Ida E. Gage
Clara
Horace T. Herrick
E. Robert
Jean A. Coburn
Anna K. Capella
Houghton’s Lane
Virginia N. Perrotta Jr
Roberta A. Perrotta
Margaret S. Trotter
West Main St
Joseph S., Hazel
Joan M. Zagata
Engineering contracts drop presses total spending
The report shows total contracts fell to 37.813 million dollars, down 47 percent. Public works contracts declined moderately while utilities sector contracts plunged 98 percent due to losses in electric light and power systems, driving the overall drop in heavy engineering activity.
FHA Financing Pamphlet Ready
The Federal Housing Administration released a new eight page pamphlet FHA No. 428 titled FHA Financing for Home Purchases and Home Improvements A Guide to Financing Costs and Home Buying Ability It combines two prior publications and explains typical financing costs a borrower may incur a repayment estimate chart and an explanation of legal obligations when selling with an insured mortgage still outstanding Copies are obtainable by mailing a post card to the FHA Office Federal Building Burlington
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FHA
Federal Housing Administration
Neal J. Hardy
Kennedy
Federal Housing Administration Office
Federal Building
Burlington
Ashkenazim Jewish Majority Found in Early America
Research from the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion shows Ashkenazim Jews from central and eastern Europe were a majority of American Jews by 1730, challenging earlier views that Sephardic Jews predominated in early America.
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New York
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Central
Eastern
Europe
America
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New Pownal
Fred Marsh
North Adams
Mass
Donald Rogers
South Pownal
North Pownal Road
Rudolph Matern
Jamaica
Edmunds
M. E. Rudd
Carton
H. Greenberg & Son
PittsBurd
Theo
A. Carpenter
Main
Stafford Streets
Bennington, Vermont
Dial
Ricien
D&d
Jolivette Electric Supply
New Francisco
Charles Harte
Hilco
Pratt ST
Roofing & Sheet Metal CO
Gerald E. Morrissey
General Contractors
Wpdiay
Lowe Bros
McKeon & Elwell North
Tree Farm
A. J. Dewey & Sons
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