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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1949
Page
12
Aluminum nails prevent unsightly nail stain on light painted wood siding and shingles. They cost only about five dollars more per average five room house than ordinary nails, but save repaint bills that can run about three hundred dollars.
Mrs. Mary Tranberg and Mrs. Thomas Caulfield inherit a building from Wilbur B. Driver who left 23 East Orange houses to women tenants to aid independence. Remaining tenants pay rent water and maintenance while the widower upstairs keeps $40 monthly rent. Driver gifted the homes amid housing shortages and funded conversions for families, saying the aid would help women and children.
In French Lick Indiana a contractors survey reports building costs at about 10 percent under immediate postwar prices. H E Foreman of the Associated General Contractors presented the mid year findings to boards. The survey notes costs stabilized for most building materials with nearly half stabilized and 43 percent trending downward.
The government allocates new low rent public housing in San Francisco Denver Beaumont and Waco. San Francisco gets 3000 units Denver 2500 Beaumont 500 and Waco 550. Each city sought preliminary federal planning loans of 450000 400000 115000 and 160000 respectively.
Mandio de Costa and his wife, evicted from their farm in Haverville Massachusetts, seek a new home for themselves and their ten children. They own seventeen cows and face a difficult move with limited space. Driver, founder of two New Jersey industrial firms, is recalled by Mrs Tranberg as a kind man, while she notes public praise often follows death. The couple finds life hard after losing their home and the family calls for help.
The Carol features eight closets including twin closets in two bedrooms and a living room closet plus a kitchen closet. The linen closet opens into the bathroom. Rectangular 34 by 28 foot floor plan with no projections. Frame exterior with wide siding and asphalt shingle roof. Floor area 952 square feet and volume 18 564 cubic feet. For details contact the Small House Planning Bureau in St. Cloud Minnesota.
Insulating board made from small logs or sugar cane bagasse yields four foot wide panels from six inch diameter logs through large in factory processes. The material, strong and heat resistant, is used for home building and interior finishing. The industry emerged from lab research separating fibers and reassembling them into flat boards, with first usage as sheathing and later weather resistant variants.
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