Evening star., 1941-10-04
Shop Talk
News About Builders
And Real Estote
Personalities

TO the presidency of the Washington
Real Estate Board, succeeding Wa
verify Taylor. The goth annual
meeting of the board, held this week,
elected Claud Livingston first vice
president and Homer L. Phillips Sec
ond vice president.
Mr.. Koones heads his own COM
pany. which several years ago sue
ceeded to the business Of r. Mar
bury Stamp & Co. He conducts a
general real estate business. He is
one of the younger realtor execu-
tives in the city.
Mr.. Livingston is president OF
William H. Saunders Co., which was
founded by Mr.. Saunders, who was
the first president of the old Real
Estate Brokers Association of the
District when the real estate busi-
ness here was first organized in 1918.
Mr.. Phillips is president of Phil
lips e. Candy, Inc. He has served
the board in many capacities.
Six men were elected to two-year
terms on the Board of Directors.
They are: j. Garrett Bethel, Frank
Bell of B. F. Saul Co, Lewis T.
Breuninger of L. E. Breuninger &
Sons, David B. Karrick of the FL
deity Storage Co, Waverly Taylor
and Albert w. Walker Directors
held over until next year are: B. l..
Cotton, S. Dolan Donohoe, Harvey
L. Jones. Thornton w. Owen, Fred
A. Smith and William NJ. Throck-
morton. Mr.. Koones said the Ex-
ecutive Committee would be COM
posed of the three officers, Mr..
Jones and Mr.. Taylor.
Washington Building Congress
will start its fifth year with the an
nual meeting at 1890 Monday at
the Mayfiower Hotel. Officers
elected at the June meeting will
take office. and committee chair
men will give brief outlines of the
work OF their committees during
the past year.
Arthur B. Heaton, prominent
architect and key man in found
ing the congress, is the new presi-
dent. j. Reuben Skinker is chair
man OF the Board Of Governors.
Vice presidents are Leon Chatelain,
jr.; Claude W. Owen and Charles
H. Tompkins. Board of Directors:
Charles T. Penn, Theodore l. Coe,
Irwin S. Porter. Robert w. McChes-
ney, Clyde H. Miller, Hector M.
airing and Earl Whittier Shinn. The
Board of Governors includes the
officers, directors and the following
men: F. G.. Addison, jr; James A.
Cassidy, Maurice R. Colbert, Gen.
Albert L. Cox, Robert H. Davis,
Thomas L. Eagan, George v.
Graham, John w Hardell, P. Y. K.
Howat, H. A. Johns, William Russell
Lamar, A. w. Lee, John Locher, M.
c. MacKinnon, C. F. Preller. E. A.
Rule, John G. Scharf, L. E. Williams.
6. Louis Weller and A. Hamilton
Wilson.
Beginning this critical year for
the building industry the congress
is taking stock of what can be done
to help solve some of the problems
which confront the industry. A
committee has been appointed to
get the facts about priorities as
they affect building, and to
straighten some of the misconcep-
tons of builders and the public with
regard to priorities. The Priorities
Committee is headed by Mr.. Heaton,
and includes Mr.. Williams and Mr..
Penn.
II figures supplied by the Federal
Home Loan Bank Review are accu-
rate home building costs have
dropped trif1e since June and quite
a bit since December of last year.
However, it costs S276 more to build
. standard six-room house now than
1t did year ago.
To show comparative costs the
review uses a detached six-room
structure of "a 900 cubic feet volume.
1t is just structure and has bath
and lavatory. 1t has an unfinished
cellar, and does not include wall
paper, lighting fixtures, refriger-
ators, water heaters, ranges, screens.
weather stripping nor window
the lot.
According to the review such
house cost $6,170 to build on Sep
tember l, or three dollars less than
in June. The drop in cost since last
December is s246. Costs hit a high
for recent years at that time. The
cost per cubic foot has risen IL
cents since last September.
Washington sent an unusually
large delegation to the convention
of the Mortgage Bankers Associa-
tion of America which is being held
this week in New York City. Among
those from the Capital attending the
big meeting are H. Clifford Bangs,
r. w. Berens, r. E. Bortz. G. CAL
vert Bowie, M. P. Candy, Homer l..
Phillips, Lewis NJ. Cooper, w. Laird
Dunlap, Sd. George w. Gilligan,
r. M. Hooker, Arthur C. Houghton,
Edward K. Jones, William L. King,
Charles C. Koones. Claud Living
ston, Robert B. Montgomery. s.
Miles Montgomery, John R. Neale,
Richard L. Parli, Frank S. Phillips,
H. w. Prim, Andrew Saul, Oliver
M. Walker and E. B. Woodruff.
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Speaking of conventions and dele
cations, Frank M. Doyle has been
named to head the local group to
attend the big meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards in Detroit the week of No.
vember 3. The plan is for the Wash
ington delegation to leave here on
Monday. November 3, arriving at
Detroit the next morning. General
sessions of the meeting will start
Wednesday. Reservations already
have been received from many
members of the local board, and
those who have not made them
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