Evening star., 1944-05-13

No wonder Gertrude Cleary of the
Washington Building Congress Is the
smilingest woman in town! Planned
a luncheon on Tuesday for several
hundred. of the Building Congress
members, at which she was top
gal" of the 3 or 4 women present
Quite break for any gal in this
town of ours, these days. Aside from
the serious consideration given a
fine talk by Irving Clarke of West
mghouse, the Building Congress
planned cocktail party for May
"a, complete was chorus to sing
old songs. The Office today is hilar-
iously concocting parodies, with
plenty of local color, which will be
sprung" at the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Harold Gooding,
who made themselves famous in
terror decorating some of the finest
Miller houses in Spring Valley, will
manage the Bethesda branch of the
Malcolm Scates Furniture Shop.
Mr.. Scates had just acquired the
Wayside Shops from CHM & Co.,
so it looks as though Washingto-
mans will find fine furniture and ex-
pert advice on what to do with it
under the same roof. AS the three
shops are open evenings until nine
busy home owners will appreciate
this service in the "cool of the
evening""
Charlie Rush of the Washington
Real Estate Board has just cele-
brated his twenty fifth wedding an
niversary. Though Charlie talks
real estate by the hour we can re-
port that alb business stopped for
some time while he planned an an
niversary party for Mrs. Rush.
A. w. Lee, chairman of the. Mem
berShip Committee of the Washing
ton Building Congress, has offered
a prize to the committeeman who
brings in the greatest number of
new members. Taking no chances,
he has to date turnedSi 81 new
names. Several of his colleagues
have suggested he may have resorted
to "plastering" technique.
Clarke Daniel tells us that PIG of
the Daniel boys little houses at
East Pines, near Riverdale, have
been sold. Compact, easy to live in,
inexpensive houses, they seem to fill
the bill for busy war workers. We
recollect one of these got Silver
Star" award in December, 1941.
With bright red shutters, surround
ed by a backdrop of young pine
forest, it looked like a Christmas
card on the snowy day it was opened
for inspection.
Members Of the National Associa-
ton OF Home Builders welcome news
that Elizabeth Shoemaker has been
engaged to design and manage the
huge home-building materials show
which will ebe an important part of
the NAHB convention in Chicago
next January. Miss Shoemaker takes
ofhce on June l with the Metro
polltan Chicago Home Builders AS
soclat1on. The exhibit will show the
strides that have been made in the
last 10 years in the home building
neld and to great extent Clarity
the confusion of what may be ex-
pected in this field, and how soon
after the war.
thillp M. Klutznick, in his first
ADDRESS since succeeding Herbert
Emmerich as Federal public housing
commissioner, urged local authori-
Ties to start thinking and planning
Tor future housing DEVELOPMENTS in
tnelr communities. "The future is
SO certain" he added, that a fall
ure 10 plan now Is an invitation tn
ultimate failure"
On this same topic, Editor Mason
OF the magazine American Builder
says, The United States is far he
mnd Great Britain in preparing
curing the war, for the earliest and
fullest expansion of the home-b,ild-
Ing industry so critically needed to
absorb employables as war produce
tion declines" Mason asks, "If Brit
ain can do it, why can't American"
From where we sit, it looks ,ike
tnere has been plenty OF planning