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News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 21

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FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS SEC. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1962 PAGE 1 Waterway Estates Is Opening All-New Series of 1963 Homes Realty Deals In Week Top Half-Million Business Slow; 50-Acre Tract Brings $50,000 By JEWELL DEAN A 50-acre tract near the inter section of Hanson and Ford Streets sold last week for $50,000 to lead a $564,195 total in realty sales. Monday's closing for Veteran's Day and the departure of real estate men and attorneys for hunting cabins Friday clipped the week's filing of deeds. The 50 acres included Lots 13, 14 and 15 and parts of 1 and 16 of East Stadler Farms. John B.

Joyce of Indianapolis, was Durchaser and Samuel T. Mes- sner Jr. the seller. No announce plilllil i ment of plans was made, but the acreage is in an area being turn ed into industrial locations. McSlade active for manv MMMIMIWMIIMlMMttluaMMM months in home building in the Colonial Manors area, sold 14 lots to Kenneth M.

Hawkins for $32,000. MODERN AIRE HAS SUNKEN MASTER BATH. Sliding glass doors open from kitchen onto sunny breakfast patio. Private garden entrance adds touch of distinction to this design which has three bedrooms and two and one-half baths and sells for $17,950 without lot. 4 tVK5 i Punta Rassa Deal Berrv C.

Williams purchased a one-fourth interest in land near Punta Rassa for $29,000, according to a deed. During the week IBS Williams presented a deed to 71 acres in this area to the Christian Missionary and Alliance Church I i for a multi-million dollar denomi 4- 0 national project. The announcement of this project was top news in the county in real estate during the week. Lehigh Acres turned over final 'IWIwWW WWotSv: v. r-a '5 1 J8 i 1 papers to sLx new homes to pur 5 chasers.

They were Ray W. Scalf $15,175, Reginald Vellenoweth Paul T. Miller $13,395. James V. Marnca $9,650, Clarence E.

GIANT CAPE CORAL DRAGLINE. Some idea of size of 16th and largest dragline to begin work at Cape is shown by comparison of men and machine. Heavy seven-yard rock bucket dwarfs Kenneth J. Schwartz (front), 120-foot boom rears above Robert Parmalee (midway back) and giant crawler tracks stand almost as high as Joe Lynch (rear). Schwartz is vice president of Gulf American Land Parmalee is in charge of canal construction and Lynch is dragline engineer.

Dragline, built in Lima, Ohio, was shipped on five freight cars and assembled at Cape Coral. Clutterbuck $12,180 and Flora Borst $10,680. Brokers closed these deals: John Wakefield Whitehouse Associates to William R. Fraser, new home in Suburban Park, 070. Bennett Realty Anthony A.

Villas Is Most Active With 5 Home Permits Palumbo to Jack W. Carlson, four-bedroom home at 1450 Ri-cardo May L. Craig estate to Earl A. Welch, frame house at 3431 CONTINENTAL HAS 4 BEDROOMS, 3 BATHS. Master-planned for Florida's indoor-outdoor living, Continental model Is highest priced of four designs at $18,950 plus lot and addition of $1,650 if airconditioning is desired.

Large screened patio at rear has living areas on three sides and becomes a focal point of contemporary living in spacious home. Villas Homes was the most ac tive local builder last week, tak The model homes, the Impala Sandin Realty Brown Derby Seng's Subdivision. The permits Hanshaw to Nathaniel Speights, new house, 2975 St. Charles ing permits for five residences at Restaurant, C. L.

Pendergrass to were for $7,300 and $8,900. Nine Models Open At Port Charlotte Continental, Holiday, Riviera and Modernaire were designed by Pulte-Strang builders and Jack Lyons, price not disclosed; Fort Myers Villas which amounted to $61,600 in construction esti Other home builders: Leon Gad- Waterway Estates is opening to the public its all-new series of five model homes for 1963. Each model is completely different in design and offer buyers a choice of two, three and four-bedroom floor plans at prices of $10,650 to $18,950 plus lot. Gerald Lee Garrett to Gary M. Geniott, Tropic Isles Dean L.

Ballantine to Lawrence Doran, home in Cypress Lake mate. The week's building in dy, City View Park, Harvey J. Vick, Belle View Park, developers, to fit family needs and accentuate the open scheme county and city totaled $363,430. dwelling, Millard D. Rhodes to John Country Club Estates, $16,000.

H. A. Romine, The Rocks The Fort Myers Villas models' Lessie K. Smawley Miss June Faulkner, Montgomery Avenue on Sanibel, John N. Town-send, Peace Road in Buckingham, New Drug Store Opened at Cape Pharmacist Don Roberts is owner and operator of new pharmacy opened last week at Cape Coral.

It is located in a new building on Cape Coral Parkway, a block east of the Nautilus Motel and Del Prado Parkway. Roberts, who resides with his wife, Mary Lou, in an apartment of Florida living. The kitchen serves out into the porch or into a separate dining area in the Eight of the new models' de Vlcek to John M. Faison, residence, 1420 Moreno $20,000 home, Gulf American PORT CHARLOTTE The Port Charlotte Welcome Center at Central Port Charlotte opened officially yesterday. The center houses the sales and customer relations department of the Gen permits ranged from $9,600 to $15,000.

The homes are scheduled for completion early in 1963 to catch the height of the tourist Roosevelt Stokes, Har Land Corp. to Delton H. Conlon, Sanibel Shore signs have been sold during the past 60 days to visitors impress Sanibel-Captiva Real Estate- ed with the construction methods season. Bert M. Adams to John J.

Greev- house. Work started last week on the reconstruction of Orange Grove Boulevard into a four-lane blacktop road and is expected to be completed in four weeks. eral Development Corp. and will route its sightseeing bus trips to Cape Coral was the location for six permits totaling $74,600. They North and South Port Charlotte, being used.

A unique sales program is being initiated. Realizing that many people moving into the area do not bring many home furnishings with them, Waterway Estates is were taken by Edgar G. Schaef-er $14,000, Carl H. Reed $12,000, Refreshments were served and three Cape Coral lots, John Knott to George Saylor, house in Bayshore Gardens, John E. Edwards to Earl 0.

Jarrell, Lehigh Acres residence, Ernest W. Williams to Paul J. Scott, parcel in Sec. 7, Twp. 43, Rge.

25, Myrtle Marsh to C. H. Hansen, two Cape Coral I on Vincennes Street at the Cape, there were orchids for the ladies. lem Heights, and Paul F. Kearns, Gulf Drive on Sanibel, $13,400.

The Inter-County Telephone System took an $8,300 permit for an addition to its OXford Exchange on Palm Beach Boulevard at Royal Palm Park Road. F. R. Snook plans a $4,000 carport on Sanibel. Fort Myers' $57,200 total had no residences.

Its main lift was for the new building of the Pan-American Tire Co. at 3086 The dredging of a navigable Paul M. Bihlman $14,000, GALC er, lots in Sanibel Shores, $3,000. Deeds were recorded in the following transfers: East Lake Colony Inc. to Charles W.

Collier, new home in The Colonys, Zoe Wyland, for estate of Charles Wyland, to C. A. Thomas, furnished property at 324 Estero Fort Myers The nine models of the new 100-foot channel from deep water of the Caloosahatchee River into Main Line Series opened for in is a native of Joliet, 111. He graduated at University of Florida and was pharmacist in Navy two years. His is the second drug store to open at the Cape in six weeks.

offering the purchaser of a home 1,000 points from which he can the Waterway Estates Marina Park was completed last week. obtain free furnishings such as lots, Town River Es Work is also progressing on the tates to Harper lot, readying of 50 more spection. They range in price from the studio model at $10,000 to a three-bedroom, two-bath home at $18,800. The houses are completely new in design and planned to provide maximum space and beauty in both interior and exterior. All but two have $11,000, Helen E.

Kern $12,600 and Stefano Testa $11,000. A $44,880 week with five permits was chalked up by Lehigh Acres. The builders were James B. Morris, John L. Mitchell and Bayard S.

Stone, $9,000 each, Willie G. Simpson $9,880 and Oliver Robinson $8,000. The Michigan Construction Co. started two models in Yacht Club Colony with $14,000 and $13,000 permits. Francis Dryden, leading east side builder, started two in lots with sewers, water and roads scheduled for completion by Dec.

15. Fowler St. The permits included one by Lee County for $5,700 in airconditioning at the courthouse. refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, carpet, drapes and furniture. They may also have a choice of a boat dock, built-in stereo AM FM music system, landscaping and built-in vacumn cleaner.

All homes in Waterway Estates are Beach, Mora Builders to Harold N. Whidden, house in Brookhill, Eugene J. O'Connell to Glen E. Houdeshell, residence in Island Harbors, Emanuel J. Prymas to McAr-dle Gilleran, property on Ard-more Road, Braren HOSPITAL FOR PETS Vircil Senseman took a permit last week to construct a small animal hospital on the North Tamiami Trail in the Star Shopping J.

Hubert Sanders took a per Thomas G. Richards to Richard G. Crawford, two Cape Coral lots, and Frank Condurelis to Jones Bishop parcel near Gladiolus Drive and Tamiami Trail intersection. Smaller deeds, 92 in number, total $145,100. screened porches and each has a Some cooks like to add raisins mit for a $4,000 garage at 2374 carport except, one with a garage.

Liberty St. J. Henry Sanders will to the meat and rice mixture used as a stuffing for cabbage rolls. erect an $8,000 bathhouse at Center. It will be a $14,900 struc connected into central sewer and water facilities.

ture. The word "Thai" means "free." 1361 Gasparilla Dr. i FasSnSiBiif raids C3: -If Now that the Fall season is here you will need more time every minute will count until Christmas so, let us suggest an easy and time saving way to do your shopping for the greatest selection of values fashions from the ads in the News-Press before you leave home to buy anything turn from page to page you'll find the newest fashions and the best values in the ads. 7.

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