News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 27

Ml 0 FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS SEC SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1964- PAGE 1 fe fee Sell A $65,000 commercial building to be called The Village will be constructed of the Riverside Club, according to a permit Is 1 A UU r-it 7 sued by the City Building Office the past week. It will be owned by the Lecuona interests and be architecturally in keeping with the row of tall apartment buildings planned along the riverfront i "The permit showed the building will contain six units. Ken Hawkins is the contractor. The Boulevard Plaza Shopping Center is across- First Street from the row of shops planed by The Village. Construction in Lee County dipped to 5218,400 during the week.

It was affected by the Monday holiday and the uncertain, gusty weather that Hurricane Dora sent this way. New Building C. D. (Chuck) Burdette began construction of a new commercial building at 2140 Broadway which will house his firm, Burdette Advertising Inc. The permit was for $9,500.

This location is across Broadway from the new Murray Fussell paint A $4,000 permit for remodeling the Church, of Christ, 3120 Thomas Street, rounded out the city's $81,000 week. Residential permits slumped to nine at the County Building Zoning Department. Cape Coral had three, Lehigh Acres -y 'l Temple Beth -El Set For Cape Coral Site So Two business lots at the land and Edison Avenues, sold last week at $45,000. foot was slightly under the high established a month ago at $486 farther out the avenue in an area turning sharply to large shopping establishments. The latest sale was by Emil W.

Opitz with the purchaser, J. Barnes trustee, reportedly serving for his father who has bought a home here but spends most of his time in Texas. This deal was the third, all totaling $295,000, that Barnes has made here since last January involving prime untenanted com mercial locations, all close-in. The first purchase was 259 feet on W. First Street running from Carson Street to Henley Place which he obtained from Carl J.

Michael fori $150,000. Most of this runs to the river and has riparian rights. Second Purchase Barnes' second purchase was 250 feet on W. First on the east side of Clifford Street. It runs back 523 feet to the river and has fill rights out to the bulkhead line extending east from the seawall of the seven-story Riverside Club.

Th parcel was purchased from the estate of Miss Kate Jeffcott, Barnes has his Texas home at Midland. He has never told of plans for the land, stating that he was making the purchases as in- vestments, The $486 per-foot price on Cleveland was paid by the American Variety Stores in obtaining 144 feet on the south side of Maravilla Lane. John A. Drake was This two-lot parcel is 290 feet deep in comparison with 168 in the pasti week's purchase. The Opitz land formerly was leased to the Mc-j folloiigh Rarm Supply and used tractor.

Rpalty Sales Last week's realty sales in Lee County amounted to $1,049,505. The short week (Monday was La bor Day) had fewer than usual sales, but heavy deeding of lots by Cape Coral pushed the total T'The Cape's Gulf American Land Corp. recorded one batch "of 88 which had a $291,700 HTreTate, In addition, other deeds Can1 Coral lots were scattered the less than $6,000 sales The smaller totaled 125 and had unusually high total of $329, i r-v w- Land Inc sold a Cayo Costa Land Inc. parcei on Cayo Costa Island with UlanA Cnmut '(mntam far UtonA Sound frontage for dean at the University of Florida, dean at the University ol Honda, rld his home at 1334 Gasparilla Dr. to Dr.

Tom W. Gore Jr. for $26,000. Parrel Sold ies o. nmire, vein tm rem- tor an1 appraiser ncre, soia two residence will be at the back.

A wjng jn IpatJjg Another wine will have a lengthy patio and swimming pool and structure across its front. The main residence will con tain a living room, sewing room, two bedrooms, three baths, family room, mechanical room, laun dry and garden room with a connecting wing containing a workshop, storeroom, bath and office. A slathouse in the rear to take care of an orchid hobby will have kennels for family dogs. i I northwest corner of Cleve with 100 feet on Cleveland, The price of $450 per front parcels at the north end of the ftfison Bridge fill for $30,000. Floyd E.

Alexander was buyer. The land has Tamiami Trail frontage and extends down to the river with riparian rights. It is on the west side of the Trail. Maj. Ray W.

Burkett. retired from the Army, bought from William G. Ruden an Olga area tract with frontage on the Caloosahat-chee River and Dukes Highway for $28,500. The deal was handled by Town Park Realty. Other brokers reported these closings: William C.

Smith Estate of W. T. Wood to Alfred E. Greene, furnished home at 3G0 Arlington $9,500: and Robert Fischer to Stephan Testa, furn'shed resi dence, 20.10 Kurtz $5,700. Residence Sold George E.

Adams Inc. Fer dinand Ibsen to Bruce M. Shoe, furnished residence, 766 Entrada Palm City Park, and James Pettigrew to Phillip D. Dold home at 755 Entrada, $22,000, in cooperation with Houston Pewett Real Estate. Douglass-Chambers Frank L.

Bradford to Elsie S. Hansm, dwotl ng, 325' Byron North Fort Myers, $8,000: and George Cartright and Harold Miller to Paul G. Franklin, City View Park lot, $350. Ralph Sanders Donald Jessup to Leonard Gronfine, House 0 Gifts, 2444 First undisclosed price; and Diane Guess to Charles Paulk, two lots in Sunnycrest sub division, $5,600. Jewell Real Estate Russell Su-mevs to II-trM D.

Decker, hone in Z'mmor's Addition, Fort Myers Beach, $13. t00; and to Homes, contract to building $13,870 house in Beach's Tropical Shores for a 1 1 Shuck. Sanibel-Captiva Real Estate Sanibcl Shores to Mario F. Hut-ton, lot, $2,500. Gordon Caulfield Realty Ethel JCMittniMd Ml P8t J-C)' wifUI Ml IVII I HA61 Over Thundsrbird Farida.

a Fort Myers based corporation has taken over ownership and operation 'of the Thunderbird 2515 First St. First St. Officers of the liew-, company are A. president; William McKee, vice. president; ana jonn unner, secretary-treas- ana jonn unner, secreiary-ireas- urer They, also are with L.

and C. All are of Canada. J. Berry will remain as i.iu nicuiaga yi inc nvti- ironi project. fc.

i Washburn is retiring as president of E. F. Hutton brokerage firm which is a mrm-ber of the New York Stock Exchanges J-W i Cold Saturday Farms is a promotion of George E. Adams, president of the Fort Myers Board of Realtors, to meet a need for sites for more expensive homes. The sites contain five acres and sell at $15,000.

Homes will have extensive setbacks with green lawns and landscaping. Adams said some residents may wish to have a saddle horse or two. He hopes that some attractive fence pattern is followed in enclosing the tracts. 5 I Sketch of unique design of church here which will have minister in view for Inside worshippers as well as those desiring to attend but sit in cars on grassed drive-In area. Drive-in Design Unique Church Planned Aten Cycle vf Shop Opens in Ore Coral om-H new -Cape business opened by Jay Aten and his son.

Jav -with Jack Webb of Fort Myers, vice manager. The; shop is lo- 'cated on CBM Coral ParkwaV. 'cated on Cape Coral Parkway. By JEWELL DEAN Ida. the weather expenenced as ser A design believed different from any ever before along W.

First Street in two and the remainder of the county four. Building Home Harold C. Nelson is having an $11,000 home built at the Cape by Rutenberg Homes. Cape Coral Construction Co. obtained permits for a $13,800 home for Francis Chadwick and $10,600 for Isabelle Elwell.

The Lehigh home builders. each spending $9,000, are Her bert A. Ralston and Bernard G. Thurber. Elsewhere: Mrs.

Rives and Mrs. Parker, Waterway Estates, Michigan Homes, Tamiami Trail one mile south of Gladiola Drive, $10,000: Toltage Hudson, Barrett's Road in North Fort Myers, and C. J. Lee, frame cottage at Aqua Terrace Cottages, Fort Myers Beach, $3,000. Commercial activity for Cape Coral included a $12,000 business building to be erected by Harold M.

Mason. M. W. Galbraith obtained a $7,000 permit to rebuild a house destroyed by fire in Sherwood Forest. Flint Doyle will spend $5,000 on an addition at their location, 3655 Anderson Ave.

The county's permits totaled $137,400. Construction of the temple will start as soon as possible with bids being called for Sept. 30. Posner said the Rosen brothers are making their gift in memory of their mother who died recently. Leonard Rosen is preesident of the Gulf American Land developer of Cape Coral.

Jack Rosen is a vice president. The five-acre site will be on Del Prado Expressway about one and a half miles north of the GALC office building. It will be completed and dedicated about mid-March, according to Posner. Plans of the religious center for Jewish people will be those that were drawn for a site the center purchased at the northeast corner of Winkler Road and Cypress Lake Drive. They were produced by Bolton McBryde and William R.

Frizzell, local architects. 'Posner said the Cypress Lake Drive site is for sale. ine nrst temple, located on Grand Avenue at Linhart, was outgrown and sold months ago to the city York Rite Bodies, an upper organization for Masons. Jewish holiday services recently were conducted in the Fort My ers Shrine Club. Plans for the temple and cen ter call for a massive sanctuary and connected to it an L-shaped school building to be expanded into a quadrangle enclosing a large court when the membership grows.

All buildings will be CBS and painted white. Pentaude Set Cam Maiit pACf ivl llClt' 1111 WILLIAM J. PENTAUDE The appointment of William J. Pentaude as vice president in charge of sales at. Waterway Es tates was announced yesterday by President Joseph F.

Pulte, president of Pulte-Strang of Flor ida developer of that north shore Caloosahatchee River com munity. Pentaude, 38, is a native of Dayton, Ohio. He served six years overseas in World War II and until 1949 when discharged as a technical sergeant. Three years earlier he had married Barbara Hammock of Fort Myers. They made their home here and have four children, Kathryn 17, William 10, Karen, 7, and Ronald, 6.

After eight years in sales and service for Tom's Auto Sales Pentaude entered the realty field in 1958 with Zehner Real Estate and later was associated with Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres The Pentaudes, owners of the Carousel Shop in the Boulevard Plaza Shopping Center, recently occupied their new home in Wa terway Estates. yf 1 Aten said the concern will offer ry-, ooo. Alan J. Robertson, who; sales and service on bicycles, mo-recently res'gned as a vice presi- tor scooters and motorcycles. It'don' at Ihiih Acres to become a audience that would be forbidden hv mill wMttW in mnst stafPS.

bv cold weather in most states. Infirm persons can worship with out having to walk. Others can re- main in cars and escape a "dress- ing up" chore. we. nial Boulevard church bvlheRev Ronald nriHnLi hv nr The Colonial now served I Glassman, was originated by will carry a full stock of stand- will carry a full stock of stand- ard rePair Parts and hand and I Pwer tools for repairing cycle Webb has had lengthy exoerience in connection with for-: eign cars as a Driver ana me- chanic.

Dr.lIuiPment- equipment. At Cold Saturday Farms Estate Type Residence Is Set Th firsi home to be built at Cold Saturday Farms, communi- pest wing will contain two liv-. suites separated by a tea-: ty of estate type resiaences pwn New one made by Bail-Horton Boulevard United Presby through receivers they lift from posts and bring inside their ve hicles, i The entire sanctuary will be on raised earth, grassed and sloping away from its walls gradually. Cement walks angling away from the rear corners the church structure will make the upward climb easy for older worship pers going inside. Ascending grassy, green slopes will provide an attractive base for the low one-story white worship building.

The church will be basically a concrete frame with walls of cement blocks and an insulated gypsum roof supported by steel joists, according to George H. Bail of the architectural and engineering firm. A $48,653 contract for, construction was let to Collins Hamilton, Bail said com pletion was expected in January, To Seat 800 He reported the church will seat 300. and viewing and hearing spaces will be provided for 206 cars. Drive-in churches have met with considerable popularity in Flor- vs for r.

Wf.fv nea on wmwer nocu. "addition a uUlity room and two The new Temple Beth-El will be built at Cape Coral due to a donation of the site and other gen erosity of Leonard and Jack Ro sen, it was reported yesterday by Sam Posner, president of the Fort Myers Jewish Community Center. 500 to Attend District Meeting In Bradenton Around 500 realtors, associates, affiliates and their families are expected to attend a District 5 meeting in Bradenton next Satur- day at the Bradenton Cabana Mo- tor Hotel. The Manatee Board of Realtors will be the host. Nina J.

Hines.of Fort Myers is dis trict president. ft Irving Premae, a feasibility ex-pert, Levie Smithan appraiser, land a panel on exchanging real 'estate are afternoon program fea- -tures. The panel will be com Iposed of Bert Talley of Fort My- -ers, William Strickland of Orlan-do and Warren Harding of Sarasota. A banquet with professional en-; tertainment is scheduled for the evening. The ladies will be entertained with a style show and children will have a swimming party.

President Harry J.5i of Fort Lauderdale and Executive Vice President William H- Lippold Jr. of Orlando of the Florida Association of Realtors 'Jand their wives will be honored guests. Realtors will be on hand! from Arcadia. Enelewood. Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Na ples, Punta Gorda, Sarasota, Ven ice and Wauchula for the event.

It is called the District Five Jive. Harding is general chairman, working with Mrs. nines in completing the plans. President George E. Adams of the Fort Myers board will head the local "delegation.

Reservations may be made at the board's office or at I Bradenton from 9 a.m. until 12. Syndicate Buying Ford Street Tract For Industry Use A syndicate is purchasing 50 acres on the west side of Ford Street opposite the school bus garage for industrial park development and will build a 10,000 square foot building soon to be leased for warehousing, it was reported yesterday by Al Gall-man. According to Gallman, the deal with owner Bert Chabot of New York will not be closed until November but the warehouse would be put up under a purchase agreement. The land has 577 feet on Ford and runs west 1,000 feet to the ACL Railroad, Gallman said.

The buyers plan to plat the acreage so it would be an adjunct to the city's industrial park all leased. Gallman reported the group will cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce, Commitee of 100 and organizations and individuals in bringing more industry here. CRIMINALS GET AWAY CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Dr. Leon Radzinowicz, professor of criminology at the university here, told the Royal society of Arts that only 15 per cent of crimes committed In England are reported by police.

The chance that a criminal will bt convicted is 50-50, he Thomas Craigie Smart, now re-i tired, at the City Drive-in The- ater, nearby on Cleveland Avenue a few years ago. Dr. Smart had a temporary pulpit at the movie screen. As the membership gain 3d a 10- acre site was purchased on Colo nial and a church uuilding moved there from Iona. The car audience faces away from the side of this building.

The minister has to face either the inside or outside wor shippers. After completion of the new church the congregation plans to erect i two educational buildings off the back comers of the sane tuary. Parking space for cars of those going inside to church serv ices is in the area behind the church. The congregation completed a manse for its minister on one of the Colonial Boulevard corners of the property a couple of years ago. i Oil Uie Ul awing uuaiua aiiu strucuon Dias nave oeen caiieu for Sept.

22. It will be the home of Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Washburn, retiring here from Chicago.

I Approximately 5,000 square feet will be under roof in the Washburn home, a rambling layout with large central space flanked by two wings. According to Edgar A. Wilson of Gunderson Wilson, the architect for the structure, the main used in the country is the Associates for the Colonial terian Church, placed under con struction last week. The church combines drive-in and sanctuary worship. The sanc tuary will be built in a horizontal cone shape on earth hauled in to give it a seven-foot rise above the surrounding area.

The minister will conduct the service from a glass-sided apex of the cone in view of the inside worshippers as well as those in cars parked in rows extending fan-wise from the sanctuary. The church structure plus the cars will comprise a half circle so that all worshippers are in front of the minister and all have a view of him. Glass Bubble Above the pulpit will be a large glass bubble skylight so, that those attending' in cars will not have a problem from looking into artifi- cal lights. As at those choosing to stay in their cars will hear the and the music Industrial Park In Cape Coral Gets New Plant A new manufacturing plant has been added in the industrial park in Cape Coral. It is the Cape Cor al Fabricating Manufacturing and is located west of the US.

Wood Products Co. plant at Riviera Street and Andros Ave nue. Harold Flesh, independent build er at the Cape, has the contract for a $28,000 building. It will con tain 7,088 square feet of floor. Drawings show the one-story structure will have a 15 by 72 feet office section across the front! and 6,600 square feet adjacent with a higher ceiling for the oper ations.

The office section includes a reception room, general office, executive office, restrooms and lockerrooms for employes. The completion date is set for mid- November. Extension Service Conference Slated County Agent Robert G. Curtis, Asst. Wally Ortiz and Mrs.

Doro thy Classon, home demonstration agent, will be in Gainesville this week attending the Florida Ex tension Service's annual confer ence. It Is a work session concerned with plans for the serv ice's future program. 'JL. i I i I I i "111 -ft i 'J Architects' sketch of luxury home to be built at Cold Saturday Farm. View Is from Winkler Road.

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