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United Press International
DALLAS — When financier
Douglas A. Means became executive
vice president of Jim Williams Jr.
Fine Homes, he felt the $100,000-a~
year- executive would be the prim
ary market for homes in a develop
ment on the Caruth family farm in
north Dallas.
Means, however, has reconsi
dered, recognizing the plight of the
“poor” hundred-grand-a-year-
executive — that he or she cannot
afford a truly fine home in 1979.
Inflation, rising construction costs
and the money market were the
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problem. In the early stages, builder
Jim Willimas Jr. intended to build
the 300 luxury homes at a cost of from
$125,000 to $175,000 each.
That price tag has risen to more
than $275,000 per home since 1977,
when ground was broken for the first
part of the project.
“Those changes in costs are dra
matic,” Means said. “Take a two-
bedroom, 3,500-square-foot French
chateau as an example. In 1977 the
home was targeted for a completed,
turnkey price of $175,000. It’s on the
market today at $360,000, and the
company is already over that budget
by more than $15,000.”
The home. Means said, is worth
every penny of it because of the qual
ity of the workmanship and materials
which have gone into it.
The roof, standing seam metal and
flat-topped, cost more than $30,000,
twice the original estimate. Con
crete, paint, steel, brick, wood floor
ing and hardware, he said, all have
doubled in cost since the home was
designed.
Mortgages are not available in
amounts of more, than $200,000, so
the purchaser of the French chateau
at Caruth Homeplace will need to
invest at least $160,000 in cash.
Assuming a $200,000 mortgage at
11% percent, the buyer would pay a
monthly mortgage of about $2,000
for principal and interest, and $2,500
when taxes and insurance are added.
“The ‘poor’ $100,000 per year ex
ecutive just can’t swing that in most
cases,” Means said, “unless he has an
extremely moderate standard of
living.”
Means, however, said he is pro
ceeding with 30 more homes costing
more than $300,000 each
uring 1980, and is confident every
one will be sold before completion.
“Sixty percent of the buyers at
Caruth Homeplace still pay cash for
their homes,’ Means said. “And talk
of a recession or downturn in the
economy won’t deter those purchas
ers who have that much cash to in
vest in non-capital assets.
Rising costs also have been felt in
interior decorating.
In the French chateau. Means
said, $35,000 was budgeted for the
interior — wood parquet flooring,
wallpaper, decorative light fixtures,
hardware, decorative plumbing fix
tures, mirrors.
Staff said to have ignored doctor's orders
But, he said, walnut haslri|
price, and the $6,5001
wood floors turned out I
little. The imported antique®
was estimated to cost $1,5(1 J
cost more than $1,700. Car
and wallpaper were
$6,000. But Means expectsj
items to cost more than twictl
amount.
“If buyers decide to use a
hardwood other than wa
can hold the cost down,” 1
“And if they opt for a painted*!
the bedroom rather than wal
they can cut that cost ovemn |
“We give them a complete*
cost analysis of what hasbeensp
in each of 40 categories. Its^
them to decide where, ifamij
to trim as costs rise.”
Boy s death blamed on hospital ca\
United Pres International
AUSTIN — State officials
Wednesday acknowledged heavy
doses of tranquilizers and inadequ
ate medical attention led to the death
of a 16-year-old autistic boy at Austin
State Hospital in July.
A sealed report on the Depart
ment of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation’s internal investigation
of the death of Michael Shipley indi
cates medical staff at the hospital
failed to follow a doctor’s order to
monitor the teen-ager’s vital signs
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after an excessive dose of tranquiliz
er was administered.
An autopsy by the Travis County
medical examiner showed the youth
died from choking on his own vomit
and a congenital heart defect.
The MHMR investigation indi
cated the drug administered to
Michael causes uncontrolled vomit
ing and criticized hospital staff for
failing to monitor what treatment, if
any, was given to the critically ill
youth in the four hours before he
died on July 30.
The state agency — on orders from
Attorney General Mark White
refused to release the reportli
teen-ager’s parents or reporte
Dr. John Kavanaugh, \II
commissioner, Wednesda;
firmed the accuracy of news iq
about the scaled report.
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of heavy dosages ofthorazine,
naugh said.
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Shipley of Houston, contest
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HOUSTON — It took the jury seven minutes to reject fired pol
man Philip Emerson’s claim of a frame-up and convict him of of
oppression in the sexual fondling of a woman he had stopped onati
charge. _
Emerson, 27, was convicted Tuesday of taking advantage ofl® 1311 pro
position to sexually abusp a waitress, 23. He will be sentenced foraB ear o
misdemeanor Jan. 30 and could receive a year in prison and a $2,ll 2 ’ 597 y arc
fine. W st 13 ini
Emerson, who still faces a second charge of forcing another won® C
traffic violator into sexual relations, said he will appeal. Bin the di
The waitress testified she was in a car with two men when EmeraB, ^ uesc
stopped them for running a stop sign. She said he ordered her oul® s c ’ 0 | wn
the car and forced her to expose her breasts and drop her m« lave had
explaining it was part of a search.
She said Emerson took her to the police station where he told heil
would not charge her for possession of a pill he found in her purse
ordered her to wait so he could take her home. _
She said he took her to Memorial Park where he sexually prop«|i unes ha'
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Emerson claimed the woman framed him and said fellow offiw|r e ‘™ slve
went along because he was black and married to a white wotnul etera
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KERRVILLE — Defense attor
neys trying to save Donald Edward
Smith Jr., 19, from death row for the
alleged murder of two women said
Wednesday they not only would
prove their client did not commit the
crime, but would name the person
who did.
Defense Attorney Richard Mosty
said he would produce a witness who
allegedly heard another man confess
to the murders of Molly Farr, 55, and
her 25-year-old daughter, Tandy
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The Brady women were killtj
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