Federol Aid Projects . .

New Mexico Normal University, Las Vegas, received CFApproval of a $295,0@ loan to finance construction of a 3-story apartment building to house 32 student families. Refer: President Dr. Thomas C. Donnelly; Project No. N.M. 29-CH-13 (D).

Commissioner John C. Hazeltine approved a $114,178 CFAdvance to finance preliminary planning for the completion of a junior college plant at. Norwalk, Calif., by the Cerritos Junior College District of Los Angeles county. Project will cost $8,538,446 and include buildings, halls, li'brary, shops, gymnasium, auditorium, stadium and two pools, with construction expected to start by 1961. Refer: Henry F. Korsmeier, vice-president, 11442 E. Alondra Blvd., Norwalk, Calif.; Project No. Calif. 4-P-32ffi.

HHFAdministrator Albert M. Cole recertified the workable program under which Fresno, Calif., is moving to eradicate its slums and blight and guide its orderly growth and development. The rapidly growing city of 150,000 in the San Joaquin valley has two urban renewal projects in advanced planning stages and has implemented adoption of a uniform housing code. The city has 4,000 substandard structures and seeks to enforce a repair and improvement program. A central Relocation officb would be established to relocate families displaced in urban renewal actions, and Section Z2l FHA mortgage insurance would supplement resources for low-cost homes.

Los Angeles College of rOptometry received CFApproval of an $82,000 loan to finance construction of a dormitory to house 32 men students. Refer: James F. English, comptroller; Project No. Calif. 4-CH-54 (D).

Lane County, Oregon, received HHFApproval of its workable program to eliminate slums and blight in the unincorporated Willakenzie area and guide its orderly growth and development. The area is within the Eugene metropolitan region but separated by the rivers and Springfied, Ore. County Housing Authority and Urban Renewal Agency have made PHApplication for an allocation of low-rent units to be erected in Willakenzie.

HH'FAdministrator Albert M. Cole has approved use of FHA Section 221 mortgage insurance in Tucson, Arizona, to assist in financing up to 200 units of low-ccst private housing to help relocate families displaced rby urban renewal projects, code enforcement or other governmental action.

The following Region VI colleges have applied to the Community Facilities Administration for loans in the noted amounts with which to build housing and related facilities: Saint Mary's college, Saint Mary's College, Calif., $3500@; Whittielcollege, Whittier, Calif., $a50,000; Northwest Nazarene college, Nampa, Idaho, $425'000; The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Ida., $120,000; College of Southern Utah, Cedar City, Utah, $260,000, and Northern Montana college, Havre, Mont., $415,000.

San Pablo, Contra Costa county, Calif., 17 miles from San Francisco, received HHFApproval of its workable program to eliminate slums and blight. The 123-year-o1d, community began in 1823 when Don Francisco Maria 'Castro, father-in-law of Juan Batista Alvarado, California's first native-'born governor, received a grant of 19,934 acres of grazing land on San Francisco Bay. It was ,incor'porated as a city in 1948 and an Ur'ban Redevelopment Agency was set up last year. The Northgate Urban Renewal project includes an area to be cleared and redeveloped for residential reuse. Except for subdivisions developed since 1948, 23/o of the 5,257 dwellings in the 1950 census were reported to be substandard. Completion of the neighborhood analyses element of the program is set for 1960.

Cascade County School District I received a $35,228 CFAdvance for the complete planning of an elementary school to be built at Great Falls, Montana, at estimated $808,305 costs. Construction is expected to begin by June 1960. Refer: Asst. Supt. W. Ted Barkhurst; Project No. Mont. 24-P-3050.

Phoenix, Arizona, has received HHFA recertification until August 1, 1959, of its workable program for the elimination of slums and blight. Two designated urban renewal projects are in planning stages in the city, which once counted 11,000 substandard dwellings among its 60,000 homes. Its population of 170,000 increased 62/o since 1950. The city will assume responsibility for relocating families displaced through urban renewal actions and construction of the Phoenix Expressway. The Housing Authority has 1,088 public low-rent units under management and contracts were advertised in October for construction of an additional 200 units.

Saint Martin's college, Olympia, Wash., received CFApproval of a $550000 federal loan to be used with $125,000 of its own funds to build a dormitory for 65 faculty and two guests. Refer: President Damian Gleen;Project No. Wash. 45-CH-32 (D).

South Pasadena, Calif., received HHFA recertification until August 1, 1959, of its workable program to eliminate slums and trlight. One urban renewal project, the Monterey Hills Area, is in the planning stage.

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