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KEEP II UPwit HOBBS REDW h wAt 00D

A ticklirh buriness-keeping curlomc?r hoppy yecr ofter yeor. But it poyr ofi in aofirfoction ond repeot soler.

For over 9O yecrr, Hobbc Woll hor rtood for tho lcrt in Redwood-grode for grode, size for size. And for over 90 yeorr, deolers eve4rwhcre hove been cornlng bock for rnore.

Why not put thlr bu3lne6i-bullding quolity to work for you?

Gcll, wrile or wirc Hobbr Woll for pronrPl tervlce.

New BUILDING Developments...

Bids have been invited by the Orange County supervisors for construction of a 300-foot pier in Dana Cove, Dina point, Calif., to accommodate Z-lane traffic, with a boat landing gangway and boat crane.

^ The Oakland City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors have tabled a motion to defer plans to iell land in the San Pablo Dam area, and the district-bwned land will be sold to obtain funds for pur_chase of better sites for park plan- ning- Tast Bay Municipal U_tilities officials said the property would be sold for housing subdivisions.

The State Public Works Dept., Sacramento, has called for bids on the first construction foi'the California youth Trainins School near Ontario, to cost about $5,300,000. Construction wiil probably start about April or May on facilities to house 400 boys,-with capacity for 1200 boys oh eventual completion.

A-.building-permit for the $3,800,000 Los Angeles Orthopaedic hospital has been issued. The 6-story structire will have 125,000 sq. ft. of floor area.

Construction has started on a $1,000,000 glass fiber manufacturing_ plant in C91ona, Calif., for the LiSbey-Owens-Ford Glass F.ibers Co., with -completion set for Augrist 1958. New plant, willlandle manufact-uie, fabrication and-warehousing of the L-O-F lines of insulation products, reported John- A. Ylorga!:, vice president and gener-al manager of t--O-F pacific Coast division.

A $67,500 building pe_rmlt was issued for expansion of a shopping center in Brea, Calif.

Permits of $635,515 were issued f.or 62 family dwellinss in Buena Park to be located in three tracts: 14 homes at-Las Lomas drive and Hiatt street, 29 dwellings north of Ocean avenue and east of Hiatt street, and 19 homei east of I-a Mirada and north of Central avenue.

A $25,000,000 investment in 1958 home construction in San Fernando. Valley and Orange county was revealed by Aldon Construction Co., Bellflowei Calif. :'Caballero Hills.,,'a com- munity development at Reseda boulevard south of Ventura boulevard, will be custom-built homes in the $30-$40.000 ranse and consist of. 402 homes. Aldon will also compiete this ydr the 473-home Northridge Plaza development and a $2 miilion extension in Granada Hills. Previously reported in these columns were Aldon's plans to resume construction this year in Oranee county,. wh_e1e the firm built more than $25 million worth "of homes in 1956. will be conBarbara by

Buena Park, Calif.-Street names in new tracts here will be "out of this world." City Council has approved Mercury, V_engs, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptdrie. But they turned down "Sputnik" Street. That one will be known as Polaris Street.

The Presb-yterian Church announced plans for a $3 million community for the elderly on the San Francisco peninsula. where the S. F. Presbytery has approved plans for iesidencei for 250 persons on a lifetime basis.

Whittier Construction Co. took out permits f.or 28 sinslefamily dwellings on West Wilshire avenue in I-aHabra.- County supervisors approved plans of Alco Construction Co. for a housing tract on Westminster avenue east of Cannerv street in Westminster, Calif.

Schwartz-Yedor Building Corp. received a permit to build 50 additional homes in thJ Lem6n Heights disirict at Tustin; Calif.

A 16-unit apartment building to cost $175,000 srtucted at Oceano and Del Sol avenues in Santa H. W. Airey & Associates.

The Orange, Calif., City Council approved final tract maos for a 6.7-acre tract and a S-acre tract lir the vicinitv of Haniv street and Collins avenue north of Walnut avenue. Borrego Springs, Calif.-Construction is underwav on

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