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project, the East Stockton Redevelopment Area, in plarrning stage and its Redevelopment Agency has applied for a URAdvance to survey and plan a second project known as the West End Area. Surveys and studies are continuing to delineate residential neighborhoods and identify areas of substandard housing. The San Joaquin County Housing Authority has 700 units of low-rent public housing under nranagement in the city, and the Housing Administrator has certified Section 221 FI{A mortgage insurance assistance for 50 private homes. Another project is under study looking to an appli- cation for l0O units of public housing for elderly single men. Refcr: Mayor Dean C. McCarli.

Sheridan, Montana, has received CFApproval of a g134,000 loan to construct sewerage facilities when rnatched with $16,800 of private financing. Refer: Mayor A. C. Smith; Project No. pFL-VI-24-44. Seaside Memorial hospital, Long Beach, Calif., has receivecl CFApproval of a $234,000 loan to build an apartlnent building to house l5 internes. Refer: Donald C. Carner, aclministrator; project No. Calif. 4-CH-53 (H)

Northern Montana College, Havre, .received CFApproval of a $2.;0,000 loan to construct a student union building for an enrollment of nearly 60O. Refer: President L. O. Brockman; Project No. Mont. 24-CH-15 (S).

Fire'baugh, Calif., located in a farming community 40 miles west of Fresno, has received HHFApproval of its workable program to clirninate slums and blight and guide its orderly growth and develop- ment. The city's normal population of an estimated 2,500 fluctuates to an estinrated high of 10,000 with migratory workers following seasonal crolrs. The city. does not have buildinc codes but has subdivision and trailcr ordinances. Tlre Housing Autlrority Las 50 urrits of low-rent public housing under nlanagement and another 40 were recently approved by the voters. Refer: Mayor Henry B. Tucci.

Taconia, Washington, has received HHFA recertification for the second year of its workable program to eliminate slums and blieht 1nd guide its orderly development. The city of 143,673 population (1950) on Puget Sound has 1,0O9 units of low-rent public irousing tnder management of its Housing Authority and is preparing a hou_sing code. In stepped-up enforcement of its Dangerous -Building Code, 43 buildings were demolished durine the firsi 10 months of 1958, compared with 34 such in the entire vear of 1957. Refer: Mayor Ben Hanson.