New BUILDING Developments. ..

The William Blackfield Organization of Hawaii is developing 570 homes at Pohakapu and the Campbell Estates development on Oahu.

Inland Empire Builders, Saratoga, are planning 80O homes in various locations of the Santa Clara Valley adjacent to San Jose.

Utah Construction Co. is 'building one of the country's largest custonrr service warehouses for Sterling Furniture Co. in tl-re Lindenville Industrial Park, South San Francisco.

Trustees of Sierra Junior College, Placer county, seleclecl a 160acre site two miles north of Loomis for a new college campns. The present college buildings in Auburn will be turn.ed over to Placer Union High school.

William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate will be opened to the public, June 6. The state historical monument is 95 miles south of Carmel on Highway No. 1 and will be open annually from midMay to mid-October.

Subdivision of 29 acres for 782 single-family l.romesites was approved by the County Regional Planning Commission in La Puente. Tract is north of Valley boulevard and east of Giano avenue.

A $225,000 expansion of San Fernando hospital will be complete<l soon by Chodos Construction Co., Hollyw,ood.

Standard Building Co. has opened its new 400-unit residential subdivision with a model home in Forest Krrolls, off Clarendon avenue in the Sutro Forest area in the heart of San Francisco.

The Dominican Sisters announced a million-dollar hospital on a 1SO-acre site east of Hanford in Kings county.

The U.S. Navy filed declaration of intent in Kings county to take 19,752 acres of land in Kings and F,resno counties as site of the $81 million Lemoore Naval Air Station. The 300 landowners affected settled for a specilic price.

Hanford elementary school trustees accepted plans for eight additional classrooms at James Monroe and Jefferson schools.

Anaheim city councilmen approved an 80-dwelling tract map at Nutwood and Cerritos avenues,

Buena Park city planners approved a permit for a $9C,000,21-unit motel at Grand and La Palnra avenues.

J. Putnam Henck was awarded a $l-53,916 contract for construction of a new art hall on the Pomona College campus at Clarenont.

I-armore Construction.Co., Whittier, is building the 316-acre, 1038lot subdivision on Valley boulevard adjacent to the Cal-Poly campus.

Inyo National Forest officials grantecl Andrew J. Hurley, Los Angeles attorney, 20 acres and a 30-year permit to build a resort hotel near the Mammoth Mountain double-chairlift. announced the USFS office at Bishop. The lodge will have at least 60 rooms, plus dormitory accommodations and shop facilities. Hurley has two years tocomplete construction but most of the main lodge is expected to be completed this summer.

Plans for the San Francisco Giants' new stadium call for seating capacity of 45,000, including 5,000 seats in portable centerfield bleachers and 12,@0 box seats; bleachers could be removed for football games. Builder Charles Harney will complete the p'roject for opening of the 1959 season.

R. J. Daurn Construction Co. is building the $3 million Robert A. Millikan Junior High school on a 2o-acre site at Magnolia and Sunnyslope avenues in Van Nuys.

California Federation Construction Co. was given the contract to build eight new classrooms at Mira l,inda schcol in the Centralia district'for $127,026.

Permits for homes in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan areas during 1957 totaled 81,807 dwellings, reports the research department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles. This was a reduction of 9.4/o from 1956. Tract homes fell off 40/o d.uring 1957, while apartments and multiple du'elling units increased by more tha.n 407o.

Construction started on the largest apartment project ever built in San Diego courrty, the $13 rnillion, 7062-tnit Lon.ra Palisades project on 58 acrcs in Point Loma souih of West Lcnia boulevard.

The Oakland Board of Educatioii approved a $464,500 budget for new buildings at the Highland Elementary school, 8521 A St. Construction will s.tart soon on the $2,700,0@ administration building to serve the Long Beach Harbor department on the waterfront at the southeast corner of Pier A. It replaces the building built in 1940 and now almost hidden by the fill of land about it to combat subsidence. Completion is scheduled for late 1959.

The Monterey Ci.ty Council will remove dilapidated buildings but preserve adobe buildings and other historical monuments in its nerv master plan development.

Oakland city officials ,participatd irr the recent dedication of the Brookfield Recreation Center built at Jones and Edes avenues. The one-story building is of stained redwood and glass.