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Forest Fire do heap damage to timber and animals in forest. Please work with Smokey and Princess Sky Blue Water to guard against fire damage. Be snre Aou not careless on camping and ffshing trips.

derson near,by and in the El Dorado Valley. He told of plans for the pump-lift of water ,to a reservoir in the Valley for a population density greater than the ci,ties of Hong Kong or Singapore.

The 3,000-acre Lockhart Ranch at Barstow, Calif., was sold for $3,500,000, May 7, to Arnold Dittmar, Pueblo, Colo.. as headquarters for Boys' Town International. Building will include a huge recreation center, library, hospital and chapel.

ConBtruction is scheduled to start in Jure on the first portion of the $1,5d),000 ski lodge project adjacent to Huntington Lake in the High Sicrra at China Peak, 65 miles from Fresno and 265 from L. A. Included is $1 rnillion for buildings to be ready for the 1958-59 skiing scason. Construction will be of heavy timbers with large glucd laminated roof bearns to support the snow load. Natural finieh woods will be used o,n the exterior. Parr Construation Co. was low bidder at $544,900 for a new wing to t,he County Museum in Exposition Park. It will con,tain a 450seat auditorium.

-_William Zeckendorf, national urban developer and president of Webb & Knapp with $500,000,000 of urban bu,ilding now in progress, said in San Francisco, May 7, that his construction firm is interested in the Golden Gateway redevelopment of the old who,lesale produce district there and wants to do the Diarnond Heights project there and the Bunker Hill redevelopment in Los Angeles, and is ,,about to cornmit" on a major Sacramento project as well.

Los Angeles county supervisors approved a master zoning of the Brea Canyon district, including the large Diamond Bar ranch, with 5,2(X) acres set aside for homes and 1200 for rnultiple-farnily residences.

Bids were to be opened May L2 on constru,otion of a San Bernardino county prison camp at Glen Helen farm. The $1,300,000 project is expe,cted to get underway in June with four main buildings.

Three new Santa Bar,bara county o.ffice buildings valued a.t $525,000 were approved by supervisors with bids to be advertised this month.

The llt,h Naval District, San Diego, awarded a$1,073,812 contract to SecrESt & Fish, Whittier, April 26 for construction of a hospital at El Toro Marine Air Corps Base.