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Newport Beach.-C.ity planners approved permit to Walter Mellott to devel,op an 85-lot tract in Harbor Highlands and Westcliff areas.

Anaheim.-Ground was ,broken for fi,rst unit of buildings of the new East Anaheim Methodist church at 2045 W. Ball Road and covering 65,0O0 sq. ft.

Norwalk.-ThreB projects scheduled for construction this year at Metropolitan State hospital under the state building program include Vp93,950 on ward buildings, $816,460 remodeling of old buildings, and $94,150 boiler plant facilities.

La Habra.-Plans for rrew building at La Harb,ra High school to handle enrollment of 2,000 students are in addition to three classrooms, science building and locker room additions now buildine.

Brea-Approximately 5,200 acres of the E,000-acre Diamond Bar Ranch have now been zoned for single-family homes.

Canoga Park.-L. A. Municipal Art Commission announced plans {or a $116,500 branch library at 7260 Owensmouth Ave.

Marysville-U. S. Office of Education has earmarked $455.620 for an elementary school at Beale A.F.B., for children living in the Capehart housing project to be constructed at the base. Building starts neit Spring to accommodate 500 pupils in Septernber 1959.

Garden Grove.-Planning Commission approved plans for a Z5-bed hospital and ,buildings at Katella and Magnolia avenues. The $500,000 project is first phase of proposed building program.

Whittier.-California Youth Authority authorized $397,600 improvements at .the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys here. Fen,cing and other improvements will tre anobher $105.000.

Panorama City.-Louis Lesser Enterprises and Midland Investment Co. will devel,op 15@ feet of Van Nuys boulevard frontatse as Panorama Development Center with over 100,000 sq. ft. in siores and offices at $3 million in next six months.

--Ft._n-" Park.-Ci'ty planners approved an Elks Lodge building at 7212 Melrose Ave.

Santa Fe Springs.-Ground was broken for a $60,000 rnedical center and offices in shopping center at 9940 Orr and Day Road.

Malibu.-Armet & Davis are architects on $65,000, -gtlGsq.ft. Our Lady of Malibu Elementary school at 3625 Malibu Canyon Road to include four classrooms, offices, se,rvice rooms and covered walkway. New church witl also be built later.

Newport Beach.-Plans have been prepared for $22e000 expansion of the C,ivic Center needs for next 15 years, irncluding additions and remodeling of existing,buildings.

Sanla Maria.-Property Management Corp. of Gardena announced a 260-home tract on Orcutt road north of Evergreen Acres on g0 acres of the Grace Adam property.

Tustin._-Orange County Planning Commission approved plans for a branch library on Newport rboulevard northeast oi'S"r, Juan street and southwest of Main.

Palm Desert.-Western T,and & Capital Co. announces a $6 million c,o-op apartment project with 300 units. To be called The Sandpiper, it will cover a 45-acre site at Highway lll and the Palms-to-Pines Highway intersection.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Construction of a minimum of 100 new churches a year is the goal of the General Council of ,the newly for.med pres_ byterian Church in the U.S.A. The bo,ard of National Missions indicated between g3 million and $3,5@,000 will be needed each year to house new organizations.

La Verne.-Wm. C. Crowell Co., pasadena, was successful bidder at $1,126,000 for the new high school east of D street and norfh of 8th,Bradlury-The first two permits issued through the nanr City Hall building office in this new foothill cornrnunity were tor two residences: a $SO,0O0 home at No. 2 Dcodar La_ie, and a $3E,000 residence at 15 Bradbury Hills Road.

Anaheim.-Magnolia School District has acquired sites for two more elementary schools at $144,000 costs. One wilt be west of Dale and north of Rome streets and the other west of Dale. north of the western extension of Broadwav.

Anaheim.-A new Catholic school for .bovs is Palma and Wichita avenues, and a new oarish Fullerton at 2201 Valencia Drive.

scheduled at La will be built in Los Angeles.-First phase of remodeling was completed on ex_ terior of the Black Build,ing at 357 S. Hill st. Eventual remodeline of the 1l floors will include Mahogany paneling on walls.

West Anaheim.-Ground was broken for thi Bank of America's $233,000 branch at Euclid and Crescent avenues, with completion set for late summer or earlv fall.

Ga.rden Grove-City .ouniil-"n anrthorized the community's third hospital, a 75-bed, 9500,000 facility on a 7-acre site at Katella and Magnolia. The first, 50-bed unit will start construction by Sept. L Long Beach-Building was expected to start in June on th! 12_

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story Twilighter 'hotel at the foot of Atlantic avenue on Ocean boulevard. The 210-room facility is a $3,500,000 project.

Buena Park-The John Howard Investment Co' entered escrow proceedings to acquire a 26-acre parcel bounded try Grand avenue' Western avenue, El Verano north and the Riverside freeway as the site for a shopping center. Five buildings are planned, one a saucershaped structure costing $2,500'000.

Santa Ana-More than 1,600 acres of agricultural land devoted to tree crops in Orange county were subdivided for residential use during 1957.

Fullerton-The Community Bible church was granted a permit to erect churclt building on a 3.73-a'cre site between S. Nicholas avenue and the proposed extension of S. Jefferson avenue.

Anaheim-Means Ulrich Const. Co. was awarded a $391,000 contract for expansion of the Lou Maxwell school at 9441 Magnolia Ave., including nine classrooms.

Desert Hot Springs-A $5 million shopping center and recreational area is planned on a .52-acre site on Pierson boulevard 'by Sunny Sands Paradise Corp. A bowling alley and 100-unit motel are part of the plan, with provisions for sports such as boating, fishing and water skiing in a planned lake.

Santa Barbara-W. E. Burnett has been issued permits worth $400,000 for construction of 27 more dwellings in the La Coronilla tract of 200 in the Mesa area.

Norwalk-Bylin Hurd Const. Co', Santa Ana, was awarded a $1,244,000 contract for second phase of work on Cerritos college on " b5-.... site bounded by Alondra boulevard and Studebaker road' Scheduled for completion by the Fall of 1959, it is part of a continuing 'building program to eventually accommodate 3,000 students at the tuition-free, community college.

Garden Grove-City councilmen- approved plans for an lEhome tract east of Brookhurst street on the north side of Lampson avenue, and a 181-home tract on the north side of Hazard street, west of Verano.

Fullerton-The Congregational church announces a temporary church-fellowship hall to be built on a 4-acre site on N. Acacia avenue as the ,first stage of a rbuilding program.