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Squaw Valley, Calif.-Construction is moving rapidly on the buildings for the 8th Olympic Winter Games to be held here in 1960. Four dormitories to house 1200 men and women were nearing completion in August in the Olympic Village. Work was well underway on the athletes' reception center, dining hall and service build.ings. Foundations were rbeing poured for the 11,00Gseat Ice Arena, biggest single project of the construction, and contractors were ahead of schedule on the P,ress and Administration buildings. Diversified Buildings, Inc., Paramount, Calif., are build.ing the ski jumps and skating rinks. S,tate Highway crews are widening the sections of U.S. 40, 89 and other access roads.

Fresno, Cali,f.-Work is expected to begin on Success dam in the Tule river this November, and on Terminus dam in the Kaweah river in December 1959 at cosrts of $15,300,000 and 9,23,600,0@, fespectively.

La Habra.-A 26-horr.e tract at Hiatt and Olive avenues has been approved.

Anaheim.-Ground was broken for the first units of Saint Paul's Presbyterian church at Magnolia and Orange streets at $70,0@ costs for chapel, classroom.s, etc.

Kingvale, Calif.-Developers in tune with the Olympic Games construotion in Squaw Valley will launch a new vacation-home subdivision near here on Highway 40. The Pla-Vada Woodlands project is in nearly untouched Sierra forestla'-d on 6,000-ft. elevation, 30 minutes'drive from Squar'. The 6,000-15,00O sq. ft. lots will be part of the 4,000-acre tract owned by Nicholls Esrtate Co., Berkeley. The Pla-Vada Hills skiing facility close by will provide future residents with winrter sp,o,rts until the tract developers work out their own

STonley t-953l6 slopes. Access to U.S. 40 will be over state-maintained pavemen,t. T'here is a private lake on the preserve and the pla-Vada Community Assn. will install its own sewage disposal in the vacatio,n sub.division. Fresh water from m,o,untain springs will come to eac,h lot from an engineered pipe system. The model home was finished by the end of July and road work will be completed by September 15. lluena Park-Centralia School District approved plans for a seventh elementary school, the $385,161 project at 8301 \[ars Drive.

Yorba Linda.-Supervisors approved an l8-horne subdivision on Casa Loma avenue north of Yorba Linda boulevard.

Palm Springs.-Larry Finley is reported planning a 3-story apart- ment rbuild,ing in the Indian avenue district, occupying an entire block with recreational facilities and oasis-type landscaping.

Anaheim-C. C. Phillips Co., Los Angeles, was issued a permit for a $45,000 eight-unit apartment building on Hampstead Drive.

Duarte-Jack Higginson of Temple City won a $14,1,200 contract to build a 4-room addition to Beardslee school.

Carmel-A $41,000 federal grant was passed to finance a l5-month study of unban renewal in Seaside, w,here Harold Green has been named director of the redevelopment agency.

Los Angeles-The Union Pbcific Railroad will build a $3 m.illion freight-handling terminal adjacent to the East L A. oassenser station off Atlantic boulevard. It will include office ,building, salvage and sales warehouse, open platform for mec,hanical loadine and nerv tracl< and ties.

Tustin.-,Reynolds & Mauvius plan a 2Ghomc tract on l0 acres at 17th street and Holt avenue.

Anaheim-Burt Lowen, I-os Angeles, was issued permits for four nrultiple-family dwellings at 1803 and 1807 W. Ball Road at 948,000.

Los Angeles-Caltech has received an $850,000 gift for construction of a 1200-seat auditorium. The huge hall will contain several meeting rooms and a chapel. Six of 15 new bu.ildings planned in the school's $16 million development program are now assured.

Anaheim-Anaheim Golf Associates, Inc., received a variance to erect a hotel at 1850 W. Lincoln Ave.

Hollister-Bids were called in Sacramento on a $275,000 Union Bridge replacement project for Cienega road one mile south of here.

Santa Cruz-Port District commissioners voted to accept a $10,000 loan by the State Small Craft Harbors Commission and to ask another $1,650.000 for construction.

Costa Mesa.-Kenneth W. Koll plans 54 residential units on 18 lots between Westminster and Santa Ana avenues north of E 17th street.

Newport Beach-Orange County Planning Commission approved plarrs for a l9f-acre tract 'by Hancock Banning north of Coast lrighway and west of Superior avenue.

Anaheim-Union High School District approved plans for 10 portable classrooms at the Clara Barton school, and another l0 at James I\4adison school.

Tehachapi*Spencer of California has completed its 5,000-sq. ft. garment factory and futurc plans call for expansion to 15,000-sq. ft.