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Federsl Aid Projects . .

The California Department of Finance has received a $47,290 URA grant to prepare plans for the growth and development of Barstow, Covina, Delano, Guadalupe, Modesto, Palm Sprlngs, Santa Paula and Watsonville, including zoning and subdivision ordinances under the Housing Act of 1954. Refer: Elton R. Andrews, Local Planning Officer, Departmert of Finance, Sacramento 14, Calif.

Anchorage, Alaska, will begin actual execution of its 37-acre "Government Hill" ur,ban renewal project with a $677,038 federal loan and a $501,263 capital grant approved by the URA. The predominantly residential area north of the central business district is studded with Quonset huts erected after WWII. Many of the area's 40 families will build new homes at the front of the lots under FHA Section 22O rnortgage insurance. Portions of the area not retained by site residents will be cleared and sold for residential re-use. Estimated net cost of the project is $743,195. Refer: M. G. Gebhart, executive director, Alaska Housing A'uthority, P. O- Box 179' Anchorage, Alaska.

Chapmln College, Orange, Calif., will tbuild two 2-story dormitories with a $789,000 CFA loan and $'l4n00 of its own funds' Refer: Comptroller Wilber E. Tunison. Project No. Calif. +CH'22 (D).

Olvmpia School District No. I has received a $39,000 CFAdvance to ptan a senior high school rbuilding at $3'100'000'cost to start construction in the spring of 1959. Rdfer: Supt. Rolland H. Upton, Olympia, Wash. 45-P-3025.

HltFed-i"istrator Albert M. Cole has recertified the workable program'by which Oakland, California, has undertaken to eliminate sluris and-blight and direct its orderly growth and development' Some plans an? studies of the program' now in its third year, hav-e be." pr"j.cted into 1983. Currint studies include the Clinton Park ofU"tt t.tt"*"I project and a 250-block section of the West Oakland area.

fhe Citv and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, received two CFAd""".., i.il"firrg 9+O,SS9 to finance planning for construction of two additional elementary schools among eight current school projects io cost an estimated $,554,640. A $25,440 advance is for planning of the Mokapu Elementary school at Kailua to provide l8-classrooms at $61i,980 cost in an area where more than 1,000 new homes "r" pi"""Ja. i planning advance of $15,150.is for constluction of a i2-.i"sroo* elementary school in Waimanalo at $320,670 cost in an area where 1,5(D new homes are planned' Refer: Ralph S' Inouye, Supt. of Buildings, Dept. of Buildings, ,Honolulu, T.H' Project lloi. t.tt. 51-P-3011 (Waimanalo), T.H. 51-P-3012.

Glendale, California, received a $48,642 CFAdvance to finance final planning of a $i,Ztg,S61 police headquarters building in the civic ienter to start construction rby January 1959. Refer: City Manager C. E. Perkins. Project No' Calif' 4'P'3241.

The Emanuel Hosp,ital School of Nursin'g, Portland, Oregon, received a $500,000 CFA loan for construction of a 3-story addition to cost an estimated $706,7LO. Refer: Administrator Pau'l R. Hanson. Project No. Oregon 35-CH-24 (H).

The Housing and Home Finance Administration has approved certification of Section 221 F}JA mortgage insurance to finance up to 70 units of low-cost private housing in Reno, Nevada, for displaced families to be rehoused under governmental actions including the Northeast urban renewal project, highway construction, code enforcement and eviction from low-rent public housing. At least 63 of the new units are to be provided ,by new construction.

Merced, Calif., has received HHFApproval of its workable program for elimination of slums and blight. The Mer'ced Redevelopment Agency was approved for a $13,300 planning grant by the URA for a downtown predominantly residential project' The subdivision ordinance of 1953 has been under restudy and new neighborhood analyses will designate areas in need of rehabilitation or redevelopment. The agency will relocate in standard housing any families displaced by .urban renewal, highway development or governmental actions. The Housing Authority presently operates 140 units of low-rent pu,blic housing and tftre city is expected to request Section 221 FF{L mortgag'e insurance for construction of low-cost dwellings.

The IJniversity of Alaska at Collegel four miles from Fairbanks, has received a $1,290,000 CFA loan to finance student and faculty housing, including a dormitory to house 102 men stridents, completion of third floor to women's dormitory, three duplexes and 12 apartments. The duplexes will be of wood construction on concrete foundations. Refer: Dr. E. N. Patty, president; Project No. AAA-50cH-l-(D).

Monterey, Calif., has received HHFApproval of its workable program for elimination of slums and blight. Preservation of the city's Spanish Colonial architecture and historic areas is an element in the renewal proposals. The city's redevelopment agency has applied