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Seven new homes and the luxurious Hillcrest Apartments on 11th Street will add to the beauty of Steamboat Springs by fall, as building activity in town is flourishing this year. The Ski Vu Motel opened recently, adding another handsome building to town.

The houses range in style from the modern, electrically equipped apartments to the handsome log construction popular in this area. Most of them have interesting innovations and splendid views of the surrounding country.

Perhaps the most interesting home of all is the ultra-modern "Mountain Lodge" being built by Lloyd Pierce for Eleanor Bliss. The contractor is using a revolutionary new type of building block, now available in Denver, and is said to be used in 70 percent of homes in Sweden.

All ready for opening of school

Some happy, some sad faces will be mirrored in the surface of the shiny school floors tomorrow at 1 p.m., as another 180-day school year starts for some 600 students in Steamboat Springs.

The afternoon session will be held for registration, text and class assignments. Buses will be available for all students to ride to school and to return. Parents may pick up children entering kindergarten if they wish, since their session will be shorter.

School begins its regular sessions the day after Labor Day - next Tuesday. Six new faces will be seen from the faculty side, and the return of the popular Marshall Sanborn is scheduled. Sanborn has received a master's degree from Iowa State in counseling and will serve in this capacity. He also will teach three English classes, including journalism, at the high school.

The lighting facilities at the gymnasium have been greatly improved with the installation of fluorescent lights. Other improvements, besides repainting of hallways and classrooms, include additional equipment for the science laboratory and new lockers in the Ag shop.

Grade school principal Clarence Gardner has kept busy this summer building cabinets and shelves for all the school buildings. The home economics department at the high school will be housed in two rooms, one for sewing and the other for cooking classes. Electric sewing machines and new furniture have been added for the department's use.

The high school library will be dressed up when several paintings of western scenes arrive. The grade school has been the recipient of a larger-sized library on its main floor, set up in a former storeroom.

Ski jump work begins; Perry-Smith makes hire

The Winter Sports Club announced a start this week on the repair of the jumping hill with George Fick in charge of the work. Jumping meets of international importance are slated to be held on the hill the next two years.

Crosby Perry-Smith was hired as a combination ski coach and manager of the area at a substantial raise in salary. He will start early this year to prepare the hill facilities for skiing this winter. Work will include a general overall of lighting, the ski hill itself and smaller jumps, as well as improvement of heating facilities at the lodge.

Events tentatively scheduled for Steamboat Springs this winter include a University of Wyoming college meet Jan. 3 and 4, the Winter Carnival Feb. 7 and 8, the National Classic Combined on March 6 and 7, and the International Meet on March 8 with top jumpers from several foreign countries expected to compete.

At the Tuesday noon meeting of the Winter Sports Club, Jim Temple offered the use of the Storm Mountain initial run for any slalom and downhill events this winter. He said the hill will be 11,000 vertical feet and about one mile long. Parking space for 200 cars and a good road to drive to the top of the area will be available, he added.

Temple has scheduled the installation of a T-bar tow for the winter of 1959, but many good trails will be ready this winter. It will give interested persons a chance to test the first runs on the vast project.