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Hyde Brothers Lumber Co., Clarksdale, Ms., opened a 9000 sq. ft. Ttue Vafuc barldrng materials store with a three acre lumber yard in Ttrnica, lvls., Ginger Johnson, gen. mgt ...

Causeway Lumber Co., Fort Lauderdale, Fl., will open a Delray Beach, Fl., distribudon facitty with 16,000 sq. ft. of office and warehouse space and three acres of outside storage March I ...

Steve Williams, will open a 21,000 sq. ft. upscale milfworld window/Iumber yard in Knoxville, Tn.,late next month,Lany Tinnermon, gen. mgr. ... Cape ltmber, Cape Coral, Fl., added a 10,000 sq. ft" commodity waretnuse...

Iawe's had a grand opening for an Owensboro, Ky., superstore, broke ground for a Myrtle Beach S.C., superstore due to open late this year and planned to relocate and convert a Montgomery, AI., unit to a superstore ...

Fow orth- Galb raith rcmcdreled a McKinney, Tl., locatioq adding door, millwork, moulding and architectural accessory displays Junction and Marfa, Tx., Foxworth-Galbrcitft units have been closed with outside salesmen added to service the areas

Carolina Builders Corp. will open a 30,000 sq. ft. store this spring in Greenville, S.C., Van D. Isley, branch mgr.

Buford White Lumber Co., Shawnee, Ok., was named one of Ace Hardware's top five stores in the U.S. ... work continues on T H. Rogers Lumber Co. b new Fletcher, Ok., location

Kmart, which plans to make a public offering of between 2O% and 30Vo of its Builders Square equity, expects to convert all rinits to the Buildcrs Squarc If concept, closing or relocadng smAhr uriti ... Buildcrs Sqtue,-PalmBay, Fl., cut its staff by 13 ... Builders Square, Winter Haven, Fl., suffered a $3 million fire when an employee's test to pove &at mineral spirits were not flammable failed...

_.Home_Depot added a Depot Diner Restaurant at a n-ew Greensboro, N.C., location and is opening two stores in Tblsa, Ok., one downtown and one on Zlst near an existing HoneBase afr a, relocated Buildcrs Squan

Anniversaries: J. Youenas Co., Navasota, Tx., 120th; Hurd Millw_ork, 7 Sth: Dixie Plywood Co., Savannah, Ga, 50thi yazoo Manufacuring Co., hrc., Jackson, Ms., 5fttU Random Lcngths fumber market report, 50th

Hankins -Wilson ltnrber, Grayson, Al., has been reopened is Qrgyson Lumber Co.6y Frank Schmidbauer ... Dixie Plywood Co. opened a distribution cdnter in El Ptso, Tl., Juan Larq gen mgf. Temple-Inland Forcst prduits Corp.will build a $62 millionparticleboard manufacturing facility at Hope, Ar.

Nuline Industries, Fredericksburg, Va, acquird Jim ad Janice Barsby's 50% interest to become 100% ownerc of Omega Corruglted Anaheim, Ca" GeorgiaPacifrc Corp. prchased &e assets of Mor-Lite Distibutors Inc. (millwork), Walpole, Ma-^\ryqyf Fiber Glass is adding 300,000 sq. ft. to its Lanet, Al., manufacturing facility Seasonall Industries, Inc.5 residential division, Pelatchie, Ms., and Smyrna, Tn., is being merged with B etter-B ilt Aluminum P roduc ts

Co., PrescoE Valley, Az.,by Indal, Ztd., Tbronto, Canada, prirent of bothompanies...

Inurnaioul Paper Co. expects to decide in tbe rExt two montbs between Ho1r, Ar., Jefferson and Longvieq Tl., as tte location for a new oriented strand bciard plant to be built this year ...

Atlas R@fing Corp., Meridian, IvIs., wiU acquire Georgia-Prcifrc 9 or?. b rooiing manrifacturi'ng business including Ardmorc, Ok; Qaingerfield, Tk., and Hampton" Ga, planls ...

U.S. ntnbr & Millwo* T}lertown, Ms., a rEw coryany fqmed by Brad Bower wihldaloTrnhr Corp., Bois,Id, as glimit€dputu, e:1rccts to begn shipping mt month...

. ABT Buildhg Prducu Corp., lo th9 process of expanding its Roaring Rivef,, N.C., engineered wood siding plant, moved its trcaOquaters to Neeoab, Wi., fiom Tfoy, Mi.; the hardboardlplastics div. remainsinThoy...

Bruce Hardwood Ffoors has lnillion dollar improvement pro- jects underway at Port Gibson, Ys., an9 Cenrcq Tx., plants Leslie-Loc&e, Atlanta-, Ga., is buiHing a?A,W sq. ft manufrcturing and distribution facility in Burgaq N.C. ... Hanis-Tbrkzn, Johnson City, Tn", is building an in-house training facility American Woodmark Corp. is Builden Squateb kitctren catiim vendorof the )rcar ...

Fortune magazine ranked Loweb l6th on its list of the bes 50 stocks on the New York Stock Excltonge in 1993; BMC West?5rtln of the 25 best on the Over-ThcCounter Exchanqe, and Forest Ciry Eaerprdses l0th of the 25 best on M, Anwrbot Exclrorye ...

Housing stctrts for Dec. (tatest figs.) juryed 6.2cfr to a seasonally adjuste<l annual rate of 1.54 million, the highest since Jan 1990 and the fifth straigbt increase br4-lding p€rmits Jumped 7.4% 1993 starts were the irighes since 1989 with a'I.lVo increase ta 1.29 million units.