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West Building Materials has opened a West SuperstoreinSpartanburg. S.C.. spending $2 million to renovate and stock a vacant Handy Crry store and warehouse Lowe's has opened new units in Ocala. Fl.: West Knoxville. Tn.. and Southern Pines, N.C. ..

Payless Cashv,a.vs wrll open stores in Amarillo and DallasFort Worth, Tx., Springdale. Ar.. and Lexington. Ky., this year. .. Grossman's plans to invest $25 million in each of the next three years to remodel and modernize existing stores

Handl' P(t,t, Ciarland, Tx'. sustained $3.-500 in damages in a recent fire wlrich closed the store for one day

Proctor's .4ce Hardwares in Jacksonville Beach, Fl., are being redesigned to the new "store of the future" look .4ce stores in Orange Park and Arlington, Fl., also will adopt the new concept this year .

Lindsley Inc. has sold its retail bldg. in Coconut Creek, Fl., to gsy:grass Molors Inc. H. C. James Lumber Co., Dora, Al., is 50 years old... Coats-McCain Lumber, Tyler, Tx., is observing its 45th anniversary

*ltickes Lumber has renovated and reopened a former Homecra.fters Warehouse in Macon, Ga... . Stripling Blake has opened a multimillion dollar second unitin southwest Austin, Tx.

Scoll.r.'i which has delayed tlre opening of a new Cocoa, Irl., outlet until sunrmer, expects to open three stores in Mobile. Al., one in N'lacon and one in Savannah, Ga., this sumnter...

Lou'e's. Macon. Ga., has remodeled its garden center

Farmers and Builders Supply, Blackshear. Ga., is opening a new branch in Kingsland, Ga., with the lumber -vard now operating and the opening of the show roonr expected in midsummer.

York .Suppl.v Co.. West Point, Va.. has doubled its display floor and added a storage shed in a remodeling which will computerize store operations and eventually' add an interior and exterior door shop and a kitchen planningcenter...

Monarclr Mirror Door Co. has purchased selected assets of Hamilton Mercltandising Dir,.. Vincennes. In.. moving them to their Wondura Products Inc. facilitl'. Tupelo. Ms. Clairson I nternational has opened a 70,000 sq. ft. distribution cenler in Ocala, Fl..

GS Roo.fing Products Co., Inc.. Dallas, Tx., has acquired Genstar Roofing Products Co. from the Flirttkote Co.. a subsidiary of Imasco Enterprises, Inc. of Canada, and sold its mfg. facilities in Joliet, Il., St. Paul. Mn., and Cornell, Wi., to Globe Industries, Inc., Chicago. Il.

Delta International Machiner,y' Corp. is celebrating the 50th anniversar-v" of its Llnisaw I0" tilting arbor saw . . Flood Co. has acquired VI P Enterprises. N{ianri. FI.... GlamourTop Corp., Birminghanr. Al., has been purchased bv GT.X Corp.. a Mi. investment co. .

Christensen Hardu,are Corp. has moved its corporate Hq. to New Bern. N.C. Stanley W'orks has acquired Plan--1-Fle.r Designer Co.. New Orleans. La.. and selected assets of the National Hand Toal Carp.. Dallas, Tx., and Sanford. N.C. . .

Building Products Digest

Httrtis .Sash & Door Co. is building a new glazing div. plant in Rock Hill. S.C.: the Charlorte Glazing Dir: and the .Southern M a n u.f'a cru ri n g C o.. Orangeburg, S.C.. will be conrbined into one operation at the new location along with the Charlotte, S.C., regional office...

South States Reload,llc.. Port Barre, La.. is a new firm located on 7 fenced acres on the Llnion Pacific with 92,000 sq. ft. of storagc... Eliot Whittington Builders Suppl.v Co. has acquired the Jordan Co. s engineered wood products div. in lVlenrphis. Tn.

Coastal Lumber Co. has completed lhe first phase of a Sl.2 million expansion of its [{avana. Fl.. southern )'ellow pine pl_"*rvood plant witlr a 26.000 sq. ft. addition Poindexter Lumber Co., /nc.'s owner Thomas W. Poindexter has acquired Fogle Brotlrers Co.. \A'inston-Salem. N.C....

First Internotiotnl Timber .Soles has been opened in Kingu'ood. Tx.. bv Porter Ta-r'lor . . Buie Forest Products has moved to larger new quarters at 2900 lr'lossrock. Suite 305. San Antonio. Tx., 78230

Tntssv'ay, /nc'.. Houston. Tx.. has formed a national lunrber sales div., staffed b-v- CliffShafer, mgr.. and Randy' Battarbee Cavenlnm Forest Industries has moved its sales oflice fronr Bogalusa. La.. to McConrb. Ivls. .

Mark Junkins and Ronnie Elnrore are still in sales for luc.Sl1/4n Lumber Co.. IvlcShan. Al.. not with -{rrstell Forest Product.s. as was incorrectl_v- stated here in our Jan.issue...

Housirtg s/a//s for Feb. (latest figs.) junrped 2.601, to a seasonall.v- adjusted annual rate of 1.8-s 1.000 single family home starts were up 5.6%r: multifanrilv unit starts were down 4. l'X': building pernrits climbed 4.40h .. southern'starts were up 13.201,