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Honu Quarurs Warclwwe Inc. is remodeltng lts l8-month-old store in The Sgtngs development" louisville, Ky., adding a conuactor desk and making rnmfor 2O% more products T. H. Rogers Lunber Co. celebr*ed opening thelr new office headquarters ln Edmon4 Ok ...

Vlest Building Material.r has moved tts Hq. to newer offices in Atlanta, Ga. Ridout ltttnber & Home Center, Searcy, Ar., is expanding and updating Schaefer $asft & DNr, Memphis, Th., plans to add 25,000 sq. ft.to accommodate their lumber q).

John Plyler Home Center, Glenwood, Ar., held a gutd opentng May 6-7 for its new factlity ... Stiru hmber Co., Sulphur, La., is remerchandi slng Friendly Home Center,Iowa, La., which it acquired late last year, before changing the name to Stine ltntber Co. inJune...

Wickcs l*nber Centct Pelham, Al., is instafllng a hlgh-speed informatlon management system ... Moorc's Lumber & Building Supplics, Roanokg Va., has a conhact for 40 truckloads of drywall to be used ln the renovadon of trc Hotel Roanokc

Horne Depot, which is reportedly looltng for a site in Pasadena, Tx., took an option on a warehouse building in Astrcville, N.C. ... boft Atlann (Ga) Home Show and Central Florida Home & Garden Show, Orlando, Fl., feanrred model homes built by Home Depot, a sponsor for the Florida event...

Lowe's, which had March sales of $551.8 million" a 55% increase over March 193, with retail sales gowing 7l% and contractor sales 18%, opened a replacement store inWinston-Salem, N.C. Moore's Lumber & Buildlng Supplies, Danvllle, Va, rccdvod r corporat€ saftty awrd

Annlversarl es. Southern htmberman sawmlll magazlne, ll3th; Temple-lnland, Dlboll, TI., lfr)th; Cofbr Bros,, T[cker, Ga., 75th; Paty Co., Plney Flats, Th., 62nd; Aristokraft cabinets, 40th; Boise Cascade Southern Operations, DeRldder, La., 25th; Carolina Atlantic Wholesale Building Materials, Sanford, N.C., 20th; Schaefer Sach & Door, Memphis, Th., l2th...

New South, /nc., Marion, S.C., started its new CamlinaPine millwork faciltty Aprtl 18 .,. Atlantic Tladc Linkls a new wholesale/rep flrm startod in Greenvllle, S.C., by BusterWilliams

Cameron Ashley /2c., Dallas, Tx., which has purchasd Chesapeake Building Supply, Baltimore, Md., made an initial offering of 2,000,000 shares of common stock...

Freeman Lumber Co., Inc.'s soutlern'yellow pine lumber manufacturing plants at Centreville and Vance, Al.n are being acquired by Harnpton,\ffiIiates, Portland, Or., with management transition scheduled in mid-June Universal Forest Products incresssd its feated lumber capacity by at least 50 million bf a year with the addition of Slater Wood Presewing, .Inc., Slater, Mo. ...

S.OJ. Industries, Hialeah, Fl., is acquiring American Cabinet fnc., Conway, Ar, ... Hitachi Power Tools, Norcross, Ga,, is implementing a marteting reorganizadonplan...

CertainTeed, Valley Forge, Pa., acquired Clark United Corp.,

Dallas, Tk., naming Sam Ansley president ... Southeast Industrial Equipment moved into a new company-owned, 35,000 sq. ft, building near their previously leased slte in Charlotte, N.C. ...

U.S. Culltlorr for Fair kunber Inprts afi Southeastern Lwnber M anqfacturcrs As sociation tpptuded Brltlsh Colwtbia le$slatlon to ralse stumpage fees chured larre lumber companles uy rir=ughly I40O nrttuon (Curadtan) per year ...

Caradon /zc. has added its narne to companles acquired ftom RTZ Corp. PLC lncluding Caradon Better-Bilt Inc., Smyrna, Tn., Caradon Season-all, Pelahatchle, Ms., and Cardon Peachtee Inc,, Norcross and Gainesville, Ga

Potlatch Wood Products Group had earnlngs of $46.4 million for ftrst quart€r'94, down ftom $51.4 millionin'93 ... USGypsun and USG Interiors Joined the U.S. Grcen Building Council

Cotter & Co.b paint sundries dept named GE Silicones a 1993 vendor of the year ... Mannington, High Point, N.C., is the exclusive flooring sponsor of t'fre 1994 Builder 100 Confercnce, Mty 1921, Pebble Beach, Ca-

Feb. kitchen cabinet sales were 5.2% above Feb. '93 sales ,.. Dutch Boy Paints, Alexandria, Va., will donate 80,000 gallons of paint and stain to nonprofit organizations this year ... Darworth Co. is donating products, employee labor and time to Habitat for Hwwtity International,,,

March Housing starts (latest figs.) jumped l2.l% to a 1,473,000 unit annual rate ... single-family starts rose 11.3%; multifamily l6.5Vo; permits S.tVo Southprn starts were up 77o first quarter starts were 2l% above 1993, reflecting a sharp turnaround and suggesting "housing activity and the sconomy are going to be pretty strong this year," said Savings & Community Bankers of America economist Robert Davis.