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America's first lumber was sturdy Southern Pine. Today. it's still making history...even indoors. where its warmth. stability and superior workability make it the smart choice for window and door components. Jobbers and manufacturers will tell you that strapping and galvanized seals, each piece is heavy-to-heart. a 15"x12" or

Pine is at the head of the class for ready availabilitv. low cost and natural decor elegance. Contact us for complete product details.

The planters come 17"x14" octagonal tub.

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Hordwood plywood flooring ti.uted with a two-sided UV finish is new from Chesapeake Hardwood Products.

It comes in any standard 4'x8'plywood from l/4" to 3/4" thick in maple, red oak or rubberwood, is ready to use and reportedly easy to install using the tongue-andgroove method.

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Corved plonlers made of 10ozo California redwood will be displayed by Russian River Lawn and Garden.

Secured and accented with black steel

-A child-resisranr swimming pOOl g0le l0tGh rhar witt tarch from aiy'position is new from D&D Technologies Inc.

As the gate swings shut, a magnet draws a latch bolt from one housing into the other so that no amount of shaking, pushing or pulling can disengage it.

It is suitable for general household gates and comes in a top pull with a keylock for added security and a side pull.

D&D Technologies: Booth #40734 Circle No. l8 on Response Page in back lndonesia has set aside over L2O million acres of forests as Parks and protected areas that, undisturbed, will forever pull out of the air. Even on the 158 million acres where harvesting is allowed, only two or three trees are harvested per acre. Then, new seedlings are planted or natural seeding takes place to new trees to take over the carbongrabbing job.

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Carlcon dioxide and carlcon monoxide are greenhouse gases that increase global warming. Indonesia's 278 million acres of forests hard at work pulling carbon dioxide out of the air, storing the carb< and releasing healthy oxygen back into the air. The carlcon is the wood and stays there until the wood is burned.

Bankrupt Payless Cashways Closing 29 Stores

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors, debtladen Payless Cashways Inc. this month will close 29 stores including 10 in Texas.

Of its 194 stores, the nation's third largest home improvement chain is holding liquidation sales at Furrow Building Materials stores in Stafford, Humble, Pasadena, Baytown, and five in Houston, Tx.; Payless Cashways in Wichita Falls, Tx., and Fort Smith, Ar., Tulsa and Edmond, Ok.; five Furrows in Indiana, two Payless Cashways in Missouri, five Somerville Lumbers in Massachusetts, three Lumberjack Building Materials in California, and a Furrow in New Mexico.

The Kansas City, Mo.-based retailer will cut 2,000 jobs and, after restructuring, hopes to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of year. But analysts predict that, even if it comes out of bankruptcy, long-term survival is a longshot.

Claiming liabilities of $335 million and assets of $486 million, Payless owes nearly $178 million to United States Trust Co. of New York. Other top unsecured creditors include Georgia-Pacific (owed $3.91 million), United States Gypsum ($2.04 million), and Weyerhaeuser ($1.98 million).

The court approved $90 million of a requested $125 million interim debtor-in-possession financing to

Hurricane Pounds Southeast

Retailers reported relatively minor damages following Hurricane Danny that killed several people, dumped more than 30 inches of rain on the Alabama coast and forced hundreds to flee from their homes and businesses.

NFL Building Centers sustained about $10,000 damage to two of its Alabama locations during the storm.

In Daphne, its office area experienced minor water damage when part of the roof was blown off, and part of an exterior shed's metal roofing panels were damaged. "The damage is mostly cosmetic inside," said NFL president Will Newberry.

At NFL's Summerdale location, several inches of water flooded the basement of its manufacturing plant.

Packing 80 mph winds, the slowmoving hurricane swept over Louisiana July 18, gathered more force across the Gulf of Mexico and hit landfall again near Mobile Bay, Al.

cover operating costs during the restructuring and post-petition trade and employee obligations. The court will rule on the remaining $35 million Aug.20.

Two directors, Gary Kohler and Wayne.Lyon, have resigned.

Siding Maker Fibreboard Sold

Owens Corning has acquired vinyl siding manufacturer Fibreboard Corp., Dallas, Tx., for about $600 million.

"When Owens Corning entered the vinyl siding business two years ago, we found that we had excellent brand recognition, but needed to expand manufacturing and distribution resources," said William K. Hamilton. The acquisition, its sixteenth and largest by far, provides Owens Corning with a more complete product line and multiple brands of siding.

Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Owens Corning, Fibreboard employs 3,400, operates 21 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada, and had 1996 sales of $469 million.

Owens Corning, which sold its own calcium silicate insulation business in 1993, plans to sell Fibreboard's Pabco business, the nation's largest producer of calcium silicate insulation.