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Home Quartcrs Warehouse opened 100,000 sq. ft. rePlacement stores with 40,m0 sq. ft. drive-through lumber Yards in Virginia Beach and NewPort News, Ya-, on Labor DaY

Lumber King, WhitleY CitY, Ky., ad Oneida, Tb-, is building a Mount Vernon, Ky., store due to open in Nov., using th razod locadon of the former ThrtfrY ltPnber .., Gabehart Lumber & Home Centetr Campbellsville, KY, tPld a grandre-opening in August ...

Thc T. H. Rogers Launber Co. ooened :l new Fletcher, Ok., store (6ee pictures p. 37) ... Buddy Bolin-sold Modcn Buildert Hqrc Center, Pineville, Ar., to Iack Anerson, who renaned tln business J & R Swply, and retained Modern Buililir:s Supply Co., Mountain View, Ar.

Weiss Lumber ond Builders Supply owners Bill ad JackWeiss acquired land for a new hore centerhumberyard in PerrYville, Ar.

Ken Lawson, ThriftwaY Owensboron Ky., opened a second store in Tbu city, l* ... Red River Lumber Co. has moved to the Arkansas side of Texarkana ... Causeway Lumber, Fort Lauderdale, Fl., opened a DelraY BeacXr, Fl., store

Scotry's, Eustis, Fl., is newlY remodeld BW Lwnber Co., Bixby, Ok., is moving to a new loeation with a larger facility ... Wkst Building Macridg Dothan" Atr,, ha$ a new lawn and garden ceat€r md a reorganized lunber vud Lowe's Plms to add about iS,@ sq. ft of sals space to its S. ftreI Road sbre in Ashville, N.C..".

Eryloyes of Buil&rs SuPPtY Co. of Petersburg /tc., Petersburg, Va-, mw own82% of the 9l-Yearold company Ridout Lutnber,

Searcn Ar., is a&ling an interior design center to each of its ll stores Boland-Maloney, louisville, Ky., has rcdesigned its showroom ... Pelican Conpoies, /nc., Conway, S. C., received honors for its tv advertising ... Smith Phillips Ispnber, S/inston-Salem, N.C., is building a windoq door and millwork warehouse McGbnes lt*ber, Plant City, Fl., has a new sdellite yud inThmPa, Fl. ... .lGA Building Products, Atlaffa, Ga., is resE lcturiry

Epperson ltmber Sales, Inc., Statesville, N.C., whictt is ding a 3,200 sq. ft. engineered wood products center, is representing PAM Cedar Producg, Stockoon, Ca-, in Ga", S.C. and N.C. ... Mill Crcek hnber & Suppty Co., Inc., T\rlsa, Ok., has affiliated with Benchmark Quality Wholesale Building Products, Izc., North Ude Rock" Ar., opened a seond outlet in loplin, Mo., Mike Kinsley, mgr. ... Semisnr/Coast to Coast is expanding Fort Smittt, Ar., facilities

Anniversaries: G. W. Smith Lumber, kxingbn, N.C., 89th ... Hurd Millwork, Tith ... Snwlrcy Bear,50tr HomeCrcst Corp., 25th CoferlAdams, Lawrenceville, Ga-, l5th ...

ScInIl Forest Indilstrics moved is offtces and distribution yard to a new location in llouston, T[. Clwrlotte Hadwood Center, Inc., Charlotte, N.C., is building a 45,000 sq. ft distribution frcility to Canrer in Raleigh, NC.

Internetional Paper plans a third particleboard plant in eitller East ibxas or Arkansas ... Nlicd Plwood Corp., Alexandria, Va., purchased EhrI Raiford Lumber Co., Inc., A$pville, N.C., and will continue t0 ,spcrate both the Asheville and Newport, Tn, dis- tribution centers ... McShan Itnber Co., Mcsharu Al., adeda grade mark reader computer ...

Willstuneb Buildin g Mate rinJ s Grwp upgruled Pollution control sysElns at &e Liuie la.,Particleboard Dlant; r€cirred IAS cerdflcation-for tbe Dodson, La, PIYwood plant and completed an $8 million renovatlon of the Monsrre, N.C., plywoodPlail

Road Rail of Houston opered two reload facilities with remen operaions in Hqrston, TL ... GLP F-lalefud lltl.,I*lmta, G&, wlll build a mednm ddty ffbethutt plant at Seilt Ste. Mde, mrh, Canada ... Rivetwmd hunaion' al is considering selling foyce, La, lumber rnd ptysmO millg e Huttig, Ar., sawmill 8od about 150,000 acres of timbertands surrounding fiP mills

Triangle Prcifrc CorP., Ddf$" Tx., acqufied Prcmier Wood Floors, Statesville, N.C. ... JW Window CmpwW lhc., Thqn, Fl., bought an Elizrbetbfon, Th,, mfg. plant ... Meyer USA Inc., Riviera Beach, Fl., opened a Kansas Citn Mo., DC BMA buyrng gpup named M Clsnical Co. Vendor of &e Yer

Second quarter n€t garnings: G eorgia- P acific, $14 million; Universal Forcst Ptdrcts, #.3 miltion; GAF Cotp., $23.2 mllrtroq Poilatch Corp., $35.9 mil[on Lowc's second quarter selos werc up 33%...

Miller Frcanan,Wffi, Ca-, purchased tbe former Huu Cenir St ow, canoaing fu s&&' uled 1995 dare in Dallas, th. Norfolk Southern Railrod wiill raise forest foduct fieight rles 4% efrecrive Scpt 15 ... @gia' Pactfic and Quikwtc Cottrpwtitts provided building materials to tieorgia floo<t vicrims&ru4b Zle Salvuiot Anry

Housing starts in July Qtt€st figs.) rose 4.7% b an anruallred rate of 1415,000 units ... dngle family strts increased 25%, multifarrily, 19% ,.. hdldry permits edged up 2.1% ... housi4 stuts for the first seven montbs hlve increased 16% from last yer.

$50 Million Duty Refund

In an initial step toward complying with a recent decision by a bi-national panel, the Commerce Deparunent has instructed Customs Service to refund $50 million of rhe $450 million in duty deposits collected on Canadian lumber shipments to the U.S. during the past two years.

The refund was ordered following the Extraordinary Challenge Committee's binding decision early last month to dismiss a U.S. appeal of the bi-national panel's earlier decision that Canada was not subsidizing its forest products indusfy. After the 21 vote in favor of Canada, the ECC also rejected a U.S. claim that the binational committee was biased.

An estimated $600 million was collected from importers of record, mostly Canadian producers, with the 6.5l%o duty imposed on Canadian softwood lumber shipments to the U.S. after Jily 1992. The $50 million ordered retumed represents duties collected since March 17 of this year when a previous bi-national panel revoked the duty.

After reviewing the ruling, Commerce officials will decide if and when the remainder will be returned.