NEWS BRIEFS

Valley Building Supply, Waynesboro, Va., has acquired Blue Ridge Builders Supply, Staunton, Va., to replace its Staunton satellite yard ...

Doug Ashy Building Materials, Lafayette, La., has acquired Buller Building Materials, Ville Platte, La., from Jerry Buller as its 4th location; son Steve Buller has rejoined the store as mgr.

Turner Ace Hardware, Jacksonville Beach, Fl., has moved a halfmile from its 9,20Gsq. ft. quarters to a new 53,0OO-sq. ft. store plus 46,000-sq. ft. nursery including four greenhouses, Mark Turner gen. mgr. ...

F o xw o rth- G alb raith Lumb e r Co. has closed its Eldorado, Tx., location ...

Scotty's held a grand opening for its newly remodeled, 76,000sq. ft. Deland, Fl., store, Michael Pelehach mgr., and opened a replacement store in hrnta Gorda, Fl., Rick McAlees mgr.; the old Punta Gorda location is still owned by Scotty's and, for now, will serve as a DC slag from an acetylene torch may have started a fire that helped clear out a Callaway, Fl., building being renovated to house an expansion of the Scottyb Hardware next door

National Homc Centers held an Oct. 5 grand opening for its new 200,000-sq. ft. store in Rogers, Ar., Charles Weaver mgr.

Gulf Stream Lurnber Co. has acquired 3.78 acres adjacent to is Naples, Fl., yard for expansion and improved access to the Seminole Gulf Railroad ...

Devine Lumber Co., Devine, Tx., held a lGday grand opening following a major remodel

H&M Lumber Co., Inc., West Helena, Ar., has acquired an old WalMart location to renovate into a home center by early 1996 ...

Loweb is opening late this month in Texas City, Tx.; began construction in Gulfport, Ms.; dropped plans for a replacement store in Morehead City, N.C.; received a rezoning to build in Ponca City, Ok.; proposed adding a store in Mount Airy, N.C., and is considering a second store for Winston-Salem, N.C., and entering the Jacksonville, Fl., market with one in the Mandarin arca...

Economy Lumber Co., Texarkana, Ar., has been purchased by Barry Wallis, Jimmy Pleasant and Wes Eggleston from owner Charles Santifer

Home Depot has begun constmction on a 104,(XXI'sq. ft. store plus 28,00Gsq. ft. garden center in Maryville, Tn., and bought a12.7acre site in west Houston, Tx., to build a 130,00Gsq.ft. unit...

Bethel Lumber Co., Lake Wylie, S.C., has enlisted advertising agency Tingas l/ill, Charlotte, N.C., to devise a new corporate identity package including a new logo...

Anniversaries: Dunn Lumber & Hardware, Daytona Beach, Fl., 90th ABTco's Roaring River, N.C., facility, 25th GeorgiaPacific's Columbus, Ms., chip and sawmill, 25th Rafter D Builders Supply fnc., Meridian, Tx., 20th...

Parrott Forest Industries, Austin, Tx., is voluntarily liquidating...

Carolina Canadian Lumber Sales Inc., Spartanburg, S.C., has closed...

Fairforest Lumber Sales, Spartanburg, S.C., is a new wholesaler, Eric Foust sales

Eagle Forest Ptoducts, Birmingham, Al., a wholesaler, has been forrned by Nick Marino and Ronnie Prather ...

Southeast Wood Treating Inc., Jaspea Al., will move corp. Hq. to Montgonrcry, Al., in March ...

Universal Forcst Prcducts bas disposed of rwo shuttcred teating plants, terminating its lease in Fredericksburg, Va., and selling the assets of Holly Hill, S.C., to Carulina Pole (w, story, p. 19) ...

J.M. Huber Corp.wtIl @nstruct a $90 million OSB plant 50 niles west of Knoxville, Tn. ...

CertainTeed Ventilation, Inc., Dallas, Tx., is the new namc for CertainTeed Corp. Ventilation Div. subsidiary Cla* United ...

Ahmax BuiUing Pdtrct4 lrrc., Norcross, Ga, has opened a new coil coating facility in Helena Ar., and will build a metal fabricating facility next door ...

Thomas & Bens Corp., Memphis, Tn., has signed a letter of intent to acquire cable tie, wire connector & nylon hardware poduct manufachrrcr Catonout Manufacturing, /nc., Orange, M& ...

Nibco lzc. installed new extusion equipment at its Denmark, S.C., mfg. plant to increase production of copper sizc tubing ...

Housing starts in Aug. (latest figs.) rose 0.6% to an annual rue of 1.398 million singlc-family starts climbed 1.4%, multi-family fell2.4% starts rose in every region except the South, which posted a3.27o decline.