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Warren Lumber Co., Mt. Sterling, Ky., has been acquired by gen. mgr. Jim Moore from the estate of Delbert Warren

BMC West has acquired Buell Supply, Austin, Tx., with door shops in Austin, Houston and San Antonio; BMC's New Braunfels yard's millwork division acquired two years ago from Stripling Blake will be consolidated into the San Antonio location

84 ltmber Co. opened 36,000sq. ft. stores in Chelsea, Al., John Galatas, mgr., and Somerset, Ky., Craig Clifton, mgr. ...

Home Quarters Warehouse's main office in Virginia Beach, Va., was evacuated and 12 of the 300 employees sent to the hospital allegedly suffering breathing problems after maintenance workers sprayed the insecticide Isotox in the building ...

McCoy's Building Supply Centers opened an 18,000-sq. ft. replacement store in Georgetown, Tx....

Lav,e\ Cos. opened a new store in Aiken, S.C., Greg Swinson, store mgr., and a replacement unit in Alcoa, Tn., Buck Chafin, store mgr.; expects to complete constructiOn next month of a 13O,000sq. ft. replacement store in Winchester, Va., and a 121,000-sq. ft. unit in Mooresville, N.C., and expects to open early next year in Morehead City, N.C. ...

Lowe's plans to build a 163,000-sq. ft. replacement store in Wilkesboro, N.C., making it the 3rd largest among its 467 locations ... the state Department of Transportation is fighting Lowe's proposal to build a 160,00o-sq. ft. replacement store adjacent to its current 56,000-sq. ft. unit in Tullahoma, Tr., citing further encroachment into an airport runway protection zone ...

Lowe's has begun construction in Wilson, N.C.; received the goahead to build replacement stores in Anderson, S.C.; Concord, N.C., and Hendersonville, Tn.; is seeking rezoning to build in Conyers, Ga.; is considering a site on U.S. 19 south of Crystal River, Fl., and decided against purchasing a site in Weatherford, Tx.

Home Depot opened new soores Oct. I in Albany, Ga., and Plano, Tx.; Oct. 8 in Pinellas Park, Fl.; Oct. 15 in North Baton Rouge, La., and Oct.22 in Chesapeake, Hampton and Roanoke, Va. ... the chain selected sites for new locations in Shenandoah, Tx., and High Point, N.C.; received plan- ning and zoning commission approval to build on 45 acres in Acworth, Ga., and has begun a trial tool rental program at selected locations ...

Home Depot opened its first store outside of North America Aug.27 in Santiago, Chile; a 2nd Chilean store opens in Nov., with one planned for Buenos Aires, Argentina late next year ...

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Idaho Timber Corp.has started up a new manufacturing facility in Henderson. N.C. ...

Guardian Fiberglass acquired a 507o share in Builder Marts of America, Greenville, S.C. ...

Cameron Ashley Building Products, Dallas, Tx., agreed to buy Washington Roofing Products, with 7 branches in Va., Md. and Washington, D.C. ...

MacMillan Bloedel agreed to sell its Pembroke, Ontario, and Clarion, Pa., MDF plants to Temple-Inland Inc., Diboll, Tx., for approximately $160 million; while exiting the MDF business, MacMillan Bloedel has decided to retain its Wawa, Ontario, OSB plants and partnership interests in two others MB completed the sale of its remaining interest in Qanq{i_qn packaging producer MacMillan Bathurst to venture partner Stone Container for $185 million (Canadian) in cash

Caradon PZC plans to sell its North American and U.K. window and door business, including Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.: Bettel Bilt, Smyrna, Ga.; Thermal-Gard, Punxsutawney, Pa., and Caradon Windows & Doors,Alberta ...

Star Paper Tube, Inc. has relocated from Rock Hill to Fort Mill, s.c....

Sunbeam Corp. has revised its decision to close four factories, including the Coleman plant in Pocola, Ok.

American Tbol Cos.,Inc. agreed to buy British tool manufacturer Polyhedron Holdings PLC for more than $5O million in cash

Nortek, Inc. hqr acquired NuTone as an operating company within its Resi-dentiai Buil^din! Products Group, which also includes Broan Mfg. Co., Venmar Ventilation, Broan Ltd., Rangaire LP, Aubrey Manufacturing, Jensen Industries and Best S.p.A.

L.S. Starett's Consumer Products Division has been renamed the Hardware Division

. Housing starts in Aug. (latest figs.) dropped 5.5Vo, the biggest decline in nearly two years, io a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.613 million, still I6.6Vo ahead of the year-earlier level ... single family starts fell 4.2Vo, muLtifamily 9.5Vo ... starts were down 4.3Vo in the South ... analysts expect housing to remain strong, after mortgage rates reached their lowest levels in 27 years. Send

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