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Lumber C.'iry will open a new store in Canoga Park, Ca., in March Art and Hana Chapple have opened Tenina Home Center in Tenino, Wa. Home Lumber Co.. Alamosa, Co., has closed .

Mallco Lumber & Buitding Materials, headquartered in Phoenix, Az., has opened a new prehung door operation in Tucson, Az. .. three O'Malley building materials centers in Tucson have been closed by the retail div.

Dixieline Lumber has opened a store in Solana Beach, Ca., utilizing a shuttered Handyman store . HonrcClub, Inc'^. has a new discount store in Albuquereue, N.M.. ,. Bab's Mart is a new hardware store in Preston, td...

Glenn and Karen Hurd are acquiring Hurd's Hardware and Custotrt Machinery. Harrisburg, Or., from his father, Roscoe, with plans to expand . . . .Stor is a new home furnishings retail store opened in the City of Industry, Ca., by James D. Stadtlander, former Ole's v.p., and Harvey Ci. Knell, former ceo at O/e's, which was owned by his family before being acquired by W.R. Grace and later sold to Wickes.

Bttilcler's Emporiumwill open a store in Cathedral City, Ca.. next month . . . Lodi Lumber Co., Placerville, Ca., has closed its original Lodi, Ca., outlet . . . E. S. Brush & Sors, San Francisco, Ca., is closing with the retirement of partners Frank and Ed Brush

Al Meier's Building Center has six locations with the acquisition of Vaughan's Building Center in Sumner, Wa.; the chain's Federal Way. Wa., location has just completed a remodeling which doubled the size of both its retail and yard space

Wnclsor Mill, Windsor, Ca., has purchased Harwood Products' remanufacturing plant and its inventory at Willits, Ca.; Windsor will now produce redwood. Doug fir and pine products at this second location.. Sacramento, Ca., lumber dealer Jack Fuller bought from Harwoqd for a reported $600,000 approximately 7.5 acres including the planing mill and main mill structure. .

Furman Lurnber, /nc., Boston, Ma,, has acquired Slaughter Brothers, Inc., a Dallas, Tx.-based specialty wholesaler, for an undisclosed amount . MCO Holding Inc'. wlll acquire 7.8 million shares of Maxxom Group Inc. (parent co. of rhe Paci/ic Lumber Co.) for a combination of cash, stock and notes

Whonnock Industries, Vancouver, 8.C., is now known as International Forest Products Limited. acronym lnterlbr (see story on page 33).. , Bohemia Inc., Eugene, Or., will build a $4.7 million glulam beam mfg. plant at Vaughn, Or., in addition to acquiring lnternational Poper Co.'s lumber mill in Gardiner, Or.

Stone Container Corp., Phoenix. Az." has sold an interest in its forest products div. to private investors and spun it off into

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Stone Forest {ndustries, which will share its Chicago, ll., hq. Stone Container's Jerry Freeman is pres., and Don Graves, exec. v.p....

Honsador 1nc., based in Ewa on the island of Oahu. will expand its outlet on the Big Island of Hawaii with construction of a 16,500 sq. ft. warehouse and 1,500 sq. ft. officelsales area on a new site in the Kaloko Light Industrial Park...

Dieht Lumber Praducts, Inc., Salt Lake City, Ut., celebrated its 30th anniversary lasl month with an ofen house buying show...

Monarch Building Supply, Kahului, Hi., has acquired BWB Glass Co. . . . Plug-Away Wood Products has been opened in Springfield, Or., by Len and Larry Tatom

Hunter Woodworks has added a 2,000 sq. ft. open parking sffucture at their Carson, Ca., plant .. . WTD Industries. Portland. Or., is acquiring a plywood plant in Whitehall, N.Y...

Setzer Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., has added a 10,000 sq. ft. storage bldg, and expanded an existing mill bldg. by 4,000 sq. ft., .. Lumber Products. Portland. Or., is celebrating its 49th year in the hardwood business . .

Sales of metal building systems climbed to $1,081,102,000, up 3.'130/t. in 1987 . . sluggish consumer spending is forecast by a University of Michigal? survey showing that the public's confidence in the economy continues todrop...

Housing starts for Nov. (latest figs.) were up 7.50/o at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.64 million units. single family home starts climbed 1.50/o; multifamily unit starts rose 230/o .. . building permits fell 0.7olt