NEWS BRIEFS

Eagle Hardware & Gardenhad a pre-Chrismras grand opening for a Bellewe, Wa-, store delayed for ovef a year by protests from residents; projected opening l0 to 12 stores this year including 2 in the Puget Sound, Wa., area and 3 or 4 in Canada where they have a new Edmonton, Alberta, location

Ernst Hom.e & Nursery opened a 63,000 sq. ft. store in Medford, Or., Fred Sowers mgr., Tller Nichols, asst. mgr.; closed a Bremerton, Wa., location, and prepared to close a Bellevue, Wa., unit in the spring ... BMC West, Boise, Id., which reported 3rd quarter income up 48Vo, is expanding offices into additional space adjacent to headquarters ...

Price/Costco is now selling lurnber and other building materials as a test at its Livermore, Ca., store ... Lodi Lumber Co., Lodi, Ca., d.b.a. Home Builders Outlet in Placerville, Ca., filed Chap. 11 bankruptcy ... J&W Redwood Lumber Co., El Cajon, Ca., suffered $175,000 in damage after burglars emptied the safe and torched the office Dex.2l ...

Lanoga Corp., Redmond, Wa., operator af Lumbermen's, Spenard Builders Supply and United Building Centers, made Forbes magazine's Ist of U.S.'s 4OO largest pnivately held companies

Tlvin Falls, Id., denied Anderson Lumber Co.'s proposal for a new lumber yard on a lO-acre parcel, saying it did not confonn to the city's comprehensive plan HomeBase will open Vancouver, Wa., and Clackamas, Or., stores this summer "..

A special city election Feb. 5 will decide if a 102,000 sq. ft. Home Depot will be built in Encinitas, Ca. (see story p.25); a Can- yon Country, Ca., location opened Jan. 6; Lemon Grove and Bakersfield, Ca., stores opened in Dec.; an Anaheim, Ca., unit will expand; work began Jan. I on a Federal Way, Wa., store due to open Aug. 25; land was acquired for a Marina del Rey (L.A.), Ca., unit and plans were submitted for building a Bothell, Wa., store; 3rd quarter earnings insreased 23Vo "

Ernst Home & Nursery, Seattle, Wa., donated $20,000 to buy Christmas presen8 for foster children in Western Washington and $50,000 to the Pete Gross House for families of cancer patients

Anniversar ies: P e nnsy Iv ania Builders Supply, Hollywood, Ca., 65th: Hanel Lumber Corp., Hood River, Or., 50th; California Forest Products, Gilroy, Ca,, lSth; Horizon Forest Products, Richmond, Ca., l3th; Cal Plus Forest Prod,{cts, Irvine, Ca, 3rd ...

Fibreboard Corp., Walnut Creek, Ca-. its insurers and atlorneys for asbestos personal injury claimants have agreed to a $3 billion settlement of asbestos related claims against the company, which with court approval will resolve liabilities within available insurance and existing reserves; court action is expected by mid-year although final approval could be delayeduntil 1995

Western Amcrican Forest Prod,{cts, Rialto, Ca., has moved down the street to the former Rialto Lumber Co. site ... Orange County Lumber Co. is negotiating to purchase the 14 acres formerly occupied by Western American as a replacement site for its cunent 4acre Santa Ana, Ca., yard which lost rail service last year Stone Forest Indusffies' Albany, Or., plywood plant went on line Jan. 3 after a 2-month shut down for

The Merchant illagazine maintenance and equipment upgrade ... Georgia-Pacific plans to close its Fontana, Ca., distribution yard in late Feb., consolidating operations at the Riverside, Ca., DC ... M ic h i g an- C al ifo rn ia Lumb e r Ca., Camino, Ca., has begun cutting imported New Tnalandradiata pine logs Spellman Hardwood, Phoenix, Az., is building an 18,000 sq. ft. addition to its main building ... Cooley Wholesale Lumber is changing its name to Cooley Forest Products and adding a new storage facility, paved yard and remanufacturing facility at its Phoenix, Az., Iocation ... Custom Panel Products is a new hardwood plywood mfg. plant in Commerce, Ca.

California Pre-Snin, San Jose, Ca." auctioned off its assets in Dec. after closing operations in Sept. Coast Pacific Trading, Inc., Bay Wood Products and Copac-Preston Mill, Inc., relocated offices to Ferndale, Wa., ftom Bellingham, Wo. ...

Dooley Industries Inc., Pasadena, Ca., has become a regional wholesale distributor of Resphalt, a leading manufacturer of natural paving repair products Vsion Hardware Group, Columbus, Oh., parent of vsl Fasteners, stanton, Ca., merged with an affiliate of the TCW Group of Companins

Better-Bilt Aluminum P roducts Co., Prescott Valley, Az., and Seas on- all Industries' residential window div., Pelatchie, Ms., are being merged by parent Indal, Ltd., Toronto, Canada ... ITT Ca4p. plans to spin off ITT Rayonier Inc. to shareholders; the co. has assets of $1.5 billion and 1993 sales near $1 billion...

American Forest & Paper Association moved to new quarters at 1111 19rh Sr. NW, Suire 800, Washington, DC 20036 ...

Housing stzrts in Nov. (latest figs.) climbed 3.9Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43 million, highest since Feb. '90 ... single family starts jumped 4.5Vo; multis fell 0.6Vo ... permits rose 4.8Vo regionally srarts declined 2.8Vo in the West.

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