NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

HaIf Moon Bay Lumber Co. Inc., Half Moon Bay (San Francisco), Ca., has closed after 49 years due to rent increases and an inability to secure a long-term lease, Steve Phillips, pres.

Isunbermen's has opened a new 11,000-sq. ft. outlet in Forest Grove, Or.; its adjacent 3,000-sq. ft. hope of nearly 50 years will be torn down ...

Tan g lew i lde Lumbe r, Tacoma, Wa., lost its warehouse and inventory in an $800,000 fire of unknown origin; the hardware store reopened after a speedy restoration and restocking

F oxw o rth- G alb raith Lumb e r Co. has opened a lO-acre Sun City West, Az., truss manufacturing plant and remodeled its Ruidoso, N.M., yard including paving the parking lot

A 30,000-sq. ft. Ace Home Center will open this spring on2.5 acres in Beaumont, Ca.; Tom Kantzallis, co-owner/gen. mgr. ...

Coast to Coast, Madras, Ca., has acquired a 2.8-acre downtown parcel with 3O,ffi-sq. ft. building; owner Gary Hackman hopes to move in by late fall ...

Eagle Hardware & Garden is considering a store on t0 acres in Wenatchee, Wa., but will not build in the proposed 43-acre Woodinville, Wa., Retail Center ...

Home Depot plans to relocate its Monrovia, Ca., unit to a new 103,000-sq. ft. facility with attached garden center ... the Colma, Ca., city council gave Depot a Jan. 10 deadline to correct traffic and maintenance problems before beginning the process to revoke its use permits; city officials say the problems are not unusual and expect them to be quickly resolved .-. .

Cop eland Lumb e r, Prineville, Or., has completed a four-week remodel that makes the store handicapped-accessible

HomeBase is building a 109,505-sq. ft. warehouse with 23,0Gsq. ft. nursery in Pomona, Ca., for a summer opening and plans a similar facilitv for Vacaville, Ca. ... the Irvine, Ca.-based chain recently raised $190,000 for the City of Hope and the Beckman Research Institute ...

Pacific l{aasing Materials & Design, Bellevue, Wa., is opening stores in Tokyo and Ube to sell materials to Japanese builders of American style 2x4 homes ...

Anniversaries: O.K. Lumber Co., San Carlos, Ca., 50th Hoover Treated Wood Products, Thomson, Ga., 40th ... Gemini Forest Products, Los Alamitos, Ca., l5th

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Cascade Empire, Lake Oswego, Or., plans to close its Rialto, Ca., yard the end of this month

Schmidbauer Lumber, Inc., Eureka, Ca., had part of its mill's roof blow off and P&M Cedar Products, Anderson, Ca., lost parts of sheds in a mid-Dec. storm

Wolk Lumber Co., Newport Beach, Ca., has closed; owner Sterling Wolfe, Jr., is now managing the Tualatin Valley Builders Supply office in Ontario, Ca. ...

Willamette I ndustries, Albany, Or., has merged the sales departments for its Western Lumber and Plywood divisions under sales mgr. Steve Webb ...

Boise ldaho Corp., Boise, Id., has agreed to acquire a l0-acre Albuquerque, N.M., site featuring 35,@0-sq. ft. of covered storage, office and rail access from Alpine Trucking, Inc., to establish a full- line wholesale building materials distri_br:tio:r facility serving N.M. and West Tx. ..,

Rolling Bay Timber Co., Rolling Bay, Wa, is a new wholesaler specializing in direct mill shipments; Roger Allen, pres.

Inuis & Co., Phoenix, Az., was named Outstanding Fountainhead Distributor of the Year by Inte rnat ional P ap e r' s Decorative Products Division ...

Louisiana- P ac ific and other "John Doe" treaters are named in a class action lawsuit by the Pacific Justice League alleging failure to properly label reated wood products for potential exposure to cancer-causing chemicals ...

Maxaaw Inc.,pxent of Pacifie Lumber Co., Scotia, Ca., has been charged by federal regulators in conjunction with the $1.6 billion collapse of United Savings of Texas...

HansonPlC, London, is negotiating to sell Cavenham Forest Products, Portland, Or., a major sawmill opemtor and owner/manager of 1.8 million acres of timberland, for more than $1.5 billion; Cavenham may be sold as a whole or broken up into individual foresl tracts, with disposal taking up to a year

Armstrong World Industies has enlisted Austria's F. Egger Co. to produce a new laminaGd, woodlike flooring to be unveiled early this year ...

Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. will team with Mahindra Group of India to build a $100 million glass fiber reinforcements factory in Taloja, north of Bombay ... Owens Corning acquired vinyl window/door manufacturer Delsan Industries, St. Louis, Mo.

APA-The Engineered Wood Associati.on, Tacoma, Wa., renamed its American Wood Jystems subsidiary Engineered Wood Systems ... a 3,000-sq. ft. APA demonstration house is being designed for Tacoma, Wa.; set for July completion, it will be showcased in trhde and consumer magazines ...

Housing starts reports have been delayed due to recent federal government shutdowns caused by the budget impasse.