NEWS ERIEFS

Anderson Lumber Co., Ogden, Ut., plans to double the size of Murano Lumber, Orem, Ut,, acquired last fall, and add a truss plant

.Pay 'N Pak,Cheyenne, Wy., will have a grand opening celebration later this year

Home Depot expects to open a store in the Palm Springs, Ca., area thisyear . . SanJose, Ca.,city council approved construction plans for a 104,600 sq. ft. Home Depot with 18,800 sq. ft. garden center.

North Bay Lumber Ca., San Rafael, Ca., will be remodeled by Jack and Jim Dlego (Diego Bros. Builders), who acquired it from Mack Giles upon his retirement Austin Hardwoods has moved to a larger facility in Santa Ana, Ca., increasing lumber, moulding and hardware areas by 7,000 sq. ft. . .

Barr Lumber Co.,Los Alamitos, Ca., acquired its 13.5 acres location fuom Southern Pacific with plans to subdivide a portion of the property . . . Twila and Earl Scott purchased Hausler Luntber, Clatskanie, Wa., owner Bessie Hausler is retiring after 44 years in the business Builder's Emporium, Thousand Oaks, Ca., closed in Dec.

Pay 'N Pak, Kent, Wa., will continue to opemte stores in Salinas, Eureka and Yuba City, Ca., with the other 23 Ca. units sold to Tri-Equities Investment PooI I Limited Partnership, San Ramon, Ca. knart acquired the Honolulu location Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, Ca., is closing its Tudock, C?., yard. Dill Lumber, Hemet, Ca., is shuttering its Lake Elsinore, Ca., location .

Waldron Forest Products moved to larger offices at4227 Suntise Bl., Suite 100, Fair Oaks, Ca. 95628, phone unchanged . Mesa Forest Products, Costa Mesa, Ca., opened a new sales office in Visalia, Ca., headed by Linn Edlen

Great American Finishing, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., is a new prefinishing operation opened by Ralph Bullock, offering mouldin gs, Olyntpic machine prestained siding, etc. . . Standard Structures Inc. and Butcher Block Tables and More. Petaluma, Ca., formed Sonoma Solid lilood, Frank Gammicchia, pres., based at the Standard Structures complex in Windsor, Ca. . .

Jones Wholesale Lumber Co. added an additional2-Ll2 acres under shed plus l12 acre ofpaved parking at its Lynwood, Ca., site . . Pyrarnid Mountdin Lumber Co., Seeley Lake, Mt., acquiredSpokane M oulding,Spokane, W a., *om Link Associates . .

Westwood Lumber Inc. is thenew name for Westwood-lngram Co., Moraga, Ca., Jack Lawrentz, pres. and sales mgr. Gabbert Lumber Sales, Sacramento, Ca., is now Gabbert-Edwards Lumber Sales with James Edwards as a partner D e laney S ash & D o or,Los Alamitos, Ca., closed (see story p.23)

CA Co. , Lewiston, Id., opened an Auburn, Wa., wafehouse, Ken Baune, sales mgr. . . . Califurnia Sugar & Western Pine Agency's mldg. and millwork div., Redwood City, Ca., opened a San Diego, Ca., office, closing a Denver, Co., office; the Empire (Modesto), Ca., disffibution yard also closed

PLateau Forest Products, Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., relocated offices to 1230 NE 3rd, Suite 101, Bend, Or. 97701 . . Fibreboard Corp.'s Snider Luntber Dlv. moved its Turlock, Ca., sales office to Standard, Ca

Georgia-Pacific is closing its Anaheim, Ca., distribution center, consolidating operations at River- side, Los Angeles and San Fernando, Ca., units . . . Double J Lumber, Orange, Ca., is voluntarily liquidating after 26 years in business . .

Lane Co., Portland, Or., a sales and marketing consulting firm, was opened by Teny Lane . . Pope & Talbot, Portland, Or., is acquiring a Castlegar, B. C., sawmill fr om We star Group Ltd. for about $22 million (u.s.)...

Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureaa endorsed A8337 Ca. Assembly bill to require fite retardant roofing in new construction or reroofing . Pacific Lumber Ca. is appealing a California ruling that puts the marbled murreletbird onthe endangered species list

Masonite Corp. has a new $20 million production line at Ukiah Valley, Ca.; a $3 million air pollution control system will be in operation by Aug.

Pay' N Pak Stores Inc. got a transfusion of several million dollars additional credit from its bank for spring buying and conversion of 8 Puget Sound (Seattle, Wa.) stores to their new store-within-a-store format. .

Stevenson Co-Ply, Stevenson, Wa., closed lan.24 Diamond B Lumber Co., Philomath, Or., plans to close by the middle of March .

Internationat Wood Prod,ucts is the new name for the Portland, Or., office of A.C. Dutton Lumber, acquired by Les Hagen . .

Aloha Lumber Co,Kapaa, Kauai, Hi., acquired Kona Consffuction Materials ftom Amfac Distribution Hawaii, Inc.,Kallua-Kona, Hi. . . Rocl<y M ountain H e I ic opfers, Provo, Ut., acquired Alta Timber, Eugene, Or., renaming it Aero Forest Prodacts..,

Housing starts for Dec. (latest figs.) jumped 2.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.103 million single family starts rose 18% . perinits improved 5.8% l99l starts hit a 46 year low with signs of improvement fat'92 Federal National Mortgage Association economist David Berson said, "Housing always responds to Iower rates and that's what's happening now."