rUEWS EliilEFS

The Terry Companies opened a new Terry Lumber Co. store in Lancaster, Ca., March 13, utilizing a former Wickes location, Mike Prediger, mgr.; details are being worked out for opening at least one more store this year

4. C. Houslorr has a new lumber yard open in Winslow, Az., with a home center due to open this spring. Roger Ricks, mgr.. .. Tualatin Valley lluilder's Supply, Lake Oswego, Or., is building a $1.3 million full service lumber supply and home center in Gresham, Or., for a May opening, l)oug Kelly, mgr...

Home()lub will open its first Portland, Or., store this summer in the San Rafael Shopping Center the 33rd HomeClubin Calilbrnia, a 104.277 sq. ft. warehouse in Martinez. will open March 18...

Tenino True L/alue Hardw-are. Tenino, Wa.. is expanding into an adjoining building acquired by owner Ed Lycan to add an appliance dept.' opening is targeted for April Kondo's True Value Hardware, Newport, Wa., is adding 6000 sq. ft., doubling the size of the store

Several industry veterans are among the contend ers for Bttilders Emporium including former Wickes Cos. chairman .Sanfbxl .Sigolotf'as well as Robert McNtrlty and George Handgis. {'ounders of the HomeClub . First Boston Corp., representing Wickes, is still acceptingoffers...

Las Plumas Lumber Co.. Rubidoux, Ca., lost approximately $4385 in nrerchandise when burglars broke into a storage shed after business hours

Builders Dist'ounl, Los Angeles, Ca., plans to open three 100,000 sq. ft. stores in the greater Los Angeles area this year . . Scott Lumber and Coal Yard, Dayton, Wa., has been acquired by Dan and Jolene Field and Paul and Deanna Phillips Grossman's has opened a 66,000 sq. ft. warehouse store with a 49,000 sq. ft. drivethrough lumber yard in Pomona, Ca. ...

,1. E. Higgins Lumber Co., Concord. Ca.. has closed its Bakersfield, Ca.. yard, moving inventory to the San Fernando, Ca., yard . . . lndustrial Forest Products plans to move this sPring from Diamond llar, Cla., to Anaheim, Ca.

Weyerhaeuser (lo.'s Snoqualmie, Wa., plywood mill was destroyed by fire The Westwood-lnsram Cb. has relocated offices to Moraga, Ca. ...

Lumber Products has opened a new wholesale distribution yard in lrife (Tacoma). Wa., Jim Mar- tin, mgr. . . . Lakev,ood Foresl Products, Cerritos. Ca.. has acquired the assets of .9traight Edge Lumber .Service. former owners Bob & Sue Hall will continue to operate the yard . .

4ll-(oast Forest Products, Chino, Ca., with branch offices in Grass Valley. Ca.. and Cloverdale, Ca., is celebrating its lOth anniversary it was founded by Daryl Bond, pres., and Joe Tidwell, exec. v.p.

Golden .Jtate f.looring Co. will open a full service sales and warehouse facility for wood floor conlractors in Sacramento. Cla.. this month . Flor6t()tw Pnxlutts lnc., Union City, Ca.. will build a plant in Madera, Ca. .

The Merchant Magazine

I:-ibreboard Corp., Concord, Ca., is acquiring the mfg. operations of Distribution International, Houston. Tx.. for about $10 million ... Volt In/'ormation ,Sciences lrrc'., New York, N.Y., has offered $15.50 a share for Triad .Systams. Livermore, Ca....

Watca-Dennis, Rancho Dominguez. Ca.. has sold its wood finishing products line to Minwax Co.. Montvale, N.J., for an undisclosed cash price.

.Stanline Inc. has expanded and renovated its Phoenix, Az., branch to 46.300 sq. ft. with 7000 sq. ft. of new office space (anlor Corp. and Weldwood ol Canada Ltd. have merged their wholesale building material distribution groups into a new independent in New Westminster, R.Cl. . .

Several companies including Great Americctrt Marngentent & Investment lrr'., Chicago, Il., are expected to bid on Formico Corp., New York, N.Y., which has a buy' out offer front a management-led investor group

The Lumber 4ssociation el .\outhern Cali./brnia and the Lumber Merchants Association a/' N ort he rn Ca Ii.forn ia are discussing the possibility of merging the two groups; committees from both have begun meeting to explore various options. ., The Amerit'an Ply*-ctod Association is opening an ofilce in Madrid, Spain

Ruilding Material Distribulors, Galt, Cla., has purchased Weyer' haeuser's San Jose, Ca., door distribution business, including a majority of the product lines. Weyerhaeuser retains the now shuttered facility'

Housing starts in 1988 totaled 1.457.000 units, r/on'rt 9(/, from 1987's 1,593,000 units l\ey, ltousing construction in Jan. (latest figs.) was up 8.00[; to an annual rate of 1.69 million units single family starts increased 7.1%; multi-unit starts were up ll.l'il, .. bldg. permits dropped 2.lol,

NAWLA's Annual Meeting

North American Wholesale Lumber Association's annual meeting, April l6-19 at the Sheraton El Conquistador Resort, Tucson, Az., will be under the direction of convention coordinator and second vice president Barney Blondal.

Approximately 700 delegates will attend. Dr. John Crispo, professor of political economy, University of Toronto, will open the convention with comments on "Free Trade and Beyond."

Answers to the challenges brought by environmentalists will be provided by DanielGoldy in "Call to Arms." Dr. Peter G. Hanson will focus on management of stress during the second general session.

A management seminar by Dr. Herbert Greenburg, co-chairman of Caliper Management Inc., will deal with hiring the right people. Louis R. Marchese, legal counsel to NAWLA, will interpret new laws.

The popular contact session, a networking program with table top displays by NAWLA mill, wholesaler-processors and service supply members, will have over 100 exhibitors.