NEWS BRIEFS

HoneClub opens its fourth Arizona warehouse store in Tempe and its 25th So. Ca. store in Laguna Niguel this month; ground has been broken for a second Portland, Or., location and a site selected in Simi Vallev. Ca. . the Seattle, Wa., area stores offered a free fingerprinting program for children

The Terry Companies will open a new location in Saugus. Ca.. this spring and rebuild and remodel the store and sheds destroyed by fire last December at Northridge, Ca..

Simon Stores, Walnut Creek, Ca., will remodel two units this spring . Ziegler Lumber Co., Spokane, Wa., plans a $500,000 replacement store for its Havden. ld.. Ziegler Building Cenrar .

Dunn Lumber, Kent, Wa., remodeled its showroom with plans to renovate the storage area . Brian Stewart purchased Country Store in lone, Wa., from retiring John and Nancy Riley, and renamed it lone Harclu,are

Srslers Hardv,are. a Coast to Coaslf,ranchise, has been opened by Lloyd and E,lizabeth Morrell in Sisters, Or. . Ernst Home & Nursery, Seattle, Wa., will be a regional sponsor for the Goodwill Games in Seattle this sunrmer

Yardbirds opened a 40,000 sq. ft. store in Rohnert Park. Ca.. Mike Jones, mgr. Hammond Lumber Co., Bellflower, Ca., lost a portion of its roof and had three inches of water in its showroom during a February storm

Grossntan's Western Division has opened a 66,000 sq. ft. warehouse store with a drive-through lumberyard in La Habra, Cra, . Nalional Lumber. Fountain Valley, Ca., will close its distribution center and use direct shipping for its stores . .

Western Ltrmber Co., ('hula Vista, Ca., sold 2.55 acres for development . . San Bruno Lumber Co., San Bruno, Cla., contributed to the recent remodeling of a kitchen for a disabled Viet Nam veteran

Ter4v Sash & Door Co., under the management of Buz Taylor, will open on the site of the Tarzona Lumber Co., Tarzana, C'a. Miller Forest Products has been opened in Bellevue^ Wa.. by Millar Shingle Co.. (iranite Falls,Wa....

WTD Indus{ries, Inc., purchased 45 million b.f. of timber: a Clottage Cirove, Or., sawmill; a Yoncalla, Or., veneer plant, and a Judith (iap, Mt.. sawmill from Melvin and Norman McDougal and Christopher C. Meyers WTD's Trask River Lumber Co. (Paci.l'ic Ha rdwooclsTillamook Co.), Tillamook, Or., will be converted fiom hardwood ln. ::t *ood production by May

Andel Forest Products is a new Santa Rosa, Ca., firm founded by Karl Drexel to specialize in redwood and cedar Evergreen West Wholesale Lumber Inc." a new olllce wholesale/distribu tion yard was opened in Woodinville, Wa., by Bob Rosso . Meyers

Wood Products Co. has been opened by Benjamin Meyers in Eugene. Or.... Semans Moulding Co., Sacramento, Ca., is reorganizing under Chapter I I bankruptcy. (iary Semans is no longer affiliated with the firm Slnw Lumber Co., Orange, C'a.. is closing. according to a companyspokesperson...

Louisiana-Paci/'ic, Portland, Or., will introduce a new fiber gypsum wallboard type product made from gypsum and waste paper this spring States Industries, Inc.. E,ugene, Or., added LiPC bar code labeling to its retail products . .

Bottclli Windows and Doorshas nroved its offices and manufacturing from San Francisco, Ca., to Oakland, Ca.

Normattdy Frames will move liom Paramount. ('a.. to an I 1,000 sq. ft. warehouse and lumber mill in Huntington Park, Ca., by early summer, closing the present location lnlanrl Timber Co.. Colton. C'a., plans to update and improve milling facilities and install extenslvepavrng...

Marc'er Prulttt'ts (b. opened a new 16,000 sq. ft. warehouse and customer service center in Rancho ('ucamonga, ('a.... U.S. Truck Crane (MobilArm), York, Pa., has been acquired by JLG I ndttstries, ln c,, McO onnellsbu rg, Pa....

Housing .stal'ts surged a record 29.60h in Jan. (latest figs.) to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.625,000 units.. single f-amily home starts were up24.80lt; nrultilamily units, 50.loh. . permits for apt. bldgs. of five or more units leaped 90.00h... total bldg. permits were up 26.11Y,t