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redwood deck winners will be highlighted in the July/August issue, creating additional interest and support for the contest. Newspaper and trade publications will print CRA originated stories during the spring and summer deck building season.

Banners and countertop entry blank displays are free for dealers who want io participate in the contest. They are available at no charge from redwood suppliers orthe CRA. Suggestions also areavailableforcoordinating local deck contests and deck clinics with the national contest.

March 1992

Pay 'N Pak Guts Nine Stores

Pay 'N Pak Stores, Inc., Kent, Wa., is closing nine rural stores in fourstates and cutting staffat corporate headquarters after appointing new financial officers.

Closings include Ft. Collins, Greeley, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Co.; East Portlandand Ontario, Or.; Topeka and Hutchinson, Ks., and Sioux Falls, S.D. Approximately 180 store associates and 25 home office employees will be affected with an additional 30 home office layoffs to take place in June.

Alfred J. Koontz Jr. is now executive vice president and chief financial officer with Ronald R. Redpath as director of financial planning. Former chief financial officer Gregory B. Maffei will continue as an executive vice president and a member of the board.

Eight of the remaining 68 Pay 'N Pak stores are being converted to their new store-within-a-store format for grand reopenings in March, chairman and chief executive officer John H. Markley said.

Less U.S. Timber Available

The proposed fiscal 1993 national forest timber sale program of 7.5 to 8 billion board feet is the lowest timber target since 1957.

National Forest Products Association vice president Frank Gladics described it as "a long step backward at a time when forward looking policies are required to help bring us out of the recession.

"The national forests hold more than 4O% of thetotal inventory of softwood in ourcountry, the bulk of which is used for housing construction and remodeling," he added. "But tying themup with unnecessarily low sales targets means that housing construction could be strangled by shortages of wood supplies. This proposal runs directly counter to the President's goal of making housing affordable to more American citizens."

75-Year-Old Yard Reopens

Jim Russell has reopened his Joseph, Or., lumberyard, renaming it 19 17 Lumber Co. to celebrate its 75th anniversary.

He owned the former Russell's Home Center ftom 1977 to 1983, when he sold the business to Ron Makin. It closed a year ago.

Russell decided to reopen rather than sell the property after the consolidation of Snyder Lumber Co. and Eagle Cap Supply, Enterprise, Or. "I think another yard is needed," he said. "Competition is good for business and for the consumer."

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Chnmpion International, which recently sold 88,00O acres of timberladds in Oregon, plans to sell its Roseburg, Or., plywood mfg. operation and remaining Oregon timbetlands.

Weyerhaeuser Co. lost $256.4 million in its 4th quarter; netlossfor the year was $161.9 million.

U.S. District Court Judge William P. Copple ruled in favor of Kaibab Industries, Phoenix, Az., that if the Fislr and Wildlife Servicehas state or nonfederal employees on a teview team, meetings must be announced and open to the public with an oppoftunity to submit comments The Los Angeles Office of the California Forestry Associationhas closed.

Nationally Forest Semice timber sales in 1991 fell to 6-394 billion feet, the lowest level of timber sold fuom National Forests in over 37 years. .

P P G Ar c hit e c tural F inishe s, Inc., a cotporate sponsor for the 1992 Olympic Games, contributed $1 million in paint and stain fot USOC headquarters, Colorado Springs, Co., and a San Diego, Ca., fiaining facilitv. .

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