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P&T Seeks Extension

Pope & Talbot, Portland, Or., has requested that its $89 million bankruptcy loan be extended to April 4, so sales of its lumber and pulp mills can be completed. Although the sales have been approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, De., they cannot close until regulatory approval is received.

The first sale was to International Forest Products, which won court permission in early January to buy three of Pope's lumber mills and related assets for $69 million.

On Feb. 12,the court approved the $105 million purchase of Pope's paper business by PT Pindo Deli Pulp & Paper Mills, an affiliate of the Sinar Mas Group in Indonesia. The sale includes the Fort Saint James mill in British Columbia. Another B.C. mill. in Midway, will be sold to Fox Lumber Sales, Hamilton, Mt.

Mill Adds Co-Gen Plant

Rough & Ready Lumber, Cave Junction, Or., unveiled its $6 million, 1.5-megawatt cogeneration plant in mid-February.

"We have a need for this: the main goal is to dry more high-quality lumber," said Jennifer Krauss Phillippi, who manages the family-owned sawmill with her husband, Link Phillippi. "This will secure the 85 jobs we have here. It will keep us competitive."

At least half of the fuel for the new plant will come from sawmill waste. The rest will come from logging debris and forest stewardship projects aimed at thinning stands of overstocked forests. "We are hoping this will make more sense than slash burning to industrial forest landowners," she said.

Joel King, who is in charge of the Wild Rivers Ranger District, said there are plenty of over-stocked stands in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest that could provide fuel. "This plant is a great statement about faith in future, in the community, and demonstrating good stewardship," he said. "If we can have selfsupporting power from restoring the forests. whv not?"

Montana Mill Adds 30 Jobs

While depressed lumber prices have forced other sawmills to cut back production, Pyramid Mountain Lumber Co., Missoula, Mt., is adding 30 jobs, by focusing on applications unrelated to residential construction.

Increasingly, Pyramid has been more narrowly targeting its production toward niche markets that demand smaller, high-end boards for remodeling projects, bookcases and cabinets.

M"We're flowing against the current, because we are adding shifts and adding people and producing a product that is not reliant on a robust housing market," said controller Loren Rose.

Prison For Weed Eater Thief

A man in Sacramento. Ca.. was sentenced to 28 years in prison for stealing two Weed Eaters from a Home Depot there.

Reginald Whitfield, 42, was sentenced under the state's "three strikes ruIe." In 1991, he wrapped his hand to look like a gun during a robbery. In 1993, he struggled with security officers after he was caught taking food from a market. However, he also has numerous arrests for drugs, thefts, parole violations, and failures to appear in court.