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hacking it; while oft a bit from Jan., the Feb. total of 2,444,000 seasonally adjusted, is well above last year's average

Payless Cashways has purchased the former American Can Co. plant, West Eugene, Ore., and will open a 70,000 sq. ft. discount bldg. supplies store, their 40th, in late Spring . Ernst Home Center has a new 43,000 sq. ft. store in Eugene's Valley River Center, Bruce Rimann is mgr. . .3 Ladd Lumber firms in Pueblo, Colo., and 1 in Junta, in the Ladd family since 1907, have been sold to Robert Rice, Arlo Beamon and John Bertholf, Jr., no price revealed

After King Lumber Co. announced plans to close their Buttonwillow, Ca., yard, local businessmen acquired tt and now operate it as Buttonwillow Lumber Co. . nearing completion is a 20,000 sq. ft. warehotrse Kelleher Lumber Sales is building at Blackpoint, near Novoto, Ca. . . a 23-year-old man has conlessed to setting the $500,000 Diamond International fire in Sacramento, Ca., July 10; he's currently undergoing psychiatric testing

Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Ca., is the new Ca. distributor f.or Maywood, Inc., the Amarillo, Tex., door mfg., which is introducing its new line of Maywood plastic bi-fold doors . . Globe International, L.4., recently opened a new warehouse in San Jose . Union Pacific RR set an all-time UP record in'72 fs1 freight moved, more than 51.8 billion ton miles

Seattle Cedar Lumber Co., Ballard, Wash., has closed after 74 years in business, 100 are now unemployed; lack of logs at an affordable price was the reason given for the closure DiGiorgio has closed the Harrisburg, Ore., plant of Mouldings, Inc., which it recently acquired; production is being moved to Sacramento,C&....

Chipman Lumber & Hardware, Lehi, Utah, has been purchased by Phillips MlS. Co., a remodeling is planned; no price was revealed . Valley Lumber Co., Eugene, has been purchased from Mel Abraham by Donald R. Ramsay for an undisclosed amount; refurbishing and expansion is planned

Max HiU Lumber Co. has moved a few doors in Pasadena to 80 So. Lake Ave.. tele. no. remains the same . Williams True Value Home Center is the new name for Gourlay Lumber Co., Seattle; their new garden store is due to open any day Allwoods, a 75,000 sq. ft., $600,000 home improvement center, has been opened in Albuquerque by Cashway Building Material Corp., El Paso; Bob Jack is the mgr.

The Sacramento Bee newspaper has olfered a reward of $1, 000 in conjunction with the Jan. hijacking of about $15,000 of lumber and plywood from C. Z. Anderson Lumber Pabco Paint plans to build a $1 million HQ and plant in Fremont, Ca. . . West Range Corp., Cloverdale. Ca.. has closed its Corona olfice and has moved to the old Key Corp. facility in Rialto, where they are in the process ol opening a distribution yard . .

A new Western regional mfg. warehousing and sales operation has been opened by Knape & Vogt, the hardware firm, in La Mirada,Ca....

Exlcusive soles ogenfs for: M & J Lumber Co., lnc.

(A{eyers Flot, Colif.l

Englewood Lumber Co. (Redcrc:1, Colif.)