NEWS BRIEFS

Payless Cashways is building a third store in Las Vegas, Nv. R & K Buil.ding Supplies, Mesa" Az., opened an 800 sq. ft. window and door showroom ... BMC West, Boise, Id., which recently had a 3 for 2 stock split, is acquiring Srcr Building Materials, /nc., Vancouver, Wa., as its 41st location ,.. Chinook Lumber, Clearview, Wa., is officially open at its new Snohomish. Wa.. store

Copeland Lumber Yards Inc., Portland, Or., plans to reopen its Yerington, Nv., retail lumber yard Ernst Home Centers, Inc. closed a small Bellevue, Wa., unit with plans to open a larger store in the area a $156,281.16 rebate for McDaniel's Do-it Center, Snohomish, Wa., is featured in an HWI advertisement ... Lanoga Corp., Redmond, Wa., reopened former Conrad Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Or., as its 30th unit

HomeBase has purchased a site in Orem with plans to open its third Utah store in spring 1995 Home Depot broke ground for a Commerce, Ca., location; opened an Alhambra, Ca., unit; targeted August for a Eugene, Or., opening and initiated permits for Boise, Id., Foothill Ranch, Ca., and Olympia, Wa., stores

Monrovia" Ca., is working with Home Depot to establish a day laborer employment center following an INS parking lot raid ... HomeBase and Los Angeles, Ca,, are cooperating on a similar plan (see story p. 40)

Highland Lumber Sales, Inc. moved from Santa Fe Springs, Ca., to a larger facility in Anaheim, Ca. ...Carroll Moulding Co., Huntington Beach, Ca., and Paciftc Millwork Inc., Marysville, Ca., are now distributors for White River H ardwoods, Fayetteville,

Ar. ... Timber Products Ca., Springfield, Or.n is representing CIPA Lumber Co., Ltd., Vancouver, 8.C., and Timber Praducts C anada, Richmond, 8.C., in the U.S. ... Arcata Redwood Ca., Arcata, Ca., will begin producing redwood manufactured to ALS sizes in June

Louisiana- Pacific acquired Drummond, Mt., and Afton, Wy., sawmills from Tricon Timber, Missoula. Mt.. which retained a St. Regis, Mt., plant ... I-Pis considering selling a majority of its Ketchikan, Ak., subsidiwy, Kethiknn Pulp Co. ...

WTD Industries, Inc., Portland, Or., stock has been returned to the NA.SDA Q National Market Fibrehoard Corp., Walnut Creek, Ca., rejected an unsolicited $42.50-a-share buyout bid from Mn. financier Carl I'}ohlad

Rogue River Veneer Plant, Rogue River, Or., is back on line ... 105-year-old Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino. Ca., will close permanently in May due to lack of timber supply from federal lands

Roseburg Forest Products is curtailing production at its Anderson, Ca., mill for the same reason ... Exotic Woods /ruc., Los Angeles, Ca., has closed its business Birchwood of Las Angeles, Commerce, Ca., has liquidated ...

Teledyne, 1nc., Los Angeles, Ca., has realigned, consolidating 65 companies into 2l including Teledyne Sp e cialty Equipment which encompasses Teledyne Princeton and six other machinery and equipment businesses ...

Armor All Products Corp., Aliso Viejo, Ca., acquired a wood deck and exterior house cleanins

The Merchant Magazine line from Agri-Products Special Markets, /nc., Tallahassee, Fl. Wayne -D alton C orp. acquired Challenger Inc. ...

Silver Metal Products, Livermore, Ca., expects to complete acquisition of TECo/Lumberlok from Desco Corp., Columbus, Oh., about April 12 ... Bostick, Middleton, Ma., has acquired Sandaro Industries, 1nc., Novato, Ca ...

A recent maintenance buildins fire caused $2,000 damage at Pair Lumber, Chino, Ca.

Catifornia Pubtic lJ tilities Commission is considering reducing its regulation of transportation including general freight Potlatch's wood products group had folrth quarter earnings of $43.5 million

James Hardie Building Products, Inc., has offered Hardi-shake roofing materials to public institutions destroyed by the Laguna Beach and Malibu, Ca., fires ... Stanley Door Systems is donating a percentage of its entry door sales in an earthquake relief program undertaken with Home Depot and the American Red Cross

The 21st annual "Good Guys Lunch" was held atBardelli's Restaurant, San Francisco, Ca., March 16; nearly 40 anended American Woodmark Corp. is Builders Square Kitchen Cabinet Vendor of the Year ...

Legislation introduced in California would require the California Prison Industry Authority t"o purchase Californiagrown hardwoods for prison furniture workshops

A federal judge ruled the C I inton Adminis tation illegally developed its Pacific Northwest forest management plan, but refused a timber industry request to block its implementation (see story p. 32)

Feb. housing starts (latest figs.) rose 4.l%o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,309,000 ".. single family starts rose 2.1%; multis 19Vo permits fell7.9Vo.