NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Square Deal Lumber, Brookings, Or., acquired Barr Lamber's Needles, Ca., yard as its 4th location; Gene Wade rernains mgr. ...

Lomita Lumber, Lomita, Ca., will close July 1 after 7O years due to warehouse competition; owner Bob Clauss has sold the property to an auto parts shop ...

Weyrick Lumber Co., Paso Robles, Ca-, is moving to a larger 3.7-aqe site in Templeton, Ca., formerly a Pacffic Supply retail roofing and drywall store

Parr Lumber, Aloha, Or., will sell two lots adjacent to its Oak Grove, Or., yard, abandoning expansion plans after unsuccessfully battling for nearly 20 years to have the property rezoned

Dixieline Lumber Co. held a grand opening at its newest 40,000-sq. ft. store with 20,000sq. ft. yard in Poway, Ca., Craig Cowling, branch mgr.

Babbitt Bros. Trad,ing Co., Flagstaff, Az., is negotiating with a half dozen interested parties to sell the six retail stores and door and window plant that comprise its building materials division ...

Ernst Home Centers abandoned nearly completed stores in Elko, Nv., and Ontario, Ca., weeks before their scheduled openings

Davis Lumber & Hardware, Davis, Ca., captured on video thieves stealing $500 worth of pots and plants ...

HomeBaseheld a grand opening for its new 103,905-sq. ft. store with 54,218-sq. ft. nursery in ClaCkamas, Or., John Carsner, mgr....

California Do-it" Center, Agoura Hills, Ca., held a recent grand opening, the 9th and final former Lumber City to be converted to the HWI Do-it Center format affiliated Patio World onened its 8th store in Torrance, Ca.

Big B Enterprises Inc., Qakland, Ca., has-lbst the lease at its yard of over 20 years ...

Orchard Supply Hardware will open a 31,@0-sq. ft. loeation in a former Yorba Linda, Ca., Builders Emporium next month, one of five to 10 additions planned for 1996, mostly in Southern California ...

L&P Buitding Suppty. with locations in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and two in Santa Fe, N.M., has been purchased by Hope Lumber & Supply, Tulsa, Ok.

Home Depot convinced the city of Reno, Nv., to overturn residential zoning to allow Depot's controversial plan for a 140,000-sq. ft. unit on 14 acres adjacent to an under-construction housing tract :.. ?gpot opened a new store in Las Vegas, Nv. ...

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Mid-Pacffic Trading Co., Inc., Rancho Cordova, Ca., has opened a new office and diskibution yard in Fontana, Ca., Dave Wiltsie, mgr. ... Chris Pooser has opened a new office in Star Valley, Wy. ...

H ampton AffiIiate s, Portland, Or., and Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg, Or., harre formed R-H Timber to acquire a majority interest in 300,000 acres of timberland from International Paper for $905 million

Han t oo d P ro duc ts,Branscomb, Ca., is installing a state-of-the-art planer for a May I start-up

High Mountain Forest Products, Eugene, Or., has. been formed by Darrell and Tom Whitsell, specializing in core studs and green boards

Mallco Lumber & Buildins Materials, Phoenix, Az., hai added 2,000 sq. ft, to its custom door shop, Paul Skornik, mgr.

R-Y Tirnber, Townsend, Mt., has agreed to purchase Eraid-S Corp.'s Livingston, Mt., mill

Wallowa Forest Produc* is the new name for recently reopened

X::: Wood .Producfs, Wallowa,

Alpan, lighting/security products manufacturer, relocated to a larger facility in Camarillo , Ca.

Sierra Pacificis disrnantling im Hayfork, Ca., sawmill and moving the operation 2@ miles south ...

Catifurnia Hardware Co., lndustry, Ca., has changed its name to CHC Services, Inc, and split the I 03-year-old distribution firm into wholly owned subsidiaries Califurnia Hardware and CHC Online l,ogistics ...

Beverly Hills Fan Co., Woodland Hills, Ca., sold its assetC to Design House, Milwaukee, Wi.

National Wood Wndow & Doar Associatiin has moved to a larger suite within the same Des Plaines, Il., building ...

Owens-Corning and a Chinese development corp. are building a foam insulation product plant in Nanjing, Owens Corning's 4th facility in China

Anniversaries: Big Creek Lum-; ber, Davenport, Ca., 50th ... 84 Lumber,84, Pa., 40th .. Snckton Wholesale Lwnber Co., Stockton, Ca., 20th ... Horizon Forest Products, Richmond, Ca.,'15th

Housing starts in Feb. (latest figs.) rose 37o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.49 millioa while permits climbed 1.5% ... single-family starts increased 2.6%, multi-family 4.2% in the Vy'est starts jamped 5.7Vo.