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lumber products, cedar Canadian S.P.F., fir and alone, 6,800 carloads and trucldoads of these materials were shipped to our many satisfied customers.

The Portland headquarters and Newport Beach branch are staffed with ifficient, knowledgeable, highly trained and specialized peopleable to meef all the needs of an o<panding lumber supply business.

Cascade is a wholly owned subsidiary of Forest City Trading Group in business since 1976. We re a fi nancially sound, rapidly expanding technologically advanced computer oriented company with a definite competitive edge * we're the Cascade Team.

you. ' -tascad" offers the best incentive/commission program in the industry for the right indMdual - to grow with a growing company. if y6u thinX you would like to be part of the Cascade Team, contact us immediately.

Cascade Empire Corporatlon

4029 Westerly Place, Suite 2018

Newport Beach, California 92660

Attention: FRANK WRIGHT

Phone: (714) 9553410

0r Our Corpomte Office

P.O. Box 2770 - Portland, Oregon 97248

Attention: WAYNE MOSBY/V.P. Marketing

Phone: (503\ 297'3731Toll Free

1-80O547'8371 the Federal Trade Commission has denied Louisiano-Pacific Corp. 's petition to sell its medium-density fiberboard plant at Rocklin, Ca., to Roseburg Lumber Co., Roseburg, Or. .

Faced with a proxy fight led by dissident shareholder Samuel Heyman, GAF Corp. prepares to Iiquidate by selling its chemical unit to Allied Corp. for about $410 million in addition to the previous agreement to sell 8090 of its roofing unit to Southwestern General Corp.,' both sales are due to close this summer satisfactory resolution of asbestosrelated claims must be resolved before the roofing deal closes . .

AfterEvans Products Co. lenders squoshed the Sharon Steel tskeover headed by Victor Posner, Miami Beach financier, he was elected chairman of Evans succeeding Monford A. Orloff who kept his titles of pres., c.e.o. and later was elected pres., c.o.o. and a director of DWG, Posner's liquefied-petroleum gas and warehousing holding co. in Miami .

Southern Pocific is closing its Northwestern Pocific branch line between Willits and Eureka, Ca., because of losses and storm washouts; G-P Fort Bragg will not be affected because GeorgiaPocdic operates its own rail line to Willits..

Burlington Northern has opened its Puget Sound Hub terminal between Seattle and Tacoma, Wa. the feds have ordered states to allow larger trucks, including twin trailers, on more than 130,000 miles of noninterstatehwys....

An appeal by the U.S. Coalition for Fair Canadian Lumber Imports for duty on Canadian imports ftas been denied by the U.S, Court of International Trade . .

Manville Corp. has been granted a 45 day extension for filing a formal reorganization plan under Chapter ll . . . GeorgiaPacific plans to double strandboard production at Dudley, N.C., and build 9 other U.S. strandboard and waferboard plants . Pope & Talbotplansto acquire complete ownership of its Halsey, Or., pulp mill by buying the remaining 5090 from American Con Co. for about $14 million.

Potlatch Carp. has closed its Potlatch, Id., sawmill . Idaho Timber has purchased a remanufacturing co., Alumni Forest Products, in Vicksburg, Ms. . . Willamina Lumber Co. has agreed to acquire the assets ofthe Champio n Int ern a t io na I plywood plant in Willamina, Or., for an undisclosedamount...

Golding Lumber Sales, Westminster, Ca., has changed its narne to Golding Sullivon Lumber Soles . . J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, Ca., has opened a new 1l,250 sq. ft. warehouse/office facility in Bakersfield, Ca., to handle hardwood lumber, moulding and plywood in Kern County . .

Nikkel Corp., Sacramento, Ca., has closed its specialty products div. anci is expanding its moulding plant in Anderson, Ca. , . . Pacific Gamble Robinson Co., Seattle, 'Wa., has acquired Select Pallet, Fontana, Ca., no

The Merchant Magazine price revealed in the transaction . Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., is offering an additional 700,000 shares of common stock. .

Anderson Lumber Co. is launching a multi-million $ expansion program in Ut., Wy. and Id. with a52.2 million retail home center in West Jordan, Ut. . . Diamond International is closing retail outlets in Santa Rosa, Pittsburg and Galt, all in Ca., and Reno,Nv....

Soldotna Drug and Home Cen/er, Soldotna, Ak., is now a Poy 'n Save drug store/home center . Henry Haimsohn will open Savers, a membership discount warehouse for building supplies, in Denvern Co., this summer . . Sterling Lumber Co., Sterling, Co., has completed an expansion to add more display space . .

Citizens Lumber Co., Reedley, Ca., has expanded its store to 5,500 sq. ft. Lumbermen's, Dallas, 0r., formerly Willamette Industries, is replacing its warehouse floor plan with a shopping mart layout . . . Lumbermen's, Tigard, Or., will expand from 6,000 sq. ft. to 10,000-15,000 sq. ft. . . . Grossman'splansto open a new store in Ventura, Ca., possibly as soon as this mo. . .

Housing starts in Mar. (latest figs.) slid back9.ZVo from thepreceding mo. to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,611,000 . . . single family starts were off 8.8V0; multiples slipped 9.9V0 . . before seasonal adjustment actual starts in Mar. climbed to 134,4ffi units from 96,000 in Feb. and78,200 ayear earlier. building permits, which had increased each of the six previous months, dipped 4Vo to an adjusted annual rate of 1,434,000 units, 68.5V0 above the previous year's figs. .

Resales of single family homes in March reached the highest level in more than? yrs, climbing 9.890 after a decline in Feb. to an annual rate of 2.7 million . . median price: $69,300.