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Sawmills and planing mills at Placerville, Sebastopol and Napa, Ca. Dry kilns at Placerville, Ca.

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Headquarters: 5747 Hl/.{/. 29, Napa, Ca, not possibly pass through all the necessary predrilled holes. Donna quit and went to bed. I finished by l:30 in the morning after redrilling holes in the frame and inserting some oversized carriage bolts left over from a gym set I put together in 1961.

I really didn't get to bed until after 2:30 a.m. I spent 30 minutes staring at this monster and wondering how older people and live-alone women could ever assemble one of these grills. I had every convenient tool including a battery operated screwdriver and it still took me nine hours of assembly and three Bandaids. I spent the last half hour trying to remove the stains the tools and grill put in the family room carpet.

I was telling this story to Sandy, my printer. She smiled, let me finish and then topped me with her barbecue grill story. She bought a top-of-the-line Turco at the Price Club. After assem-

House Costs Outrun Demand

Housing costs are still increasing faster than overall consumer prices, despite the availability of more houses than ever before.

The total number of U.S. homes was expected to rise to a record 100 bling the frame, she discovered that the bottom casting of the grill had never been packed in the original carton. Price Club told her it was a "guarantee" problem that she must straighten out with the factory. Sandy said that Turco was very cooperative and it took only one long distance phone call to an understanding consumer relations person to arrange for the bottom casting to be air expressed to her.

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Bicycles, barbecue grills, fireplace screens, gym sets and picnic sets head my list of "never agains." Someday, I expect to see a home center, hardware store, or department store run ads that feature, "delivered and assembled." I'm ready to pay the price.

PS: Neither Kmart has yet mailed my self-addressed rain check card to let me know that the grill is in stock.

million by this month, though costs have risen faster in the 1980s, contributing to the first drop in the rate of home ownership since 1940.

From the 1980 peak of 65.8% of homes owned by the occupant, the level fell to 63.90/o in the last quarter of 1986.

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Q EetNC new products, evaluating tV industry trends, buying inventory, taking pride in the industry's showcase and simply being in the lumber business were among the reasons dealers gave for attending the Building Materials Buying Show in Denver, March 12 and 13.

More than $3.3 million worth of material was purchased during the twoday show from 130 displays of building materials, hardware and specialty products. The show sales compare with $2.6 million at the 1986 show.

The higher sales in 1987 were made in the face of a sagging economy in the Mountain States. One dealer summed it up this way, "Unfortunately business conditions are so poor that most everyone I spoke with was buying only for their current needs. It is difficult to speculate on future business."

Total dealer attendance at the show was up 33 percent from last year's firsttime spring show, from 426 visitors to 625 dealers attending. "Overall the show was much better than last year and I believe it will be a growing thing in the years to come," said one exhibitor.

Seventy percent of the dealers attending the show were from Colorado. Thirteen percent were from Wyoming, with the rest from New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and ldaho.

Sixty percent of the attending lumber companies reported having a customer mix of 600/o or greater contractor. Ninety percent of the dealers represented independent yards, while 100/o were from chain operations with four or more stores.

Forty-one percent of the companies attending reported having an annual sales volume of under $l million. Fortyfive percent reported annual sales of between $1 million and $10 million. Fourteen percent reported doing more than $10 million in annual sales.