NEWS BRIEFS

Ernst Home Center and Nursery, Inc., opened stores in Spokane and Lynnwood, Wa., and began looking for Oregon sites to open two stores within l2 months and six within three years.

Alpine Lumber Co., Granby, Co., plans a June grand opening for its newly relocated store south of town Tualatin Valley Builders Supply, Lake Oswego, Or., is building a new unit in Vancouver, Wa..

Northwest Building Supply moved from Grass Valley, Ca-, to Colusa, Ca., changing its name to Colusa Lumber Central Valley Builders Supply opened a contractor yard/retail store/distribution warehouse in Woodland, Ca. ...

HWI expects to be in its new Woodburn" Or.. distribution center in Dec. The Terrv Companies, Tarzana, Ca., wiit open its 15th retail store in Santa Clarita. Ca.. this month .

Dixieline Lumber Home Centers moved its Vista, Ca., operations to a new location in Oceanside. Ca., selling the old site Coulson Lumber Co.. Elk Grove. Ca., has been taken over by Chet Crump and renamed Crump Lumber . .

Bis Horn Materials, Inc.. Frisco, Co., had a grand reopening May 1-10 after increasing the sales floor to 2,000 sq. ft. and adding 8,000 sq. ft. of covered lumber storage LaJunta Trading Co., LaJunta, Co., is refurbishing in celebration of its 84thanniversary...

Home$aver is a new Palm Springs, Ca., home center opened by Mel Jaffee, former National Lumber chief, using a location purchased from cred- itors of the bankrupt chain . Ackley Building Center, Brush, Co., recently acquired by Marc Tormohlen, has enlarged its sales floor, adding more carpet display area...

Sunrise Build 'n' Grow is the new nanre for the l4 GNW Partners, L.P., Grossman's Norlltwest units effective June 1...

Builders Dist'ounl will build a new store in Newhall, Ca., for opening next spring.

HomeClub opened Vallejo and Rancho Mirage, Ca., units with ribbon cutting ceremonies Home Depot is opening a store in Union City, Ca., and planning stores for the Rohnert Park/ Cotati and Palmdale. Ca.. areas

Hornelown Hartlware and Lumber, Inc., Prosser, Wa., has been acquired by Pendleton Grain Growers, Pendleton, Or. Bob Halbert closed Halbert's Lumber, Torrance, Ca., March 31, due to market conditions ... Branson Cross Lumber ('o., lrc., Lathrop, Ca., closed with Mulrooney Auction Co. auctionins off its assets . .

LMB Consulting Co. is a new Portland, Or., project-oriented firm opened by Larry Baugh, that retains strong ties to Abitibi, Schuler Corp. and Westmark

Guardian Purchasing Corp., a PrimeSource Co., closed its Great Falls. Mt.. distribution center and will service the area from its Seattle, Wa., DC Finislt Wood Products was opened in Boise, ld.. by Joe Reininger...

Fourply, Grants Pass, Or., is now handling plywood sales for fagle Veneer, Harrisburg, Or. . .

Calilbrnia Sugar & Ll/estern Pine Agency, Empire (Modesto), Ca.. opened a sales office in

Santa Ana, Ca., Dan Mills, mgr., and a Fresno, Ca., sales office, Richard Hipkins, mgr. . Tradewest HordrNood Co., Wilmington, Ca., added a mill lacility

Moudings & Millwork, Inc., Fair Oaks (Sacramento), Ca., added 1-l/2 acres to its 4 acre Vinton (El Paso), Tx., shipping facility and warehouse. .. Hiehland Lumber Sales is a new Santa Fe Springs, Ca., wholesale firm opened by Ken LoBue and RichardPhillips...

Scarborouglt Lumber Co., Scotts Valley, Ca., without admitting liability, has agreed to pay $31.000 in civil penalities in conjunction with hazardous wastedisposal ...

Pacilic Coast Building Products acquired $400,000 in truss manufacturing equipment from bankrupt TC Shetter Systems Corp., New Jersey, to open Anderson Trussat its North Highlands, Ca., site

Robert Gordon sold Stqle Consolidated lnc.'s Atlas Building Materials and All State Building Materials in Southern California and opened Builders Wholesale Supply o./' Northern CaliJbrnia in the Sacramento. Ca.. area . .

Jeld-Wen, lnc., Klamath Falls, Or., acquired Weyerlneuser Co.'s Marshfield. Wi.. molded doorskin operation equipment, setting up Specialty Fiber Products, Ray Fritchey, gen. mgr.

Ca. Gov. Pete Wilson proposed a $628 nrillion environmental program including timber harvest restrictions, strengthening the Calilbrnia Board q/'Foresrry and spending $300 million to buy forests including 3,000 acres of Pacilic Lumber Co.'s "Headwaters Forest" near Eureka.

Voting on proposed changes for softwood dimension lumber design values has been delayed until June 13 by the American Lumber Standords Commillee lo allow more review tinre

Hctusing slar(s for March (latest figs.) slipped 9.3%r to an annually adjusted rate oI' 901,000 single lamily starts fell 5.90h; nrultis, 21.40k.

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Timber Bills Battle

The Timber Association of California is fighting four separate anti-logging bills currently under consideration by the state legislature, citing the huge losses in employment, economic activity and tax payments to state and local government which could result.

The association is attempting to modify and amend the proposed bills, which would place severe restraints on clear cutting and other logging practices.

The proposed bills would make into law an association-rejected compromise proposal worked out between the state's largest timber firm, Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., and a coalition of environmental groups headed by the Sierra Club.

Wood Panels In Gulf War

Structural panels went to war in the Persian Gulf in a variety of uses with between 20 and 30 million sq. ft. deployed to the area by midFebruary.

Shipped to U.S. military supply centers in Saudi Arabia in containers, the panels were used primarily for tent flooring. Mobile accommodations, offices and medical facilities built by one supplier required l0 million sq. ft. Parachute storage bins, drop boxes, footlockers, storage for military field barbers and personal storage areas were among other items built.

Dealer's Son NLBMDA Intern

Devin Johnson, son of Don and Sylvia Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Kingsburg, Ca., has been named l99l National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association summer intern.

He willspend six weeks this summer at the NLBMDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. His duties will include a one week internship at the oflice of Congressman Gary Condit, attending house and senate sessions, committee hearings and visiting allied industry organizations and government agencies in the Washington area.

A student at Cal-Poly-San Luis Obispo, Devin has worked at Johnson Lumber since he was I I years old. He is an architecture major.