NEWS BRIEF

AII in One Horne Center,

Junction City, Or., is adding a second 10,400-sq. ft. True Valw store this summer iir Venet4 Or. ...

M illriver Architectural Hardwaods has moved from Post Falls, Id., to a larger,.3,6ffi-sq. ft. facility in Hayden,Id.

Cameron Ashley Buildinp Products, Inc., Dalfas, Tx., hai signed a letter of intent to acquire Califurnia Roofers Supply, -with branches in San Diego, Santa Ana, Gardena" Monrovia Stockton, San Jose, Oakland and South San Francisco, Ca., from Star, Inc., Hayward, CaSchuller Corp. (ex-Iohns-Manville), Denver, Co., agreed to buy ISO foam roofing & insulation producer NRG Barrier.f, Poftlsnd,. Me., with plants in Kent, Wa.; Iacksonville, Fl.; Bremen, In.; Hazleton, Pa., and Saco, Me.

BMC West has purchased a 7acre roof truss plant in Lindon, Ut., from Quintek Inc. to be overseen by BMC's Orem, Ut., center; Greg Pace, tnrss division mgr. ...

Fremont hunber Co., Fremont, Ca., closed after the railroad terminated its lease ...

Beekb l-umber,Rainier, Or., has closed; Lawrence "Buzz" Beck, owner for the last 49 years, is selling the inventory and fixtures and will lease the facility

Anderson Lumher has opened a $3.2 million,27,@0-sq. ft. store in Pocatello, Id., replacing the 6,S& sq. ft. yard destroyed b3 fire in Aog.; Jeff Randall, gen. mgr.; Peter Moore, retail sales mgr. ...

Supply One opned store #8, in Klamath Falls, 0r., the chain's largest with a 65,000-sq. ft. main building, 35,000-sq. ft. nursery, 25,@0-sq. ft. indoor lumber yard and 2-acre outdoor lumberyard; Erik Steiner, store mgr.

Hadlock Building Supply, Port Hadlock, Wa., has opened its new yard, replacing the location that burned in August; a suspect wits recently apprehended and charged with arson against Hadlock and three other businesses

Home Depot will build a new distribution benter served bv rail in Fremont, Ca.; opened a new store last month in Portland, Or.; is building a unit in Hollywood, Ca., for a fall opening; will construct a new store in Downey, Ca., by 1997; is negotiating for a site in Woodland Hills, Ca., and dropped plans to acquire a22.5-acre site in Scottsdale, Az., for an Expo Design Center

Wholesalers & Manuf acturers

Dooley lnmber Co. has moved from Pasadena, Ca., to Newport Beach, Ca.

F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co., Columbia Falls, Mt., has purchased Utah Aspen Mil/s, Sigurd, Ut., from Bob Jensen; sales for the new Stoltze Aspen Mills wlll be handled by new resident mgr. Randy Maxwell, formerly of Darby Lumber, Darby, Mt., and PamJohnson...

McKeizie River Trading Co. Eugene, Or., has opened, with salesmen Bob Auld, John Strader, Gary Murdoch and Chris Re

White Brothers /nc., Oakland, Ca., has sold its Fresno, Ca., branch to v.p. Steve McGill for "slightly less than $5 million," deadpans Don White ...

Louisiana-Pacffic has begun operations at its new.sawmill in Ukiah, Ca.

Yetlowstone Stud, Lawel, Mt., has opened, specializing in kiln dried precuts andpallet stock...

Wi ilamett e Indus trie s, Portland, 0r., has conryleted irs $1.6 billion acquisition of 1.1 million acres of timberland and an Oreson mill from Hanson PLC and iesale of about half the land to three separate bWers ...

Crown Pacific, Portland, Or., closed the green-end at its Bonners Ferry, Id., mill, transferring most of the workers to work swinl shift at the Colburn, Id., mill, untii a new green-end at Bonners Ferry is completed in late '97

St. Joe Lamber Co., Princeton, Id., has closed and is up for sale due to a lack of specialty-logs ...

River Creek Lumber, Laclede, Id., has agreed to purchase Crown P acificfThompson Falls, Mr., sawmill and will build a stud mill on the site .,.

Harlen Metal Products, Inc., Compton, Ca., has patented its Retrofit Foundation System, a two-plate, earthquake safety system used to bolt older houses to their foundations

Westem Wood Products Association has established a Web site at http://www.wwpa.org

Anniversaries The Lumbermen's Red Book,l20th ... Sandstone Ace Lumber & Hardware (aka Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co.), Bakersfield, Ca., 11Oth Sagebrush Sales, /nc., Albuquerque, N.M., 30th ... Cat PIus Forest Products, Irvine, Ca., 5th

Housing stafts in April (latest figs.), powered by gains in the West and South, climbed 5.9Vo to a seasorally adjusted annual mte of 1.519 million, the highest level in two years ... permits rose 3.3%.

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