THE PERFECT PRODUCT FORAROTTEil MARKET.

There's one bright spot in today's otherwise gloomy lumber market. Pressure-treated lumber. DIYer's and remodeling contractors are eating it up. Primarily because the bugs, mildew and termites won't. Even after 29 years in the ground.

It's become the smart, economical choice for all kinds of outdoor projects. And now you have a major new source to work with. Louisiana-Pacific. We're taking high quality hem-fir and ponderosa pine from our own forests. Giving it first-rate treatment at our new high capacity facility at Ukiah, California. And making immediate delivery with our own fleet of trucks.

So now you can give customers the treatment they've been asking for: L-P Outdoor@ Wood for decks, patios and fences. You can even gve it to them with a Cedartone" pre-stain. To say nothing of L-P Wolrnani zed@ lumber for sill plate& And pressure-treated land timbers. ..,

Thke advantage of a rotten situation.

For all the details. call: Louisiana-Pacific Corporation.

AlbuquerQU€, NM (505) 873-0511

Cloverdale, CA (707) 894-3362

Fremont, CA (415) 657-6363

Rocklin, CA (916) 624-4525

Orange, CA (7I4) 998-6500

Phoenix, AZ (602) 246-t578

Samoa, CA (707) 443-75LI

Mitchell Brothers, a longtime Portland, Or., trucking firm, has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy a new Teamsters Union survey shows 28.890 of the workers in the trucking industry have been laid off nationally; in the West 24.6s/a .

Creditors of the bonkruPt Wickes Cos. are feuding bitterly over composition of the creditor's committees, dispute is bankers v. vendors: no word from Wickes as when $$ may be paid back the yearly loss turned out to be $258 million, triple earlierestimates . .

President Reagan vetoed, as expected, the mortgage assistance bill originally proposed by Sen. Lugar the U.S. Supreme Court will review the price fixing convictions of Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhoeuser and Willamette Industries; a loss could cost the trio up to $2 billion

Housing starts popped up a stunning 22Vo in May (latest available figs.) from Apr., the 1,086,000 pace topped the million mark for the lst time in 10 mos. . . . multi-family units jumped 50Vo bolstered by fed. $$, singles were up 8.7r/o; bldg. permits rose 1090, the 3rd increase in a row...

The Pacific Coast Builders Conference heard Anthony Frank and Leonard Shane, two top s&l men forecast that the U.S. wil[ never again build ].5 million new homes annually. mortgage foreclosures are at a record rate, some predict 500,000 in '82 . . business failures this year are at the highest level since 1932

May construction controcts rebounded 79r from Apr., but were still I l9o behind the same mo. in '81 the Hardwqre Sales Index slipped to 92.9 in April from March's 97.9V0 woodworking machinery orders slipped fractionally again in latest figures . .

L o uis i a n a- Pacific's shut-down 16,000 sq. ft. home center and 7 acre lumber yard in Orange, Ca., has been sold for $3 million to a buyer who plans a storage facility for the site Molalla Builders Supply, Inc., Molalla, Or., had a grand opening to celebrate new management by Sterling Roth . . DixielineLumber, San Diego, Ca., plans to open a new home center in neighboring Oceanside

Glen Johnson, Double J. Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., has bought out his partner, Jack Schirm, who is retiring . . . Sundance Lumber and Hordware, West Covina, Ca., had a successful grand opening kicked off with a cocktail buffet . . Franklin Building Supply, Boise, Id., is opening a new retail lumber yard near McCall, Id., Bruce Wood, mgr....

Mack Ciles is the new owner/mgr. of North Bay Lumber Co., Cofte Madera, Ca. . H. & E. Builders Supply, Barstow, Ca., is operating out of a warehouse while completing plans to rebuild the main store which was destroyed by a $1.5 millionfire...

Boise Cascade has no plans for starting up the mill at Yakima, Wa. . SaJe of Arcata Corp. for $335 million to ALB Ventures Inc. has been completed with that group changing its name to Arcata Corp. Louisiana-Pocific has combined its Sonora and Sierra divisions as the Sierra Division, operating out of Red Bluff, Ca., Meyer InternationalPLC is being formed with the merger of Montague L. Meyer PLC and International Timber PLC, two UK-based multi-national wood sellers. .

Dixieline Lumber Co.'s Phoenix, Az., facility is being merged into the Weyerhoeuser(its corporate parent) location on

Buckeye Rd. . . . O.K. Lumber Co., Fairbanks, Ak., has opened a new truss Plant . . . GYPsum Enterprises, Inc., is occupying a new 6,000 sq. ft. storage building built in Anaheim, Ca., bY San Antonio Pole which also is constructing two new buildings, 10,000 sq. ft. total, for the ScottCaudill Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., this summer

Max Hill Lumber Co. has moved toHuntington Park, Ca., from Montebello, according to Partners Bill Fox and Barry HePPner . California Forest Products has moved from San Lorenzo, Ca., to Gilroy . . Floor Service Supply Co., San Jose, Ca., founded in 1932, is currently celebrating a successful half century in business RoYbestos' Manhattan, Inc. has changed its name to Raymark Corp.

Californio Sugar & Western Pine, San Mateo, Ca., has closed its Fresno office, moved the Sacramento office to a new location; it earlier had relocated the Monterey office to the Carmel Valley . Dick Wickman, Jessup Door Co., Don Mitchell and Ted Saunders have joined as general partners in LacY Forest Products, Co., Redmond, Or. Stork Lumber Co., Denver, Co., has opened a new millwork division...

84 Lumber Co. has opened 13 new stores since Jan., including Lancaster, Ca., Glenwood Springs, Co., and Spanish Fork, Ut.; work is underway on a unit in Phoenix, Or., all part of 35 stores to be opened in '82 , K Mort expects capital expenditures of more than $2 billion between now and 1986 with 250 new stores planned.

Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., foresees a deficit for the second quarter. ll9o ofthestaff at Hq-have been cut Standard and Poor's Corp. has lowered its ratings on the co. . .

McKinney Hardwood is a new retail/wholesale firm opened in Mountain View, Ca., by Gage McKinney(seestory, p. 14of this issue)