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Payless Cashwoys will open a 45,000 sq. ft. custom-designed unit in Phoenix, Az., this month as a replacement store for an existing 24,000 sq. ft. operation Neiman-Reed's Lumber City, Yan Nuys, Ca., is sponsoring a d-i-y decathlon to raise monev for local youthsports...

Adding 18,000 sq. ft. to a 58,000 sq. ft. ex-Woolco outlet in Aurora, Co., Homecrafters Worehouse plans to open the Zndof 4 proposed units in the state next month: #l in Westminster (Denver) has been openfor2months...

W.R. Grace is acquiring Oie's Home Centers chain, Pasadena, Ca. (see p. 30.for full story) . . Price Save,rs, 'the Ernst Home Centers wholesale club operation, has opened a second unit in Fife, Wa Wickes Co.snow says it expects to emerge from its Chapter I I bankruptcy proceedings before Jan....

Mendo Mill and Lumber, Ukiah, Ca., has purchased the stcire, fixtures and real estate of Alfaro & Stanley Supplies, Fort Bragg, Ca., and will operate their own retail business on that site, managed by Ray Stephenson Alfaro & Stanley has moved to'a new site about 2 miles north of townonHighwayl...

Anderson Lumber Co. is looking for land and willbuild a multimillion $ retail./corporate office complex in Ogden, Ut. . . . Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank, Ca., hosted an open house and barbecue to celebrate completion of an extensiveremodeling...

Lumbermen 3 held a champagne opening for its new building center in Clackamas, Or., (see p. 82 for more details) . . Eagle Hsrdwood Center is a new retail firm opened at l2l0 N. Las Brisas, Anaheim, Ca., by Cameron Caudill, son of Ceorge Caudill, a partner in ScottCaudill Lumber Co.. Citv of Industry,Ca....

Crown Custom Hardware. a Louisiana Pocific wholesale subsidiarybased in Costa Mesa, Ca., is adding an additional branch at 12321 Sampson Ave., Riverside, Ca., and plans an early July opening of both a warehouse and sales office, Mike Strack, mgr.

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has ended negotiations to sell about 5690 of its Alaskan facilities to an employee stu;k ownership trust Weyerhoeuserwill repurchase up to 5 million shares of its common stock . . . Georgia-Paci"fic Corp. has second-quarter earnings of between 750 and 80Q a share, up from 52Q ayear ago . . G-P also reports it plans to sell its Portland, Or., former Hq. bldg. to Standard Insurance.

DAW Forest Products Co. organized by bankers Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. is purchasing Diamond Int ernationa I Corp.'s northwest div. including sawmills at Coeur d'Alene, Fernwood and Albeni Falls, Id., and Superior, Mt., and the Oregon Lumber div. including a Bend, Or., sawmill, and a plywood plant and a remanufacturing plant at Redmond, Or. ;

Croman Forest Products, Phoenix, Or., has opened a new Costa Mesa, Ca., sales office . Siskiyou Plumas Lumber Co., Quincy, Ca., is adding a new planer and dry kiln in an expansion due for completion inSept....

Rupert Murdoch, Australian publisher, has purchased an undisclosed number of Sr. Regrs shares and Bass Brothers Enterprises Inc., Fort Worth, Tx., has acquired approximately a 690 stake in Sl. Regrs Capital Corp., a unit of St. Regis, which publicly says it "isn't for sale"

Thirteen bids have been made for Conrqil including Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX; highest bid ($7.6 billion) was from F"rrsf Allied Corp. of Washington..

Zynolyte Products Co., Torrance, Ca., will move to larger facilities in Carson, Ca., this fall . W.M. Barr, manufacturer of Klean-Strip and Gillespie products, has opened a mfg. and distribution facility in Ontario, Ca. . .

Coostal Lumber's California Wholesale Div. has closed its El Segundo, Ca., office, moving the entire operation to their City of Industry yard,147ffi E. Nelson Ave., Waltef Ralston, mgr. .

Snavely Forest Products Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., has openbd a direct shipping sales office at 881 Dover Dr., Suite #14, Newport Beach, Ca.92ffi3, co-managed by Pete Nevins and Vince Cunningham. .

GAF Building Moteriols Div. has relocated to GAF Corp. facilities in Wayne, N.J. Turner Industries, Inc., Irwindale, Ca., has been acquired by Cooper Industries, /nc., Raleigh, N.C., no pricerevealed...

Big Creek Lumber, a new firm in Paso Robles, Ca., Bud McCrary, owner, and Collin Weyrick, mgr., has its own sawmill in Davenport, Ca. .. Ron and Pauli Harper have purchased,4 & W Building Supply, Prosser, Wa., for an undisclosed sum, renaming it Horper's True Value Building Center...L & L Buildine Supply, Woodburn, Or., is celebrating its l0th anniversary.

Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, which has bought 990 of Southwest Forest Industries .firc., Phoenix, Az., is considering plans to acquire all of the firm and sell off some of its assets . .