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Georgia-Pacific's corporate move from Portland, Or., is official with announcement of Georgia-Pacific Center, 133 Peachtree St., N.8., Atlanta, Ga. 30303, as the headquarters address bankrupt Wickes Cos. claims to be solving credit and inventory problems although most purchases are still on a cash basis .

Brookhart Building Centers, Colorado Springs, Co., has sold two retail units to PaYless Cashways . Genstar Building Materiols has closed its Santa Ana, Ca., facility and plans to close its Bakersfield, Ca., and Oceanside, Ca., facilities on Aug. 25 . . Anderson Lumber Co., Bountiful, Ut., will begin remodeling to double retail selling spaceonSept. l...

84 Lumber Co. has announced May sales of $53.3 million, al9Vo increase over 1981 Nevada County has rejected Hills Flot Lumber Co. t plan for a contractor yard on l5 acres West of Crass Valley, Ca. AI Meier's Building Centers, Fife, Wa., has opened a fifth yard in Gig Harbor,Wa....

Housing starts dropped l5.3Vo in June (latest figs. available) to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 911,000, erasing most of May's gain . . . multi-family units fell 3l .5 9o; single-family housing starts were off 3.8Y0, figures were below the 1 million rate for the l0thtimein ll months

Contracting for new construc' tion jumped in June, prodded by $6.1 billion of nonresidential building projects . . . the Prime lending rate has dropped to 15YzVo. with the most stringent and costly residential energy standards in the U.S. going into effect in Ca., Gov. Brown signed legislation exempling thousands of new housing units for up to l8 months

Trinity Forest Products, Sebastopol, Ca., has been voluntarily liquidated by owner Karl Drexel . . . Burlington Northern International Service Inc., Seattle, Wa., a new log and forest products export co., is a whollY owned subsidiary of Burlington Northern. Inc. Colonial Cedsr Corp., Seattle, has a new reman and distribution yard in Kent.Wa....

Western International Forest Products has moved to new offices, just down the street, in Beaverton, 0r. StePhen Penberthy has purchased Woodcrafters Lumber Sales, Inc., a retail/wholesale h ardwoodplywood-moulding operation from Hardwood ComPonents of Mehama, Or., and is operating at 212 N.E. 6th St., Portland, Or.

Paramino Lumber Co. is moving to Oakland, Ca., from San Francisco, on Sept. | Reel Lumber Service, Anaheim, Ca., is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month Vance Internstional Inc., Portland, Or., has been formed by Dick Vance to specialize in export sales of forest products.

Wickes' Sequoio Wood Products treating plant in Elmira, Ca., has set Sept. 15, as the target date for closing, with equipment to be sold or moved . . . J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., Union City, Ca., has opened a new warehouse facilitY in Monterey, Ca., headed by Jon Sligar . .

Hitlsdale Sash and Door Co., Portland, Or., an exclusive distributorship for Pozzi Wood Windows in Western Or. and Wa., is now operating as Hillsdale Pozzi Co. the eroman mill, Ashland, Or., has added a second shift

Crown Zellerbach is considering selling its 85qo interest in Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. Sslmon River Lumber Co., Riggins, Id., and its insurer have settled the claim for sawmill damage sustained in an explosion and fire last spring, and is now Pondering futureplans...

With a $900,000 cutback, National Forest Products Associa' tion has terminated 25Vo of its staff . . Yorktowne Cabinets, a subsidiary of The Wickes CorP' excluded from the ChaPter XI reorganizations, has been renamed Yorktowne, Inc. Idaco Engineering, owned by the Gang' Nail Co., has permanentlY closed its Oakland, C&., plant; it will now operate out of Miami, Fl., Hq....

A statewide group of roofing manufacturers and suppliers, the Committee for Firesofe Roofing, has set up a hotline in Los Angeles, Ca., giving info on fire retardant roofing a return to profitability for the residential roofing industry is predicted for the second half of '82 with improved earnings in '83 and '84 bY their industry assn. . .

Metal building systems took 55.9V0 of the low-rise nonresidential construction market in l98l vinyl home buildingPro' ducts are expected to grow at an annual rareof 6.9V0 until1986.

I:[o o- Ho o In t ernat io nal is gearing up for celebration of its 90th anniversary . National Housewares Manufacturers Association will change its semi-annual National Housewares Expo to spring and fall from Jan. & July

Masonite Corp. Plans to sell its timberlands and mills to a new co. to be formed from present shareholders; included is land and mills in Ca. as well as the South