NEWS BRTEFS

HomeBase,lnc. will open a second location in Albuquerque, N.M., and a Rancho Cordova (Sacramento), Ca., location Aug. 29 ...

Builders Square is seeking sites in Hawaii and Alaska for 1994 oPenings and planning to expand outside the U.S. in Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Western Lumber closed its hardware store and lumber yard in Temecula, Ca., and will open a sales office to serve contractors in the area; the Oceanside location remains open.

Home Depotis considering a site in Canyon Country (Santa Clarita), Ca. Orchard Supply Hardware opened a 47 ,149 sq. ft. store in Newark, Ca. . . . Ernst Home & Nursery opened a Tigard, Or., location and remodeled the Renton, Wa., store; both include florist and framing shops and large nurseries

Eagle Hardware & Garden,Tukwila, Wa., will open an Anchorage, Ak.. store, now under construction, in Jan. plus new locations in Seattle, Federal Way and Bellevue, Wa.; sites have been acquired in Puyallup, Wa., and Honolulu, Hi.

Lumbermen's Buildittg Cetters is providing an estimating sYstem forcontractors through its stores in 'Wa., Or., and Ak. Scarborough Lumber Inc. will close its Morgan Hill, Ca., store this month to concentrate on stores in Scotts Valley, Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek, Ca...

Deer Lick Lumber w|ll open a car wash at its Running SPring, Ca., location . JerY &NinaBatterton bought o\t f,arlY Bird SUPPIY Part' ners Richatd and Charlene SPooner in Clarkston, Id. . .

Sintort Honte Center is consolidating its Concord, Ca., store into the Walnut Creek, Ca., location True Value Hardware, St. Helens, Or., is having a grand opening this month Mitchell's Building Materials Warehouse, Yuha City, Ca., opened a branch in Gridley, Ca. . .

Eagle Electric, Pluntbing & Building Materials, Pocatello, Id., operated by Pay 'N Pak, which is liquidating, expects to closeby Sept.

Snyder Luntber Mill, Wallace, Ca., has closed Valley Lumber Co. , Grants Pass, Of ., was destroyed in a June 9 fire, the third major fire to hit the operation since 1948

Anniversari es: City Mill Co. Ltd., Honolulu, Hi., 93rd; Reel Lumber Service, Anaheim & Riverside, Ca., 60th; Wa ldron F o re st Products,F ait Oaks. Ca., l4th

Martin F o r e st I ndustrie s, Healdsburg, Ca., was split into two unrelated businesses July 21 bY owners Gordon Martin and Gary Malfatti with Martin forming Martin Forest P r o du cts and Malfatti op ening M o rgan Creek Forest Prodttcts Inc., Sanla Rosa, Ca.

MK Lumber Co. is new in Temecula, Ca., Grant Shaw gen. mgr.. Portland Pacific Forest Products,lnc. moved to 620 N.E. Kelly Ave., Gresham, Or. 97030 Bnilding Materials International Corp., Portland, Or., voluntarily entered Chap. 7 bankruptcy

Continental Hardwood is opening anew distribution center in Boise, Id., this month Huffmart & Wrigltt, .frrc. Canyonville, Or., purchased the former Gregory Forest Products veneer plant in Klamath Falls, Or.. arrd will operate it as KLannth Vertcer Inc. . .

Roscbrrrg l:'orast Products plans to close its ply w'ood plant in Red

Bluff, Ca., and the old Paul Bunyan millinAnderson,Ca. . MaywoodA nd e rs on F o r est P ro du ctswill close its Woodland, Ca., office in Sept., centralizing all sales at Eugene, Ot., Hq....

Pacific Soatheast Forest Prodzcts has added 15,000 sq. ft. ofstorage capacity and plans three additional 5,000 sq. ft. steel buildings on their 12 acre Diamond Springs, Ca., complex Thunderbolt Wood Treating, Riverbank, Ca., added 9 acres increasing their facility to 24 acfes. .

Louisiana-Pacific's OSB sales office in Mission Viejo, Ca., has relocated to northern div. headquarters in Hayden Lake, Id. Berdex International has moved to 1337 Howe Ave., Suite 201, Sacramento, Ca.95825 J. M. Thomas Forest Products has moved from Rocklin, Ca., to larger offices in Auburn.Ca..,.

Vaagen Bros. Lumber Inc.,Colville, Wa., was number 100 in a list of Washington's top.l50 private companies in gross sales compiled by Washington CEO Magazine . . RFP Lumber, Roseville, Ca., has relocated to Lakeport, Ca., Jerry Ensworth mgr. Woodfax, Myrtle Creek, Or., has changed the name of its electronic information service to U.S. Wood Trade List.

Johnstort Hardwood, Long Beach, Ca., has closed; Penn Forest Products has opened a retail division on the Johnston site Masonite Corp.'s Ukiah, Ca., hardboard mill is undergoing a facility review for possible closureby year's end.

Weyerhaeuser Co. has Permanently closed its Klamath Falls, Or., pine sawmill and Cottage Gtove, Or., laminated beam Plant, while investing nearly $16 million in improvements at its Cottage Grove small log mill

Housing starts slid down 3-ZVo to an annualized rate of 1.2 million in June (latest figs.) . new home building fell everywhere except in the west which rePotted an unexpected 7.1% increase . . apt. construction was off 2l% -. Permits fell l.3Vo for the fourth consecutive month.