NEWS BRIEFS

Bankrupt National Lumber & Supply, Fountain Valley, Ca., has been ordered by the court to sell its remaining assets, ending their struggle to reorganize . .

Home Depotwillopen a second location in San Bernardino, C8., by Dec....

HomeClub, Inc. opened warehouse stores in San Jose and Murriea, Ca. .. Builders Emporium is under construction on a new store in Hemet, Ca...

U-Do-lt Home Center opened in Grass Valley, Ca. . . Construction started on the Rocklin Commerce Center, a home improvement products center, in Rocklin, Ca....

Roswell Lumber and Hardware, Pecos Valley Houston Lumber Co,. and A.C. Houston Lumber Co., Roswell, N.M., merged as Roswell Lumber Co, Bruce Ellis, pres. and ceo, using the Pecos Valley site for the new store

Blueher Lumber Co. stores in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque. N.M., have closed. . Americai Stores Co. closed four Skasps Home Improvement Stores in Salt Lake City, Ut....

HomeCtub launched a Spanish language ad campaign on Southern California tv. two men wearing turbans and holding Uzi semiautomatic guns took an undetermined amount of cash from a Fremont, Ca., Home Depot. Canoga Park, Montclair, North Hollywood, Slauson and Oxnard. Ca., HomeClub locations held water conservation fairs.

Aloha Lumber Co., Kapaa, Hi., awarded first annual scholarships to six local high school stirdentS... r.::l'l:,''l.::'lrr:r',.:..'

'Golden State Lumberexpects to move its San Rafael, Ca., store into a larger location Nov. 5 Home Depot anticipates open- ing a decorator specialty store soon in the San Diego, Ca., area.

Knox International Wood Products Inc., a new independent mfr. rep firm, has been established in Santa Ana, Ca., by Larry Knox...

James Lumber Ca. is closins its Huntington Beach, Ca., yard-and consolidating at its Perris, Ca., facility . Caffall Bros., Wilsonville, Or., suffered $2,500 in damages when a welder's spark set off a small fire July 27 .

Precision Components, Inc., Phoenix, Az., is voluntarily liquidating ... Duke City Lumber Co. has temporarily closed its Winslow, Az., plant . . . Orepac Building Products, Wilsonville, Or., has purchased Boise Hardwood 1rc., Boise, Id.

Cameron Wholesale, Waco, Tx., opened branch No. 7 in Denver, Co., Larry Schmidt, mgr. Industrial Woods International relocated to Scottsdale, Az., from Cave Creek, Jeff 1l.r'.:rr:,ilodge and Larry Olson handle

State Forest Industries, FlagstafI, Az., closed its Eagar, Azl, mill. . . Hexberg Industrial LumDer, Wilmington, Ca., dissolved with co-owners Chris Hexberg and Tom Flint moving to softwood div. sales at ll/est Coast Lumber, Wilmington...

Cal State Lumber Sa/es relocated into a new, custom built facility in Otay Mesa, Ca., about 20 miles south of their previous Chula Vista, Ca., location

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Thunderbolt Wood Treating is adding a Chemonite treatment facility at Riverbank, Ca., to open by Nov. Boise Cascade plans a start up for its Medford, Or., laminated veneer lumber and wooden l-beam facility this

Kwikset Corp. (Black & Decker), Anaheim, Ca., and ltalian Valli & Colombo forrned.a joint venture to distribute upscale designer door hardware

. Dave Graflan & Sors, Irwindale, Ca., is expanding into a newly acquired facility

Constuction contracts will' dropTo/o this year says MacGrawHill Information Services Co. consumer confidence fell to a seven year low, dropping almost l8 pointsin the Aug. Conference Boardindex...

A freeze on payments to asbestos victims from the financially ailing Manville IrusI was extended into early Sept. by a U.S. District "iudge to complete reorganization of the trust

American Forest Resource Alliance began an ad campaign on Northwest radio and tv to solidify support for solutions to the spotted owl/old growth timber crisis . . Forest fires in Cali,fornia burned more than 200,000 acres of timber - nearly equal to the amount of wood used in all the houses built in {he U.S. in the first 5 months of 1990. .

H.ousing srdlr for July (latest figs.) were down 2.60/o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of l.l5 million, lowest since the end of the l98l-82 recession single family starts fell 1.40lo; multis 6..5!h. r,.. building permits slumped 2.60/0.