NEWS BRIEFS

Precision Lumber & Hatdware, Snowflake',and Heber, Az., has acquired Show Lots Lumber Co., Show Low, Az. (David Tenney, mgr.), and Pinetop Lumber Co. Inc., Pinetop, Az. (Mark Pachta, mgr.), and will be csnvErting all four Precision locations to the True Value format ...

Farmington Lumber & Hardw&re, Farmington, N.M., has been closed after 90 years in business due to superstore competition; ownerlmayor Tom Taylor will rent out the facility ...

AbIe Building Suppty has purchased Q,uincy Lumber Co., Quincy, Wa., as store #5, Rich Noble, mgr.; Jerry Richard replaces Noble as mgr. in Ritzville, Wa.

Plymart Inc. has moved its retail yard from downtown Portland, 0r., to near its manufacturing plant in Boring, Or. ...

Pro Line Builders Supply, Lakeview, Or., added & Winnemucca, Nv., yard ...

Capitol Lumber, Olympian Wa., has purchased Key Western Building Supply, Lake Bay, 'Wa., as its 4th location and added a lumber yard to the hardware store, Charlie Foster, mgr.; Don Ladwig replaces Foster as mgr. at the spanaway, Wa, yard

HomeBase held grand openings Sept. 2 for a new store in Renton, Wa., replacing a shuttered g-yearold Kent, Wa., unit) and five newly remodeled locations, four in Phoenix, Az., and one in Palm Desert, Ca.; the company purchased a site in Clackamas County, Or., for its fourth lacation in the greater Portland area ...

Cambria Hardware Center, Cambria, Ca., has added a full lumberyard, the Cambria Village Lurnber site to its operations

Hadlock Building Supply, Po* Hadlock,.Wa., soon.after c-ompletingra major expansion, suffered a nine-hour, Aug. 8 arson fire that caused $1.5 million in darroge; the warehouse and sales floor were destroyed, while the yard, lumber inventory, forklifts and trucks were spared, enabling the business t0 reopen the nextday ...

Supply One predicts a spring opening for its 8th unit now under construction in Klamath Fa]ls, Or,; it will feature a 92,500-sq. ft. store, 25,000-sq. ft. nursery and six-acre lumber yard

Entst Home & Nursery opened a new store in Cedar Mill, Or., and is working to move into a recently vacated Kmart in Palm Springs, Ca.

Home Depot opened new stores last month in Bitter Lake (Seattle), Wh.; Colorado Springs, Co., and its 3rd in Tucson, Az. {Frad White, mgr.); will construct its 4th Expo center in Mountain View, Ca.; will co-anchor to-bs-renoyat- ed Jantzen Beach Shopping Center, Hayden Island, Or., and will not be allowed by the city council to build in Sardtoga (Sai Jose), Ca.

Mill River Architectural Hardwoods, Inc., has moved to a new warehouse facilitv in Post Falls, Id. ...

Palmdale Plaza, a 66,000-sq. ft. strip mall now under construction in Anthony, N,M., will be anchored by a 20,ffi0-sq. ft. True Value hatdware store

O rchard Supply H ardware's 59,000-sq. ft. store nearly under construction in Thousand Oaks, Ca., has residents concerned about the safety of students at a nearby school; the project had.been approye{ earlier by the planning comrrusslon

Ev e rgre en Lumber, Harper, Wa., ha* opened a new Contractor Support Center in Port Orchard, Wa.; it features a 9,000-sq. ft. main building and two 2,500-sq. ft. pole buildings on six acres ...

Brinker Brothers Lumber & Hardw are,, Miltsn;Freewater, Or., has remodeled, adding plumbing and electrical zupply lines ...

Anniversaries: Cedar Shal@ & Shingle Bureau, Bellevue, Wa.n 80th ... Fisher Inmber Ca., Santa Monica, Ca.,72nd (not 62nd as reported in Aug.) ... Corning

Moulding Corp., Corning, Ca., 30th Horizon Forest Products, Richmond, Ca., l5th ...

Nu Forest Products, Inc., Healdsburg, Ca., has aequired all assets of NorthBav Forest Products, Healdsburg, fiom owner Ron Lewman ...

Golden State Lumber, Vallejo, Ca., has acquired Sierca Point Lumber and Plywaod Co., Brisbane, Ca.; Chris Wray continues as gen. mgr. at Siena Point ...

Jewett- Camercn Lumber Corp., Tigard, Or., will rnove its Hq. -by Oct. to a new $l+ million, 30,000+-sq. ft. facility on five acres in No*h Plainsn Or.

Hillsboro Forest Products, Hillsboro, Or., has been fonned by Ken Edwards, formerly of Forest Grove lnmber

Siskiyou Forest Products, Woodland, Ca., is now stocking lames Hardie Building Products' product lines

G e o rg i a - P ac ific br oke ground Aug. 21 on its Western sales center in Denver, Co.

United Pacific Forest Products has moved its western red cedar mill to St. Helens, Or., along with pres. Dave Weinstein and Hq. staff; the sales staff of Peter C. Murphy, Scott Majors, Rodney Gnsser plus Peter Gomezn traffic, remain in Petaluma Ca. ...

Willamette Indwst ries, Portland, Or., has purchased LumberTech, Izc., Lebanon, Or., frcm Stevs and Mary L*timer; the facility, locaned on the site of Willamette's former Lebanon plywood plant, will be called Indus triel Salat*Lumber-

Tech; LumberTech sales rep Chris Close was promoted to general production and sales mgr. ...

Miller Lumber Ca., Bend, Or., forced from its home of 35 years due to a parkway project, moved to a new Bend site, featuring a 16,000-sq. ft., heavy timber framed building originally built in the 1940s as a feed warehouse and grain elevator ...

Butler Forest Products lost its Redding, Ca., mill in a July 27 fll.e that caused $1-2 million in damage; no injuries were reported from the pre-dawn fire which investigators attribute to a propane tank explosion

Young and Morgan, Mill City, Or., has signed a letter of intent to acquire Hanel Lumber Co. Inc., Odell, Or. ...

Duke City Lumber Co. has temporarily closed is Espafiola, N.M., mill due to falling timber prices; a considerable inventory of timber is already stacked at the mill and logs will continue to be piled up until it reopens