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Our prcduclr orc onong the bed in fie univene. Our curlomer seruite ir by fte finosl leom of eqdh. lings you ever row. And our three milh ole ot odvonced os o lllailion spoce ship.

Beon's productr, people ond production focili. tier...dependoble supporf for you, cr rolid os the eoilh itself.

Our lotecl product,lrsqted or untreoted log robin siding, ioin: on impressive rosler of ploven monsy maken for you. Radius edge deckirg, fieoted ply. wood, dog.61;"6 fencing, lcilice, mail box klls, dero.porlr, sloir stringerr, hand roil bclurlers, Goftlc |op lence podr, polio squores, bench sup. poils lor derh, Frcnch Gofiic cnd 0oftlc lx4fenc. ing in 4'ond 5'ond londscope limbers.

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Orchard Supply Hardware, which is moving into a vacated Builders Emporiurn in Fountain Valley, Ca., lias baen acquired by .9ears (see story p. 26)...

F o xwo rth -G alb raith Lumb er Co. held a grand opening at its newly remodeled Ruidoso, N,M., yard and replaced the roofs of its main building and rnill at Arizona Sash & Dbor, Tucson, Az. ...

A.C. Houston Lumber will move its Las Vegas, Nv., operations into a new 140,000-sq. ft. building in North Las Vegas its A.C.H. Wholesale Diiision has closed its Albuquerque, N.M., office and is'consolidating its Western and Intermountain buying offices in Las Vegas; Todd Bybee, corporate commodity buyer, IntermgjTntain region; Mark Frasier, Western rcgion ...

California Do-it Center has opened stores #10 and #11 in Los Angeles and Lake Elsinore, Ca

San Diego Fine Hardwoods, San Marcos, Ca., has moved from J.E. Higgins' La Mirada Dr. to its Cherokee St. location ...

Horne Depot opened stores last month in San Rafael, Ca., and Louisville, Co. Depot had'Z7%o 2nd quarter increases in both net income, reaching $27A.2 million, and revenue, to $5.29 billion ...

Bowman Lumber Ca., Cloven dale, Ca., is the new.name of Bowmant Lwnber Sales, a division of Ridgeco Truss,lnc., reflecting the 2O-year-old business' ieturn to sole proprietorship under owner Joseph N. Bowman after the sale of the Ridgeco Tnrss plant

C rown P acific,Portland, Or., has agreed to purchase MaywoodAnderson Fore$ Products, Eugene, Or., for $3 million; pres. and ceo Jim Weeks and all other employees have been offered continued employment

Willamette Industries, Inc.'s Warrenton, 0r,, recently acquired from Cavenham Forest Industriis, has been" recertified for the Japanese Agricultural Standard

B M C Inte rnationallnc. rccontlv supplied Douglas fir dinrension for the first home ever eiected in Japan using Western Wood Produc: ts A s s o c i at i on-grademarked lumber...

Schwller Corp, rDenver, Co., has acquired the assets of roofing producer Dibiten U.SA and Dibiten Mexico, South Gate, Ca.; completed its $72 million acquisition of insulation manufacturer NRG

' Con"rrt" Desig4lnc., Tucson, Az., has been purchased by O ldcastle Archite ctural, .A.tlanta,

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Soathrern Pacific Lines has moved to new offices in Lake Oswego, Or. ...

Lumber Tag Specialties Inc." no* operates facilities on three continents, in three countries and 2l states...

Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau, Bellevue, Wa.; now has a home page on the Internet at www. cedarbureau.org :ii-

Housing starts in July (latest figs.) slipped t.3% ta a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.455 mil-