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Rebel Lumber has remodeled its Visalia, Ca., store, doubling office and sales space, and opened a new store in Hanford, Ca., Kelly Stewarl, mgr. Holt Quinn, partnerowner and mgr., QB Beam Plant, Salmon, Id., has opened a retail building materials store in the former Champion beam plant, Idaho Falls, Id.

Builder Supply-Rawson Inc. of Alamogordo is a new business in Alamogordo, N.M., Lew Rawson, owner. . Hoyward Lumber popped more than 75 lbs. of popcorn and cooked more than 12,000 hot dogs for the grand opening of its Morro Bay, Ca., store. .

Wes-Wood puilding Supp ly Inc. / Western Auto Supply, Klamath Falls, Or., held a recent grand opening for its newly remodeled store. . Empire Buildtng Supply, Klamarh Falls, Or., has been acquired by Richard Grow who will act as owner/mgr. .

Bayshore Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., is voluntarily closing after 25 years, basically due to the increased value of the land, reports John Ferguson. His son, Bill Ferguson, has purchased the L-P Home Center in Capistrano Beach, Ca., and will operate it as Capistrano Lumber Co., beginning Nov. l.

Nationol Lumber :yr,ll be an anchor operation n a23 acre shopping center being developed in Fullerton, Ca.; the company also has submitted a site design to the city for a new store on Sierra Ave. in San Bernardino, Ca.

Wickes Compania, Inc., near emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will pay former shareholders $32 million in settlement of class action suits against the co. .

Build & Grow, a 2-unit operation in lrvine, Ca., plans 5 new stores in So. Ca.

Ole's I{o me Improvement Cent e r has reserved space in a $Z million shopping plaza being developed in Thousand Oaks. Ca. . HomeClub will open 100,000 sq. ft. retail warehouses in San Jose. Fullerton and San Bernardino. Ca.. this month. .

Handyman is looking for a new site in Sacramento, Ca., to replace a store recently closed there; they're set to open 9 new stores in So. Ca. during '85. . .Boise Coscode is closing its building materials distribution center in Rifle, Co., and selling its Moab, Ut., BMC.

The Tiump group plus 13 officers of Poy 'n Save, Seattle, Wa., are negotiating to acquire the co. (see page 35 for details). . Edward Hines Lumber Co. has hired Salomon Brothers Inc. to explore a possible merger or sale of assets.

W. R. Groce is converting its 15 Angels Home Centers in So. Ca. to the Ole's name and format in the reorganization of its Western home center region following acquisition of the Ole's chain.

Oregon Lumber Export Co., Carver, Or., has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after property foreclosure by Tiaveler's Insurance Co., its largest creditor. .

Chandler Co.p., Boise, Id., has changed its name to Canfor U.S.A. (see page 35 for details). . Golden State Moulding, Rocklin, Ca., has moved production into the former Sieta plant in Rocklin, allowing them to produce a full range of Df. mouldings. .

The Merchant Magazine

Sixteen asbestos producers and l2 insurance cos. are working out a proposed agreement for providing settlement of claims at offices set up on the West and East coast.

Millwell Co.. San Gabriel, Ca., is a new wholesale plywood and lumber operation serving the Pacific Southwest, opened by industrY veteran John R. Osgood.

Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id., has added a fence board program atits remanufacturing plant. .Ron King and Wayne Lemburg have purchased a former Lumberiack cabinet manufacturing business in Roseville, Ca., from Payless Cashways, renaming it Nationol West Monufacturing.

Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., is buying back about l09o of its stock for $30 a share . Amalgamated Sugar will acquire Medford Corp., Medford, Or., for about $ll0 million.

Champion International Corp. will acquire 220/a of Colonial Penn Group Inc., as part of its $1.84 billion acquisition of St. Regis Corp.

Z-Brick Co. has acquired the assets qf Zephyr Aluminum Co., relocating manufacturing and production facilities to its Woodihville, Wa., operation. .

Rail rates on lumber traveling by Southern Pacific were increased 390 Oct. 1, for those without contracts or letters of agreement with the carrier.

High mortgage rates were blamed for a I2.8Vo slump in housing starts in Aug. . . . figures slid to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,537,00A units from a revised 1,763,000 units in July. . single family starts were off 9.790 while multis tumbled I6.9Vo.. . bldg. permits for future construction sagged 3.'10/o after falling a revised I4.7Vo in July. .

Caldornia, Texas and Florida ac' counted for $s/o of 'the multifamily housing starts ar-rd 3l9o of the single family starts during the lst 6 mos. of '84. .

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