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October 1992

Scheming Owner Fined

A former co-owner of now shuttered Latham Lumber Sales Inc. and Atlantic Door, Roseville, Ca., has been fined $226,459 for inflating lumber bills on a house remodeling job done by a construction firm that owed Latham money, according to the Sacramc nto B u sinc ss Journal.

Jim Dean Construction then used the extra money to pay its debts to

News Briefs

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USG Corp. plans to make a prepackaged Chapter I I bankruptcy filing for the holding company in early 1993 ... Caterpillar Industrial Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have joined to form Mitsubishi Caterpil' lar Forklift, Inc. ... Toro Co., Chandler, Az., and Ryobi Outdoor Products Inc. will jointly develoP hand-held lawn and garden aPPliances to market under Toro and Iawn-Boy brand names

Willarnette Industies /nc. leased 3,700 sq. ft. in First Interstate Tower, Portland, Or. ... Westgulf

Lumber Co., Lake Oswego, Or., has leased 2,546 sq. ft. in Hillman Properties Northwest ...Artistic Brass, South Gate, Ca., will close during first quarter 1993, relocat- ing manufacturing to parent Masco Corp.'s Plumbing Products Div.'s Greensburg, In., plant

Lathanr and Atlantic, the Business Journal said.

Hamid Noorani, who owned 457o of Latham and 50Vo of Atlantic, and the two companies cooperated with Dean in creating false billings and receiving diverted funds, according to the lawsuit.

Latham and Atlantic were also named in the suit, but settled out of court earlier for about $30,000 each, said the Business Journal.

Summit Timber's interest in Enterprise Lumber (cedar sawmills in Oso and Arlington, Wa.,) has been acquired by Miller Shingle, Granite Falls, Wa. ...

As much as I billion board feet of lumber will be needed to reconstruct homes and buildings destroyed by Hurricane Andrew, according to initial estimates an order by Pres. Bush for federal agencies to speed the sale of dead or dying timber from federal land in the Northwest and Northern California to ease the threat of forest fires was predicted to save some logging jobs ...

US Fish and Wildlife Service added the marbled munelet to the Endangered Species Act's threatened list, further cutting logging in Northwest forests.