NEWS BRIEFS

Beaverhead Home Center, Dillon, Mt., has been opened in temporary quarters by Greg Winden and Ken Smith; a permanent home should be opeir next month...

Anderson Lumber Co., Pocatello, Id., was gutted in late Aug. by a multimillion dollar fire

Anawah Lumber has closed its Newhall, Ca., store

Buckingham I,umber Co., Buffalo, Wy., has purchased the property its yard sits on after a long struggle with the EPA ...

, Fiers*n Lumber,Eureka, Ca., is adding 12,000-sq. ft. in a new lumberyard storage area and expanded warehouse, to be completed by late Oct. ...

Friedman Brothers Hardware broke. ground on a $10 million, 80,0@sq. ft. store in Ukiah, Ca.; it should be finished by spring to coincide with the Santa Rosa" Ca., co,gqpany's 50th anniversary .:,.

Furrow Building Materials, Albuquerque, N.M., suffered a $2 million, Aug. 23 fire that deshoyed its 30,000-sq. ft. store but spared the adjacent 5-acre yard ..

Ernst Home & Nursery opened a 45,0ffi-sq. ft. store with 15,000sq. ft. nursery in Lewiston, Id., store mgr. Chris Knapton, and will begin construction in Dec. on a 64,0@sq. ft.ygt!il Ontario, Ca., projecting a mid-Feb. opening

HomeBase is building a 109,500-sq. ft. store with 23,032sq. ft. nursery in Scottsdale, Az., planning a spring opening, and held grand reopenings at its two -recently remodeled Las Vegas, Nv., storeC

Home Depot opened new stores last month in Thornton (Denver), Co., and Lakewood, Ca.; plans to replace its 88,000-sq. ft. Monro- via, Ca., store with a 135,0@-sq. ft. unit, and proposed building in Calabasas, Ca. .., thrce men were arrested after making off with $500 in stolen merchaidise from the Signal Hill, Ca., Horne Depot inastolelltflfr-.; i,i,,,: ::,,,',,,;,,

Home Depot's stock fefl j.97o on news that it will add 90 to 95 stores next year, l0 to 15 fewer than earlier p-rojected

, Anniversaries: Northri,d;ge Lumber Co., Northridge, Ca., 57th ... Hale Kauai Ltd.,Lihue,Hi., 50th ... Big "C" Home Center', San Pedro, Ca., 33rd ...

, Hidlund" L,u,*,bir,9nler and Anderson Truss Co., North Highlands, Ca., sustained $200,000iin damage to vandalized equipment and lumber; four boys, aged 9 to I l, were arrested

Industrial Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca., is closing, with partners Steve Baugh and Mark Herms parting amicably &askins, Fdre si' P rodue*, :Red Bluff, Ca., opened a new sales office in El Cajon, Ca., with gen. mgr. Jeff Niswonger, Steve Plesser and Dave Barba; Bob Forward is new to the Red BIuff office ... : :' ' :: r. : ::

,._ trxndiuark Fgrest lro4ucl San Bernardino, C8., is opening a Salem, Or., warehouse this month to serve specialty & contract product customers; Laser Systems, Carlton, Or., will provide sales and marketing support for Landmark in Or., Wa-,Id. and Ak. ..-

Redhill Forest Products has moved from Coeur d'Alene, Id., to Hayden Lake, Id. "..

Accents in Wood, Visalia, Ca., has voluntarily liquidated ...

Dalerio Lumber, Ukiah, Ca., has closed. but Leon McGiew hopes to regroup and reopen in anotherform..,

Tricon Timbet.Inc., has closed its Missoula, Mt., office and con,.$qlidated operations in'somerset, N.J.; the St. Regis, Mt., mill continues operating

Smartrim, Reno, Nv,, has closed; Louisiana-Pacfc decided against buying the company after touring the facility

Louisiana-Pacrfic will peimanently close its Post Falls, Id., mill at the end of Nov., due to lack of federal timber supply

',' Co apal' hwtnb er Ca,'t'iCffiiyoi: nia Div.. Chino. Ca.. has nur, chased Straight-Line, Sacraminto, Ca., according to div. mgr. Walter Ralston, who is adding hardwood I_ufb:r Jo their moulding lines; John Rainey, operating mgr.

International Paper is building a new plant in Klamath Falls, Or., to manufacture, lamindted'liinelamine panels

Royal Pacific Industries, McMinnville, Or., agreed with PacChem to begin treating wood for Hawaii markets with Hi-Bor, a borate treatment ...

Woodtape, Kirkland, Wa., is building a $7 million, 90,000-sq. ft. plant in E-v_erett, Wa., expected to -qtart up.in Nov.,,. . ,' :: ",

BHP Steel Building Products, Sacramento, Ca., has opened its 8th West Coast mfg. faCility, a 26,000-sq. ft. plant with 1,800-sq. ft. office in Salt Lake City, Ut. ... ,, Httachl Ko'ki {JiA,, L,ld.'has, nrovpd Woqdland Hills; Ca, fianufacturing operations to share a larger facility in Chatsworth, Ca., with West Coast distribution operations : ,: t,, , '', l'::: : ': '

Allgeier Computer Corp., Tustin, Ca., suffered $40,000 in hardware and software losses in an office break-in over Libor Day weetg,n{ ., ,. " ' ,, t',

APA - The Engineered Wood Association has moved its western region field of{ige fiom Dallas, Tx,r to-,Tae*ma, Wa, .,. , , ,,,

Housing starts in Aug. (latest figs.) rose O.6% to an annual rate of 1.398 million ... single-family starts climbed I.47o, multi-family construction fell 2.4Vo starts roseA3Vo in the West.

How Home Depot Won Before The Election

After fighting for two years to build a store in Encinitas, Ca., Home Depot would make sure that when the decision was left up to the voters, it had its "votes in the bank" prior to Election Day.

Although surveys revealed Depot enjoyed high support, the final decision would be made at a special February election, which typically receives half the turnout of a general June election. A low turnout would favor the more motivated opponents of the project.

Home Depot enlisted local political consultants to wage a campaign to identify supporters and persuade them to vote by absentee mail ballot.

Under California law. a voter must request a ballot by mail at least seven days before the election to vote absentee. The ballot is then sent to the voter who can return it by mail or in person on election day. Home Depot's campaign would walk voters through every step of the process.

' First, a diskette file of all registered voters in Encinitas was loaded into a PC, and the names of all known supporters were flagged.

'Thirty days before the election, a citywide phone canvass was conducted to identify supporters, opponents and undecideds, with the results flagged. Each supporter was sent a computer-generated Absentee Voter (AV) request application, persuasion message and reply envelope. Undecideds were sent the persuasion mail.

' "Yes" voters then received a second call, urging them to fill out the AV form and vote absentee. They were also asked if they would put up a yard sign. Undecideds were called back and asked again if they support-