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Sears Roebucfr, which is opening its stores on Sunday during Nov. and Dec., where local law permits, *ys customer de' ma.nd, and, competition lorced' the moue the housing ind,ustry, which comprises only 3/o oL the gross national product, the plywood association points out, had to absorb 70% ol the tight money cutback in 1966 , mobile home seers see one million sales by 1975 ...

Formica is closing its Los Angeles warehouse, Nov. 20 Columbia Nyemat' ic Systerns, Portland, plans to buy Cas' caile Locks Lurnber Co., Cascade Locks, Ore.; no sale price has been revealed... Stringfield Lumbe'r & Buililing Supply Co., Eugene, Ore., has been purchased for an undisclosed amount by Lawrence E. Cieber, Hal F, Broughton anil Rupert H. An' d,erson

Dwight Parr is trying to get an OK from the zoning authorities in Lake Oswego, Ore. for a new yard Western Sierra Lumber is trying the same thing in Pleasanton, Calif. tlle Pasco, Wash. Tri-City Heralil editorializes that slimmer 2x4 sizes may bring bootleg yards where 'ofor a wink and a little under the counter" you could get a real 2x4

Bowm.an Lumber & Plurnbing had a big grand opening for its Albuquerque store last month; hardware and, paint are being stressed in their promotions high lurnber prices that bedeviled lumbermen this year meant twice as much money for the American Indians who owned the res' ervationtimber...

Smog dam.age to southern Calif. forests proved lour times arorse than previously thought; estimates followed an aerial suruey by the Forest Service ... Weyerha.euser is acquiring Par-West Financial, a Los Angeles-based, mnrtgage banking anil homebuild,er, for about $36 million in Big W stock

Forecasts see substantiaL increases in wood use in Europe by 1980; the APA says the present trend favoring panel products ouer lurnber is likely to continue Hayward, Lumber, Barstow, Calif., celebrated their 59th birthday last month mobile home shipments will increase 25/o in'70, the industry predicts; average home price; $6,000

The I'orest History Society has moved its HQ from Yale University to Santa Cruz, Calif.; Crown Zellerboch Foundati.on is contributing their new building .. Mitchell Lumber Co., Parowan, Utah, has closed its doors permanently; no successor will continue ... new sales, earnings and cash flow records were set by Ceorgin-Pacifc in the first 9 months of '69 ...

Weyerhaeuser's new corporate HQ, now abuilding on Interstate 5 near Tacoma, is a beautiful layer-cake of a structure 1300' long, 80' tall with 258,000 sq. ft. the gross national prod,uct (the total of all the nation's goods and services produced), in the 3rd quarter, bettered the $16 billion done in the second quarter ,..

Cashuay Lumber in Tempe, Ariz., had a $250,000 fire, Oct. 9...Calif. Cedar Products, Stockton, Calif., lost $100,000 in a fire that left one fireman hospitalized for face and neck burns Scott Lumber, Dayton, Wash., is closing up after 4I years in business Parker Lumber Co. is opening a new outlet on Washington's Bremerton Hwy. at the former location of Loltus Lumber. which closed last summer.

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Euans Prod,ucts' revenues and net earnings in the lst 9 months of '69 climbed to record levels; reoenue up 25/o, earnings 58%.,.nearly 37 mobile homes are being sold for every 100 single-family homes authorized for construction in So. Calif., says Security Pacific National Bank Blach & Decker plans to market a battery-driuen lawnmower.

The new research center for the American Plywood Assn. has been dedicated in Tacoma, Wash. . , Southwest F'orest Ind,ustries plans tobry Carolina Pacilic Plywood,, Inc., ol Medford, Ore., thru an exchange of stock...

The Scotia Band, is in its 35th season of entertaining in California's Eel River Valley...a group of Russi.an buililing construction experts have concluded a visit to the U.S.; no reports so far on what th"y thought Potlntch Forests, now traded on the Pacific Coast Exchange, wants to be listed on New York's BigBoard...

Eaans Prodrzcts plan to buy Selhirh Mills, Ltd., B. C. and Modern Plastic Laminating, Inglewooil, Colo.; both will be done by issuing more common stock ... Masonite's earnings were up 47.6% toa neu) record, Ior their fiscal year which closed the end of Aug. . an Albuquerque judge has fined Bates Lurnber Co. $200 and its president, W. C. Bates, $100 /or smolce emissaons from Bates' incinerator ,.

Home Lumber, I"as Vegas, and Double F Supply, Stanton, Calif., are new Formica distributors proposed Forest Service regs. preuenting substitution of federal timber for logs exported from private lands have been blasted as'ounlair" and "d,iscriminatoryo' by the plywood assn Mouldings, Inc., Lor the second time in '69, is splitting their stock 2-for-1.