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Doing lheir part to cut air pollution, Ceorgia-Pacifc has pulled down I wigwam burners in Lane County, Oregon, this year . . the Iacal aaurt has ruled air pollutian control regs. didn't apply in a case involving Duke City Lum&er, Winslow, Ariz. .

Ceorge Weyerhaeuser says he is optimistic about prospects for ant, improuement in the economy in the f'acif,c Northnest. . B of A looks tor 'oa moderate rate at' expansion in the Calif. economy in'?1

G-P's saleso net income ancl cash flow in the 3rd quarter topped the same periad a year ago . Weyerhaeu,ser's net in that period d,eclined slightly . Kaiser Cement & Cyp.'s lst 9 mo. net sales were 7/a below last ylar, net eurnings uere olJ 30fo . . Potlatch's net earnings the 1st 9 mos. were 438 a share ngainst #1.27 a share last year .

Sunset Lumber Distributors, Sierra Vista, Ariz.r gove away a color TV and 49 other prizes at their recent grand opening Sonoma Wood Products, a Healdsburg reman. lrlant selling East and into the S.F. East Bay"

Weslern Lumber has been bought by C-P, no price disclosed .

Ilirt & Wood, Lum,ber, Portland, has moxed offtces to 743 Lawrence St. . . damages exceedinE; $175,000 were sufiered by Lausmann Lumber, Loomis, Calif., in an early Fall fire . . the L.A. Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a campaign currently to curb shoplifting ... C-Q 'frur:king reports September is their best rLo. euer . .

Med,ford Corp's new Acu-Sawn mill has a 180.000 b{. per shift capacity and is running 2 shifts, according to sales mgr. Tom Haupt . . nexu st,andard widths for glued laminated timber structural members haue been OK'd by the American lnstitute of Timbtrr Cotrstructiott

Playing with tlolls in the lunrber yard? Right! at Lumber City, Mission Hills, Cali{., a successful crafts class has attracted many new women shoppers to lhe olreration Mould,irugs, Inc. and Command,er Industries have settlecl out of court on a dispute in'volving manufacturing prefi,nisht:dmouklings..-

Mobile home manufacturers still hope to pass last year's praduction record of 412,690 . economist N{ichael Sumichrast says 43/o of 1970 housing starts wili be in goo. housing programs . Central Vood Products,Yancouver, Wash., which closed 4 mos. ago after 70 years in business, has reopened as Central llartlrvare arrd now caters tu d-i-y t.rade

Bendix Corp. took over American F orest Products Corp. operations e{Tective the {irst of this month . . Sauth'west Forest In' tlustries has moved their corprtrcte offi.ces to the South Torver of the Financial Center Bldg., Phoe. nix

Lumber, because it crosses the U.S. from mill to market is the sole exception to an across-theboard I5/o rarl rate boost effective l{ov. 1Bo western lumber will get onl.r d. 6% boast . . , Biles' Colemun Lumber Co. have formally dedicated their new $.5 million. plywood miII in Omako Wash.

Four westerners are on a 15 nran tlealer advisory board of the lrlywocd association, Bob Eueritt,. llveritt Lurnber, Ft. Collins, (lolo.; Virgil Hunt, O'N{alley Comlranies, Phoenix Pat Reiten, Simpson Timber Clo., Seattle; and B ott S letted ah,l, Lumberme,n''s cif Sheltt,n, Shelton, \trjash.

,\n average g\psutn rutzllboard' prit'e hike of $3 per thousand sq. ft., e{l'ective Jan. 1, has been revealetl bv C-P cstimates :ay saics if ,tsphaLt rools in'71 will top this year by as much as 10%...

A new record in deposit gains tluring September was set by most of the savings and loan institutio,ns in the West; Calif. execs. calletl it a temporarily unmanageable embarrassment of riches

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