PGL Opens Another New One

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St. Johns Forest Products Co. has purchased Moar Lumber, Portland, for an undisclosed amount. . Madera Paci.fic, Rapid City, N.D., has bought Knecht Building Supply, Gillerte, Wy., and plans to form a new wholesale div.. ProMart Lumber. ..

A record amount of space has been booked for the Jan. 1417 National Housewares Expo., Chicago. elimination of the Ca. inventory tax is expected to smooth out Feb.-Mar. ship- ping, traditionally disrupted by the Mar. l, assessment date.

0FFlCllt GMIID opening ol new Palmer G. Lewis Co., Inc., Redding, Ca., warehouse was 0ct. 5, according to John Glover, v.p. of PGL's Ponderosa Div., which operates 3 warehouses in California, one in Nevada. Dick Clare is Redding warehouse mgr.

Bohemia, /nc. plans to build a $9 million small log mill at Lincoln,Ca...RRfreight rates jumped Oct. 8, 8.80/o on freight, to, .from and within the West. . despite bans in Los Angeles County, natural cedar roofs are still OK in 900/o of the populared areas in the county.