NEWS BMIEFS

Sutherland Lumber Co. is building a new retail store in Midvale, Ut., with plans for two additional units in the Salt Lake Valley. .Poy 'n'Seve Corp. will open a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse Price Savers lltholesale Club in Salt Lake City next year; future sites include Seattle & Tacoma, Wa.; Honolulu, Hi., and Anchorage, Ak.

National Lumber & Supply Co., Santa Ana, Ca., is making an initial stock offering of 1.5 million common shares to finance a planned expansion. Knoll Lumber Co. is building a new retail store at Mill Creek, l0 mi. north of Kenmore, Wa., opening set for Jan....

Boyd-Lovesee Lumber Co., Riverside, Ca., has changed its name to Champion Lumber Co., George Champion, owner. Ganohl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca., is negotiating to acquire the assets of Garden Grove Lumber Co.,' final sale will probably be after the lst of the year.

Furrows Building Moteriols stores in Roseville, Sacramento and Modesto, Ca., have been renamed Lumberjoc with grand openings at all three locations. . Fronklin Building Supply Co., Boise, Id., has purchased .F/o/ Companies .Drc.'s retail lumber yard in Caldwell, Id..

Poyless Cashways Inc. has acquired three Wood Brothers Lumber Co. building material supply stores in Tucson, Az.; no price revealed. Smith Lumber Co. has moved from Las Cruces, N.M., to Hyw. 85, south of Hatch, N.M....Freemont Lumber Co., Salt Lake City, Ut., has filed for reorganization under Chapter l1 of the bankruptcy act...

Turner Hardware is closing its last Modesto, Ca., store after 76 years; units in Oakdale, Turlock and Tracy, Ca., have been sold to the American Lumber Co. /nc., Modesto, and the McHenry Village store closed; only the Stockton store continues.

Houston Lumber Co. has opened a new store in Rio Rancho, N.M. ..Knudson Lumber Co., Ellensburg, Wa., has celebrated the opening of a new 14,000 sq. ft. store, office and warehouse bldg.. .8.J. Jarrett's Hardware Co., Phoenix, Az., is closing after 93 years..

Ca rrol I Mou ld i ng, Huntington Beach, Ca., has added a new 12,000 sq. ft. warehouse .Jordan Hardwood, Carson, Ca., is adding a storage building. . Hodge Forest Industries, Boise, Id., has acquired the former W.SJ. plant in Spokane, Wa., and opened a reload center in Fort Worth, Tx..

A cooperative association of 150 employee shareholders has purchased the Publishers Forest Products mill in Anacortes, Wa., with start-up targeted for this mo.; Alpine International will handle mill sales. . .Quality Frame & Door Co., Cerritos, Ca., has moved to a $3.3 million, 65,000 sq. ft. building, upping manufacturing space by 5090. .

Ply-Gem Industries Inc. is acquiring Hoover Universal Inc.'s Hoover Wood Preserving div. for an undisclosed amount. Phelps Dodge Solar Enterprises, Anaheim, Ca., has been acquired by Terra-Light Corp., Danvers, Ma..

Jim Walter Corp. is selling its Miami-Carey unit to investor Robert M. Meltzer, and certain of Miami-Carey's senior management. ..

Allied Forest Products, Portland, Or., has purchased Sagebrush Sales' Montrose, Co., sawmill for an undisclosed amount Croman Forest Products, Ashland, Or., is building a new single track kiln .

Pslmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., is relocating its Everett, Wo., branch to the Marysville area with move-in late next month; plans are to move the Eugene, 0r., facility farther south on I-90 within the next two years.

Genstor Buitding Moterials has moved into new offices at 5132 S. Alameda, Los Angeles, Ca. .Lane Stanton Vonce Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., has added a new lumber storage bldg.. .Stockdale Mqterials, Bakersfield, C8., has a new 12,000 sq. ft. bldg. for inventory storage...

The San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway intends to abandon 152 miles of track in Ca. and Mexico .Santo Fe Industries Inc. and Southern Pacific Co. have reached a definitive merger agreement valued at $5.2 billion .. .Union Pacific is using zip codes to determine rates in a new boxcar program for moving goods from So. Ca. to Nv., Ut. and the Pacific Northwest.

The Sovogran Co. of California, Los Angeles, Ca., has been acquired by The Savogran Co. of Norwood, Ma. . . . Fluidmaster, Inc., Anaheim, Ca., iscelebrating its silver anniversary . . The Terry Companies, Tarzana, Ca., recently held their 6th annual companypicnic...

Sears, Roebuck & Co. has formed Sears Mortgage Corp., a mortgage conduit co. to package mortgages into securities and sell them to private investors

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