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Withers Lumber Co., Woodburn, Or., has opened Withers Building Specialties in Salem, Or., Doug Saleen, John GooleY and Dee Ann Miller are staffers HomeClub has opened warehouse retail units in Fullerton and San Bernardino. Ca.

Copeland Lumber Yards, Corvallis, Or., is renovating and remodeling its facilities 84 Lumber, Brea, Ca., has closed Buena Park Lumber & Hardware, Buena Park, Ca., is celebrating its 80thanniversary...

Mendo Mill Home Center & Lumber Co. held a grand oPening for their new retail location in Fort Bragg, Ca., the former Alfaro & Stanley Supplies building (see News Briefs in the July Merchant for further details) . Levee Lumber, Inc., is the new name for BaYview Building Materials, Hoquiam, Wa., recently purchased bY JerrY Erickson and Ivlerrill Albert '

Pay 'N Pok, Kent, Wa., will open two warehouse-tYPe stores in San Francisco, Ca., in the sPring plus new warehouse units in North Oakland, Walnut Creek and South Oakland, Ca., in Nov., 1985; the Sunnyvale, Ca., store has been converted to warehouse oPeration with conversion work underwaY at Kennewick. Seattle and Bellingham, Wa., stores .

The Loading Dock, a div. being developed by Ole's, has been deep sixed by W.R. Grace with an Angel's retrofit in Riverside, C&., and a build-to-suit site in Claremont, Ca., now slated for Ole's units A fire at OIe's, South Pasadena, Ca., caused four deaths and an estimated $2 million in damage; cause may never be determined, according to a local fire chief .

Hugh M. Woods (Payless Cashways subsidiary) has opened store No. l9iin Denver, Co. . Ernst Hotne Centers'35,000 sq. ft. store in Everett. Wa., is the 70th for the Seattle. Wa., based chain . . '

Residents near GrossmQn's warehouse store, Ventura, Ca., are protesting late night noise and lights . La Mesa Lumber Co., La Mesa, Ca., is seeking citY aPproval to. consolidate its operations on one slte .

Pactfic Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., has finalized acquisition of about 22,5ffi acres of timberland from Louisiana-Pacific for approximately $Z million . .

Willantette Industries, Inc., Portland, Or., has acquired the Columbia Pacific Structural Components' plant in Stevenson, Wa. to operate as the StrucJoist Div. of Willamette, Stan McGehee, mgr. . . The California Lumber Division of Diamond International is now operating as Diatnond Lands Corp. . .

Sitnpson Building SupPlY Co., a subsidiary of Simpson Timber Co., Seattle, Wa., has sold three eastern DCs to Hudson Building SuPPIY, New York City Genstar Cement Co. is purchasing the Port of Stockton. Ca., cement distribution terminal for approximatelY $7.5 million

Southwest Forest Industries /ric., Phoenix, Az., has declared a stock-purchase-right dividend which will be enacted if an individual or group acquires 20Wo of their common stock or makes a tender offer for at least 30Vo of outstanding shares the company denies it's an anti-takeover ploy..'

The Merchant Magazine

ICC o.k. is being sought bY Eureka Southern RR to operate on SP's Narthwest PaciJic line betw'een Eureka and Willits, Ca'; if the proposed $5 million sale is flnalized, the line abandonment will be droppd as willthe $1200/car surcharge

(Jnitetl lfholesale Lurnber Co., Montebello. Ca.. will discontinue all of its lumber and pl1'rvood oPerations, except for pallets, by year end, according to Miles Butterfield, pres.

Pope &'falbot has opened a new cargo re-load facility in Crockett, Ca., (S.F. East Bay), sales will be handled out of the Portland, Or., office kxtured Coatings of America, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., is observing its 24th year in business Season-all Indt$tries has formed a custom aluminum extrusion div. ' Owens-Corning Fiberglas CorP' has dcquired Scandinavian GlasfiberARofSweden...

Fire at Reliqble Lumber and Truss Co., Fontana, Ca., caused approximately $75,000 in damages . . . Skibba Luntber Co., Orange, Ca., is celebrating its l0th anniversary this month .

Idaho Tintber C-orP., Boise, Id., has purchased mobile home facilities in Weiser and Parma, Id., from Champion Home Builders, DrYden, -Mi., for an undisclosed amount Furman Lumber, Inc., Boston, Ma., has consolidated its western and eastern spruce operations into one dept.; John O'ReillY, mgf.... i

Housing starts recovered B.9Vo in Sept, from August with work beginning on new housing at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,676,000 units . Aug.'s revised starts were 1,539,000 units multis were up 9.9V0, singles gained 8.390 . . some economists iee housing starts staying in the 1.5 million to 1.6 million range for the foreseeable future, desPite a building permits.drop of 5.490 in Sept.