NEWS BRIEFS

F oxwarth- Galbraith Lumbe r Co. will open a Commcrcial and Profes sional Divisi,on location in Cottonwood, Az.,by Dec., added a new Phoenix, Az., warehouse and remodeled a Payson, Az., Building Project Center ...

BMC West opened a $1.2 million BMC West Materials Center in Pocatello, Id., and negotiated purchase of Henry Bacon Building Materials locations in Issaquah, Marysville and Kent, Wa. (see story p. 22) ... Ernst Home and Nursery, Seattle, Wa., reinstated its postponed stock issue (see story p. 23) and planned for a super store replacement unit in Kent, Wa., using a former Pay 'N Pak sits, to open before the end of the year

Pan Lumber Co.,Portland, Or., displaced by a lightrail project, purchased a $1.15 million, 9.6 acre sife foi a new refail yard North Hollywood Lurnber, North Hollywood, Cit., opened a 2500 sq. ft. milling facility managed by Tim Jolles and Ralph King, changing its name to North Hollywood Lumber & Mill ...

Supply One, Inc., Reno, Nv., plans to build a m,250 sq. ft. store on 8.92 aoes in KlamathFalls, Or. ... Robert Imsande purchasd 90year-old Martenet TrueValue

Hardware, Anaheim, Ca. ... Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, Ca., opened a store in Hanford, Ca. Phil Reyes acquired the North Hollywood, Ca., Moulding Center from Rod White and Richard Davidson

I California Do-it Center, Yan Nuys, Ca-, has a€feed to purchase the former Builders Emporium, Fallbrook, Ca-, and expects to convert Lumber City locations in Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills and Simi Valley, Ca,, to the Do-it

Centerformat within a year

47-year-old Chandler Lamber Co., will close operations in Van Nuys and Palmdale, Ca-, and Las Vegas, Nv., Dec. 10 unless a buyer is found ... North Pacific htmber, PorJaftd" Or., has signed a letts of intent to acquire virtually all assets of Home lannber Co., San Bernardino, Ca., creating a partnership with Milt Johnson, who remains gen. mgr. and pres.

Eagle Hardware & Garden Inc., Tlrkwila, Wa., is delaying until next year the opening of an Orem, Ut., store Grossman's Western Div.'s Montebello, Ca., Contractors Warehouse has added a millwork showroom

Home Depot will open an Olympia, Wa., location this month, seek approval for new stores in Bothell and Spokane, Wa., and Continue conStruction on a replacement unit in Colma, Ca. three prototype Home Depot CrossRoads stores caterint to farmers and ranchers in Il.,-Ia., and Mo. are planned to open about the middle of '95

McEIroy L;umber Co., Los Altos, Ca., is voluntarily liouidatins rfter 72 years in busiriess'. Oat6 Lumber & Hardware. Thousand Oaks, Ca., expects to close this month ... Loval Lumber and 4 Star Innber, 6oth in Seattle, Wa., have closed ...

Anniversaries: Lloyd Lumber Co., Nampa, Id., Titn: Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, Ca., founded ttrc same year as The Merchant Magazine, 72nd; Piedmont Lunber, Otkland, Ca., 6}th; Kelly Lumber Sales, Mill City, Or.,45th; 3-C Trucking, Long Beach, Ca., 16rh...

Cal-State Iamber Sales, Chula

Vista, Ca., is being sued by a Mexican bank (see story p. 25)

C_uneron Ashley is acquiring CA Company which opened a special- ty warehouse in Boise, Id. (see story p. 22) ... Exterior Wood Inc., Washougal, Wa., added a 15 acre distribution cent€r with 8.5 acres developed Shastina Lamber and Millwork, Medford, Or., opened a Eugene, Or., office, Kevin Whiting in charge

Cladwood, Oregon City, Or., a div. of Smuffit Newsprint Corp., has installed new flaking eouioment Sagebrwh Sales, Atbriquerque, N.M., sold its Waco, Tx., reman plant !o Metru Whoksale Lumber Co., Dallas, Tx.

Medley Company Cedari Inc., purchased Potlatch Corp.'s western red cedar split post and rail fencing mfg. plant in Santa, Id., to gperat_e''in tandem with its V/eippe, Id., mill ...

Stone Containeris closing its Albany, Or., plywood piant, S_pringfield, Or.,,veneer plant and Happy Camp, Ca., sawmill ... Pacific Lumber Co. completed installation of a new finser-ioint line and held a granO opJning for the newly rebuilt Scotia, Ca., shopping center destroyed by earthquake in1992...

Third quarter earnings: Weyerhaeuser; sales $2.68 billion, earn- ings doubled LouisianaPacific, $818.4 million sales, earnings up I29Vo from same period 1993 ... Potlatch Corp.,-sales $373.3 million, earnings $10.7 million...

W.O.O.D., fnc., Denver, Co., canceled this year's Architectural Awards program ... First Interstate Bancoqp. predicts California is climbing out of the recession with housing construction and home prices due to increase next year...

Housing starts had their third gain in a ro% climbing 4.4% in Sept. Qatest ngs.) to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.525 million ... single-family starts rose 6.l%o; multifamily fell2.8% multifamily permits rose 25.6Vo: single-family less thun lVo ... starts in the Wbst jumped 2l.4Vo.