Filoliday Refllections

At this speciaL tirne of yean, we should all take pause rto qruietly conternplate the joys of the holiday season"

Ort traders and distribution staff join with us in wishing you, your ernployees and all your farnilies the joys of this season and peace and happiness in the year ahead.

W. at Western Woods hope the new year will be a prosperous one fon all, For over 20 years, we have always tried to do our best to rrreet your needs and in that tradition, we will n"lake every effont to be a part of your continued success"

Sacramento, Ca.

Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, S.P-F, White.Fir, Douglas Fir, Cedar

James A. Haas, gen. mgr.

Richard H. Mills, Melissa Morinelli

Mouldings, Millwork, Cut Stock, Pllrwood, Lumber, Particleboard

IMPORTING: Radiata Pine

S4S and Rough C & Better and Rough Moulding & Better

Sales Agents for:

Adams Moulding, El Paso, Tx. W&W Moulding Co., Loomis, Ca.

P.O. Box 255546, Sacramento, Ca. 95865

US Wats (800)627-5319

916\972-7282

FAX 916-972-7290

San Francisco, Ca.

Mahogany, Meranti, Keruing, Ramin, Nyatoh

Franklin O. Billings

Mouldings, Millwork, Plywood, Industrial Hardwood, Truck Decking, Imported Hardwood/Softwood LumbLr

EXPORTING: Softwood Cut Stock. Hardwood Lumber & Dimension.

Softwood & Hardwood Specialty ltems

1050 Sansome St., Ste.300, San Francisco. Ca.94ll1 (415)391-6700 FAX 415-981-4130

All phases of hardwood importing including the latest export regulations imposed by various countries, species availability, conservation, utilization and reforestation projects were reviewed at a Sumwood, Inc. seminar for customers.

Discussion points were emphasized and clarified with the showing of an Indonesian video on conservation and reforestation. A paper resulting from the recent tropical forest workshop conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and the International Hardwood Products Association also was covered.

Sumwood president Jim Summerlin moderated the session which was followed by a social hour at the firm's Palos Verdes Peninsula (Los Angeles), Ca., oflices.

Omaha. Ne.

Dave Kipp, mgr.

Jackie Scoles, Jeff DeBartolo

S.P.F. Dimension, F/L Dimension, Hem-Fir Dimension. CCA Treated Lumber, Cedar Siding Products

Southern Plywood, Western Plywood

One Central Park Plaza, Ste. 200N, Mail Drop 27, Omaha. Ne. 68102

(402\978-452s FAX 402-978-4526

(800)395-7898 guewlwlnlwalp Lurtbor

Hem-Fir Hemlock

Douglas Fir

GREEN or DRY o DIRECT MILL

SHIPMENTS o LCL o CARGO o

RAIL o TRUCK & TRAILER o PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER

Yard & Oflices: End of Alrpori Rd. P.O. Box 723, Uklah, Ca.95482

(7071 468-0181

After its creditors committee rejected a $15.3 million bid by a Dallas investment group, Diamond Lumber yards were sold in bankruptcy court, bringing an estimated $16.5 million.

Pacific Coast Building Products, Sacramento, Ca., acquired yards in Auburn, Placerville, North Highlands, Grass Valley, Paso Robles and Fresno, Ca., which will reopen as Diamond-Pacifi c stores.

BMC West, Boise, Id., purchased inventory at Atwater, Ca., and took over the lease. Channel Lumber Co., Richmond, Ca., bought the Fairfield, Ca., store: Mendo Mill & Lumber Co., Ukiah, Ca., took the Ukiah inventory and site, which it will lease to Rainbow Agricultural, and Meek's Lumber got Stockton, Ca., which it will lease to Chadoor.

Dunsmuir, Ca., was sold to a design firm, and Hanford and Woodland. Ca.. locations were sold to the cities.

National Traders and Rabin Bros. co-purchased inventory and equipment at Reno, Nv., and Red Bluff, Sebastopol, Hanford, Lodi, Chico and Pine Grove, Ca. The firms plan on-site liquidation sales.

Real estate in Chico, Sebastopol, Red Bluff, Paradise, Oroville, Lakeport, South Tahoe, Manteca, Visalia, Lodi and Rocklin, Ca., remains up for sale.

(Continued.liom page 34) building inspectors, ALSC, MacDonald and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

As fears of faulty construction in the Seattle area escalate, interest grows in checking grades. A sevenweek Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club grading school set for early 1991 has received unprecedented demand. "We had to send out 750 applications," said Doug Mekkers of the lumbermen's fraternal order. "We might have to have two classes."

Robert S. Pacos, president and c.e.o. of GNW Partners, L.P., and several members of his senior management team will buy majority ownership interest of the company which acquired the former Gross- man's Northwest Division chain in August, 1989.

The company will close five stores by the end of the year and use the proceeds from the sale of real estate to reduce debt and provide further funds for reinvestment. These stores, in Redding,. Vallejo, Livermore, San Pablo and Pacheco, Ca., do not fit into the company's long term strategic plan.

The company is in the final stages of a name selection process and will be updating all of its stores this spring in preparation for this.

Southern Pacific Railroad has sold its forest products distribution center under construction in Chatsworth, Ca., to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission after legal tie-ups with the city.

Now planned as a commuter rail station grounds, the l3-acre site was included in a huge $450 million package deal of track and track privileges in four counties.

Though completion of the facility was targeted for November, nearby (Please turn to Page 70)