NEWS ERTEFS

Both Eagle Hardware and Garden and Al"lanta. Ga.. based Home Depot denied rumors that Home Depot may buy the Tukwila. Wa.. chain ... Home Depot has selected sites in Tukwila, Federal Way and Issaquah, Wa., with stores under construction in Tacoma and Seattle

A branch of Cltirtook Lumber Inc., Snohomish, Wa., opened in North Bend, Wa., 15,000 sq. ft. warehouse, 3,500 sq. ft. for retail and yard, Eric Fritch owner Hadlock Building Supply, Sequim, Wa., moved into a new 6,400 sq. ft. store with managing partners Joe Lovato and Morris James converting the old facility into a receiving area, stock room and warehouse

BMC West is expanding its Idaho Falls, Id., location, adding parking and enlarging the door shop, and moving its Murray, Ut., truss plant to Salt Lake City, Ut., where they are combining a building materials center, truss and door shop in one location

Supply Ane Super Home Center opened in a vacated Pay 'N Pak building in Albany, Or., hiring many former Pay 'N Pal< employees including store mgr. Eric Herzberg

J &J Building Supply, St. Gecrge, Ut., is adding a new 28,000 sq. ft. sales floor ... Kihe True Value, Maui, Hi., used a helicopter to deliver generators to Kauai after Hurricane Iniki and has set up a temporary lumberyard on the island ...

Intermountain Millwork, Inc., Boise, Id.. moved into a new facility at 5475 Gage St., adding more warehouse capacity ... Cascade

W hole s ale H ardw are, Ontario, Ca., closed ... Two suspects were anested and $3,000 recovered folIowing an armed robbery of a Builder's Emporium, Orange, Ca.

Deschutes Pine Sales, Inc. added a new warehouse at their Bend, Or., Hq. ... Bear Forest Products is consolidating its offices and warehouse facilities at a larger site,2929 Kansas Ave., Riverside, Ca. ...

Allweather Wood Treaters opened a distribution center in Tacoma, Wa., providing a complete line of treated wood products, Rick Danielson gen. mgr. N ie d e rmeye r- M arti n, Portl and, Or., sold Plywood Components, Albany, Or., to employee managers John Nolen, Stan Andrews and Ken Coleman ...

Mid-Pacific Trading Co., which exports panel products and sells dimension lunber and panels, has moved to a new warehouseloffice facility in Rancho Cordova, Ca. Exotic Woods, /nc., Carson, Ca., moved to Torrance, Ca., to share storage space with Plywood Manufacturers

Hampton Re sourc es, Portland, Or., acquired a sawmill and planing mill in Pollok, Tx., from Precisiort Lumber Co. (see story p. 36) Angelus Block Co., Los Angeles, Ca., acquired a 27 acre lumber yard in Glendale, Az., from O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., for S1.2 ndllion ...

Eugene. Pacdic Forest Products is a new wholesale firm opened in Eugene, Or., try Dean Hague, George Hewitt and Mike Beard Stimson Lumber Co. has given a 60-day notice for a potential shutdown of its Miller Plywood olant in Merlin, Or. ...

Baxter Woodworking Machinery, Industry, Ca., is now North American distributor for Seibu Itd., Nagoya, Japan Kwikset Corp., Anaheim, Ca., is sponsoring the National Police Officers Association of Americab scholarshipprogram...

Weathervane Window Co., Kirkland, Wa., Eagle Hardware and Garden, Tirkwila, Wa., Aloha Airlines and Boeing cooperated in shipping a donation of more than 100 windows to Kauai. Hi.. to help rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane hiki ...

Nntional Wholesale H ardware Association and the American Wholesale Hardware Association will officially merge on Jan. 1 (see story p. 27) Clay Rossman has cstablished southern oregon Fasleners, Grants Pass, Or., servicing So. Or. and No. Ca.

FibreForm, Los Angeles, Ca., is expanding imports of radiata pine into North America for millwork and moulding mfr. New Zealand has replaced the U.S. as the leading sawn wood supplier to Australia ...

National Gypsum said preliminary vote estimates favor a company plan to emerge from Chap. 11 bankruptcy, but a committee proposing a competing plan will probatrly challenge the results in coun...

Home Depot 1nc. posted its 27th consecutive quarter of record results with sales up 41Vo in the third quarter

A new program to accredit and monitor quality control agencies inspecting and analyzing pressure treated wood products has been approved by the American Lumber Standards Committee which is accepting inspection agency applications (see story p. 39) ...

Housing srarts decline d 1.lo/o in Oct. (latest figs.) to an annual rate of 1.229,fi)0 after three months of increases ... Single family starts rose 0.7Vo to the highest level since Feb.; multis dropped 11.8Vo building permits for fuhre construction increased 1. I 7c.