NEWS ERIEFS

Retailers

Citizens Lumber Co., Reedley, Ca., has closed after 56 years with the property up for sale; sister store Diniba Lumber, Dinuba, Ca., remains open

Yardbird's hopes to replace its 40,000-sq. ft. Santa Rosa, Ca., store with a 70,000-sq. ft. unit in the proposed Bicentennial Square shopping center and won city council support for special treatment in atace for a new store with Homc Depot ...

Toft Lwnber Co.,Taft, Ca., has closed afterT5 years in business

Barr Lumber converted its Huntington Beach, Ca., unit to the Do-it Express Center format...

Douglas I.umber & Hardware, Denver, Co., has closed ...

Parr Lumber, Hillsboro, Or., withdrew its application for a 28,800-sq. ft. store on 5 acres in Redmond, Or., to consider other possible sites in the city ...

Home Building Center,Hemet, Ca., has closed ...

Ernst Home Centers olans a 4550,0@sq. ft. unit for F'armington, N.M., and a 65,000-sq. ft.unit for Springfield, Or. ...

Clark Dye Hardware, Santa Ana" Ca., closes Dec. 13 after 50 years as a landmark old-style hardware store

Home Depot is building a 130,000-sq. ft. unit in Bothell, Wa., targeting a summer opening, and has offered $15 million for 23 acres in Scottsdale, Az, to build a 150,000-sq. ft. Expo Design Center ... plans have finally been approved for the Home Depot- anchored Gateway 101 retail plaza in East Palo Alto, Ca.

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Ply Gem Industries is negotiating with several suitors on a possible buyout ...

Wendling -N athan Co., Kentfield, Ca., after 81 years is no longer active in the lumber business, according to owner Paul Euphrat

Sierra Cedar Products, Marysville, Ca., has acquired a site in Linda, Ca., to open a lumberyard once a 200-ft.-tall cogeneration plant on the property can be sold and relocated ...

International Paper has moved its Chino, Ca., decorative melamine panel plant to a larger faci ilty adjacent to a rail siding and is building a laminating plant in Klamath Falls, Or., due to be operational early next year

Redwood Empire has restarted production at its Philo, Ca., mill formerly owned by bankrupt Preston Lumber, cutting posts and rails up to 12'

U.S. Components has relocated to a neq larger facility in Tucson, 42....

G e org ia-P acific unv eiLed its new integrated logistics network with the opening of its first "Triad" major delivery/warehouse operation (combining bulk distribution, fabrication and piece-pick center) in Lawrenceville, Ga.,-and acquired the S5-acre former Peterbilt factory site in Newark, Ca., for a second Triad to begin shipping in early spring under mgr.

Sally Best G-P also purchased Domtar Inc.'s wallboard division (see story, p.22) ...

Dyno Polymers, Tacoma, Wa., has sold its North American thermosetting resin and formaldehyde assets includine manufacturins facilities in Whfte City, Or., anl Virginia, Mn., to G-P-subsidiary Georgia-Pacific Resins Inc. ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. has agreed to sell its three Klamath Falls, Or., mills (hardboard, particleboard and plywood), nursery and seed orchard operations, and 600,000 acres of surrounding timberlands to Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg, Or., for $303 million; by selling holdings in predominantly pine forestsheld since 1905, Weyerhaeuser will concentrate on Douglas fir timberlands and,rnills in western Oregon and Washington l,oui siana- P ac ffic, Samoa, Ca., donated an excavator, Caterpillar and dump truck including the operator and technical assistance to a stream enhancement project on Russell Brook Creek ...

Outwater Plastics has opened a 60,00Gsq. ft. DC in Phoenix, Az., serving the l3 western states; Carolyn McCrystall, Rich Torres and Roger Recker in charge ...

Action Saw & Abrasive Products, Corona, Ca., is now the authorized stocking distributor of Weinig Tooling & Supplies products in Ca. and Baja, Mexico ...

Boise Cascade has formed Casra Grand.e Forest Products to handle new timber purchasing, sawmilling and exporting operations in Mexico (see story, p.25) ...

Caradon Peachtree will beein distributing its door and wind6w products direct to dealers in and near New England Jan. I from its own new Worcester, Ma., DC ...

Anniversary: Oregon-Canadian Forest Products of Califurnia, Orange, Ca., 1Oth...

Housing starts for Oct. (latest available figs.) dipped 3.7Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.34 million ... single family starts fell2To, while apartments plunged ll.ZVo ... permits slid 0.77o ... starts in the West fell6.57o,

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