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HomeClub, Inc. will open warehouse stores in Salt Lake City, Ut., and Moreno Valley, Ca., this month ... National Lumber will open an Alta Murriela, Ca., unit early next year
Home Depot has leased a 144,500 sq. ft. bldg. on 10.9 acres in Thousand Oaks, Ca., for a fall opening . Foxworth-Galbraith plans to open new stores in Nogales and Yuma, Az. . .
Harbert Lumber Co.. Grand Junction, Co., is planning a fall opening for a 10,000 sq. ft. replacement store at its present location Builders Emporiumheld grand reopenings for remodeled stores in El Toro and Orange, Ca....
Floyd's Ace Hardware, Pahrump. Nv., has added 7500 sq. it. for lumber and building sup- plies. Carl's Building Supply, Hadlock, Wa., has added a garden center . l4tickes Lumber has sold its retail unit in Modesto. Ca., to BMC West and its Salinas. Ca.. store to San Lorenzo Lumber Co., Bill Hughl mgr.
Village Lumber Co., Cambria, Ca., is refixturing to add space for a plumbing dept... Bill Self has sold Hometown Hardware. Myrtle Point,Or., to Don and Ana Marie Phillips Grass Valley Hordware, a Grass Valley. Ca., business founded in 1854, has closed due to the illness of owner Gary McCoy . .
Beaumont Hardware & Lumber Co., Beaumont, Ca., hosted its first annual Country Show and sale . . Spenard Builders Supply, Anchorage, Ak., won two home center industry Gold Awards
Power Townsend Co., Helena, Mt., won a Silver Award
Weyerhoeuser is liquidating the inventory at its Cerritos, Ca., door & millwork facility; this closure and the 1988 closing of the San Jose. Ca.. door and window unit have no effect on the Weyerhaeuser Customer Service Cenlers...
K & M Lumber & Millworkbas been formed in Crants Pass, Or., by Sam Kellam and Ron Knight Paci.fic Hardwoods is renting the Mayr Bros. Sorting Yordinthe Port oi Willapa (Raymond), Wa....
SCR Inc. has moved to new ofTices in Lake Oswego, Or. . Hordwoods, Inc., Orange, Ca., is opening a new office and warehouse in Chula Vista, Ca., this month PaciJic Madison Lumber Co., Downey, Ca., has moved its Riverside, Ca., operation to Sun City, Ca. . .
Higgins Lumber Co. has moved its San Bernardino, Ca., operations to a new. larger site in Riverside, Ca.; the San Bernardino facility is for sale . . . CalState Lumber Sales 1nc. has relocated its corporate offices and load-reload cenler to National City, Ca. ...
Spring/ield Farest Products lnc., John de Saint Phalle. chairman. and Richard Baldwin. pres., has formed to negotiate the purchase of the Georgia-Pacifc plywood mill in Springfield, Or....
Pope & Talbot Inc.is selling its Oakridge, Or., sawmill and veneer plant to Bald Knob Land &
Timber Co. for an undisclosed amouni . .. Wood International Corp., Porlland, Or., is now handling sales for Peacock Lumber Co.. Alicel. Or...
Idaho Timber (lorp., Boise, Id., is celebrating its lOth anniversary with a party at each location
Hampton Tree Farms, Inc., Portland, Or., is acquiring approximately 300 million feet of timber in Western Oregon from the Times Mirror Land and Timber Co. for an undisclosed amount. .
Western I4tholesale Moulding, Inc., Glendale (Phoenix), Az., has opened a 7,500 sq. fi. moulding and millwork distribution facility in Anaheim, Ca., serving Los Angeles and San Diego areas
Sierra PaciJic, Terra Bella, Ca., is adding a 52 bin sorter and stacker ... Sequoia forest lndustries, Dinuba, Ca., dedicated a mobil interpretive exhibit of a Miocene Era petrified Sequoia slab to the Smithsonian Instituti)n . .
The Durafloke Div. of L4/illamette Indusrrles, Albany, Or., is modernizing its particleboard plant. . . Schuler Corp., Salem, Or., has closed two distribution centers in a co. restructuring
Gatewav Forest Products i:s a new Wilmington, (Los Angeles) Ca., wholesale firm opened by Vince Cunningham and Bill Tracey
Harwood Products, Branscomb, Ca., has lost a hard fought city council battle to build a plant in Willits, Ca., that would have generated electricity from wood wastes . .
Housing starts {or April (latest figs.) were down 2.70/o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.04 million . . single family unit starts increased 5.10/a building permits increased 7.2olt
Canadian Plywood Fight
The U.S. plywood industry would lose $125 million in revenue and countless jobs if Canada is permitted to maintain nontariff barriers while gaining tariff-free access to U.S. markets under the Fair Trade Agreement, warned the plywood industry.
In Congressional testimony, the American Plywood Association targeted Canada's prescriptive product standards, said to bar 80% of U.S. plywood from use in Canada. Unlike American standards, which are based on strength and durability, Canadian standards are said to set physical characteristic requirements.
"U.S. plywood has been accepted in every country where applications have been filed - except Canada," said APA director Robert Anderson.
Under the trade agreement, the 200/o U.S. and 15% Canadian tariffs would be eliminated over a l0 year period. The APA urged the acceptance of "harmonized performance standards" before the tariffs can be lowered.
Loggerc Bdng Frght To Ca;ritol
Lumbermen brought their battle against environmentalists to Sacramento, Ca., recently, staging a parade of logging trucks and a public conference from the steps of the Capitol.
Bill Dennison, president of the Timber Association of California, and assemblyman Stan Statham (RRedding, Ca.) addressed a gathering of sympathizers April 28, warning of the "grave impacts" of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's desire to place the spotted owl on the Endangered Species List.
During the last two years, the U.S. Forest Service has prohibited logging on 440,000 acres in California to protect the owl, said Statham. Loggers have accused environmentalists of using the owl as a ploy to stop old-growth harvests in California and Northwest forests. Current proposals to protect the owl would ban logging in vast areas closing dozens of mills and laying off thousands of workers, they say.
High Cost of Memos
The average employee annually uses $409 worth of oflice supplies, says the National Office Products Association.
Quality Contrcl Starts at a Very Early Stage at Pacific Southeast 'D
Forcst Prcducts Whatever fffiA"il"d tE .*.?
Dennis Johnson of Metropolitan Lumber Co.
Johnson joined forces with Metropolitan in 1956 and was instrumental in making the Chicago based wholesaler one of the most respected firms in the industry. About 60% of the lumber bought by Metropolitan in the '60s and'7Os came from the West Coast. Sennis was responsible for buying a good deal of this material and was a very familiar name in Western sawmill circles.
What is Johnson doing now? He's doing the same thing that he did 30 years ago - buying lumber for Metropolitan. Yhe only difference is the lumber that he purchases comes from Louisiana and Mississippi instead of Oregon and California. The West Coast's share of Metropolitan's purchases has dropped from 60% to 47% since the mid-seventies.
We asked Dennis what difference, if any, he sees in dealing with lumber mills in the South vs. mills out West. He replied that th6 people on the Pacific Coast talk kind of funny, but other than that there is little difference.
On The Soap 8oxWhat is This Madness Owl About?
Our Orange County, California, informant, Eileen Wright, tells us that the reas6n Jane F6nda and Tom Hayden are splittinf up is that Tomt many idiosyncracies were beginning to hanoi'Jane ind'she left. Wright also reports that the divorce settlement is bound to be an expensive one forJane. As California residents, the couple are subject to the commie{munity) property laws there. Hayden will get half and the state will set what's left. Wrieht?
Speaking.oT radical activists, d"o you know what Animal Rights Activists and Environmental Activists have in common? Both groups place more importance on animals than people. Makes you wo-ndei if the Animal Rights folks would prefer experiments aimed at curing cancer and other dread diseases be performed on people rather than animals.
The latest Environmental Madness has to do with a 30 square mib preserve in Southern California set aside for the preservation of the "Stevens Kangaroo Rat," an endangered species. $350 million dollars has been devoted to this project. Plans for a housing development on this land have been stopfed'due to the possibiliry 6f iniury to one or more of the rats.
Has any thought been given to breaking the endangered species list down into three grou-ps: worthy, woithless, and ioo coitly in terms of human sacrifice and/or dollars to save?
