1985
JANUARY	St. Regis merged with Champion International.
	Olin Corp. agreed to sell its Ecusta cigarette paper & fine printing papers business for about $130 million in a leveraged buyout to a group which included Ecusta mgt.
FEBRUARY	James River Corp. said it would buy Ozalid Corp.
	Boise Cascade signed an agreement to sell its Envelope Division to Great Northern Nekoosa Corp.
	Butler Paper Co. said all its divisions, not already operating as Butler, would come together under the Butler name during the month.  Eighteen locations, except Chatfield Paper Co. took the name change.
MARCH	GNN closed the Boise Cascade Envelope Division acquisition.
	American Can said it would buy Champion International’s flexible packaging operations.
	Ampad Corp. signed an agreement to buy Huron Office Products.
	James River said it wouldn't buy Ozalid's paper & film assets, after all.
APRIL	Alco Standard Corp. acquired Saxon Industries, NYC.
	Papercraft Corp. was to be acquired in a $240 million leveraged buyout by a new corp.
	Pentair, Inc. completed the sale of Huron Office Products to Ampad Corp., Holyoke, MA.
MAY	Champion International sold three businesses. Its envelope mfg. operations, Federal Envelope, National Envelope, and Buffalo Envelope Co., Chicago.
	Champion’s Laminated & Coated Products operations were sold to a new company.
	Champion’s Setterstix, a rolled paper stock mfr., was sold to Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp., NYC.
	Chesapeake Corp. acquired Plainwell paper and Wisconsin Tissue Mills, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Philip Morris’ Nicolet Paper Co., DePere, WI.
	Leslie Paper said it would buy Chicago Paper Co.
JUNE	Ampad Corp. agreed to acquire the assets of James River’s Campbell Stationery Division by the end of the year.
	Century Papers, Houston, bought Cardinal Paper Co., Oklahoma City.
	GNN said Butler Paper would become its fifth operating division on July first.  Butler and Mail-Well Envelope make up the new, separate division.
JULY	Hobart/McIntosh Paper Co. acquired Bouer Paper Co., Shorewood WI.
	New company, U.S. Plywood Corp., would be formed.
	Champion had earlier announced the sale of Hennepin Paper Co., plans to sell its kraft paper mill in Tacoma, WA to Simpson Paper.
AUGUST	Sir James Goldsmith won control of Crown Zellerbach’s board.
	Olin Corp. sold its cigarette paper & fine printing paper business in Pisgah Forest, NC to newly-formed Ecusta Corp. for about $125 million.
	American Can sold all of its shares in James River for about $161 million and Ampad Corp. completed the acquisition of James River’s Campbell Stationery Div. for about $4.5 million in cash and the value of Campbell’s inventory.
SEPTEMBER	Georgia-Pacific said it would acquire the convenience products division of Riegel Textile Corp.
	Scott Paper Co. purchased all 12,036,167 shares or 24.9% of the outstanding common stock held by Brascan Ltd.
OCTOBER	Stone Container agreed to buy the major portion of Champion   International’s packaging businesses, leaving Champion mainly a paper products company.
	Georgia-Pacific sold its paper mill in Lyons Falls, NY to Swiss-owned Elcon, Inc.
	Crown Zellerbach was discussing the sale of some assets to James River.
NOVEMBER	Potlatch Corp. bought back a block of its shares from First City Financial Corp., controlled by the Belzberg family, thus ending the family’s takeover bid for the company.
	Jefferson Smurfit to buy 80% of Times Mirror Unit.