| FEBRUARY | Butler Paper merged with its St. Louis operations with the Jim Walter Papers distribution center there. |
| PaperTech, Dallas opened a mid-west division in Kansas City, MO. | |
| MARCH | Nationwide Papers acquired Moser-Schmidt Paper Co., a Chicago paper merchant. |
| APRIL | Lagacy Co., division of Strathmore, acquired the Paperland division of Leslie Paper Co., Minneapolis. |
| Leslie National, Chicago, opened a Los Angeles sales office. | |
| JULY | Alco Standard Corp. acquired Inter-City Paper Corp., Total Office Products and Copier Consultants. |
Rourke Eno, a PCA company, acquired Superior Paper Products, Bangor & Porland, ME. |
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| AUGUST | Leslie Paper, Minneapolis opened operations in St. Louis for direct and warehouse sales of printing to printers and publishers. |
| OCTOBER | Central National Gottesman combined Lindenmeyr Paper Co. and Lindenmeyr Munroe into the CNG Distribution Center. |
| NOVEMBER | Gould Paper Corp. announced that Capital Paper Co. became a division of Gould. |