 In 1969 Pay 'n Pak merged with Eagle Electric & Plumbing, a company run by Thurman protégé David Heerensperger.Shortly thereafter, Stan Thurman was voted out and Heerensperger became the chairman of the company until 1989 when he left to form Eagle Hardware & Garden.At the time of a hostile corporate raid attempt in 1987, Pay 'n Pak had 112 stores in the Western United States.