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Olhausen Billiards, which has built pool tables in San Diego County since 1973, is moving its Poway factory to Tennessee to save on trucking costs and to better compete against cheap imports. The company said yesterday that it will close its 128,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on Kirkham Court in July or August, leaving about 120 workers out of jobs. About 75 other employees, most of them in supervisory and executive positions, plan to relocate with the company. “We're on the western edge of the continent, while 65 percent of our business is east of the Mississippi,” Olhausen President Gregg Hovey said....