GALENBAR

March

Western Wood Products Assn.-March 5-8, annual meeting, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

Sacramento lfoo-Hoo Club 109-March 9, annual dinner dance, Elks Temple, Sacramento, Calif.

Redwood Region Logging Conference-March 14-15, Redwood Empire Fairgrounds, Eureka, Calif.

Dubs, Ltd.-March 15, monthly tournament, Meadow Club, Fairfax, Calif,

Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club l0-March 15, St. Patrick's Farty, Surf Rider Inn, Santa Monica, Calif.

Ifoo-Hoo Club 2-March 15, Concat, California Country Club, Whittier. Calif.

Shasta Cascade IIoo-IIoo Club 133-March 15, dinner meeting, Crystal Tavern, Red Bluff, Calif.

Oakland IIoo-Hoo Club 39-March 18, tour of Fibreboard plant, dinner following. Antioch, Calif.

Ilumboldt Eoo-Hoo Club 63-March 19, Seventh Annual Celebrity Nite and Cbncat, Elks Club, Dave Davis chairman, Eureka, Calif.

Salt River Yalley Hoo-Hoo Club 72-March 19, tournament and banquet, Mesa Country Club, Arizona.

Montana Building Material Dealers Assn., March 21-23, 32nd Annual Convention, Missoula, Mont.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9March 29, monthly luncheon, Sandy's Restaurant.

Aprit

Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club 133-April 5, dinner meeting, Holiday Inn, Redding, Calif.

Hoo-Hoo Club 2-April 20, monthly meeting, Los Coyotes Country Club, Buena Park, Calif.

Lumber Merchants Association-April 28-30, Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention, Sahara Tahoe Hotel, Lake Tahoe, Calif,

National Building Material Distributors Assn.-April 28-May I, Spring meeting, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo.

When it includes a whopping 7,000,000 ft' of hardwoods and softwoods in over 100 species at our Los Angeles yard, it broadens your horizons considerably! Add to this th€ fact that Penberthy sells more than 40,000,000 ft. of lumber per year, and you have some idea of what it can mean to be one of our franchised dealers. Because we do move so much, we have access to the best timber in the world, and it makes our prices mighty competitive too!

To participate in our franchised dealer program, you are required only to display the sign shown above and carry a minimum stock of our stand' ard hardwoods. For the more exotic woods, we will supply you with a complete list of over 75 types available for next day delivery.

See your Penberthy representative, or call for fulldetails now!

OT SO LONG ago it was the thing for a "busin.ess man" to mix white sand wit^h the sugar, dope kidney and liver medicine and generally take advantage of every 'business deal, salving their consciences on Sunday wiih the thoueht that "business is business."

Today the man that takes unfair advantage of another in busi. nessisafool.

ALL SAID

A_shopkeeper had in his employ a man so lazy as to be utterly worthless.

Ono day, his patience exhausted, he discharged him.

*Will you give me a character re{erence?,, asked the lazy one.

The ernployer sat down to write a non-committal lettei. His efforts resulted as follows:

5AIES:

Old Growlh Redwood, Shorts P. E. T. Green Commons, Dry Uppers

BY JACK DIONNE

1882-1966

"The bearer o{ this letter has worked for me one week and I am satisfied't' * ri. {-

Let It Be Soon

The time is coming when the'beautiful advertisements you admire on the signboards you pass will have just as many beautiful home and other building advertisements as they now have automobile, tobacco and beauty aid invitations to buy.

A junk yard at u ."lrJua "rJ".r.,**"u..ies this hint to motor. ists: "Go ahead! Take a chance! We'll buy the wreck!,, frequently underfed. In the U.S. they're col,tPtETE cusTorvl i,lttttNc lorge Timbers ond Wide Sizes Our Speciohy

In Russia, people are underground.

"At

Fred HolmesCqrl ForceJim Buckner P.O. Box 665Ft. Brogg, C,ol,if. 95437 Phone l707l 9644058 TWX: 707-573-8259

Morgon Found Not Guilty in Gun Deoth of Jim Frutchey

Arthur Virgil Morgan, 65, has been ac. quitted of the murder of his son-inJaw, lumberman James G. Frutchey, following the introduction of the alleged confession of Morgan's wife, which was termed "completely incredulous" by presiding judge Allen Miller.

Frutchey, manager of the Los-Cal Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., was shot four times through the chest and back in the yard of his $75,000 Rolling Hills home at two a.m., July 2, 1967, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram thai reported the story. (For add,itiond lacts see The Merchant Magazine, August, page s6.)

Billy Lee McHenrR 41, who accompanied Morgan to Frutchey's home was found not guilty of the murder charge for reason of insufficient evidence. Dep. Dist. Atty. Robert Burnett said he knew of no plans to prosecute Mrs. Morgan on the basis of her staternent.

During the trial Morgan admitted had gone to the home with a revolver the waistband of his trousers. Morsan said that Frutchey met him at the b"ack gun with shot he in door, grabbed the started to beat him fight, Frutchey was paper said.

Mrs. Morgan's confession told of finding a gun on the floor of the family room and o[ her "pointing the gun at Jim Frutchey. and hearing the explosions.', She did not say she fired the gun.

Investigators said that the gun taken with Morgan to Frutchey's home had jammed after being fired once. Frutchey was shot four times. The gun that killei Frutchey was never found.

Morgan said he was called to the from him and it. During the and killed, the wife Dorothy who home and telling take their daueh-

Frutchey home by his said Frutchey had lelt hirni to come and help ter, (harleen, horne.

Pressure Process Instolled

The new pressure process using water repellent Penta for treating lumber, millwork, fencing, boxes and other wood products has been installed by Selma Grape Stake Yard & Pressure Treatins Co. It is the first time this process has be-en used in Calif. The firm is in Selma.

Yrlrd Invenioqf Reiurned

H. A. Dyer, who last surnmer sold his lumber yard in South Salem, Oregon, has had the inventory, valued at $30,000, returned following a court judgment that confirmed his contention that the sale terms were not being fulfilled.

From the "Land of the Sky"; old-grgwth timber for quality products from Nikkel

Buck,s Lake, shown above, lies a mile above sea level on a rrdge between the deep canyons of the Feattrei River's middle and north forks' California's Feather River Country covers almost two million acres of natural watershed and productive timberland in the ."itf.,.r" p"ition of the Sierra Nevada. lt is known for its high-altitude, old growth timber' Sugar pine, pondero.u pin", white fir and other softwood species grow here at elevations ,p% 5,ooo ieet. Three'1,tit<t<et plants process timber from the area and convert it to diniension lumber, shelving, boards, moulding, jambs and frames'