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Good news! Sales-building news! Masonite's new Unit VII will soon bring you plentiful supplies of Shadowvent@, Misty Walnut, Panelgroove@ and all the other Masonite@ hardboard panels you need.

All the latest improvements in automation, flexible production control, and faster, straight-line production have been incorporated in this giant-sized addition to our production capacity. Too, our expanded research facilities will bring right to your yard a continuous flow of new products that will keep you a leader in supplying the building market. Masonite Corporation, Dept. CLM-5-15, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco 4, Calif.

Bosic Weokness of Communism

The basic weakness that will eventually destroy communism is lack of spiritualitylack of religion.

A great nation of atheists is an impossibility.

The basic principle of such a society must necessarily be selfishness, and from such a foundation no permanent structure can ever rise.

Such personal powers as Hitler and the recent Russian leaders are but incidents in the history of nations. But religion is the very life of great nations.

Man, at heart, is a creature that requires sentiment, and religion is the deepest, most ineradicable sentiment of the human heart. Strike out religion and you reduce a nation to the level of educated beasts.

An Editorial

Annul the power that draws a nation upward and it falls back to savagery. Where there is no Fatherhood of God, there can be no Brotherhood of Man.

The dictators may try as they will to erase religion from the human heart but the effort will finally be in vain, and the adoration of a Supreme Power will remain the divine perfume of the soul.

lvory to Stote Forestry Boord

The April 14 meeting of the State Board of Forestry in San Francisco marked the seating on the Board of Edward "Pat" Ivory of Dinuba following his recent appointment by Governor Brown. Various important forestry matters were scheduled for discussion on the heavy agenda.

USP BUYS S.P. TIMBER

Redding, Calif.Timber on 3,000 acres near Rainbow Lake has been sold to United States Plvwood Coro. by the Southern Pacific Land Co. The 13.6 million board feet from a virsin stand of ponderosa pine would be iut immediately and processed at the USPlant at Anderson. Calif.. it was said last month.

WEATHERPROOF PARTICLE BOARD PROVES IMPERVIOUSTO HUMIDITY IN ORANGE-PACKING PLANT

A new building rnaterial called Par-TEX has clrawn the plaudits of a California fruit 1>acker for its ability to withstand 88% humidity conditions in orange and lemon coloring rooms of a new packing plant. After extensive use of the new coloring rooms with almost constant exposure to high humidity conclitions, the Par-TEX walls and ceilings showed no swelling, buckling or any other bad effects.

"We are very pleased with our building and woul<l recommencl the use of Par-TEX to anyone building for an operation sinrilar to ours," said Harry C. Harding of Harding & Leggett, who said his firm used a considerable amount of Par-.TEX in building a new orange packing plant at Orange Cove, Calif., upon the recommendation of Architect David H. Horn of Fresno.

Par-TEX is an exterior particle board rnacle with 700/o waterproof phenolic glue. It's manufactured by Pacqua, Inc., of P.O. Box 78, Dillard, Ore.

About 55,000 square feet of Par-TEX was used on the job as siding and roof decking in fu" thickness. The manufacturer does not recommend fu" thickness for roof decking but in this case results were quite satisfactory. Galvanized nails were used to nail the Par-TEX to 4x4 studs on 16-inch centers throughout the building. About r,4" gap was left between the sheets, which come in standard 4x8 panels, to allow for expansion. Exterior walls were painted with two coats of outside paint. It was possible to use ParTEX Ior single-wall construction of this packing plant because of its great structural strength and dimensional stability. Par-TEX forms its own insulation; it's non-porous and resists swelling, shrinking, checking or scuffing.

Par-TEX is available in IRB Insect Repellent Board wl-rich gives permanent protection against insects and fungi when used as recommended.