When it comes to travel, this man is hard to top

In our Personals column every month we always have a number oI items about all the traveling around that lumbermen do in the course of normal trading.

But with all their hustling around there are few company heads, iI any, that can match Paul Penberthy, Sr. for long distance traveling when he goes shopping for his Penberthy Lumber Co.

Without even getting winded on his last outing, he and his wife, Lillie, who accompanies him on all his trips, spent January and February in Brazil and then moved on to spend March, April, May, June and July in the Far East.

rate as one of great understatements of the year. But sell he did. Today the Penberthy Lumber Co. is a large, well-financed corporation that has seven million feet of stock at the main yard and at their three and one-half acre yard across the street. Eighty percent is under cover. They also have a dry kiln at the yard as well as their own mill, Pine Mountain Lumber Co. in Yreka, Calif. that Penberthy describes as being as nice a mill for its size as any in the countrv,

As he flies around the world, he keeps a daily log and sends back letters on what he has bought, prices, deliveries and the '. like. In addition to the mills in Africa and the Far East he also regularly travels to the big European capitals to transact busi' ness with the head offices of the mills.

Those reports of his come back to the Los Angeles office and are typed and then filed after serving their purpose. Penberthy estimates that he has followed this routine for nearly forty years.

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