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PAUI PENBERIHY

These trips, incidentally, are no mere pleasure cruises with an occasional day o{ business thrown in to keep the tax man h"ppy. Far frorn it. As Paul Penberthy puts it, o'to buy overseas you have to send an irrevocable letter of credit two months before the lumber arrives and I like to see who I'm doine business with."

He has been doing-business a long time. That first hash mark he earned in the lumber industry goes back to when he worked summer vacations in a mill when he was at the University of Michigan.

He got his start out West by stacking boards for the old W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. in Los Angeles in 1920. He had worked his way up to become sales manager with Cooper at the time he left to start his own company.

The time he picked to start, 1931, the pit of the depression, washardly auspicious. But he says it was an easy time with no where to go but up. At that time they had so much lumber they couldn't sell it, he relates. "They lent me the money, even brought in the lumber and stacked it in the yard, all I had to do was go out and sell it," Penberthy recalls.

As anyone who knows anything about business in 193I knows, that phrase, o'all I had to do ,was qo out and sell it," must

Three thousand years ago, the first iron nailwas forged. Crudely fashioned, perhaps, but effective. And one nail led to another. between the third century B.C. and the first century A.D., more than 100 different types of nails were produced, laboriously, by hand.

These were nails with ornamental heads, nail,s with perforated heads, nails with clinching heads. Some, found in Roman ruins, look remarkably like the nails of today.

Today, many hundreds of special purpose nails are produced in modern plants, by modern machinery.

Among these, the Deniston Tliple-Lock

Lead-Seat Metal Roofing NaiI serves a purpose not envisioned three ,thousand years ago, or fifty years ago.

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$T'''Lead-Seal Metal Roofing Nails plug the nail holes and cover breaks in the galvanizing they're galvanized. They triple- lock. The bump goes through the sheet. The eheet springs back. Nail, lead and sheet are solidly locked together.

This is a Metal Roof whose owner used Deniston Triple-Lock LeadSeal MetilRoofing Nails. It laughg at weather. It wiU last a lifetime. It's owner won't have to go around pounding the naile back in after every big blow.

Rocky Mouniqin Scholorships

The men who will manage tomorrow's forests are eligible for help from the forest industries under a new scholarship-trainee program for forestry students announced by Robert Monson, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Timber Operators Association.

Fourteen two-year scholarships of $500 a year will be awarded by the association this fall to juniors in selected accredited colleges of forestry. Students will be enrolled in courses providing a broad background of multiple-use forestry with emphasis on forest management. The management of all resources of forest lands will be stressed.

oolndustry recognizes its responsibility to help provide for training in the use and management of natural resources," said Monson,

Builder Opts for Cedor Siding

One of the largest builders of quality homes in northern California, Brown & Kaufimann, Inc. has swung entirely to western wood siding for its Walnut Hills development in Contra Costa county.

In a fast-growing region that for years has been partial to stucco exteriors over wood framing in home construction, this builder expects that Vestern red cedar siding will afiord the 200 new houses a selling edge over other developments.

More than 2.50O board feet of cedar will go into the average home at Walnut Hills -at least a half-million feet for the proj. ect. This more than triples Brown & Kauffmann's previous use, which was confined to walls facing the street.

Mainly responsible for the firm's swing to western wood siding was a three-day lumber orientation program conducted by the staff of Western Wood Products Association last fall.

Evqns Enters Shipping Field

Evans Products Company has entered the international shipping field.

They have acquired a fleet of newlybuilt bulk carrier type freighters, and will transport Evans plywood and the cargo of other shippers between Atlantic, Gulf and West Coast ports and various ports in the Far East.

Retla Steamship Company in Los Angeles will be the general agent for Evans.

Rotory Elects Al Wuhl

Alfred H. ooAl" Wahl, long-time Consolidated Lumber Co. eales executive, was recently elected president of the Wilmington, Calif. chapter of Rotary International.

Wahl, vice president and director of sales at Consolidated. is a l0year member of Rotary, during which he has posted a perfect attendance record.

IMA Membership Grows Ag'oin

Three more new members have joined LMA-two retail dealer firms and a manu' facturer.

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The dealers are James Birdwell, manager of Birdwell Lumber Co., and Jack Hackard, president of Ecoriomy Lumber Co. Both operate in Sacramento. The Associate member is Kold-Seal of San Mateo, which is represented by Virgil W. Koch.

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His two sons, Paul Penberthy, Jr. and Fay are also active in the company. Paul, Jr. met his father and mother as they went through Taipei, Formoea, last year. Then it was back to L.A. for Paul the younger, while his dad continued on in his travels'

As for the future, the peripatetic Penberthy sees no reason to slow down. He says the Vietnam War has cut into some of his traveling, but not too much. After having talked with him for awhile, we doubt that there are many things around that could.

Moulding Producers' Giqnt Step

Western Wood Moulding Producers members .met in early August to O.K. a giant step toward national standardization of the moulding industry by approving a new WP Series Moulding Pattern book to serve as the standard {or the softwood industry which will replace previous books published by them. This marks the first time that the book has embraced both southern and western producers.

Also they elected Kieran P. Madden, of Ponderosa Mouldings, Inc., as president. T. J. Hedrick, Continental Moulding Co., was elected vice-president, and Graham McNary, Forest Products Company, as treasurer.

Members also voted a substantial expansion in their national promotion program with additional emphasis on literature featuring design and architectural uses of mouldings.

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