DISTRIBUTION IS OUR GAME

PGL's yellow and green painted rigs travel the highways and byways of the Pacific Northwest delivering direct to dealers, dropping loads at PGL warehouses or picking up orders at suppliers.

Trucking is an important PGL customer convenience. That's why we maintain a growing fleet of 23 tractors, 4 trucks and 66 trailers . to provide reliable, courteous service when you want it.

Gravlee urged the council to investigate ways to increase the cut from the national forests where half of the nation's softwood timber inventory stands, including new and innovative management and reforestation techniques that would allow for an accelerated harvest of old growth timber to make room for young, vigorous stands.

Gravlee said that housing's boom or bust cycles also create major problems for building Product manufacturers. Many are reluctant to expand their Plant capacities to meet today's strong demand because they fear that their new plant and equipment would sit idle during the next housing downturn.

But this problem, he added, could be offset, in part, by reducing the capital gains tax and bY eliminating or relaxing some costly federal regulations

Gravlee noted that scattered shortages of cement have pushed up prices more than 20oh in the West, Southwest and Midwest in the past year. This problem has been exacerbated in areas where (Please turn to page 47)