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Testimony on log export problem

The forestry products industry testifying before the Senate Small Business Committee said rising exports of logs to Japan demand "immediate emergency action to save the federal timber dependent manufacturing segment of the Pacific Northwest economy."

Ralph D. Hodges, of the National Forest Products Association, testified that twothirds of the timber in Oregon and Washington is government-owned and that much of the labor force, the installed mill capacity, and the communities have no alternate source of supply other than timber controlled by federal agencies.

Hodges repeated the general industrywide position announced Iast November:

(f) The economic consequences of unlimited export of logs from the Pacific Northwest to Japan is having immediate harmful economic impact upon emptroyees,

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