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released fi»r harvest while our timber supply continues to be locked>up. The Clinton 

 Administration's promise to help small business companies and secondary manu&cturers v/as 

 peiiiaps the most eo^ty promise made in the Presidem's forest plaa 



Mr. Chairman. I told you coonng to testify about our bmilies problems is very uncomfortable. 

 But, I hope my coming 'will help you take action to reverse the economic destruction of the 

 Pacific Northwest before h is too Ute for other oompaoies. I will conclude my testimony with 

 this. 



I would like to show you this broadside (exhibit). One company has gone so far as to schedule an 

 auction for the bank. If this auction actually takes place, it will kill my father, if not by actual 

 physical death by emotional. To be forced to liquidate 63 years of bard work at a senp iron 

 auction because your country will not honor its obligations is not acceptable. That is not the 

 country that he has supported for 81 years; it Is not the country I have been a proud citizen of for 

 44 years; and it is certainly not the sountry my grandfather, Marzellinius Mayr, came to for the 

 first time at the turn of the century by shoveling coal in the boiler room to pay for his pass^e. 



