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No two San Antonio buildings are ever exactly the same.Because our customers' requirements are never exactly the same.
Whatever your building needs, we have the experience, flexibility and versatility to erect the structure best fitted to your location.
San Antonio's versatility is illustrated by the above trio: repair garage, mill building and storage building. Our decades of experience have taught us the know-how to best advise our customers from initial planning, through construction to the finished product. Working in hundreds of varied situations and locations has taught us the flexibil. ity needed to anticipate our customerst needs. When you want to add, modify or expand, San Antonio Construction has what it takes to get the job done theway you want it done.
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.Huge inventory and scheduled delivery gives youwhatyou need, when you need it. We have your backup stock. 'High fill rate eliminates lost sales. .33 warehouses nationwide.
Edltor-Publisher David Cutler
Senior Edltor Juanita Lovret
Assistrnt Edltor David Koenig Contrlbutlng Edltors Dwight Curran, Gage McKinney, Ken Thim
Art Director Martha Emery Strff Artist Eric Kruske
Circulation Lynnette A. Perkins
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We need a united voice now, not later EECENT victories by environmental and I lpreservationist groups have brought into sharp focus the wood products industry's pressing need to more effectively tell its story.
As the lumber industry once again scrambles with last minute measures to limit the damages from environmental onslaughts, those very groups continue their well financed and professionally organized campaigns, scoring victory after victory.
It's not as if industry lacked a valid message. Quite the contrary. Our arguments stand on solid ground. Yet the emotion, distortions and, yes, outright lies of the environmental faction have carried the day. Their enthusiasm, money and professional, full time organizations made the difference.
What the lumber and wood products industry needs is a true umbrella group to coordinate efforts to ensure our interests are well served and articulated. We call on the leaders of every area of wood products to come forward and take the steps needed to have an all-industry organization with the muscle to ensure that the United States has a rational timber supply program. Not a one issue organization, but one that will be in place for decades so that both the public and government hear the real facts in matters affecting both industry and the public good.
While several groups and organizations have made commendable efforts to this end, we think it is too little and, probably, too late. To be heard in today's noisy world of communication and government, you need lots of money and lots of management.
If this great industry is ever to survive in its present form, now is the time for its top people to provide the leadership that will finally turn us from perpetual defense to positive offense.
