2-3-99 GERMAN TV AT SOUTHERN CROSS AND HEAV LOGGING

Greetings to our Southern Cross ghostown preservation supporters:

Thanks as always for your thoughts, prayers, and dollar bills. We really
appreciate knowing you are out there.

It would have been a quiet winter in Southern Cross except that the company
has brought in hight-tech logging equipment and is taking what looks like
thousands of board feet of timber from the slopes around the town. Supporters
and residents are of many opinions, some feeling like the loggins is a
devastation of the old forest, others feeling like it was a helpful and
necessary thinning operation (Oh well, we can't agree on EVERYTHING).

Last weekend German national television spent two days filiming in Southern
Cross. Former residents Rudy Autio, Ruth Johnson and Marta Neemi came by to
help. For more information see the "news" at:
http://members.aol.com/savescross/news.htm

Again, thanks for your support.