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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1980
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By CATHERINE J. THOMAS
Battalion Reporter
| Between Pasta’s and Rudy’s Exxon
Service Station is Photo-Tech. In-
ide that little film booth is Reba
bert. The woman is legally blind,
rating a dependable film service.
I wanted to prove that I wasn’t
idicapped,” she said. “That’s why
my husband and I established Photo-
Tech nearly two years ago.”
pHarbert, 52, said she gained ex
perience from working in another
film booth three years ago.
“I’ve learned things that routine
p'ks don’t learn,” she added,
bile she was in the first booth,
states tl blue-eyed woman said, she saw
f ()r m the business’s clientele nearly dou-
ent.
early
fe, so she and her husband, Bob,
arted Photo-Tech for the added in-
Jhe and a hobby.
10, Swazilai; j| : “\y e wanted to try an innovation
lue and 2 £ getting the film back the next
sis with pi day," she said.
the foreign] Her cubicle is papered with pic-
ld bethel! hires of her husband, who is a civil
trade figt:B‘ neer rcsearc 'her at Texas A&M
blach st ^ n ’ vcrs 'ty> an( d her sons, Robert and
amountedBj^k er t said she has no supervisor
©bother with and she more or less
the work when she wants to.
eing legally blind, Harbert has
ion of no better than 20-200 with
ection. It poses a problem in her
se a g
Africa’s 4 s
ks.
terpreted hi
over Soutl f ork '
d to intern I ^ or exam P^ e > she has difficulty
IS fcu1*fe’“"8 her customers,
i t, I toe same people come in all the
lostituteol tinie ” she said; “ but ! don - t know
jjhem from Adam. The only way I can
'Ut that inttsMognize my customers is by their
newed gov tars and voices,
tainly sbtipl’m real self-conscious about it.
i since he f^opfe occasionally laugh at me
, Ifien I don’t recognize them and tell
me to put on my glasses. That hurts. ”
■Still, her blindness hasn’t gotten
ip her way. She has her own way of
doing things.
I She files the film under last names
rather than numbers and writes in
big letters. She has some reading
tools, a pair of magnifying glasses and
two magnifiers with battery operated
ts, that enable her to read prices.
"I’m dependable and the same
pie always come back, ” she said
pily.
Harbert’s work doesn’t stop at
lOto-Tech. “I spend 80 to 85 hours
aweek doing things directly related
to the business,” she said.
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Reba Harbert goes over some of her photo orders for her
business, Photo Tech on Texas Ave. Harbert is legally blind.
She runs her successful business with her husband who de
velops in his darkroom at their home overnight for their
customers to pick up the next day.
But Photo-Tech has kept her
home life steady, she said.
Most important, she said, “It kept
my kids from thinking I was hand
icapped.”
Harbert explained, “They’re used
to it, they know that I’m slow some
times and can’t see well, but that’s
how they know me. ”
Her husband enjoys photography,
she said, and he does the black and
white processing in his darkroom at
night.
“I help him dry the prints and do
the bookkeeping intermittently with
the wash and housework at home,”
she said.
She said she and her husband plan
to keep the business until their
youngest son, a senior in high school,
graduates from Texas A&M.
After that, she and Bob would like
to move back to their land near
Waco, she said.
“We have a lot of land there and
Bob has always wanted to piddle
around with farming. ”
poalition charges San Antonio
picked for trial due to few blacks
United Press International
fSAN ANTONIO — A spokesman
|tlie San Antonio Coalition Against
Icism said Tuesday the city was
posen as the site for the trial of a
Dade County, Fla., policeman
lirged with violating the civil rights
la black businessman, because of
4s low black population.
Rick Green said during a news
inference that Charles Veverka,
I, a former policeman in Miami, is
ling tried by the federal govern-
ent in San Antonio because it
inks the large Mexican-American
ipulation in the city will not care
|put a black man.
'I
i Veverka is charged with filing
tlse criminal charges and false
| lolice reports in the death of insur-
[jlfice company executive Arthur
McDuffie.
.■‘We say to the Justice Depart-
:e this kttfnijnt that we are well aware that San
the Corps tliptonio was chosen for this trial be-
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