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Along with the arrival of the
Christmas season comes the
pressure of picking out the
right gifts for friends and
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Limited budgets, a lack of
time or the inconvenience of
shopping malls can all be frus
trating to the Christmas-
spirited student.
Laurie Wright, special pro
jects chairman for the MSC
Hospitality Committee, says
the MSC Christmas Fair was
created with these students in
mind.
sored by MSC Hospitality, will
be Thursday in Rudder Ex
hibit Hall from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.. Goods of local mer
chants and craftsmen will be
on sale — and all with a price
tag of than $30 or less.
Clothing stores, book
stores, a nature photographer
and a jewelry maker will sell
their wares at the fair, Wright
said. Several students also will
sell their handicrafts at the
fair this year.
The Christmas Fair, spon-
The fair eliminates the hus-
tle-and-bustle of crowded
shopping malls, outrageously
E riced gifts and bumper-to-
umper traffic.
The Christmas Fair will
make gifts available that fit a
student’s budget while giving
students the convenience of
staying on campus to shop,
Wright said.
Wright said the MSC Hos
pitality Christmas Fair should
not be mistaken for the Christ
mas Craft Festival.
In the past there were con
flicts with the Christmas Craft
Festival, sponsored by the
MSC Craft Center, being on
the same day, Wright said.
Many students mistook the
crafts festival for the Christ
mas fair.
Wright said to solve the
confusion this year, the
Christmas Craft Festival is
going on today, while the
Christmas Fair will take place
on Thursday.
Contracts may go abroad
United Press International
LUBBOCK — High Plains
cotton producers might arrange
contracts with oversea business
men now concerning delivery of
1984 cotton, agribusinessmen
were told at an export workshop
Tuesday.
porting workshop sponsored by
Sen. John Tower, R-Texas,
Stiles’ office, the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce, South
Plains Association of Govern
ments and several Lubbock
The contracts could be made
with existing overseas markets
to allow for a partial advance
payment to producers — pre
venting them from having to
borrow money to produce their
next crop, a regional trade offi
cial said.
“That front-end money
would provide operating capital
for planting,” said Carmon
Stiles of Dallas, regional director
of the International Trade
Administration, part of the U.S.
Commerce Department.
Stiles met with agribusiness
representatives at a daylong ex
organizations.
Representatives from ex
isting oversea cotton markets
should be asked if they were will
ing to enter into a contract call
ing for producers to provide a
certain amount and quality of
cotton at the end of the crop
year, he said.
In exchange, overseas busi
nessmen would pay producers
an advance deposit.
“Our hope is that we can put it
together for the 1984 growing
season,” Stiles said. “It’s a very
creative thing, it’s not a govern
ment program.”
But he said the government
could help by having embassy
staffers find overseas business
men willing to participate in
such contract deals. The concept
could be implemented within a
couple of months once those
businessmen were found.
He said a bad crop year and
failure to meet the contract was a
risk the buyer and seller had to
share, adding it might be possi
ble to find insurance companies
that would cover such contracts.
“It hasn’t been the greatest
year for agriculture,” Stiles said.
He added the workshop was
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agribusinessmen consider new
markets and marketing alterna-.
j lives.
Stiles said if the concept
proved workable for West Texas
cotton farmers than it would
work for other farmers with
other crops.
intended to help High Plains
Stiles said the concept re
sulted from a brainstorming ses
sion he had with several busi
nessmen and agriculture repre- ‘
sentatives.
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