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United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Livestock producers and marke
ters must nave sharp minds and
sharp management skills to be
successful today, said the 1984
president at the meeting Sunday
of the Livestock Marketing
Association.
Today’s livestock producer,
“whether he’s running 50,000
head of cattle or 500 head, has
little, if any, room for errors,
poor judgement or sloppy man
agement,” said president Earl
Britton, a Montana marketer.
“These times won’t let him
get away with it. To be successful
today, a producer has to have a
sharp pencil — and a sharp
mind and management skills,”
he said.
Britton, in speaking to the
members of the association, said
the success of a marketing busi
ness is built on service to its cus
tomers. Marketers “must never
lose sight of some fundamentals
that go beyond the hardware,
the software or the electronic
wizardry that might appear,” he
said.
LMA, which is based in Kan
sas City, represents about 1,200
marketing businesses of all types
in the U.S. and Canada.
The association’s four other
elected officers and 20 directors
were also installed at the
meeting.
George E. Light III of Lytle,
Texas is the new second vice
president for the association.
DANCE INSTRUCTORS
NEEDED
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Attention Mexican - American
Aggies
You have your own organization here at A&M. Mex
ican - American students represent a small but grow
ing number of the student body in Aggieland. We’re
proud of our history and very proud of the future we
are building for ourselves. If you are interested in
learning more about and promoting your culture, and
in understanding some of the social concerns facing
the Mexican-American community, then find out ab
out MSC CAMAC. We can’t work without you. P.S.—
We also have great parties!!
MSC Committee for Awareness of Mexican - American Culture
1st Meeting - Monday, Jan. 23
7-8:30 704 Rudder
MSC Discovery Day - Wednesday, Jan. 25
MSC 10-2
Party!! - Friday, Jan. 27
Teachers’ protests
scare U.S. tourists
United Press International
JUAREZ, Mexico — American
tourists, frightened away by the
threat of violence and the fear
that international bridges would
be blocked, slowly began return
ing to downtown shops and
stores Sunday, but protesting
members of a left-wing teachers
union said more demonstrations
are planned.
chants lose from American tour
ists. The merchants have been
making money off Mexico’s eco
nomic crisis, anyway.”
All three bridges connecting
Juarez, Mexico with El Paso were
open Sunday, following Satur
day’s disturbance which blocked
traffic and closed at least one in
ternational bridge.
The Saturday demonstration,
organized to support 28 teachers
who were Fired four months ago,
was aimed at disrupting com
merce between the two cities as a
means of attracting the attention
of education officials in Mexico
City and not to hurt the United
States, Beltran said.
Merchants said their sales
were below normal and would
continue to be down until the
teacher problem is completely
solved.
A teacher representative said
new demonstrations may be
formed by Tuesday or Wednes
day, depending on negotiations
with representatives of the feder
al Secretariat of Education.
Dr. Cesar Gonzalez of the Sec
retariat of Public Education,
Mexico City, spent the entire
weekend in Juarez in talks with
members of the “Fuezas Demo-
craticas del Magisterio,” Demo
cratic Forces of the Magisterium,
a union of about 500 teachers
who were demanding the rein
statement of teachers fired in
January in a dispute over corrup
tion in the school system.
shop in the downtown touris
shopping sector of the city, sal
the threat of a blockade of inter
national bridges kept tourist!
from the city.
“Juarez looks like a ghost
town,” he said. “Yesterday*!
were talking to ourselves becaust
there were no Americans. Todii
is just a little better.”
An order from the Fort Bliss
commanding general, Maj.Gei
James Maloney, placing Juara
off limits to American militan
personnel for the weekend,
iiu
hurt trade, Posada said.
Protesters, estimated by police
at 5,000, marched through
downtown streets Saturday and
blocked traffic at an intersection
eight blocks south of the inter-
naonal bridge connecting the
downtown sections of both cities.
The government offered to
reinstate the 28 teachers, with
four months back pay, but re
fused to take action on the
teachers’ request to dismiss edu
cation personnel responsible for
selling education degrees and
contracts.
Some 400 teachers marchedii
the demonstration. Ranks wot
swelled by members of the Coe
ite tie la Defensa Popular, ih
Gommittee of the People's Dt
fense, a Marxist-leaninggroupof
squatter colonists who join »
government protest demonstii
lions on a regular basis. Also pa.'
ticipating were students of tk
Hermanns Escobar Agricukur,
Gollege.
“We’ve made a little progress,’
L na
“We’ll do it again,” said Juan
eltran, teacher. “We are fight-
Beltran, teacher. “We are fight
ing a corrupt system and we don’t
care how much money the mer-
Beltran said. “We are not happy
with the negotiations. We want
an end to nepotism and favorit
ism. We want certain people
fired for corrupt practices.”
Albert Posada of Posada
Curiosidades, an arts and crafts
Although originalk
announced as a blockade of ik
bridges, the demonstrate!!
opted to block a major intera
lion, instead. Several hundre
helmeted anti-riot policeandsol
diers blocked the internatioiu
bridge leading into El Paso la
another bridge to the east of ik
city remained open.
There were no arrests. Polo
scuffled with a school phote
grapher who refused to idente
himself, but there were nootW
incidents of violence.
French photo machines
to compete with prints
United Press International
SociB't'jr
Auditions for ballet and tap
teachers will be:
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 5
at7p.m. in268E. Kyle §
For information call: Vicki 260-58081
Rebeca 845-2665 I
NEW YORK — A young
Frenchman is out to capture the
U.S. minilab photo printing
market and is going about it with
a determination that may well
worry his competitors.
Serge Crasnianski’s Kis Photo
machines are aimed at the Mom
and Pop corner stores with li
mited space and investment
funds.
Gompletely automated, they
take up about 25 square feet of
space, can be operated by one
person with no previous experi
ence, and can print a roll of film
in about 40 minutes.
Crasnianski will sell you the
machine for $32,900, with in
stallation another $1,000 to
$ 1,500, and help you finance the
deal.
At 41, Crasnianski is the
founder and sole owner of Kis
S.A. that has parlayed high tech
nology, miniaturization and
automation into a billion-dollar,
multinational company that
manufactures everytning from
key-making to shoe repair
machines around the world.
His Kis Photo subsidiary had
installed about 1,200 minilabs in
this country as of last Dec. 1, and
is aiming at 5,700 this year.
Crasnianski is going head-to-
head with Japanese manufac
turers with similar quick-
developing machines. But the
early victims of the battle appear
to be older U.S. companies with
centralized development.
“I created this company 20
years ago,” he told UPI on a re
cent trip to New York. “It all
started with keys. I designed the
first automatic key machine. We
now make 2 million keys a day.
TAMU PRE-LAW SOCIETY
1m Meeting
Wednesday, January Z5
7:00 pm
601 Rudder
speaker
Dean T.J. Gibson
of the University of Texas Law School
•Will also discuss semester activities and take Aggieland
pictures
“The best point of Kis istlK
research,” he explained, sear
ching occasionally for the riglii
word in English. “We have5W
people in research. Wespendli
to 20 percent of our income os
research.
Crasnianski said the photo
graphic paper for the minilakl
comes in preloaded paper ca*|
settes that can be changed in 3J
seconds. He says his machineel
smaller, less expensive anilj
easier to operate than tli(|
Japanese models.
“The Kis machine takes venI
little electricity, very little watfif
because we have made useoti . .
completely new technology,"k n,,
said.
“It only takes four rollsoffifc
a day to break even. The
and chemicals cost around'
cents a print. Everything else is
profit. |
“With Kis machines it is ai
automatic. It analyzes the nep 1 1
lives automatically. Thest
machines will develop 60 to
rolls a day and we are doubl®
the capacity in March.
“Supplies? We use Kodat
Our machines can take alls®
film including disc, which<
standard instead of a special of
lion as on our competitoti
machines.
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educj
ence
son’s
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“We have maintenance
pie in the field. Our product*
highly serviced. We don’t tia«
any trouble with spare parts.
“We have five big centers#
the U.S. — in New York, Chit#
go, Dallas, Atlanta and l#
Angeles. Five big wareho®
full of paper and chemicals
spare parts.”
The minilabs are manul
tured in New Bruswick, N.j
“I’m now working on a coot
machine,” he added with a p 1
“How would you like a coot
that is fresh, instant, and d
incredible quality?”
Socie't’j/
General meeting to announce
spring semester dance class schedules.
THURSDAY, JAN. 26
7 p.m.
268 E. Kyle
New Members are welcome!
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