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TAEX
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502 Southwest Parkway
693-1325
menu of educational programs.
By accessing the program us
ing a touch-tone phone, the caller
hears a three-minute tape de
scribing anything from how to get
rid of aphids to how to cook the
Thanksgiving turkey.
“We’ll probably implement
more of these across the state,”
Jackson says. “It’s amazing how
much this program is used. The
machine records the number of
calls and the time they were
made.
“Many calls are made around 2
or 3 in the morning because of
the amount of shift work in the
Dallas area.”
A third mass communication
program implemented by the
TAEX is the Educational Tele
phone Network, which allows for
interactive speech with specialists
while an educational video is be
ing shown.
The farmer or rancher can ask
questions of the specialist while
watching the video, thus increas
ing the personal, one-to-one serv
ice the budget cuts have reduced
so drastically while at the same
time reducing travel costs for the
agents.
Jackson says the loss of the
one-to-one service hurts the
TAEX because TAEX is based on
people helping people.
But, he says, the personal serv
ice won’t be able to return until
TAEX funding is increased.
“The service may improve and
we may become more efficient by
using the mass communication
technologies,” Jackson says. “As
we get staff back, the personal
service will increase, but the days
are gone when an individual pro
ducer will be able to call up an
agent and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got
something wrong with my corn
and need you to come out and
look at it.’
“They’ll do that as much as hu
manly possible, but that’s the
down side of the budget cuts. The
agents are working very hard.
They have a family too.
“While they are very dedicated
f o their work and the people they
help, it’s very hard on them. Pre
tty soon, you lose good people
that you shouldn’t be losing.”
This is a problem the TAEX is
facing now.
Good people are leaving for
jobs that reward them more for
less work, which leads to even less
personal service, and Jackson
doesn’t want to see that happen.
“Service in the Midwest farm
belt has become so de-personal-
ized that farmers are shooting at
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
people because the farmers are
receiving computerized notices in
the mail telling them that their
farms are being foreclosed,” he
says.
With the money problems fac
ing the state right now, Jackson
says, he knows things will be tight
for a while.
But he also says the extension
service in Texas, because of its
size (second only to California)
and its quality programs, is well
respected across the country.
“Because we are looked to for
leadership in many things, the
TAEX is very well thought of
across the country,” Jackson says.
“However, we’re not like the
other states. Our program is on a
much larger scale than most of
the other programs in the coun
try.
“We have 1,800 people in our
extension program; New Jersey
has 45. We have people in West
Texas grazing cattle on ranches
larger than Rhode Island. Our
economies of scale are much
larger, so it’s hard to compare our
state’s service to another’s.”
Even though the TAEX is
much larger than most states’ ex
tension services, Jackson believes
others have been hurt much
more by their states’ economic
problems.
“Mississippi was hurt much
worse than we were,” Jackson
says. “Go back five years ago
when the auto industry was down
and you’ll see that Michigan’s ex
tension service had problems.”
Jackson is optimistic, if not
overly confident, about TAEX’
future.
“I think because of TAEX’ na
tional and state support, it is very
secure for the future,” he says. “I
think extension will still deliver
high quality programs and still be
doing what needs to be done to
meet the needs of the people.
“It just may not grow further
to meet these needs. While I
think that extension is going to be
stable, we’re going to have to
make it without an increase in
funding every year.
“Unless a tax bill is passed that
increases taxes, it looks like things
are going to go the way they are
until oil gets back on its feet.”
Slouch
By Jim Eqi
WAIT’LL
NEXT
YEAR!
AGGIES-4-
SIPS-O
THANKS,-JACKIE?
"Next year will make it four in a row!”
Foreign partners sought
by Texas Instruments Inc.
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Instru
ments Inc. of Dallas has named two
executives to focus on developing
partnerships with foreign manufac
turers in a move to bolster its over
seas semi-conductor operations.
William Sick, previously a LI
manager in Japan, will assume a new
executive vice president position For
developing foreign manufacturing
partnerships.
William Weber, head of corporate
development, will be executive vice
president for management of the
firm’s worldwide semiconductor
e rations.
The two executive vicepresi
will report directly to Tl Pmnii
Jerry Junkins, who saidther
signmenls are the resultofami
of corporate strategy that I
1985.
“The major issues for the
semiconductor industry todavi
to the Asia-Pacific region inte-J
Ixuh competition and markeiopii
tunity,” Junkins said.
Restitution
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feel that if they’re going to let ath
letes make restitution, whether it’s
because they’re athletes or not, ev
erybody ought to be allowed the
same right.”
Bill Turner, Brazos County dis
trict attorney, is working with the
case of Archie Roberts, the A&M
track athlete who was arrested seve
ral weeks ago on felony charges of
theft of services.
Star Tel initiated that particular
investigation, Turner said, and the
company has since approached his
office to see about allowing Roberts
to make restitution andavoidp
ecution. But Turner said tkj
an arrest has l>een made, it’s®
the company’s hands.
“The f actor to consider is il
don’t want to treat the Architl
erts case different than am i
Lurner said. "If the alk:
prove true and he did stealtht«W'
ices, then that’s a criminali*
and I don’t know if we should;:
our backs on that."
Turner said it would beailt
two weeks bef ore he would ire
decision on that case, wh
only long-distance service cast:
office is working on at this time.
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WNBC, New York
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in years.” —Joel Siegel
of Good Morning America
Kinky Friedman, the well-known
country singer and songwriter, has
now written a very hip, very contem
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York's Greenwich Village. In
Greenwich Killing Time, a street-
smart country singer,, who just hap
pens to be named Kinky, turns detec
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McGovern, beat a murder rap. Kinky
the detective has a strong relation
ship with his cat, gets in trouble for
smoking cigars in public places,
looks askance at most of the human
race, and has a penchant for inven
tive language. McGovern, a reporter
for the Daily News, once wrote a
story about Kinky headlined “Coun
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man lying on the floor in the apart
ment across the hall from his own,
with a bullet hole in his head and
eleven long-stemmed roses in his
hand, it’s Kinky he calls.
Reg. $ 13 95
AUTOGRAPH PARTY
DEC. 4TH
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Speech at 12 NOON with
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6:30 p.m., in the Rudder Exhibit Hall at Texas A.<ScM.
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carols old and new.
Tickets to the Medieval/Madrigal Feaste are $17-75 each for students
and $20 each for non-students. Discounts are available for groups
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