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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 (Continued from page 1) 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. F h Me re Entertainment! BEECH TREE BOOKS “If Elmore Leonard lived in Texas, his name would be Kinky Friedman.” — Don Imus WNBC, New York “Kinky Friedman has written the toughest, hippest, funniest mystery 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 porary murder mystery set in New York's Greenwich Village. In Greenwich Killing Time, a street- smart country singer,, who just hap pens to be named Kinky, turns detec tive to help his best friend, Mike 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 try Singer Plucks Victim from Mug ger.” When McGovern finds a dead 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 ON CAMPUS Speech at 12 NOON with autograph party to follow _ . _ _ _ orn Books available at MSC — Room 201 MSC ROOm 201 and Hastings Books, Records, and Tapes. 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