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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 ^ r 1 block South of Texas & University VISA Wednesday Night FREE HVRRICA 8-1 ® p.na* S09 University 988-0488 J Page Q/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 25, 1987 Woman operates unusual business Family offers hat-cleaning service WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Stan ley Rater freely admits being a hatter was about the furthest thing from her mind 12 years ago, but today the Clay County woman is part of a van ishing breed — those who clean and repair western hats. She and her husband, Johnny “Preach” Rater, have owned and op erated Huskey Hat Co. since 1976, when an investment partner wanted to be bought out. Rater, who had worked in the business on Saturdays, taught his wife the hatter’s trade so he could continue to look after his construc tion business and ranching interests. Today, the small family firm — one of two daughters and five sons help out when needed — cleans about 2,000 cowboy hats annually for customers from all over the country. Mrs. Rater says about 75 percent of her business, including the sherif'Fs department in Greens- burg, S.C., is from out of town. She says it takes from two to three weeks to clean a hat because it must first be soaked in a naptha solution, given a soap and water bath, blocked, depowdered and finally “cooked.” Mrs. Rater says the cleaned hats are not blocked until their owners call for them. “That way, we can give them the crease they want,” she says. She says if a woman brings a man’s hat in to be cleaned, she al ways asks the age of the owner. “The young ones always want a flat brim. bigger spot,” she says. “The best thing they can do is to put dry, kitchen cornmeal on the spot and rub it. This absorbs most of the oil.” She repairs cloth hats, but she only cleans felt cowboy hats. “(A man) needs one (hat) to work in, another for knockin’ about, like going in to drink coffee, and a third for a church and funeral hat." — Stanley Rater, owner of Huskey Hat Co. As they get older, maybe into their 60s, they prefer a slight turn up, and when they’re in their 70s and 80s they want a flat brim because they’ve always worn a hat for protection from the sun,” she says. She says the major ingredient of her cleaning process is a “secret” for mula discovered by the founder of the company, Eddie Huskey, in co operation with an unknown chemist. The Raters were able to duplicate it. Mrs. Rater says there are only two stains the “secret” can’t handle, crude oil and cattle blood. “A lot of people try to remove an oil stain by using some kind of spot remover, but all it does is just make a “He needs one to workiiuJ| for knockin’ about like goir.v; drink coffee and a third foracl and funeral hat,” she says.'■ the one that’s most expensiil usually kept in a box." In the cleaning process, Mrs. Rater removes and replaces a hat’s lining, sweatband and headband. Colored hats don’t clean well be cause they often contain a dye that tends to spot, she says, although black gives little trouble. “Men are by far the easiest to please,” she says. “Most men trea sure their hats, and they should for what they cost today. The other day, a man brought his hat in to be re paired and says his kid got hold of it. That told me he wasn’t a hat man be cause a man who is won’t let anybody else touch his hat.” And she says a real hat man had at least three hats. The most unusual hat > ever asked to work on was if top hat, made about 1909. “These people found it ini tic,” she says. “It was inaroun which is an antique todav afraid to clean it for fear iif just crumble even thoughiu; quality felt.” She says felt is made by takj|j downy under fur of suchani:|| Belgian hare, leaver (the [inerj| nutria and muskrat, rollioii kneading it in steam and ho; > I and then rolling it to formtht:« She says felt is the stronger f j known because every fiberiim locked in every direction witiE fibers. It also is more impen d water than any other fabric J most resilient, she says. She explained that higher:|| felt makes the hat easier toM Felt hats, she says, are gndf® run from 3X to 20X, withilitj| costing about $300 a hat. Dr. Ma the hoi ficer, l platooi Heads of Peru, Mexico urge more Latin American unity MEXICO CITY (AP) — The presi dents of Mexico and Peru Tuesday urged greater Latin American unity to confront the region’s problems, which they said go deeper than the crushing burden of foreign debt. “It is not only the problem of the foreign debt or the region’s conflicts that are our challenges at the pre sent,” President Miguel de la Madrid said at a formal welcoming cere mony for Peruvian President Alan Garcia at the National Palace. De la Madrid said general faults in the international economic system “obstruct an integral development capable of joining progress with jus tice and democracy.” For his part, Garcia said foreign debt is not the only problem linking Latin American countries. “Nor is it only ideological inter vention or the political guardianship in Central America,” Garcia said. “It also is the moral model of material consumerism, which ties us to one industrial form only and one financ ing only, and that is why we have be come indebted.” The two leaders held their first round of private talks Tuesday, with a state dinner scheduled Tuesday evening. They plan to talk again to day, and Garcia plans to leave Mex ico Thursday. Officials from both countries have said the talks would concentrate on the foreign debt problems affecting both countries and the Central American situation, as well as bilate ral trade and policy issues. De la Madrid also said at the wel coming ceremony that plans for Latin American cooperation should not be expected as an automatic or inevitable step. “It is a daily task that we push here and now with your visit to Mex ico, and wherever work goes on for continental unity,” he said. Garcia told reporters on his arri val Monday night at the Mexico City International Airport that the adop tion of Latin American nations of strong positions to face their prob lems “is a road without return.” He also called for Latin American unity. “No one country alone can face imperialism, which is an interna tional system,” Garcia said. The young Peruvian leader is a popular figure in Mexico, known widely for his position limiting Pe ru’s foreign debt payments to 10 percent of its annual export reve nue. This is his second presidential visit to Mexico. He brought an aid ship ment to Mexico City during his first visit in September 1985 after it was devastated by earthquakes. 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