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...photograph agency, now under consideration by the HSA, will limit itself "at first" to passport sized photos taken and processed by students and sold at lower prices than those charged by local commercial firms...
...appears that the new proposal will meet even stronger opposition. A. J. Weiner, of the Adrian Photography Studio, declared that the agency "would definitely cut into our passport photography business and hamper our plans for expansion. The new proposal is merely a more subtle version of the one which was defeated two years...
...largely responsible for the defeat of the 1958 proposal, was even more emphatic. Contacted yesterday at his Mexico City hotel, Koby said, "As tax-paying citizens we photographers are very strongly opposed to the University's interference with legitimate business. This is unfair competition, and the loss of the passport business will put me out on the street...
Other commercial photographers felt the passport agency would be just the first step by the HSA to expand into portrait work and other types of photography...
...would be absolutely impossible to build a photo lab that amateurs could use to make passport photos profitably," Ferrant said. "Existing facilities within the University are not efficient enough for commercial use," he added...