European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 14,1987 manufacturers of Security devices say sales booming keep safer plus Home Security system new York a Albert Janjigian is bullish on crime. As the president of Boston based Security equipment com Pany he sees nothing but growth in the business of protecting his fellow citizens from one another. He says that Security products arc improving prices arc tailing and the Indus try is gelling belter at marketing. He also thinks there s another crime wave around the Corner. For whatever reason the Security equipment business has boomed into an estimated $23 billion a year Industry. With All the tension in the world Over the past few years people want a ref Uge says Janjigian past president of the Security equipment Industry association. They want their Castle to be Moats and drawbridge no longer do the trick. At the recent International Security conference and exposition Here manufacturers displayed an array of High tech gizmos that do practically everything but ask a burglar to leave the House. Actually there s an alarm that docs exactly that. For As Little As $400. Anyone now can have Security devices that use infrared sensors and microwave beams to detect anything that s warm and moving. Many use computers to Analyse the information and make sure the moving object is a burglar not a mouse. There arc seismic sensors to detect thieves on the Lawn Mobile laser Detec tors to keep rustlers off the ranch and Pool alarms to warn if anyone is in the water. Those alarms also protect against accidental drowning. We re very reflective of the mood of the country said Marc Rosenstock director of the Trade show. Ten years ago the no. I Issue in the country was economics. Today the no. I Issue according to the polls is although crime is a great stimulant for the Security equipment Industry Rosens lock insisted that the Industry does t exploit it. Really what the Industry is doing is providing an Opportunity for people Tohe secure in their Homes and businesses. You know the crime Issue exists and the bad Guys exist and that s not a creation of this Industry he said. A 1985 Survey by the Security equip ment Industry association concluded that Only about 6 percent of All american households used electronic Security sys tems. Among those captivated by the vast untapped Market were some of the country s biggest companies. This is an important Market to us said Larry Baney National sales manager for at to technology which put its first Home Security system on the Market in april. Just look at the industries playing at to Sony Panasonic. I think a lot of people Nave the same idea that this Industry is really taking Kenneth Lamarca director of sales 2. What of or 8ld Glass doors to protect a Fth sensors of an v optional Glass break Detector t3. Erner Goncy alarm option Jajcan be activated Martha Lye to sound Erner Gorncy Siren. " t m44. Control console is a compact unit about the size of a smal portable typewriter it can 6. Area Detector graphic source Schufle lock co. For Sony Security systems said his com Pany got into the Security business in the past year when it saw a potentially prof Itable Niche in providing Security Cam eras and videotapes. Other big name companies that have entered the Security Field include Ria Hitachi Kodak Jevc and Sanyo. Pinker ton s inc., which boasts of being the world s oldest private Security Organiza Tion bought a High tech Security equip ment subsidiary last there s Art Brenner of Brooklyn whose Bell Glass & Mirror co. Make convex Security mirrors the kind that Are popular in discount department stores. We re still horse and buggy said Brenner standing amid a display that bore some resemblance to a fun did t have much time to talk. He said he was too Busy making deals. President s performance rating nose dives from 86 in teen poll new York up president Reagan s performance in office dropped dramatically in a Survey re leased saturday of nearly 2,000 top students from the nation s Public private and parochial schools. Only 42 percent of students in the i8th-annual sur vey of High achievers published by who s who among american High school students rated Rea Gan As Good to excellent in foreign policy compared to 71 percent last year. For Domestic performance Reagan got Good to excellent ratings from 64 percent 9 Points below the 1986 rating. In politics the president was Given a Good to Excel Lent rating by 64 percent Down 28 percentage Points from last year s poll. Twenty nine percent rated the president s political performance below average to poor More than double the 13 percent who rated him that Way in 1986. If the presidential election were held today 42 per cent of the students said they would vote Republican 30 percent democratic and 18 percent Independent. Three percent would not vote even if eligible. In the 1986 poll 49 percent said they would have voted Republican 25 percent. Democratic 16 percent Independent. The Survey on a wide Range of topics of concern to teen agers was conducted this past Spring among High school juniors and seniors. . Man plans to walk across English Channel on foot floats Newport Beach Calif. A this athlete seat will Lake some fancy footwork. Don Hodes wants to become the first american to walk across the English Channel. For Arch support hell use a pair of miniature kayaks or foot floats called Skijas pronounced Hodes 32, a lawyer from Corona Del mar won t Bethe first person to walk his Way across the Channel but he said hell be the first american to make the trip if he succeeds tuesday. Hodes knows hell have to toe the Mark. It s 21miles As the Crow flies but it s about 28 Miles As the ski Jakur Skijas because of Tricky currents Hod Essaid. He figures the trip will take him 10 hours. Ski making popular in Austria where the plastic de vices arc made consists of sliding across the water in a movement similar to Cross country skiing. The ski Jaker balances and pushes himself along at the same time with a 10-foot-Long paddle. The 11-foot-Long plastic Skijas Cost about $1,200 aset. The Channel in t Hodes first ambitious Skibjak trip. In March Hodes ski Jackd across Cook Strait 16miles of rough water separating new zealand s North Island and South Island. The trip took six hours. Four months later he made a seven hour 17-Miletrip from Morocco to Gibraltar. Malaria treatment Beijing up China has begun mass production of an ancient herbal Medicine that can be used to treat malaria and has shown Success in areas where malaria parasites have developed a resistance to qui nine health officials have said stateside Watermelon growers have Sweet fight on their hands Hope Ark. A Watermelon grower around Cave City May have bitten into a big Juicy dispute in claiming their melons Are the sweetest anywhere. Cave City growers have claimed the title of Sweet Watermelon capital of the world after their melons won a taste test at a postmasters convention said Cave City postmaster Sloan Wells. Growers in Hope which Bills itself As the Home of the world s largest watermelons and the Watermelon capital of the world were spitting mad and threw Down the Gauntlet. Hope proposed to use a Cigar size instrument called a hand Refractometer which uses Light to measure solids and liquids and determine a Mel on s sugar Content. I say let s put it on the line in a scientific Way and if Cave City s melons Are sweeter Well say so said Barbara White of Hope president of the Hempstead county Cham Crof Commerce. Man admits trying to sell items to Syria illegally Washington a a Philadelphia Man has pleaded guilty to a charge he conspired to sell aviation navigation equipment to Syria in violation of the arms Export control act. Kevin Gilday 37, faces a possible maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a$250,000 Fine. Gilday admitted that he agreed to arrange the Sale to Syria even though the equipment is on a list of munitions and Materiel that cannot be sold to certain countries including Syria. . District judge Thomas pc Field Jackson scheduled sentencing for oct. 16. The judge said Gilday could remain on Bond. Gilday s business partner. Rosemary Lough cry 42, of mount Holly n a. Pleaded guilty to the same charge May 7. Sheds scheduled to be sentenced oct. 2
