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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1977 Buy One — Get One Free Skeeter’s Junction Restaurant Culpepper Plaza College Station, Tx. Junction of Hwy. 6 & Hwy. 30 Buy One For Boy or Submarine Sandwich and Get One FREE Hogue Bun, Salami, Bologna, Turkey, Lettuce, Tomatoes Includes Potato Chips Present this coupon Expires July 6, 1977 $1 Present This Coupon & Get $1.00 off regular price Chicken Fried Steak Reg. Price $2.95 Texas Toast, French Fries, & Salad All meat, No soybean patties Expires July 6, 1977 $1 Skeeter’s Junction Restaurant $1 Culpepper Plaza at Hwy. 30 & Hwy. 6 College Station $ 1 Japanese Toyota grabbing 5 per cent of U.S. market United Press International DETROIT — It’s hard to say an auto company appeals to a limited market when its cars start grabbing better than five per cept of the U.S. market. That’s just where Toyota is today, 20 years after the Japanese auto firm began bringing its small cars into this country. Not only do its 207,515 sales in the first five months put it in first place among imports, but Toyota has outsold American Motors — smallest of the U.S. auto firms — by nearly three to one. And Toyota is going after every buyer it can, not just the “import fanatics’’ as some Detroit industry executives like to call foreign car buyers. “At one time, we felt the import t PEACE CORPS TICKET TO EXPERIENCE CAMPUS OFFICE AGRONOMY BLDG., Rm. 105 Or call: Dwight Linsley 845-7830 Sun Theatres 333 University 846-9808 Super-Grody Movies Double-Feature Every Week Special Midnight Shows Friday & Saturday $3 per person No one under 18 Ladies Free $3 With This Ad BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS June 28 to July 4 (DAILY lilO 3*20 5*30 7*45 9*55 SORRY IT’S FOUR YEARS LATER... WHAT DOES SHE REMEMBER? S EXORCIST II THE HERETIC 1*00,4 *35,8 *15 NO v Jc>!*epli L. I^evine presents ,•>' ABRIDGE v TOO EAR MANOR EAST S THEATRES 3:25 - 5:30 - 7:36 - 9:40 3:uu — on** — BEST PICTURE ROCKY (f«t Skyway Twin East Screen 9:00 Sinbad And The Eye of the Tiger’ &<G) ‘Shadow of The Hawk’ Starts Friday HIDDEN BEHIND A WALL OF ICE AND DOOMED TO VANISH IN FLAMES! EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' The PEOPLE That TIME FORGOT Starring PATRICK WAYNE And Guest Star DOUG McCLURE Call For Times SUSAN SAINT JAMES O buyer was a different kind of maybe a little better educati maybe with a little higher incou said Norman D. Lean, Toyota’s president for general operal;; “Our view now is that the buyer is anybody. “As our product line broadei Represe and as our popularity broades we’ve become the General of the imports.” That wide lineup has put To) illic By The sper The M Univ apid joui Texas ■ Ton ’ in a different class than itseoi.jtvice say tors — even the Ford Motor0 which thinks the only way to*1 really small, fuel-efficient cariai ^ three country is to bring in a Gera ent , at '.y e . built Fiesta because it doesn’t! ;sn f , lieve Americans are interested S a ™ es , any small car Detroit has to ofe, SP 5 ! 3 * 01 ' 5 While Lean now feels Toyotal ™ e ^ exa! a “product for everybody ” andi p re snal si peals to buyers on more thanjiist | US e A] “import” appeal, Robert 0, Li; vice president and general ss) ,l e gj s lati manager for Nissan, USA Datsu jthelier still sees the market differently [ exas jyf, “The imported car buyer in j Presna import buyer,” Link said "Hi [tee and i often not interested in domij HS A&M products at all. state m0I Cliff Sehmillen, assistantdired , and field sales manager for A® ^ en ^ can Honda whose small car salesi 1 " ave to skyrocketing, figures he’ll get« tl3 8 J 1 of his sales from prospective;! tomers who already know wk , ” 0U S, ! import is. : artl ^ e “We re not competing againsll American domestic small ca ^ W1 We’re competing with Toyt Dayton Volkswagen and Datsun/’Sckii ler Jegisk said. “People who are looking! [” Tom Pintos and Vegas are not looking ]B 0 b £) a us - imost de Akira Toriyama, president re preser Mazda Motors of America, saysl not trying to sell small can everyone. Mazda’s rotary enpL 7 powered cars are now aimed at! performance ear market while! GLC (Great Little Car) is! economy entry. wlvlsK “I don’t think eveiyone will* | e ] ton t< to get into a small car. Peoplei j[ S day-lm they’re nice, hut for a long on , at Yettie they’re not so good. ir since 1! "The United States is a ven years ole country and there is a need ties plann larger cars.” ependenc And Bunzo Suzuki, Mazdas rodeo st tional public relations coordini continue echoed the statements of(« dlers Cc foreign auto company for thti i. July 4. ports’ success in this count ntry-west quality. 10 a.m. 1 “In any country, a foreign pi is fair am net has appeal,” Suzuki said. reason for good sales now is qua t. Covere and suitability.” Lean said Toyota’s approad the U.S. market is differenti that of any Detroit auto Compaq “We made every effort over past 10 to 15 years to bring products up to a level where w superior to anything on the highways,” he said. “We’re wort at it from the consumer view rather than from the viewp of just selling cars.” Bond Program to be presentee in public meetin The fourth and fifth in a serif! seven neighborhood public ings to present the 1977 BryanBa Program to Bryan voters held this Tuesday and Thud evenings at 7.30. The Tuesday meeting willbe at Crockett School for citizens If' in that general area. The Thud meeting will be at Bonham Scl( for residents living in thatviciai The general public is also invited attend these meetings. At both meetings representati from the Bryan City Council Citizen Advisory Committee, the City Staff will give a slide sentation concerning the upcond July 9th Bond Election as wel answer any questions citizens®! have concerning the 1977 Capi Improvements Bond Program. Eddie Dominguez# Joe Arciniega V Greg Price / be under and youn; It you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . .. We call It “Mexican Food „ Supreme.” Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570