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age 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1979 AUTOMOBILE PARKING FOR LUNCH Persons who have wanted to visit the new Salad, Sandwich and Soup luncheon area in the Sbisa Basement can now find ample and convenient parking in Lot #32, across the street from Sbisa. Open 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. MONDAY - FRIDAY “QUALITY FIRST” 'Briarwootf dftpartmmts Pre-Leasing Program WE HAVE IT ALL! “For Summer and Fall” ■£$1 o, > <7 ★ 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms ★ 2 Swimming Pools ★ Professional Tennis Courts ★ Exercise Room With Sauna ★ Zacharias Greenhouse Disco & Game Parlor Summer ’79 Specials Month to Month 1 Bedrooms $ 150 00 2 Bedrooms *200°° 3 Bedrooms *280°° EXTRA SPECIAL PRICES Summer, Fall, <Lr Spring! leases signed summer spring and fall only 693-2933 693-3014 1201 (HWY 30) HUNTSVILLE HWY COLLEGE STATION the nation Skylab’s return joins list A* United Press International WASHINGTON — A Soviet satel lite fell to Earth nine years ago scat tering charred steel debris over the 'American southwest including a 640-pound steel plate that is the heaviest known piece of space junk to have been recovered. Sometime in late June or early July, America’s abandoned 78.5 ton Skylab space station will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, disintegrate and drop an estimated 500 chunks of metal along a 4,000 mile long belt 100 miles wide. Forty-three Skylab pieces are ex pected to weigh more than 200 pounds with a section of an airlock module weighing 5,000 pounds, a lead-lined film vault weighing 4,000 pounds and six oxygen tanks weigh ing 2,700 pounds apiece. In addition to Skylab, there are now more than 4,600 man-made ob jects the size of golf ball or larger in space. All but 114 are in orbit around the Earth and most sooner or later will return. Thousands of man-made objects already have fallen out of orbit since the space age began in 1957 and the North American Air Defense Com mand (NORAD) reports space debris is now falling on the average of more than one a day. NORAD said it knows of no one being hit by a man-made object from space and it said chances are greater of being struck by a meteorite. According to a study for NASA by the Battelle Columbus (Ohio) Laboratories, there have been only seven verified incidents of injuries caused by a meteorite during the past 200 years and no verified fatalities. There have been some close calls, however, during the past decade. Among 12 separate incidents re ported since 1968 were: —A 1.5-pound meteorite pene trated the roof of a barn near Murchi son, Australia, Sept. 28, 1969, nar rowly missing two men who were stacking hay. —A farmer in Ucera, Venezuela, saw a fireball and heard an explosion when an 11 pound meteorite struck the ground 240 feet from his house on Jan. 16, 1970. —A meteorite weighing 12.3 ounces struck a home in NOW LEASING FOR SUMMER AND FALL. Barcelona APARTMENTS NEWLY REMODELED ! ALL UTILITIES PAID and... 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Of the satellite debris that fell over the Southwest on Aug. 28, 1970, six )kk,H Metered phone calls, Ma Bell’s latest idea: pay for what you sa United Press International WASHINGTON — No matter where you live, the day may be com ing when you pay for your local tele phone call by the same method as you’re charged for long-distance — by how long and how often you talk. The industry contends the ap proach is only fair: People who use the telephone the most should pay more, and those who hardly ever lift the receiver should pay less. Opponents of the approach say it’s deceptive because it is touted as a voluntary option to current flat rate billing. In reality, they say, flat rate billing will eventually get so expen sive that it will disappear and everyone will be left with the pay- by-the-call system. The local measured approach is not new. New York City, for exam ple, has had a message unit system for years based on the amount of time the user is on the telephone. Chicago has had a variation of the same sys- pieces of steel were recovered® rural areas near Beaver, Okk^ rian, Tex., and Pratt, Kan.; the pieces were oblong chunfe! to two and one-half feet lonfST weighing about 150 pounds.[ u, The largest piece was a flat stee); .4V A S1 weighing 640 pounds. ^ sa l me mol two year: payers “1 llause < These* port e train t al Po anizat tern. Most of the country, W’,]t said has been on a flat rate systeml 1976 calls. Bnths ii American Telephone and* the ii graph says the system —calkfceofhis measured service — is beingo&ut aft in one form or another in most:: About 50 percent of the BellsysJ business customers haveitancj 13 percent of the firm’s read customers, a spokesman said “Optional measured serviaJ the customer a chance to selecl kind of service that appears J most useful and best forhimoril he added. “In a time of risingp it enables them to select as where, by the way they usej phones, they can control the* they pay.” son ►ion ar it arms tiative. It said ja alom Oct. (tho [get \ rd-Kiss Iven w order iapons 1st and You save about one-half the cost of using a moving company by renting a Ryder truck and moving it yourself. Not bad pay for doing your own moving, is it? And, with Ryder, you know that you’re renting a truck from the best- maintained, most dependable fleet in the world. That’s nice to know when you’re rolling across the highway with ail of your family and possessions with you. One person who has been questions about the trend tj Richardson, an assistant to Peterson, President Garten sumer adviser. “It’s not really voluntary,” 1«| in an interview. “It’s beingpraj in a voluntary way and I fee! deceptive. ye riser fisc£ IA less hs expo th. Jers thi idded. ihe law tover c THE TRUCK PROFESSIONALS U RENT M “People who benefit, people use the telephone less, wills* an effort to try to cut the bi they can cut the bills to vant| grees,” Richardson said. ‘'Ba means the telephone comp® less revenue. pons c under COLLEGE STATION ASK FOR RALPH BRYAN ASK FOR VINCE 693-1313 779-0085 RYDER. THE BEST TRUCK MONEY CAN RENT. “What they have to do then the flat rate. The result is tk® sa >d will price flat rate out of the r® we d tl because the people remaining will be higher and higher tw would start a spiral,’’ he said Richardson also question! measured service approach be “it introduces uncertainty lbr_, , r sumers. The companies haven ®! cated us. Very few people haw te 8' c idea how much they use theP as phone.” Bln the U.S. ped“ui ti in cos id by fo; past si t said ii [es may ANIMAL WORLD Too Open Sunday 1 thru 5 y jitter The th< ition is ninistra . The 1 * of 1 000 co No. #1 on the Pet Sellers list. erventic There i New Aquarium prices Ferrets 49.99 Marine fish & supplies Mice 79c @ 3 for $2.00 Rats 1.59 w/own box Pinkys 25c located in Culpepper Plaza 0 t Unit elkrii ■ ■•#teen, wh s in 15 Park, i ers toe A local a