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Page 12 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1981 Features Electronic shopping growing United Press International NEW YORK — Electronic shopping by means of cable televi sion and two-way video terminals in the home, talked about for years, becomes a reality in a num ber of American cities this year. At least three two-way systems will be introduced. Actually, electronic shopping will be only a small part of the capabilities of the new systems, known generically as two-way videotext display. People also will use them to pay bills, execute banking transactions, and to re trieve educational information and news from computer data banks, plus services as yet unfore seen. Cox Broadcasting Co. of Atlan ta will inaugurate service in New Orleans, Omaha and San Diego, using equipment made by Oak In dustries’ CATV division of Crystal Lake, Ill. Tocom, Inc., of Irving has sold equipment to Storer Broadcasting Co.’s cable division in Atlanta to be used in the Louisville and St. Louis markets and the northern Kentucky area across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Telidon Videotext Systems, Inc., of Stamford, Conn., a sub sidiary of Informal of Toronto, has sold its system to Times-Mirror Co. of Los Angeles, which will in stall about 200 terminals in homes in Los Angeles and Orange coun ties in Southern California. Dr. Gary Tjaden of Cox Broad- Sun Theatres 333 University 846-! The only movie in town 846-9808 Double-Feature Every Week 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun. Thurs. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. No one under ^8 BOOK STORE A ?5c PEEP SHOWS Make This Weekend SOMETHING SPECIAL! 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Two subsidiaries of Amer ican Can Co., Home Service and Fingerhut, a mail order selling firm, will provide merchandise services for the Cox cable televi sion databank, which also contains news, educational, transportation and other data. Cox plans to offer two merchan dising services. One will be a mar riage of printed catalogs with code numbers which a purchaser can use to get additional information from the databank and make arrangement for payment and de livery or pickup. The other service will provide a way of instantly ordering something that interests you and scheduling payment and delivery after seeing it advertised on cable TV. Tjaden said eventually it will be possible for the databank to guarantee delivery of almost any thing ordered within 48 hours. “The big problem,’ he said, “was to work out a reasonably good method of bill payment. ” Many sellers of goods and ser vices can take part in these sys tems. AUTWWmWf foyitcM. sctm* somu&y Cox will start full service in San Diego as early as April, in Omaha probably in June and in New Orleans later in the year. Tjaden said the Omaha market alone has a potential of about 21,000 home videotext terminals. v. m viHl Photo by Sut MtW What happened to fetching bones? Knowing what living in the rainiest region in Texas is like, junior finance major Greg Cizik has trained his dog, Rufus, to carry his umW la across campus for him on rainy days, Solar home power: money is the lure, and problem Day or Night . . . her image is cooly feminine. For a special luncheon or for evening cocktails she has that sophisticated allure. Soft yet reserved. Sensual, yet restrained. When night falls, she wears her womanhood sweetly. Her night look mirrors the loveliness of yesteryear, with a touch of poetry. Whether you're a man or a woman, let That Place create a new hairstyle especially for you, to compliment your individuality. 696-6933 693-0607 Across from A&M 707 Shopping Village In Culpepper Plaza Texas Avenue United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Imagine getting a monthly check from your local power company instead of a bill — and you’ll understand why Art Litka grins every time he reads the meters at an experimental solar house near Kennedy Space Center. By the end of the 1980s, Litka predicts, people will be able to obtain up to 75 percent of their household electricity without a power company. They’ll use energy-producing photovoltaic devices on their roofs. As technology progresses, cell banks may be able to supply entire neighborhoods. “No alternative that I’m aware of is a panacea, ’’ says Litka, direc tor of photovoltaic research at the Florida Solar Energy Center. “But this is the one that makes the most sense.” Litka’s confidence stems from the early success of an experimen tal photovoltaic house — one of eight in the country — at the solar energy research site. The three-bedroom, two-bath, $mSC AGGIE CINEMA wood-frame experimental house looks like any other new Florida home except for 168 solar cell panels on its south roof. The panels are rated at 30 watts each. The system has no moving parts. Experts estimate cell life of 20 years. Sunlight on the panels gener ates direct current. The current goes to an inverter box that turns it into alternating current to run household appliances such as dis hwashers, ranges and air condi tioners. “The solv portion of this system will contribute about 750 kilowatts a month,” says Litka. “That’s ab out three-quarters the power con sumed by an average family in Florida. ” One power meter for the sys tem measures current produced by the solar cells. The other meter measures “excess” current the house feeds into the local Florida Power & Light Co. grid. “You look at this like a bank' account,” Litka said. “The solar cells provide the deposits, the power you use is the withdrawal, and what’s left is the balance.” The problem with present cells is price. The total cost and installation of the solar cents house’s system was $55,000. Litka and Dr. Charles E. Bad us, director of solar research Arizona State University, sayM eral and private researchers« determined to cut that figure If $10,000 in five to 10 years. At that price, says Back photovoltaic electricity will In cheaper per kilowatt hour tit conventional power in Boston a: Phoenix, and competitive witlitv cost of power in Miami. “The current assumption istk it will pay for itself in 15 years, a that’s without any tax incentive like there are now for the install tion of solar hot water heaters Backus said. He thinks solar cells can pie vide 2 percent to 10 percent oftlf nation’s electricity by the the yet 2000. The challenge, he said.rf be getting people to buy them With first systems, he said, pee pie still will have to rely on putt utility companies for powers! night and on rainy days—becaffl batteries and devices to store sot cell-produced energy are still is the developmental stage. "COUSIN COUSINE" ALPHA ZETA SCHOLARSHIPS WED. 7:30 P.M I Open to all students in College of Agriculture MAKE IT WITH JUAREZ TEQUILA ■ GOLD OR SILVER IMPORTED & BOTTLED BY TEQUILA JALISCO S.A ST LOUIS. M0 . 80 PROOF I FRI. & SAT. 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This faith has been once for all delivered to the saints (lude 3), and we must earnest ly contend for it, be built up on it, preach it, and fight the good fight concerning it. We should not be children carried about by every wind of doctrine, but grow until we arrive at the oneness of the faith (Eph. 4:13). The common faith held by all who have re ceived the Lord Jesus Christ is a crucial factor of the oneness of the Lord’s redeemed people. The elements of our faith consist of revealed biblic al truths which all genuine Christians believe. As those who hold the faith, we believe and testify that there is only one true and living Triune God eternal ly co-existing as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit; that the Bible, the infallible Word of God, is the complete divine revelation inspired by the Holy Spirit; that the Son of God, even God Himself, became incarnated as a man named Jesus, born of a virgin, to be our Redeemer and Savior; that lesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and shea His blood for the accomplishment of our redemption; that Christ, after being buried in the tomb, resur rected bodily from among the dead and ascended to the heavens, where God made Him the Lord of all; that the ascended Christ has poured out the Spirit of God upon the Body, and the Spirit is moving on earth today to convict sinners and regenerate those who believe in Christ; and that at the end of this age Jesus Christ will come back to judge the world, to take up His members, to take possession of the earth, and to establish His eternal kingdom. 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