FOR RENT Page 6/The BattalionTTuesday, September 17, 1985 CASa 6el sol PRELEASING SUMMER & FALL 2 Blocks from Campus Church across the street* 2 blocks from stores* 2 blocks from nite life on University Pool Jacuzzi Large Party Room Basketball Goals On Premise Security On Premise Maintenance Open 7 days a week Mon.-Sat. 8:30-5:30 Sun. 1:00-5:00 401 Stasney College Station 696-3455 SCHOLAR’S INN APARTMENTS HELP WANTED Is now offering an early fall special 2 Bdrm. for only $200. per month •Walking distance to campus •Call today, only a few left •846-3050 Cramped in your dorm or apt.? Then check with Casa Blanca Apartments They are offering an early fall spe cial. 2 bedroom unfurnished apartment for 2 people for only $200. per month. They’re only 6 blocks fromcampus. Call 846-1413 or go by 4110 College Main in Bryan. Sbori \v;ilk (loin A&M. l.ARGK one bedroom duplex. 2():m_<:iiiiieli Street. J250./iuontli. 693-0982, 693- (783. 3(9/17 SPECIAL NOTICE FOR SALE Buy • Sell •Trade Top cash money for good used furniture. Furniture Liquidation Mart, Pooh’s Park. M - S. 10 - 6. 693-3742. 1966 Ford Mustang. Candy apple red, black interior. Excellent condition. Call 260-2150. llt9/27 A Sleal! dbrni . 2 1/2 ha..on 1 acre. Good laniily neigh borhood. Owner nuist sell. $85,000. Call 846-3064(9/20 Engineering graduate has 14x56 mobile home. Oak Forest #12. All appliances, shady fenced lot, sacrifice $8900. 693-5206 or collect 806-793-9491. 3t9/l7 Mowing-Landscaping exisiting business with income. Prefered reliable responsible married student. Call for detatls/Randal. 696-5908 after 6:00. 8t9/18 77 Thunderbird. All power, $1500. 693-8370, after 6 p.rn. 9t9/19 For Sale: Rockhopper-18 1 //', 15 speed specialized all terrain bike. Great for campus too. Leave message 779- 2537. 10t9/20 HELP WANTED THE GREENERY Landscape Maintenance Team Member Full or part time Interview M-Th 8:30-9:30 a.m. 823-7551 1512 Cavitt, Bryan 180 The Houston Chronicle is taking applications for carriers, on imme^ diate route openings. Earn $400. to $700. per month plus transpor tation allowance. Please call Ju lian at 693-2323 or Andy at 693- 7815. 719/18 Pizza Hut Special Delivery Needs Part Time Dr j V ers •$5.-$8. per hour •must be 18 yrs. of age •apply in person at 1103 Anderson, 3131 Briarcrest (behind Nash's), 501 Univ. Dr. Northgate. Student help wanted. Must be able to work day. 779-7042. full half llt9/18 FOR LEASE For Lease: 3-2-2, in walking distance to TAMU - fenced yard - call 693-5226 after 5:30. 9t9/19 LOST AND FOUND Lost Old English Sheepdog. White head, grey body. Reward. 823-1449. 10t9/20 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY wt‘ckly/ii|>. Mailing circulars! No <|iintus! Sincerely iniercsled rush scll-atldressccl envelope: Suc cess. I\(i. Ilox 47.m.-l Ip.in. Apply in person. Inn at Chimney Mill. 3t9/30 Landscaping work, $4.25. Flexible hours. Brazos Ven tures. 846-6060. 7t9/24 Gmtar teacher part time. 764-0006. Keyboard Center, Po?t Oak Mall. 7t9/tfn Part-time Computer Operator. 10-15 hours per week. Prefer J uniors or Seniors, all majors. No experience necessary. Send resume to Don Lawrence, P.O. Box 6500, Bryan, Texas 77802. 7t9/24 Piano and kexboard demonstrating sells person needed part time. Gall fur appointment. Keyltoaid Center, Post Oak Mall 764-0006. tin Piper's Gulf Station, corner of University at Texas Ave nue. Phone no. 846-3062. 9t9/19 Part lime delivery person needed. You must have a pickup. Average $6.00 hour, plus mileage. For ap pointment call 764-0006. Keyboard Center, Post Oak Mall. 8t9/30 Crusieship Hiring Data. Phone 707-778-1066 for di rectory and information. 10t9/S0 On The Double needs part time experienced typists. Apply in person. 331 University Drive. 10t9/20 Interviewers needed. U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service needs fifteen interviewers to travel to va rious sites throughout the U.S. Must provide own transportation. Contact Bob Crabtree: (409) 845-5334. 8t9/18 Wanted: We need drivers so we can deliver our pizza within 30 minutes. If you are 18 years or older and own a car come by Chanello’s. Cash paid nightly. 20% com- msission guaranteed at least $3.75/hr. Good drivers can earn $8.-$9./hr. Apply in person. 8t9/25 By JO BETH MURPHY Reporter Debbie’s smile greets customers in much the same way as other salespersons’ smiles do. She helps customers in much the same way as other salespersons do. But Debbie’s different. She’s on video tape in a Touch-n-Save shopping machine. The Touch-n-Save discount shop ping system is a new way to shop. It’s a cross between a catalog and a video game machine. And it’s exclusively located in Safeway grocery stores. One can go to Safeway for a loaf of bread and also order a new color television or an electric griddle or a bed spread. “We think it’s a multimillion dol lar thing,” says Barbara Koontz, the demonstrator of the Touch-n-Save at the Safeway on Texas Avenue in College Station. “We think it’s the most convenient way for customers to get specials.” The machine itself is special. So nar detects a potential shopper when the customer walks up to the ma chine. That’s when Debbie first ap pears, but she pops in every now and then to offer explanations or give di rections. The customer touches the screen of the machine and a ware house directory lists the depart ments of merchandise available through the Touch-n-Save system. The departments vary from sports- ware to houseware to personal care items. The customer touches the screen on the desired department name, for example personal care, and a further break down into specific types of personal care appears, such as hair care. The customer then touches the screen on hair care and categories of items comes up on the screen. The customer chooses the desired appli ance, for example hot rollers, and a list of brand names available ap pears. After a specific brand choice has been made, the customer touches the screen again and up to four models of hot rollers are pictured on the screen. The price, rebates and comparable price if the item is avail able at other stores are given with each picture of the product. The customer then can zero in on a spe cific product by touching the screen for more information about the product’s features. From this point the customer can continue shopping on the Touch-n- Save in any of the 24 departments or decide whether or not to buy a prod uct. A shopper can use Visa, Master- Card, check or money order to pay for an item. The products are shipped by UPS within one or two business days and are delivered within five to seven days. Check and money order purchases take longer because they nave to be mailed in. The product is sent to the purchas er’s home or any other adaress the purchaser desires, excluding post of fice boxes. “Instead of people buying that rose at the last minute for Mother’s Day,” Koontz says, “they can use the Touch-n-Save and get something really nice while they’re already at the grocery store.” Safeway bought the machines from the CompuSave Corp. in Ir vine, Calif. Safeway has exclusive use of the machines for two years, dur ing which it will be testing the use of Touch-n-Save, Koontz says. Koontz also says Safeway is using the shopping system to compete with K-Mart stores and to expand one- stop shopping at Safeway. She says customers could save at least 10- to 15-percent and sometimes even 50 percent off high quality, brand name items. “We’re facing an FUD factor: fear of the machine itself, uncertainty of ever receiving the product and doubt about the conditon of the product once it does arrive,” Koontz says about customer acceptance of the Touch-n-Save system. Koontz and Safeway are going to fight against that FUD factor on Wednesday. Koontz will explain Touch-n-Save’s triple guarantee, which includes a double-your- money-back policy if, within 30 days, a customer finds the same item he bought at Safeway at a lower regular price somewhere else. She also will give demonstrations of the machine from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hours when she will be available after Wednes day to Assist customers with the ma chine will be posted in Safeway. As an added incentive to custom ers to check out the shopping sys tem, Koontz will pass out coupons worth $5 off groceries to customers who buy at least $29 worth of gro ceries. “I’d listen (to the demonstration) for $5,” Koontz says. She also will explain the Touch-n- Save return policy and other money saving incentives the discount system offers. The Bryan-College Station area was incluaed in the Touch-n-Save testing because of the large number of students in the area, Koontz says. Other testing is being done in Austin and Houston, she says. Touch-n-Save machines are lo cated in the Safeway on Texas Ave nue in College Station and in the Safeway on Briarcrest in Bryan. m M mm ■ ■ w W 11U I 9 U Tuesday AGUIE RED CROSS: is sponsoring a blood drive at the'or- mer Veternariati School Library from 1 i a.m. to 5 p.m. LA TERTULIA (SPANISH CLUB): is meeting at 7 p.m at Casa Tomas on Texas Avenue. UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE OBSERVANCE: Aggies wage peace together in obser vation of U.N. International Day of Peace. PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder Tower. Everyone is welcome. TEXAS AtfcM NUTRITION CLUB: will meet at 6 p.mia 607 Rudder Tower. HISTORY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 321 Sterling C. Evans Library. AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder Lower. AGGIE GOP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder Towei. State Rep. Richard Smith will speak. TAMU FLYING CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Airpon Club House. NOW (NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN): will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder Tower. i FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet at 8:50 p.m. in 145 MSC. LEBANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8.30 p.m. in 504 Rudder Tower. TAMU DEBATE SOCIETY: t rvouts will be held for the Fo rum (Sept. 24) at 7 p.m. in 608D Blocker. For more infor mation call Wayne Kraemer at 845-8336. TAMU LIVING‘HISTORIANS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 121 Heldenfels Hall. ONE WHEELERS; will meet at 6 p.m. in the Grove. SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VEN TURES(ENVE): will meet at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder Tower. ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: will present “Children of Paradi- se’* — M. Game’s classic French film — at 8 p.m. in the Ar chitecture Auditorium. PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 16? Read (E. Kyle). Wednesday TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder Tower. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder Tower. SIERRA CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the College Station Community Center, 1300 Jersey. Rm. 102. TAMU MUSICIAN’S CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 407 Rud der Tower. CIRCLE K: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder Tower. HISTORY DEPARTMENT: history film series will show “Henry V” at 7 p.m. in 113 Biological Sciences Building East. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for an “Aggie supper” at 6 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.m. in 301 RudderTower. STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION COMMISSION: freshman election tiling (Student Senate, Freshman class officers) 9 a.m.*5 p.m. today through Friday. TEXAS A&M STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the observatory atop the O&M Building. COMMITTEE FOR AWARENESS OF MEXICAN-AMERI- CAN CULTURE (CAMAC): will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 iffll Rudder Tower. PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 VMA. Dr. Gage speaking on pre-professional curriculum. items for Whitt's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to desired publication Gov. White praises workers’ quick response to acid spill Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Emergency workers and railroad officials re-, sponded admirably after a train de railment dumped toxic sulfuric acid into the Medina River, Gov. Mark White said Monday. White flew to tne scene six miles southwest of San Antonio to inspect the site where the derailment oc curred late Saturday. “Within two minutes of the time of the accident, these people had re sponded,” the governor said. “Under the circumstances they did a remarkable job.” White said he wanted to inspect the site because “it is a major spill and it has a major impact on the state. We have to be careful how we transport hazardous materials.” Building a system of train by passes around major cities is not a feasible plan for avoiding such disas ters, he said. “We are faced with the realities of dollars and cents,” White said. “We just have to build the safest network possible.” The governor m#de his remarks just a few hours after officials al lowed 300 people who had been evacuated from the area to return to their homes. About 300 people were allowed to return to their homes Monday as workers continued cleaning up thousands of gallons of deadly sulfu ric acid that spilled into the Medina River after a train derailment. Cleanup crews were vacuuming the corrosive chemical out of the wa ter and off the riverbanks. Other workers dumped about 280 tons of lime into the river, working feve rishly to neutralize the acid. “We’re on the downhill side now,” said Art Henson, superintendent of 1 the San Antonio Division of the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Texas Water Commission officials said no water supplies were threat ened by the acid. At least seven cleanup workers were injured when they suffered burns from the toxic acid. The most seriously injured, Kenneth Carter, 52, was expected to be transferred to the burn unit at the Brooke Army Medical Center, officials said. Officials said five of the others were treated and released. A sixth, Armando Leal, was admitted to Wil- ford Hall U.S. Air Force Hospital in good condition, a hospital spokes man said. The derailment late Saturday caused a railroad trestle over tht river to collapse, sending 28carsio the riverbanks 50 feet belo* Twenty-one of the cars were tanken loaded with acid bound for nortl Texas, said Jim Johnson, a Southed Pacific spokesman. The tankers were carryinj 285,000 gallons of acid, Johnsoi said, and about half of it spilled About 50,000 gallons of the suh stance leaked into the river, heiaid Doug Dupre, another Southed Pacific spokesman, said about 281 tons of lime was dumped into tht river to neutralize the acid. The add plume drifted five to six miles dom river, and lime was being dumpedai several points in that stretch, he said Residents were urged to stay out of the five-mile stretch of the river. Professional Academic Typist/Word Processor. $1.25/ ds/page; Volume rates. 764-6600. 7t9/24 Plumbing repairs, small, ISrge jobs. Licensed, afforda ble. 823-7723,779-6197. 9t9/26 Educational Editing. Professional editing and proof reading. Ph.l). degree, 12+ years professional expeii- eme. 761-7937. lt9/30 Native Vienniese (English Speaking) with teaching cer tification, can tutor you in German. Call 696-0277. Wil- traut Holub. 8t9/18 Expert Typing, Word Processing, Resumes. All work error free. PERFECT PRINT. 822-1430. 10U2/6 Word Processing. Call Cindy. 779-4935. 10tl0/4 Lesbian rap group meets Thrusdays 7:30 P.M. New members welcome. Call 764-8310. 2t9/4 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY EM THE SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURES ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING Tues., Sept. 17 at 7:00 p.m. Room 601 Rudder Free Refreshments . . . Everyone Welcome TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY