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I Thursday, October 3, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 Warped ZJATlOt] WRPD/ MEDIA by Scott McCullar BILLIARDS 32 Pool Tables... 4 Shuffleboards ... Video Arcade... Foosball Tables B-CS chosen as test market for automatic gas pumps HAPPY HOUR fSAT<;''",v , §Jf!p8|§|. 702 University #110B College Station sun; 12-8 « *■ slii 846-0085 • By BRIAN PEARSON Staff Writer Bryan-College Station will become the first test area in the country for a new gasoline pump systetn that al lows customers to pay without enter ing the store. A system called “ProntoPay” — an automated, unmanned gasoline pay ment terminal — will begin operat ing Monday at the seven 7-Eleven stores that currently sell gasoline in this area, said a representative of The Southland Corporation, 7-Elev- en’s parent company. “This (Bryan-College Station) is the first area that this system will be attempted in,” said Doug Reed, as sistant manager of media relations. Reed said the area was chosen be cause it is not too big or small in pop ulation and it has its own newspa- C ers and television station that can e used for advertising ProntoPay. Reed added that the area will make an excellent customer sample. “Bryan-College Station has a cus tomer profile that is similar to what we can expect in other areas of the country,” he said. Reed said there are no other sys tems in the country like ProntoPay. “Right now there are other com panies testing similar systems, but they don’t accept cash,” he said. . The ProntoPay terminal is a free standing unit near the gasoline pumps. A customer uses the termi nal to select the type of gasoline and method of payment. Customers can pay for the gasoline with cash, VISA, Mastercard or bank cards such as Impact, Pulse and Moneymaker. Credit and bank cards are run through a terminal reader and cash is inserted in a separate slot. For cash, only $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills will be accepted. Customers who need change can take the receipt dis pensed by the terminal to the store clerk. During the first several weeks that ProntoPay is in operation, Reed said, demonstrators will be on hand from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. to show customers how to use the terminals. Reed said the trial period for ProntoPay will be one year. He said he hopes ProntoPay will increase efficiency at the gasoline pump and increase profits. Currently, he said, gasoline ac counts for about 25 percent of 7- Eleven’s sales. In 1984, 7-Eleven stores sold about 1.5 billion gallons of gas. MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $2.79 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Owner of Gilley’s Club indicted after witness changes statement MONDAY EVENING TUESDAY EVENING WEDNESDAY SPECIAL SPECIAL EVENING Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/ Chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/ Cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter Associated Press HOUSTON — The owner of Gil ley’s Club, the country-western club made famous by the movie “Urban Cowboy,” was indicted on attempted murder charges after a witness changed his story, a grand juror said. Sherwood Cryer, owner of the club in suburban Pasadena, is ac cused of firing a shotgun at karate instructor Randall Everett Johnston, 27. Cryer is free on $5,000 bond. Johnston and another martial arts teacher, Joseph Fitzgerald Acton, were walking outside the Pasadena building where they worked Nov. 26 when the shooting occurred, author ities said. Neither man was injured. ■'I' ide ney’s office and Pasadena police said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute anyone. But grand juror Preston Hair- grove, a former Pasadena city coun cilman, said the panel had to indict Cryer after hearing testimony from Johnston, now serving a 22-year prison, sentence for a burglary con viction. “We didn’t have any choice but to indict given that the shooter was identified and a witness saw men run into his (Cryer’s) house,” Hairgrove said. Pasadena police Lt. Larry Rahr said Johnston repeatedly told inves tigators that he could not identify the man who shot him. “All of a sudden — overnight — the guy regains his memory,” Rahr said. “And that puzzles me. There’s nothing anyone discovered in this department that could have gotten an indictment, Rahr said. Officers compliled a two-inch thick folder during the investigation, Rahr said. “If I could have proved Sherwood Cryer fired on them I would have filed on him in a minute,” he said. Cryer said the indictment, which also charges him with aggravated as sault, was a “totally political” attempt to retaliate against Pasadena Police Chief David Mullican, who has served as head of security at Gilley’s. 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