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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.
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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
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were walking outside the Pasadena
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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
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“We didn’t have any choice but to
indict given that the shooter was
identified and a witness saw men run
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Pasadena police Lt. Larry Rahr
said Johnston repeatedly told inves
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the man who shot him.
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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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