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\ Page 4 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Thursday, September l*, 1W5 Nation GROWLING CONSUMERS Abby -Continued from Page 2B Who gets the most complaints % OF CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS (nationally) TYPE OF COMPANY Mail-ordar companies Homo-repair and ramodaling firms Franchiaad auto daalara Homo-furnishings atoraa Auto-repair shops Diract-aalaa companiaa Auto-product sales Dapartmant atoroa Dry claanara cusroMf CoMPLAt PEPAR If «H (Source: National Council of Better Business Bureaus) Credit card slot machines: Someone will pay for this By J.E. Ferrell SM FTMHlKfr W!»a«ntwf Stand by for the latest in the creeping cashless society: coinless slot machines. Sometime after the Nevada Gam­ ing Control Board gives its approval (perhaps by early next year), Del E. Webb Corp.'s Mint casino in Las Vegas is planning to put out 200 coinless slot machines for a six- month trial. Here's how they work. Instead of trading in paper money for coins, you'll essentially open a personal account. You'll be given a plastic card with the amount you want to wager electronically embed­ ded in the card. No buckets or cups of coins to haul around. You insert the card in the $1 machine (let's think big), and a small screen wel­ comes you with the amount the card is worth, and the amount you're betting. Push a button, pull the arm, lose $1, the computer deducts it from your card. of marriage. (They tried all that time.) Sue is now 2 years old, and it's impossible to carry on a normal conversation with Angle without her bringing Sue into the conversation. Changing the subject doesn't help, as Angle always finds a way of getting back to Sue. (Ed isn't as bad as Angle, but he's bad enough.) Angle stays at home. She tays she waited so long for Sue she's making a full-time career out of motherhood. I realize she is thrilled with motherhood, but that doesn't give her the right to bore everybody to death with what Sue said and what Sue did. Talk of Sue is getting on everybody's nerves. My husband and I are beginning to avoid these old friends, and so are other friends of theirs. We really like them, but we have had all we can take. Is there a solution? Maybe if you print this, they'll see it and take the hint. P CHICKEN IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR CHICKEN: And what if they don't see it? If you value the friendship of this couple, it would be an act of kindness to take Angle aside and tell her quite frankly what you have told me. The alternative would be to avoid these old friends until Sue grows up. NEA GRAPHIC Win big, and the computer adds it to your card. When you're finished for the night, you cash in your card. The card can't be tampered with, according to Herbert Lindo, presi­ dent of Kenilworth Systems, Inc., which developed the system. That's because the card is not a magnetic stripe card. It's encoded with chemi­ cal bits that can provide 18 trillion different numbers. If you tamper with it, by separating the laminated layers, it won't work. The casinos are interested in this new system for several reasons, said Guy Hillyer, a member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. One, it'll save them money, money, money. No more change guys and girls; fewer coin booth folks; fewer security guards squinting at custom­ ers as they wheel buckets of coins to the counting room; no more counters in the counting room, counting out the casino's coins. No room for the grizzly SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Cali­ fornia has politely rejected Mon­ tana's offer to transplant some of its grizzly bears here because the Gold­ en State has no room for them. "It's unfortunate that we don't have any grizzlies, but we'll just have to live with the black bears," Eldridge G. Hunt, chief of the state Fish and Game Department's wild­ life management branch, said in a recent interview. Hunt said there are about 15,000 black bears in the state and the number represents a "good population." The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department some time ago offered California as well as several other states and Canadian provinces its grizzlies because they pose a danger to people and livestock. "It's one thing to have them up there (Montana) with a lot of back country," Hunt said. "There is just not enough wilderness area in Cali­ fornia, and they would impact on people here." He noted the grizzly has "a tre­ mendous home range" and it preys on livestock. "One of the reasons they are not in California any more," he said, "is that they are a little more aggres­ sive than the black bears, and fron­ tiersmen in the old days shot them because they attacked livestock. The gun won the battle." The grizzly averages 6 to 7 feet in length and weighs up to 750 pounds. It attacks large mammals such as deer. The bears are now found in wild and protected regions of Alas­ ka, western Canada and the Rocky Mountains. 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