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Gasoline Prices Up, but Not by Much
Gasoline prices nationwide rose only slightly over the past two weeks, the Lundberg Survey of more than 10,000 gas stations reported. The average price at the pump for all grades, including taxes, rose only 0.11 of one cent to 138.07 cents per gallon, according to the survey. Nationwide at self-serve pumps, where more than 95 percent of all gas is sold, the average per-gallon price was 131.83 cents for regular unleaded, 141.34 cents for mid-grade and 149.71 cents for pre-mium.
Rain Not Enough to End Drought
Weekend rainstorms in the panhandle areas of Texas and Oklahoma were not enough to end one of the worst droughts of this century.  Scattered storms dumped six to 10 inches of rain on areas of northwest Texas and western Oklahoma Saturday and early Sunday. While the rains may help corn and cotton crops, they came too late to prevent a disaster for wheat farmers. Much of the rain simply ran off the baked soil.  Areas of northwest Texas have had rainfalls at about one-eighth of normal levels.
Hurricane Names Lined Up
After nearly using up the alloted names for hurricanes last year, forecasters in Miami will break in a new list with the hope that they won’t have to resort to a secondary list. Last year, 19 named tropical storms and hurricanes churned through the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.  If they had run out of the list of 21 names — the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used — forecasters would have had to use for the first time a backup plan of naming storms for the let-ters of the Greek alphabet. This year, forecasters hope they will not run that far into this list: Arthur, Bertha, Cesar, Dolly, Edouard, Fran, Gustav, Hort-ense, Isidore, Josephine, Kyle, Lili, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.
Detective Says He’ll Work Free for Simpson
A well-known San Francisco private eye and five fellow detectives have of-fered to help find Nicole Brown Simpson’s killer for free. Hal Lipset and the others said they would waive their usual $ 100-an-hour fee to chase down any leads, the San Francisco Examiner said.  Lipset’s offer was a response to press reports quoting O.J. Simpson as saying there were leads in San Francisco but that he was running out of money to pay for his investigation.  Simpson’s pri-vate investigator, Bill Pavelic, welcomed Lipset’s offer.  Lipset, who turns 77 today, designed the olive bug — a martini olive as transmitter with toothpick as antenna. He also worked for the Senate’s Watergate investigation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1973.