European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. July 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 rain Snow help contain Western blazes. I hit non Arrit not in the Blaze May have started on a n by the associated press with help from rain and even a bit of Snow firefighters on saturday were mop Ping up Moil remnants of the fires Hal scorched More irian 51,000 acres and claimed three lives in eight Western states Over he past week. However. 30-Mph winds were fanning a new fire Hal had consumed More than 100 acres and was burning out of control in Utah officials said and in Nevada 40 firefighters battled a Brush fire on Lake Tahoe s North Shore. The worst fire still in contained is the Forest fire near Roseburg Ore which killed two loggers on wednes Day. Lynn Anderson Farr a stale depart ment of forestry spokeswoman said firefighters had dug fire trails around More than 40 percent of the tire which had spread to More than 10,000 acres. Rain Hal fell throughout the night helped slow the spread of the Blaic. She said. Combined fires in Southwest Oregon burned More than 12,000 acres and Cre ated a pall of smoke Hal was visible on weather satellite photographs. In the Utah fire 50 firefighters battled the Blaze about 25 Miles from Salt Lake City . Davis a dispatcher with the Intel Agency fire Center said. Davis said officials had reported 100 acres burned but were too Busy fighting inc fire to update that figure the 100 acres were reported three hours ago so it s probably considerably bigger than  he said. The National guard gunnery Range he said. In North Central Washington rain grounded helicopters used by firefighters against an Oul Afao Lrol 400-acre fire along the Twisp River but it also helped reduce the need for them. In Washington state where tires have charred More than 25,000 acres in the past week one Blaze destroyed 24 Homes and caused at least s7 million damage to ,1 housing development South of so  s Nonn an orc.  Gas prices in . Will continue climb experts say 1 Mauntine concern thai the Reagan administration by United press International american motorists Are Likely to pay More at the Gas pump if crude Oil prices hold the Gams racked up in the explosive rally that has a Cpl world Market amid tears Over mounting tensions in the persian Gulf analysis say. Inevitably i would Sec a push to higher gasoline prices said Alvin Silber Oil analyst at Brcan Murray Foster securities inc. In new York. Every Lime that crude Oil prices have increased this year gasoline has gone up at the  average . Pump Price topped $1 a gallon for the first time in 16 months in the two week period that ended july 10, according to the los Angeles based Lundburg Survey which tracks gasoline and other Petroleum  july 10 and july 17, inc average . Wholesale Price for branded supplies of regular unleaded gasoline shot up by 0.81 cent per gallon and unbranded supplies by 0.99 cent Lundburg data showed. Unleaded fuel accounts for More than 75 per cent of the Domestic gasoline Market. Industry observers said this new round of wholesale increases should appear soon Al the nation s gasoline Pula week alone. West to As  the Benchmark . Crude surged by $1.06 to s22.39 a barrel on the new York mercantile Exchange on top gasoline chains in Perc it of . Market share tom9s6 i Exxon Chicago Tibuni a Souter Nii Jonal it Toum now mounting i administration s plan to have . Ships escort kuwaiti Oil tankers in the Gulf could a Lopardi a he now of Oil through inc waterway to the  the . Gulf coast spol Market where Oil is sold to inc highest bidder West Texas intermediate jumped by 11.20 last week. Oil on the International spol Market climbed by nearly s1 a barrel. The . Oil Industry boosted i official Price for the key Domestic crude by Al a barrel in response tothe dramatic Rise on global  a barrel increase in world Oil Price theoretically translates into a hike of 2.3 cents a gallon on gasoline and Home heating Oil if passed along to the .  crude Oil continues to hold at both the spot Market and the posted Price level refined Petroleum products will follow it i hair own beat Back to pre-1986 Levels said Trilby Lundberg Edisio Roythe Lundburg Survey. The average . Retail Price for All grades of gasp line Hil $1.0023 a gallon on july 10, surpassing the j1 Mark for the first Lime since March 986, she said. . Pump prices reached a record High of si.377 a gallon in March 1981 and bottomed out at 84.63 cells in november 1986 during the crude Oil Price collapse. Spot prices for regular unleaded gasoline leaped by about 4 cents a gallon in los Angeles last week. Carre to Etc our i crinum i a a $1,000 donation will bring Falwell biography. I i in Ina