AUGUST 19, 2008 --

This writer is going through papers, photos, memorabilia as he prepares to get ready for a buyer for his apartment.

A Jack Anderson column, published in the Jewish Press , June 15, 1979, surfaced -- noting that gas prices are getting close to $1 a gallon, reported that "oil men are talking privately of driving the price up to $2 a gallon."

It took 29 years, but the "oil men" have doubled their 1979 goal. As the price of gas has dropped in recent weeks, are the "oil men" counting on U.S. drivers to regard $3.60 as a low price?

At last, however, it seems agreed that higher gas prices tend to push prices up throughout the economy.

LPR regrets that due to gas prices, it was not able to get photos, this summer, of the delicious peaches the public can pick at Fix Brothers farm, near Hudson, N.Y., about 100 miles from New York City. And, the price has increased from 70 cents a pound, a few years ago, to 1.00 a pound. The peach in the accompanying photo was picked on August 5, 2007.