“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• BLAME THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND THE NEXT TIME YOU FILL UP at the gas station, workers at local gas stations said in the summer of this year.
“People always blame us for the high prices. This isn’t our fault,” says Shane Holiway at Food-N-Fuel.
Prices for unleaded regular gasoline had risen to $1.65 a gallon by Monday, with predictions that prices could go higher. Bob Anderson at Cenex-Harvest States agrees. “We can’t help it,” said Bob Anderson, local manager for Cenex-Harvest States. “I don’t think any of us have ever seen anything like this before. Anyway, we’re not enjoying it at all.”
High prices at the pumps is the result of a greater demand for gasoline than is being supplied right now, says Anderson. “The supply of gasoline is being kept low as the vacation season begins causing a greater demand for it.
Will gasoline hit $2 a gallon? Don’t think that it won’’t, says Laurie Thoma at Tracy Amoco.
“I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if we hit $2 around the Fourth of July. It may dip down a little after that, but by Labor Day, we’ll be right back up there.”
• Last week’s answer: Clint Peterson, who became Tracy High School’s music instructor and band director in 1960, announced his retirement in 1986.
