The increase in customers helps Ned keep the store open and get his house back.

The increase will help to balance the county's $1.5 billion 1993 budget.

A continued increase in prices, which have nearly doubled over the last five years, has not helped, they say.

The increase helped raise gas prices by almost 37 percent in the last 12 months, the agency said yesterday.

The increase in ratings helped force a decision that had been expected for some time.

Farmers are divided on whether the increase will help them.

The officials said the increase would help close a $60 million deficit in the agency's proposed $1.5 billion budget.

He also said that the increase would help cover costs of new equipment.

"Any increase in orders now will help the production side."

But there is agreement that an increase in investment would help.