Gyp Trippers

Fishy things seemed to be happening at the Canadian ends of Detroit's traffic links to the Dominion--the Windsor Fleetway Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge. Windsor Star Columnist R. M. Harrison investigated, came away breathing hard. In righteous wrath next day he exposed some sleazy maneuverings by gas-hungry U.S. citizens.

"By any chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book.

"Every Canadian Customs officer knows very well, deep down in his heart, that the car driver is a liar. One has only to trail a 'tourist' of this type up the street and into the nearest gas station. He collects his twelve gallons, surrenders his permit, and within 15 minutes he's heading back . . . to Detroit. This is going on not only in Windsor, but at every border-crossing point in Canada, /- We're giving our gas to gyppers."

/-Where basic gas rations are 144 (U.S. size) gallons a year, compared with 96 in the U.S.

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