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3 A low City Pre-qtixn Monday. My It, 1979 Border aas draws Americans i A. TI Ik-" ti If -I Tourism in Detroit, noted the-increase at the Windsor crossing and added: "It's not that there isn't gas in Detroit, it's just the prices are so high." At first glance, Canadian gas prices may look about the same as those in the United States. But Canadians sell gasoline by the Imperial gallon, which equals 1.2 gallons as measured south of the border. In addition, the U.S.

dollar is worth about $1.15 in Canada. Those two factors can mean a difference between posted price and actual cost in U.S. money of more than 20 cents per gallon. At some border points, however, the advantage is reduced by bridge tolls, such as $1.50 at Detroit, or 70 cents at Niagara Falls. for 67 cents.

Ten minutes away, in San Diego County, a National City dealer was charging more than 90 cents for regular and premium. estimated 80,000 Americans have been going to Tijuana daily in recent weeks, hunting for gas. This weekend, 160,000 cars were expected to cross the border. Bat the heavy demand the past two weekends pumped the tanks dry of both premium and regular at the tion operated by Oscar Alvarei, 26. "Our business has gqne up 30 to 40 percent In the last couple months," he aid.

But he believes gas-hungry Americans account for only part of the boom: "Most of our business is from the same customer. But instead of TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) Gasoline has become a big lure in drawing Americans to Mexican border towns. Prices are cheaper, gas is available at least for now, and when stations are open and informal surveys show more American cars at Tijuana gas stations. Americans also ara crossing Into Canada for gas, but with possible exception of Windsor, north of Detroit, the number does not seem as great as in Tijuana. And t- what with the differences in currency and.

the size gallons sold the savings are not soclear." The pumps at one station in down town Tijuana advertise regular gasoline for 46 cents a gallon and premium buying one gallon, they are now buying two. And many Mexicans who bought gas on the U.S. side are now buying it over here." Richard Knapman, a British-born electronics engineer employed in Mexico, said the gas crunch is slowly spilling into Tijuana. "Up until recently, we had no problems at all," Knapman said. "Now, we have lines on the weekends and you can't get unleaded." To the north, there has been an increase in people crossing from Detroit into Windsor to buy gas, though no marked increase was reported in Washington state or at Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Michael Wondergem, manager of the Canadian Government Office of U' 'Insufficient progress' cited Congress may boost Postal Service funds L' ta mmS jmm AP Laaerphato billion in 1982 and $1.3 billion a year after that. The committee said what exists, rather than a business-like agency, "is a heavily indebted organization which now will begin to lose the already-inadequate level of public service financing." The report said the bill, which the House is expected to vote on early next month, would "modify the policy in the current law that the Postal Service must 'break-even' no matter what the cost in service reductions or how high the price of a stamp." Although committee staff members predict the House will pass the bill, it is expected to face problems in the Senate, where budgetary austerity may kill it. accepted some of the predictions of the proponents of postal reorganization and set 1984 as the year when the Postal Service would be able to 'break-even' pay its expenses solely out of revenues," a report to House members says. "Unfortunately, the Postal Service has not made sufficient progress toward self-sufficiency," says the report by the House Post Office Conv mittee, which approved the legislation. It noted that the agency has lost money every year since it was created.

Under the reorganization law, the politics-laden Post Office Department was replaced by the Postal Service, a new agency made largely Independent of Congress and the White House. The theory was that a new agency organized like a private company could eventually eliminate the subsidies, money from taxpayers that traditionally has supplemented funds raised through postal rates. The reorganization act created a "public service appropriation" equal to 10 percent of the 1971 postal budget, or $920 million annually. This is scheduled to be reduced, beginning next year, by $92 million a year until 1984. After that, under existing law, the subsidy may end.

Instead of reducing subsidies, the pending bill would increase the authorization to $1.1 billion next year, $1.2 Down the drain Iranian Embassy staff members in Washington, D.C., Sunday begin the task of disposing of more than 4,000 bottles of liquor and wine left behind at the Iranian Embassy after the overthrow of the government of the shah. A spokesman for the staff said the order for the disposal came from the Ayatollah Khomeini. The liquor is being poured into an empty fountain. weather Radioactive dish blamed in evocation of test site WASHINGTON (AP) Congress, which created the Postal Service nearly a decade ago in hopes of eventually making mail delivery pay for itself, is considering abandoning that goal and underwriting the service with new subsidies. A bill awaiting a House vote would change the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act's mandate to start reducing the subsidies this year.

The legislation would, instead, inject new revenue into the mail agency in an effort to hold down future postal rate increases and prevent cuts in service. "In the euphoria surrounding the development of the new 'businesslike' Postal Service in 1970, Congress Apparent heart attack kills driver A local man died Sunday of an apparent heart attack while driving his car west of Iowa City. Elvig L. Christensen, 67, of 284 Bon Aire Mobile Home Lodge, was pronounced dead at the scene when the car he was driving crashed two miles east of the Amana interchange on Interstate 80, according to the Iowa State Patrol. The Iowa County medical examiner ruled Christensen died of natural causes.

Christensen was eastbound when his car crossed the median and the westbound lane, then went down an embankment and into a drainage ditch, turning the car on its side, according to the state patrol. Funeral services wUl be 11 a.m. Wednesday at George L. Gay funeral home, where friends may call beginning 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Burial will be in Memory Gardens. Rosary will 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart Fund. Mr.

Christensen was born Jan. 31, 1912, in West Branch, the son of Anchor and Martha Neilsen Christensen. He married Marian Brown Sept. 6, 1944, at Wellman. For many years he was superintendent for Barker Construction retiring in 1977.

He was a past governor and life member of the Moose Lodge and a member of the Eagles Lodge. Survivors include two sons, James E. of Iowa City and Edward of Macomb, a daughter, Mrs. Tim (Judith) Putney of, Fonda, Iowa; eight grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and four brothers, Anchor of Hampton, John of Los Angeles, Carl of North Liberty and Marvin of Cedar Rapids. Mr.

Christensen was preceded in death by his wife. Man arrested EXTENDED FORECAST Wednesday through Friday Clear to partly cloudy and warm with chance of late afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms west Wednesday and Thursday. Partly cloudy and not quite as warm with scattered thunderstorms Friday. Accident victims still hospitalized A woman and her son remain in serious condition and an Oxford teenager is critical this morning following a fatal traffic accident Friday night near Iowa City. Doreen Hasley, 22, of Hiawatha and her son, 1-year-old Brian, are still listed serious at University Hospitals after the collision of two pickup trucks on Highway 1, two miles south of Iowa City.

Mrs. Has-ley's husband, Harold, 23, was the driver of one truck and died in the crash. The driver of the second truck, Jerry Lindley, 16, of Oxford, is hospitalized in critical condition. Lindley was alone in his vehicle. FORECAST FOR IOWA CITY AND SOUTHEAST IOWA Monday, May 28 Also Northeast Iowa Clear to partly cloudy tonight.

low 50s northeast to low 60s southwest. Partly cloudy Tuesday. High upper 70s to mid 80s. Glasses, watch spark river search Iowa City firemen continued searching the Iowa River this morning for what could have been a weekend drowning victim. Firemen began the search Sunday afternoon when they received a report that a pair of glasses and a wrist watch were left on a picnic table in the Crandic Park vicinity.

The caller, who remained anonymous, said the items had been on the table about three hours. Firemen launched a boat search about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, but found no evidence of a drowing. As a precautionary measure they continued the search this morning. contaminated dish at a university laboratory.

"Several different samples were tested from eight different animals and the results were confirmed by three separate labs," Meek said. "The dish itself had sodium-22." Meek said he did not know how the isotope contaminated the disb. "Sodium-22 is a very rare commodity. This dish was transferred from an old laboratory to a new laboratory and it was checked out and certified and supposedly not used before," he said. "This is not to imply any foul play whatsoever," Meek added.

"It's just the basic data was wrong." As for the deformed lizard, Meek said, "We have no indication as to how that (deformity) happened. Right now, it's unknown." Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy and the governor's nuclear advisory committee gathered at the site Sunday to collect more samples and test them for radiation. Finch said there was no immediate danger at the salt dome, which was the site of nuclear weapons tests conducted by the government in 1964 and 1966. Meek said studies in the sparsely populated area would continue because "there's no question that there is low-level radiation in the area and some hot spots there." JACKSON, Miss.

(AP) An evacuation ordered after scientists found an apparently radioactive frog and a deformed lizard near a site of 1960s atomic weapons tests was accidentally triggered by a fouled laboratory dish, a University of Mississippi spokesman says. However, authorities said tests would continue at the test site about 25 miles south of Hatties-burg because there is evidence of low-level radiation contamination. Gov. Cliff Finch asked a dozen families living near the Tatum Salt Dome to evacuate their homes within 1 4 miles of the test site Friday following reports of the scientific findings. Dr.

Edmond Keiser, a University of Mississippi biologist, had said high levels of sodium-22, a radioactive isotope, turned up in toads, frogs and the deformed lizard found in the area. The lizard had extra toes, Keiser said, and the fros liver showed 1,000 times the normal amount of Taxation. The evacuation order was lifted later Friday, and Lamar County Sheriff Marvin Breazeale said Sunday that all the families had returned to their homes. On Sunday, University of Mississippi spokesman Ed Meek said scientists determined after two days of testing that the high sodium-22 readings came from, a deaths interference with a signal device police report wiicu an luwa Ksiiy tHiuicuiau alleged he was tampering with a oedestrian signal. The man was through the back door.

The theft was reported at 9:30 a.m. Finkbine Golf Course. A Corning man reported the theft of a $250 set of golf clubs from the practice green area at about 9 a.m. Alice Grunewald ianen 10 me jonnson uoumy Office tn nnst a cash bond after Iowa City police received 80 complaints over the weekend. Those included: he reportedly refused to sign the ticket.

Sunday Clinton and Market streets. Police reported at 6:25 a.m. that Saturday Burlington and Linn streets. Jeffry D. Weld of Florence, was charged at about 2:30 a.m.

with vandals broke out the glass window years she lived in Iowa City, but left three years ago to live in Victoria. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Iowa City Women's Club and the Federated Garden Club of Iowa. Survivors include a son, Charles of Iowa City; a daughter, Mrs. Jerome (Dorothy) Hohf of Victoria, Texas; four grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband.

in a phone booth. Alice Schropp in assault charges Alice Grunewald, 91, formerly of 509 Brown died at Victoria, Texas. Saturday morning following a short illness. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the George L.

Gay funeral home, where friends may call beginning at 7 p.m. today. Burial will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Blairstown. Memorial donations may be made to First Presbyterian Church. Mrs.

Grunewald was born July 24, 1877, in North Canton, Ohio, the daughter of John and Amanda Smith. She attended business college in North Canton and was formerly employed as a court reporter. She married George Grunewald on Jan. 19, 1915, at Blairstown. For many Alice Watts Alice Watts, 89, formerly of Arthur, Iowa, died yesterday at the Iowa City Care Center following an extended illness.

Funeral services are pending at the Donohue-Lensing Mortuary. LEASING NOW Choice Retail Locations Easfdaie Village Lower Muscatine and First Ave. Phone 351-1330 Vedepo Hair' Styling Salon, 935 S. Gilbert St. An employee reported the theft of $90 cash when thieves used a screwdriver to break in Mercenary reports Amin may strike NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) An American mercenary claims Idi Amin is preparing a.

major counterattack against the new Ugandan government, but a London newspaper says the deposed dictator and his family are refugees in Iraq. No confirmation of either report was available. Daniel Pierre Waltner told a news conference Sunday that "hundreds and possibly thousands of mercenaries coming from all over the Arab countries" were assembling near Arua, Amin's hometown in northwest Uganda, for the A 23-year-old Clinton man was arrested by Iowa tity police Sunday in connection with complaints received from several women sun bathers. Charged with three counts of assault in connection with the incidents was Kevin D. Gramer, police said.

Officers first began looking into the situation in the early afternoon when they heard reports of a man harrassing women with obscene remarks in the vicinity of Washington and College streets. Alice Schropp, 78, of Cedar Rapids, died at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning following a short illness. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 :30 p.m. at United Methodist Church in Oxford with burial in Oxford Cemetery.

Friends may call at the George L. Gay funeral home in Iowa City until 9 p.m. today and after 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Memorial donations may be made to the Cancer Fund or United Methodist Church.

Mrs. Schropp was born March 21, 1901, in Johnson County, the daughter of Albert and Blanche Manning Hospodarsky. She married Earnie Schropp on Aug. 7, 1918. She was a member of United Methodist Church in Oxford.

She is survived by a son, Walter of Cedar Rapids; six daughters, Mrs. John (Leona) Cochran of Amana, Mrs. Jack (Goldie) Royston of Iowa City, Mrs. Wayne (Alice) Nash of Pensacola, Mrs. Roy (Marie) Olson of Oxford, Mrs Robert (Delores) Sadler of Rock Island, 111., and Mrs.

Clarence (Deanna) Brant of Golden 24 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Marge Slaymaker and Mrs. George (Viola) both of Cedar Rapids; and one brother, Elmer Hospodarsky of Swisher. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son and two brothers. LEARN ARC WELDING in Iowa City this summer Be prepared for a good paying job as a welder before the end of the summer Full time and part-time enrollments accepted VA approved IOWA CITY TRANSIT ft 'Yjt 1 IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEM Establishad latt 319 E.Washington St.

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