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142 Telescope June 6 The House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the United States to set up a coordinated U.S.-Canadian pilotage system for ocean vessels travelling the Great Lakes. June 13 Cleveland*s Mayor today appointed a new Harbor Commissioner for the port. He is Henry IT. Holden, Jr., a transportation executive • in the Northeast Ohio area for many years. Mr. Holden replaces James H. Rowland, who resigned the position last December. **** The tonnage through the Sault Sainte Marie Locks for May was announced. A total of over 15£ million tons of cargo moved through the Canal, and a total of 2,555 vessels traveled the locks. **** The excursion steamer CANADIANA, seized for non-payment of a mortgage, was sold at auction today to the bank that held the mortgage. It was the second auction for the hard-luck CANADIANA, as she was sold at the order of a Federal Court in the Fall of 1958 to settle her crew's claims of back wages after she hit a swing bridge in the Maumee River. June l*f Recommendations for distribution of the one and a quarter million dollar settlement for survivors of those lost in the sinking of the CARL D. BRADLEY were made today. The BRADLEY sank on November 18, 1958, in upper Lake Michigan. * June 16 The Army Corps of Engineers celebrated its 185th birthday. it was on June 16,1775,that the Continental Congress adopted a measure providing for a chief engineer and two assistants. Among other work, the Corps built the Washington Monument; today, of course, it maintains the harbors and channels on the Great Lakes and other waterways, in addition to its work in improving rivers and harbors by dredging or widening. June 17 Reynolds Metals Company has announced a new method of building ship superstructures, which both saves weight and reduces construction time. The method is a system of interlocking aluminum extrusions which do not require welding. The first use of the system, % on ? Moore-McCormack freighter for ocean services, used nti nSn Pounds of aluminum than conventional methods and saved «LP2SSS 2 weight compared to what the weight would have been had the house been built of steel. VESSEL CHANGES Ships that have been laid up, evidently for the remainder of the are the HARRY T. EWIG, GEORGE RAND, JOSEPH F. YOUNG, * cJ £4 a2? Also, thirteen vessels of the Pittsburgh Steamship fleet have been laid up. They are the GEORGE 2 ' WILLIAM E. COREY, HENRY C. FRICK, ELBERT H. GARY, PVTWR F\C0LE> J*p* MCRGAN, JR., HENRY PHIPPS, £222 T* WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON, HENRY H. ROGERS, and ALVA C. DINKEY. ' The HARVARD and the SIMON J. MURPHY have been sold by Buckeye