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170 Telescope Great Lakes Marine News edited by Robert Radunz Contributorst Edwin P. Sprengeler, Milwaukee Richard J. Wright, Akron Higher levels of the Great Lakes and connecting channels, due to big winter snows and above normal rainfall, enables lake bulk carriers to move the largest cargos in six years. Ships have been able to load 1,200 to 2,600 more tons than a year ago. The EDMUND FITZGERALD on July 8 moved 23,061 gross tons of taconite from Silver Bay, Minnesota to Toledo making it the largest cargo ever moved by one ship from Lake Superior. The JACK DALTON (ex VACATIONLAND) is taken out of service for repairs. Owners of the ship say they expect her to be back in service September 1. Three Cleveland Cliff carriers are laid up. They are the MARQUETTE, GRAND ISLAND, and JOLIET. June bulk cargo tonnage is more than a million net tons under a year ago. July 17 MGRMACPRTDE newest cargo-passenger liner of the Moore-McCormack Line enters Milwaukee Harbor on its maiden voyage. The ship receives a load of a half of a cement plant for Argentina. She is to return in approximately 80 days for the other half of the plant. The Federal Maritime Board allows the Grace Line to withdraw from Trade Route 33, covering service from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes. August 3 The EDWARD L.RYERSON of the Indland Steel Company fleet completes her final builders trials at Manitowoc prior to leaving on her maiden trip. The ship is 730 feet long and is now the longest vessel on the lakes. Officials of Green Bay, Wisconsin, report that the Dutch motorship FABIAN did $5,000 damage to a bridge in that City when the ship struck it on August 1. August 6 EDWARD L. RYERSON sets a new Great Lakes cargo record when she carries 23,378 gross tons of iron ore from Escanaba, Michigan, to Indiana Harbor. August 11 Army engineers forecast that lake levels will continue to rise an estimated two inches up to about mid-September, making it the highest autumn mark since 195^* August lb The VAN YUNG of Taipei, Formosa, enters lakes for load of grain to be loaded at Duluth. Carferry SPARTAN rescues four men in two outboard cruisers on Lake Michigan. They had run out of gas.