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TELESCOPE August 187 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS July 9...0hio Governor James A. Rhodes has proposed an inter- national highway across Lake Erie, and has requested a feasi- bility study from the State Highway Department. Joly ll...Roen Steamship's old bulk freighter PRINCETON, laid up at Ludington for the past two years, may be converted to a barge for the fleet similar to MARQUIS ROEN (a.R.W.E. BUNSEN). ...John Sherwin, Board Chairman of Pickands Mather & C0,, ,and Jean Lesage, Prime Minister of Quebec, dedicated the $50 million Arnaud Pellets plant at Pointe Noire, Quebec. When in full operation, the facility will ship 5.3 million gross tons gr iron ore a year, much of which will come into the Great akes. ...Construction has commenced on an extension of the east breakwater at Conneaut. Merritt, Chapman, & Scott have a $h79,325 contract to do the job. July 12...The U.S. Public Health Hospital on Windmill Pointe in Detroit will continue to operate indefinitely due to a ruling by the Government Accounting Office that Veterans Administration hospitals cannot give care to merchant seamen and Coast Guard personnel. ...A bill sent to the Senate after approval by the Senate Public Works Committee included appropriations for a study by ,the Corps of Engineers to determine methods to extend the shipping season on the St. Lawrence Seaway, a comprehensive water utilization plan for streams and tributaries flowing into Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, the Detroit River, and Lake Erie, and for harbor improvements at Alpena, Frank- fort, and Lexington. July lh...The Swedish-American Lines freighter MONICA SMITH went aground in Lake St. Clair off the Grosse Pointe municipal pier and was freed four hours later by the tug MAINE. July 16...The U.S. Coast Guard opened hearings to determine if Captain Martin prpich, master of the steamer CEDARVILLE, was at fault when his ship collided with the TOPDALSFJORD in the ILLUSTRATIONS ON FOLLOWING PAGES -C" ANGES IN U. S. LAKE FLEETS Two Shenango Fleet freighters have found different routes to joining the Wilson Buckeye Monitor (page 188: top), the for- Fleet. Col. James M. Schoonmaker (page mer Alton C. Dustin and J. A. Campbell. is 189, top) is chartered to Wilson by She~ shown entering Cleveland Harbor in a photo nango this season. And from Boland & by William D. Carle III. Interlake sold Cornelius, Wilson purchased B. W. Druckenn her to Buckeye Steamship Co. miller late last year. renaming her A. T. Lawson (page 189, bottom). She was the Raymond H. Reiss (page 138: b0tt0m) 0f Shenango Fleet's original Shenango. 501d Reiss Steamship Co. is the former Hanna to Boland & Cornelius when Shenango II was freighter Emory L. Ford. This Gaelic Tug» built. Both ships are shown downbound at boat Co. photo shows her upbound in the Port Huron in photos by Father Peter Van- Detroit River's Fighting Island Channel. derLinden.