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November TELESCOPE 258 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS October l...The freighter MATTHEW ANDREWS (a.EDWARD J.BERWIND) was refloated in the lower Soo harbor after lightering part of her iron ore cargo. She discharged her cargo in Cleveland and then went into drydock for inspection. ...The Corps of Engineers has located the barge DIXIE, which sank on December h, 196h, east of Conneaut. The DIXIE and the dredge THREE BROTHERS were being towed from Buffalo to Toledo when the severe storm hit. The tow line to the barge snapped. No lives were lost. Value of the hull and machinery aboard the barge is more than $50,000. . October 2...Gart1and Steamship Company is contemplating re- powering their tug MUSKEGON (a.LT. 820, b.DAKOTAH), presently under charter to Bultema for service at the Straits of Mackinac, with a hSOO HP twin diesel-electric unit. ...Worth Loomis, vice-president for administration at Medusa Portland Cement Company, announced that two contracts for construction of the cement loading port at Charlevoix, Mich. have been let. Bultema Dock & Dredge Company of Manistee, Mich., will do the ma or part of the work and their contract totals more than $1. million. Ryan, Inc., of Janesville, Wisconsin, has a contract which totals $250,000 and $500,000. Plans for the cement loading port have changed. There will be a slip in the shore line where cement boats will dock next to the cement silos. The new plans provide better shelter in 'bad weather. Because of the ch e, two old barges are for sale - CHEMBARGE N0. 3 (a.CARTIERDOC and IMPERIAL HAMILTON (a.SARNO- LITE, b.IMPERIAL SARNIA). ...Six deckhands on the CAPETAN COSTI I, an old tramp under Greek registry, refused to handle mooring lines for the grain- 1aden ship as she moved through the Soo Locks because Great Lakes crews handling lines receive a bonus." EmpIOyees of the Locks handled lines for the' Greek captain, who insisted he would turn in his crew on charges of mutiny. October 6...The captain of the Norwegian freighter MAKEFJELL was fined $500 and costs in St. Catherines for dumping oil in Look #1 of the Welland Canal. ...The City of Cleveland expects to begin negotiations with railroad representatives to buy 25 acres of idle land back of Dock 2h. Contract for building the deck was awarded to Peter Kieuiet Sons' Company, whose low bid was $1,56h 000, for bulkheading and filling in the slip between Deck 2 and old Dock 22. This includes only three fifths of the total work on the pier. The rest waiting until later. ...The American Ore Association showed a drop of 518,000 tons of iron ore carried down from Lake Superior last month as com- pared with figures of a year ago. Cumulative shipments for the season to October 1, were up 1.8 million gross tons, however. ...Circuit Judge Theodore R. Bohn ruled that the Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company should not build a dike and fill in an area adjacent to the south end of Stony Island, near Grosse Ile. His reason was that "this resource (the river)...pro- vides fish and wildlife habitat...and once it is filled in the resource is gone forever."