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TELESCOPE November 259 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS ...Charges of residents of DeTour Village against crews and operators of the county owned ferry between the village and Drummond Island will be heard by the Chippewa County Board of Supervisors in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. October 7...The HMAS HOBART, a h39-foot, h,500 ton warship, built in Bay City by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, cruised the waters of Lake Huron in the first of a series of sea trials checking her performance. Final tests will follow the commissioning at Boston in December. The guided missile destroyer is destined for Australia. October 9...Maritime Administration Hearing Examiner Paul N. Pfeiffer recommended that the nine experimental routes between the Great Lakes and overseas areas be consolidated into five routes and that a subsidy system be developed for non-govern- mental cargo. October 10...The CHIEF WAWATAM is expected to carry freight cars across the Straits of Mackinac before ice starts, since an examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission recommended that they rule against abandoning the route. The vessel is now in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for a major boiler repair job. ...September shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway exceeded 5 million tons again, as cargo moved at a record pace. Tonnage from April through September was .9 million tons higher than the same period last year. ...A $10,750,000 contract was awarded to Davie Ship, Lauzon, by the DOT for construction of a railway car and transporta- tion truck ferry. Equipped for ice-breaking, the vessel will be operated in the Gulf service by Canadian National Railroad between North Sydney, N.S.,and Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland. ...Lake Michigan rose one-tenth of a foot in September to 576.9 feet above sea level, a foot higher than a year ago. Lake Erie is 5 inches higher, Lake Ontario is 6 inches higher, and Lake Superior is 2 inches lower. ...A $275,000 contract for 2 self-propelled diesel barges for landing supplies in the Arctic has been awarded to Kingston Shipyards by the DOT. The barges will be carried aboard an Arctic patrol ice-breaking vessel now under construction by Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal. ...The captain of the Greek freighter ELPIS (a.AMASA DELANO, b.3TRATHPORT) was fined $750 in Quebec City for pollution. The incident occurred in Montreal harbor. ...The Greek freighter PROTOSTATIS (a.JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, b. ERATO, c.TAXIARCHIS) which went aground on Traverse Shoal in Lake Ontario near Picton, Ontario, last September 30, was re- floated with the assistance of the tugs GRAEME STEWART and HELEN McALLISTER and a third unidentified tug. Part of her scrap iron cargo was transferred to the lighter MAPLEHEATH (a.TOILER). The vessel was leaking in her engine room and was taken to Kingston for repairs in order to make her sea-worthy for the trip to Montreal.