JANUARY FEBRUARY Membership Notes MEETING DATES General Membership meetings will be held at the Dossin Museum as follows. All are at 8:00 P.M. January 20, 1970; Mr. Emory Gulash, Sound Movies. March: 20) 19/0; Was. Donalidennc hands sas Shinapy susie pimopinam: May 22) 1970 Mira Harry Wow fe 'Silbidies awit ssiouind Business Meetings of the Board of Directors (all members are encouraged to attend these meetings) will be held at the Dossin Museum as follows: Evo 2 WOW OS Inelipwiainsy 2, LUD7IOs Moet ih Ber, WO 7Oe evorcl jure 26, 1970. All are at 8:00 P.M. MUSEUM NOTES Current special exhibit at the Dossin Museum is a showing of the lange (collion pnanitas sone Inicte tute sBoandemMenbe re anid) tonne ship's phovopnaphien Haiay, Woleeepaiinnils ist her asteicomdn eda tien, oF Harry's excellent work, and it is made up of an entirely new selection of scenes and studies fromiall around the lakes. CONTENTS Cie Cr Ge Sie ave) age Thomas E, Appleton 3 Legal Lore ROMER E se SCM, ie 8 Assiniboia 9 Vessels Operating in the Detroit Area -° 1760 - 17-79 Louden G. Witsion 17 Great Lakes & Seaway News 20 THIS MONTH'S COVER... . The Joseph H. Frantz is depicted at Calumet Harbor in a scratch- _ board drawing especially executed for TELESCOPE by member Robert E." Johnson of Chicago. The Frantz, owned by Columbia Transport- ation Division of Oglebay-Norton was built in 1925 by Great Lakes Engineering Works at River Rouge, Michigan. She was originally powered with a triple expansion engine, 24-41-68 x 42, and was converted to a 5-cylinder Uniflow and made a self unloader in , 1965. Her dimensions are 601.6 x 62 x 27.8; gross tons 8,289, net 6, 436.