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BULLHORN A report from New Jersey says that $750,000 is being spent to convert ASSINIBOIA into a float- ing restaurant, scheduled to op- en next Mayo U. S. Steel's plan to operate a few boats until Jan. 15 produced some of the latest sailing on record. Ice conditions were very bad. When ENDERS M. VOORHEES locked down at the Soo on Jan. 4 she brought down the latest car- go in history (during World War II several Superior-built boats locked down later on their way to saltwater but they were light). When VOORHEES arrived at Lorain on Jan. 8, U.S. Steel de- cided to call it a year. But it remained for the little YANK- CANUCK to close the season on the Upper Lakes on Jan. 9 when she arrived back at the Canadian Soo after delivering a late cargo of steel to Windsor, BEN W. CALVIN cleared Detroit for Toledo and lay-up on Jan. 15, thus ending the winter coal run. Now only the River trainferries and a few tankers and ferries on Lake Michigan Keep navigation alive on the Lakes. The largest tug ever built on the Lakes, FRANCES A. SMALL, has been renamed JOHN A. DOWNS by Tidewater Dredging Corp., which now operates her on the East Coast. At the Straits, CHIEF WAWATAM has returned to service follow- ing failure of the tug and barge operation in heavy ice. Reports indicate the tanker B.A. PEERLESS will come out as GULF CANADA next spring. LOG m~~__w In the spring the former Navy seagoing tug ALLEGHENY will come to the Lakes to serve as train- ing vessel for Northwestern Michigan College of Traverse City. This will be the first such operation on the Lakes. The 143-foot vessel was turned over to the college in ceremonies at Philadelphia on Dec. 13. SCOTIA II, C.N.'s new (1915 vin- tage) ferry, arrived at Windsor on Dec. 9, She is two feet too wide for the Detroit slip so has been tied up at Windsor, smoking up a storm with her hand-fired boilers while LANSDOWNE carries the cars across the River, Late- ly the Windsor city fathers have complained she is an air pollut- ion hazard and C.N. has promised to remove her from "service." We have been unable to learn if they mean permanently or until they can convert her to oil, It is possible all three ferries will be used because of troubles at the railroad tunnel including blockages and trains pulled a- part. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Tanker TOLEDO SUN was delivered by S. B. A. Shipyards, Inc., of Jennings, La., on Dec. 3. She will come to the Lakes in the Spring. The tanker under construction by Marine Industries at Sorel for Shell of Canada will be named LAKE SHELL. Two 390-foot tankers for Hall are under construction at Davie- ship, Lauzon, Anew 100-foot ferry for the Marblehead-Kelley Island service