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v2 + 5 the 1oG ——_ BULLHORN Tug ST.JOSEPH and barge MANITO- WOC went into service about July 15, ferrying railroad cars a- cross the Detroit River for the N. & W. railroad. WINDSOR made her last trip on the same day and under her own power to Nich- olson's where work started to convert her to a barge. No further major construction or twinning of the Welland will be approved by the present Canadian Government, according to present indications, and completion of the Welland by-pass has been moved back to 1974. This year's traffic certainly isn't causing any delays. The Cleveland Port Authority has said "No" to Litton's plan to build mooring facilities in West Harbor. The plan was to moor the new 1000-footers there to dis- charge their cargo into barges that would take ore up the ri- ver. The Port Authority fears such permission would give a dangerous precedent for other companies. General Motors tions on Erie Sand's WNIAG. They say they will cancel her sand contract if she causes the I-75 bridge at Zilwaukee to open between certain hours. has put restric- EDMUND FITZGERALD broke the ore record again on July 30 loading 27,174 gross tons at Silver Bay for Toledo. This topped MANITOBA's July 5 record by only four tons! The Lake Carriers' Association says there were 455 lakers at the end of 1968, the lowest to- tal so far this century. The Great Lakes Commission has proposed that operation and maintenance of the Seaway be turned over to the Corps of Eng- ineers and all tolls be applied against Seaway debts. SCRAPS HOWARD M. HANNA JR. TAPLIN arrived at Cartagena, Spain, shipbreakers on May 23. ASHCROFT and SIR THOMAS SHAUGH- NESSY were towed out of Lauzon by the tug JANTAR in early Aug- uste and FRANK E. Scrapping of PEAVEY PIONEER is being pushed at Duluth because the MarAd contract says the work must be finished by Dec. 31. Af- ter that the shipbreakers will finish off GEORGE HINDMAN. INCH ARRAN is going fast at the United Metals scrapping dock at Hamilton and will probably be followed by RIVERSHELL. PERILS OF THE DEEP E. G. GRACE grounded July 11 at Nine Mile Point below the Soo. She was released July 14 after lightering by tug JOHN MCLEAN and barge CHARLES W. JOHNSON, METIS rescued two people who had been adrift for four days on Lake Ontario in mid-July. PATERSON hit the laid-up fire- boat CLEVELANDER in the Cuyahoga River on July 8, damaging sever- al of the fireboat's plates. In the same area, oil on the Cu- yahoga caught fire June and damaged two railroad trestles. CORRECTION The August Detroit Marine Historian was misnumbered Please change it to read Volume 22, No. 12 (*)