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PATTON, the recent purchase of BOYER and now REISS, the trip capacity of the Cliffs fleet will be 227,700 tons, one of the largest on the Lakes. American Steamship's (BoCo) two self-unloaders wiil be named the ROGER M. KYES and CHARLES E. WILSON in memory of two Detroit industrialists whose heirs are represented on American Steam- ship's board. KYES, being built at Toledo, is scheduled for May 31, 1973, delivery and vas being built at Sturgeon Bay, is scheduled for Uct. 15, 1973 del- ivery. The Air Cushion Vehicle that the Coast Guard sent to the Lakes to replace the one that sank has had its share of problems, also. While flying along one day it rammed a chunk of ice that was jutting up and was so badly dam- aged it had to be brought back to land on the deck of a cutter. Patched up, it went back out and split a skirt, necessitating an- other visit to the repair shop, not from modesty but because the skirt encloses the blanket of air on which the craft hovers -- when it does, which hasn't been often with all the bad breaks. American Ship Buflding has set up an irwevocable trust to as- sure a college education will be available to the youngsters who were orphaned by the fire on the ROGER BLOUGH in their Lorain shipvyard last June. It will cov- er the six children of Leonard Moore and the three children of John Alexander. George Adams was not married and the children of Clyde Burdue, the fourth victim of the tragedy, are all grown. The Lake Survey Center predicts that all of the Lakes but Ontar- io will remain above their long- term average levels through July with Lake St. Clair, now at 28 inches above normal, taking a sharp upturn in March. The Great Lakes Historical Soc- iety has established a Leslie D. Weston Memorial Fund in commemo- ration of its executive secre- tary who died Jan. 15. He was principal surveyor for the Great Lakes area for the American Buf- eau of Shipping prior to his re- tirement in 1970, after 35 years of service in Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Coot Wolion Teal Viadicated Capt. Burris W. Wolters has been cleared by the Coast Guard of blame in the deaths of two men in the Detroit River on Nov. 21, 1970. He was master of the SYLVANIA at the time and was charged with failure to render aid to the men, svotted in the water near Bob-Lo. Although he pointed out that he woud have placed his vessel and crew in jeopardy by trying to stop in the swift cur- rent and narrow channel and that the men would have been miles astern by the time he covid stop or lower a boat, the Guard examiner found him guilty of negligence. But Capt. Wolters appealed and was upheld by Adm. Chester R. Bender, Coast Guard commandant, who dismissed the charge. Coast