i Scene LOG | Bay Shipbuilding's ceived its the carferry 296 tank, revise check miscellaneous drydock re- first large vessel, SPARTAN, on Septeo She will have a new sewage the existing one, other This of preparation and money spent mov— ing the drydock from Manitowoc seacocks and have work donee culminates several months to Sturgeon Bay. The company now skilled and has already trained more than 1,000 men in needs workers shipfitting, welding and other shipbuilding trades federal and state unemployment actse The Bay Shipbuilding Co. now includes the old Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., under (now the north yard) and the Christy Corp., formerly L. D. Smith property (now the south yard). ‘They will hold an open house for employes and their families on Oct. 15. Other work there has included recent re- pairs to the tug JOHN ROEN III, HULL 710 (CHARLES E. WILSON) the 700' self-unloader under cons- truction for Boland & Vornelius, and LEON FRASER which will have a "bubbler" system installed there this fall. This consists of an 8-inch pipe cut in half and welded to the hull. pumped into the pipe and releas- ed through holes drilled in it Air is causing bubbles to rise side of the "ball bearing" up the hull providing a effect which, it hoped, will enable her to travel more through the ice and extend the shipping sea- is easily son. Bay has renamed the tug STURSHIFCO to BAYSHIP. yard oooo0 From Sarnia comes news of a bit of unusual anti-pollution equip- ment called a "Slicklicker," de- signed to clean up oil spills. Mounted on a self-powered barge, the device has a rubberized belt which is lowered into the water to pick up oil-soaked material and transfer it similar toa self-unloader into the barge. Absorbent material is first used to soak up the oil. It was de- signed for the Canadian Ministry of Transport and built at a cost of 326,000. ooo0o0 Ohio residents eligible Seamen who are will now be for unen- ployment compensation during the winter lay-up period. They pre- viously were ineligible under a seasonal employment The new bill passed by the provides benefits, exclusion. Ohio uegislature also for increased a future cost-of-living clause and elimi- nation of the requirement that the recipient report weekly to the unemployment office. He may now report bi-weekly or by maile ~ r