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|__. the LoG Sel NORTHERN VENTURE was the last downbound vessel in the Welland Canal on Jan. 17 and CANADIAN FRONTENAC closed upbound traffic the following day...Matt Dean reports seeing FORT CHAMBLY un- loading Quebec paper at Port Ev- erglades in November and looking very rusty.The former Laker RITA was there in December. What was her Lake name?...TEXACO BRAVE was laid up for the last time at Toronto on Nov. 11 and sold for serap after Texaco purchased the ANTERIOROTY (ex THUNKTANK 6).She was built in 1970 and will be renamed TEXACO-WARRIOR (II). The BRAVE was built as JOHN IRWIN in 1929, renamed OYCLO-BRAVE 1940 and got her last name 1947...FRENCH RIVER has been sold by CSL to become a coastal autoferry...Rumor has it C. H. McCULLOUGH JR. will stay laid up at Milwaukee until needed cement carrier...Midwest Cruises (6101 N. Keystone, Indianapolis) has chartered the Danish vessel BISCOVERER for three years of Great Lakes cruises. See Steam- boat Bill for Winter, 1974, for a picture...lt appears that the HENEPIN was through when she laid up at Toledo at the end of last season.eeoJd.N. McWATTERS was laid up at Montreal in December but brought out again in January for several more trips... .SCOTIA- in in as a CLIFFE HALL is now called SCOT- IACLIFFE with a Norwegian crew and registered out of Hamilton, Bermuda. Hall didn't keep her long...The former ferry ST. JOS- EPH ISLANDER has been renamed GLENORA and is expected to run between Glenora and Adolphus- town..oThe Detroit Chamber of Commerce has decided against a Caribbean cruise due to cost. One wonders why someone hasn't thought of a Lakes cruise on the nice new DISCOVERER. (See Above) Resolutions calling for support of the Canadian and U.S. Govern- ments in further development of waterborne commerce on the Great Lakes were adopted ata joint meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Association and the Dominion Marine Association in Montebello P.Q. Agencies were urged to ac- celerate dredging. Simultaneous- ly the U. S. Corps of Engineers proposed to resume annual main- tenance dredging in Lake St. Clair which, the Corps said, has annual waterborne in excess of 117 million tons. The Carriers and Dominion Marine al- so asked for continued efforts to extend the navigation season, to provide uniform, bi-national standards for shipboard waste treatments, to deepen channels and key harbors to 32 feet and to permit vessels of 1100-foot length and 105-foot beam to use the 1200-foot lock at the Soo. commerce