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wo EMILY P. WEED Bill Luke, Editor U. S. Steel's plans to build a plant at Conneaut were formally ended recently when the firm failed to renew a construction permit which will expire at the end of the year. *** The U.S. Coast Guard's last two non-automated light-houses on the Great Lakes lost that status this fall. Involved were the stations at Point Betsie, north of Frankfort, and Sherwood Point, near Sturgeon Bay. The Coast Guard began automating its Great Lakes lighthouses in 1960 in an effort to reduce costs. *** As Robert J. MacDonald Collection was noted earlier, efforts have been underway for some time to transfer to private enterprise the task of maintaining the connecting channels and harbors of the Great Lakes, a job f the sole of the U S. Army Corps of Engineers. In this vein, the Corps' dredge HAINS was recently decommissioned at Cleveland. *** A recent announcement by Marine Salvage of Port Colborne lists for sale the motorships CONALLISON, CONDARRELL and HUDSON TRANSPORT. The earlier announced sale of CONDARRELL to East Coast operators was obviously erroneous. *** In early October, the Michigan Department of Transportation asked permission of the U. S. Bankruptcy Court to use the international shipbroker firm of Jacq. Pierot & Sons of New York in the disposition of the unfinished tug and barge at the trouble-plagued Upper Peninsula ibilit: