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Pete Worden, Editor On May 15, McLean's WILFRED M. COHEN arrived at Thunder Bay with 7,500 cords of logs from Marathon, the first raft of the season. *** Star Line's new high speed 350- passenger Mackinac Island ferry was christened RADISSON on May 28 at Mackinaw City and immediately entered service. She is 83 feet long and is powered by four diesels- two which drive the propellers and two which power water jets, enabling RADISSON to run at 32 miles per hour. *** P & H Shipping's OAKGLEN arrived at Sorel on June 3 after unloading her final grain cargo at Quebec ity. *** Osborne Materials Company of Grand River Ohio has completed the purchase of the Drummond Dolomite quarry and dock from Bethlehem Steel Corporation on May 27. On June 7, WILLIAM R ROESCH loaded the first cargo of 1988 from Drummond Dolomite. deal American Steamship's INDIANA HARBOR set the all-time coal record for the port of Sandusky on June 17 when she departed for Marquette with 44,779 tons. *** MERLE M. MCCURDY departed Ashtabula the morning of June 10 under tow of McKeil's GLENEVIS and Great Lakes Marine Contracting's MICHAEL D MISNER, arriving at Port Colbourne June 11. Scrapping had been stopped in Ashtabula recently by the United States Environmental Protection Agency due to the removal of asbestos. *** Interlake's ELTON HOYT II was upbound at the Soo on June 11 on her first trip since laying up on August 1, 1986 at Detour. *** On June 14, IRVING S. OLDS arrived in Montreal under tow of McAllister's HELEN M, MCALLISTER and CATHY MCALLISTER. She will remain in Montreal for two to three weeks before continuing to Quebec City and eventual scrapping overseas. *** The Panamanian tug/supply vessel OMEGA 809 departed Lauzon on June 14 with CONSUMERS POWER and JOHN T HUTCHINSON under tow, bound for Kaohsiung Taiwan and eventual scrapping.* ** Wellington Towing's CHIPPEWA towed GEORGE A. SLOAN into Calcite on June 2 after the SLOAN suffered reduction gear problems. *** On June 20, USX Corporation signed a letter of intent for the sale of its transportation companies, principally railroads, Great Lakes ore and coal dock properties, lake shipping and river transporation subsidiaries in a transaction totaling more than $500 million. In the new company to be formed, the majority interest will be held by Blackstone Capital Partners, with a significant minority interest held by USX and a small interest to be held by senior management of companies to be acquired. The proposed transaction is subject to approvals by regulatory agencies, financing arrangements, and the board of directors of USX. Blackstone is a New York-based venture capital group providing financial services to insurance companies. *** Kinsman Lines has purchased ERNEST R. BREECH from Ford Motor Company and has renamed her KINSMAN INDEPENDENT (3). On June 24, she departed the Ford slip in the Rouge River and proceeded upbound, arriving at Duluth on June Kinsman Lines has_ received ane from the Maritime Administration to sell KINSMAN INDEPENDENT a) RICHARD V. LINDABURY to Marine Salvage of Port Colborne for scra On June 26, KINSMAN INDEPENDENT (2) departed Toledo under tow of McAllister's SALVAGE MONARCH. The tow, receiving assistance from HELEN M. MCALLISTER, was downbound in the Seaway on June 30 and arrived in Sorel on July 1. *** On June 28, BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS arrived at Quebec City under tow of McAllister's CATHY MCALLISTER and HELEN M. McALLISTER. *** On June 29, the pilot house from CSL's FORT HENRY arrived at Lock 3 in the Welland Canal aboard a barge towed by STORMONT and PAUL E. NO. 1. The pilot house will reportedly serve as a ticket office for a new 100-foot, 300 passenger tour boat’ currently under construction with plans to offer tours of the canal. The Great Tugboat Race was held on Saturday July 2 at Sault Ste. Marie. The U.S. Coast Guard's KATMAI BAY defended it's title in the over- 500 horsepower class, finishing four-boat lengths ahead of its nearest competitor, Wellington Towing's CHIPPEWA. Other winners included REGAN, owned by Howard Avery in the 200-500 class; NANCY K owned by Wayne Mitchell in the 0-200 class, and the W.D. MCCOSH, owned by Bill Haight, in the