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g^ggf^SSSKSSffiS ------ ...... ¦¦¦'¦¦<'~~K<:istmfi:;(i.....¦!.......m:™!- m AP™L 4, 1967 , - -Nelson Merrifield WAITING FOR SPRING (PRONOUNCED ICEBREAKER) AT THE LAKEHEAD Tug Peninsula, owned by Marathon Corp. of Canada Ltd., waits at Lakehead in ice 37 inches thick and stretching for 50 miles, for Government icebreaker Alexander Henry. The paper company's tug wintered at Lakehead. Shipper Wins Hat f,^ >, 't ,1 (J** IP /Seaway Queen First In Port Captain Del Crawford of the SS .Seaway Queen was sound asleep this morning when harbor officials, report-ens and photographers clambered aboard his coal - laden vessel with the top hat. Capt. Crawford brought his 730-foot ship owned by Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., alongside the coal dock at Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd. at 11.30 p.m. yesterday, and won the traditional chapeau for being the first master to bring a ship here this year. BUT, PARDON the expression, it was old hat to Capt. Crawford. Early yesterday, U.S. Customs officials at Sandusky, Ohio, gave him a certificate for being the first skipper into that port in 1967. Capt. Crawford was on the bridge most of Sunday night guiding his vessel through the Welland Canal to Sandusky, and it was early this morning when he finally took to his cabin to catch up on his sleep. So Harbor Commissioner Kenneth Elliott rapped, softly on the door of the master's cabin about 9.30 this morning to make Capt. Crawford aware that his presence >> was requred up in the wheelhouse. AND THERE, Mr. Elliott, Commissioners, E. D. Hickey and Joseph Lanza, Port Director C. W. Morgan and Harbormaster Floyd Day gave him the 50-year-old hat and a cheque for $20. The cheque was to pay for the topper, which the Commissioners buy back from the master. He then buys himself whatever type of hat he desires. Capt. Crawford, a veteran of 30 years on the Great Lakes, brught 23,500 tons of coal to r- Dofasco. The occasion also marked the first time the steel company had received the first ship.