-- The Michigan Highway Commission on August 3rd signed a contract with Straits Car Ferry Service Corp. that will give the firm $430,000 in state money with which to operate CHIEF WAWATAM for the next eight months.

-- On August 1 the tug WILFRED M. COHEN lost her 300-foot barge in Lake Huron off Alpena, Michigan. The barge was carrying a cargo of steel.

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