shipping industry, the first such assignment ever made. Object of the training was to encourage cooperation between the coast guard and the industry and eventually to make for improved administration of marine inspection regulations. Marcu, 1950 The steamer Elba was sold by the Interlake Steamship Company to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation which was to convert the 43-year-old ship into a self-unloader for operation in the steel and scrap iron trade. APRIL, 1950 The new $5,000,000 freighter Wilfred Sykes left Lorain on her maiden voyage. She went to Toledo to load 17,000 tons of coal for Indiana harbor. The 678-foot ship, the largest and most costly ever built on the lakes, is owned by the Inland Steel Company and built by the American Ship Building Company. May, 1950 The steamer Wilfred Sykes picked up her first cargo of iron ore to be loaded at a Lake Superior port largest ever loaded there. ,700-gross-ton cargo, taken on at Marquette, was the The Great Lakes in Print An index to magazine articles and notes on the Great Lakes which have appeared in current periodicals not exclusively devoted to the lakes. Better Homes and Gardens, April, 1950, pp. 54-55, 283. You Name It—the Lakes Have It!, by Henry and Vera Bradshaw. Civil Engineering, March, 1950, pp. 24-28. St. Lawrence Seaway Seen as Harmful to Essential Industries and a Hazard to National Defense, by Lacey V. Murrow. Clevelander, April, 1950, pp. 8, 26. Water Levels of Lake Erie, by Sherman Moore. Coronet, May, 1950, pp. 156, 158. Michigan’s Miracle Mile: the Fabulous Soo, by Norman and Madelyn Carlisle. Highway Traveller, Summer, 1950, pp. 35.39. Northern Great Lakes Play- ground... Motor Boating, November, 1949, pp. 30-31. Picturesque Harbors on the Great Lakes, by R. G. Myers Nation's Business, May, 1950, pp. 50- Blight that Came From the Sea, by Cleland Dresser. (Sea lampreys.) Ontario History, April, 1950, pp. 101- 105. The Beginning of Navigation and the Tourist Industry of Muskoka, by Red- mond Thomas. Our Navy, April 1, 1950, pp. The Navy's Newest: Truxton-Decatur Museum. Reader's Digest, May, 1950, pp. 138- 140. Slaughter in the Great Lakes, by Keith Munro. (Fishing industry. ) Saturday Evening Post, May 27, 1950, pp. 42-43, 61. The Wonderful Arks of the Great Lakes, by Rufus Jarman. Wisconsin Magazine of History, March, 1950, pp. 318-326. Radisson and Groseil- liers, a Newly Recovered Historical Essay by Frederick J. Turner with an introduc- tion by Fulmer Mood. 120