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...noon fog that hung over Huron's southern tip promised trouble. But for the first few hours there was only an innocent breeze to nudge the racers along the 243-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island. Shortly after midnight, the storm swooped down from the northeast. Freakish gusts hit the fleet headon, built mountains of water that swirled 20 feet high...
...strange tactics of political war, King's Liberal Party chose Grey North Riding, on the rocky shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, as the place where newcomer McNaughton could best be elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...
Rammed by another ship during a fog, June 15, 1943, the Humphrey, loaded with 22,000 tons of iron ore, had gone down in the swift, treacherous current of the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lakes Michigan and Huron. Lying in 80 feet of water, with her pilothouse only 15 feet below the surface, she was a menace to navigation in the heavily traveled, four-mile-wide channel. Marine experts said nothing could be done; the depth and current made her salvage impossible. Even the Normandie* they pointed out, had flopped over in only 40 feet, and well away from...
Last year's spring catch was zero. Last week, in streams around Michigan's Green Bay and Huron's Saginaw Bay, with smelts making belated spawning runs, men, women & children dipped up hundreds with their nets. Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in charge of investigating the smelt situation, estimated that the normal Great Lakes smelt population (1942 catch: 5,000,000 lb. ) would be restored in four years...
...young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them. The unknown malady spread rapidly northward through Huron and Michigan, but apparently left untouched the smaller smelt populations of Erie, Ontario and Superior...