"I DON*T GET ITI”
About two (or more) weeks age* twenty
j?iv© families of women ana children who
had planned to catch fish for their pri
vate use through the summer and salt and
dry figh for their winter use while the
mon of the families wore out fishing oonv
moreially* were swooped down upon >y the
Pish and Wildlife Servieo agents and told
to pull in their ten-foot nets that it was
prohibited for them to fish during the
wommeroial seasonl They were told to sit
there—just sit was all they 6ould do*
where they had intended to lo self-support
ing throughout the summer and lay aside a
niee store of valuable fish for winter sub
stance#
The children wore hungry, Thoy noeded
something to eat. Big runs of salmon were
going by and these families sat idly by
wondering how to feed the hungry. The pns
wer was, as is alv/ays the case, that s ome
public-spirited citizens tpke over and get
from the town people anything they can for
emergency rations. With this need in mind
Dick J ones, Lowell Dillo n and Maxine Em
berg made the rounds of the stores and
contacted as many people as they could to
get money or food for these starving peo
ple* ' Quantities of beans, flour, grocery
and some money were donated. Again this
desperate situation was solved by ‘gifts*
from the already over-taxed residentsl
Now, when the commercial season is_over
and these people are allowed to place
their nets in the water again for their own
use, the best of the summer will be over*
Rainy and cloudy weather is duo and that
means the fish caught will not dry but
will mildew and sour making it unfit for
comsum.ption. Again these people, deprived
of their natural livehood will become
public charges* but it seems to me they
should become charges of the federal
Government—not of the residents of this
communityl
A n ironical feature of the law that
prohibits fishing for private use during
tho commercial season is that it applies
only to the “beaches from the limit stakes
to 25 miles above which leaves the
spawning grounds opent Anyone with money
to travel or equipment to travel is free
to go to the spawning grounds and catch
as many fish as. they want during the re
gular fishing season, I know of one party
that went up and caught 300 in one dayt
Vfell, maybe this is sound reasoning from
the lav/makers viewpoint but it looks foff*
from mine.
Tfrybe it would be wise for all those
families who want to fish for private uso
to figure on a camp AEOthe 25 mile
restricted area next year and be where
they can just SCOOP out the fish,
I really don’t got itj
J.M.Slaughter and Bob Pedley, U.S.
Geodeflie Survey passed-through town on
their way to Crooked Creek;
a..0.Clark, engineer f^r Standard uil,
was over un a ^uod-wiil, ^et-ac^uainted
tour as this is new territory to him;
Loren Laly, Gene Murray and Cept*
Walsh were here July 18; Stan Tarrant
visited overnight July 16th;
Beryl Moore is back in town and work
ing for Gladys Vail again.
THINKING OF SPORT
fishing:
HELL* think at the same time how lucky you arc to live where you do#
Some people spend thousands of dollars for fishing and scenery you
can enjoy for so ' little by goi ng with us to the v/bodriver chain of
lakes where fishing is always best!
We have the best *
of boats and equip
ment l *
t/HY DONlT YOU GIVE YOURSELF A VACATION
tom PaY — 11m FlSh, FUN lUiU RLL.XRTluNl
OUR CAMPS ARE OPEN
TO GUESTS DURING'
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• SEPTEMBER
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FISHING IS ALWAYS GOOD WHEN YOU GO
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