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The fishing season opened last week at about fifty artificial lakes in various parts of the state, but it didn't affect Lake Andes, because there is no fishing here. This lake but a few years ago was one of the best bass, croppie and blue gill fishing resorts in the middle west. For years the receipts from fishing licenses because of Lake Andes averaged more than $10,000 per year and besides attracted fishermen from all the surrounding states who spent money in the state.
That condition is stuffed into the discard by by the double-dealing of a bunch of politicians of both political parties.
The federal apportionment of matching dollars with the state fish and game department will be withdrawn July 1st, and the spillway will go by the boards, the lake remain a mud-hole full of carp and every hope for the come back of the lake blasted.
During Gov. Green's administration all sorts of promises were made but nothing was done. The
If immediate aid from the game department is not