Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-30 | Page 13 | Lake Tahoe's Mariners Steer into Legal Squall

LAJ E TAHOE'S MARINERS STEER INTO LEGAL LECiAL T SOT TALL J r 1 1 d 4 L AA p i L LJ J ii iiII I II 1 I I 9 INTERSTATE BOATING CAUSES HER PROBLEM I. I Mrs Will S. S McQuilkin scant luck so far 4 V. V Uncle hu Sam Seeks Who Snub Pilot Rules hu n By WINTHROP CADY Fishing in a rowboat on Lake Tahoe has gone maritime You may only be going after perch but your our craft must have 1 a fire extinguisher 2 saving life equipment 3 a loud horn or r whistle 4 lights 5 registration with the department of commerce 6 the registration number painted plainly on your dinghy 7 de department department department de- de of commerce piloting rules posted where the pilot can see them Right now the government is looking for four inland seamen whose modest craft plied the waters of oC Lake Tahoe in utter disregard for the rules The government wants to collect fines ranging from to This range long-range collection job has fallen to Mrs Will S. S McQuilkin McQuilkin Mc- Mc of oC Salt Lal Lake e City U. U S. S collector of oC customs for Utah and Nevada Like the credit merchant who is always looking over his books s somebody in the bureau of marine inspection and navigation navigation navigation navi navi- gation delved into the statutes and found the laws of 1897 and 1910 required all these things of craft operating in navigable waters Then they looked on the map and saw that Lake Tahoe lying in Nevada and California was an avenue open to Interstate interstate interstate inter inter- state navigation Then they looked up and saw four boats that didn't meet the require require- ments menth Handed her new responsibility it ity Mrs McQuilkin wrote the four offenders right away She declined to divulge their names Friday To date she has had scant luck One boatman wrote back sayIng saying say say- saying ing he doubted that he could find room in his foot 14 rowboat for all that equipment He wondered if he should not get himself a bigger boat Then he wondered if it the equipment might not cost more than the boat Another wrote to Mrs M McQuilkin McQuilkin Mc Mc- saying he did not have enough money to pay the fine and that he had b borrowed to the hilt of his credit He suggested that the government might want to attach his boat except that that his boat cost him only a few dollars several years ago Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides het hel didn't think the fishing in the lake was worth the ex ex- pense Mrs J McQuilkin sounded a note that will alarm local navigators navigators navigators navi navi- gators when she said that the same rules might be construed to to apply to Bear lake which lies athwart the Utah-Idaho Utah line So far she said there ther has been heen no investigation regarding Bear lake but she suggested that men who go out from the shore in ships might want to send away for marine catalogs