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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL PUBLISHED , ; I ITownsiters up Use of Waters Power in August, Report H E N D E R SO N , Sept. 12— Local residents upped their use of water during August to way above the j 1949 figure, William Doak, uti-1 lities manager, reported. The heat of the month w as reflected! in the use of water, he said.; During the month 121,957,154 gal-1 Ions were used this year as com-pared with 74,449,947 gallosjs t used In August 1949. The daily average consump­tion per person was 1,040.2 gal­lons, the report stated as against f .698.7 gallons the same month ' in 1949. This was an increase o f 341.5 gallons per person. How-1 ever, Doak said, there w as a population increase of 343 per- ; son% which accounted for some of the usage. In Victory Village, where the population jumped 298, the water ; consumption took a drop for j some reason. Residents th ere; used 21,500,400 gallons against ; 17,260,200 gallons for August 19 However the daily average con­sumption per person dropped from 48.3 gallons in 1949 to 48.3 gallons in August 1950. The same story is told of Car-1 ver P ark usage. In that area the population dropped 17 per­sons and the consumption of water dropped 93.7 gallons. The total used last month was 5,- 786,200-gallons against 7,407,900 last year. The daily average con- <' sumption was 395.4 gallons in : 1950 against 488.6 in 1949. The population for Henderson ! proper w as 3,780 for August with j I the ^addition of 1,438 for Victory |! j Village, and 472 for Carver Park, ? \ making a total of 5,690 for the! Wea.ther’ w as hot-1 , r> as if you didn’t know The ; I ^P°Mthly average maximum’ tem- P ature was 97.8 degrees this Thp" agatast 95-7 last August } ! fo r53 ^ n¥niIin average w a s '70.0, gree1? ]a«tUgUSt against 6$ -s de I last year. The average 1 mean temperature w as 82 8 de-fiyearSTheShfehr I L , e hlShes tf mgaaixnismt u8m4 lraes-t ggistered this month was 106 IwSTfi* ri°5 laSt year- 1116 10west j f year/ 6 degrees against 59 last WIV SEP > 4 ?garea. j ? j Power consumption was also ; up for last month with the town- ; site residents using 692,422 kilo­watt hours this year against 646,- | 890 kwh last August. The daily I I average consumption was 5.9 ?; | kwh per" person against 6.1 kwh | f last year. The increase in popu-1 I lation overset the increase in I usage. \ | .< I i In Victory V illage and Carver j I P ark residents used 198,611 kwh : | this August against 190,893 last J | August. This w a s .a daily aver- ; | age consumption of 3.3 kwh this ; year against 3.8 kwh last year. w h j : St> x S 1950