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\ hm Vega® ** Msy ?» 194? (Personal) Mr. ibrnk Strong* |S| C m - Mr* la* Heinhiirflt Hr* E* 1, Bennett) fra®. time to time, the question of municipal mm##* ship of public utilities Is revived In ha# V*gas, usually Just before election and usually on behalf of some eandidate alio •an think, of nothing else to offer* fhat la tame of todays stuniolpal election of a mayor and two olty oomalealoners. However, res? little lafereei w no taken in the municipal ownership question. One of the candidates for mayor, Walter Bates, halfheartedly advoeated the creation of a •munleipal authority* hiM«p whieh utilities might be acquired. He ran third In the three- candidate rnoe* %3y one of the 10 eandldates for ©osmtlsstoM** mentioned the subject, George Xnlpp, a loed tire dealer, iinl he was .lost in the shuffle. ttmmmr, t wm advised in confidence today that the County was also interested, and at a committee meeting of the Chamber of GornsroQ last night, motion was passed authorising the mimlttm to aontaet Mr* Ashby with regard to aotpialtiost ©f the has Vega# Land and Water Go* s water distribution facilities In the eity. the Idea Is to finance this by issuing *rev©nue bonds*, which, they say, will ©oat the taxpayers noting and will redema themselves from revenues* they have employed two engineers to estimate. the east and praoit©ability of extending the present pipe line from