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Mr, Wm. Reinhardt, Loh Angeles, Calif. R e v i ew -Jo u r n a l F e b ru a ry 1 5 , 1950 W M . R. FEB 1 7 '»50 Lack of Funds Halfs Wafer District Plans . Vegas valley water i Is stalemated by a lack or funds, It was reported today by members of the directorate 1 * unit, and until money is forthcoming from the county commissioners, it is not likely that further steps toward bring­ing water in from Lake Mead can be taken. The district board has request­ed $25,000 from the county board, it was reported today by! Harry E. Miller, chairman, and the commissioners have request­ed a ruling from the attorney I general regarding the legality of f any such payment. To date no answer to the request has been received. The county board, it was reported, has received num­erous complaints that the ad­vance of funds to the water dis­trict by former boards is illegal and, until a ruling is received from the attorney general, do not plan to take any action on the water district’s request. - Meantime,, the grand jury' was reported to. fiavp^ecom e inter­ested in the SBgffiajnf thp water district, „ai*.moning the chair­man and the secretary of the district before them this morn- /mg! to secure information re-garding a $600 fee which was paid District Attorney Robert E. Jones for services rendered to the Commission. Members of the water board said today that, had the work been done by another attorney, the fee probably would have been triple the amount paid , Jones and that the district at*' j torney had given much of his personal time to aid the water board "in setting up the various steps necessary. ? Members of the water board j said that nationally famous se-heurity underwriters were inter- f j ested in the local project andf •irepresentatives of Blair - Raw-' !Hugs company, New York un­derwriters, were scheduled to be here next week to discuss plans: for a possible bond issue, j However, ^members of the board said, until such time as ; additional funds are available: I for a continuation of the Survey | now under way, the board is I stymied and can progress n o1 further. ! Alan Bible, attorney general, is in Washington attending a crime prevention meeting,' and could not be reached for a state­ment regarding the ruling which [ has been requested of him byl the county commissioners. ^ ]950 FEB 17 1950 L . C . C . f e 'V f ' ATM- , , > V o * i l l W 'mf . v / A.M.TCUMBI ---?IIIIHIL Vmum Bmvm tUmMtmmto. t#* Vaeu. Marin