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Las Vegas Review Journal-August 24, 1951 Indicating their determina­tion to get early action by government officials on the deadlocked negotiations for {disposal of the Basic Magne-j sium plant and the Lake j Mead-Basic water system, ! Governor Charles Russell and ! form er attorney general Alan t Bible were scheduled to arrive in Washington this morning. Governor Russell and Bible, special legal advisor for the Colo­rado River Commission, left Reno last night for the capital while R. Julian Moore, manager of the plant, was scheduled to join them later today. Moore will leave his Las Vegas home this morning by plane for Wash-1 would bring it about.1 ington. Governor Russell, chairman of the Colorado River Commis­sion, said he would seek an im­mediate meeting with General Services Administrator Jess Larson and other top GSA of­ficials in an effort to get early action on pending proposals affecting the future of the huge industrial installation at Hen­derson. “to confer with the State offi­cials.” Russell told members of the CKC and associates in Carson that he felt the state was “get­ting nowhere as it stands” so he decided upon the trip. The governor and his associ­ates are expected to put their cards on the table if and when they meet with Larson or a top GSA officials and seek a direct answer to what the GSA would approve: (1) sale of the plant to private individuals., as a unit or (2) sale of the plant by sections. Russell said he felt the time had come for the plant to be added to the county’s tax rolls and felt action as soon as possible Mueller, who has been ac­cused in public meetings as try­ing to stall the negotiations, is in Washington at present. The water district proposal for pur­chase of the pipeline will be dis­cussed also by Russell with gov­ernment officials and he .is said to be determined to seek an an­swer to the contention that the system was once offered to the district for “one dollar” despite If the meeting is granted, Rus- j Larson’s reported declaration that sell, Bible and Moore will express |Ur would not go for less than the position of the CRC in the i$i,500,000. pending plant negotiations and 1 __________________ seek a direct answer to the re­quest of the Las Vegas Valley Water District • for purchase of the Basic pipeline, currently stalemated because , of opposition of lessees, operating at the plant. Before he left Carson City, Governor Russell said he fel't the conferences “ can go far to­wards reaching a meeting of the miffds wherein' wS eah' af-‘ " rive at a baste at which we can all work toward an amicable solution. “I feel strongly that in any determination reached, that the BMI lessees and the people of Clark. County should be pro­tected,” he added. Russell’s decision to make the trip to Washington was made yes­terday after the governor is said to- have received an evasive an­swer to a request that he be per­mitted an audience with Larson. A (proposal for the meeting handled through the office, of Sen. Pat McCarran, brought the reply that Larson “would be very glad to meet with the governor, but Larson is a busy man just now and he would rather John Mueller be sent out