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9 ?I Las Vegas - July 1, 1942 W-25 Mr. Frank Strong: Confirming our telephone conversation in connection with making allowances for vacancies and hotels. in auto courts Last Wednesday evening a meeting was held in the courthouse by members of the Hotel and Auto Court Owners Association. While we were not present, because this was a private meeting, I learned the question of water rates was one of the topics discussed. There does not seem to be a great amount of dissatisfaction with the rates, but the auto court owners felt that they should be accorded the same rate as hotels, inasmuch as their operations are similar. They state their tenants usually arrive in the evening and are gone by 6 a. m. the following day, doing no cooking in the.auto courts and, in fact, use less water than the hotels. I do not approve of their proposal as we could not, under the schedule, apply the hotel rate to facilities that were obviously auto courts.. However, I do feel that if the question of making some allowances for their vacancie s was determined it would tend to alleviate any mdeinsts aotfi sfraatcetsi.on arising as a result of the recent readlust-
