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? t b it -«faur guess n ow ! 1 • ?vM‘^ o A Page. 2) lo u itff Approves or ';•>: ?' / i C,.L.^«a'T - v ; y;:'4v-^;; ;,.. ? ? .j'-_ * ?.-' .r.I! A--. com preh en sive; v w ater dis- [ I |Sm S mH P p r Xds.r 'VegaS " valley | thearer realization , | today a£- .{the . board pf icountv f • commissioners approved a peti­tion for its creation and set up: i skeleton plans fo r an election, | 1 probably on O ctober 5, - . I Frank Gusewelle-Vchairman of L l :tne comm issioners, said that the : i d e cision ' a s tot the procedure fo r j: . th e , election a n d . the date w ould I be decided at a m eeting o f the body on Septem ber 7. | Under the program outlined j by. the petition, presented! by Janj.es D ow n, jr f e id e n t o f t h e 1 cham ber o f cpimrierce, and Joel • M cQuilkin, m anaging director, v the district w ould be so organ-j ized as to handle all o f the w ater ' consumed in the area, t a k i n g | oyer. the hoIdings_ o f the Las Ve- | gas Land . , and W ater com pany | a n d "coord in atin g'all servR ^sf”"5 District A ttorney R obert E. j Jones, in outlining the tentative J election plans, said that there j w ould be seven election divis- | ions, each com posing an election • district 'and that a board of- |j seven w ou ld grow out o f these. [ I “ The plan fo r the w ater dis- i I trict have been too long delayed, ' I and w e are going to m ove fast f I from here on out,” G u sew cll, | said, after the meeting. I “If w e are going to plan sen t I sibly and adequately supply I water - f o r : our. growing, popular' L tion, the tim e to’ act is npw .” | A ttending the m eeting w ere ; 1 the other comm issioners, M. E. > Leavitt and Rodney- Colton, as w ell as Gusew elle and Jones. t I *tr $(3 4,f 4^ v.