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Las Vegas Morning Sun-Aigust 30, 1951 ! Showdown Meet On BMI, Water- Slated Saturday WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29. (U P )— A special meet­ing was called by Gov. Charles Russell today to be held at Henderson, Nev., Saturday between parties concerned with the pending disposal of the Rasic Magnesium plant and its facilities. ^ '4r | Gov. Russell said Sen. Pat Me- Carran and Jeff Larson, chief ofj ! the General Services Administra-1 i tion will attend the session | which will culminate a week-long series of meetings betw.een the governor and Washington of­ficials. They have sought a solution to the tangled proposals for disposal of the BMI plant and have worked on a method to turn over j the plant’s water facilities to the i Las Vegas_ValI<^ Jffialer. District. T E i district has made two sep-j arate purchase offers for Lake Meadwater via Henderson facili­ties, but has been turned downs I both times— once by the GSA! and once by industrial lessees of! the state-owned BMI plant: Details of the Washington! conferences will be made public; j after the Nevada governor h a s ; conferred with the Colorado Riv- I er Commission in Henderson . Saturday morning. He and com- j mission counsel Alan Bible will 1 J enplane for Nevada tonight after j J the conferences end. (In Carson City, Nev., Gov. j | Russell advised his office by telephone he was forced to can- ! J cel two celebration appearances I in Winnemucca and Elko this weekend because of the sched­uled meeting). In regard to the forthcorping session, the governor said he jfelt it will , “accomplish much to­wards reaching an amicable solu­tion to the entire problem.” He said he invited directors 1 of the Las Vegas Valley W ater i ; District, Clark County Supervis- I f ors, Las Vegas Mayor C. D. \ Baker, and City Commissioners to the Saturday meeting. GSA j Representative to Nevada, John I Mueller, will also atterid.