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Las Vegas, Nevada, Evening Review-journal December 17, 1941. VEGAS, BOULDER HOUSING EXPANSION OKEHED, NEW TOWN PLAN ABANDONED Immediate expansion of Las Ve­gas .and Boulder City to meet the housing needs attending con­struction and operation of the 860,000,000 magnesium plant, was assured today when officials of Defense Plants Corporation ad­vised Senator Berkeley L. Bun-, ker that plans for a new town hdd been abandoned and that new residences would be constructed in' the two already-existing com­munities." : • ' ? Senator Bunker, who has been working for the past two weeks to break the jam attending the housing situation, which had al­ready resulted in serious delay, issued a statement in which he revealed he had been assured by officials of D.P.C, that: ' 1. There: would be no new town built to serve the magne- ? slum plant. 2. That 2,000 residences to be built under title VI of F.H.A. in Las Vegas,' will be author­ized immediately, these to be in addition to 700 already ap- : proved. 3. That 3 300 residences will be allocated to Boulder City in addition to those already auth­orized. 4. That the application of the city of Las Vegas for an allo­cation of 8350,000 for extension of. the sewer. system to take care of the additional growth, would be expedited and should be approved within the next few days. ' 5. That a representative of Defense. Plants Corporation' was scheduled - to arrive . here . to+ morrow night to speed up the start of construction of the 2,300 new homes in order that they may be completed as rap­idly as possible. Senator Bunker said he had been assured there would be no • further delay in authorizing the houses and that all would be. built i with FHA mortgageguarantees i under Title VI. This, he pointed out, insures construction by. private capital i and elimination of the proposed ' new town. at.the plant site. Bunker flew to Washington two weeks ago at the request of the Chamber of Commerce and a large group of local business men to launch a battle , against the then-established limitation of 300 placed on new home construction in Las Vegas, and the result has been as outlined, above. “I feel very gratified iri‘ being': i able to bring this about,” the sen-: ; ator said. “It assures, the. future j of Las Vegas and Boulder City; and eliminates the bugbear of the nhw town which was, holding up all construction, both, business and residential,-since the government : would not issue,cbmmitments and priorities for building here until the size and make-up of the new town was decided upon-” “This means Las Vegas. and*! Boulder ? City . will practically double in size : within the next year,” Bunker said, “and I am ; proud to have had a part in mak- ; ing; this transpire.” '• _____ -n- | '! ? . J Magnesium Plant Plans Vacation A four-day Christmas vacation will be enjoyed by the: workers at .the magnesium, plant, it was-! revealed today by. H. C. Mann, [ project manager of Basic Mag- j riecium Inc., in a bulletin issued at the plant. ’ 'i,:< " ? \ • v.d The vacation will start on the : evening of December 24 and. will I extend to December 29 and will affect all office and engineering personnel of theilcompany- It is • expected McNeil Construction i company .will follow suit. There will be ho New Year’s ! holiday however,^Mann. revealed, work continuing on January 1, 2, and 3, the same as usual and i without overtime.