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L A S V E G A S R E V I E W J O U R N A L W M . ft AUG 16 j949 'P U B L I S H E D : Jia W ater Shortage Prevalent Throughout County, Report rater Pressure in Las Vegas Now Back to Normal After Shortage ' Water p r e s s u r e s i n Las I Vegas , were back to normal 1 , I this meriting as users cut back ! consumption and storage built 'u p during the night. / Al.Folger, general manager of the water Company, described public cooperation as “ wonder­ful” and praised the Review- Journal “ for your splendid and accurate presentation of the sit-l. uation to the people with.such fine’ results.” - Folger predicted there would \ be .no more . difficulty , if t h e [ water users continued “ to play ball” for another 30 days. Meanwhile, Charles V. Wil­liam s, member of the Nevada fniblic service, commission, n s jrived in town to launch a thorough probe of . conditions which brought about a complete lack of water in several sections o f town on Monday and Tuesday. Williams was dispatched here by Governor Vail Pittman and ! Chairman J. G. Allard 1 of - the public' service ommission in re- ' sponse to telegrams from house-j holders and business men who j requested something be d u n e | immediately. The commissioner said he | would check into every phase I of the situation and make his $ recommendations shortly. 'j. In the Huntridge area, resi­dents reported that the situation was! “terrible” last night with j literally no water from 5:30 for j gevaral hours. However, this ! morning they said there was ex- ! cellent pressure in the lines. Mayfair residents reported pbout the same situation, with water being extremely short until 11:30 p.m. This morning the condition was back to nor- ; mal, they said. * • In Kelso - Turner, residents 1 said the pressure was back to normal after a bad night last ! night. . -r-: §p|i """? . Mrs. M. Z. Ivy, in the Meadows ’Acres addition,' said the water ! there was not off yesterday, but the pressure* was practically >! nothing. "She said she was on'the mutual water line in the area. Sears Roebuck and company, which was without water on the second and third floors yester­day, reported the situation im­proved today but pressure re-maining low. ................... Water Supply m Vegas Builds Up The Las Vegas water supply continued to build up in reser­voirs today but the nightly short-; age between 6 and 10 p.m. co n -j tinues, due now, however, to the excessive drain on the system by sprinkling of lawns after 5 p.m. in accordance with Mayor E. W. Cragin’s edict. Daytime supply to hotels and downtown buildings was said to be normal and housewives w h o, had reported on Monday and Tuesday of no'water at all saidl the supply now is adequate, de-1 spite dwindling pressure in the early evening. The prediction that the board of directors of the Las Vegas l> Valley Water district would! come up with a solution to thej annual summer water shortage here, before another year has j gone by, was made”this morning by Harry Miller, chairman of i the district’s board of directors.! “ If there ever was any doubt! in anybody’s, mind as to the need) for bringing water in from Lake5 Mead, the experience of the past; few days should dissipate it en-i tirely,” Miller declared. “ There’s nothing we can do about it this summer, but our engineers are at work and by July 1950 we certainly should be in a position to meet the problem.” he said. The alarming water shortage [in the city of Las Vegas is gen- [eral throughout the valley, it [was disclosed, today by Harry [ Jameson, county1 WelLsuPervisor, who disclosed that the wMer table as early as a niontbjagq was two feet lowej than itA-.Jbwest point in 1948. Jameson said, the • annual low- [point usually ; reached about the lastyfeelc |i| Attgust, and stat­ed iU 'is^^ybqdy^ guess” how far the;.tabie ,w f{l"d lT b p by then. In .•pddifibfi;: Jd ^Unprecedented usage;*:' Jameson' pointed out, there-has been n«t . evidence of substantial recharfe of the un-derground water supply from the mountaihs. He said that following every s’orm, the table rises for two or three days, but settles after [that time to the level which ex- | isted prior to the rains. Most complaints coming into Jameson’s office-have been from ranches and other-homes close to the city, where the water com­pany wells and- other heavy users rob residents of pressure. He advises those • who depend Ion wells for their water to in­stall a booster-pressure. system rather than continue to rely on [the uncertain free flow ,; where the pressure is at the mercy, of larger users in the vicmita^ly t I tgiiaati. h1e fe^cfaKinaHi ,aW TO ' I myself in staying ott . I er,” Murphy concluded. ? The retiring city manager took ? h is present duties October 1, 1947, ?succeeding Tom Fennessy. Prior H to that he had been division en- Hgineer for the state highway de- ?partment here. ' - V -!; ? “They told me when I went.in ? that the average life of a city ? manager in the United States is I slightly less than two years. I I guess I’n running true to form,” ?M urphy said with a broad grin.