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Looking Ahead Nevada's Financial Plight In Future Gloomy—Cahill e some sort of action to relieve the pressure which will build up during the next two years, Robbips Cahill, secretary of the P " ! " " ' »^rdln, to S E B S S S a S H , Cahill said there is no doubt I biit that the financial situation will be grave in 1951 and that unless there is a change in the thinking of the citizenry and more action from the legislature the state well might face a dark future, so far as financing is concerned. " The tax commission official de­clared Jh^t the cities and coun­ties will be in a rather precari­ous financial situation as a re­sult of the refusal of the legisla-, ture to relieve the pressure which has been mounting on these two agencies of the government. “The 1949 session, of the legis-, lature Squeezed out from under L a financial burden in fair shape Vj] Cahill said, “but the 1951 session! undoubtedly will be facing an impending financial dilemma squarely.” Other officials in Carson City and Reno were not quite as opti­mistic as was Cahill. Several de-1 dared that the legislature had left the cities and counties “high 8|§ dry” and that, so far as the M 195.x session of the legislature! was concerned, it might have its task somewhat. relieved because they were unable to see how the | cities and counties could operate without having a special session of the legislature called within the next six months or a year. “It will be utterly impossible for some of the counties to op­erate with ? the state tax rate set (Continued on Page 2) % FineuKces f . (^nnthroed- Fh>m Page- IT I official1 s.Vri” i T 5 W^ h°^ cou n Lr-lK?al Sai<? tius morning; |®re, up against-a stone wall an ton Lmr } :° u ? bone-e W aenJd mthe^nv iet !st o gsolains | to be tough. Soma, of the essen ftials are going ttehave to be cu | ^ ™ .J fd , when that happen” SE??*t. e i bnigges™t squawt0k , «w»mil r*** afeaut die * middfe 0£; :th« S t * will mount, ewe ffi® monthsi ifnesl»a^nroetdft etrh at “everyint hitnhge mnoigrht be all right as long as the fx f ^ f d ? bappaas. I t there is- a, gm sr^ncj? develops, then ifcwiJ be- tough: m will! have m .cushion- in. .our tax rate and as - © * ? - *?>*» ©ne- city, o f t U iH, Reno, saidc We certainly, hope there will be no flood one the Truckee river this spring. We’v e had a lot of snow m the mountains. We migh' a sudden, spring! Haim and i E g do and ai. flood; starts: dowi the-rive^,I just douftknraw wher, | 2 S® ? money to repadj ;afflf;',bamagej that might occur:’” Officials all over the state i f e f R p l B same opinion. B B f &*? they couM survive oareiy, if nothing out of: the ordi­nary occurred; If any emergen- .aes develop, them fife g p in g W be: extremely rough-.