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Las Vegas, Nevada Evening Review-Journal October 6, 1938 W LEO McNAMEE NAMED HEAD OF TAXPAPERS BODY! . Board of Directors Chooses Officers At Meet Last - Night I T Le.°r A - McNamee, prominent I ~ as; Vegas attorney and pioneer 1 resident, was elected president at the Las Vegas Taxpayers Protective Association at a meeting of the board of directors of the organization held yesterday afternoon. , Bryan L. Bunker was selected as treasurer, and Clifford A Jones as secretary to the organization which grew out of a mass r meeting Tuesday night in protest to the recent city ordinance which .raised business licenses in . the v city. PAT . CLINE was appointed, fb .act as,'chairman of a committee f ° fflvestigate-the adviseability of 1 ^incorporating the city of Las | Vegas and consolidating the gov- i ei nment tinder the county setup. He w ill choose his Own committee ! - to act with him. This- committee .also was instructed to contact the •c?ty commissioners to ask if the city, would voluntarily withdraw j ordinance number 243 and draft a new one to eliminate alleged ! inequalities under the present: ruling.; , I N ? | i The next meeting of the Tax-payers Protective Association has .,, n called by the president in I M m district courtroom at 7:30 lo clock Thursday evening, October 13, when officers and com-' mittees will report on their study or ..the. city government. | . MEANTIME, THE senior- and junior chambers of commerce committees, named earlier in the week by the two organizations met last; night for a preliminary survey of the tax situation, and K. B. Griffith, chairman Of last night’s meeting called another for, this evening at 7:30. It is expected that regular meetings. - will be called of. this committee, and that active work will he started by the first' of next week. GRIFFITH-,-said that from the enthusiasm, displayed last night by the memberjs of the committee, he is certain that much will be accomplished and that a comprehensive study of the' city’s finances ..will be completed rapidify.