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    LAS VEGAS MORNING SUN August 23, 1952 dry AS DESERT DUST — City commis^Df#s had only a few hours earlier completed a session approv$p|j: h proposal for pur* chase of “the local water utility by the Das Vegas Valley Water Dis­trict when a serious Water shortage struck residences and the busi­ness district ‘With firry at the peak tourist rush hour last night. Restaurants, and bars found taps dry and cooling systems knocked out of operation. Here Jim Corey is shown at his Fremont St. res­taurant fountain unable to get a drop of water. He. and other oper­ators of establishments without water scurried to places more fortunate and “borrowed” what they could until the taps trickled again- WBsm KSunfotoJj X