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LAS VEGRS REVIEW JOURNAL p u b l i s h e d ; ,1111. at iq4q „ P5C Demanding to Know Future Plans of Utility I ' A definite show-down on the critical Las Vegas water situation appeared in the offing today. ? - J. G. Allard, chairman of the Nevada public service commission, said he was pre­paring a demand to be wired to the Omaha offices of the Las Vegas Land and Water |company* that the commission be* advised immediately in detail -as 'to what plans were f being made, it any, .to prevent a } ^ — “ p- ? I recurrence of the present short-] I age. -. i IS ; , - I ,? I Allard said he had not received j | a formal report of Commissioner 1 Charles V. Williams, who spent I several days here 'investigating ? the situation, but that’he felibon- j editions were sufficiedtferaltrming j • ?this year to require that the com- ; | mission insist on action by the ! “ company to insure an adequate I supply , for 1950. f . While in Las Vegas, Williams j I was advised by A1 Folger, gen- j I eral manager of the utility, that I h e ' had recommended to the j f Omaha office that additional j I storage facilities be constructed] I and that more wells be put down] I to augment the supply. No figures | I were given, Williams stated. § Allard said he planned to in- | Isist that the commission be a d -1 vised as to just how much addi-1 > tional water could be made avail- ? able by sinking more wells, how | | much storage was to be supplied | ; and when all this work would be | I completed. | “Recommendations and blue- f I prints don’t- help the folks who | ;,are forced to go without. water Jf 1 four4 or five hours each evening $ for during the day,” Allard com -.v< Imented. The commission chairman said| | further he was considering a pub-1| lie hearing in . Las Vegas in the | near future to give all complain-1 2 ants an opportunity to be heard. | Folger said this morning that 1 c o n d i t i o n s w e r e normal | throughout the city, except in I g, the Iluntridge area and two or | | three other high spots. • “Restricted sprinkling . has | I'been a lifesaver,” he declared. | I “Pressure, for most of the 'city ! sis good.! throughout the entire i j period of usage. Within a very ishort time we’ll be over the. |hump.” ! Meanwhile, circulation of peti-jtions directed to the public serv­ic e commission, insisting on iih- j Imediate action to assure suffi- j • cient .water in areas now entirely j without between 5 and 10 o’clock j l each evening, , was continuing. Circulators said they 'had more than 250. signatures of complain- ,ih^useS;' ’ ‘