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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL 4-4-51 Water Hearing Continuation Seen Indications were today that the ijprreiit hearing of the Ne- j vada public service commission j in tf .s city would be continued for at least another day, with; the Las Vegas Land and Water company’s first witness domina­ting the testimony all day Tues­day and this morning. However, City Attorney How­ard Cannon was expected to ! cross-examine the water utility’s witness,' Roy A. Wehe, consult­ing engineer, as the sessions re­turned this afternoon. Wehe was called to the stand yesterday morning to explain de­tails of two reports concerning operation of the land and water company during 1950 and 1951. He has gone over the exhaus­tive .figures in. the two reports- item b|l item and it was expected that ta| water company would call stll another engineer to the witness st*a n d this ' afternoon j after Wehe’s cross-examination. The fireworks in the hearing | were expected to start when ; Cannon presented the city’s case and local citizens and organiza-, (Continued on Page Two) Water Hearing (Continued From Page 1) tion representatives were ca °It is expected that reference will be made to inadequate wifter ] service in Las Vegas du%rg summer months as a .bls„is requesting a denial of the pro­posed raise in water rates. Cannon has stated that in order to reach an understanding of the objections of the city to ;he hike in water scales, ser­vice of the water company should be considered at the same time. Under provisions of the pro­tested water raise, Ideal resi­dences would be assessed addi­tional money for extra bath­rooms and large acreage or ex­cessive use of water. Business Eirfns almost universally would pay higher water rates. The new scale of water rates would raise average residential customers bill from about $2J>o $2.70, the reports of Wehe shltv. An over-all increase of acMut 42.5 per cent would be in efflct and the water company wdtld realize an additional $94,307 for the added levy, it was reported.