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/ / Las Vegas / - May ?, 194? V a n s i ) / Prom time to time, the question of municipal owner- ( oe - Hr. Wm. ReinIhafr1dt Mr. £. I* Bennett# i •« utilities is revived la has Vegas# usually last ->re election 4*^ usually on behalf of some candidate who uu think V I nothing *ise to offer. That is true of todays municipal el* Motion of a mayor and two oity oommissloners. How-advocated the oreation of & ^municipal authority* under utilities might be acquired. He ran third in the three-idst ® race. Only one of the 20 candidates for commissioner toned the subject, Ceorge Knipp, a local tire dealer, and v lost in the ehuffle* . however, 1 was advised in confidence today that the else interested, and at a committee meeting of the jettaeree last night, motion was passed authorizing > to contact Hr. Ashby with regard to acquisition of hand and Water Cogs water distribution facilities The idea is to finance this by issuing •revenue *h, they say, will cost the taxpayers nothing and item selves from revenues. *1® have employed two engineers to estimate the v\eability of extending the present pipe line fro® le Interestwae taken i n the municipal ownership of the candidates for mayor# Walter Bates, half- •1