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Los Angeles, February 25, 1952 4705-11-22 Mr. Galvin M. Cory: FEB 2 6 1952 (cc - Mr. Wm..Reinhardt) I enclose copy of letter just received from Mr, Al­len, Chairman of the Nevada Public Service Commission,re­garding I & S Docket 127. It is my personal opinion that Mr. Allen is stalling our matter along in the hope that the District will take over and relieve the Commission of the embarrassment of changing its original decision, I wish that you would go up to see Mr. Allen this week and see if you cannot prevail upon the Commission to take action on the Petition for Rehearing immediate­ly. If the Commission would grant the Petition at this time and set the matter for hearing at some reasonable date in the future, it would be in our interests to make an additional showing at the rehearing rather than to press the Court case against the Commission. However if the Commission does not do that, it will be necessary to immediately progress the court case. I wish that you would stress to the Commission that the Company operated at a deficit in the year 1951 as well as in the year 1950 and that it must take action to relieve this situation. In our informal conferences with Mr. Allen since the denial of our Petition for Reconsideration we have fur­nished him ample information indicating that we are en­titled to additional relief. All of this information has confirmed the figures which we placed in the record orig­inally. It might be helpful to see Mr. Shamberger at the same time. E. E. Bennett