Resolution 04838RESOLUTION NO. 4838
WHEREAS, there has been public announcement by the United States Maritime
Administration of its intention to close and place in 'tmothballs" the United State's
Maritime Service Training Station located in the City of Alameda, and
WTREAS, the West Coast, dominating as it does, shipping to the Orient and
the Far East, is a highly important factor in our country's participation in world
commerce and, as such, needs and will continue to need the service afforded by said
training station in the necessary and. adequate training of personnel to man its' ships,
and
WHEREAS, in the field of National Defense, ships and shipping (of the West
Coast as well as of the Eastern Seaboard) have achieved so great an importance as to
warrant the closest and most careful consideration of any step on the part of the
Federal Government which might in any way curtail or hamper their operation or serve
to lessen their efficiency and ability to function at the highest level of -0erformancel;
they measured up to the job given them to do in World War Il and in the Korean affair
and to the Maritime Service Training Stations throughout the country must go a large
part of the credit for their splendid and thrilling performance; !%Tashington has long
been urging the need for a strong Civil Defense Corps and Alameda., responding to the
call, has built and established such a corps. This city is spending upwards of $60,000
per year to maintain in a position of readiness the Civil Defense organization it has
created, and this Council is impelled to the belief that the Federal Government would,,
in closing the aforementioned station, detract from the defense effort it is asking
the target area cities to furnish, and
WHEREAS, idle, or mothballed government plants not only work a depressive
effect upon the economy of the communities in which they are located, but rapidly
deteriorate to the point where reactivation necessitates rebuilding and reequipment
of such mothballed plants (the Maritime -Alameda Shipyard has been in mothballs since
the end of World War II), and
WHEREAS, in the judgment of this Council, true economy dictates the continued
operation of the Alameda Maritime Service Training Station to meet the continuing demand
for the service it was designed to perform,,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA that the
U. S. Maritime Administration be and it is hereby urged and requested to reconsider
its proposal to close down and mothball the Alameda Maritime Service Training Station,
to reevaluate the worth of said station's service to the West Coast shipping interests
and National Defense, and to find and determine that, by reason of shipping's need for
properly and adequately trained personnel and the ability of said station to furnish
such training, the Alameda Maritime Service Training Station shall be continued in
active operation.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in adjourned
regular meeting assembled on the 27th day of October, 1953, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Jones, McCall and President Sweeney, (3).
NOES: Councilmen Anderson and Mores, (2).
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF., I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 28th day of October, 1953.
(SEAL) SHIRLEY H. TENNIER
City ClEmik of the City of Alameda
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
"Resolution No. 4838, MEMORIALIZING U. S. MARITIME ADMINISTRATION IN THE MATTER OF
MAINTAINING IN ACTIVE STATUS THE ALA DA MARITIME SERVICE TRAINING STATION ", intro-
duced and adopted by the Council on the 27th day of October, 1953.
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City Clerk of he.City of Alameda