Resolution 04760Im
RESOLUTION NO. 4760
MEMORIALIZING THE CAL1FORNIA MEMBEFS OF THE CONGHESS
0-°' THE] "UNITED STATED IN ?HE MATTER OF DETERMINING
THE NECESSITY FOR AN ALL-WEATHER TRANS -SIERRA ROUTE
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
WT.-TE-EREAS the military commitments of this nation in the past, two decades
have expanded greatly in the Pacific Oceon and the lands adjacent thereto, and the
San Francisco Bay area is the principal Pacific Coast port for shipment of military
personnel and material, much of which is transported over these routes; and
WHEREAS this principal port would be a primary target for enemy attach or
sabotage, and therefore would require emergency supply and reinforcement over the
central Trans -Sierra route; and
WHEREAS these central route highways are still functioning with the sRme
linited capacity of twenty years ago; and
WHEREAS more than twenty major depertment of defense su7ply depots, tacti-
cal establishments, and experimental installations are located. in the :11nterriolaiatain
areas served by the Trnns-Sierrn transcontinental route;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE IT OF ALAMEDA thst
the California. mevil)ers of the Congress of the United States be, and they are hereby,
urged and requested to take the action necessary to determine if any of the several
Trans -Sierra routes qualify as being essential to national defense;
BE !T FURTHER RESOLVED that if such determination be made that the National
Department of Defense be requested to maho defonse funds available so that a route or
routes will be brought up to adequate engineering and traffic standards for all -year,
all-weather traffic purposes.
the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular
meeting assembled on the 21st day of April, 1953, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Anderson, Jones, McCall, Moresi and President
Sweeney, (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
!N WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have, h,ereiuitis set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 22nd day of April, 1953.
(SEAL SHIRLEY H. TENNIEF
City Clcrk of o f —Al a me Kfa—,--
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of'
"Resolution No. 4760, TekORIALIZ:Na THE CALIFCRUIA MEMBERS OF THE CONOROSS OF Taz
UNITED STATED !N THE MATTER OF DETERMINTN'S THE NECESSITY FOR AN ALL-WEATHER TRANS -
SIERRA ROUTE FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE", introduced and adopted by the Council on the
21sb day of April, 1953.
J I 1 4 1ry
City C i erk pl-
thB City of Alameda