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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 020-1943A RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY TIC CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURLINGALL IN ITIS REGULAR MEETING JUNE 21,1943 '.MEREAS, on December 7th,1941, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked bbrlingame joined with its sister cities, San Mateo and Hills- borough, in placing on a Wartime basis the Three Cities Defense Council previously formed at the direction of the Federal govern- ment, the aim of which was to protect the lives and property of the citizens of the three communities as well as the surrounding cor iuni ties# and 1MEREAS, great importance was attached to the formation of this Civilian Defense Council for the reason that these communities are set in almost dead center of an area comprising at once large masses of population, defense manufacturing plants, ship- yards, radio stations including foreign broadcasting facilities, air fields, public utilities both productive and service, as well as important agricultural areas and national resources such as forests,ete. and WHEREAS, the vigor w1th which these communities performed the job and the high degree of efficiency attained by the Civilian Defense Council and its -workers is attested by the commendation received from the National Office of Civilian Defense, the Ninth Regional Office, and from high renking Army and Navy Officials whir have on many occasions observed the operations of the organ- ization under Alert conditions, and '"JHEREASj thdise three cities of Burlingame, San Matec and Hills- borough are still not classed as a target area after ofle and one-half years of War even though we are in the center of what will be the Front lines in the event of an invasion and even though we are told ive have done an efficient job toaate, and FHEREAS, it is a sad. commentar-r on our Governmental processes that these three cities have not yet received the facilities and equipment required 8ma and for apparantly the one reason that their Defense Council has not heretofore made its demands as vociferously as many other communities have done with success, while we, rather, have been content to work quietly and diligently with the limited facilities at hand and receiving nothing from the National Office of Civilian Defense, aildhough we have beon promised but ^ithout indication of fulfillment, fifteen pumping units for/this district must provide motive power,but which no hand operated equipment and personnel gear most necessary for Warden and Ausillary activities, nor First Aid kits, eta., and WHEREAS, all this other type equipment has been denied us on the grounds that the supply has been exhausted while we read in the daily press that today the City of Denver 1300 miles from the Pacific Coast has received 37 pumping units and almost 13GJ0 helmets and that its Civilian Defense Council admits it does not know what to do with such quantities of equipment since they had already egtfitted their people with helmets, and RE➢IF➢FM - P.1T[M1 TF➢ - Ff ^l ilL N.A!I�FL!�i l.Y6 P➢➢Y C� I u. L..f VFPI Vitt F.CMLIi NOW TEREAS, it is shore of the t1Ze West -ern pale, and 7`0 interesting for the people of California,on the Pacific to consider that Colorado is presumably Frontier and lf+Mia; -trefore, is beyond the HEREAS, we concede the truth of the saying,"The sgaaky wizeel It the grease", yet it is Qur solemn belief that in Wartime all such quaint ways cif accomplishing impG+ -taut results should be foregone And honest diredt action take its place, and by this we mean that prpblems sho,ild be solved by the applicationsof the fundamental principles involved, and -i-n. the present situation it would appear that the devious practice -.of allocating equipment, facilities and protection to those `,1, .6. are relatively more important politically than other, h� s been fo11owed , NOW THEREFORLi, BE IT RESOLVED, by this City Courdil that we prcitest this unjust, improvident, and Una American method of distributing equipment ar_d protective fac '_1t es and that we demand that the National Office of Civilian Defense immrrediately undertake the reallocation of such equipment as is illustrated above, to the end that the real Frontier of the United States, namely the Facific Coast.$ be granted the utmost of protection so that when the dqy of invasion arrives, itlich we trust ,%.,ill be in the far distant future, if ever, these United States through the medi=i of 6.hese Frontier st t-es as California, will be ready, and every civilian gill be able to take his or her battle station amply armed to repel the enemy and to maintain pro uction facilities which are vitall. needed to back up our military, and BE IT F.URTRR RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution and its preamble be sent to our County Civilian Defense Cou c_�_l, the California State War C^ur_cil, the Vinth Regional Office of Civilian Defense, and to the Director of Civilian Defense, Dean James Landis, to the President of the United States, to the two Senators from California, and to Congressman John Z. Anderson and that still a further copy be made availab&d to the press so that the conditions referred to herein may be a matier of public record for all The wish to read. REOIFORIA - FA.TENTCO - PAC!Ft^ MAN I FOLDTN'c C?OG CO.,[ TIC., EMFBYV I LLE, CAT I F,