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
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TEREAS, it is
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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.
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