HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 1694In the City Council,
City of Lodi,
Lodi, California
RESOLUTION NO. 1694
ENDORSING THE; PROPOSAL OF A
MAJOR TRANS -SIERRA HIGHWAY
WHEREAS, the severe winter of 1952 has revealed what
many have long suspected, that the Sierra Nevada Mountain passes
of the main trunk highways of the Central Trans -Continental
routes across the nation are not adequate and may be blocked
easily, and as definitely as if by military action or sabotage.
WHEREAS, the military commitments of this nation in the
past two decades have expanded greatly in the Pacific Ocean and
the lands adjacent thereto, and the San Francisco Bay area is
the principal Pacific Coast port for shipment of military per-
sonnel and material, much of which is transported over these
routes,
WHEREAS, this principal port would be a primary target
for enemy attack or sabotage, and therefore would require emer-
gency supply and reinforcement over the central Trans -Sierra
route,
WHEREAS, these central route highways are still functioning
with the same limited capacity of twenty years ago,
WHEREAS, more than twenty major department of defense
supply depots, tactical establishments, and experimental install-
atiors are located in the intermountain areas served by the Trans -
Sierra trans -continental route,
WHEREAS the above considerations are chatters of great
concern to our national defense,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LODI:
1. That this Council by unanimous action calls upon its
Congressional and Senatorial representatives to take every action
available to them, collectively and individually, to the end that
immediate modernaization of a major Trans -Sierra highway by
widening to four lanes to the San Francisco Bay area be declared
essential to the national defense;
2. That upon declaration of the above cited route as
essential to the national defense, the United :+tater Department
of Defense be called upon to bring about the immediate moderni-
zation of this route by widening to four lanes through utili-
zation of defense funds in order that the security of the vital
San Francisco Bay area can be assured through immediate availa-
bility of supply and reinforcement in the event of enemy action
or sabotage.
* # #
1, HENRY A. GLAVES, JR., City Clerk of the City of
Lodi and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of said
City, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full,
true and correct copy of Resolution No. 1694 of the
City Council of the City of Lodi as regularly introduced,
passed and adopted in regular meeting held August 20,
1952 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen, Preszler, Richey, Rinn, Robinson,
and Haskell
NOES: Councilmen, None.
ABSENT: Councilmen, None.
Dated: August 22, 1952