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THE CITY OF SEWARD
RESOLUTION NO. 697
WHEREAS, the Seward Airport at seward, Alaska is without runway light-
ing and paving, both of which are badly needed in order for the Seward
Airport to serve the aviation industry, the over-all Seward community
and the private flyers of the area as it should, and which have been
requested by City of seward Resolution No. 497 on March 7, 1966 and by
letters from The city and business leaders befo~e and after that
request: and
WHEREAS, the Seward industry and business destroyed in the 1964 Earth-
quake and Seismic Wave has not re-established and those which were not
totally destroyed and moved to temporary locations in other areas have
chosen to not make another move to return to Seward: and
WHEREAS, thou9b seward municipal and business leaders have worked dili-
gently to rebuild their industrial and business community since recon-
struction of public facilities was completed in 1965 and 1966, recovery
is still to be accomplished and our present economic situation demands
that these airport improvements be made by the State of Alaska, with
such aid from the United states of America as may be possible, to help
the growth and total recovery of the Seward community, as we feel con-
fident such recovery would be stimulated greatly by having the Seward
Airport runways, one of which is 5,000 feet long and the other 2800
feet long, paved and lighted as the beginning of improvements to make
the Seward Airport truly usable for the purposes of modern aviation.
NCM, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the State of Alaska be and hereby
is petitioned to install runway lighting and to pave the runways of
the Seward Airport during this present construction season as an urgent-
ly needed project to enable seward to make a total recovery from the
1964 Disaster, as such recovery is vital not only to the seward commun-
ity but also to the Nation and to the State of Alaska: and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Federal and State Officials concerned with
such matters, including but not limited to those named below, be in-
formed of this petition by receipt of a copy of same, and be urgently
requested to take the needed action: Vice President HUbert H.Humphrey:
u. S. Senator E. L. Bartlett: U. S. Senator Ernest Gruening: Congress-
man Howard W. Pollock: R. A. Breitweiser, Lt. General U. S. Airforce,
Commander in Chief, Alaskan Command: J. T. Folda, Jr., Major General
U. S. Army, Commanding General, Alaska: Governor Walter J. Hickel:
Alaska Representative Irwin Metcalf: Alaska Representative Clem Tillion:
Alaska Senator W. I. Palmer: Commissioner Harold Strandberg of the
Alaska Department of Public works: Commissioner Frank H. Murkowski of
the Alaska Department of Econanic Development: Mr. Lyle K. Brown,
Director of Alaska Region of the Federal Aviation Agency: Mr. Harry
A. Wakefield, Jr. Director of the Division of Aviation of the Alaska
Department of Public Works: the Chief of Airports Division of the
Federal Aviation Agency: Alaska Airlines: Western Airlines: Civil Air
Patrol, Anchorage Squadron and Civil Air Patrol, Seward Squadron.
This Resolution shall be effective on the date of passage and approval.
Passed and approved by the dty Council of The City of Seward, Alaska,
this l3th
day of May, 1968.
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R. W. Kirkpa rick
Mayor
Attest:
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Beatrice E. Watts
City Clerk-Treasurer