HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 747, No Resolution Number747
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL
SCHEDULES AND FEEDER AIR LINE SERVICE TO PADUCAH
WHEREAS, the City of Paducah, Kentucky, jointly with the County of McCracken
owns and operates Alben Barkley Field as a municipal airport; and
WHEREAS, said airport is the only one offering and capable of offering
scheduled airline service to an extensive area of Western Kentucky and Southern
Illinois containing more than 500,000 population; and
WHEREAS, vital atomic energy, electric power and chemical industries cost-
ing more than :700,000.00 are under construction at Paducah and Calvert City,
Kentucky, and at Joppa, Illinois, near Paducah, as essential items in the
currect national defense program; and
WHEREAS, the 1950 U. S. Census population of 32,700 for the City of Paducah
and of 49,500 for the County of McCracken have increased, due to the undertaking
of these defense projects, to more than 51,000 for Paducah and 81,000 for
McCracken County (estimated by Kenneth L. Schellie, planning consultant,
Indianapolis, Indiana), thereby greatly enhancing local needs for air trans-
portation; and
WHEREAS, the Atomic Energy Commission has proposed a great increase in its
program which will probably result in expansion of its Paducah gaseous diffusion
project with consequent extension of peak construction employment for possibly
several more years; and
WHEREAS, the four major private chemical plants at nearby Calvert City,
Kentucky, are all undergoing expansion, and plans are pending for construction
of several other major defense plants in the Calvert City area; and
WHEREAS, the Tennessee Valley Authority has requested $28,000.000 in new
funds for the expansion of its new steam generqting plant at Paducah, and Electric
Energy, Incorporated, builder of the $388,000.000 steam generating plant at
Joppa, Illinois, is also considering a major expansion of that plant; and
WHEREAS, in the face of this growing industrialization and expanding
population other passenger transportation service to the Paducah area is
being curtailed, through abandonment of all passenger service to Paducah
by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St..Louis Railway, and the formal request
by the Illinois Central Railroad to discontinue its passenger trains Nos.
101 and 102 which will leave the Paducah area with only one passenger train
daily in each direction, to Louisville and to Memphia, Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, passengers emplaned at Alben Barkley Field have increased from
an average of about 200 a month in the last quarter of 1949 to an average
of about 800 monthly in the last quarter of 1951, and air mail, express and
freight handled through Barkley Field have increased by an even greater margin.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD.OF COMISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That the Civil Aeronautica Board be requested and petitioned
to give immediate and special consideration to the provisions of additional
scheduled and/or feeder air line service to Paducah, by whatever cbarrier or
caraiers the Board concludes can best give such service, with special reference
to the provision of air line service between Paducah and Nashville and Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, and between Paducah and Louisville and Lexington -Frankfort,
Kentucky, and Washington D. C. and New York City.
SECTION 2. This resolution shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption.
Mayor /
Passed by the Board of Commissioners, April 22, 1952
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 22, 1952.