1968-175RESOLUTION NO. 68R -175
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM URGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW
NATIONAL CEMETERIES FOR VETERANS AND THEIR
FAMILIES.
WHEREAS, the United States Government once promised
every man who served his country as a member of the armed forces
that he and his immediate family could be buried in a national
cemetery if he or his family so desired, and
WHEREAS, limited space now remains in existing national
cemeteries and the Department of Defense has announced that no
plans exist for creating new national cemeteries for veterans and
their families, and
WHEREAS, more than forty- million persons, two million
of them more than seventy years of age, are now eligible for
national cemetery burials under legal provisions established
since the Civil War, and
WHEREAS, ample space is available on existing national
lands and the only requirement is the dedication of the land for
cemetery purposes, and
WHEREAS, mortuaries have been forced to send families
to private cemeteries at an additional cost above and beyond the
government burial allowance;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim, that the United States Conference of Mayors
is hereby asked to adopt a resolution urgin4 the creation of new
national cemeteries so that the government may fulfill its pro-
mise to care for veterans and their immediate families.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by me
this 26th day of March, 1968.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK, CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss.
CITY -OF ANAHEIM-
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of
Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No.
68R -175 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting pro.*
vided by law, of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held
on the 26th day of March, 1968, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City
of Anaheim approved and signed said Resolution No. 68R -175
on the 26th day of March, 1968.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this
26th day of March, 1968.
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Dutton, Krein, Schutte,
Chandler and Pebley
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
(SEAL)
CI CLERK, CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of
Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original
of Resolution No. 68R -175 duly passed and adopted by the
Anaheim City Council on March 26, 1968.