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A RESOLUTION
EXPRESSING APPRECIATION TO ALL THOSE CITIZENS
WHO CONTRIBUTED THEIR TIME AND EFFORTS IN EX-
TENDING HOSPITALITY TO DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
AND SUCCESSFULLY CARRYING OUT THE PROGRAM OF THE
DAY ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1961; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION W TIME AND EFFORT ON
THE PART OF MANY CITIZENS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI AREA, TOO NUMEROUS
TO MENTION INDIVIDUALLY, INSURED THE SUCCESSFUL CARRYING OUT OF THE
PROGRAM OF EXTENDING HOSPITALITY TO DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO THE
CITY AND PADRE ISLAND ON JUNE 21, 1961; AND
WHEREAS, THE CELEBRATION OF PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE
PARK DAY IN HONOR OF THE VISIT OF VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR STEWART UDALL, UNITED STATES SENATORS,
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED VISI-
TORS WAS A SUCCESS DUE ENTIRELY TO THE EFFORTS OF THE MANY CITIZENS
AND TIRELESS DEVOTION TO THE CARRYING OUT OF THE TASKS ASSIGNED AND
ASSUMED; AND
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE
TO ALL THOSE CITIZENS WHO SO FREELY DEVOTED THEIR EFFORTS ON SAID
OCCASION:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY AND SURROUNDING AREA, THE CITY COUNCIL DOES
HEREBY EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE TO AND SINCERELY THANKS ALL THOSE
INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS'CHRISTI AND
COUNTY OF NUECES, PRIVATE BUSINESS INTERESTS AND NUMEROUS INDIVIDUAL
CITIZENS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS AND CELEBRATION OF
THE EXTENSION OF HOSPITALITY TO THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AND THE
CARRYING OUT OF THE PROGRAM OF THE DAY ON JUNE 21, 1961, IN OBSERVANCE
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OF PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE PARK DAY.
SECTION 2. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT DUE PUBLICITY BE
GIVEN OF THIS EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE BY FURNISHING COPIES OF THIS
RESOLUTION BY THE CITY SECRETARY.
SECTION 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF PROMPTLY MAKING PUBLIC RECORD
OF THE SINCERE FEELING OF GRATITUDE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND
ITS CITY COUNCIL CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC
NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDI-
NANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRO-
DUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE
SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED
SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE
SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE PASSED
FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN
FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PAS E, IT IS ACCORDINGLY
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE Q` V DAY OF 1961.
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CITY SECRE AR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRI I, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO EGAL FORM THIS
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CITY AT O N Y
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI, -TEXAS
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR
THE SUSPENSION -OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR
RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT
SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL; 1', THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE
OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED,
OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRI I,TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTES
BEN F. MCDONALD
TON R. SWANTNER
DR. JAMES L. BARNARD
Jose R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS 64
JAMES H. YOUNG C
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOW 6 VOTES
BEN F. McDONALD wr
TOM R. SWANTNER
DR. JAMES L. BARNARD
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
JAMES H. YOUNG