PRINTER'S NO. 1981
No. 113 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, FARGO, TRUE, ARGALL, CLARK, BUXTON,
GORDNER, LESCOVITZ, SAYLOR, FAIRCHILD, WAUGH, VEON, NAILOR,
MILLER, D. W. SNYDER, KREBS, SATHER, FAJT, CURRY, ROBERTS,
ROONEY, KENNEY, HUTCHINSON, TRELLO, PETTIT, RUDY, RUBLEY,
PERZEL, NYCE, WOZNIAK, ALLEN, KASUNIC, HASAY, LEH, CESSAR,
ARMSTRONG, STURLA, PLATTS, E. Z. TAYLOR, FARMER, HERSHEY,
FLICK, PHILLIPS, BLAUM, COY, CAWLEY, M. N. WRIGHT, CLYMER,
BEBKO-JONES, SCHULER, GERLACH, BELFANTI, PETRARCA, TOMLINSON,
MIHALICH, LAUB, ROHRER, MUNDY, HESS, STERN, PESCI, MAITLAND,
DEMPSEY, SAURMAN, CAPPABIANCA, DeLUCA, HERMAN, KING,
LAUGHLIN, TIGUE, ROEBUCK, LYNCH AND HENNESSEY, MAY 27, 1993
ADOPTED, MAY 27, 1993
A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the outstanding achievements of the Civilian
2 Conservation Corps on its 60th Anniversary.
3 WHEREAS, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a program
4 to recruit thousands of unemployed young men, enroll them in a
5 peacetime army and send them into battle against the destruction
6 and erosion of natural resources; and
7 WHEREAS, The Emergency Conservation Work Act, more commonly
8 known as the Civilian Conservation Corps, was enacted in 1933;
9 and
10 WHEREAS, The Civilian Conservation Corps accomplished many
11 tasks for the betterment of life in this Commonwealth; and
12 WHEREAS, These accomplishments include constructing buildings
13 still in use in many of our State parks, building bridges and
1 retaining walls, constructing walking and riding trails, roads,
2 lookouts, dams and reservoirs and fighting forest fires; and
3 WHEREAS, The National Association of the Civilian
4 Conservation Corps Alumni has been responsible for planting 9
5 billion trees throughout the United States; and
6 WHEREAS, Civilian Conservation Corps alumni will celebrate
7 their 60th Anniversary on June 6, 1993; therefore be it
8 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
9 outstanding accomplishments of the Civilian Conservation Corps;
10 and be it further
11 RESOLVED, That all citizens join together in recognizing and
12 thanking this generous group for the many contributions it has
13 made to this Commonwealth.
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