Resolution 1948 - Protest Northwest Airlines' Request to BypassRESOUTPI'DY NO . 1948
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of K_,lispell, Montana, at
its regular session hel,�' February 8, 1944,
T HAT MMFAS, an application has been made by Northwest Airlines to the
United States Civil Aernnautics Board, at Washington, D. C., for a fran-
chise for a main or trunk passenger and freight air transport line.to
extend east and west across central Montana through Great Falls and
Missoula, avoiding the cities in northern Montana al:ong the line of the
Greut Northern Railway and U. S. Highway No, 20 as well as the territory
in northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
AND WREREAB, these northern Montana cities, particularly Glasgow, Havre,
Cut Bank and Kalispell, all have newly completed airports of a size and
class capable of handling and caring for the largest types of transport
planes which airports would be rendered useless by failure to establish
through such cities a main or trunk air line and such cities and the
surrounding region would be left without suitable or any air transport
service;
AND IM.ERFAS, the regions adjacent to such cities and along the line of
the Great Northern Railway and U. S. Highway No. 2 comprise a vast territory
rich in agriculture, timber and mineral resources which should be developed
and with a population comprising one -quarter to one-third of the entire
population of the State of Montana, such population and territory being
desirous and in need of having the beftefit of a trunk line air transport
route to aid in such development,
WHEREAS, in western Montana and along the line of an air transport route
through the cities above mentioned and westerly lies a vast territory
comprised of United States Forest Reserves and Glacier National Park, the
former comprising a territory of hundreds of square miles, the latter over
nine hundred square miles in itself and the whole region being one of the
rare and attractive scenic beautJr spots of the entire Nation and furnish-
ing a playground excelled by none in the United States as an attraction
to tourists.
AND WHEREAS9 the establishment of a trunk air transport line along the
route above mentioned in northern Montana would furnish adequate means
for development of the resources of such region and would make the forest
reserve and park areas above mentioned readily accessible to many, thousands
of tourists and pleasure seekers in the post-war period, whereas, the
establishment of the air transport line applied for by Northwest Airlines
would completely eliminate any possibility of adequate development of the
region above mentioned, would deprive the thousands of tourists desirous
of visiting this region of an opportunity to do so and would result in
theise regions remaining undeveloped, both as to material resources and
scenic attraction to the great detriment of the entire region referred to
and the many thousands of people residing therein.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that, the City Council of the City of
Kalispell, Montana, does hereby protest most vigorously to the Oivil
Aeronautics Board against the granting of the franchise applied foil as
above stated by Northwest Airlines and protests against the granting of
any franchise or similar right to any person or group of persons or
corporation for the establishment of any main or trunk or other airline
ir route which would result in bypassing or leaving without adequate air
transport facilities the cities and region in northern Montana, above
described.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, no pressing or urgent need being shown for
the establishment at this time of such main or trunk air route as re-
quested by said Northwest Airlines, the Civil Aeronautics Board is
urgently requested either to deny such application or to delay action
thereon until the and of the war when the need for a trunk air transport
route through northern Montana may be more fully demonstrated and economic
and other conditions will make possible the establishment of such northern
Montana air transport route.
BE IT FTJTPHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be sent to the Civil
Aeronautics Board, Washington, D. C. and to the Honorable Burton X. Wheeler
and Tames E. Murray, United States Senators, and the Honorable James F.
O'Connor and Mike Mansfield, Congressmen from Montana.
D. S. Cameron
D. S. �ameron, Mayor
Attest:
C. H. Brewer
0. H. Brewer, City Clerk
I, C. H. Brewer, Clerk of the City of Kalispell, do hereby certify that the
above resolution was adopted by the Council of said City at a meeting held
this 7th day of February, 1944
Clerk of the City of Kalispell