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/�Argumee�t in Fcavoa° of the Port �onds
<br /> No matter what you may have read or heard abcut the �1,000,000 bond issue
<br /> Ifor the expansion of of che Porc of Redwood City, you may be a<sured [he bond
<br /> issue will not cosx che caxpayers of Redwood City ane cent in added cases. It
<br /> will liquidace itself from port earnings.
<br /> When yoa go to the polls Tuesday, April 7, please remember that here is one
<br /> bood issue that will prove an investment, insread of an obligation xo you, .he
<br /> oa-ners of xhe port.
<br /> Despitc last-minute uicks of the opposition to mislead you, cs they have ao-
<br /> cempted to do w6enevec [here has been 2ny issue affectii�g your port, [he facts
<br /> are macrers of record, and will be che s�me che day after election as they are the
<br /> day before. You mus[ expect some opposition to any plans ro expand your port,
<br /> so chat it may increase business and industry, wliich will help you to carry the
<br /> heavy tax load now levied against your homes.
<br /> San Francisco and Easc Bay pores may get hurt with our port expansion, and
<br /> chey will nox sit idly by while business moves from them to us, buc tUey do not
<br /> pay your taxes, nor 2te they in[emsted in the development of a port chlc will offer
<br /> them real mmpecicion. So examine dosely the motives aod the concacts of those
<br /> who atrempt to mislead you as ro the real [ac[s about the greac potencial youc port
<br /> is, and has for t6e future.
<br /> Briefly, these are the facts, and they are matters of public record:
<br /> The citizens of Redwood City established the port in 1936 as [heir own busi-
<br /> ness venture. They set up a port commission of five members who secve you well
<br /> wichouc any compensation. They serve ac che pleasure of the City Council.
<br /> The Ciry inves[ed less than �k100,000 in tax money in the Porc Projecc, and
<br /> now has a profitable opera[ioa worth more thao $1,000,000.
<br /> Last year your port handled nearly 1,000,000 rons of cargo.
<br /> The port is operating annually at a nice profit, which this year is expected
<br /> co be around $80,000, aud that's afcer every expense has been deducted.
<br /> Here is a mosc important factor for every home owner to consider! Last year
<br /> business and industry traceable directly ro[he port paid nearly $100,OQQ in city
<br /> and county [axes—ta�ces which would have gone on homes if chere had been no
<br /> porc.
<br /> There is an overwhelming demand, especially from shippets in the Santa Clara
<br /> Valley, for increased port facili[ies ro take care of cheir business. Every year they
<br /> haul mom than 150,000 tons of shipping co San Francisco and Oakland. They
<br /> want, and have pledged to use Redwood City poct which is much nearer and will
<br /> save them time and real money.
<br /> From officials of the Ford encerprise at Milpitas comes word that whatevet
<br /> water commerce the new multi-million-dollar projec[ may have, Redwood City
<br /> port will get, provided it can handle it.
<br /> Redwood City port has proved beyond any question [hat i[ can operace
<br /> profitably aud retuin dividends ro you, its owners, ro help with Your tax burden.
<br /> Ic has proved new industry and busiuess will come with expanded facilities, which
<br /> mean more profits, and more tax dividends for you.
<br /> Oue of t6e greatest issues of this election is the grauting of �1,000,000 by
<br /> the Federal government to deepen and widen che port channel, and for the con-
<br /> structioa of a new and largec mrning basin. The money is ia tUe Federal budget
<br /> tvi[h sxrong snpport from the U. S. Army Engineers, Congressional tepresenta[ives
<br /> and imporcane shipping in[erests. Passage of our owa bond issue will be the
<br /> only way co help gec it. Failure of our bond issue means certain loss of chat federai
<br /> grant of $1,OOQ000 because che granc hinges on approval of chis bond issue, so that
<br /> we can expand our port to take care of the incmased shippi�g che wider and deeper
<br /> channel, and latget turaing basin will bring to the port �
<br /> So, you �ec some idel of what selfish ouaide incerests are attempting to do
<br /> you out of, to retain cheir o�vn privaee profits. Dodt let chem mislead or cry co
<br /> confuse you by last-miuute charges.
<br /> They have had more than two months to call your accencion to any issue in-
<br /> volved. They have been somewhat successfnl wi[h these lasc-minute smoke screens
<br /> before. If [hey were sincere chey would have been very quick to bring aoy dis-
<br /> crepancy to your actencion in ample time foc an honest aud forthright discussion.
<br /> If you have che slighresc doubt the answer is as near as your telephone. M. D.
<br /> McCarl, EM 6-4671, who manages your port so successfully for you uader your
<br /> por[ commissioners, will be glad ro give you the true picmre.
<br /> If you like Redwood City as the righc community for your home and raising
<br /> your family, and you waat your city to have � sound tax and economic background,
<br /> [hen please GO TO THE POLLS TUESDAY, APRIL 7, and VOTE YES on the
<br /> PORT BONDS.
<br /> , CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR PORT IMPROVEMENT
<br /> ABE JACOBS, General Chairman
<br /> MYRON EVANS HARMAN, Vice C6airman
<br /> K. B. TOWNE, Treasurer
<br /> JOHN C. HEALY, Labor Chairmaa
<br /> MRS. HOWARD P. ANDERSON, Chairman,
<br /> Women's Division
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