Bill Text: WV SCR19 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

West Virginia Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: John B. Short Memorial Bridge

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-13 - To Transportation and Infrastructure [SCR19 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-SCR19-Introduced.html

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 19

(By Senators Stollings and Plymale)

[Introduced February 12, 2018]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 23-10/7-0.01(23A048), locally known as the Gillman Bottom Bridge, carrying CR 10/7 over Huff Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, the “John B. Short Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, John B. Short was born in 1923, the son of LeRoy and Linda Jackson Short of Davin, West Virginia. He died in 2008. He was a graduate of Man High School in 1942 and enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corps in 1943, where he served until 1946. He went to electrician school in Michigan and, upon his return, he married Ruby K. Nunley. They had seven children. John retired as chief electrician with Pittston Coal Company in 1986. He was an avid outdoorsman, hunter, and fisherman; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate this individual who meant so much to his family and community; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 23-10/7-0.01(23A048), locally known as the Gillman Bottom Bridge carrying CR 10/7 over Huff Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, the “John B. Short Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “John B. Short Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.