SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 18

(By Senators Smith, Sypolt, Beach, Lindsay, and Stollings)

[Introduced February 3, 2020]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 39-68/8-000.01 (39A234), locally known as King’s Trees Bridge, carrying CR 68/8 over Interstate 68 in Preston County, the “William ‘Bill’ Thurman King Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Mr. King was born on June 24, 1925, in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia; and

Whereas, Mr. King was a Technician Fifth Grade, Battery A of the 364th Field Artillery in the United States Army, in the 1940s, honorably discharged in 1946; and

Whereas, Mr. King was honored in his military service with the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon; the Good Conduct Medal; the World War II Victory Ribbon; and the Army Occupation Medal (Germany); and

Whereas, From the late 1940s until the 1980s, Mr. King was a bus operator for the Board of Education; and

Whereas, Naming this bridge is an appropriate recognition of Mr. King’s contributions to his country and to the State of West Virginia; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 39-68/8-000.01 (39A234), locally known as King’s Trees Bridge, carrying County Route 68/8 over Interstate 68 in Preston County, the “William ‘Bill’ Thurman King 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 “William ‘Bill’ Thurman King Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

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