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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 127
Author: Adams (R)
Amended: 6/28/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM : 6-1, 6/15/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, Ashburn, DeSaulnier, Kehoe, Pavley
NOES: Harman
NO VOTE RECORDED: Oropeza, Simitian
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 4/19/10 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San
Bernardino County
Sheriffs Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart Memorial
Highway
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution names a segment of State Highway
Route (SR) 15 as the CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E.
Stewart Memorial Highway."
ANALYSIS : This resolution honors the sacrifices made by
two men who were killed in the line of duty. On March 9,
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1973, CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart were killed
in the line of duty. On that date, CHP Officer Wetterling
stopped to assist a driver along southbound SR 15. The
driver, who was a recently paroled convict, killed Officer
Wetterling and stole his patrol car. Having been notified
of the incident, Lieutenant Stewart found the parolee but
was also killed.
CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling, born in Monmouth, Illinois
on March 9, 1942, had a childhood dream to serve as a CHP
Officer. He graduated from San Bernardino High School in
1960, attended San Bernardino Valley College, and then
graduated from the California Highway Patrol Academy in
Sacramento on March 1, 1968.
Officer Wetterling was survived by his wife Catherine,
daughter Shelly, and now deceased daughter Terri, his
mother Carmen, his now deceased father Carl, his sisters
Shere and Carol Ann, and many friends and coworkers.
Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart was born in Jersey
City, New Jersey, on May 24, 1933, the oldest of eight
children. Lieutenant Stewart attended Henry Snyder High
School, but left at age 16 to join the United States Marine
Corps and serve in the Korean War.
After being wounded in both legs in 1950, he received an
honorable discharge from the Marine Corps and went to work
for the Columbia Southern Chemical Corporation. While
there, he held various union offices, including that of
Union Local President.
In 1960, Lieutenant Stewart joined the North Bergen Police
Force in North Bergen, New Jersey, where he became a
detective and was a member of the Vice Squad. California
called and Lieutenant Stewart and his family moved to the
Golden State in 1964 when he was hired by the San
Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Lieutenant Stewart was one of the founding members of the
California Narcotics Officer's Association and served as
its eighth president in 1972. In 1973, the California
Narcotics Officers' Association created the Alfred E.
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Stewart Memorial Award to memorialize Lieutenant Stewart by
honoring individual achievement of working narcotic
officers.
Lieutenant Stewart was survived by his wife, Marie, two
sons, Michael and Matthew, and his daughter, Marie. His
son, Michael, passed away in 2007.
By naming a segment of SR 15 in their honor, this
resolution recognizes the service and sacrifice these men
made to preserve public safety.
This resolution:
1.Designates the portion of SR 15 between its junction with
SR 138 and Oak Hill Road in the County of San Bernardino
as the "CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San
Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart
Memorial Highway."
2.Requests the California Department of Transportation to
determine the cost of erecting appropriate signs,
consistent with the signing requirements for the state
highway system, and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect
those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/3/10)
San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles
Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill,
Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue,
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Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino,
Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Tran, Villines,
Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bass, Davis, De La Torre, Norby, Torres,
Torrico
JA:nl 8/3/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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