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It's Sea-Tac again, amid rejoicing

It's S€ again, amid rejoicing TNT editorial: We're glad to have Sea-Tac back, Page A-14 By JOHN GILLIE The News Tribune The signs that say Seattle-Tacoma International Airport start going back up this week at the airport between the two Puget Sound cities. And Tacoma officials are jubilant that the Seattle Port Commission, in a 3-2 vote yesterday, reversed its Sept. 13 decision renaming the airport in memory of the late Democratic Sen. Henry M. Jackson. "It's very gratifying that three of them (Seattle port commissioners) were listening to us," said Tacoma Port Commissioner Pat O'Malley. "In the long run, the Sea-Tac name will serve this area as a sales tool considerable benefit,' said O'Malley. The Port of Tacoma helped buy the airport site more than 35 years ago, and the Seattle Port Commission of that era agreed to name the airport in honor of both Seattle and Tacoma. "I felt it was most important that they honored those agreements," said Tacoma Mayor Doug Sutherland after the vote. The Seattle Port Commission's decision to reverse itself, he said, may herald a new era of cooperation between the rival ports and cities. Teresa Tischue, the former West Seattle travel agent who circulated a petition that gathered more than 24,000 signatures urging a return to the Sea-Tac name, said yesterday's vote took considerable courage. "I think it takes guts for the commission to admit it made a mistake," she said. However, only Henry Simonson, the commission president, reversed his September vote. The other two votes for Sea-Tac were provided yesterday by Ivar Haglund and Jim Wright, both new commissioners who campaigned against incumbent commissioners partly on the namechange issue. Commissioners Paul Friedlander and Jack S. Block voted against the return to Sea-Tac. Simonson said he believed it was time to get on with running the port and the airport and to put the airport name controversy behind the commission. Had the commissioners not voted yesterday to change the name, the Port of Tacoma, Pierce County and the City of Tacoma were prepared to file suit, O'Malley said. "All the pleadings were drawn up," he said. "We had even hired a Ph.D. to conduct research about the name change." Commissioner Block said the commission might wish it had stuck with the Henry M. Jackson International Airport name when it goes back to Washington, D.C., soon to lobby for $50 million in new federal funds for the port and the airport. Tischue said she thinks Block is mistaken about the effect the name change will have on Port of Seattle lobbying efforts. Politicians understand, she said, that the name change was unpopular in both King and Pierce co counties, and that the commission was only doing the will of the people in restoring the Sea-Tac name. Opinion polls in both King and Pierce counties showed residents overwhelmingly favored Sea-Tac. Block proposed a compromise, Seattle-Tacoma Jackson International Airport, but got no support for his idea. Jackson's widow, Helen, in Washington D.C., told The Associated Press: "Well, I was disappointed. I thought that once they'd made their original decision, they would stay with it. "But, I can understand that the Continued on Page A-3
Article from 29 Feb 1984The News Tribune(Tacoma, WA)
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