You are about to see the highlights of Detroit's winning presentation given this
spring
and the day in pursuit of the one hundred sixty eight Olympic Games the record
consists of a selection of approximately half of Detroit's presentation Playboys as
you here are addressing the United States Olympic at this meeting Detroit was
selected to be the host city.
Then the United States in the international competition which determines the sum of
the games in one hundred sixty eight.
You have heard the Detroit story
but most of you have heard one today we're going to introduce you to what it
never met with the Detroit News boundaries live from south eastern border a mission
is Detroit USA Today for two citizens tens of millions of Americans
the Detroit News which is resources
and productive energies total far more than any of you
that has ever hosted an Olympian if we were to design special flag to symbolize the
capability of Detroit USA to host team sixty eight Olympics.
We might take is our inspiration.
By the interlocking circle denoting international brotherhood our Detroit flag
might be composed of international here we we would label one telling another
expert another. Resources.
Still another one's ability and the last and few Diaz
and two of the foremost leaders of Detroit USA are here to tell you how we plan to
build these qualities into the most effective community effort machinery the world
has ever seen. What do these five gears add up to the engine that a word for its.
Sign many things in words sums up better than any other what Detroit can mean
and to the world in one hundred sixty eight. If you heard the word dynamics.
Used in the same breath with Detroit.
So accident of a little racial or dynamics is exactly.
We have in greater supply in Detroit USA than anywhere in the world.
Detroit has set these wheels in most of the times before to get things job done
with some success from this record comes confident enough to win the
Olympic Games for America in nineteen sixty as we reveal the story of these five
Internet here below you will see
that the only dirt on the base of the coin is the dust kicked up by dedicated men
when they run their sleeves to do a job and do it.
Well we get up our Italians Scandinavian Polish Irish Canadian Americans about this
and the record proves that no other region world's economy
and no other assemblage of world leadership do a better job on the nineteenth sixty
eight Olympiads than USA
I'm Jerome P. Cavanagh mayor of Detroit.
It's a great pleasure to be here today before the United States Committee today
we're going to show you every banner point
that he tries you've never met the great.
Sports and Vietnam of Detroit citizens
and their neighbors is apparent in the splendid facilities presently available for
all types of sporting events and all are actually within ten miles of the city.
The Olympic Village and the Olympic Stadium site.
Let's take a look at some of the existing
and some of the brand new facilities within this ten mile radius the proposed
stadium site the focal point of the Olympic Games will fulfill all the technical
specifications required for a one pick of events and ceremony.
It will have a seating capacity of one hundred ten thousand parking facilities for
twenty thousand vehicles are provided various other buildings on the site include
the present college. Marina and the administrative building.
Close by will be the brand new velodrome for cycling events with one mile bank
track. Its permanent seating capacity four thousand
but for the Olympic events this will be expanded faster the for ten thousand
spectators.
And testing of these more than modern facilities at the stadium complex the
possibility of this proposed monorail plan to serve the same him directly.
Ten minutes away is the universe Detroit field house.
The nine thousand seat memorial is ideal for many indoor activities with the U.
Of the stadium seating twenty one thousand is equipped for day or night events.
Another excellent facility is our six thousand seat Olympia stadium.
The home of Detroit victims of these suburbia equipped and centrally located.
That is ideal for such indoor events gymnastics one thing a wrestling
and basketball.
Broadhead armory with seeing capacity of four thousand is a well equipped
and athletic plan. Specially suited for fencing and weight in a day.
In the light Guard armory offers thirty two thousand square feet of floor space.
Detroit is ideally located for aquatic of events.
Here is the proponent of expansion and redevelopment of our facilities.
One of the finest Olympic sized swimming and diving in America.
That he tried river sheltered between the city
and Ian shorelines provides splendid water facilities from boating
and yachting events with plenty of room for spectators on both banks.
Val Isle is a unique one thousand acre park that abounds in spacious
that flooding is an ideal road system for cycling an ample parking.
Here to be the world's first and finest artificial rowing course one
and one quarter miles long.
Three hundred wide designed to meet every Olympic requirement.
There will be no other course like it in the world.
The University Village complex now in the advance planning stage for how both
participants
and guests on a three hundred four acre site which is part of the Wayne State
University campus will be known as Olympic village during the course of the games
temporary residents will dine in modern efficient rooms after dinner they may shop
for enjoy a wide series of recreational facilities.
Olympic village now being planned for both permanent students and faculty housing.
By the summer of one nine hundred sixty eight.
It will be the most modern
and while Service facility of its kind anywhere in the world.
This is typical of Detroit's concern for the housing
and hosting of not only participants and yes
but the tremendous influx of ethnic groups
that will find the many many homes of the Free Zone ethnic groups waiting for them
with the open door of hospitality.
Detroit's new civic center is recognised the world over is one of the largest
and finest.
Vention Holland exhibits building includes a floor area of over one hundred
thousand square feet. The reunify part of Torrey M. Seats twelve thousand people.
All of these facilities as well as those for archery shooting an equestrian
activity are already in existence or in the very advanced stage.
And absolute assurance can be given to the extent not presently available these
facilities can and will be provided.
People coming to the games here in America's heartland will find plenty of places
to stay forty five thousand comfortable motel
and hotel rooms are within one hour's drive.
Now I want to establish firmly the financial responsibility and capacity of USA.
To make the one nine hundred sixty eight Olympics an outstanding success.
First let's look at the fiscal soundness of Detroit as demonstrated by the budget
for a one nine hundred sixty two sixty three.
Budget well over three hundred fifty million dollars.
We're proud to say that this budget has been balanced realistically
and is based on conservative estimates of revenue sources.
Detroit has never been so financially healthy.
As for industrial the true
and real value of the six county area we call metropolitan Detroit is reckoned in
the billions specially dramatic is the city of Detroit municipal development.
Since one nine hundred fifty two
and plan by nine hundred sixty seven Detroit taxpayers to put well over a billion
and a quarter dollars in capital improvements.
As for commerce Detroit because of the St Lawrence Seaway now handles a greater
number of imports
and exports than any other port of entry in the entire United States except New
York City. Retail sales in metropolitan Detroit.
Over five billion dollars.
Today Detroit produces more wealth per capita than any other city in the United
States.
Seventy one percent of writers own their own homes a record among the nation's
population centers. We are a fiscally stable Olympic minded community.
I believe that we have convincingly pro-trade our ability.
Our facilities and our determination.
The basic purpose as we understand it in staging
and Olympiad the Olympic torch in all parts of the world.
We have graphically demonstrated
that Detroit our city is centrally located for over ninety million people in the
United States.
Everyone in our area supports the Olympic bid the service clubs the high schools
the college students the leadership
and membership of the great international labor unions
that are headquartered in our city business man educators city councils in Michigan
and surrounding areas mayors in most of the major Midwestern cities.
What I'm saying in effect is that the men women the children of all races
and all the diverse national groups have voiced their support for Detroit separates
Now let's get down to our program for financing the one nine hundred sixty eight
Olympic Games.
Most of the facilities as mentioned earlier are already in existence.
I might add standing and paid for.
We are concerned here with the financing and construction of two major projects.
First Olympic Village the city of Detroit along with Wayne State University is
already committed to the fulfillment of this city within a city which will be a
dynamic part of the Wayne State University campus. Second the new stadium.
In the quest for the one nine hundred sixty eight Olympics the Michigan legislature
has a. The public authority to finance and operate the stadium.
And now to tell you about this legislation.
It gives me great pleasure to present the Honorable George Romney.
Governor of the state of Michigan governor. Thank you Mayor.
Cavanagh our state legislature has taken almost unanimous action.
It's passed three measures first as ACT number twelve eighteen creating a state
recreation and building authority to issue bonds and sell the stadium.
Second while we only need a million three hundred sixty thousand to pay the
principal and interest on the stadium.
The second back number twelve nineteen provides a million six hundred thousand of
additional revenue annually.
It might surprise some of you to know
that this year Michigan will have a surplus of thirty four million dollars
and we'll have a surplus next year the stadium bonds will be paid for from the
state's general revenue third the legislature by a concurrent resolution has
created a joint House Senate committee to make sure
that the legislature does the additional necessary things to bring the Olympiad to
Detroit these actions show that Michigan MEANS BUSINESS.
When the question was raised about Detroit's ability to finance the games.
The whole state rallied spontaneously to support this financing program.
I know of no major legislation
that has ever gone through the Michigan legislature as rapidly as this
and this is so that we could present a firm and adequate program so
that we can be sure
that the nine hundred sixty eight Olympian will be have not a nineteen thirty two
model stadium but in our nineteen sixty eight model. Thank you very much.