The city of Gardendale remembered American prisoners of war and servicemen and women who are missing in action, as city officials made a presentation to the sister of a Marine pilot who remains missing in Vietnam.

Jane Price, the sister of Maj. James E. Carlton Jr., accepted the proclamation from Mayor Othell Phillips in Monday night’s regular session of the Gardendale City Council.

Carlton was flying as a bombardier and navigator in an A-6 Intruder attack plane over the Demilitarized Zone when it was shot down. No trace of the aircraft was ever found on the ground.

“I found out 15 years ago that he went down over water instead of land,“ Price said. “When the war was over, there were at least 2,400 MIAs. After all these years, they’ve found all but about a thousand. But they’ve never found Jimmy.”

Price said the Defense Department believes the plane went down in waters now controlled by China, which is why they cannot search the area.

The proclamation designates Sept. 19 as POW/MIA Recognition Day.

Also at the meeting, Civic Center Director Keith Mosley told the council that the television show “Carnival Eats,” which taped segments at this year’s Magnolia Festival, would show those segments over the next few weeks on the Cooking Channel. The first showing of the episode was Monday night, not long after the council meeting.

Other showings will be on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 a.m. and 10 p.m.; Sept. 28 at 7 a.m.; and Oct. 12 at 3:30 a.m. and 11 p.m.

In other business, the council:

• designated Oct. 13-17 as Fall Clean-Up Week
• authorized Phillips to solicit bids on traffic signals and controllers for the intersection of Odum Road and Flippo Parkway, as well as the renewal of the city’s vending machine contract
• approved a parade permit for the Gardendale High School homecoming parade on Oct. 26
• promoted Justin Belcher to truck driver in the public works department