906 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Serving as Executive Director to the Committee will be Dr. Jean E.
Spencer, who is Assistant Director of the Governor's Task Force on
Modern Management and who served as staff director of the original
Curlett Commission, which recommended staff changes in the Gov-
ernor's Office implemented by me immediately after my inauguration
last year. Preliminary information developed by the Task Force on
Modern Management over the past year will be made available to
the Committee as a basis for its study.

No. 2. One of the major bills passed by the 1968 session of the
Maryland General Assembly was the measure sponsored by this ad-
ministration for a comprehensive water pollution control program.

Now, corollary to that effort, it is my pleasure to sponsor a con-
ference on effective conservation and development of the Chesapeake
Bay that will bring together some of the best minds of private in-
dustry and of the State government. The conference will be held
at the Wye Institute on the Eastern Shore September 12-13. It will
be chaired by Harry E. Ellermen, head of the Ocean Research and
Engineering Center of Westinghouse Corporation, and I am sure it
will produce some fruitful recommendations on the future use of
Maryland's most valuable natural resource. Programs for the con-
ference and a news release containing more detailed information will
be distributed to you.

I am pleased to announce that Maryland has been awarded a grant
from the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
in the amount of $151, 536 for an institutional training program un-
der the Manpower Development Training Act for two programs
for Spanish-Americans residing in Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties. The two programs will be re-training programs for a
selected number of qualified persons. The first program is a Clerk-
Typist Program lasting 24 weeks; the second is a program in Auto
Mechanics of 30 weeks duration. Both programs begin September 9,
1968.

The State has been negotiating with both Federal agencies since
the first of the year to obtain necessary funds to assist underemployed
Spanish-American residents in both counties. Official confirmation
was received today. The State's share will amount to $6, 981. The
programs will be executed under the jurisdiction of the Department
of Education and of the Maryland State Department of Employment
Security.

I'm ready for your questions.