counties, together with officials of the state agencies involved, the
recommendations Maryland will make to the President. We have every
reason to feel confident that the work that has been started for the
rehabilitation of the region will be completed, and that the action
to be taken will redound to the benefit not only of Washington,
Allegany, and Garrett Counties, but of the Appalachian region as a
whole.

Again, let me say that it is a great joy and a great satisfaction to
be with you here today to commemorate the fifty years of service the
Hagerstown Rotary Club has rendered this community. With my
congratulations on this happy occasion go my best wishes that both
the Rotary Club and Hagerstown will enjoy success and good fortune
in all the years ahead.

ADDRESS, DELMARVA PENINSULA-A PROGRAM
FOR PROGRESS - SALISBURY

December 3, 1963

Mr. Chairman, Governor Carvel, my friends of the Eastern Shore:

Although it is a major responsibility of my office, as well as my
personal pleasure, to represent every part of the State of Maryland,
I think I may be forgiven if I display a little more than an ordinary
affection and concern for the Eastern Shore. I am, as you all know,
an Eastern Shoreman—by birth, by inclination, by persuasion. The
Eastern Shore is my home. It is where many of my dearest and
oldest friends live. And so, I think I may be forgiven if I take more
than a routine interest in, and demonstrate more than a casual con-
cern for, the future of the Delmarva Peninsula and the good people
who inhabit it.

I am particularly pleased to welcome to Maryland our friends and
neighbors from Delaware and from Accomack and Northhampton
counties of Virginia. I extend to you the warm hospitality of Mary-
land and assure you that it is the desire of the people of my State
to cooperate with you in every way to promote our common aims and
interests. History and geography have united us — the people of the
nine Maryland counties of the Eastern Shore, the people of Delaware,
the people of the two Eastern Shore counties of Virginia. Virtually
cut off from the mainland, our forebears lived here for centuries in
a state of relative isolation. And now that the walls of our isolation
have crumbled, it behooves us, I think, to preserve and to strengthen

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