week that Mr. Arthur Houghton, Jr., will build an institute" to help
develop the economic, education and culture of the Eastern Shore. "
I am told that several million dollars will be expended on a 750-
acre site in Queen Annes County overlooking the Wye River, and
that Clarence W. Miles will serve as President of the institute. This,
too, is a symbol of progress—is concrete evidence that industrial and
civic leaders are deeply concerned for the future of our young people
on the Eastern Shore.

We are living with, and enjoying, the economic advantages which
have been created by the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
—the continuing growth of tourist facilities, motels, marinas, boat-
yards, and so on the new industries which have located on the shore
because with the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, for the first
time there was access to raw material and an opportunity to trans-
port their finished products economically to the major markets of
the Atlantic coast and the Midwest. So, I say again that we can
perhaps recognize the bridge-tunnel as a major event in the progress
of the Eastern Shore, but we must consider it basically as a symbol
of inevitable progress. Today, I hope you will explore with all of
your resourcefulness and all of your ingenuity the many ways in
which the impact of the bridge^tunnel will create new opportunities
for the people of our three States.

I trust you will examine and appraise the tremendous potential
for additional tourist income and give major consideration to the
creation of a climate in which industry and commerce may thrive
and prosper and the people may live in enjoyment and peace.

In conclusion, let me say this it is my considered judgment that
any program of action you decide upon must be based upon sup-
port by the local communities and the civic leaders who direct the
destinies of this peninsula. Only through sustained, cooperative ac-
tion by the people themselves can a successful economic future for
the Eastern Shore be assured. I have great hope and great faith that
the sturdy virtues of Eastern Shoremen — their courage, their inde-
pendents, their self-reliance — will see them through all the turbul-
ences of our changing age and assure for them a future as glorious
as has been their past.

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