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As the Sentinel has come a long way and yet today officially marks
a new era in its development, so too must Montgomery County and
the State of Maryland move to catch up.

I thank you Drs. Kapiloff and Mr. Farquhar for this opportunity to
be with you. I applaud your success and wish you even greater tri-
umphs in the future.

NEWS CONFERENCE

April 25, 1967
OPENING STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR

Gentlemen, you've been handed two statements for immediate re-
lease. One in particular I would like to comment on concerning the
appointment of the remaining members of the Maryland Gambling
Study Committee, the committee that I announced last week would be
headed by Mr. Clarence Miles.

This is a very distinguished group of citizens who have volunteered
to undertake this exhaustive study of gambling, both legal and illegal,
in the State of Maryland. I'm gratified that they could undertake such
a difficult and time-consuming assignment.

Mr. Charles S. Garland, a Baltimore investment banker and partner,
Alexander, Brown and Sons, is also chairman of the Board of Trustees
at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Trustees
at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mr. Robert Hobbs, the president of the
First National Bank of Baltimore, is a distinguished public citizen
serving on many key directorates throughout the country. Mr. Thomas
Karsten lends a special talent to the committee because in 1950 he
served as special council to the Kefauver crime commission. Mr. Kar-
sten is presently vice-president of the American Trading Corporation
and director of Blaustein Industries Inc. And finally a gentleman who
will be very valuable to the committee in the research and categorizing
details that it will have to undertake, Dr. William Prendergast, who
is former director of research for the Republican National Committee
and who served during the '64 presidential campaign as director of
political research for a major broadcasting company. Those are the
members of the crime committee under the chairmanship of Mr.