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contribute to the development of a comprehensive educational system
which fulfills individual needs and fosters economic development
throughout Maryland.

A thriving economy depends on the extension of vital utilities...
water and sewer lines, solid refuse disposal and, most important of
all, a balanced transportation system. Leisure time and mental health,
two ascendant twentieth century challenges, require increasing govern-
mental attention. Each of these distinct problems can be most effec-
tively resolved through planning. Health, education, economic de-
velopment, transportation, recreation, all are ultimately related, all
demand some measure of governmental action, and all can be most
efficiently and economically served through planning.

Each of these factors will receive administration attention in the
future. For the aspirations and ambitions which I have, and I believe
you share with me, for the development of our State and the fulfill-
ment of its citizens can be achieved.

As John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address: "All of this will
not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished
in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration...
But let us begin. "

Ladies and gentlemen, our first one hundred days have been a com-
mendable beginning. And while I accept the reality and the inevita-
bility of our late President's words, I sincerely believe that if the first
hundred days are a forecast of the future and not merely a reflection
of the past, the State of Maryland may progress through planning, and
policy, and program, further by far than we dare predict.

NEWS CONFERENCE

June 15, 1967
OPENING STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR

Ladies and gentlemen, before we get down to any specific questions,
as you very well know we met this morning with the leadership in the
General Assembly, Attorney General Burch and Comptroller Gold-
stein, and we discussed the problem that has been caused by the
recent Court of Appeals' per curiam opinion which indicates that
the appropriations section of the tax bill is mechanically defective
and needs correction by legislative action.