732 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

You have faced with me the frustrations of a tight budget and re-
sisted temptations and entreaties to increase State spending in the
face of an uncertain revenue outlook.

The broadening of our Statewide public accommodations law to in-
clude taverns strikes down yet another artificial barrier of racial dis-
crimination.

The acquisition of Friendship Airport by the State should lead to
its development as a first class facility, and in general pave the way
for improvement of all of our air facilities in Maryland, small air-
ports as well as large.

I am naturally disappointed that you have deferred for one year
administration proposals to meet immediate problems in the areas
of community mental health and alcoholism, college loans and scholar-
ships, mass transit and more adequate housing for all of our citizens.
But I realize new legislation is seldom accomplished overnight, and
I am confident that your detailed study of these programs in the Leg-
islative Council will lead to their improvement and enactment next
year.

A major set-back of this session is our failure to enact any traffic
safety legislation of a substantial nature. This is a problem that can-
not be postponed indefinitely, especially if Maryland is to comply
with requirements of the Federal Highway Safety Act. I am hopeful
that the Legislature will join with me in producing a successful pro-
gram for next year. I urge that you give the problem your most care-
ful consideration during the intervening months.

But as a whole, the 1968 session of the General Assembly has been
a productive one, and I commend you for your service.

NEWS RELEASE AND STATEMENT ON STUDY OF
THERMAL WATER IN CHESAPEAKE BAY

March 28, 1968

Governor Agnew said today he has urged that the Federal govern-
ment study the effects on marine life of hot water discharges into
Chesapeake Bay from a nuclear power plant planned in Calvert
County by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company.