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Citizens Of Tomorrow
Children of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Stokes, Sperryville are top left. Bill, 8, and Anne, 6. Top right is Greg Wayland, 4, and lower left is Tony Wayland, 8 months, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wayland of Sperryville. Lower center and right are Rhonda, 5, and Judith, 3, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Brown, Sperryville.
Economic Development. In addition, Mr. A. S. Rachal, Jr., Executive Assistant of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, is acting as state-wide coordinator of the accelerated program. ■
Since farmers have always had a monetary as well as ■' an aesthetic interest in avoiding the disposal of refuse on their roadside properties, a special rural program is planned, with the Agricultural Extension Service at VPI as the official guiding organization.
The urban phase of the effort will include approaches to. city and town officials.
Your officers have elected to call this plan The Governor’s T Program to Keep Virginia Beautiful. I am happy to lend the prestige and the support and the enthusiasm of my office to the project. But, of course, this is no more my program than it is the program of the organizations you represent or the businesses and industries and local governmental units for whom litter can be a constant irritation and a measurable cost of doing business. Our thoughts, I am sure, have been influenced by the vital importance that our appearance as a state takes in light of our increased efforts to expand our tourist industry, to make agriculture more profitable and productive, and to attract new industries here. The value of clean streets and highways, and a carefully tended countryside, is too obvious to need further comment.
But fighting litter is not simply an impersonal, civic duty. An unsightly scattering of cans and bottles, papers and other refuse along our highways and in our camping spots, or dumped indiscriminately into our fields and pastures, brings an immediate and personal reaction. We feel our hackles rise at this wanton, careless disregard of public and private I property pnd the desecration of the natural beauty of our state. .. 4 This is as it should be. This is the normal, healthy reaction . of our people. This is the motivation that we can strive to put to use in others, as we translate it into active effort in ourselves. 1 suppose litter is a part of the price we pay in America ^for our abundance, and prevention of litter is a part of preserving our heritage which has made that abundance possible. I am extremely anxious that this menace be further curtailed, and I am delighted to give this effort my positive and enthusiastic support.
We are embarking on a new venture. It is my hope and trust that we are beginning a great step forward in preserving the beauty of our state and in passing on an even more gracious heritage to those who follow. Reprinted from June issue of Virginia Wildlife by special | permission.
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