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harvesting than have the major crops qrown Jatively poor and isolated areas to be linked 
inother repions. These two factors have with prowth centers and enable new and more 
combined to make apriculture in the Reson prosperous patterns to develop, Although 
emoare Jabor intensive than it has been recently these recommendations are concerned chiefly 
in most ether parts of the Nation. ‘This is with highways, some also concern the ¢<pan- 
chanping. Thousands of farm workers are sion of airport, rail, barge, and port facilitic+ 
being displaced cach year by increased mech- 
anization, The Commission wants to encouragh Just as these five tarpet areas are 
efficient farming and to develop new crops and| inter-related, they all blend into the Gom- 
new processing and marketing organizations mission's sixth target arca, Marine Resources, 
and techniques. However, it also recognizes it is, ina sense, the wet side of every other 
the need for smoothing the transition of program. ft is focused on the Coastal Zone, 
thousands of men from the farm to the factory.| but it affects the entire Region. 
Vhis is another task of the inanpower program, ; 
The Marine Resources Prograin 
The Region is ideally located for the 
development of a major tourism and recreat- The Commission selected Marine 
ion industry. Several areas such as Myrtle Resources as one of its target areas because 
Beach, South Carolina and portions of the the Region has one major and unique resource 
Oyter Banks of North Carolina have seen that has barely been tapped - the Atlantic 
significant tourism development in recent Ocean. The Commission believes that the 
years. But most of the recreation potential Re gion's rivers, estuarics, and off-shore 
of the Region is still undeveloped. The 
Commission contracted with Leisure Systema, 
Inc. to identify several commercial tourism 
investment opportunities, to explain why the 
Region has not already developed its potential 
more fully, and to recommend ways in which 
the Commission could help this industry ex- 
pand. “Leisure Systems identified twelve 
potential, quality attractions which would be 
profitable for their investors and which would 
enhance the Region's image as a destination 
for the vacation-bound. It also developed 
recommendations for the improvement of pro- 
motion, management, and training. Leisure 
Systems developed detailed feasibility data 
for each project. 
water represent substantial long-range poten- 
tials, as well as opportunities in the immedi- 
ate future in the more traditional occan-based 
industries such as recreation and fishing. 
The objectives of the Commission's 
Marine Resources Program are: 
(1) to assess the potential for increas- 
ing Regional income through the 
otderly development of marine re- 
sources, and 
(2) to deveiop and implement a program 
that will have the greatest impact 
toward the full exploitation of this 
potential. 
had an abundance of inexpensive farm lyborers the flow of eedating patferns of communication 
The main cash crops of the Repion have been and transportation. “The Gomimicsion believed 
Jese suscepteble to mechanized cultivation and} that roade chould also be built toa enable re- 
The transportation system of a region 
shapes and limits it development. Tourists 
drive only where there are roads; airplanes 
land only at airports; grain is shipped only 
through those ports which have suitable 
elevators. The Commission asked Wilbur 
Smith and Associates to recommend a com- 
prehensive developmental transportation 
system. In the past, highway construction 
funds have been spent where traffic counts 
have shown that they were needed to facilitate 
The Commission agreed that cach State 
member would appoint three persons to an 
advisory group to assist in developing a 
Marine Resources Program. 
The following were appointed to the 
Marine Resources Advisory Committee: from 
Georgia - Dr. Vernon J. Hurst, J. Marcus 
Stubbs and W. D. Trippe; North Carolina - 
Dr. C. E. Bishop, Dan E. Stewart and Joe C. 
