CHAPTER 876
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
DOVER
PROCLAMATION
Whereas,
promotion of
better understanding
among
citizens
of
all
fifty
states
and foreign countries is
a
fundamental purpose
of
the tourist industry; and Whereas,
thi
s
is a
time when
the
entire
Nation is engaged in a major program
to
promote tourism,
an
industry
wh
ich does little
to
destroy envi
ronm
ent
al quality
and means
additional
revenue to aid our economy
as
well
as
more jobs for our citizens; and Whereas, development of
travel
trade
w
ithin The First State
will
afford our
c
itizens
t
h
e
opportunit
y
to
more
thoroughly familiarize themselves with all of
our
attractions thereby
enabling
them
to be most
helpful
to any
vi
sito
rs
who
may
need assistance; and Whereas,
The
Society
of American Travel Writers has de
signed
a program to add to
the
enjoyment of traveling
w
ithin
the United States,
a
project which
was
originated as
a
public
service
in
support
of
city,
state, and
national
travel
programs;
Now, therefore,
I
,
Russell
W. Peterson,
Governor
of
the
Stat
e
of Delaware, do
add my full
support
to
this worthy program and hereby proclaim the week
of June
14-20,
1970
as
WELCOME
A VISITOR WEEK
in Delaware
and urge
every re
s
ident
of
The Fir
st
State to
continue
to be hospitable to
all visitors and
to remember that
some
travel
er's
most
la
st
ing
memory
of
your
area could be
you.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, I, Russell W. Peterson,
Governor
of the State of Delaware, have hereunto
set
my hand
and
caused
the
Great Seal of the
said State
to be hereunto affixed
at
Dover this 20th day of May in
the year
of our Lord, one thousand
nine
hundred
and seventy,
and of the
Independence
of
the
United States of America, the one hundred
and
ninety-fourth.
(GREAT SEAL)
RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor
Attest: EUGENE
BUNTING, Secretary of State