Calvert Has Problems, Awaits Boom: Long Island of Maryland
Tiny Calvert County, just Û¢ beyond the outer limits of the Washington Metropolitan jarea, is bedeviled by a host !of problems: high unemployment, lack of opportunity for young people, the apparently inevitable obsolescence of the small farm.</br></br>Its leaders are convinced 'that eventually this little ; county, recently declared a Federal "distressed area,Û will be caught up in the bonanza of growth in the last decade of the counties ringing Washington.</br></br>But in the meantime they feel that it will continue for, several years to share the; plight of rural counties .throughout the Nation as the march of Americans to urban areas accelerates.</br></br>At a luncheon Friday after a meeting with Slate Hoads officials, Calvert's County Commissioners and Slate legislators discussed informally their plans and hopes for the future.</br></br>Long Island of Maryland They said that Calvert and its neighboring counties of Charles and St. MaryÛªs, surrounded by the waters of the Potomac, the Patuxent and Chesapeake Bay, can become -the Long Island of Maryland. Glose to Washington and Baltimore, the rolling countryside of the three Southern Maryland counties are still largely untouched by industrialization or urbanization.