Bank of Ocean City
bank · founded 1916
The town's own bank, established February 1916 and still operating — one of the few institutions to span the resort's whole modern history. It weathered the Depression squeeze with a six-week closure in late 1931 (closed October 2, reopened November 14) and appears in the town's business record in every era since. IT FAILED IN THE DEPRESSION. The bank closed its doors at some point between January 1931 and August 1932 and was reorganised and reopened — one of ten of eighteen closed Maryland state banks back in business by 26 August 1932, in many cases on agreements by the original depositors not to withdraw more than an agreed portion of their pre-closing balances. On 30 December 1932 it took a $15,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan, the smallest of eight Maryland bank loans totalling $318,000 authorised that day.
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1917
Ocean City's bank subscribes $5,000 to the second Liberty Loan — the smallest total of any town in Worcester County.
The Democratic Messenger of 3 November 1917 printed the county's Liberty Loan tally by town: Pocomoke City $155,000, Berlin $103,200, Stockton $15,000, Ocean City $5,000, with Snow Hill's figure at the head of the list. A special train carrying "the W. Bladen Lowndes All-Star combination of Liberty bond sellers and patriotic boosters" worked the county that week, with a Kilties band and a parade of naval reserves. A fortnight earlier the Messenger had run a full-page advertisement in which every banking institution in Worcester County offered to lend against bond purchases; the Ocean City names on it are the Bank of Ocean City and the First National Bank, Ocean City. A resort of a few hundred winter residents was never going to match Pocomoke, but the gap is a fair measure of how small the town still was off-season.
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1918 · 1918-10-26
Ocean City subscribes $26,000 to the Fourth Liberty Loan -- five times its 1917 figure -- from 156 subscribers.
Worcester County's Fourth Liberty Loan tally, printed 26 October 1918 under "Worcester Rolls Up $697,200": Berlin $167,700 (Berlin National Bank $18,000, Calvin B. Taylor Banking Co. $79,200, Exchange and Savings Bank $60,600, Whaleyville subscriptions $19,000); Snow Hill $218,560; Pocomoke City $222,600; OCEAN CITY -- Bank of Ocean City $26,000; Stockton $38,800; Girdletree and Bishopville the rest. Total subscribed $697,200. Subscriber counts: Berlin 591, Snow Hill 456, Pocomoke City 477, Ocean City 156, Stockton 111, Bishopville 114. In the Second Liberty Loan of November 1917 Ocean City had put up $5,000 -- the smallest total of any town in the county. A year later it is five times that, from 156 people, in a town that in October is nearly empty. A Liberty Loan meeting had been held at Ocean City on Tuesday 1 October, in the same week the county's schools and churches were shutting for the influenza.
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1921
Bank of Ocean City president L. D. Lynch buys out former mayor William B. S. Powell's share of the McGregor Building, the bank's Baltimore Avenue home.
The Bank of Ocean City (opened January 3, 1916) shared the first floor of the former McGregor Building with a general store; two of the bank's incorporators, L. D. Lynch and William B. S. Powell, were part owners of the building. In 1921 Lynch, the bank president, bought out Powell's interest (and John Hallett's in 1927, giving him full ownership). The 1921 Sanborn fire-insurance map captures the block at its commercial peak: four adjoining bays on the east side of Baltimore Avenue - the two-story corner building holding the bank and general store, with a market, a dry goods store and a hardware store in the three attached bays.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
L. D. LynchWilliam B. S. Powell
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1922 · 1922-04-13
Chapter 125 of 1922 lets Ocean City borrow $25,000 on six per cent coupon bonds to carry the concrete road bed of Baltimore Avenue north to the town limit.
The only act of the 1922 General Assembly touching Worcester County's incorporated town, approved 13 April 1922, authorises the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City to borrow up to twenty-five thousand dollars on the faith and credit of the town "for the extension of the concrete road bed of Baltimore Avenue from its present northerly terminus to the northerly limit of said town." The bonds run in twenty-five series of $1,000, bear six per cent payable semi-annually, are exempt from municipal and county taxes, may not be sold below par, and begin retiring at $1,000 a year from 1 January 1928. Section 6 preserves the town's existing power to assess the cost against abutting owners, and Section 7 orders the Treasurer to keep a bound registry of every bond sold and every transfer. The county's index lists it simply as "Ocean City - Issue street bonds." The Democratic Messenger had reported in May that fifteen new cottages were going up and more were contemplated "as soon as a concrete road-bed is extended up Baltimore Avenue to the city limits" — so the bond issue is the building boom's enabling condition. — 1922 RECTIFICATION, 2026-08-10: Read in full from the volume. §5: bonds may be handed to the contractor in payment for the road at a valuation not less than par, without ever being turned into cash, provided an accurate account is kept in the town's records. §6: nothing in the act limits the Mayor and City Council's existing right to assess the whole or part of the cost against abutting owners, and any such assessment money is a separate fund to be spent on the road or to retire the bonds early. §8: the town "shall deposit in **some National Bank in Worcester County** the money necessary for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds" and shall name that bank on the bonds and coupons — the statute assumes the town's own banking is done outside it. The volume's three indexes confirm this is the only Ocean City act of the 1922 session; see fact:1922-no-charter-amendment-and-no-sewer-act.
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1931 · 1931-10-02
The Depression reaches Caroline Street: the Bank of Ocean City closes its doors October 2 — and reopens six weeks later.
On October 2, 1931, with the U.S. economy sliding into the Depression, the Bank of Ocean City 'which is patronized largely by the fishing industry of this resort, closed its doors today, pending the arrival of one of the State bank examiners' (Evening Journal). A poor fishing season and a falling bond market had squeezed a bank holding about $300,000 in resources against roughly $125,000 in highly seasonal deposits — summer people drew their money out after Labor Day. Stockholders raised $15,000 in new capital, accepting a 50% dilution, and depositors took a 90-day withdrawal limit; the bank reopened Saturday, November 14, 1931, and 'received a substantial increase in deposits promptly on reopening' (Baltimore Sun, Nov 19). It went on to survive the national banking crisis of March 1933 and operated until 2019. REPLACE the rescue terms, or record them as a conflict. The fact currently says 'Stockholders raised $15,000 in new capital, accepting a 50% dilution, and depositors took a 90-day withdrawal limit.' John D. Hospelhorn, deputy State banking commissioner, described the plan to the press on 16-17 November 1931 as: reorganisation of personnel; induction of new capital 'coming entirely from private sources'; and an agreement 'to be signed by all depositors' with TWO rules — one limiting the size and frequency of withdrawals (no term given), and one 'providing, by using 25 PER CENT OF THE DEPOSITORS' LIABILITY, a guaranty fund to maintain solvency until improved conditions make the existence of such a fund unnecessary', the frozen quarter drawing interest. ADD that Ocean City was the FIRST of the closed Maryland banks to reopen under this plan, ahead of the Commercial Bank of Maryland (Frederick), the Mechanics Loan and Savings Bank (Hagerstown), the Hancock Bank, the Provident State Bank (Preston), the Queenstown Bank, the Detour Bank and the Middletown Savings Bank. By 26 August 1932 ten of eighteen closed state banks had reopened on those terms. ADD the sequel the 1932 pass established: the bank took a $15,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan on 30 December 1932 — the smallest sum on the Maryland list. The $15,000 figure in the museum's account of the 1931 stockholder subscription and the $15,000 RFC loan of December 1932 are the same number and should not be conflated. REMOVE or hedge 'six weeks later' in the headline until the closing date is established.
The town's one bank wobbled for six weeks in the fall of 1931 and the fix was pure small-town: the stockholders ate the loss, the depositors waited, and everyone went back to work.
closed in the autumn of 1931 — the museum's date of 2 October has not been confirmed from a contemporary source
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1931 · 1931-11-14
The Bank of Ocean City reopens on Saturday 14 November 1931 — the first closed Maryland bank to come back under the state's new guaranty-fund plan.
Washington Times, Monday 16 November 1931, page 16, under "SEVEN CLOSED MARYLAND BANKS SCHEDULED FOR REOPENING": "One bank, the Ocean City Bank, of Ocean City, ALREADY HAS PUT THE PLAN INTO OPERATION AND OPENED ITS DOORS SATURDAY." Saturday was 14 November. The Evening Star of 17 November carries the same story from Baltimore under "MARYLAND BANKS PLAN REOPENINGS — State Commission Puts New Method Into Effect at Ocean City", and on 29 November adds: "It is regarded as most encouraging that the Ocean City Bank promptly received a substantial increase in deposits on reopening." The same Washington Times story records that the other six banks queued behind it "have been closed since October 1", and that the Detour Bank closed on 13 September; it does NOT give a closing date for Ocean City.
The reopening is now nailed to a day by two Washington dailies. The CLOSING is not. The registry has carried 2 October 1931 on the authority of a museum web page, and 699 pages of contemporary newspaper for 1931 do not report the Bank of Ocean City closing at all — not once. What they do say is that six other Maryland banks had been shut "since October 1", which makes an early-October Ocean City closing entirely plausible and still entirely unattested.
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1931 · 1931-11-17
The rescue terms, from the state's own banking commissioner: new private capital, limits on withdrawals, and a quarter of every depositor's balance frozen into a guaranty fund.
John D. Hospelhorn, deputy State banking commissioner, explaining the Maryland Bank Commission's plan in the Evening Star of 17 November 1931: it "involves, in addition to reorganization of personnel and induction of new capital, the acceptances by depositors of two new rules — one limiting the size and frequency of withdrawals and the second providing, by USING 25 PER CENT OF THE DEPOSITORS' LIABILITY, a guaranty fund to maintain solvency until improved conditions make the existence of such a fund unnecessary." The frozen quarter draws interest. "As the new capital being recruited for the closed banks is coming entirely from private sources..." The Washington Times adds that the agreement must be "signed by all depositors". Seven other Maryland banks were expected to follow: the Commercial Bank of Maryland at Frederick, the Mechanics Loan and Savings Bank of Hagerstown, the Hancock Bank, the Provident State Bank of Preston, the Queenstown Bank, the Detour Bank and the Middletown Savings Bank.
Ocean City was the pilot. Maryland tried its depositor-waiver formula on the smallest bank on the list first, and by August 1932 the state could report ten of eighteen closed banks reopened on the same terms. The published lore about this rescue — $15,000 of fresh stockholder capital, a 50 per cent dilution, a 90-day withdrawal limit — may all be true, but none of it is in the contemporary press; what the contemporary press gives is 25 per cent, indefinite, and signed by everybody.
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1934 · 1934-06-05
Ocean City went into the 1934 season owing $10,000 in short-term notes to three banks in three towns
The resolution of 5 June 1934 renewed the town's paper for the summer: 'note Frankford Del for 3000 due June 15th; O C Bank 2000 due June 29th; Salisbury Nat Bank 5000 due June 28th, & pay discount on same.' In April the council had asked the Exchange & Savings Bank of Berlin for a further $2,000 'until 15th of September' — borrowed against the season's receipts and repayable when the visitors had gone. The pattern runs all year: notes renewed in February, June and July; $2,000 and $3,000 paid off in September, $2,000 and $3,700 in October; a $3,000 demand note renewed on 2 November with $60.10 interest; and on 17 December a resolution by Scott, seconded by Laws, to borrow $2,500 more from the Salisbury National Bank on a four-month note dated 31 December, transmitted by Mumford in a letter of 28 December that the council filed in its own minute book. The town's short-term borrowing limit had been raised to $20,000 by Chapter 454 of the Acts of 1933.
Exchange and Savings Bank of Berlin
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1934 · 1934-10-09
What it cost to light Ocean City in September 1934: $608.18
The bills ordered paid at the meeting of 9 October 1934, in the order the secretary wrote them: Eastern Shore Public Service $608.18 for September; Ocean City Ice & Fuel Co. $73.09 for coal; Ocean City Insurance Agency $27.30; Edmund Johnson, retainer fee, $50.00; W. H. Scott (for Edmund Johnson) copying the Charter, $4.00; a $2,000 note to the Exchange & Savings Bank; a $3,700 note to the Bank of Ocean City; and $16.00 to the Farm Bureau Insurance Co. on the truck. At the same meeting the council resolved that the checks issued should be read over at each meeting — and from 23 October the minutes duly record them by serial number, beginning with checks 7025 to 7048.
Eastern Shore Public Service CompanyExchange and Savings Bank of Berlin
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1935 · 1935-04-23
Ocean City invited a New York consulting engineering house to come to the beach and talk to it about building a power station
At the meeting of 23 April 1935 — three weeks before the General Assembly's electric-plant act was approved — “Secretary was instructed to write John D. Hamilton & Gibbs & Hill Consulting Engineers inviting them to meeting April 30 to discuss Electric Plants.” Gibbs & Hill was a large New York power and railway engineering firm; a town of a few hundred winter residents was asking it to come out to Worcester County. No meeting of 30 April 1935 exists anywhere in the town's minute series — the record runs 23 April straight to 14 May — so whether the engineers came, and what they said, is not in the book. The same meeting renewed notes to the Salisbury National Bank ($2,500) and the Bank of Ocean City ($3,000), gave Charles Parker a $1,000 note for a $1,000 bond due 1 May, and paid interest of $50, $45 and $180.
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1935 · 1935-06-25
Five times in four months the town borrowed a thousand dollars for ninety days, and once it borrowed a thousand to pay off the fire truck
Ocean City spent the first half of 1935 rolling paper. On 8 January notes of $1,000 each to H. T. and C. A. Parker were renewed for six months and a further $1,000 six-month note was given H. T. Parker “to make enough money to pay off fire truck note” — the note on the fire engine falling due on 15 January at $2,585 plus $309.20 interest. On 19 March the city borrowed $1,000 of the Exchange & Savings Bank on a ninety-day note; on 2 April it did it again; on 14 May again, from the Exchange & Savings Bank of Berlin; on 4 June it renewed to 17 June. On 23 April notes to the Salisbury National Bank for $2,500 and the Bank of Ocean City for $3,000 were renewed with interest cheques of $50.00, $45.00 and $180.00. On 25 June a further renewal schedule passed — Bank of Ocean City ninety days $3,000 new, Chas. H. Parker $1,000, H. T. Parker $1,000 and $1,000 again, Exchange & Savings Bank $1,000, all renewals — “and to Pay Int. & discount on same.” On 9 December the bond and coupon bill due 1 January was ordered paid: $3,609.70. This is the town that in November signed a forty-year federal bond schedule.
Exchange and Savings Bank of Berlin
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1936 · 1936-06-26
Ocean City was still borrowing $2,000 at ninety days to meet its own bond coupon in 1936
On 26 June 1936, five days before its bond coupon fell due, the council resolved 'that City Borrow of Exchange & Savings Bank $2,000.00 on 90 day note and borrow of Ocean City Bank enough to Care for our Coupon due July 1st.' In October, on William H. Scott's resolution seconded by Dr. Townsend, it sent the Federal Reserve Bank a check for $1,220.00 of interest due on 1 November on the $61,000 of sewerage bonds, drawn out of the sewer construction fund, and paid off $2,000 of bonds from its account in the Snow Hill bank. At the end of the year the town's books showed $27,385.67 of uncollected taxes and water rents running back to 1932 and $7,532.88 of cash in the Bank of Ocean City.
Exchange and Savings Bank of BerlinWilliam H. Scott
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1941 · 1941-04-21
Ocean City borrowed four times in 1941 to keep its own books straight, and was still signing papers to get money out of a bank that had failed.
The town's cash position runs through the year like a pulse. On 12 March the council resolved 'that City borrow up to $5,000 as needed by May 1st from Bank of Ocean City'. On 21 April it borrowed $5,000 more on notes of the First National Bank. On 11 December, in the same minute that created the home defence council, it resolved to borrow from the Bank of Ocean City 'to care for bonds and cupons due Jan.1st'. And on 21 April, between the borrowing and the mini-golf licence, sits a single sentence of Depression aftermath: 'Resolution passed for Clerk to sign papers in distribution of tied up funds in Bank. Carried.' Eight years after the bank holiday of 1933 the town's own money was still coming back to it in instalments. In January 1942 the council resolved to join with other towns 'in pooling their material on hand to aid each other' — the same thin balance sheet, now with a war on it.
Harold J. RayneRobert Lee CropperE. Raymond BoundsJ. M. Mumford
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1941 · 1941-07-18
A county trade review catalogs the last pre-war summer's businesses: the Bank of Ocean City, the Hotel Majestic, and a West OC tourist cottage.
The Worcester Democrat's July 18, 1941 business-review page toured the resort at the close of the pre-war era: the Bank of Ocean City on Baltimore Avenue, 'established in February, 1916'; the Hotel Majestic, a 'famed area favorite'; and the Del-Mar-Va Tourist Cottage in West Ocean City, founded about five years earlier and run 'under the personal supervision of Mrs. Hallie Costoplos, genial proprietress.' The same summer's social columns fill the George Washington Hotel and month-long family stays — the ordinary season nobody yet knew was the last before the war.
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1941 · 1941-12-11
Four days after Pearl Harbor and on the day Germany declared war, the Ocean City council sat down and organised a home defence council — eleven departments, twenty-two names, and a Department of Evacuation.
The 1940 minute book does not mention the war once, in the year of the fall of France. The 1941 book does not mention it either — until 11 December. The council met at 7:15 on Thursday evening with Mayor C. P. Cropper and Councilmen Harold Rayne and Raymond Bounds, granted a building permit to Chas. S. Powell for a two-apartment dwelling on the alley between 11th and 12th Streets, let the English Diner move to a site next to the Post Office on Dr. Chas. W. Purnell's ground, and resolved to borrow from the Bank of Ocean City to meet bonds and coupons due 1 January. Then: 'Mr. S. Earl Tromley, John I. Timmons and Miss Lena Riggin were present to help in organizeing home defence council and the following were selected to head the orginization.' Those three were not helpful neighbours. As the Worcester Democrat printed a week later, they were the entire executive of the Worcester County Council of Defense — Tromley its Executive Director, Timmons its Chief Air Raid Warden, and Miss Lena H. Riggin its Executive Secretary, all three of Snow Hill — going town to town. They were carrying an order. The same paper prints the telegram that sent them: 'Supplementing my telegram December 10, immediate arrangements must be made to hold blackouts just as quickly as possible. No delay in this matter, as conditions are very serious. Let me know when ready. Col. Henry Barrett, Director of air raid Precaution Service for Maryland.' The roster Ocean City adopted that night, verbatim from the minute: John B. Lynch, Commander. Harold Rayne and L. B. Cropper, Dept. of Public Safety. J. M. Mumford and Robert Allen, Dept. of Public Works. Dr. F. J. Townsend and Guy R. P. Dennis, Dept. Public Health. Archie Davis and Morris Peacock, Dept. Fire Protection. D. Trimper Sr. and Denard Baker, Dept. Transporation. Arthur Davis and Preston Laws, Dept. Gen. Supplies. Rev. Dewees and F. W. Truitt, Dept. Evacuation. Willie Ludlam and Gladys Jackson, Red Cross. E. M. Scott and Chas. J. Jackson, Communication. Bob Jackson and Wm. H. Purnell, Air Wardens. The council adjourned at eleven. Pocomoke City's mayor and council met specially the same Thursday evening and resolved to organise a Civilian Defense Corps of their own, and Pocomoke's published department list — Public Safety, Evacuation, Transportation, Communications, Public Works, Fire Protection, General Supply, Public Health — is the same scheme under the same headings. So the eleven departments were a template handed down, not a local invention; what Ocean City supplied was twenty-two names, and the names are the whole value of the document. By 18 December the county could report that Home Defense Corps in Snow Hill, Pocomoke City, Berlin and Ocean City were 'now complete in every detail', and Mayor Clifford P. Cropper sat on the county council himself.
Ocean City Home Defense CouncilWorcester County Council of DefenseClifford P. CropperHarold J. RayneE. Raymond BoundsJohn B. LynchS. Earl TromleyMiss Lena H. RigginGladys JacksonMorris PeacockWillie LudlamFrancis J. TownsendArchie DavisL. B. CropperRobert AllenJ. M. MumfordDaniel Trimper, Sr.W. Preston LawsF. W. TruittEdward M. ScottWilliam H. Purnell
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1945 · 1945-04-03
Ocean City's school principal and Mrs. Kathrin Laws asked the council for help buying playground equipment in April 1945 and were given a check for fifty dollars.
School principal Holland and Mrs. Kathrin Laws came before the council asking for help to buy playground equipment for the school, and the council ordered the treasurer to give them a check for $50.00. It is the same figure the town had voted for its boys' Christmas entertainment eight months later, and twice the $25 it had put towards school lunches in 1940. The same meeting resolved that the City borrow of the Bank of Ocean City up to $15,000 on notes signed by the mayor and treasurer, decided to try to get the City Toilet opened from one to seven o'clock daily, and ordered pipe and posts for the parking lot.
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1945 · 1945-07-10
Ocean City's reckoning of 10 July 1945 shows $6,827.29 in the bank against $21,000 of notes outstanding, after a town that had held $23,430 in cash eighteen months earlier borrowed twice in two months.
A typed statement headed 'REPORT FOR JULY TENTH 1945' lists taxes and water unpaid at $7,952.21, book account $12,718.00, bonds $20,000.00 and cash in bank $6,827.29 - $47,597.50 - plus estimated income of $9,300.00 from licences at $7,500, the comfort station at $300, the park lot at $500 and the magistrate at $1,000, for $56,897.50 in all. Against that: accounts owed of $24,657.18, being $21,000 in notes, $2,009.18 to Bob Quillin, $1,200.00 to Clark Gardner, $415.26 for parking lot material and $42.74 to the LaFrance Co.; and estimated expenses of $30,350.00, of which $20,500.00 is garbage, life guard and pay rolls to 1 October, $6,000.00 the State Roads Commission, $1,900.00 lights and power, $1,000.00 the Chamber of Commerce, $400.00 insurance, $300.00 administration and $250.00 repairs to signs. Total $55,007.18. In January 1944 the town had $23,430.94 in the bank; it borrowed $15,000 from the Bank of Ocean City in April 1945 and $6,000 on ninety days in May. The Chamber of Commerce had asked $3,500 and is budgeted $1,000.
Ocean City Chamber of CommerceAmerican LaFrance Foamite Inc.Clark Gardner
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1946 · 1946-04-30
Ocean City settled its 1946 garbage problem by deciding 'to employ five colored help to load trucks' and sending the clerk out to find the men.
'The handling of garbage was discussed, and decided to employ five colored help to load trucks, and Secretary ordered to contact men and employ them.' It is the whole of the entry, and it is the only reference to Black labour or to Black Ocean City in the first two thirds of the 1946 minute book - a decision to hire five men, by race, with no man named, no wage entered and the finding of them left to the town clerk. It answers the question the council had left open five days earlier, when 'what to do about getting crew to move garbage was discussed but left for further thought'. The same meeting borrowed $5,000 from the Bank of Ocean City on a thirty-day note to get the town to the season.
Rudolph DolleCranford O. SavageJ. M. Mumford
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1946 · 1946-07-16
Ocean City raised its tax rate to $1.40 per hundred in July 1946 - the first move in seven years, after six straight years at $1.20.
Finances were discussed with the Treasurer and, on motion by Rudolph Dolle seconded by both J. B. Lynch and C. D. Savage, the tax rate for 1946 was set at $1.40 per hundred on assessment, with the secretary told to set the books up on that basis. The rate had stood at $1.20 since July 1940 and had held there through the whole of the war. The town had borrowed $15,000 from the Bank of Ocean City on 5 March and another $5,000 on a thirty-day note on 30 April to get itself to the season, had voted $5,000 to the Chamber of Commerce and $500 to the Business Men's Association, was billing property owners for the Boardwalk at $15.50 a foot, and had a $1,324.24 legal bill for zoning on the table at the same meeting.
Rudolph DolleJohn B. LynchCranford O. Savage
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2001
After 9/11, Ocean City businesses mount relief drives — the Princess Royale seeds a USA Relief Fund with $10,000 and a Greater Ocean City Disaster Relief Fund opens at three local banks.
The town tourism department's 'Disaster Relief Efforts' page (posted that fall, last updated Oct. 23, 2001) catalogued the resort's response to the September 11 attacks: the Princess Royale & Princess Bayside donated $10,000 to begin a 'USA Relief Fund'; the Clarion/Gateway/Marigot Beach/Ocean Club group gave $5,000 each to the USA Disaster Relief Fund, Ocean City Paramedics, and the OC Volunteer Fire Department; Bull on the Beach at 94th Street sold $10 T-shirts for the NY 9-11 Firefighter Relief Fund; Deer Run Golf Club pledged $5 from every October greens fee; and individuals could give to a Greater Ocean City Disaster Relief Fund at Atlantic Bank, Bank of Ocean City, or Taylor Bank. 'Ocean City, along with the rest of the world, has been saddened by the September 11th events in New York and Washington,' the page began.
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