Worcester County Liquor Control Board
government · founded 1933
Created by the Maryland special session of November–December 1933 as Prohibition ended: three members appointed by the Governor with the Senate's consent for ten-year terms, paid $600 a year plus five cents a mile, meeting at least weekly, barred on pain of a $2,000 fine or three years' imprisonment from any financial interest in the trade. It was empowered to establish and maintain county dispensary stores at Pocomoke City, Snow Hill, Berlin and Ocean City.
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1938 · 1938-05-31
Ocean City's fight for the county's liquor profits ended in a cheque, and the lawyer who won it charged $915 and was mayor by September
In 1937 Ocean City, Berlin and Pocomoke went after the Worcester County Liquor Control Board's profits and a court took possession of $25,517.55. On 26 May 1938 the council met in special session and unanimously adopted a resolution appointing Edmond H. Johnson 'its true and lawful attorney for it and in its name to examine the Audit of the books of the Liquor Control Board of Worcester County for the Fiscal Year Ending April 30, 1938 and if in the opinion of said attorney the said Audit shall be found Correct to receive from said Liquor Control Board the amount due', to give a receipt and release, and the payment was to be 'a full and Complete satisfaction of any and all claims which said Mayor & City Council of Ocean City might have for the fiscal year Ending April 30, 1938, to the liquor profits'. Five days later, on 31 May, 'Check was delivered by Attorney Edmund Johnson for the Licor money with bill for legal service of 915.00 and check was drawn to pay Mr Johnson.' The town's share is not stated in the minute; the lawyer's fee is. Nine weeks later he was elected mayor.
Edmond H. JohnsonFrancis J. TownsendWilliam H. Scott
Source · checked 2026-08-11
1951 · 1951-07-10
Mayor Trimper, a beer distributor, resigns from the county Liquor Control Board under Republican pressure.
Gov. Theodore McKeldin announced on July 10, 1951 that Mayor Daniel W. Trimper, Jr. of Ocean City had resigned from the Worcester County Liquor Control Board. Trimper, a Democrat, had been under pressure from the Republican State Central Committee of Worcester County, which claimed he held the board job contrary to a law prohibiting members from engaging in the liquor business — Trimper was a beer distributor. McKeldin appointed William H. Scott, a Republican attorney from Ocean City, to serve out the term expiring in 1955.
Source · checked 2026-08-05