Edward White

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1. 1939 · 1939-06-02

   Ocean City got its own central magistrate in 1939, at $500 a year - the cheapest of the four in Worcester County

   The Worcester Democrat and the Ledger-Enterprise of 2 June 1939 reports: 'Four central magistrates, provided for by the law enacted in the latest session of the Maryland General Assembly, have been appointed as follows: Edward White, Ocean City, at a salary of $500 per annum; Fred N. Culver, Berlin, Md., at a salary of $900; W. W. Price, Snow Hill, at a salary of $900; and Ray V. Gladding, Pocomoke City, $900. Besides these, William Miller, Esq., has been appointed Trial Mag[istrate].'

   Three of the four county magistrates were paid nine hundred dollars and Ocean City's was paid five. In the county's richest town, in the middle of its season, the state priced the job at a bit over half what it paid in Snow Hill - which tells you the state still thought of Ocean City as a place that emptied in September.

   Source · checked 2026-08-11

2. 1942 · 1942-08-03

   Ocean City held a municipal election on 3 August 1942 and twenty-five votes were cast in four hours — every one of them for the unopposed slate.

   The polls opened at two in the afternoon in the engine room of the fire house and closed at six. Three judges sat: Clarence Wright, C. T. Jackson and John J. Rayne. 'Only 25 votes were cast and were all cast for' Clifford P. Cropper, mayor, 25 votes; E. Raymond Bounds, council, 25; Harman D. Parsons, 25; Harold J. Rayne, 25. Returns were properly made to the city clerk. A town of about 1,052 year-round people, in the first summer of the war at its own beach, returned its mayor to a third term on twenty-five ballots and no opposition. Robert L. Cropper, on the council since 1940 and still on the letterhead in 1942, does not appear among the elected; Parsons replaces him. The new board was sworn in on Friday 11 September before trial magistrate Edward White and organised itself in the city office in the fire house: Cropper mayor, Bounds president of council, Rayne treasurer, Parsons councilman, Edmond H. Johnson city attorney, J. M. Mumford secretary-treasurer, L. B. Cropper chief of police — the same men who had run the town before, in the same order. The election judge C. T. Jackson matters beyond the arithmetic. A Chas. T. Jackson stood on the clerk's March 1941 list of neighbours notified of a building hearing, and he is a different man from the Chas. J. Jackson whom this council put on its Communication department on 11 December 1941. The 1940 census finds him: Charles T. Jackson, 72, head of household 161 in Ocean City, owner of a house valued at eight thousand dollars, with his wife Mabel and a son-in-law from North Carolina. — 1944 FULL PASS, 2026-08-12 [extended]: Turnout returned in 1944. Ocean City's municipal election of 7 August 1944, held in the Engine Room of the Fire House with polls open 2 to 6 PM, drew 452 VOTES - against the 25 cast in 1942. Daniel Trimper Jr. beat the sitting wartime mayor Clifford P. Cropper 231 to 160, and both sitting councilmen finished last of six for the three council seats.

   Clifford P. CropperE. Raymond BoundsHarold J. RayneHerman D. ParsonsClarence WrightCharles T. JacksonJohn J. RayneEdmond H. JohnsonJ. M. MumfordL. B. CropperRobert Lee Cropper

   Source · checked 2026-08-11

3. 1951

   Ocean City anglers hit a record 266 marlin for the season.

   By late August the Maryland State Department of Information reported that Ocean City fishermen had "hit the Marlin jackpot" — a record catch totaling 266 marlin, the latest a 91-pounder hauled in the previous week, alongside a 36-pound dolphin and an even 8-pound flounder; catches of several dozen bluefish were called "nothing at all at Ocean City this year." The season's first white marlin taken by rod and reel had come in mid-June aboard Capt. Talbot Bunting's Cecil B, under Capt. Calvin Lilliston; big party boats were taking bottom fishermen out for $3. Eighteen years after the Inlet opened, the White Marlin Capital was setting its own records.

   Ocean City Inlet & JettyOcean City Marlin Club

   Source · checked 2026-08-05

4. 1961

   JFK's press secretary Pierre Salinger cancels an Ocean City appearance because the Commander Hotel — and every hotel in town — refuses Black guests.

   In August 1961 White House press secretary Pierre Salinger canceled plans to attend the Maryland Press Association's September 8 gathering at the seaside resort. MPA executive secretary Ray Hamby said it was because the Commander Hotel, where the MPA would meet for three days, refused to provide accommodations for Negroes — and that when the MPA asked Ocean City's Chamber of Commerce for another convention site, it was told all hotels in town had the same policy. Salinger confirmed the cancellation at the White House on August 18.

   A one-paragraph wire story that put the resort's whites-only policy on the President's doorstep — three summers before the Civil Rights Act forced the doors open.

   Maryland Press AssociationPierre Salinger

   Source · checked 2026-08-06

5. 1968

   Berlin passed an annexation resolution in December after a year of discussing it, and a meeting was set in October on water and sewer for West Ocean City

   The same motion Ocean City had made in 1957 and 1965, now taken up inland. The mainland side of the bay begins to appear as a place with its own utilities problem — the first sign of the West Ocean City that later decades argue about. Also in the year: the county was offered $1 for something in August and the Appeals Board denied an overhead in the same month, both unread beyond the headline; Paul White was named Berlin police chief in January; Smullen was named county roads head in September; and the city clerk retired in October.

   Source · checked 2026-09-02

6. 1969 · 1969-08-07

   The Democratic Messenger turned a hundred and printed forty pages in seven sections — the single largest issue in this corpus — and corrected its own masthead from 1867 to 1869 to do it

   "1869–1969 CENTENNIAL EDITION — DEMOCRATIC MESSENGER — SERVING ALL OF WORCESTER COUNTY SINCE 1869 — 100 YEARS — SEVEN SECTIONS — 10 cents Per Issue." The paper had carried "SINCE 1867" through the 1960s. Separate Snow Hill and Pocomoke City editions were bound in, with a congratulatory letter from the White House dated 26 June 1969 and a reproduction of the original masthead: "PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY J. H. & W. C. HANDY. TERMS, $2.00 per annum in advance," under the standing rule that "no communication will be published unless accompanied by the full name of the author, and no author's name will be divulged without their consent." The historical sections are signed and substantial — Harry F. Covington on the county's founding, Dr. Reginald V. Truitt on nineteenth-century seafood, Sandra Harrison on county history, Shawn Emory on education in 1861, the Great Pocomoke Fire, Stephen Decatur's birthplace, the B.C. & A. depot at Ocean City, the Snow Hill semiprofessional baseball team of 1921, and Stockton High School's first school bus of about 1924. They were assembled from readers: "Without your help in sending in the old pictures and articles about the county in the past 100 years this issue would not have been possible."

   Source · checked 2026-09-02

7. 1981

   Ron Evans's 90-pound white marlin tops the 8th annual White Marlin Open.

   The 1981 White Marlin Open — the eighth running of the tournament founded in 1974 — was won in the signature billfish category by Ron Evans with a 90-pound white marlin. Other 1981 category winners recorded in the tournament's archives: Chris Robins, 241-pound tuna; John Lerch, 51-pound wahoo; Ted Wojotech, 37-pound dolphin; Ken Stevenson, 197-pound shark.

   Source · checked 2026-08-05

8. 2001 · 2001-08-06

   The 28th White Marlin Open (Aug. 6-10) becomes a Rolex/IGFA Offshore Championship qualifier; John Raimondo's 79.5-pound white marlin takes the top prize.

   The town announced in April that the 'world's largest and richest deep-sea fishing tournament' would run Aug. 6-10, 2001, with over 350 boats from Massachusetts to Florida expected to chase $1.5 million in prize money (entry fee: $750 per boat; nightly weigh-ins at Harbour Island Marina). In July the International Game Fish Association named the Open a qualifying event for the Rolex/IGFA Offshore Championship — winners earned an invitation to the March 2002 international final. The tournament's own archives record the 2001 winning white marlin at 79.5 pounds, caught by angler John Raimondo. For scale, the 2000 event had drawn 347 boats and paid over $1.451 million.

   Source · checked 2026-08-06

9. 2009 · 2009-01-13

   $321,301 of policing to host one year's events — Bike Week at $66,772, the Good Friday Cross Walk and the Mayor's Open House at exactly $198 each

   The 13 January work session carries the dollar cost to Ocean City of every event held in 2008, department by department. The police bill: "Motorcycle Bike Week $66,772 · Cruisin Ocean City (May) $52,284 · Sunfest $31,311 · Springfest $30,250 · Endless Summer Cruisin $25,245 · July 4th Fireworks $11,385 and $15,539 (South) · Winterfest $15,237 · Maryland State Firemen's Parade $13,473 · H2O International Car Show $6,740 · O.C. Car & Truck Show $6,410 (twice) · AirShow $6,482 · White Marlin Open $5,019 · Christmas Parade $5,454 · St. Patrick's Day Parade $4,048 · Seaside 10 $3,609 · Ravens Roosts Convention & Parade $3,012 · New Year's Eve Bus Detail $2,112 · Relay for Life $1,584 · Arts Alive $1,188 · Annual Penguin Swim $500 · Election Detail $462 · Bonfire on the Beach $447 · Mid-Atlantic Classic Chevy Festival $264 · Good Friday Cross Walk $198 · Arbor Day $198 · Easter Sunday Service $198 · Light the Night Walk $198 · Mayor's Open House $198 · MS Walk $165 · Board Walkin' for Pets $150 · Knights of Columbus Crossing $132 · Blessing of the Waters $125 · Pigs on the Beach $66. Total $321,301." A second schedule covering other departments lists forty-odd more with its own six-figure total, and a third notes the events "handled by the Patrol Shifts" at $0.00. Bike Week costs more than five times the White Marlin Open and a hundred times Arbor Day.

   Source · checked 2026-09-02

10. 2011

    237 boats fish the 38th White Marlin Open; Paul Coen's 88.5-pound white marlin aboard Wee Wun IV takes top honors.

    The 38th annual White Marlin Open (August 2011) drew 237 boats and, unusually, got all five tournament days fishable. Paul Coen, fishing aboard the Ocean City boat Wee Wun IV, won the white marlin division with an 88.5-pounder weighed on the final day. The blue marlin division went to a 699.5-pounder caught by John Schindler aboard Restless Lady II, and Chip Caruso's 279-pound bigeye topped the tuna category. The evacuation for Hurricane Irene came two weeks after the tournament wrapped.

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11. 2011 · 2011-07-21

    The Dew Tour comes to Ocean City for the first time — the Pantech Open draws a record 93,000 fans to the beach, July 21–24.

    The Pantech Open, the opening stop of the 2011 Dew Tour action-sports circuit, was held on the beach in Ocean City July 21–24, 2011 — the first time the tour had come to town in its six-year history. The event featured Skate Vert, BMX Vert, BMX Park, and the Dew Tour's first-ever Skate Bowl contest, was broadcast on NBC, and drew a record-setting 93,000 fans over the weekend. Baltimore-area native Bucky Lasek won the skateboard vert title ahead of Pierre-Luc Gagnon and Shaun White. The tour returned to Ocean City in subsequent summers.

    The Beach

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12. 2021 · 2021-08-06

    48th White Marlin Open smashes records: 444 boats, a $9.2 million purse, and a $3.24 million world-record payout won in the final 30 minutes.

    The 48th White Marlin Open (Aug. 2–6, 2021) drew a record 444 boats competing for a record $9.2 million purse. With about 30 minutes left in the tournament, angler Butch Wright of Arnold, Md. aboard the Ocean City boat Sushi weighed an 85.5-pound white marlin to take first place and a then-world-record tournament payout of $3,238,160, bumping week-long leader Fender Bender (82.5 lbs, $1.8 million) to second. The team aboard SEVEN became the first in WMO history to win two divisions (tuna and blue marlin), and New Jersey angler Jake Bertonazzi set a Maryland state record with a 318.5-pound swordfish caught Aug. 6 in Poor Man's Canyon, about 60 miles offshore.

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