Frank Sacca
Ocean City resident · active 1938-1945
Came before the Ocean City council with the Rev. Sheldon Blair on 10 November 1938 asking that something be done to kill the rats at the town garbage heap. — 1944-45 FULL PASS, 2026-08-12: He runs through both wartime minute books, usually in opposition. In May 1944 he stood with ten others against the Red Star bus terminal. In December 1944 he came before the council with Talbot Bunting in the interest of advertising Ocean City by radio, asking that money be appropriated, and wanting the Short Line bus service invited into town. At the terminal hearing of 14 February 1945 he spoke against it and insisted a vote be taken of the people present, which went 26 to 14 his way — and the same meeting read an application from the Union Buss Station Co., SIGNED BY HIM, for a rival station on the old railroad station lot. In April 1945 he was given the permit to place a board on the Electric Light lot to carry the names of Ocean City's service men, and in June he was one of four men who asked the council for jitney service. What business he kept is nowhere stated in either minute book.
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1938 · 1938-11-10
Ocean City employed a man to destroy the golden rod inside the city limits, and a minister came to the council about the rats at the garbage heap
Two lines from the town's own housekeeping. On 14 October 1938: 'Clerk was ordered to employ man to destroy golden Rod in city limits' - a resort whose product was clean sea air, paying wages to weed a hay-fever plant off its own streets. Four weeks later, on 10 November: 'Mr. Frank Sacca & Rev. Sheldon Blair were present asking that something be done to kill the rats at the garbage heap and Secretary was instructed to try to destroy the Rats.' The garbage heap was the other end of the contract the council had let in May at $25 a day.
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1945 · 1945-02-14
About seventy people came to Ocean City's bus terminal hearing on 14 February 1945: the property owners within 250 feet voted 14 to 4 for it, and the room voted 26 to 14 against.
The council recessed to the firemen's room to hold a hearing on the Red Star application for a terminal on the site of the North Garage, of which every property owner within 250 feet had been notified. About 70 people were present. Mayor Trimper explained the object of the meeting and the President of Council, John B. Lynch, presided. A vote of the property owners within 250 feet was taken and there were 14 for and 4 against, with 8 not present and one who wanted to see plans. Frank Sacca, Lewis Hardcastle, Dr. Guy Dennis and Mrs. Harriet Cropper spoke against the terminal, and Sacca insisted a vote be taken of the people present: 14 voted for and 26 opposed. Two rival applications were read at the same sitting - James D. Jarman's to build on a lot in rear of the Rideau Hotel, and one from the Union Buss Station Co., signed by Frank Sacca, on the old railroad station lot, 120 by 250 feet. Nine days later the council granted the Red Star permit anyway.
Red Star Motor Coaches, Inc.John B. LynchDaniel W. Trimper, Jr.James D. Jarman
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1945 · 1945-04-10
Ocean City gave Frank Sacca a permit in April 1945 to put a board on the Electric Light lot to carry the names of its service men.
The minute is one sentence: permit granted for a board to be placed on the Electric Light lot to place names of Service men on, permit given Frank Sacca. It follows the $25 service flag the town had voted in February 1943, and precedes the request of 18 September 1945, when Mrs. Gladys Hastings and Miss Elizabeth Laws came before the council asking for aid in planning and securing an Honor Roll for service men. Whether Sacca's board was ever built, and whose names went on it, the minute book does not say. The same 10 April meeting had Gordon Shipley make formal application for Captain of Life Guard, granted Dr. Frank Lewis his permit on his word that the house would be remodelled as soon as lumber was available, and met to select men for the setting up of the Zoning Commission.
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1945 · 1945-06-05
Ocean City agreed in June 1945 to license up to six jitneys, deferred its first permit to the unfinished zoning law, and appointed a Planning Commission with a woman on it.
Dr. G. P. R. Dennis, Lewis Hardcastle, Frank Sacca and Mr. Harris came before the council asking for jitney service, and the council agreed to grant permits up to six for jitneys recommended by them. The application of Roark for a permit at Philadelphia Avenue and 1st Street was left until the zoning law was completed - the first Ocean City permit deferred to zoning. John B. Lynch recommended that a Planning Commission be appointed, and at the next meeting the council appointed Mr. Harris as chairman with John P. Whaley, Lewis Hardcastle, Talbot Bunting, Mr. Anthony, Mr. Huber, A. M. Ball and Mrs. Andersen - the only woman named to either of the town's two new commissions in 1945. That meeting also carried a motion to grant permits for taxis and wrote to the Liquor Control Board asking it to keep the store open until nine o'clock on week days.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Ocean City Planning CommissionJohn B. LynchJohn P. Whaley
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