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Raymond Massey

Won the contract to haul Ocean City's garbage for 1941, bidding $30.00 a day for summer hauling and $12.00 a day for winter against James Trimble, Vincent Lewis and a Jones whose given name the clerk's hand does not settle. The council opened the bids on 6 May 1941 and instructed the secretary to prepare a contract for his signature. Lewis had actually bid $11.25 for the winter work, less than Massey, but $31.95 for the summer; the town bought on the summer figure.

In the record (2)

  1. 1941 · 1941-05-06

    Four men bid to haul Ocean City's garbage in 1941 and the clerk wrote down every price: Raymond Massey took it at $30 a day in summer and $12 in winter.

    The minute of Tuesday 6 May 1941 sets out the whole tender. 'Bids were opened on hauling garbage and Contract awarded to Raymond Massey for $30.00 day for summer & $12 daily winter hauling. Bids were as follows: James Trimble 35.00 day summer, 13.50 winter; Raymond Massey 30, 12.00; Vincent Lewis 31.95, 11.25; Ted Jones 40.00, 18.00.' The secretary was instructed to prepare the contract and have Massey sign it. Vincent Lewis had in fact bid lower for the winter work and higher for the summer; the town bought on the summer figure, which is where the volume was. Three years earlier E. Raymond Bounds had bid $26.50 a day for the same summer work and lost it by a dollar fifty — and was now sitting on the council that opened the envelopes. The same evening James Jarman and Bert Cropper asked for a reduction in the bicycle licence, and Salisbury wrote asking Ocean City to take part in the Strawberry Festival and appoint a Princess.

    E. Raymond BoundsHarold J. RayneClifford P. CropperJames D. JarmanG. Bertrand Cropper

    Source · checked 2026-08-11

  2. 1943 · 1943-05-19

    Only one man bid to haul Ocean City's garbage in 1943, and Raymond Massey got the summer at $40 a day for 92 days and $20 a day for the thirty days after it.

    — 1944 FULL PASS, 2026-08-12 [extended]: In 1944 the price went the other way and fast. Chester A. Lynch took a two-year contract on 19 April 1944 at $50 a day summer and $20 winter; by 26 July he was on $60, by 29 July $72, and by 12 August $99 a day for three trucks and ten men - because, in the clerk's words, 'the garbage man could not get enough help at price he was receiving'. In February 1944 the town had asked for garbage bids and received NONE AT ALL.

    Harold J. RayneHerman D. ParsonsClifford P. CropperE. Raymond BoundsJ. M. Mumford

    Source · checked 2026-08-12