Massachusetts Clam Import Ban Angers Maryland Clammers
Massachusetts health officials ordered a Friday embargo on clams from Warren Denton Klas Seafood of Rock Hall and Rock Hall Seafood citing improper refrigeration. Maryland health officials say the issues relate to handling and shipping not water quality. Clammers Norman Dorrell decries harassment harming New England markets while packing houses warn of reputational damage and lost sales.
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Massachusetts Health Department
Maryland
Norman Dorrell
Warren Benton Seafood Company
Rock Hall
New England
Massachusetts
Warren Denton
Klas Seafood
Rock Hall Seafood
David Resh
Resh
Health Department
Banner pilots seek more flying hours along Maryland beaches
Banner pilots in Ocean City advertise by air from Memorial Day to Labor Day earning about ten dollars an hour while facing long hours and boring stretches. They describe risks of complacency, share offbeat sightings from the inlet to Rehoboth Beach, and note occasional perks amid the job’s monotony.
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Berlin
Robert P. Bunting
Ocean Aerial Advertising
Labor Day
Jon R. Martin
Crowley
Eddie C. Cammack
Cammack
Thomas F. Griner
Sky Banner Advertising
Selbyville
Del
Insecticide Bacteria Found Worldwide at Beltsville Lab
Researchers at the Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville identify 75 new Bacillus thuringiensis varieties since 1983, including B.t. var. fluffiensis from a cat, boosting total varieties to 92. They sample 27 countries and advance from isolation to spraying in the field.
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Beltsville, Md
Fluffie
Iceland
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Phyllis A. W. Martin
Russell S. Travers
Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville
Ms. Martin and Travers
North
union and Mack Trucks hold talks over worker transfers
Arbitrator sessions with Mack Trucks Inc and the United Auto Workers in Philadelphia focus on the transfer of about 4,500 workers from Allentown and Hagerstown to a new Winnsboro South Carolina plant. The dispute centers on timing, information given to workers, and hiring preferences guiding the 850 jobs at full operation.
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Philadelphia
Mack Trucks Inc
United Auto Workers
Mack
Pennsylvania
Maryland
South Carolina
William Casstevens
UAW
Carter Buller
Allentown
Winnsboro
D.C
Eric J. Schmertz
Hagerstown
U.S
Edward N. Cahn
Lehigh Valley
Baltimore voter registration blitz by NAACP and allies
The NAACP, local black churches, and NETWORK coalition mobilize a last minute drive to register Baltimore residents for the Sept. 15 primary. They aim to add 5,000 new voters by Aug. 17, with 25 sites citywide and efforts at churches, radio events, and by matching MVA records to city rolls.
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Baltimore
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
George M. Bunting Jr
State
Motor Vehicle Administration
City Elections Board
Operation Big Vote
Barbara Jackson
Maryland Officials Refuse Enforcing Welfare Rent Rule
Maryland social service officials call federal welfare rent rules ridiculous and refuse to enforce them. They argue the policy harms poor families and would only affect those paying rent with cash to co tenants, a rare scenario in shared housing. The dispute centers on permission to cut benefits for outside rent assistance as part of unearned income rules.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Social Service
Ernestine Jacobs
Department of Human Resources
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Carol de Los Reyes
Maryland to restrict termiticides to certified applicators
The Maryland agriculture department will restrict use of termiticides containing chlordane, heptachlor, aldrin or dieldrin to state certified applicators or registered employees who completed a termite pesticide course. Homeowners will not have access. dealers must post signs after Oct. 1. The restrictions emerge from legislation and a task force review due by Jan. 1.
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Annapolis
Maryland Agriculture Department
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