Word: tilghman
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DIED. Sarah Tilghman Hughes, 88, diminutive (5 ft. 1 in.), outspokenly liberal Dallas federal district judge who became the only woman ever to swear in a U.S. President when Lyndon Johnson, an old friend, summoned her to officiate aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy's assassination in 1963; of the effects of a stroke; in Dallas...
President Reagan concurs. Visiting with crabbers at the bay's Tilghman Island last week, he noted the deteriorating condition of the Chesapeake and, without specifying what he or his Administration would do, acknowledged that "the time for action...
Larry Simns, President of the Maryland Waterman's Association, says that declining catches are forcing him and his fellow fishermen out of business. As Tilghman Islander William Roulette points out, "We all must work part-time ashore." The Chesapeake fleet of skipjacks, sail-driven oyster dredges, has dropped from more than 100 boats to 30; the number of working watermen has shrunk from 7,500 in the '50s to about...