Clammer, schoolteacher and former mayor of Highlands, and the reason the borough still has a clam industry. After the town's first depuration plant closed in the mid-1980s and the baymen were reduced to trucking their catch to South Jersey to be purged, White secured a $1.3 million Port Authority grant in 1991, tied by agreement to a nonprofit public facility. He died before it opened. The plant that carries his name opened in 1994 and now sends more than 40 million clams a year to market.
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