May 1970
Iron Butterfly flaps in
"Rock Group to Perform At Merriweather Pavilion
"A one-night performance of The Iron Butterfly, famed for the 17-minute song, 'In-A-Gada-da-Vida,' opens the summer season at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, May 31, at 8 p.m.
"The two and a half year-old rock group with Doug Ingle (organ), Lee Dorman (bass), Ron Bushy drums), Mike Pinera and Larry 'Rhino' Reinhardt (guitarist) will appear in Columbia's Symphony Woods amphitheater in what they call their 'new group-type feeling.'
" 'Gadda-da-Vida,' which became a musical password in 1968 and helped The Iron Butterfly surface from underground nightclubs in southern California, sold two million records and stayed in the LP top ten for over 81 weeks.
"'We want a groove where everybody complements everybody,' explained leader Ingle, adding that the group has recently added an R.M.I. device which reproduces everything from sitar sounds to Scottish bagpipes."
"Local Students Host Massachusetts' Teens
"Local high school students held a cookie sale on April 18 to raise funds for today's visit of 50 teenagers from Braintree, Massachusetts.
"The visit is the second of a two-part exchange program which allows students from the county to relate to students in another area of the country. 45-50 local students chosen by seven boys and seven girls who comprise the Teen Council of the YMCA spent January 22-25 with the Massachusetts students. They were students from Atholton, Glenelg and Howard High Schools."
May 1940
New wheat rules
"AAA Allows Added Wheat Acreage For Home Use
"Changes in AAA regulations to permit increased production of wheat for home use on farms from which no wheat will be sold in 1941, has been announced by Harry H. Nuttle, chairman of the Maryland AAA Committee.
"Under a new provision, a farm from which no wheat is marketed may seed a total of 3 acres for each family on the farm, without incurring deductions from AAA payments For example, a farm operated by five families may plant up to 15 acres of wheat for home use without receiving deductions."
AAA, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, began in 1933 and was a Depression-era recovery program that set output totals, with farmers being paid for idle land and killing some livestock, trying to push up prices by limiting production. Some prices did rise, but not all farmers liked the idea. My grandfather, an immigrant who left a dictatorship in his home country, didn't like being forced to slaughter his livestock. The Supreme Court decided in 1936 that the organization was unconstitutional and so a modified version was created.
May 1915
A marriage of much interest
"Prominent Young People Married
"Mr. William E. Talbott and Miss Lenora Dorsey Last Wednesday at Pretty Church Wedding At Union Chapel. Mr. Louis A. Randall and Miss Martha Lewis Elope; Both Grooms Prominent Young Farmers of Fifth District.
"Talbott-Dorsey: A marriage of much interest to Howard county folks took place last Wednesday at Union Chapel, near Glenwood, when Mr. William E. Talbott was married to Miss Lenora Dorsey. Owing to the prominence of the contracting parties the wedding was witnessed by a large number of persons from the neighborhood and elsewhere in the county as well as from Baltimore and Washington.
"Mr. Talbott is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Talbott, of Dayton and a prominent and successful young farmer of the Fifth district. Miss Dorsey is a member of the distinguished family of that name being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Boone Dorsey, of Roxbury Mills.
"The bride entered the church on the arm of her father, by whom she was given in marriage and was met at the chancel rail by the groom attended by Mr. Russell Canby of Washington as best man."