June 1970
Quarterback option
"Colts Quarterback Jim Ward To Address Viking Banquet.
"Mt. Hebron High School's Viking Backers will hold its second annual awards banquet Sunday, June 14, at Turf Valley Country Club where the guest speaker will be Baltimore Colts quarterback Jim Ward.
"The 1:00 p.m. event is held each year to honor the Viking athletic teams, band, drill teams and cheerleaders of the school. Tickets for the banquet are available from the school at $5.00 per person. Reservations will not be accepted after Wednesday. June 10."
"Chaplain of Bourbon Street will Be Youth Speaker on 6th
"The Rev. Bob Harrington, the hefty, bushy-haired Baptist preacher who has gained world-renown as the 'Chaplain of Bourbon Street,' New Orleans, La, once called the 'most unusual preacher in the 20th century,' will be speaking at the Metro-Md. Youth for Christ Saturday, June 6, Dumbarton Junior High School, off York Road in Towson (Beltway Exits No. 26 or 27.)
"Known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street at title given him in 1962 by the mayor of New Orleans - the Rev. Bob Harrington, a forceful and persuasive man, claims as his parish the nightclub, bawdy, go-go joint strip on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans' French quarter.
"The flamboyant Reverend Bob, an ex-Alabama football player, now 42, 6' 2" about 250 pounds, generally wears a sharkskin suit, tastefully lighted up with red tie, red socks, and red handkerchief. He carries a red Bible. He prays with the Negro blind man in a wheel chair, jokes with the barkers, stops girls on the sidewalk to ask if they know of Jesus' love, and goes to dressing rooms between shows to give out miniature Bibles to blushing dancers."
June 1940
Words fail
"Wanted — an antonym!. The Maryland Citizen's Conservation League is paging any modern Webster who can find an antonym for the word conservation — as applied to forests, soil, game and other natural resources.
In its efforts to find a strong word expressing the 'relentless devastating' effects of anti-conservation, the league has asked the help of Western Maryland College, the University of Maryland, Washington College, Goucher College, Towson State Teachers' College and Hood College, as well as Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities.
"So far as has been leaned, no adequate word has yet been found."
June 1915
President Wilson visits
"Farmers Day Drew Big Crowds; Farmers From All Over. The State Accept The Hospitality of Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station on Occasion of Annual Functions an Ceremonies; President Wilson Unexpectedly Dropped in for Call.
"Over one thousand farmers and farm women from every section of the State thronged the grounds of their Agricultural College last Saturday in enthusiastic celebration of Farmer's Day at the institution. In spite of cloudy weather and frequent showers, the crowd was in evidence everywhere about the College and Experiment Station, watching demonstrations inspecting experimental fields and looking into the equipment of the various departments and what they were doing of practical use to the farmer."
President Wilson was running for another term that year, which he'd win in 1916. He was our 28th president. He was born in Stanton, Va., and he died in D.C. in 1924 and is the only president interred at the National Cathedral.
"Local Tax Rate 5 Cents Lower
"County Commissioners Succeed in Reducing Howard County Tax Rate for 1915, While Nearly Every Other County of The State Has Found it Necessary To Raise Theirs; State rate this year is 33 7/8 cents on $100.00. The County Commissioners fixed the tax rate last Monday at 96 cents on each one hundred dollars for the year 1916."