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Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Member: North Carolina Press Assn.
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin Is published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
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1.53 - No. 221 TRYON. N.C 28782 TUESDAY, DEC. 16,1980 Price 10c Per Cop:
Weather Friday: high 61, low
30; Saturday: high 65, low 35;
Sunday: high 57, low38.
We have had beautiful weather
but the leaves and grass are very
dry. The Tryon, Columbus,
Landrum and Green Creek Fire
Departments have all been called
out to fires Fortunately most of
them have not caused much
damage. Watch cigarettes,
matches, trash burning, etc. until
we get a good rain.
The 96th Congress is trying to
end the wrangling over a
proposed $10,000 pay raise for
senators and representatives that
is holding up its adjournament
The pay increase - which would
also raise the salaries of 34,000
top-level government employees
— is attached to an omnibus
spending bill.
Denis Radford, a senior at
Tryon High School has been
named a semi-finalist in the E. B.
Kennedy Scholarship competion
at Erskine College. The E. B
Kennedy Scholarships are the
first full academic merit
scholarships to be given at
Erskine College. They cover
tuition, room and board, books
and other fees. Deniseis the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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Gets Scholarship
Melvin Timothy Corbett, son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Corbett of
Tryon is among outstanding
scholars at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
studying this year under the
prestigious James M. Johnston
Scholarship program.
The James M. Johnston
Scholarship program is the
largest scholarship program in
the University of North Carolina
system and the state in amount of
money awarded and number of
students enrolled. It provides
$600,000 each year for UNC-CH
students and for students in
special programs at UNC-G and
N. C. State.
The James M. Johnston
Scholarship program has 415
students enrolled at the three
participating campuses. In the
program's 11 years of existence,
1609 students have received
Johnston scholarships
Fires
The Landrum Fire Department
was called to a grass fire on
Blackstock Road Friday night.
Saturday night they answered a
Mil to a small grass fire on
Landrum Mills Road.
Sunday afternoon they
answered a fire at a mobile home
occupied by Mrs. Clara P.
Campbell on McClure Hill
opposite Tryon Lumber There
was some smoke damage and a
small portion of the floor was
burned.
Childbirth
Education
St. Luke’s Hospital will be
offering Childbirth Education
Classes starting Monday,
January Sth at 7:00 p.m. to 9:00
p.m. and continue for 7 weeks al
St. Luke's Hospital for parents
due in March, April and May.
1981.
The purpose of these classes is
to familiarize expectant parents
with the process of labor and
delivery, relaxation and
breathing tenchiques for use in
labor and delivery, tour the labor
and delivery area, and begin
thinking about what it will be like
to be a parent. Any interested
persons are welcome to attend.
The classes are specifically
designed for expectant mothers
and fathers in the last two to
three months of pregnancy.
Please wear pants and bring a
blanket and two pillows for use
during the exercise period.
To register, please call Cam
Lawrence, R. N. at St. Luke's
Hospital on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday between 7:00 a m. and
11:00 a.m.
Mobile Home
Is Burned
The Green Creek Fire
Department was called to a fire
early Monday morning to the
mobile home of Mr and Mrs
Marty Reynolds in the Melvin
“ section. According to reports
the home was destroyed and all
contents were lost.
Fires
The Columbus Volunteer Fire
Department answered two fires
over the weekend.
Saturday night they were
called to a woods fire near
Chester Hudson's house near St.
Luke's Hospital. The fire was
discovered by a neighbor, Wayne
Black, and the fire burned about
a ''4 acre including a number of
azaleas that had been planted in
the woods.
Sunday afternoon about 1-45
p m they were called to Donald
Williams, house on Skyuka Road
near 1-26 where a woods fi re
burned about 2 acres. The hieh
winds made the fire hard to
control and the Tryon Fire
Department was called for
assistance. r
FISH Needs
Financial Volunteers!
FISH, the vollint
organization that ofr ary
emergency help with all o
avenues of assistance
unavailable, is again in need^^
financial volunteers" u 0
those in dire need. 0 " el P
We have volunteers wh„
the FISH office phone
weekdays from 9:00a m 1 55501
noon - after these hours a 12:00
night, emergency ca ii-' or
automatically to Second^'^
achiever. Miss Brunella M
Upon receiving such calk,? 6 *-
people direct the needy n ’ thes e
the appropriate city or ° n i0
agency or church orga n COUn ly
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