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THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Member: North Carolina Press Assn.
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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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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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 54 — No 8
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline
TRYON. N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, FEB 11,1981
12 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Friday: high 50, low
23; Sat.: high 50, low 23; Sun.:
high 57, low 37; Monday: high 48,
low 23. Tuesday afternoon it
began to rain.
Federal officials are wondering
what to do with 1,700 Cuban
prisoners shipped to the U. S. last
year aboard the refugee
“Freedom Flotilla." Castro has
refused to admit any Cuban who
leaves the island.
Top administration officials
are predicting that Soviet
military intervention in Poland is
now virtually inevitable.
Thursday is the Heart Fund
Benefit Dinner at Garrison
Chapel Baptist Church.
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. the
Tryon PT A will meet at the Tryon
High School Library. Tryon High
now has a computer terminal and
microcomputers available for
use by students in its Teaching
program. The computers will be
operational for the meeting and
several students will be on hand
to demonstrate them. Mrs.
Anette Stafford, Mathematics
teacher, will explain how the
computers are being used at
Tryon High School.
The Green Creek PTA will
meet Thursday at 7:30 at the
school. The kindergarden will
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Bloodmobile Here
Monday, Feb. 23rd.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be at the Holy Cross Parish
House in Tryon on Monday, Feb.
23rd.
Green Creek PTA
Meets Thursday
The Green Creek PTA will
meet Thursday at 7 p.m at the
school. The kindergarten classes
of Mrs. Edna Michael and Mrs
Kathy Fagan will present the
program.
Meets Thursday
The Polk County Appearance
Commission will meet Thursday
at 3:30 at the courthouse annex.
Willing To Host
A Foreign Student?
A search is on for families
willing to host a foreign student in
their homes. Anyone who would
like more information or who
might be interested in "Sharing
the world" with a foreign student
please contact Elna Owens (894
3232) or Jeanne Moss (894-8861)
co-chairmen of the host family
committee for the AFS Polk
County Chapter
The Gymnastics Club of Tryon
Elementary School will perform
Friday during the halftime
intermission of the boys
basketball game at the Tryon
gym.
Polk School Board
Has Long Session
The Polk County School Board
met Monday night at Polk
Central.
Supt. Larry Coble stated that
he was working with the Polk
County Recreation Director,
Jeannie Martin in setting up
programs such as tumbling and
basketball clinics. They will work
out a lease agreement with the
County Manager so that the
schools will not be responsibile
for liability in any way. Dr. Coble
also announced the March 19 and
20 conference of Superintendents
and Board Members at the
Institute of Government in
Chapel Hill and the District 17
School Board meeting is to be
held at Polk County.
The Board granted temporary
disability leave to Robert Painter
as janitor at Mill Spring School
and hired Leon Stewart as
interim janitor. The Board hired
John Parker on a temporary
basis as janitor at Polk Central.
The Board granted maternity
leave and 20 days extended sick
leave to Gwendolyn Sain, a
teacher at Mill Spring School.
Deadline on Bids for the new
roof at Green Creek School
gym were extended to the March
meeting to allow the contractors
more time to submit bids
Jeff Lynch, representing the
Polk Central Student Council,
presented the results of a recent
survey by students and faculty
toward school lunches and
lunchroom atmosphere. A
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Red Cross Fund
Team Announced
People power gets added
recognition in marking the 100th
anniversary of the American Red
Cross in 1981, according to
William Baird, Polk County
chapter chairman The March
Fund Drive will be headed by
Mrs. Edward (Barbara) Russell
with James Kirk co chairperson.
Barbara and Red Cross have a
special common bond Her rear
admiral grandfather was the
second president of the Red
Cross, succeeding Clara Barton,
founder of Red Cross. At the
request of President Garfield he
attended the first international
Red Cross conference in St.
Petersburg, Russia Here her
Russian father, Secretary
General of the Russian Red Cross
and her American mother,
daughter of the admiral and
traveling as a representative of
the Red Cross met and were later
married
Support members of the March
Fund Drive effort are: Kay
Williams, Industrial and
Business, Barbara McAllister,
Mill Spring area; Walter Gray,
Columbus; William Egerton,
Saluda; C. W. McGinnis, Green
Creek; Brunella Massey, former
Embury School district; Robert
Kohlbry, Red Fox; and Tom
Miller, special events.
The Landrum Band Boosters
will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
at the Band Room Plans will be
made for the Fiddlers
Convention.