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2nd Class Postage Paid At Tryon, North Carolina, 28782 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 la publlahad Dally except Sat. and Sun. 108 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790 Tryon, N. C. 28782 The Tryon Daily Bulletin * (USPS 643-360) * Phone 859-9151 Vol. 54 - No. 55 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina TRYON, N. C. 28782 FRIDAY, APRIL 17,1981 16 Pages Today Price 10c Per Copy Weather Wednesday: high 74, low 52. Thursday was another beautiful day. Janet Cooke, a reporter for Washington Post, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Monay for feature writing for a story about an 8-year-old heroin addict. Tuesday the newspaper gave up the prize and the reporter resigned, saying the story was at least partially fabricated and that the subject did not exist. Judge Robert H. Lacy decided to get tough on criminals in Madison County District Court on Wednesday. He threw every traffic violator who came before him in jail. Lacy said that he usually give suspended sentences and probation, but that doesn’t seem to be an effective crime deterrent. Lacy said he intends to hand out more active jail sentences. Thursday's Spartanburg Herald had an article on Mrs Faith Stewart-Gordon, daughter of the late Ernest Burwell of Tryon. She is the owner of the Russian Tea Room in New York. She is visiting in Spartanburg. In the final United States census Polk County has a population of 12,984 an increase of 10.6%. Columbus has a Continued On Back Page Two Arrested Tammy R. Pack of Rt. 1, Columbus was arrested Monday and charged with forging of a check from Mrs. Alice Parmelee at Ridgerest. Deputy Allen Rickman said that Mrs. Pack’s husband, Gary, had been arrested on three counts of forgery and 1 count of larceny of check Charged With 1st Degree Burglary George Robert Dimsdale of Rt. 1, Columbus has been charged with First Degree Burglary. Chief Deputy Allen Rickman stated that the home of Mrs. Graves Taylor on Skyuka Road was entered between midnight at 1:30 a m. Thursday morning while Mrs. Taylor was sleeping. The burglar cut the alarm wire which caused the alarm to go off in the jail. Deputy Rickman stated that Mack Blanton and James Laughter pulled up into the Taylor drive a short time later and heard the burglar leave the house and run through the woods. Deputy Rickman arrested Dimsdale a short time later at his father’s home. Shoots Eagle Ed Galloway shot an Eagle 2 on hole 12, par 4, 310 yds., April 15th at Tryon County Club. He used a driver and a 7 iron and was playing with Joe Knowlton and Frank Basler Local Students Win Science Awards The first annual science fair was held recently by Isothermal Community College for school children of Rutherford and Polk counties. Elementary winners received ¥50 for 1st place; $30 for second and $20 for third. Junior winners received $75 for first place; $50 for second and $20 for third. Senior division winners received $125 for first place; $75 for second and $50 for third. Polk County students winning were the following: Biology Projects - Elementary School Division — Sean McGuinn, Tryon Elementary. Junior Biology: 2nd. Teri Meares, second place, Tryon Elementary; 3rd. Kathy Neilson, Tryon Elementary. Physical Science: 1st. Mark Edwards, 2nd. Randy McDaniel, 3rd. Chris Harrison, all students at Polk Central High School. Elementary Class Project: 3rd. Corria Hudson’s fourth grade at Mill Spring. Sunrise Service Garrison Chapel and St. Luke’s annual joint sunrise service will be held Sunday at St. Luke’s CME Church beginning at 5:45 a.m. Rev J. W. Johnson, pastor of Garrison ^Chapel Baptist Church will preach the sermon. The Garrison Chapel Evangelist Choir will present the music Rev. J. 0. Smith is pastor of St. Luke’s CME Church. The public is invited. Mrs. Judy P. Arledge, Clerk of Superior Court and Mrs. Rebecca P. Kennedy, Assistant Clerk attended the Regional Clerk’s meeting in Asheville on April 15, 1981. Topics on the agenda included reports of the Recordkeeping Committee and Legislative Actions, the Court Information System, Statistical Reporting Update and Equipment Analysis Project report. This meeting was hosted by J. Ray Elingburg, Clerk of Superior Court of Buncombe County and reports presented by various members of the Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh. Susan Lee Galda, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, will be a speaker during the Twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the International Reading Association April 27 — May 1 in New Orleans. Louisiana. She will participate in a session entitled, "Literature is What Learning to Read is All About: How Children’s Responses Inform Practice." (Dr. Galda is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Frank Galda of Tryon) Sunrise Service In Mill Spring The Mill Spring First Baptist Church will have its annual Easter Sunrise Service Sunday at 5:30 a m There will be breakfast in the Fellowship Hall following the service. Everyone is welcome
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