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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. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
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Vol 54 P No 67
TRYON. N. C. 28782 WEDNESDAY. MAY 6.1981
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Weather Monday: high 83, low
43 The weather has been perfect.
IRA guerrilla Bobby Sands
died early Tuesday in the 66th
day of his hunger strike at the
Maze prison outside Belfast, as
security forces braced for a
storm of violence.
Interest rates soared and stock
and bond prices tumbled Monday
as the Federal Reserve raised
the rate it charges banks to
borrow from the district Federal
Reserve banks to a record 14
percent.
The bill for the redistribution of
the profits from the Tryon ABC
store has passed the 2nd and 3rd
readings in the N. C. Senate.
Pulitzer Prize-winning
dramatist Paul Green died
Monday at his home in Chapel
Hill. He was 87. In 1937 Green
began a new movement in
American theater with "The Lost
Colony”, one of his 15 plays
written to be performed outdoors,
about the first English
settlement. The play is
performed every summer in
Manteo.
Polk County Interagency
Council will meet Thursday, May
7th at 12:30 for lunch at the
Meeting Place. Call 859-6500 for
reservations by 9:30.
Successful
Bloodmobile
The Green Creek Ruritan
conducted a successful
Bloodmobile Sunday when 58
pints were collected from 63
potential donors.
DAR Annual
Tryon Luncheon
The Joseph McDowell Chapter
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution iNSDARi will have
their Annual Tryon Luncheon
Friday, May 8, at 12:00 at the Tea
House at Lake Lanier.
A report on the 90th Continental
Congress held in Washington. D
C. April 30 through May 4 will be
given by Mrs. Lucy G. Miller.
Regent, and Mrs. Harvey J.
Deobold, Tryon; delegates who
attended the Congress
The last meeting of the year,
June 5, will be a covered dish
picnic at "Pinebrook”. home of
Mrs. Ivor R. Pardee. Guests will
be the recipients of the Good
Citizen and Good Citizenship
Awards and guests of chapter
members.
Want To Help
The Mental Health Campaign
is now underway in Green Creek
Township. Anyone willing to
canvas or to contribute please
call 863-2556, Ralph A Rogers.
Chairman.
In Second Wind
Hall Of Fame
Dr. Joseph C. Placak
Yesterday the Polk County
Historical Association honored
one of its members by
recognizing the great services he
has extended to the community
over the years.
He was the first of four children
born to a well known surgeon and
his wife in Cleveland. Ohio. He
graduated in 1930 from
Dartmouth College. from
medical school at Harvard in
1939, and spent about eight years
residency and as instructor in
surgery at Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston,
Mass He is also a chemist and
earned a degree in Botany from
George Washington University.
Following several years in
partnership with his father in
Cleveland, Ohio, he went to work
for Uncle Sam, Naval type,
performing general and thoracic
Continued On Back Page
Man Robbed Here;
Robber Caught
In Greer
Manais Millard Clements of
Black Mountain stopped in the
rest area off 1-26 Tuesday about
4:15 a m When he stepped out of
the bathroom, a man in a ski
mask jumped from the back of a
state truck parked in the area
and demanded his car keys,
money and took his watch. The
bandit made Clements lie on the
car floorboard and go with him
Clements was let out near St.
Luke's Hospital from where he
called the Tryon Police
Tryon Police Office Michael
Dukes spotted the car on Hwy
176 near the Pantry in Tryon and
turned on his blue light and siren.
The car kept going with Officer
Dukes in pursuit. He was joined
by the Greenville County officers
and the Landrum police. The
bandit stopped his car near Greer
and jumped out He was then
apprehended. He agreed to go
back with Officer Dukes and he
is now in the Polk County Jail
Tryon Police Chief Jerry Ross
said that the man, John Richard
Spires of Greer, S. C. had been
charged with robbery,
kidnapping, failing to stop for
blue light and siren Chief Ross
said that he would probably have
other charges facing him in South
Carolina.
Saturday from 5 to 8 p m. there
will be a Ham or Chicken Supper
at the Pea Ridge Community
Building