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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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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol 5-1 - No 68
TRYON. N C 28782 THURSDAY. MAY 7.1981
20 Pages Today
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Weather Tuesday: high 87, low
60 Everyone hopes we will get
some rain, but as of noon
Wednesday the weather was
perfect.
Everyone is talking about our
minor earthquake Tuesday
afternoon Most of us didn't
realize it was an earthquake at
the time
Friday is the deadline for
registration for the Public
Speaking Seminar at the Tryon
Methodist Church to be given by
Jim Rutledge.
The final high school baseball
game is Saturday at 2 p.m. at
Harmon Field between Tryon
and Polk Central.
Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m is the
Ham or Chicken Supper al the
Pea Ridge Community Building.
Saturday at 11:30 a m the
Tryon High school band will
leave for a trip to Baltimore and
Washington. They will march in
the Preakness Parade in
Baltimore and meet with Cong
Bill Hendon on the capitol steps
when they will be filmed by NBC
news to be shown on NBC
Magazine with David Brinkley at
a later date.
Speaking of TV. Monday is
Tryon Day on WLOS-TV
Continued On Back Page
Minor Earthquake
Felt Here
A minor earthquake centered
on the North Carolina-South
Carolina line, accompanied with
a loud noise some persons took to
be a sonic boom or thunder, shook
a wide area of Western North
Carolina and upper South
Carolina Tuesday at 5:22 p.m
There were no reports of injuries
or major damage from the
tremor which the U. S. Geological
Survey's National Earthquake
Information Service said
measured 3.0 to 3.5 on the Richter
scale.
Many people in this area felt
the tremor, but others were
unaware that it took place.
Special Meeting For
Tryon School Board
The Tryon School Board will
hold a special meeting Monday at
7 30 p.m. with the Board of the
Tryon PTA. The meeting will be
held in the Superintendent's
office at the high school.
Hendon Aide
Here May 18th
Bob Orr, district
administrative assistant to Rep
Bill Hendon, is on a month-long
tour of the 11th Congressional
District. He will be in Polk
County from 10 a.m. to noon on
Monday, May 18th at the
Conference Room in the
courthouse annex in Columbus
Open House For
New Group Home
The Directors of the
Association of Retarded Citizens
invites all interested persons to
an open house on Sunday, May 10
from three to five to inspect the
new Group Home for mildly
retarded people in the area.
Neighbors and others will have
an opportunity to meet the Board
of Directors and the Group Home
manager — teachers, Steve and
Donna Christopher, and ask any
questions about the program
The residents will arrive the
following week.
Professor Dana Woodbridge is
president of the Board and other
directors are Joel Dobbins,
Bunny Bates, Kathleen Cardwell,
Harry Bates, Jack Bryan and
Ann Foster.
"Bridgewood", the Group
Home, is located on Mimosa
Lane, near the old Mimosa Inn.
Parking is available at the
Seventh Day Adventist Church
parking lot across Hwy 108 from
the house
Tryon Council
Meets Monday
The Tryon Town Council will
meet Monday at 7:30 p.m at the
Town hall.
Honored
Dr. C. W McCall, Jr. of Tryon
was named a ’79’80
Distinguished President
according to the April-May issue
of the Carolina Kiwanian.
Bishop Named
Ass’t Vice Pres.
Of Cannon Mills
Cannon Mills Co., of
Kannapolis, N. C. has elected
Malcom B Bishop, Jr Assistant
Vice President. He joined Cannon
in 1950 as a trainer after his
graduation from Clemson
University. He served as
assistant personnel director and
as an administrative assistant to
the superintendent of Plant 1. In
1960, he transferred to the cotton
department where he is assistant
director.
Bishop, is an elder in the
Kannapolis First Presbyterian
Church. He lists his hobbies as
fishing, golf and gardening.
His wife, Leia, is art
coordinator in the Kannapolis
Elemetary Schools.
The couple has four children.
Ben, his wife, Susan and son,
Matthew, live in Bradenton,
Florida where he is the associate
minister at Bradenton's First
Prebyterian Church; Brian of
Atlanta. Anne, a senior at UNC at
Greensboro, and John, a senior in
high school.
Malcom, Jr., is the son of
Lillian B Bishop of Landrum and
the late Malcolm Bishop Lela is
the daughter of the late Sina and
Hinton Thompson
Correction
The fresh Italian Sausage at
Cowan's Supermarket is $1 99 per
lb. instead of the price advertised
in Wednesday's Bulletin