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THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Member: North Carolina Press Assn.
(Consolidated with the Polk County Nows 1955)
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The Bulletin la published
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 54 - No. 118
Weather Wednesday: high 89,
low 75, humidity 67%. Everyone
keeps hoping that we will get a
good rain.
Joseph George Helmich, 44, a
former U. S. Army warrant
officer has been arrested for
selling top-secret coding
information to the Soviet Union
between January 1963 and July
1964. He is being held in lieu of a
5500,000 bond.
While the heat wave and
drought hasn't been beneficial to
South Carolina's crops, officials
with the Clemson Extension
Service say the only crop
adversely affected has been corn.
Many farmers have plowed the
corn fields and planted other
crops.
The Reagan administration
conceded Wednesday that
stubbornly high interest rates
will drive government spending
$10 billion higher next year than
predicted.
At least 30 used car dealers in
North Carolina are under
investigation for fraud in a multi
million dollar, multi-state
odometer rollback scheme. More
than 5,000 used cars shipped to
other states to be resold had had
their odometer mileage rolled
Continued On Back Page
TRYON, N. C 28782
Graves Going
To Bolivia;
Bolivian Weavers
Coming Here
Hank Garden, project director
for the North Carolina Partners
of the Americas, has announced
that the exchange of craftsmen
between North Carolina Partners
and the Bolivian Partners as
proposed by the Tryon
Committee has been approved.
The first North Carolina
Craftsmen have been chosen to
go to Bolivia in August of this
year. Hank Graden said that
Claude and Elaine Graves, the
owners and operators of the Little
Mountain Pottery in the Peniel
Community were chosen not only
for their skills as a craftsmen,
but also for their knowledge of
the language. The purpose of
their visit will be to share their
craft with the potters of Bolivia
and to identify Bolivian
craftsmen to visit North
Carolina.
The North Carolina Partners
have also announced that the
Bolivian Handweavers identified
by Dr. Marion Oettinger on his
last visit to Bolivia are planning
to come to North Carolina in
September of this year and will
be hosted by the Tryon Partners
Committee. Their purpose will be
to visit weavers in Western North
Carolina and to demonstrate and
teach their skills.
A meeting of the Tryon
Partners of the Americas
Committee will be held Friday,
Continued On Back Page
FRIDAY, JULY 17,1981
Softball Playoffs
To Be Held Here
Dean Smith, President has
been informed that the Tri
County Softball League, Tryon,
N. C. will be hosting the A.S.A.
District 9 Play-off at Harmon
Field on July 20 — 25. Jack
Metcalf, District 9 Commissioner
will be in charge of the Bracket’s.
The division playing in this
tournament which is double
elimination will be Industrial
Class A — Class "B” Open and
"C” Open Class “B" — Class "C”
Women — Church Men.
Four games will be played each
night Monday — Friday. The
finals on Saturday if necessary.
All games will be played on Field
A (new field) — No admission
charged.
1st Round Play
Monday, July 20th
6:30 Docs Place vs Reids Class B
7:30 Frazier Ford vs Durham
Construction, Class C (Women)
8:30 N.C. Display vs Broyhill
Furn. Class A Ind.
9:30 Di W vs Toney’s Class C
Tuesday, July 21st
6:30 Mr. A’s vs (winner of 7-20
6:30) Class B
7:30 Torrington vs Master Craft,
Class A Ind.
8:30 Rockettes vs Charlies Class
B (Women)
9:30 Crest View vs Cliffside
Church
Little League
Wednesday’s Results
Cool Springs 10, Harris-Shiloh 0
Rutherfordton 10, Polk County 4
Price 10c Per Copy
Monday Is
The Day
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be at the Parish Hall of Holy
Cross Church on Monday to
accept donations for its Blood
Bank. The process is simple and
quick and the demand for whole
blood and plasma continues to be
heavy so the Red Cross is urging
as many people as possible to
donate blood on Monday. The
hours are noon to 5:30 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott MacDonald
of Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia,
nephew Scott Brewster, Scottie
McGalliger of Devon, New
Brunswick; Irene, Patrick, John
and Zack Reynolds, Winston-
Salem were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Cochran. They
enjoyed the mountain Highland
Games and saw two friends
compete and win. One beat his
own record of tossing the sheaf 22
ft. Mr. McDonald is an uncle of
Mrs. Cochran.
New Hours For
Social Services
Jack D. Bryan, Director of the
Polk County Social Services has
announced that the new office
hours beginning Monday, July
20th will be from 7 a m. to 3 p.m.
These new hours are due to
problems with air-conditioning in
the Jervey-Palmer Building.
These hours will continue until
the problems are solved or cooler
weather arrives.