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Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin Ie published
Daily except Sat and Sum
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today-
Vol. 54 - No. 119
TRYON. N. C 28782
MONDAY, JULY 20,1981
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Thursday: high 89,
low 71. humidity 63%. Rain at 7
a m Friday was .95.
The area needed the rain, but it
also got lots of lightning and in
some areas, strong winds to go
with it. According to Duke Power
Co., the Green Creek area was
the hardest hit by the storm.
Electricity wasn't restored in
some homes until Friday
morning. The rain was welcomed
by all except maybe the Little
Leaguers who had their game
stopped in the bottom of the
fourth.
A Japanese-American
demanded Thursday that the
United States pay at least $25,000
redress to each of the survivors
among 120,000 people of Japanese
descent interned in World War II.
Pop Singer Harry Chapin,
writer of such ballads as "Taxi"
and "Sequel", was killed
Thursday when his car was hit by
a tractor-trailer on the Long
Island Expressway.
Labor contracts covering over
half a million postal workers
expire July 20th. The two largest
unions — The AFL-CIO American
Postal Workers Union and the
National Association of Letter
Carriers are asking for an annual
5 percent wage increase during a
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Two Horses Killed
A yearling and a 2-year old
horse were struck by lightning
late Thursday afternoon at
Carvel Martin’s pasture off Hwy.
14, Hickory Grove Section.
Mr. Martin said that there were
three horses in this pasture and
that two were killed and that the
third horse was badly scared. He
stated that lightning also hit and
split a big tree behind his barn
The rain gauge at his house
showed that 1.3 inches of rain fell
during the electrical storm
Lightning Hits
Shytle Home In
Green Creek
The home of Mrs Inez Shytle
was hit by lightning Thursday
about 3:40 p.m. _Mrs. Shytle,
who was home at the time, said
that a big ball of fire came into
the room where she was sitting,
but that she couldn’t see any
damage. She smelled smoke and
couldn’t find anything burning.
The Green Creek Firemen
arrived and discovered the fire in
a bedroom. The bed and drapes
were destroyed and the end of a
chest over 100 years old was
burned and the wall was
damaged.
Mrs. Shytle said that the
lightning bolt broke several
blocks and threw parts of planks
out into the yard. She was high in
jraise of the Green Creek Fire
Department. She said that if the
firemen hadn't arrived when they
did her home would have been
destroyed
Don’t Have
Enough Money
To Operate Schools
Polk County Superintendent
Larry Coble reported to the Polk
County School Board Monday
night that the school system does
not have enough money to
operate the schools next year.
Supt. Coble said that the Polk
County had asked for a 24%
increase in current expense
(operating budget) and received
a 4'i% increase over last year.
(This is $16,259 more than last
year.) With inflation and the cost
of power, oil and gas going up,
Supt. Coble said that this was a
step backward and the
administrative staff doesn't know
where to go.
To meet the budget given to the
school by the County
Commissioners, the school board
needs to trim $80,000 from its
program. Supt. Coble said that
after trimming everything that
they could possible do without,
they are still $37,468 short.
Supt. Coble recommended that
the Board do one of the following:
approach the County
Commissioners for more money;
ask the county commissioners to
transfer money from Capital
Outlay to Current Expense;
appoint a finance committee to
make a plan, to enable the
schools to operate next year.
Supt. Coble said that this was
“An Educational Disaster."
The County School Board will
have a work session Monday at 9
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Juergen Panoscha
Gets Scholarship
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Juergen
Panoscha of Tryon, N. C. has
been awarded a $500 scholarship
from Virginia Tech’s College of
Engineering. The scholarship
was one of 285 totalling $240,000
awarded to incoming freshmen
from 18 states.
The money was awarded under
the Marshall Hahn Scholarship
Program, made possible by a
bequest from John Lee Pratt, a
former executive of General
Motors. The scholarship program
was named in honor of the
university's 12th president, T
Marshall Hahn.
The objective of the
scholarship program is to
"reward meritorious high school
achievement and to acknowledge
Potential for engineering study at
Tech , said Pamela Kurstedt
academic assistant to the dean of
engineering.
The total amount of merit
toaUT^!* awarded each year
nclud^ eng,neer 'ng students,
including upperclassmen is
approximately $500,000.
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Department was called to a
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