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Vol. 55 — No. 44
Weather Thursday: high 78,
low 45, hum. 43%, Friday
morning was warm and cloudy.
Social Security will be unable
to pay retirees’ and survivors'
benefits on time starting in July
1983 unless Congress takes
corrective action in the very near
future." the system’s trustees
said Thursday.
America’s second "test-tube”
baby, conceived in the laboratry,
has been born. The parents of the
second baby asked the Eastern
Virginia Medical School clinic at
Norfolk, Va. not to identify them
or release the date of birth or sex
of the child.
Two Polish army pilots made a
daredevil flight across two
Communist borders Thursday
grazing treetops to evade radar
and bring their loved ones out of
Poland a single-engine
airplane. They have asked for
political asylum in Austria.
Curtis Hunter, the Associated
Press high school basketball
player of the year in North
Carolina announced Thursday he
will attend the University of
North Carolina next year. Y 1
Today at 3 p.m. the Polk
County commissioners will meet
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TRYON. N C. 28782
Man Killed By Train
CRAMERTON, N.C. - A
Landrum man was killed
instantly when he was struck by a
train around 4:40 p.m.
Wednesday in this town about six
miles east of Gastonia, according
to Donald K. Conrad, Gaston
County assistant coroner.
Roger Gene Ramsey, 26, of 100
Poplar St., was apparently struck
by the train as he walked south on
the railroad tracks, Conrad said.
He said that according to
witnesses, Ramsey was walking
on the tracks above the South
Fork River when a train
approached from behind him.
About a half-mile from Ramsey
the engineer began blowing the
train’s horn and applying its
brakes, he said. About 20 people
were playing on a ballfield and
heard the train. They looked up,
saw Ramsey and began hollering
to him to warn him of the train,
he said.
Apparently Ramsey did not
hear the warnings or ignored
them until it was too late,
Conrad said. The train struck
Ramsey and knocked him off the
trestle. Ramsey landed on a
concrete ledge just above the
water, he said.
Ramsey died from chest and
head injuries received from the
train striking him and from the
fall, Conrad said. — Spartanburg
Herald
Golf
MONDAY
Tryon in MAC Match at Hender
sonville Country Club
MONDAY, APRIL 5,1982
Who Is Low?
The Town of Columbus
received 13 bids on the right to
construct the sewer connector
line from the Town of Columbus
to the Polk County Industrial
Park. The bids ranged from
$181,950 13 to $232,564.75. Two of
the bids were very close. Huntley
Construction Co. of Asheville had
a total bid of $181,950.13 and
Thackson Construction Co. of
Greenville had a bid of
$182,571.45.
The Huntley Construction Co.
total bid was $18,950.13 but the
line items added up to more than
that amount. If the line items are
added their bid will be slightly
higher than the bid from
Thackson Construction Co.
However the Huntley
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total bid stands even hough it tire ran eto r a d ^ ^ g el
was lower than it was intended to traveled s ^ as the
Circle at about 6 ? 0 5“® ^ge
b The Columbus Town Council
met Thusday night and decided to
let the Farmers Home
Administration decide who ts the
IO To b wn officials think it will take
pay f °. r th Polk County and the
rest.
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Il-Year-Old
Killed When
Hit By Tractor
An 11-year-old Campobello boy
was killed Thursday night when
he fell off a tractor which then
ran over him, according to
Highway Patrolman John
Hammond.
Craig Thomas Ballew, of Route
3, son of Garland Ballew, was
dead on arrival at about 8 p.m at
General Hospital,
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