ENTERED AS* SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 2% 'Etatlg Viol. 8 TRYON, N. C., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1935 Legislature News Raleigh, March 16. Represen tative E. B. Cloud’s second at tempt to increase the Polk county board of commissioners from three to six members has been blocked in the senate through the opposition of Senator Carl Thompson of Cleveland. It requires a two-thirds vote of the senate to recall the measure from the unfavorable calendar and this is improbable unless Sen ator Thompson relents between now and adjournment of the legislature. This measure was given a favor able report by the house committee on counties, cities, and towns and was passed by the house without a dissenting vote. When it reached the senate, Senator Thompson had it referred to the senate commit tee on judiciary No. 1, and upon his request, an unfavorable report was given. Senator Thompson and Senator J. D. Blanton, of McDowell, are the senators from the 27th sena torial district which comprises Polk, Cleveland, McDowell, Hen derson and Rutherford counties. Representative Cloud has held several conferences with Senator Blanton in an effort to win his support of his commissioners’ bill, and was in a fairway of winning it until letters from Polk county and Senator Thompson’s opposition thwarted this move. It is also expected that Represen tative Cloud’s bill to repeal the ab sentee ballot law for Polk county will be unsuccessful despite a fa vorable report from the house committee on elections and ejection laws. Even if the bill should pass the house, it is doubtful whether it ■ Continued on Back Page » JOSEF HOFMANN Josef Hofmann, considered by many the world’s greatest pianist, will give a performance tonight in Asheville at the Plaza theater. A delegation from Tryon musical lov ers is expected to join the hund reds from Tennessee, Virginia and South Cai’olina,. Tickets are $2 and -1.50 for adults, students 1. The program begins at 8:30. Tryon Hunters At Pinehurst Win Event Pinehurst, N. C., March 16. Double Time, big thoroughbred owned by Ernest T. White of Syracuse, N. Y., today won the feature event of the hunter trials held preliminary to the Sandhills Steeplechase and Racing Associa tion’s opening meet on its new course here. Double Time faultlessly cleared a dozen brush and timber jumps to earn a close decision over Sil ver Mine, owned and ridden by Carter Wilkie Brown, Tryon, N. C. A jumping contest for hunt teams of three was won by the Tryon Hounds trio of Carter P. Brown, Carter W. Brown and Wal ter C. Hill.—Spartanburg Herald. A crowd of 8,000 including Gov ernor Ehringhaus attended the event. R.' O. Andrews, former Tryon merchant, has accepted a position with the Calhoun Office Supply Co. in the Frigidaire and air con ditioning department. Est. 1-31-28

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