ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN^
lc per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc PER COPY
SEth M. Vining, Editor $1.50 Year in the Carolinas
Vol. 14. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. Q., MONDAY, FEB. 17, 1941
CURB REPORTER
Sunday’s Asheville Citizen car
ried a picture of Town Manager
C. H. Helms, Frederick Ribet of
Valdese and Mayor J. D. Ashley
of Voldosta as the Mayors’ Tour
was greeted in the Georgia city.
The Mlayors’ party spent this
weekend in Miami and Miami
Beach and will leave Tuesday
morning for Ft. Lauderdale,
spending the night at West Palm
Beach ..... New subscriptions
for The Bul’etin are going to
Chas. E. Hagaman of Hickory,
Mrs. Thurman Dempsey of Land
rum and T. G. Rowe of Cleveland,
Ohio, who writes “I am very much
fascinated with your country, so
jnuch I think I would like to live
Prith you.” Renewal subscrip
cions received from Mrs. E. C.
Burleson (Bettv McFarland) of
Asheville and Mrs. David Komin
ick of New Rochelle, N. Y
The “Ginger Ale” Vernors, who
formerlv lived in Tryon, have a
grandchild. Telegram today to
Mrs. Mary Stearns Graham from
the grandmother at Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., says Grayce Shan
non Vernor arrived this morning
(to Mr. and Mrs. James Vernor,
Til) .... Tryon hieh school
basketball team goes to Flat Rock
for a game tonight .... Thanks
to Mrs. Franklin Parker of Green
wich, Conn., for a copy of the
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Navy Life On Pacific Isle
As Seen By Tryon Man
Thomas E. Blackwell, one of
the first Bulletin carriers and the
first Tryon high school student
to make a touchdown for the local
team, is now in the Navy and is
stationed on the island of Guam
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean..
He writes:
December 26th, 1940.
Dear Mr. Vining:
We just received our regular
bundle of Bulletins, some of them
three months old, due to irregular
transportation facilities to this
little spot in mid-Pacific, but we
are always happy to get them and
read what is going on back home.
I came out on the U. S. S'.
Ramapo, an oil tanker, September
7th, 1938. Ginger (his wife) made
the trip on the Djambi, a Dutch
ship, to Manila and from there,
traveled in the U. S. S. Goldstar,
which is used as a supply ship
for Guam, a 1 so to take Naval
families on health cruises to Ja
pan, Shanghai, Hongkong and
Manila. She arrived October 24,
1938.
Guam is quite a picturesque
island, often referred to as the
paradise of the Pacific, with its
many cocoanut palms, royal palms,
colorful flowers and all sorts of
green shrubbery. The island was
formed by volcanic action, but
much of the surface has been built
by the growth of coral. It is sur
rounded by a coral reef, which
makes a beautiful scene as the
breakers roll in.
The island is the largest of the
Marianas group and is thirty
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