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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. C., MONDAY, AUG. 18, 1941 Francis Kittrell, Son of Mrs. C. W. Kittrell, Named Chief Engineer-Secretary Os Government Basin fc Washington, Aug. 15.—F. W. -ykittrell, 39-year-old engineer, a native of Florence, S. C., and graduate of the North Carolina State college, has been elected chief engineer-secretary of the In terstate commission on the Poto mac River basin. Mr. Kittrell has for several years been connected with the Tennessee department of health. Kittrell, Herschel award win ner in hydraulic and sanitary en gineering, will assume h's new post in the early fall. The commission, which includes representatives of the Federal government, Maryland, Virginia, . West Virgin a, the District of Co lumbia. and the council of state government, has been empowered to act by the legislatures of the states concerned and by a joint ®k>ngressional resolution. Yester f meeting was the first since May 10, when the commission elected Governor Herbert R. O’Conner as its chairman. The executive committee, presid ed over by Governor O’Connor, agreed that the by-laws will be presented for consideration at its next meeting, when a treasurer also will be appointed. The new organization will deal with land-use, navigation, flood control, waterpower, water supply, recreation, means of abating pol lution in the Potomac and ether streams, and other problems of the basin. CURB REPORTER The weather for Saturday show ed a high temperature of 91; low 70. For Sunday, high 85; low 66 .... . Town and Country for August has a picture of Miss Bet ty Mead of Tryon and Lake For est, 111., as one of the bridesmaids in a wedding .... Archie Fea gan of Harrington, Dela., and George Gibbs of Murphreesboro, are two former Polk County men who are making up their Rotary Club attendance with the Tryon Club while they are here on vaca tion. Mr. Gibbs is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Gibbs of Mill Spring and is the principal of the school at Murphreesboro. Mr. Feagan is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Feagan of Columbus. He has been teaching at Harring ton for about 15 years .... Mary Phifer writing in “Silhouettes” for the Sunday Spartanburg Her ald-Journal says: “A book that many will be most anxious to read as soon as possible is Margaret Culkin Banning’s latest. The title is ‘Salud; A South American Journal’. As the title indicates, this is a travel book in which this ‘popular novelist shakes hands with South America’. It is writ ten in more or less diary form, and is most informative, in a very charming and informal man ner. Last January she and her daughter—and by the way Mrs. Banning’s home is ‘Friendly Hills’ Continued on Back Pape
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