5c PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAR ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS> MARCH 3, 1879 THE TMOHI DAM BULLETIN The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor. Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., WED., JUNE 10, 1942 ROTARY FRIDAY Dr. Austin Woody will be in charge of the Rotary club program on Friday at 1 p. m., at -Gunny dale. %FTBALL RESULTS The Bushwhackers defeated Soumerco in softball Tuesday by a score of 5 to 4. Neighborhood Meets Durng the past week 32 of the 36 neighborhoods in Polk County held their meetings with one member of the County Agricultur al Workers Council present. At the meetings the agricultural workers explained the price ceil ing law, the sugar and gas ra tioning systems, and the people of the neighborhood elected their essential truckers. These truckers were elected at the request of the tire rationing board to help them more equally distribute tires and to assure each neighborhood a v»jMj|s of hauling its farm produce. ■ neighborhood chairman in eatn neighborhood has been desig nated by the County Rationing Board, as head “rationer” in the neighborhood. This was done to prevent so much extra driving for the sugar canning cards, supple mentary gas cards and whatever ——Continued on Back Page_ Lieutenant and Mrs. Nelson Jackson, 3rd, who spent their honeymoon at Crescent Beach, have arrived in Tryon for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Jackson, Jr. Lieutenant Jackson reports to the Army at Camp Croft on June 12th and will go from there to Camp Walters, Mineral Wells, Texas. CURB REPORTER Rain. 68; low1 8; high 86 ... . Radio Station W41MM of Win ston - Salem broadcasting from Mount Mitchell for frequency modulation equipped sets was heard perfectly during experi mental testing broadcasts Tuesday afternoon at Avant Electric Co. At the same time it was almost impossible to hear over standard broadcasts because of electrical interference. A large number of these sets have been sold in Try on ...... In the list of de grees presented at the University of North Carolina this week, Miss Bell Jackson of Tryon received the degree in journalism. As far as we know this is the first time a Tryon student has received a de gree in journalism. Miss Jackson was editor of the Tryon high school news and was associate editor of her Averette college newspaper.before going to Chapel Hill for her degree. Honorary de grees were conferred on Governor J. Melville Broughton, Dr. C. M. Cooper of the State Health Board, and Dr. James G. K. McClure, head of the Farmers Federation. Dr. McClure has been honored by Yale and Harvard with honorary de grees and he has taken a leading part in the upbuilding of farm life in Western North Carolina. . . . . Bill Davenport, former orchestra leader and now Justice of the Peace in Spartanburg is a -Continued on Back Page_

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