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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
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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
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