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The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1942
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28
Eye Clinics to Be Held
For Polk Children
Through the cooperation of the
\jme Blind Commission, eye clin
icsior school children will be con
ducted in the health department
office in Columbus on Thursday,
October 15th, beginning at 9 in
the morning. An Ophthalmologist
from Duke hospital, accompanied
by a worker from the Blind Com
mission will conduct the clinics
with the assistance of the local
health department personnel.
CURB REPORTER
Weather Wednesday: High 87,
low 67.Noah Hollowell in
his Wait-A-Minute column in the
Western Carolina Tribune at Hen
dersonville, writes “Many Thanks
for a copy of a very attractive
booklet, Deautiiuny illustrated, oi
Tryon and Polk County. It pic
tures about every type of activity
for tourists and working people
within the bounds of Polk. While
I had always heard much of the
thermal belt and the accompany
ing climate, the booklet presents
a statement new to me, to the
j effect that ‘according to govern
i ment records it is the dryest cli
mate east of the Mississippi’.” . . .
Over 1,000 tons of scrap per day
were collected and sent from North
Carolina to the steel mills during
August. J. B. Volger, State Sal
vage secretary says 5,346 railroad
cars were used to haul the scrap.
Children eligible for admission
to the eye clinic must have an eye
test performed in the health de
partment office at least one week
before the date of the clinic. In
a one-day clinic it will be impos
sible to care for all children who
are in need of glasses. In making
vision tests in the health depart
ment office, a certain degree of
defectiveness in seeing must be
o* T.^lished before a child can be
^pitted to the clinic. This means
tliat those children having the
worst vision defects will be in
cluded first. ^And, only children
who cannot afford to pay the regu
lar fee for eye examinations and
glasses fill be admitted.
.i\ew .Bulletin subscrip
tions entered, for Miss Jean Derby
and Miss Jean Brantley, students
at Woman’s College University
of North Carolina, Greensboro,
one for Miss Carolene Prince,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia; Lt. J. C. Placak, Jr.,
U. S. Naval Hospital, Great
Lakes, 111.; Pvt. J. P. Metcalf,
Co. B. 78th Inf. Tng. Bn. 4, Besl
son, Camp Roberts, Calif., Frank
McFarland, Jr., Cincinnati Em
balming College, Cincinnati; Miss
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There are lour Thursdays be
tween now and the date scheduled
for the clinic. These Thursdays
fall on September 17th, 24th and
October 1st and 8th. Vision tests
will be made on applicants on
either of the above Thursdays but
applicants must call at the health
department office' between 9 and
11:30 for the test. Those who have
the required defects in vision may,
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