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The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1942
CURB REPORTER
Weather Saturday: High 52,
low 22; Sunday high 46, low 28,
rain .28.Do you have any
clear rock crystals on your farm?
The government needs them for
radios in tanks, ships and air
planes. The prices for good ones
run from $600 per ton to $20,000
per ton ..... As one of eight
W C. U. N. C. seniors who are
outstanding in sociology who have
made a high academic average
and have shown exceptional abili
ty, Miss Peggy Lincoln of Try
on, editor of the Carolinian, will
be initiated as a member of the
Alpha Kappa Delta national hon
orary sociological frateitiity on
ihursday, December 3rd. The in
kition to join came from Miss
Rie Tillinghast of Fayetteville,
who is president of the North
Carolina chapter of the A. K. D.
. . . . The State Board of Health
says 2 1-2 pounds of meat per
week is plenty for t. average
civilian in any climate. Farmers
are asked to sell their surplus
perk as live animals so they can
be butchered and saved at pack
ing plants. Hired hands and
seasonal workers should be count
ed as members of the family so
that all can share in the 2 1-2
pounds per week per person ....
The next air raid warning for
Tryon and Polk County will not
be announced. It will come as a
surprise just as would be the
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Baptist Brotherhood Meets
The brotherhood of the First
Baptist church will have their
regular monthly meeting Friday
evening at 7 o’clock in the church
dining room. A “Ladies Night”
program has been planned.
Tryon Basketball Players
All young men in the community
interested in forming a Tryon
basketball team are invited to go
to the Tryon school auditorium
tonight at 7:30. C. C. Tharpe of
the Duke Power Co., is getting
up a team.
KIWANIS TUESDAY
The Tryon Kiwanis club will
meet Tuesday at 1 p. m., at Oak
Hall hotel. Fred Swann, Jr., will
be in charge of the program.
“Your blocl^ leader is your con
tact with your Defense Council in
civilian war services. Your block
leader is a special courier of our
Government. Your block leader is
your source of information con
cerning the WHY and HOW of
vital civilian war effort. Your
block leader should be able to
clarify any questions you may
have. Your block leader is ONE
of you, and knows YOUR prob
lems for they are also, his or her
problems.”
‘ The block leader plan is de
scribed by State OCD Director
Ben Douglas as ‘the best mechan
ism yet devised to enroll every
household in the war effort’.”
CIRCLE TO MEET
Circle No. 2 of the Methodist
church will meet Tuesday after
noon at 3:30 with Mrs. R. C. Fitz
patrick.