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Published Daily Except Est. 1-31-28Saturday and Sunday_Vol. 18—No. 48 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 The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor. 6c PEE COPY TRYON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 CURB REPORTER Weather Tuesday: high 83, low 39 . . . Reports indicate that Ger many is falling apart as Ameri can armies take city after city with decreased opposition. Some American troops are less than 100 miles from Berlin . . Tryon Kiwanians heard Senator Carroll F, Rogers give a report on the ac tivities of the state legislature, at the club meeting Tuesday at Oak H,all. As a member of many im portant senate committees Sena tor Rogers had a large part in the work of the assembly. Guests at the meeting included Mayor F. P. Bacon and S|Sgt James Waller Marshall, Jr. of Tryon, Dr. Ben Washburn of Rutherfordton and former Kiwanis Lieut. Gov. Deck iNkR of Spartanburg1 who has a ^l^ect Kiwanis attendance record i ot over 20 years. Tryon Kiwanis club will not meet next Tuesday on account of having a joint meet ing with the Rotary club on Fri day, the 20th . . The sale of seals for crippled children, by the pupils of the Tryon school totaled $49.45. Mrs. -Caldwell’s third grade, the winner in a local contest, sold $11.00 worth. Other grades with high totals were Miss Baldwin’s tenth grade $8, Mrs. Nottingham’s fourth graie $8, Mrs. McCargo’s first grade $7.96, and Mrs. Smith’s sixth grade $5.25 . . . Today is a beautiful day for the Tryon Country club tea. It is worth a Continued on Back Page_ WITH OUR ARMED FORGES A Ninth Air Force Public Re lations Office sends the Bulletin a picture of Richard McClure and the following story: “A Ninth Air Force Fighter Bomber Base, Germany. Technical Sergeant Richard M. McClure, a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber propeller specialist of Tryon, North Carolina, checks the propeller lu brication on this Thunderbolt at his base in Germany. S&t. McClure is a member of the 365th “Hell Hawk” fighter-bomber group which was the first Ninth Air Force unit to operate off German soil. The Tryon soldier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garrison McClure, graduated from Tryon high school in 1941 and was a student at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, in Tryon, until he en tered the' army in October, 1942. Lieut. Maude C. Jackson, for mer Polk County nurse, is now with the Army Nurse corps in Ger many and she has written the fol lowing letter to Mrs. R. E. Jol ley, mother of Sgt. Jack Jolley: “Today I had the surprise of my life when a tall handsome young fellow came to my ward and asked if I remembered him. He told me he was Jack Jolley. We had a long chat about Polk County and North Carolina. Jack has been wounded, but is well now, and is getting along _Continued on Back Page
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