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I Est. 1-31-28 Published Daily Except Saturday and Sunday Vol. 18—No. 215 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. 5c Per Copy TRYON, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1946 Weather Friday: High 62, low 33; Saturday high 57, low 36, rain .02; Sunday high 60, low 52, rain 3.08 inches.The Charlotte Observer reports that Cpl. John Lewis Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hinton H. Thompson, has arrived in the States from Europe on the Queen Mary . .. . The Tryon Hounds are scheduled to meet Tuesday at 10:30 at Many Levels . . . Thanks t^am Bingham, Jr., of Nash Tenn., for an editorial from i^ation News which urges the painting of airplane markers in all the cities of the United States as a vital need to private avia tion. The editorial says there are only 202 air markers in the entire country. “Thanks to 'the Civil Air Patrol, North Caro lina, is the best marked state with 111 official markers. One of them is in Tryon and was paid for by the Tryon Chamber of Commerce under the direction of the CAP. The marker is on top of Missildine’s Pharmacy and has an arrow pointing to the Spindale Airport as the nearest available airport. Hendersonville is also near, but a crippled or lost plane would _Continued on Back Page FOUR PERSONS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT HERE One of the worst automobile accidents in the history of this section occurred late Friday night when two cars collided and killed four people. Spartanburg Herald Journal sent a special reporter and staff photographer to the scene. Pictures of the victims and of the wrecked cars were published in Sunday’s Herald and that paper’s report of the accident is given below in part: ‘An inquest in the death of 4 persons as a result of a head on collision of 2 automobiles Fri day night was postponed from 11 Saturday morning to Wednesday afternoon at 5 because the only witness was too seriously injured to testify, Polk County Sheriff W. D. Hines, said Saturday. The dead, all of Landrum, are Rafel Metcalf, Joe Elledge, Paul Bolt and A. L. Huggins, Jr. Seriously injured were Bobby Burroughs, Mjrs. Nell Stewart, Durham Gosneil and Pvt. William G. Gosneil. Dan Walker suffered minor, but painful injuries. Metcalf and Elledge died in stantly. Bolt died in St. Luke’s Hospital, Tryon, several hours after the accident and . Huggins died in the hospital at 10 Saturday morning. The condition of Burroughs, al so of Landrum, was reported by St. Luke’s Hospital authorities as “fair”. He is suffering from a severe head injury and a frac tured arm. Durham Gosneil, of 'Tryon, who has an injured back and facial Continued on Page Two
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