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ENTERED AS SECOND CLA'L AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
_AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER ^ OF CONGREgS, MARCH 3, 1879_
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The World.'8 Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor
(Vol. 23—No. 192) TRYON, N. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1950
Weather Tuesday: High 88, low
54. This summer weather doesn’t
feel like Halloween . . . Police
Chief Walter Roach reports a
large crowd and a wonderful spirit
by everyone at the Halloween en
tertainment on Trade Street Tues
day night between Missildine’s and
Supreme Service Station. Music,
dancing, stunts and pep talks
featured the event .... Bucking
ham Inn entertained a large num
ber of guests from the commu
nity Tuesday night to celebrate
the preview opening of the inn
to the public. Visitors were shown
throughout the inn to see the
effect of the remodeling and deco
rating. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Buckingham and Mrs. Bucking
ham’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C.' Plumb were gracious hosts.
Apple cider and doughnuts were
served in the dining room. Mrs.
Caroline Hale and Miss Gertrude
McKeown, who had charge of the
interior decorating were also pres
ent to assist in showing guests
over the inn . The new private
apartment built and furnished for
the Buckinghams came in for a
— lot of praise as well as the entire
reconstruction. Among the guests
present to welcome the newcomers
were the operators *of the other
hotels and inns in Trycrn manifest
ing that hospitable and cooperative
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Fred Eargle Writes About
Korean War and Pacific
At Sea—Oct.. 35, 1950.
Dear Mr. Vining:
Now that hostilities are about
over the Valley Forge’s crew is
seriously thinking of returning to
the good old United States. It
has been a long time since we left
San Diego the first of May, and a
lot has happened.
When we left, this cruise was
designed primarily as a pleasure
cruise—little did we realize that it
was going to turn into a whole
sale war. The majority of us had
never been west of Pearl Harbor,
and so we were looking forward
with much pleasure to our sched
uled stops at Guam, Manila, Hong
Kong and the many other strange
places.
Our-first stop after Pearl Har
bor was Guam. There I saw Grov
er Whitmire, yoeman 3rd, with
whom I graduated from High
School. Many of you remember
him. We hadn’t seen each other
in about a year. So we had many
memories to re-hash together. He
gave me a personally conducted
tour over most of the island and
I saw many evidences of the war:
Pillboxes, wrecked tanks and
planes, etc. The next day he
came, aboard the Valley Forge and
I returned his favor.
After Guam came Manila and
Subic Bay in the Philippines.
There were many evidences of
World War II there. We saw many
ships that were sunk in the bay
and many buildings still showed
evidences of the ravages of war.
We hated to leave Manila be
cause we were scheduled for
operations which would not take
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