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_AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
fllE fMW DAILY BULLETIN
'The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper.
Vol. 25
Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 25—No. 106 TRYON, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 26TH, 1952
Weather Wednesday: High 100,
low 70, Rel. Hum. 51. One of those
rare days in Tryon when the
thermometer goes to 100 and fails
to drop below 70. Everybody ad
mits it’s hot. Hot everywhere in
this section. Ordinarily Tryon be
ing so close to the mountains it
enjoys the cool mountain air that
flows downward at night, but the
air at the Hendersonville airport,
1000 feet higher than Tryon was
98. In the cities to the south of
us in South Carolina temperatures
ran from 100 to 106. And from
Chicago, Detroit and other Great
Jjjjikes cities all the way to Texas
M low in most places was 75.
rZ. So you see we were better off
than most places, 5 to 8 degrees
cooler .... Today is dupuicate
bridge night at Oak Hall at 7:45;
the big Eisenhower Rally with
State Republican leaders in at
tendance at Pierce-Wilson Motor
Go., from 6 to 6 p. m., and steak
dinner at Oak Hall at 6:30 . . . The
Rloodmobile collected 174 pints at
Greenville, S. C„ Wednesday . . .
Someone asked about the Resus
ciator Fund the other day. Yes,
the resuscitator has been bought
and is in charge of the Tryon
Volunteer Department, who spon
sored its purchase. This is the
season for drownings and should
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2nd Lt. Wm. T. Capers III
Finds It Hot In Africa
In a letter to his parents, Rev.
and Mrs. Wm. T. Capers Jr., Sec
ond Lieut. Wm. T. Capers III,
of the TJ. S. Air Force, writes
ifom Nidi, bilmane, North Africa
about a trip to Dakar by air.
“It took us nine hours to grot,
down there and we flew over the
most God-forsaken country I have
ever seen . . . Even up at 5,000
feet the temperature was 86 de
grees. We got to Dakar at 3:30
in the afternoon and were greeted
by wtiht was left of the first crew
we sent down. Over half their
men were in the hosnital from
heat exhaustion or food poisoning.
They had been living on cots at
Atar for seven days with nothing
but rations to eat. I have never
been to hell but Atar is as close
as you can come this side of it.
Th^ conntrv looks like the bottom
of the Grand Canyon. Great weird
colored buttes rising straight
from the desert floor for as far as
the eve can, see. Now I know
whv thev couldn’t get to the snr
vivors bv the ground route. It’s
a miracle thev could find a level
u’ace to land. The highest cur
thermometer would register was
(130). The whole landscane was
a mess of heat waves. To top
this, there is a steadv wind that
is hotter than the still air. It’s the
first place I have ever been that
■"'as cooler out of the breeze than
i11 it. The Foreign Legion sends
ifs soldiers o’T there for a two
v°ar tour. Tt’s bevond me how
°nv h”man being could exist fhat
loner in such a place . . . Thev
a-ot evervbodv out except, the co
uilot H" was enemic and never
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