Published Daily Except [Est. 1-31-28], Saturday and Sunday [5c Per Copy] 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’8 Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 25—No. 247 TRYON, N. C. THURSDAY, OCT. 2ND, 1952 , Weather Wednesday: High 89, low 52, Rel. Hum. 41. . . The Brooklyn Dodgers won the first game of the World Series from the Yankees Wednesday 4-2. The sec ond game will be played today. Much of the nation’s business is suspended during this period . . . Friday night Tryon plays its sec ond night football game under the lights at Harmon Field. The large crowd was something new last week and traffic was held up for some distance by the dine of cars. This has been corrected and Harmon Field officials will permit the cars to. enter the gates and park, and rj^Sfiacets will be collected at a tern ^■Trary prate near the gridiron . . . LESS WATER. Mayor C. D. Stevens reports that there is less water in the town reservoir and that all consumers must cooperate in this emergency. About 98 per cent of the people are cooperating. It will be necessary to cut off the water from those who refuse to cooperate by not washing cars and not watering lawns and flow ers. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. The ban will be lifted just as soon ps the supply is back to normal . . . Through cooperation of Greenville County Road Supervisor John Ashmore, the Hunting Country road from Highway 176 to the North Carolina line has been re _ Continued on Back Page_ A POLK COUNTY HERO The heroic actions of Pfc. Bry ant Womack which were recounted in Wednesday’s Tryon Daily Bulle tin and the naming of a Memorial Bridge in Korea in his honor made us all proud that a Polk County young man should have carried himself so heroically. The late Private Womack was registered from Mill Spring but owing to his nearness to Rutherfordton, fre quently that town got the credit of this young man's fine actions. All of us who are stay-at-homes cannot be grateful enough that the breed of young man in Polk Coun ty is of such heroic stuff. If you by any chance missed this story, look it up on the back page of Wednesday’s Daily Bulletin. It is worth re-reading.—G. F. T. Since the above was written by Dr. Taylor, today’s Asheville Citi zen reports from Washington that Pvt. Womack has been awarded tlje Congressional Medal of Honor. Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., announced the Army’s 54th honor medal—the nation’s highest, for bravery. The medal .will be pre sented to the soldier’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Womack at a later date. Womack was born in Polk County and buried at Leban on Methodist Church in Polk County. Another interesting story of the award and brave deed as seen by another comrade is pub lished in today’s Asheville Citizen. Saluda Folks are proud of their School Lunch Room. The state health inspector was around Mon day and gave a grade (A). This speaks well for the ladies who run it, Mrs. Florence Whitaker, Mrs. Jessie Hipp, and Mrs. Lillian Thompson. The lunch room is well equipped and serves good food.

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