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THE TRM DAILY BIMETIY
The World’s Smallest DAILY Newspaper. Seth M. Vininp. Editor
Vol. 25—No. 251 TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 8 1952
Weather Tuesday: High 73, low
53, Rel. Hum. 60 . . . The Yankees
defeated Brooklyn Tuesday 4-2 to
retain the world’s championship.
. . . . The theft of Polk County
primary ballots is being investigat
ed this morning at the Court House
in Columbus by ^he State Board
of Elections . . . Dr. Rembert
Burgess, president of Spartanburg
Junior College was elected Gover
nor of the- Carolinas Kiwanis Dis
trict Tuesday at the convention in
Charlotte and S. J. Westmoreland
of Marion was elected lieutenant
governor of this division . . . All
people interested in helping young
jaraDle do better things will enjoy
^iSpoultry show and auction sale
iSnirsday at Harmon Field be
ginning at 2:30 with avpig show.
These projects are put on by the
4-H Club. Anyone interested in
buying good laying pullets can
get the best and at the same time
help a fund to purchase more
chicks for some other 4-H Club boy
or girl .... Gen. Robert L. Eich
elberger, who is to speak at the
Eisenhower Rally at Mill Spring
Saturday night, is the husband
of Emma Gudger of North Caro
lina, and is a very distinguished
officer, having won many honors of
merit including the distinguished
service cross and medal with many
oak leaf clusters. He served in the
New Guinea and New Britain
campaigns.
40 YEARS IN POLK
Miss Mae Irene Flentye who
leaves Tryon next week for her
new home in Illinois, will speak on
“40 Years in Polk County” at the
Rotary Club Friday at 1 p. m.,
at Oak Hall. Jim Jackson has
charge of the program.
Mr. Jackson says from what he
has heard Miss Flentye has prob
ably done more different things to
help build Polk County than any
other woman. Two years ago she
was named the “Man of the Year”
by both Kiwanis and Rotary clubs
and was presented a certificate for
distinguished service to the coun
ty at a joint meeting of the two
clubs given in her honor.
Reading in The Polk County
News of about 30 years ago an
article stated that Miss Flentye
with several other ladies was in
strumental in bringing to Polk
County its first Farm Home Dem
onstration Agent, Miss Sara Maude
Padgett. She remained a constant
friend and advisor to all succeed
ing home agents and worked with
them to improve rural life in every
way all over the county. As a
member of the County Board of
Education, and later of the Tryon
School Board she worked for better
.school equipment and better teach
ers. Her pet project for many
years was the development of the
Sunny View school for the mdtfn-v
tain children of Cooper’s Gat).
Miss Flentye was a member of
the original Garden Club that
bought Pearson’s Falls and under
took the job of paying for it to
preserve it for posterity. She
sought the aid of influential people
to make it a success.
She was a member of the Public
Welfare Board that gave aid to
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