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 OP CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 THU TRIM DAILY BULLETIN The World’s Smallest DAILY Newspaper.Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 25—No. 277 TRYON, N. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1952 Weather Thursday: High 68, low 29, Rel. Hum. 44. . . . The battle in Korea continues to be a see saw affair with first one side and then the other winning points . . . Truman and Eisenhower will con fer Tuesday . . . A. H. Feller, United Nations counselor, jumped to his* death Thursday as result of overwork and strain in dealing with United Nations problems . . . Governor Dewey conferring with General Eisenhower in Augusta today.Funeral for Phillip Murray, Labor Leader, held in Pittsburgh Thursday .... About 2,000 visitors expected in Spartan Jgjjrg today for inauguration of HHpident Francis Pendleton Gaines Governor James F. Byrnes and Dr. Games* father, the presi dent of Washington and Lee, and a number of other college presi dents and distinguished officials. . ... St. Luke’s Hospital clinic ,,ri11 be held Tuesday, November 18th, at 10 a. m., with Dr. George Vosb'urgh Jr., as clinician . . . L. E. Phenner has returned to Chicago after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John R. Kimberly at Eskdale Farm. . . . Philip Walker, manag ing director of A. E. Reed & Co., London, England, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Mahler at Chinquapin Farm, left Friday morning by plane for New ... Continued On Back Paqe SALUDA MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH BY TRACTOR Donald Revis, 41, of Saluda Route 1, was crushed and burned to death by a farm tractor in a logging accident Thursday about 4 p. m., on Piney Mountain, ac cording to Chief of Police Fred Morris of Saluda. Revis was hauling poplar blocks down the mountain with Herbert Pace, 18, and Grady Gosnell, 18, both of Saluda Route No. 1, at the time of the tragedy, Mr. Morris said. It is reported that the tractor struck a stump, reared upwards and then toppled on the three men. Pace and Gosnell leaped to safety but Revis was pinned beneath the wreckage and the gasoline from the tank of the tractor burst into flames, and all efforts to extricate Mr. Revis were impossible. The gasoline exploding also set fire to the tractor and woodlands in the vicinity. Revis’ body was burned beyond recognition before it could be removed, Chief Morris stated. Patrolman J. E. Ramsey of the State Highway Department, in company with Polk County Coroner Oti.s Dalton, viewed the scene of the accident, and Mr. Dalton stated that no inquest is planned. The body was taken to the McFarland Funeral Home in Trvon. Revis was a native and lifelong resident o^ the Saluda section of Polk and Henderson counties, and had engaged in farming, wood work, logging operations and rock masonry. Surviving are the widow, the former Mss AvloP Rhodes: three sons. McRae, Steve and Stanley Continued on Back Page_

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