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The World’s Sn $ st daily Newspaper._Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 26—No. 24 g, ~TRYON, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953
Weather Wednesday: High 74,
low 36, rain .78, Rel. Hum. 58 ... .
Jim Jeffries, the last of the line
of the oldtime heavyweight boxing
kings, dies peacefully at his home
in Burbank, Calif. . . . Southern
Conference Basketball Tournament
starts today in Raleigh . . . Tht
Saluda boys’ basketball team,
which is representing Polk Coun
ty in the Western District Class
“A” basketbal tlournament, will
play Etowah of Henderson County
today at 4 p. m., at Canton. . . .
Today’s Bulletin has an advertise
ment announcing the opening of
Littlefield’s Westinghouse Appli
ances and Television on Friday,
March 6th, at 9 a. m., in Landrum.
Mrs. C. M. Littlefield Jr., is the
manager .... Plans ^re under
way for the Spring Hunter Trials
which will be held on Saturday,
March 14th, at Fancy Hill in the
Hunting Country. S. Prentice
Porter, former Master at Mill
Creek Hounds, Milburn, 111., and
The Cobbler, Marshall, Va., will
be the judge. Entries should be
sent to Arthur Farwell . . . The
Peach Blossom-Betsy Rawls Invi
tational Open Golf Tournament
will be held in Spartanburg March
20-22. Some of the top women
golfers expected to attend are
Babe Zaharias, Betsy Rawls, Patty
Berg, Betty MacKinnon, and Alice
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AT ROTARY FRIDAY
The Rev. Henry O. Hearn, pas
tor of the Tryon First Baptist
Church, will be in charge of the
Rotary program Friday. Mr. Hearn
will have as his guests, his nephews,
Wayne Philpott and Billy Ray
Hearn of Baylor University, Waco,
Texas.
V
School Board Nominations
The Tryon Township Democratic
Executive Committee has sent the
following names to Representative
R. E. Brantley to be nominated as
members of the Tryon School
Board: Woodrow L. Hague, Dr.
John Z. Preston, Edward Lank
ford, Cary L. Page, Nelson Jack
son II.
Special Singing Sunday
The Rev. Furman Jackson has
announced that there will be a
special singing Sunday at 7:30
p. m., at the Peniel Baptist
Church. The public is invited.
COLUMBUS NEWS
By Mrs. Edward H. Staggs.
The membership campaign of
the Presbyterian Sunday school
ended last Sunday with the red
division the loser. Each member
had a part in the increase in at
tendance from 47 to 105.
Thursday night O. C. Feagan
was honored at his home at a
birthday party with about 25 at
tending including brothers, sisters
and children. Cake, lime punch
was served. Games were played
under the supervision of Mrs. J.
P. Christopher.
Mrs. O. C.* Feagan honored her
daughter, Judy, at a birthday par
ty Saturday afternoon on her 6th
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