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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 TRY! DAILY BULLETIN The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 26—No. 63 TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1953 Weather Tuesday: High 76, low 40, Rel. Hium. 39 . . . James M. Baley Jr., of Marshall is resigning the State Republican chairmanship in order to be federal district attorney. He will be succeeded by Thomas E. Story, Wilkesboro law yer . . . Winston Churchill is be ing called Sir Winston now since he was knighted by Queen Eliza beth. . . . Redbook Magazine head line reads, “Philip Wylie says our century offers more than any other, and proves it” ... In the Spar tanburg Bridge League Tourna ment this week, Mrs. Baxter Haynes and partner were second §; Jules Feder and partner, 1 . . . . Columbus Presbyter are making plans for an adu cational building to join the church on the right of the building. It will be two stories high and 30 by 60 feet. Tentative plans call for $15,000 to $18,000 building with Sunday school rooms, fellowship room and other needed facilities. Within the past two years the Columbus Presbyterians have paid $6,000 for their manse and $1,600 for new pews and other improve ments to the church property . . . Margaret Herbst. public relations office, New York, reports that Francis W. Howe’s Clarendon Gardens at Pinehurst are open to the public. It is full of azaleas, camellias, 185 varieties of holly, -Continued on Back Page_ Driver Headed For Tryon Leaps To His Death Today’s Asheville Citizen re ports that Leon Russell Schooler, 26, of Zionsville, Ind., driving a truck load of hay to Tryon for the W. E. Kuhn Cotton Patch, was killed in a leap from the brakeless truck Tuesday night near Marshall, N. C. A fellow pasenger, Edward Perkins, also of Zionsville, was uninjured and Highway Patrol man J. E. King investigating the accident said Perkins told him this is what happened: “The big truck, loaded with a cargo of hay from the Folly Farms and destined for Tryon, started to make a sharp turn on twisting U. 3. Highway 25-70 about seven miles north of Marshall. "bchooler pushed the brakes as he started down a hill on the other side of the curve. The brake pedal went to the floor without anv effeft on the truck. “Schooler yelled ‘we’ve got no brakes;’ told Perkins to jumn, and then Schooler “disappeared.” “Perkins grabbed the wheel of the vehicle and steered the brake less truck into a bank on his left side of the highway. The truck re mained upright. “King said investigation showed that a rear wheel of the truck passed over Schooler who had fall en in a ditch after his leart. The officer said Schooler’s skull was crushed. “Madison County Sheriff E. Y. Ponder and Coroner Fred McDe vitt assisted in the investigation. Schooler’s body was taken to thd Bowman Retcor Funeral Home in Marshall* ‘ f “Cdtipner McDevitt has called an inquest-<| 2 p. m. Wednesday in the chapel of Bowman-Rector Funeral Home in Marshall.”
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