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THU TRTOJI DAILY BlILLEH
The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper.Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 26—No. 125 TRYON, N. C. FRIDAY. JULY 24TH, 1953
CURB REPORTER
Weather Thursday: high 91,
low 71. Rel. Hum. 51 . . . Willis
Johnson is the new chief of police
for Saluda and Cawthray Metcalf
is the night policeman. They were
elected at a recent meeting of the
Saluda council and Mayor John T.
Coates . . . Friday’s Spartanburg
Herald has a picture of a group
of visiting doctors and seminar
leaders taken at recess time in
Saluda. State Editor Jim Oliphant
of the Herald has a half column
story giving a resume of the ac
tivities of the seminar which is be
ing attended by leading pediatri
cians from many sections of the
nation .... All highway patrol
mien in this area were busy Thurs
day looking for a man« who had
escaped from a mental institution
in Kaieigh. I he man was armed
and driving a stolen automobile.
He threatened to Jcill his parents.
He was finally caught near Bostic
in Rutherford County and put in
jail for safe keeping . . . Duplicate
Bridge Tournament tonight at Oak
Hall hotel at 7:45. Public in
vited .... Ground was broken
in Spartanburg- Thursday for the
General Baking Company’s new
plant to cost over a million and
half dollars .. Doctors at Saluda
say many polio patients can be
treated at home, according: to Dr.
Randolph Batson of Vanderbilt
University .... A tragedy for
little Billv Frankenfield happened
this morning. His parakeet flew
away. He hopes anyone seeing it
will call Mrs. Michael at 241. She
will keep it for him until he and
his mother and sister. Carol, re
turn from Bunn Level, N. C., \yfcere
they will stav fo- two wee^s gjhile
T ieut. Frankenfield is attending
the Reserve Officers School at
Fort Bragg.
Chas. West National Veep
Charles C. West of Tryon was
elected to the board of directors
and vice president of the Outdoor
Writers Association of America on
Wednesday at Missoula, Montana,
where he and Mrs. West and their
daughter, Mary Kathleen, are at
tending the convention and making
a tour of the west. They report
a wonderful time. Mrs. David
Wenstrand and daughter, Sally,
met them in Milwaukee and will
be with them on the return trip
home. Miss West bid in a Thomp
son fishing boat at the bingo auc
tion.
MISSING IN ACTION
Mrs. Ethel Robbins of Landrum
R-l has received news from the
War Department that her son,
Pvt. Albert R. Robbins has been
reported missing' in action in
Korea.
UNSUNG HEROINES
There’s always some one behind
the scenes who make things “go”
for the people out front, and the
Girl Scout camp is no exception
to that rule. Who is it that leaves
her breakfast dishes in the sink
as she dashes off at 8:15 to collect
up a car load of eager Brownies
or Scouts who are waiting for
her at Ballenger’s Store.? And
it’s the same faithful women who
drop everything in the middle of
the afternoon and are ready for
the same eager, if somewhat tired
girls at th Lake Lanier Camp
at 4 o’clock and see that they are
returned to Tryon or Lynn. For
five days a week for two consecu
tive weeks, the Transportation
Committee has carried on without
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