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Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 52 — No. 234
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1980
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Weather Monday: high 46, low
25, rain .04. Tuesday was cloudy
and cool, with occasional rain.
The new display of paintings in
the foyer of the Tryon Depot is
comprised of watercolors by Mrs.
Edward W. Russell of Tryon and
works in various media by Miss
Rita E. Landrum of Tryon and
Greenville, S. C. The public is
invited to view this exhibit until
the end of March.
Local families who have hosted
students from abroad recom
mend sharing your home with a
student next year. They say it’s
one of the greatest gifts you can
give yourself and your family. If
interested call Mrs. Bill Miller at
894-3695.
Tuesday the Polk County
Sheriff’s Dept, and the SBI were
rounding up drug suspects and a
number of arrests were made.
Politics are beginning to pick
up now as candidates are able to
file. The deadline for filing is 12
noon February 4th. The Election
Board Office hours are Monday,
Wednesday and Friday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Soviet Union cast its veto
in the Security Council Monday,
killing the resolution that
protested their military interven
tion in Afghanistan. The vote was
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Tree Care Subject
Of Rotary Meeting
The care and treatment of trees
will be the subject of a talk at the
Rotary luncheon meeting at the
Pacolet River Plantation this
Friday.
The speaker, Kenneth A. Knox
of Hendersonville, is a consulting
arborist by profession and is a
member of the National Arborist
Association and the American
Society of Consulting Arborists.
Mr. Knox’s talk will cover
many phases of tree care,
including their planting, the
treatment of trees and other
plantings from disease and the
steps to be taken to recover from
casualty losses.
Not At Bill’s
Bill Plumley reported that the
shooting last Friday night did not
occur in front of his place, but
between Julio’s and Stokes Party
Shop.
PROMOTED
Fred Edwards, Jr. of the
Spartanburg County Sheriff’s
Department has been promoted
to Agent-in-Charge of the
county’s narcotics and vice
squads, Sheriff Larry Smith has
announced.
Edwards, of Campobello, Rt. 1,
has been with the department
seven years and worked as an
uniformed officer and as a
detective before becoming a
vice officer. Previously, the
narcotics and vice divisions had
been separate. — Spartanburg
Herald
Announces For House
Bob Jones
Robert A. Jones of Forest City
has announced as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination to the
North Carolina House of-
Representatives for the 40th
District including Polk,-
Rutherford and Cleveland coun
ties. Mr. Jones has served in this
capacity for ten years prior to
1979. During the 10 years that he
served in the N. C. House he was
chairman of six different
committees including the House
Rules Committee „and 5 joint
House-Senate Committees, in
cluding the Ethics Committee,
Proprty Tax Committee, Sex
Discrimination Study Commit
tee, Auto Tax Study Committee
and Open Meetings Study
Committee. He sponsored many
bills that were enacted into law
including the Ethics Bill, Capitol
Punishment Bill, Open Meetings
Bill and 40 bills intended to help
eliminate sex discrimination in
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Big Crash
A Lay’s Meat Packing Refrig-
geration truck crashed into the
rear of Cowan’s Supermarket
parking lot on N. Trade St., Tryon
early Tuesday morning. The
truck arrived at the rear of
Cowan’s store about 4:30 a.m.
and the two men, Keith R.
Lewellyn, Sr. of Knoxville, Tenn,
and Howard A. Wittenbarger of
Seymour, Tenn, decided to get
some sleep while they were
waiting for the store to open.
They set the brakes and climbed
up into the cab. An hour or so
later they were awakened by a
big crash. The brakes had given
away and the truck backed down
the hill and ramed the lower level
of the parking lot, knocking out
concrete blocks and sending
blocks from the wall on the
parking lot down on the truck.
Gibbs Welding Services was
called to help free the truck
which was pinned under the
parking lot. The back of the truck
was crushed, but the men who
were in the cab were not injured.
James Cowan did not know the
extent of damage at press time
Tuesday.
Dennis Morgan, son of Mrs.
Hazel Morgan of Tryon, fell from
a ladder recently and is a patient
at Catawba Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Morgan is manager of the
Family Dollar Store in Conover.
Mrs. Ruth Turner Semashko of
Horse Shoe has been named to
the State Board of Elections by
Gov. James B. Hunt.