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THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin is published
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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12 Pages Today
Vol. 52 — No. 236
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1980
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Tuesday: high 46, low
37, rain .04; Wednesday: high 57,
low 39, rain .01; rain at 6 a.m.
Thursday was .05.
A Pacific storm pelted the
Northwest with freezing rain and
snow Wednesday, closing schools
and highways in Washington and
Oregon, and virtually paralyzing
the Portland area where more
than 100,000 homes were without
electricity.
President Carter suspended on
Wednesday all licenses to export
high technology items to the
Soviet Union and froze all further
shipments, continuing his step
ped-up protest of the Soviet
intervention of Afghanistan.
A major newsprint maker has
announced a price increase
which will have leave prices for
the paper used in newspaper 25
percent higher than they were at
the beginning of last year.
Entry forms for the North
Carolina Artists Exhibition,
sponsored jointly by the North
Carolina Museum of Art and the
North Carolina Art Society are
available at the Asheville Art
Museum in the Civic Center.
Al Kaline and Duke Snider
were voted into the Hall of Fame
by the Baseball Writers
Association of America
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Dock B. Wilson
For Commissioner
Dock B. Wilson of Mill Spring
has announced as a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to
the Republican primary.
Mr. Wilson has been active in
political and civic affairs for
many years. He served as mail
carrier and as constable for
White Oak Township for 12 years.
He also served as magistrate in
White Oak Township. He is
presently serving as a Water and
Soil Supervisor for Polk County.
Mr. Wilson was raised on a
farm in Cooper Gap Township.
He is married to the former
Gertrude Phillips of Mill Spring.
They have five daughters and 3
sons.
Arrested
Sheriff Boyce Carswell report
ed Thursday morning that Steve
Flynn, 19, of Tryon was arrested
in Burke County Wednesday on 6
drug related charges. His 1971
Pinto was confiscated. Bond was
set at $30,000.
Jim Clement of Rt. 3, Landrum
returns today from a week in San
Antonio, Texas where he has
been going to school pertaining to
his job relating to computer
programming.
Tryon School Bd.
Meets Monday
The Tryon School Board will
meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Tryon High School.
Files For House
Mrs. Edith Lutz
Mrs. Edith Lutz of Lawndale
has filed for re-election to the N.
C. House of Representatives
subject to the Democratic
Primary. Mrs. Lutz said that she
had tried to work for everything
that would benefit the three
counties that she served and that
she had tried to be a good public
servant.
Mrs. Lutz said that she would
like to continue to serve the
people of the 40th District. She
stated that she had communicat
ed with her constituents as
much as possible and had tried to
vote their wishes.
A life-long Democrat, Mrs.
Lutz, her husband and son, are in
the apple business. A Methodist,
she is serving on the Board of
Directors of the Cleveland
County Mental Health, on the
Board of Vocational Workshop in
Rutherford County and is a
member of the Board of
Directors of the Cleveland
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For State Senate
Sen. Joe H. Palmer
State Senator Joe H. Palmer, a
farmer from Clyde, has announc
ed that he will seek re-election for
a fourth term. Palmer has served
the 27th Senatorial District since
1975. The district is made up of
the ten western most counties in
North Carolina...Clay, Cherokee,
Graham, Haywood, Henderson,
Jackson, Macon, Polk, Swain and
Transylvania.
During the last session of the
legislature Palmer served as
chairman of Veterans and
Military Affairs, Vice-chairman
of Agriculture, and as a member
of Transportation, Appropriation,
Ways and Means, Wildlife and
Public Utilities and Energy
committees.
Palmer was appointed to serve
on the Advisory Budget Commis
sion which meets monthly to
review requests for the budget
which will be submitted to the
Legislature in June.
He is presently on a committee
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