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THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Member: North Carolina Press Assn.
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin is published
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Bex 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 52 — No. 238
TRYON, N. C. 28782
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1980
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Weather Friday: high 45, low
42, rain .06; Saturday: high 50,
low 40, rain .73; Sunday: high 44,
low 32, rain at 6 a.m. Monday was
1.53 inches.
Politics makes strange bedfel
lows. U. S. and China draw closer
together as a defense against
Russia.
Most of us think that law
enforcement officers have a soft
job, that is until someone starts
shooting at them. A law
enforcement officer never knows
when he will be faced with that
prospect. Sunday afternoon two
deputies', Allen Rickman and
Steve Reid answered a routine
call, which turned into a brief gun
battle in which a fugitive from
Florida was killed.
Paul Leistner, Inc., a German
firm will build in Spartanburg
Industrial Park. The firm is the
world’s leading manufacturer of
tenter pin plates and other types
of pin carriers for the textile
industry.
The Soviet Union Sunday
night killed America’s request
for economic sanctions against
Iran.
Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. is
the Lamb or Chicken Dinner at
St. Luke’s CME Church.
It looked bad Saturday when
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Fugitive Killed
In Shootout
With Officers
Eugene Huffman, 29, of St.
Petersburg, Fla. was killed in a
gun battle with two Polk County
Deputies Sunday afternoon in the
Green Creek Section of Polk
County.
The Sheriff’s Department had
received a call concerning
someone camping in the woods
about a mile from the Head Clinic
off the Chesnee Highway and the
report stated that a car had been
seen coming in and out from the
location. Chief Deputy Allen
Rickman and Deputy Steve Reid
responded to the call about 2 p.m.
Sunday.
Sheriff Boyce Carswell said
that the two deputies found
Huffman and a woman, Mrs.
Helga Wendt Schmeltau, 43, of
812 Rutledge Street, Spartan
burg in the area near a parked
car. Also found was a make-shift
shelter of canvas and roofing tin.
The deputies, using Huffman’s
driver’s license, radioed his
name to dispatchers.
When Huffman heard the police
dispatcher report that he was
wanted, Sheriff Carswell report
ed that Huffman went wild and
pulled a .22 caliber pistol. The
deputies begged the man to put
down his gun but he refused. At
this point Huffman reportedly
opened fire and the deputies
returned it. He was hit several
times and was dead on arrival at
St. Luke’s Hospital at about 2:30
p.m. The deputies were not
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Long Fall
Dr. Donald R. Gilbert of Tryon
had a close call Friday about 7:30
p.m. when he fell down a bank
about 50 feet near his home just
west of Lake Lanier dam.
Although he had a close call, Dr.
Gilbert wasn’t injured.
Couples Bridge
At Red Fox
Couples Bridge for Red Fox
members will be Wednesday at
Red Fox with dinner and bridge
beginning at 6 p.m.
Grant News
A grant totalling #7,500 to Town
of Tryon has been recommended
by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr.
for the development of Woodland
Park.
This recommended grant is
from the North Carolina alloca
tion of Federal Heritage Conser
vation and Recreation Service
funds for 1980. Federal approval
of the grant is expected within
two months. The grant will be
matched by local funds.
This project consists of
walking, jogging and fitness
trails, benches, bridges and
areas for studying local flora and
fauna.
UDC MEETS FRIDAY
The Campobello Chapter of the
United Daughters of Confederacy
will meet at 3 p.m. on Friday,
Jan. 18th at the home of Mrs. R.
E. Mabry, Forest Ave., Park
Hills, Landrum.
To Model At
Fashion Show
By early this week, only a few
tables for the Thrift Shop’s
benefit fashion show at the
Hearthstone Inn Thursday re
mained unreserved.
Admission for the benefit
fashion show is the tax deductible
donation of pots, pans, home
appliances, dishes and other
houseware or jewelry. Luncheon
seatings at the Hearthstone are
11:45 and 1:15.
The following Tryon area
ladies will model fashions from
the Thrift Shop’s inventory:
Sybil Sutton, Marie Littlejohn,
Julia and Semantha Wheeler,
Betty Frost, Ruth Tucker, Bern
Perrottet, Phyllis Prout, Kay
Peck, Sally Kolb, Jeanne
Hoffman, Dorothy Wyckoff, Marj
Weiss, Jean Masologetes, Mary
Ann Claud, Sidney Blaine, Eula
Bryan, Dinah McGowan, Pat
Martin, Lee Mueller, Ann Brady,
Emmey Mackay, Shine Craig,
Betsy Milsteen and Margie
Horne.
Pat Patterson and Rita
Drummond will be at the door to
collect the donated household
goods and issue tickets for the
door prize. Gay Young will
provide the music. Nan Parsons
and Margaret Swann are
co-chairmen.
Contributed houseware and
jewelry later will be sold at the
Thrift Shop for the benefit of
special projects at St. Luke’s
Hospital.