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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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The Bulletin is published
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 52 — No. 239
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12 Pages Today
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1980
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No official weather report for
Monday, but it was like spring
with plenty of warm sunshine.
Tuesday was more of the same.
This is the kind of weather that
made this area famous over the
years.
Iran has ordered the expulsion
of all American reporters
because of what it called “biased
reporting.”
In one of the most lopsided
votes in U. N. History, the U. N.
General Assembly adopted a
resolution Monday night protes
ting the Soviet Union’s bloody
intervention in Afghanistan.
Fighting has slowed down in
Afghanistan as Russian troops
seem to be gaining control of
most of the country.
Women, who have begun to
catch up with men in smoking,
are catching up too, in the
incidence of associated diseases
and in three years will die more
often from lung cancer than from
breast cancer the U. S. Surgeon
General reported Monday.
Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. is
the Lamb or Chicken Dinner at
St. Luke’s CME Church.
The Polk County Commission
ers will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at
the Stony Knoll Community
Center.
New Year’s Baby
The first baby born in St.
Luke’s Hospital this year was
Devon Elaine, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Barry Flood of Lynn.
She arrived on January 12th.
Devon has a sister, Patricia, age
10.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
John Hartley of Norwood, N. C.;
Richard Flood of Malvern, Pa.
and Mrs. Elaine Haines of West
Chester, Pa. The great-grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Blake of Michigan; Mrs. Marion
Flood, Drexel Hill, Pa. and Jack
Schappet, Pompano Beach, Fla.
Town News
The Tryon Town Council met
Monday night at the Town Hall.
The Board adopted a resolution to
honor the Tryon Rotary Club and
Rotary International on Rotary’s
75th anniversary.
The Board approved a resolu
tion prepared for the Town
Auditor to release some out
standing water charges that had
been on the books for a number of
years.
The Town Attorney set Mon
day, Jan. 21st at 7:30 p.m. in the
T6wn Hall for a workshop session
to continue revision of the town
ordinances.
Residents of the Dogwood Trail
area requested the present status
of annexation. Bob Henderson
was the spokesman. The Council
advised them that the only
question the Town had was the
road itself. A meeting was set
with the Division Engineer of the
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Two Tryon Seniors
To Get Scholarships
The Tryon Board of Education
met Monday evening 14 January,
1980 with all members present.
The State Superintendent of
Public Instruction approved the
recommendation of the planning
and building committee for the
auditorium roof, and the Board
accepted the agreement with
Brady and Brannon to do the
work.
In new business, an Energy
Management Policy was adopted
as part of the school policy; there
may be difficulties with the old
elementary building and with
using the high school with
residual heat for night activities.
The John G. Landrum ,Jr.
Educational committee of the
Polk County Foundation Educa
tional Awards program will
award 2 seniors in English,
History, or Mathematics with a
scholarship of $500 each. The
Board accepted Mrs. Fran
Carruth’s resignation and ap
proved Mrs. Alice Edwards as
substitute teacher.
Mrs. Lydia Clontz, represent
ing herself and the PTA,
complimentea Bob Gregg on the
excellent work he is doing around
the schools in cleaning them up
and keeping them clean, and his
suggestion not to bring food and
drinks into the gym. (This has
been tried to be enforced in the
past.)
Clontz also brought up the
Policy on drugs. Superintendent
Dusenbury admitted there is a
drug problem — the schools and
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AFS Students
At Rotary Lunch
The six visiting American Field
Service students in Polk County
will be guest speakers at the
Tryon Rotary Club luncheon
meeting this Friday. Accom
panying them will be Mrs. Jean
Pettigrew and Mrs. Carolyn
Stoddard, co-presidents of the
AFS Polk County chapter.
The six students, three at Polk
Central High School and three at
Tryon High School, arrived here
in the early fall from six different
countries and have won the
hearts of their host families and
their American schoolmates.
They have been active in
extra-curricular activities, have
been easily assimilated in high
school life and are becoming
fluent in American English, with
a southern accent.
The six students are: at Polk
Central, Linda Nutting from
England; Geir Olsen from
Norway; and Francesca Zavolta
from Italy; and at Tryon, Jean
Mark Chapuis from France;
Yoshie Osedo from Japan; and
Doris Senn from Switzerland.
The Pacolet Hills - Hickory
Grove Community Club will meet
Tuesday, at 7 p.m. at the
community building. The Polk
County Unit of the American
Cancer Society will present an
educational program on Cancer
and the need for early diagnosis
and treatment. Dr. Thomas
Bolling will address the club and
answer questions.