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Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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16 Pages Today
Vol. 52 — No. 245
No official weather report for
Tuesday, but it was a rainy day.
Wednesday brought lots of
sunshine.
Congress, back in session for
the first time since the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan, talked
Tuesday of national defense,
including bringing back the
military draft.
The Soviet Union arrested
dissident physicist and human
rights champion Andrei
Sakharov Tuesday, stripped him
of state and government awards,
and flew him out of Moscow.
College enrollment will shrink 5
to 15 percent during the next two
decades, producing a “Golden
Age” for students as colleges
scramble to attract them and
tailor courses to their tastes, the
Carnegie Council on Policy
Studies in Higher Education
predicted Tuesday.
Bill Cobey has resigned his
position as Athletic Director at
The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill effective April 30th
and is seeking the candidacy for
Lt. Governor of North Carolina
subject to the Republican
Primary.
Tonight at 8 o’clock is the
Tryon Kiwanis Trvelogue, “Can
ada’s Many Faces” at the Fine
Continued On Back Page
TRYON, N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1980
Price 10c Per Copy
Hunt Names
Burrell Campaign
Chairman
Governor Jim Hunt today
announced the appointment of
Tryon business and civic leader
Harold Burrell as Polk County
chairman of his re-election
campaign.
“I am very pleased that Harold
Burrell is going to help me in
Polk County,” Hunt said. “His
leadership ability will give a real
boost to our effort to help North
Carolina meet the challenges of
the 1980s.”
Burrell is vice president of
Burrell’s Fuels Inc. and a
member of Tryon First Baptist
Church. He is a member of the
Tryon Kiwanis Club and is a
former winner of the Jaycees’
Distinguished Service Award. In
1976 he was selected as a member
of the Rotary International
Group Study Exchange Team to
Australia.
He is a former president of the
Polk County Young Democrats
Club, and he supported Hunt in
his successful campaigns for
lieutenant governor and gover
nor.
“Jim Hunt said he wouldn’t
forget our county, and he hasn’t,”
Burrell said. “He has kept his
promises to Polk County and the
people of North Carolina. There
is just no comparison between
him and any other candidate on
the horizon.”
For School Board
James W. Cowan
James W. Cowan filed Monday
for the Tryon City School Board.
Mr. Cowan is presently serving
his fourth year on the school
board. A life time resident of
Tryon, Mr. Cowan is a graduate
of Tryon High School. He served
two years in the U. S. Army. He
has been associated with Cowan’s
Hardware and Cowan’s Super
market for the past 24 years. He
is past president of the Tyron
Lions Club and served two years
as Chief of the Tryon Volunteer
Fire Department and was named
“Fireman of the Year for 1965.”
He is a member of the Tryon
United Methodist Church where
he has served on the Official
Board, Finance Committee,
Trustees and Supt. of the Adult
Sunday School.
He is married to the former
Patrician Anne Caston and they
have two grown children and one
grandchild.
Sunday Afternoon
Is March Of Dimes
Mothers March
The 1980 March of Dimes
Mothers March will be conducted
Sunday afternoon by the Polk
County Jaycettes. Having ac
complished its goal of producing
a vaccine against crippling polio,
The National Foundation has
redirected its efforts to find ways
to orevent birth defects and
improve the outcome of preg
nancy.
Landrum Firemen
Elect Officers
The Landrum Volunteer Fire
men have elected Joe Williams as
chief. Other officers elected are
Fred Williams 1st Assistant
Chief; Robert Blanton, 2nd
Assistant Chief; Bobby Justice,
3rd Assistant Chief; Bob Ham
rick, Secretary-Treasurer.
Special Singing
Sunday
The Huskey Trio of Lyman, S.
C. will have special singing at
Morgan Chapel Baptist Church in
the Hunting Country on Sunday at
the 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. worship
services. The public is invited.
Rev. Ralph Hipp is the pastor.
If we put all the people on earth
together and weighed them and
did the same with all the insects,
the insects would weigh 12 times
more than the humans, reports
the National Wildlife Federation.