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Established January 31, 1928
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
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 53 — No. 15 TRYON, N. C. 28782 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1980
12 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Monday: high 49, low
17. Tuesday was sunny and
warmer.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his
Liberal Party surged back to the
leadership of Canada Monday in
a national election that gave him
a majority government.
Actor Andy Griffith fell from
the roof of his North Hollywood
home Sunday as he was trying to
cover it with plastic during the
rain. Griffith broke a bone in his
lower back and will be in the
hospital about a week.
One storm right after another
hits the West Coast. Mudslides
and high water have caused
millions of dollars in damage in
Southern California.
Parents of students in District
One Schools have been asked to
beware of a contagious rash that
is spreading among students and
to exame their children each day
for signs of a severe “Itching
Condition.” Instructions on what
to do have been sent home by
Alice M. Blackwell, R.N.,
District One School Nurse.
If you are curious about AFS
(American Field Service) and its
exchange programs, you are
invited to attend the Tryon School
PTA meeting Thursday, Feb.
28th. AFS Board members and
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Tryon PTA
Meeting Postponed
The Tryon PTA meeting
scheduled for February 21 has
been postponed for one week until
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00
p.m. in the Tryon Elementary
School Auditorium.
The PTA board of directors
decided to postpone their meeting
so that all parents could attend
the basketball game Tryon is
expected to play this week and
the PTA meeting next Thursday.
Stearns PTA
Meets Thursday
The Stearns School PTA will
meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the
school. Mrs. Feagan’s 5th Grade
will present a program.
Columbus Lions
Meet Thursday
The Columbus Lions Club will
meet Thursday, Feb. 21 at the
Columbus Restaurant. The pro
gram will be presented by Arnold
Grape, Leadership Development
Chairman of Camp Dogwood for
the Blind.
This is a Lion’s sponsored
project.
CHICAGO, ILL. — William
McKay, president of First
Federal Savings and Loan
Association, Hendersonville,
North Carolina has been appoint
ed to the 1980 COMMITTEE ON
ENERGY AND LAND USE of the
United States League of Savings
Associations.
Gymnastic
Championship
Set For March 1
The 1980 South Carolina High
School State Gymnastic Champ
ionship will be March 1, in
Spartanburg. The championships
are hosted by Landrum High
School in the Hodge Center at
USC-S. There will be twelve
teams competiting for state
champion honors.
It will be the first year that all
competitive classes are combin
ed to determine state champions.
Dan Young, the Landrum Coach
said the new scoring rules should
make the meet more team
competitive and exciting.
Meet Schedule: 9:15 a.m.,
Class I & II; 1:45 p.m., Class III;
7:15 p.m., Optionals.
A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Crook
(Hazel Thompson) of Pensacola,
Florida, are parents of a son,
Nicholas Benjamin, on January
11th at the Naval Aerospace and
Regional Medical Center in
Pensacola.
Mr. Crook is a paralegal
specialist at the Naval Air Station
in Pensacola, and Mrs. Crook is a
bookkeeper with General Busi
ness Services.
Grandparents are: Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond L. Crook, Forest
City, N. C. and Richmond
Thompson, Columbus. Great-
grandparents are Mrs. Myra
Crook of Rutherfordton, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Carroll of Spindale
and Mrs. Lillie Kimbrell of
Tryon.
A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hall of
Landrum, S. C. are parents of a
daughter, Karen Denise, born
Feb. 16th at Mary Black Hospital
in Spartanburg. She has a
brother, Tracy, age 6.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Hall of Landrum and Mr.
and Mrs. Bobby Ridings of
Chesnee, S. C. A great-grand
mother is Mrs. Malessie Jones of
Chesnee.
Heart Sunday
Sunday, Feb. 24th is Heart
Sunday and Polk County canvas
sers will make a neighbor to
neighbor call. The canvassers
will have a Dutch treat breakfast
Thursday at 9 a.m. at The Dinner
Bell, Melrose Ave., Tryon, to be
conducted by Franklin C. Basler,
President. Board Chairman, A.
T. Pagter, Jr., M.D., will keynote
the program.
The theme will be posed by
Mrs. Wade Wilmoth of Boone of
the North Carolina Heart
Association. Canvassing kits will
be distributed and any canvass
ers’ questions will be clarified by
Donna Jobe, Western Field
Consultant, N. C. Heart Associa
tion.
Fred M. Schairer is the Polk
County Fund Raising Chairman.
His canvassing organization is
headed by Robert W. Morse,
Tryon City Chairman and
Sheldon A. Raiser, Heart Sunday
chairman. District Captains and
Co-Captains are: Mr. and Mrs.
Orval Bloom, Robert W. Boas,
Mrs. A. S. Canvendish, Joseph G.
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