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COLUMBUS, N c 28722
2nd Class Postage Paid At
Tryon, North Carolina, 28782
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
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
(USPS 643-360) *
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 17 TRYON, N.C. 28782 FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1980 Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Wednesday: high 50,
low 35. Thursday was like a
spring day.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96,
daughter of Theodore Roosevelt,
died Wednesday. Her father
became president in 1901 when
she was 17 years old.
Damage climbs to $350 million
as new floods hit Arizona.
California Governor Edmund
G. Brown, Jr., whose home in
Laurel Canyon was flooded
Tuesday declared a state of
emergency and added four
counties to the two where
property owners already were
eligible for low interest disaster
loans.
The Tryon High girls basket-
ball team play Hiwassee Dam
tonight at Tuscola.
Duke Endowment announces
that it has made annual operating
grants to 229 hospitals and
children’s home in N. C. and S. C.
St. Luke’s Hospital received
$2,171.
General Tire & Rubbe.r Co. will
close its Arrowood Industrial
Park plant in Charlotte for one
week, laying off more than 700
employees. The cutback is
blamed on slumping new car
sales and less driving by fuel-
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Opinions Needed
The Polk Soil and Water
Conservation District is present
ly revising its Long Range
Program and Work Plan.
Suggestions are invited from all
individuals interested in the
conservation and wise use of our
natural resources. If unable to
visit the office in person, citizens
are asked to deliver comments by
mail to P. 0. Box 236, Columbus
or by telephone 894-8550.
Fires
The Tryon Volunteer Fire
Department was called to a fire
Wednesday night and one early
Thursday morning.
Wednesday night they were
called to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Allan Pruette (former
Welborn home) where a pan of oil
on the stove caught fire and in
turn set the cabinets on fire. Mr.
Pruette used a fire extinguisher
that was located in the kitchen
and had the fire out when the
firemen arrived a few minutes
after the alarm was turned in.
Thursday morning the firemen
were called to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Torreno on Grady
Ave. (the former Hagy house)
where the chimney caught fire.
No damage was done.
Special Services
There will be a special service
Sunday at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. at
Maybry’s Temple in Campobello.
Elder Lewis McDowell will be the
guest speaker. Rev. A. L.
Jackson is the sponsor.
Buy Home
Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Olmstead
of Southfield, Michigan, a suburb
of Detroit, have purchased the
Michael Carswell home on Dug
Hill Rd.
Bob Mueller and Mary Wall of
Dean Butler Realty, Inc. handled
the transaction.
Meets Today
inere will be a luncheon
meeting of the CBA-JJGP Task
Force on Friday (today) at 12:30
at the Meeting Place. Please call
for reservations before 9:30
Friday morning. The number to
call is 859-6500.
The public is invited.
40 Years Ago
Winners of the essay contest on
“Our Town” sponsored by the
Lanier Club were: Elizabeth
Anne Vining, 1st; Joyce Edney
2nd; Margaret Sprague and
Evelyn Taylor-Tanner, honor
able mention....Embury High
School defeated Asheville Ste
phens-Lee 27 to 21 in three
overtime periods. (Embury was
the Negro High School)....R.A.
Leonard has been named acting
postmaster of the Valhalla Post
Office by Congressman Zeb
Weaver...In an archery contest at
Harmon Field, Ben White was
first, C. H. Helms, second and
Isham Henderson, third....The
Balleger-Jackson Co. is having a
sale, advertised men’s suits at
$10 ($2 down and $1 per week).
Girl Scout
Family Reunion
Beginning March 8 and lasting^
through March 15,1980, is Nation
al Girl Scout Week. Pisgah Girl
Scout Council, which serves the
sixteen western-most counties in
North Carolina, is planning a
very special celebration for this
68th year of Girl Scouting.
The celebration will be all day
Saturday, March 15, in the
Asheville Mall. There will be
displays, live demonstrations,
skits and many entertaining and
educating booths to see.
Contributions to the celebration
are coming from all sixteen
counties and will be up for the
entire day.
Another special event during
the day will be a cake cutting at
2:30 p.m. to honor the 68th
birthday of Girl Scouting in the
United States. Cutting the cake
will be the oldest Girl Scout
within Pisgah Council’s jurisdic
tion. Currently, Pisgah is trying
to locate this person.
If you ■ or anyone you know was
a GirrScout when she was a child
or teenager, please contact
Pisgah Council at 252-4442. The
current title holder has been in
since 1917. If you are living in
Pisgah Council, which includes
Buncombe, McDowell, Polk,
Transylvania, Henderson, Madi
son, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery,
Jackson, Haywood, Swain,
Cherokee, Graham, Clay coun
ties and the Cherokee Reserva
tion, please notify the Council if
you feel you may be the oldest
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