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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
Vol. 53 — No. 27
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1980
16 Pages Today
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Weather Wednesday: high 58,
low 39, rain .21. Thursday was
sunny and windy.
Sen. Howard Baker of Tennes
see has dropped out of the
Republican presidential primar
ies. Speaking of Republican
primaries, South Carolina is
holding one Saturday. It will give
the Republicans just across the
State line an opportunity to
express their views as to their
party’s nomination.
Jay Silverheels, the faithful
Indian sidekick, Tonto, of the
“Lone Ranger”, died Wednesday
at the age of 62.
The N. C. Supreme Court in a
4-3 decision ruled Wednesday
that the state cannot regulate
charitable solicitations by relig
ious groups, saying the law
violates constitutional safe
guards against state interference
with religion.
Tonight beginning at 6 o’clock,
the Green Creek Ruritan Club is
sponsoring a Poor Man’s Supper
at the Green Creek Community
Building. A variety auction will
be held at 7:30 p.m.
The tryouts for the Tryon Little
Theater production of “A Shot in
the Dark” is at 7:30 tonight at the
Fine Arts Center.
The Church League basketball
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Church League
Basketball Tourney
The Church League Basketball
Tournament will be held tonight
and Saturday at the Tryon
gymnasium.
TONIGHT
6 p.m. - Landrum 1st Baptist vs
Tryon Methodist - Presbyter
ians
7 p.m. — Tryon 1st Baptist vs
Garrison Chapel
8 p.m. — Columbus Baptist vs
Lynn Baptists
9 p.m. — Landrum Methodist vs
Big Level
SATURDAY
11 a.m. — Boy Scouts A vs Green
Creek Scouts
12 noon — Pacolet vs Boy Scouts
B
Rest of schedule determined by
winners of Friday night games.
Bobby Fagan
Is Promoted
MATTHEWS, N. C. — The
Mid-Carolina Telephone Com
pany today announced the
promotion of Bobby J. Fagan
from cable splicer to construction
supervisor. Fagan is a Landrum,
S. C., resident.
Meet Today
CBAJJDP Task Force Juven-
nile Crime Prevention will meet
Friday at 12:30 p.m. at The
Meeting Place. Lunch Reserva
tions must be made by 9:30.
Mrs. Ernst Benkert
Mrs. Helen Limerick Benkert,
79, of 411 Melrose Ave., Tryon
died at her home Thursday
morning.
She was born in Harrisburg, Ill.
and was a daughter of the late
Grant and Grace Leitch Limer
ick. She was the widow of Ernst
A. Benkert who died in 1969. She
had made her home here
since 1961 and was a member of
St. John’s Catholic Church.
Surviving are two sons, Ernst
G. Benkert of New York City and
Kyle G. Benkert of Columbus;
also eight grandchildren.
Mass of Christian Burial will be
held 11:00 Saturday morning in
St. John’s Catholic Church with
Father James J. Noonan offici
ating.
Burial will be in Polk Memorial
Gardens.
Rosary will be cited on Friday
night at 7:00 in McFarland
Funeral Chapel.
Memorials may be made to St.
John’s Catholic Church.
“Keen Agers”
“Keen Agers” at The Meeting
Place work on many projects and
enjoy the varied activities there.
Mrs. Clyde Lancaster picks up
cancelled stamps from churches,
offices and banks and takes them
to the Meeting Place, where they
are trimmed by many hands.
Extension Homemakers inter
national work group send the
stamps and many others,
collected by Homemakers Clubs,
to a Christian organization in
Continued On Back Page
Government
Competes
With Business
Six months ago, the U. S. Small
Business Administration set up a
National Task Group to find out
how serious is government
competition with small business.
This week it announced what it
found: that the federal govern
ment now competes with small,
private businesses to an astound
ing degree. The Group found that
federal agencies have set up their
own businesses in printing,
manufacturing, travel services,
distribution, communications,
wholesaling, retailing and so
many other business activities it
would take all my editorial time
just to list them.
Of course these government-
operated businesses pay no
taxes.
Furthermore, they charge
higher prices; the Task Group
estimates that if the government
purchased the same goods and
services from private business, it
would save 35 percent of the
taxpayers’ money.
We agree with the Group’s
recommendations: that Congress
should require the government to
buy from private enterprise
rather than go into business for
itself.
The tax-paying small business
is part of the backbone of
America; it deserves to be
supported, rather than destroyed
by unfair competition from big
government. — WRAL-TV Edi
torial