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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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Phone 859-9151
Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 53 — No. 30
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12, 1980
12 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Monday: high 71, low
34. Tuesday was more like March
with a strong wind and cooler
temperatures.
The U. N. Commission leaves
Iran without seeing the American
hostages held in the occupied U.
S. Embassy.
Classroom doors closed for
some 25,000 students Monday as
teachers struck four suburban
Detroit school districts.
Hundreds of villagers in the
drought-stricken state of Madhya
Pradesh, India have been forced
to eat grass because there is no
other food.
The Tryon Boosters Club meets
Thursday at 7:30 at the high
school.
The Polk County Democrats
will hold precinct meeting at the
regular polling places Thursday
at 8 p.m.
Women for Constitutional Gov
ernment will meet Thursday at
2:30 p.m. at the Polk County
Library in Columbus.
Friday at 8:30 p.m. “Diary of a
Scoundrel, will be given at the
Fine Arts Center.
Saturday is Super Saturday, a
great day for youngsters — young
and old.
The Tryon Little Theater is
offering to refund the tickets for
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Skating Proposed
At Tryon Gym
The Tryon School Board met
Monday evening, 10 March 1980,
with all members present.
Superintendent Dusenbury gave
progress reports on the elemen
tary auditorium roofing plans
and on the instructional compu
ter service from Canton. Cowan,
Massey, and Vining, chairman,
were appointed to study an
endowment of $5000 made in 1969
to see if a request should be made
to disolve it and put it into
another endowment.
The Youth Center, proposed
that through the Community
Schools Program the open gym
be opened in fair weather and the
regular gym in cold weather to
the Youth Center for roller
skating. The Youth Center would
provide skates and a music
system. The Board is in favor of
considering the proposal.
There are 3 student days to
make-up. The Board voted to
accent the Calendar committee’s
suggestions of Easter Monday, 7
April; 25 April (set up as a
workday; and 29 May, a
teachers'’ workday. Easter vaca
tion is now 30 March to Easter, 6
April, inclusive. — League of
Women Voters Observer
Little League Tryouts
The Polk County L ; ttle League
will have tryouts Sunday, March
15 at 2 p.m. at Harmon Field.
Green Creek
Little League
There wjll be an organizational
meeting of the Green Creek Liftle
League on Saturday, Mar. 15 at 3
p.m. at the Community Building
in Green Creek. All parents and
coaches are asked to attend.
Several items of business will be
discussed including selection of
League President.
Polk School Board
Tables Live Project
The Polk County School Board
met Monday night in the
Superintendent’s office.
The Board agreed to accept
applications for Superintendent
until April ICth.
The sale of the Live Project
Property was tabled at this time.
(This is the property that the
Industrial Arts Department used
to build houses).
The Board agreed to help the
Polk Central Boosters Club pay
for a fence to be erected around
the tennis courts.
The Board accepted the
resignation of Mrs. Lenoir
Bridges, Polk Central Lunch
room Manager as she is retiring
and accepted the resignation of
Robert Gunter, an Industrial Arts
teacher effective March 14th. Mr.
Gunter is going into private
business.
Supt. Cromer announced that
he had not received final
approval of the Community
Schools project but expected to
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Johnson Announced
For County Council
Former Spartanburg County
Commissioner Thomas P. John
son has announced his candidacy
for Spartanburg County Council
in the Democratic primary.
He served on the County Board
of Control and County Board of
Commissioners from 1963 thru
1974.
Johnson was born in Cowpens,
raised in the North Pacolet
Church area and lives in
Landrum. He is President of
Landrum Insurance and Real
Estate Agency, Inc, He married
the former Mary Harris, and
they have three children. He is a
member of the First Baptist
Church of Landrum, past Master
of Landrum Masonic Lodge 278,
and a Shriner.
He is past president of
Landrum Ruritan Club, and is
advisory director of the First
National Bank of South Carolina,
and Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Tryon Federal
Savings & Loan Association. He
served on the Spartanburg
County Board of Education for 10
years and was Clerk and
Treasurer of the Town of
Landrum for 10 years.
Johnson says, “I have had the
privilege of serving on the
governing body of Spartanburg
County for 11 years. When tfie
Legislature granted a large
measure of Home Rule powers in
1968, I devoted my efforts to
establishing firm basic opera
tions for the new Commission so
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