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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin Is published
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106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 53 — No. 32
Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1980
12 Pages Today
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Weather Wednesday: high 51,
low 32, rain .33. Thursday
morning it was still raining a
little, but the weatherman
promised better weather later in
the day. Wednesday night
I-26 became icy and a number of
minor accidents took place
according to reports. For awhile
the mountains and woods were
pretty with snow and ice, but the
rain washed it away.
The bond market is so chaotic
that South Carolina canceled a
general obligation bond sale that
had been scheduled for Feb. 26th,
state Treasurer Grady Patterson
said Wednesday.
A young mother of two has
become the second woman known
to die in the nation’s underground
coal mines, as women miners
take their place beside men and
become grim statistics of the job.
Eleanore Bowen, 25, of William
son, W. Va. was killed shortly
before midnight Tuesday in the
P.M. Charles Coal Co.’s No. 4
mine in nearby Rawl, W. Va.
Overpayments have jumped
past the billion dollar a year
mark in the government’s largest
welfare program, Aid to Families
with Dependent Children, the
Social Security Administration
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Lynn Scoggins Is
Named Young
Career Woman
Mrs. Lynn Scoggins of Tryon
was named “Young Career
Woman of the Year” by the
Thermal Belt Business and
Professional Women’s Club. Mrs.
Scoggins, who is director of
student services at Limestone
College, will represent the
Thermal Belt BPW in a state
wide YCW competition at the
convention in Canton on April
20th.
Judging was based on the
candidate’s career achievement
and ability to project an image
reflecting the role of today’s
young women in society.
A graduate of Tryon High
School and Limestone College
and Kings College, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
E. Ernst of Tryon. Her husband is
Jeff Scoggins, also of Tryon. She
has been active in the Mother’s
March for Birth Defects, the
bike-a-thon for Muscular Dys
trophy and is a member of the
Episcopal Church of Holy Cross.
Other nominees were Mrs.
Phyllis Crain of Green Creek,
who teaches language arts at 0.
P. Earle Elementary School in
Landrum and Mrs. Elizabeth
McCallister of Landrum who
teaches French at Tryon High
School.
Little League
Polk County Little League
tryouts will be held Sunday at 2
p.m. at Harmon Field.
Landrum Democrats
Meet Saturday
The Landrum Democratic
Precinct will meet Saturday at 3
p.m. at the Landrum City Hall to
elect officers and delegates to the
county convention, which will be
held March 24.
Move Into Home
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas
recently moved into a home in the
Pea Ridge area. Mr. Thomas is
employed by Landrum Mills, and
his wife, Carrie Mae, works for
Hatch Mill. They have two
children.
The Thomases purchased their
home from Mr. and Mrs. Clark
Moore. Town and Country Realty
Gallery of Home handled the
sale.
Softball Meeting
In Landrum Tuesday
The Landrum area Parks and
Recreation Department will hold
an organization meeting for the
summer softball league at
Palmetto Field. The meeting will
be at the 0. P. Earle Elementary
School cafeteria on Tuesday,
March 18 at 7:30 p.m. All persons
interested in entering a team in
the Landrum League should
attend.
Green Creek
Little League
The Green Creek Little League
will have an organizational
meeting Saturday at 3 p.m. in the
Community Building.
Ten File For
District One
School Board
Ten candidates have filed for
the three openings on District
One Schock Board of Trustees.
Filing were incumbents John
Austin and Thomas Morrow.
Arthur Wingo, current chairman
of the board, is not seeking
re-election.
Other candidates are Ebner J.
Blackwood, Jessie E. Fowler,
Jr., John A. Morrow, James L.
Petty, Charles R. Warren, Joyce
Wessinger and Loretta J. Wilson.
Landrum Chamber
Meets Monday
The Landrum Chamber of
Commerce will meet Monday at 1
p.m. at the Landrum Civic
Center
Stony Knoll News
The otticers of the Stony Knoll
Community Club met at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Pack on
Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. At
this meeting decisions were
made for the trend of activities
for the club for this year. They
will participate in the county
wide clean-up campaign picking
the north end of Old Hwy. 19 and
adjacent drives and roads.*
The third quarterly conference
for the St. Luke’s, Stony Knoll,
New Zion and New Salem CME
Churches will be held at the New
Zion CME Church, Sunday, Mar.
16 at 2 p.m. The Rev. W. E.
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