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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
8 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 34
TRYON, N. C. 28782
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1980
Price 10c Per Copy
No official weather report for
the weekend, but it was sunny,
warm and just great for outdoor
activities. Monday it was raining
and more rain was promised for
Tuesday.
The publisher of the Raleigh
News and Observer and The
Raleigh Times says at least 8
units of the newspapers’ 12-unit
press were heavily damaged in a
fire Sunday afternoon. The News
and Observer published a
Monday edition in Durham at the
Durham Herald and Sun facili
ties.
President Carter won a narrow
victory over Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy in Sunday’s Democratic
presidential primary in Puerto
Rico and gathered 21 of the
island’s 41 national convention
delegates.
UCLA, Purdue, Louisville and
Iowa are the final four survivors
in the NCAA basketball tourna
ment. It seems as if every team
we pulled for lost.
The annual Kiwanis Pancake
Supper is Wednesday from 5 to 8
p.m. at the Tryon Elementary
School.
Thursday at 8 p,m. The Blair
String Quartet will be at the Fine
Arts Center.
Thursday night the Republican
Continued On Back Page
Egerton Promoted
Monday’s Asheville Citizen
reported that William G. Eger
ton, Jr., assistant vice president
and manager of First Union’s
Weaverville office has been
promoted to manager of the
bank’s consumer loan depart
ment in Asheville.
Egerton, who has been with
First Union since April 1963, has
held various positions in the
consumer loan department from
1963-72 before he was promoted to
manager of the Weaverville
branch.
A native of Saluda, Egerton is a
graduate of Wake Forest Univer
sity and the School of Consumer
Banking at the University of
Virginia. He is married to the
former Nancy Flynn of Tryon.
They have two children and live
on Richmond Hill Drive.
A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. William R.
Smothers of Rt. 1, Landrum, are
parents of a son, William Lucas,
born Thursday night, March 13 at
Rutherford Hospital. He weighed
6 lbs. and 6 oz.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Randolph I. Price, Sr of
Rutherfordton and the maternal
great-grandmother is Mrs. J. R.
King of Williamston, S. C.
The paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R.
Smothers of Rt. 1, Landrum.
Mrs. Charles A. DuCharme of
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. George
Brannon at Mulberry Farm,
Warrior Drive, Tryon.
Communication
Tryon, N. C. 28782
March 16, 1980
The Editor,
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Tryon, N.C . 28782
Dear Sir:
Having spent' eight weeks in
Tryon, I would now like to
express my appreciation for your
superb Lanier Library, Fine Arts
Center, excellent and unique
Daily Bulletin, and the friendli
ness of your people. I have
especially enjoyed my associa
tion with both the Holy Cross
Episcopal Church and the
Church of the Good Shepherd. My
own church affiliation, which is
Lutheran, does not seem to be
represented here.
It would be my greatest desire
to endorse Tryon with no
reservations, but I am appalled
at the shcoking amount of litter
which line your streets and
highways. Oregon, my home
state, has achieved clean
highways by passage of a bottle
bill, whereby cans and bottles
require a deposit which is
returnable after the contents are
consumed.
Should archaeologists engage
in diggings here a thousand years
hence — while the tin cans, paper
and wooden Tryon horse may
have disintegrated — I am sure
they would be overwhelmed by
the thick layer of glass bottles on
this stratum.
I think the Tryon horse should
be cast in bronze for posterity
and placed at the entrance to the
Fine Arts Center, where there is
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Museum Open
The Polk County Museum at
the Depot in Tryon is open every
Tuesday and Thursday morning
from 10 to 12. R. M. Palmer is in
charge. Other volunteers will be
announced later. Visitors are
welcome.
Meet Thursday
The Central Business Commit
tee will meet Thursday at 7:15
p.m. at the Tryon Town Hall.
Tryon Lodge
Tryon City Lodge No. 518
P.H.F. & A.M. will meet tonight
at 8 p.m. All Master Masons
welcome. — George R. Fant,
W.M., Edgar J. Hannon, sec.
Revival Starts Sunday
The Saluda and Columbus
United Methodist Churches are
having a Revival beginning on
March 23 through Wednesday,
March 26. Sunday and Monday
nights will be held in Saluda with
The Stepp Family of Henderson
ville providing special music on
Sunday. Tuesday and Wednesday
nights will be held in Columbus.
All services begin at 7:30 p.m.
The guest speaker is Rev. Gerald
Collins of Franklin, N. C. The
public is invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Robinson of Middletown, Ohio
are in Tryon seeing about the
construction of their new home on
Hogback Mountain Road.