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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. O. 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
12 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 36
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1980
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Tuesday: high 59, low
40; Wednesday: high 61, low 28.
Thursday morning was rainy.
Most of the nation’s biggest
banks joined in the move to a
record 19 percent prime lending
rate Wednesday, as business
borrowing costs jumped for the
eighth time in the past month.
Virginia defeated Minnesota
58-55 to win the National
Invitational Basketball Tourna
ment in New York Wednesday
night. Virginia’s 7’4” freshman
Ralph Sampson was voted the
Most Valuable Player.
The Pacolet River Plantation
suffered some fire damage and a
great deal of smoke damage
Thursday morning. It is the
meeting place for the Rotary,
Kiwanis and Lions Clubs.
TODAY the Rotary Club will
meet at The Dinner Bell and
Tuesday the Kiwanis Club will
meet at The Dinner Bell. Both
meetings are at 12:45 p.m.
The Democratic Women are
holding a rally tonight at 7:30 at
the courthouse.
Saturday at 10 a.m. the
youngsters in Green Creek will
sign up for T Ball and Little
League at the Green Creek
Community Building.
Saturday from 10a.m. to 3 p.m.
Continued On Back Page
Funfest Saturday
The 1980 Polk Co. 4-H Funfest
Talent Show and Fashion Revue
will be held tomorrow night
March 22 at the Fine Arts Center
in Tryon beginning at 8:00. There
is no admission charge, however,
donations to defray expenses will
be appreciated.
The program will begin with
the twenty-one acts competing in
the talent show. The performers
range in age from five to eighteen
and represent each school in the
county. Acts range from solos
and piano, to gymnastics and tap
dance; from clogging and
'pantomine to comedy skits and
'chorus.
While the judges select the
winners, the 4-H fashion revue
will be staged, with 4-H’ers
modeling the garments they have
made themselves.
The talent director this year is
Claude Graves, who has a host of
volunteers working behind .the
scenes on lighting, sound, etc.
Betsy Milsteen is directing the
fashion revue.
Mrs. Jackie Henson, Home
Economics Ext. Agent, and Doug
Roach, 4-H agent invite the public
to attend and support the 4-H
Youth Program.
SINGING SATURDAY
The Blue Ridge Free Will
Baptist Church will have a
singing Saturday night at 7:00 at
the church on Rt. 2, Landrum.
Featured singers will be the
Liberty Boys and Elaine ClonU
from Catawba, N. C.
Rev. Robert Price, pastor,
invites everyone to attend.
Paper Drive
The Tryon High School Year
book Staff is having a Paper
Drive April 19th from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the Tryon Elementary
School old gymnasium.
Communication
March 19,1980
To the Editor:
Through the good offices of
your paper and on behalf of the
Polk County Appearance Com
mission I would like to thank our
visitor Elva Michael from
Oregon for her comments and
insights.
"Oh wad some power the giftie
gie ue
To see oursels as others see us!”
Our streets and highways are
indeed a disgrace but hopefully
by March 29th with "Operation
Pride” some of this litter will be
removed by many of our caring
and concerned citizens and the
men of the Polk County Highway
Department.
The so-called "Bottle Bill”
which has been passed and put
into effect in both Oregon and
Maine, has been killed in
committee in North Carolina
(and 29 other states). This bill
calls for a deposit on all cans and
bottles which is refundable upon
return of the empties. There is no
question that the passage of such
a bill would cut down on the
amount of litter on our roadsides.
A deluge of letters to our North
Carolina legislators from con-
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Fire At Pacolet
River Plantation
The Tryon Volunteer Fire
Department was called to the
Pacolet River Plantation Thurs
day morning where fire did
considerable damage in the
kitchen and the rest of the
building had smoke damage.
Miss Catherine Hageman said
that she was in and out of the
building and believed that the fire
was caused by an electrical
shortage. She stated that there
was fire damage in the kitchen
but most of the other damage was
from the smoke. She said that
Pacolet River Plantation would
be closed untU the necessary
clean-up and repairs could be
made.
Match at 1 p.m.
The Tryon High School
Hillcrest High School tennis
match Saturday is scheduled for
1 p.m. at Harmon Field. f ° F
Communion
Breakfast At
Good Shepherd
The Episcopal Church
Good Shepherd will have ^ e
monthly Communion Breaw ^
Sunday. Beginning at » ast
there will be a Service of.«^
Communion, followed hv L Hol y
fast in the parish hall ^ k '
invited to both the Corn a, «
Service and the breakf«!" Uni01 i
The Vestry of Good sh' .
Church will meet an '”^
breakfast. fter the