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• Tryon, North Carolina, 28782
Established January 31, 1928
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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin la 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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12 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 38
TRYON, N. C. 28782
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1980
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Weather Thursday: high 58,
low 41; Friday: high 60, low 45,
rain 2.42; Saturday: high 63, low
38; Sunday: high 63, low 35; at 7
a.m. Monday the rain was .65 and
it continued to rain long after
that.
The deposed shah of Iran left
Panama for Egypt Sunday
ending a 100-day residence in
Panama where he faced extradi
tion proceedings.
The community lost an
outstanding citizen Sunday when
Dr. Wm. R. Bosien died
unexpectedly. He spent many
hours looking after the sick and
ill, pushing himself, when most
would have retired for the day.
He did not limit his activities to
medicine as he was active in his
church, in community affairs and
in government. He served his
fellow man and gave freely of his
time and talent.
This area has some outstanding
volunteer fire departments. We
read about paid firemen going
out on strike in Chcicago, Kansas
City, etc. Early Sunday morning
the Columbus and Tryon Volun
teer firemen showed how they
could work together to save the
Columbus Baptist Church. These
are men who receive no pay, keep
themselves on call and attend
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Fire Damages
Columbus Baptist
Educational Building
The Columbus Fire Depart
ment received a fire alarm
Sunday about 1 a m. to the
Columbus Baptist Church. The
fire apparently caught in the oil
furnace area of the basement and
burned up through the first floor
and the second floor.
There was intense heat and the
damage from the heat and
smoke was greeter than the
actual fire damage. The Colum
bus Fire Department with the
help of the Tryon Fire Depart
ment. who they called to assist
them, kept the fire from
spreading to the sanctuary and
confined the blaze to the
educational building.
A heavy layer of smoke was
noticed in the Town sometime
prior to the alarm going off.
Patrolman David Satterfield
reported the smoke to Police
Chief Dock Wilson and they went
in different directions to see if
they could discover the fire. Chief
Wilson went out Houston Road
and soon ran out of the smoke. On
his way back into town he stopped
at the church and on walking
around to the back of the building
discovered the smoke, although
no blaze was noticed.
When the Columbus Firemen
arrived at the scene, located the
fire and decided that they would
need help. They called the Tryon
Fire Department and the firemen
from the two departments
worked together to save the
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Died Sunday
^mliJ
Dr. William Riley Bosien
Dr. William Riley Bosien, 55, of
Hogback Mountain Road, Tryon,
died Sunday in St. Luke’s
Hospital after a brief illness.
A native of Maryland, he was a
son of the late Charles and Emma
Riley Bosien.
He attended American Univer
sity in Washington, D. C. and
Bucknell College in Pennsyl
vania. He served in the U. S.
Marine Corps during World War
II. He graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine in 1948 and
served his internship at St.
Luke’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio,
then surgical training at Mary
Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in
Hanover, N. H. and at White
River Junction, Vt. V.A.
Hospital. Following the comple
tion of this training he came to
Tryon in October 1954 where he
practiced general and thoracic
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Second Level
Burns To Ground
The Second Level Disco Burned
to the ground Monday morning.
The building, located on South
Trade Street, was engulfed in
flames when the Tryon Firemen
arrived at the scene. The fire was
discovered about 4 a.m. when a
motorist stopped at The Pantry
and reported seeing smoke
coming from the building. Birton
Ravan, who was on duty at The
Pantry called the Fire Depart
ment.
By the time the firemen were
able to get to the fire, the roof had
already fallen in and the building
was burning from one end to the
other. Cecil Horne owned the
building.
Although it was raining at the
time of the fire, the blaze lit
the clouds and it looked as if
much of Tryon was in flames
Home Destroyed
By Fire Here
The home of Mrs. Inez Jackson
Shehan on Butter Street „
Ulke Lanier was destroyedK r
fire Thursday about 9:20 n ? ?
one was at home at the ' N °
by the time the f^ ^
discovered it had made t? * a j
headway for the » 00 mu ch
firemen to save the housed'' 11 ' 1 '
of its contents. e 0r any
Mrs. Shehan | s
M aying M Wilh her mother in? Uy
Mrs. Mary Shehan law .
Randolph Sreet in Land^ W * 3 1
has four children. th^^ She
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