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2nd Class Postage Paid At 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 Dally 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 16 Pages Today Vo). 53 — No. 51 TRYON, N. C. 28782 FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1980 Price 10c Per Copy No official weather report for Wednesday, but it was a beautiful spring day. Thursday was more of the same. The red buds (Judas trees) are blooming and the azaleas and dogwoods are beginning to bloom Spring is a lovely time of year. The new plantings along the bank on Trade St. and near the wooden horse are beginning to bloom. It's the little extra things that make this community different from others and a nice place to live. If there was just some way that we could educate people not to litter the highways it would make our area a garden spot. About 100 residents in a four-block area of Rutherfordton were evacuated from their homes for about nine hours Wednesday when a tractor-trailer truck carrying a highly flammable liquid overturned. The truck spilled some of the liquid into a ditch which runs to Cleghorn Creek and eventually to the Broad River. Town workmen quickly diked the ditch with dirt and none of the chemical reached the river. Golf fans are making their annual trip to Augusta for The Masters Continued On Back Page Doctors Learning While Enjoying This Area The Carolina Occupational Medical Association is having their Annual Spring Scientific Meeting April 10 and 11, at the Congregational Church in Tryon. This organization consists of physicians practicing ! n industry and other physicians with a particularly keen interest in the health of workers. They will be addressed on several topics including pulmonary disease, behavioral modification, and toxicology. Dr. David G. Paff, Corporate Medical Director at Reeves Brothers, Inc., in Spartanburg, S. C. and resident of Tryon, is President-elect of the association and has been organizer of their Spring Meeting. Other local physicians involved in this year’s meeting have been Dr. Paul Bucy and Dr Joseph Placak. Dr Bucy, a retired neurological surgery professor from Northwestern University Medical School, has published over 300 articles on the subject of neurological surgery and has been editor and publisher of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY since 1972. He spoke yesterday on the subject “Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurologic Disease for Non neurosurgeons.” Dr. Placak, a retired surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, practiced parttime in Tryon until 2 years ago. He is well known locally and has spoken on a variety of Continued On Back Page Moped Rider Is Killed In Accident William L. Greene, 73, of 130 Edney Road, Tryon, was killed riding a motorized bicycle Wednesday about 3 p.m. when struck by a delivery truck on Hwy. 108 near Columbus. According to reports, Jerry Bruce Smith, 27. of Asheville was traveling northeast on Hwy. 108 when Greene, driving a Honda Hobbitt motorized bicycle, cross ed the road directly into the path of the Chevrolet truck. The truck was owned by Frank Taylor distributing Co. of Asheville, and received approximately $200 damage Smith was not injured. Patrolman David Satterfield investigated the accident. There were no charges filed Furniture Refinishing Isothermal Community Col lege is conducting Furniture Refinishing, a continuation of a popular class started by Dorothy McGill. Old furniture can be rejuvinated without costly ma terials. Classes will begin at the Tryon Elementary School Wed nesday. April 23 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., and will continue for eight weeks. All N. C. residents over 65 may enroll free of charge. Please call 859-674 4 Monday thru Thursday between 9 00 — 8:30 p.m. to pre-register. Wreck A 2 vehicle accident took place on South Trade Street here Wednesday about 3 p.m. A line of cars were headed north on Hwy: 176 (S. Trade St.) when a train came through blocking the highway. Miss Lisa Preston of Tryon was turning left into Hideaway Lane when hit by a vehicle driven by Ellis Kuyken dall, also of Tryon. Mr. Kuykendall was going to pass a string of cars and turn up McCown Street which wasn’t blocked by the train. Realtors Install Multiple Listings Members ol the Tryon-Polk County Board of Realtors have installed a Multiple Listing Service The new MLS plan has the approval of the N ati0 “ Association of Realtors and meets with their standards of practice and legal requirem7„, Of The new MLS syst? m '» seller of property total exposure to the market and potential buyers a wide s^ecHon of properties. ec t'on The Board is using a , secretarial firm to hond! Cal details Each time a lhe listed, the details of the pr on y 5 are recorded on a listing P v rly which also includes a photog^ of the property. Sheets Ph delivered almost daily „ ar « members Once the * sold, the rerordV t^ * notifies all members p 8 ^ Continued On Back Page aCh
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