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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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12 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 89
TRYON. N.C 28782
THURSDAY. JUNE 5. 1980
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Monday: high 87, low
64; Tuesday: high 93, low 70.
Summertime is here! It’s great
for swimming and sitting in the
shade.
The 7,500-mile Norfolk and
Western Railway Co. and the
10,000 mile Southern Railway
System have announced plans to
consolidate subject to approval of
stockholders of both companies
and the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
President Carter won the
delegate majority he needed for
the Democratic presidential
nomination Tuesday in mixed
voter verdicts from an 8-state
primary election. Kennedy won
the N. J., R. I., South Dakota and
California. Carter took Ohio,
Montana, West Virginia and New
Mexico. Sen. Kennedy apparent
ly is still not ready to concede.
Over 100,000 Cubans have
entered the country in the past
three weeks. Many veteran
groups are complaining that the
Cuban refugees are getting
psychiatric treatment at a
Veterans Administration hospital
in Florida while veterans are
being kept on a waiting list for
treatment. The Tampa VA
Medical Center has reserved 40
hospital beds for Cubans and the
Continued On Back Page
Man Killed In
Motorcycle Wreck
A motorcycle rider, identified
as Gordon Paul Collins of Valley
Falls, S. C. was killed in a
motorcycle accident on a curve
on Hwy. 176 on Saluda Mountain.
The motorcycle was found on
Hwy. 176 and reported at 12:12
a.m. Tuesday. The Polk County
Sheriff's Department located the
body about 70 feet below the road,
down the embankment and called
the Polk County Rescue Squad
for assistance.
The motorcycle apparently hit
the guard rail and Mr. Collins
was thrown over the guard rail
against a tree and then rolled to
the bottom of the embankment.
Patrolman David McMurray
investigated the accident.
REPORT FROM
WOODLAND PARK
Progress on Woodland Park is
progressing according to sche
dule. Approximately one-third of
the trails have been constructed.
Completion is scheduled for the
end of the summer. A small
parking lot on Chestnut Street
behind Hearthstone Inn has been
completed.
The Spartanburg Herald re
ports that in the General Session
Court Tuesday, Steve Allen
Lockhart, 34, of Tryon, was found
guilty of driving under the
influence (2nd offense) and was
sentenced to one year and $1,000,
suspended to four months or $300
and one year probation and
attendance at the Alcohol Safety
Action Program.
To Start Soon
The rock steps near the John
Cowan Garden on Trade Street
will begin next week with Charles
“Dub'’ Melton as contractor.
Arson Attempt
Is Foiled
The Polk County Sheriff’s
Department foiled an attempted
arson Tuesday about 4:45 p.m.
The Sheriff’s Dept, was notifed
that 2 young boys and 2 young
girls were in the vacant house of
the late W. B. Hammett on Ioka
Hills. Deputy Allen Rickman said
as they arrived at the scene, the 4
teenagers took off running. He
said that the house smelled of
coal oil or kerosene and that they
found some newspapers and
toilet tissue that had been set on
fire. A 10” square spot was
burned in the floor and a rug
slightly burned. They took out
after the teenagers who split and
got away. Deputy Rickman said
that one of the boys was very thin
and extremely tall.
(MEN’S BRIDGE
Results of the Men’s Bridge
Club held Tuesday night at the
home of Roland Towle are as
follows: 1st., Arthur Pomeroy
and Roland Towle; 2nd., R B.
Scruggs and George Stothoff;
3rd., Fred Margolf and Charles
Stratford
Winners of the Spring Series
were: 1st., Arthur Pomeroy;
2nd., Earl Riber; 3rd., Ed
Delehanty.
This concludes series for
spring. Next game is Sept. 9.
Wrecks
No details are available but
several wrecks have taken place
in Polk County recently. Monday
at 8:45 p.m. an accident occurred
on Hwy. No. 9 near Garrett Road.
Some injuries were reported.
Patrolman McMurray investi
gated the accident.
Tuesday at 6:27 a.m. a pulp
wood truck and a car had a wreck
n h a e £ ounly Line Road off Coxe
Road. Patrolman Butch Kennedv
investigated this accident *
A wreck in Greenville
took place Tuesday about 215
p m. on McClure Hill south r
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