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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
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
(USPS 643-360) *
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 53 - No. 130
Weather Wednesday: high 90,
low 63; Thursday : high 91, low 65.
During the month of July there
was 6 44 inches of precipitation.
The average for the month of
July is 5.94 inches. To date this
year the precipitation has been
46.43 with the average to date
being 36.78, leaving a surplus of
9.65 inches.
Johnson Motor Lines, whose
headquarters is in Charlotte, has
announced that it will close. The
company has been in business in
Charlotte for 35 years, has 4,000
vehicles serving 48 terminals
from Boston to Dallas. More than
2,300 will lose their jobs,
including more than 900 in the
Charlotte area. A spokesman
said that the company was
squeezed by rising fuel costs and
the recession which reduced
freight tonnage.
The July 28th issue of the
Raleigh News and Observer had
a feature article on .Chuck and
Nancy Hearon, the Tryon
Toymakers. The article by Jane
A. Welch is accompanied by a
picture of the Hearons and a
picture of an all-wood toy soldier.
The article gave a brief history of
the Tryon Toymakers — how it
was started by Eleanor P. Vance
and Charlotte L. Yates in 1915
Continued On Back Page
TRYON, N. C. 28782
Mobile Home Burns
At Stott’s Corner
A double-wide mobile home of
Ms. Peggy Wilson burned
Thursday night at Stott’s Corner
near the South Carolina State
Line. The Columbus Fire
Department received the call at
6:37 but the fire had made too
much headway to save the home.
Ms. Wilson was visiting at a
neighbor’s house when the fire
was discovered
The fire was believed to have
started al the air-conditioner-
heat pump
The Landrum Fire Department
also answered the call and were
on hand if needed.
The fire blazed up again about 9
p.m. and the Columbus firemen
responded to the call to ensure
that the fire didn’t spread into
some nearby woods.
TWGA News
Tryon Country Club Women
Golfers held their monthly
luncheon and meeting on July
29th. The hostesses were: Nancy
Steuerwald, Chairman, Muriel
Eggert, Jeanne Gratner, Pat
Hunter, Phyllis Prout and Lila
Smeed.
The event of the day was “Best
Ball of Foursome." The winners
were: Helen Inman, Helen Lewis,
M. Marie Pearson and Margaret
Pexton.
Members arc requested to sign
up for the Nine Hole Guest Day to
be held on Tuesday, August 19th.
The deadline is Thursday, August
14th.
MONDAY. AUG. 4, 1980
Receives Doctorate
Dr. Susan Lee Galda
Susan Lee Galda, daughter of
Frank and Odessa Galda of
Carolina Drive, Tryon, was
recently granted the Ph.D degree
in English Education by New
York University. She is currently
an Assistant Professor at the
University of Georgia, where she
teaches Language Arts and
Children’s Literature. Susan
received a B.A. in English from
Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wisconsin, and her Master’s in
reading from the University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Prior to
her doctoral work she was an
elementary school reading
specialist in Milwaukee.
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Ray
Spicer and son, Darin, have
returned to Warren, Michigan
after visiting Mr. Spicer’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Spicer of Lynn.
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Kidnapped; Freed
In Columbus
Friday’s Spartanburg Herald
had a story by Hal Leslie which
told of a Fast Fare Clerk in
Spartanburg County being kid
napped at about 10:30 p.m.
Thursday night and taken to
Columbus where she was freed at
the Amoco Station just off 1-26
about 1*2 hours later.
Susan Parker was kidnapped
by an abductor, armed with a
nickel-plated revolver, who drove
her in her green Ford LTD to
Columbus, where he left her and
the car. According to the story he
hitched a ride in a tractor-trailer
and the truck was last seen
traveling toward Asheville
Interstate-26.
Ms Parker called the p 01k
County Sheriff's Dept, when she
arrived in Columbus. Spartan
burg County Sheriff's Denar?
ment was notified and investing
tors were sent to Polk .
They brought her home Wy '
Spartanburg Central
munication shift supervisor
dy Roberts received a call r Bud ’
Ms Parker just
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