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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 Ie 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)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
8 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 131
TRYON, N.C. 28782
TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 1980
Price 10c Per Cop;
68; Saturday: high 91, low 65;
Sunday: high 91, low 66. Monday
was more of the same. There has
been a nice breeze most of the
time, but it has been a hot
summer.
Angered by a state-ordered
rerun of the 1978 elections,
supporters of Clay County Sheriff
Hartsell Moore turned out
heavily at the polling places
Saturday and gave him a better
margin of victory than he
received 21 months ago. The GOP
also won the clerk of court,
register of deeds, and three
positions each on the board of
commissioners and on the school
board.
Egypt’s foreign minister said
Sunday the Egyptian-Israeli
negotions on Palestinian
autonomy will remain suspended
until Israel “removes the
obstacles" to peace posed by its
new law on Jerusalem.
The Olympics came to a close
Sunday in Moscow. The Soviets
hosts finished the Games with a
record total of 197 medals, 80 of
them gold. The U. S. and 35 other
nations did not participate in
protest of the Soviet military
intervention in Afghanistan.
A wreck on 1-26 Monday
Continued On Back Page
Injured When
Truck Hits Bull
Donald Splawn of Columbus
was injured early Friday
morning when the Biltmore
Dairy truck he was driving hit a
bull which was out in- the
highway Mr. Splawn was going
from Inman to Lyman when the
accident took place. He was
taken to Spartanburg General
Hospital where he is a patient.
Cong. Lamar Gudger
Here Thursday
Congressman Lamar Gudger
will be in Polk County Thursday,
Aug. 7th. At 10 a.m. he will be at
the Tryon High School Library
and refreshments will be served.
At 2p.m. Thursday he will be at
the courthouse in Columbus A
spokesman said that the meet
ings would be very informal
discussions and will give every
one an opportunity to make
suggestions and to ask questions.
Polk Graduates
The Western Carolina Univer
sity Summer Commencement
was held Friday night at
Cullowhee. Area graduates in
cluded:
Columbus: Mary Baldwin
Feagan, master’s degree, school
and guidance counseling.
Tryon: James E. Carpenter,
140 Meadowlark Drive, market
ing.
Sheriff’s Report
The Polk County Sheriff’s
Department escorted six funerals
during the month of July, and
served the following warrants: 4
assault with a deadly weapon, 1
assault on female, 1 assault on
minor, 2 for probation violation, 3
for larceny, 4 for larceny by
breaking and entering, 1 driving
under the influence, 1 non-sup-
port, 1 reckless driving, 1
resisting arrest, 3 for communi
cating threats, 1 for trespassing,
1 failing to appear, 1 failure to
comply, 1 search warrant, 3 aid
and abet resisting arrest, 1
discharging fireworks, 1 public
disturbance, 2 possession of toxic
substance, 2 glue sniffing, 1
receiving stolen property, 1
carrying a concealed weapon, 1
drivi..g while license suspended,
1 hit and run, 2 for first degree
burglary, 4 notice on hearing on
claims and delivery order, 2
notice of hearing, 15 magistrate
summons, 13 civil summons, 7
criminal summons, 335 sub
poenas, 4 involuntary commit
ments to Broughton Hospital, 2
commitments to Alcoholic Center
at Black Mountain, 1 execution on
property, 1 bill of complaint.
Buy Home
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Salamon
have purchased the Rev. Charles
Brewster house in the Park Hills
section of Landrum, S. C.
The Salamons live in Lauder
Hill, Fla and will be here in the
summer months.
The Brewsters have moved to
Pleasant Hill, Tenn.
Pullen Realty was the broker.
Change In Time
For School Board
Due to a conflict, the regularly
scheduled Board of Education
meeting for Monday, August 11,
has been changed to Tuesday,
August 12. It will begin with an
Executive Session at 7 p.m. and
the regular Board meeting at 8
p.m. in the Agriculture-Exten
sion Conference Room.
STH CONCERT
The Swannanoa Chamber Play
ers will perform their fifth and
final concert of the season
Thursday, August 7 at 8 p. m . at
Blue Ridge Technical College
Auditorium.
Director Frank Ell has
announced that the concert will
close with the famous Beethoven
Septet in E Rat, opus 20 for
violin, viola, cello, string bass
clarinet horn, and bassoon. S
work will bring two guest artiste
to the stage: Helen Carroll
player, who performed with
group last week, and John Mill.
bassoonist MiUer is a m^'
the Minnesota Orchestra ^ Of
American Reed Trio p .
replacing Robert Barris ?
played in the first four
but now has to fulfill a °° Cer ^
engagement in Michigan ^^
The evening’s progr-L
includes "Saranatain* ^0
(Serenade in Vain) by Vano ”
clarinet, bassoon, horn f ° r
bass and the Quartet in a «d
opus 73, by the French min °r,
Devienne Corn Pose r
Tickets will be avails
door For further inf ble *t the
telephone 859-5712 lonn aii on