POLK LIBRARY
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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. 0. Box 790
Tryon. N C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
IS Pages Today
' Vol. 53 — No. 14-1
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22,1980
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Wednesday: high 92,
low 74, rain .01.
The Tryon Theatre is closed
this week for vacation.
Thursday’s Bulletin had "Coal
Miner's Daughter" playing there
and that was showing last week.
Some areas had quite a bit of
lightning Wednesday night.
Lightning hit one of the main
lines and put the Columbus
Substation out of commission for
about an hour and 20 minutes.
A community wide drop-in
household shower for Mr and
Mrs Horace Elliott will be held
Saturday from 7 to 9 p m at the
Sunny View Community House.,
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott lost their
house by fire last month.
The Polk County Rescue Squad
Auxiliary has been selling
homemade ice cream every
Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m
until at the Lynn Body Shop try
ing to raise money for the new
ambulance. They will be there
this Sunday, but will NOT be
there on Labor Day weekend
They will return on Sept. 7th.
Hensons’ girls softball team
will participate in the Women’s
American Softball Association
National Tournament in
Hamilton, Ohio. Hensons’ won
the S C. Championship for two
Continued On Hack Page
The 10-team Women's Softball
Tournament will be held this
Saturday and Sunday at Harmon
Field. The double elimination
tournament will begin Saturday
at 1 p.m and continue through 10
p.m. The games will continue
Sunday at 1 p m. with the finals
being at 7 p.m. The first round
schedule is as follows:
Saturday
1 p.m. — Frazier Ford vs Mayo
2 p.m. — Buck's Stove vs
Rockettes
3 p.m, — Silver Fox vs Jackson
Latures
4 p.m. — Walker's Construction
vs The Diamonds
5 p m. — Lady Merchants vs Hen
son's
Football Scrimmages
Tryon and Polk Central football
teams will have scrimmage
games tonight that begin at 7
p.m. Polk Central will travel to
Chapman High School in Inman
and Tryon will be hosts to Blue
Ridge High School at Harmon
field.
Miss Kathy Cloud, a senior at
Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Fla is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Cloud, Wilderness Rd , Tryon.
Ms. Connie Fox, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs James Carter of
Tryon has returned to U. N. C.
at Chapel Hill where she is a
junior.
Governor Hunt
Here Wednesday
Governor James B. Hunt
James B Hunt, Jr. Governor of
North Carolina will be at the
courthouse in Columbus
Wednesday, Aug, 27that 8a.m.
Born in May 1937 in
Greensboro, Hunt was reared on
a dairy and tobacco farm in the
Rock Ridge community of Wilson
County.
He obtained the B. S. degree
and Master’s degree from N. C.
State University and is a
graduate of the University of
North Carolina law school.
In 1964, Hunt went to Nepal as a
Ford Foundation economic
advisor to that nation's
government He returned to
Wilson in 1966 and joined the law
firm of Kirby and Webb,
becoming a partner in 1968
He is the author of the N. C.
Democratic Party precinct
Continued On Back Page
Gets 25 Years
Carolyn Stanfield Gosnell, 27,
of Arcadia. S. C. was sentenced to
25 years Wednesday at the
McDowell County courthouse in
Marion by Judge Robert E.
Gaines She was found guilty of
second degree murder in the
shooting death of her husband
James Delmar Gosnell. 22, of
Landrum last Wednesday in the
Polk County Superior court, but
had not been sentenced due to the
illness of the judge.
Gosnell was reportedly
murdered in Columbus and then
his body was taken to the Sigsbee
area of Spartanburg County and
put in an abandoned well.
Tryon Band Boosters
Tryon Band Boosters will meet
Monday night. Aug. 25, at 7:30
p m in the Band Room. Officers
are to meet at 7 pm. A
spokesman said that this is an
important meeting to start the
year, so everyone please be
there.
Representing the Tryon
Kiwanis Club at the Carolinas
District Convention
Charleston, S. C. last weekend
were Dr and Mrs C. W. McCall
Jr., Mr and Mrs Odel Matthews’
Mr. and Mrs. Otho Gibbs.
Mr ^ Jcrry Sm '>h and
son. Allen, have returned .
Columbia. S. C after spending
their vacation with Mr Smith'
parents, Mr and Mrs
Ballenger in Green Creek mes