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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
(US PS 643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
Vol. 53 — No. 146
TRYON, N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1980
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Tuesday: high 87, low
57. That low of 57 makes you
reach for the covers.
Congress crushed President
Carter’s veto of a salary increase
for doctors and dentists at
veterans hospitals Tuesday,
overriding the president by a
unanimous vote in the Senate and
a lapsided margin in the House.
An Eastern Airlines jet bound
from New York to Florida was
hijacked to Cuba Tuesday night
by three Spanish speaking men.
Angry demonstrators, protes
ting the slaying of a black
teenager by a white policeman
riot and loot in North Philadel
phia.
Governor Jim Hunt spoke to a
large crowd on the courthouse
grounds in Columbus Wednesday
morning. Gov. Hunt told the
school children present that he
wanted to be remembered for two
things — providing 110,000 new
jobs in North Carolina (including
Polk County) as industry builds
plants in the state; and for good
public schools. Gov. Hunt has
backed salary increases for
teachers, providing new primary
reading aides, and instituting
competency tests for students,
so that “no one ever again will
graduate from high school
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Mobile Homes
To Be Judged
Judging to select area winners
of the Mobile Home Improve
ment and Safety Contest phase of
the 1980 WNC Community
Development Program will be
held Thursday, September 4, and
Friday, September 5. Involved in
the judging will be mobile home
winners in ten counties.
Started as a part of the
Community Development Pro
gram last year, the Mobile Home
Improvement and Safety Contest
offers community clubs and their
mobile home residents within the
18 western counties served by the
program an -opportunity to
compete for $1200 in prize money
and recognition based on im
provements made during the
year.
The mobile home contest in
Western North Carolina is the
first of its type in the nation. It
has been widely publicized as a
model for other areas of the
country. According to figures of
the Western North Carolina
Development Association, which
sponsors the contest in coopera
tion with the N. C. Agricultural
Extension Service, there are over
25,000 mobile homes in the 18
western counties. Approximately
15 per cent of the area’s residents
live in mobile homes, about three
times the national average.
The contest has two division-
one for individual mobile home
owners and-or occupants, and
one for community clubs. Only
those community clubs participa-
Continued On Back Page
Engaged
Miss Elizabeth Ann McIntosh
Mr. and Mrs. Tyree V.
McIntosh, Jr. of Landrum, South
Carolina announce the engage
ment of their daughter Miss
Elizabeth Ann McIntosh to Erich
Bommer Frohlich, son of Mrs.
Van Liew Frohlich and Emil
Frohlich of Landrum, South
Carolina.
Miss McIntosh is a graduate of
The University of South Carolina
at Columbia. She is a secretary
at Daniel International Corpora
tion and an associate realtor with
Century 21 — Crain in Greenville,
South Carolina.
Mr. Frohlich attended The Hill
School at Pottstown, Pennsyl
vania and recently graduated
from Clemson University with a
Bachelor of Science in Industrial
Management.
An October wedding is planned.
Meet The Players
Tonight At 7:30
There will be a “Meet the
Players” night at the Landrum
Football field tonight at 7:30. This
will give the Landrum Cardinal
fans an opportunity to meet the
players and cheerleaders.
Wreck
A two vehicle wreck took place
Wednesday about 7 a.m. near
Pack’s Dairy, Mill Spring. There
were no injuries reported.
Patrolman Don Moran investi
gated the accident.
Democrats Meet
Tuesday At 8 P.M.
The Polk County Democrats
will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the
courthouse in Columbus.
25th Anniversary
For Daffy Jills
The Daffy Jills Garden Club
will celebrate its 25th Anniver
sary as a club with a party at
2:30, Thursday, Sept. 4, in the
Mural Room of the Fine Arts
Center. Mrs. Tom Beaver will
give a brief history of the club’s
many activities.
The Mayor and Town Manager
of Tryon, as well as former
officers and members will be
honored guests.
DROPS FOOTBALL
Spartanburg Day School has
dropped its football program
according to an announcement in
the Spartanburg Herald.