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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
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 53 - No. 198 TRYON. N. C. 28782 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12,1980
20 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Monday: high 74, low
44. We have been blessed with
beautiful weather this fall
Maybe it's making up for that hot
summer we had this year.
The N. C. Highway Patrol
agreed Monday to a wide-ranging
affirmative action play to
remedy alleged discrimination
against blacks and women. The
patrol agreed that half the
troopers it hires for the next fire
years will be blacks and a
quarter will be women. The
patrol hires about 80 to 100 new
troopers a year.
Deputy Secretary of State
Warren Christopher on Monday
gave the Algerian foreign
ministry the formal U. S reply to
Iran's conditions for the release
of the 52 hostages
Burney Drake, athletic
director and head football coach
at West Henderson for the past
four years, has announced his
resignation from those positions
at the school. Drake, who
coached at Polk Central before
going to West Henderson said it
will be a while before he made
any decisions on his future
Drake also served as track coach
at West Henderson. In his four
r ars Wcsl "en^rson his
team had a 14-26 record, (this
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Polk County Wins
State Cancer Award
When Max Dedmondt heard
her named called out in Raleigh
recently by Dr. Richard Hardin,
President of the North Carolina
Division of the American Cancer
Society, she wasn't surprised
As Treasurer of the Polk
County Unit, Max knew that her
county was up for a state award
for its 1980 Crusade. "I never saw
a crusade like this", she says.
"People gave this year as they
never gave before. Everybody
seemed to want to be a part of it "
The final total of $19, 855, which
puts Polk County first in per
capita giving in the state of North
Carolina, is the result of a
carefully planned crusade waged
by a team of district chairmen
who managed to transmit their
enthusiasm to some 200
Crusaders. Armed with
pamphlets, information about
cancer, and envelopes, these
volunteers methodically called
on their neighbors in a door-to-
door April campaign throughout
the county Furthermore, they
thought of ingenious special
events as extra fund raisers: a
family game night in Saluda, a
clogging "kick-off" in Tryon,
lollipop sales by the 4 H ers in
Columbus and at the Block House
Steeplechase, a rummage sale in
Sunny View, bake sales in Peniel
and in Tryon, and a Mouse-to-
College children’s crusade by the
Tryon Elementary students
which brought in $1500 during
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Polk School System
Gets $25,000 Grant
In response to a proposal aimed
at improving the language arts
curriculum, the Polk County
School System has been awarded
pro-affiliation status by a
national faculty backed by Phi
Beta Kappa, the American
Council on Education, and the
Council of Learned Societies. The
proposal, which calls for a
creative writing program for
grades 1—8, was written by Joan
Nash, Polk County Community
Schools Director, with the
encouragement and support of
Superintendent Larry D Coble
and a team of teachers,
administrators and parents
Among school administrators
who cooperated in the
preparation of the grant proposal
are Reading Coordinator Helen
McBurney, Curriculum
Supervisor Elizabeth Correll.
Library Coordinator Thomas
Edwards. Exceptional Children
Director Susan Dobbins, and
Principals Mary Margaret Ingle
and Joseph Whiteside Teachers
include William L. Warren and
Ann Sellers at Saluda. Corria
Hudson at Mill Spring. Terry
McEntire and Peggy Senn at
Green Creek. Deb Miller at
Sunny View, Marion McEntire
and Jean Pettigrew at Polk
Central, and Joan Feagan at
Stearns Parents include Jo Ann
Moss of Mill Spring and Janet
Hersey of Green Creek Letters of
support for the project were
written by former
Superintendent of Schools David
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Children Get
Bikes At
Town Meeting
The winners of the 7th annual
Cystic Fibrosis Bike-A-Thon
contest were presented 10-sneed
bicycles Monday night at the
Tryon Town Council meeting by
Mayor Ken Tucker and Polk
County Jaycee President Mike
Collins. The local Polk Co .
Jaycees and Jaycettes .
M.000 this year with the B^ke ^
Thon and m the past seven ^
have raised $27,000. Reeeiv
bikes were Philip '^
Tryon 8th grade student '. 3
raised $432.75; Amanda R?ckm ' 0
a 7th grade student at Mill n
with $309 16; Wendy ^ r ' n R
a 3rd grade student at c? IU,s "
School with $302 earns
adult winners' were Sp , cc ' al
Scoggins with $202.00 and 7 nn
Lonnes with$lig 00 Joan
Memory Burns told the R
of the water drainage . ' . Boa rd
his home and the Board." 1 a ‘
under advisement °° k it
The Board a pproved
government Opinion p a '"cal
ABC permit for jV. 0rni for
Shop on N Trade a s , r Pa rty
Katt's Party Shop.) ’former
The Town will annn
collection schedule " CC a leaf
The Fire Denari,.
on a project to put "HI lake
with emergency num .“ sl 'ikers
Tryon Fire District ^ in nil
The Fire Departm
the former home of J ^ned
Thompson. Jr and her lis W
night as a training el ls Mond?/
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