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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
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Phone 859 9151
Vol. 53 - No. 203
Weather Monday: high 53, low
39. rain .08 Rain at 7 a m.
Tuesday was .43. The sun popped
out about noon, but it was still on
the chilly side.
Six Ku Klux Klansmen and
Nazis were acquitted Monday of
murder and rioting charges in the
deaths of five communists in
Greensboro. The all-white
Guilford County jury returned
the verdicts after 6'_. days of
deliberation, ending a 23-week
trial, the longest ever in the state
N. C. Officials Monday
approved construction of the
state’s first hazardous waste
treatment and recycling plant 10
rniles south of downtown
Charlotte. The plant will
neutralize or burn textile dyes,
pesticides, herbicides and other
liquid chemical wastes from
industries up to 150 miles from
Mecklenburg County. It will not
treat such materials as
radioactive waste and
poluchlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs).
A snow storm left West Texas
and Oklahoma mired in a snow a
foot deep Monday, and left traffic
paralyzed and schools closed
before it headed east into
Pennsylvania and the
Appalachian Mountains. Up to 17
Continued On Back Page
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Cerollne
TRYON. N. C. 28782
Patriots Open
On Nov. 24th
The Polk Central Patriot
Basketball teams open Nov. 2-tth
when they travel to Chase. The
boys head coach is Stokes
Sheehan; girls coach i s Doug
Chilton; JV boys coach. Keith
Crain and the 7th and Sth grade
coaches are Robie Hutcherson
boys» and Dan Abraham (girls).
The JV game is at 5 p m. girls at
6:30 and boys at 8. The schedule
is as follows:
Nov. 24 — Chase — away
26 — Chase —home
Dec. 2 — Landrum — home
5 — tip off tournament at
Landrum
9 — Edneyville — home
12 — NCSD — away
16 — Open
19 — Cherokee — away
20 — Jonesville — home
Jan. 2 — Mitchell — home
6 — Landrum --away
10 — Jonesville — away
13 - NCSD-home
16 — Tryon — away
20 — Edneyville — away
23 — Rosman — away
27 — open
30 — Tryon — home
31 — Madison — home
Feb. 3 — Mitchell — away
6 — Rosman — home
10 — Madison — away
13 — Cherokee — home
Jackie Blanton Is
Miss Cardinal
Miss Jackie Blanton, daughtei
of Mrs Cleo Blanton of Landrum
was crowned Miss Cardinal last
Continued On Back Page
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19,1980
Landrum High
Basketball
The Landrum High School
basketball teams open their
season December 2nd when they
travel to Polk Central. The girls
coach will be Marshal West, the
boys coach is Ron Hicks and the
JV coach is Jim Ramsey. The
schedule is as follows:
Dec. 2 — Polk Central — away
5 & G — Tip Off Tournament
— home
9 — Chescnee — away
12 — Tryon — home
13 — Blue Ridge — away
16 — Chapman — home
19 — Blue Ridge - home
Jan. 2 — Chapman — away
6 — Polk Central — home
13 — Tryon — away
17 — Chesnee — home
2Q -• Tamassee-Salem — home
23 — Oakway — home
27 — Dixie — away
30 — Christ Church — away
F eb. 3 — Calhoun Falls — home
6 — Tamassee-Salem — away
10 — Oakway — away
13 — Dixie — home
17 — Christ Church — home
20 - Calhoun Falls - away
23, 24, 26, 27 — Conference
Tournament — home
Singing Saturday
There will be a Singing
Saturday at 7:30 pm at the
Tryon Second Baptist Church
Present will be The Psalmist
Quartet. The Coopers Gap
Quartet and the Wilson Family.
Everyone is invited.
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Landrum Plant
To Expand
Jack Elliott, President of South
Carolina Elastic Company
announced the start of
construction of an addition to the
plant. South Carolina Elastic
Company manufactures a wide
variety of elastic narrow fabrics
used in outerwear and
underwear, mostly waistbands
The original plant was built in
1954 and began production of
braided elastics in 1955 Since
then the plant has been expanded
s.x tunes The last expansion
completed in 1978 This seventh
expansion will probably be h
last because there isn’t any mon
and available at the
location
In deciding to build at this time
when business isn’t verv sir
Mr. Elliott said, we are
beyond .he reces^
preparing to take care of „ 7
that we anticipate in the
years. This indicates our
faith in the future of the ,
industry and in the lex, ile
the Carolinas The insHn 0f
new machinery will tak , . 1011 nf
months after the bu?i >0 '" 18
complete It is scheduled"! 15 is
completed by October ' H '
sooner by which '^2 „ r
employment will have '""e
by about 10% adding m r '' ;is ed
jobs to this part of the stat"?' " e *
South Carolina L
Company is a division A^xth-
Island Textile c 0f Kh.gj,.
leading Inanufa v t u “ "Pany
narrow fabrics f nr , eia. s '