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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
Printed In the THERMAL BELT ot Western North Caroline
Vol. 53 — No. 211
TRYON, N. C. 28782 TUESDAY, DEC. 2,1980
8 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Friday: high 45, low
36; Saturday: 55, low 27; Sunday:
high 61, low 26.
For the month of November the
precipitation was 3.84 inches. The
average for November is 4.12
inches. The precipitation to date
is 65.19 inches and the average to
date is 56.05, leaving a surplus of
9.14 inches with a month to go.
This area experienced a quiet
Thanksgiving weekend. All of us
have much to be thankful for.
The Tryon Fireman's
Christmas tree in front of the
Town Hall came from Dr. John
Davis.
Town Manager Chuck Lott
reports that the directional signs
for Woodland Park have arrived
and will be put up shortly.
The Polk County Historical
Association will meet today at
2:30 p.m. at the Polk County
Library.
Today and tomorrow is the
Christmas Sale at the
Peppermint Shoppe at The
Meeting Place. Profits from the
Peppermint Shoppe are used to
help operate The Meeting Place.
There are lots of annual
Christmas gifts and ideas.
Wednesday at 10 a.m. the LWV
Study Group on N. C. County
Government will meet in the
Continued On Back Page
Tip Off Tourney
In Landrum
The Tip Off Tournament
involving the JV, girls and boys
basketball teams of Landrum,
Chesnee, Polk Central and Tryon
will be held Friday and Saturday
in Landrum. Admission will be $2
for everyone. The schedule is as
follows:
Friday
3 p.m. — Tryon vs Landrum
(Jayvees)
4:30 — Landrum vs Tryon (girls)
6 — Polk Central vs Chesnee
(boys)
7:30 — Chesnee vs Polk Central
(girls)
9 — Landrum vs Tryon (boys)
Saturday
3 — Polk Central vs Landrum
(JVs)
4:30 — Girls Consolation
6— Boys Consolation
7:30 — Girls Championship
9 — Boys Championship
Revival At
Hickory Grove
The Hickorv Grove Baptist
Church will have a revival Wed.,
Dec. 3 through the Sunday
morning service on Dec. 7th
Services will begin at 7:30 each
evening and at 11 a m on Sunday
The Rev. John Edwards of
Victory Baptist Church in
Asheville will be the guest
speaker. Robin Vance is the
Music Director and the Rev.
Freddie Siegfried is the interim
pastor.
Grigg-McFarland
Miss Cynthia Darlene Grigg
Clarence C Grigg of 7
McMillian Circle, Inman. S C.
has announced the engagement
of his daughter, Cynthia Darlene,
of Spartanburg, S. C., to Frank
Kenneth McFarland. III of
Tryon. N. C.
Miss Grigg was graduated
from Polk Central High School
and Western Carolina University
in Cullowhee, N. C. she is an
instructor at Paul M. Dorman
High School and Spartanburg
Technical College
Mr. McFarland is the son of
Mr and Mrs. Frank Kenneth
McFarland, Jr of 200 Freeman
Hill Rd., Tryon, N. C. A graduate
of Tryon High School and Wofford
College in Spartanburg, S C., he
is affiliated with McFarland
Funeral Chapel in Tryon. N. C.
and presently attending Gupton-
Jones College of Mortuary
Science in Atlanta, Ga.
A June 27th weddding is
planned at the Tryon
Presbyterian Church
Book Sale
President Joseph L. Knowlton
of the Lanier Library Board has
announced according to an ad
that on Sat., Dec. 6 from 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. there will be a sale of
books in the Library located at
the corner of Chestnut St. and
Melrose Ave. in Tryon.
Approximately 500 books win oe
for sale at prices ranging from 10
cents to 75 cents. Included will be
novels, mysteries, biographies,
childrens' books and more.
Like all libraries, big and
small, the Lanier Library has
acquired more books than it can
shelve or store in its building. The
Library Board has appointed a
Book Disposition Committee of
Mrs. Franklin Basler, Chairman
Mrs. G. Freeman Brooks and
Mrs. Mildred Turnbull. The
Committee selects f or
disposition: books in which there
is little interest as revealed bv
Ipck of circulation; extra copies
of books; when there are several
books by a single author onlv
those are kept that are high v
rated by the " Fiction Catalog-
brown due to the chemicals used
in paper manufacture-often
deteriorated book has , 3
replaced by one in
condition. bel ‘er
The sale on December 6 will i
supervised by the i K
Renovation Committee , ra fy
Harold D White, Ch °- f I ^ rs -
George S. Stothoff,
H Morgan and Frank . ?' d ney
K Johnson.