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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
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106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT ot Western North Carolina
Vol. 53 — No. 227
No official weather report, but
it feels like Christmas weather.
No snow, but nippy.
President-elect Ronald Reagan
Monday named Samuel R. Pierce
to head the Dept of Housing and
Urban Development; Jeane J.
Kirpatrick, ambassador to the
United Nations, James G. Watt
as interior secretary and former
S. C. Gov. James B. Edwards as
energy secretary.
Some 1,480 executives have
accepted early retirement
incentive offers from Sears,
Roebuck and Co. and will leave
the nation’s largest retailer Dec.
31 with half pay for the next three
years, or until age 65, whichever
occurs first. Offers were made in
Sept, to 2,400 employees in Sears’
corporate operation and its
merchandise, credit and
international business groups.
The merchants, industries,
organizations and individuals
who have Christmas greetings in
today's paper, wish everyone a
Very Merry Christmas.
There will be no Bulletin
tomorrow and the office will be
closed.
A contribution for the
Lighted Christmas trees in Tryon
has come in from Nell and Carl
Tomko.
TRYON. N. C 28782
Town Of Tryon
Outstanding
Employee
The Town of Tryon Christmas
Party was held Monday from 4 to
7 p m. All employees of the Town,
Fire Department. retired
employees and special guests
saw Yolanda Walker and Frankie
Greene honored as the
Outstanding Employee of the
Year 1980. The awards were
presented by Town Manager
Charles Lott.
Outstanding New Employee
Awards were presented to Billy
Stepp and Nathan Shields.
Mayor Ken Tucker presented
the following Service Awards:
Scott Owens, 5 years; Nell
Lawson and Ronnie Pack, 10
years; Elwood Martin 20 years;
George Littlejohn 35 years. A
Special Service Award was
presented to the family of the late
Gene Tucker who was employed
by the Tryon Police Dept for 10
years.
Recognized for their
contributions to Development of
Youth in the Community were
Franklin Williams, Ronnie Pack.
Jimmy Lankford, Jerry Ross,
Clarence Scoggins. Ken Tucker
Outstanding Performance and
Dedication Awards were
presented to William Price,
Clarence Henson, Calvin
Cochran. Shank Hipp, Howard
Tipton, Roy Williams
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 24,1980
Employee Of Year
At a dinner banquet held in the
hospital dining room on
December 16th, Mrs. Linda A.
Lott, R.N., MIC'N, was presented
the coveted "Employee of the
Year" award.
Through her expertise as
Director of Critical Care
Services, Mrs. Lott is credited
with much improvement in all
the critical care areas, include
Intensive/Cardiac Care Units,
Emergency Room and EMS
(Ambulance) Service. Duty may
call at any time during the day or
night to which she responds so
ably, ft is no small task to keep
these functions operating
smoothly and is often found
covering a shift herself on the
week-ends when the staff is short
of qualified personnel.
Mrs. Lott joined the staff in
February 1977 as a Cardiac Care
Nurse. She has a B.S. degree in
nursing from the University of
Rhode Island She is a native of
New Jersey.
Mrs. Lott's husband, Charles,
is the Tryon Town Manager
They have two children, Jason
and Kristen — Hospital Reporter
40 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Cop;
Bloodmobile
Here Monday
Stressing that a blood donation
this holiday season could be a
“gift of life" to a neighbor, the
Red Cross Bloodmobile will pay
its final 1980 visit to Tryon next
Monday. Dec. 29th. It will be at
the Parish Hall of the Episcopal
Church from noon Until 5:30 pm.
"This is the season when all of
us hope to make life a little better
for our families, friends and
neighbors", said William E
Baird, local Red Cross chairman
"There is no better way to do this
than to donate a pint of blood
during the Bloodmobile's visit
"The process is easy and
simple and takes only a few
minutes, but the satisifaction of
giving life-saving blood so (hat
others may heal and live can be
long lasting", Baird said.
Anyone between 17 and 65 t 0
older with a Physicians
concurrence) can donate blood
In the process, donors will
their blood type catalogued
blood pressure checked
temperature and pulse taken
all for free
To stress the importance of it,-
Bloodmobile visit,
residents of the area have
interviewed and their Comal 0
about blood donations and
own experience in giving bl f
and the satisfaction they p
return will be broadcast ^
WTYN from Friday tb r v
Sunday. — Reporter 0u 8h