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Tryon, North Carolina, 28782
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 of Western North Cerollne
Vol. 53 - No. 241
TRYON. N. C. 28782 THURSDAY, JANUARY 15,1981
1G Pages Today
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Weather Tuesday: high 43, low
17. Wednesday was warmer. At
12:45 it was 45 and sunny The
cold wave punishing the East
stunned Florida on Tuesday with
a record killer freeze from
Tallahassee to Miami that hung
icicles on orange trees and glazed
vegetables in their fields. The
cold weather may have wiped out
20 percent of Florida's orange
crop, the equivalent of 49 million
gallons of concentrated orange
juice.
Chris Evert Lloyd edged teen-
ager Tracey Austin Tuesday by
two votes for The Associated
Press Women Athlete of the
Year.
The N. C. Legislature convened
Wednesday in Raleigh.
Reappointment of Congressional
Senator and House of
Representative districts will
cause some headaches and Polk
County can look forward to being
shifted.
Because of the increase in the
minimum wage and a federal
government cut in the aid to
school lunch programs, school
lunch prices in Spartanburg
County will increase on Monday.
Lunches for students will
increase by 5c a day to 60 cents
per day for elementary students
Continued On Back Page
At Tryon Methodist
Dr. Robert E. I.air. Jr.
Dr. Robert E. Lair. Jr., is the
new minister at the Tryon United
Methodist Church succeeding the
Rev. Everett Freeman who has
been assigned to an Asheville
church.
Dr. Lair, a native of Texas, is a
graduate of North Texas State
University with a BS in
Education, the University of the
State of New York with B A and
received his B.M and M. Div
from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He was a
Merrill Fellow at Harvard
Divinity School and received his
D. Min. from Emory University.
He served as a Marine infantry
officer and was honorably
discharged as a Captain He is a
Lt. Col. in the U. S. Army
Reserve Chaplain to Basic
Infantry Training Brigade He
taught high school World History
and American Literature and
Continued On Back Page
Fire Destroys
McCarter House
A fire gutted the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon McCarter in the
Beulah Community Tuesday at
12:15 a m. Answering the call
were fire trucks from Mill
Spring, Green Creek and
Columbus. The fire was put out.
but the inside of the house was
beyond saving when the firemen
arrived.
Mr. McCarter was in his
chicken house and happened to go
outside and discover his house
was on fire. The cause of the fire
is nol known
Another Fire
The Columbus Volunteer
Firemen were called out
Wednesday morning about 8
o'clock to the Inland Gilbert place
on Houston Road An outside
building was destroyed by fire
and damage was done to a camp
er trailer, fish equipment, etc
that was in the shed. The cause of
the fire was not known.
This is the fourth fire in four
days that the Columbus Firemen
have responded to
Skiers Stranded
In Columbus
Tuesday's Spartanburg Herald
had an acticle by Lou Parris
about a church group Monday
from Greenwood. S. C. on their
way to the North Carolina
mountains to go skiing, running
Continued On Back Page
Miss Beverly Ashmore
Mr. and Mrs. William Greene
Ashmore, of Tryon, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Beverly Sanders to Lindsey Bev
Moore, son of Mr and Mrs
Lindsay Fuller Moore, of
Jamestown. N C
Miss Ashmore is a graduate
of Western Carolina University
with a BS degree in Business
Administration. She is employed
by United Airlines, based in
Washington. DC
Mr Moore, a graduate of
Western Carolina University with
a Bachelor of Fine Arts in design
has also studied in England.
At present, he is with Frontier
Airlines based in Denver.
Colorado.
A spring wedding is planned
In an historic move, the NCAA
voted Tuesday in Miami Beach,
Fla. to sponsor women's
championships in Division I
sports