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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. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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12 Pages Today
Vol. 54 — No. 35
TRYON. N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1981
Price 10c Per Cop;
Weather Wednesday: high 68,
low 44. Thursday morning was
cold, down in the low 30s.
The Tryon boys basketball
team is already in Greensboro
getting ready to play Pantego
tonight at 7 o'clock in the
Greensboro Colesium. There will
be two chartered buses and
others leaving at 1 p.m. from the
Tryon High School. The boys
have had a very successful year
and we wish them well. Their
opponent is 31-0 and one of their
players. Bruce Peartree has been
named to the 1981 N. C.
Associated Press All-State High
School Team
Tonight from 5:30 to 7 p.m. is
the Spaghetti Supper at Polk
Central High School
Tonight at 8:30 the Children’s
Theater Festival begins with
Robin Hood at the Fine Arts
Center. Super Saturday is all day
Saturday on Melrose Ave.
The Polk County Republican
Convention is Saturday at 10 a m.
at the courthouse in Columbus.
Saturday at 2:30 p.m. the Polk
County Commissioners will meet
at 2:30 p.m. with Sen Bo Thomas
to discuss the special legislation
concerning the Polk County Soil
Conservation. The meeting will
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Special Meeting
For Commissioners
There will be a special meeting
of the Polk County Commission
ers Saturday, March 21st at 2:30
p.m. in the Commissioners
Meeting Room.
Representative Bo Thomas will
be present and the topic will be
Soil Conservation.
Kennedy-Nelson
Mrs. Robert G. Kennedy and
George V. Nelson, both of Tryon,
were united in marriage
Wednesday, March 18th at a
private service at the Tryon
Presbyterian Church. The Rev.
John D. officiated.
25th Anniversary
For Rock Springs
Rock Springs Baptist Church
(Lake Lanier) will celebrate its
25th year on Sunday, March 22nd
Rev. Leon Johnson will be the
guest speaker at the 11:00 a m
service. Dinner will be served in
the Fellowship Hall at 1:00 p.m.
All are invited.
Duke Power Asks
For 19.7% Increase
Duke Power Co., citing higher
“Prating and capital costs, has
filed a request for a general rate
increase in North Carolina of 19 7
percent.
BPW Scholarship
The Thermal Belt Business and
Professional Womens Club
reminds you that the Scholarship
Applications are due to be
returned by March 31.
Applications are still available at
Tryon High School, Polk Central
High School and Landrum High
School. Also, NCNB Tryon and
Columbus, Northwestern Bank,
Tryon Federal Savings & Loan
Association and First National
Bank, Landrum, S. C. For further
information contact Mrs. Fred
Edwards at 859-5811 or 894-8141.
Correction
The Young Generation Shop in
Landrum had Levi Men’s
Unwashed Boot Cut Jeans at
$15.50 during their sale. Ladies
Chinos by Dee Cee, reg. $18 on
sale for $12.99.
Gash Completes
Justice Program
CHAPEL HILL — Chief Judge
Robert T. Gash of Brevard, was
among 40 graduates of the first
Justive Executives Program
awarded certificates of
completion here March 7.
Designed to strengthen the
criminal justice system in North
Carolina, the Justice Executives
Program was sponsored by the
and^th^'?. ^ ime Emission
and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute
Bu^"^ 6 " 1 and the School of
Business Administration.
Cloggers On TV
The Polk County Cloggers will
be on TV Sunday at 12:30. They
will be seen on the Fred Kerby
Show on Channel 3, Charlotte.
They will be featured again
dedicating a song to Polk County
on Sunday, March 29th.
Officers Elected For
Organic dub
The Town and Country Organic
Garden Club has elected the
following officers: Bob Vierling,
pres.; Kurth Wilinski, vice-
pres.; Rita Vierling, sec.; Joan
Soltis, cor. sec.; Mason Larwood,
treas. The program and publicity
committee consists of Charles
Soltis, chairman; Russell Knouse
and Craig Williams.
At their March 15th meeting
Ivan Kuster of Tryon presented
his program on Wildflowers,
illustrated by color slides.
The program for the next
meeting will be on “Summer
Birds” to be given by Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Frederick.
Julie Staggs, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Terry Staggs of
Landrum recently visited the
School of Music at the University
of Georgia She was given a tour
of the school and introduced to
the requirements for entry and
the scope of the program of music
study by Dr. Legllar
Tryon Western Auto Store will
be closed Saturday due to a death
in the family.