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Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin la 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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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 54 — No. 49
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON, N.C. 28782 THURSDAY, APRIL9,1981
20 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Monday: high 67, low
44; Tuesday: high 68, low 32.
Wednesday was another
beautiful spring day.
Tuesday night was the first
home night game for Tryon High
School baseball team.
Unfortunately they lost 9-1 to
Edneyville.
Rejecting pleas for leniency, a
New York judge Brenda Soloff
sentenced former Yippie Abbie
Hoffman to three years in prison
for a $36,000 drug sale in 1973.
There has been a lot of
favorable comment on the
appearance of Cowan’s
Hardware, Cowan's
Supermarket and Polk
Insurance. The fronts of their
buildings are certainly
attractive. We saw Charles
Cowan out Wednesday morning
watering the azaleas that have
been place in front of his building.
The improvement of store
buildings and the plantings along
the railroad bank and at the depot
have certainly made the
downtown Tryon area a much
prettier place.
The Polk County Apperance
Committee will meet today at
3:30 at the courthouse annex and
the Planning and Zoning Board
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
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Early Bird
Church Tourney
There will be a ball meeting
Sunday. April 12th at 2:30 p.m. at
the Green Creek Community
Building. This is for the Early
Bird Church Tournament. A
representative from each team
must be present at the meeting.
The entry fee is $60, plus 2 white
stitch Dudley balls. The first 20
teams, men and women will be
picked. For further information
call James Stott, 457-3366 or Earl
Stott, 863-2772.
Sunday At 1:30
The Greenville County Hounds
will hold its Hunter Pace Sunday
at 1:30 p.m. at The Wright Way
Farms near Gowensville.
2-Car Wreck
A 2-car wreck happened
Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. at the
red light near the Columbus
Baptist Church. Police Chief
Fred Earl Foster investigated
the accident.
Tryon Boosters
Meet Tonight
The Tryon Boosters Club will
meet tonight at 7:30 at the high
school.
Miss Mary Roff and Miss Kim
Cottle of Greenville, N. C. have
returned to UNC at Chapel Hill
after spending the Steeplechase
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Roff
Trash Pick-up Sat.
Bob Barber of Rt. 1, Columbus
attended the Western North
Carolina Development
Association Board meeting on
March 26th. He reported that the
State Department of
Transportation is cooperating
with Rural Development Clubs to
keep their communities clean. On
Sat, April 11th there will be three
dump trucks and crews to pick-up
the bags of trash when
assembled Plastic bags are
available from the Polk County
Department of Transportation in
Columbus.
This is part of the Keep North
Carolina Beautiful Campaign.
Move Here
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Radford
have moved from Anaheim, Calf,
to Columbus.
Mr. Radford, a native of
Marion, N. C. has retired from
the lumber business.
Mrs. Radford, the former Lois
Guffey, is a native of Polk
County.
They are the parents of 5 sons,
Kenneth, Donald, Jack, Cecil and
Cleave who all reside in
California.
Mr. Radford stated his wife
wanted to come back home.
Tryon Band Boosters
Meet Monday
The Tryon Band Boosters will
meet Monday, April 13 at 7:30
p.m. in the band room.
Close Call
Most of us have had a close call
at one time or another, but there
was one Tuesday about 9:15 a.m.
that most of us don’t want. A
Duke Power Bucket Truck was
answering a call on an outage at
Mill Spring and was following be
hind a loaded Metromont Cement
Truck. When the trucks reached
the Midway straight stretch the
Duke Power truck driven by Joe
Williams pulled out to pass the
Metromont truck as nothing was
in sight. As the Duke truck pulled
ahead of the Metromont Truck, a
car pulled out of side road
without looking and headed
toward the two trucks. Joe
Williams pulled the Duke truck to
the right and the Metromont
truck driven by Richard Hyder
saw what was happening and
pulled over as far as he could
without going off the road,
because if he had gone off the
road the top heavy cement truck
would probably overturned. The
three vehicles passed each other
on a two-lane road with no inches
to spare. The only damage was a
slight dent and scratched paint on
the Duke truck and some damage
to the Metromont truck tire.
Some excellent driving by the
drivers of the two trucks kept a
serious accident from occurring.
The car which caused all the
trouble, kept on going.
Meets Tonight
Tryon Valley Chapter 411 will
meet Thurs.,(tonight) at 6 p.m. a
the Lodge Hall. Louise Payton,
W. M., Betty Thompson, Sec.