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Vol. 54 — No. 72
TRYON, N. C 28782
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13,1981 Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Friday: high 73, low
42, rain .09; Saturday: high 76,
low 55; Sunday: high 76, low 59,
trace of rain; Monday: high 74,
low 57, rain 1.63.
President Reagan will propose
several benefit changes in Social
Security — including stiff
penalties for persons who take
early retirement — in an effort to
stave off bankruptcy of the
system. The president will ask al 1
recipients to forego a cost-of-
living increase for three months
next year, and wants incentives
built into the program for persons
to continue working past the age
of 65
The nation’s banks raised their
prime lending rate to 19.5 percent
Monday.
Friday is the Strawberry
Festival at the Tryon
Presbyterian Church.
The Rotary Community
Chorus, “Spring Fever” is
Saturday at 8 p m. and Sunday at
3 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center
G. C. Little League
Monday’s Results
Giants 13, Red Sox 10
Yankees 12, Indians2 (5 innings)
The Bulletin, 10c Per Copy
Planning Board
Meets Thursday
The Polk County Planning and
Zoning Board meets Thursday at
7:30 p.m. int he courthouse
annex.
A Graduate
Miss Julie Hill Pettigrew,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw
Pettigrew of Tryon received a B.
A. from Duke University on
Sunday, May 10th.
Completes Course
The Polk County School Food
Service personnel have recently
completed a 30-hour state
approved course in "Overview In
School Food Service." Mary
Stevens of Swannanoa conducted
the course supplied through
Isothermal Community College
as part of the continuing
education program. In conjuction
with the instruction, two field
trips were made — one to Bell
Distributing Wholesale Co. Food
Show and one to Asheville Meat
Packing Co. Food Show, both in
Asheville. These courses are
developed to motiviate child
nutrition personnel to use their
knowledge and skills to up grade
the lunches served in school and
to keep up with the fast moving
changes in School Food Service.
Those attending were Margo
Villesenor. Jean Conner, Ruby
Gilbert, Carrie Lee Garrett,
Grace Metcalf, Judy Moore,
Mildred Jackson, Judy Edwards,
Joyce Ridings, Margaret Collins
and Dot Owens.
New Book
Off The Press
A new book, “Poems of
Experience and Emotion" bv
Della H. Jackson of Stony Knoll
is off the press. During the next 60
days, 50% of the profit of the sale
of the new book and her other
book, “Special Approaches For
Sunday Schools In Small
Churches" will go to the Stony
Knoll Community Library Fund
to help in the Summer Recreation
Program.
Mrs. Jackson said that copies
may be bought at The Bookshelf
and James Bryan’s Store in
Tryon; the Columbus Pharmacy
in Columbus and Bobby Bishop’s
Grocery in Mill Spring.
Superior Rating
Saturday, May 9th, the
Instrumental Solo and Ensemble
Contest was held at Western
Carolina University.
Heidi Faber, a Polk Central
High School senior, played a
clarinet solo and recieved a
Superior (Class I) rating. She
played "Sonata in F" by G. F.
Gandel, and was accompanied by
Ms. Pam McNeil on piano
This is not her first attendance
at this festival. She has
previously received one superior
and two excellent ratings for
solos and duets, and has been a
member of the Western District
All-State Band Wind Ensemble.
Heidi has been under the
instruction of Allen Benson of the
Converse College Music
Department
Homecoming Sunday at
New Hope Church
New Hope United Methodist
Church will have Homecoming
Sunday, May 17th. Sunday School
will be at 10 a m worship service
at 11 a.m. and dinner in the
Fellowship Hall will be at 1 p.m.
Gospel singing begins at 2 p.m.
with The Master Singers of
Chesnee and The Whisnant
Family of Morganton bein^
present. Rev. Carroll Flack is th
pastor.
Mexican Archeology
At Rotary Friday
The Tryon Rotary Club will
meet Friday at 12:30 p.m. at the
Pacolet River Plantation. Mrs.
Paul Muller will be the guest
speaker, and she will talk on "An
Overview of Mexican
Archeology " Mrs. Muller holds a
masters degree from the
Interamerican University of
Mexico and has participated in
field and museum studies
sponsored by the University of
the Americas in Pueblo and the
National Institute of
Anthropology in Guanajuato.
Putting On Weight?
You are invited to come to
Overeaters Anonymous
Thursday, 5 pm May 14th at
Tryon Pentecostal Holiness
Church for help No charge
Mr and Mrs. Herman Walter
of Ellenton. Fla. is visiting Mrs.
Willis E. Kuhn at the Cotton
Patch in the Hunting Country.