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(Consolidated with the Po'lk County Nows 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. 5-1 — No. 168
Weather Thursday: high 78,
low 42, humidity 45%. Friday was
another beautiful day.
President Reagan asked
Congress on Thursday night to
cut spending an additional $13
billion next year and to raise $3
billion more in taxes to lift the
nation from its "economic
swamp" and point the budget
toward balance in 1984.
Rising housing costs
moderated in August but still
pushed inflation to a 10.6 percent
annual rate, the government
reported Thursday.
About 10,500 North Carolina
families will lose their food
stamp benefits under new food
stamp rules that go into effect
Oct 1. Another 70,000 families
will experience a reduction in
benefits.
The Tryon Fine Arts Center
box office opens today for “The
Belle of Amherst", a one-person
play based on the life of poet
Emily Dickinson which will run
Oct. 1, 2, and 3 at 8:30 p.m. The
Box office is open from 10 a.m. tc
12 noon and from 2to4p.m.
The Tryon Kiwanis Club meets
Tuesday at 12:45 p.m. at the
Pacolet River Plantation.
Thursday at 6:30 p.m. is the
annual dinner meeting of the
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TRYON. N C. 28782
Powers Featured
Kenny Powers of Landrum. S.
C was featured on the TV
program. "Games People Play”
Thursday. Mr. Powers was
interviewed and shown jumping
nine cars with another
automobile. Mr. Powers cleared
seven cars, but came down on the
eighth, demloishing his car.
Clinic Schedule
Polk County Health
Department clinic schedule for
week of September 28th is as
follows:
Monday: General clinic
'immunization, hypertension
screening, tbc test, etc.) 8:30-12
a.m., 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday: Speech and hearing
(by appointment)
Thursday: Maternity 8:30-10
a.m
Friday: Nurse screening
cancer (by appointment)
Home health care by physician
referral
For appointment, call 894-8271.
Girls Tennis
Monday
T. C. Roberson at Tryon
Tuesday-
Tryon at Travelers Rest
Wednesday-
Tryon at Brevard
Thursday
Tryon at Gaffney
MONDAY, SEPT. 28,1981
Polk Central
Beats Sidewinders
The Polk Central 7th and 8th
graders defeated Tryon
Sidewinders 14 to 12 Thursday
afternoon al Harmon Field. This
Thursday the Sidewinders play
SCSD at Harmon Field at 5 p m
Julian Carpenter
Julian Belton Carpenter, 81,
husband of Nettie Elizabeth Cole
Carpenter of Landrum, S. C. died
Thursday after a long illness.
A native of Landrum, he was a
son of the late John Sidney and
Mattie Lelia Lyles Carpenter He
was in textile management for
Blue Ridge Co. and was a veteran
of World War II He was a
member of the Landrum
Presbyterian Church. He was
first married to the late Nell
Jackson Carpenter.
Also surviving is a sister, Mrs,
Mattie Lelia Scott of Landrum.
Services were held Saturday at
11 a.m at the Landrum
Presbyterian Church with Dr.
Herman Nodine officiating.
Burial was in the Columbus
Baptist Church Cemetery.
Petty Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Anthony Albert Alessi, Jr., 21,
of Campobello pled guilty to three
counts of housebreaking and
grand larceny and two counts of
storebreaking and grand larceny
and received a total of five years
in court in Spartanburg
Thursday. — Spartanburg Herald
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A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jackson of
Rt. 1. Tryon are parents of a
daughter, Kristy Marie, born
Sept. 23rd al Mary Black Hospital
in Spartanburg.
The maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs Johnny Jackson
of Stotts Corner.
The paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Campbell of
Landrum.
Small World
Mrs. Jack Rhodes (Melinda
Hilton) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
was reading the Mikwaukee
paper and found a connection
with her former home town
Tryon. The Milwaukee Journal
Garden Editor was telling about
a new herb handbook, "Boerner
Botanical Gardens’ Herb
Information Handbook." The
handbook names and describes
320 aromatic herbs, lists their
uses and tells how to grow them
The Boerner handbook was
compiled by Ruth D. Wrensch
formerly of Brookfield. Wis and
now of Trvon.
"A dedicated herb gardener
and a long time member of Thn
Herb Society of America
Wrensch developed the book with
the aid of William J. Radler
Boerners assistant director and
George Stepke, the gardener who
maintains the 12 planting beds -
Whitnall Park's widely renown^}
herb garden.”