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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
(USPS 643-360) *
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline
Vol. 54 — No. 178 TRYON. N. C. 28782 MONDAY, OCT. 12,1981
12 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Thursday: high 76,
low 45, humidity 31%. Friday
morning was cool and cloudy and
most of us were praying for rain.
Former President Jimmy
Carter threatened Thursday to
sue the Washington Post if it
doesn’t apologize for saying Blair
House was bugged when the
Reagans stayed there just before
Reagan’s inauguration.
Duke Power Co. will increase
electricity rates by 9% in the
Carolinas on Oct. 19th.
Tonight the Polk County School
Board meets at 7:30 p m. in the
Extension Conference Room in
the courthouse annex.
The Tryon Town Council meets
tonight at7:30 in the town hall.
Tonight at 8 o’clock Jim and
Tah Flack will present a slide-
tape showing two of their most
interesting hiking trips at the
Fine Arts Center.
The second of three lecture by
Dr. Claude Broach will be tonight
at 7:30 in the fellowship hall of the
Congregational Church.
The Thermal Belt Business and
Professional Womens Club
Paper Drive is this week.
Residents are asked to place
their paper items in the trailer
parked in the parking lot of the
Community Cash in Landrum
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Youth Football
The games scheduled for
Tuesday have been changed to
today (Monday)
National Conference
Monday at 6 p.m.
Mill Spring at Landrum Reds
Landrum Cards vs Tryon
American Conference
Monday at 7:15 p.m.
Mill Spring vs Landrum Reds
Landrum Cards vs Tryon
Tryon Lions ~
Meet Tuesday
The Tryon Lions Club will meet
Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Pacolet
River Plantation. The Rev.
Stewart Humphries, executive
director of the Eliada Home of
Asheville will show slides The
ladies are invited. Charles "Dub”
Melton is in charge of the
program.
Meet About
Christmas Parade
Those planning the Columbus
C hnstm a s Parade will meet
tonight at 7 o’clock at the Flower
Co tage on Mill street in
Columbus. 10
Board Meeting
For Kiwanis
There will be a special Board of
Dmectors meeting for the Tryon
Kiwanis Club Tuesday at 2
at the Pacolet River PIam a ? 0,1
The budge, win be^^
plans for the new year w f n a ™
d.scussed. All members are
invited. ar e
Polk Central
Nominations For
Morehead Award
Polk Central has nominated
three students for the Morehead
Award at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Nominated for County
Competition are:
Tawana Rickman
The answer to a coach’s prayer
is Tawana Rickman, a three-
letterman in softball (best hitter
award), basketball, and
volleyball. Tawana was a junior
marshal, Miss Polk Central and
the winner of the Carolina Book
Award in English and Social
Studies. An AFS host sister to
Tamsen Fread of Australia,
Tawana is interested in studying
International Relations,
journalism and languages. She is
An daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A1 len Rickman of Mill Spring.
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Jim Rutledge
Is Kiwanis Speaker
The Tryon Kiwanis Club will
meet Tuesday at 12:45 p.m. at the
Pacolet River Plantation. The
guest speaker will be Jim
Rutledge.
A native of Johnstown, Pa., he
is a graduate of Juniata College,
Huntingdon, Pa. in 1947 and with
a B.S. Business Administration
with Accounting as a major.
A veteran of World War II, he
retired as Lieutenant Colonel in
the Army Reserves in 1970. He
was with a Public Accounting
firm as an accountant for three
years before joining Milliken in
1956.
He has developed and
conducted in-company training
programs for all levels of
management and has served as a
Dale Carneige Instructor. He has
written a book entitled,
“Effective Communication One
to One-One to a Bunch.” He has
taught at Spartanburg Tech and
Spartanburg Methodist.
Mr Rutledge who was named
“Man of the Year” in recognition
of his achievements has served
as president of the Tryon Kiwanis
Clu P b, member of the Tryon
School Board, president of the
Tryon Boosters Club Chairman
nf the Polk County Republican
Party' and president of the Polk
County Little League. He has
been active in the Tryon United
Methodist Church where he is a
, ay speaker ^ “^Xtiee
seminars
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