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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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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 54 — No. 234
TRYON, N. C. 28782
MONDAY, JAN. 4,1982
in Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Wednesday: high 46,
low 24. hum. 35%. At 7 a.m.
Thursday the rain was .18 and it
continued to rain. It looked like
fairyland Thursday as the rain
froze on the trees and shrubs.
Thankfully this area was spared
from it freezing on the roads, but
west of us and at higher
elevations the roads were very
icy.
Today at 12 noon is the hour
candidates for local offices may
file at the Board of Elections
office in Columbus. The deadline
for filing is February 1st at 12
noon. The election board office
hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Schools are back in session
after being out for the holidays.
The Polk County
Commissioners will meet today
at 3 p.m. at the courthouse in
Columbus.
The Tryon School Board will
meet tonight at 7:30 at the high
school.
The Polk County Democratic
Executive Committee meets
tonight at 7:30 at the courthouse
in Columbus.
The Tryon Kiwanis Club will
meet Tuesday at 12:45 p.m. at the
Pacolet River Plantation. Regan
Ammons is in charge of the
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Polk Farmers
Eligible For
Disaster Relief
Governor Jim Hunt’s office in
Raleigh, N. C. has announced
that Polk and Rutherford
counties are eligible for Federal
Emergency Disaster Relief
because of the severe damage
caused by the drought conditions
from June through October 1981.
The Governor was notified of the
decision through a letter from the
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture
secretary John R. Block.
The decision means farmers in
these counties are eligible for
emergency disaster loans from
the Farmers Home
Administration. The U. S. Dept,
of Agriclture denied the state’s
request that Currituck, Chowan,
Columbus, Jackson,
Perquimans, and Sampson
counties be granted disaster
status.
Polk Commissioners
Meet Today
The Polk County Commission
ers will meet today at 3 p.m. at
the courthouse in Columbus.
Tryon School Bd.
Meets Tonight
The Tryon School Board will
meet tonight at 7:30 at the high
school.
March TLT Play Is
Zany Comedy
“Petticoat Fever”, by Mark
Reed, has been announced by the
Tryon Little Theater as its next
offering, to be presented on
March 4, 5 and 6. No matinee
performance this time.
Hilarious doings take place in
the remotest part of Alaska
where Dascomb Dinsmore, his
wild oats sown behind him, is a
wireless station operator with
only his Eskimo houseboy for
Pidgin English conversation. His
boredom is interrupted by the
arrival of a dignified Canadian
Member of Parliament and his
lovely financee. Their crippled
airplane has forced an
emergency landing into a
snowbank blessedly near
Dascomb’s station. Dascomb
takes one look at the beauteous
Ethel, and the cheerful chase is
on, not to be interrupted until one
of Dascomb’s old flames makes
an unexpected entrance. Director
Marianne Brown promises that
it’s all good fun, bright and brisk
and full of laughs.
Tryouts for "Petticoat Fever”
will be held on Wednesday,
January 6 in the Fine Arts Center
auditorium and on Thursday,
January 7, in the Mural Room on
the lower level of the Center.
Time is 8:00 p.m. both evenings.
Needed are four young women,
and six men in ages ranging 35
and up. Scripts may be signed out
of the Fine Arts Center main
office or read at the Lanier
Library. - TLT Reporter
Hwy. 74 Low
On Priority List
According to the Rutherford
County News an extension of
Hwy. 74 in Rutherford County to
1-26 at Columbus was eliminated
by the N. C. State Department of
Transportation during a meeting
held in Raleigh recently. The
project is divided into three
portions, the segment in Polk
County, already graded, a
segment in Polk and Rutherford
Counties and a segment in
Rutherford County.
The announcement of the
elimination came from Secretary
of Transportation Bill Roberson.
The U. S. 74 connector won't be
built at least for another ten
years due to soaring inflation and
declining revenues.
DAR Meets Friday
The Joseph McDowell Chapter,
Daughters of the American
Revolution will met ? January 8,
at 1:00 p.m. at the rst United
Methodist Church in
Hendersonville. Mrs. Wilbur W.
Russell, State Chairman, C.A.R.
for American Indians, will speak
on “American Indians — Their
Religions and Myths.” Mrs. John
T. Cochran and Mrs. J. E. Daniel
will serve as hostesses The
public is invited.
Ms. Alexandria Watson has
returned to James Madison
"University, Harrisonburg, Va
after spending the holidays in
Columbus with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roscoe Watson.