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16 Pages Today
Vol. 55 - No. 1
TRYON, N. C. 28782
MONDAY, FEB. 1,1982
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Weather Thursday: high 56,
low 20, hum. 35%. Friday
morning was sunny and warmer.
Turkey’s consul general to Los
Angeles was assassinated
Thursday by two gunmen who
fired eight to 10 shots at him as he
sat in his car stopped at a red
light. Armenian terrorists
claimed responsibility for the
slaying. It was the second time in
nine years that Turkey’s consul
general to Los Angeles had been
assassinated.
The South Carolina Public
Service Commission has ordered
Duke Power Co. to give customer
refunds with interest for a
portion of the rates the utility has
been charging since December.
In Centralia, Mo., nine
houses were destroyed and
11 other buildings damaged
by fires Thursday when a gas line
regulator was struck by a
backhoe, boosting natural gas
pressure to some homes. The
increased pressure “caused fire
to come shooting out of the
furnaces,” setting about 20 fires.
One house blew up and that it was
just bang, bang, bang in a chain
reaction according to Terry
Mansfield the fire chief.
Today at 12 noon is the filing
Continued On Back Page
Buy Acreage
Lloyd Yerch of Great Falls, Va.
has bought 60 acres on Hwy. 9
near Mill Spring from W M.
Watson. Mr. Yerch bought here
due to the climate. He plans to
build a home in the near future
and is going to raise horses and
cattle.
Town & Country-Knoblock and
Horne Realty were the brokers.
Landrum Civic
League Meets
February 5
The Landrum Civic League will
meet Friday, Feb. 5, at the Depot
at 3 p.m. Rev. Ray Smith of the
Landrum United Methodist
Church will be the guest speaker.
He will discuss the 30 block quilt
made by his mother. The red and
white quilt has a different cross
in each block, such as the Latin
cross, the Celtic cross, etc.
Hostesses for the February
meeting are Mesdames Frank
Shroback, Young, Hambel and
Hollands.
MEN’S BRIDGE
Results of the match played by
the Tryon Men’s Bridge Club on
January 26 were as follows: 1st.
a tie between Bill Mayberry with
Charles Stratford and AI Daniel
and Ed Delehanty; 3rd. Russ
Gratner with George Stothoff.
The next match on February 2
will be at the home of Glen
Hackett.
Meeting Place
Feb. Schedule
The following activities are
offered weekly at the Meeting
Place, Polk County's Senior
Center:
Early American Decorative
Art, Wednesday 10-2; Ceramic
class, Tues., Wed., Thurs.; Craft
Class, Monday 10; Art Class,
Tues. 10-12, 2-4; Group Singing,
Wednesday 10:30; Biblical
Discussion, Wednesday 11:15;
Contract Bridge, Wednesday
12:30; Exercise Class, Thursday
11:15; Duplicate Bridge,
Thursday 7:30; Knitting Class,
Thursday 10-12; Quilting Class,
Friday 1:00; Films, Friday, Feb
12,26,10:00
Group Discussion led by Dr
Joel Dobbins, Feb 11, Thursday,
12:30 and Feb. 17, Wednesday,
12:30.
Hypertension Screening: Feb.
3, Wednesday, 12:30; Feb. 11,
Thursday, 12:30.
Interagency Luncheon
Meeting, Feb. 4, Thursday, 12:00
Juvenile Delinquent Task
Force: Feb. 5, Friday. 12:00.
Transportation Monday
through Friday, Contact Fran
Freeman, 859-5611.
Call for lunch reservations by
9:30 a m. Lunch is served at 12
noon.
There will be a Tri County
Softball League organizational
meeting Tuesday, Feb. 2nd. at 7
p.m. at the Tryon City Hall.
Anyone interested in joining eith
er the men's or women’s softball
teams should attend.
Armstrong-Park
Here Feb. 5 & 6
Friday and Saturday,
February 5 and 6, The Upstairs
will present Anglo-American
Traditional music as played by
Fred and Jenny Armstrong-
Park This couple has been
touring the country sharing the
songs, stories and dnaces. On
Friday evening at eight o’clock
the Armstrong-Parks will
perform songs and ballads and
stories, and on Saturday evening
they will call a square dance.
Jenny plays fiddle, guitar,
banjo and bowed psaltery, and as
a special treat the Great
Highland Bagpipe. Fred plays
harmonica and washboards,
spoons and fiddlestix, and is a
first rate storyteller — an
important part of their
performances He also calls old-
time running sets, contra dances,
and circle dances.
The Armstrong-Parks have
played all across the country,
notably at the Spoletto Festival in
Charleston, the National Story-
telling Festival in Jonesboro,
Tenn.; Union Grove Fiddler's'
Convention; and the John C
Cambell Folk School in
Brass town.
Both events begin at 8 p.m.
A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brumlev
of Columbus are parents of a
daughter, Andi Katherine, born
January 28th at Memorial
Mission Hospital in AsheviUe