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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 la published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
108 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Dsily Bulletin
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Printodln the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 55 - No. 8
Weather Monday: high 56, low
23, hum. 23% and at 7 a.m.
Tuesday a trace of rain. Later
Tuesday morning there was a
heavy rain.
Tonight at 7:30 the public
hearing on the Tryon Annexation
will be held at the Tryon
Elementary School Cafeteria.
A Japan Air Lines DC-8
carrying 174 people on a domestic
flight crashed into the shallows of
Tokyo Bay just short of a Haneda
Airport runway Tuesday
morning and reports state that 21
passengers and crew members
were killed.
Tuesday’s Spartanburg Herald
reports that a 1,000 gallon
moonshine still was destroyed
Monday and 172 gallons of liquor
were confiscated at a mobile
home near Campobello in the
Little Chicago area. Jimmy
Williams of Campobello Rt. 2,
owner of the mobile home was
charged with possession of
distillery devices and possession
of illegal liquor.
We call your attention to the
report of the Polk County School
Board meeting by the League of
Women’s reporter. It looks as if
the Polk County Schools will run
out of current expense money
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TRYON, N. C. 28782
Bond Set At $25,000
Bond has been set at $25,000
each for Olin Dean Lawrence, 40,
of Columbus Rt. 2 and Enoch Ray
Sarrat, 46, of Redland Road,
Landrum, who have been
charged with murder of Michael
Eugene Ward, 39 of Rt. 3, Inman,
S. C. and assault and battery with
intent to kill Milton Henry
Degraw, 35, of Landrum.
Ward was shot once in the chest
with a .44 magnum pistol and
Degraw was shot once in the
abdomen with a .44 magnum
pistol.
Polk Cattlemen
Elect Officers
The Polk County Cattlemen’s
Association met Monday night at
the 4-H & Youth Center in
Columbus and elected the
following officers: President,
Phillip Walker; Vice President,
Claudy Pack; Sec.-Treas., Fred
Berger.
Dr. Bill Eickhoff of N. C. State
University explained the new tax
laws as they pertain to farms and
explained how to take advantage
of changes in the law.
Frank Smith, outgoing
president presided and
introduced those who had helped
the cattlemen during the past
year.
On Dean’s List
Timothy Caroll Sauve of Rt. 2,
Columbus has been named to the
Dean’s List for the Fall Semester
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10,1982
Miss Marci Lynne Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Allen
Smith of Houston Road,
Columbus, North Carolina, have
announced the engagement of
their daughter, Marci Lynn of
Columbia, South Carolina, to
Charles Wainwright Richardson,
son of Wainwright Richardson
and Mrs. H. Heath Harrison III of
Richmond, Virginia.
The wedding is planned for
May 22 at the Columbus Baptist
Church.
Miss Smith, a graduate of Polk
Central High School, attended the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and received a B. S.
degree in business
administration from th ®
University of South Carolina at
Columbia. She is employed by
General Electric Credit Corp.
Mr. Richardson attend first
Colonial High School in Virginia
Beach, Virginia and will receive
a B. S. degree in business
administration fr° m .®
University of South Carolina in
May.
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Polk Schools
In Trouble
The Polk County Board of
Education held its regular
meeting on 8 February in the
Agriculture Extension
Conference Room in Columbus.
Chairman Willie Arledge
welcomed visitors and after
approval of the January 18th
meeting minutes turned the
meeting over to Superintendent
Benfield.
Al Guthrie reported on
financial affairs. Estimated
receipts from local, state and
other sources for the five-month
period, February through June
1982, were $307,778. After meeting
payroll costs for this period only
$104,000 would be left to cover
other expenses. Normal spending
would mean that the schools
would run out of funds by March.
He and Ann Carswell prepared an
estimate of expenses which cut
all but the most necessary
expenses, including the $25 000
usually spent to fill fuel tanks in
June, and all maintenance after
June 1. This stringent budget
would require $111,000, stUl seven
to eight thousand dollars over
estimated income. This shortage
would have to be met bv Z
reduction in services or out
capital outlay funds. Dr Beid
warned that maintenZZ„ eld
not be postponed another ?s d
and that cuts would l e 3 ^ r
complaints in the current “ to
Dr. Benfield stated ^ r ’
wished the Board to be he
of this serious financial