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CO^US. 11
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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 la published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
108 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
(USPS 643-360) *
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 55 — No. 11
TRYUN, N. C. 28/02
MONDAY, FEB. 15,1982
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Thursday: high 57,
low 35, hum. 55%. Friday
morning was cool and cloudy.
J. P. Stevens & Co. said
Thursday it will get out of the
denim business, idling 290
employees immediately at its
Rock Hill Industrial Plant and
another 250 in several weeks
when its last denim orders are
filled.
After nearly a year of fruitless
confrontations in the S. C.
General Assembly over
congressional reapportionment,
attorneys dumped the whole
argument into the laps of a three-
judge federal panel Thursday. It
marks the first time federal
authorities have interceded to
draw the state’s congressional
districts.
Dr. Bruce Robert Poulton,
chancellor of the University of
New Hampshire system, will be
the new chancellor of N. C. State
University.
Eleanor Powell, hailed as the
world’s greatest female tap
dancer, died Thursday of cancer
at her Beverly Hills home. She
was 69.
The first round of the
Appalachian Basketball
Tournament gets underway
continued On Back Page
Tryon To Receive
One OF The
Top Awards
The Central Business District
Committee of the Town of Tryon
has received notice from Keep
North Carolina Beautiful, Inc.
that their entry for Operation
Beautiful 1981 for Towns with
under 5,000 population was
selected to receive one of the top
three awards in North Carolina.
" he presentation of the awards
will be made at the annual
meeting in Raleigh on March
29th.
A spokesman for the Town said
that the Central Business District
Committee and the merchants
should be congratulated for their
fine efforts to beautify and
improve the downtown area.
Youth Soccer
To Be Organized
The Landrum Community
Center is in the process of
organizing a Youth Soccer
Organization for the Upper
Spartanburg County Area.
Persons interested in helping
coach, referee, or helping
organize are asked to attend the
meeting Tuesday, February 23rd
at 7:30 p.m. at the 0. P. Earle
School in Landrum. At this
meeting a Spring Season will be
discussed, along with clinics for
coaching, refereeing, and for the
youth. If you are not able to
attend the meeting please contact
the Landrum Community Center
at 457-4244
Scandinavian
Art Weaving
A program on Scandinavian
Art Weaving will be presented at
the first monthly meeting of 1982
of the Western North Carolina
Fibers/Handweavers Guild. At
the meeting, to be held at 10:00
a.m. Saturday, February 20 at
Opportunity House in
Hendersonville, participants in
the October, 1981 workshop on
Scandinavian Art Weaving will
show examples of their work. A
slide program on this topic will be
presented, and two members of
the Guild now living in Black
Mountain whose forebearers
were Scandinavian will show
pieces representative of the area
from which their families came
Anyone wishing further
information or needing
transportation should call
Margaret Selover, 859-5406, or
Agnes Sternberg, 859-6732.
Visitors are welcome at the
monthly meetings. Membership
in the Guild is open to anyone
interested in handweaving and its
related pursuits.
Dogwood Club
Meets Wednesday
The Dogwood Garden Club of
Columbus will meet Feb. 17 at
1:00 o’clock at the home of Mrs.
Carl Willers. Mrs. Ruth Wallace
is Go-Hostess.
Doug Roach of Columbus Farm
and Garden Center w* 11 S' ve a t ^
program on identifying
growing hollies.
B. C. Corbett For
Tryon School Bd.
B. C. “Buck” Corbett has filed
for the Tryon School Board. Mr.
Corbett, an incumbent, has
served on the Board since 1974.
He is in charge of operations
and personnel at NCNB, Tryon
and is treasurer of the Tryon
First Baptist Church. He has
served as a director of the Tryon
Chamber of Commerce, Treas. of
the Polk County Little League
and Deacon in the First Baptist
Church. He is a past president of
the Tryon PTA.
Mr. Corbett is married to the
former Deborah Gay and they
have three children: Tim, a
senior at UNC at Chapel Hill-
Lee, a freshman at UNC at
Charlotte and Lisa, a student in
the Tryon Elementary School
He is a graduate of Spring Hope
High School; attended Louisburg
Junior College for two years and
East Carolina University for one
year He was also graduated
from Carolina School of Banking
Chapel Hill and se r v e pa g i
American Institute of Bank
Correspondence courses
Meet Tonight
The Polk County Comb
ers will meet tonight at 7 m ', ssi ° n -
at the Saluda School 7 0 clock
Public Hearing
The Polk County
ers will have a Public
the amendment to th r ' n 8 °n
Ordinance tonight at s , ^‘ng
Saluda School lunch ro ^ 0 a ‘ tht