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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. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
(USPS 643-360) ^
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 55 — No. 12
Printed.In the THERMAL BELT ot Western North Caroline
TRYON, N. C. 28782 TUESDAY, FEB. 16,1982
12 Pages Today
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Friday: high 50, low
28, hum. 55%; Saturday: high 48,
low 33, hum. 27% rain .12.
Monday morning was cloudy and
mild.
The Tryon Town Council will
meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
the Town Hall at which time it
will consider an ordinance of
annexation.
Thursday at 8 p.m. the next
Tryon Kiwanis Club Travelogue,
“Germany — Wunderbar” will
be at the Fine Arts Center. Ric
Dougherty is the narrator.
Chowan College at
Murfreesboro reports that Traci
Marie McCurry and Tina E.
Foster, both seniors at Tryon
High School have been accepted
for admission ' to Chowan College
for the fall semester beginning
Aug. 22nd. Chowan is a two-year,
Co-educational, residential
college.
Over 62,000 veterans in North
Carolina who kept their GI life
insurance policies in force will
share in a record $10.9 million
dividend during 1982. Because of
higher interest rates earned by
insurance funds, the amount to be
paid to policyholders during 1982
is about a million dollars above
the 1981 figure.
Staff members of the Saluda
Continued On Back Page
Organizing For
Tri-County
Softball League
There will be a Tri-County
Softball League 1982 Season
Organizationa meeting
Monday, Feb. 22nd at 7 p.m. at
the Tryon City Hall. This will be
for Men and Women’s Slow Pitch
Softball teams (Club-Church-
Industrial). For more
information call Dean Smith 894-
8402 or Joyce Hipp 859-6481.
There will be an A.S.A. Umpire
Clinic Wed., March 3rd. at 7 p.m.
at the Tryon Town Hall.
Appalachian
Tournament
The Appalachian 1-A girls
tournament began Monday with
NCSD (3-7) at Polk Central (4-6)
and Rosman (0-10) at Tryon (6-
4). Edneyville (10-0) and
Cherokee (7-3), which finished
first and second in the
tournament were awarded first
round byes.
The boys tournament begins
tonight (Tues.) with Rosman (3-
7) at Polk Central (5-5) and NCSD
(0-10) at Cherokee (7-3).
Tryon and Edneyville finished
in a tie for the conference
championship with 8-2 records.
Tryon earned the top seed in the
tournament on comparative
points spread. Both Tryon and
the Yellowjackets earned byes in
the first round.
The girls and boys semifinals
will be held at Cherokee with the
championship games scheduled
for Saturday at Cherokee.
Fiddlers Convention
At Landrum
The 3rd annual Upper South
Carolina State Fiddlers
Convention will be held at the
Landrum High School gym on
March 13th from 2 p.m. until 11
p.m. The contest time will be
from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. with
awards being presented at 10:30.
Contest catagories are: Fiddle
(double string and old time):
Acoustical Guitar (buffalo and
straight string); Blue Grass
Band (non-acoustic); Bull Base;
Banjo (old time, hammer, 3
finger); Mandolin; Do-Bro;
Dulcimer; Honky-Tonk Piano.
Interested contestants should
contact J. Roy Reed, Rt. 2,
Campobello, S. C. 29322
Fire
The Tryon Volunteer Fire
Department was called to the
McDowell home on Carson Street
Sunday at 6 p.m. The heat from
the chimney had caught the wood
next to the chimney on fire. The
firemen removed the wood and
there was little damage to the
house.
Notice
Michael Sprouse listed in Court
results Thursday 2-11-82 is no
Michael Lanz Sprouse of 104
Vineyard Road, student at North
Carolina State University.
Walking burns up 210
kilocalories per hour, fast
talking burns up 300; runni g
burns up 900.
Pea Ridge Meeting
And Crime Watch
There will be a Pea Ridge
Community Club meeting and a
Crime Watch meeting Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. at the Club House.
Someone will tell of the "Vile of
Life ” Supplies will be present to
establish the program.
ARC Meets Thursday
Polk County ARC (Association
for Retarded Citizens) will hold
its first meeting in 1982 at
Meeting Place on Thursday
evening at 7:30 p m y
There will be a report on the
operation of Woodbridge
on Mimosa Lane. This homa ^
Retarded Adults able to hold f ? r
at The Polk County
Workshop was opened last " red
as result of the efforts
organization. Funding lhe
provided by HUD, and bv N* 88
Mental Health provision N ' C ’
The organization will
begin a study of other
retarded children and ad^ 0f
their families in polk n an d
They will also C ° u hty.
legislation needed t COnside r
services for the _, lns Ure
advocated by the North n ed a S
ARC andjheNat^f Jcar oli
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Thursday At 7 :30
There will be an Al?®
Thursday, Feb. lath, me eUhg
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