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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
(USPS 643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT ol Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 55 — No. 16
TRYON, N. C. 28782 MONDAY, FEB. 22,1982
Price 10c Per Copy
Weather Thursday: high 61,
low 38, hum. 80%, rain .08. Friday
morning was sunny and a
delightful day.
President Reagan declared
Thursday that he has “no plans to
send American combat troops
into action” in El Salvador or
anywhere else, but refused to
flatly rule out that possibility in
the future.
At least three NASCAR drivers
allegedly used their race cars to
transport narcotics in a "masive
drug operation” involving 70
people, FBI agents said
Thursday, Robert Pence, head of
the FBI’s North Carolina office,
said 66 of the 70 were indicted by
a federal grandjury in Miami and
four were included in Charlotte,
ending a 2^ year investigation
into narcotics activity in South
Florida and North Carolina.
Tonight at 7 o’clock the Tri-
Counly Softball League will hold
an organizational meeting at the
Tryon Town Hall.
Tonight at 7:30 the Polk County
Committee of N. C. 2000 will meet
at the Mill Spring Elementary
School.
Tonight at 7:30 the 4-H
Volunteer Recognition dinner
will be held at the 4-H and Youth
Center in Columbus.
Tonight at 7:30 the Landrum
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Still Destroyed
The Spartanburg County
Sheriff’s Departments Narcotics
and Vice Division joined forces
with the S. C. Alcoholic Beverage
Control Commission to raid a still
on Rt. 1, Landrum, Thursday
about 12:30 p.m.
Two men, who were at the site
of the still were arrested when
the law enforcement officers
raided the still on Landrum Mills
Road. Arrested were Johnny
Calvin Weaver, 50, of Landrum,
Rt. 2, and Roy Douglas
Whiteside, 38, of Landrum, who
were charged with
manufacturing illegal liquor.
Using dynamite police
destroyed the nine-50 gallon
barrels and confiscated four
cases of illegal liquor. — from
Spartanburg Herald
WSPA-TV news stated that a
hose was hooked up from a
nearby trailer which ran to the
still. The trailer reportedly
belonged to Jamie Belue.
New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Harding of
Stockbridge, Ga., are parents of a
daughter, Adria Kate, born on
Feb. 12th in Georgia.
Maternal grandmother is Mrs.
Edna Roach of Tryon and the
paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. John Harding of
Springfield, Va. Mrs. Ethel
Anderson of Springfield, Va. is
the great-grandmother.
Adria has a sister, Meredith,
who is 2 years old.
Dudley McGraw
Not Guilty
On Jan. 25th the Court of
Appeals of North Carolina
reversed a conviction of Dudley
G. McGraw for felonious manu
facture of marijuana. Mr.
McGraw, who represented
himself was sentenced to 5 years
in Polk County Superior Court
on Oct. 15, 1980. Mr. McGraw
appealed the verdict and was
represented by Wayne Eads of
Raleigh. , „
The appeal was heard Noy.
19th, 1981 by the Court of Appeals
and the judgment was given Jan.
25,1982 by Judge Earl W. Vaug n
with Judges Webb and Hill
concuring.
Stolen Van
Stopped In
Polk County
A Purolator Courier Van,
which had a 03
pharmaceutical supplies,
reportedly stolen while it *«
parked at the Village Shopping
Center in SP 3 " 13 ! 1 , ^D^udd of
p.m. Thursday. Lt. L U-
ihe Spartanburg Police took up
the chase and attemp
beside it. but when he did he
driver ‘“'"“iX”H
police car, almost
When Cudd was bumped, ^
Sparunburg County^ palro ,
Xus Joined 8
couldn’t oulrun ldn t stop and
vehicles, but it wouldn t stop
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Paving Firm
Is Fined
A Rutherfordton paving
company has been fined $175,00
and its president sentenced to 30
days in federal prison in
connection with the bid rigging of
a 1977 highway contract. 5
Thompson Contractors Inc
and its president, Lawrence
Thompson, were sentenced
Tuesday in federal court in
Raleigh, after pleading g ui i tv "
violating the U. S. Sherrn 1
Antitrust Act. German
The Pleas were part of a m
bargain with the U $ h P ! ea
Department. ’ Ust >ce
The charges involved hid
an 11.8 mile resurfacing n - ° n
in Henderson and Polk n Pro j e ct
The company was * Bounties.
$320,131.24 contract 3
project in 1977 and comnuL the
resurfacing in May 197g the
The indictments J
firm and unident®^ the
conspirators with di Co-
prospective bids and
intentionally high bids Totting
bids that comasy V"
fictitious and false
statements and ^leni
Asheville Citizen entr ies, 1
ALANON Meeting
The ALANON ev 8
will meet Monday J nin g
p.m. at Tryon Un^h ^P
Church. The ALANS M ow 7
group will meet N af^st
23 at 2 Pm
•Presbyterian Ch urch at