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108 N. Trade St., P. 0. 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
Vol. 55— No. 30
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, MARCH 12,1982
16 Pages Today
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Weather Wednesday: high 68,
low 35, hum. 25%. Friday
morning was more of the same.
Tonight at 8:30 the Tryon High
School boys basketball team will
play Cullowhee at Bryson City.
The winner advances to the
Regional finals Saturday night.
The Old Timers Basketball
game will be played at Polk
Central gym tonight. The girls
game is at 6:30 and the boys at 8.
Michael Chapdelaine will be
performing tonight at 8 o’clock at
The Upstairs.
Saturday from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
there will be a Poor Man’s Supper
at the Melvin Hill Church
Community Building for the
young people of the church.
Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. there
is a Chicken and Ham Supper at
Mill Spring Cafeteria for the
benefit of the Mill Spring Fire
Department.
Saturday at 7 p.m. the Saluda
Brownies are sponsoring a
Gospel Singing at the Saluda
School Auditorium.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
there will be a repeat
performance of the “Womanless
Wedding” at the Green Creek
Elementary School auditorium.
It is sponsored by the Green
Continued On Back Page
Tryon High
Tennis Schedule
The Tryon High School tennis
team will open its season Monday
when they play Christ School at
Tryon. The schedule is as
follows:
March 15 — Christ School — here
17th — E. Rutherford — Forest
City
30th — Landrum — here
April 1 — Edneyville — there
Sth — Chase — here
6th — Asheville School — there
Sth — Polk Central — here
14th — Christ School — there
16 — Travelers Rest — here
20 — Polk Central — here
22 — Landrum — there
27 — Edneyville — here
29 — E. Rutherford — here
May 5 — Asheville School — here
7 — Conference Tournament
12 — Sectional
Singing Sunday
There will be a Singing Sunday
at 7 p.m. at Beulah Baptist
Church. Guests will be The
Revivalaires. Rev. Dillard
Davidson is the pastor.
Prayer Breakfast
The men in the Tryon area are
invited to a Prayer Breakfast
Wednesday at 8 a.m. at the
Congregational Church. Dr.
Claude Broach is the speaker.
For reservations call 859-9414 or
457-4251. The breakfast is
sponsored by the Tryon Kiwanis
Club.
Merit Finalist
Miss Heather Blomeley
Miss Heather Blomeley,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles
P. Blomeley of Columbus, is for
of 15,000 finalists competi g
5,000 Merit Scholarship Awar^
three years rather Hi She
a cumulativeGPA to
has been voted Most
Succeed” by the stu jnee5
Merit S . C d on the basis of,
are selected ( personal
academic ach>e on tests
qualities; their s ^ Nationa l
administered X Corpora tion;
Merit “"^KatW which
and an u description, giving
includes a selfd^cnp goab; arid
insight into P describing
ideals
accomplishnien the top half
Finalists represen ^ of ^
° f ^® ‘hu-schwl seniors,
nation’s high-seo
Norvin Clontz Wins
Spelling Bee
Norvin Clontz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Norvin Clontz of Tryon won
the Tryon Elementary School
Spelling Bee Thursday morning
in the school auditorium.
The runner-up was Becky
Michel, daughter of A. K. Michel
wil1 8010 Charlotte for
the 28th annual Regional Spelling
Bee on April 23rd. • B
Fire
The Tryon Volunteer Fire
Department was called
woods fire Wednesday afterl 3
at 12:45 near the interZ" 00 "
Carolina Drive and £ ° f
Mtn. Road. The Stab ck
maintenance men wero r ° ad
down some smaU trees % Cultln 8
road when one of the , 0ng ^e
across a power line fell
sparks everywhere and ^
the sparks caught thef 30,116 of
grass on fire. Thefe^ and
truck was used and ? 5 water
ra «l. sending
water over the bnl 3 s Pray
put it out q uickl y ^g a^ J
Youth Day
St. Luke’s
Tryon will obse^ L
Day, Sunday, ^ e at >nu a i y 0f
p.m. March
, T he gue st 1,1 at 3
Johnny Owen P(ial ter
Chapel B a ®“ s of 1*111 i