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THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Founded Jan. 31.1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Jeffrey A. Byrd. Editor and Publisher
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
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Cerollne
Vol. 62 — No 246
TRYON. N C. 28782 MONDAY. JAN 22.191X1
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Weather Thursday: high 69.
low 53. hum. 77%.
Washington ID C.> Mayor
Marion Barry was arrested by
the FBI on a drug charge
Thursday night at a downtown
hotel The 53-year-old Barry, a
former civil rights worker with
graduate training in chemistry,
has been the subject of many
allegations of drug use in recent
years He has denied all
allegations
Friday's papers had headlines
about Danny Ford resigning as
head football coach at Clemson.
Ford settled for about $700,000
and that figure could rise to more
than $1 1 million if he does not
take another head coaching job at
3 Division I school in the next
three seasons
Charlotte-based NCNB Corp
said Thursday that its earning
were up 77% last year
Charlie Richkus. former
standout football player at N C.
State and who formerly lived in
Trvon was in town Thursday He
was calling on a local textile mill.
Mr Richkus was a volunteer
football coach , ° r „ T '7uri 1 ' 8 '
School and he and Bud Williams
worked with Coach Elmo Neal for
a number of years He now has
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Autopsy Inconclusive
The cause of two-year-old
Nathan Adam Hill's death was
still undetermined Friday, and
the state medical examiner's
office said more tests were
needed
An autopsy was performed on
the boy Thursday Nathan's body
was discovered last Wednesday
in a four-foot grave behind his
father's mobile home on Howard
Gap Road
His father. James Christopher
Tucker. 28. was charged with
second degree murder
Wednesday
In a report in the Spartanburg
Herald Friday. Tucker
apparently confessed to burying
the child rather than reporting an
accident that killed him Tucker
told authorities, according to the
Herald report, that Nathan fell
from a stool and hit his head on
the floor and died a few days
later.
Buy Property
Bob and Sandy Peterson of Flat
Rock have purchased six acres
on Mockingbird Hill Road from
Mary Kessler They are excited
about building a new home from
plans they have made
themselves.
The Petersons came to the
Carolinas several years ago from
Nevis. W I Bob has a custom
window business and Sandy is a
quilter
Penny Kessler of Penny
Kessler Realty handled the
transaction — Reporter
“On Golden Pond” Cast
Pictured above, from left to
right are Zeke Graves Karen
Link. John Calure. Dean
Campbell. Dorothy Jackson, and
Bill Raker, who make up the cast
of "On Golden Pond", the
comedy that Tryon Little Theater
will present at the Tryon Fine
Arts Center March 1-4
The play is about a couple
celebrating their 48th
anniversary at their summer
home in Maine, during the visit of
their twice-divorced daughter
accompanied by her newest boy
friend and the boy friend’s young
son A local postman, a long-ago
beau of the daughter's completes
the cast
Dorothy Jackson and Bill
Raker play the parts of the
elderly couple Karen Link has
the role of the daughter Dean
Campbell is the new boy friend,
and Zeke Graves is his son John
Calure plays the postman
Shortly after "On Golden
Pond" opened on Broadway, one
critic wrote. "This is a new play
with real characters, relation
ships between intelligent people,
witty dialogue, sensitivity, and a
loving warmth A wonderful play
An evening of joy — so much
compassion beneath the humor
‘On Golden Pond' goes right to
the heart." Another described it
as "a charming, rosy, and very
funny valentine "
As has been the TLT custom,
tickets will be made available by
mail prior to the opening of the
box office Watch for the
announcement in this paper at a
later date.
Republican
Special Meeting
There will be a special meeting
of Republican Party members on
Thursday. January 25 at 7:30
pm
The meeting will be at
Republican Headquarters on
Peak Street in Columbus