2nd Class Postage Paid At
Tryon, North Carolina. 28782
Established January 31, 1928
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
* (USPS 643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
Vol 63 — No. 1
TRYON. N C. 28782
WEDNESDAY. JAN 31,1990
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Weather Monday: high 60, low
37. hum. 65% At 7 a.m. Tuesday
the precipitation was 1.29 inches
Marilyn Louise Harrell, a real
estate agent in Baltimore, said
Monday she tried to help as many
poor people as she could before
getting caught for embezzling at
least $4.75 million in housing
funds from the U. S Government.
East Germany’s ailing and
disgraced former dictator. Erich
Honecker, was arrested Monday
and will face charges in March
along with three of his associates.
Medical insurance costs for
employees rose 20.4 percent in
1989. driven by increasing use of
expensive medical technology
and escalating costs of outpatient
and substance abuse services,
according to a survey released
Monday.
The Tryon Daily Bulletin is 62
years old today. During the past
62 years, the Bulletin has
attempted to be part of the
community, helping it become a
better place for all of us to live.
We appreciate the help our
readers have given us. It is your
paper
The Columbus Town Council
meets Thursday at 7:30 p m. at
the Columbus Town Hall
Thursday at 5 p.m the
Continued On Back Page
Discovering Columbus
with Homar A. Jones
When the cool, dry days of
October arrived men in Western
North Carolina rounded up their
mules and horses from lush
meadows or from high grass of
the uplands. They brought in hogs
from the woods, fattened and
sleek from a rich diet of nuts and
acorns, and each marked on an
ear or by a brand on a flank.
Farmers collected turkeys from
their roosting trees and ducks
from the barnyard Then they
began the long, slow trek to
Charleston, coming through Polk
County via Saluda Gap. Howard's
Gap. by the Block House, or down
Hickory Nut Gap through Mill
Spring People living in the
Columbus area could take their
livestock and poultry to cither
point. All along the Drovers
Roads animals were driven in on
poor and narrow subsidiary
roads that were nothing more
than slightly widened Indian
trails.
For two months the Drovers
Roads were alive with noisy dust-
raising animals Sometimes an
owner precceded his drove,
leading the way on horse back;
sometimes speculators would
take combined herds, hoping to
make a profit for himself as well
as the owners when he sold at
market A Drover had several
helpers, often young men or half-
grown boys who walked beside
the herds to keep the animals in
line and moving The helpers
cracked long, snapping whips
and their strong voices rang out
Continued On Back Page
Carson To Lead
USCS Gospel Choir
Warren J. Carson will lead the
University of South Carolina at
Spartanburg Gordon Colloms
Gospel Choir Feb 4 at 4 p m
The concert of traditional and
contemporary music will take
place in the Tukey Theater The
event is one of several planned in
observance of Black History
Month
All events are open to the
public.
Support Group
To Meet Monday
The Codependents/ACOA
Support Group will meet Monday
at 6 pm in the Tryon
Presbyterian Church.
Columbus Council
Meets Thursday
The Columbus Town Council
meets Thursday at 7:30 p m at
the Town Hall. '
Reminder
The DropOut Banquet will be
tonight (Wed > at 6-30 at the
Western Steer in Columbus.
Elected Treasurer
Grady Stewart of Landrum has
been elected treasurer of the
Spartanburg Area Personnel
Association.
School Board
Meets Monday
The Polk County Board of
Education will meet Monday at
7:30 pm at Stearns
Administrative Center in
Columbus The Board will meet
in executive session at 7 p m.
Polk Commissioners
Meet Monday
The Polk County
Commissioners will meet at 7:30
pm. in the Commissioners
Conference Room in the
courthouse annex.
Narcotics Anonymous
The Narcotics Anonymous
meeting schedule is as follows:
Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 p m.
at the Church of Holy Cross For
more information phone859-2272
Buys Land
G C Wofford of Charlotte has
purchased 23.67 acres from
Horace and Whitney Page along
Spivey Creek Road near
Landrum. S.C. Mr Wofford is a
native of the area and is looking
forward to his return in October.
At that time he will park his 18
wheeler and go into retirement
The sale was handled by Glenn
Otto Mittelstadt of AM: Realty.
Tryon Hounds
Wednesday
9a.m. at Glenn Wenger’s