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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.
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Tryon. N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 63 — No. 26
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON,NC 28782 THURSDAY, MAR 8,1990
24 Pages Today
20 Per Copy
Weather Tuesday: high 72, low
35, hum. 50%. Wednesday was
another beautiful day.
The Soviet lawmakers made a
drastic break with Communist
orthodoxy Tuesday by voting to
allow private citizens to own
small factories and hire their own
workers.
Republican National
Committee Chairman Lee
Atwater, who collapsed Monday
while giving a speech, has a
benign tumor on the right side of
his brain, doctors announced
Tuesday
America’s premier spy plane
— the SR-71 Blackbird — set a
transcontinental speed record
Tuesday before retiring to a
museum home. The black,
dagger-shaped aircraft went
from coast to coast in 68 minutes,
17 seconds, arriving at
Washington Dulles International
Airport to the cheers of hundreds
of onlookers. The old record was 3
hours. 38 minutes, set in 1963 by a
Boeing 707
Spartanburg has been selected
as one of two cities where
"Sleeping with the Enemy", a
psychological thriller, will be
filmed by Twentieth Century Fox
this spring. Filming, which will
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Guest Artist
Bai Lan Dances in the title
role of Coppelia. She is a leading
dancer in the Republic of China
and graduated from the Beijing
Dance Academy in 1978.
She came to Tulsa in 1988 as a
Tulsa Ballet Theatre guest artist
and has danced a variety of roles
including Coppelia and the
Bamboo Princess.
She will perform Saturday
night at the Tryon Fine Arts
Center.
At7:30
Democrats of Precinct 1 will
meet at 7:30, not 8 p.m as
reported
Meeting Place Bridge
Winners of Tuesday afternoon
Meeting Place Bridge were as
follows: 1st. Helen Perrenod,
2nd. Charlotte Johnson, 3rd Judi
Middlestadt, 4th. Eleanor Bowes.
New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Ted Pack
of Mill Spring, are parents of a
daughter, Jessica Reva Marie,
born Feb. 28 at Rutherford Co.
Hospital. She weighed 7 Ibs. 7‘j
ozs. and has a big sister, Jamie,
who is 5 years old.
Maternal grandparents are
Marie Hermon of Sebastopol.
Calif, and Del Goulet of San
Ramon, Calif.
Paternal grandparents are Mr
and Mrs. Ted Pack of Mill Spring
Precinct 8 Democrats
Meet Tonight
The Democrats of Precinct 8,
Columbus will meet tonight at 8
o’clock at the courthouse in
Columbus.
Meets Tonight
Tryon Valley Chapter 411 will
meet Thursday. March Bat 6pm
at the Lodge Hall on Markham
Rd Members are asked to please
be present for this very
important meeting W.M. Sister
Louise Payton, Sec., Sister Betty
Thompson
Columbus Democrats
Columbus Democrat Precinct 7
will meet Thursday, (tonight) at
7 p.m. at the Democrat
Headquarters in Columbus. All
Democrats in Precinct 7 are
invited to attend this very
important meeting.
Young Careerist
Donna Christopher of Green
Creek Drive, Columbus, has been
named “Young Careerist” of the
Thermal Belt Chapter of
Business and Professional
Women’s Club
Mrs. Christopher. Instructor/
Counselor for HB Swofford
Career Cetner, was chosen
because of her significant
achievements in her career and
her outstanding contributions to
her community, according to
Eloise Johnson, Chairman of the
Young Careerist Committee.
Mrs Christopher is a graduate
of the Unviersity of North
Carolina. Greensboro, with a B.S
in Home Economics. She
recieved her masters degree
from Western Carolina
University in School Guidance
and Counseling She is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Hoyt
Gosnell. Her husband, Steve, is
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