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Founded Jan. 31.1928 by Seth M Vining
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Vol. 63 — No. 57
TRYON. N. C. 28782
FRIDAY. APRIL20.1990
20C Per Coin
Top Horses
To Block House
Bv Chuck Ross
With a total of 34 horses entered
in five races, this Saturday's
Block House Steeplechase
meeting promises good racing for
’chase fans now gathering in
Tryon.
Lutz Scholarship
Award Winners
Ten Polk County students were
interviewed for the Lutz
Foundation Scholarships on April
9. Four were from Tryon High
School, and six were from Polk
Central.
Weather Wednesday: high 69,
low 40, hum. 50%
No one was injured Wednesday
afternoon when a freight train hit
a stalled tractor-trailer on the
train tracks on Depot Street in
Campobello. The tractor-trailer
was loaded with sulfur and burst
into flames. Residences,
businesses and school within a
half-mile were evacuated due to
sulfuric fumes and taken to the
Campobello Gramling School
shortly after the accident
Firefighters from Campobello.
Inman and Landrum doused the
slow-burning fire with foam and
the S.C Highway Department
brought in a truckload of sand
The burning sulfur will produce
sulfur dioxide, a gas It is a
potentially lethal gas when
burned
was enroute to the
The sulfur
Campobello Oil Co on Depo
Street from the Georgia Gulf
Corn at Valdosta. Ga The
driver of the rig. Cecil Rachel. 39.
of Damarcus. Ga., told the
authorities his landing gear or
•’dollies”, became stuck on the
highway leading up to the
railroad tracks and he left to seek
assistance before the accident
occurred, according to the
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The featured Block House
Steeplechase, with a purse of
$20,000. has seven entries,
assuring a solid race if all go
postward. The top weights, at 156
pounds, are James Richards'
Reagan, trained by Frank
Raquel, and Timber Bay Farm's
Gregoriance. who will be saddled
by perennial leading trainer,
Jonathan Sheppard.
Although Reagan was second to
Gregoriance two weeks ago in
Atlanta, the Tenessce-based 10-
year-old has one advantage in
that he won the 1986 Block House
under rider George Sloan. The
aptly-named Gregoriance.
however, will have many backers
inasmuch as he will be ridden by
an “almost local” boy who did a
lot of his growing up here in
Tryon. Colvin "Greg" Ryan, last
year's leading amateur rider.
Rounding out the Block House
field will be Michael G Walsh's
King Copsico, a winner at
Southern Pines; Robert Kitson s
Shamrock Keys, who won at
Aiken; Rokeby Stables' Molotov.
Augustin Stables’ Gogong. and
William Carter's Avalanche
Cannon, all winners of past
seasons.
A field of seven is entered in the
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B. G. Edwards
The $2,000 first place
scholarship was awarded to B. G.
Edwards from Tryon High B. G.
ranks third in his class, is
president of the Beta Club, and is
a member of the Key Club. Tryon
Youth Center Board, and the
Wolverine Varsity Basketball
and Golf teams He also coached
basketball in the youth recreation
program. B. G. plans to attend N.
C. State University and major in
engineering He is the son of
Bernard and Peggy Edwards of
Red Fox Saga
Takes New Turns
N.C. Savings and Loan would
like to bring in a new
management company for Red
Fox Country Club, according to
Larry Heath, chairman of the
acquisition committee for The
Club At Red Fox.
Heath gathered his information
from the latest bankruptcy court
hearing in Charlotte Wednesday
where N.C. Savings and Loan
officials told the judge of their
intentions.
Red Fox Ltd., N.C.Savings and
Loan and The Club at Red Fox
have been the major players in
the latest episode of the Red Fox
Country Club drama, which
began in 1965 when the club was
founded.
However, a fourth player may
be entering the picture soon in a
way that could change
everyone's strategies. And the
outcome is important to property
owners in the entire region.
Heath said.
N.C. Savings and Loan, itself
now in the hands of federal
regulators, holds a $2.8 million
first mortgage on the golf course
and unsold residential lots at the
Columbus country club
The Club at Red Fox was
formed by 170 area residents in
December, 1989 to try to buy the
country club and convert it to a
member-owned club.
Since December, several
bankruptcy court hearings have
been held and continued without
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