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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
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
36 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 145
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY. AUGUST 24.1990
-'••C Per ( opy
The weather Wednesday: high
79, low 68, hum. 75 percent.
Rainfall during the night totalled
.92 inches.
The Democratic Men’s Club
will meet Saturday morning at
8:30 a.m. at Democrat
headquarters in Columbus.
Harold Burrell, of Burrell’s
Fuels Inc. said he has been
catching some flak over gas price
increases. But many of the
complainers are mistaken in
their belief that Burrell’s
business is reaping increased
revenues, he said.
Burrell points out that his profit
remains 7 cents a gallon, but he
now pays 23 cents more per
gallon than he paid just 22 days
ago. Prices went up Aug. 3 (3
cents); Aug. 4 (5 Cents); Aug. 7
(7.5 cents); Aug. 8 (2 cents);
Aug. 14 (1 cent); and Aug. 21 (5
cents).
During that time, prices went
down once on Aug. 10 (1.5 cents).
Burrell said that the major oil
companies in some cases are
retailing gas at their own outlets
for less than he can buy it
wholesale.
“They would rather all the
independents (gasoline dealers)
be gone," he said. Tryon once had
nearly a dozen gas stations. Four
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Emmanual Church
Dedicates Building
Emmanual Baptist Church on
Fox Mtn. Rd., Columbus will
have a dedication service of their
new building Sunday, August 26th
at 3 p.m.
The members bought Pace
Electric Building last spring and
remodeled it for a sanctuary. The
work was done mostly by
volunteer labor.
The pastor, Rev. John Edwards
and members invite all to attend.
Boating Accident
Update
The family of Dr. Wayne
Rogers filed its report regarding
the July 29 boating accident on
Lake Lanier the day after the
accident, Clara Rogers said
Thursday.
They did not delay reporting
until Aug. 20, as was stated by
S.C. officials in a news report in
the Bulletin Thursday.
However, the report was
delayed when the South Carolina
Division of Wildlife and Marine
Resources lost the original report
and had to ask the Rogers to file a
second report. Clara Rogers said.
Also, the second person hurt in
the accident was Samantha Kell,
with cuts to the legs and chest.
Clara Rogers had her collar bone
broken and her ear lacerated.
A state investigator will be
investigating and filing a report
on the accident in the next few
weeks.
Shooting In Tryon
Over A Pool Game
A man was shot in the leg and
another was assaulted with a pool
cue early last Friday morning
outside JP’s Eatery & Saloon on
Maple Street in Tryon, police
reported Thursday.
Roger W. Bridgeman of 303
Moss Lane in Landrum was
arrested Sunday in connection
with both crimes. He was
charged with assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill
in one case, and simple assault in
the other.Officer Larry Cochran
said Thursday. Bridgeman was
released on bond.
The shooting vicitm was James
N. Thompson of 901 Tuckaway
Lane in Tryon. He was shot at
1:48 a.m. Friday morning, Aug.
17. He was shot once in the calf of
the left leg with a small calibe
bullet. Thompson was treated
and released at St. Luke’s
Hospital.
Johnny Lee Wright was
assaulted with the cue stick.
Cochran said the incident
apparently began with a dispute
over a pool game and the
altercation moved outside.
Celebrates 86th
Willie Proctor of Pea Ridge
Road, Mill Spring, will celebrate
an early birthday on Sunday,
Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. at the Proctors
Community building, which will
be his 86th birthday.
Dinner will be served at 3 p.m.
The public is invited. — Reporter.
Stearns Park
Lease Approved
The legal paperwork to allow
the Columbus Merchants
Association to develop a park in
front of the old Stearns School
was completed Monday.
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners approved the
lease arrangements, which were
drafted by the Board of
Education’s attorney.
Jim Dunmire, who has been
spearheading the project for the
merchants association, said
Wednesday that $5,000 in cash
and pledges has already been
given to the project, and he
predicts that much of the
shrubbery will be donated by
area garden clubs.
Letters will go out soon to local
organizations seeking support for
the park project, Dunmire said
He said he hopes to have the
walkway completed and the park
benches and tables installed in
time for the Columbus Day
celebration in October.
In other business Monday, the
Polk County Board of
Commissioners.
* Approved a motion to have
Sheriff Boyce Carswell seek bids
for a recording system to
accompany the county’s new E-
911 emergency dispatching phone
equipment The cost was
estimated at $20,000
* Heard a report from field soil
scientist Scott Keenan regarding
the soil survey in Polk County.
Keenan said the survey is
winding down and should be
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