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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)
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The Bulletin is published
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12 Pages Today-
Vol. 63 — No. 179
The weekend weather:
Thursday, high 79, low 59, and .87
inches of rain fell; Friday, high
64, low 58; Saturday, high 80, low
58; Sunday, high 79, low 56, hum.
78 percent.
A total of 5.06 inches of rain fell
from Thursday morning, when
Tryon weather recorder Robert
Dedmondt left for Nashville,
through Sunday when he
returned. He didn’t have
humidity readings for the days he
was away.
Dedmondt said the weather
was great in Nashville. He saw a
lot of the Nashville Grand Ole
Opry stars. But he didn’t sleep
very well. Apparently some
disgruntled employees in the 13-
story hotel where he was staying
set off the fire alarm at 3 a.m. one
morning.
Mrs. Frieda Massey had a
different sort of guage to
measure the rain that fell near
her home in Holbert Cove off
Silver Creek Road. The creek
rose out of its banks and created
a lake around her house. That’s
the first time that’s happened
since she moved here in 1957,
Mrs. Massey said.
The Tryon Thermal Belt
Chamber of Commerce Coffee
Get-Together will be held
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TRYON. N. C. 28782
Two Arrested,
Charged With Murder
The Rutherford County
Sheriff’s Department on
Saturday evening, just after
dark, arrested two young men
suspected of murder and arson in
the death of Paul Frederick
Acker of Pea Ridge.
The suspects arrested were
James Edward Janes, 21, of Cox
Trailer Park in Union Mills, and
Stanley Shane Smith, 20, of Oak
Springs Road, Rutherford
County.
Both are being held in the Polk
County jail without bond on
charges of murder and first
degree arson. One has confessed
to his participation in the crimes,
Polk County Sheriff Boyce
Carswell said Monday.
Paul Acker's badly burned
body was found last Thursday
morning inside his burning
mobile home by a neighbor who
was working for Acker. An
autopsy the next day revealed
that the cause of death was two
bullet wounds.
Acker, 51, moved from Long
Island, N.Y. and bought 300 acres
in Pea Ridge a year ago. He was
working to develop the property
into a cattle farm.
According to Carswell,
Rutherford County Sheriff Ed
Searcy’s office on Saturday
afternoon received a call from a
person who had found items
matching those taken from Paul
Acker in the woods in the Gilkey
section of Rutherford County.
Rutherford deputies visited the
site and identified the items as
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TUESDAY, OCT. 16,1990
Wolverines Looking
For League Title
The Polk County Wolverines
were looking past Edneyville
Saturday night, and only put
forth the effort needed to win,
coach Dennis Stokes said
Monday.
Win they did, 23-7, bringing the
Wolverine record 6-1, 2-0 in the
conference. And just as the
players expected, that sets up a
showdown this Friday night with
Hendersonville for the league
crown.
Hendersonville, also 6-1, has
won the conference the last three
years.
“We’re going to take that honor
away from them,” Stokes said. “I
just don’t know which year it will
be. It could be this year as well as
any.”
Stokes said beating
Hendersonville will require an
extra effort. Hendersonville has
four running backs “that can
fly,” he said, including one who
won the state 100-meter and 220-
meter titles at the state track
meet last year. The Cherokee
High School star running back
who gave Polk fits in their one
loss this year finished second at
that track meet.
"We’re just going to have to
play our defense and don’t allow
them to get outside," Stokes
said.
The Hendersonville offensive
line may be a bit stronger, Stokes
said. "Their strength program is
way ahead of ours,” he said.
“Our weight program is coming
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New Arrival
Sandy and Rhonda Mills of Pea
Ridge, announce the birth of a
daughter, Chelsey Lynette, born
Thursday, October 11 at Pardee
Hospital in Hendersonville.
Chelsey weighed 8 lbs. 2' 2 oz. and
was 21 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are
Jerry and Judy Harris of Pea
Ridge. Maternal great-
grandparents are Junior and
Alice Harris of Pea Ridge and
Dave and Lydia Murdoch of
Tryon.
Paternal grandparents are
Helen Mills and the late Thadeus
Mills of Peniel Community and
the paternal great-grandmothers
are Amelia Gosnell of Peniel
Community and Willis Mills of
Sunny View.
P. C. Lady Wolverines
Cross Country
The Polk County Lady
Wolverine Cross Country team
traveled to Enka Thursday.
Placing individually for Polk
were Karen Godlock 1st overall
with a time of 20:50; Katie
Malone, 4th overall 22:07,
Jennifer Owens 50th with 27:47;
Rhonda Burnett 51st with 27:49;
Kelly Sparks 71st with 31:50. Also
participating were Earron Lewis
with 34:28 and Wendy McCall
with 36:25.
The Lady Wolverines traveled
to Grandfather Mountain on
Saturday. Jennifer Owens had a
time of 26:52, Rhonda Burnett
27:38, Wendy McCall 35:34 and
Earron Lewis 34:08.