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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. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
(USPS643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
21 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 195
The weather Monday: high 74,
low 50. hum. 85 percent, and .12
inches of rain fell.
There will be a ham and turkey
supper at the Pea Ridge
Community Building Saturday
from 4 to 8 p.m. featuring ham.
grits, red-eye gravy or turkey,
dressing, gravy, green beans,
slaw, candied yams, bread,
beverage and dessert.
Do you remember how
everyone used to ask you what
you wanted to be when you grow
up? Well, Tryon Elementary
School second graders were
asked the same question and they
answered with drawings which
are now on display at First Union
National Bank in Tryon.
The Board of Directors of the
Tryon Country Club hosted an
open house for new members
Sunday afternoon. The weather
was perfect and the company just
as nice.
A retired Furman University
professor of history, William E.
Leverette Jr., will discuss the
Victorian era and the people who
created it during a Lanier
Library program Thursday at 11
a.m.
Dr. Douglas Rayner of Wofford
College will describe a survey he
and an assistant have been taking
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TRYON. N C 28782
15-Year-Old O.K.
After Tractor Rolls
Nathan Jackson, 15, of
Holbert’s Cove Road, spent about
an hour Monday afternoon pinned
underneath the tractor he was
driving.
But after he was extricated by
the Polk County Emergency
Medical Services crew, and was
airlifted to Mission Memorial
Hospital, he was found to have no
serious injuries.
EMS Director Lisa Wilson said
the dispatcher received a call
about the accident at 3:52 p.m. A
crew was on the scene ten
minutes later, at which time
Jackson had reportedly been
pinned for a half an hour.
Wilson said the tractor was on a
hillside and apparently slid down
the hill and then rolled over and
up against some trees.
Jackson was pinned from the
pelvis down, although the entire
weight of the tractor was not on
him. but was partially borne by
the tree.
The EMS crew was concerned
about internal and spinal
injuries, because the boy told
them he could not feel his feet.
But doctors at Mission
Memorial found only bruises and
contusions, Wilson said.
Jackson was freed by 4:34 and
was transported to Stearns
School where the Mission Air
Medical Ambulance helicopter
was waiting.
NA meeting schedule Tuesdays
and Fridays, 8 p.m. Church of the
Holy Cross. Phone 859-2272 for
more information.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7,1990
Reminder
For AARP Members
Don't forget our “Day in the
Mountains” Thursday.
November 8th. Carpool at Food
Lion in Columbus, 9:15 a.m. —
Reporter
LHS Band Boosters
Christmer Supper
The Landrum High School
Band Booster Christmas Supper
will be Thursday, Nov. 8 at 6:30
p.m. in the high school cafeteria.
Each family is to bring a meat
dish or casserole.
Republican Meeting
Postponed
The regular monthly meeting
of Polk County Repiublicans has
been postponed. It will not be held
November Sth. Instead it
will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, november 15th at
Republican Headquarters on
Peak St. in Columbus. — Reporte
Meets Thursday
The Tryon Valley Chapter 411
will meet Thursday, November 8
at 6 p.m. at the Lodge Hall on
Markham Rd. All members are
asked to be present. W.M. Sister
Louise Payton and Secretary
Sister Betty Thompson.
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Drug Abuse Dinner
For Area Leaders
The Tryon Town Council’s
Drug Abuse Task Force, chaired
by councilman Warren Carson,
held a dinner for area business
and civic leaders Monday night.
Tryon Mayor Bob Neely told
the gathering that the task force
is working to compile
information for the town council.
“We want to promote a unified
effort,” Neely said, to combat the
problems.
Carson said the task force is
“Committed to achieving an
environment free of abuse.”
The featured speaker for the
evening was Mike O'Grady, a
Duke Power officer in charge of
working with substance abuse
issues in the southeastern region.
O’Grady told the employers
and civic leaders that substance
abuse is a problem in the
workplace today, and that the
major problem is with alcohol.
He said nationally alcohol
abuse problems are about 300
times greater than problems with
all other drugs combined.
O’Grady described Duke
Power’s random drug testing
programs.
Reminder
Friendship Council Swing,
covered dish dinner, with live
band will be held Thursday, Nov.
Sth at 6:30 p.m. at the Roseland
Community Center in Tryon.