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Tryon, North Carolina, 28782
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
Vol. 63 — No. 220
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON, N. C. 28782
FRIDAY, DEC. 14.1990
36 Pages Today
20? Per Copy
The weather Wednesday: high
66. low 32. hum. 62 percent.
Robert Dedmondt said the warm
weather is nice, especially since
he has to get out and walk every
day. He said his recovery from
heart bypass surgery is
proceeding apace. (He's feeling
better every day!).
The Tryon Fire Dept.
Christmas Parade was a hit.
Children and adults lined the
streets oohing and aahing, that is,
when they weren't scampering
after candy.
The Tryon Thermal Belt
Chamber of Commerce board of
directors on Wed., led by
president Charles Neff, decided
to seek out new members among
the general population. The
board agreed that anyone and
everyone with a desire to better
the community is needed and
should be made welcome.
The chamber board also
decided to back Jim Tabb’s effort
to have magazine subscriptions
sent to attack pilots on aircraft
carriers in the Middle East. The
Bulletin is acting as a
clearinghouse for Tabb, if you
would like to jot down one of the
carrier addresses and send a
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Bids $9 Million
The Polk County Board of
Education opened contractors'
bids for construction of the new
Polk County Consolidated High
School Thursday afternoon.
The low bids altogether totalled
S9 million, about $1.5 million less
than has been budgeted, not
including site improvements
already underway.
The board will consider the
bids until next Thursday, Dec. 20,
when they will award the
contracts. The amount of the bid
is not the only factor that will be
considered. — C. Wharton
Humane Society Meets
The Foothills Humane Society
will have a meeting of the board
of directors on Dec. 17th at 4 p.m.
at the NCNB building. Ail are
urged to attend.
All-Conference
Teams Named
The all-conference teams for
the Appalachian 1-A were named
this week. They are:
FOOTBALL
Hendersonville: Chris Mucci
(RB), Dennis Braswell (QB),
Eric Then (TE), Trade Elkin
(OL), Miquel Lammons (OL),
Ben Smith (LB), Chris Jones
(RB). Morris Carter (RB) and
Tony Johnson (DE). POLK
COUNTY: Sean Cunningham
(RB), Lamond Twitty (DL),
Keith Painter (OL), Neal Petty
(LB), Matt Davis (OL), Alfred
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Truck Crashes Into Home, Occupants Unhurt
Trish Case had a traumatic
awakening around 3:30 a.m.
Thursday when a pick-up truck
crashed through the walls of her
double wide trailer on Fox
Mountain Road.
She and her six-year-old
daughter, Leah, were sleeping in
the bedroom nearest the road,
while her 3-year-old daughter,
Bridget, slept on the bedroom at
the other end of the house.
Miraculously, none of them were
hurt, Ernest Leon Case was in
Salisbury, N. C. working for
Norfolk & Southern Railroad.
The driver of the pick-up truck,
Joe Stockton of Ellenboro,
apparently lost his brakes as he
was coming down the exit ramp
of N. C. 74 onto Highway 108,
according to Polk County Sheriff
Boyce Carswell. Stockton was
pulling an empty six-horse
trailer.
Trish Case said she believed
Stockton broke his neck and
collar bone in the crash, and had
internal injuries. He was
reportedly taken to Spartanburg
Regional Hospital, but a
spokesperson there had no record
of his arrival.
When he was unable to brake,
Stockton's truck ran straight
across Hwy. 108 and hit a pine
tree along Old 19 before crossing
Fox Mountain Road headed on a
direct path into the Case home.
“There were no tracks on the
bank (of exposed dirt),” Lois
Case. Trish’s mother-in-law, said
as she and other friends and
neighbors surveyed the scene and
helped Trish clean out the
refrigerator Thursday morning.
“After the truck hit that tree, it
didn’t touch ground again.” she
surmised
Stockton’s truck crashed
through the front wall of the Case
home where the trailer was
ripped off The truck continued
through the den, the kitchen, the
dining room and through the back
wall onto the porch, Trish Case
said.
“I thought it was an
earthquake,” she said. Her first
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