pot C ^ n A C 5 281^ 2nd Class Postage Paid At Tryon. North Carolina, 28782 Established January 31, 1920 THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER Founded Jan. 31.1928 % Seth ^^^ (Consolidated with the Polk Codn y Jeffrey A. Byrd. Editor and Publtsher 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 J (USPS 643-360) Printed In the THERMAL BELT of W.#t#m North Caroline 20 Pages Today Phone 859-9151 Vol. 64 - No.25 The weather Wednesday: high 55, low 43, hum. 95 percent, and by 7 a.m. Thursday .33 inches of rain had fallen. Tire Wall Street Journal on Thursday made mention of Tryon in reference to the "dream retirement places" story, which also ran in USA Today a few weeks ago. Tryon, you may recall, was rated one of the Top 25 retirement spots according to a survey of Century 21 brokers nationwide. Now the word is spreading. Did you know: The train tracks on the Saluda Grade between Tryon and Saluda travel upward 885 feet in just three miles - the steepest grade of track on the eastern seaboard. Tryon architect and train buff Holland Brady has hit the lec ture circuit recently giving interesting anecdotes and statis tics regarding this train world treasure in our back yard. By comparison, Brady told the Tryon Kiwanis Club Tues day, the Old Fort train line takes 13 miles to rise the same verti cal footage. But companies using the Saluda Grade pay a price in efficiency. On level ground, Brady said a locomotive can (Continued On Hack Page) TRYON. N. C. 28782 Baseball Meeting All managers and coaches (and those interested in becom ing one) of Polk County Little League and Senior League will meet Monday, March 11 at 7 p.m. at Tryon Town Hall. All former managers please bring equipment. — Reporter Columbus Baptist Conducting Survey Columbus Baptist church is making a religious survey of the Columbus area starting Sunday, March 10 and continuing through Sunday, March 17. Members doing the survey will be wearing badges with the church's picture and name. We hope you will welcome our visitors. — Reporter Men's Softball Begins Saturday Harmon Field's Grand Open ing Men's Softball Tournament begins Saturday, March 9 at 10 a.m. Games will be played Sat urday and Sunday. Red Fox Lady Golfers Be sure to make reservations before Tuesday, March 12 for the Ladies Luncheon at Red Fox on Thursday, March 14 at 12:30 p.m. — Reporter Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous meets every Tuesday and Friday at 8 p.m. at Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Call 859-2272 for more information. FRIDAY, MARCH 8,1991 Science Fair At Tryon Elementary Tire annual Science Fair took place in the Tryon Elementary gymnasium on Feb. 20-21. Students who participated learned a lot from the expert once. So did visitors of all ages who were lucky enough to see it. In her Earth Science project which won a "first," Carolina Stewart, an eighth grader, dis covered that by avoiding the use of plastic and tin containers and by concentrating on natural foods, her family's garbage was recyclable and biodegradable fully 94% of the time. In Life Science, sixth grader Amy Grochowski's first prize "Memory" project undertook to determine whether words arc best remembered at the begin ning, end, or middle of a list. For example, which of the fol lowing will you remember: slender, frail, slim, lanky, slight, lean, small, thin, scanty, bony? (Amy found that words toward the beginning and end of a list arc more easily remem bered, but her graph goes up at any point when familiar words occur.) In Physical Science, first place winner Ben Wolters, an eighth grader, set out to prove in "Plaster Reinforcement" that wire rod mesh, straw, and wire screening arc the strongest reinforcers of plastic - and not the latex commonly used today. To confirm this, Ben con structed a drop stand and set the (Continued On Back Page) 20^ Per Cop' Blue Ridge Edges Polk In Semi-Finals Blue Ridge edged Polk County 54-53 in the boys semi-final game of the 1-A Sectional tournament Wednes day night. flic game was nip and tuck most of the way. Blue Ridge's Pat Stewart made two free throws with 47 seconds left which proved to be the differ ence. Polk County had a couple of opportunities to pull the game out but the Wolverines couldn't get a shot to fall. "Il's been that way all sea son," said Polk coach Derrick Thomas. "We just haven't played smart at key times." Blue Ridge scored the first nine points of the fame and led 11-7 at the end of the first quarter. Polk's pressure defense forced a quicker tempo and the Wolverines cashed in with sev eral easy baskets to pull ahead 24-20. But two Blue Ridge three-pointers gave the Bobcats a 26-24 advantage at the half. Neither team led by more than four points in the third quarter which ended with Polk County up 39 -37. There were six lead changes in the fourth quarter. O'Berry sand a pair of free throws to pul the Bobcats up 52—48 with 2:17 remaining in the game. Dewayne Anderson answered with a basket, and following a Blue Ridge missed onc-and- one, Larry Fagan swished a (Continued On Back Page)

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