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)