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The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 64 - No. 43
The weather Tuesday: high
75, low 37, hum. 38 percent.
It was Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Dedmondt’s 53rd anniversary
Wednesday! They clearly
passed the 47th year itch.
Tryon's Folly has sold out for
Salurday night. Tickets remain,
however, for the Sunday mati
nee.
The Polk County Board of
Education will convene early
Monday night, at 5:45 p.m., to
view brick panels for the new
high school building. The reg
ular meeting will begin at 6:30
p.m.
A photograph of Stoney
Lamar of Saluda appears in the
Spring 1991 issue of the Pi Beta
Phi Sorority magazine. Lamar is
shown giving a demonstration
of Multiple Axis Turning dur
ing the American Association
of Woodturners convention at
Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The
sorority founded the camp.
Stoney's father was a director
of the Episcopal Church of the
Holy Cross and was a graduate
of Tryon High School.
Speaking of magazines, there
are extra copies of the State
available at The Tryon Daily
Bulletin and at the Tryon Ther-
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orlntod In ths THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
18 Pages Today
TRYON. N C 28782 THURSDAY, APRIL4, 1991 W Per Copy
Musical At
Seventh Day
0 Me, 0 My, 0 Nehemiah! is
a musical on how to rebuild a
career, a business, a marriage, a
relationship, a life. Nehemiah
is a textbook on the value of
holding on to your dreams when
other people are laughing al
you.
The program of Nehemiah
will be presented al the 11 a.m.
worship service of the Tryon ,
SDA church on Saturday, /April
6 by the Columbus SDA School
choir. The presentation will be
in the Roy L. Morgan Com
munity Service Center gymna
sium. All arc welcome lo slay
for the weekly potluck after Ihe
service.
The school choir is directed
by Mrs. Linda Herman and
accompanied by Ron Brown.
Choir members arc: Dane
Wilson, Jasmine Wilson, Joan
Wilson, Rob Edncy, Kelley
Edney, Ben Demsky, Stephen
Demsky, Amy Herman, Ryan
Herman, Lucas Richards,
Andrew Richards, Mike Helton
and Nathan Taylor.
—Community Reporter
Nic Addison of Empagiani,
South Africa was a recent visi
tor of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
Brady. Nic was a frequent visi
tor in Tryon while he was a
Morehead Scholar al the Univ,
of NC Chapel Hill, where he
was a friend of Susan Brady. He
is now married with two
daughters and is serving as a
Christian Missionary to the
Zulus.
Santos Contreras and his wife.
Odalia, stand on the porcli of
-their new house with daughters,
looking forward to the Sunday
dedication of their Habitat-for-
Humanity dwelling.
photo by Jin: Shelley
Habitat Dedication
Includes
Harvey Tribute
• The program for the dedica
tion ol Thermal Belt Habitat-
-for-Humanity's 16th house, to
be held Sunday, April 7 at 2:30
p.m., has been announced by
B.G. "Woody" Woodham,
president, and will include a
special memorial to Fred P.
Harvey.
Gilbert "Gib" Edson, associ
ate regional director for Habi
tat's South Atlantic Region, will
be the principal speaker when
the Santos Contreras family's
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Columbus Police
Make Drug Arrests
Columbus Police Officer
Chris Abril was off-duty when
he stumbled across evidence
which led lo a drug bust Tues
day.
Lloyd Dean Clayton, 64, of
Butler Slrecl, Landrum, and
Theresa Diane Williams, 26, of
Landrum were arrested
by Columbus police Tuesday at
5:30 p.m. at the Days Inn Mole!
in Columbus and charged with
felony trafficking in cocaine,
according to Columbus Police
Chief Billy Stepp.
The Polk County Sheriffs
Department and Tryon Police
Department assisted.
Abril was helping to clean a
room at Ihe Days Inn Motel in
Columbus al 1:15 p.m. Tues
day when he found a bottle
believed to have been used for
holding crack cocaine.
Abril called Chief Stepp who
did a chemical field test on Ihe
bollle that showed traces of
cocaine.
The officers learned from Ihe
mold operators that the former
occupants of the room where
the crack bottle was found hail
only switched rooms and were
still in residence al the motel.
Tire officers obtained a search
warrant from the magistrate and
went back at 5:30 p.m. lo the
room where Ihe suspects were
believed to be staying.
"We got a master key and
tried to open the door, but the
door was locked with Ihe upper
lock." Slepp said. Tire officers
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