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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 65 - No. 116
The weather Thursday: high
83, low 68, hum. 70 percent,
and by 7 a.m. Friday, .01
inches of rain had fallen.
Correction: E. Elton Cochran
is the chairman of the Polk
County Democratic Party. Bill
Holcomb was president until
April, when Cochran took over
the post.
By the way: The Polk County
Democratic Executive Com
mittee is holding its Water
melon Slicin' Aug. 10 at 3 p.m.
at Democratic Headquarters in
Columbus
Politics is a business of slic
ing the pie, after all. Why not
watermelon when it's 90
degrees out?
The Tryon-Thermal Belt
Chamber of Commerce will
hold a special membership
meeting at The Vineyard July
24 at 8 a.m. for the purpose of
electing new directors.
Hundreds of hardback books
will be offered for 25 cents
each, and paperbacks for 10
cents at the Isothermal Com
munity College book and music
sale Thursday, July 25 and
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TRYON. N C. 28782
All-Star Tournament
The last two undefeated teams
in the All-Star tournament met
on Thursday night when Har
ris-Shiloh hosted Polk County
at the Green Creek Ball Park, ft
was a game dominated by the
pitchers and the defense with
each team struggling to gel a
few runs on the board before
their chances ran oul.
Right handed hurler Chris
Eckert went all six innings for
Polk County giving up only 3
hits and fanning six batters.
Eckert also collected an RBI
in the sixth inning.
Polk County's defense stood
their ground against aggressive
batters with good work in the
infield by Al Corcoran, Jeremy
Thompson, Shane Hudson,
Dustin Wright and Chris Eckert.
A gusty wind made play in the
outfield difficult but Jon Sjo-
storm, Eric Crocker and Donnie
McCraw hung on to the ball,
when they needed to. Polk
County batters connected and
got on base but had a hard time
scoring. Jeremy Thompson got
two hits, a single and a double.
Dustin Wright and Jon Sjostorm
both got singles and Andy
Arledge hit a big double. Eric
Crocker got and RBI off a triple
to put Polk County on the
scoreboard in the third inning.
Stealing bases for Polk County
were: Shane Hudson, Andy
Arledge, Jeremy Thompson and
Jacob Graves.
The final score was Harris-
Shiloh 5 - Polk County 2. Polk
County played again on Friday
night with the tournament
wrap-up to be on Saturday.
MONDAY, JULY 22,1991
Tryon Rotary Presidential
Change: Outgoing president Art
Fisher hands gavel to incoming
president Allen Neighbors.
Allen Neighbors
Rotary President
At the July 1st meeting of
Tryon Rotary Club, Allen
Neighbors pictured on the right
took over the president's gavel
from Arthur Fisher. Other offi
cers elected for the 1991-92
year were Dr. Ben E. Wood
ward, vice president; Dr. Joseph
L. Emery, sec.; Thomas J.
Kelly, asst. sec. and B. Louis
Blair, treasurer. The directors
arc Homer C. Carder, Ben E.
Woodward, Thomas A. Brad
shaw, Carl P. Schumacher,
Robert F. Hunter and Ted W.
Proudfoot.
AI Neighbors was born in
Farmersville, Ill. and received
his degree in Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Troy, N.Y. He worked for the
Carrier Corporation for 30 years
pincipally in marketing. In Oct.
1983, Al retired from the Char-
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Mountain Hike
Whitesides Mountain, located
between Highlands and
Cashiers, N.C., is a unique part
of the Natahala National Forest.
A moderate hike into this area
will be our next FENCE Ven
ture on Tuesday, July 30.
lire mountain offers visitors a
chance to enjoy the beauty and
solitude of the forest and spec
tacular views from a high ridge
top.
A rare mineral, monazite, is
contained in the rock along with
pyrite (fools gold), feldspar,
quartz and mica. Chestnut trees
once abounded in this predom
inantly oak forest. A chestnut
blight struck in the early 1900's
destroyed all of the large chest
nut trees. Chestnut sprouts are
abundant in the area, but sel
dom reach more than three
inches in diameter before dying
Frazer Magnolia, Striped
Maple, Black Birch and Witch-
Hazel are also commonly found
in these woods.
Come and join us on this
peaceful mountain walk and
view nature at its best. Birds,
wildflowers, animals and some
rare plants arc in abundance
here.
For more information call the
Foothills Equestrian Nature
Center, 704-859-9021.
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