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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 Tryon Daily Bulletin (USPS 643-MO) u
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24 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 53
The weather Monday, high
70, low 53, hum. 48 percent.
"Die 46th running of the Block
House Steeplechase races will
be held Saturday. Gates open at
10 a.m. The hat contest begins
at 11:30, and the Green Creek
Hounds and Carolina Carriage
Club will parade on the course
from 11:30 to 1 p.m. At 1:30
the horses will enter the pad-
dock for the first race!
What's happening:
Registration for children who
will be entering kindergarten
next fall will be held today at
Green Creek Elementary.
The Crackerbarrel group will
meet Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at
the Congregational Church.
Bring your own snack.
The FENCE travelogue scries
will continue with a slide show
and lecture on the Amazon
Thursday evening at 7 at
FENCE.
Owen Phillips, Democratic
candidate for State Superinten
dent of Instruction, will be at
the Democratic Headquarters in
Columbus Friday morning from
7:30 to 8:30. All Democrats and
other interested persons are
invited to meet the candidate at
that time.
Friday is the deadline to make
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TRYON. N.C. 28782
Jaynes' Fingerprints
Found In Acker Car
Testimony continued Tuesday
in the first degree murder trial
of James Edward Jaynes in Polk
County Superior Court.
SBI Agent Mika Elliott testi
fied that when he arrived at the
crime scene, a phone line had
been cut at the mobile home of
Paul Acker, the back door had
been pried open, and Acker's
body was inside and burned
beyond recognition.
Elliott also testified that
vehicles and other items
belonging to Mr. Acker were
found at three wooded locations
in Rutherford Co-’ity.
SBI fingerprint expert Brian
Delmas testified that identifi
able fingerprints from Jaynes
were found in several places in
Acker's Volvo.
Just before the lunchtime
break at presstime Tuesday,
Rutherford County Detective
R.H. Epley testified that he and
SBI Agent Bruce Jarvis sur
prised Jaynes and Stanley
Shane Smith as they backed up
a truck to the Volvo at 8:30
p.m. Oct. 13, three days after
the killing.
They arrested them then at the
remote wooded location.
Smith took the stand Monday
to testify against his former
elementary school classmate,
according to reports in the
Hendersonville Times-News.
Smith said he and Jaynes had
plotted for weeks to rob Paul
Acker, but were never supposed
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15,1992
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Students Going To Spain
This spring Michael Chaffin, Mitch Davis, Holly Crain, Stacie
Walker, Stewart Newlin and Evetta Cook will find the sunny
shores of Spain. Spanish instructor Raquel Baneto will depart
Charlotte on Apr. 15 (today) with this group of students enroute to
a 10-day tour of the country of Spain. The students, all of whom
are currently enrolled in one of Ms. Barreto's Spanish classes will
visit Barcelona, Zarogoza, Madrid, Seville, Cordoba Ronda, Mijas
and Costa del Sol. Optional excursions include Segovia Toledo
and Granada.
The trip is being arranged with CHA (Cultural Heritage
Alliance), a tour company of Philadelphia, PA. The group will
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Ms. Barreto feels the trip will give students a chance to experience
diffed H U ih rc ^ rcallze ,he re are other people that actually live
differently than Americans. As well, she looks forward to them
having a chance to put into practice what they've learned in
vS° m r and ho,x5 „ ly ex Pand their Spanish vocabulary "Buen
Viaje! -Communtty Reporter y en
Sell Home
Thomas Wagner of 120 Hulon
Howard Road in Ingleside has
sold his country home and
moved to rural Tryon.
The sale was handled by
Glenn Otto Mittelstadt of
AM:Realty.
-Community Reporter