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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 53 No. 10
Weather Monday: high 47. low
19. Tuesday morning was on the
cool side, but the sun soon
warmed things up.
A 14-year-old Rutherford
County woman gave birth to
Siamese twin girls last Saturday
at Rutherford Hospital. The girls
who weighed 12 pounds at birth
were immediately transferred to
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville where they were listed
in stable condition Monday. The
parents were identified as Kim
and Arlin Beaver.
Coast Guard ice breakers
generally associated with open
ing shipping lanes in the North
Atlantic, are at work this month
breaking ice in North Carolina
sounds. The Coast Guard is using
its cutters as icebreakers to keep
the Intracostal Waterway open
through the sounds.
Saying “Im just tired of this
mess,” Chief Deputy Insurance
Commissioner Byron Tatum
resigned Monday, becoming the
second top-level official to leave
Commissioner John Ingram’s
department in a week. “The
inefficiency of operation is a
waste of taxpayers money”, he
added.
The American Legion Bingo is
tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. at
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TRYON, N. C. 28782
Busy Session For
Polk School Bd.
The Polk County School Board
met Monday night in the
Superintendent’s Office in the
courthouse annex.
The Board discussed the
possibility of Gommunty Schools
Program in Polk County. The
Board also discussed the settle
ment of $14,000 received from A.
A. Ramsey Construction Co. for
work to be done on the Saluda
School building.
Budget requests from all Polk
County Schools were to be
received by Feb. 15th.
Supt. David Cromer announced
that data computers would be
installed soon by the Western
Regional Education Center at
Canton.
The Board voted to sell at
auction the Polk Central Voca
tional property this spring with
opening bids at $4300 per lot.
The Board discussed the
Alternative Vocational Program.
Supt. Cromer reported that the
in-school suspension program
had started at Polk Central.
The Board received approval
from the N. C. Board of
Education to use the remaining
1973 bond money for two
additional classrooms at Polk
Central.
The Board approved the hiring
of Miss Ann Langley for part time
occupational therapy for handi
capped class.
Supt. Cromer announced his
retirement effective June 30,
1980.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, 1980
Announces
Retirement
Supt. David A. Cromer
Polk County Superintendent
David A. Cromer announced to
the School Board Monday night
that he would retire effective
June 30, 1980. Mr. Cromer has
served as Superintendent of the
Polk County Schools since 1959.
Mr. Cromer is a graduate of
Tryon High School, Class of 1940
and of Wofford College in 1944. He
received his masters in School
Administration from Columbia
University in 1954. He began
teaching at Carlisle Military at
Bamberg, S. C. He taught at
Tryon for one year and then
became principal at Stearns
School and then Alamance School
in Guilford County. He became
Superintendent of the Polk
County Schools in 1959. He has a
total of 36 years experience as
school teacher and administrator
— 30 of which are in the public
schools of North Carolina.
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A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Russell of
Mill Spring are parents of a son,
Eric Paul, born Feb. 11 at St.
Luke’s Hospital.
Paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Russell of Mill
Spring. Maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Nelson of
Newland, N. C.
Wrecks
Patrolman C. T. “Buteh”
Kennedy investigated three
wrecks Sunday. At 6:30 a.m. a
car slid on ice near the Green
River bridge on the Coxe Road
and hit a utility pole on the right
side of the road. No one was
injured.
At 12:30 p.m. there was a
head-on wreck on New Market
Road just outside the Tryon City
Limits. The wreck involved a ‘68
Chevrolet and ‘72 Chevrolet
truck. One person was taken to
St. Luke’s Hospital.
Also at 12:30 p.m. on Hwy. No. 9
near the Lake Adger power dam
a ‘64 Ford pick-up truck driven by
Charlie Green attempted to pass
a Ford, both cars were going
south bound, when the truck hit
ice and struck the Ford, knocking
the Ford off the right side of the
road and the truck driven by
Green went off the left side and
turned over on its side.
STORYHOUR
Books to be used this week at
the 4 p.m. Storyhour at the
Landrum Library are “The
Secret Dinosaur” by Marilyn
Hirsh and “Ookie-Spooky” by
Mirra Ginsburg.