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(Consolidated with the Polk County Nows 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin Is published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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X Pages Today
Vol. 54 - No. 31
TRYON, N. C. 28782 MONDAY, MARCH 16,1981
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Weather Thursday: high 64,
low 29. Friday was like a spring
day
The Census Bureau, in its first
look at who gets government
help, reported Thursday that
federal benefit programs reach
one out of every three American
households.
The House and Senate officially
clamped the new mood of
austerity upon themselves, their
staffs, judges and other top
federal officials Thursday by
rejecting a 16.8% wage increase.
The Tryon High student body
had a party Friday morning.
Student Council President, Ken
Taylor, said the occasion was to
say farewell to Walter Mize who
was leaving for Thailand as an
AFS student and to honor the
boys basketball team who will
play Friday in the State 1-A
finals. Mrs. Beth McCallister
presented a gift from the faculty
to Walter Mize. Athletic Director
Geoffrey Tennant praised the
basketball team on their
accomplishment, talent and
character. He also said that Tom
Foster and Coach Mike Pearson
had gotten the most out of the
team Coach Pearson introduced
each of the players and told what
a pleasure it had been to coach
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Polk Schools
Advisory Council
To Meet
The Polk County Community-
Schools Advisory Council will
meet Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30
p m. in the conference room at
NCNB in Columbus. Subjects for
discussion will be a proposed
summer day-camp and library-
program at the elementary
school sites, and the Reading Is
Fundamental (RIF) program
Baseball
Monday
Landrum at Polk Central
Tuesday
Tryon at Jonesville
Friday
Landrum at Spartanburg
Golf
Monday-
Tryon in five team match with
Brevard, Pisgah, Tuscola and
West Henderson at Red Fox
Country Club
Rating of Excellence
The Polk Central Chamber
Singers participated in the
Western District III Small
Ensemble Chofal Festival held
Feb 19th at Warren Wilson
College. They received a rating of
Excellent.
The Chamber Singers are
under the direction of Carron
Prince.
Meet Tonight
The Polk County Commission
ers will meet tonight at 7 o’clock
at the Green Creek School.
Ass’t Superintendent
For Polk Schools
Superintendent Larry D. Coble
of the Polk County School System
has announced the appointment
of Ronald B. Singletary to the
newly created post of Assistant
Superintendent.
The decision to recommend
Singletary to the Board of
Education for approval was
made unanimously by the five-
member selection committee,
which had been screening final
candidates for two weeks prior to
the recent Board meeting. The
new Assistant Superintendent
will take up his duties in
Instruction and Administrative
Service on April 13.
Mr. Singletary is a native of
Goldsboro and Jacksonville, and
is married to the former Judy
Aman. He received a B.S. degree
in Elementary Education from
Pembroke State University in
1969, earned a Masters of
Education degree in Schoo)
Administration from Eastern
Carolina University in 1972, and
an Education Specialist degree
from Appalachian State
University in 1977. He is
presently enrolled in the doctoral
program in Educational
Administration at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro,
and expects to complete the
academic requirements this
spring.
During his twelve years in
public education. Mr. Singletary
has served in the Cumberland
0U ”y Schools as a seventh
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Fires
The Columbus Volunteer Fire
Department responded to three
fires Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. a station
wagon driven by Mrs. Claudie
Pack caught fire in the Polk
Central High School parking lot.
The car was totaled. Columbus
and Mill Spring fire departments
answered the call.
Thursday about 5:30 p.m the
Columbus Fire Department was
called to a woods fire near the
residence of Kevin Thompson on
old No. 19. The fireman, along
with the Forestry Service battled
the blaze for about an hour before
bringing it under control. About
an acre was burned.
Thursday at 7:45 p.m. the
Columbus firemen were called to
the west bound lane of 1-26 about
halfway up the mountain. A bat
tery box fell off a truck coming
down the mountain and crossed
the medium and knocked a hole
in the fuel tank of a tractor trailer
coming up the mountain and
several hundred gallons of fuel
spilled on the highway. Water
could have only made matters
worse so the firemen called the
State Transportation
Department and they sanded the
area. The bouncing battery box
also hit another truck and
punctured the front tire.
Burning Permits
Are Cancelled
All burning permits in North
Carolina have been cancelled due
to dry conditions