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Established January 31, 1928
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 Bulletin Is published
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT ol Western North Carolina
20 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 25
TRYON. N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY. MARCH7.1990 204 Per Copy
Weather Monday: high 64, low
36, hum. 68%. Tuesday was
another beautiful, sunny day.
The U.S. Supreme Court
overturned a key portion of North
Carolina’s death penalty law
Monday in a ruling that will
invalidate the sentences of most
of the 85 death row inmates in the
state.
The University of Maryland
plans to appeal several of the
NCAA penalties levied against
the men’s basketball program,
the most serious of which
includes a two-year ban on
postseason play and three years'
probation.
Dennis Scott, one part of
Georgia Tech's triple threat in
the Atlantic Coast Conference
this season was the only
unanimous selection to the all-
ACC team. Also making the first
team were Clemson's tall tandem
of Elden Campbell and Dale
Davis and Georgia Tech’s
freshman Kenny Anderson and
Virginia's Bryant Stith. It was
the first time a player from
North Carolina’s big 4 was not
named to the first team.
Academic fraud is as old as
education itself, but studies
indicate about 20% to 30% of
students cheat, and the figure is
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Tennant Named
Outstanding Director
Geoff Tennant, athletic
director for Polk County Schools,
stood up expecting to talk about
fire houses, but wound up
receiving a plaque Monday night
at the Polk County Board of
Education meeting
Supt. Dr. James F. Causby told
the board that Tennant has been
named the Outstanding Athletic
Director for Region 8 this year.
Causby also presented Tennant
a plaque in appreciation of his
gifts to Polk County Schools.
Tennant donated $40,000 for
business computer equipment for
Polk Central High School, and
also a conversion van
The school board members also
gave Tennant a positive answer
to his question regarding the bus
garage property it owns in
Columbus. Tennant, president of
the Columbus Fire Department,
had asked the board last month to
consider leasing or selling the
firemen land for a new
firehouse.
The board asked its attorney.
Charels Russell Burrell, to draft
a lease document for 50 years for
the board to consider.
In other business:
•Architect John Cort, of Wood
& Cort, the firm designing the
new Polk County Consolidated
High School, gave the board
members a summary of the
current plans
He said the cost estimate has
dropped 5%, from $70 per square
foot to $66 50. while the size of the
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Tuition Of $238
Per Household
To Be Charged
South Carolina families who
want to send their children to
Polk County Schools in the future
will have to pay $238 per year, the
Polk County Board of Education
decided Monday night in a
packed board room.
The new policy will require a
charge of $238 per household, not
per non-resident student.
Students already enrolled will be
‘’grandfathered." that is, allowed
to continue to attend Polk schools
without paying any tuition.
Members of the Association of
County Taxpayers (ACT) on
hand argued with the board from
the floor before the tuition policy
issue even came up on the agenda
and were told not to speak until
the board opened its meeting up
to public comment.
When that time arrived
however, they clearly stated
their dislike of grandfathering
existing students, and the "basic
unfairness" of South Carolina
charging a substantial tutition
while Polk charges none.
ACT president Walt Hamill
said he believed the basic issue is
that Polk County schools cost too
much He said Polk is among the
"top 10” costliest school systems
in North Carolina, and that if this
problem could be addressed,
other other issues might "fade
away."
However. Supt. Dr James F.
Causby said the loss of South
Carolina students in Polk Schools
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Routine Meeting
For Commissioners
The Polk County
Commissioners met Monday
night at the Commissioners
Room in the courthouse annex in
Columbus and took the following
action:
• Approved the 1990 Personal
Property Assessor's Manual as
presented by Clarence Wilson.
Tax Supervisor
• David Draughn, Solid Waste
Director gave an update on Solid
Waste. He stated that he was
hoping to get newspapers
recycled at no charge and that he
and the County Manager were
working on a fee schedule:
March 1st was the deadline for
putting tires in the land fill and
that he had obtained a trailer to
put the tires until they could be
removed and destroyed
according to state regulations
He reported that four glass boxes
were just about full. He said that
every effort was being made to
keep the area clean.
• Mr. Draughn also reported on
the Economic Development
Commission and stated that the
EDC was having a marketing
research done which will take six
months It will answer the
questions: Where is Polk County?
What do we need to do? How to
reach these goals’ It will also
show how planning will help Polk
County market what the county
already has. He stated that $5,000
had been placed in the budget but
that they hoped to get a matching
grant.
• The Watershed Protection
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