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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. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT at Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 87
TRYON, N. C. 28782
MONDAY, JUNE 4,1990
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The decade has started out
wet in the Thermal Belt. Just in
May the precipitation, 7.37
inches, has out-sopped the
average by an inch and a half.
So far this year, we have had
37.56 inches of rain, a soaking
surplus of 8.41 inches.
Thanks to Robert Dedmondt,
our official weather recorder, we
know nifty little details like this.
The weather Thursday: high
81, low 55, hum. 56 percent.
Harvey Gantt leads Mike
Easley 42 percent to 32 percent
among likely voters in
tomorrow’s Democratic run-off
for the U.S. Senate nomination.
Democrats ought to be asking
who has the best chance of
beating Sen. Jesse Helms — and
that’s Harvey Gantt. Let’s hope
the polls are right. Mike Easley
will have other chances.
The German reunification
question will not be resolved at
this summit, Mikhail Gorbachev
said Thursday. But he and
President Bush did sign
agreements ending the
production of poison gas
(particularly worrisome at Polk
County budget time), and
elements of a strategic-weapons
treaty.
Polk County Sheriff Boyce
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Tryon High School
Class Of 1990
The following Tryon High
School Seniors graduated Friday
night:
Riva Anne Amendola, Jenny
Leigh Butler, Laura Beth Butler,
Chanequa Lashawn Canady,
Marlea Ann Elizabeth Capozzi,
Karen Denise Constance, Camrin
Leigh Corryn, Jason Randolph
Cumbie, Kyle Lorenzo
Cunningham, Leigh Renae
Dusenbury, Bernard G.
Edwards, II, Daniel Grant Er
skine, Melissa Suzanne Feagan,
Cameron David Fitch, Tamara
Michele Flynn, Richard David
Game, Tiffany Nicole Gary,
Stephen Craig Gillie, Stephanie
Suzanne Greene, Joseph
Jonathan Griffin, Brian Guffey,
Lisa Lorraine Henderson,
Timothy Edward Hill, Kathy
Melinda Jones, Kristin Morris
Key, Eric Simmons Killough,
Paula Lynn Kuykendall,
Christopher James Lasher,
Chadwick Loy Lowry, Robin
Wilkie McCall, Christopher
George McConnell, Timothy
William McCurry, Randall
Wayne Morgan, Jessica Lynn
Parkan, Crystal Leigh Parker,
James Gary Pittman, Benjamin
Keith Ridings, Clare Boone
Smith, Margaret Kelli Smith,
Deanna Laverne Steen, Matthew
Thomas Strawbridge, Jennifer
Alicia Thompson, Jeffrey Wayne
Warren, Angela Elizabeth White,
Emanuel DeCarlo Wilkins,
Jonathan Michael Wilson,
Stephen Christopher Wilson.
50th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Jones,
Sr., of Peniel Road, Columbus,
will celebrate their 50th wedding
anniversary on June 6. They were
honored at a reception on
Sunday, June 3, at Harmon Field
Log House in Tryon given by
their son and daughter-in-law,
Gene and Marlene, of Rocky
Mount, North Carolina, their son,
Tim of Tryon and their future
daughter-in-law, Janet Becker,
also of Tryon. Mrs. Jones is the
former Ruby Gibson of
Columbus. The couple has four
grandchildren
Recycling
Bins Open
Recycling bins are now open at
the Waste Water Treatment
Plant, 8 a.m.-3 p m Mon.—Fri.
School Fund Balance
Confuses Budget
Process
The Polk County Board of
Education received $1.62 million
from the county for current
expenses last year, but spent
$284,024 additional money from
its “fund balance” to maintain its
programs.
Now that decision is muddying
the budgetary waters.
Last year, the school board had
$390,000 in its fund balance — a
sort of government savings
account for cash flow shortfalls
and emergencies. Most
governing bodies put aside
between eight and 12 percent of
their annual budget in a “fund
balance."
This year, the school fund
balance account stands at
$90,000, Supt. Dr. James F.
Causby told the Polk County
Board of Commissioners Friday,
just enough to cover operating
cash shortfalls, not enough to
cover another year of reduced
local funding.
The local funding was
reduced last year when the Tryon
supplemental tax was removed.
Yet Causby said his mandate
when he was hired to complete
the merger was to maintain
current programs for both the
former Tryon and Polk County
schools until new schools could be
built and the cost efficiencies of
merger realized.
Causby told a group of
concerned citizens Thursday
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