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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
(USPS 643-360) &
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 63 — No. 91
The weather Wednesday: high
85, low 54, hum. 74 percent.
The news summary: The
Senate Appropriations
Committee on Wednesday
revealed a plan to balance the
state’s budget without raising
taxes.
But House leaders in both
parties accused the Senate of
trying to balance the budget on
the backs of local government.
The Senate plan would cut $86
million from next year’s
scheduled $116 million Basic
Education Plan (BEP)
expansion. House Appropriations
Comm'ttee Chairman David
Diamont (D-Surry) said, “I
didn’t realize it was going to be
this bad....It basically
jeopardizes the entire program.”
The Senate plan also proposes
reducing aid to school districts
for energy and custodial costs.
And the Senate commitee
proposes cutting 10 percent of
state reimbursements to city
and county governments. Polk
County Manager Steven D. Wyatt
was on the phone Wednesday to
local representatives in Raleigh
asking that this measure be
defeated. “It’s going to kill us,”
he said.
Polk County would lose $20,489.
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Prlntod In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON, N. C. 28782
Hefty Landfill Fees
Planned In Budget
Like Paul Revere, business
owners around Polk County were
passing the word this week: the
landfill disposal fees are coming.
At least one Tryon Thermal
Belt Chamber of Commerce
member said he would be on the
phone all weekend to businesses
alerting them to the fees and
urging their attendance at the
county budget hearings Monday
night at 7:30 p.m. at the
courthouse.
In order to raise the $343,200
needed to run the county landfill
under increasingly stringent
state mandates, the county
proposes in its 1990-91 budget to
begin charging landfill disposal
fees.
Polk’s 7,000 households will
each pay $20, raising $140,000.
The rest will come from fees
charged to businesses — fees
ranging from $400 for
“commercial level I,” to $5,000
for industrial level VI.
Restaurants will pay anywhere
from $600 to $2,200, offices and
stores from $400 to $800, and
industries from $1,000 to $5,000.
Hospitals, bed-and-breakfasts
and hotels will be charged $40 per
bed per year.
Complaints heard at The
Bulletin Office have centered on
the amount of the fees, and the
equity between which businesses
fall into which categories, and the
relative poundage of waste they
generate.
Anne Crowell of the Tryon
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FRIDAY, JUNES, 1990
Retired Veterinarian
Starts New Business
Medefile of Tryon, Inc., has
been started by LeRoy S.
Roemer, DVM in response to the
expanding electronic information
age. Medical electronic filing of
insurance claims for physicians
and chiropractors can reduce the
time for payment from months to
days.
Medefile, a licensee of
Compass Healthcare Systems,
uses a comprehensive medical
software program on their own
central computer to ease the
overwhelming amount of
complex paperwork for the
doctor. The need for these
services has been brought on by
the recent government
regulations requiring doctors to
file Medicare claims for their
patients.
Dr. Roemer is very familiar
with computerized veterinary
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32 Pages Today
20? Per Coin
60th Wedding
Anniversary
Horace and Marie Cook of
White Oak Terrace are
celebrating their 60th wedding
anniversary June 14th. Mill
Farm Inn will host eighteen for
the weekend.
Son, Richard, and wife Mickey
from Orlando, Fla., daughter Sue
and husband Ron from Rocky
River, Ohio are making
arrangements.
Grandson. David Cook Jacobs
and wife Lynn from Virginia
Beach, granddaughter Rachel
Jacobs and friend Rob Pascale
from Virginia Beach,
granddaughter, Katherine
Adams and great-grandson
William, 8 years old from Tulsa,
Oklahoma will be here.
Grandson Mark Specli , wife
Kim and great-grandson, Mark
Tyler four months of age,
grandaugthers, Lisa and
Dominique complete this group.
The anniversary dinner will be
at Stone Hedge Hedge Inn, June
15. — Reporter
Golf News At TCC
The annual Spring Handicap
Tournament at Tryon Country
Club resulted in three winners:
Tournament winner: Dick
Lablanc: 1st Flight Winner: Bob
Widdicombe; 2nd Flight Winner:
Tom Burrell
Note: Tom Burrell tied the
course record 30 on the back nine
on Saturday, May 26. His 18 hole
score was 67.