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Founded Jan 31. 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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Vol. 63 — No. 106
The weather Thursday: high
92, low 61, hum. 56 percent.
The U.S. Justice Department
was to rule today whether or not
Spartanburg County’s single-
member district election plan
violates the Voting Rights Act of
1965.
Under the plan approved by
voters in a March 12 referendum,
six council members would be
elected from six districts and the
council chairman would run
countywide.
The Spartanburg NAACP has
opposed the plan because of the
provision for the countywide
election of the chairman.
Spartanburg County taxpayers
do not face a tax increase, but
landfill fees will increase from
$7.50 to $10, and ambulance rides
will cost $125 instead of $100,
under the county's approved
budget.
Henderson County lowered its
tax rate 13 cents in its approved
budget, but the board chairman
estimates 99 percent of county
homeowners will pay between 15
and 20 precent more taxes after
the recent property revaluations
are figured in.
Approximately 200 WestPoint
Pepperell employees in Tuxedo
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON. N. C. 28782
Ed Britton Named
Rotarian of the Year
At the annual banquet of
Thermal Belt Rotary Club held
on June 25th at Tryon Country
Club, Edward H. Britton, Jr. of
White Oak Lane in Tryon was
named Rotarian of the Year
David Paff in making the
presentation gave credit to Ed
Britton for organizing and
serving as the first President of
Thermal Belt Rotary for the past
18 months and for recruiting
many of Thermal Belt Rotary’s
present members. Brittonis co-
owner with his son Chuck of
C&E Home Improvements and is
also co-owner of the new Ace
Hardware store being built on
Hwy. 108 in Lynn.
Rotary District Governor Ray
G. (Gary) Corne attended the
meeting and spoke to the
Rotarians and guests present He
cited Ed Britton for having 18
years of perfect attendance in
various Rotary Clubs. Fred Haas
was also given credit for having
one year of perfect attendance in
Thermal Belt Rotary.
District Gov. Corne was also
given the honor of installing the
following new officers and
directors for the 1990-91 year:
President, David Paff;
President-Elect, Fred Haas;
Sec., Ed Britton; Treas., Steve
Strickland and directors Sandy
Paff, David Cotty and Anne
Crowell.
The four main fund raising
projects for the past year were
reviewed by past president
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MONDAY, JULY 2,1990
John Hood To Speak
At Tryon Rotary
The program for Tryon Rotary
Club on Monday, July 9, at the
Vineyard Restaurant will be
presented by John M. Hood of the
John Locke Foundation. His
subject will be “State
Government and the Role of
Experts.”
Mr. Hood is director of
publications and research for the
John Locke Foundation, a public
policy think tank based in
Raleigh, North Carolina, that
examines state and local policies
from a free market, limited
government perspective. In this
capacity, Hood edits a monthly
newsletter, “Carolina Issues”,
edits and frequently writes a
weekly column, “Carolina Beat,”
which is distributed to 200
newspapers across the state; and
manages the Foundation’s
research program, which issues
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20 Pages Today
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Commissioners
Meet Tuesday
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners will meet
Tuesday to revisit — yet again —
the two most controversial
portions of their 1990-91 budget.
Although the budget was
passed June 18, both the school
budget and the landfill budget are
still in limbo.
Clerk of Court Judge Arledge
will hold an arbitration meeting
with the Board of Education and
Board of Commissioners at 10
a m. tomorrow to try to resolve
the school budget stand-off.
Prior to that, at 9 a m , the
board will meet to discuss the
landfill budget after learning last
week that the flat-fee method of
raising landfill revenues may be
unconstitutional.
The board had decided to
charge homeowners $25,
businesses $100, and industries
$200. These charges were to be
placed or tax bills.
But County Manager Steven D.
Wyatt instructed the tax office to
go ahead and mail the tax bills
without including the fees last
week after hearing from Sen Bob
Carpenter that the fees may not
be legally enforceable.
Wyatt and County Solid Waste
Manager David Draughn were
working on alternative plans,
primarily plans which would
charge users of the landfill based
on usage
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