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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.
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24 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 107
The weekend weather: Friday,
high 92, low 63, hum. 76 percent;
Saturday: high96, low65, hum. 50
percent, precipitation .23 inches;
Sunday, high 96, low 72, hum. 78
percent.
The precipitation for June, if
you hadn’t guessed, was way off
the average of 5.67 inchres. Only
1.48 inches of rain fell.
The rainfall for the year is still
4.24 inches above the average. So
far this year 39.04 inches has
fallen, compared to an average of
34.8.
Julia Wheeler returned to her
home on Lyncourt Circle in Tryon
at 10 p.m. Sunday night with her
daughter, Samantha, and a
friend, Greg Marrs.
All three were getting out of
their car, arms loaded when
something startled them — a
cooperhead snake, reared back
ready to strike.
“He didn’t have much interest
in running away,” Julia Wheeler
said. “He was more interested in
striking.”
They turned back on the car
lights and Greg, who is visiting
fom New York City, used a box to
capture the snake. He carried it
deep into nearby woods and
released it.
Julia said she treads lightly
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TRYON. N. C. 28782
McCall Wins
Shooting Silver
Robin McCall of Tryon won a
silver medal in the women’s
standard rifle prone open
competition at the U. S.
international Shooting
Championships in Chino, Calif,
last week.
McCall won the silver, beating
out two former Olympian
shooters and finishing just one
point behind the leader.
She also won the title of Junior
National Champion.
McCall is one of 24 rifle
shooters selected to compete at
the U.S. Olympic Festival from
July 7 — 9 in Minneapolis-St.
Paul.
McCall will be competing on
the East Squad. All 13 Olymic
shooting events will be staged at
the Festival.
Searcy Reunion
Sunday, July Sth the
descendants of Elijah and
Rebecca Ann Pack Searcy will
hold their annual family reunion
at the Sunny View Community
House. Registration at 12 noon.
Lunch at 1 p.m. Followed by a
business meeting. — Reporter
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Troxler of
Stuart, Florida, formerly of
Tryon, had their son, Sam W.
Troxler of Anchorage, Alaska
and 2 granddaughters, Anne and
Katie Troxler of Sioux Falls,
South Dakota for a visit recently.
TUESDAY, JULY 3,1990
Foundation Sends
Nancy To Russia
Nancy Wilson’s sixth graders,
next school year, will enjoy an
early orientation to glosnost and
onion-domed cathedrals, and
many other aspects of life in the
Soviet Union.
“Especially”, says their
teacher, “I will make my
students aware of the momentous
changes that are taking place in
that huge country.”
Nancy, who teaches at Green
Creek Elementary, is the
recipient of a Slater Award to
Promote Excellence in Teaching,
provided by the Polk County
Community Foundation.
Her proposed project, as
described to The Foundation’s
Education Committee in April of
1989, was to accompany a group
of North Carolina teachers on a
trip to Russia, organized by the
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200 Per Pops
County Manager
To Move On
Polk county Manager Steven D.
Wyatt has resigned. His last day
will be July 27.
Wyatt has accepted the position
of assistant to Catawba County
Manager Tom Lundy.
“It’s a career move for me, no
doubt,” Wyatt said. His salary
will be $49,600 to start, with a
review after six months which
could add another seven percent
to that. He was paid $31,000 by
Polk County.
Wyatt said Lundy is probably
the only county manager he
would have agreed to serve as an
assistant. Lundy is past president
of the National Association of
County Administrators, and
currently serves as president of
the N.C. Association of City and
County Managers.
“They had 160 people apply,”
Wyatt said. He was not among
the applicants, but Lundy
approached him at a recent
conference in Wilmington.
Wyatt agreed to consider the
position, and sat though a 5-and-
a-half-hour interview in which he
took a written test and was
grilled by a couple of panels.
His new position will involve
directing several Catawba
County departments, including
EMS, animal control, legal
services, tax administration,
budget and finances, library and
agricultural extension services.
Wyatt said he is already
putting out the word among other
professional managers in the
state to an effort to help recruit a
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