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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
Dally 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
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 153
TRYON. N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6,1990
20^ Per Copy
The weather Tuesday: high
84, low 67, hum. 78 percent.
Tickets are now on sale for
the Tryon Concert
Association’s upcoming
series. The first offering of the
season will be the Swingle
Singers of Great Britain. For
ticket information, write to
Mrs. Gene Wyckoff, P.O. Box
32, Tryon, N.C. 28782.
Church Women United will
hold its first fall meeting at 11
a.m. Sept. 14th at Garrison
Chapel Baptist church on
Markham Road in Tryon.
Paintings by J.W. Lawrence
Sr. which convey a sense of
history and nostalgia for the
Thermal Belt of days gone by
are on display at the Polk
County Library through
September.
Tryon Little Theater will
hold an open house in the
lobby of the Fine Arts Center
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. This
is a chance for persons
interested in theater to meet
the Little Theater officers and
members.
Mark your calendars.
Saturday is the annual
Rummage Sale at the
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“Paw Prints”
Interested readers of the Tryon
Bulletin will soon see a new
weekly feature, “Paw Prints.”
The pets shown in Thursday’s
edition will be available for
adoption from the Foothills
Humane Society. The animals
are being kept at the Daisy
Hill Kennels on Campobello.
They will be transferred to the
new animal shelter on Little
Mountain Road this fall.
Our gratitude goes to Dr.
Marion Baker who has
generously donated a new
Polaroid camera to the shelter,
and volunteered to be responsible
for the weekly article’s picture
and adoption information. We
hope this important volunteer
project will increase the number
of adoptions for these homeless
animals.
The Shelter is overloaded with
abandoned animals who need
homes right now. Please visit us.
— Reporter
New Arrival
Ray and Denise Moffitt of
Tryon are parents of a daughter.
Erica Lauren, born August 31 at
Rutherford County Hospital. She
weighed 7 lbs. 14 ozs. Her older
brother, Clinton Doyce, is 9 years
old.
Maternal grandmother is Mrs.
Grace Blackwell of
Hendersonville. Great-
grandmother is Mrs. Lora
Cantrell of Hendersonville.
Paternal grandparents are
Mrs. Ruby Moffitt and the late J.
C. Moffitt of Columbus. Great-
grandmother is Edith Moffitt of
Horseshoe, N. C.
Turner Awarded
$3,000 by NCNB
Christina Lynne Turner has
received the $3,000 Leadership
Award through NCNB’s
Scholarship program for children
of employees.
Christina, who is a sophomore
at the University of South
Carolina at Spartanburg, is the
daughter of Darlene Turner, who
works in NCNB National Bank’s
Tryon office.
Christina graduated from
Landrum High School in 1989. She
won the Josten’s Outstanding
Senior Award in 1989, first place
in district and state FBLA
Accounting Competition in 1989,
the Freshman Achievement in
Writing Award in 1990, the Dean’s
List 1990 at USCS, and was
inducted into Gamma Beta Phi
Honor Society in 1990. She is
studying business and accounting
at USCS.
Census Count
May Be Challenged
The preliminary numbers
gathered in the 1990 Census
are in and Polk County
officials think their county
may have been undercounted.
Interim County Manager
Glenn Rhodes on Tuesday
night told the board that the
1990 Census preliminary
report shows 14,383 residents
in Polk County, up from just
over 12,000 in 1980.
"Personally, I feel it’s low,”
Rhodes said.
Board chairman Jeannie
Martin said that the count is
very important to the county
in that many of the county’s
revenues are allocated on a
per capita basis. She said she
believes the county population
today is nearer to 15,000.
“It’s extremely important,”
Rhodes said. He told the board
that the county has 15 days to
review the count and, if
necessary, contest it. Rhodes
said he plans next week to look
at specific zones within the
county and determine where
any errors might have
occured.
Rhodes, a Polk County
resident, said he never
received a Census form, and
Martin said she had not
received one either.
In other business Tuesday:
* The board voted to send a
letter to Gov. Jim Martin
asking that he not sign into
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