90 p ’ w ..’ ,i ’.’ma« £ “ ^; COLUUBUS, N c Z^ 2nd Class Postage Paid At Tryon, North Carolina, 28782 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. 159 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina 36 Pages Today TRYON, N. C. 28782 FRIDAY, SEPT. 14,1990 20C Per Copy The weather Wednesday: high 87, low 68, hum. 78 percent. The Polk County Board of Commissioner’s will meet Monday at 3 p.m. at the courthouse annex. Tickets are available now for Good Shepherd Episcopal Church’s Twelfth Annual Church and Community Award Dinner and Dance. Ruth Carson Moore and Peter Hahn will be honored Music will be provided by the Rhythmaires of Greenville, S.C. Tickets are available at Holy Cross, NCNB, Cowan’s Grocery, The Book Shelf, Tryon Pharmcy and Tryon Federal Savings and Loan. You can still reserve a copy of the 1990-91 Tryon High School yearbook. Call 859-6637 today. Tickets are on sale for the Tryon Little Theater production of “High Spirits,” billed as an improbable musical. The show will be performed Oct. 4, 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. Call 859-8322 for reservations or information. Jeanne Hoffman and Gustav Hoffman will both exhibit their sculptures at The Arts Pallette Saturday. The public is invited for refreshments and to view the Contionued On Back Page Foundations Poured Workers at the construction site of Tryon Estates in Columbus are pouring foundations now, reports Bob Bowman, project manager. The foundations for over 300 vertical, steel supports for the Phase I building are being poured,, as is the preliminary cement foundation for the block and brick walls. Surveyors have been using lasers to make their measurements. “They are phenomenally accurate,” Bowman said. “They even take into consideration the curvature of the earth.” Utility lines for water, sewer, electricity, telephone and cable television are being put into place before the concrete slab floor is poured. Visitors to the site, however, won’t see any of the results of all this activitiy, Rowman said. All the foundation work and utility work is going on beneath ground level. Even if you walk up and stand over one of the holes, you’ll likely see only muddy water, he said. “I had a prospective resident out there the other day, and all we could see was muddy holes,” Bowman said. “It makes it tough to visualize.” The new retirement village will get much easier to visualize after Nov. 5. That’s when Bowman said he expects the steel to be delivered. “After that, the buildings will start coming out of the ground rather dramatically,” he said. Ordination At Emmanuel Baptist Sunday, Sept. 16th at 3 p.m. Rev. Darryl Taylor will be ordained in the gospel ministry at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Fox Mountain Rd. Darryl is presently serving as pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Bruce, Miss. He is a recent graduate of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tenn. Rev. William Howard of Campobello, S. C. will charge the candidate. Rev. John T. Edwards, pastor at Emmanuel will bring the ordination message. Roy Taylor, father of the candidate will pray the ordination prayer. Football Tonight The Polk County Wolverine varsity football team meets Cherokee at home tonight at 8 p.m. Landrum meets Edneyville at home at 8 p.m. St. Luke’s ‘Solid’, Chairman Claud Says St. Luke’s Hospital will not be paid for $2.6 million worth of services it will render to Medicare patients during the next fiscal year. That’s what the 15-member hospital board of trustees projected in its budget when it met in August. The difference between the cost of services provided and the amount Medicare will reimburse is not called a loss, but a “contractual adjustment.” Call it what you like, with 80 percent of its patients using Medicare, the federal health insurance program’s payment policy offers a real challenge to St. Luke’s. “It takes careful management for us to be able to handle the burden placed on us,” said Board of Trustees chairman Joe Claud. And careful management is what St. Luke’s has, he said. Even after subtracting another $235,000 in lost revenues for no- pay indigent care, and $400,000 in bad debts, St. Luke’s board is projecting a profit of $7,000 this coming year. .St’ Luke’s, in my banker’s opinion, is in a good financial position,” said Claud, who manages NCNB in Tryon. He cited several reasons: a $3 million endowment; no sizeable debt; an excellent medical staff and nursing staff; and “one of the strongest auxiliaries of any Continued On Back Page

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