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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
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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
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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
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