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Tryon, North Carolina, ^8782 Founded Jan 31,1928 by Seth M. Vining
Established January 31, 1928 (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. 162
Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON, Nr C.-28782
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19,1990
32 Pages Today
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The weather Monday: high 80,
low 57, hum. 75 percent.
The six candidates for three
seats on the Polk County Board of
Commissioenrs will air their
views in a public forum for the
first time tonight. The
Association of County Taxpayers
is hosting the political forum at
7:30 p.m. tonight at Istohermal
Community College. The public is
invited.
ACT President Walt Hamill
says each candidate will have
five minutes to talk, and then will
be asked to take questions for an
additional five minutes.
the Tryon Hounds Horse Show
will beheld Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at FENCE.
Tryon Crafts is planning a trip
to the Cherokee Indian Village
and Qualla Arts and Crafts
Mutual Cooperative Oct. 11,
timed to coincide with beautiful
leaf-viewing scenery.
To make reservations, call 859-
8323 right away.
After being closed two months,
the Polk County Museum is open
again, Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 10 a.m. to noon. Museum
curator Richard Cannon and Seth
Vining, Jr. have retrieved some
ancient copies of the Tryon Daily
Bulletin and Cannon will soon be
Contionued On Back Page
Census Challenged
By County, Towns
Polk County, Tryon and
Columbus each have sent a
formal letter of protest to the U.S.
Census Bureau disputing the
count made by the bureau in its
1990 Census.
County and town officials are
worried that a low count* will
negatively affect their revenues
from several state and federal
sources which use per capita
figures to allocate grants-in-aid.
Preliminary figures from the
census show 14,383 residents in
Polk County, up from 12,000 in
1980. Rhodes, however, said the
N.C. state budget office
estimated Polk’s population at
14,991 two years ago.
Rhodes said errors in the count
have been documented, but he is
not sure what the Census
Bureau’s next step will be.
“Sometimes they put it back on
the county to document all
errors,” Rhodes said. ‘It will be
my position that we should
exhaust all possibilities to get a
formal review.”
Workers in Tryon checked 24 of
the town’s 113 residential blocks
and found 545 people living where
the Census only counted 340, said
acting Town Manager Clarence
Henson.
The 1980 Census counted 1,955
people in Tryon, while the early
returns from the 1990 Census
show 1,631 residents.
Henson, however, said since
the Census count was off by 205
people in just 13 blocks, he
Continued On Back Page
Causby Named Region 8
“Supt. of the Year”
The superintendent of eighteen
Western North Carolina school
systems have selected James F.
Causby, Superintendent of Polk
County Schools, as Region Eight
“Superintendent of the Year.”
Dr. Causby is now
automatically a candidate in the
“Superintendent of the Year”
contest for the State of North
Carolina as part of a national
competition sponsored by the
American Association of School
Administrators.
Prior to his Polk County
appointment in March of 1989,
Dr. Causby served for eleven
years as Superintendent of Swain
County Schools. A former
teacher, principal, and central
office administrator, he has long
been active in state and national
educational organizations and
just completed a year-long tenure
Continued On Back Page
Intangibles Tax
Revenues Up $239,775
The check is in for Polk
County’s share of the N.C.
intangibles tax, and the amount
is higher than expected, interim
County Manager Glenn Rhodes
told the board Monday afternoon.
The county had budgeted for
revenues of $639,969. But Rhodes
said Monday that estimate was
low by $239,775.
Rhcdes asked that $30,000 of
that surplus revenue be moved
immediately to the county’s
contingency fund, which stood at
$18,000, and was rapidly being
depleted.
New cooks for the jail, the cost
of mailing supplemental bills
and other miscellaneous items
had used up the contingency
funds, he said.
The board approved the
changes to the budget.
Correction
The location of a Chesnee
man’s 85-foot fall was incorrect in
Tuesday’s Bulletin. Donald
Price, 22, fell over the falls on
White Oak Mountain in
Columbus, not Pearson’s Falls in
• Saluda. Price was listed in stable
condition Tuesday at Memorial
Mission Hospital in Asheville
with bilateral fractures to both
bones in both his lower legs. Lisa
Wilson, Polk EMS director, said,
...... ever, that Price was showing
no signs of brain or spinal cord
damage.