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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.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
32 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 174
TRYON. N. C 28782
FRIDAY, OCT. 5,1990
200 Per Copy
The weather Wednesday: high
78, low 51, hum. 70 percent, and
.01 inches of rain fell.
The Tryon Town Council meets
Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the
Town Hall.
The Landrum Town Council
meets Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.
at the Landrum Town Hall.
The Polk County Planning and
Zoning Commission meets
Thursday. Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at
the county courthouse in
Columbus.
Reservations for the Tryon
Hounds Hunt Breakfast, to be
held Wednesday, Oct. 10, must be
made by calling 894-3552 by
Monday, Oct. 8.
Tickets are now on sale for the
Tryon Dance Guild’s season
performances of the Nashville
Ballet, Oct. 19, and the Princeton
Ballet, March 8. Call 894-3051 for
more information.
WTYN goes back “on air”
Monday, and a grand opening
party will be held at the station on
North Trade Street.
Monday is the last day to
register to vote. Don’t be left out
of the action Nov. 6.
Shelly Woodward of Nature’s
Storehouse has a million “green
pledge” ideas to share, including,
Continued On Back Page
Stearns’ Renovation
Report Turned In
The Stearns Educational
Center in Columbus is the oldest
school and one of the oldest
buildings in Polk County, yet its
renovation has been a
controversial subject since it was
closed and converted to an office
building after the 1987-88 school
year.
The cost of the renovation of
the Stearns Education Center is
the first item on a list of
information requested by the
Polk County Board of
Commissioners in a July 16, 1990
resolution.
The $55,000 budgeted from the
1988-89 fund balance and the final
§54,759.36 price tag on the
building’s renovation is listed in
detail in the requested financial
report which has been in the
county manager's office for over
two weeks.
The renovation charges include
lumber, sheet metal, paint,
electrical supplies, vertical
blinds, carpeting and a small
amount to a local hauling
company to move from the
county office annex to Stearns.
The protests over the
renovation costs from both
taxpayers and public office
holders have been that the money
was used for administration
housing and not directly for
student learning.
The amount of money spent on
the Stearns renovation is not the
issue, said Polk County
Commissioner Ken Faulkner:
“For the amount of money spent,
Continued On Back Page
Football Tonight
The Polk County Wolverine
varsity football team meets
Rosman at home tonight at 8 p.m.
The Landrum High School
Cardinals face Whitmire in
Landrum at 8 p.m.
Judge Greenlee
At BPW
The Honorable Judge Loto J.
Greenlee of Marion, N.C. will
speak at the Oct. 8 meeting of the
Thermal Belt BPW at Brannon’s
Restaurant at 7 p.m. about
present laws that affect women.
Judge Greenlee has been
District Court Judge since
August 1980 and Chief District
court Judge of the 29th Judicial
District since December 1988.
She is the youngst female Chief
District court Judge ever to be
appointed in the state of North
Carolina
Polk Schools Earn 1990
Wachovia Trophy: Robert Beal,
at left, City Executive for
Wachovia Bank in
Hendersonville, presented the
Wachovia Trophy on September
18 to Polk County Schools for
their outstanding athletics
program during 1989-90.
Accepting the trophy on behalf of
the Wolverine athletic teams, is
from left, Geoffrey Tennant,
Athletic Director. James Causby,
Superintendent of Schools, and
Richard Hitch, Principal of Polk
Central High School. The
Wachovia trophy is given
annually to the school in the
Appapachian Athletic
Conference with the best overall
record in interscholastic sports
Bulletin Closed
Because there will be no postal
service, there will be no Tryon
Daily Bulletin published Monday,
Oct. 8, Columbus Day and the
office will be closed.