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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.
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 63 — No. 181
TRYON. N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, OCT. 18,1990
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The weather Tuesday: high 76,
low 50, hum. 78 percent.
St. John’s Catholic Church
holds its annual bazaar today
from 10 a.m. to6p.m.
WLOS-TV featured Pearson’s
Falls on the 6 p.m. news broad
cast on Tuesday. Ann
McAndrews, president of the
Tryon Garden Club, and Mary
Irons, past president, spoke —
but the star of the show was
beautiful Pearson's Falls with
plenty of rushing water and fall
beauty.
The World Federalist
Association of Western Carolinas
will meet for breakfast in the
Mural Room of the Fine Arts
Center in celebration of United
Nations Day Saturday at 8 a.m.
Professor William A. Miller will
be the speaker. The public is
invited.
Our State Sen. Robert C.
Carpenter, R-Macon, is
sponsoring a bill which would put
to voters a proposal that the state
issue $200 mllion in bonds for a
variety of capital needs.
Carpenter testified about the
bill before the Infrastructure
Study Commission on Oct. 4.
"This legislation could be the
single most meaningful bill as far
as an intelligent step in the
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Commissioners Haven’t
Read Requested
Schools Report
Not one of the five Polk County
Commissioners has reviewed the
urgently requested detailed
financial and contractural report
from the Polk County Schools
Administrative Office which has
been on hand in the county
manager’s office for two months
now.
The commissioners requested
the detailed line item documents
in a July 16 resolution and Super
intendent Dr. James Causby and
Finance Officer Sandra Tinsley
spent 60 man-hours putting
together the approximately five-
inch thick stack of documents. In
addition., Tinsley must submit
monthly readouts of the schools
financial transactions by the
third Monday of each month, an
extra duty not before in her job
description.
County Commissioner chair
man Jeanne Martin said that the
request had not come from her
because she trusts the school
administrators. She said she
believes the Polk County Board of
Education knows better than she
what is needed in a budget and
how to run their finances.
Commissioner John Edwards
said he was only interested in the
1990-91 budget section of the
document and that the county
commissioners weren’t
concerned with the detailed
operations of the schools other
than funding.
But the three commissioners
who requested the report, Ken
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Landrum Police
Investigate Crime Spree
Landrum Police are investigat
ing a rash of crimes that began
last Thursday night.
Officer D. Bishop said both the
Landrum elementary school and
high school were broken into over
the past weekend, and obscene
words were chalked onto the
inside walls.
A van parked next to the
football field at the elementary
school and broken into Tuesday
morning and a purse was stolen
A post office delivery truck was
broken into over the weekend.
Bread left by a deliveryman
outside the Community Cash
store was thrown all over the
parking lot Friday night. And
signs for the Tryon Hounds Fall
Steeplechase were torn down and
thrown all over, and one sign was
stuffed through the window of a
van.
“We’ve got a lead on it (the
crime spree),” Bishop said. He
said police believe a group of
older teenagers is committing the
crimes, but that the investigation
is continuing.
T.W.G.A.
The event on Tuesday, Oct. 16
was Odd Holes, l /2 handicap by
flights won by Flight 1
Margaret Hannon; Flight 2, Tie
Jane Hodell and Inga Jay;
Flight 3, M. Marie Pierson;
Flight 4, Rosemary Pleune-
Flight 5, Bert Russell.
Next Tuesday the 23rd will be
“Fun Day.”
Donations Allow Saluda
To Reinstate Art
An anonymous donation of
$1500 started the ball rolling to
reinstate the Saluda Elementary
School Art Program.
The $1500 donation was given
with the request for a matching
$1500 from the Saluda Parent
Teacher Organization (PTO),
explained Saluda principal
Marving Wagner. The PTO has
matched the $1500 and the Saluda
Women’s Club has donated an
additional $500 for materials and
supplies.
"We still need money for
supplies, but we’ll get by,”
Wagner said. "We’re still on a
shoestring budget, but at least we
can provide art experience for
these kids.”
The money enabled the Saluda
school to re-hire artist Susan
Brown of Hendersonville to teach
art to grades K-5 one day a week.
Volunteers organized by Saluda
artist Betsy Burdett, consisting
of local artists and parents, teach
art to grades 6-9, Wagner said.
Lack of local funding forced
Saluda Elementary to use the
planned arts program money to
hire a local teacher, Wagner
pointed out Last year the school
received a $2,000 matching grant
from the North Carolina Arts
J 0 ; the art program
which had been built up bv
Burdett and other volunteers
explained. The grant funds were
matched with money from the
special Saluda school tax he said
This year that school tax monev
was used to hire a teacher r
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