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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
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
20 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 184
The weather Thursday: with
78, low 64, hum. 67 percent. By
Friday at 7 a.m., .65 inches of
rain had fallen.
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners has called a
special meeting today at 5 p.m. to
consider a resolution authorizing
the issuance of $3 million in
school bond anticipation notes.
They also plan to meet in
executive session to discuss
personnel matters.
E.P.I.C. (Education in Polk
County Is Crucial) will meet to
complete plans for the political
forum E.P.I.C. will host Oct. 30.
All persons who would like to help
with the planning are urged to
attend at Isothermal Community
College, at 7 p.m. in the Lecture
Room. If you have any questions,
call Emily Rogers at 859-5910.
The Tryon Hounds will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at Loop
Road for some hunting. In case of
inclement weather, call 468-4990
or one of the masters.
Newcomers to the area, as well
as new members, are cordially
invited to The Lanier Library
Wednesday for a get-acquainted
library tour and refreshments.
The membership committee will
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TRYON, N. C. 28782
250-Vear-Old White Oak Now Firewood
A white oak acorn fell onto a
hillside nearby some 250 years
ago and made good.
Eventually a town called Tryon
grew up around it, houses were
built underneath its limbs on a
street called Lyncourt, and it
grew to a massive size — with a
truck 56 inches in diameter and
limbs reaching nearly 100 feet
into the air.
Who would of thought tiny little
ants could bring it down? But
that’s what probably led to the
death of the white oak tree on
Lyncourt, tree expert Chris
Heatherly said last week.
“Black ants had gotten in
where a limb had broken off,”
Heatherly said. “They go into the
core and build a home like
termites, chewing into the wood
and carrying in dirt and debris. It
could’ve started a hundred years
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22,1990
ago.
Heatherly and a crew of
helpers spent 220 man hours
taking down the tree in recent
weeks for the property owner,
Dr. Austin Woody, and much of
that time Heatherly was high up
in the branches.
That’s where he met the bees.
“We had to go to the top and
section out the branches,”
Heatherly said. Since the houses
were built so close beneath, each
branch had to be lowered by rope
after Heatherly severed it from
the trunk.
At about 70 feet up, he
encountered a honey bee hive. “I
had stuffed a rag in the hole,” he
said. “There was concrete
poured in behind it and I thought
the concrete had sealed off the
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20C Per Copy
Keith Teunion’s
Paintings At Library
Watercolors by Keith Teunion
are currently being exhibited at
the Polk County Public Library.
Teunion, a painter for over 30
years, has been shown in
Michigan by the
Birmingham/Bloomfield Art
Association and at the Ford
Motor Company World
Headquarters. For the past
several years, he has lived in
Tryon where he has exhibited in
shows throughout the area.
Teunion has been described as
a “backroads watercolorist” and
local viewers may indeed
recognize many of the
“backroads” where he set up his
easel.
Among the interesting scenes
from North Carolina in the
exhibit are paintings titled “Old
Mountain Home,” “Calabash,”
“Sunset Beach - Storm Clouds,”
and “Abandoned Mountain
Farm.” Included, also, is an
interesting symbolic painting
with a complex background that
includes some Tryon elements.
Watercolor is a demanding and
revealing medium that permits
subtle color transitions as well as
marked contrasts. Teunion
incorporates both to depict the
life of scenes, scenes that one
viewer descibed as being “Filled
with distinctive light and color.”
For the enjoyment of all library
patrons, Teunion’s paintings will
be exhibited in the reading room
of Polk County Public Library
through Nov. 20 during regular
library hours.