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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
(USPS 643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vo. 63 — No. 238
TRYON, N. C. 28782
TUESDAY, JAN. 15,1991
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The weekend weather: Friday,
high 47, low 38, hum. 85 percent,
and 1.3 inches of rain fell;
Saturday, high 58, low 41, hum. 70
percent, and 1.12 inches of rain
fell; Sunday, high 45, low 33,
hum. 68 percent and a frost
covered Polk County Monday
morning.
Tryon weather observer
Robert Dedmondt said snow is
expected Wednesday, brought
by moist blasts of air off
the Gulf of Mexico. Aaa-reee-
baaa! Let is snow, Senor. I’d say
wax those skis, but it’s hard to
think of recreating when a mass
destruction seems about to begin
in the Middle East.
Harthorne Wingo, a Tryon boy
who made good as a basketball
player with the New York Knicks
from 1972 to 1976, was featured in
a long article on the sports page
of the Sunday New York Times.
The writer described Wingo’s
rise to fame and his hard fall
since that glorious time. Wingo
was released from a drug
rehabilitation program last
summer, but says he fell back
into drug use when he returned to
Harlem.
However, now he has moved to
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Polk Schools Are
Above State Average
The “below par" rating Polk
County Schools received on the
first report card for local school
systems does not upset
Superintendent Dr. James
Causby because the same report
places Polk County Schools in the
23% of the state’s school systems
in overall achievement.
“This tells us what we’ve
known for a year and a half;
Susan’s seen it too (assistant
superintendent Susan Leonard),’'
Dr. Causby said Friday. “We
know the achievement level has
improved a great deal, but
there’s a lot more we can do,” he
explained.
The report was put together
well by the State Department of
Public Instruction in considering
the differences between different
school systems, Dr. Causby said.
However, he believes that Polk
County’s “Advantagement
rating” of 13 is a little high.
The final report took test
results to determine
achievement, and then added
factors that would subtract or
add advantages a school might
have that would lessen or
improve a chance for high
student achievement. The
possible advantagement level
was a range of minus 40 to plus
40, with zero being the average
level of advantagement
statewide.
The actual range was from the
most disadvantaged, minus 31 for
Hallifax County, to the most
advantaged, at plus 21 for Chapel
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Tryon Estates Continues
Without First Union Help
Along with so many other
enterprises facing the national
recession, Tryon Estates has
fallen on hard times.
After just two “draws," First
Union Bank pulled the
construction financing for the
“lifecare” retirement
community being built in
Columbus and the parent
company. ACTs, has been
continuing the work with money
from its own reserves.
Although construction has
slowed, progress is being made
on the steel framing, roofing and
concrete work, said Tryon
Estates executive director Sam
Collier.
‘W^are going forward,” said
Collier. “This project will be
built.” In fact, he said the
completion date for Phase I
move-ins is still late September
1991.
Tryon Estates is touted as the
single largest construction
project ever undertaken in Polk
County.
A meeting of those residents
already committed to Tryon
Estates has been called for Jan.
25th at the Tryon Fine Arts
Center starting at 10 a m. Collier
said he hopes at that time to have
in-depth and detailed
announcements.”
Collier said that his company is
optimistically pursuing other
construction financing at this
time but that even if it cannot be
found, ACTs intends to build
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$8,000 Of Bad Checks
Passed in Charlotte
A man who gives his name as
Dr. Mark Regan, and claims to
be the new anesthesiologist at St.
Luke's Hospital, has passed three
bad checks worth $8,000 in
Charlotte since Jan. 4th,
according to Tryon Police Chief
Nathan Shields.
The checks are drawn on an
account at Tryon Federal
Savings & Loan. Regan placed a
Lynn address and St. Luke’s
Hospital’s telephone number on
his checks for identification.
Both the Tryon police and St.
Luke’s Hospital administrator
Thomas Bradshaw have been
receiving calls from Charlotte
merchants regarding the bad
checks. Bradshaw said Regan
has apparently been buying
expensive. Oriental rugs.
The real anesthesiologist at St.
Luke's is Dr. Thomas B. Whalen
Rosman Defeats Polk
The Polk County varsity boys
basketball team lost to Rosman
Friday night, 68-77.
Dwight Canady had an
outstanding effort in the first
half, scoring 13 of his 17 points.
Other leading scorers were:
Kevin Wood, 12, Kerry Miller. 10.
and Larry Fagan, 10.
The Polk County varsity girls
beat Rosman easily, 78-28.
Leading scorers for Polk were
J J Bumgardner, 15, Jennifer
Arledge, 15, Donna Dawson, 13,
and Jenny McGrane, 11.
^ ot ^. teams host match-ups
with Edneyville tonight.