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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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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
22 Pages Today
Vol. 63 - No. 248
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30,1991
20 Per Copy
The weather Monday: high 63,
low 38, hum. 76 percent.
The Association of County Tax
payers postponed meeting will be
held tonight at 7:30 at Isothermal
Community College.
Jean Pettigrew's poetry seminar is
scheduled for 3 p.m. today in the
LeDuc Room of the Lanier Library.
Ed Yoder, syndicated editorial
columnist with the Washington
Post Writer's Group, was one of
several speakers on a panel dis
cussing news coverage of the war
in the Gulf last Friday al the N.C.
Press Association's Newspaper
Institute.
Yoder said, as a newsman, he is
torn between his strong support of
President Bush's policy, and the
desire to sec the war covered more
fully, free of military censors.
Yoder outlined a possible sce
nario he believes would have been
plausible, had the U.S. not stepped
into the breach: Saddam would
have continued his campaign and
occupied Saudi Arabia. Embol
dened, Iraq next might have joined
forces with Syria and begun a
campaign against Israel.
Israel, fighting for its existence,
might have turned to its nuclear
arsenal.
Given that as a possibility, Yoder
Continued On Back Page
Pictorial History Book
Sales Deadline Extended
Prc-publication subscriptions to
the Polk County pictorial history /!
Sense of Heritage arc being
received daily. Initial response has
been so good the Tryon Thermal
Belt Chamber of Commerce has
decided to extend until Mar. 31 the
deadline for the $29.95 special
price which had been scheduled to
expire Jan. 31. The regular price
will be $45.
Orders may be placed at the
Chamber office 401 North Trade
Street in Tryon, or at several other
order points in the county. These
order points include NCNB and
Tryon Federal Savings & Loan in
Tryon and Columbus, First Union
National Bank, First Federal Sav
ings Bank, George's Restaurant,
Blue Ridge Weavers, One Tryon
Place, The Tryon Daily Bulletin
office and WTYN in Tryon, also
Natures Storehouse in Lynn, The
Flower Cottage in Columbus and
Twiggs in Saluda. Gift Certificates
arc also available.
New Arrival
Michael and Trinka Stone of
Tryon arc parents of a son, Zachary
Rutledge, born Saturday, Jan. 26,
1991. Zachary weighed 5 lbs. and
11 oz.
Maternal grandparents are Pat
Westbrook of Asheville and Art
Westbrook of Gastonia, N.C.
Paternal grandparent is Judy
Stone of Asheville.
Paternal great-grandparent is
Cornelia Griffin of Asheville.
Zoning Proposal
Targets Hwy. 108
The section of Hwy. 108 between
the Tryon extended zoning district
and the Town of Columbus is only
about a half of a mile long, but it
has Polk County planners' full
attention.
Once the economy turns around,
planners believe Ilwy. 108, partic
ularly between 'Tryon and Colum
bus, is likely to come under more
pressure from commercial devel
opers than any other section of
roadway in the county.
'The Polk County Planning and
Zoning Board has drafted an ordi
nance establishing a new zoning
category - the "neighborhood
commercial district" - to deal with
challenges like those faced on
Hwy. 108.
Once the planners arc satisfied,
Planning and Zoning Board mem
ber Carl Wharton said the new
ordinance will be submitted to the
Polk County Board of Commis
sioners for its consideration, per
haps within the next 90 days. It
would take six to nine months after
that to complete the public process
to rezonc Hwy. 108.
Hwy. 108 is already zoned from
Tryon to the eastern limits of
Columbus. Within Columbus,
Hwy. 108 is zoned either highway
commercial, central business, pub
lic service or industry, except for
the Beechwood area, which is
zoned residential.
Within Tryon's zoning district,
which extends from the Hwy. 176
at the Triangle Stop to ACE Hard
ware in Lynn, Hwy. 108 is a mix-
Continued On Back Page
Tucker Trial
Motions Heard
At the outset of the trial of James
Christopher Tucker of Lynn Mon
day, attorneys and prosecutors were
trying to determine if Tucker's
confessions were admissible evi
dence.
His defense attorneys argued that
the statements arc not admissible
because Tucker had not been read
his rights. However, District Attor
ney Alan Leonard said Tucker
made his confession voluntarily.
Tucker, 29, is accused of sec
ond-degree murder in the death of
his two-year-old son, Adam
Nathan Hill. ’The boy was last seen
alive by his mother in November
1989, and was found Jan. 17, 1990
buried in a shallow grave behind
lucker's mobile home on Howard
Gap Road.
On that day. Tucker told his
uncle, David McNeely, a Cumber
land County deputy sheriff, that
Adam died on Dec. 2 or 3 from
injuries suffered during a fall sev
eral days earlier.
A state medical examiner, how
ever, has ruled that Adam died of a
blow to the stomach, not the head,
as Tucker claimed.
REMINDER: Jean Pettigrew's
Poetry Seminar si at 3 o'clock this
afternoon in the I^nier Library Ix
Duc Room.