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A v oV\ v^ bT^ 2, fl C 2nd Class Postage Paid At 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. O. 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. 64 - No. 2 The weather Thursday: high 57, low 48, hunt. 85 percent. Nearly one-third of the workers in half of North Caro lina's towns and cities have less than a high school education. Consider that statistic while you contemplate the skills that are rapidly becoming necessary to be employable in the modern world and you'll have a sense of the problems our state faces. Tiie 66th Annual North Caro lina Press Association Newspa per Institute focused on Liter acy in North Carolina when it met at the Carolina Inn in Cha pel Hill last Friday. Six speakers took up the theme from different perspec tives, but each made a distinc tion we hadn't heard before. The issue, they said, should not be defined simply as dealing with reading - the so-called "war on illiteracy." Rather, the issue faced in North Carolina is one of providing the basic skills needed to find meaningful work in today's workplace. It's faulty thinking to blame today's schools for the the lack of basic skills in the North Car olina workforce, said George Autry, chairman of the Southern (Continued On Back Page) TRYON. N. C. 28782 Celebrates 100th Mrs. Janie Pruitt Horton will celebrate her 100th birthday on Feb. 3rd. Mrs. Horton is the widow of Walter C. Horton, who passed away in 1965. They made their home on Red Fox Road in Polk County and had 13 children. The surviving 12 children are Ruth Beluc, Monie Jackson, Annie Lee Whitesides, Lucille Durham, Gladys Hutcherson, Glenn, Harley, James, Delmar, John, Dean and Joe. She also has 47 grandchildren, 100 great grandchildren and 41 great, great grandchildren. To help her celebrate, a drop-in is planned. It will take place on Feb. 3, at her daugh ter's home, Mrs. Lucille Dur ham Peniel Road, Columbus, from 2 to 5 p.m. Friends and relatives arc cordially invited to attend. Daffy Jills Garden Club The Daffy Jills Garden Club will hold their monthly meeting February 7 in the Common Room at Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Tire reowned Flower Show Chairman and judge Mrs. Mary Ann Kirby will present a pro gram on "Dinner Table Arran gements". Mrs. William Kuhn is hostess and co-hostesses will be Mrs. Wm. Harbison and Mrs. Paul Rooney. - Reporter FRIDAY. FEB. 1.1991 Mayors Proclaim Feb. "Heart Month" In separate proclamations last week the mayors of the towns of Tryon and Columbus pro claimed the month of February 1991 as "Heart Month". In the picture, Tryon Mayor Robert M. Neely signs and releases his proclamation as Polk County's AHA Chairman Bruce Palmer observes. The Tryon proclamation noted that almost half of the 50,(100 deaths in North Carolina arc caused by heart and blood ves sel diseases. It stated that 43 percent of all deaths in Polk County were attributed to heart disease. The mayors urged "all our citizens to join in the fight against heart disease." The proclamations were timely since the Polk County chapter of the AHA begins its annual solicitation of donations to the Polk County Heart Fund (Continued On Back Page) 20C Per Cope Doctor Says Child's Death Not Accidental by Michael B. Smith In his testimony Thursday morning at the trial of James Christopher Tucker, Dr. Robert L. Thompson said he did not believe Tucker’s two-year-old son died accidentally. After the lunch break Thurs day, Tucker’s lawyer was to begin presenting his defense against the second degree mur der charge leveled against him in the death of his son. Thompson, the associate chief medical examiner for the state, testified for the prosecution which attempted to refute Tucker's story that his son was hurt in a fall. Tucker said he only buried the child himself out of fear that the accidental death would be misunderstood. A day after Nathan Adam Hill was removed from a shallow grave in his father's back yard Jan. 17, 1990, Thompson per formed an autopsy on the child's body. Circuit Court Judge Zorro Guice allowed two photos of the body to be entered into evi dence, over the objection of defense attorney Lee Atkins. Guice on Wednesday morning made a crucial ruling in the case, allowing Tucker's confes sions to be admitted into evi dence, along with a map he drew for police leading them to his son's grave. One of the primary pieces of evidence admitted was the Continued On Page tti
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