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mm Msai u noy ,, ^ • ^, 20i D'ALKER ST. COLUMBUS, U c 23722 2nd Class Postage at Tryon, North Carolina 28782 and additional post offices. Postmaster: send address changes to The Tryon Daily Bulletin, PO. Box 790, Tryon, N. C. 28782 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 (LISPS 643-360) is published daily except Sat and Sun fur S35 per year by the Tryon Daily Bulletin Inc 106 N Trade Si . P >. Box 790. Tryon. N.C. 2«782 The Tryon Daily Bulletin Phone 859-9151 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline 1 Pages Today Vol. 64 - No. 60 Did you know: There are 151.6 million people who profess to be Christians in the United States, 3.1 million Jews, 14,000 Rastafarians, 702,000 Buddhists, and 13.1 million agnostics? That's the way it breaks down according to estimates made bv the ICR Survey Research Group recently after interviews with 113,000 American adults. Of the Christians, 46 million are Catholic, 33.9 are Baptist, loo mill ‘on are Methodist, 438,000 are Congregationalists, 668,000 are Seventh Day Adventists, 3 million are E' is- copalian, 9 million arc Luther ans, and 4.9 million are Pres byterians. O^* ’? Christian faith, 45,000 follow Scientology 28 000 hold to Bahai beliefs: and 20,000 are into the New Age mysticism. It's a nice survey. But it measures what people say, not what they do. 7 In fact, a Cox News Service M 0 ^^ morning described a new book which details "what Americans really truly believe." The study found that overall there is absolutely no moral (Continued On Back Page) TRYON. N C 28782 Moody's Gives Polk An 'A' Rating Polk County has received an "A" credit rating which should translate into thousands of dollars in school bond inter est savings. The "A" credit rating was given Friday by Moody's, a New York financial rating company. Three Polk County officials, County Manager John Lewis, board chairman Jeannie Martin and school Supt. James F. Causby, visited New York to present Polk County's case for a favorable credit rating to Moody's and Standard & Poor's last week. "We were trying to avoid a "B" (rating), which is real com mon for small counties," explained County Commission Chairman Jeanne Martin. "For a county our size, that is very good." "I'm thrilled," said county manager John Lewis. "Over the life of the ($14 million school) bonds an "A" compared to a "BAA" can mean thousands of dollars more in interest savings for the county," he explained. With permission from the county, Moody's has released the "A" credit rating for inter ested bidders on the $14 million bonds which will be opened May 7, said Martin. A credit rating from Standard and Poors is expected this week Lewis explained that both financial rating companies use the same 10 or 20 criteria for credit ratings so the results (Continued On Back Page) TUESDAY, APRIL 30,1991 Ruth - Burns Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ruth of York, S.C. announce the engagement of their daughter, Rhonda Evelyn, to James Gre gory Burns of York. Burns is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Janies Calvin Burns of Easley, S.C., formerly of Try- on. The couple plans to wed on May 18 at the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in York. Unemployment 3.7 Percent ■ Tn ’L ncm Ployment rate 01k Coun, y dropped from 4.8 percent in February to 3 7 percent in March. The Employment Security Commission reports 210 P C ?P’ C ° ut ° f 3 work force of 5,650 were seeking employ ment in March. Unemployment in Rutherford County stood at 6.8 percent, and in Henderson, 4.3 percent. 20f Per I opx Polk Improving Soil Stewardship Polk County is improving all the time in protecting its valu able soils from erosion, accord ing to Marilyn Stowell, district conversationist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Sdrvice. Stowell spoke with a reporter on the eve of Soil and Water Stewardship Week, which began Monday, April 28. "A lot of our more marginal crop land is being sown down to grass," she said. "We are getting so many horse farms." Stowell said it is good for soils which have been cropped for years and years to be sown down to grass, in effect given a rest. However, Polk also is losing some productive crop land to residential development, she said. While the overall story is positive, there are some nota ble exceptions, particularly on commercial properties along Hwy. 108 and around the inter state in Columbus. Stowell cited as one example property which was stripped bare and is now eroding dirt into Polk's waterways. "That was done as a logging operation," Stowell said. "It was not required at the time that logging operations come under sediment control statutes." Logging operations today must file sediment control plans, just like residential and mmercial developers, she (Continued On Back Page)
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