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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)
Jef frey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
The Bulletin (LSI’S 643-360) is published daily
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Daily Bulletin Inc 106 N Trade St.. P O. Box
790, Tryon. N.C 28783
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Phone 859-9151
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32 Pages Today
Vol. 64 - No. 68
The weather Wednesday:
high 78, low 45, hum. 50 per
cent, and by 7 a.m. Thursday
.10 inches of rain had fallen.
Even the kudzu has had enough
to drink.
On Thursday May 2, in the
Curb Reporter, we made a
comparison between Greenville
County, Spartanburg County
and Polk County school fund—
ing.
The two S.C. counties employ
local school taxes levied on real
property. Northeastern Green
ville County residents without
school children who are paying
higher Spartanburg School
District 1 taxes were complain
ing recently, asking for relief.
To make a comparison to the
South Carolina tax rates, we
used the Polk County property
tax as the sole source of local
funding for the Polk County
Schools.
In rethinking this, it is a
misleading comparison, since
the Polk County local appro
priation for schools is derived
also from sales taxes and state
shared revenues.
The comparison is further
clouded by the fact that South
Carolina funds its schools dif
ferently, relying more heavily
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TRYON. N.C 28782
Saluda Police
Commissioner Says
Council Informed
Saluda Police Commissioner
Harold Phillips objected to
statements that he and Saluda
Police Chief Ron Hershberger
ran a "drug education" fun
draising program without the
town council's knowledge.
In a story in the April 19 edi
tion, Saluda Mayor Nolan Pace
told a Tryon Daily Bulletin
reporter that the Lenny the Lion
drug education fundraising pro
gram was run "without the
council's knowledge."
Phillips said that isn't so. "I
have copies of the minutes
where I brought it up," he said.
A formal vote was not taken,
but Phillips said the council had
no objections.
Phillips said he also told the
council what he bought with the
money raised for the town,
walkie-talkies to replace a
20-ycar-old set.
The Lenny the Lion program
raised $20,000 altogether, and
gave the Saluda police $2,400.
Phillips said he and the chief
liked the program and had
signed up to run it again. But he
said this week that he had
changed his mind, and would
cancel it.
"We don't want to be a part of
anything controversial," he said.
There will be a special
Mother's Day service at St.
Luke C.M.E. Church Sunday at
2 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
FRIDAY, MAY 10,1991
Andrew Raines
Andrew Raines
In Clear 5 Years
It will be a great Mother's
Day for Mary Raines, and for
her husband Keith as well.
Their son has been free of can
cer for five years.
It was Mother's Day five
years ago when two-
year-old Andrew, now 7, first
got sick. He fell from a chair at
McDonald's in Columbus and
complained that his stomach
hurt.
Within days he was diag
nosed as having a fast growing,
deadly tumor in his kidney,
known as a Wilms tumor.
Only a few days later, doctors
at N.C. Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem operated and
removed Andrew's kidney.
However, the physicians also
detected a spot on his lung and
what they believed to be a dead
cancer cell in his stomach - so
15 months of chemo-therapy
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20C Per t ojn
Dance Saturday
Tlie Palmetto Dance Club of
Spartanburg is having its May
dance Saturday, May 11 at the
Spartanburg Arts Center. Mar
ion Brock's Music Makers of
Tryon will provide the music.
—Community Reporter
Thanks to all of you who
brought in books for the Lanier
Library book sale coming up on
June 8. We want them all but
arc setting a final deadline on
May 31 for you to bring in your
last minute books to the library
Le Duc Room.
—Community Reporter
Retired Teachers
To Meet
A visit to the Hawaiian
Islands is in store for the Polk
County Retired School Person
nel Mon., May 13 when they
meet at Columbus Presbyterian
Church.
The noon luncheon will be
followed by a program com
plete with music, leis and hula
skirts. A business meeting will
follow the food and fun.
If you wish to attend and have
not been contacted, please call
894-3984 or 859-9557 right
away.
- Community Reporter.