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Founded Jan. 31, 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Jef frey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
The Tryon Daily Bulletin (USf’S 643-360) is
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28 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 99
The weather Monday: high
73, low 65, hum. 62 percent.
Dick Longworth has been
awfully thirsty lately. Accord
ing to the Town of Tryon, he
consumed 8.89 million gallons
of water last month at his
Lakeshore Drive home.
Perhaps he's felt the need to
take baths rather than showers.
Tut. Tut. Wasteful practice.
But, if you're willing to pay,
Dick, be our guest. The bill
only comes to $25,629. A mere
drop in the bucket.
About that tree: R.L. Wil
liams says the tall leafy thing
between the post office and
NCNB in Tryon is a Hickory
Nut tree. "That is, unless it's
had a sex change."
Mark your calendars: Super
Saturday will be held March 21,
1992.
What's happening:
There will be a reception held
for Sister Aloysius McVeigh of
the Convent of Mercy in Derry,
Northern Ireland at 3 p.m.
today, June 26 at the Mimosa
Inn. Sister McVeigh is an icon
specialist and will display some
of her work.
Tryon High School Senior
Pictures will be taken
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TRYON, N C 28782
Teenagers Walk Out
Of Cove After Search
About 16 rescue workers
from Polk County and Saluda
rescue squads spent much of
Monday night searching Holb
ert's Cove for four lost teenag
ers.
Jim Cochran, Polk County
Emergency Services coordina
tor, said the four teenagers from
Henderson County were
reported missing after they
failed to return home by 10 p.m.
They had stopped at a pay
phone in Saluda to tell their
parents they planned to hike
around Big Bradley Falls and
would be home by 10.
The Big Bradley Falls area is
rough terrain.
Cochran said the teenagers
were caught by darkness, but
were wise enough to stay put,
and when the sun rose, they
simply walked out.
Rescuers must have searched
all around the four, but never
came close enougli to hear their
cries for help, Cochran said.
Clemson Extension
Agent Visits Store
Charlie Gray, a Clemson
University Agricultural Exten
sion Agent, will visit Thomp
son's Hardware in Landrum
from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, June
28.
He will return Saturday fro-
m 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
If you have any questions
about landscaping, or lawn and
garden care, you arc invited to
drop by.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26,1991
Susan Cavin
Wins TLT
Scholarship
Susan Cavin, a music teacher
in four of the Polk County
Schools, won a Tryon Little
Theatre Scholarship this spring
which will enable her to com
plete courses at Converse Col
lege during the summer toward
a Master's Degree in Music
Education.
Cavin, a graduate of Converse
in Music Education and Vocal
Performance, will use her
knowledge to enhance her
teaching in the coming year.
Willette's Wisdom
"The worst form of inequality
is to try to make unequal things
equal." —Aristotle
20C Per 1 ops
Tryon Raises Taxes
13 Cents, Takes Step
Toward Annexation
They thought about letting
employees go, or cancelling
their raises. They thought about
cutting the fire department
building fund.
They thought about saving an
estimated $80,000 by giving un
town-based E-911 dispatching
(and five dispatchers).
But in the end, the Tryon
Town Council did the only
thing its three members felt they
really could do - raise taxes.
On a motion by Ellis Fincher,
the council cut Town Manager
Matthew Dolge's recommended
15-cent increase by two cents,
and unanimously approved a
13-cent tax increase Monday
night.
The 13-cent increase will
bring Tryon taxes to 59 cents
per $100 property valuation,
just 1.5 cents less than Polk
County's tax rate.
The increase will bring an
additional $85,163 into town
coffers. Each additional penny
of taxes raises $6,551, Dolge
told the council.
But even with taxes raised 13
cents, the Town of Tryon will
face a very tight budget year,
the council agreed. The mem
bers were only able to cut about
$5,000 from Dolge's original
proposal.
"Die overall 1991-92 town
Wo 1 a PP roved Monday night,
$280 000 /°"’ I alrcad y d ° Wn
$280,000 from this year's bud-
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