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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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Vol. 65-No 179 16 Pages Today
— TH YON. N c 28782 MONDAY, OCT. 21. 1991
The weather Thursday, high
'^. low -15, hum. 60percent.
Margaret Stevenson started up
Mount LeConte Saturday for
' h ? 5 00lh *ime. Scaling the
6,593-foot summit of Mount
LeConte is an accomplishment
for anyone, much less someone
79 years old, as is Margaret.
Margaret started hiking seri
ously while she and her hus
band, the late William R.
Stevenson, were in Tryon where
he was minister of the Congre
gational Church.
They moved to Maryville
Tenn, when he retired and con
tinued hiking. She now logs
over 3,000 miles a year on her
feet, and about 600 miles a year
on her car. (She filled Ihe'gas
ank last week for the first time
:ince May 5!)
Margaret has hiking buddies
or every day of the week
xcept Sunday, which she res-
rves for church.
A friend and hiking buddy,
•fancy Cain, wrote to us about
he upcoming 500th hike and
Margaret:
This past year, Margaret has
vercome a serious fall, which
ante at the very beginning of a
ike and which necessitated
itches to close a deep cut on
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Inventory Your
Valuables Soon
Simple precautions such a
making a writfen inventory of
your valuables, can help protect
you against losses, says Polk
County Sheriff Boyce Carswell.
If your home was destroyed
by fire, could you list all your
valuables? If your home was
burglarized, could you deter
mine everything that was miss
ing or could you identify any
thing that was recovered?
According to the sheriff it
pays to record the contents of
your home and the serial num
bers of valuable belongings.
You should complete a
household inventory form for
all items in every room of your
home," Sheriff Carswell added.
With an inventory form, a per
manent record of the contents of
home and its value are readily
avai,ab , ,c - The serial number
should be listed so that identifi
cation of stolen articles could be
made more easily.
Die inventory of valuables
will be a valuable record for
both law enforcement agencies
and insurance agents.
Sheriff Carswell also recom
mends taking photographs of
every room and of valuable
belongings. A copy of inventory
u . 0ne set ° f Photographs
should be kept in a safe deposit
box. r
Many times we recover lost or
stolen property which is never
returned to the rightful owners
because positive identification
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William J. Miller
"Tech Prep"
Comes To Polk
Polk County School system
has received a $25,000 grant
from the state for planning the
innovative Tech Prep program
Rolar y meeting
; 23 wlH fealurc William J
Miller as speaker. He will coor
dinate Tech Prep in the schools
and explain to Rotarians what it
is all about.
Tech Prep requires academic
teachers, vocational education
teachers and community college
staff to work together to define
a program of studies for stu
dents planning to attend com-
m “ n ’ | y colleges of technical
schools. Tech Prep course con
tent will be upgraded to produce
the best possible prepared high
£ radua(es for this future.
Miller, a native of Polk
County, attended Tryon High
School and Brevard Junior col-
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Proposed Sign
Ordinance Meets
Stiff Opposition
The sign ordinance being
proposed for Polk County will
lx: given a public hearing soon,
board chairman Jeannie Martin
said Friday.
The countywide committee of
citizens appointed over a year
ago to draft an ordinance held
three information meetings last
week to explain the provisions
of the ordinance they propose.
But at two of the hearings,
those in attendance were simply
opposed, even to the point of
not listening to any discussion,
said sign committee chairman
Leo Baird.
"Most of the opposition was
of the opinion. ’Don’t tell me
what I am to do with my land’"
Baird said.
For people who aren't con
cerned about how Polk County
will look ten years from now, it
doesn't matter. They are
opposed to any sign ordinance "
Baird said.
A dozen people turned out for
a meeting in Mill Spring, about
ten more for a meeting in Sal-
uda All of those were opposed.
4 r P e °Ple who
attended the final information
meeting at Isothermal Commu
nity College Thursday, Baird
estimated 30 were opposed and
15 were in favor of a sign ordi
nance.
Baird said he felt that the
opponents grabbed friends and
family members and stacked the
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