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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)
Jeffrey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
The Tryon Daily Bulletin (DSPS 643-360) is
published daily except Sat and Sun. lor $35 per
year by the Tryon Daily Bulletin, Inc. 106 N. Trade
St., P.O. Box 790, Tryon. N.C. 267112
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 65 - No. 214
The weather Monday, high
71, low 49, hum. 75 percent.
What's happening:
The Foothills Fire Service
Area Commission will meet at
1 p.m. today at the Tryon Town
Hall. A non-public executive
session to discuss contractual
matters with the Town of Tryon
is planned.
The Tryon Volunteer Fire
men's Christmas Parade will be
held today at 4:30 p.m.
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners will hold a
workshop on the proposed sign
ordinance at 5:30 p.m. this
evening.
The local chapter of the Sierra
Club, the Pinnacle Group, will
hear Sen. Clark Plexico
describe the environmental
issues facing the N.C. General
Assembly when it meets
tomonow at 7 p.m. The meeting
will be held in the community
room of First Citizens Bank, off
Sth Avenue in Hendersonville.
For more information, call
(704) 697-6025.
The Columbus Merchants
Association will meet tomorrow
evening at 7 at the Columbus
Town Hall.
The Tryon Thermal Belt
Chamber of Commerce will
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TRYON. N C 28782
Tryon High To
Remain Open As
Middle School
Tryon High School will
remain open as a middle school
and school attendance lines will
be redrawn to relieve crowded
conditions at Tryon and Polk
Central Elementary Schools
following Polk County Board of
Education action Monday.
Only Saluda school board
member Wayne Bradley voted
against continued operation of
the Tryon High School facility
saying that the board is placing
a bandaid where surgery is
needed. Bradley is also a
member of the facilities com
mittee.
Converting Tryon High
School to a Middle School for
grades 6-8 beginning with the
1992-93 school year was
recommended by the School
Board Facilities Committee
chaired by Geoffrey Balkani.
"Financially it is not in our
best interest to expand Tryon
Elementary; there's not enough
room," Balkam reported to the
full school board. The facilities
committee observed obvious
overcrowding in grades K-2
classrooms, Balkam reported.
Tryon Elementary grades K-8
presently have 85 more students
than projected just two years
ago, reported Supt. James
Causby. In addition, 719 stu
dents grades K-8 will be mov
ing into the newly renovated
Polk Central Elementary which
is designed for only 700, said
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WEDNESDAY, DEC.11,1991
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Searcy
50th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Searcy of
Rt. 2, Tryon, will be married 50
years on Dec. 20, 1991. Sharing
their joy are 5 children, Casey
and Milton of Charlotte, N.C.
Phillip of Fox Mtn. Rd.
Columbus, Paul and Mark of
Rt. 2, Tryon, 1 grandchild,
Caroline Eva Searcy of Fox
Mtn. Rd., Columbus.
Family and friends will get
together Dec. 24th at the home.
—Community Reporter
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requested to be submitted by 5
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19.
2ue Per ops
Episcopal Church
Records Recovered
Valuable records marking the
births, deaths and marriages in
the church family history were
returned to the Holy Cross
Episcopal Church by District
Attorney Alan Leonard Mon
day.
Soon after Holy Cross was
broken into last June, dis-
traught church officials began
advertising a reward for the
return of the irreplaceable
records.
Leonard said the burglar, who
was charged in a total of 60
breaking and entering cases
in three counties, Thomas Dil
lard, told police he had thrown
the records in a box and left
them in a kudzu patch 15 feet
deep.
Leonard said Hendersonville
Detective Ronnie Bain went to
the kudzu patch several times
before finding the church
records.
They were moldy, but not all
ruined. "They are in remarkably
good condition," Leonard said.
"They'll need drying out, but
they're legible."
Want To Join?
If you want to join the South
ern Recycling Gang but have
been unable to reach them, try a
new number - 704-286-0649
Peggy Carter, Polk Environ
mental Projects.
Community Reporter