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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 Tryon Daily Bulletin (DSPS 643-360) is
published daily except Sat. and Sun. for 333 per
year by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Inc. 106 N. Trade
St.. P.O. Box 790. Tryon. N.C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline
Vol. 65 - No. i5
The weather Wednesday, high
77, low 51, hum. 45 percent.
What's happening:
The Tryon Little Theater's
production of Come Blow Your
Horn continues tonight through
Sunday. The box office is open
from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4
p.m. today, and Saturday from
10 a.m. to noon.
Dr. Willard Daggett will
speak to all interested parents
and area residents today from
3:15 to 4 p.m. in the Tryon
High School cafeteria. He will
discuss the changes planned in
grading and assessment of stu
dent achievement as part of the
Outcome Based Education cur
riculum. The talk is being
sponsored by EPIC (Education
in Polk County is Crucial).
A World Day of Prayer will
be held today and will be
observed locally with a service
at Holy Cross Episcopal Church
at 9:30 a.m.
Auditions will be held for
Tryon Little Theater's upcom
ing production of The Diary of
Anne Frank Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
Tryon Fine Arts Center.
Tryon Hounds will meet Sat
urday at 8:30 p.m. at Iron
Bridge.
TRYON. N. C. 28782
Timing Of Landrum
Single-Member Plan
Questioned By Some
Whether or not to have sin
gle-member districts in the City
of Landrum is not the real issue
being disputed among Lan
drum's four councilmen and
mayor and citizens groups,
some say.
Councilmen Doug Brannon
and Fred Williams and a group
of citizens led by John Carruth
III want the two additional
councilmen approved by the
voters during a referendum last
November to be elected during
the coming 1992 elections.
The Justice Department has
already approved Landrum's
expansion of the city council
from four to six members plus
the mayor.
However, if an ordinance to
create single-member districts
is given final reading approval
Tuesday, the election will have
to wait for Justice Department
approval of the new districts.
The delay would be at least a
year.
Timing is also a reason for
approving single-member dis
tricts prior to electing the two
additional councilmcn,
explained Mayor Robert Cog
dell. Cogdell, and councilmen
Hollis Constance and Ray
Mayfield provided the majority
vote to approve single-member
districts during a special meet
ing Jan. 24.
If the additional councilmen
are elected in November, before
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6,1992
3-4 Pages Today
20t Per Copy
15th Anniversary
Reporter Keen Smith, pictured above, recently climbed to the top
of World’s Edge to view the scene where two chinook helicopters
crash lng Into the craggy rocks of Wildcat Spur March 11
1977, 15 years ago next Wednesday. The wreckage remains. She
describes the events of that day, the memories of the people who
ESP 0 ™ ■ emergency, and her own Journey up the mountain
with Paul Ruff in a story inside today's Bulletin.
New Attendance Lines Concern Parents
Over 100 children are to
attend different schools next
year in Polk County, parents
learned by way of letters mailed
out last week.
Many of them are unhappy
about the changes being
planned. The notification let
ters included an application
form for transfers, and a stack
of them were on the superin
tendent's desk by Thursday.
The deadline for applications is
today.
Students who currently attend
schools outside their home dis
trict also received notices that
they must return to their
home district schools next year
but can apply for a transfer. ’
No one in school administra
tion was sure Thursday whether
any transfers will be allowed or
if some are, how many.
The attendance district line
changes have become necessarv
due to the growth in the
county's student population,
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