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16 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 93
The weather Tuesday, high
74, low 69, hum. 70 percent,
and 1.15 inches of rain. Pre
cipitation at 7 a.m. Wednesday
was 1.10 inches. The rain is not
over, folks.
What's happening:
The Polk County High Schoo]
Boosters Club will meet
tonight at 7:30 p.ni. at the
Stearns Education Center. This
will be an organizational meet
ing and everyone is urged to
attend.
Tlie Columbus Town Council
meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
Town Hall.
The Columbus Merchants
Association will meet tonight at
7 p.m. at McDonalds.
All residents of Gillette
Woods are invited to come out
and meet their neighbors for the
14th annual meeting of the
Gillette Woods Association
Inc. this afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
al the Congregational Church.
The box office is open for the
upcoming performance of
Sarah, Connie Clark's one—
woman portrayal of Sarah
Bernhardt. The show takes the
stage tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the
Tryon Fine Arts Center.
There will be a rummage sale
Saturday, June 13, at Democrat
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TRYON, N.C. 28782
Landrum Council
Files Countersuit
Landrum Town Council
members Friday filed a coun
tersuit against Landrum resi
dents listed as plaintiffs in a
suit against the council which
attempts to force the election of
two additional councilmen at
large.
The countersuit denies all
allegations, calls for a jury
trial, and alleges that "this is a
frivolous lawsuit which should
thereby entitle the Defendants
to both attorney fees and legal
costs.”
"We didn't feel like the city
ought to take the tax payers
money to finance such a feeble
suit as that," Mayor Robert
Cogdell said.
The original suit, filed May 8,
charges specifically Mayor
Cogdell and councilmen Hollis
Constance and Ray Mayfield as
"members of the City Council
of Landrum opposed to the
results of the referendum of
Nov. 5, 1991." Town adminis
trator Doug Landers and coun
cilmen Doug Brannon and Fred
Williams are listed only are
necessary parties. The suit
specifies that Brannon and
Williams have supported the
results of the Nov. 5 referen
dum to add two councilmen.
Prior to the countersuit,
Landrum Council attorneys
Roger Couch and Toney Lister
filed a motion to dismiss the
suit against the three council
members. The motion for dis
missal has not been heard, as of
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THURSDAY, JUNE 11,1992
Mrs. Verlee Payne
Hospice Elects Payne
Mrs. Verlee Payne, the newest
Hospice director, was elected to
the board of directors of Hos
pice of Polk County this spring,
graduated from Spartanburg
School of Practical Nursing in
1979, and has practiced nursing
in Tryon and community since
moving here. She has been on
the nursing staff of St. Luke's
Hospital and the staff of White
Oak, and currently does some
private duty nursing.
In 1983 Mrs. Payne attended
one of the earliest series of
volunteer training classes given
by Hospice of Polk County.
Mrs. Payne has worked with
many Hospice patients in this
area in her capacity as LPN and
volunteer.
In addition to her nursing
responsibilities, Mrs. Payne
helps her husband James in his
taxi business. The Paynes are
active in the Garrison Chapel
Baptist Church and they have a
grown daughter, Valerie.
Anyone may call Hospice for
its care-at-home program at
859-2270.
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Single-Member
District Referendum
Set for November
Landrum voters may vote as
early as November on a single-
member district referendum
following a 4-1 vote by Lan
drum Town Council Tuesday.
Landrum Council gave second
and final reading to an amended
single-member district ordi
nance presented by town attor
ney Roger Couch. The
amendment to the original ordi
nance will allow voters to
choose, or not, single-member
districts through referendum on
the November ballot.
An additional ordinance pro
viding for the at-large election
of two additional council mem
bers in November 1993," unless
single-member districts are
voted on later" (Couch), was
given first reading approval in a
three to two vote. This ordi
nance states that even if the
additional councilmen are
elected at large, they must live
in districts 5 and 6, respectively.
Fred Williams stopped the
vote of both the amended and
the new ordinance to call for
each to be tabled on the grounds
that the first he or Doug Bran
non had seen either the ordi
nance for the election of two
additional or the amendment to
the single-member district
ordinance was at that moment.
Brannon asked who author
ized Couch to draw up the
additional council members
ordinance.
"We were instructed by the
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