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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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The Tryon Daily Bulletin (USPS 643-360) is
published daily except Sat. and Sun. for $35 per
year by the Tryon Daily Bulletin, Inc. 106 N. Trade
St., P.O. Box 790. Tryon. N.C. 23782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Phone 859-9151
Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
12 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 95
TRYON, N.C. 28782
MONDAY, JUNE 15,1992
25C Per Copy
The weather Thursday, high
70, low 63, hum. 65 percent.
Precipitation at 7 a.m. Friday
was .90 inches.
What's happening:
Entry forms are still available
at all golf pro shops in the area
for the Dean Witter Men's and
Ladies Heart Fund Golf Tour
naments. The men play June 15,
and the ladies on June 22.
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners will meet today
at 3 p.m. in the courthouse
annex.
The Tryon Town Council will
meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Town Hall. Council is expec
ted to discuss a proposed refer
endum on in-town drinking
laws.
The Polk County Board of
Education will have a special
meeting at 7 p.m. in the Stearns
board room. The school board
is expected to accept or reject
the County Commissioners
local fund allocation for Polk
County Schools for the
1992-93 fiscal year.
The Polk County Jaycees
general membership meeting
will be held Tuesday, June 16,
at the Tryon Youth Center at
7:30. Guest speaker Officer
Kevin Phelps will talk on the
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15 Families Needed
For AFS Housing
Frances Smith of Tryon, who
has been named Housing Coor
dinator for the four-day visit of
31 AFS students July 2 to 6,
announced that housing has
been arranged for 16 of the for
eign students.
She asks that local families
who wish to host one or more
students for the four-day period
phone her at 859-6726 or call
Jim Jackson at 859-9756.
The foreign students, who will
be arriving in Columbus on a
bus from Arkansas are from the
following countries: Iceland,
Brazil, Columbia, Dominican
Republic, Panama, France,
Netherlands, Finland, Hong
Kong, Chile, Australia, Italy,
Jamaica, Norway, Belgium,
Argentina, Germany, Spain,
Thailand, Switzerland and
Costa Rica. There are 16 girls
and 15 boys.
The students have been in the
United States for a year and are
stopping here in the Thermal
Belt area for four days prior to
returning to their homelands.
-Community Reporter
Mathis Athletic
Director At Broome
Wally Mathis, formerly a
coach at Polk Central, has been
named athletic director at
Broome High School in Spar
tanburg.
He replaces Jim Few.
Wm. Marshall Carson, Sr.
Men's Day At
Garrison Chapel
The men of the Garrison Cha
pel Baptist Church will observe
the annual Men's Day Program
on Sun., June 21, during the 11
a.m. worship service.
The speaker will be William
Marshall Carson, Sr., of Balti
more, Maryland. Carson is a
native of Tryon and a 1964
Saduate of Edmund Embury
igh School. He received his
bachelors degree at the St.
Augustine College in Raleigh
and a Masters Degree at North
Carolina Central University in
Durham.
His work history includes
Director of College Programs,
Council on Career Development
for Minorities, where he pro
vided career development con
sulting, test taking skills train
ing and program development
for faculty and staff at nearly
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Tracey Cox Is New
County Dispatcher
Polk County Emergency Dis
patcher Tracey Cox brings
seven years of experience and
many hours of training in rescue
dispatching with him to his new
job.
Cox was a dispatcher for
Henderson County for seven
years, the past five of which he
has been supervisor. And
because he already lives on the
Polk/Henderson line, he won't
have to relocate to take over as
director of all of Polk County's
communication needs.
As Director for Dispatching,
Cox maintains Polk County's
911 system, the EMS and Res
cue Squads, the sheriffs depart
ment and the Saluda and
Columbus Police Departments.
In addition, four fire depart
ments, Mill Spring, Columbus,
Sunny View and Green Creek,
fall under his jurisdiction.
Only the Tryon Police and
Fire Departments are not part of
the Polk County emergency
dispatch system.
"I view this as a great growing
opportunity. In dispatching it's
hard to find someone who has
been in dispatching long
enough to be a director," Cox
said.
Cox maintains the in-house
data base-the 911 computer-
out of his office on Ward St. in
the Sheriff Department build
ing. He replaces Ann Gibbs,
who is moving to Georgia.
C. Wharton