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Established January 31, 1928
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 Bulletin Is published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
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Tryon. N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 63 — No. 15
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
TRYON. N. C 28782 WEDNESDAY,FEB. 21,1990
Weather Monday: high 63, low
38 hum 52%. precipitation .88.
Tuesday at 7 a m. there had been
Cheney, shunned by Philippine
President Corazon Aquino, told
EHipino officials Monday that the
United States will abandon its
basw there if it finds that keeping
them is too expensive or that
Americans are unwelcome.
Steffi Graf was the runaway
U L for the 1989 Associated
PrX Female Athlete of the
Year Graf, who finished second
• printer Florence Griffith
10 last year, easily outpolled
S^nner up golfer Betsy King
£ was"named first on 120 of the
14 San%oc” Davis who built
nman’s program into one of
almost respected in South
Carolina, officially was named
£ football coach a
Spartanburg High School
M w£ oak Nursing Home has
all visitors due to the
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in Tuesday's Bulletin where
’ n "vices of the Visiting Nurse
S-T terminated Friday.
Sandy Green
Grocery Opens
A new. 4,800-square-foot
grocery store, to be called Sandy
Green Super Market, opens
Friday at the intersection of
Route 14 and Route 9 in Sandy
Plains
The store will be open Monday
through Saturday from 8 a m. to
8 p.m. and on Sundays from 1
p.m to6p.m
The owners, Morris Williamson
and his wife, Kathy, and brother
Murry Williamson, have over 30
years combined experience in the
grocery business. They have
worked for grocery brokerage
businesses and owned a similar
market in Stallings. N C., just
outside Charlotte.
The Stallings store was sold,
and since Murry Williamson lives
in Green Creek, he led his family
to the opportunities present in
Polk County, Kathy Willamson
said.
“We saw this area needed a
grocery store We are hoping to
pull people from Rutherfordton,
New Prospect. Landrum.
Columbus and Tryon." she said,
as well as Green Creek and Sandy
Plains.
Mrs Williamson said low
prices, and good quality meats at
low prices will be the main
draws. Local produce will be
bought in season, as much as
possible. Mrs Willamson said
What they buy will to a large
degree be determined by the
shoppers.
"We have been letting the
public come and walk the aisles
Continued On Back Page
County To Seek
Better E-911
Price From Alltel
Alltel Carolina Inc. will get a
second chance to bid on Polk
County's Emergency 911 (E-911)
phone system.
The Polk County Board of Com
missioners on Monday turned
over three proposals from other
vendors to their E-911 consultant
for review, each of which is more
than $100,000 less expensive than
Alltel's proposal.
But the commissioners none
theless decided to return to Alltel
to see if perhaps the local phone
company might not make a more
attractive offer.
County Manager Steven D.
Wyatt said he believes Alltel
could be the best company to
work with, because it would be
providing both the regular phone
service and the E-911 service.
"There would only be one person
to call.” Wyatt said Tuesday
"Any other vendor would provide
the equipment and Alltel would
provide the trunk line If the
svstem went down, who would be
responsible? If the telephone
company is doing everything,
there's no discrepancy. It keeps
the guesswork out of it
County officials are expected to
seek a meeting with Alltel next
week.
Alton Hambric, of Hambric &
Assoc, of Birmingham. Ala., said
Alltel should be given the chance
to make a new proposal, one that
would more fairly compare with
the proposals the county has
Continued On Buck Pace
Skyuka Zoning
Process Continues
Stating that zoning 840 acres
along Skyuka Road as one-acre,
single-family residential "would
be of benefit to the residents of
that area and the entire county."
Planning and Zoning Commission
Chairman Norman Newell on
Monday asked the Polk County
Board of Commissioners to
approve the zoning.
Newell pointed out that of the
103 property owners in the
Skyuka Road zoning area. 91 had
requested the measure be taken.
The Board of Commissioners
must now set a time for a public
hearing on the case. County
Attorney R. Jay Foster said he
would need approximately two
months to notify all property
owners in the area and to review
the petitions to see if they are in
order.
But first they asked a feu-
questions to determine just what
the zoning would do They were
told, by Newell and County-
Manager Steven D Wyatt, that
the land could continue to be crop
farmed, or could be converted to
horse farms within the
residential zone proposed
"The only restricted uses
would be industrial or multi-
family." Wyatt said
Claudy Pack, a Mill Spring
dairyman, owns 52 acres in the
proposed residential zone and has
considered selling the property to
industry. He has strongly
opposed any zoning