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Vol. 63 — No. 76 TRYON, N C 28782 THURSDAY. MAY 17.1990 mePerCopy
The weather Tuesday: high 86,
low 55, hum. 64%.
If you've been reading only the
Curb Reporter to keep up. you
haven't been aware that USC
President Jim Holderman has
beeen having a rough time of it
recently — being called a
spendthrift and all for renting
luxury hotel rooms.
He claims the money was well
spent as he brought in millions in
endowments
Well now the S C legislature is
concerned that one of
Holderman's key advisors makes
more than the governor, and the
university president's troubles
continue.
Looking even further south,
Nicaraguan President Violeta
Chamorro began her fourth week
in power by facing sit-down
strikes from government
workers and bankruptcy
Chamorro has asked the Bush
Administration for $40 million, as
an emergency loan The sit-down
strikes are being waged by
former Sandinista workers
ALLTEL telephone customers
in Landrum and Campobello
have voted to pay higher monthly
bWs in exchange for toll-free
caning to Spartanburg and
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Habitat Resale Store
Expands —
Grand Opening May 19
Thermal Belt Habitat for
Humanity president Woody
Woodham has announced that the
Habitat Resale Store on N. Trade
Ave. in Landrum is being doubled
insire
The store, which remains in the
same location, is expanding into
the store next door which was
formerly occupied by Tri County
Heating & Air Conditioning
Woodham indicated that the
Habitat expansion is made
possible by the generosity of
Habitat board member Thomas
Connell who has furnished the
store rent-free to Habitat since
the store’s founding in 1985
Chuck Doster. Habitat store
manager, said that the store
renovations will be completed by
May 19. On that day, a grand
opening sale will be held, with the
sale continuing through May 26
Doster indicated that the sale
will feature items from the Sarah
Darnall estate including beds,
antique tables, chairs, couches
and household items All profits
from the sale of donated items
are turned over to Thermal Belt
Habitat for Humanity where they
are used to help build houses for
needy working families in our
area Persons desiring to donate
furniture, appliances and other
household items to the Habitat
store may call 457-2666 for free
pickup Donations are
tax-deductible. - Reporter
The Glory Days of
Broadway: Naughty
Marietta
Taking a moment out of
rehearsal of the spring concert
“The Glory Days of Broadway"
are Ken Yeager (Capt. Dick
Warrington) and Mimi Child
(Marietta)
Yeager and Child sing the lead
parts in "Naughty Marietta,” a
romantic operetta set in
Louisiana in 1780 Among the
songs are some of Victor
Herbert’s greatest. "Ah, Sweet
Mystery of Life," "I’m Falling in
Love with Someone," which is
remarkable for its
chromaticisms in the opening
bars and in the unusual leap of a
ninth in the refrain; the vocal
march, "Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp;" the vocal quartet "Live
For Today,” and the beautiful
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Skyuka Zoning On
Monday’s Agenda
If Polk County zones Claudy
Pack’s 52 acres off Skyuka Road
residential, he says he’ll have no
real use left for the land, except
to continue fanning it.
The moist, bottom land soil
won't support single family
housing, Pack and his Asheville
lawyer told the Polk County
Board of Commissioners in a
public hearing Tuesday night.
And farming just pays for the
taxes, he said.
“1 have a dream," Pack told
the board. “That land has far
greater potential than one house
to one acre."
Residents of the area, however,
said they only see Pack's
potential to destroy their quality
of life if his development rights
are unlimited.
Whether or not Pack has to
alter his dream is likely to be
decided Monday afternoon, when
the Polk County Board of
Commissioners meets. The
zoning case is on the agenda
Pack’s 52 acres sit at the
southeast corner of an 840-acre
tract which the Polk County
Planning Commission in
February recommended be
rezoned to RE I residential with
one-acre minimum lots. His land
adjoins 1-26 and N. C. 74, and
although no direct access to these
roads exists. Pack told the board
he would fight the win access and
to locate industry there.
The 840-acre tract is bounded
on the south by 1-26, on the east by
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