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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
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
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20 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 132
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8,1990
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The weather Monday: high 89,
low 70, hum. 72 percent.
The Summer Social Picnic will
be held this Saturday in Sassoon
Park in Tryon. Music groups will
entertain all day and into the
evening, and people can browse
among the various displays of
arts and crafts.
If you would like to reserve a
picnic box dinner, today is the
deadline for placing your order
with Catering by Joan.
The U. N. Security Council’s 13-
0 vote to isolate Iraq by banning
all trade with that country will be
enforced, “whatever it takes,”
President Bush said Monday.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers are
now within striking distance of
Iraq and reinforcements are on
the way.
Calvin Christmas Cunningham,
43, was charged with murdering
Charlotte police Officer Terry
Lyles after the officer died
Monday.
Police said Lyles was shot
twice from the backseat of a
police cruiser Sunday while
transporting a man to jail. The
32-year-old officer’s bulletproof
vest stopped both bullets. But a
third bullet struck him in the
head.
Cunningham has been arrested
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Republican Meeting
The regular monthly meeting
of the Polk County Republican
Party will be held at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursday, Aug. 9th at the
headquarters in Columbus. All
county Republicans are invited to
participate. — Reporter
Some Signs Banned
For A Year In Polk
No new “off-premise advertis
ing” signs can be built in Polk
County for the next 12 months
while the county works out a new
sign ordinance, the board of
Commissioners decided Monday
night.
“Off-premise” signs are any
signs which advertise something
for manufacture or sale which is
not available on the same
property where the sign stands.
Polk County Planning and
Zoning board member Leo Baird
cited, as an example, a billboard
for a motel in Charlotte posted in
Polk County.
The Planning and Zoning
Board has completed a sign
inventory and should be finished
with a sign ordinance within a
year, Baird told the
commissioners.
“It is in the best interest of Polk
County and all residents within
the unincorporated areas of the
county, as well as persons
engaging in the sign business,
that signs not be erected during
the interim period which would
not conform to the new (sign)
ordinance,” the board’s
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Summer Dance &
Performing Workshop
Peeking from behind the
curtain, while awaiting her cue is
Landrum’s Miss Sarah Slater
along with Mill Spring’s Miss
Julie Sain (left) and Tryon’s new
resident Miss Jamie Meadows. A
two week summer workshop was
held July 9 - 20 at Mill Spring
Accelerated School for Polk
County’s children from ages 7 to
13 under the direction of Cynthia
Andresen. Every class consisted
of a Dance Workout which
coincided with their lesson plan.
The agenda consisted of an
Introduction to Dance, Rhythm
Counting, they Voted on their own
Performance Theme, learned
How to Audition, Basic Acting
and Pantomiming through
Dance, Improvisation (dance),
Outdoor Rhythm Dance (sounds
of nature), Costume Fun, Basic
Stage Makeup and preparing
programs as well as their
performance followed by hosting
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E-911 Jeopardized
By Billing Dispute
In yet another setback for the
Polk County Board of
Commissioners, the E-911 plan
they passed months ago may now
be in trouble.
This is the third major
initiative the county has
undertaken in their budget
season which has not gone
smoothly. Also bumpy rides were
the school budget and the solid
waste disposal fee plans.
Monday night, the board
learned from an Alltel Carolina
Inc. representative tha. the
phone company is unwilling to
place a charge on customers’
phone bills to help the county pay
for E-911 equipment.
E-911 is the emergency dialing
service which would allow callers
simply to dial 9-1-1. Emergency
service dispatchers receiving the
call would immediately be
informed as to the address of the
caller on computer screens in the
dispatching center.
“Alltel will not place charges
on phone bills except for
reoccuring costs,” Alltel officer
Jerry Covil told the board. He
said the phone company’s
lawyers believe the company
should not collect for services not
regulated by the Public Service
Commission.
“We cannot collect from our
customers to pay for equipment
we did not supply,” Covil said.
Polk County decided last spring
to purchase the E-911 equipment
from an Asheville company at a
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