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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.
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Tryon, N. C. 28782
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline
18 Pages Today
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courthouse annex in Columbus.
The Foothills Humane Society
Board will meet this afternoon at
4 p.m. at the NCNB building in
Tryon.
The Tryon Thermal Belt
Chamber of Commerce will host
a forum for candidates for the
Polk County Board of
Commissioners tomorrow night
at 7:30 p.m. in the Stearns
auditorium.
The Association of County
Taxpayers will get its chance to
grill the candidates for the Polk
County Board of Education
Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at
Isothermal Community College
in Columbus.
The Polk County Farm Buareu
annual meeting will be held to
morrow night at 7 p.m. at Polk
Central High School
It is good to be alive,
surrounded by the beauty of
creation, and the ones you love.
We at the Bulletin wish you all
happiness this day — even those
rare few of you who call, yell,
refuse to give your name and
hang up before we can get a word
in edgewise.
Vol. 63 — No. 178
Tryon's official weather
recorder was out in the weather,
under the weather, weathering
the storm someplace else — we
don’t know. All we know is he
wasn’t available Friday morning
to report the highs and lows of
last Thursday, so we’ll provide
those tomorrow.
It didn’t take a rain guage
Friday, however, to know that
Polk County was getting a good
soaking.
Sheriff Boyce Carswell
reported Friday that the body of
a man found inside a burning
trailer in Pea Ridge Thursday
morning was positively identified
as Paul Frederick Acker.
Acker, 51, was the owner of the
property. He had moved here a
year ago from Long Island, N.Y.,
bought 300 acres, and was in the
process of developing a cattle
farm.
According to the sheriff’s
department spokesman, the
medical examiner’s office in
Chapel Hill identified the cause of
Acker’s death as two bullet
wounds. Further details were not
available. No suspects were
identified.
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners will meet this
afternoon at 3 p.m. at the county
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Reminder
The monthly Alzheimer’s
Support Group meeting will be
held on Monday, October 15, at 2
p.m. The program will be
presented by Lena Duncan of
Polk County Dept, of Social
Services regarding the North
Carolina Medicaid program. The
program will be in the dining
area of the Meeting Place.
TRYON. N.C. 28782
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15,1990
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LANIER,
LIBRARY
After more than 400 years what
is it that draws us still to the
plays of Shakespeare? How is it
we can still laugh at his
comedies written for an audience
so at variance with those of
today?
Jean Pettigrew will fill you in
on Shakespeare and broaden
your understanding of “The
Comedy of Errors” when she
speaks on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 3
p.m. in the Fine Arts Center
Mural Room. — Reporter
Revival
Revival meeting began at New
Zion CME Church on Oct. 14 and
will last until Oct. 19.
Rev. Rob Roy Staley, pastor of
St. John AME Zion Church will be
the guest speaker. Services will
begin at 7:30 p m. The public is
invited. — Reporter
Reporter
Terri McEntire At
Thermal Belt Rotary
Terri McEntire, Assistant
Superintendent for Pupil
Services, will be the guest
speaker at the October 15th
meeting of the Thermal Belt
Rotary Club.
ALLTEL Brings New
Equipment, More Services
To Columbus
Telephone customers in the
Columbus 894 exchange may
notice two subtle differences in
their telephone service beginning
October 20. Their calls will reach
their destinations faster and the
dial tones will have a different
sound.
That’s because ALLTEL
Carolina, Inc. is installing digital
switching equipment. “The new
equipment is the most advanced
on the market today, said Jerry
Covil, vice-president operations
for ALLTEL in Tryon. “The new
system will help us identify
problems before they become
apparent to the customer,” he
said
Once the equipment is in place,
ALLTEL will offer four new
telephone services to Columbus
customers. For the first time,
Columbus customers will have
the opportunity to choose custom
calling features such as call
waiting, call forwarding, three-
way calling and speed calling.
Furthermore, the new equip
ment will enable ALLTEL to
offer Equal Access, the process
that lets customers choose the
long-distance company of their
choice through 1 plus dialing.
Equal access will begin in the
Tryon and Columbus exchange
areas Dec. 8.
Covil said ALLTEL will turn up
its new digitial switch shortly
after midnight, Oct. 20. ALLTEL
has been testing the equipment
over the past month by calling
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