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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
Vol. 63 - No. 231
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Caroline
TRYON. N. C. 28782
THURSDAY. JAN. 3,1991
12 Pages Today
20? Per Copy
The weather Monday: high 66.
low 41. hum. 50 percent and .4
inches of rainfall: Tuesday, high
50. low 28. hum. 68 percent.
The year 1990 wound up wetter
than usual, with a surplus of 8.4
inches of rain over the average.
In December. 4.78 inches of rain
fell, as compared to an average
of 5.16. For the year. 72.88 inches
of rain fell.
In all the reporting on the
Christmas season sales, no one
reported on the wear and tear the
season look on sales clerks. You
know that phrase. “The customer
is always right." Isn't that one
the boss made up for the
employees who had to grit their
teeth after dealing with
unreasonable, impossible
people? Sure, the customer is
always right. And it never rains
in Guatemala.
A more honest, yet service-
oriented maxim might be. “At
XYZ Company, we always try to
make it right for the customer."
And on that score, you win some,
you lose some. (There are just
some people who come looking
fora fight.)
At 78. Perry Como is still
singing, and is still relaxed.
That's the Cox News Service
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Turner-Yaggie
Miss Diana Lynn Turner of
Columbus and Robert Francis
Yaggie of Spartanburg. S. C
have announced their plans to be
married on May 18th.
Miss Turner is the grand
daughter of Mrs. Ruth Rose of
Tryon. She is a 1989 graduate of
Polk Central High School and is
employed as a technical clerk
with Lockwood Green Engineers
in Spartanburg
Mr Yaggie is the son of Robert
D. Yaggie of Spartanburg and
Ruby Yaggie of Inman. S. C. He
is a 1987 graduate of Boiling
Springs High School and is a
senior at Clemson University
where he is majoring in computer
science.
The wedding will take place at
Mill Spring Baptist Church.
Bread Making Class
The Polk County Home
Economics Extension Service
will sponsor a Breadmaking
Class. It will be Thursday. Jan 17
at 7 pm. at the Agricultural
Extension Conference Room.
The instructors will be Emme
Pebler and Joan Schairer. The
cost of the class is S2 and must be
paid in the Extension office by
Wed.. Jan 16 If you have any
questions, please call Eloise
Johnson at 894-8218
Funeral Date Changed
The Benjamin Franklin Foster
funeral will be held Friday. Jan. 4
at 3 pm. not today, as previously
reported.
Massive Boulder
Drops On Hwy. 176
It just couldn't hold on much
into the new year. A boulder the
size of a Mack Truck cracked off
the side of Warrior Mountain just
below Melrose Junction Jan. 2
and rutted a hole through the
blacktop of Hwy. 176 — and three
feet into the earth below
Itself planted in the northbound
lane, it cracked again, dropping a
sister boulder half its size onto
southbound lane. No one was
hurt. The road will likely be
closed until Monday County
Emergency Management Chief
Jim Cochran said
Highway workers will spend
the next two or three days drilling
and blasting the 20-feet tall. 37-
foot long stone and its sister into
moveable bits. County Foreman
D. B. Watkins (picturedstanding
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911 Service
Data Forms Out
Final preparation are
underway for Polk County s new
Enhanced 9-1-1- emergency
telephone service scheduled to
begin in February.
A data collection form is being
mailed to the address of record
for each telephone listing in the
county. ALLTEL customers can
expect to receive forms
immediately, with Southern Bell
and Saluda customers to receive
theirs soon.
“The equipment is in." said
County Manager John Lewis.
“The lines from Tryon and
Columbus into the (operations
center in the) sheriff’s
department are up and
functioning."
However, the new system will
not be implemented until
everything is correct.
“There might be someone who
needs an ambulance, and we
don't want to have any
trouble getting there."
Lewis said.
One of the kinks still to be
worked out is the naming of
county roads. The Polk County
Board of Commissioners has
asked those dissatisfied with the
name of their road, or who are
aware of an error in the placing
of road name signs to submit a
petition signed by residents of
that road to the county manager
by Jan. 15.
A public hearing will be held
Feb. 4 to make a final
determination of the road names.
Soon after that, county officials
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