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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. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Weetern North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
20 Pages Today-
Vol. 63 — No. 232
The weather Wednesday: high
57, low40, hum. 78 percent.
It was raining Thursday, Jan.
3. Lonnie Anderson, not Mrs.
Burt Reynolds, but a sales
representative who regularly
calls upon the Bulletin, observed
correctly that we had set a record
Thursday. “This is the most rain
we've gotten all year,’' she
quipped. Quite true, actually.
Fred Schairer of Tryon noted a
Op-Ed page article in the
Charlotte Observer Wednesday
excerpting a portion of a speech
given by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-
Illinois) to newly elected
Members of the U.S. House of
Representatives:
“Democracy itself cannot
indefinitely survive public
criticism and contempt.
Contempt for Congress will
inevitably become contempt for
the law :. The first task of the
102nd Congress, then, is to
restore a measure of the people’s
confidence in the institutions of
government," Hyde said.
He went on to argue that the
new Congressmen, flush with
victory, must begin to
contemplate “the possibility —
even the necessity of defeat” at
Continued On Back Page
TRYON, N. C. 28782
Education Reformer
To Speak Jan. 17
How will your children and
grandchildren earn their
livelihoods ten years from now?
Farming, bookkeeping, assembly
line work, or flipping
hamburgers?
According to Dr. Willard
Daggett. Director of
Occupational Instruction for the
State of New York, the future will
be bleak for students entering the
world of 'work with primitive
educations and narrow,
obsolescent skills. Jobs for
unskilled or semi-skilled
American workes, he points out.
are disappearing as competition
from foreign nationals,
mechanization, automation, and
electronics eliminate repetitive,
undemanding tasks.
In reforming its educational
system to meet the needs of
today’s students, says Daggett
the United States is years behind
more educationally progressive
countries in Europe and Asia.
On Thursday evening. January
17, in the auditorium at Tryon
Elementary School, Dr. Daggett
will repeat his warnings and his
call for reformation.
His appearance marks the
initial step in an all-out effort by
the Polk County Schools to design
and restructure its curriculum
for the new. $12,000,000 Polk
County High School scheduled to
be completed in 1992.
“The taxpayers of this county
have shown foresight, vision and
generosity in providing funds for
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FRIDAY, JAN. 4.1991
20c Per Copy
Dean Yancey, manager of the
Tryon Duke Power office, is
pictured at right presenting a
check to Polk County Director of
Social Services Sue Rhodes. The
check for $3,911 represents the
first distribution of funds under
the Share the Warmth program,
a program in which duke Power
matches customers’ donations up
to $25. Last year. Share the
Warmth funds totaled $9.717in
Polk County; eighty-five families
received help in paying their
heating bills with an average
payment of $114.30. Pictured with
Rhodes and Yancey are Dorene
Byars (center right) and Norma
Fagan. — Reporter
Sales and Use Tax
Polk County collected $87,533 in
local 2 percent sales and use
taxes in November. 1990,
according to a report from the N.
C. Department of Revenue.
Buncombe County collected
$2.2million; Henderson. $775,019;
and Rutherford. $530,526.
Engaged
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewis
Williams of Green Creek,
announce the engagement of
their daughter. Lynn Marie, to
Rodney Lee Whitlock of Athens.
Georgia, formerly of Salem.
Virginia.
Miss Williams is a 1985
graduate of Polk Central. 1989
graduate of Wofford College and
is currently working towards her
Master’s Degree in political
science at the University of
Georgia at Athens.
Mr. Whitlock also attends the
University of Georgia where he is
working on his Doctorate in
political science.
Narcotics Anonymous
NA meeting schedule.
Tuesdays and Friday. 8 p.m. at
the Church of Holy Cross
Contact. 859-2272 for more
information — Reporter