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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. 244
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON. N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, JAN. 24,1991
16 Pages Today
20f Per Copy
The weather Tuesday: high 39,
low 21, and hum. 65 percent.
Needless to say, it was COLD. But
there was a hope of snow in the
offing.
Rowena Sweczy of Columbus
noted something interesting in the
Tryon Daily Bulletin's Curb
Reporter column from the issue of
Jan. 15, 1989. Seth Vining Jr. had
noted on that day an item in the
national news about President
George Bush working for peace in
the Middle East.
Rowena said it was striking that
two years later, on the same day,
the President was launching Amer
ica into a war in that very region.
We ran a press release from the
Western Carolina University's
Center for Improving Mountain
Living recently regarding a Polk
County Profile. It included a public
relations office phone number to
call for a copy of the report updat
ing all sorts of statistics about Polk.
However, due to the large
response, the university staff now
callers to instead call the Center
office directly, at 704-227-7492.
Or you could write to: Western
Carolina University, Center for
Improving Mountain Living, Cul
lowhee, N.C. 28723.
The Polk County Democratic
Men's Club will meet Saturday,
Continued On Back Page
EMS Budget Off
By $100,000
Polk County's new Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) depart
ment may require an additional
$100,000 over what was budgeted
from county taxpayers this year,
Polk County Board of Commis
sioners chairman Jeannie Martin
said Monday.
Martin's assessment came after
EMS director Lisa Wilson told the
board that she was concerned about
the collection rate for EMS bill
ings. (The average ambulance call
charge is $200.) Wilson asked for
permission to initiate several new
collection measures.
However, some area profession
als said they believe Polk EMS
collections experience is not out of
line with industry standards and the
former Polk County Manager said
the timing of collections is not a
problem under the county's
accounting system.
EMS is budgeted to cost the
county about $492,000 for fiscal
year 1990-91. Of that amount, the
service is budgeted to collect for its
services about $276,000, leaving
the county to pay the $216,000
difference.
EMS billings arc on line with
projections, at $153,000 in the first
six and a half months of operation,
and it has collected $87,765. That
is a pretty good collections experi
ence, according to Western
Regional EMS director Max Wes
son.
Nonetheless, EMS collections
were behind Polk's budget by
$85,000 as of Dec. 31, 1990,
according to county finance dircc-
Continued On Back Page
At Dinner Theater
Carol Cloud is appearing as
Nancy Relansky in “Do Black
Patent Leather Shoes Really
Reflect Up?” at the Alhambra
Dinner Theater in Jacksonville,
FL. In February she will portray
the role of Morgan LeFey in
“Camelot”, which runs for 2
months.
Carol received a BFA in Acting
from Western Carolina Univ,
where she won Best Character
Actress award and was twice
nominated for the Irene Ryan
Acting Scholarship. In 1989 she
toured with the American
Repertory Theater.
Carol is the daughter of Russell
and Inky Cloud of Tryon. —
Reporter
Republicans
Meet Tonight
Ihc Polk County Republicans
will have their monthly meeting
tonight at Headquarters in Colum
bus at 7:30.
This meeting was postponed
from last Thursday, the regular
monthly meeting date, to avoid a
conflict with the public presenta
tion by Dr. Willard Daggett at
Tryon Elementary School.
Jean Pettigrew
At Lanier Library
Jean Pettigrew will be back
again center stage in the Le Duc
Room of the Lanier Library.
Beginning 'Wednesday, Jan. 30,
3 p.m. she will introduce a
seminar on the major poets. The
programs will continue on
Wednesday, Feb. 6, and
Wednesday, Feb. 20, same time
and place.
Jean has retired from teaching
gifted children at Polk Central
but she has not retired from life
or from sharing her own teaching
abilities with the community. She
is preparing to lead a more in
depth discussion of several poets,
choosing from a list which
includes, Robert Frost, William
Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot, Dylan
Thomas, Walt Whitman, Carl
Sandburg and Edgar Lee
Masters.
These are some of the names
selected following her request for
ideas given out last fall. If you
have a favorite poet contact Jean
or the Lanier Library as she
would like the seminar to include
them.
Lanier Library members and
their guests are invited to attend.
— Reporter
Correction
Annie Bell Bradley was the
daughter of the late William
Alberry and Mollie McFarland
Cannon. The names were given
ncorrectly in the obituary
printed Friday.