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Founded Jan. 31, 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Jeffrey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
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The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Prlntod in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Phone 859-9151
Vol. 64 - No. 66
The weather Monday: high
78, low 62, hum. 63 percent.
The Tryon Community Cho
rus 1991 Spring Concert tickets
arc on sale. Proceeds from the
three performances May 17, 18,
and 19 go to the Rotary Scho
larship Fund.
The Polk County Planning
Commission meets Thursday,
May 9 in the courthouse court
room.
The second of the regular
Thursday morning walks with
Simon Thompson at FENCE
will be held this Thursday.
Please meet each Thursday at 8
a.m. at FENCE to take part.
The Tryon Film Club will
present "The Red Shoes"
Thursday, May 9 at 8 p.m. at
the Tryon Fine Arts Center.
The St. Luke's Hospital
Auxiliary's annual fashion show
will be held at the Vineyard,
Friday, May 10. To make reser
vations, call 859-9050. And
remember to bring hard goods
for resale in the Thrift Shop. It
is these sales which provide
contributions for equipment at
St. Luke's Hospital and scho
larships for local students con
tinuing their educations in
health-related fields.
TTie Tryon Concert Associa-
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TRYON. N C 28782
E-911 Service
Now On Line
The new Emergency-911
phone service for Polk County
officially went on line Monday
morning.
Polk County Manager John
Lewis told the Board of Com
missioners Monday evening
that callers may now dial
just three digits, 9-1-1, and
reach dispatchers for emer
gency services including fire,
police or ambulance for any
part of the county, with the
exception of Saluda and that
portion of Sunny View served
by the Rutherford phone
exchange.
"We have encountered some
technical problems in getting
the 911 lines into the sheriffs
office from those areas," Lewis
said Tuesday morning. He said
the county is working with
Southern Bell, which handles
Rutherford, and Telephone and
Data Systems Inc., which owns
the former Saluda Mountain
Telephone Co., to work out the
details.
"It is going to take awhile,"
Lewis said. "Longer than we
anticipated and certainly longer
than we would like."
Tryon and the county worked
out an agreement by which
any Tryon calls will immedi
ately be switched from the
sheriffs office dispatchers to
Tryon dispatchers, who will
also be using the new E-911
computer equipment.
With the E-911 computer
equipment, dispatchers will sec
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WEDNESDAY. MAY 8,1991
Toni Baker and
Ken Yeager
Rehearsing Their Duet
Spring Duet
Toni Baker and Ken Yeager
(from left to right above)
rehearse their duct How Bright
The Fountain Gleams, one of
the lovesong waltzes written by
Johannes Brahms. They will
perform in the Spring Concert
on May 17, 18 and 19 at the
Tryon Fine Arts Theatre.
Brahms began to write these
waltzes during his first year in
Vienna, exhibiting his joy in
having moved there. Whether
slow or fast, joyous or wistful
the Music Dances to a particu
larly Viennese Pulse. Yeager,
president of the Community
Chorus, finds the music feat
ured in Concert '91 "wonderful"
to sing inspiriting, challenging,
rewarding and "Great Fun to
Do," you will find it equally so,
as part of the audience. Tickets
arc on sale.
22 Pages Today
2UC Per 1 ops
$14 Million In
Polk Bonds Sold
Polk County borrowed $14
million Tuesday morning, and
promised to pay it all back
within 20 years.
A consortium of banks and
brokerage houses purchased the
$14 million in school bonds at
an average interest rate of 6.59
percent, .36 percent less than
the 20 composite index for bond
sales on that day.
The consortium includes
Wachovia Bank & Trust. First
Union National Bank, Inter
state Securities, First Charlotte
Corp., Dean Witter Reynolds
Inc., Wheat First Securities, J.
Lee Peeler, McDaniel, Lewis &
Co., Robinson-Humphrey Inc.,
Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner &
Smith Inc., Smith Barney, First
Chicago Corp., and Capital
Markets.
According to the state offi
cials who opened the bids in
Raleigh for the Local Gov
ernment Commission of the
State Treasury Department,
Wachovia Bank & Trust pur
chased insurance on the bonds,
allowing them to be sold at an
AAA rating.
Polk County was rated A by
both Standard & Poor's and
Moody's bond rating agencies.
However, by purchasing insu
rance from Financial Guarantee
Insurance Company, the bonds
can be sold as AAA rated
bonds.
"That opens up the market to
investment grade buyers," said
Jack Hastings of the Hender-
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