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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
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
Vol. 65 - No. 195
The holiday weekend weather:
Friday, high 54, low 42, hum.
65 percent; Saturday, high 44,
low 36, hum. 62 percent; Sun
day, high 44, low 36, hum. 65
percent and .62 inches of rain;
Monday, high 56, low 39, hum.
37 percent and .04 inches of
rain.
Veterans Day ceremonies
scheduled for this past weekend
were rescheduled due to the
rouglt weather.
Jim Cochran said the cere
monies will be held this coming
Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. in
the Stearns Education Building
auditorium. Veterans from
World War II, Korea, Vietnam
and Desert Shield will speak.
Here's what else is happening:
The Polk Environmental Pro
jects will meet to discuss the
proposed Polk County sign
ordinance tomorrow night at
7:30 at the Isothermal Commu
nity College Polk Campus lec
ture room.
The Tryon Hounds will meet
Saturday at 8 a.m. at Fairview
Grain Bins.
The Polk County High School
Band Boosters will sponsor
their annual Turkey Supper
Saturday at the Mill Spring
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TRYON. N C 28782
Green Creek
And Mill Spring
Schools To Close
Green Creek and Mill Spring
Elementary Schools will close
at the end of the 1991-92
school year as renovation of
Polk Central is pushed into high
gear.
The Polk County Board of
Education voted Monday to
close the two elementary
schools after hearing from
GMK Construction Manage
ment consultants that the $1.2
million renovation project can
begin the day school is out and
completed by August 15.
The school board Facilities
Committee recommended clos
ing the two schools to save
operating costs.
The key to timing is to have
bids for the renovation of Polk
Central from a high school to an
elementary and middle school
advertised by early February
and awarded and ready to go by
early March, said GMK associ
ate Don Altman.
"We have done this kind of
thing for the last 9-10 years in
the Southeast. We are comfort
able with this $1.2 million
scope of work to start and finish
in one month," Altman told the
school board.
Contractors then would have
all equipment in place to begin
the day school is out and work
seven days a week until the
project is completed, he said.
School officials will try to set
the beginning of the 1992-93
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13,1991
Donna Orzano
Featured In 'First
Monday In October'
Donna Orzano is cast as Judge
Ruth Lommis in First Monday
in October, the comedy-drama
that Tryon Little Theater will
Eresent at the Fine Arts Center
tec. 5, 6, 7 and 8. In that role,
she becomes the first woman
appointed to the United States
Supreme Court.
Written long before Sandra
Day O'Connor became the first
woman to be appointed to the
nation's highest court, but cer
tain that it was only a question
of time before that would occur,
the playwrights imagine what
will happen when a woman is
finally named. After viewing
the play, theater-goers can
draw their own conclusions
over how clairvoyant the
authors were.
Donna is higlily qualified to
handle this demanding and dif
ficult role. She made her TLT
debut in Oct., 1990, in the role
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Columbus Election
Stands, But Board
Seeks End To Problems
The Columbus Municipal
Election Board voted Tuesday
to uphold the Nov. 5 election
results despite complaints of
deviation from acceptable vot
ing conduct, but the three
members will adopt procedures
to avoid future irregularities.
"I don't think the object of the
election board is to question the
outcome of the election, but the
behavior and conduct during the
election," said election board
member Joyce Dedman. "Tlie
election board desires to find
out what we can do to keep this
from happening at the next
election," she added.
The inegularities filed in a
complaint by mayoral candidate
Kathleen McMillian (who lost
the Nov. 5 election by one vote
to Paul Smith) points to unlaw
ful actions by Charlie Feagan
and a ballot cast by a non
Columbus resident.
Mrs. McMillian withdrew her
request for a reelection, but
maintained her protest of voting
irregularities charging that
Charlie Feagan deliberately
walked up and interferred with
voters.
Mrs. McMillian contends that
Feagan stopped voters within
the 50-foot limit of the polls
and talked with them about
candidates. Mrs. Culbreth veri
fied that one girl did say that
someone had told her how to
vote while she was waiting in
line at the booth.
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