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PO T K LIBRARY 11 no 7 91 ?.T. ■ , 204 WALKR’ 3T. COLUMBUS, N C SO/S? 2nd Claw Postage at Tryon. North Carolina 28782 and additional post offices. Postmaster: send address changes to The Tryon Dail) Bulletin. PO. Box 790. Tryon. N. C. 28782 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 ™ Daily Bulletin CUSPS 643-360) is Sal and Sun. for *35 per published daily except i-KWN Trade year by the Toon Daily Bullen - 106 N St., P.O. Box ”0. Tryon. N.C. 2878. The Tryon Daily Bulletin Phone 859-9151 ® Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina 12 Pages Today Vol. 65 - No. 237 TRYON. N C 28782 THURSDAY, JAN. 16,1992 The weather Thursday, high 57, low 39, burn. 50 percent. Cold! Polk County is lucky to have an outstanding school superin tendent - one who just last year passed up other opportuni ties, choosing instead to stay here. We surely hope the Polk County School Board under stands its good fortune. School Board member Wayne Bradley does. "Jim Causby is without a doubt better than all the other superintendents that we've ever had put together," Bradley said recently. Polk County Schools Supt. Causby has brought Polk County from obscurity to a sys tem on the verge of becoming a national model, Bradley pointed out. Polk's outcome-based edu cation curriculum is at least a year ahead of the national America 2000 Project, accord ing to Dr. Bill Daggett, the national expert Causby found to help develop the curriculum A year ahead of the nation! At a recent public presenta tion on the new curriculum Daggett called Causby "coura- geous." and said, "You are extraordmanly fortunate to have Jim Causby and (Asst. Supt.) (Continued On Back Page) Landrum Employees May Face Drug Tests Landrum Town Council is looking toward drug testing for all present and future town employees. "I think we really need it," said Landrum Police Chief Gary Laughter. "The way society is now, there's a lot of people who get on depressants and things like this," he said. New employees cannot be tested without a drug testing policy in effect, he pointed out. Administrator Doug Landers said he doesn't believe that Landrum has a drug problem with town employees, but he doesn't mind having a drug testing policy. If the town's employees are required to undergo drug test ing, the town council members should be subject to testing as well, said Doug Brannon. However, drug testing for employees involves an expense and must be done periodically, not just once. Laughter said . Mayor Robert Cogdell, who introduced the drug testing idea said that from what he hears the cost is $36 for each test. ."All municipalities and industries are going to this," the mayor said. Ilie administrator and council S bers wiU Ialk with and °^ cr cilics wi,h drug testing policies before discussing the matter in a work session next Monday, C. Wharton Big Bands A-Comin' Get ready to hear Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Count Basie Herbie Hancock, Buddy Rich on stage at the Tryon Fine Arts Center on Sat., Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. They won't be there in person but in spirited arrangements we all came to know and love That's because the N.C. Jazz Ensemble will assemble for our pleasure to us 3n evenm B of what we really long for in Tryon... g^d The 17-member band was started twelve vears . Oliver Hodge and saxophonist Stanley Baird. It con^ists^f oro fessional musicians, most of whom are teachers at P . high school levels. ^acners at university and Highlighted will be Melva Houston, vocalist Memphis and grew up near rhe tend,™ A^ 0 ^ b °™ '" childhood she knew that she had to ati? in de ^ Fr °n she was a backup singer for Stax Records Arif. 1^’ by a 8 e 13 sang locally before striking out for Eu SCh001 she acclaimed one of the top jazz vocalists the™ n , w 1 hcre she was to her and she recently settled in Mt Airv N \ ie S0uth ca N ed the N.C. Jazz Ensemble. 51 NQ where she joined The program is sponsored by the Sneeiat p TFAC. Tickets at $10 each and are on sail ^"1 ^"^‘tee of until showtime. -Community Reporter fr ° m 10-1 days Revival At Big Level Big Level Baptist Church will have 3 revival Jan. 20-24 at 7:30 p.m. each night. Rev. Handley Milby of Buffalo, Ky. will be the guest speaker. Meeting Place Bridge B ridgeresulLs Meeting Place 1st Eddie p^. 35 f0110ws: Donna Woh P1 ’ z 8>bbon, 2nd fer, 4th Ho^’ ^ E,hel Pfcrt- Hortense Stone.
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