2nd Class Postage Paid At Tryon, North Carolina, 28782 Established January 31, 1928 POLK LIBRARY = . 204 WALKER ST. COLUMBUS, NC 23722 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 * (USPS 643-360) Phone 859-9151 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina 10 Pages Today Vol. 63 — No. 188 The weather Wednesday: high 73, low 56, hum. 67 percent. Sunday is “Trick-Or-Treat For UNICEF Day.” UNICEF is the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and its services have been offered to children in need all over the globe for decades. You may find children coming to your door asking for contributions for UNICEF Sunday. Now you'll know what it is all about. Bob Bowman, the project manager for Tryon Estates, stopped through the Bulletin office Wednesday to say hello. He’s back on his feet and looking great after having had a heart attack last month. That is, he’s looking as great as Bob can look. We were sure glad to see him. Don't forget the school carnivals and festivals this weekend. The PTA at each school sponsors these events to involve the community with the school and to raise money for worth while projects. Sunny View School will hold a Fall Festival tonight starting with a turkey dinner at 5 p.m. O. P. Earle Elementary will host its Halloween Carnival and Hot Dog Continued On Back Page TRYON. N. C. 28782 Saluda Fall Leaf Festival A Success The first Fall Leaf Festival was held at Saluda on Saturday, Oct. 20. Activities included hayrides in horse drawn wagons, provided by Roy Morgan and Cliff Cox. The children’s poster competition was won by John Burdett, pictured above (left) with his friend Tracy Shurtleff. All the entrants pictures decorated the store fronts on Main Street. Scarecrows entered by various groups were displayed throughout the city. The first place winner was Homemakers Extension; 2nd, Straxx; and 3rd, Mountain Page CommunityClub. Various civic groups provided snacks and food items and spaghetti dinners were served to over 100 people in the Fire Hall. Continued On Back Page FRIDAY. OCT. 26, 1990 School Board Profiles: Tryon Each candidate for the Polk County Board of Education has been asked a set of questions by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. What follows is a synopsis of the answers given by the two candidates from Tryon. Voters on Nov. 6 may choose one candidate from each township race: Green Creek. Tryon and Columbus. In Cooper's Gap, Ann Whitmire is running unopposed. Green Creek candidates were profiled Thursday. Columbus candidates will be profiled Monday, and candidates for the Polk County Board of Commissioners will be profiled starting Tuesday. BILL McKAIG Tryon Polk County Board of Education candidate Bill McKaig’s concern for education goes beyond his role as a parent to include all people who have to make a living. In his years in the U.S. Air Force and now as supervisor at Barnette Southern, McKaig has seen people who quit school to go to work, and, once they’ve started working have a family. These people have no chance for advancement in any field. A high school education is a must for any job now, and to advance, additional training and/or schooling is needed, he pointed out. The biggest strength in the Polk County Education system is that the majority of teachers and community support the school system, McKaig said. A lot of people have put dollars into the schools, he said pointing to Arthur Farwell, who donated computers to Tryon Elementary School, and the Community Foundation, which has helped all schools in the county. The school system’s weakness, McKaig said, is the school board. He charges that the school board is too involved in trying to build the new high school instead Continued On Page Two 200 Per Copy GEORGIA PACK Tryon school board candidate Georgia Pack said she would like to continue as a member of the Polk County Board of Education to be part of the completion of the merger she helped start. She said she would like to see the academic and building projects through to the end. Pack said she sees the merger and the goals of this system to provide quality education for our children as the strength of Polk County’s Education System. The school administration and school board has put forth a lot of team work and “everything we’re going after is toward providing quality education for the children of Polk County,” Pack said. The beginnings of merger were tough, but once the two separate school board saw that merger was a sure thing, “we pulled together,” she said. Pol County’s low SAT scores are one of the weaknesses Pack sees for the school system. “But people don’t look at where we were and where we’re aiming,” she said. The county’s SAT scores have improved slowly, but coming up to the level the school board wants does not happen overnight, she said. Pack pointed Continued On Page Two

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