2nd Class Postage Paid At Tryon, North Carolina, 28782 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 Doily Bulletin (USPS 643-360) * Phone 859-9151 Vol. 63 — No. 192 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina TRYON, N. C. 28782 THURSDAY, NOV. 1,1990 24 Pages Today 20C Per Copy Our weather reporter was unavailable Wednesday, but we’ll bring you the whole Tuesday story — highs and lows — tomorrow. Wanda Cash, the Bulletin bookkeeper, receptionist, office manager, and publisher’s assistant, had her baby Halloween Day, a son. The announcement is on the front page today. If we stumble a bit for the next few months while Wanda is out, please bear with us. Over a decade’s experience is missing up front and we just have to hunt a little bit harder to get the same answers. Bobbie Briggs of Landrum is filling in for Wanda, helping Angie Scoggins keep the shop running smoothly, the phones answered, the bills paid and all the rest. We’ll introduce Bobbie in a story tomorrow. Polk County Democrats will share a free chicken supper at Harmon Field Saturday night at 6 p.m. Don’t forget to vote next Tuesday. There are so many issues of importance to this county, the state and the nation. Put on your thinking cap, ask Continued On Back Page New Arrival Wanda and Jerry Cash of Landrum are parents of a son, Kendall Lane, born on October 31,1990 at Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg. He weighed 8 lbs. 8 ozs. and 21 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Junior and Maye Connor of Landrum and great grandfather is Oscar Lee Connor of Candler, N.C. Paternal grandparents are Randolph and Edith Cash of Landrum. Kendall has a brother. Grant, age 15 and a sister, Gina, age 12. New Arrival Tony and Beth Lynch of Green Creek are parents of a son, Colby Lynch born on Oct. 29. He weighed 8 lbs. and 12 oz. Maternal grandparents are Barbara and Larry Shytie of Green Creek. Great- grandparents are: Julia Smith of Green Creek and Louvenia Shytle of Green Creek. Paternal grandparents are Grant Lynch of Sunny View and Sue Lynch of Lexington, N. C. great-grandparents are Abraham and Ada Lee Lynch of Sunny View and Mary Moss of Mill Spring. The 1990 powderpuff game will be played at the L.H.S. football field on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. A male homecoming queen will be crowned during halftime ceremonies. Came out and support the junior and senior classes. Admission is $3. — Reporter County Commissioners Candidates Profiled Each candidate for the Polk County Board of Commissioners has been asked a set of questions by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. What follows is a synopsis of the answers given by two of the candidates. Voters on Nov. 6 will have three votes, and six candidates to choose from, three Republicans and three Democrats. The final commissioners’ profiles will be published f riday. SUE COCHRAN Democrat Sue Cochran is running for the Polk County Board of Commissioners for the first time, but she helped shape the board as it is today. Cochran first brought up the idea of a five-person county commission, she said, because she thought three commissioners did not have a wide enough range of views. She was also the first woman chairman of the Polk County Democratic Partv One of Polk County’s strengths is that the commissioners have a chance to direct the growth of the county and an opportunity to help some of the departments grow, Cochran said. But one of the county’s governmental problems is that county employees such as the county manager come and go too quickly. “About the time they know the county and what they can do to help, they’re moving on,” she pointed out. Polk County can’t compete with bigger counties which can pay more, Cochran said. However, she said that probably an older county manager would be more likely to stay, she said. People working together and minimal problems could also Continued On Page Two TIM McCORMACK Green Creek Polk County Polk Board of Commissioners candidate Tim McCormack calls himself a “very conservative” Republican. Though at 31 years old he is quite busy with three children, a job and a business, he feels that it is important to have a balance in the county government of not only those leaders who have the wisdom and knowledge of age, but also those with youthful direction and ideas. “One of the things I can bring to the county board of commissioners is a new direction of thinking and long-term thinking in the county,” he said. One of Polk County’s governmental strengths is a tremendous cross section of people, McCormack pointed out. But too many people are going in different directions right now and this has produced weakensses, McCormack said. “The Board of Elections is in one direction and the Board of Commissioners is in another They all need to be a unified group to get anywhere ” he said. To overcome this weakness McCormack would like to see the new school board and the commissioners come together and work towards a common Continued On Page Two

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