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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
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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
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