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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. O. Box 790
Tryon, N- C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In ths THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
10 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 193
The weather Tuesday: high 71,
low 33, hum. 80 percent;
Wednesday, high 80, low 37, hum.
73 percent.
In the first ten months of 1990,
more rain has fallen than in an
average year in Tryon. In fact,
if we didn’t see a cloud for the
rest of the year, we would have
.75 surplus over the yearly
average of 64.83.
But it would be well if we did
see more rain, weather recorder
Robert Dedmondt reports. The
winter rains are not used by the
foliage and thus are available to
replenish groundwater supplies.
“This is the time of year when
we need the rains," Dedmondt
said.
October saw rainfall of 10.76
inches, well over the average of
4.77 inches. It’s been a wet year.
Next Tuesday evening, the
election will be over and in many
ways life will return to normal.
You will find many
“communications” of opinion on
the candidates and the issues
printed inside today’s Bulletin.
Whatever your point of view, you
will undoubtedly believe some of
these final arguments cry out for
rebuttal, but there is no time left.
The only rebuttal now will
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TRYON, N C. 28782
Briggs Working
Bobbie Briggs of Landrum is
working at The Tryon Daily
Bulletin as a temporary
replacement for Wanda Cash,
who is on maternity leave.
Bobbie most recently worked
for Keys Printing in Greenville in
their desktop publishing
department.
Prior to Keys, she also worked
with Bulletin publisher Jeffrey A.
Byrd in Richmond, Va. helping to
computerize classified,
circulation and desktop
publishing operations for
Suburban Newspapers of
Virginia.
In addition to bookkeeping and
receptionist duties, Bobbie is
working on computer operations
for the Bulletin also.
Bobbie’s husband, Dick
Briggs, is a media consultant and
broker, primarily specializing in
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FRIDAY, NOV. 2,1990
County Commissioners Candidates Profiled
Each candidate/or the Polk County Board o/ Commissioners was
asked a set of questions by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. What follows is
a synopsis of the answers given by the two incumbent candidates.
Voters on Nov. 6 will have three votes, and six candidates to choose
from for the Polk County Board of Commissioners, three
Democrats and three Republicans. Ann Whitmire, an unopposed
candidate for the Polk County Board of Education from the
Cooper's Gap Township, will be profiled Monday, finishing the
profiles of all candidates for both boards.
KEN FAULKNER
Incumbent Republican Ken
Faulkner is running for
reelection because he said he
feels Polk County has many
problems to solve, now and in the
future, and he wants to find
viable solutions.
“This is not just an office, it is a
public trust,” he said.
Faulkner said that he has the
time to thoroughly read and
digest mountains of legal
documents and state and federal
rules and regulations. He said he
also has the time to spend in the
courthouse keeping up with
county business and building
good working relationships with
other county officials and
personnel.
Polk County’s greatest
strength lies in its small size as it
is not hampered by a large staff
of “time and money-wasting
bureaucrats,” Faulkner said.
The county’s weakness is its
small tax base compounded by
the fact that most taxpayers are
either working people who do not
earn large salaries and retiress
living on small fixed incomes.
To overcome this weakness,
Faulkner said it is necessary to
by very conservative in the
commissioner’s approach to
needs as opposed to desires.
“Without prudent money
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RACHEL RAMSEY
Incumbent Democrat Rachel
Ramsey would like to give the
citizens of Polk County the
benefit of the knowledge she has
gained as a commissioner this
past four years, the first two of
which she served as chairman.
“There are several good
programs which were started
during these years that I would
like to see well established. I
enjoy people and I enjoy public
service.”
Polk County’s strengths are
definitely the dedicated
employees and the caring,
concerned, interested and
interesting citizens, Ramsey
said She mentioned no
weaknesses in the county
government.
Services that benefit all
citizens of the county — social
programs, law enforcement,
aging issues, schools, library,
health, EMS, environmental —
are the responsibility of the
county commissioners, Ramsey
said.
When asked if lower taxes are
more important than providing
quality services, Ramsey said
that taxes are a fact of life.
“It isn’t a question of how low
or how high they are that should
concern us; it’s how we use the
tax dollars that’s important. I
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