61.   Roughly one third of rural counties in the United States suffer physician shortages.

62.   Rural counties in Texas used to be tough for Republican candidates to crack, Pauken admitted.

63.   Rural counties had the highest numbers of reported abuse and neglect.

64.   Sitting behind Mrs. Ramboz in the audience Friday was another woman, Byrl Phillips-Taylor, from a rural county outside Richmond, Va.

65.   So many people are moving to Atlanta that ever-widening rings of rural counties around the city are finding their roads clogged with commuters.

66.   Some rural counties, seeking to make the arrangement profitable, built large new jails with excess capacity.

67.   Some of the largest property tax increases this year were in rural counties, Hunterdon and Somerset, where farmland is turning into housing developments.

68.   Tarrant County Commissioner J.D. Johnson, who served on the Texas Commission of Jail Standards under Gov. Ann Richards, said rural counties are in a difficult position.

69.   Terry Julian, executive director of the commission, said the problems in Hood and Montague counties exist in other jails, most in rural counties.

70.   That was true in Calhoun County, where it took one hour to count the sole absentee ballot received by elections officials in the rural Panhandle county.