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POLK LTB3 V.Y 204 COLUU3US, 11 0 23Z2- 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 Dally except Sat. and Sun. 106 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790 Tryon. N. C. 28782 The Tryon Daily Bulletin * (USPS 643 360) * Phone 8599151 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina Vol. 63 - No. 11 TRYON. N.C 28782 THURSDAY, FEB. 15,1990 20 Pages Today 20 Per Copy Weather Tuesday: high 66, low 33, hum. 54%. Clearing the way for major troop cuts, the Soviet Union and the U.S. agreed to each country having a maxium of 195,000 troops in Central Europe with the United States being allowed 30.000 additional troops elsewhere in Europe. The United States and its major European allies forges agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany Tuesday on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany 45 years after the World War II victors divided it. Chrysler Corp, on Tuesday reported a $664 million fourth- quarter loss and a two-thirds drop in annual earnings for 1989 mostly due to costs of closing plants and cutting jobs. Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. said Tuesday its parent company was filing for federal bankruptcy court protection, signaling the demise of the Wall Street firm that became synonymous with riches and scandal during the go- go 1980s. The paper industry announced Tuesday that it is setting a goal of 40% paper recycling by 1995. There should be two good basketball games Friday night at Continued On Back Page Green Creek Ruritans Meet The Green Creek Ruritan Club will meet Tuesday, Feb. 20th, 7:25 p.m. in the Green Creek Community building. John Edwards program chairman announces that Lena Duncan of the Social Service Department will be speaking on Medicare and Medicaid. The membership and prospective members are urged to be present.” Polk JVs Win The Polk County boys JV basketball team defeated Edney ville 68 to 35 Tuesday night at Polk Central. High scorers for Polk County were Dwayne Anderson 12, Steven Hines 11, Derrick Twitty 10 and William Burnett 9. For Edneyville Derrick Poe had 11 and Matt Dalton 10. Polk County's record is 15-4. They will play Hendersonville Friday at Polk Central. Friendship Council Bowling The Thermal Belt Friendship Council will sponsor a bowling party this Sunday, February 18. All are invited to participate and to meet at the Mosseller Building in Lynn at 3:30 p.m. High scorers at the January Bowling Party were Sibyle Ratliff, 159; Don Greer. 217; Father Bonacker, 174; and Artie Hamilton, 171. National Merit Finalist Cameron Fitch, a senior at Tryon High School, has been selected as a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. This places him in a group representing less than half of one percent of American high school seniors. Last fall, Cameron was included in a nationwide announcement recognizing some 15,000 Semi-Finalists in the current competition Finalists are selected on the basis of PSAT and SAT scores, a written essay, High School transcript, all round scholastic achievement and community involvement Cameron is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fitch of Landrum Basketball Friday Hendersonville at Polk County Landrum at Tamassee-Salem Bill Symmes Is Rotary Speaker William H. “Bill” Symmes will be the speaker at Tryon Rotary on Monday. The meeting will be at the Vineyard starting at noon. With a father, uncle and cousin who were lawyers, Symmes decided at an early age to become a trial lawyer. The bar passed, he joined the “family business”. He felt facing juries to decide his cases was an antidote to charges of nepotism. He defended clients assigned to him by insurance companies in a variety of fields of law including automobile cases, personal injury cases, malpractice, products liability, Illinois Scaffold Act cases, ect etc. He will give a layman’s inter pretation from a lawyer’s view point of the criminal cases decided in Polk County and reported in the local papers under the heading “Court Results " “A criminal law would seem to be a rule that everyone wants strictly enforced against everyone else, but never enforced against himself. “Laws making it illegal to operate an automobile faster than 65 miles per hour on the open road and at reduced speeds in populated areas are bound to be violated frequently when manufacturers build cars to run at over 100 miles per hour — and feature the speed at which their cars will travel in their commercials.” — Reporter
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