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Until recently those titles, whether classics or current best sellers, have been available mainly in loan libraries. Vernon Ellickson, 83, is a typical large-type reader. A retired farmer with macular degeneration, Ellickson goes to the library in Decorah, Iowa, twice a week to pick out his favorite westerns and adventure books. He never buys them. "It would cost a lot," says Ellickson, who often reads more than a dozen large-print books a week. Publisher Olsen says this is not unusual. "When you're on a fixed income, to pay for a one-time read is inefficient when...
...first time in 13 years. Farm debt has burgeoned, from $140.8 billion in 1979 to about $215 billion at the start of 1983, while net income fell from $32.4 billion in 1979 to $19.5 billion in 1982. "The farm sector," sums up W.D. Wilier, executive vice president of the Decorah (Iowa) State Bank and chairman of the American Banking Association's agriculture task force, "is in a Depression-type state...
Jeff Iseminger Decorah, Iowa...
...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
Died. Margaret ("Marge") Hurlburt, 32, onetime Ohio schoolteacher and wartime WASP who last March piloted a Navy Corsair fighter to a women's international speed record (337.635 m.p.h.); when her plane crashed while stunting in a July 4 air show; in Decorah, Iowa...