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...many respects Sac City looks terminal. The population is down to 2,400, from 3,000 in 1980. Fister's Department Store is out of business. Iowa Public Service has trouble collecting electric bills from nearly bankrupt farmers, and the utility's Sac City office has dropped from six employees to two. Bill Brenney, the town's remaining optometrist, says, "People are spreading payments way out. Accounts receivable are way up." The town's children look elsewhere for jobs, and not even fathers can help sons. Says Ralph Youll, co-owner of Youll Plumbing and Heating: "We've only made...
...week's end the A.M.A. and the American Cancer Society seemed more concerned than ever over the medical problems involved with tobacco. The A.M.A.'s new president. Dr. George M. Fister, of Ogden, Utah, announced in his inaugural address that, to guide physicians, the A.M.A. would start a year-long study of smoking and disease. The American Cancer Society, eager to snuff out smoking among college students, began a campaign to persuade university presidents to ban tobacco company sponsorship of radio and TV broadcasts of intercollegiate athletic events...
...another match this afternoon, Corey Ryan's Yardlings will travel to Andover to meet the perennially strong Blue net team at 2 p.m. Captain Al Haegler, Ed Corner, Geoff Ball, Mike Levinson, Bill Fister and Bob Crouch will make up the Crimson singles roster...
Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed...
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