Word: rexburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Broker Jerry Tachick depends on a rugged four-wheel-drive Chevy Suburban to reach the homes of many of his clients who live along the unpaved mountain roads of Cody, Wyo. (pop. 8,093). His colleague Jim Sipp of Rexburg, Idaho (pop. 12,084), often dodges feisty farm dogs as he hikes across sprawling potato fields to meet with customers. Meanwhile, Jim Bashor of Anacortes, Wash. (pop. 10,060), spends a good deal of time riding ferries off the Northwest coast to catch up with the salmon fishermen he hopes will buy stocks and bonds from...
...felt secure. That was the whole point of buying the bonds. I didn't want to make extra money. I just didn't want to lose what I had. I'm not a rich man." For Theo Fullmer, 70, and his wife Bettie, 63, of Rexburg, Idaho, the Whoops default was their second disaster. In 1976 the Teton River Dam collapse in Idaho destroyed a motel they had owned for nearly 13 years. After the U.S. Government paid them about $100,000 for their loss, they invested $80,000 of it in Nos. 4 and 5 bonds...
...their own. Even though Governor Matheson has succeeded in getting ten Utah counties declared national disaster areas, the church will gently discourage its followers from applying for federal assistance. And the Mormon effort has been joined by volunteers from all religious backgrounds, creating some duplications of service. Mormons from Rexburg, Idaho, though eager to lend a hand in Utah, have been told by church officials that they are not yet needed. Says Elder Robert E. Wells, an executive administrator in the church: "We're always organized for emergencies. We have a tight-knit ecclesiastical order from the grass roots...