DID YOU HEAR ABOUT LIII

From Reader's Digest

Did you hear about ....................

1. The poll taker who was fired?
2. The chicken who ate a racing form?
3. The U.S. mint employees who went on strike?
4. The energy plan where everyone in a community uses one enormous solar unit?
5. The Fisherman's Information Bureau in Chicago, which preserves fishing records of all kinds?

Answers:

1. He wouldn't take no for an answer.
2. It's now laying odds.
3. They went on strike to make less money.
4. It's called Sunny and Share
5. It's commonly known as FIB.

Contributors:
1. Lou Erickson
2. Bob Goddard
3. Jack Herbert 
4. Shelby Friedman
5. Paul Crume