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Show : in umuei j: vi iy-jigui, 5kfi War Loan i;enfs To Feature Caravan Women Make House-to-House Canvass For War Bonds While Purchases Reported By Officers To Be Comparatively Low Springville citizens are buying bonds in this, the Sixth War Bond drive, but not in proportions to meet the city's quota of $300,000, Chairman T. W. Grant said Wednesday in makinsr an urgent request that townspeople speed up the drive and put Springville Spring-ville over the top. A recent check showed that approximately ap-proximately $10,000 in E bonds have been purchased and this amount added to an estimated $25,000 from payroll deductions at the various industrial plants, brings an approximate $35,000 purchased, compared to the city's quota of $142,000 in E bonds. To stimuate interest in the bond drive, a caravan of war equipment will arrive in Springville Spring-ville on Friday. The display will be in front of the Rivoli theatre from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. and everybody ev-erybody is invited to view these articles for which our bonds are spent. The display will include field kitchen types of prepared rations, clothing worn in various parts of the world by the Army and Navy, small field guns and many other items. At 2 p. m., the High School band will entertain with a concert in front of the show house and beginning be-ginning at 3 p. m., a free picture show of war films will be shown at the Rivoli theater. Those who desire to purchase bonds at this time may do so at a specially arranged booth in front of the show house. The various women's organizations organiza-tions of the city are doing their part in a house-to-house canvass selling bonds and urging the purchase pur-chase of them during the current campaign. Members of the men's groups are contacting business houses and farmers to ask their coopration in the drive. The need of more money to carry car-ry on the war to a successful conclusion con-clusion was seen in a recent request re-quest from General Eisenhower for more ammunition. His rquest indicated hard battles bat-tles yet to be fought and many more supplies will be needed to keep our fighting men in the many war theaters. When one thinks of the tremendous expense of operating the many phases of war on far-flung fronts, it is not surprising that so much money is needed, and it must be supplied before victory is won. Officers in charge of the local drive point to the fact that some of our home-town boys are, right now, struggling in mud and storms determined to beat the Germans at cost of their own lives. Others are helping to batter down the Jap defenses on Leyte, homesick and tired of it all, but they know it must go on until peace is won. The buying of bonds will hasten has-ten the day for these boys' return by supplying them with plenty of equipment and proper facilities to defeat the enemy. After eight days of campaigning campaign-ing for the Sixth War Loan the state, as a whole, is far behind its quota, officials report. To Tuesday night, Utahns had purchased $3,172,400 in war bonds since opening of the drive only 17.6 of the individual sales quota. That sum would be swallowed swal-lowed up in a few minutes of naval nav-al battle there wouldn't be much of it left after a B-29 raid on Tokyo. After eight days of the fifth war loan 21 of the individual quota had been purchased. In the fourth war loan only 19.5 percent of the quota had been reached after af-ter eight days. A joint statement issued by Charles L. Smith, state chairman, Clarence Bamberger, executive vice chairman, afTd D. Howe Moffat, Mof-fat, executive manager, declared: "Our relative standing on totals to individuals is the poorest of any three drives, and this in spite of a lower total quota. There is plenty of money now to make the quota and make it fast. We have the finest organization ever to accomplish this objective. All reasons rea-sons point in the direction of buying buy-ing bonds, so what we need is a little spark plug, a little push; a little will to win, and we will get this business behind us right now" A new report on county sales was issued by the bond officials showing Utah county, with 11 per cent of the quota reached. |