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Show BOND SALES LAG IN MAJOR COUNTIES OF STATE Flatly asserting that the war bond sales are lagging in the three largest counties of the state D. Howe Moffat, executive manager, mana-ger, Utah War Finance committee this week returned to Salt Lake from a ten-county tour with the impression agricultural communities communi-ties are lending themselves more wholeheartedly than city folk to 4th War Loan support. People in the sparsely settled areas seem to sense their individual individ-ual responsibility in the war effort ef-fort more than persons in large communities, Mr. Moffat explained. ex-plained. He gave as one reason the fact that more than 10 percent of the total population of the lesser populated pop-ulated counties, Sevier and Washington Wash-ington for example, are in the armed forces. San Juan county has officially topped its individual quota, and Wayne county reported "E" bond sales totaling more than $34,000 on the fifth day of the drive, Mr. Moffat pointed out as examples of what he meant. He urged the public in the industrial in-dustrial areas of Salt Lake, Weber Web-er and Utah counties to emulate the people of outlying communities communi-ties by taking a more personal attitude at-titude towards putting over the 4th War Loan. With total individual sales still under the four million mark by the middle of the second week of the drive, Mr. Moffat was careful to emphasize that no blame can be attached to any of the county voluntary organizations. "They are better organized and doing a better job than ever before," be-fore," he declared. "If Utah fails to meet its individual bond sales quota of $22,000,000, it will be because the industrial areas, not the agricultural communities, have failed to shoulder their share." |