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Show Bingham's Response In Third War Loan , Campaign Is Slow Indifference Threatens To Give Bingham District Black Eye Unless heavy war bond purchases pur-chases are made Pay Day and next week, Bingham district, with approximately a half-million monthly payroll, will fail to reach self-assigned quotas. Mining companies and civilian defense authorities at the outset of the drive established reasonable reason-able goals which they hoped bond purchasers in this district would realize in assisting Utah in reaching reach-ing the $41,000,000 asked of her by the U. S. treasury department. W. Russell Anderson, Bingham war bond sales chairman, says that Bingham has at present pur chased 20 per cent of the amount expected. Utah Copper company set a $312,000 goal for bond sales to employees. To date $55,000 has been purchased. Employees of Magna properties of Utah Copper company, including B & G Railway, Rail-way, were expected to purchase bonds totaling $318,000 and have already gone over the top. Air raid wardens under chairmanship chair-manship of S. W. Jacques, civilian civil-ian defense zone commander, says his workers and Minute Women have completed their house-to-house canvass and have .characterized .charac-terized response as being spotty. The workers were conscientious and their detailed reports show that with few exceptions potential poten-tial bond buyers are showing little lit-tle inclination to increase regular purchases. Clair R. Mathis, J. C. Penney store manager, opened a bond sale booth in front of the store Tuesday and up to Thursday evening eve-ning had sold $5,675 worth of bonds. United States Smelting Refining Refin-ing and Mining company has a $155,200 quota for employees in Utah. To date pledges at the Bingham and Lark mine office have been few. Company spokesmen spokes-men anticipate a big .response over pay day and hope it will put them over. Postmaster Earl T. James says that September sales up to last night totaled $25,000, about twice as much as usual. Bond sales at the bank were showing a similar increase. Chris T. Pragagstis, who handles han-dles bond sales as an agent of the Order of Ahepa, reports his individual in-dividual sales at $8700 for the month. Heartening to the bond committee com-mittee are a few individual responses. re-sponses. Two lower Bingham women, Mrs. Alma Mantle and Mrs. H. Smernoff called at 64 home and made cash bond sales amounting to $3,100. Andrew J. Anderson called on neighbors in Mark ham and in one afternoon sold $1600 worth of bonds. |