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Show Grand Bond Scsles Told "May E & H Savings , Bonds sales for Grand County totaled $19,799 Ibringing the year's total sales to $34,507 County volunteer chairman Robert A. Dalton" said today. Kane County leads the )Btate in attaining their quote by $45,730 or 117.3 per cent. U.S. Savings Bonds celebrated cele-brated their 30th anniversary anniver-sary last month by setting new records. Nationally Series E sales were the best May E sale'i since 1945, 24 per cent more than last May. Interest Inter-est earned and added to E . Bond - Holdings igs $15 million. May E & II redemptions at cost price were the least far any May since 1954, $87 million less than 1970. Ac-cured Ac-cured interest paid out on E Bond (and unclassified Freedom Shares) redeemed tidiring May 1971 totaled $78 million. The cash value of Series E & H Bonds and Freedom Shares outstanding on May 31 reached an all time peak or $53.4 Billion. Exchange of Series E for ' new Series H Bonds amounting am-ounting to $105 million were reported for the first 5 months of 1971 compared compar-ed to $101 million exchanged exchang-ed for the same period in 1970. |