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Show in Bona Salt; Program Purchase of savings bonds in Utah continued upward during dur-ing March, the month's total of $1,745,624 exceeding March, 1960, by 7.4," it was announced an-nounced today by Bonds Chairmen Chair-men J. C. Smith, cashier of the Milford State Bank, and Sam Hickman, cashier of the Beaver Beav-er City Branch. "According to the sales report re-port released by the Utah Savings Sav-ings Bonds Division, our volume vol-ume was the highest for any March since 1956, which is in line with sales nationally. Our three-month total reached $5Vi million, equalled by only one other similar period since 1956" they said. Beaver County sales were reported re-ported at $7867 for March, bringing the three-month total to $17,489, or 25 of the county's coun-ty's 1961 goal, according to the! chairmen. They also called attention to the recent Treasury announcement announce-ment that all Series E bonds bought between May, 1941 and May, 1949 have been granted another 10-year extension of maturity, and during this second sec-ond extension will return 3 each year, compounded semi-annually, based on their full extended maturity values as they enter this second period. per-iod. During April the U S Treasury Treas-ury is saluting the role of women in supporting the Savings Sav-ings Bonds program. The ohairmen pointed out that "women have earned thanks from the Treasury on three counts in the Savings Bonds program: As individual buyers, as family budgeters, encouraging encourag-ing their children to save and their husbands to join payroll savings plans for the automat- ic purchase of Savings Bonds; ' and as volunteers, both individually indi-vidually and as members of organizations backing the bond program." |