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Show BOND SALES GOOD -BUTBEHIND County sales of series E and H savings bonds in Utah during February as reported by the Federal Fed-eral Reserve Bank, exceeded those of any other February since 1947, according to word received re-ceived from state headquarters by W. Russell Anderson, savings bond chairman for Bingham District, Salt Lake county. Utah sales for the month including in-cluding allocation of purchases by civilian federal and military personnel were $1,461,389, bringing bring-ing the state's total 1955 sales to $2,935,485, or 14 per cent of the year's quota, he reported. The current-income series H bond shows the greatest percent of increase. Sales in January and February of 1955 were 75 percent higher than for the same period in 1954, and were almost 500 per cent over this two month period in 1953, he stated. He also pointed point-ed out that the series H bond as well as the E bond is eligible for personal trust3. "Totar sales of $608,910 were accounted for in Salt Lake county coun-ty in February, making an aggregate ag-gregate of $1,320,878 so far for the year or 16.5 percent of the county's 1955 quota. March sales will determine which county will win the miniature Liberty Bell offered by the state savings bonds committee for the highest percent of quota at the end of the first quarter. San Juan county coun-ty now leads, followed by Summit, Sum-mit, Cache, Washington, Sanpete and Utah," he "continued. |