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Show 20TH YEAR OF SAVINGS BONDS BEING OBSERVED "The 20th year of ihe U. S. Savings Sav-ings Bonds' success story is being observed during 1961," Bingham District savings bonds chairman, W. Ruosell Anderson, said here today. "Duri.ig the first month ft the year-long observance, si.les of Series Ser-ies E n:id H savings bonds in Salt Lake County amounted to $755,-641," $755,-641," the chairman said, "or 9.5 of the county's 1961 sales goal." Overall state sales totaled $1,-698,465 $1,-698,465 during January, up more than a quarter million over December, Decem-ber, it was announced by Frederick P. Champ, state bonds chairman. "During the past 20 years this program pro-gram has not only played Bn important im-portant role in federal financing, but it has become one of America s greatest savings institutions. Today, individual citizens hold more than $43 billion in savings bonds, an iinpresaive backlog of future purchasing pur-chasing power for the American citizen,"1' he said. |