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Show Air Lift Savings Bonds Gets Started; Covered Wagons From Cedar City Selected as Symbols for 1949 Drive Covered wagons, bearing Savings Sav-ings Bonds slogans, will be flown from Cedar City to 26 cities from coast to coast by Army Air Force and Navy planes this Saturday as a highlight of the Opportunity Opportuni-ty Bond Drive. Wagons will be flown from Cedar City to Independence, Mo., where they will form a security, circle Sunday, May 15, to a modern mod-ern forty-niner spectacle which will launch the Bond drive nationally. na-tionally. Actual covered wagons, bearing bear-ing the slogan "Be a Modern Forty-Niner, Buy Savings Bonds", will be on exhibition in every state. Local residents who buy E bonds while the wagons are in town, will receive a gift jacket, featuring a covered wagon illustration. illus-tration. This year's Bond Drive, which runs from Mav 16 to June 30. uses the covered wagons as a reminder re-minder that U. S. Savings Bonds offer opportunity in a way that Americans in 1849 in covered wagon wa-gon treks never dreamed about. President Truman and Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder will participate in a coast to coast kick-off. The historic covered wagon In which American pioneer families rode westward in search of land and opportunty for more than a century has been adpoted as the symbol of the 1949 drive. The treasury department chose the covered wagon symbol partly because be-cause this year marks the centennial cen-tennial of the 1849 Gold Rush to California, and partly because this is an opportunity for Americans Am-ericans to better their fortunes safely through Savings Bonds. Mayor Gronway R. Parry of! Cedar City, owner of the wagons, made them available to the Treasury department to help promote pro-mote the drive. These original prairie schooners schoon-ers will four each state during the drive period to remind Americans Amer-icans that this Is still the land of opportunity. Monday marks the beginning of the greatest peacetime bond sale In history with the quota for Iron county being set at $35,000 Whitney Jensen, Cedar Cify, is the county chairman, and announce an-nounce that the Bonds will be available at post offices and banks in the county. |