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Show Purchase of Savings Bonds Runs I High During October Utah purchases of U. S. Savings Sav-ings Bonds continued high during dur-ing October according to a report re-port to County Chairman Francis W. Betenson, manager. First Security Se-curity Bank at Cedar City, from Frederick P. Champ, state chairman chair-man of the Utah Savings Bonds committee. The total of $1.6!2,338 In E and II bonds exceeded September purchases by $77,625. Iron County's Coun-ty's share of the October sales j was $3,096, bringing the ten-l , month total to $59,570, or 65.4 ; of the year's goal, Chairman Bet-lensor. Bet-lensor. noted. 1 Mr. Champ called on Chairman Beterson and Iron County citizens for added support of the U. S. Savings Bonds program in light of the Cuban crisis. In his report re-port to local volunteers he repeated re-peated an appeal recently received re-ceived from Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon which stressed the "vital Importance of keeping keep-ing our coutry strong and stated stat-ed that "the help and participation partici-pation of every citizens is a nec-esary nec-esary part of such national strength." Secretary Dillon's message pointed out that Savings Bonds contribute greatly to the economic econo-mic strength -on which our defense de-fense effort depend, and called the act of buying a Savings Bond "a splendid expression of faith in our American system so that we may strengthen it for future generations." ' |