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Show County bond sales announced for July Sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds in July for Iron County totaled $12,481, according to District volunteer Bonds Chairman Jay Gardner, Manager, Telluride Division, Utah Power and Light Company, Richfield. This brings the January-July total to $85,389, the chairman added. State-wide sales for July came to $2,492,431 making the 7-months total of $16,574,340. In making this announcement, Utah State Chairman Wendell E. Gile said this brings the state to 57.7 percent of the 1974 quota of $28,700,000. Nationally, sales came to $541 million which is 11 percent above the July 1973 total which represents the largest amount of sales for any July since H Bond sales began in 1952. A 29-year record sales of Series E Bonds alone at $516 million were higher than in any July since 1945. Total cash sales of Savings Bonds for the first seven months of 1974 amounted to $4,224 million, 5.3 percent above a year earlier. Holdings of Savings Bonds including in-cluding Freedome Shares were more than $624 billion as of July 31st, 1974. |