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Show Utah Nearly Over In War Loan Drive i Utah's 29 county volunteer war I bond organizations have been j urged by state war finance com- I mittee officials to gird themselves for a supreme home-stretch effort to attain "E" bond quota during this the final week of the Sixth War loan. The drive ends, nominally, Saturday night. At that time the four negotiable series of securities offered for sale only since December Decem-ber 1 will be taken off the market mar-ket until the next major drive. However, sale of "E", "F" and "G" bonds to individuals will count in the Sixth War loan through December 31, the public is reminded remind-ed by Charles L. Smith, W F C state chairman. The Sixth War loan official scoreboard to date shows that Utahns have met the overall quota of $34,000,000 because of a heavy oversubscription of corporations and public funds sales which have passed the 30 million mark. Early this week the state went over the top in "other than E' " sales of major denomination bonds, also. The campaign: had a familiar ring in that the most important job the "E" bond goal found Utah still on the 30-yard line with only three days remaining to hit pay dirt. As of Wednesday morning, morn-ing, "E" bond sales stood at $7,-292,066, $7,-292,066, only GO percent of a $12,-000,000 $12,-000,000 quota. "This means that the splendid work of our victory volunteers throughout the state must be continued con-tinued unrelentingly through the last day of the drive, with special emphasis on, the program to buy "E" bonds for Christmas", declared declar-ed Clarence Bamberger, W F C executive ex-ecutive vice-president. Attainment of the "E" bond quota would automatically put Utah over the top in total individual indivi-dual sales and enable Utah to retain re-tain its place among the first states in the nation to go over the top in all divisions, Mr. Bamberger pointed out. The Salt Lake and southwestern regions were staging a nip-and-tuck race to see which can show all of its counties first- over the top in individual quota. If the southwestern region repeats as perennial first in this attainment, James W. Collins, Salt Lake director, di-rector, must dig up three boxes of shotgun shells in, accordance with the terms of his challenge to Frank G. Mlartines of Richfield, southwestern director. If Salt Lake's three counties are first over, Mr. Martines must pay off with the finest turkey southern Utah can produce. To date, the scoreboard reads: Salt Lake-Tooele 116 percent, Summit 83, Salt Lake 59. Southwestern Wayne 138 percent, per-cent, Sanpete 111, Piute 110, Garfield, Gar-field, Iron 71, Juab 60, Millard 58, Sevier 47, Beaver 36, Washington Washing-ton 36. In another inter-county challenge, chal-lenge, Mayor D. K. Downey of Helper had the dubious distinction of winning the booby prize an odoriferous goat that formerly smelled up the Bingham canyon jail for mant of a home. Mayor R. A. Murane of Bingham conceived conceiv-ed the idea of ridding himself of the animal by challenging Mid-vale's Mid-vale's mayor and Mayor Downey to a race to see which community could sell the most bonds between 7 and 9 p.m. on Pearl Harbor night. Midvale was first and Helper Help-er came in a close third. Total sales approximated $150,000. v |