Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1949-05-20 | Page 3 | U. S. Bond Wagon is Real Forty-Niner and will Tour State Soon

U. S. Bond Wagon Is P.eal Forty-Niner And Will Tour State Soon To stimulate the sale of U. S Savings Bonds during the nation's na-tion's Opportunity Drive, which started Monday, one of thf famous "Forty-niner" Covered Wagons, which carry the theme of the drive, will tour a grea; part of Utah, Elden Hughes-Sanpete Hughes-Sanpete Treasury Bond sales' chairman, announced. The full itinerary of the big bond exhibits, exhib-its, will not be made known until un-til next week. Thirty of the Covered Wagon? were assembled in Independence, Indepen-dence, Missouri, for the opening of the drive Monday. They will be flown in Army and Nav planes to 30 of the 40 state capi tols, including Salt Lake city. The Utah wagon was due to arrive ar-rive on the evening of May 19. to be exhibited in that capito' city until May 23, and then tc Ogden. Thereafter it will tour the state and be the center of meetings in many communities where bonds will be sold. Most Utah counties intend tc race for the honor of being the first to sell its full quota of Utah's $3,250,000 goal in the drive, according to Charles L Smith, state bond chairman, and . one or more counties were expected ex-pected to reach their mark during dur-ing the first week of the drive. It was apparent that the honor would go to one of the smaller counties of the state, since the populous Salt Lake county has to sell 1,600,000 or practically one-half of the entire state quota. The national goal is $1,040.-000,000 $1,040.-000,000 and the sale extends from May 16 to June 30.