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Show Utah Is Lagging Behind Quota In U.S. Bond Drive Less than a week remains in the Opportunity Drive for the sale of U. S. Savings bonds. Utah is still trailing both in its time schedule and in the percentage of quota attained as compared with the national average, it was revealed in the report of the Federal Reserve Bank, which receives the funds from the purchase of Treasury Savings Bonds. The current report which lists bonds sold and reported to .Time 11, the fourth week or 2-3 of the Drive shows Utah with $1,958,219 in bonds sold, or just 56V' of its $3'2 million quota, and 67 of the drive over. Since the heaviest buying is usually early in the drive, the outlook is dull unless Utahns make it a point immediately to put surplus funds into the savings sav-ings bonds of their government. As usual, the state percentage of quota was exactly the same as Salt Lake county, which listed sales of $903,691 or 56 of its quota of $1,600,000. San Juan county led the list with 141 of quota or $11,306 on June 11. Oth-ers Oth-ers over the top were Tooele with 119 and Emery with 108. |