Roosevelt Standard | 1944-12-14 | Page 1 | Leaders Warn Utahns on 'E' Bond Goal

Leaders Warn Utahns On T Bond Goal Utah's 29 county volunteer war bond, organizations today were ruged by state War Finance Committee officials to gird them- . selves for a supreme homestretch 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 secur-ities offered for sale only since December 1, will be taken off the market until the next major drive. However, sale of E, F and G bonds to individuals will count in the Sixth War Loan through Dec. 31, the public was reminded remind-ed by Charles L. Smith, WFC 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 corporation cor-poration and public funds sales which have passed the 30 million marks. 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 Wednes-day morning, E. bond sales stood at $7,292,066, only 60 percent per-cent of a $12,000,000 quota. "This means the splendid work of our victory volunteers throughout the state must be continued unrelentingly through the last day of the drive, with special emphasis on the program to buy E. bonds for Christmas", declared Clarence Bamberger, WFC executive vice-chairman. Attainment-of the E bond quota would automatically put Utah over the top in tital individual indi-vidual sales and enable Utah to retain its place among the first states in the Nation to go over the top in all divisions, Mr. Bamberger Bam-berger pointed out. December 12 report of Duchesne Du-chesne county in the Sixth War Loan Drive, with a 52 of its quota of S60.000 reached. Sales to that date were $30,912. "E" quota remains the challenge. chal-lenge. It can be done by the 16th. Let's do it! .