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Show U. S. Bonds Reach All-Ttime High Sales of series E and H savings bonds amounted to $5,605 in Duchesne Du-chesne County during May, according ac-cording to Wesley R. Dickerson, savings bond chairman. Total sales for the first five months were $16,942, or 30.7 of the county's 1955 quota, he reported. Nationally, a total of $39.2 billion bil-lion series E and H savings bonds are now held by the American people, according to word received from national headquarters by Frederick P. Champ, Utah state savings bonds chairman. U. S. Treasury Department figures indicate in-dicate that this is the largest amount outstanding in savings bonds in the history of the program. pro-gram. As of the end of May, national na-tional sales have exceeded redemptions re-demptions of matured and unmatured unma-tured bonds by over $500 million, Mr. Champ said. |