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Show Freedom Is Not Free . . . County Readies For Befense Bond Drive Wesley R. Dickerson, newly appointed Duchesne county Defense De-fense Bonds chairman, and other county, state and national leaders lead-ers put their heads together last Saturday, August 25, for a final Heads Bend Drive . : 'I w 7 '. . WESLEY R. DICKERSON, agricultural consultant for the Commercial Bank of Utah, Roosevelt and Duchesne offices, of-fices, recently was named county chairman of the Defense De-fense Bond campaign for Duchesne Du-chesne county He announces plans near completion to join in ihe campaign that officially opens next Monday, I strategy meeting before the opening op-ening of the First Defense Bond that gets under way on Labor Day Sept. 3. According to Mr. Dickerson, who is an agricultural consultant consult-ant for the Commercial Bank of Utah, Roosevelt and Duchesne offices, some expert advice and counsel was received at the Salt Lake meeting which will be valuable val-uable in getting the very important im-portant drive under way next Monday. Duchesne county is organized in each community with a chairman, chair-man, and those who are being asked to spearhead the drive in the various towns are urged to organize their own committees commit-tees and be ready to fall into line with a nation involved in a great program of defense. In Roosevelt Mrs. Parley Rawlings is the chairman, and Bill Case will head the drive in Duchesne. Other chairmen are Jesse Fowler, Altonah; Thomas Gilbert, Arcadia: Leonard Leon-ard Goodrich. Bluebell; Bill Fieldstead. Boneta; Eldon Brady, Bridgeland; Agnes Brooks, Fruit-land; Fruit-land; Joseph Wilkens, Hanna; Katherine Nutter, Harper; Enid Nelson, Ioka; Clarence Brown, Montwel; Floyd Case, Mt. Emmons; Em-mons; LeGrande Mecham, Mt. Home; Bill Harris, Myton; Lio-' nel Jensen, Neola; Claire Ivie, I Strawberry; (Jlaude Wagstaff, (Continued on back page) ! Defense Bonds ... (Continued on Page 3) Tabiona; Max Burton, Talmage; Milan Rogers, Upalco; and Adrian Ad-rian Strong, Utahn. The theme for the Defense Bond Drive which opens Labor Day is: "Defense Is Our Job, Too," and the slogan is: "Make Today Your D-Day Buy U. S, Defense Bonds," A special message from the armed forces was brought to tha Utah Defense Bond workers by Brig. Gen. A. Robert Ginsburgh, Pentagon briefing officer and e member of Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall 's staff. Charles L. Smith, state chairman, chair-man, and Clem S. .Schramm, state director, were in charge. Two bond drive events in Utah will be of nation-wide interest. in-terest. Georgia Neese Clark, treasurer of the United States, will present Clearfield Naval Supply depot a giant Minute Man flag for exceptional achievement in the Defense Bond program. This occurs September Sep-tember 5. During the third week of the drive 68 Utah communities com-munities will engage in a spectacular spec-tacular effort to win for this state more Minute Man "T" flags and Flag City honor designations desig-nations than have been achieved in several months' effort in all the other 47 states combined. Known as Operation Flag City, this event is intended to set a pattern for similar statewide state-wide Flag City programs throughout the nation. Originator Origin-ator and leader of Operation Flag City is a volunteer bond worker, Nelson W. Aldrich, chairman of community activities activ-ities for Utah. |