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Show Gasuallxj Ohseioincj By Cliff Memmott ; DONATING -SPACE This week I am going to digress a little from the usual in my column and donate most of the space to my friend, Clem Schram, state director direc-tor of the U. S. Savings Bond Division. He has a message I most heartily endorse, and pass it on to you persevering souls who give of your time to read my "Casually Observing" comments. com-ments. --co--. THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU Not all news is bad. Every now and then something comes along that gives us. the chance to report re-port a story with a happy ending end-ing It sems that a fellow of average aver-age means received a bonus of $150 from his employer. He decided de-cided to put half of it into United States Savings 'Bonds, and use the other to buy a gadget for his hobby a home tool shop. With the $150 in his wallet, he headed first for the bank, where he bought a $100 Series E Savings Bond for $75. He put the bond in his wallet with the remaining $75,, and went next to the hardware store to make the other purchase. When he reached for his wallet to pay for the Item, it was gone. Somewhere between the bank and the hardware, the wallet had been lost. This fellow never knew whether his pocket had been picked pick-ed or his wallet had bounced out as he walked. Neither police efforts ef-forts nor a newspaper ad ever turned up the missing wallet. While in the bank a few weeks later, he told his sad story to the teller who had sold him the bond. "You know, of course, the government govern-ment will replace the lost bond." the banker told our unfortunate friend. Why, no, he didn't realize that. Anyway, he didn't even have the serial number to identify the lost bond. But the banker persisted. He provided the proper form and our skeptical friend certified his loss and applied for relief. The Treasury Trea-sury Department checked its records, re-cords, found the bond in question had not been offered for redemption, redemp-tion, and issued a duplicate to the owner. The Treasury reports it received re-ceived a nice reply from the grateful bond owner. "Whythat makes Savings Bonds even better bet-ter than cash," he had written, "to say nothing of the interest they draw." Replacing lost bond's is just on of the many services the Treasury Trea-sury offers the 40-odd million individuals in-dividuals who own Savings Bonds. Each year thousands of burned, mutilated, and destroyed bonds are replaced without charge. On occasion the Department's legal unit goes into court to protect the interests of co-owners and beneficiaries bene-ficiaries upon death of the original bond purchaser. Someone has called Savings Bond's "absolutly indestructible." It's an appropriate label. No safer investment can be found anywhere, any-where, yet they return a substantial, sub-stantial, guaranteed interest. These are facts about Savings Bonds that are not generally known, even among people who buy them regularly. The story should be told over and over, un til everyone is familiar with the many virtues of United States Savings Bonds. --co-- A man worries about what the future, has in store, but a woman wo-man worries about what the stores have in the future. --co'-- A GREAT IMPROVEMNET Those two new service stations located at the turn of the road on North Main Street in Roosevelt, have done something to add to the beauty of Roosevelt Both are open and serving the public. . . . Clair Ashon who built the Phillips "66" station had a grand opening last Saturday ahd found hundreds of people stopped' to see their new ultra-modern station . . . and left well pleased with what they saw. 'r - c o - - Men who hang around waiting for something to turn up, should begin with their own sleeves. -30- |