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Show FIRST SECURITY EARNINGS AT $3,000,000 C. G. (Neal) White, Sugar House assistant vice president, First Security Se-curity Bank of Utah, N.A., said this week that the First Security system's earnings during 1954 were $3,053,452.13, or 2.92 for each share of First Security Corporation Corpora-tion stock. White said that a summary of 1954's First Security gains will be presented to the corporation's stockholders at their annual meet-j meet-j ing on Wednesday. I He noted that earnings for 1954 were higher than 1953's, when they were $2,684,526.34, or $2.57 a share. : Earning for 1954 were ' realized after taxes of $3,809,318.48, or $3.65 a share. First Security Corporation during dur-ing 1954 paid dividends of 50 cents in June and 60 cents in December or a total of $1.10 compared with $1 for the previous year. The increase in-crease places the stock on an annual an-nual dividend basis of $1.20 per share. , |