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T. ROWE PRICE
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Taxable Fixed Income Funds
Supplement to prospectuses dated October 1, 1996
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Effective immediately, the wire address for opening a new account, shown in
Section 4 of each prospectus, is revised to read:
PNC Bank, N.A. (Pittsburgh)
ABA# 043000096
T. Rowe Price [fund name]
Account# 1004397951
account name and account number
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The date of this supplement is July 14, 1997.
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This supplement applies to the following T. Rowe Price funds: Corporate Income
Fund, Inc., GNMA Fund, High Yield Fund, Inc., New Income Fund, Inc., Personal
Strategy Funds, Inc., Prime Reserve Fund, Inc., Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc.,
Short-Term U.S. Government Fund, Inc., and U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc.
C22-041 7/14/97
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