Show r TOBACCO POOL NOW NO OPERATING I Growers Prepare to Market I Crop Cooperatively I HOPKINSVILLE Ky March 31 1 Four hundred million pounds of ot tobacco I co grown crown in five lve states Jn n this section sec eec sec sec-I r tion of ot the tho country will willbe In be be sold cooperatively co cooperatively co- co operatively next year if it plans now under way are successful The second big tobacco marketing association in Kentucky and adjoining states is In I process of ot organization in western Kentucky Tennessee and Indiana Approximately Approximately Ap Ap- proximately pounds of j AP to tobacco tobacco tobacco to- to bacco Is grown rown In this region annually annual annual- ly ac according to estimates The forces that organized successfully successfully success success- success success-I fully the Burley CoI Cooperative Cooperative Co Co- Co- Co I operative Marketing association in central central cen cen- trat Kent Kentucky Ohio Indiana and West I IVirginia Virginia are are- areat at work in the dark I will close belt now The campaign October 1 7 with the option of ot continuing contin- contin until November 1 if it the necessary amount of ot tobacco is not pledged by bythe bythe I the earlier date Headquarters were opened here early early ear ear- I Ily ly In March and speakers began touring touring tour tour- ing the black patch and telling the I farmers of ot the proposed association District headquarters have been opened I II at Clarksville and Paris Tenn Paducah Mayfield Henderson Owensboro Owensboro Owensboro Owens- Owens I I boro and Bowling Green Ky Although all of the tobacco is classified classified classi classi- l I fied tied generally as dark four tour types of ot I I tobacco are grown In this region I Owensboro Is the center of ot the Green I j I river river type Henderson for t the thes stem 1 stem stem-I I ming Bowling Dowling v Green for tor or the tho one one- one one-j I sucker and Hopkinsville and all Tennes Tennessee Ten Ten- nes ee counties dark fired tired Judge Robert W W. Bingham publisher publish publish- er of the Louisville Times and Courier Courier- Journal who financed the organization of ot the Burley association Is chairman of the organizing committee for the dark tobacco Other leaders in the Burley movement are working in this section and will remain here until the I close of ot the n. n campaign |