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Miscellaneous Items of Interest Feature and filler material continued to gain pres's acceptance. The item concerning total T.I.R.C. researchiappropriations has been' noted in over 130 newspapers'. / 0'D3537S~~s''` HERALD & EXPRESS Los A'ingeles, Calif. De ember 14, 1961 MORE THAN $4.6 5`IiILLION has been appropriated fo: c'an'cer research b'ytne Tobarco iuldustry Research COlnlttit:. rtcr. YJ.~3 ;3:5~8 0 JOURNAL ' PensacoLa, Florida December 4, 1961 ;' Seventeen million Americans de- .pend on tobacco products for al9 or some of'T11M livelihood. _ . JOURNAL~ .Pensacola, Florida TOPtAt'CO TAXES' :` 1;)r'lA' 1•Qlti: ([;1?1) -- Tobacco, is the most heavily taxed of' all 'agricuiturall products, accordint'. ,` to Tobacco News. The e%cise tax collectea is $3 billion a y:ear-aa three times as much as tobacco farmers get' for their crops.. ARGUS Mti. Vernon, New York ; Diecember 7, 1961 CHANT HAS TO: AE FAST ATLANTA, - T2ba=o~ auction= lers have to chant fast. Thrv srll ~.. x p 16 400 piles of filnc-curcd to.. December 18, 1961 paccrn every hour-nearly siwcn ~ minute: A pile is usually atiou• pounds. ia63 PRESS ~ Grand Rap3ft, Michigani December'11, 1961 1'lone than ~i.li iirilii')u h:,.> hCIrn al!liropn:+te& lor c:inccr hy chc •rob.~ lj,di,str, r~. ~c;! rCll ( •nn]!tt It~ 00 . REGISTER' New Haven, Connecticut November 29, 1961' 16 RAISE TOAe1! CO TA%' - CHICAGO- Sixteen states have raised~ taxeson, cigarettesi sinee.Iune 30, 1960. Two; h7ichigan and! Kentucky, have reduced them. - State taxes on cigarettes now av- erage 6' cents a pack and thee federall tax 8, Some local govern- mcn'c also tax cicarettrs. ~ a 43,53753 NEwS' Bangor, Maine December 20, 1961 Cigarettes tipped with glass, silk, abodl straw, heavy cork and' parchment were sold in the w e 11-stocked Ehgiish tabacrn IJ635,17 v~8 ~3. STAR Kansas City, Mis'souri. December 7, 1961 More than $4,60'0',000 has been appropriated for cancerr research by the Tobacco In- dustry Research committee. NEWS Mt. Pleasant, Iowa November 30, 1961 SMOKERS PAY NEW YORK (UPI) - State taxes on tobacco products rosee nearly 50 per cent during the two year period 1959-60, accord- ing, to the trade publication To- bacco News. T~S Woburn, Massachulsetts December 26, 19611 TOBACCO CROP • ' TOTALS $1 BILLIOlIfi Farmers will get more than $1 bil'lion for their tobaccoo crops during the current tobac- co auction season, accord!ing to the latest issue of jobacco shop as far back as the 1660s.. - Some shops offered and! sugar filters. gum•spice -,-_ _ News, publ'ished- by Tne Tobac+ NEWS-SENTINEL Knoxville, Tennessee December 17, 1961 . One of th'R strongest factors leading to tHp westward ezpan• sion of the early Tidewater col* onies was th& demand for new land on which ito grow tobaccn: ~oa3s37ss cn Institut'e, Inc. The farmers' take is about nnP-third the amount tobacco users paid out in direct taxes nn inbacco products in t'he last ;i,.:ral year, says' the Institute. In Ciscal' 19I61, tobacco taxes .tntalydi a little over $3 billion. This year's tobacco crop iic bringing record prices, averag- HERALD AMERICAN North Long Beach, Ca1if. November 9, 1961 Scienice Briie#s Weed Eaters Insects are used to, destroy certatn weeds by the UtS: De- partment of Agriculture: Im- ported beetles cleared a half .million acres of weeds in Ca:i- ' fornia and the Northwest. Lun>: Cancer Dr. Joseph Berkson of the Mayo Clinic says medical sts-, tisticians may be on the wrong • track in trying to, link lung cancer to cigarette smoking. "I' don't think we have found any connection between smo- king and lung cancer;" he said. "There are top many compli- cated inter•relationships bound up with everything." . . . Tailored Taste Simple chemicall compoundb that reprodiiee tempting meat flavors were reported recently' to the American Chemical So- eiety. Future steaks and chops may be flavor-controlled. " . .. Wrong Answers A Bri!tishi pathologist. Dr. R~ A. Willis, says "More diagnos+ tic mistakes have been made in lung cancer tpan in any r other kind' of malignant Cis. ease." Nibbling' Away The person, who nibbles be+ tween meals may be less prane to heart or, circulatory troubles than the 3-meals-a-day type, report thrce scientists after tests wit'h chickens. inz ~ airroundl $65' per~~ 100, pnunds~ . for flu-cured leaf, which is the majnr ingredient in cigarettes, says the publicatfion.. Most nf' the 750,(tr)fli f a r mm famiiirc" who grow hobaccpi In, Ihe t'; S. sell their crops at auctions. The auction season runs from midsummer Into midwinter. At the auctions, tobacco lieaf, is~~ sol& t~o~ the highest bidder. -- The farmer has the right to re• Ject the sale i'f' he thinks the price Isn't right. ,