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T` Ft I CF~SOND TIMMES -DI SPATCIi At3chmond, Virginia ; Niarch 7, 1962 Tiniesl lDiapatch News Bureau JAMESTCWIIT, March 6-President Kennedy has becn", invited to speak here in May at ceremonies commemorating ' the 35IDth anniversary of the beginning of Unitied, States ; trade and commerce, it' was announced' here Tuesday. - `',.)- LUnitedlS'tates Sen. Harry F. Byrd invited the Presidenil on behalf of the Jamestown Foundation, sponsor of the . event. The President was asked to speak on his foreign Rrade program. • ~ Jamestown Foundatiian officials said they expect a ; reply from the President "in a week or so." ^.' .-iirs. Kennerd has also been invited' to the ceremonies ;x•here she will' be asked to unveil a' life-size bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth I. Plans have been made for presentation of an award to Mrs. Kennedy in recognition of her interest in I.;-historical and artistic preservation, ¢'oundation officials said. .The anniversaryycelebrat9on is scheduled May . 16-19. The event will commemorate the planting of the first successful tobacco crop in North America, which marked "::e the beginning of trade and commerce in this country. The celelication will include a re-enactmenb of the planting, and loading, of' the first tobacco crop. Also the Susan Constant, a full-size reproduction of one of the ships which broughti the Jamestown colonists to America, will sail' on the James river during the celehrartion. ~J~~~s~604 of American industry and ~om-' merce in new exhibits to bee j added to the Commonwealth ofl Virginia's Jamestown Festivali ''` Park exhibits here this spring; I The 35oth anniversary of' John Rolfe's first successful exporta- tion of tobacco will be ,the sub- ject of, new exhibits now being assembled in the United States • and the British Isles by the ;Jamestown, Foundation. The ma- terial willi be added to the 1Wew World' Heritage exhibit, which is ' ipart of the 30-acre historicali ,park adjpining• Jamestown here • .on the James River. : The additions are part of a rei '.5taging of the exhibit which has i ' Ibeen designed' by' -A. Harold Midgley of London. Midgley also designed the original exhibit for the 1959' Jamestown Festival, which, commemorated the 35(lth anniversary of Virginia„ , firsti permanent' English settlernent in the New World. . Two three-dimensionaIi portray- als of' major events in, tobacco'sl early Virginia history are in- cluded in the new material; 'rvhich will be unveiled' to the etes First U. 5 . 'JAR-IESTOWN - The spotlight Rolfe's cultivatiion of' his 'first will be turned on the beginning1pianting of Spanish+type Wbaeco outside Jamestown's fort in 1512. ; The other is a view of a tobacco ~ plantation~ later in the 14th cen- tury„ when tobacco had l become the mainstay of' American cottt- merce with Great Britain Also on display from May through December will be a spe- ' al exhibit designated' as "Vir g nia's' Goldl" It will illustrate the cultivation and uses of to. `. bacco in the New World since before Columbus' discovery. In- cluded will be early pipes, snuff boxes, advertisements of' "Vir- ginia Leaf" and early tools used in growing and manufacturing tobacco. The display is being de- veloped by Robert Singleton of . the Jamestown Foundation The exhibit will be a feature of Jamestown's observance of the ginning of U. S. commerce and dustry in 1612, growing out of' liolfe's work. Special i events during the spring, wi1 bring to Jamestown representatives of foreign trade and government. The Tobacco Institlute of the Unitea SLa t-e s; representing `' manufacturers;, will hold its as;- '` nuall meeting at Jamestown and pu4lic' in: May. One depictslWilliamsburg May 14-18. :_.:. The Festkva: _Park was devel- aped for the 1957 Jamestown {anniversary and incl+jdes ex::ibit ;pavilions and reconstructions of' the three .;amestbwn ships, Cap- tain John Smith's fort, and Chief Pox :-.atan's Indian Wge. 1J4L'+~%S-3'76a4 N, TIMES-PIC'YY[7N]E New Orleans, Louisiana February 22, 1962 TO1d:A'CCIU IND'U'S7"RY' ' TO tIA L'E FETE IN ' '62 - (Special to Ttle Timea-Plcayune) JAN>ESTOWN, Va. - The 350th anniversary of the tobacco indus- try will be celebrated by the Jamestown~ Va., Foundation in, 1982• .1:~ ~~~O 4s' ~..~ ~ .~,~ ~~s 3