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DURHAM MORNING HMAhD . Durham, North Carolina Augutst 6,, 1962 WASHINGTON - Seven rep- resent'atives of the U.S. tobac- co industry will leave` Monday for a~ 16-day tour and study of, the tobacco industry in the So- viet Union, under the U.S.-So- viet Exchange Program. Later in the year a similar visit will be made to this coun- try by Soviet' tobacco men. Tobacco is one of the major. Industries approved by the State Department for partici- pation in the exchange pro- gram. . The State Department be- lieves such exchanges eontrib< ute to the betterment of mutuai understanding and to the broadening, of cooperation be- tween the people of the two countries. Other exchanges have included representatives of the newsnaper; steel, oil and'l railroad industcies. Heading the tobacco dplega. tion is Dr. Frank J. Weloh, for- mer assistant secretary of ag- riculture who recently was elected a vice president, of The Tobacco Institute, Inc., which is composed of the major U.S. manufacturers of cigar,ettes;. smoking and chewing, tobacco and snuff. The U.S: delegation includes representatives of tobacco farming, manufacturing; re- searchiand leaf dealers. In Rus- sia, the group will observe growing, harvesting, curing,, storing, processing and manu- facturing methods while visit- ing all segments of' the indus- try from farms to factories. Other members of the Amerin can delegation will be John M. Berry of Lexington, Ky., tobac- co grower and representative of the Burley Tobacco Grow- ers Cooperative Association; Kenneth C. Keller. School of Agriculture, 'ort'h Carolina State College, Raleigh; Ma1- colm B. Seawell, Tobacco As- sociation of the U.S. and Leaf Tobacco Ekporters Association, Raleigh, N:Ci; Josephi E. Edens, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp.,, Louisville, Ky.; Albert Bernard, P: Lorillard Co:, Inc.,, New York; and Carl Hicks of Walstonburg, N C., to- bacco grower and representa- tive of the Flue Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp. After a stop in Copenhagen, the group will arrive in Mos- cow Aug. 11 to begini the to- bacco indtistry tour and willi de- part from Moscow Aug. 28: While tobacco production has increased in the Soviet Union during,the past decade, the in- dustry there is much, smallerr than in the U.S. Last year Rus- sia produced about' 386 million pounds of tobacco on 37o,ooD acres. The United States last year produced two billion pounds of I tobacco, on, 1.2 mil- lion acres: UPI-1'62 (TOBACCO) YASHIINGTON--SEVEh11AMEBI'CAN TOBACCO INDUST'HY'REPRESENTATIVES LE'FT' F0R[i0SCOTJ TODAY FOR A 16-DAY STUDY OF THE $USSI'AN' TOBACCO INDUSTRY• THE TOUR IS PART OF THE U'.S. SOVI'ET CUL'T'U'8AL EXCHANGE AGBEElIENT. A GROUP OF SOVIET TOBACCO MEN ARZSCHEDULED TO VISIT THE U*S•LAT'ER THIS'MONTH• THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE SAID. THE USMS. DELEGATION IS HEADED BY D$. FRANK VELCH, F0&k!E$ ASS'ISTANT'AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VH0 RECENTLY WAS NAMED~A VICE P$ESIDENT' ~^ OF THE INSTITUT'E+ 8/ 6--AM341PED , ~ : IM3s311`