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j'sy N10RN. AVAI,ANCHE-JOUPiBTAL I,utbbock, Texas September 22, 1962 CQNSIDINE'S 'ON T HF LINE'. • : Reds 'Visit A 'Work' F -.. ~ i .. :l... a ~. . -- .;;,. WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL Winston-Salem, North Carolina Auguis~' 25, 1962' 1, _ oiir;n(.J'~~ Russians . Tonr tisfi,ect .T~Lth Fi ~.~I;OUISVILLE, Ky. (A'F)'- tDni The factories are very clean the'.ecord; the seven Russians in• and very nice. , spectung' the Kentucky tobacc In- Th~e machinery Is on a high _ dustry said Friday the e very level. satisfied with their tour: i. The host,y Frank B: Snodgrass, The Rhssiaas, who visited farms vice president of the Burley & ' "and warehouses in the bluegrass Dark Leaf Tobacco Rx'por~ Assa' country earlier this week„ were ciation, said the group was rushed& ~ause it had' a tight schedule. e taken~on a whirlwind tdur of two LouisviIDe' cigarette factories: The group headed for Horse Cave ` Whisked through Brown and ' and Bowling Green and later will , Wtllliamson Tobacco Co. by finger- ~ gna o Tennessee and North Cara ..-; snapping executives. the 'delega- ,. l ~~ tion looked ` very thoroughiy, at'r what they: saw, and some took ' ' +t°' ~ ~.~~u,.~~,.y . ~-~31N# ~ . notes. ~ They didn't see the trade secret. blending operation-the.,.final fla-+ vor injection that makes Ameri. ,t . " can cigarettes popular the world over. Snchi formulas never are ; ~ . dtsclbsed:, :. '~ Asked it American cigarettes J ~ were sold in Russia, Anatoll Sbkv olov replled, "To regret, no." The leader, IViikhail Parshikov, bad these comments on the tour:. "; The group is very satisfied' with the tour and gladi to visit Amer- ica. ._~:._... {. By BOB CONSIDINE your gangster shows, and other, " It was a challenge to the Rus- Special Correspondent _ such shows where there is so sian, and a moment of silence fol. . HIARTFOItID-We were in what much shooting and use of knives lowed, must be the world's deanest and other weapons that ttiene' is M: Jl Parstiikow, head of' the migrant workers' camp, run by one death each minute on Ameri- delegation, stepped into th iia the Shade Tobacco Growers Agri- can television?" asked a Russian void. "the question ib not' put' to ` cultural Association. Inc., near delegate named! Viktor Sokolov: the proper man," he said with aa here. The flags of the U.S., Puer- It was a tough spot for Mr. suave smile at Mr. Kravitz. "This to Rico,. Jamaica (black, yellow, Kravitz, but he answered' swift-., question shouldl be directed to the green) and'the Union Jack of the 1Y. producers of the television Commonwealth of the British shows," • .-• West Indies fluttered proudly at Wu•o~ig Question, Place The Russians showed great the entrance. _:: _...,... "'t;xTH7 HAVE many shows on curiosity about the workers. As we The' Russian group we were ac- Y r American TV; ' he said. walked i into the camp'a dining eompanying hadi some questions "We have comedies, music, edu- room and came upon a table of to ask an unusually muscular cation, sports„ everything. May- them eating white - fish and rice ~ M.I.T. man named Mark Ii~, Kra- be if' you turned the station dial ("It's Friday," Mr; Kcavitz ex- vitz, who rans the 700-man (plus in a certain way you could' flnd plained) every Russian waved in dependents) camp for the ttiimv-a murder every minute, but I friendly style to the migrants, ers: They had just been walked doubt it. These people know that none, of' whom could speak Eng- through a room in which perhaps the shootings, they see are make- iishl None of us waved, embar- 50 assorbed' workers were watch- believe. I've been in this place for rassingly enough. ing a television' show. . • a couple of years and there's : ~•' ••`-~ . "Isn't It dangC erous for these never been a fist fight, much less Asks About Union g~le to watch~ your westerns, a loufi men who work here . : ~'H . . .~1A1~1 THE have a union?'* _ Mr, Sokolov asked. He is a non-union member, ~-ed ~ if'ucan hazar la guess. "No, there is no unipn involv- ed,"- Mr. Kravitk answered. ; "They are' guaranteed certain - things under their contract: Fifty per cent' of' their round-trip pas- sage, free medical care, a mini, mum of a dollar-five' an hour, : two meals'a day; , in, the cafeteria = and all they can eat' and a box lunch for the fields at fourteen do11 lArs a week, free housing; TV, hiy ; fi. Lots of things." • '' -~ ~'But no representahon; ' the . Russian insisted "The Puerto Ricans have a . Puerto Rican government repne• : sentative living here to present their complaints, if any; " t1 e• American answered. "The British West Indian people have a man of' their own here too" •,. "Elected by themR" Mr Stko- ~ , _ « . lov pressed. ...... ..~;.. ti~c .au.~. PNo, by the governments,u the American said. There was a pained pause, ihen ;. much handshaking and farewell- ing• ; . ~. . _ sr' ~ "'~ t "Commenta On Sh2oidng We aske& Mr. Parshikow i[' ~ q ?or ~' there was as much• talk about y' ~~ ,)re -4 ~ riet :lung cancer's possible assodat3on . with smoking in Russin as there is ; ltr the U. S. The cheerful mem ,~ . z ber of the State' Planning Gom~ ,VF; 1 ~` mittee USSR Council of Ministers shrugged. ' r "Smoke Is not good for peoPle " etill"d th 'ssenay, sai•e man w hio " ~is trying to build up S o v l e f smoldng by embracing U. S: teds, • niques, "Take smoketi' sausage, :: for instance. No good. Take the • '••~smoke that comes off, asphalt ,„ roads. No good. Take the smoke that comes from exhaust pipes ; u No good. . s ,. ,,~ -: t7" "Like you, we continue out ~. studies:.. (More, more or less ) ;