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S , T'[iJPiR' ULTIN r Honolulu, Hawaii iSeptember 27, 1962 ' lurley St'©te LEXINGT011T, Ky. (AP)- The Tlirt id:S. Department of Agricultu're estimates the :19i62 product'ionlof burley to- bacco will total 606,265;ODO. r ` 408,200,000 of . it in } KenturkY. , AU+,at three-fottrths of the states engage in growin! tobar_co crnns ~..3:! 1,: J9 MIRROR , : ;:Nev York, Nev Yvrk August 30,,1962 C,rows Like 'Topsy' ~ A.tctbacno seed can produce a plant 2(0 millinn times Its own. weight in a per.ibd of'fivemonths; PRESS-SC' MITAR Memphis,, Tenn.. October 25, 1962 F ~ i:irst Crop ~,, Virginia colonist Tohn Rolfe ~`~ ' planted and harvested the first ~ commercially successful'~ tQ4z.: ~crop ! in the United States. ~ . Pocahontgs, ' of John' Smith fame, was Rolfe's' Indian bride. f . /00X POST Bridgeport, Conn. September 2, 1962 Tobacco products are made by some 632 factorics, large "and small, in 32 states of the \fnion: ,., NEWS Hirmingham , Alabama August 27, 19,62 Tobacco St, ~ps. ~ S wnned ByUS. ,' ~ Vl/ASH2NGTON: - Some 19' ': tobacco-growing nations have ~ issuedi special, postage stamps ' ~ honoring tobacco. The United ~ States is one of the few tn- ~ bacco countries (tobacco i:5 our fourth largest agricultur- al cash crop) that has nol done so. a} CLARTON-L,EDGEIR Jackson, Miss.' October 2!6, 1962 t~V ~ Oid! Ilabits °' ~ R~I~OI1fID;~ Va. (AP)~ Re-; l 'serachers at' the Philig Morris. Research Center here say ' pipes '' found by arcHaeolog'ical teams in.' ~.' 'Ariaona show that Indians were ~ smoking tobacco as early as 600 3 t r A'. D. That is some 900 year earlier ~. SL ;f Van previous evidence indtctated. 1 i :. Y , ~ ;, bUx San Bernardino, Calif. "'September 7. 1962 Tnhr,uen ,s gro% vn in 21 state: ~! ~f tita' t'nii,n by some 800,oDfu NEWS-FREE PRESS' Chattanooga, Tenn. August 15 , 1962' s SCt171t' ~Ci111'lly. ~ Name of the petunia plant,°« ; is derived from petun or pe-",~ turn, an od name fortobacco ' : Both fhe petunia and'toac'cn ~ belbng, to the s?me plant fant ~'r .%fu3 r . a= ,F~rtt ~ BANNER ::'IQashville, Te=. October 3,, 1962 ' . Cigarette Machine Patented In 1880 "Washington-ln 1880 James A: Bonsaek patented a machini- which fed prepared tobacco onto continuous strip of' paper flbnv- Ing into a tube In, the tuhe a cy;linder passed against a, pasting brush; Then a rotary knifc cur ofd cigarettes of the desircra s.~, . length as the cylinder emerged f+.^rn thr, tube. JOURNAZ Pensacola, Florida August 16, 1962 ~oo~3S37 r4,r"~ REPORTER DISPATCH' White Plains, New York August 18, 1962' In, addition, to Ilue-cured and' burley, the Iu.:S. Department of Agriculture lists nine other typt!- of to~ grown in the L'tiitcd Statfs Tlies are fire cured . South_ern. . Nlarvland.. Kenthck~ andl Tennr~ssce dank aii cured: Virginia sun-cured, cigar 7iller, -`=Puerfo Rican filler, c:gat• binder,. cigar wrapper and miscellamous . domestic. REPQSITORY Canton, Ohio August 14, 1962 T_o~bacc,9 is grown in 211 states lof ~ie Union by some 800;000 'fgr_n families. NEWS Detroit, Michigan August 31, 1962 ~ A tqbWo seed can producc a plant 20 mil'1on times its owr weight in a; period of fi vc months. . 1003537845N. NEWS'-TRIBUNE Tacomay `Wash - ',44 Z Augutst 25, 1962' ~ It' is esn+,~aicd that thete are F :.nlore thar, 81D1),/D(/t1 farms engaged'`' in producing leaf tnh cr,n ;n Ue'_ United States. c ; '"I`f.!Q3J .J 7 TRIBUNE ~ . ~ . . _ . ~ ~'. Des' Moines, Iowa August 29, 1962 '" 1 obacCOs `r . . . . .. ,.r,. In addition to fdue•curedi and burley, the U. S. Agricul- - ;ture Department lists nine, tother types of tobacco grown •in, the United States. They are funecured Southetm Ma - land, Kentucky andi Tenne -' * s!e dark air-cured, Virginia .aun-curedi cigar filler, Puerto .~ Rtcan filler, cigar binder, ciSarwrapper and miscellane- ous domestic. ~r~t''