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MAM A 4 FRCid': < Tobacco's 350th Anniversary The 13eginning of U. S. Commerce and Industry Sponsored by The Jamestown Foundatiwn of the Commonwealth o1 Virginia WilliamsOurg, Va. HffLIy AND KNOWLTAN,, INC., 150 East 42nd St., New York 17, N.Y. `~- zASE TIJE6IDA7C, MAY 1, 1962 For further, informs.tion call: In Williamsburg, Parke Rouse, Jr., Ckpital 9-1607 f` In Washington, Clifford Guest, z s . '{V STerling, 3-0270 In New York, Ed DeHart, CXford 7-5600 +•r Wanted: One Well-Broken Draft Ox Jamestown, Va. -- Has anybody got a well-broken draft ox, complete with yoke and p;lowR'. If there's such an~animal anywhere within transportable distance of Jamestown, Virgtniia,,,the Jamestown Foundation would like to have it. The Foundation wants to,use the eadmal -- and the pLow -- in a forthcoming re-enactment of'the planting, harvestirig and shipping of John Ro1fe's first tobacco crop,,back'in 1612. The 350th anniversary of RoLfe"s,first crop will be, celebrated May 16-19 at Jamestown Festival Park. Draft oxen were preferred to horses in colonial Virginia, the Foundation explains, because their great strength was more suitable for pulling out tree stumps and roots, and because they did not panic in the face of'obstacles. And, of course, they could be,eaten during,tivnes of famine. Famine was a common experience at Jnmestowm until Rolfe,gave the colony tobacco, a crop that proved salable in I.ondon. The experiment savedithe settlement, which became the first permanent foothold the English obtained in the New World, and set the stage for the founding of our nation. (Ro1fe has an adiiitional' claim to fame: He married Pocahontas.) Any ox-holder willing to lendihis animal is asked to write the Jamestown Foundation, P. 0. Box 1835, Williamsburg, Va. The Foundation promises not to eat the ani®al. }::A ; ~~