Tobacco Cooperative Marketing Association Meetings, April 4, 1922

Leaders of Co-op Marketing to Meet in Raleigh Next Week

Leaders of the world’s two largest cooperative marketing associations of tobacco growers, representing the organized tobacco farmers of areas producing 900,000,000 pounds of America’s 1,400,000,000-pound crop will meet in Raleigh next week.

Robert W. Bingham of Louisville, leader of the campaign of the Kentucky burley growers; Oliver J. Sands of Richmond, manager of the Cooperative Association of Carolina-Virginia Growers, G.A. Norwood, president of his association, and directors representing the 22 districts and 96 counties in the tobacco area covered by the tri-state organization, will celebrate and discuss the successful progress of the two associations at a Smoker given by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to directors of the tobacco and cotton marketing associations Monday, April 10.

The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has extended invitations to presidents and secretaries of the chambers of commerce in the cities of the tobacco-growing area of North Carolina.

Other distinguished guests invited to meet with Judge Bingham and directors of the marketing association next week are James C. Stone, president of the Burley Tobacco Growers’ Association, and Eugene Myers, chairman of the War Finance Corporation, which recently offered a loan of $10,000,000 to the organized tobacco growers of Kentucky.

Beginning the conference with the warehousemen of four states at South Boston, Va., on Wednesday, April 5, continuing conferences at Greensboro (and) Raleigh on April 6th and 7th, and ending the meetings in Florence, S.C., on Saturday, April 8th, warehouse manager T.C. Watkins and the committee on warehouses will report to a full meeting of the directors of the association in Raleigh on Tuesday, April 11th. The recent selection of Oliver J. Sands of Richmond, president of the American National Bank of that city, as manager of the Marketing association and the choice of Frank D. Williams, the skillful leader of the sun-cured pool of Virginia, and well-known leaf dealer as manager of the dark leaf department, will further ensure the success of the association (in) three states.

Growers in both the Carolinas and Virginia are urged to support the many meetings being held this week and to win new signers to the contract.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, April 4, 1922