The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-11-17
LEAF MARKETING
POOL IS A REALITY;
COMMITTEES NAMED
More than s5 Per Cent. Of 1920 Tobac-
co Crop Is Signed to Cooperative
Moyement-Maysvllle Men On
Important Committees.

The Burley Tobacco Growers Co
operative Association has signed up
to It's cooperative marketing plan
177521, ,263 pounds Of the 1920 tobacco
crop Of the hurley district which to-
tailed 9,2O3, ,483 pounds, and therefore
exceeded the minimum requirement OF
the contract, rs per cent.
The total pounds signed Is S4.8o
per cent. of the amount grown IN
1920, according to the report OF
committee on verification named bv
Judge Robert w. Bingham at tht end
Of an afternoon session of the organ
ization committee and county chair
men held in the ballroom OF the
Phoenix hotel, Lexington, Wednesday,
s,on MnnO'' ''' All
The organization committee adopt
ed the report unanimously and with II
a resolution prepared by Aaron Sapiro
of California, the legal adviser OF the
committee, under whose direction the
contract of the hurley association was
drawn, providing for the Immediate
organization Of the permanent associ-
alton and its Incorporation in North
Carolina temporarily. until the Ken
lucky legislature can pass law
which will make the operations OF
such an association legal In Kentucky;
The report of the committee snoweo
that $4,000 growers have signed the
contract to market their crops on tne
co-operative plan and action Will De
taken at once to notify all the grow
ers that the pool is on and committees
we're appointed by Judge Bingham W
arrange to carry out the plan. Inese
committee will look after the matter
of contracting for warehouses, attehus
ing to the organization, personnel oi
the various departments OF the assocl-
atoms business and other matters
that will require immediate attention.
The declaration of the poors sue
cess means that the tobacco grown
this wear will not be sold over thc
floors of the loose leaf warehouses,
but will be received by these houses a'
least by those friendly to the assoc,a
tion movement, which includes by iar
tho larger number in the entire buriey
district. graded and stored until tne
manufacturers are ready to bid lor H.
when It is expected that they VIII ouy
n at the price fixed by the associatioh
ofic,als. instead of the prices made Dy
the buyers of the Big -Four as III
The following appointments were
announced by Judge Bingham as
chairman of the organization commit
tee. in pursuance of the resoiutioh
adonted early in the night session:
Committee on Financing - Cnaries
N Manning, ]. Ed. Bassett, both Oh
Lexington; w. C. Montgomery hiiAa .a
BEETHOVEN; James c. Wilson, LOUIS
Vile: James N. Kehoe, Maysville;
Committee on Warehouses - n. M
parker. Carrollton; Charles NJ Mar.
shall. Lexington; James c. Stone. OF
lexington; R. Penn Taylor, Winches-
Tor. G. F. walters, Shelbyville; J. H.
Iones. Cynthiana; ]. D. Craddock'
Munfordville; ]. w. Fitzgerald Mays
vile. c,arl
q patterson, Mt. Sterling; Buckner
Woodford. Paris; John r. Crockett, Oh
sharpsburg; DR.. s.. H. HALEY, Lexing-
ton: June Hunter, Versailles,
Committee on Legal Organization, >,
John 3. Brown, Shelbyville; Gnll
Rodes, Burgin; Virgil Chapman, Ley,
ington; l.. A. Faurest, Elizaoethto~h'
nd. C. O'Rear, Frankfort.
Committee on Elections: D. DuI
nam, Richmond; Bush W. Aim, nia;n nn, .
sun Ind: Albert Day, Mt. Sterling;
Josenh Passonneau, Lexington.
Committee on Temporary Operations
James C. Stone, Lexington; sam
CLAW. Paris: c. c. Patrick, Lexington )
w Fl. Shanks, Stanford; r. M. BARK
er, Carrollton. - ,,dqe
Bingham, chairman; others to De an
noupced later.