Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-23
WAREHOUSES; STAY
CLOSED TILL DEC. IS
To Give Burley Association Time
To Organize and Negotiate
For Their Purchase


VarehuuScmen with organizers OF
the Burlcy Tobacco Growers As
>uciation at Lexington TUESDAY.
all WarchouScmcn agreed 10
close their houses indefinitely un-
til the Association can fully or
Ganizc and prepare propositions
tu take over the houses. except
the two Richmond warehouses.
the Lcbus house in Cynthian1
and the Mckibben house III Mad
i>on. indiana.
\u agreement was finally reach
eel. however. bv which all ware
houses will close until December
18th. by which time it Is cNpcctcd
that the Burlcy Association can
hc fully organized and incorpOr-
atcd aud ready to negotiate for
taking over the warehouses. the
owners OF which wish to sell
\mong the warchuuScmen who
attended the meeting from here
were Mcs,rS. Waricid Bennett.
Garnett Milton. Paul Burnan.
VI T.. IuxOn. Irvine IIumc and
Vernon Lccr.
The Lexington Herald had the
following about the meeting on
tuesday:
One hundred oi one hundred
eleven Warehouses or warehouse
companies represented al = con
ference Yesterday with the ware
house COmmittcc uf the BurlCN
Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association voted to adopt - res
olu,iou providing iur the closing
oi the warehouses. - tar - the
sale ui hurley tobacco l. concern
eel. pending the permanent organ
ilatinn OF tn. association and the
selection oi ,hc board 81 dlrcc-
tOr~.
The other Il did not vote
against closing. hut later IN the
afternoon held conference with
tho Warehouse committee. at
which detail, relating to these
particular warehouses were work
,d ont. some 81 them being in
cpuutic, where dark tobacco. a.
we'll - hurley. l. grown and dc
-,riny &, open their house, IL sell
IarL tobacco only. while remain
iug ci.-cd - Iar as hurlcy i CON
Ccruci.
Following inc conference al!
except three of the warehouses
agreed to- remain closed pending
the permanent organization oi
IN association and those three
agreed to remain closed until De
ccmbcr Is. giving the association
the opportunity - purchase III
the meantime.
Tn. conference adopted with
uut opposition q resolution pro
posed bv a committee composed
uf lanes {. Stone. NJ. /. Kirk
patrick and lave prcw;tt. which
wa, appointed ON motion oi Dr
samuel IL. HALEY after a NUM-
her az motions and substitute mo
lion, had been offered luukin" to-
ward the valuation OF warehouse
property. The resolution olfcrcc
IN- the committee provided that
tine. WarchOuscmCu otter then
property To the association fur II,
i,>e until the board oi director,
Df the association and the owner,
of the property nave had an op-
portunitv TO work out mcthu,
ii valuation oi thc property II !,
proposed BY the association t'
take over.
lust previous to the adjourn
mcnt OF the conference. whicl
was in session from 10 until
o'clock. and which assemble
again AT , O'Clock. Chairman
Ralph II. Barker. of the ware
house committee. expressed hop
Ilat no warchOusmcu III the d1>
trict would ignore the wishes o
the $4,000 tobacco growers wh'
had signed the cooperative mar
kctino contract and that all wOul'
keep their houses closed 50 far 4
The sale OF hurley tobacco wa
concerned until the assOclatlo
could get ready To do business.
ice Chairman Stone eNprcsse
the same thought. calling atten
tion 10 the fact that the men !
the conference had al been 10
the cooperative marketing pia
and had worked hard for it. nal
ing possible by that work and d'
votion to the cause its hnai sue
cess.
The resolution providing tn;
the warehouses remain closed
the sale of hurley tobacco pen'
ing the organization OF the ASST
citation was offered by the Re
j. K. Jones. of Harrison count
and was the first business Col