Friday, July 4, 1947. THE PILOT. Southern Pines, North Carolina Page Nme ■nn * Tobacco Growers Will Vote July 12 Flue-cured tobacco growers realize that foreign trade must be maintained if a fair price is to be realized for toblacco above normal domestic requirements according to information from the State Department of Agricult ure. To what extent this will be maintained will be largely deter mined July 12, when flue-cured tobacco growers of the Carolinas decide whether they will vote upon themselves an annual asses- ment of 10 cents per acre of to bacco acreage for the years 1947, 1948, and 1949. If two-thirds or more of -the tobacco farmers vote in favor of the assessment plan, the money v/ill be collected on the warehouse floors according to the method, rules, and regulations as deter mined by the board of directors of the Tobacco Association, Inc. When the money is collected, it will be paid to the treasurer of the association and used along with funds from other sources for the purpose of stimulating, developing, and expanding export trade of flue-c.ured tobacco. Difficulties have been exper ienced for some time in main taining export outlets for flue- cured tobacco. Because of the sit uation in foreign countries and the need for a program to protect producers, the farm organizations warehousemen!, tobacco leaf eriporters, bankers, merchants, fertilizers manufacturers and dealers, as well as other farm and business leaders in flue-cured to bacco producing states took the responsibility of organizing the Tobacco Association, Inc. The organization was financed the first year by tobacco farmers and allied interest making voluntary- contributions. Since it is to the public interest that the farmers engage in grow ing flue-cured tobacco may have an opportunity and privilege to join together in raising reasonable and necessary funds to promote export trade of flue-cured to bacco, authority for the referen dum was approved by 1947 sess ion of North Carolina and South Carolina General Assemblies. ‘‘Lost Colony” Opens Seventh Season July 1 THE FINAL MARCH OF THE LOST COLONISTS — This is the climax to Paul Green’s sym phonic drama. The Lost Colony, produced each J uly and August in the Waterside theatre at Fort Raleigh, from which the earliest English settlers of America vanished 360 years ago. The settlers, their supplies almost gonel* harassed by Indians and sickness, march into the wilderness to face an unknown fate. The play had its premiere 10 years ago. This seasop—the seventh, four having been can celled because of the war—began Tuesday July 1) an