New president for USTC

The U.S. Tobacco (flue-cured) Cooperative has a new board chairman. He is grower James T. (Jimmy) Hill of Kinston, N.C. It also has a new member representing South Carolina, Dwight Stephens. Both positions were held for many years by Albert Johnson of Galivants Ferry, S.C., who recently joined the staff of China Tobacco International of North America, a new division of CTIEC, the Chinese national tobacco company, to be located in the vicinity of Raleigh.