NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 918

HOUSE BILL 167

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF A TOBACCO BIODYNAMICS LABORATORY AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT RALEIGH.

 

WHEREAS, tobacco is of tremendous economic importance to the people of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, approximately 250,000 families on about 135,250 farms are engaged in growing this crop, and thousands of other families obtain a significant portion of their livelihood from the manufacture and sale of flue-cured and burley tobacco and tobacco products; and

WHEREAS, tobacco represents approximately forty-eight per cent (48%) of the total agricultural income in North Carolina and sixty per cent (60%) of the crop income, and sixty-five per cent (65%) of all of the flue-cured tobacco grown in the United States is produced in North Carolina, and sixty-one per cent (61%) of all of the cigarettes manufactured in the nation are manufactured in this State; and

WHEREAS, tobacco factories in North Carolina employ about 40,000 people and pay them approximately one hundred fifty-six million dollars ($156,000,000) annually in wages, and sales of tobacco products by North Carolina tobacco manufacturers totaled approximately 3.1 billion dollars in 1963; and

WHEREAS, tobacco production is a complex business, and careful planning and efficient execution are required if the grower is to prosper; and

WHEREAS, all phases of tobacco technology—its breeding, its nutrition, its growth and physiology, its disease reaction, its susceptibility to insect attack, its curability, its quality assessment, its engineering of operations—all are affected by complex and interrelated biodynamic forces that are extremely difficult to evaluate ; and

WHEREAS, a thorough understanding of these fundamental changes that take place within the tobacco plant throughout its various developmental phases from the planting of the seed through the acceptance of the cured leaf, i.e., the biodynamics of the living tobacco plant, is urgently needed; and

WHEREAS, it is of vital interest, therefore, to the farmer, the warehouseman, the dealer, the buyer, the processor, the scientist, the extension specialist, and the manufacturer to promote research activities that will contribute to the production of a raw commodity of high usability which will make a satisfying end product for the consumer; and

WHEREAS, it is of the utmost importance to the economy of the State that a Tobacco Biodynamics Laboratory be established and operated, and North Carolina State University has facilities which are suitable and available for such operation: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to North Carolina State University the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the fiscal year July 1, 1965 to June 30, 1966, and the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the fiscal year July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1967, for the purpose of equipping, supporting, maintaining and operating a Tobacco Biodynamics Research Laboratory at facilities which shall be made available for such purposes by North Carolina State University.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.