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Show SEIBEU NOW HERD OF LMCOU I W Acknowledged Leader in Transcontinental Road Building-. ! Almost coincident with . the announcement announce-ment that F. A. Sei her ling, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, was to finance- to a large extent, the proposed new cut-off in the Lincoln highway, high-way, In this st a te, comes the news that Mr. Seiberling has succeeded to the presidency pres-idency of the LJncoln Highway association, associa-tion, vice Henry B. Joy, who has entered en-tered the aviation section of the government govern-ment service. One of America's - big men has been called to direct the a f fa Irs of the most Important public highway in the United States, if not in the world. Mr. Seiberling brings to his new office of-fice a record of achievement that has few counterparts in American Industry. A fter a varied business experience, he founded, in lMiS, the big rubber concern of which for nineteen years he has been t he active hea d and which, today wit h its ?U0,00O.(KH) h nnual business, stands a mnnument to his business and financial genius. Me is one of the men who early anticipated antic-ipated the need of a grea t transcontinental transconti-nental highway and has from the inception incep-tion of the Lincoln highway been one of Ms staunch suppoiters, expending much of his time, energy and money in its behalf. be-half. For four years he has served as one of its directors. A seventeen-mile : strip of the highway just west of Hall Lake City is known as the "Seiberling section" a tribute to his support of this j great project, and on which work is to J start early this season. i Like many other successful business i men, he is a product of the farm, ha v-I v-I ing been born near Akron, but unlike I many who have sought their fortunes 1 elsewhere, he has achieved his success 1 j a t home and has been one r.f the big J factors in making his home dry tl.e r"b-I r"b-I her '-ap:ta 1 of the world. But, al l hough j lie has built t:p one of the largest rubber rub-ber manufacturing concerns in the world and stili remains its a-iive head, lie finds time to nevoid to other IntciestK. As a " director of the I'mtcri Slates chamber of commerce, he has spent much time during the last few months in Washington and is in ciose touch with the government's war prog t amine and alive to tiie importance of the Lincoln highway in the great transportation problems that must be worked out to make the government's propiarnme a success. |