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tire sales for The General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, has been 

 placed in charge of sales promotion work and K. C. Burtscher, 

 well known in railroad circles, has been appointed traffic 

 manager. He was formerly connected with the Wheeling and 

 Lake Erie railroad and with the traffic department of The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., Akron. 



The Supreme Cord Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, with an 

 authorized capital of $2,000,000, is erecting a new plant on Home 

 avenue. The main factory building is 60 by 300 feet, of brick 

 and steel, and a power plant, 40 by 50 feet, is of the same con- 

 struction. The officers and directors of the company are : 



R. C. Witwer, president ; A. G. Kaufmann, vice-president ; 

 Charles O. Patier, secretary-treasurer. The other members of 

 the board of directors are : L. C. Koplin, William J. Kaufmann, 

 Hon. Thomas H. Moore, S. W. Sweet, P. E. Welton, J. L. 

 Swartz, B. L. Eaton, and W. B. Campbell. 



MISCELLAITEOUS OHIO NOTES. 



Jay Chamberlin has been appointed manager of the Cleveland 

 branch of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania. 

 For the last two years he has represented the company in the 

 Chicago territory. 



The Pharis Tire S: Rubber Co., Newark, Ohio, is erecting a 

 100 by 120-foot, three-story brick and steel addition and a new 

 power house, and adding 100 per cent to the 

 machinery equipment for the purpose of in- 

 creasing production to 1,000 tires and 1,000 

 tubes daily. This company was one of the 

 first to build 30 by iVz clincher cord tires, and 

 the growing business, principally with large 

 jobbers, requires additional factory facilities. 

 By November the company expects to be build- 

 ing all sizes of cord tires. The officers are : 

 A. R. Lindorf, president; C. H. Otto Meyer, 

 vice-president; Charles O. C. Lindrooth, secre- 

 tary; R. S. Wyeth, treasurer; Carl Pharis, gen- 

 eral manager. 



The Hercules Rubber Corporation, with 

 main offices at 908 Union Central Building, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, has purchased 35 acres of 

 land on which it will erect a modern factory 

 and power plant for the production of its spe- 

 cial airless inner tube. 



The Columbus Tire & Rubber Co., Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, is installing machinery for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing fabric tires, in addition to its equipment 

 for the manufacture of cord tires. It expects to produce fabric 

 tires about August 1, 1920. 



The Kee-Spears Rubber Co., Clinton, Ohio, which was in- 

 corporated November 3. 1919, to manufacture a general line 

 of molded and mechanical rubber goods and hard rubber goods, 

 including interior doors, door and window casings, room mold- 

 ings, etc., has purchased a factory and is nearlj' ready to begin 

 manufacturing. An additional building will be built at an early 

 date, which will double the capacity of the plant. The officers 

 of the company are: George A. Griffiths, president and gen- 

 eral manager; W. W. Spears, vice-president; Culley B. Hall, 

 secretary; A. J. Kee, treasurer; directors — Dempsey Lowe and 

 Benjamin Blackmore. 



Charles H. Wheeler has been elected a director of The Mc- 

 Graw Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland and East Palestine, Ohio. 



C. D. Rockwood, purchasing agent of the Mason Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., Kent. Ohio, has returned from the Far East, which 

 he visited in the interest of the Mason Rubber Plantations Co. 

 He found conditions there very promising. J. P. Matthews, for- 

 mer purchasing agent of the company, remains at Singapore 

 as far eastern representative. 



The Premier Rubber & Insulation Co., Dayton, Ohio, has 

 increased its capitalization from $150,000 to $250,000, owing to 

 the great increase in business. The plant is now running night 

 and day, in order to meet the heavy demands for hard rubber 

 and bakelite products. The newly-elected officers of the com- 

 pany are: William Grether, president and treasurer; William 

 F. Grieser, vice-president; John H. Shively, secretary. 



The above-named, with Joseph Westendorf and Harry H. 

 Gerstnor, comprise the board of directors. Henry Spatz has 

 been appointed factory manager. 



The National Rubber & Specialties Co., Chickering avenue 

 and C, H. & D. Railway, Cincinnati, Ohio, manufacture a line 

 of cements for bicycle, motorcycle, and automobile tires, as well 

 as braziers, vulcanizcrs, enameling ovens, etc., for tire repair 

 work. 



The population of Kent, the home of The Mason Tire & Rubber 

 Co., has .been announced by the census bureau as 7,070. In 

 1910 the village had a population of 4,488. The increase was 57.5. 



Ohio C. Barber, match king, capitalist and agriculturist who 

 died in January, left an estate of more than $5,000,000, it was 

 shown, when his will was offered for probate recently. Some 

 of the buildings on the Anna Dean farm, containing 1,000 acres, 

 are being converted into dormitories and manufacturing build- 



ings. The Babcox-Wilcox Co. of Barberton has leased one of 

 the buildings for dormitories for additional men. 



GENERAL HILLS, A NEW AKRON SUBURB. 



An unusual scheme to beat the high cost of homes and at the 

 same time solve the housing problem has been put in effect by 

 the General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. The employes 

 of the company, by adopting a plan of \V. O'Neil, general 

 manager, took over a 243-acre tract of land on the Massillon 

 road about 1^ miles from the General plant and formed a de- 

 velopment syndicate with Mr. O'Neil as trustee. This is believed 

 to be the first time that the employes themselves have got be- 

 hind a home-building project and undertaken its financing and 

 development. 



One thousand homes will be constructed to cost $5,000 to 

 $6,700 and compare identically with property which has been 

 bringing $9,000 or more. Quite a sum of money is being saved 

 by finding various men in the factory who have had experience 

 in lumbering, road building and construction work, and these men 

 were put in charge of the work with which they were familiar,- 

 thus eliminating contractors. 



When completed the section will be known as General Hills. 



