Greenville is not giving up. Our objective is to try to influence the crossing of the Mississippi River at Greenville. This is a good strategic area because of the deep slack water harbor. It's a natural for shipping things up and down the Mississippi River, and then for loading and unloading barges and transferring the goods to trucks. Tubertini, like many pushing for the highway, returned to Greenville after college to invest his life and money into bettering his community.
Industry needs an interstate.
Greenville has much to offer, but no interstate system. Harper Young, Tubertini's business partner, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Industrial Foundation, has spent much of his time traveling around the country trying to bring jobs to Greenville. He says the road is crucial not only to bringing in new industry, but in keeping it. In an additional effort to make the area more attractive to potential business and industry, Greenville is seeking to boost the value of its work force, nearly half of which is composed of unskilled workers. We plan to bring in experts and highly trained workers to train unskilled workers.