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Wisconsin Offers OpportunityFor Electrification ProgramBy RUBY A. BLACK(Tribun® Washington Correspondent)Washington—With only 21 per cent of its some 182,000 farms connected with central electrical service stations. Wisconsin offers an opportunity for an extensive rural electrification program under the new works plan.Yet Wisconsin already ranks comparatively high, for only eight states have more than 50 per cent of its farms electrified. California and Rhode Island leading with 60 per cent; only six states with 30 to 50 per cent; and only five states, including Wisconsin, have 20 to 30 per cent of their farms electrified.Minnesota has only 8 per cent of its farms enjoying electricity; Iowa. 15 per cent: Illinois. 12 per cent; and Michigan, 23 per cent. Sixteen states have less than 5 per cent of their farm electrified, mostly in the south.Western Wisconsin has a less than 10 per cent deficit of electrical facilities while eastern Wisconsin has a more than 10 per cent deficit, according to the Federal Power commission.Wisconsin also has many undeveloped water power sites, according to the commission’s survey. Badger state rivers with possibilities of water power development include, besides parts of the Mississippi river:W’olf, Fox, Menominee, Peshtigo, Oconto. Wisconsin, Montreal, Chippewa, Flambeau, Black, St. Croix, Rock, and Bad rivers.The president has announced his intention of establishing a separate, independent agency to handle the rural electrification program, which may amount to $100,000,000 or more.The national power policy committee plans to make public its recommendation for rural electrification soon, possibly before this month ends.* * * *of the consumer’s dollar spent for milk, butter, and cheese in 1932. and that by February of this year, their share was 46.4 cents of the buyer s dollar. The dairy farmer’s share of dairy products was 51.3 cents in the consumer’s dollar spent for 1910-14; 48.7 cents in 1929. 34 cents in 1932; 35.1 cents in 1933; and 38.3 cents in 1934. A cow with five stacks of pennies alongside illustrates the assertion.The potato farmer was getting only 42 cents of the consumer’s potato dollar in February, 1935, as against 49.3 cents in 1934; 48.2 cents in 1933; 42 5 cents in 1932; 49 4 cents in 1929; and 60.1 cents in 1910-14Th? AAA has no potato program; could this be propaganda?* *A %___1The national committee on federal legislation for birth control has sent out an urgent notice calling upon its friends and supporters to write to all members of the house committee on post offices and post roads, including Representative Gardner R. Withrow of La Crosse, to kill the bill which would stiffen prosecution for mailing birth control information.The committee, however, made an unfortunate error. It listed Withrow as a democrat. He is a progressive.Senator Robert M. l*a Follette, Jr. Wisconsin progressive, succeeded in getting a similar bill, which had been reported from the senate post office committee without his knowledge, sent back to the committee for more nearly adequate consideration.The birth control committee asks that its friends write or wire their congressmen and the members of the committee to protest against the I passage of the bill w ithout the Pierce amendment, which would exempt the medical profession from the prohibitory measure.* * * *
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La Crosse Tirbune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Apr 28, 1935
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