BID ROOSEVELTS TO DEDICATION OF UTILITY PLANT
Bid Roosevelts To Dedication of Utility Plant Expect Genoa REA Project to Be Completed In September LA CROSSE, Wis.—Pres. and Mrs Roosevelt have been invited to participate in the dedication of...
...Seventy-five delegates, representing the 11 REA co-operatives in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, paid tribute to the Pres...
...on the Mississippi river, in a resolution passed here last week at the annual delegate session or the Tri-State Power Co-operative...
...E. J. Stoneman, Platteville • farmer and professor of agriculture at the state teachers college in that city, was re-elected president...
...The salaries paid Wisconsin teachers, supervisors and principals are below the average for all states, the study revealed...
...Wisconsin supplies $15.14 per pupil enrolled from the state treasury while the average for all states is $24.36...
...With a dally expenditure of 50 cents per pupil in attendance Wisconsin ranks 21st among the states...
...Madison attorney for the Tri-State group, delivering the principal address at the meeting, said the Tri-State Co-operative had been formed to give farmers in the three states electricity at the lowest possible cost...
...Elkarier...
...Power Co-operative were rc-e'.ected...
...Francis Frussell, West-field...
...only four have a better record for average daily atter.danoe...
...15th in the per pupil value of school property, and 18th In the yearly expenditure for schools for earh person, of population...
...only five have a larger number of days at,ended each year by the average pupil...
...Re-elect Directors All 11 directors of the Tri-State...
...Allert G. Olson...
...Austin...
...Wheeler pointed out the REA in its short existence had provided an impetus to rural electrification to bring the benefits of electricity to thousands of American farmers, and had pioneered in the engineering field...
...M. R. Ringoen, Ridgeway, la., and Joel Clark...
...Wisconsin ranks 17th In the amount spent for school buildings and equipment...
...Minn.: M. O. Monson, S. Wayne, Wis., L. W. Lath-rup, Brirnum...
...5. Delegates approved the board's action in appointing a committee to work out with REA representatives and the Wisconsin Power Co-operative, Chippewa Falls, plans for the interconnection of the two co-operative systems...
...Wheeler Is Speaker Floyd Wheeler...
...Osage, la,, and H. O. Me'.by, West by, were again elected to the executive committee with officers, other directors re-elected were James Taylor...
...supervisors and prlncioals in all states while in Wisconsin only 68 per rent Is devoted to this purpose...
...The average state provides 29.8 per cent of the total school cost from state sources while the state government of Wisconsin supplies 19.2 ' per cent...
...The nation-wide comparison revealed that only seven states have a larger per cent of all schools of the one-room variety and only five have a larger number of one-room schools...
...Plans call for completion of the project sufficiently to permit energization of the transmission lines by Sept...
...Wisconsin's lowest rank is in the number and per cent of one-room schools...
...only three states have a larger per cent of their pupils enrolled in high school and only 11 states have a larger number of high school graduates per thousand of population...
...F. B. Blanchard, Lcwiston, Minn., was re-eiected vice president, and W. E. Rabe, Toman, was elected secretary-treasurer...
...Approximately GO per cent of all school expenditures are devoted to salaries of teorhcrs...
...The dedication ceremony is set for September...
...State Is Short On Education Support, Claim Wisconsin is long on educational achievement and short on state support, according to a report issued last, week by the Wisconsin' Education association at Madison.'Citing data just released by the V. S. office of education, the association revealed that only eig-nt states have a longer school term...
...While Wisconsin ranks in the upper 25 per cent, of all states in ability to support schools, the association stated that our state does not attain that rank in any item of eduaetional expenditure...
...While, according to the study, some gain has been made in securing more st.'te sipport for education in Wisconsin, our s ate is far below the average for the remainder of the country...
...and Mrs Roosevelt have been invited to participate in the dedication of the country's largest REA generating plant, now under cons!ruction at Genoa, Wis...
...Lawrence C. Cole, acting project coordinator, reported on the progress of the project...
...Roosevelt at the annual meting for the interest which each has shown in the rural electrification program...
...The average amount paid in Wisconsin was $1,307 a; compared with $1,374 for the U. S. as a whole, according to the data...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
