JOHN BECKER QUITS WDA POST DUE TO ILL HEALTH
JohnBecker Quits WDA Post Due to III Health John A. Becker, general manager of the Wiscoasin Development authority, has .submitted his resignation, effective June 30, to the WDA board of directors,...
...Head of the WDA since, its first day of operation and previously state director of rural electrification, Becker wax seriously ill last winter...
...Saturday...
...The WDA, a non-profit, non-stock Wisconsin corporation, was Incorporated in March 1937...
...he said...
...Ill health caused mm to .submit the resignation, which will be acted on by WDA directors when they meet in Madison June 17...
...JohnBecker Quits WDA Post Due to III Health John A. Becker, general manager of the Wiscoasin Development authority, has .submitted his resignation, effective June 30, to the WDA board of directors, he announced last week...
...The WDA uct passed by the 1937 legislature designated the Authority as a public Instrumentality to carry on educational, promotional and research work in the field of electric power with an appropriation cl $60,000 a year...
...The WDA will continue as an active, going organization," Becker declare...
...I haven't been away from business for nearly five years, and I want to take a complete rest to regain my health," Becker said...
...In a report of activities sent this week to the directors, the WDA point-ed out that more than 5,000 miles of rural electric distribution and transmission line have been designed and built under its supervision...
...He indicated that WDA's activities would be carried on under the direction of Kent Wooldrldge, chief engineer...
...Furthermore, the success of WDA over a 23-mo:ith period indicates the need and usefulness of such an agency for he benefit of the public", the WDA chief said...
...He added that his family will move to Hartford, Wis., their "home town," July 1. "Some of the legislators in the 1939 session claimed that the WDA would be out of existence as soon as our state appropriation was cut off, I said then that 'WDA was here to stay.' The organization is still here, and there is every Indication that the WDA will be here for a lnn« time...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
