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Golden Valley News
October 15, 2020
obituary recalled his list of the three
“most consequential events in state
history: the policies that shaped
homesteading and settlement, the
rise of the railroads, “and President
Franklin Roosevelt's rural electrifi- . ,
cation program.”
That electrification program, one
of a sudden explosion of govem-
ment programs meant to invigorate
the economy, was one of the greatest
leaps in technology anyone on the
farm had experienced. Created by
President Roosevelt in the 1930s,
the Rural Electrification Adminis—
tration offered low-interest loans to
turn the lights on in rural farm coun-
try.
: Lois DeFord was a schoolgirl in
‘January 1948 when electricity came
to her western North Dakota home,
she recalled in an interView with the
state historical society. Her father
Was a director of an electric co—op
near Richardton, and their farm’s
electrification would help celebrate
the electric poles and wire stitching
the state together. V
‘ “As we left, Mom was busy cook-
ing up food to feed the dignitaries, and
Dad was grinning and pacing,” the
historical society account remembers.
F‘[When school let out, the day was
overcast] cloudy and dark enough that
we could see LIGHT in the house as
the school bus turned off the highway.
What a glorious feeling!”
At the same time, fanning was
changing. The total number of farms
in North Dakota has plunged since the
19303, but the average farm size has
grown enormously. According to fed-
eral records, the state’s total number
of farms fell nearly 60% from 1930 to
1997, but the average size of a farm
grew almost 240%. That shift — seis-
mic in scale — has changed what it
means to live and work in the state.
A 2005 report from the US. De-
partment of Agriculture sums up the
breadth of the changes. In the early
19003, more than half of Americans
lived in rural regions home to
“small, diversified farms.” By the
20005, only about a quarter of
Americans lived in rural farming
areas. About 22 million beasts of
burden had been greatly displaced
by something like 5 million tractors.
Former Sen. Byron Dorgan began
his political career in 1969 at age 26,
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The Great Depression brought terrible economic pain to North
Dakota. In this 1930 photo, North Dakota. Farm Holiday Associa-
tion members gather at a home in Cass County to protest an
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eviction. (Courtesy State Historical Society of North Dakota)~
when Gov. Guy appointed him tax
commissioner. Dorgan remembers
many of North Dakdta’s mid-century
changes well. None of them stand
out quite so much as the transforma—
tion of small towns, going from
small farmers’ communities to rela-
tively empty spaces, where one
might “fire a cannon through main
street and not hit anybody,” he said.
“The larger farmers in many
cases are not buying from small,
towns,” Dorgan said, meaning that
farm supplies — like fertilizer and
equipment — are‘suddenly routed
through small town businesses far
less often. "It's a profound impact on
small town life. No question."
Taken together, the Depression
and the years that followed were re-
ally the process of the old North
Dakota giving way to anew one.
The nadir of the Great Depression
destroyed a way of life. But the com-
ing decades would bring new farm
technologies and electricity. Beyond
the economy, they’d both alter the
political fabric. of the state, too.
Jacobs said ‘a key part of the
state’s modern prairie populism was
made in kitchens and living rooms
where locals organized their own
electric co-ops to take advantage of"
the New Deal. But as those days
faded — and as farms got bigger -
much of the community-minded,3
small town state began to slip out of
living memory.
For decades, the memory of the
itics around the country and in
North Dakota.
“1 do a lot of oral history,” Jacobs
said. “And I remember talking to an
old lady who said, she knew as
much as one knows these things
that she would nothave been able to
keep her family without aid from
the federal government.”
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By Richard Volesky
Editor/Reporter
The number of COVID-l9 re-
lated deaths in North Dakota in-
creased by 80 during the past week
to a total of 357.
The first number is the total num—
ber of cases per county since the
pandemicvbegan, and the second fig-
ure is the number of active cases.
These figures areas of Oct. 13.
North Dakota:
' McKenzie: 362, 109
' Golden Valley: 89, 22
Billings: 27, 7
Dunn: 171,53
Stark: 2,064; 266
0 Slope: 11,0
- Hettinger: 83, 16
0 Bowman: 75, 26
0 Adams: 42, 16
Montana:
Richland: 167, 94
Wibaux: 31, 22
' Dawson: 129, 47
' Fallon: 27, 22
Stark County has had 125 deaths.
McKenzie County has had three
deaths. Dunn County has had four.
Hettinger r’and Bowman counties
each have had ,one. There were no
deaths attributed to the other coun-
ties in the-southwestem region.
Montana reports a total of 217
deaths since the pandemic began.
Nationwide, there have been 7.8
New Deal, and of community polit_ : ,million cases and 214,955 deaths.
ical identity, persisted, shaping pol- ’i
f Worldwide, there have been 37.9
million cases and more than 1 mil-
lion deaths.
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Church Fall
Festival
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Nov. 1
Church -
10:45 am
Serving -
12 pm
Roast beef,
salads, aild pie.
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50 years ago; Oct. 15, 1970:
Sp. 4 William R. Thompson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Randal Thompson of
Beach, was awarded the Bronze Star
Medal with V Device recently for
heroism in connection with ground
force operations against a hostile force
in Vietnam on March 4, 1970.
,The Old West Trail Foundation will
hold its annual meeting in Dickinson
on Oct. 19—21. The trail is a five—state
tourist promotion involving North
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, South
Dakota and Nebraska. Included in the
sessions will be panels and discussion
groups on the relationship of tourists
to the environment.
25 years ago; Oct. 12, 1995:
' 9 Update Pieces of the Fat By Jane M. Cook
Flying J representative, Mike
Miller, was to see if the company was
going to go ahead with rebuilding the
Flying J Truck Stop in Beach this fall.
He said, “Bids are due on Oct. ‘17 and
we plan to quickly review them.”
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