. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. station, and had applied foi ,; license. However, there was sonio delay in obtaining this pei'missiott and in the meantime he had be- come pretty absorbed in his cviiii- berry work. He had not only been supervis- ing the construction at that liiii.', but had been doing a good deal of actual physical work, with tlie idea of improving his health. Then he got a notice from the P\'(l- eral Communications Commission that his broadcasting permit had been granted. He then had three irons very definitely in the fire. He finished planting o
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. station, and had applied foi ,; license. However, there was sonio delay in obtaining this pei'missiott and in the meantime he had be- come pretty absorbed in his cviiii- berry work. He had not only been supervis- ing the construction at that liiii.', but had been doing a good deal of actual physical work, with tlie idea of improving his health. Then he got a notice from the P\'(l- eral Communications Commission that his broadcasting permit had been granted. He then had three irons very definitely in the fire. He finished planting over 30 acres and he turned to getting his broad- casting station operating. Radio in 1940 He rushed completion and the station was first on the air the night of November 5th, 1940, the night the presidential election re- turns were coming in. WFHR, Wisconsin Rapids, was on the air all that night with election news. The broadcasting area served by WFHR is Wood County, the chief cranberry-producing county, and eleven central Wisconsin counties in which are located many Wisconsin cranberry marshes. The station carries regular U. S. Wea- ther Bureau weather and frost warnings which are heard and ap- preciated by the marsh owners. From this beginning in radio, Mr. Huffman has expanded his in- terests, and in the summer of 1941 was one of those who brouglit about an afliliation between his own and five other Wisconsin stations. These, with two others since add- ed, make up Wisconsin Network, Inc., which operates under the slo- gan, "Serving the Badger ; The main office is now at Wiscon- sin Rapids, the other units of the chain being at Appleton, Fond du Lac, Janesville, Madison—Poyn- ette, Racine, Wausau and Sheboy- gan, and there are also braii h studios. The Network is affiliat. i with and carries programs of the Mutual Broadcasting System. Cranberry Grower But to get directly down to Huff^man as a cranberry gro\' His marsh, adjoining land o^ Biron Cranberry Compa
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