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1943]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

731

PETE MOBECI, Laborer, Chicago Physical Plant Department. ROBERT NIESMAN, Elevator Operator, Chicago Physical Plant Department. LAWRENCE PAYNE, Laborer, Chicago Physical Plant Department.

On motion of Mr. Davis, these leaves were granted as recommended.

EXEMPTION OF STAFF MEMBERS FROM PAYMENT OF TUITION FEES (6) By authority of the Board of Trustees, individuals on the University staff or on the staffs of allied surveys and laboratories on the University campus receiving salaries of $1,600 a year or less, or individuals having scholarships or fellowships in the Graduate School, are exempt from the payment of tuition, laboratory, library, and supply fees if they register in courses for graduate credit. Also, by authority of the Board, salaries of staff members receiving $3,000 a year or less were increased ten per cent effective September 1, 1943, to meet increased living costs. In a number of cases, particularly those of full-time assistants, this has resulted in increasing their salaries beyond $1,600, so that they are no longer entitled to exemption from the payment of tuition fees for graduate work. T h e Committee on Fees and Scholarships has recommended that the regulation of the Board under which specified individuals receiving salaries of $1,600 a year or less are exempt from the payment of fees be amended so that the salary limiting the fee exemptions be changed to $1,760 or less (instead of $1,600 a year or less). T h e Committee further recommends that this change become effective September 1, 1943, that it continue for two years from that date, and that this be subject to review in 1945. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r i g s b y , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a d o p t e d . PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (7) A report of the following purchases proposed by the Purchasing Agent and authorized by the Comptroller as emergency actions: 1. Fifty tons clover hay, for the Animal Husbandry Department, from Hudson Burr and Company, the lowest bidder, at a price of $24 a ton, or an approximate total cost of $1,200. 2. One car (approximately 900 cases) 2000 sheet No. 392 A.P.W. toilet paper, for use in the fraternity houses now occupied by A.S.T.P. trainees, from the Cain Paper Company, the lowest bidder, at a price of $4.25 a case, 1% ten days, or an approximate total of $3,786.75, the final cost to depend on quantity loaded in the car. It is desirable to buy the carload lot (1) to assure adequate supply in the face of paper shortage, (2) because the saving on this quantity by buying the carload is about $600. 3. Laboratory apparatus and supplies (104 items) for the Chemistry Storeroom from the following lowest bidders: Central Scientific Company, Chicago $ 74 62 Chicago Apparatus Company, Chicago 251 08 A. Daigger and Company, Chicago 256 97 Fisher Scientific Company, Chicago 160 34 A. S. L a P i n e and Company, Chicago 771 04 E. H . Sargent and Company, Chicago 362 84 Schaar and Company, Chicago 3 495 42 Wilkens-Anderson Company, Chicago 1 056 97 These are to be placed in stock for future use and represent about one year's supply. Quotations were received from 8 firms listed above and also from the W. M. Welsh Scientific Company of Chicago. T h e quotations were tabulated to determine the lowest price on each item. 4. 656—12" x 18" x 60" lockers (in groups of two) to be placed in fraternity houses occupied by A.S.T.P. trainees, from W. B. Read and Company, the lowest bidder, at their price of $5,805.60. T h e locker to be supplied by this firm