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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 19

T H R E A T E N E D CLAIM A G A I N S T T H E J O S E P H C A R T E R ESTATE (36) Mr. A. R. Hall, attorney for the executor of the Estate of Joseph Carter, has received a letter from William R. Bach, an attorney of Bloomington, Illinois, informing him that Mr. Carter's half-brother, Lucius, may make a claim against the estate and institute suit to support the same, unless the Board of Trustees will make some kind of a settlement upon Lucius Carter during his lifetime. I have here the copies of the correspondence between Mr. Hall and Mr. Bach, together with letters from Mr. Hall and our Legal Counsel, Judge Johnson, on the matter. M y own view, after reading all the documents, i that the Trustees should decline to make any coms promise in the matter. The legal contest, i one occurs, will be between the claimant f and the executor. The Board of Trustees is interested only as residuary legatee. I recommend that no compromise be made. O n motion of D r . Noble, this recommendation w a s adopted.

CONTRACT FOR FINISH HARDWARE FOR ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING

(37) The Supervising Architect has received bids on thefinishhardware for the Architectural Building as follows: Holder Hardware Co. (Bloomington) $2,688 Thos. Conron Hardware Co. (Danville) 2,868 and recommends that the contract be awarded to the low bidder, the Holder Hardware Company of Bloomington. I concur in this recommendation. O n motion of D r . Noble, this recommendation w a s adopted.

AGREEMENT WITH GOLDING SONS COMPANY OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY

(38) On request of Dean Ketchum, I recommend that the offer of Golding Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey, of $2,500 a year for two years for a study of feldspars by the Department of Ceramic Engineering be accepted; and that the officers of the Board be authorized to execute on the usual terms a cooperative agreement for this investigation between the Board of Trustees of the University and Golding Sons Company. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this recommendation w a s adopted. REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE URBANA COKE CORPORATION (39) The following report from thefirmof Pennie, Davis, Marvin, and Edmonds on the activities of the Urbana Coke Corporation the past year: January 7, 1927 Mr. David Kinley, President, University of Illinois Dear Sir: Inasmuch as the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois i a stocks holder in Urbana Coke Corporation, and particularly because of the reversionary clause in the assignment from the University to the Corporation, i may be well for t you to know something of the corporation's activities during the past year. $20,000 was put in by the stockholders and was used up in the experimental work and patent expenses during the Spring and Summer. Under the agreement Prof. Parr was to be permitted to continue his work in the University buildings up to October 1st. His experimental work there has been extended slightly beyond that date, but not much. The corporation's experimentation at the University is now entirely concluded, but I assume that Prof. Parr has already arranged with Prof. White for the necessary dismantling of the plant and the sorting of the equipment. Prof. Parr will, I understand, turn over to Prof. White, or to some other responsible party at the University, all equipment belonging to the University. Plans are under way for rehabilitating the finances of Urbana Coke Corporation, so that the experimental work may be continued and so that the patent contest with Wisner may be fought through to a definite conclusion.