Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 21]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 15

PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (24) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. 64—Y(, H . P . Type 02S Baldor Dental Lathes, each with one # 1 stone chuck, one # 7 taper chuck and carrying handle, from the Central Dental Manufacturing Company, of Louisville, Kentucky, the lowest bidder, at the total cost of $1,791. This equipment is for resale to College of Dentistry students in first-year denture classes. 2. 54 sets (56 instruments in each) operative dental instruments, according to specifications, from the F a r a Manufacturing Company, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of $1,986.12. These instruments are for resale to College of Dentistry students in second-year operative technic. 3. 70 Vulcanite finishing sets, each set to consist of one each of # 2 , 4" Plaster Spatula, # 1 0 Plaster Spatula, # 8 Plaster Knife, # 7 Modeling Compound Knife, # 2 0 Vulcanite Chisel, # 2 2 Vulcanite Chisel, # 2 Kingsley Scraper, # 3 Kingsley Scraper, and # 4 Kingsley Scraper. 62 Wadsworth waxing torches, Heidbrink "j"j Kerr's mechanical mixer, small size 140 Roach trays, hinged # 2 140 Handles for # 2 roach trays 73 Gysi simplex articulators with one straight and one curved pin 80 sets extra long stages for Gysi articulator the order to be divided as follows: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company $1 774 63 C. L. F r a m e Dental Supply Company 2 038 53 This equipment is for resale to students in freshman denture technic. 4. 52 No. L460 Dentoforms for the College of Dentistry from the Columbia Dentoform Corporation at a cost of $21.50 each, or a total of $1,118. This is a non-competitive item. T h e equipment is for resale to students in second-year operative technic. 5. 24,000 ft. first-grade 13/16" x 2J4" face maple flooring, from the Alexander Lumber Company, Champaign, one of two lowest bidders, the other being the Missouri Hardwood Lumber Company, Kansas City, at a total cost of $1,824 f-o.b. Urbana. 6. One carload of fir lumber, for Physical Plant Stock, from Fred A. Smith Lumber Company, Urbana, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of $1,195.50 f.o.b. Urbana. 7. T w o carloads of white pine, red oak, red cypress, and douglas fir lumber of varying lengths for Physical Plant Stock, from William C. Schrciber Lumber Company, of Chicago, at a price of $2,582.50. This price is $43-74 higher than that of the lowest bidder, but the latter is an out-of-state concern and when the sales tax is added as required by law its price is higher than that of the Schreiber Company. 8. Laboratory apparatus and supplies, according to the list which is being submitted herewith and a copy given to the Secretary of the Board for record, for the General Chemical Storeroom for use of various departments during 1938-1939, from the following companies: A. S. Aloe Company $ 25 56 Central Scientific Company 89 04 T h e Chemical Rubber Company 1 177 89 A. Daigger and Company 716 11 Fisher Scientific Company 205 16 Arthur S. L a P i n e and Company 1 004 24 Owens Illinois Glass Company 16 64 Rascher and Betzold, Inc 1 258 99 E. H . Sargent and Company 697 05