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BOABD OF TRUSTEES

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IMPROVEMENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AIRPORT (7) T h e Board has authorized an application to the Civil Aeronautics Administration for funds for one-half of the cost, $160,000, for enlarging the apron and providing roads, walks, parking, and fencing at the University Airport The development of plans, including installation of some additional utilities under the ramps, indicates that the total costs will be at least $247,600. T h e matching funds are to be provided by the State Department of Aeronautics from funds to be appropriated by the Seventy-first General Assembly. The Director of the Institute of Aviation and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that an application for the revised amount be authorized. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Harewood, this recommendation was approved.

PURCHASE O F LAND FOR RADIO TELESCOPE (8) The University has purchased approximately two hundred acres of land in Vermilion County, near Danville, Illinois, as the site for the construction of a radio telescope for the Department of Astronomy under a research contract with the Office of Naval Research. T o provide adequate drainage at the immediate site of the telescope it is necessary either to reroute a small stream or to construct a very expensive conduit for the stream. The cost of rerouting will be relatively small but to do this will require traversing an area immediately adjacent to the site of the instrument and it will be necessary to acquire some adjoining land. A narrow strip approximately fifty feet in width and a total area of two acres will suffice for this purpose, and this additional land will also facilitate grading at the corner of the site of the instrument which will reduce construction costs. The owner of the adjoining land, Mr. Benhard Vogt of Georgetown, Illinois, has agreed to sell the two-acre strip needed for $200. This tract may be described as follows: The North ( N ) fifty (50) feet of the East ( E ) forty (40) acres of the North fraction of the North East Quarter ( N E yi) of Section T w o ( 2 ) , Township Eighteen North ( T 1 8 N ) , Range Eleven West (R11W) of the Second Principal Meridian (2nd P.M.) being the North ( N ) fifty (50) feet of the East ( E ) forty (40) acres of all that part of said North East Quarter ( N E x/i) North of the Vermilion River, situated in the Township of McKendree, in the County of Vermilion and State of Illinois. Writing of the specifications for the construction of the radio telescope could not proceed until a decision was made as to the availability of this tract. To avoid delay of the project, a payment of $200 was made to Mr. Vogt as a 100 per cent option on the land, in return for which he has given the University a warranty deed for the tract required. The Vice-President and Comptroller recommends that the Board of Trustees authorize the purchase of this land by exercising the option taken, which in effect will constitute payment in full for the land, and the recording of the warranty deed already delivered to the University. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h e p u r c h a s e of t h i s l a n d w a s a u t h o r i z e d by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . H a r e w o o d , M r . Herrick, M r . H u g h e s , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P o g u e , M r . Swain, M r s . Watkins, M r . Wilkins, M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; no, none; absent, M r . Stratton. APPROPRIATION FOR REMODELING A N D EQUIPMENT (9) T h e Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends the following assignments of funds for remodeling and equipment from the state capital appropriation for 1957-59 for contingencies. There is an unexpended balance in that appropriation which may be used for the expenditures listed below. College Of Agriculture, remodeling in Mumford Hall for Department of Forestry $ 8 340 College of Commerce and Business Administration, installation of partitions, new lighting, rewiring, air conditioning in offices in David Kinley Hall 7 29°