Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 24]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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It is estimated that there will be 500 individuals in these two groups. The medical examinations will be given by the University Health Service, but it will be necessary to employ outside assistance to help in this work because the next two or three months the Health Service staff will be required to examine all newstudents. T h e cost of giving the examinations required by the University Retirement System of Illinois will be from $1,200 to $1,500. I recommend that an appropriation of $1,500 be made from the General Reserve Fund for the expenses of these medical examinations. O n m o t i o n of M r . L i v i n g s t o n , t h e s e e x a m i n a t i o n s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d a n d t h e appropriation w a s m a d e as r e c o m m e n d e d , b y t h e following vote: Aye, M r . A d a m s , M r . Cleary, M r . Fornof, M r s . Grigsby, M r . Jensen, M r . K a r r a k e r , M r . Livingston, D r . Meyer, M r . W i e l a n d ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Davis, M r . Green. COMPENSATION TO UNIVERSITY CIVILIAN DEFENSE WORKERS FOR PERSONAL INJURIES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE (14) The University Council of Defense is providing for the training of a large number of University staff members and other employees in all the official Civilian Defense services. The question has been raised concerning the University's responsibility for personal injuries that they may sustain or damages to their personal automobiles when used in defense service. T h e question applies to incidents in training as well as in actual operations. While all of these participants in the Civilian Defense program are doing so voluntarily and as a patriotic service, it would seem that the University is justified in including them, when in the performance of these defense services, within the protection of its compensation service. I recommend acceptance by the University of liability for personal injuries to its staff members or for property damage incurred while they a r e engaged in defense service whether in training or actual emergency operations. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r n o f , t h i s m a t t e r w a s r e f e r r e d t o t h e U n i v e r s i t y C o u n s e l f o r h i s o p i n i o n o n t h e p o w e r s of t h e B o a r d t o a s s u m e this liability u n d e r w a r conditions as well as u n d e r p r e p a r a t o r y t r a i n ing conditions. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (15) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. 1,300 reams 25 x 38—70 lb. "Champion Namelo" book paper, from Dwight Brothers Paper Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of $6,461 f.o.b. Urbana. 2. Paper for the Office Supply Stores as follows: 8 cases 22 x 34—40 lb. white 25 per cent rag bond 6 cases 22 x 34—32 lb. white 25 per cent rag bond 4 cases 22 x 34—26 lb. white 25 per cent rag bond from Dwight Brothers Paper Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a cost of approximately $1,317.60 f.o.b. Urbana. 3. Replacement of china for the Illini Union Cafeteria, from the Stearnes Company, Chicago, at a price of $1,483.19 f.o.b. factory. 4. 456 dwt. Williams Forty-Niner Gold, cut in exact dwt. pieces and packed in 57 envelopes of 8 dwt. each, at $1.48 dwt., or $674.88; 300 dwt. Williams Special W 20 Inlay Gold, cut in exact dwt. pieces, at $1.68 dwt., or $504; plus 2% tax, or a total of $1,202.45;—from H. M. Dugan, Chicago, Illinois, local dealer for the Williams Company, the only source for this particular alloy of gold used in dental work. These materials are for resale to students in the College of Dentistry through the Student Supply Store. 5. 120 straight chairs, No. 955W, equipped with No. NR20 one and one-half inch glides and finished to match sample, for the Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy Library, from the lowest bidder, the E. and I. Cooperative, at a unit price of $14.25 each net, or a total of $1,710, delivered.