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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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1964] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1197 The architects for the Union Building and for Hull House state that the contractors' proposed charges for the work involved are reasonable. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , these c o n t r a c t c h a n g e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d . INCREASED INTERCITY TELEPHONE FACILITIES (36) The University now has eight W A T S (Wide Area Telephone Service) lines at Urbana and two W A T S lines at Chicago serving both the Navy Pier and the Medical Center. These lines permit a call to be made to any point in the state without incurring a toll charge. Each day an average of over 800 calls from Urbana and 200 calls from Chicago are made over these ten W A T S lines. However, only 25 per cent of all attempts to secure a line succeed on the first try, indicating that the number of lines are not adequate to handle the traffic demand. As a result, toll calls are being made around the W A T S lines resulting in monthly toll charges of $1,400 in Urbana and $450 in Chicago. The Telephone Company has recently made available a new service — T E L P A K — which, in brief, is a sharing of channels of communication by public agencies. The state of Illinois is a heavy user of T E L P A K and has unused channels which are available to the University. As a result, it is possible to install tie lines between certain points at a cost much lower than under any previous rate schedule. The Telephone Company has analyzed the calls made over the W A T S lines with particular attention to their point of termination, and it is the opinion of its staff that the University's intercity communication service would be greatly improved by eliminating three of the eight W A T S lines at Urbana and installing seven tie lines between Urbana and Chicago and three tie lines between Urbana and Springfield. (While the number of calls to Springfield is not proportionately large enough to warrant three lines, the duration of these calls is three to four times that of calls to other points.) The Telephone Company's proposal would result in the University having seventeen intercity communication paths available at one time as compared with ten at the present time. The proposal also provides for an additional tie line between Navy Pier and the Medical Center. In terms of fixed rental charges, the proposed service would not cost as much as the present W A T S lines. However, calls to Chicago over the tie lines result in message unit charges of 4J4 cents per call. On the basis of the present number of calls to Chicago, the total cost of the proposed service would be the same, or slightly lower, than the present ten W A T S lines. However, there would be a one-time installation charge of $300. The proposal has been discussed with representatives of all campuses who recommend that the Illinois Bell Telephone Company be authorized to eliminate three of the present eight W A T S lines at Urbana; and to install seven tie lines between Urbana and Chicago, three tie lines between Urbana and Springfield, and one additional tie line between Navy Pier and the Medical Center. This proposal was submitted by the Vice-President and Comptroller. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this recommendation was approved. Mr. Hughes asked to be recorded as not voting. CITATION FOR LENOX R. LOHR (37) I recommend the conferring of a Trustees Citation on Major Lenox R. Lohr, President of the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago, in recognition of his many public services, and particularly his services to the University of Illinois as Chairman for many years of the Citizens Committee, and more recently as Chairman of the Committee on the Jane Addams Memorial Fund campaign. An appropriate occasion for the conferring of the Citation would be the biennial meeting of the Citizens Committee to be held at Urbana on May 21. On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved. The Citation which was presented to Major Lohr on the following day is as follows:
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