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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942
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1941] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 389 following stock and Tons 15 000 Approval of the above recommendations would result in the contracts for future delivery: Storage Tons Now on hand (screenings) 5 000 Globe Coal Co. (egg) 10 000 Contracts Globe Coal Company 20 000 Skelton Coal Company 2 000 Tilton Mining Company 3 500 Total 25 500 40 500 On motion of Mr. Davis, contracts were awarded as recommended. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (5) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. Five units (60 trays each) Library Catalog Card Cases, to match those now in the main Library, from Remington Rand, Inc., at a cost of $1,452 f.o.b. Urbana. 2. Seventy-five hundred diploma covers from W. M. Welch Diploma House, Chicago, at a price of $5,700, or 76 cents a cover. On motion of Mr. Fornof, these purchases were authorized as recommended. PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (6) A report of the following purchases authorized by the President of the University as emergencies, in accordance with the University Statutes: 1. Approximately 550 tons of baled straw for the Departments of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, and Horticulture from the three lowest bidders on the basis of the quantities which they indicated they could furnish: F. M. Wolf Approximately 150 tons $ 825 John Coleman Approximately 200 tons 1 190 Ben F. Gardner Approximately 200 tons 1 200 2. 100 per cent rag bond paper watermarked with University seal for Office Supply Store stock as follows: 75 reams 22 x 34—40 lb. 20 reams 22 x 34—32 lb. 20 reams 22 x 34—26 lb. 26 reams 22 x 34—48 lb. from J. W. Butler Paper Company, the lowest bidder, at a price of $1,552.54 f.o.b. Urbana. This quantity represents about one year's supply. 3. 800 cases of 11" x 13" bleached paper towels (Ft. Howard) from the Decatur Paper House, Decatur, Illinois, the lowest bidder, at a cost of $2,620 f.o.b. Urbana. 4. 196 automobile and truck tires for Physical Plant stock, from the following: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company $ 756 58 Sam's Tire Shop (General Tire) 526 72 Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores 2 343 12 On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, the action of the President of the University in authorizing these purchases was approved and confirmed. REPLACEMENT OF ELEVATORS IN MARY E. BUSEY HALL AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (7) The Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the following schedule of bids received for the replacement of elevators in the Mary E. Busey Hall and the Administration Building: Mary E. Busey Administration Combined Bidders Hall Building Bid Westinghouse Electric Elevator Company, 222 N. Bank Drive, Chicago $6 013 $7818 $13 800 Haughton Elevator Co., 507 S. Franklin, Chicago 6 310 7 955 14 265 Otis Elevator Company, Springfield 6 670 9 3« ' 5 920
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