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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (16) A report of the following purchases proposed by the Purchasing Agent and authorized by the Comptroller as emergency items: 1.. 42 special E & O dental operating lights, requested by the College of Dentistry, from Pelton & Crane Co. at a cost of $2,394. T h i s firm is the sole manufacturer of these lights. These lights are intended to supplement and to complete the installation made on purchase order No. 46924, dated September 3, 1942, approved by the Board of Trustees on August 29, 1042, and an additional installation on purchase order No. 52606, dated June 30, 1943. T h e approval of this proposal will complete the program of illumination of all clinic dental units of the College of Dentistry. T h e Pelton & Crane Co. will be able to effect delivery in accordance with our requirements without a priority. T h e price quoted on this proposal is identical with previous quotations and is reasonable for units of this description. 2. 1500 tons screenings coal, to be delivered in July for current consumption in the power plant at Urbana, from the Southern Coal Company, the lowest bidder, at a delivered cost of $4,170. 3. One K-7 International truck, 176" wheel base, with cab, and six 8 : 2 5 x 2 0 , 10-ply tires, platform body with stock rack, for use at Dixon Springs Experiment Station, from the Power F a r m Implement Company, Champaign, Illinois, at a cost of $2,394.45. 4. One car load No. 2 yellow shelled corn, for the Dixon Springs Experiment Station, from the Commodity Credit Corporation at Chicago at an estimated expenditure of $1,500. 5. Seventy tons baled wheat straw, for the Dairy Husbandry Department, from A. M. Grimes and F r a n k Haines, St. Joseph, Illinois, at their price of $17 a ton, or an approximate total cost of $1,190.

This report was received for record.

CONTRACTS EXECUTED BY T H E COMPTROLLER J U N E 1 6 TO J U L Y 1 1 , 1 9 4 4 (17) T h e Comptroller's report of contracts. Amount to be

With Whom E. N. DeAtley Champaign Aviation Company King and Petry King and Petry Purpose Construction of music library stacks in Smith Music Hall Instruction for students in dual control flight Alterations to volatile storage room in Noyes Laboratory Expansion of Tabulating Office in Administration Building Purpose Amendment of research contract paid by the University $ 850 Hourly rates 3 69s 8 070 Dale June 20, 1944 June 19, 1944 June 16, 1944 June 16, 1944

With Whom War Production Board

Amount to be received by the University Date S3 000 June 8, 1944

This report was received for record.

GIFTS A N D GRANTS FOR RESEARCH A N D OTHER PURPOSES (18) A report of the following gifts and grants of funds for research and other purposes received by the University since the last report:

Gifts

1. Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, $1,500 to provide for two fellowships carrying stipends of $750 each in Organic Chemistry during the year 1944-1945. 2. Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, $1,000 to establish a scholarship fund for students in occupational therapy, and $300 toward furnishing a student lounge in the Occupational Therapy Department in the College of Medicine. 3. Abbott Laboratories, $750 for a fellowship in organic chemistry during the year 1943-1944. 4. United Engineering Trustees, Incorporated, $525 to be used for student labor, supplies, and materials in the work on electric welding which is being done under the direction of Dr. G. H . Fett of the Department of Electrical Engineering.