Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956
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196 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [December 20 costs could be amortized from net income. This did not prove possible. The facility was operated until the summer of 1952. At that time, it was converted to office space and classrooms. T h e original capital cost was paid from accumulated earnings of housing operations and the operating loss assumed by the Illini Union. McKinley Hospital Operations The University has a special committee studying the operations of the McKinley Hospital. Some improvements have been made. Operating economies have been effected. Beginning this year the charge for rooms has been increased. ( A n increase in the hospital and medical service fee, which will provide increased benefits, covers this.) Studies are also underway for more effectively utilizing space in the McKinley Hospital. Withholding Tax Money W h e n the Internal Revenue Code was first changed to provide for withholding of income tax, the State Auditor's Office acted as the withholding agent on University salary payments made from State funds. Considerable difficulty was experienced in this procedure and an opinion was obtained from the Bureau of Internal Revenue "that the University is considered an agency of the State and as such is required to withhold the tax on the employees as provided in. . . ." There have been no difficulties with the University acting as the withholding agent. T h e point is now made that some question might result if the bank in which the withholding funds are temporarily deposited failed. T h e present method is highly advantageous since the University makes salary payments from other funds and the coordination of withholding in one agent eliminates duplication of records and confusion. University Property Control T h e University has recognized the duplication existing in present procedures and has urged modification of the law establishing this control in the State Auditor's Office to permit less duplication. Because detailed records are essential at the agency, the Auditor's Office should maintain control through control accounts supplemented by "spot" checks to the extent the Auditor believes necessary. LLOYD MOREY President GIFT O F BUSSES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS (23) T h e Greyhound Corporation has presented two busses to the University of Illinois to be used for transportation of disabled students enrolled on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Hydraulic lifts have been installed in the busses so that wheelchairs can be rolled in the door and brought to floor level. Some of the seats have been removed from the former 29-passenger busses so that ten wheelchairs can roll into place along the sides of each vehicle. Seventeen seats have been retained in each for passengers using crutches or otherwise not confined to wheelchairs. This gift was arranged through the efforts of two fathers of wheelchair students — Messrs. James L. McManus of Chicago and H u g h H . Calkins of Barrington. Rebuilding of the busses was done at cost by the Blitz Auto Body Company of Chicago and the tires for the busses were furnished by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. T h e parents of disabled students at the University of Illinois have contributed to the cost of equipping the vehicles. Provision has been made in the University's budget for 1954-55 f ° r the operation of the busses. T h e busses were formally turned over to the University at a brief public ceremony on Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, and I have accepted them. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, the President's action was confirmed and the Secretary was requested to send the donors a letter expressing the Board's appreciation. DEATH O F DR. DAVID J . DAVIS (24) T h e President of the University reported the death on December 19 of Dr. David J. Davis, Dean of the College of Medicine and Professor of Pathology,
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