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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 29

T h e Dean of the College of Engineering, the Chairman of the University Research Board, and the Comptroller recommend continuation of this contract. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, extension of this contract as recommended was authorized.

PURCHASES Purchases Authorized (29) T h e following purchases were authorized by the President on the recommendation of the Director of Purchases and the Comptroller. Item Department Vendor Cost 274 oak chairs for the Men's Residence Housing Division Universal Equipment Co., $6 493 80 f.o.b. Halls Batesville, Indiana delivered One lot laboratory chemicals and ap5 981 15 General Chemical A. Daigger and Co., f.o.b. paratus Stores Chicago Urbana 290 choice feeder lambs Animal Science Petersen Sheep Co., 3 836 78 f.o.b. Spencer, Iowa shipping point Equipment for U. S. Government re3 100 00 Engineering Raytheon Manufacturing search programs (restricted) Research Co., Waltham, Mass.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, these purchases were approved.

Purchases Recommended T h e Director of Purchases has proposed and the Comptroller recommends the following purchases. Unless otherwise specified, the purchase in each case is recommended on the basis of lowest bid. I concur. Item Department Vendor Cost One model 20A auditory test unit with Speech J. W. Bourke and Sons, $2 950 00 desk, complete with noise generator, f.o.b. Chicago delivered frequency oscillator, pulse, turntable, amplifier and tape recorder including and installation installed 10 600 00 One oscillograph record reading equipCivil Benson-Lehner Corp., f.o.b. ment including a record reader, data Engineering Los Angeles, Calif. destination handling section, and output device 6 000 00 Printing and binding Illinois Studies in University Press R. R. Donnelley and Language and Literature during 1954Sons Co., f.o.b. 55 (three issues) Chicago Urbana 1,000 copies of book entitled A vian 3 896 00 University Press Waverly Press, f.o.b. Biology to be printed and bound Baltimore, Md. Baltimore, Md. Planographing nine issues of the Facul3 225 00 Office of Public Craft Printing Co., ty-Alumni Newsletter during 1954-55 Relations, Chicago (estiChicago mate) Professional Colleges Approximately 600 cases of Pyrex laboChicago Colleges Schaar and Co., Chicago ratory glassware for the Chicago Col(100 cases) 2 600 00 and Divisions leges and Undergraduate Division Chicago Apparatus Co., 2 600 00 Chicago (100 cases) Fisher Scientific Co., 2 600 00 Chicago (100 cases) Central Scientific Co., 2 600 00 Chicago (100 cases) A. S. Aloe & Co., Chicago 2 600 00 (100 cases) American Hospital Supply, 2 600 00 Evanston (100 cases) Total 1[15 600 00) One Ford station wagon, less trade-in 5 837 0 0 Agriculture Tom Purvis, Inc., allowance for vehicle No. 675, 1951 Administration Mattoon (net) Ford four-door sedan Five four-door sedans, less trade-in allowance for the following vehicles: No. 674, 1951 Ford four-door sedan; No. 816, 1951 Ford four-door sedan; No. 836, 1951 Ford coupe; No. 842, 1951 Ford two-door sedan; No. 847, 1951 Ford two-door sedan