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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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members of the faculty. T h e appointment is also approved by the Dean of the Graduate College and the Provost. I am pleased to recommend this appointment.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appointment was approved.

INSTITUTE O F LABOR A N D INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (3) The Director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations recommends the following appointments to the Institute's Advisory Committee for a term of three years beginning as of September 1, 1955: DONALD H . TTLSON, Works Manager, Aluminum Company of America, East St. Louis, Illinois. THOMAS G. AYERS, Vice-President, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, Illinois. These appointments will replace Messrs. Eskil I. Bjork, President, People's Gas, Light, and Coke Company, and Ralph Monk, Director of Industrial and Labor Relations, Caterpillar Tractor Co., as representatives of management. REDBEN G. SODERSTROM, President, Illinois State Federation of Labor, Springfield, Illinois. SAMUEL SMITH, Manager, Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America CIO, Chicago, Illinois. These appointments will replace Messrs. Stanley L. Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, Illinois State Federation of Labor, and P a t Greathouse, Regional Director, United Automobile Workers of America CIO, as representatives of labor.

SENATOR T.* M A C DOWNING, Macomb, Illinois.

Senator Downing's appointment is recommended as replacement for Mr. Samuel Shapiro, Kankakee, Illinois, a member of the General Assembly of Illinois, as a representative of the public. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these appointments were approved.

SALE O F UNIVERSITY HOUSE (4) Pursuant to the plan authorized by the Board of Trustees for the sale of University-owned residence properties in Urbana-Champaign which are outside the area of future campus expansion, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the sale of the residence property at 412 Hessel Boulevard, Champaign, to Delford R. and Dorothy J. Cantrell, at a price of $13,500. The University investment in this property is $15,613.22. This is a Small Homes Council unit constructed in 1947. T h e University investment includes the original cost plus subsequent improvements. T h e sale price was determined by an independent appraisal by a real estate expert. I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution: Resolution WHEREAS, Delford R. Cantrell and Dorothy J. Cantrell, his wife, of Champaign, Illinois, hereinafter termed "Purchasers," have offered to purchase the hereinafter described property known as 412 Hessel Boulevard, Champaign, Illinois, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth: Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the state of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed, m the name, and in behalf of this Corporation to enter into an agreement with said Purchasers providing for the sale and conveyance to them of the hereinafter described property upon the following terms and conditions: (A) At a sale price of $13,500.00 with customary adjustments to be made therein . for taxes, insurance, and abstracting costs; \o) This Corporation to furnish Purchasers a merchantable abstract of title and . P a y for the required Federal Revenue stamps; ((-) Possession to be retained by Purchasers under the terms of the presently existing lease of said premises until final closing or termination of the contract of sale.