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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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a Small Homes Council house constructed in 1947 as a research project financed in part by University funds and in part by a grant from the United States Department of Commerce. T h e University's investment is $15,613.22, T h e sale price authorized by the Board, based upon appraisals, was $13,500. A contract for sale was executed by the University and by Mr. and Mrs. Cantrell. They now request that they be released from the contract for several reasons which, however, are immaterial, since cancellation is of mutual interest to both parties. The University administration is no longer interested in the sale of University-owned residence properties in view of the renewed need, which is bound to increase, for faculty housing. T h e sale of the house to Mr. and Mrs. Cantrell was authorized by the Board because a commitment had been made to them prior to the decision to discontinue disposing of residence properties. Under the circumstances, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend cancellation of this contract, and I concur.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, cancellation of this contract was authorized by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Stratton.

PURCHASES (12) 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 Special physiological monitoring as- Anesthesia, Chicago Electronics for Medicine J7 440 00 sembly consisting of one recorder, Colleges delivered two ECG amplifiers, one oximeter, one multipurpose amplifier, two pressure amplifiers, two Statham t r a n s d u c e r s for p r e s s u r e , one Statham transducer for respiratory studies, and one pneumotachygraph head Spinco Division, One Spinco model L preparative cenPharmacology, 4 500 00 f.o.b. trifuge for use in study of intracelChicago Colleges Beckman Instruments, lular distribution of the isotope of Inc., Belmont, Calif. radioactive plasma proteins Belmont, Calif. Twenty-four microscopes without Biological Sciences, 4 938 0 0 Graf-Apsco Company, case, complete with quadruple noseChicago Chicago delivered pieces, four objectives, wide field Undergraduate oculars and accessories, less allowDivision ance for six used microscopes being traded in Donovan Hershey One collating machine, eight stations, College of 4 080 00 Corporation, complete with offset delivery Agriculture f.o.b. Chicago Boston, Mass. One 400-gallon vacuum type direct Dairy Science Twin City Refrigera5 619 40 expansion milk vat tion Co., delivered One 400-gallon open type direct exUrbana and pansion milk vat installed One 400-gallon open type ice bank milk vat Less trade-in allowance for two old compressors Varian Associates, 12 695 00 One Varian model V-3012A twelvePhysics c/o Alfred Crossley f.o.b. inch laboratory electromagnet Associates, Palo One Varian model V-2011 regulated Chicago Alto, magnet power supply Calif. Arthur D. Little, Inc., 7 710 10 Parts and labor for the repair and rePhysics f.o.b. conditioning of the Collins type Cambridge, Mass. CamCryostat machine located in the bridge, Department of Physics Mass. Engineering Hughes Aircraft 2 592 0 0 Electrical equipment Research Company, f.o.b. Chicago Culver City. Calif.