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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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24. Three 75 K V A single-phase, 60-cycle transformers, for the Department of Physics, from the Inland Industrial Electric Service Company, at a cost of $1,359-7525. Sixty yearling steers, for the Department of Animal Husbandry, from the Chicago Producers Commission Association, at a cost of $7,500. 26. Eight hundred thousand 4 * ^ x 9 ^ 2 " white envelopes, for the Extension Service in Agriculture and H o m e Economics, from the Western Envelope Manufacturing Company, Kansas City, Missouri, at a cost of $1,34427. T h r e e hundred eighty-one items of chemicals to be placed in the Genera! Chemical Stores for use during the coming school year, as follows: General Chemical Company, Chicago, $3,496.71; A. S. LaPine and Company, Chicago, $1,179.25; Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, $829.44; A. Daigger and Company, Chicago, $540.01; Schaar and Company, Chicago, $486.12; J. T. Baker Chemical Company, Chicago, $127.53; Merck and Company, St. Louis, $126.98; Coleman and Bell, Norwood, Ohio, $42.34; Wilkens-Anderson Company, Chicago, $41.16. 28. One Brown & Sharpe # 2 universal grinding machine, one Cincinnati Gilbert radial drilling machine, for the Department of Physics, from the W a r Assets Administration, St. Louis, at a cost of $4,040.75. 29. Thirty L. C. Smith, super-speed, standard keyboard, 11-inch carriage, pica-type typewriters, for the Chicago General Stores, from L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc., Chicago, at a net cost of $3,197.40. 30. Twenty-seven items of dental burrs, for the Student Supply Store. Chicago, as follows: eight items from the L. D. Caulk Co., Chicago, at a cost of $147.60; nineteen items from the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co., Chicago, at a cost of $1,415.24. 31. Sixty-eight Baldor No. 210 lathes, twelve No. 5 stone chucks, twentyfour No. 7 taper chucks, for the Student Supply Store, Chicago, from the Central Dental Manufacturing Co., Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, at a cost of $2,393 f.o.b. St. Louis. 32. Three hundred fifty textbooks (Kampmeier, Manual of Human Anatomy, P a r t s I to I V inclusive), for the Student Supply Store, Chicago, from Edwards Brothers, at a cost of $1,060 f.o.b. Ann Arbor, Michigan. 33. One thousand nine hundred tons i ^ - i n c h coal screenings, for the Physical Plant Department, from the Globe Coal Company, Chicago, at a cost of $6,669. 34. One Model E E glass-working lathe and accessories, for the Department of Electrical Engineering, from the Litton Engineering Laboratories, at a cost of $4,000.50 f.o.b. Redwood City, California. 35. Fifteen thousand copies of the sixty-four-page songbook Country Life Songs, for the Department of Agricultural Economics, from Mr. Lynn Rohrbaugh, agent for the Cooperative Recreation Service, Delaware, Ohio, at a cost of $1,42536. Furnishing and installing %" asphalt tile Nos. 64 and 75 in fifteen rooms at the University Airport, for the Institute of Aeronautics, from A. D. Sackett, Champaign, at a cost of $1,200. 37. Four thousand one hundred fifty pounds of copper sheets, bars, and tubing, for the Department of Electrical Engineering, from the Chase Brass and Copper Company, Chicago, at a cost of $1,468.40. 38. Seventy-four 7 8 x 3 6 x 2 4 " steel lockers, for the Residence Halls, from Jack Sheean, Bloomington, agent for the Berger locker, at a cost of $1,921.78. 39. Two kilos of i ( + )lysine monohydrochloride, for the Department of Chemistry, from the Interchemical Corporation, Union, New Jersey, at a cost of

$1,200.

40. One hundred eight Sloan crown flush valves, for use in water conservation in various campus buildings, for the Physical Plant Department, from the A. F . Becker Company, St. Louis, at a cost of $1,478.18 f.o.b. Chicago.' O n m o t i o n of M r . M c K e l v e y , t h e a c t i o n of t h e C o m p t r o l l e r a u t h o r i z i n g these p u r c h a s e s w a s approved a n d confirmed. in