Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 34]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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scenes to be telecast in connection with any commercial feature of the program. Under no circumstances will there be any advertising of beer, liquor, wine, or laxatives. (c) The Athletic Association will have the right to terminate the contract if the Association considers any broadcast to be in poor taste or incompatible with the educational dignity and propriety of the University of Illinois. ( d ) The contract does not grant the exclusive right to N . W. Ayer & Son, Inc., to televise and telecast the games. T h e N. W. Ayer Company agrees to pay all expenses of installing of equipment and the operation thereof, and the sole obligation of the Athletic Association is to provide suitable space. The Legal Counsel and the Comptroller have examined the contract and recommend approval. 2. Purchase of laundry equipment for athletic clothing laundry. T h e service which has been available and the prices charged for the laundry of athletic gear have not been satisfactory for some time. Therefore, quotations were requested from eight manufacturing concerns for laundry equipment necessary to set up a laundry. Only one company, the U. S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., Chicago, was in a position to furnish the necessary equipment immediately. For $5,000 this firm offers to supply the following equipment, delivered to Champaign and set on foundations prepared by the Athletic Association: (a) one 3 6 " x 5 4 " Hoffman standard washer (this machine has been used 30 days but is available for immediate delivery), (b) one 30" Hoffman open-top extractor, and (c) two Hoffman open-end drying tumblers. This equipment will provide for laundering all athletic gear, as well as towels owned by the University but used by varsity athletes in George Huff Gymnasium and Men's Old Gymnasium. It is understood and agreed that, should the University find it expeditious to install a laundry of its own, this equipment will be sold to the University and that, for the purpose of building up volume, the Athletic Association will be willing to have all its laundry done by the University. The Director of Purchases and the Comptroller have reviewed this recommendation and concur with it. I recommend approval of the above actions of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, these awards were approved.

AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR INSTALLATION OF CABLE AND TRANSFORMERS FOR THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ADDITION IN CHICAGO (44) T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend a contract in the amount of $10,147 with the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, for furnishing cable work and transformers for electrical service to the Physical Environment Addition in Chicago, and a contract at a monthly rental of $44.10 for the rental of three transformers. T h e cost is covered in the operating budget. The University has ordered transformers but they will not be available until February, 1949, and by renting transformers temporarily the unit may be placed in operation in October, 1948. T h e installation contract provides for the installation of University cable and is work which would have to be done for the University's transformers. However, if the University is to use the transformers of the Commonwealth Edison Company temporarily the Company requires that the Company install the cable. The Physical Plant Department has reviewed the proposal and finds it reasonable. The contract will be replaced by a new one when the University transformers are installed. I concur in this recommendation and request that the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the proposed contracts.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these contracts were approved and authority was given as recommended.