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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 29

and crafts in Piatt County Illinois are subject to so much variation that it is not possible to establish single rates as prevailing. W e find that it is a fact that elsewhere in the State of Illinois, under conditions comparable to those at Allerton Park, that the responsible public bodies or agencies have accepted as the. prevailing rates, the rates established as the union rates under agreements with the union in whose jurisdictional territory these respective institutions and properties lie. T h e Committee recommends to the Board that it proceed in accordance with all the facts outlined above. ROBERT L. GORDON

DONALD E. DICKASON

W. F . MEYER,

Chairman

I recommend that, consistent with its present policy, the University proceed according to the finding stated in the first paragraph of the Committee's conclusion in awarding contracts for construction work at Robert Allerton Park. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . REQUEST OF MCKINLEY MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN C H U R C H FOR USE OF UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM (21) The McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church at Fourth and John Streets, Champaign, is rehabilitating and enlarging its church building which will be out of service for approximately seven months from November 1, 1950. T h e officials of the church have requested the use of a University building (either Smith Music Hall or the Auditorium) each Sunday from approximately 10:00 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. during this period so that they may continue church services. Although it is contrary to the Statutes of the University to rent campus facilities to local, outside organizations, an exception was made by the Board of Trustees in 1932 when the University Place, Christian Church was permitted to use a University building following the loss of its church building by fire. I recommend that permission be granted the McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church to use the University Auditorium during the period indicated with the understanding that the church will reimburse the University for direct costs resulting from such use and that officials of the church will be responsible for complying with all applicable University regulations. Representatives of the church have indicated their willingness to do this. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . BEQUEST OF JESSIE E. HACKETT (22) The will of the late Mrs. Jessie Ellars Hackett, of Tuscola, recently filed with the County Clerk of Douglas County, includes the following bequest to the University of Illinois: S I X T H : I give, devise, and bequeath unto the Trustees of the University of Illinois, at Urbana, Illinois, the following described real estate, to be disposed of as directed in Paragraph Seventh hereafter: Twenty-four and one-half ( 2 4 ^ ) acres off of the South side of the W e s t Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section Six ( 6 ) , Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Seven (7) East of the Third Principal Meridian; Also, Tweny-four and one-half ( 2 4 ^ ) acres off the South side of Lot One (1) of the Southwest Quarter of Section Six ( 6 ) , Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Seven (7) East of the Third Principal Meridian; Also, Thirty-nine and two-thirds (39^3) acres off of the South side of Lot T w o (2) of the Southwest Quarter of Section Six (6) Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Seven (7) East of the Third Principal Meridian; Also, the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section Six ( 6 ) , Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Seven ( 7 ) , East of the Third Principal Meridian; Also, the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section Six ( 6 ) , Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Seven (7) East of the Third Principal Meridian; Also, the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of