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1951]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Department Agronomy Vendor Kewaunee Manufacturing Co., Adrian, Mich. Norwich Wire Works, Inc., Norwich, N.Y. Brown Instruments Co., Peoria

615 Cost

3 218 9 0

Item Laboratory furniture for the modernization of the Agronomy Soil Biology Laboratory located in Davenport Hall 250 animal cages, all wire, weld construction, r r ' x 8 # * x $tf", front opening, hanger type, two mesh openings Four potentiometers (recording), controlling type, electronic operation, single point, 12* chart, temperature range 0-300 degrees C. with 1 degree C. division, 24 second pen speed, 115 volts a.c. 60 cycle Four audio oscillators

f.o.b. Urbana

Animal Science

r 587 50 f.o.b. Urbana

1 927 80

Chemistry

f.o.b. Philadelphia, Pa.

1 000 0 0

Electrical Engineering

A. Crossley & Associates, Chicago (midwest representative of the Hewlett-Packard Co.)

f.o.b. Palo Alto, Calif.

3 100 00

2,000 pounds liver fractionated into four parts and 20 pounds raw liver powder One two-die swaging machine with 2 h.p., 220 volt, 3 phase, 60 cycle a.c. motor with controls and 15 pair dies One 10* precision lathe with 3 # foot bed, # h.p., 220 volt, 3 phase, 60 cycle a.c. motor and switch One H.L.V. Hardinge precision lathe complete with 3 phase, 60 cycle, 220 volt a.c. motor and controls One double channel magnetic oscillograph recorder with, slow speed drive; a.c. and d.c. amplifiers; 12 rolls chart paper Five cathode ray oscilloscopes

Medical Clinical VioBin Corp., Sciences, Monticello Chicago Professional Colleges Mining and The Torrington Co., Metallurgical Torrington, Conn. Engineering Physics Tepper Hardware Co., Urbana

1 787 50 f.o.b. Torrington, Conn. 1 399 95 f.o.b. South Bend, Ind.

4 372 50

Physics

Hardinge Brothers, Inc., Chicago Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio Everett Associates, Chicago Gaines Hardwood Lumber Co., St. Louis, Mo. Hunter Lumber Co., Urbana CViristmann Hardwood Co., St. Louis, Mo.

f.o.b. Elmira, N.Y.

Physics

f.o.b. Cleveland, Ohio

1 477 80

Physics

f.o.b. Portland, Ore. f.o.b. Urbana

6 935 0 0

310 sheets (10,960 sq. ft.) Douglas Fir plywood, sound 2 sides, exterior AA grade

Physical Plant

232 80 672 00

f.o.b. Chicago f.o.b. St. Louis

2 231 20

Sixteen items of special laboratory furniture to be manufactured, delivered, and installed in the new Radiocarbon Laboratory located in Davenport Hall 1.500 copies Space Medicine: The Human Factor in Flights Beyond the Earth to be printed and bound

Physical Plant

Walrus Manufacturing Co., Decatur

21 060 0 1

University Press

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago

f.o.b. delivered and installed r 438 00 f.o.b. Chicago

On motion of Mr. Johnston, these purchases were authorized as recommended.

REPORT O N T H E CONTROVERSY W I T H T H E W A R N E R C O N S T R U C T I O N COMPANY (23) On February 14, 1951, Mr. T . L. Warner, President of t h e Warner Construction Company, Mr. Lowell A. Lawson, Attorney for t h e Warner Construction Company, and Senator Peter J. Miller appeared, without prior notice t o University authorities, a t a meeting of t h e Illinois Budgetary Commission in Springfield. T h e y all charged that the University of Illinois was evading payments on t h e contract for t h e Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls. Similar statements had been made in writing to members of the Board of Trustees on February 5, 1951, by Mr. T. L. Warner.