Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 322]

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1957]

U N I V E R S I T Y OF

ILLINOIS Vendor Brush Electronics Co., Cleveland, Ohio

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Cost $ 8 777 15 f.a.8. New York, N.Y.

Item One set sound radiation measurement apparatus (including polar, linear, and level recorders, microphone, cables, and other accessories) for complete study of audio-sound radiation

Department India Contracts

The following p u r c h a s e w a s a u t h o r i z e d b y t h e E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e o n r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e D i r e c t o r of P u r c h a s e s a n d t h e V i c e - P r e s i d e n t a n d C o m p t r o l l e r , and w i t h t h e c o n c u r r e n c e of t h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y . Item Installation of equipment on the Aero Commander, Model 68o airplane purchased for use in research work. The funds for this will be provided under contracts with the United States Government. Department Controls Systems Laboratory Vendor Aero Design & Engineering Co., Bethany, Okla. Cost

$31 132 12

On motion of Mr. Swain, these purchases were approved. Purchases Recommended

The D i r e c t o r of P u r c h a s e s h a s p r o p o s e d a n d t h e V i c e - P r e s i d e n t a n d C o m p t r o l l e r recommends t h e following p u r c h a s e s . U n l e s s o t h e r w i s e specified, t h e p u r c h a s e in each case is r e c o m m e n d e d o n t h e basis of t h e l o w e s t b i d . I concur. Department Vendor Item Cost Alumni AssociaNeely Printing Co., Inc., $13 490 0 0 Printing of Illinois Alumni News for year 1957 tion Chicago f.o.b. Seven issues, 20,000 copies, sixteen Chicago pages Two issues, 90,000 copies, eight pages Rental of caps, gowns, and hoods for 6 500 00 Collegiate Cap & Gown Commencement students graduating June is. 1957 Co., Champaign One automatic gasflowcounter; one sam- Bacteriology Nuclear Chicago Corp., 2 615 00 ple changer, automatic, 35 planchet; f.o.b. Chicago Chicago one printing timer, 99 sample to 999.99 min. in 0.01; one lead shield for D-47 tube One vapor fractometer, complete with Chemistry and Perkin-Elmer Corp., 3 090 00 recorder, sampling valve, microdipper Chemical Chicago f.o.b. sample introducer, and seven interEngineering Norwalk, changeable absorption columns Conn. One lot laboratory equipment and supGeneral Chemical A. S. Aloe Co3 183 42 plies f.o.b. Stores St. Louis, Mo. delivered One computer, analog, general purpose Electronic Associates, 27 825 00 Electrical type, to include amplifiers, multiEngineering Long Branch, N.J. f.o.b. pliers, pre-patch panel and cords, sixLong channel recorder, variplotter, funcBranch, tion generator as accessories N.J. Fifteen prescription balances, seven labAmerican Hospital Pharmacy 4 45* 07 oratory balances, twenty-six cases of Supply Corp., f.o.b. pharmaceutical graduates Evanston delivered One washer for laboratory animal cages, Psychology Heinicke Instruments, 3 250 00 all stainless steel, for cages in sizes up Inc.. f.o.b. to 29 in. high x 30 in. wide x 38 in. destinaHollywood, Fla. tion long, complete with facilities for detergent, hot tap water, and steam rinses, automatic and manual cycling, 220-volt, 60-cycle, 3-phage 143 pieces of steel office furniture includ- Chicago 12 179 86 Steelcase, Inc., ing 87 files, 10 desks, 13 tables, 29 Professional f.o.b. Grand Rapids, Mich. chairs, and four costumers according Colleges, delivered to University specification (a comBusiness plete list, with descriptions, of the Office •terns included in this order and the quotations was available at the Board meeting) 69 student study desks and beds Housing Division Midland Equipment Co., 55 543 70 Chicago f.o.b. delivered ?33 steel lockers of various sizes for the Physical Plant, Ail-Steel Equipment, Inc., 4 081 61 new Band Building f.o.b. Architectural Aurora delivered Division and erected