Smyrna times., 1950-11-30
AGRICULTURE
CENTER PLAN
President ]. A. Perkins Says
Work Will Start Before
First of Year
CONTRACT TO H. BATON

WIN Oll IhS Ou4fS4S Slly Vi Oeld-
wares new agriculture center, long
frustrated by rising construction
costs, will start before the first of
the year, President John A. Per-
kins said yesterday. In order to
get the building under way, ne re-
ported, decision was made to
eliminate the auditorium from the
plans, and to simplify the building
and grounds. Under those condi-
tions, a contract for general con-
struction was awarded to Henry E.
Baton, Philadelphia, in the amount
of $721 $50. Dooley & Gardner, Inc,
of Wilmington, received the con-
tract for installation of plumbing,
heating and sventiliating, in the
amount of S243, 800. The electrical
work will be done by Garrett Mill
er & Co., of Wilmington, for S108,-
568, and 1.-The Security Elevator
Company, Philadelphia, will install
an elevator for $6,5O0.
Plans Revised
The total of S1,080,S78 is more
than $114,0 900 under the bids which
We're submitted last month for this
same work under the original
plans. Furthermore, the university
awarded no contract for a garage
and a head house for the green +
houses, which prospectively would
have added almost another $50, 900
onto the cost. In addition, there
was no contract let for sanitary
sewers, storm drainage, grading of
the site, and for paving of drive
ways, walks and parking areas.
This latter work will be readver
tised for more bids in the spring.
In submitting its bid, the Baton
firm has estimated nine months
would be needed for construction
after receipt of sufficient structur-
al steel. Completion of plumbing,
heating, ventilating and electrical
work probably will take several d
additional months. /;
State Will Ranafit
Discussing the new building,
which will house all instructional
research, and extension Offices,
classrooms, and laboratories of the
entire School of Agriculture, Pres
ident Perkins commented that it
will be zone of the most significant
in the facilities of
the university, which the state it.
self has made available through
appropriation" The state granted
81 ,250,000 for the building as one
Of the last acts of the 1949 Gener- {
al Assembly. THE Agriculture Y
will benefit the university 6
through it's School of Agricul- {
ture," said DR.. Perkins, land (
through this school and its activi- Y
ties, the people of the whole state /
will be benefited. 1t is unfortunate Y
hat it was impossible to have !
plans by the time the |
General Assembly granted the +
funds, so that the building could (
have been constructed at once and q
De in use now. The detailed plans, c
however, could not be made until r
he appropriation actually was v
available. But the time taken for C
.he plans since the appropriation
vas voted has been very well
spent. The building, in every par
.icular, is well conceived from the \
standpoint of efficient and econom-
cal building and operation. 1t is
most unfortunate that rising @
costs have necessitated v
he elimination of some of the fea- h
ures which had been considered {
desirable. We have had to elimin- o
tie the auditorium and greatly I
both the building and the d
around it." t
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