NOC Regents OK Contract For Garage Building The Board of Regents for Northern Oklahoma college in their monthly meeting Monday approved the award of a contract for construction of a new steel maintenance garage building on campus. The low bidder was Atlantic Construction Company of Oklahoma City. The contract sum was $18,272.The new building will be located in the maintenance complex completing a U-shaped formation. It will be 50 feet by 100 feet and will provide space for up to twenty vehicles or a combination of vehicles and other campus equipment.Dr. E. E. Vineyard, NOC president, reviewed budget requests made recently to the Oklahoma State Regents for the 1974-75 academic year. He said the proposal provides for a possible increase of 100 students and sharp advances in teaching salaries. The request totals some $300,000 more than the present year’s funds.Meeting with the board for an informal dinner were the elected faculty members on the College Council, an advisory group to the president. These were John Merryman, Martha Rodrigues, John Kuchera, and Margaret Korn. The faculty and board members exchanged views on college affairs.Plant Bids Are Opened, Exceed Money Available Bids were opened Tuesday night at the city council meeting for four different phases of the municipal power plant expansion and low bids in all four cases totaled over $200,000 more than money available, Mayor Ron Appleman announced.C. H. Guernsey Jr., and Charles Massie of the C. H. Guernsey Co., Oklahoma City took the bids with them to study and will make a recommendation at a special council meeting on Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the council room.Ronnie Blubaugh presented a petition signed by 461 persons requesting that the council call a election to vote on whether voters want the city to participate in the Blackwell-Tonkawa Airport. Blubaugh said he had a total of 461 persons sign the petition, which was 85 more than a previous petition he submitted to the council earlier this year on the same matter. He told the council that his petition has 198 new signers.City Attorney Bob Colombe said a copy of the petition had been filed, as required by law, with city clerk Midge Richards and he had examined it. He said the petition calls for a charter amendment and the city has no charter. He also pointed out that it does not say that the signers are qualified electors of the city.
