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"I respectfully requested and recommend that 50 percent of the cost of dormitory construction be appropriated so chat the increase in cost resulting to all dormitory students may be reduced to that extent. This request accords with the position taken by this Board of Trustees last year when this policy was discussed by you.

"In addition to this change in policy concerning dormitories, we stated to the Joint Appropriations Committee the great urgency of a physical science building and a forestry building for State College, the Student Union, and one-half the cost of the heating plant at Chapel Hill. These facilities are sorely needed in meeting our responsibilities as a University, and we did our utmost to point up the essential
need in each case.

"The Commission did not recommend much assistance in new personnel or new programs in the "B" Budget. We have submitted to the Joint Appropriations Committee a list of priority items which we hope will receive their support.

"In summary, may I say that the recommendations of the Budget Commission are most helpful in raising faculty salaries to a more competitive level, in providing funds for books for the libraries, and in providing for Capital Improvements for the institutions which, if approved, will enable us to make up the losses suffered by the 1961 bond vote.

"The supplemental requests I have outlined for you contain items previously approved by this Board. We shall need your active assistance in securing this approval by this session of the General Assembly.

"Finally, as you have noted in the press over the week-end, bills will be introduced in the General Assembly this week concerning the principal recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School and the recommendations made by the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees on University Expansion which you approved at your meeting on January 25.

"Hearings on these bills will be held next Thursday morning in the State Legislative Building by the Joint Committees on Higher Education. Chairman Greenwood of the House and Chairman Humber of the Senate are arranging for full representations to be made. Mr. Tom Pearsall and I have been invited to appear to present our recommendations."