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states that at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Trustees, not less than ten shall constitute a quorum and to require 51 members of the Board to be present for a quorum, and to change the number required to expell a member of the Board from 20 to 65. " This motion of Mr. Whitehurst was duly seconded and it was adopted by unanimous vote.

It was understood that Mr. Whitehurst would introduce a bill in the General Assembly to take care of these proposed changes.

Death of Dr. John C. Tayloe

The Governor was requested to appoint a committee to draft a resolution in memory of Dr. John Cotton Tayloe.

Television

Judge Mintz inquired about the appropriations request for the television program and President Friday called on Mr. Weaver for a statement concerning this:

Mr. Weaver stated that representatives of the Governor's Commission
on Educational Television would appear before the Joint Appropriations
Committee on Thursday, February 28. The Commission has requested $2,600,000 while the Advisory Budget Commission has recommended an appropriation of $1,250,000. The TV Commission is requesting $750,000 to be added to the recommended appropriation, thus totalling $2,000,000. This appropriation would be used to complete the first phase of recommended expansion of educational TV in the state. This phase would entail the building of three additional TV towers: one in the Creswell area, one in the Charlotte area, and one in the Mt. Mitchell area. Mr. Weaver further stated that Channel 4 was activated as the first educational television in this state in 1952, and since that time educational television programs have been broadcast from the Woman's College, State College, and the University at Chapel Hill to a restricted area in the central part of the state. Plans have been developed from time to time since 1952 for extending the educational television network to reach the entire state. This has been stimulated by attempts in various Congresses to appropriate federal money for this purpose, and also by the fact that the original conception of educational television held by the University was in time to cover the entire State.

Mr. Ferebee expressed the hope that the tower recommended for the Western part of the state would be located on Pisgah Mountain rather than on Mt. Mitchell.