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1961 (September) 
1961 (November) 
1961 (December) 
FY 1961 
FY 1961 
FY 1961 
1962 (January) 
1962 (February) 
1962 (February) 
1962 (March) 
1962 (June) 
Planning Conmiittee meeting. The Organization Committee was 
urged to plan a national primate station and also a procurement 
and conditioning center; Committee favored broad institutional 
support for primate research in institutions other than regional 
centers; suggested that the word "regional" be in the title of 
each regional center. 
Heart Council meeting. Council recommended continued support 
for baboon colony at San Antonio, Texas, but not as a regional 
primate research center; that a "tag" be put upon a land area 
in California near San Francisco for a primate conditioning 
center; and that "regional" be in the titles of all the regional 
primate research centers. (p. 30) 
Meeting of Dr. K. F. Meyer, Dr. Knutti, Dr. Yeager, Dr. Eyestone, 
Dr. Price, and Dr. E. Allen. Agreement was reached to try to 
finance a primate conditioning center at Davis, California, 
(p. 30) 
House Subcommittee hearings clarified the authorization to use 
appropriation funds to buy land and construct buildings on non- 
matching basis; $11 million said to be sufficient for the program 
in fiscal 1961. Senate Subcommittee was told that a tentative 
award had been made to establish the center at Portland, Oregon, 
(p. 34) 
Senate Subcommittee hearings indicated a tentative grant award 
had been made for a center in Oregon. (p. 34) 
Congress appropriated $7 million. 
Primate Research Study Section meeting. Joined by Cancer Insti- 
tute Virus and Cancer Board to discuss use of primates in cancer 
virus research; and by representatives of Cancer Institute's 
Laboratory Animal Panel which urged the establishment of a primate 
conditioning center. Study Section met in executive session with 
Dr. Ralph Knutti, Dr. Dale Lindsay, and Dr. Ernest Allen, relative 
to a conditioning center at Davis, California. (p. 30) 
Meeting of Primate Research Study Section at Davis, California^ 
Establishment of conditioning center recommended. (p. 30) 
Planning committee meeting. Considered and recommended condition- 
ing center to be established at Davis, California. 
Heart Council meeting. Council recommended grants for establish- 
ment of national primate conditioning center at Davis, California, 
(p. 31) 
Planning Committee meeting. Dr. Burch requested termination of 
the Organization Committee. (p. 13) 
