$10 Million in U.S. Funds Asked

              The Shreveport Times
Sunday, Oct. 1, 1967
Oil and Gas Classified
Metropolitan
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Section C, Page One
Area News
LSU MEDICAL SCHOOL at Shreveport will feature
an "off set" on the top floor, which has been
designated the "animal floor" and will be used for
research. The architect's drawing also shows Con-
LSU Medical School Request
fererate Memorial Medical Center at right, which will
be connected to the school. The school is expected to
be completed by 1972.
$10 Million in U.S. Funds Asked
By MARGARET MARTIN
Of The Times Staff
The application for $10 million
in federal matching funds of
Louisiana State University Medi-c
a l Schoool at Shreveport will be
submitted to officials of the
National Institutes of Health in
Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, ac-cording
to Dr. Edgar Hull, dean
of the school.
Announcement of acceptance
or rejection of the funds will
come next spring.
School officials are in Washing-ton
this weekend to review a
draft copy of the application with
members of the three federal
agencies. The federal officials
will review the application and
suggest possible changes; the
medical school officials will have
time to meet the requirements
and rework the application be-fore
the Nov. 1 deadline.
The application has to be
submitted in three parts to the
National Institute of Health,
which is a branch of the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. The divisions are
responsible for federal grants for
a medical library, medical edu-cation
and medical research.
In January or February, a
review team from Washington
will inspect the medical school
site, before making a recommen-dation.
The $20 million building will be
located immediately adjacent to
land will join the Confederate
Memorial Medical Center at
Kings Highway and Linwood.
CONTEMPORARY
Contemporary in design, the
concrete and steel building will
contain about 400,000 square feet
of floor space. It will include
laboratories such as those for
anatomy and biochemistry, ad-ministrative
classrooms and oth-er
type facilities;
Also included will be a sep-arate
wing for a library and
another wing for an auditorium.
Attahced to the main wing will
be an outpatient building, the
first phase of the project. Plans,
will be out for bids on this phase
in December, 1968, and construc-tion
is expected to begin the next
month.
Plans will be ready for bids on
the main building in April, 1970.
and the whole complex is
expected to be ready 1972.
Twenty-nine students are ex-pected
to attend the first classes
in 1969 in temporary buildings.
Architects for the building are
Samuel G. Wiener & Associates;
Wilson & Sandifer; and Wiener,
Morgan & O'Neal.