Officers of the
Illinois Municipal League
PRESIDENT
VIRGIL F. LAFFERTY, Mayor,
Champaign
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
J. RUSSEL CHRISTIANSON, Village President,
Oak Park
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
WILLIAM H. WINTERHOFF, Supervisor, Thorton Township
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
L. A. SARGENT
VICE PRESIDENTS
ALTON
Mayor P. W. Day
BELLEVILLE
Mayor Jerome J. Munie
BELVIDERE
Mayor Loster Cunningham
BLOOMINGTON
Mayor Bob McGraw
BROADVIEW
Village President Merritt Braga
BROOKFIELD
Village President Fred Kuehn
CAIRO
Mayor Paul Baur
CALUMET CITY
Mayor Stanley Bejger
CENTRALIA
Mayor H. B. Blanchard
CHICAGO
Mayor Richard J. Daley
CLINTON
Commissioner C. E. Corrington
DECATUR
Mayor Clarence A. Sablotny
DE KALB
Mayor Clayton Pooler
DOWNERS GROVE
Mayor B. H. Groves
EAST ST. LOUIS
Mayor Alvin Fields
EVANSTON
Mayor John Kimbark
FREEPORT
Mayor Glen Kunkle
GALESBURG
Mayor William H. Small
HILLSIDE
Village President Roman J. Binder
JACKSONVILLE
Mayor Robert DuBois
JOLIET
Mayor James T. Hennessy
KANKAKEE
Mayor Edward Madison
LA SALLE
Mayor B. D. Bruno
MATTOON
Mayor Morgan F. Phipps
MELROSE PARK
Village President Andy Frenzel
MOLINE
Mayor Arnold Smith
MONMOUTH
Mayor Donovan Vance
MUNDELEIN
Village President John J. Noel
PARIS
Mayor T. J. Trogdon, Jr.
PEORIA
Mayor Eugene Leiter
PINCKNEYVILLE
Mayor Wm. J. Cunningham
RIVERSIDE
Village President William Hajeck
ROCKFORD
Mayor Benjamin T. Schleicher
SPRINGFIELD
Mayor Nelson O. Howarth
TAYLORVILLE
Mayor Thomas Sweeney
WAUKEGAN
Mayor Robert Sabonjian
PAST PRESIDENTS
A. E. Turngren, Mayor, Harvey
Charles Wellner, Mayor, Naperville
A.L. SARGENT--Editor
DOROTHY COLEMAN NICKELSON--Assistant Editor
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From the
EDITOR'S
DESK . . . .
CITY HALL GOSSIP
Dr. William Winters, Southern Illinois University Government Department, has announced a new municipal administrative intern program. The program is scheduled to start this summer. Interested municipalities may contact Dr. Winters at the University, in Carbondale . . . Peoria and East St. Louis have placed their police department on 40-hour week . . . The city councils of Rock Island and Danville have adopted the first master plans for their respective cities . . . Several Illinois municipalities have held recent censuses: Decatur, from 67,788 to 76,718, an increase of 8,930; Lincolnshire from 209 to 309, the village has been incorporated since July, 1957; Gibson City, from 3,029 to 3,351, an increase of 322 . . . Aurora has recently placed into service its new $50,000 fire station . . . Forsyth, a community of about 365 persons in Ma-con County, has voted to incorporate . . . Alvin J. Keller, finance director at Bloomington, was selected to receive the city's first monthly merit award. A city employee is to be selected each month on his merit and honored by a $50 bond donated by local businessmen . . . Mayor Charles Wellner and the city council of Naperville have created a new position of City Administrator. The new post is to be filled by James Turner, who was formerly the city's electrical engineer . . . Jacob B. Dumelle, Director of Inspections, Peoria, has been appointed city manager at Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Appointments
Grover Strong, to become a member of the village board, Peoria Heights . . . John H. Collier, new clerk, Farmer City . . . Royce W. Owens, to become Deerfield's new manager. Mr. Owens was formerly manager at Golden Valley, Minnesota . . . Charles Fenwick, as a trustee, Mundelein . . . John Pauley, Charleston, new chief of police . . . Roscoe W. Graves has been appointed Health Commissioner, Decatur . . . Stanley Kern as Clerk at Seatonville.
Resignations
Joseph H. Galetti, Jr. as clerk at Seatonville . . . Dr. H. T. Clarno, from city council. Farmer City.
Deaths
Casimir Zdanowicz, city health officer and former alderman at North Chicago . . . Village President Elmer C. Krall, Cerro Gordo.
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