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
DIRECTOR'S
DESK . . . .
CITY HALL GOSSIP
Around the State Paul Opperman has been named Executive Director of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. The Commission, established by the last session of the General Assembly, will act as a clearing house for local planning agencies in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Mc-Henry, Kane and Will counties. Mr. Opperman was formerly planning director at San Francisco. . . . Mayor Paul Taylor of Effingham conducts a weekly fifteen minute program over a local radio station keeping the people posted on city matters. ... Mayor Robert Sabonjian of Waukegan recently appeared on a nation wide TV program honoring comedian Jack Benny. Benny, a native of Waukegan, was presented a plaque, by the Mayor, naming him Waukegan's outstanding citizen of 1958. . . . The Village of St. Marie recently became the 1,000th municipality to adopt the sales tax.
Resignations and Appointments Ralph B. Johnson, former Mayor of Galesburg and a Past President of the Illinois Municipal League, has been named Administrator of the Illinois Veterans Commission by Governor Stratton . . . Ray Davis has been elected alderman at Marengo . . . Gaylord Powell has been appointed Village Treasurer at Cahokia . . . Gibson City at a special election, Wayne A. O'Neal was named alderman . . . Alan N. Buck, Highway superintendent and Zoning Administrator at Decatur, has resigned . . . Arthur P. Girard has been named Building Inspector at Decatur . . . Commissioner P. B. Hutton of Charleston has resigned.
Bond Issues
Springfield has awarded a contract to purchase $6,600,000 worth of sewer revenue bonds at a net rate of 3.532+ . . . Bloomington, the City Council has approved a $660,000 issue to expand its electric utility.
Deaths
Mayor Lowell B. Horton, Mayor of Nauvoo for 80 years . . . Fire Chief M. Francis Durkin of Springfield . . . Perry Dryden, an Alderman at Geneva for the past 85 years . . . Howard R. Brent-linger, a former Mayor of Barrington . . . Gilbert Elson, former Mayor, Lexington.
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