MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION HAS DINNER AT GENESEO

GENESEO—About 125 persons attended the dinner meeting of the Northwest Municipal Assn. recently in the Geneseo Masonic Temple. Shown above are Vincent Mock, Geneseo alderman and past president of the group, who served as master of ceremonies; Elon Lagerblade, Moline, vice president; Sigurd L. Anderson, Moline, Second Ward alderman; Mrs. Myrtle Bessant, Geneseo city clerk, secretary-treasurer; the Rev. John Watson of Abingdon, speaker; Dr. P. J. Doering, Geneseo mayor; Steve Sargent, Springfield, representative of Illinois Municipal Assn. information service, and R. T. Gustus, Cambridge, NMA president.

GENESEO—"You must attract attention to get ideas across in government and public affairs," said the Rev. John Watson of Abingdon, speaker at the dinner meeting of the Northwest Municipal Association last night in the Geneseo Masonic Temple.

He commented that "The greatest danger in the world today is that some atomic scientist would make an error and start a chain reaction destroying the world. Mistakes cannot be made at this time in the world."

Members were invited to attend the municipal problems committee meeting May 22 at the City Hall in Peoria.

Vincent Mock, Geneseo alderman, was master of ceremonies for the program and introduced Alderman Alfred Krantz and Emil Klingler Jr. and Mrs. Bessant, the committee in charge.

Music was by Bob Adams and his mother, Mrs. Horace Adams; Tom Bartlett and Donna Bessant, accompanied by Mary Helen Johnston; the girls octet of the High School, and Marcia Rivenburg and her father, Charles Rivenburg.

Dinner was served by the Geneseo Eastern Star.

Next meeting will be in September in Moline.

Page 135 / Illinois Municipal Review / June 1958