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 Mayor Ira Owen, Petersburg, has been named by Governor Stratton to the Illinois Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission . . . Mayor Lewis D. Yaeger, Litchfield, was elected secretary of the hoard of the State Division of Industrial Planning and Development . . . Rockford's City Council has approved the sale of $2,725,000 parking revenue bond issue at the interest rate of 3.91% . . . Mt. Vernon Council has approved the annexation of a 64-acre tract containing approximately 1,000 people ... The City of Watseka has purchased an off-street parking location for $25,000 . . . Aledo now has a planning commission . . . Alton will soon hire its First City "Meter Maids" . . . The City of Peoria recently hosted two Yugoslavian officials, Danilo Staka, a member of his country's Parliament, and Matanko Dolene . . . Peoria, Chicago, Evanston and Springfield are the Illinois cities recognized by the Institute of Traffic Engineers for traffic engineering records in 1957 . . . Urbana is leasing squad cars for the police department ... At a cost of $13,000, El Paso will resurface 33 blocks of streets; the project to be paid out of State Motor Fuel Tax . . . Jack Loftus, Finance Commissioner, Decatur, has been named chairman of the public employees division of the United Fund campaign for the fourth successive year . . . Work has been started in Cullom on blacktopping local streets.
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM YOUR POSTMASTER:
Wherever you live—a complete address is important—always use your correspondent's zone number. If you live in a zoned city, include your delivery zone number in your return address!
For better service—include the delivery zone number in the address—write legibly— address completely—don't abbreviate street or state names—and use the correct postage!
Delivery zone numbers help speed your mail—know your zone number and please use it! You're miles ahead when you mail early in the day—it's the better way!
Your mail is delivered faster when you complete the address—the delivery zone number is part of the address in zoned cities—use correct postage and mail early in the day—it's the better way!
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Appointments and Resignations Calvin C. Brown, City Engineer, Elgin, has resigned to become Director of Public Works at Mason City, Iowa . . . Harry H. Porter, Municipal Court Judge of Evanston, has been named Chairman of a new National Safety Council committee, which will attack the problem of drinking and driving . . . Norman Schmidt, head of Evanston building department, has been elected to a second term as secretary of the Building Officials' Conference of America . . . Herbert D. Fritz, currently city Manager at Lexington, Kentucky, will become Peoria's second Manager . . . Robert Edwards has been appointed City Manager at Savanna. Mr. Edwards was formerly assistant to Bert Johnson, Evanston . . . Roy Anderson, Finance Director, Peoria, has been elected publicity director of the National Association of Accountants . . . Aldermen Tom Shoemake and William Grindle, Herrin, have resigned . . . Ben C. Thompson, Alderman. Vandalia, resigned . . . Edgar Simonsen, Antioch's Fire Chief, has been appointed Superintendent of Public Works, a new office in the village . . . Mayor Leonard Hastie, Carterville, has resigned . . . Charles B. Hanson has been named Fire Chief, St. Charles, succeeding George Modine who resigned because of illness . . . Ollie Hundman has been named Plumbing Inspector, Bloomington, replacing the late Al Carlson . . . William M. Miller and Danny Ballard, Trustees, Alorton, have resigned and Archie Terry and Gerald Eplin have been named to serve out their unexpired terms . . . Joseph Sikes, Village Attorney, Grayslake, has resigned . . .
Bond Issues
A $210,000 bond issue for a sewage disposal plant has been approved in Tuscola in a special election. A proposed bond issue for a new city hall was rejected. The sewage plant is expected to cost $470,000 with a difference between that figure and the bond issue being financed by sale of revenue bonds ... By a majority of 152 to 26, a $30,000 bond issue has been approved in Maroa for improving water and sewage disposal facilities . . . Voters in Tremont by 326 to 231 turned down a proposed $200,000 bond issue for a sewage system and disposal plant . . . Brocton voters approved a $37,000 bond issue for construction of a water plant. . . . Litchfield voters rejected a $165,000 issue to finance sewer improvements by a vote of 806 to 222 . . . Residents of Zion defeated at referendum, an ordinance establishing a sewer rental fee; the fees were intended to finance a $750,000 revenue bond issue for sewer and drainage improvements . . . Wheaton voters have approved two bond issues a $675,000 issue for storm sewer system improvements and a $160,000 issue for a new police station.
Deaths
Stanley Gibson, Village Trustee, Fox River Grove . . . State Representative Tobias Barry, Sr., Ladd . . . John L. Rice, former Village President, Sidell . . . Brad Durham, Village President, Goreville . . . Thomas G. Hamilton, Village Clerk, La Grange, from 1960 to 1956 . . . Harry T. Carman, former-alderman and former Mayor. Petersburg, father of Roy T. Carman, Petersburg's City Clerk.
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