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
The City of Aurora has begun a street 'by street survey of its elm tree population as a first step in its elm tree disease control program . . . Mayor Eugene Leiter of Peoria has announced that the city council will meet with their state legislators to discuss legislation as it affects their city government . . . Rockford has established a "city employees council" as part of its personnel program . . . Princeton will shortly open two new municipal off-street parking lots . . . Over $15,000 damage resulted from a fire that gutted, the city engineer's office in the Municipal Building at DeKalb.
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Decatur, a referendum, on the proposition to change from the commission form of government to the council-manager form, will be held late this year . . . Skokie, a group of petitioners are attempting to obtain a referendum on changing from the village form to the city form of government . . . Champaign, city manager Robert Oldland is conducting a study on the possibility of grouping all municipal insurance under the administration of a three-man committee of authorized agents . . . The Bloomington council is considering the establishment of merit pay scales as a part of its pay plan.
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Evanston fire marshal James Geishecker has recently completed a new fire department training manual . . . Evanston municipal judges Harry H. Porter and James M. Corcoran were recently honored for their continuous public service over the last 25 years at a Chamber of Commerce affair . . . Rockford, the city council has voted a water rate increase, the hike will provide an additional $200,000 annually.
APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS
Round Lake Beach, Gerald Eastham has been appointed to the newly created post of Superintendent of Water and Sewers . . . Lawrence E. Kirby to become Champaign's first electrical inspector . . . Carterville's recently elected Mayor Sherman Spiller has named Sam Corbitt fire chief.
BOND ISSUES
Breese, a $310,000 issue to improve and expand Its municipal electric utility . . . Franklin Grove, $171,000 issue for sanitary sewers and a disposal plant . . . Red Bud, a (350,000 revenue bond issue for construction and operation
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CITY HALL GOSSIP
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of a gas utility system . . . Flora, a proposition to issue $270,000 in G. O. bonds was defeated at referendum, the issue was for storm sewer improvements . . . Aurora, a $6,000,000 G. 0. bond issue for storm sewer system improvements will go to the voters as a special ballot at the general election November 4th . . . Oreana voters have approved a $36,000 G. 0. issue to finance in part a $100,000 water works system . . . Milford, a $40,000 issue to improve the streets, has been approved . . . Moline, an ordinance providing for the issuance of a $1,165,000 in water works revenue bonds has been approved by the council.
DEATHS
George S. Olmstead, a former Sterling commissioner . . . former Mayor Myron S. Stubbs of Deer Creek . . . William Weitendorf, former village trustee at Frankfort.
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