Champaign recently dedicated its seventh off-street parking lot. The entire project was financed by a $950,000 revenue bond issue and has resulted in a total of 640 off-street parking spaces . . . 733 Illinois municipalities received $3,572,000 in sales tax revenues for business transactions in April . . . Evanston has created a new position of "Finance Director-Comptroller." City Manager Bert W. Johnson will be aided in selecting the new official by Aldermen William F. Soule, Walter H. Seidel and John D. Anderson . . . Evanston has been cited by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for police traffic supervision achievements . . . Officials representing Springfield, Chicago, Joliet, Peoria and Waukegan recently met to plan litigation to test the constitutionality of the public building commission act ... Springfield's Public Building Commission has announced that $4,250,000 is a rough estimate of the cost of its proposed City-County building . . . Nokomis City Council is planning the purchase of a new fire truck.

Geneva, $850,000 in water and sewer revenue bonds to improve the water and sewer systems . . . Oswego, $75,000 in water bonds to drill a new well was approved by the voters . . . North Chicago, $800,000 in water revenue bonds to improve the waterworks . . . Lake Zurich, $40,000 in sewer bonds to supplement a previous issuance of $135,000 in general obligation bonds . . . Grayville, $405,000 to finance a natural gas system . . . Parkersburg, $16,000 to construct a new village water system . . . Roseville, $25,000 in water and sewer revenue bonds . . . Fairbury, $35,780 in revenue bonds for sewer improvements . . . Galesburg, the City Council has approved a storm and sanitary sewer program which will cost more than $2,000,000. Project is to be financed by the issuance of revenue bonds . . . Wenona, a $70,000 bond issue to drill a new well was approved by the voters.

Zion, voters rejected by a margin of better than two to one the issuance of $125,000 in general obligation bonds to finance a swimming pool.

Calvin G. Brown has been appointed City Engineer for Elgin . . . Fred Frimel has been elected Mayor at Odin . . . Thomas Piper to be Police chief at Henry . . . Frank Novich appointed

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Village Treasurer at Fairmont City to fill the unexpired term of Andy Walz . . . R. W. Dolder to be Police Chief of Tuscola . . . John Kriz, former Island Lake Building Commissioner has been named Chairman of Island Lake Regional Planning Committee . . . Jack Manley elected Alderman in Wenona . . . Alderman Harry Morse has been named acting Mayor at Henry . . . J. D. Bock named assistant Engineer in Bloomington . . . Charles Aguar, Assistant Director of the St. Louis City Plan Commission, has been named Executive Director of the Springfield-Sangamon County combined Plan Commission.

Louis Krec, Police Chief at Fox Lake . . . Alderman Harold Arteberry of St. Charles . . . Louis S. Klein, Mayor of Henry, due to ill health . . . Arthur Phipps, Alderman of Hamilton . . . Alderman Carroll Hammond of Urbana . . . Harry Davis as Police Chief at Henry . . . Farmington, Mayor Jim Fresia.

George H. Servatius, former Rockford City Engineer . . . Herbert Nichols, former Dixon Commissioner . . . Harry S. Ditchburne, Mayor of Palos Park. Mr. Ditchburne was a special Assistant Attorney General of Illinois in charge of cigarette tax counterfeiting problems. He had also served as Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County from 1927 to 1933.