Left to right, first row: Stacey Irish, Personnel Director, Evanston; Ward Bridgewater, Supervisor of Audits of the Department of Revenue; Mr. Ice; Gayle T. Martin, Village Manager, Maywood; second row: James Kaye, Finance Director, Maywood; Dan Duranzo, Finance Director, Glencoe; Bob Weidaw, Finance Director, Winnetka; third row: Charles Willis, Administrative Trainee, Glencoe; Bob Edwards, Administrative Assistant, Evanston; Harris Stevens, Director of Finance, Oak Park; Lee Ellis, Assistant Director of Finance, Winnetka; Bob Buechner, Administrative Assistant, Winnetka; Robert Meyer, Director of Finance, LaGrange.

A group of municipal finance officers from the Chicago Metropolitan Area, recently met with Willard Ice, Supervisor, Rules and Regulations Division of the State Department of Revenue, to discuss the methods used by the Department of Revenue in collecting the municipal sales tax.

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Police pay in the U.S. continues on the rise, in keeping with a six-year trend, according to the International City Managers' Association.

Information collected for the association's Municipal Year Book for 1956 shows that entrance salaries for patrolmen range at the median from $3,450 in cities between 10,000 and 25,000 to $4,080 for cities over 500,000. The median marks the point half-way between the highest paying cities and the lowest.

Maximum salaries of patrolmen at the median range from $3,840 for cities of 10,000 to 25,000 population to $4,925 for cities over 500,000. Median entrance and maximum salaries are from $100 to $255 higher a year than those reported last year for the preceding Year Book and represent an increase at both levels of about $1,000 over police wages in 1900.

For police chiefs, the median salaries range from $5,100 in cities of 10,000 to 25,000 to $12,500 in cities over 500,000. The median salaries for police chiefs in the various population groups are $245 to $1,188 higher than last year, also continuing the six-year trend.

Among cities with over a million in population, Detroit, Mich., pays the highest entering salary to patrolmen, $4,689 a year; while New York shows the highest maximum yearly wage, $6,080. In this same population group, New York pays the tops for its police chief—$25,000—and Chicago and Detroit follow with $18,500 and $18,270.

In the 500,000 to one million group, San Francisco, Calif., pays the highest entering salary to patrolmen, $4,680. The highest maximum pay in this category is found in Washington, D. C, at $5,695.

Cities in the 250,000 to 500,000 class pay salaries in almost the same scale as the 500,000 to one million group, with the highest entering wage credited to Oakland, Calif., at $4,860, and the largest maximum at $5,293 for Toledo, O. Youngstown, O., with

$4,711 beginning salary, leads the cities in the 100,000 to 250,000 class, with the largest maximum for this group being paid by Flint, Mich., at $5,668. Dearborn, Mich., in the 50,000 to 100,000 group, pays an entering salary of $4,716, while Oak Park, Ill., has a maximum of $5,340.