Mayor Paul Johnson, Moline, plays golf before the recent meeting of the Northwest Municipal Association at Galva. You will note Mayor Johnson gets a lot of "exercise" out of the game!

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OF ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL REVIEW, published monthly at Springfield, Illinois for October, 1956.

1.    The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publisher—Illinois Municipal League, 537 South Fourth St., Springfield, Ill.

Editor—A. L. Sargent, 537 South Fourth St., Springfield, Ill.

Managing editor—A. L. Sargent, 537 South Fourth St., Springfield, Ill.

Business manager—A. L. Sargent, 537 South Fourth St., Springfield, Ill.

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Illinois Municipal League, 537 South Fourth Street, Springfield, Ill.

3.    The known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None.

4.    Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting; also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner.

5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the date shown above was: (This information is required from daily, weekly, semiweekly, and triweekly newspapers, only.)

(Signed) A. L. SARGENT,

Editor.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of October, 1956.

(SEAL)     DOROTHY C. NICKELSON

Notary Public.

(My commission expires 6th of February, 1957.)

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Chicago has started using a punched card unit that makes it possible to write a check once and from this single writing get the basis for every analysis, listing, record, and summary required by all city departments involved.

Officials told the Municipal Finance Officers Association that they believe this is the first time any government has made use of the process. What it does is to punch a tabulating card or series of cards at the same time that a clerk is typing a check. Every operation following this original writing is fully mechanized, thus eliminating the time, cost, and possible human error that otherwise enter into copying, recopying, listing, posting, computing, balancing or punching, interpreting, and verifying tabulating cards.

The city has prepared a manual describing this new method, "A Procedure of Municipal Disbursements."

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Next year, Chicago will have a new planning department—serving directly under the mayor— and a city planning commission of 15 members instead of the present 34, the American Society of Planning Officials reports. The ordinance establishing this arrangement will take effect Jan. 1, 1957.

In many cities the planning agency—or commission, as it is most often called—is a policy advisory board independent of the "official family," the society pointed out. The paid staff, if there is one, works for the commission. This set-up got its start in the early days of planning when it was primarily a citizens' movement. As planning has become more widely accepted as a full-time administrative function of local government, some experts have advised the planning department set-up. They say that the planning staff should be closer to the chief executive, the local legislative body, and other administrative departments than it is under the commission arrangement. They argue that the status of planning should be comparable to that of any other city department, such as public works or finance.

The members of the staff of the old Chicago planning commission will now work under a commissioner of city planning, who will be appointed by the mayor and responsible to him. The newly formed, smaller commission will act only in an advisory capacity to the department. The commissioner's composition will now be nine citizens appointed by the mayor and six city officials — the

mayor, the president of the board of local improvements, the commissioner of city planning, and the chairmen of three city council committees: finance, buildings and zoning, and planning and housing.

Chiefly, the commissioner of planning will be responsible for the following: coordination of the development of a long-range, capital improvement program for the city; maintaining a comprehensive plan for the city's growth; review of the zoning ordinance; coordination of physical improvement projects; and representing the city in work on planning problems with other governmental units in the Chicago area.