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

CITY HALL GOSSIP

Dr. William Winters, Southern Illinois University Government Department, has announced a new municipal administrative intern program. The program is scheduled to start this summer. Interested municipalities may contact Dr. Winters at the University, in Carbondale . . . Peoria and East St. Louis have placed their police department on 40-hour week . . . The city councils of Rock Island and Danville have adopted the first master plans for their respective cities . . . Several Illinois municipalities have held recent censuses: Decatur, from 67,788 to 76,718, an increase of 8,930; Lincolnshire from 209 to 309, the village has been incorporated since July, 1957; Gibson City, from 3,029 to 3,351, an increase of 322 . . . Aurora has recently placed into service its new $50,000 fire station . . . Forsyth, a community of about 365 persons in Ma-con County, has voted to incorporate . . . Alvin J. Keller, finance director at Bloomington, was selected to receive the city's first monthly merit award. A city employee is to be selected each month on his merit and honored by a $50 bond donated by local businessmen . . . Mayor Charles Wellner and the city council of Naperville have created a new position of City Administrator. The new post is to be filled by James Turner, who was formerly the city's electrical engineer . . . Jacob B. Dumelle, Director of Inspections, Peoria, has been appointed city manager at Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Appointments

Grover Strong, to become a member of the village board, Peoria Heights . . . John H. Collier, new clerk, Farmer City . . . Royce W. Owens, to become Deerfield's new manager. Mr. Owens was formerly manager at Golden Valley, Minnesota . . . Charles Fenwick, as a trustee, Mundelein . . . John Pauley, Charleston, new chief of police . . . Roscoe W. Graves has been appointed Health Commissioner, Decatur . . . Stanley Kern as Clerk at Seatonville.

Resignations

Joseph H. Galetti, Jr. as clerk at Seatonville . . . Dr. H. T. Clarno, from city council. Farmer City.

Deaths

Casimir Zdanowicz, city health officer and former alderman at North Chicago . . . Village President Elmer C. Krall, Cerro Gordo.