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
Around the State

Mayor Ira Owen, Petersburg, has been named by Governor Stratton to the Illinois Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission . . . Mayor Lewis D. Yaeger, Litchfield, was elected secretary of the hoard of the State Division of Industrial Planning and Development . . . Rockford's City Council has approved the sale of $2,725,000 parking revenue bond issue at the interest rate of 3.91% . . . Mt. Vernon Council has approved the annexation of a 64-acre tract containing approximately 1,000 people ... The City of Watseka has purchased an off-street parking location for $25,000 . . . Aledo now has a planning commission . . . Alton will soon hire its First City "Meter Maids" . . . The City of Peoria recently hosted two Yugoslavian officials, Danilo Staka, a member of his country's Parliament, and Matanko Dolene . . . Peoria, Chicago, Evanston and Springfield are the Illinois cities recognized by the Institute of Traffic Engineers for traffic engineering records in 1957 . . . Urbana is leasing squad cars for the police department ... At a cost of $13,000, El Paso will resurface 33 blocks of streets; the project to be paid out of State Motor Fuel Tax . . . Jack Loftus, Finance Commissioner, Decatur, has been named chairman of the public employees division of the United Fund campaign for the fourth successive year . . . Work has been started in Cullom on blacktopping local streets.

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM YOUR POSTMASTER: Wherever you live—a complete address is important—always use your correspondent's zone number. If you live in a zoned city, include your delivery zone number in your return address! For better service—include the delivery zone number in the address—write legibly— address completely—don't abbreviate street or state names—and use the correct postage! Delivery zone numbers help speed your mail—know your zone number and please use it! You're miles ahead when you mail early in the day—it's the better way! Your mail is delivered faster when you complete the address—the delivery zone number is part of the address in zoned cities—use correct postage and mail early in the day—it's the better way!

Appointments and Resignations

Calvin C. Brown, City Engineer, Elgin, has resigned to become Director of Public Works at Mason City, Iowa . . . Harry H. Porter, Municipal Court Judge of Evanston, has been named Chairman of a new National Safety Council committee, which will attack the problem of drinking and driving . . . Norman Schmidt, head of Evanston building department, has been elected to a second term as secretary of the Building Officials' Conference of America . . . Herbert D. Fritz, currently city Manager at Lexington, Kentucky, will become Peoria's second Manager . . . Robert Edwards has been appointed City Manager at Savanna. Mr. Edwards was formerly assistant to Bert Johnson, Evanston . . . Roy Anderson, Finance Director, Peoria, has been elected publicity director of the National Association of Accountants . . . Aldermen Tom Shoemake and William Grindle, Herrin, have resigned . . . Ben C. Thompson, Alderman. Vandalia, resigned . . . Edgar Simonsen, Antioch's Fire Chief, has been appointed Superintendent of Public Works, a new office in the village . . . Mayor Leonard Hastie, Carterville, has resigned . . . Charles B. Hanson has been named Fire Chief, St. Charles, succeeding George Modine who resigned because of illness . . . Ollie Hundman has been named Plumbing Inspector, Bloomington, replacing the late Al Carlson . . . William M. Miller and Danny Ballard, Trustees, Alorton, have resigned and Archie Terry and Gerald Eplin have been named to serve out their unexpired terms . . . Joseph Sikes, Village Attorney, Grayslake, has resigned . . .

Bond Issues

A $210,000 bond issue for a sewage disposal plant has been approved in Tuscola in a special election. A proposed bond issue for a new city hall was rejected. The sewage plant is expected to cost $470,000 with a difference between that figure and the bond issue being financed by sale of revenue bonds ... By a majority of 152 to 26, a $30,000 bond issue has been approved in Maroa for improving water and sewage disposal facilities . . . Voters in Tremont by 326 to 231 turned down a proposed $200,000 bond issue for a sewage system and disposal plant . . . Brocton voters approved a $37,000 bond issue for construction of a water plant. . . . Litchfield voters rejected a $165,000 issue to finance sewer improvements by a vote of 806 to 222 . . . Residents of Zion defeated at referendum, an ordinance establishing a sewer rental fee; the fees were intended to finance a $750,000 revenue bond issue for sewer and drainage improvements . . . Wheaton voters have approved two bond issues a $675,000 issue for storm sewer system improvements and a $160,000 issue for a new police station.

Deaths

Stanley Gibson, Village Trustee, Fox River Grove . . . State Representative Tobias Barry, Sr., Ladd . . . John L. Rice, former Village President, Sidell . . . Brad Durham, Village President, Goreville . . . Thomas G. Hamilton, Village Clerk, La Grange, from 1960 to 1956 . . . Harry T. Carman, former-alderman and former Mayor. Petersburg, father of Roy T. Carman, Petersburg's City Clerk.