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

The City of Aurora has begun a street 'by street survey of its elm tree population as a first step in its elm tree disease control program . . . Mayor Eugene Leiter of Peoria has announced that the city council will meet with their state legislators to discuss legislation as it affects their city government . . . Rockford has established a "city employees council" as part of its personnel program . . . Princeton will shortly open two new municipal off-street parking lots . . . Over $15,000 damage resulted from a fire that gutted, the city engineer's office in the Municipal Building at DeKalb.

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Decatur, a referendum, on the proposition to change from the commission form of government to the council-manager form, will be held late this year . . . Skokie, a group of petitioners are attempting to obtain a referendum on changing from the village form to the city form of government . . . Champaign, city manager Robert Oldland is conducting a study on the possibility of grouping all municipal insurance under the administration of a three-man committee of authorized agents . . . The Bloomington council is considering the establishment of merit pay scales as a part of its pay plan.

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Evanston fire marshal James Geishecker has recently completed a new fire department training manual . . . Evanston municipal judges Harry H. Porter and James M. Corcoran were recently honored for their continuous public service over the last 25 years at a Chamber of Commerce affair . . . Rockford, the city council has voted a water rate increase, the hike will provide an additional $200,000 annually.

APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS

Round Lake Beach, Gerald Eastham has been appointed to the newly created post of Superintendent of Water and Sewers . . . Lawrence E. Kirby to become Champaign's first electrical inspector . . . Carterville's recently elected Mayor Sherman Spiller has named Sam Corbitt fire chief.

BOND ISSUES

Breese, a $310,000 issue to improve and expand Its municipal electric utility . . . Franklin Grove, $171,000 issue for sanitary sewers and a disposal plant . . . Red Bud, a (350,000 revenue bond issue for construction and operation

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CITY HALL GOSSIP

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of a gas utility system . . . Flora, a proposition to issue $270,000 in G. O. bonds was defeated at referendum, the issue was for storm sewer improvements . . . Aurora, a $6,000,000 G. 0. bond issue for storm sewer system improvements will go to the voters as a special ballot at the general election November 4th . . . Oreana voters have approved a $36,000 G. 0. issue to finance in part a $100,000 water works system . . . Milford, a $40,000 issue to improve the streets, has been approved . . . Moline, an ordinance providing for the issuance of a $1,165,000 in water works revenue bonds has been approved by the council.

DEATHS

George S. Olmstead, a former Sterling commissioner . . . former Mayor Myron S. Stubbs of Deer Creek . . . William Weitendorf, former village trustee at Frankfort.