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 Paul Opperman has been named Executive Director of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. The Commission, established by the last session of the General Assembly, will act as a clearing house for local planning agencies in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Mc-Henry, Kane and Will counties. Mr. Opperman was formerly planning director at San Francisco. . . . Mayor Paul Taylor of Effingham conducts a weekly fifteen minute program over a local radio station keeping the people posted on city matters. ... Mayor Robert Sabonjian of Waukegan recently appeared on a nation wide TV program honoring comedian Jack Benny. Benny, a native of Waukegan, was presented a plaque, by the Mayor, naming him Waukegan's outstanding citizen of 1958. . . . The Village of St. Marie recently became the 1,000th municipality to adopt the sales tax.

Resignations and Appointments Ralph B. Johnson, former Mayor of Galesburg and a Past President of the Illinois Municipal League, has been named Administrator of the Illinois Veterans Commission by Governor Stratton . . . Ray Davis has been elected alderman at Marengo . . . Gaylord Powell has been appointed Village Treasurer at Cahokia . . . Gibson City at a special election, Wayne A. O'Neal was named alderman . . . Alan N. Buck, Highway superintendent and Zoning Administrator at Decatur, has resigned . . . Arthur P. Girard has been named Building Inspector at Decatur . . . Commissioner P. B. Hutton of Charleston has resigned.

Bond Issues

Springfield has awarded a contract to purchase $6,600,000 worth of sewer revenue bonds at a net rate of 3.532+ . . . Bloomington, the City Council has approved a $660,000 issue to expand its electric utility.

Deaths

Mayor Lowell B. Horton, Mayor of Nauvoo for 80 years . . . Fire Chief M. Francis Durkin of Springfield . . . Perry Dryden, an Alderman at Geneva for the past 85 years . . . Howard R. Brent-linger, a former Mayor of Barrington . . . Gilbert Elson, former Mayor, Lexington.