MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS' COMMISSION MEETING, CENTRALIA

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Among those attending the meeting were (left to right): Robert Krebs, Councilman, Mt. Vernon; Mayor Jerome Munie, Belleville; Lloyd Harris, State Representative, Granite City; Dwight P. Friedrich, State Senator, Centralia; and Robert Nave, Alderman, Carlyle.

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MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS' COMMISSION MEETING

The first hearing of the Municipal Problems' Commission was held in Centralia on Thursday, March 87. Several statements were made concerning annexation, zoning, planning, home rule, state-municipal cooperation, destruction of old records and disconnection from fire protection districts of area annexed to a municipality.

Testifying, Harlow Richardson, City Manager, Mt. Vernon; (around table, clockwise) Village President John Noel, Mundelein; Senator A. L. Cronin, Chicago; State Representative C. K. Willett, Dixon, Chairman of Commission; Mayor Benjamin Schleicher, Rockford; Senator Everett Peters, St. Joseph; Robert Morgan, Peoria; State Representative Harry J. Smith, River Grove; State Representative Charles Ed. Shaefer, Nokomis; Mrs. Ella K. Moseley, Metropolis; Ernest Hoagland, Jacksonville, and Mayor Clarence Sablotny, Decatur.

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