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

Final plans for the installation of dial phones have been made in Greenfield . . . Natural gas will become a reality in four more communities in Illinois: Divernon, Pawnee, Edinburg and Franklin . . . Mayor Nelson Howarth, Springfield, addressed a meeting of the High Twelve on "Modern Municipal Problems." . . . Benid has started construction on a sanitary sewer system . . .. Parking meters are back in use in Newton. The meters could not be used during a street widening project on two sides of the town square ... A site costing $50,000 is being purchased by the Taylorville city council for development of an off-street parking lot. It will be purchased with proceeds from bonds to be repaid with parking meter revenues . . . Farmer City has purchased two lots, which will be developed into a parking area . . . Finishing touches are being put on the swimming pool which will be ready for opening Memorial Day in Fairbury. Swim stars from the University of Illinois will stage an exhibition opening day . . . East Moline, population 13,913, received approximately $97,000 in municipal utility tax receipts for the past 12 months. This is roughly a $10,000 increase over the previous year . . . Mendota city council has awarded $402,265 in water improvement contracts . . . Washington voters defeated a referendum 968 to 554, to fluoridate the water supply ... Mayor Morgan P. Phipps continues to lead a group of Mattoon officials in tours of other Illinois cities. The purpose of the trips is to observe municipal practices and procedures. The Mattoon officials have visited Pekin and Danville to date . . . Kewanee has placed its policemen on a 40-hour work week. The police had been on a 46-hour work week. ... A proposition to incorporate the community of Newport in Lake County was defeated by a vote of 63 to 24 . . . Rockford's report from the Police and Fire Commission indicates 94 of the city's 135 firemen worked a total of 4,586 hours during March at part-time jobs . . . Morrison adopted a forestry tax, at a referendum held April 15th.

Bond Issues

Monticello—Voters overwhelmingly approved two bond issues: $280,000 issue to improve the water system, and $20,000 issue to construct a new municipal building . . . Orion—Voters approved a $175,000 general obligation bond issue for construction of sanitary sewers, by a margin of 292 to 45. The project is expected to cost about $350,000; with the remainder of the money to be raised through revenue bonds . . . Marion—$335,000 issue for swimming pool construction, approved by the voters . . . Roodhouse—$100,000 sewer bond issue for completion of city's sewer system started over 30 years ago.

CITY HALL GOSSIP
Resignations and Appointments

Robert L. Hegel has been named Village Manager, Villa Park . . . Dr. Peter J. Doering has been re-elected for his 6th consecutive one-year term as Mayor at Geneseo . . . John G. Gregory has been named Civil Defense Director at Rockford . . . Frederick Hannum, appointed Water Superintendent, Lostant . . . William T. S. Jacob-son, first city manager for the newly incorporated municipality, Centerville . . . Harold Chalmers has been appointed Village Trustee, Grayslake . . . Ross Nicosia was appointed city Sealer, Rockford . . . Eugene Joyaux has been appointed Village Manager, Maywood . . . J. Clay Tindall, elected Alderman, Chester . . . Alvin H. Beidelman, Jr., has been appointed Building Inspector, Naperville . . . Alberta Bornac has been appointed Village Treasurer, Cedar Point . . . C. A. Phelps, Clinton, has been named Commissioner to replace Roy H. Lane, deceased . . . Richard Coleman has been named City Treasurer, Marquette Heights, to fill vacancy created by resignation of Richard Dryden . . .

Ben McKinney, Fire Chief, Olney, has resigned . . . Roy Anderson, Councilman, Bloomington, recently resigned after many years on the council . . . Ray C. Graceffa, Alderman, Rockford, resigned . . . Earl Wilson, Village Trustee, Round Lake Park, resigned.

Deaths

Raymond C. Johnson, Mayor, Woodstock, from 1941-1958 . . . David Davis, 89, former State Representative and four-time Mayor, Litchfield . . , George Romang, former Mayor, Waverly . . , Roy Lane, Commissioner, Clintin . . . Mrs. Cecil Jouett, City Treasurer, Carrollton . . . James G. Cooney, Consulting Engineer, Belleville . . . John Carl Wernicke, Village Trustee, Dolton . . . Fred W. Stoecker, former Mayor, Worden . . . Henry Ostertag, Alderman, Peru . . . John Phelps, Commissioner, Centralia . . . Walter David Swearingen, former Commissioner, Champaign, for 28 years . . . Albert Carlson, plumbing inspector, Bloomington, for 28 years.