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

Village President, Fred A. Blazer of Lincolnshire has named a park board to supervise and develop the seven acre park with a small lake that was donated to the municipality by the subdivider. . . George B. Wiemer, Mayor of San Jose, recently received recognition for his 37 consecutive years as the city's chief executive . . . Aurora is in the process of remodeling its downtown off-street parking lots, 228 spaces have been reconstructed with 246 stalls to go . . . The city council of Zion has voted to purchase for $21,000, two lots in the central business district to be used for off-street parking purposes . . . The Village of Gurnee joins the growing list of municipalities that have adopted an official city plan . . . The city council of Monticello has awarded contracts for their new $46,000 city building; work is to begin in the near future . . . Wayne F. Anderson, finance director at Evanston, has been named Illinois chairman of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association of the United States and Canada . . . Evanston's street lighting system consists of 5144 units which are served from 20 power distribution centers where lights are turned on 20 minutes after sunset and turned off 20 minutes before sunrise by astronomical clocks . . . The State Division of Waterways has completed preliminary field work on seven proposed dams along the Fox River. The proposed dam sites would be located near South Elgin, Geneva, Montgomery, Yorkville, Millhurst, Sheridan, and Oswego and would make the river navigable for recreation purposes . . . Groundbreaking is slated for August 1st on the 10 acre Green Oak shopping center located at Oak Lawn . . . Farmer City has sold its fire station to the area fire protection district for $1.00. The City had owned the station for the past 25 years.

Appointments and Resignations

D. M. Buckley has been named clerk pro tern at Roxana . . . Decatur—Charles B. Ford has been named as the city's first plan director. Mr. Ford was formerly plan director at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mayor Clarence Sablotny has named Decatur School Board President, Paul Smallwood, to the Plan Commission . . . Captain James Geishecker, a member of the Evanston fire department since 1929, has been named the city's- new Fire Marshal . . . William C. Grosch has been appointed as city forester at Rockford. Mr. Grosch holds a degree in forestry from the University of Idaho and was formerly employed as park superintendent at Milwaukee, Wisconsin . . . Joseph N. Sikes has been named attorney for the Village of Hawthorne Woods . . . Joseph T. Connelly, alderman, Urbana, has resigned to become a member of the faculty at Eastern Illinois University in

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Charleston . . . Dudley Goodell, an engineer, has been named chairman of the new city plan commission in Beardstown . . . Howard Heinen has been named new Chief of the La Grange police department . . . Lawrence C. Goddard has been named executive secretary of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers. Goddard recently resigned as administrative assistant of the Associated General Contractors of Missouri.

Bond Issues

Plainfield residents defeated by a 17 vote margin a $145,000 G.O. bond issue to construct storm sewers . . . Hinsdale voters have approved an $1,700,000 issue to finance the first phase of the village's $8,339,000 storm sewer project . . . Voters of the newly incorporated village of Rio have approved a $23,000 G. 0. bond issue to finance in part a $47,000 water system project . . . Belleville's city council has approved a $60,000 revenue bond issue to finance improvements at the city owned swimming pool . . . Breese—an $8,500 bond issue to finance park improvements has been defeated at referendum.

Deaths

Dr. Winston H. Tucker, Evanston, commissioner of health since 1937 and director of housing since 1956, was chairman of the county health department advisory committee for over 15 years and a

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lecturer at several universities. Evanston's health department under Dr. Tucker's leadership became the first Illinois city to use fluorine in its drinking water and was recently named the outstanding municipal health department in Illinois by the State Department of Health. Dr. Tucker was past president of the Illinois Public Health Association, the Illinois Association of Health Officers and the North Suburban Medical Society . . . Arthur H. Grosskopf, village attorney of Oak Forest . . . Mrs. J. Edward Anderson, wife of Mayor Anderson of Batavia . . . Henry Brandt, attorney, chairman of the zoning advisory committee, Wilmette . . . Mrs. Edna Corrington, Clinton, mother of Commissioner C. E. Corrington . . .