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secretary to the late Joseph P. McDonough, 13th Ward alderman. His many offices included: state representative (D., Chicago), 1936-1938; state senator, 1939-1946; Senate minority leader, 1941-1946; state revenue director under the late Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, 1948-1950; and Cook County clerk, 1950-1955. He received his LL.B. from De Paul University, Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in 1933.

Former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Paul Farthing, 89, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Belleville, on December 2. Justice Farthing, who was blinded in a hunting accident at the age of 12, received his J.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign, in 1913. From 1930 to 1933 he was a St. Clair County judge. Elected to the state Supreme Court, he served from 1933 to 1942 when he returned to private practice.

Maeeo T. Bowie, former president of Kennedy-King Community College, on December 6 at Memorial Hospital in Michigan City, Ind. Bowie first came to Kennedy-King Community College in 1961, serving as faculty member of the English department and as Dean of Instructional Services. He was president of the college from 1969 until his resignation in 1976 to become assistant professor of English at Southwest College, Chicago.

New phone numbers

The Illinois Department of Registration and Education has a new Chicago phone number — 312/341-9818. Residents of the Chicago metropolitan area and the northern half of Illinois should call this number with inquiries or complaints about professionals licensed by the state. Residents of the southern half of the state should continue to use the Springfield office number is 217/ 782-4624.

The state Revenue Department's Wheaton district office was moved in December to 245 W. Roosevelt Road, West Chicago. The office provides information and assistance to taxpayers in DuPage, Will, Kendall, Grundy and Kankakee counties. The new phone number is 312 / 293-1820. 

Calendar

February 1
Board of Higher Education meets at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel, Chicago
February 1-2 Department of Local Government
Affairs holds a workshop on commercial and industrial property assessment at the Holiday Inn South, Joliet. One of a series of training sessions (see below) open to local assessing officers, their staff and the public
February 2-3 Statewide Health Coordinating Council meets in Chicago
February 3-4 DLGA commercial/industrial property assessment workshop meets at the Holiday Inn, Princeton
February 8-9 DLGA commercial/industrial property assessment workshop meets at the Holiday Inn, Quincy
February 10 State Board of Education meets in Springfield
February 11 Lincoln's birthday observance
February 15 Last day that motorists can display 1976 license plates on vehicles
February 17 Board of Governors meets at Chicago State University, Chicago Board of Elections meets in Chicago
February 18 Illinois Community College Board meets in Chicago
February 21 Washington's birthday observance

Standing meetings
Second Thursday of the month Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees at Edwardsville
Third Wednesday of the month University of Illinois Board of Trustees at the Peoria School of Medicine, Peoria

Campaign Financing Act
The State Board of Elections Public Disclosure Project holds hearings on proposed rules and regulations of the Illinois Campaign Financing Act January 18-19 in Chicago; January 20. Charleston and Rock Island January 21, Peoria and Rockford: January 25, Edwardsville and Springfield; January 26, Carbondate and Springfield; January 27 in Chicago.