Official Publication of the ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF PARK DISTRICTS ILLINOIS PARK AND RECREATION SOCIETY OFFICERS OFFICERS President: WEBSTER D. WILEY Commissioner, Kewanee President: RICHARD JOHNS Glenview President-Elect: HENRY C. DEIHL Commissioner, Salt Creek Rural Past President: MICHAEL POPE Elmhurst Past President: ALLAN A. WEISSBURG Commissioner, Skokie Secretary: THOMAS HALL Wilmette Vice Presidents: GEORGE KOSTOPOULOS Commissioner, Carol Stream BOARD MEMBERS TIM G. SOLDWEDEL Commissioner, Pekin PETER TRENCHARD Commissioner, Deerfield JOE H. DOUD Northbrook Treasurer: HAROLD C. HAWKINS Trustee, Springfield DAVE MARKWORTH Des Plaines Sergeant at Arms: FERDINAND C. ARNDT Commissioner, Des Plaines STEVE GONZALEZ Dundee Township BARBARA ALTWIES Skokie BOARD OF DIRECTORS ROBERT HUMKE Champaign PAUL E. ROBERTS Commissioner, Central Area, Maywood ELENA RUANE Palatine DOROTHEA WEIGAND Commissioner, Naperville DAVE SNIDER Peoria ERWIN ROMKE Board Member, Kane County Forest Preserve DONALD E. PILGER Deerfield JAMES CUMMINGS Trustee, Peoria ROBERT DUNSMUIR Wheaton BARBARA WILLIAMS Commissioner, Olympia Fields JAMES TALLEY Oak Park GERALD E. WERNICK Commissioner, Rockford ROBERT EMS Canton PATRICIA LEONHARD Commissioner, Champaign HAROLD E. BROWN Granite City MANNY HOFFMAN Commissioner, Homewood-Flossmoor FRANK WAIDE, Therapeautic Branch Madden Zone Center DONALD EARLEY Commissioner, West Chicago JOHN BRUNS, Student Branch Western Illinois University EXECUTIVE STAFF Eugene Berghoff, Executive Vice President, IAPD and Managing Editor Robert A. Stuart, General Counsel, IAPD Bill Bodine, Accountant, IAPD Kay F. Kastel, Executive Secretary, IPRS and Editor Marilyn Walters, Office Services Specialist

COVER Shades of early summer bloom in Blair Park of the Urbana Park District. (Photo courtesy of Urbana Park District) MAY/JUNE 1975 VOL. VI, No. 3 Kay F. Kastel Forest, Editor CONTENTS FEATURES Public Relations .............. 4 Competitive Bidding ........... 6 Labor Standards .............. 10 The Association .............. 13 ORPR Spells Service .......... 14 Bike Trails .................. 16 Concepts of Leisure .......... 24 A Friend to Wildlife ........... 28 DEPARTMENTS From the desk of VP .......... 3 Society Notes ............... 3 Legal and Legislative .......... 8 Position Referral ............. 26 Tax Facts ................... 31 People and News ............. 32 Associate Members ........... 35 SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS AND EDITORIAL OFFICE 600 E. Algonquin Rd. DesPlaines, Illinois 60016 Society phone (312) 297-6261 ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS Suite 206 St. George Bldg. 300 East Monroe Street Springfield, Ill. 62701 Association phone (217) 523-4554 JOINT COMMITTEE Allan Weissburg, Chairman Webster Wiley Henry Deihl Paul Roberts Michael Pope Richard Johns Joe Doud ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION is published bimonthly at Springfield, Illinois by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Society. Subscription per year: Domestic $5.00; Foreign, $6.00. Single copies, $1.00 each. Second class postage paid at Springfield, Illinois.