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 President-Elect: CHARLES PAXTON Zion Past President; ALLAN A. WEISSBURG Commissioner, Skokie Past President: MICHAEL POPE Elmhurst Vice Presidents: GEORGE KOSTOPOULOS Commissioner, Carol Stream Secretary: THOMAS HALL Wilmette TIM G. SOLDWEDEL Commissioner, Pekin PETER TRENCHARD Commissioner, Deerfield BOARD MEMBERS Treasurer: HAROLD C. HAWKINS Trustee, Springfield JOE H. DOUD Northbrook DAVE MARKWORTH Des Plaines Sergeant at Arms: FERDINAND C. ARNDT Commissioner, Des Plaines STEVE GONZALEZ Dundee Township BOARD OF DIRECTORS BARBARA ALTWIES Skokie PAUL E. ROBERTS Commissioner, Central Area, Maywood ROBERT HUMKE Champaign 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 STRAUS 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 DENNIS HAYES, 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 Kastel Forest, Executive Secretary, IPRS and Editor Marilyn Walters, Office Services Specialist

COVER As the leaves of fall begin to turn, your thoughts should turn to the 1975 Illinois Park and Recreation Conference November 20-23. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1975 VOL. VI, No. 5 Kay Kastel Forest, Editor CONTENTS FEATURES 500 Parks Part of Bicentennial ..... 4 Manpower Study ............. 6 Keeping Weekly Records ...... 9 Bond Prospectus ............ 10 Great River Road Bike Day .... 12 Advance Conference Program .....13-24 DEPARTMENTS From desk of VP ............. 3 Society Notes ............... 3 Legal and Legislative .......... 8 New Product News ........... 28 People and News ............. 30 News Briefs ................ 31 Associate Members ........... 33 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 Charles Paxton 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.