The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, August 25, 1949

PLACE STAMP HERE )NTERNAT)ONAL OFFtCERS President—Percy Hodgson Eck Hiestand, Governor District No. 160 3636 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, 5, Catif. LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB Club No. 1401 Chartered April 5, 1923 Membership July '49—94 OFFtCERS President—Leonard Fayle Secretary—Allye Lawson Treasurer—Harry Allen Directors John Beville Carl Hyde Paul McDermott Jim Shaver John Beville Rotary "Wheet" Staff "Pop" Squires, Editor Jim Shaver, Bob Gatewood, Reporters MAKEUP Boulder City, Nevada Wednesday, 12:15 PT Caliente, Nevada Friday, 12:15 MT Tonopah, Nevada Tuesday, 12:15 PT St. George, Utah Monday, 12:15 MT Kingman, Arizona Wednesday, 12:15 PT Barstow, California Wednesday, 6:30 PT Needles, California Tuesday, 12:15 PT FACTS ABOUT OUR TOWN Elevation, 2,038. Founded 1905. Population, 25,000, of trading area 45,000. Situated on U. S. Highways 91 and 95. Serviced by- Union Pacific R.R. Greyhound, Burlington and Las Vegas-Tonopah & Reno Stage Lines, also Sun Valley (Phoenix) Bus Line. And Bonanza, United, Trans World Airlines and Western Air Lines. Hub of West's Most Scenic Country, Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion Parks, Death Valley, Boulder Dam and Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston, Valley of Fire. Page 2 WHEEL OF ROTARY AUGUST 25, 1949 TODAY'S PROGRAM The speaker on the program for to-day is Mr. Jordan J. Crouch, Assist-ant Vice-President of the First Na-tional Bank of Nevada, in charge of public relations and business exten-sion. ... His subject will be "Business Needs a Soap Box". * * * * * * * * * * * * NEXT MEEK Program Chairman Ed Converse an-nounces that the speaker on our pro-gram for September 1st will be Dis-trict Judge Frank McNamee, who will describe economic conditions in Europe as he saw them on his trip which was concluded only a few days ago. * * * * * * * * * * * * * LAST WEEK Neal Regan, manager of the local branch of the Hannigan Associates, was speaker of the day last Thursday. He was very cleverly introduced by Vern Willis.... Neil gave us a most inter-esting account of the activities of Hannigan Associates during the past year and of the striking effects of the campaign in making Las Vegas one of the outstanding resort cities of the country. * * * * * * * * * * * * DOC GATEWOOD Doc and Bess Gatewood are visiting their daughter Joan in San Diego. We have make-up cards from Doc at both Laguna Beach and LaJolla. Incident-ally, Doc never missesj * * * * * * * * * * * * . COMMENTS BY JIMMIE _ Cliff Leonard really enjoys the singing of the songs, now that we have a song leader and a pianist. You should watch Cliff singJ * * * Sully Sullivan introduced our new baby Rotarian, Joe McQuilkin, and in-ducted him into the club. * * * * * "Buck" gave the news, since Max hasn't recovered his voice after catch-ing the big fish. And our thanks to Max for the fine fish dinner—this in spite of the telegram from Earl Broth-ers who says it wasn't a swordfish, and its history isn't what Max says it is. ****** If all the sage chicken shooters were laid end to end, it would still be a lie: * * * * * "Pop" and Mom Squires celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! C o n g r a t u l**a**t* i o n s . J Did Bob Russell ever tell you guys the story about the baracouda he caught in Lake Mead? * * * * * ED CONVERSE Fellows, don't you agree that Ed is doing a swell job providing good pro-grams for our meetings? * ** *x WHEEL OF ROTARY DO YCU REMEMBER? When Frank Case got a report every week from Andy Rafael on the status of the Rotary road, signs? P.S.—We have some nice new ones that will require some work before longj P.S. II—An interesting letter from Frank comments: "Al's last editorial on doubling Las Vegas in two years is cer-tainly something. Your water is a prob-lem now--what will it be Tdth twice the population? Also schools, housing, etc.? We all saw it happen during 1941-42, and. it wasn't all one could wish for as far as I could see." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * POP AND DELPEINE This lucky couple have been invited to be guests at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on the 60th anniversary of their arrival at the old Palace on their honeymoon trip. They arc flying down tomorrow via Bonanza and United Airlines and think it quite wonderful—in Las Vegas at 9:00 a.m.—in San Francisco 1:30 p.m. J R.R. Kenney; Bob Bagdasar; Jim Costello; Les Burt; at * * * * * * * * * * * * * * IN LOS ANGELES Jim Shaver is in Los Angeles for a few days. (Hope he stays away from those "old book stores" on North Main, long enough to attend Rotary tomorrow.) VISITING ROTARIANS We enjoyed having the follow-ing Rotarians of other clubs visi-tors at our meeting of last week: FROM BOULDER CITY: Jack Eiggins, Andy Latham, C.P. Christensen, R.V. Sprague and Otto Littler; 3RIGEAM CITY, UT.: Royes Petersen; CEDAR CITY, UTAH: Lafe Jolley; CRESCEHTA-CANADA: WILMINGTON, CAL.: LOS ANGELES, CAL.: CALIENTE, NEVADA: RENO. NEVADA: Frank Black. President Leonard says, "Thanks for visiting us, fellows; we hope you will come again, and oftenl * * * * * * * * * * * * * * IDEA-OF-TKE-MONTH The Oakland, Calif., Rotary Club's Magazine Committee, Elwood V. Hess, Chairman, put on a pro-gram of suggestions for "modern-izing" TEE ROTARIAN. Using a projector, they at-tached the nameplate of THE RO-TARIAN to several Advertising photos of ladies' swim suits as suggestions for a more modern cover. For the advertising pages, they suggested current ads for rayon underthings, sheer stock-ings, etc. ... The illustrations caused a lot of laughter--but don't worry, TEE ROTARIAN isn't going to duplicate themj ' AJ.iERlCA, THE BEAUT IiUL 0 beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Aoove the fruited plain. America; AmericaJ G3d shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. ****** R-O-T-A-R-Y R-O-T-A-R-Y That spells Rotary; R-O-T-A-R-Y Is known on land and sea; From North to South, F^-om East to West, He profits most who serves the best; R-O-T-A-R-Y That spells Rotary. ****** WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIE 1 wan3ered today to the hill, Maggie, watch the scene below, The creek and the old rust-y mill, Maggie, Whore we sat in the long, long ago. The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie, Where first the daisies sprung; The old rusty mill is still, Maggie, Since you and I were young. And now we are aged and gray, Maggie, The trials of life nearly done, Let us sing of tho days that are gone, When you and I were young. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY - Data on 6,800 Clubs in 83 Countries Eu, France, seems to be the Rotary club -jith the shortest name. Wc are not sure as to the club with the longest name but Llandrindod Wells, TTales; Saudarkrokur, Iceland, and Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dom-inican Republic, are three candi-dates. Surprisingly, 18 Rotary clubs are located in cities and towns beginning with the letter "Z", four in The Netherlands, six in the United States, three in Mexico, two in Switzerland and one each in Argentina, Egypt, and The Philippines.. Rotary clubs are meeting every day and around the clock. Tuesday seems to be the most pop-ular meeting day but clubs are meeting every day including at least 139 on Saturday and at least ?0 on Sunday. Clubs having similar names, for example.SLifa San Juan, S.J., Argentina; San Juan, Puerto Rico; San Juan Capistrano, Cali-fornia, U.S.A.; San Juan de la Maguara, Dominican Republic, and San Juan de los Morros, Guarico, Venezuela. ***** The above information is taken from the latest copy of the Official Directory....con-taining interesting information for a 15 or 20 minute talk.