The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, June 21, 1973

The Wheel UNLV CAMPUS EXPANSION ADDS TO BEAUTY OF UNIVERSITY — This aerial photograph shows new buildings which have been erected on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during the past few months. The tallest building, center, is seven stories in height and houses many classrooms including those used by the Hotel Administration, Humanities and several graduate courses, plus many university administration offices. Two other buildings were erected also this year including the Teacher Training (right center) and the Center for the Theater Arts (far right center). The new buildings are pointed out as among the most outstanding in western college comparisons. Much of the campus was given a covering of hot oil surfacing to provide additional parking space for more than thirteen hundred cars. (UNLV Photograph) LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY TROPICANA HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 5664, Garside Station 89102 JUNE 21, 1973 The Wheel WmS? "He Profits Wlost Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA RAY GERMAIN, JOHN BEVILLE and JOHN F. CAHLAN Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher k m u w m i m H m v M U H M W v m i Demotion Party, June 28, George Crockett Ranch "Big Angie," a product of Milano who came to Las Vegas to muscle in on the life insurance business and the Las Vegas Rotary Club, will get his June 28 at the George Crockett ranch. The shooting (skeet) begins at 5:30, cocktails, 6:30, and dinner, 7:30. Exe-cution takes place after dinner. The ranch is located at 7000 Bermuda, south of McCarran Airport between Warm Springs Road and Sunset. Dr. Hal Boyer, as Past President, is chairman of several large committees. Food and Beverage: Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, Jim Costello and Jack Haynes. Program: John Howe, Bob Robinson, Mark Mielke, Joe McMurray and Bob Ordonez. Arrangements: Helen Willis, Larry Zeiger, Harriet Cole, Arlene Southard and Jane Boyer. Staging: George Tate, Jelindo Tiberti, "Mink" Dixon and Frank Mitrani. Script: George Boman and dozens of others who have been harassed all year with heavy fines. — Rl — Now Is The Time Now is the time to start planning your World Wide Service project for the 1973-74 Rotary year. World Com-munity Service, a unique combination of international and community serv-ice, provides a way for your club to build warm and lasting friendships across national, and natural, bounda- Leonard Fayle Tops Attendance Roll Leonard Fayle, one of our senior ac-tive members, has a record which few Rotarians ever achieve. He has 31 years of perfect attendance up to 1972 and leads the list, according to a re-cent check made by the attendance committee. Leonard is followed by Syl Sylves-ter with 25; Scoop Garside, 24; Walt Hunsaker, 23. Ray Culley has 17 years on his attendance record, while Jack Cord and Leonard Zagortz both have 15. Swede Ahlswede and Frank Miku-lich follow with 13 and then come Mink Dixon with 11 and Roby Robi-chaud with 10. In the nine category are Sebastian Mikulich and Lloyd St. John, and Julius Jensen stands alone with eight. Then comes Jake Von Tobel with sev-en, George Abernathy and Bill Ciliax with six, and Hal Boyer, Jim Costello and Jerry Crowe with five. At three are John F. Cahlan and Max Kelch and at two are Chris Brandt, Doyle Jordan, Angelo Manzi, Carl Ross and Toby Tobin. Then, with one year are Bill Favro, Stan Hardy, George Tate, Elmer Vacchina, Charles Cavanaugh, Wing Fong and Garwood Van. Those who had perfect attendance prior to 1972 included Harvey Luce with 20 years, George Boman with 19, Vern Willis 16, Tex Blackman and Vince Sanner 15, Walt Wehner 8, Charley Shelton and Harley Harmon 6, Bill Southard, Early Harris and Darrel Luce 5, John Beville and Joe McNamee 4, Mark Mielke, Bob Robinson and Harry Allen 3, and Felix Allen, Charley Glover, Grindy Grindell, Pat Head, Irv Kishner, John Rayborn, Marion B. Earl, Otto Underhill, Jack Kling, Harry Mc- Kinnon and Jel Tiberti with one year apiece. ries. It also gives your club an unusual opportunity to help raise the standards of life for some of the world's less for-tunate. Write the Secretariat and ask for suggestions for worthwhile World Community Service projects now. Stary Gange Sings Song of America Stary Gange sang his song of Amer-ica to the obbligato of humor to the Rotarians last Thursday at the regular meeting. Gange was in his usual breezy style and kept the members entertained throughout his very in-formative talk. He wondered where else in the world a tourist could go anywhere without a passport or a visa and see so much spectacular scenery. He urged Rotarians to point out to younger peo-ple that if it had not been for their generation and the one before that, present-day youngsters would not be able to enjoy the things that they now have, that we made. He pointed to the fact that the Wright brothers made the first air flight at a speed of 12 miles per hour and f l ew 120 feet. From that small be-ginning, he said, has come the giant 747s which span the entire nation in a f ew hours. He recalled that when the automo-bile was being developed people of that generation were certain that if the combustion engine sent a vehicle over the road at 20 miles an hour a vacuum would be created which would suck all the air out of the lungs. Now, an automobile travels speeds near the 200 MPH mark and the Indianapolis racers are comparatively safe. He told the Rotarians that his gen-eration had produced more than 50% of the world's wealth, developed new varieties of rice and wheat which are feeding much of the world. He point-ed out how the people residing in the United States had been able to do much for others all around the world and if it had not been for America many would not have made it. He said the love for America was so inbred in the prisoners of war that it helped them exist under the most trying circumstances. He said their re-fusal to talk to Jane Fonda and Ram-sey Clark were instances of true Amer-icanism which endured all punishment which those two knew nothing about. New Attendance Provision Explained New amendments to Rotary regula-tions has made it possible for a mem-ber to make up attendance at any time between the regular meeting of the club immediately preceding the meeting missed and the usual itme of the regular meeting of the club immediately following the meeting missed. For example, if your club regularly meets at noon on Tuesday, a member who knows he will be absent on March 20 could make up at the eve-ning meeting of a club other than his own on the 13th or at the meeting of any club on any of the days following up to noon on the 27th to receive at-tendance credit for the meeting of the 20th. The important thing, according to R.I. officials, is to maintain regular attendance by visiting other clubs when necessary. "Parents, through their permissive-ness, have let the kids take the world away from them," he said. "We seem never to have taught our children there is no such thing as a free lunch. Some-body, some time, is going to have to pay. At the moment there are too many people for the jobs available and some solution is going to have to be found to this problem. "We must sell basic Americanism to the youth of today. Ninety-five per cent of the juvenile delinquency is be-cause of adult delinquency. The youth must have help from their parents, but most of the elders today have little time for them. As a result, many of the kids turn bad." He said that these kids seldom are given the positive side of life in Amer-ica. The negative side is drummed intc them by the newspapers, radio, and TV, and, he concluded, "It's about time we started teaching them what's good with America." Demotion Memories The Las Vegas Rotary Club has al-ways been known for the diabolic quality of its demotions. This despite a strong minority of Rotarians, headed by dear old "Pop" Squires, who de-plored demotions and regularly lec-tured this writer after each year's de-motion. Back in the forties and early fifties the pace was slower and we had time to give all-out effort to this type of mayhem — both physical and mental. To this writer, three of them were classics: Les Edwards, Harry Allen and Eddie Ciliax. Psychologically, Eddie's was the best — or worst — a n d it was one I missed, being away. Max Kelch, being active in radio and its accompanying gadget-ry, obtained the services of a talented young lady who had a flair for the dramatic. Said young lady was dis-patched to Eddie's place of business - the Town Barbecue — with a dead cockroach in her purse. When Eddie's back was turned, she dropped the roach in a malt and made a big scene, threatening lawsuit. Of course, all of this was duly re-corded on tape — s o were phone calls from attorney Oscar Bryan and Eddie's cussing. Poor Gus, Eddie's brother, had to suffer fumigating the walls and floor till all hours after closing time. The whole thing was played back to an appreciative audience on demotion night. Poor Eddie was bugged, twice. Harry Allen suffered a similar fate. Everything dropped into place in this one. Harry had left his car — through Marge's insistence — with Wayne Kirch to repair the rear lock of the trunk. What Wayne did was to put in a tape recorder and jam the lock. The script wrote itself. Three pretty South American nurses had written the club stating they would pass through Las Vegas and would like "to visit the Strip." The writer was assigned to accompany Harry (and to handle the equipment). We stayed out until 3:30 a.m. and did not miss a joint. As the evening grew late the imbibing began to reach all of Expanded Needs For Rotarians "Perhaps you have heard the com-ment, 'Everything that needs to be done in this town is being done. There is nothing for us to do as a Rotary Club' "There may be instances where there is a basis in fact for such a statement. In some communities the kind of service activities which have been the hallmark of the Rotary club are now in the hands of a government or public agency. Society has organ-ized itself to care for the handicapped, the aged, the needy, the young and others. Some of these agencies had their beginnings in the interests of the local Rotary club, and their exist-ence is a tribute to the effectiveness of Rotary. But society changes, and change creates new needs and oppor-tunities. For example, in recent de-cades drug abuse, overpopulation, of the environment, and inadequate mass transportation have grown to become problems to be faced. "A Rotary club which periodically surveys its community can anticipate new problems to be faced." (The Gen-eral Secretary's Letter To District Gov-ernors.) us and I was able to lead Harry on with some well-placed cues. Next day, on the way to Rotary, we had a friendly Highway patrolman give Harry the siren along with a phony report he had on the previous night's activity. Of course, all this was on tape and made a very funny eve-ning's entertainment. The demotion of Les Edwards was a three-act spoof on the Las Vegas Hos-pital, of which Les was superintendent. The cast rehearsed for about a month and was letter perfect. One of the scenes had Jeane Boman, as head nurse, presenting an annual birthday cake to the patients in the waiting room. Doctor Woodbury had but one comment: "Don't any of you guys get sick and come to me for help." — John Beville