The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 16, 1978

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB DISTRICT 530 LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 15152, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114. Phone 870-6363 MAKE-UP DAYS AND PLACES MONDAY — Southwest — Charleston Bowl WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Railroad Pass TUESDAY — Henderson — Eldorado Club WEDNESDAY — Paradise — Showboat FRIDAY —North Las Vegas — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1978 • w w » v v » v » \ \ v » \ » v w » v \ w w w v v v w w * The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA JOHN F. CAHLAN Editor SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher COVER — The picture on the front of the Wheel is a scene from the Red Rock area and is pro-vided by the Las Vegas News Bureau. The pic-ture is especially historic, because, on the mountain to the right, with the big hollow about half way down, is the site of the plane crash which took the life of Carole Lombard, glamour girl of the films and the wife of the late Clark Gable. M m M m M M M U M V H H M M H M M V Many Visiting Rotary Members Present There were a goodly number of visiting Rotarians on hand at the regu-lar meeting last Thursday and a great many of them were present because of the veteranian convention which was in session last week at the Con-vention Center. There were there representatives from Manitoba, Canada, one from Anchorage, Alaska and another from Nanaimo. So far as can be determined at a fast glance, this is the first visitor from the quaint little Welsh settle-ment across the straits from Van-couver. The Anchorage representative was the one from the farthest reaches from Las Vegas and he gave a short story about his home club. He said it was the Anchorage east club, was about seven years old and had some 70 members. It is one of three in the Anchorage area. Another familiar visitor was Gene Baxter, who used to belong to the Las Vegas club but moved back to Rochester, New York, and resumed his membership in that group. It was nice to see them all. Youth Exchangers From LV Rotary Darrell Luce anounced at the last week's meeting of the Las Vegas Rotary club that the local organization had fared very well in the selection of candidates to join the exchange student program which will be a part of the schedule for this summer. Six local students have been selected to be given the chance to visit a foreign country for several weeks this summer as guests of the Rotary members of the foreign land. The local Rotarians will have to pay their youngsters' air fare to the coun-try to which they are assigned, but all other expenses will be assumed by the host countries. It is understood the main group will go to England for a three weeks' stay and there is a possibility that another w i l l be sent to Japan. All of the local youngsters, Luce reported, are excep-tional students. - Rl - John Beville Remains Las Vegas Resident Our old friend and compatriot, John Beville, who has been absent from the club meetings for the past several months, wants it known that he still is in Las Vegas and coming along well. It was reported several weeks ago that John might move to Florida to make his future home but this, he says in a letter to the Wheel, was er-roneous. Originally, John had planned to fly to Florida to look at a piece of prop-erty owned by his late wife, Helen, and her brother, who resides in Wash-ington, D.C. However, it developed it was much more practical for the brother to make the trip and John now remains a permanent resident of Las Vegas. "After a 49 year residency in Las Vegas, my chances of living else-where are very very remote," John writes. We of Rotary are glad to hear from Joh n and quite thrilled to have him remain a resident of the city. Non Make Up List Is Slowly Growing The non make-up list for the week of February 23 climbed above the 20 mark again and seems to be soaring back to the levels it was before the campaign for elimination was put into high gear. There were 21 of the faithful (or unfaithful as the case might be) who proved delinquent in their Rotary responsibilities. The list had been go-ing along pretty well for the past several weeks, but it now is climbing and something must be done about it, according to President Jim. Those on the February 23 list in-cluded: Ackerman, Costello, Devitt, Geskes, Hall, Joyce, Kellogg, Kroplin, Lovaas, Manzi and, McNamee, Middendorf, M i e I k e, Ross, F. Smith, E. Smith, Thacker, Saltz-man, C. Turner and Ted Wiens Sr. Get with it lads! - Rl - Mrs. Veronica Harmon Is Out Of Hospital Veronica Harmon, mother of Harley E. Harmon and grandmother of Har-ley L. is out of the hospital and back at home recovering from a recent ill-ness. She spent two days in intensive care but showed much improvement and was taken off the critical list and returned to her hospital room. A few days ago she was released from the hospital and now is at home and re-ported as doing very well. - Rl - Don't get in your own way. Max Kelch Will Be Honored On March 28 The late Max Kelch, one of the Las Vegas Rotary club's most active mem-bers during his lifetime and a large contributor to the growth of the city from a hamlet to a thriving metrop-olis, will be honored on March 28 by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was announced re-cently. The new Las Vegas News Bureau building, which has been constructed near the old quonset hut which housed the bureau for so many years, will be dedicated at that time and, in addi-tion, a plaque, honoring Kelch will be unveiled. Max was one of the leaders in the establishment of the original Desert Sea News Bureau, which later became known as the Las Vegas News Bureau, and he was mainly responsible for the growth it maintained over the years. The original News Bureau was a part of the Steve Hannegan promotion program which was jointly sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the Union Pacific railroad. As an off-shoot of that program, the Livewire Fund was inaugurated and Kelch was one of the leaders. Since its inception, with Neil T. Regan as the first account executive for Hannegan, the establishment has had nothing but success and has spread the fame of Las Vegas, which then was a small town struggling for recognition, into what now is known as "the entertainment capital of the world." DATE 3 / 1 6 / 7 8 3 / 2 3 / 7 8 3 / 3 0 / 7 8 4 / 6 / 7 8 4 / 1 3 / 7 8 FUTURE PROGRAMS FOR LV ROTARY CLUB SPEAKER Camille Bowman & Marilyn Gubler Gary Halverson SUBJECT INTRODUCED BY AASK: What Is It? Why Is It? Solar Energy: The Ultimate Curt Osman Source District 420 (Local club meeting to be cancelled) Mira Costa College Spartan Singers '78 Jeff Sell Dick Rottman Insurance: Its Impact on Nevada Rotary International North Las Vegas N ROTARY ZONES Rotary Club Bonanza Road a O b £ 0 cc fi S> - 1 © I 2 oa CO CO (0 §> CO CO ejeqes CO & 0) o o b 42 o o c CO o. CO •Q o b £o oc 0 . 2 • o 5 S. CO 6 1 0) 3 I m CO on cc <0 o o Q) D. 8|ney\| qn/o Aibiou uosjepuaH