The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, July 28, 1977

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA M a i l i n g 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, JULY 28, 1977 The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA JOHN BEVILLE and JOHN F. CAHLAN Co-Editors 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. n m m M W M W V M W t t H M V H t t t ' Two Rotations Given Newspaper Boosts Two more members of the Las Ve-gas Rotary club were featured recently in the columns of the local newspapers and were given quite some write up by the press. The first was Jel Tiberti, whose pic-ture appeared on the front page of the real estate section of the Review Jour-nal and the second was George Early Harris, who was featured in an article in the Nevadan, the R-J feature sec-tion. The Tiberti article traced Jel's history from the time he was a resident of the state of Colorado and brought him to Las Vegas, where he has set up a high-ly successful contracting business. George Harris, according to the ar-ticle devoted to his history in the Las Vegas area, came to Las Vegas in 1929 as a schoolteacher and he has been here ever since. He first served as a science teacher in the Las Vegas high school and then went on through the ranks, finally be-ing elected to the Nevada State Board of Education of which he is serving as chairman. In his spare time he also dabbles quite successfully in local real estate. Non Makeup List Still Rather Long After a record-setting attendance mark for the demotion party on June 30, the July 7 list looked somewhat tame. However, it was away up there so far as regular meetings are con-cerned and, as always, is a black mark on the record of the local club. There were 34 members absent without makeup on the July 7 meet-ing and, even with the vacation sea-son upon us, it was a pretty bad show-ing. Those who were on the 'special" list, according to our secretary, Jan, were as follows: Harry Allen, Barker, Basile, Butler, Buckley, Ciliax, Mike Cole, Cruden, Jim Gamett, Isaacson, Isola, James, Johnson, Kellogg, and Kennedy, D. Luce, Kroplin, Meyer, Middendorf, Neustrom, Ken CConnell, Pico, Robertson, Robichaud, Ruthe, Slade, Stauffer, Tate, Taylor, Thacker, Wandesforde, Wallace, Ted Wiens Sr., and Wiesner. - R l - Rotary Roster Closing Date Set August 15 Work on the Rotary roster is coming along just fine, according to Dr. R. Guild Gray, in charge of the publica-tion. There has been a very fine re-sponse to the questionnaires which were provided in the Wheel recently, and Dr. Gray has reported that those who desire changes in their biogra-phies in the upcoming publication should have these changes in as soon as possible. The deadline for such changes, as well as any desired changes in the pictures in the book, will be August 15 and after that date there will be no alterations whatsoever. The book this year, by vote of the membership, will be in the form of a loose leaf publication so that any changes and insertions which might be made during the two-year periods can be made with little difficulty. Traveling Rotarians Have Unique Routine There have been strange tales about where the members of the Rotary club make up the meetings they have missed at their home clubs, but Dave Boyer probably has one of the unique stories about his make up. Secretary Jan received a notice from the "Air Borne Rotary Club" which convened in the air while flying across the Atlantic ocean on May 10, 1977. The notice says that five members of the Rotary from as many cities gathered together on Charter # 23 which was enroute from Washington, D.C., to Leningrad, Russia, and created and instituted the first air-borne Ro-tary club. The announcement said: "While en-route between Shannon, Ireland and the USSR and beyond the jurisdiction of all regularly established clubs of Rotary International, and in order to maintain the continuity of our attend-ance in such organization, we the un-dersigned Rotarians certify our "to-getherness," the effectiveness of the Four Way Test and Service Above Self. We therefore request our respective clubs to accept this ceritificate of our Rotary attendance." The certificate was signed, along with Boyer, by members from Long-view, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Sher-rodsville, Ohio; and Allegan, Missis-sippi. Somewhere, every day, either on land, sea or in the air, there is a Ro-tary club or a branch thereof meeting either in regular or unscheduled ses-sion. We hope the board will accept Dave's "makeup." - Rl - Foreign Exchangers To Visit Las Vegas The Las Vegas Rotary club will be called upon to welcome some 16 for-eign exchange students during the month of August and President Jim has requested members of the club to assist in playing host to the group. The definite date for their arrival has not been determined exactly. How-ever, they will arrive in the United States in August and will spend three weeks traveling through the country. Scott Wallace is in charge of the ar-rangements for the local visit of the group and any member who will be able to put up one or two of the trav-eling group is asked to get in touch with Scott. It is hoped to have accommodations available for the traveling young peo-ple when they get here. Those who have played host to this type of visitor in the past have reported the visit was not only enjoyable but informative as well. - Rl - Birthday Table Is Fairly Well Filled The birthday table for the month of July was fairly well filled last week when ten of the members gathered around the festive board to publicly observe their natal dates. Those who were introduced and sat at the table were: Sady Kruden, Max Kelch, Kozner, Mike Hoover, Walt Wehner, Herb Horch, Herb Phillips, Vince Sanner, Ellsworth Hyman and Jack Hanes. They were given the usual treat-ment, sans the "Happy Birthday" wel-come, and thus passes another year in their history. - Rl - Dr. Hal Boyer To Go On Long Trip Dr. Hal Boyer and his Rotary Ann are at the start of an extended and interesting business and pleasure va-cation, spending some time in the Pa-cific northwest. Hal's main objective is the Pacific Dermatologists Association convention which is being held in Portland. Following these sessions, Hal plans to spend some time in attempting to lure the big salmon out of the Colum-bia river and will do most of his an-gling at the mouth of the Oregon river. We wish him luck and envy the cool weather which he is likely to find up there. Doc Robinson Tells Of Legislative Meet Characterizing the recent session of the Nevada state legislature as "ex-cellent," Dr. Bob Robinson, one of Ro-tary's members of the group described for the membership the accomplish-ments of the session and the most im-portant bills which were acted upon. Bob told the Rotarians that the ses-sion passed the first billion dollar budget in the history of the state, which was three million over the gov-ernor's recommended budget. He said that there were no new taxes voted during the session and the surplus for the coming two years stands at $25 million. Nevada, he said, is one of the f ew states in the nation which has a surplus. He showed the salaries of the state employees had been raised to meet the demands of inflation and public employees had been given added ben-efits by the session. He told his listeners that there prob-ably are many flaws in the statutes which were enacted because there are no judicial minds in either house and the legislators must rely on the advice of the legislative counsel bureau for their validity of the statutes enacted. He blasted the critics of the legislative activity, saying that they were prone to make hay with the defects which are found in whatever legislation is passed. He pointed out that the Clark coun-ty annexation referendum was passed despite violent opposition from the county commission and the codifica-tion of all bureau regulations was or-dered. This, he said, would be a fine step forward because, at the present time, few people know what the bu-reau regulations are. He also said that, in the future, all agency regulations will have to be approved by the legis-lature and this in itself should curb much of the arbitrary rules which are set up by the numerous bureaucracies within the government. He expressed the hope the Congress would take similar steps regarding the federal bu-reaucrats. The legislature set up a state energy department, cut $12 million from the governor's capital improvement fund, set up a governmental reorganization plan, abolished 29 governmental agen-cies and boards, voted for the Las Ve-gas downtown convention and sports complex, got the city and county squared away on the Metro police board, giving each equal representa-tion, set up ethics and open meeting laws, defeated the ERA amendment and raised the pay of the legislators from $40 per day to $60, starting in 1979. In the educational field they set up a four year medical school at UNR and also established a competency test for the graduating seniors in the high schools of the state. He pointed out that at the present time education takes 60 per cent of the state's budget and during the ses-sion the solons increased the per pupil contribution from state funds by 13 per cent, for the current fiscal year and 8 per cent for the year 78-79. He also called attention to the fact the solons had strengthened the child abuse laws and made them probably the stiffest in the nation. They also cracked down on the welfare cheaters and made them the toughest in the nation as well. The solons also expanded the health program, set up a full time parole board, reorganized the dairy commis-sion, authorized from $60 million to $70 million for the Clark county waste water plant, raised the salaries of the judges and set up new courts in sev-eral sections of the state, changed the definition of rape, changed the unem-ployment regulations denying benefits to those who quite their jobs willing-ly, set up a fair housing act and legal-ized laetrile and gerovital drugs. He said that the last session demon-strated that the legislature is respon-sive to the will of the people and he considers the session one of the best in recent years. Robbie Robertson acted as program chairman and introduced Bob.