The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, August 4, 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 — N o r t h Las Vegas — S i l v e r Nugget THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 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. Wheel Staff Now Is Reduced To Single The summer has reached the dol-drums and, as a result, material for the Wheel is becoming more and more difficult to glean. People either are away from the city on vacations or are seeking relief from the heat of latter July, so nobody is stirring, not even a mouse. As far as the editorial staff of the Wheel is concerned, it has been re-duced to one. John Beville has taken a sabbatical as a result of the recent loss of his w i f e and will not return to duty for several weeks. He is travel-ing, but will contribute some items when the occasion arises. Carl Ross is off on a journey to take a respite from his duties at the office and to get away from the hot weather, so that leaves only one overworked slave to scriven whatever might be in-formational for those who are remain-ing. If you will bear with us for the next three or four weeks, we will try to get better as the hot weather wanes. Hasta luego, you lucky guys who can take vacations. That what I miss the most in my retirement, is the holi-days and the vacations. Leonard Fayles Given Honor on Their 45th Leonard Fayle and his Rotary Ann, Anna, passed another milestone re-cently when they celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. Bert Purdue, his nephew and also a member of Rotary, and Bert's Rotary Ann, Margie, were co-hosts for an anniversary party which was held at the Purdue home. Leonard and Anna were married on July 23, 1932, in Los Angeles and made their home in Delano, California, for 10 years before moving to Las Ve-gas. While there Leonard was inducted into Rotary. In moving to Las Vegas, Leonard took over the Quality Bakery on South Third street, and operated it for some 12 years. Since his semiretirement, dur-ing which he has been almost as ac-tive as he was when conducting his business, he has been active in the management of local properties and mining claims in the Goodsprings area. For many years he was a member and chairman of the Las Vegas Valley Water District board. He also served 10 years on the selective service board of Las Vegas and, in 1970, was hon-ored by UNLV as "Distinguished Ne-vadan." An na retired in 1973 after teaching for 16 years in the Clark county school system. - Rl - Election Procedure Set Up in Rl Field Rotary International apparently has been having some problem so far as electioneering for office of directors because, at the last meeting of the board in Boca Raton, Florida, the di-rectors took a much firmer stand on this practice. The bylaws of Rl prohibit any can-didate to "undertake improper activi-ties to further his candidacy is by such activity in violation of the bylaws of Rl and may be disqualified as a can-didate." It happens in the best of well-regu-lated families, it seems. Four Corners Group Activities Are Told The activities of the Four Corners Commission, a recently formed group which is devoted to the development of the four states — Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — plus the re-cent entry of Nevada, were explained to the members of the Las Vegas Ro-tary club last Thursday by Carol Hawks, one of the officials involved in the program. She explained that the Four Corners group was one of nine in the United States which involve such develop-ment in 43 states. It is a sort of "com-munity" effort on the part of the vari-ous states so somewhat of a united front can be presented in any govern-mental activity. The first meeting, she said, was held at the real Four Corners, where the four states involved are located, and each governor never left the con-fines of his state because the round table was held around a square bridge table so located that each governor could sit within the border of his own state. Nevada recently has been admitted into the exclusive fraternity in a move to join the others in the removal of the barriers for industrial develop-ment. Each governor of each state is a member of the commission and he ap-points an alternate so there will be a representative of each state present at each meeting. Bob Goodman, of the Department of Economic Development in Nevada, is this state's alternate. The Four Corners organization has a three-pronged program which first will provide technical assistance wherever it is needed, secondly to supply in-formation regarding the federal grant fund which might be available for any given project, and third, to set up an excess property unit which can secure excess property from the federal gov-ernment at either no cost or for a slight charge. Congress has appropriated between $4 and $5 million for the operational Rl Approves Members Of Foundation Board The board of directors of Rl recently approved and ratified the appointment by the president of Robert A. Man-chester II to serve for a term of six years, and G. Robert Allison and Ichiro Matsudaira to serve for terms of two years as trustees of the Rotary Foun-dation. The personnel of the trustees for the coming Rotary year are: William C. Carter, London, chair-man; Allison, of Fergus Falls, Minn.; Ernst G. Breitholtz, Sweden; Harry F. Finks, Clinton, Mo.; Roy D. Hickman, Alabama; Ernesto Imbassahy de Mello, Brazil; H. William Ives, Michigan; Man-chester and Ichiro; William R. Robbins, Florida; and K. Gosta Sandberg, Swe-den. costs of the program and Nevada's share is about $200,000. Regional projects which will benefit all states involved is one of the main objectives of the Commission and one of the major projects now in operation is the bio-conversion program which converts animal wastes into methane gas, which is important for its use in several areas. The other project is the development of algae, whose slurry is developed into cattle feed. The Four Corners projects are some of the few by which the local residents can determine which development is the most necessary for a particular area. Miss Hawks said there are six proj-ects funded for the state of Nevada at present, including economic develop-ment of the west side area in Las Ve-gas, a photo-mapping project for the Las Vegas valley, an arts and crafts development in Ely, a repair of the water system in Alamo, and the repair of the water system in Tuscarora in Elko county. Chuck Ruthe acted as program chair-man for the day and introduced the speaker, who answered questions from the floor regarding the commission ac-tivities. Immigration Head To Speak Today Today's speaker is James E. Walsh, a member of the U.S. Immigration Service, who will give us information on the problems the nation has with illegal aliens. Walsh first entered the service at El Paso, Texas, where, as he puts it, he patrolled the sand dunes and shot jack rabbits until the crisis developed with Cuba in 1960 and he was trans-ferred to Miami, Florida, where he served with distinction, earning spe-cial commendations from President John F. Kennedy and Attorney Gen-eral Robert Kennedy. On his own time, while in Florida, he put to use his pre-vious experience and served on the Border Patrol piston team, attaining the classification of "master". He was "promoted" to Detroit, Mich-igan, to stand for two years in 25 de-gree weather, keeping a wary eye out for aliens. In 1966 he was sent to Puerto Rico to thaw out and while there received a Sustained Superior award. Then he came to Nevada to serve in Reno, where he was promoted to Criminal Investigator. Walsh has experience in the fields of adjudication, intelligence, adminis-trative fines as well as inspections and intelligence. He was made supervisor in charge of the Las Vegas office in 1972 and in 1975 he received an outstanding award in this sub-office. He is married to a Clark county schoolteacher and they have two sons and a daughter. — Rl — Roster Close 11 Days Away Dr. R. Guild Gray, who is chairman of the committee to put out the new Rotary roster, wants to call attention to the fact that any changes in the roster must be in Jan's hands no later than August 15. That gives a deadline just 11 days from today. If any of the members desire to make changes in their biographies or want a new picture inserted, contact Jan before the deadline. Program Committee Has Rough Problem The program committee ran into tragedy last week and as a result a sort of make-shift program was pre-sented to the club. Robbie Robertson, head of the committee, expressed re-grets that the original program could not be presented, and a scurrying around came up with a speaker who had little time to prepare. It all started back in Wyoming when one of the Thunderbird aerobatic team was killed in a plane crash. The dead pilot was the narrator for the team and he was scheduled to present the program at Rotary. Naturally that pro-gram had to be cancelled. In looking around for substitutes, Robbie hit on the Four Corners Associ-ation, which operates a federal pro-gram for the Four Corners area in the West. Bob Goodman, head of the Econom-ic Development program for the state of Nevada, was then set up to present the program, but he was forced to de-cline at a late date and sent his as-sistant to Las Vegas to appear before the Rotarians. Those sorts of things happen, even in the best of program chairmen's lives, and they cannot be helped. The substitute did very well, as you can determine from another column in the Wheel. - Rl - Non-Makeup List Is Still Lengthy The non-makeup list continues on a high level of disinterest on the part of those involved, according to our petite secretary's official list. There were 33 on the list for the July 14 meeting. Those on the list included: Barker, Blackgard, Buckley, Bruner, Carter, Christensen, Clark, DeLong, Engel, Foley, Fraser, M. Gamett, Geskes, and C. Harris, Heiman, Hoover, Joyce, Johnson, Kellogg, Manzi, Mielke, Mi-trani, Ordonez, Robinson, Saltzman, Sanford, Slade, Shelton, E. Smith, F. Smith, S. Turner, Wallace and Zeiger.