The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, October 12, 1972

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 contor). 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) 'LET'S TAKE A NEW LOOK' LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY TROPICANA HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 5664, Garside Station 89102 OCTOBER 12, 1972 rWWMMVVMVWMVMMVVWMMWM The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA RAY GERMAIN and JOHN BEVILLE Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher Sacramento Visits Las Vegas Rotarians For two large-sized Rotary clubs — Las Vegas and Sacramento—today will have more significance than formerly as a delegation from Sacramento will attend our luncheon meeting. The visitors will make an all-day af-fair with their arrival in Las Vegas esti-mated at between 10 a.m. and noon. The Sacramento Rotarians are being met at the airport by a committee headed by Frank Mikulich. Featured speaker for the meeting will be Robert Lampey, with Chuck Gray as chairman. It is planned to have the Las Vegas club members return the visit as many members are private pilots and own their own planes. — Rl — No Happy Hour The usual "happy hour" of the club was dispensed with, happily, at the meeting last Thursday. President Angelo was off on one of his insurance junkets and in his ab-sence, Bill Ciliax presided. He was in his usual happy mood, so he let it go at that and kept the rest of the organi-zation in a like frame of brotherly love. Things are certain to change when "El Mafioso" returns from his Louisiana hiatus and gets the club back into the usual Thursday routine. However, it was a relief while it lasted. Charger-Cowboy Tilt on Club Sked "We're making an offer you can't refuse!" This was the statement made by Jack Kling at last week's meeting of the club. He was referring to the planned jaunt to San Diego to attend the Charger-Dallas Cowboys pro foot-ball game on November 5. The group will leave Las Vegas on Saturday, November 4, at around 8 a.m. and will return about 10 p.m. Sunday. It's the in-between stuff, how-ever, that is the main lure. Those who make the trip are as-sured tickets on the 40-yard line, hotel rooms and all the other goodies which, in the past, have gone to make up these junkets. In addition, there will be a cocktail party Saturday night at the hotel in order to get the group in the proper spirit for the game the following day. Jack told the members that the seats will be reserved on a strictly first-come- first-served basis and when the 32 tickets are taken "that's all there is." It promises to be a gala affair, wet bar in both directions on the bus. - R l - Fall Scholarship Grants Awarded The fall scholarship grants have been awarded to students at UNLV, it was announced last week by the board of directors of the Las Vegas Rotary Club. The club has worked jointly with the faculty at the university in select-ing the candidates to receive these full tuition scholarships. The seven students selected this fall are: Sharyn Cooke, senior, secondary education; David Rivers, junior, ele-mentary education; Patricia Festor, sophomore, education; Randy Neilson, senior, accounting; Ross Goldstein, senior, general business; Winnie Turn-er, sophomore, social sciences; and Shaye Collins, junior, social services. Paul Harris Fellowship Award Presented To Leonard Fayle W } * * r % JU * 1 Long-time Rotarian Leonard Fayle was the recipient of a Paul Harris Fel-lowship Award at a special awards dinner held at Griswold's Indian Hill Restaurant, Claremont, California, Sat-urday, Sept. 30. Over 500 Rotarians and Rotary Anns attended the dinner. The occasion was prompted by an anonymous donation of $53,000 to the Rotary Foundation with the stipulation that 53 deserving Rotarians, 25 of whom should come from District 530, would receive recog-nition. The committee of three mem-bers making final selection from 580 names proposed were: Glen Wilson, District Governor, 530; William E. Walk, Jr., Past President, Rotary Inter-national; A. Ronald Button, Trustee, R.I., of Evanston, Illinois. Following appropriate entertain-ment, the first award was to the North Las Vegas club for the highest per-centage of Foundation donations. Bud Cleland, President, accepted the trav-eling trophy, a handsome statuette. Others honored were six "Ambas-sadors of Good Will" who represented District 530 in England last year as part of the Group Study Exchange. In-cluded was Craig Hamilton of Las Ve-gas. William E. Walk, Jr., made the pres-entations to those of the 53 present, including Past District Governors from Essex, England, and Tijuana, Mexico. An outstanding feature of the eve-ning was a presentation via' long dis-tance telephone to honorees in Aus-tralia and England. The conversations A REMINDER From Garwood Van Dear Fellow Rotarian: You are invited to join our Rotary Golf Tournament scheduled to be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Octo-ber 13, 14 and 15, at Pala Mesa Golf Club, in Fallbrook, California. A char-tered bus with refreshments on board will leave Las Vegas at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, October 13. Package price, which includes three rounds of golf with cart, two breakfasts, two dinners and hotel for two nights, is only $75.00 per person. Non-golfers are welcome at $50.00. Please see Jan after the meeting to-day and sign up for a fun and golf-filled weekend. Garwood Van Golf Committee Chairman - Rl - Getting Acquainted Through what four avenues of Ro-tary service does esch member have an opportunity to apply his efforts and his talents? In club service, vocational service, community service (including service to youth) and international service. These correspond, in general, to the four avenues of Rotary service as ex-pressed in the object of Rotary. By whom is a new Rotary club or-ganized? Usually by an interested Rotarian serving as a special representative of the district governor, and acting under his supervision. The organizing group is called a provisional Rotary club from the time its formal application is re-ceived and acknowledged by the sec-retariat until it hcs been admitted to membership in Rotary International. were amplified for benefit of atten-dees. Not present but honored were the Presidents of the U.S. and Mexico. Attending from our area were: Den-nis Ortwein, Leonard Fayle, Bud Cle-land and Walter Hunsaker. The Wheel is indebted to Walter and Leonard for these notes. Tax Commission Complaints Recited A complete overhaul of the Nevada State Tax Commission was urged at the Thursday meeting of the Las Vegas Rotary Club by the chairman of that agency, Jack Hunter. Hunter, a third-generation Nevadan and a long-time resident of Elko, was the guest speaker and was introduced to the club by Bob Brown, himself a former chairman of the tax group un-der Governor Paul Laxalt. "The tax commission is stacked in favor of the large landholders of the state and is operating under archaic laws," Hunter told the club members. "There is no way in the world that tax equalization can be accomplished unless the legislature changes the laws which govern the operation of the commission," he said. "All urban taxpayers feel the im-pact of these archaic and almost use-less laws because they are not proper-ly represented on the commission. It is useless to present any ideas for change to the commission because only three of the nine members repre-sent the urban population. The others are comprised of men who represent the railroads and industry and they are not about to give up ihe benefits they have been enjoying almost since the state was formed." He pointed out many inequities where low-assessed property was sold for high, inflated profits because the property did not cost them anything in the first place and the assessed values had been so low that the taxes were hardly worth mentioning. He pointed a finger specifically at the Southern Pacific Railroad which, he said, "has been operating a gravy train ever since the first rail was laid." He said that the urban property owners were forced by the legislature to stand an assessed value program which brought about the present "35 percent valuation" figure for each as-sessor but that, under the law as it stands today, the urban taxpayers are the only ones who feel the impact. "The railroads and other like indus-tries in the state of Nevada are gov-erned by what is called the bulletin, which is issued semi-occasionally by the tax commission. That bulletin has hardly changed in the entire history of the state and it is a cinch it will not be so long as the majority of the commis-sion represents the very people who are benefiting by the regulations." He declared that the appraisals on these lands are exceedingly low and the various assessors are unable to do anything about changing them because of the commission's bulletin. "A survey recently was conducted under the direction of the University of Nevada Agriculture Department in-to the assessment practices in the state," he said. "But what could you expect when the survey team consist-ed of representatives of the very agen-cies the survey result was supposed to correct?" He declared there was only one hope of relief and that is from the leg-islature. He urged members of the Ro-tary Club to contact their legislative delegation and demand action. " I t is your only hope for the correc-tion of a situation that is killing every urban taxpayer in the state of Ne-vada." — Rl — Strength Farmer Angelo, pulling with one mule: "Giddap Irv, Giddap Richard, Giddap Walt, Giddap Jesse, Giddap Bill!" Stranger: "How many names does that mule have?" Farmer Angelo: "His name is Wil-liam, but he don't know his own strength; so I put blinders on 'im, yell a lot o' names, and he thinks a lot o' other mules are helping him."