The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, October 20, 1955

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF IAS VEGAS, NEVADA ROTARY CLUB MEETS HOTEL LAST FRONTIER THURSDAYS, 12:15 P.M. INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS President — A. Z. Baker Gleeson L. "Tige" Payne Governor District No. 160C 103 Bonita St. Arcadia, California LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB Club No. 1401 Chartered April 5, 1923 Membership June '55 — 118 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS President—Spence Butterfield Secretary—Ted Brandt Treasurer—Walt Hunsaker Bob Cannon "Scoop" Garside Tommy Underhill R. Julian Moore ROTARY "WHEEL" STAFF Ray Germain, Editor John Beville Mike McNamee George Boman Reporters MAKEUP Boulder City, Nevada Wednesday, 12:15 PT Henderson, Nevada Friday, 12:15 PT Caliente, Nevada Friday, 12:15 PT Tonopah, Nevada Tuesday, 12:15 PT St. George, Utah Monday, 12:15 MT Kingman, Arizona Wednesday, 12:15 MT Barstow, California Wednesday, 6:30 PT Needles, California Tuesday, 12:15 PT FACTS ABOUT LAS VEGAS Founded 1905. Elevation 2,033. Population, 45,000, of trading area 75,000. Situated on U.S. Highways 91, 93. 95, 466. Served by — Union Pacific Railroad Greyhound, Burlington, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno, Sun Valley (Phoenix) Bus Lines. Hub of West's Most Scenic Country, Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion Parks, Death Valley, Boulder Dam and Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston. Valley of Fire. Page 2 WHEEL OF ROTARY OCTOBER 20, TODAY The views of a fiscal expert— the man who has been on the inside in most of the bond issues of recent years — concerning the metropolitan area of Las Vegas, will be outlined by our speaker today. Lauren ¥. Gibbs is well known in this area and makes frequent trips here from his Salt Lake City of-fice to confer with county, city and school officials on bond matters. Gibbs said the discussion will be factual and important to the area and "I hope will cause the Rotary members to reflect upon and to be willing to do something about the future prosper-ity of Southern Nevada." The program was arranged by O.J. Scherer who will act as program chair-man. NEXT WEEK The work done by volunteers in community services will be pin-pointed next Thursday when an entertaining movie "They Also Serve" will be pre-sented under the sponsorship of the Boy Scouts. The film, featuring all professional actors, is considered one of the best ever made concerning such activities, and shows behind the scenes efforts of those who serve without great praise. Jim Moss i-ri.ll act as program chairman. LAST WEEK Last week's meeting was one of the best in the long history of Rotary in Las Vegas. United States Senator Clinton Anderson (Dem. N.M.), farmer president of Rotary International and former Secretary of Agriculture, was the featured speaker....Senator Anderson discussed the future of the United States with relation to the atomic program and warned that the country must be alert to the threats of being surpassed in atomic devel-opment for war purposes, as well as from the businessman's angle. He said he felt that the reactors should be made available for peaceful pur-suits, and that if such is done, the United States can look for even more startling developments to make our everyday life more comfortable. Sen. Anderson told of the recent Geneva conference and commented that while the United States is still the Number One nation in atomic science, there are indications that "we can be superseded by others." The speaker, considered by some political writers as a possible can-didate for vice-president, was in-troduced by Sen. Alan Bible of Nev-ada The program was arranged by Julian Moore. In addition to the outstanding speech, the meeting was marked by an unusually large number of visiting Rotarians and guests. Secretary Ted Brandt listed h9 visiting Rotarians at the meeting. HERE AND THERE le praise of the Las Vegas Rft- WHEEL OF ROTARY Page Three outstanding programs he arranged while serving as Program Chairman during the quarter just completed...0. J. Scherer, the new chairman, takes over as of to-day. If any member has any suggestions for an informative or lively program, he is asked to contact "O.J." Two Rotarians who are down, but a long ways from out, are LES EDWARDS and ARCHIE GRANT, both of whom are re-ported to be under the weather. Les is confined to his favorite hospital and Archie is at home A belated welcome to "BUD" SWANSON who was introduced last week by Secre-tary Ted as our newest Baby Rotarian. Bud is a former member, and is back with us now under the new classifica-tion of Chamber of Commerce The Las Vegas club is planning on an early inter-city visit with the Caliente club. The arrangements will be in charge of our Inter-City Chair-man, MIKE COLE. Just when the visit will be made and by how many is up to Mike PRESIDENT SPENCE reports that Dis-trict Governor "TIGE" PAYNE will pay his official visit here on November l6th. A club assembly for all local . chairmen and committees will be held on Wednesday, November l5th. All com-mittee reports must be ready for re-view by November 10th, according to our Pre a The club is due to depart from a long-standing tradition today when all Rotarians will be asked to parti-cipate in the current Community Chest Drive by doing a little leg work. The ~4?ive is lagging so b^efly tha^i^e : individual effort of all Rotarians is being solicited. Each member will be given one solicitation card and will be asked to follow through and gain a contribution. JACK WOLLENZEIN, one of the pow-ers in the huge new Vegas Village shopping center, has received more publicity this past week than most Rotarians receive in a lifetime, all of which will probably cost him "a penny or two today."... Our congratu-lations to Jack and his partners for this splendid contribution to the Las Vegas scene THE HUNTING CORNER LORIN RONNOW and "CACTUS" CROWE reported in the other day after a week of deer hunting in the O'Neil district in Elko County. Lorin bagged a big one — a 221 pound buck, but Jerry bagged nothing more than a pair of "Maggie's drawers". It seems that the two niinrods came upon a pair of nice bucks. Lorin downed his buck but x-rhen Jerry squatted to get a bet-ter aim at his deer, he sat right in the middle of a big cactus. Although we haven't verified it, the rumor is that it took Lorin an hour and a half to pull the cactus needles out of his less fortunate companion DOC CHERRY and CLIFF LEONARD re-ported a successful duck hunt in the Fallon area during the past few days- BOB SCHMUTZER and GEORGE B0MA.N head for the O'Neil deer country next Tuesday while TOMMY UNDERBILL and SCOOP GARSIDE leave for Cave Valley Saturday morning. ABSENTEES: MADE UP: Boulder City BOB CANNON, FRANK GARSIDE LORIN RONNCW, TOMMY UNDERBILL Henderson, Nevada GUILD GRAY, HARRY MILLER JAKE VON TOBEL ABSENT: W. E. Baker, Nelson . Conway, Mike Cole, Jerry Crowe Les Edwards, Reid Gardner, Archie Grant, Wayne Kirch, J.R. McDaniel, Dick Moss, VernWillis Roy Quenzer, 0. J. Scherer, Dick Stadelman, Otto Underhill, Howard Woodbury. There were k9 Visiting Rotar-ians and ll; Guests of Rotarians at our last meeting. WHO'S WHO... Born in Denver, Colorado, he received his formal education in Denver and Washington, D.C. schools and the University of California. Served in the Navy in World War I. Before entering the real estate business in Las Vegas, he had served a stint as a newspaper reporter, and was in the bond and security sales bus-iness in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since 1939, he has been an active supporter of Las Vegas. He was one of the original char-ter members of the Las Vegas Board of Realtors. He held posi-tions as president, vice-presi-dent, secretary, and member of the Board of this body; also he has served in various appointive positions as Nevada representative to the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Among the numerous deals of importance he has negotiated has been: El Rancho Vegas, Last Frontier Hotel, and Sears-Roebuck.... He has been a Rotarian since 19Ul, and an active member of the Chamber of Commerce since 1939* serving as Board member of the latter body for several years.... From 19U2 until 19513 he served continuously as a member of the Las Vegas - Clark County Regional Planning Commission. Since 19h9, he has devoted himself tirelessly to thr Las Vegas Valley Water District.... His Rotaryann is Thelma and they have two mar-ried daughters and are grandparents of two boys and a girl. His name is THOMAS CAMPBELL, and the "Wheel" acknowledges its debt to "Title Tales" for these interesting facts. READ OUR MAGAZINE John Beville, chairman of the Rotarian Committee, calls attention to several in-teresting and informative articles which appear in the November issue of the "Rotar-ian" . "It's loaded with good reading," John says "Did you ever wrap a wire around an oatmeal box and pick up radio signals?" .... "Do you know the call letters of the first radio station and where it was locat-ed?" These and many other thought-provoking questions are answered in "Radio First An-nouncer" — starts on page 23* Another interesting article was writ-ten by William Saroyan and is entitled,"Is this man a crook?" It's on page 9 and you can get a lot of answers from the article. "7«f - V S V