The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 10, 1977

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. 0 . 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 — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 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 cover of The Wheel is a repro-duction of a painting made of the old Las Vegas fort by F. S. Dellenbaugh, pioneer painter who came to Las Vegas with John Wesley Powell. The picture shows the old fort as it was in 1876 when Dellenbaugh made the painting. t V W V V W * * W * W W V W W W W V V \ * W V V W Wheel Co-Editor Honored By NARBC John F. Cahlan, co-editor of the Ro-tary Wheel and a pioneer Las Vegan, was honored this week by the Nevada American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission at a special meeting held in Carson City. Cahlan and the other members of the Commission, both present and past, were presented with special plaques in which were inset one of the medallions which were minted at the old Carson City Mint (now the Ne-vada State Museum) and circulated widely as one of the major projects of the Commission. He has been a member of the Ne-vada Commission almost since its in-ception and for most of that period served as vice chairman. The Commission now is winding down its activities as it goes out of business on July 1 of this year. How-ever, during its tenure, the Commis-sion brought in hundreds of thou-sands of dollars of federal funds for local projects which were a part of the Nevada observance of the Bicenten-nial year. Most of those projects are permanent and will be of inestimable value to the communities sponsoring them as well as landmarks for Ne-vadans of the future. Youth Conference Needs Chaperones The Rotary youth conference, which is an outgrowth of the Constitutional Congress which was so successful dur-ing the Bicentennial year of 1976, is scheduled to be held on April 2 and 3 and the committee in charge is anxious to secure chaperones for the event as soon as possible. Dean Cummings and Craig Hamil-ton, co-chairmen of the event, remind the Rotarians that this is one of the major projects of the Las Vegas club and every member should support it to the fullest. It is expected that the conference will be the largest, both in numbers and in the program offered, and the members of the Las Vegas club are urged to get behind it. The program promises to be one of the best ever with several speakers appearing to provide messages to the young people. Darrel Luce will be the first speaker on Saturday and he will be followed by Bob Cannon, Perry Lieber, Fred Lewis and Allen Glick. Miriam Shearing will appear before the group in the afternoon of Satur-day and Kate Butler and Helen Herr are scheduled for later in the after-noon. David Humm, former Gorman high school football star and now a mem-ber of the Oakland Raiders profes-sional team, will be the featured speaker at the Sunday rites and he will be followed by Bernie Menke. The final speaker is Wayne Newton, noted western singer who now is a resident of Las Vegas and who is in-tensely interested in the advancement of the young people here. Church services will be held at 9 o'clock Sunday, just prior to the first speaker's appearance. - Rl - On the first day of school, each new kindergartner arrived home with a note from teacher. It read, "Dear Par-ents: If you promise not to believe all your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe all he says hap-pens at home." Exchange Student Participation Urged A plea was issued last Thursday by Scott Wallace, asking the members of the Las Vegas Rotary club to join in finding applicants for the Rotary Ex-change program. For the first time, this program has been opened up to the families of Ro-tary members and provides an excel-lent opportunity for some young per-son to visit and study in some foreign country. Applications should be presented to the Las Vegas Rotary club and the of-ficers of that organiatizon will see they get in the proper hands. Wallace pointed out that Las Vegas has entertained many young people f r om foreign lands under the program, and several local youngsters have tak-en advantage of the opportunity offers by the Rotary club. Following Scott's presentation, Chris-tine Ann Barker, a local student who has expressed an interest in the pro-gram, told the Rotarians why she was desirous of studying abroad. She pres-ently is enrolled at UNLV. Christine has been working in the juvenile services program here and is very interested in the young people who come into the juvenile hall for treatment. It is her plan to assist, in every way possible, the advancement of human-ity and she would like to take advan-tage of the Rotary program. - Rl - Go If Tourney At Havasu Is Set The spring golf tournament of the Las Vegas Rotary club is scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and a goodly throng is expected to trek to Lake Havasu for the affair. While the event is scheduled to start Friday, the first round will be a practice one and those who cannot get away until late Friday will be welcome for the Saturday and Sunday rounds. Let Mark Mielke know your plans, however, so the proper arrangements can be made. Laura Belle Kelch Chosen For Honor Laura Belle, Rotary Ann of long-time Rotary member Max Kelch, was signally honored last week when she was named Nevada Mother of the Year for 1977. The choice was made by the Nevada chapter of the Ameri-can Mothers Committee, Inc., of which Mrs. Meryl Jones is president. Laura Belle was chosen by a distin-guished group of mothers who con-sidered candidates from all over the state of Nevada. Governor Mike O'Callaghan made the presentation of the citation at a meeting held recently in Las Vegas. Mrs. Kelch is the mother of two chil-dren, both residents of Las Vegas and both married. She will go to New York to attend the annual Mothers' Week at the Waldorf Astoria May 2-6, where a national jury will select the 1977 national mother of the year. She has been a resident of Las Ve-gas since 1939 and served as secretary of the Citizens Library Association for 25 years; is a charter member of the Las Vegas Art League and the Nevada Watercolor Society, and has been ac-tive in both the Girl and Boy Scout movements in Las Vegas. She is wide-ly known throughout the southwest for her water color work. Mrs. Kelch was sponsored in the event by Chapter G of the PEO Society of Las Vegas. - Rl - The Question Corner How may an active member lose his membership in a Rotary club? By ceasing to be personally en-gaged in the classification of business or profession under which he is clas-sified or residence within the territo-rial limits of the club. By severing his connections with his business establishment (even if his type of business remains the same). By nonpayment of dues to the club. For failure to comply with atten-dance requirements. By resignation. Media Chided For Crime Explosion The mass media was severely criti-cized by Dr. Frederick J. Hacker, inter-nationally known crime fighter, who appeared before the Las Vegas Rotary club last Thursday as the principal speaker of the day. He was introduced by Irwin Kishner as a personal friend. Kishner served as program chairman for the day. Dr. Hacker declared that, in his opinion, there is no doubt but that the media was a contributing factor to the increase in crime in the nation and ex-plained exactly why he thought so. He said that the media insists that repetition on the various commercial breaks and in the newspaper adver-tising is the main tool used to stimu-late sales and yet, in the same breath deny that repeated violent segments of the TV programs have any effect on the public. He indicated that the networks were talking out of both sides of their mouths and giving the public and the law enforcement offi-cers the run around. "Different motivations," he said, "af-fect different people and that is why there is such a variety of crime which is one of the most deplorable chapters in the United States history. " A l l of us are potential victims of the criminal and we should become personally interested in the efforts to curb the growing trend," he said. He also criticized the crusaders, the do-gooders, who always attempt to see that the criminal gets the best of the deal after the crime has been commit-ted. He said a great many of these people were merely hunting power and prestige and had a great desire to draw attention to themselves. He told the Rotarians there are two kinds of terrorists: those from above, like Amin, whose main idea is scare and intimidation; then there are those from below whose main forte is kid-naping, hijacking, rape and all the other violent crimes. He said that fashions in crime come and go and a new type of assault us-ually is followed by a number of other similar violence. He said the media had a lot to do with this trend because of the unnecessarily great cverage the crimes were given. He contended there is a definite relationship between the mass media and the criminal because most of the violators are insured prime time in the coverage of the crime while it is in progress. Such events can, he said, hold the attention of the whole world for a given period of time, and vio-lence, as produced by these people, is the very meat of the media. He said he did not favor censorship, but he did say that the reportorial ex-cellence could be improved to a point where it would not be necessary to give all the gory details of a crime and add on a few of the reporter's own ideas. He blamed the general public, to a degree, because it seems to be inured to violence and w i l l do little to curb it unless it affects them personally. He concluded by saying that "Crime is too important to the survival of the nation to be left entirely up to the police. The citizenship should get be-hind some sort of gun control as well as to reinstate the death penalty as a curb to crime." Also he urged the people to back attempts to cut down on delays in the courts for the criminal and make the punishment fast and tough. - Rl - Frontier Group Is Back From Hawaii The Frontiersmen of the Las Vegas Rotary club, R. Julian Moore and Curt Osmand, have returned recently from a combined business and pleasure trip to Hawaii. Frontier Savings board of directors, once a year, congregate at some vaca-tion spot for the annual meeting and this time the Paradise of the Pacific was chosen. Board members and their spouses gathered for a six-day outing during which the annual meeting of the board was held and many social events transpired.