The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, December 22, 1976

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 — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 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. Birthday Party Held For Rotarians Because of the fact the Rotarians whose birthdays fall in December us-ually are overlooked during the press of the holiday season, the Wheel is making a special effort to recognize them, even if it is a little late. As an added bonus, those whose birthdays fell in November also are being men-tioned. It is a shame we were not able to separate those in November from the ones in December, but if you really are interested, I'm sure all of them know in which month they were born; just ask them. And now, here we are: Zack Taylor, Vern Willis, Lou Whitney, R. J. Moore, Mark Mielke, Ray Crump, Harley E. Harmon, Grant Lund, Herman Saltz-man, Angelo Manzi, Bill Blackgard, Ralph Litton, Don Cashdan, and Ray Stauffer, Bob Cole, George Tate, Bert Purdue, Virgil Slade, Fred Mid-dendorf, Bill Southard, Mike Meyer, Dick Basile, Bob O'Connell, Mink Dix-on, Dick Relyea, Jack Cord, Bob Brown and R. Guild Gray. Congatulations, belated as they may be, to all of you! Las Vegas Rotarians To Assist Moapans There was some semblance of a po-litical convention displayed at the meeting of December 8 and a proposal to assist the Moapa Rotary club along its babyhood days following its char-tering a f ew weeks ago. As is usual in most of the smaller clubs, assistance must be given in the matter of the Rotary Foundation in order to keep the district's average up to where it should be. So, as a matter of practice, a motion was made, and duly seconded, that each member of the Las Vegas Rotary club be assessed one dollar which would be contributed to the Founda-tion as Moapa's contribution to the fund. The motion had little chance of fail-ing because President Jim, when he heard the second, immediately notified the club the motion had been passed unanimously. There was no discussion nor, as far as could be determined, any vote called. However, the mem-bers accepted in good grace and Moapa now will be legal in all fields. - Rl - Purdue Is Chosen President-Elect Bert Purdue, an 11-year member of the Las Vegas Rotary club, has been chosen to fill the office of president-elect of the group and will succeed Darrell Luce for the term of 1979-80. The action came at the first meeting of the new board of directors which was held on December 13 and includ-ed the new members of the board — Barry Becker, Fred Lewis-Nebot and Howard Nelson. Two other members were re-elected, Dr. Bill Busch and Don Aiken. In addition to Purdue, the other of-ficers for the coming year are Irwin Kishner, secretary, and Aiken, treas-urer. Both have served the club in these capacities for the past several years. Rotary Rosters Make Big Impression At long last, and it wasn't too long considering, the new Rotary rosters have made their appearance and were distributed to the members on Decem-ber 8. As was promised, the new books are probably the finest ever published by the Las Vegas Rotary club (or any other in the world, for that matter) and have been updated, both with infor-mation and pictures. One of the newer features is the date each member joined the club and that figure is found to the right of the resume at the bottom. This should give the forgetful ones, like the Wheel edi-tor, all the information necessary. R. Guild Gray was the editor and did most of the work, while Scoop Garside was in charge of the printing. - Rl - Leonard Fayle Featured In R-J Story Another of our veteran members has broken into the printed pages re-cently. Leonard Fayle, who is the proud possessor of one of the longest perfect attendance records for the lo-cal club, was one of those featured in The Nevadan section of the Review- Journal. In the story about the town of Jean it was pointed out that the town was named after Leonard's mother, who was the first postmaster. The town was a stopover for the San Pedro, Los An-geles, Salt Lake Railroad because of the abundance of water available for the old steam freight engines of the day. The family came to Jean in 1905 and remained there until 1918 when the terrible flu epidemic of World War I struck and claimed the life of Leon-ard's father. At the peak of the mining boom in the Yellow Pine district, which includ-ed Goodsprings, where Leonard's fa-ther built a hotel, Leonard estimates there were some 1,500 residents. After her husband's death, Jean Fayle moved to Las Vegas with the family, and later married Clint Boggs, who operated a grocery store and later became chief of police. Leonard later went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he became a member of the Penn rowing crew which was quite widely known in the sports circles of the east. On returning to Las Vegas, Leonard went into partnership with Bob Baskin, in the old Quality Bakery on South Second street. He later sold out and went into semi-retirement, a status he still holds. He was chosen "Distinguished Ne-vadan" by the University of Nevada system and also served on the Selec-tive Service board and was a member and former chairman of the Las Vegas Valley Water District. - Rl - No Foreign Rotary Members Present While the number of visiting Ro-tarians and guests was about the same as usual, the foreign members were entirely lacking at the last meeting of the Rotary club. The furthest visiting member was from Palatka, Florida, which the repre-sentative present said was "50 miles from somewhere" and was a club made up of some 78 members and all of them greatly involved in the busi-ness of promoting Rotary. ROTARY PROGRAMS Date 1977 Speaker — Title Introduced by Subject 12/22 Children's Christmas Program (Arranged by Board of Directors) 12/29 Keith Ashworth "The Facts About Consolidation" = 3 6 Jfc )C Jfc- Jl jg CAHLANS ORNER JOHN F. C A H L A N I have no desire whatever of getting in the middle of a shouting match be-tween one Dick Odessky and the wom-en's libbers over whether the members of the feminist group possess an abun-dance of hair on their chests. As a mat-ter of fact, I might say that my per-sonal laboratory research in such mat-ters has been hampered to a degree by the years that have passed. Of course, it is a matter of personal preference as to whether any hirsute adornment on a feminine chest should interfere in any manner in the amorous conquests of those chauvinistic males who prowl the streets of our cities today. I do not intend, either, to denigrate those members of the feminists who attended the recent Houston conven-tion. They apparently saw their duty and they done it. They are to be con-gratulated for taking such an active interest in the things which are going on around them, even if the major portion of the residents of the country seem to be in disagreement with their conclusions. It is my purpose, I might say, to see that my passport into the land popu-lated by the male chauvinistic pigs is provided with a new visa so that I might remain a citizen in good stand-ing. Therefore, I plan, in this little es-say, to make what I hope will be co-gent remarks just to let the feminists know that my voice has not been stilled. In the first place, one of the mem-bers of the feminist establishment has chided Mr. Odessky, of the local Val-ley Times, because he had the effron-tery to declare that the women who attended the Houston convention bared their "flat, hairy chests" and joined in the chant for a boycott of unratified states. Now I agree that Mr. Odessky, being the experienced newsman he claims to be, should have devoted more time to personal research to de-termine if what he had heard from others actually was the truth and based on the bare facts. However, I believe also that Mr. Odessky has a right to his opinion re-garding the boycott and the Valley Times was duty bound to publish it. It seems strange to me how the women's libbers are so certain their side is the right one and allow none to criticize, despite the Constitutional guarantee of free speech as well as a free press. In addition, another blithe spirit of the women's lib movement was quoted in another newspaper as saying: "It is sad to see the equality so threatening and frightening to some, particularly other women, that they insist that all of us should have to live by their standards of what every woman's role should be." I might say those are di-rect quotes from the Las Vegas Sun of November 29, 1977. I would like to ask the one who made that statement if she would mind if I paraphrase that statement so it will come out with the same words used but with a different meaning result-ing. " I t is sad to see the equality so threatening to some, particularly the most of the nation, that the majority of the citizens of America should have to live by the standards of the libbers of what women's role should be in the scheme of the world." If the libbers will provide me with a sensible answer to that query, I promise to retire from the pages of this publication and hie me hence to that great pig sty in the sky where I can sit, contemplate my navel and let the rest of the world go by, especially those females with the "flat and hairy chests."