The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, December 9, 1976

The Wheel LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing 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 9, 1976 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. Don Ashworth To Talk Tax Reforms With the Christmas season rampant in the community, the Las Vegas Ro-tary club will be brought back to real-ity today when Don Ashworth, past president and a tax expert of some note, will provide the program and act as speaker for the day. Don plans to explain some of the new tax "reforms" and he hopes he will be able to make more sense than the "reforms" do. The talk will be ex-tremely timely because those "ides" of April will be upon us before we know it. - Rl - Rotarian Magazine Will Be Explained Special emphasis will be directed toward the Rotarian magazine in an effort to get more members interested in the contents thereof, it has been an-nounced by George Tate, chairman. Tate plans a recognition day some-time early in January, at which time the magazine will be displayed and a talk on the objects of it will be pre-sented. The Rotarian is not entirely a house organ; there are a lot of fine stories contained about the life and times of other Rotary clubs scattered all over the world. Spotlight Turned On Keith Ashworth Keith Ashworth, president of the club during the 1973-74 year, occu-pied the spotlight last Thursday when the club honored another of its past presidents. James Cashman, a long-time friend and hunting companion of Keith's, was chosen as the speaker to provide the club with a short resume of Keith's activities. Keith is a native of Kimberly, Ne-vada, near Ely, and a graduate of the White Pine high school. He was a fighter pilot in World War II but did not see any overseas activity and spent his service in the United States. He is married and his Rotary Ann is Coleen and they have three sons. He has been active in the city of Las Ve-gas and was one of the leaders of the Junior Chamber of Commerce during the most active years of the organiza-tion, and is a past president. He was named as one of the outstanding members of the club. He also has served Clark county as an assemblyman, the last t w o terms of office being speaker of the Assembly and he recently has been elected to a seat in the Senate. - Rl - Non-Makeup List Is Still Large The non-makeup list for November 18 was quite long, according to our Secretary Jan and some of those on the list are near the border line. The list includes: Don Aiken, Wil-mer Allen, Keith Ashworth, Chris Brandt, Jerry Bruner, Steve Casey, James Cashman III, Bill Ciliax, Cruden, Frank Ellis, Dick Etter, Mark Gamett, Maurice Gedance, Ashley Hall, Joe Hollis, and Vic Isaacson, Fred Kennedy, Mike Kroplin, Joe Leveque, Bill McGrew, Joe NcNamee, Bernie Menke, Bob O'Connell, Bert Purdue, Robbie Rob-ertson, Marty Rud, Vince Sanner, Frank Shattuck, Ken Sparks, Hal Wandes-forde, Phil Youngblood and Gary Vause. t RAY GERMAIN The state of Nevada lost a good citizen, the University system an avid supporter and the Rotary club a de-voted friend when Ray Germain left us a week ago today. While Ray could not claim native Nevada status, he did qualify as a pioneer because he came to Las Vegas with his family in 1912, only seven years after the actual founding of the town. He went through the primary and secondary schools in this city and then went to Reno to attend the Uni-versity of Nevada, then the only ad-vanced learning institution in the state. While on the campus he was very active in student affairs and became a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, a social fraternity at the institution. He also belonged to several of the other cam-pus organizations and, while not an athlete himself, devoted much of his time promoting the various athletic events on campus. Following graduation and his mar-riage to Virginia Garside, daughter of a pioneer newspaper family in Ne-vada, he spent several years in Love-lock, where he was manager of the Safeway store. He came back to Las Vegas in the mid-twenties and joined the staff of the Review-Journal after a stint in Tonopah, where he was editor of the Garside paper, the Times Bonanza. Following his Review-Journal work he joined the then Congressman Berk-ley Bunker as administrative assistant and following that he joined the post office department. He then became di-rector of special projects at UNLV. He also was the first president of the revitalized Las Vegas Press Club and also served as regent of the Uni-versity of Nevada. The state, southern Nevada, and Ro-tary, especially, will miss him. 25 Club Revival Will Be Started The 25 Club, which was formed during the time of President Don Ash-worth, is having a little problem be-cause most of the original members have been forced out because of the number of new Rotarians who have been inducted. Dick Relyea, who is president of the 25 Club, has indicated there is not the intense interest displayed by the origi-nal founders and this must be revived if the club is to survive. Dick plans a concerted drive to get the new members interested and ex-pressed the hope that the next meet-ing will be well attended. Christmas Party Is Regular Meeting Don't forget that the next meeting, on December 16, will be the fifty-third annual Christmas party. It will be held at the Desert Inn Country club with no host cocktails served at 6:30 and dinner at 7:30. Our secretary, Jan, wants it under-stood that the party will be considered a regular meeting date and if you miss it you will have to make up to keep up the attendance record. The regular luncheon meeting will not be held on that date. Following dinner there w i l l be danc-ing until midnight, if desired. Guests will be welcomed at $25 per couple. Middle East Picture Is Told By Laxalt The Las Vegas Rotary club was giv-en a first hand look at the volatile Middle East last week when US Sena-tar Paul Laxalt, who had recently re-turned from a t r ip to that area, spoke before the group. The senator was in-troduced by Ashley Hall, his Las Vegas office manager, who acted as program chairman for the day. The senator explained that his jour-ney to the mideast was arranged as a task force trip by a senate committee to determine just what the situation was as regards the United States' in-fluence in the area. The t r ip officially started at Vienna, the headquarters of the nuclear con-trol agency and, he said, during the stay there, the committee found out that the problem of nuclear prolifera-tion was the greatest one facing the world today. He said the control group is doing good work but there are many weaknesses apparent. He pointed out that there are 183 nuclear plants now in existence in the world and 258 in the procress and that a moratorium in the sale of nuclear units would be entirely impractical. He said the smaller nations must be contained and the supplier nations must get together and set safeguards. The terrorists in the mideast are the main problem but, as of now, he feels they are under control. He has hopes that President-elect Carter's experiences with nuclear ma-chinery will stand him in good stead as president, as it seems to be his strong suit. In describing the middle east, he said Israel was almost an exact dupli-cate of the terrain in Nevada and that the natives are doing a good job of development. There is tought leader-ship there and their dependence on the United States is almost total. JORDAN-This is the stepchild of the area. There is no economic muscle and thousands of Palestinians have been dumped on the natives and they are in big trouble. Hussain, he said, has been the peacemaker, but has re-cently been deposed. EGYPT—A most depressing country featured mostly by squalor and with the people so numerous that the cities look like a busy ant hill. Sadat has the most difficult political position in the mideast but is a solid, up-front official and all man. He is ruling a virtual armed camp because of the constant threat to life, and the economy is in trouble. The birth rate there is incredible and this is one of the problems. Sadat is sin-cere in his desire for peace. IRAN—Has made most interesting progress, which is almost unbeliev-able. There are major high rises being built, mostly of masonry, the economy is booming, but the main concern here is that the rich oil fields are being de-pleted and within 25 years will be gone. This will mean that 76% of the country's revenue will go down with the evaporating oil wells. This country is extremely important to the defense of America and it is an absolute neces-sity to support Iran. He predicted an increase in the price of oil and said the people of the area do not trust the United States, be-cause they have learned from Korea and Viet Nam that the US w i l l not pro-tect its allies. In closing, he paid high tribute to his colleague, Senator Cannon, who, he said, is regarded as one of the major weaponry experts in the world today and is widely respected by the leaders. - Rl - Student Guests To Be Welcomed The student guest program, which has proved to be so successful when in operation several years ago, will be revived and is expected to get into operation shortly after the first of the year. All of the high schools in the area will be involved and one meeting a month will be set aside to welcome the young people to the Rotary meet-ing.