The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, April 28, 1977

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 — North Las Vegas — Silver Nugget THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 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, starting today, is a scene from the Red Rock area and is provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau. The picture is especially historic, be-cause, 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. Skip Kreidler To Speak on Rotary Today the Las Vegas Rotary club is welcoming L. S. "Skip" Kreidler, dis-trict governor-elect of District 611. Skip is a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is an experienced public speaker with a Rotary message to tell. The subject of his talk will be "Ro-tary Pride" and he will be here at that time as a speaker for a California dis-trict conference which is meeting at the MGM. He also has presented the speech to zone institutes at Newport Beach and San Antonio. He is very active in the affairs of Rl. He is charter member and past president of the Southeast Tulsa club, where he received the Charter Presi-dent's "Service Above Self" award. He has spoken to more than 150 Rotary clubs in the western hemisphere. At his district conference in 1976 he was elected district governor of 611, the largest Rotary district in the western hemisphere. He was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship. - R l - First man: "I don't seem to be able ti sleep at night." Second man: "Just keep seeing how close you can roll to the edge of the bed; you'll drop off in no time." Rotary Anns Are Under Weather Rotary Anns of several Las Vegas club members have been under the weather recently, but from reports re-ceived by the Wheel all are coming along fine. Helen Wills, wife of Vern, has re-turned from Scripps, where she under-went tests. Martha Hunsaker, Walt's Rotary Ann, is recuperating from her illness, and Helen Beville has finished her tests at Sunrise. The Rotary club wishes them speedy recoveries. Speaking of hospital stays, Bob Can-non, a long-time member of the Las Vegas club, is still in the hospital fol-lowing an abdominal operation. Re-ports are that he is recovering nicely. - Rl - Educators Attend Thursday Meet There were a whole slough of edu-cators at the Las Vegas club meeting last Thursday from many spots around the nation. The reason for the invasion, of course, was because there is a conven-tion of school principals at the Con-vention Center and some of the more active visiting Rotarians took advan-tage of the proximity of the Land-mark to do their Rotary duty and make up. - Rl - Dave Welles Gets Rotary Honor Honors came to the Las Vegas club at the district convention which was held in Palm Springs recently. President Dave Welles was selected as the district governor's representa-tive for the coming term and will con-duct most of Governor Paul Bryan's business with the southern Nevada clubs. This is the first time in recent years that a Las Vegas Rotary club member has had the high honor. Dave will serve until next March in his new as-signment. New Club Proposal Will Be Studied Walt Wehner, past president of the Las Vegas Rotary club, revived the plan for the establishment of another club in the area when he appeared be-fore the board of directors at the last meeting. Wehner recalled that at the time the Paradise club was formed it was sug-gested that the Las Vegas club move downtown in order to clear the way for a possible new club outside the boundaries of the Paradise club. He said at that time the lieutenant governor mandated there should be a change of boundaries for the Las Ve-gas club, but this was never done. Now Wehner suggested that this man-date be carried out. If such a move is made, it would mean the Las Vegas club would have to move its weekly meeting place to the downtown area, if accommoda-tions can be found. The board voted to research the plan and form a committee to investi-gate the suggestion and report back to the board at a later date. - Rl - Overton Club Is Well On Its Way The drive to establish a Rotary club in Overton, which was undertaken several weeks ago, was climaxed by the organizational meeting which was held recently. Phil Hubbard, governor's represen-tative for southern Nevada, was pres-ent at the meeting and reports great enthusiasm for Rotary in the farming community. Hubbard said the establishment of the new club would provide the Las Vegas valley members another oppor-tunity to make up, but they should be informed that the club meets at 6:30 in the morning. Hubbard was lauded for his Rotary work by Dave Welles, Las Vegas presi-dent, in his introduction, citing his work also for uniting the clubs in this southern Nevada area. Trophies Awarded For Golf Tourney Trophies for the Rotary golf tourna-ment, which was held at Lake Havasu during the weekend of March 11, were presented at the meeting of the club last Thursday. Mrs. Frank Sala was winner of the women's trophy, while Mrs. George Kell was second runner-up. In the men's division, Fred Midden-dorf and George Kell were the win-ners with Dick Brown and Mark Miel-ke first runners-up and Fred Kennedy second. All reported a great time, despite the fact the Runnin' Rebels were in Atlanta and many of the avid Rotary addicts were with them. - Rl - Rotary To Support Boys', Girls' State The Las Vegas Rotary club will as-sist once more in the operation of both Boys' and Girls' State this year, it was decided by the board of directors at the last meeting. It was voted by the board to spon-sor two girls and three boys at the sessions which will be held in Carson City later during the summer. Sponsors of the event reported it would cost $65 for each girl at the camp while the cost for the boys is $100 per youngster. The Las Vegas club has joined in this worthwhile project for the past many years and the results have been excellent. - R l - Ma and Pa left their isolated home for the first time in 35 years to attend the county fair. As they strolled through the fairgrounds, they came to a booth where a washing machine manufacturer was demonstrating the latest model. Pa looked for a long time at the glass door in the front of the machine, the clothes, water and suds gyrating behind it, then snorted, "All I can say is, if that's television — they can have it!" 3C X X X X X X X X ag CAHLANS ORNER For the past several semesters since I have been scrivening this bit of sense and nonsense, there have been critics who contend that a Rotary bulletin should not invade the field of politics because it might raise some enmity in those who might not believe as I do and thereby violate the first tenet of Rotary - Is it the truth? Well, I will leave it to posterity to determine whether I have been truthful or just blowing off some extra steam, which usually is the prerogative of the legis-lative chambers throughout the land. Today I take you by the hand and lead you into territory which already has been staked out by residents of the White House in Washington ever since the advent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It has to do with something that once was called states' rights. Congress, the states and even the ordi-nary citizen of the land abdicated those rights during the depression, and instead of getting them back after the siege we have watched them eroded further and further with the election of the new leader. Now we come to a president who figures himself to be the re-incarna-tion of the great leader of the thirties and forties, and promises, if possible, to take away what is left of that once revered status the states once pos-sessed. The current president now has come forth with the premise that the state of Arizona must enact certain laws in the legislature or the funds for the water projects in that state will be promptly deleted. It was bad enough that the president stuck himself out in the forefront of the supporters of ERA and sought to influence the votes of legislators in several states. However, when he promises reprisals, as he did to Arizona, then it is my belief the ordinary citizen, including Rotarians, should come forward and protest this JOHN F. CAHLAN invasion of what once was a cherished right. If he can do that to Arizona, think what he can do to the rest of the na-tion in general and Nevada in particu-lar. If he does not like something that is being done in a state, like gambling in Nevada, he can find some method of withholding funds until such time as the legislature sees fit to change the law. The same thing could be done in other states. And most states have become reliant on funds received from Washington in order to survive. The present stand of the president, while not immediately threatening, nonetheless opens the door for future presidents and, before we know it, the freedoms so long cherished in this nation will disappear. Remember, my friends, when the income tax measure passed the Con-gress, the leaders, as well as the then president, pledged the tax never would exceed 10 per cent. What a fairy tale that was! As the man said, it CAN happen here. - Rl - After three little boys had been sent off to bed, they decided they'd like some more of the chocolate cake they had had for dinner. The first boy de-cided he could make it to the kitchen undetected, but the floor squeaked loudly. "Who's out of bed?" called Mother from downstairs. "Meow," was the response. The same thing happened when the second boy tried. Then the third boy made his at-tempt. Once again, the floor squeaked. "Who's out of bed?" demanded mother for the third time. "The cat!" came the reply. - Rl - Maybe we were better off when charity was a virtue instead of a de-duction.