The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, 1960s-1970s

Las Vegas Rotary Hits Rock Bottom Well, we finally have accomplished the impossible! THE LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ATTEND-ANCE SCALE FOR THE DISTRICT. Each member of the Las Vegas club really should be proud of this effort. All the excuses in the world regarding how the other clubs in the district maintain their above average attend-ance records will not excuse the fact that we are LAST. For some time we were hovering around the district average line but no more. We have sunk below every club in the district and now rank 44th. Boulder City, as usual, heads the southern Nevada groups in attendance, reaching the 91.28 figure and is resid-ing in 18th place. Boulder is followed by Las Vegas Southwest in 22nd place with an average of 89.67. Caliente, with 80.25 is in 33rd spot, Henderson is in 37th with 78-19 and North Las Vegas resides in 42nd with 76.80. The Las Vegas average is 74.42. Is it any wonder the board of directors is taking action to insure better at-tendance? You guys who are at fault know who you are and, brother, you better shape up or, for sure, you'll be shipped out. - Rl - Program Exchange A new Program Exchange is being offered the district. Minimum sub-scription is for six months and the cost is $4.25 per month for reports of programs at weekly clubs. This service reports on programs per-formed at member clubs and rates them according to the scale of poor, fair nad excellent. For additional information refer: Program Exchange, P.O. Box 6, South Pasadena, California or 799-342 - 651-4220. Minimum six month sub-scription is $4.25 per month for re-ports of programs at weekly clubs. - Rl - The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Achievement Award Set Up Rotary International has announced there will be a significant achievement award to be presented to some club in the district. It will be presented during the annual convention. The award will be based on accom-plishment in solving a significant prob-lem as manifested in, but not restricted to, the local local community; it should involve most of the membership, it should be capable of emulation by other clubs, it need not have been initiated in the current year, but should be currently active to qualify and no club can receive a certificate for more than one year for the same project. President Bob hopes that some member or members will come up with a project which might qualify. The entry deadline is November 1. - Rl - Senior Active List Growing There will be several of the mem-bers of the Las Vegas club who will be joining the senior active group. Letters have been sent out to those who are eligible and their classifica-tions will become open when they taken the action. Those who will go into the new classification are: George Abernathy, real estate law; Maurice Gedance, in-surance; Jim Costello, beer wholesale; Harley Harmon, fire insurance; Ted Wiens, tires retail; Bob Keyser, whole-sale liquor and Frank Mikulich, bus service. _ _ Marconi, Italian Rotarian, Subject of August Rotarian The name of Inventor Guglielmo Marconi, father of wireless, radio and television, will be memorialized by the four Rotary clubs of Bologna and the six districts comprising all of Italy. Marconi was a Rotarian from 1932 until his death in 1937, in Bologna, Italy, where he served as club presi-dent. The early efforts of this Nobel prize-winning physicist is told by one who knew him when he was a young man — Lisa Sergio. It is on page 14 of the August Rotarian and is well worth reading. Program Speaker Declares Outlook Good for Sportsmen The outlook for sportsmen in south-ern Nevada is much brighter than that facing the rest of the population, it was indicated last Thursday by Charles Crunden, public relations officer for the State Fish and Game Commission, who was the program speaker. He started out by saying that fish-ing on the lakes of Nevada has slowed down considerably in recent weeks, but it was not because of a lack of fish but that the sportsmen were tak-ing advantage of the fowl and animal seasons which are being opened in the state. He paid high tribute to the Las Vegas Convention authority which, he said, is co-operating fully in the Fish and Game program of supplying more and better fish and animals for the sportsmen to bag. He told his audience that, without the LVCA the commis-sion would have been unable to do all the experimentation work it has done in Clark county over a period of several years. Crunden reported that the dove sea-son, which opened a couple of weeks ago had not been very good but said the nimrods were missing a good bet when they failed to visit the Tonopah area. He said it even outranked the Elko sector this year. In calling attention to the blue grouse, he informed his audience that, while they were a good game fowl, they live in the high country and it took a lot of shoe leather to bag them. The season on these birds opened last week and will not close until Decem-ber. Duck season will open on September 28 and will last until October 25. This is to conform with the season else-where. He said the production of fowl this year has been so good that there is allowed a bonus on pintail ducks and it now is permitted to have one pin-tail in bag along with the limit of canvas backs. He said the prospects for a good deer season appeared to be excellent New Bylaws Section Faces Vote The Las Vegas club will vote on a new provision of the bylaws in the near future which will bring about the choice of a president-elect system, it was decided by the board of directors. The provision was passed by the International convention and those clubs which have not been on that formula in the past will be asked to do so immediately. This will call for a change in the board election process this year when a president will be elected as well as a president-elect. The latter will become actively engaged in the operation of the club and will be preparing himself for ascension to the presidency the next year. After the first year, the board's job will be to select a presi-dent- elect rather than a president. - Rl - District 30 Action Calendar Honeymoon Weekend Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Oct. 18-20. Club Presidents Retreat Rancho Cali-fornia — Oct. 4-6. Golf Fellowship Tournament — Las Vegas, Oct. 19. Barstow - District 530 Rotary Camp-out — Cottonwood Cove, Colorado River — Nov. 15-7. this year and the extremely dry sea-son of the summer should force them into the high country earlier than usual. The situation with the fish in Lake Mead seems extremely favorable with the introduction of striped bass into the waters. He said this new species for the lake would not affect the other bass and the presence of innumerable shad in the lake provided excellent food for the other fish. He continued that an extensive study of the bass in Lake Mead is being completed by the fish and game com-mission, through funds granted by the LVCA and much more can be told at a later date. Vern Willis was program chairman and introduced Charlie.